PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly FEBJWXRY, 1952 Vol. XXII. No. 7.

Established 1930. transmission hy post as a newspaper ] THE huge crowd, predominantly Fijian, which completely filled Victoria Parade, Suva on January 8, when the 1st Battalion of the Fiji Infantry Regiment left Suva for Malaya. The crowd followed the Battalion to the wharf where one of the most emotional farewells ever witnessed in Fiji, took place. About two weeks after this photograph was taken the buildings shown here were damaged by Suva’s worst hurricane. Central Building (top right) was one of the many that lost its roof.

Photo by Stinson Studios.

COSWVU S£K LAE to Finschhafen.

Rabaul.

Torokina.

Vella Lavella.

Yandina.

Honiara.

LAE to LAE to PT MADANG to Wabag.

Baiyer River.

Mt. Hagen.

Pt. Moresby

to i Aoau. i Samarai. i Esa’Ala. i Losuia. . Woodlark Is. i Deboyne Lagoon.

MORESBY to Abau.

Samarai.

Esa’Ala.

Losuia.

Rabaul.

Queen Carola Harbour.

Buka.

Inus.

Kieta.

Buip.

Talasea.

Moewe Harbour.

Lindenhafen.

Jacquinot Bay.

LAE to Bulolo.

Wau.

LAE to Garaina.

LAE to Ft. Moresby.

Cairns.

Townsville.

Rockhampton.

Brisbane.

Sydney.

Pt. Moresby

Yule Is.

Kerema.

Wana.

Kikori.

Lake Kutubu.

Lake Murray.

Daru.

Pt. Moresby

Kokoda.

Higatura.

MADANG to Garoka.

Kainantu.

Aiyura.

Arona. pumpu. i Gusap. i Madang.

NORFOLK IS. to t Sydney.

SUVA to » Noumea. > Sydney.

SANTO to > Vila. > Noumea. » Sydney.

OAf OC£AN PACfPJC i QANTAS’ 30 years of experience in tropical flying is at your service on almost 11,000 miles of New Guinea, Papua and Islands air routes serving oyer 70 points. In addition special charters are operated any recognised landing area. Fast air cargo service to all air ports listed here ... and to anywhere in the „ . I in? W PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-FEBROABY. 1952

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Representatives for the Pacific Islands :

Robert Gillespie

PTY. LTD.

S4A Pitt Street - Sydney

PEARCE & CO. LTD..

SUVA for Fiji Islands yd.surjj: or CP 1 CIF 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

Trawler-Type Vessels For Sale

Eminently Suited for Inter-Islands Cargo Work M. T. “JOSEY” 66 ft. x 18 ft., with 1,020 cu. ft. capacity hold (21 ft. 6 in. x 18 ft. x 5 ft. 9 in.).

PRICE: £lO,OOO. 9 A ' If ' I. ms? ■ ■ Built at Newcastle, by Slazengers; flush deck, hold aft; 8 ft. 6 in. draught; cruiser stern; “Superior” engine, 200 HP at 1,400 RPM, 8 cyl.; B}fc knots; aux. motor, electric starting; sails; 1,200 gals, fuel cap.; 600 gals, water. Extract from Surveyor’s Report “ . . . a very well preserved craft; hull and machinery exceptionally well-preserved and maintained.”

H m i Mi - * M. I. “GWENMAY” 56 ft. x 15 ft., with 580 cu. ft. capacity hold (16 ft. 2 in. x 14 ft. x 5 ft. 3 in.).

PRICE: £4,000.

Raised deck, held aft; built by Larsen Bros., Sydney; draught, 4 ft. 6in ; nil’" ''w .ds ' wier ‘ marine engine, 6 cyl., 160 HP; 9Vz knots; electric starting; aux. motor; sails, 500 gals fuel cap., 400 ff f er ommon veyor’s Report: “. . well-kept craft ... for inter-islands light cargo trade, its relatively small hatches .o a com ‘Gray”

Surhold make it particularly suitable for small cases of general cargo.”

M. T. “ELIAN” 65 ft. x 16 ft. with 600 cu. ft. hold capacity (14 ft. x 15 ft. x 4 ft. 10i in.).

PRICE: £B,OOO. ;•' ■- • - - ‘Allen” diesel, 105 HP, ruiser-type stern; built by Adams, Sydney; raised deck, hold aft; draught, o ft. 3 m./6 rt; ’ suit- (M» RPM, 3 cyl.; 8 knots; aux. motor; air starting; 1,000 gals. cap. fuel, 800 gals, we . Y P able f ble for coastal trawling or cargo-carrying in outlying Island Groups, her hold being unobstructed ana su towage.” -■ “ ” Ll — l *“• Now at Townsville, Qld, OFFERS ARE INVITED.

Write for full particulars to: A. E. CAMPBELL, 107 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, Australia. 2 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

London . Suva

S£^ «\V v,. r/ cv v PANAMA V For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To:

Bethell, Gwyn & Co., Burns Philp (South Sea)

138 LEADENHALL ST., CO. LTD., LONDON, E.C.3. SUVA, FIJI.

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Regular Freight and Passenger Service between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and

Tahiti Samoa Fiji New Caledonia

New Hebrides

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, LTD.

General Agents 432 California Street, San Francisco 4, Calif., U.S.A.

Agents—South Pacific PAPEETE—Etablissements Donald Tahiti APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande PORT VlLA—Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides

Shipping Time-Tables

There now are comparatively few shipng lines running on regular time-tables the Pacific Islands. The following time- Dies are only approximately correct— ey are subject to much alteration at ort notice:— Sydney-Suva-N. America 3anadian-Australasian liner Aomngl 7,500 tons) maintains regular twomthly sailings—Sydney-Auckland-Suvamolulu-Victoria-Vancouver, and return

Rms Aorangi

d. .. Mar. 13 May 15 ick. .. Mar. 17-18 May 19-20 iva .. Mar. 21 May 23 nTu . Mar. 28 May 30 ct. .. Apl. 3 June 5 me. . Feb. 1-7 Apl. 4-10 June 6-12 ct. .. Feb. 7 Apl. 10 June 12 nTu .. Feb. 14 Apl. 17 June 19. va .. Feb. 23 Apl. 26 June 28 ick. .. Feb. 26-28 Apl. 29- July 1-3 May 1 d. .. Mar. 3 May 5 July 7 Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea idV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about :ry six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbymarai - Lae - Madang - Rabaul marai-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney.

Sfext departure from Sydney early irch. . Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga klotor vessels Tofua and Matua, from w Zealand, serve Suva (Fiji), Nukuaa and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is., Pago go (American Samoa), Apia (Western moa). Tofua leaves Auckland for any all of above ports at approx, five weeks ervals. Matua calls at Wellington and ttelton (NZ) and supplements Tofua’s ledule in Islands, calling at ports as ected by owners. fofua scheduled to leave Auckland next voyage on February 26.

Details from Union SS Co.

Zealand-Cook ls.- Niue-Samoa Did MV Maui Pomare (40 passengers) intains fairly regular service between ckland and Rarotonga (Cook Islands), : h alternative calls at Niue and Apia . Samoa).

Details from NZ Government Shipping Sydney-P-NG-Solomons- Hebrides, Etc.

HV Malaita for the present will mainn a schedule from Sydney-back to dney via Samarai, Rabaul, Soraken, ier ports in Buka-Bougalnville, Honiara, ndma (both in BSD Santo and Vila ew Hebrides), Norfolk Island and Lord we. 3ast sailing from Sydney, January 25.

Ml details from Burns Philp & Co.

Jydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Line, nmg from Marseilles, via West Indies d Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route. Details from Messageries Maritimes.

Small motor-ships Polynesien (Messageries Maritimes) and Neo Hebridais (H.

C. Sleigh. Ltd.) maintain fairly regular service between Noumea and _ Sydney.

N. America-Fiji-N. Hebrides, Etc.

Norwegian motor vessel Thor I, carrying cargo and passengers (and shortly to be replaced by the new and faster Thorsisle> maintains a regular service between North American ports and French Oceania, Samoa. Fiji, New Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Details from General Steamships Corporation Ltd., 432 California St., San Francisco.

Airways Time-Tables

Trans Pacific Services

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America

By Pan-American Airways

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths Thur. and Sun.—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji)- Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Seattle- Portland.

Sun. and Wed.—Return via same route.

Twice weekly.—PAA run shuttle service DC4 between Nadi (Fiji) and Auckland.

By British Commonwealth Pacific

Airlines (Bcpa)

Wed. and Sat.—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Prancisco-Vancouver. 3 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

CASH for

Scrap Metals

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Highest Prices F.0.W., New Guinea

Shells Cartridges Copper Brass Radiators Cable Aluminium Lead Muntz Metal Steel Rails Pipe ★ Wilford Street, Newtown, N.S.W.

LA 5111 LA 5111 BRANCHES THROUGHOUT N.S.W., VICTORIA & STH. AUSTRALIA Leader of the Secondary Metal Industry for 30 Years Telegraphic Address: "SIMSMETAL, Sydney.

February. 19 5 2 -Pacific Islands Monthi

Berry’S Bay

BOATYARD (B. J. Halvorsen—Manager) Specialists in Island vessels.

All kinds of boat-building and repairing.

New and used boats and engines for sale.

Quotations and estimates free.

Berry’S Bay Boatyard

John Street, North Sydney, N.S.W.

MO/V£L shafts give /anger semce Monel* shafts are renowned for their rugged strength, stiffness and freedom from whip. These characteristics are very important since a good, stiff shaft reduces vibration, transmits more power to propeller and thereby increases speed and efficiency. Of still greater importance is the fact that Monel retains these properties indefinitely, because Monel cannot rust and is not corroded by fresh or salt water. That is why a Monel shaft, stronger than others when new, is still in perfect condition after years of continuous service.

Further information on Monel propeller shafting will gladly be forwarded by:

Wright & Company, 81 Clarence Street, Sydney

Sole Australian Distributors of Monel / ■ *Monel is a registered trade-mark covering a rich nickel alloy, mined in Canada and rolled in Great Britain. ery 4th trip terminates at S. Francisco, m. and first Thur.—Dep. southwards, same route. On second or alternate Thursday, flight commences at S.

Francisco. ies.— Dep. Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

I.—Dep. Vancouver and S. Francisco alternatively; thence same route to Auckland.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(CPAL) ternate Friday (Feb. 29, Mar. 14, etc.) Sydney-Auckland-Nadi (Fiji)-Canton Is.- Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver. ternate Friday (Feb. 22, Mar. 7, etc.) Return by same route.

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays, Saturdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: iney, 7.45 pm Bris., 10.30 pm s., 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 am (Wed., Sun.) resby, 7.30 am Lae 8.50 am onnects at Lae with DC3’s for Wau, 010 (Wed); and (Sun.) Rabaul, via Lae.

Mon., Thur.,* Fri. (DC3’s) ney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.30 pm >bane, 11.30 pm Rock’ton 1.50 am (Tue., Fri., Sat.) Depart: Arrive: k’ton (Tue., Fri., Sat.). 2.25 am Townsville, 5 am Townsville, 6 am Cairns, 7.10 am Cairns, 7.40 am Cooktown, 8.35 am Cooktown, 8.55 am Moresby, 11.50 am Moresby, 12.20 pm Lae, 1.40 pm Lae, 2.15 (Tues. only) Madang, 3.30 pm ♦Cargo service only.

SOUTHWARDS Tuesdays (DCS) Madang, 4 pm Lae, 5.15 pm Wednesdays (DCS) Wau, 11.30 am Lae, 12.35 pm Wednesday,* Thursday (DCS) Lae, 5.45 am Moresby, 7.05 am Moresby, 7.35 am Sydney, 10.15 pm Via Cairns, Towns., Brisbane, with optional call at Rockhampton. ♦Cargo service only.

Monday (DCS) Rabaul, 7 am Moresby, 10.20 am Moresby, 10.50 am Cairns, 2.10 pm Cairns, 3.10 pm Towns, (over- „ night), 4.30 pm Towns., Tues., 8.15 am Brisbane, 1 pm Brisbane, 1.45 pm Sydney, 5 pm Wednesday, Sunday (Skymaster) Lae, 10.30 am Moresby, 11.40 am Moresby, 12.40 pm Bris., 7.10 pm Bris., 8.25 pm Sydney. 11 pm 2A. Sydney-N. Guinea Service by Trans Oceanic Airways With Solent Flying-boat Sundays and Wednesdays Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 7.15 pm Bris., 10 pm Bris., 11 pm Moresby, 6.30 am Mondays and Thursdays Moresby, 9.30 am Bris., 5 pm Bris., 6 pm Sydney.. 8.30 pm This service connects at Moresby with the planes of Mandated Airlines, which provide service to all points in New Guinea. 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Every Wednesday. 5 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

Sails, Covers, Awmngs

TENTS, TARPAULINS, and all classes of CANVAS GOODS for industrial and home use FLAGS AND PENNANTS FOR CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS.

Send your inquiries through your agent to: HARRY WEST Pty. Ltd.

"Sydney'S Sailmaker"

DUKE ST. (Waterfront), EAST BALMAIN, SYDNEY.

Telephones: WB 1105, WB 2284. ■ ( SillSi iitiiii . fev: ! , Further particulars from the builders'.

HALVORSEN’! 30 FT. x 10 FT.

Island Launches

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Designed And Built By Halvorsen’

FOR RUGGED USE. ★ • Built of Finest Materials. • Fastenings, non-Ferrous. • Bottom Sheathed. • Sa • Optional Power Plants. • Large Hatclr LARS HALVORSEN SONS PTY. LTD.

WATERViEW ST., RYDE ( Sydney )’ N«S«W« Telegrams: “Halvorsens, Sydney.*' ’Phone: Ryde 705.

Dep. Lae, 8 am; Finschhaven, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus (3 pm).

Returns Saturdays (dep. 8 am), via Kavieng and Rabaul; optional call at Finschhafen; arr. Lae, 2.45 pm.

Lae-Madang-General Service

Every Monday by DCS.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-RABAUL-

General Service

Every Thursday by DC3; native traffic only.

MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) Via Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), Kikori, L. Kutubu.—Every alternate Wednesday; returning same day.

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Catalina) Alternate Monday.—Dep. 9 am—Abau- Samarai-Esa’ala-Losuia (overnight).

Alternate Tuesday.—Return to Moresby, via Deboyne Lagoon, Samarai, and Abau.

MORESBY-NEW BRITAIN- BOUGAINVILLE In Alternate Weeks, by Catalina Alternate Monday.—Moresby- \bau-Samarai-Esa’ala-Losuia-Rabaul.

Alternate Tuesday.—Rabaul-Talasea-Moe HBE-Jacquinot Bay, and return wi optional call at Lindenhafen.

Alternate Wednesday.—Rabaul-Q. Car< HBR-Buka-Kieta-Buin and return w: optional call at Inus.

Alternate Thursday.—Rabaul - Losuia-E ala-Samarai-Abau-Moresby.

Central Highlands (Dhb4)

Tuesdays.—Madang (7 am) to Goro!

Kainantu, Aiyura, Arona, as requir Returns to Madang (noon).

Thursdays.—Madang (7 am) to Wab Baiyer R.. Hagen. Optional: Kerows Chimbu. Returns to Madang (noon) Pridays.—Lae (6.30 am) to Wabag, call at any of: Nadzab, Kiaipit, Aro Aiyura. Kainantu, Bena Be Goroka. Chimbu, KeroraMgi, Kup, N dugi, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Ogelbe Baiyer R., Wabamunda. Return Lae.

Lae-Garaina (Dhb4)

Tuesdays.—Departs 7 am; returns 9 an LAE-BULOLO-WAU (Drover) Dep. Lae. —Tues., Pri., Sat.

Dep. Wau.—Tues., Pri., Sat.

Time: 65 mins, each way.

Services By Mandated Airline

With headquarters at Lae, this comp runs regular services for passeng freight and mails to all New Gui settlements. 4. Dutch N. Guinea-Darwi: By Netherlands Government, with DC Weekly service, between Darwin and B Also, new KLM weekly service, cal at Biak, on flight between Manila Australia.

FEBRUARY, 1952-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Duu JU j 1 30 PRIVATE HOTEL, Priory Road. North Sydney.

Only five minutes’ drive across the Sydney Harbour Bridge from the City, “Bellhaven” is quietly situated— your rest Is assured in this new, comfortably furnished and well serviced hotel.

Handy to transport for beaches, Olympic Pool, Zoo. all sights, and Australia’s leading City of entertainment and night life—Sydney.

Modern Room or Suite Accommodation.

TARIFF FROM 16/6 PER DAT.

Manager : A. L. GUARD.

Write or Cable “Bellhaven,” North Sydney.

Phone: XA 1746. 9 Buying Agents for Island Clients. • Graymarine Diesel Engine Parts. • Trochus and Green Snail Shell. • Islands Products sold on Commission.

Inquiries Cordially Invited

Stanley P. Bell & Company

Exporters, Importers, Ship Brokers & Agents ASSOCIATES OF; 173 EAGLE STREET

Brisbane, Australia

Henderson Trlppe (Philippines) Inc.

Henderson Trippe Shipping Co. Inc. (Manila, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Baltimore).

Cables: “Pacent, Brisbane.”

Captain W. L. Kennedy

(Established 1931).

Shipbrokers, Business & Real Estate

63 Pitt Street, Sydney.

Phone: BW 6461. Cables: “CAPKEN,” Sydney.

LISTING: s!>o TON DIESEL CARGO VESSEL.—BuiIt 1946, machinery aft, hydraulic winches, in class. £67,500 Stg. 480 TON DIESEL TANKER.—BuiIt 1944, in class. £30,000 Stg.

TUSA TYPE TUG. —260 h.p. Superior diesel, excellent condition. £ll,OOO Aust. 65 FT. TRAWLER TYPE CARGO VESSEL.—IOS h.p. Allen marine diesel, copper sheathed, excellent condition. £B,OOO (or reasonable offer). 58 FT. HULL.—Built about 3 years, would make trading vessel. £1,600. 50 FT. AUX. YAWL. —Gaff rig, near new, 4-cyl. diesel, copper sheathed. £5,000. 45 FT. FISHING BOAT. —Professionally-built, 1948, 100 h.p. marine diesel—a very fine craft. £4,200. 38 FT. FISHING LAUNCH.—3O h.p. marine diesel. £2,000. 30 FT. LAUNCH.—22 h.p. marine diesel. £1)50.

ALSO Cargo Boats, Tugs. Trawlers, Workboats and L.P.B.’s, Class Bridge and R.D. Cruisers, Auxiliaries and Launches, all types.

WE ARE ALSO AGENTS FOR MOST MAKES OF MARINE DIESELS.

Inquiries Invited.

Through our Business and Beal Estate Branch, we can offer a wide variety of Sydney and N.S.W. properties. All Island inquiries promptly and satisfactorily attended to. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons Operated by Qantas ternate Monday (DC3). —Lae (dep. 6 am) - Pinschhafen - Rabaul - Torakina (Bougain.) - Vellalavella - Yandina - Honiara (BSI) (arr. 4.25 pm), ternate Tuesday.—Honiara (dep. 7 am)- Yandina - Vellalavella-Toraklna-Rabaul- Pinschhafen-Lae (arr. 3.15 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

"A (Skymaster) dep. Saigon, February 3, and every 28 days thereafter for Labuan-Darwin-Brisbane-Noumea, and return.

Btralian agents: Messageries Marltimes. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

Trans Oceanic Airways, with Flyingboats jular twice weekly service. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymaster ernate Thursdays; returning same day 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Sandringham Flying-boats: Depart: Arrive: Iney, Alt. Mon., Noumea, Alt. Tue., 9.30 pm 6.30 am mea. Alt. Tue., Vila, Alt. Tue., 8.00 am 10.35 am i, Alt. Tue., Santo, Alt. Tue., 12.5 pm 1.20 pm ■to, Alt. Wed., Vila. Alt. Wed., 6.00 am 7.15 am i, Alt. Wed., Noumea, Alt. Wed., 8.15 am 10.55 am mea, Alt. Wed., Sydney, Alt. Wed., 12.30 pm 7.45 pm dditlonal services operate subject to the roval of the Governments concerned. 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva y Qantas, with Flying-boats, Weekly Depart: Arrive: ney, Thur.. Noumea. Pri., 9.30 pm 6.30 am mea, Pri., 8.30 am Suva, Pri., 3 pm a, Sat., 6 am Noumea, Sat., 10.30 am mea, Sat., Sydney, Sat., 12.30 pm 7.45 pm 11. Auckland-Norfolk Is. 1 NZ National Airways, with DC3’s days.—Prom Auckland, returning same lay. mate Sundays.—One additional service ame day. See also table No. 8. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with Solents . Sydney. Tues., Wed., Pri., 12 midnight: Tues., Fri., 7.30 am; Sat., 2 am.

Auckland, daily, except Sunday, 9 ,m. tralian bookings; Qantas or TAA. 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents ■ Sydney. Mon.. Wed.. Thurs., Sun. ■t 10.30 pm.

Dep. Wellington, Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri., at 11 am. 14. Melbourne-Christchurch Tasman E. Airways, with DC4 Skymaster Thurs.—Dep. Melb., 10.25 pm; arr. Ch’ch., 8.15 am next day.

Pri.—Dep. Ch’ch.. 11 am; arr. Melb., 4.50 pm. 15. New Zealand-Fiji By Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solent Flying-boats.

Depart: Arrive: Auckland, Mon., Suva, Mon., 2.30 pm 7.30 am Suva, Tues., Bam A’kland, Tues., 3 pm 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

From Sydney To—

Ta single iteiurn XN( Moresby . £39 5 0 £70 13 0 2, J Lae .. 48 15 0 87 15 0 2, : Rabaul .. 61 12 0 110 18 0 2. : Honiara, BSI .. 77 0 0 138 12 0 5 Vila, N.

Hebrides 42 10 0 76 10 0 9.

Noumea, 10, NC . .. 37 10 0 67 10 0 Norfolk Is. 25 0 0 45 0 0 8 L. Howe • 10 16 0 21 12 0 '< Nadi (Fiji) • 57 15 0 103 19 0 1 Suva 10 (Fiji) . 55 10 0 99 18 0 Auckland 39 8 0 70 19 0 12 Welling- 13 ton . .. 39 8 0 70 19 0 Christch. (from 14 Melb.) . 44 2 0 79 8 0 Honolulu . 217 15 0 391 19 0 S. Fran’co 265 10 0 477 18 0 Vancouver 265 8 0 477 15 0

From Auckland

TO— 1 Single Return Norf. Is. £14 0 0 NZ Less 10% i 1 Nadi (Fiji) . 31 0 0 M Suva (Fiji) . 31 0 0 ,, ,, 1 Samoa . 39 10 0 ,, ,, £ Cook Is. 45 0 0 ,, 1( Suva 1 1! (direct) 31 0 0 £55 16 C Papeete 133 3 0 239 14 0 18

Broomfields Ltd

Suppliers of BUILDING HARDWARE,

Ship Chandlery, Paint Materials

% WRITE DIRECT TO: BROOMFIELDS LTD., 152 SUSSEX STREET, SYDNEY.

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

m iiii Mmm This well-known Hotel is centrally situated in Suva s niam business quarter :: Modern accommodation provides comfort in all climatic conditions :: Only the best of Beers, Spirits and Wines is served.

Telephone' 80 VINCE COSTELLO, Proprietor. 16. Auckland-Fiji-Samoa- Cooks By NZ National Airways Corporation Alternate Wednesdays, by DCS, via Norfolk Is., Nadi (Fiji), Faleolo (W.

Samoa). Aitutaki (Cook Is.) Depart: Arrive: Auck., 9 am Norfolk Is., 12.55 pm Norfolk, 2 pm Nadi, 8.40 pm Nadi. Thur., 10.15 am Paleolo, 4 pm Faleola. 8 am Aitutaki, 1.50 pm Aitutaki, 2.50 pm Rarotonga, 4 pm Rarot’a, alt. Sat., 8 Aitutaki, 9.15 am Aitutaki, 10 am Paleolo, 3.15 pm Faleola, Sun., 10 Nadi, 1.45 pm Nadi, 5 am Norfolk. 10.55 am Norfolk, noon Auckland, 4.50 pm Alternate Wednesdays—DCS Depart: Arrive: Nadi, 6.45 am Paleolo, 12.30 pm Faleolo, 1.15 pm Nadi, 5 pm • Western Time. 17. New Zealand-Chatham Is.

By Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solent Flying-boats.

During the 1951-52 summer, services will be operated on following dates:— Mar. 13; April 6. 18. Tahiti-Cook Islands By Tahiti Airways, of Papeete Once monthly, from Papeete to Aitu (Cook Is.) with mails and passenj returning same day. 19. Auckland-Tahiti TEAL service, Auckland-Suva-Aitut Papeete, will be run with Solent fly boats once every four weeks. De] Auckland, Monday 6.30 am; arrive Si 1.30 pm. Dept. Suva (Tuesday), 10 cross International Date Line; arr. A taki, 7.20 am Tues. Leave Aitutaki 1 am; arrive Papeete 3 pm. Return same route every 4th Thursday, lea l Papeete, 6 am.

The next flight leaves Auckland Ms 3.

Pending provision of necessary facili the call at Apia (Western Samoa) is b omitted. 20. Micronesia Civilian services, based on Guam, u 2-engined amphibious Catalinas, run gularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (\ Carolines), Truk (Central Carolir Ponape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshs and Saipan (Marianas), Details f Trans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honol 21. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, with twin-engine de Haviland Rapides One daily service between Suva and I and Lautoka and return.

Daily service (except Sunday) from £ to Labasa and return.

Approximate Airways Fai The following figures are not guaran accurate, but they are approximt correct. Details should be obtained J the Air Company named in the Ti Unless otherwise indicated, figures ar Australian currency. 8 FEBRUARY, 195 2 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

N&R Open Brisbane Branch

HpO facilitate the despatch of goods A and to improve service, the old established Islands firm of Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., Sydney, has opened a branch in Brisbane — at Burke Building, Stanley Street, South Brisbane. The telegraphic address: IVAN, Brisbane.

Andrew Donovan

217 Second Floor, Victoria Arcade, AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Phone: 44-534.

Ship Broker, Marine

INSURANCE BROKER.

Direct Importer Of

MARINE ENGINES (Petrol and Diesel) AND EQUIPMENT.

REAL ESTATE AGENT.

All types passenger and cargo vessels offered at reasonable prices. Also fishing boats, keel and centre-board yachts, launches, sailing dinghies, runabouts and outboard motors.

New Marine Engines, Eco Pumps, Reverse Gears, Propellers, and all classes of Ship Chandlery always on hand.

We have pleasure in offering Latest Type

Full Diesel

Skandia Engines

Marine And Stationary

5 H.P. 450 H.P.

Rapid Starting from Cold. Starts and runs on lowest grade fuel oil.

Early Delivery Competitive Prices

Particulars from: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD. 12 SPRING STREET, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

Cable Address: “IVAN ” SYDNEY.

Tahiti Residential Tax

INCREASED As from January 1, 1952, the esidential tax levied on foreigners iving within Papeete city limits has teen increased fourfold (from 75 panes per month to 300 francs). In ountry districts, the former 75 pane rate has been doubled. Vegeable growers, aged, and special ases are reduced at the Governor’s iscretion.

Residential tax does not affect the yerage tourist, no tax being payble until after the sixth month.

Fiji Punts More

COCONUTS i LTHOUGH the replanting or ex- I. tension of coconut plantations is being neglected in many acific territories, Fiji’s coconut anting campaign got away to a >od start last year and considerable ‘ogress has already been made.

Much of the new planting is king place in the Northern Disict—Taveuni, Vanua Levu. etc.— id European planters as well as jian are taking part.

In 1951, 151,000 seed nuts were anted in nurseries and from these irsenes 1,064 acres have now been anted up—about half of the area mg planted by Fijian growers.

Tips About Your Axe

INVERT householder even the city backyard handyman likes to own a good axe. In rural occupations, and in the bush, a first-class blade is essential.

There is far more to maintaining quality in your axe than merely sticking it on a grindstone now and then. The following hints are taken from a pamphlet distributed by the makers of the Australian “Hytest” axe—the Hytest Axe and Tool Co. Pty., Ltd., Collins St., Alexandria, Sydney:— Your axe is high-tempered steel.

Destroy the temper and you lose your axe.

When you are grinding the blade, keep the grindstone cool with plenty of water.

If any colour appears on the edge, you have ruined the temper. A high-speed, uncooled grindstone is axe-murder.

You should start grinding 2Vz inches from the edge, and grind slowly to within half an inch. Don’t grind the last halfinch, or the corners too thin—you invite them to break. Finish the last half inch with a flat file, and put on the last keen edge with a hand-stone.

If the cut on the wood shows a white streak, your edge is nueven. Use the file and hand-stone until you get it right.

Never leave a good axe out in the weather when not in use, keep it covered.

Never use your axe as a sledge-hammer.

Always use a wooden wedge to tighten the handle; and never burn a broken handle out of the head this will soften the steel. 9 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

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Tongan Photos 89 Tooth & Co. 52 Tucker & Co. . 23 Turners & Growers Ltd. 57 Tyneside Eng. 125 United Traders 56 Vacuum Oil Co. 58 Ventura Co. . 136 Vessel Wanted 129 Vincent’s APC . 94 Warnock Bros. . 45 West Pty. Ltd. 6 Williams’ Pills . 31 Wills Ltd. ... 98 Winstone Seeds 39 Wright & Co. . 5 Wrigley’s Ltd. 121 Wunderlich Ltd. 130 Yorkshire Ins. . 51 11 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

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IN THIS ISSUE: Editorials: What is Needed for Another Elizabethan Age :: Substitute Science for Human Factor in Forecasting Hurricanes 13,14 Fiji’s New Banana Industry Destroyed 14 Terrific Hurricane Strikes Fiji 15 Do You Remember?—2o years Back. With PIM 16 Copra—Readjustments in S.

Pacific Territories 17 20 Italian Copra Cutters for New Hebrides 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Port Moresby’s Wharf is Unsafe 20 Dangerous Situation over Dutch New Guinea 20 Over £3 per Ton for Sugarcane 20 Territories’ Talk-Talk 21 Costly Emergency Airstrip for Papua 23 No Statutory Powers for Moresby Town Council .... 27 Sir Hubert Murray Memorial Fund 27 P-NG Natives Add Metho to Their Drink List 29 Merkur’s Moresby Call 32 Native Members for Caledonian Council 33 No Profit In It! —Remarkable Taxation Returns of Fiji Indian Businesses 33 Islands Ships in Sydney .... 34 Fall of Rabaul —10th Anniversary 37 The Cheng Ho Again 38 Suwarrow Closed to Shipping 41 Norfolk Island Notes 43 Mishandled Cargo in Pacific Ports 44 Rabaul or Rapopo—Move Still Uncertain 45 Master Defends Native Foreman—Unusual Case in NG 47 No Hydro Scheme for Suva .. 49 Lautoka Markets Opened .. .. 51 Another Serious Bus Accident in W. Samoa 52 Kenaf Fibre —Support for Proposed New Guinea Crop .. 53 Cost of Living in W. Samoa .. 53 Another Ship Stolen in Samoa 54 World Rubber Production Remains Static 57 Pacific Women Meet 57 Ever Heard of a Coconut Pearl? 61 Wilkinson Had to Pay His Own Fare Home 62

Magazine Section—

Goodbye Morinda 65 Rapa for His Kingdom .... 66 New Guinea’s Last Cannibal Outpost 69 Book Reviews 71 How to Use Your Water Power 77 “Micronesia”—US Commissioner Explains 85 Fiji SPC A Owns an Island .... 89 Fijian Development Fund Growing Fast No Control of Town Area Natives in P-NG Islands Shell Industry Disorganised Australian and NG Gold on Open Market Red Shadows in New Caledonia 1 W&H Funds—Ministerial Headache in P-NG 1 Kovala—A Skeleton in BSIP Cupboard 1 ADO on Native Assault Charge 1 Bird Wonderland in Central New Goiinea 1 Exit the Sacred Calabash .. .. 1 Coconut as a Food —Interesting SPC Research 1 Fiji at the Crossroads—Three Communities and Their Problems 1 Solomons Battered by “Young Hurricane” 1 TEAL’s First Flight Welcomed in Tahiti 1 Fiji Battalion in Malaya .. .. 1 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 1 South Pacific Commission Meeting in April 1 Miners Invited to BSI 1 Weather Breaks in Papua .. .. 1 Sir Peter Buck’s Ashes for NZ 1 OBITUARY: T. P. L. Byrr Gavera; the Rev. W. Dear Madame Titipupure; A. Pelleti( Madame Brauet, 135.

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What Is Needed For 'Another Elizabethan Age’

U AS there not something symbolic T about the events which occurred about 4 a.m. Greenich Mean Time, on Tuesday, ibruary 5?

While George VI, “gentlest of our onarchs,” passed away in his jep, the young Elizabeth, with her ilor Consort by her side, was anding in a high place in East nca, watching with fascination e prowlings of the unpredictable Id beasts in the jungle below.

King George has gone from the •itain he loved so much and served faithfully. Queen Elizabeth II ounts the ancient Throne and 3ks out over a jungle-world rough which are creeping some >rrible things, to menace our fety and the structure of our filisation. Beside her are the ung Philip, from whom we hope r much, and the old and very wise mrchill, who saved her Empire ce, and may do so again.

The constitutional set-up is comrting; but the outlook is such as make all except stout hearts ail. By our weakness since VJ iy, we have released into the >rld forces which are completely il, and which now threaten to stroy us.

ST the past fortnight, wherever politicians babble and newspapers chant, we have heard a w theme. Britain attained her greatest strength and glory under her Queens: maybe she will do so again.

What strange thinking! As if the status of a nation were a matter of luck, or of a happy relationship between the monarch and the beneficent gods!

Britain is in her present economic mess because (a) she spent nearly all her enormous, accumulated wealth in World War 11, and (b) she surrendered her government, in the vital post-war years, to an array of untrained Socialist planners, who were pitifully incapable of discharging the unprecedented task of rebuilding British economy and firmly controlling the British Empire.

The Socialists are discharged and discredited: new men, with a different outlook, have taken over; but, in the intervening years, British incompetence, plus British failure to co-operate effectively with United States in world affairs, has permitted the Bolshevisation of half Europe and most of Asia. Britain, before she can give herself effectively to her overwhelming domestic problems, now must first ensure her security.

If the British way of life is to be maintained, there are enormous tasks to be undertaken at home.

But, for the present, there is neither sufficient money nor time for such tasks. All our national resources are needed for our own protection.

IF ever the spiritual strength of a people was tested, it is being tested to-day in the British Commonwealth. The real character of Russia’s Cold War now is quite plain. While they avoid a total fighting war, the Reds are taking advantage of the freedom of our way of life, and of our institutions to honeycomb our political and economic structures, to foment quarrels and disturbances, to encourage inferior peoples to rise against us, to create lack of confidence in our leaders, our ideals and ourselves.

These processes are going on all over the world. We of the Pacific see them most clearly now in Asia and the Middle East. At this moment, we are wasting our military and economic strength in Korea, in Indo-China, Malaya, Persia, Egypt and Tunisia; while recent anti-British demonstrations show that the peoples of Burma, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Indonesia and Iraq are turning against us.

Behind the events in every one of these countries is the cunning hand and the poisoned propaganda of the Muscovite Red.

LONG ago, the Americans realised that the only way to stop this Cold War, and ensure peace for the world, is to arm completely, and challenge Russia to a test of strength; and the United States is arming, and is forcing the other nations to arm.

But —let us have the truth.

Among all those Western Democracies now arming under American leadership, the only people really showing high spirit and resolute demeanour, readiness for the ultimate challenge, are the Americans themselves. So far, the British masses— who really have more to lose than the Americans, and who should be their natural allies in this world crisis—will not face up to the alternatives which confront them. They must either resist the Russian attempt to destroy their personal freedom and way of life, or submit to the Muscovite plan to fasten Communism upon the nations.

So they hope that the Russians may be scared into inactivity by America’s possession of a thousand atom bombs; or that Joe Stalin’s death will set Moscow fighting; or that the Czechs and Poles will revolt—or that some divine intervention in favour of their new, young Queen will save them from further struggle and sacrifice. Sure, they are arming. But the enthusiasm of the British countries for the defence of their realm (witness the pathetic advertisements of the Australian Government, for Services recruits) reminds one somehow of the moral condition of France, at the outbreak of World War 11.

The British people of that other Elizabethan age, and of the Victorian age, had a will to work, and considerable intestinal fortitude, and a reluctance to depend for their freedom on half-understood political nostrums, and some readiness to fight. If we are really to have another Elizabethan age, we shall have to develop—in the Islands Territories, as in Australia and England and the Colonies—some of those old-fashioned national traits.

Substitute Science for Human Factor in Forecasting Hurricanes!

LATE in January, four Territories in the South Pacific were battered by winds of hurricane force. None seems to have had much warning of the storm. One — Fiji _ which suffered grievous damage, had practically no warning; a terrible hurricane hit the capital within 90 minutes of the first broadcast intimation that something ugly wes developing.

The Fiji authorities doubtless will find out why the meteorological warning system, on which all the South Pacific Territories depend at this time of year, broke down on this occasion.

The purpose of this note is to suggest that the time has come for a review of the whole system. There appears to be about it an element of catch-as-catch-can. The importance of giving adequate warning of these disastrous tropical storms, and the degree of scientific knowledge now available in this field, allow of no excuse for casualness and irresponsibleness in the weather-warning system.

Even under the old and existing system, it is possible to give warning of a developing hurricane many hours before it strikes. Meteorologists in Wellington, NZ, knew about the Fiji hurricane as soon as it was born west of the Solomons on Wednesday, January 23—four days before it struck Fiji—and they followed its course eastwards. They say it passed the New Hebrides on Friday night. Obviously, Fiji could have had ample warning; and, if it had, a large proportion of Suva’s lost roofs might have been retained.

Officials doubtless will claim that weather-reporters were off duty at the week-end and that there are few reporting stations in the region northwest of Fiji, anyway. That is the catch-as-catch-can element, which should be eliminated.

There is no need for complete dependence on scattered weather-reporters. It now is possible to detect, on seismograph records, the development of big storm centres, and to read from the microseisms, the movements of the storm. It is a new branch of the science of geophysics, and it was described six months ago as “developing by leaps and bounds.”

Scientists then claimed that “the seismographic method of detecting and tracking hurricanes enables accurate warnings to be given considerably in advance of those possible by other present-day methods.”

The South Pacific Commission already has given thought to the creation of a better meteorological network. Here, now, is an urgent job right at its hand. With the devastation in unwarned Suva to show the urgent need for action, it could do much, before next hurricane season, to take the guesswork and the uncertain human element out of the weather-forecasting organisation in the South Pacific.

Polynesian Treasure

TROVE WHAT he described to the New Zealand newspapers as “the greatest collection of Polynesian material in the world” has been found in the Otago Museum.

Dunedin, by Captain D. S. Marshall, director of American Salem’s Peabody Museum Expedition to Polynesia. The expedition has been working in the Auckland Museum; now it will transfer to Dunedin.

New Banana Industr

DESTROYED Unhappy Angle of Fiji Disaster SUVA, Feb. 5 ONE of the most unfortuna angles of the Fiji hurricai disaster is the destruction the banana plantations.

New Zealand has been gettii half her banana supplies from Fij and, as NZ could consume mai more bananas, it had been decide with the arrival of the new Tofi (which doubles the shipping se vice), to greatly increase the F production.

This is an ideal industry for t] natives; and the Fijians had bei encouraged to very much extei their plantations in the Re\ valley system, where the be bananas are produced.

The fruit was coming forwa well, and on her first visit, i December, the Tofua took away big shipment of excellent fruit an eager market.

The hurricane swept right acre this Rewa area, and not a plant tion escaped. The Fijians’ hous are wrecked; and all hope of mai: taining the old banana trade wi NZ, let alone developing the n< business that had been planm must now be set aside for a lo] time. It will take at least a year repair the damage.

Fiji'S Last Shipment

AUCKLAND, Feb. 2 THE last shipment of Fiji banan for a long time left Suva the Matua, for New Zealar on January 22 —six days before t hurricane. It comprised 14,C cases, and was to be the first of new development of this importa Fiji-NZ trade.

Tofua was to load another car three weeks later. But the hur: cane destroyed all the banana pla tations. There will be no me bananas for many months.

World’S Cocoa

PRODUCTI[?] THE Administration’s plan develop cocoa production on large scale in New Guinea m receive encouragement from rec* figures of world production.

Total world production in 1950was 710,000 tons, an overall decres of 70,000 tons. Production in G< Coast, Bahia, Nigeria and Ivc the result of pest; is down by nearly 100,000 tons.

Cocoa consumption is expected increase in USA, decline in Euro; 14 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Terrific Hurricane Strikes Fiji

Suva and Eastern Viti Levu Wrecked in 150 Minutes’

Visitation—Damage Over £1,000,000 CHE quickest, fiercest and most destructive hurricane in the history of Fiji (and one of the torst, if not the worst, ever re- Drded in the South Pacific) ociirred in the morning of Monday, anuary 28.

It came into Fiji over the orthem end of the Yasawas. ;ruck the northern coast of Viti evu eastward of Ba, and swept in southeasterly direction across the ortheastem section of Viti Levu; nd disappeared rapidly into the mtheast.

Its track was about 30 miles wide, he devastation wrought by the ind (which at times exceeded 150 dies per hour—a record for that rea) and by the rain which soon fterwards soaked properties which ad lost their roofs and walls, rep- •sents a loss of between £1,000,000 id £2,000,000. Over 20 people were lied and hundreds injured.

Within the track of the storm ere rich sugar and bananaroducing districts, the little town : Nausori, the capital town of uva, hundreds of Indian farms id scores of Fijian villages. 11 were wrecked.

Grants so far made for relief: ritish Government, £10,000; Z Government, £10,000; Methodist hurch, £5,000.

Warning System Failed

Indications are that the warning ven of the hurricane was comic tely inadequate.

The New Zealand official teteorologists reported on January ) that they had been watching lis hurricane. They said it began > form about Thursday, January [, in the Solomon Islands area; its rength grew; on Friday night, inuary 26, it passed north of the ew Hebrides, where 50 mph winds ere reported; during Saturday and unday it was whirling around orthwest wards of Fiji; and on [onday morning it suddenly set off mtheast wards across Fiji.

Yet, according to all available evisnce, Fiji got no warning until am—an hour or more after the immunity had gone to work.

Radio listeners at 9 am heard the 'oadcast programme interrupted >r a message from the Laucala Bay .ation: it said a hurricane was 100 Liles northward of Vanua Levu — anua Levu was specially warned, ; was said that final warnings ould come later. (Vanua Levu was ot affected—the hurricane hit Viti evu, 100 miles westward.) A final warning was broadcast ■om Suva at 10 am; but the black ags—the customary final warning —were not erected at the wharf.

By this time, there was a strong and increasing wind. Experienced people became alarmed and began hurriedly to batten up; many rushed to their homes, and some schools were hurriedly closed; but the majority of folk were taken completely by surprise.

The hurricane struck like a thunderbolt soon after 10.30 am, and caught Suva almost unprepared.

Why was there no warning?

Officialdom had been watching that storm for five days. This is known as the hurricane season. A hurricane formed in the same area (Solomons) and struck southeastwards in the same way at the same time (January 28) in 1936, and did much damage in New Zealand.

British Solomons also battered by “young hurricane”—See page 122, this issue.

The only official excuse so far heard is that the hurricane struck and demolished the weather reporting station in the Northern Yasawas early in the morning, and so warning was not given.

Someone failed badly somewhere.

Penang District

The northern islands of the Yasawas —a small chain northwest of Viti Levu, inhabited by native Fijians only—got it first, about 7 am. Their houses and food gardens were mostly destroyed.

By 8 am, the cyclone had hit the Viti Levu coast, between the Ba- Tavua-Vatukoula (goldmines) area, and Viti Levu Bay (Eastern Ra Province). Ba caught a large share of it; Tavua and Vatoukoula got it more severely; but the sugarproducing settlement of Penang, farther east, was devastated. The Penang sugar-mill was wrecked, the majority of houses demolished or unroofed, and Indian farmers’ canefields and houses very seriously damaged.

The Ragg hotel at Raki Raki, between Penang and Port Ellington, escaped lightly; but native villages and food gardens thereabouts were very badly damaged.

There was minor damage at and around the Rarawai sugar-mill.

The fringe of the hurricane caught the goldmine town of Vatukoula, and interrupted the water and power supply systems, and damaged a number of houses. The mines’ machinery was not affected.

Devastation In Rewa Area

The hurricane swept on southeastwards, following generally the valley systems of the great Rewa Shaded area shows path of hurricane which entered the Group over the Yasawas. 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

River and travelling at 40-50 miles an hour. Native settlements and plantations took a fearful battering. There were several fatalities among the Fijians. Practically the whole of the banana plantations, which were being built up for the new New Zealand trade, were destroyed. 46,500 banana palms were lost.

Not one house was left standing between Viti Levu Bay (east of Penang) and Tailevu.

The whole of the large and fertile Tailevu district was badly battered and damaged. But the terrific wind, strangely, did not extend beyond the east coast. Ovalau island, off the coast here, was not badly affected; there are no reports of damage in Levuka.

The thickly settled Rewa Delta area, like Suva, caught the full force of the hurricane. The storm simply took the roof off Nausori, and levelled many buildings, and destroyed countless Fijian and Indian villages. The Nausori mill, like that at Penang, was partly demolished. Four CSR dwellings were wholly and 13 partly destroyed.

The hurricane seems to have reached its maximum fury about 11 am over the southeast corner of Viti Levu—comprising the Rewa Delta, Laucala Bay, Suva Point, Suva town, and the Tamavua area.

Almost before the people realised what was happening, the indescribable, shrieking tornado was upon them; all human activities ceased; and for two hours the main concern of everyone was to keep out of danger and stay alive.

Wind gauges went out of action at 150 mph. Some people believe gusts were up to 200 mph—certainly a record for this part of the world.

Suva Is Smashed

BY 10.30, Suva town was in the grip of the screaming gale.

Some buildings were unroofed immediately, to admit the torrential rain, which, driven by the wind, came horizontally.

For two hours, it was Bedlam. For a while, people caught in the town or outside struggled to get home. But collapsing poles (carrying wires), falling trees, and flying roofingiron made the streets very dangerous, and finally blocked them; and hundreds just abandoned their cars and sheltered where they could.

Mountainous seas, rushing in over the waterfront, added to the indescribable confusion —and deposited masses of sand and mud.

The noise of the wind and rain was terrifying.

This went on for perhaps 100 minutes. Then the wind suddenly died away. People came out of shelter, to dazedly examine the vast, indescribable damage. But many, knowing the ways of hurricanes, began frantically to try to get some cover over the goods in their wrecked houses.

In half an hour, there came the rising, ominous howl of the returning hurricane. In a few minutes, it was upon them again, from a new direction. With it came another deluge.

Suva was struck from the south, east and nothwest.

The last blast lasted perhaps an houn—but it seemed to do more damage than the first. Trees fell, roofs disappeared, houses collapsed.

By 1.30 pm the hurricane had ceased; it moved away to the southeast, missing the Lau Group and dying out somewhere southwards of Tonga.

That afternoon and evening tt people struggled to restore orde amid the soaking ruins. But, witl out power, light, telephones, tram port, radio, it was impossible \ organise a community effort. Pro] Suva northwards to Penang tt people seemed helpless and daze by the shock and devastation. Ttu night and the following day, marke by torrential rain, was a time ( utter misery, which few will forge Suva, hitherto a tidy, foliage embowered little town of 23,(X people, was a tangled wrec Nausori, the sugar-town 15 mil north, was no better. Europeai (Continued on Page 117.) Do You Remember?

TWENTY years back! Days of “Depression” but the £1 was worth 20/-. Life was tough, we hadn’t yet heard much about Adolf Hitler, Uncle Joe was not even a red shadow beyond our horizon and we were not so downand-out as we believed.

These extracts from PIM of February, 1932, will enable you to make comparisons with the state of the nation to-day: * * * FROM OUR RAROTONGA CORRES- PONDENT: Lady passengers coming ashore off the mail boats treat us to glimpses of what we take to be advanced ideas of fashion. Plus-fours raged for a while.

After we came finally to accept these as recognised “going ashore” dress we were at once astonished and delighted at the appearance of “shorts” with a kind of singlet, as the upper garment! * * > * The Secretary to the Western Samoan Administration, Mr. Turnbull, has returned from New Zealand. His mission has not been successful.

There seems no hope whatever of financial assistance from New Zealand and local retrenchment will start in earnest. Wages of local Samoan officials will be cut by 10 per cent. * * * Chairman of Oil Search Ltd. reports that: Much valuable oil prospecting has been carried out in the Matapau district (west of Aitape, near the Dutch border) on the New Guinea mainland.

That extensive oil seepages have been found to exist in the district, that structures have been located and that the key to the oil series has been discovered, justifies the further work to be undertaken. * * * Several months ago we expressed the opinion that the fine of £5,600 imposed by the Samoan Court on Messrs. O. F.

Nelson & Co. Ltd., for trading with th€ Mau (the firm claimed that all it did was to receive from the Samoans siflall debts owing to Mr. Nelson,, now in exile) was an example of sheer savagery not justified by reason or commonsense even if justified by law. The New Zealand Supreme Court has now given a decision in Messrs. Nelson’s appeal against the Samoan verdict and reduced the fine to £470.

The Union SS Company’s Tofua (4,3 tons and built in 1908) which has f many years maintained regular montl passenger service between Auckland, Fi Tonga and Samoa, is to be withdrai from service. She will be replaced Waipahi, a cargo ship that carries or four passengers. The falling away passenger traffic between Auckland ai the Islands is, it is understood, the reasi for Tofua’s withdrawal. * * * Samoan banana growers are complai ing at the contract made between t Administration and the NZ Governme for the supply of bananas. The contra is for only 4Vz months and the price pa to growers will be 3/6 per case 1c freight to Apia. * * * A remarkably fine range of timbers h been brought down to Sydney by M Charles Booth, one of the pioneers of t Morobe goldfields, New Guinea. Tht are samples of hoop and bunya pii cedar and Pacific maple. Mr. Booth a: his associates intend to form a compa: and to float the timber down the Bul< and Markham Rivers to the coast. Thi plans are being held up because timl leases covering the area which were a plied for in 1926 have not yet be supported by an official licence, reason for the delay has been given the Lands and Mines Department. * * * The discovery of a new electro-plati process, which is claimed by the invent to be epoch-making, has been made M. Henry Coporn, of Santo, New Hebrid* It is claimed that with the process woe fabric, glass, as well as metals, can plated with a surface of non-corrosi metal. * * * In advertisements in that February iss stainless steel dinner knives were offer at 8/3 per half dozen; hair clippers 3/6; alarm clocks at 4/6. The sing bed-and-breakfast rate at Clifton Garde Hotel, Sydney, was 35/- per week; Glo brand assorted beef, 12 oz cans, was 2( per case of 4 dozen; 16 oz, fancy me; 38/- per case; 1 lb cans of red salmc l/iVz a can or 16/- a dozen; coffee, cans, 2/9 per lb. Wool gabardine rai coats (men’s) were 67/6; drill shorts, 4> wool sports coats 24/6 and flannel trousc 18/6. You could buy a Chapman P marine engine for £l4 and, what is moi the first edition of the Pacific Islan Year Book was 8/6 and a yearly su scription to the PIM, 6/-. 16 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

20 ITALIAN COPRA- CUTTERS periment In New Hebrides I From a Special Correspondent PORT VILA, Jan. 29 PARTY of 20 young Italians I (between 21 and 28 years old) arrived in New Hebrides, per [ynesien in mid-January, under itract to Captain Graziani. They i to be employed on copra-cutting Mr. Graziani’s plantation at g Harbour, Santo, and will get ' to £2B Australian per month, i quarters. They are on 3-years itract; after which they have the )ice of remaining in NH, taking ler French or British nationality, being repatriated, labour is extremely short here. b experiment is being watched h interest. •rom the economic viewpoint, can lians take the place of natives copra-cutting? They get better jes, and they must get better d and housing. They must be tected against malaria. Presum- V, it will be necessary to keep m under shelter, and bring the s to them.

'hey are good-looking, wellssed young men, the majority k, but two fair. Their introtion cost over £225 per head.

Esn’T Australia Care ?

Letter to the Editor DES Australia realise that Chinese in considerable numbers now are being admitted to New Hebrides as labourers? (ho are these Chinese? Where they “screened” ? What are the ditions of their entry? Are they be repatriated at the end of a >ur contract? have been trying to get some •rmation, but officials are cent. Some told me they were itish” Chinese from Hongkong, have learned that the last party not Chinese bom in Hongkong, are men bom in China, and nese nationals. They carry sports issued by the Chinese imunist Government, here now are Chinese comlities established in New Guinea. >mon Islands and New Hebrides, sn’t Australia care?

I am etc., OLD NH PLANTER. , 1/2/52.

Tahitians For New

HEBRIDES ISPONSIBLE men in Tahiti are perturbed at the recent migration of Tahitian labour to the Hebrides where apparently, high ;s are being offered in an endeavour to overcome the acute labour shortage there- When the Sagittaire sailed from Papeete on January 5, a party of 16 men and 11 women departed for Santo. Previously two other ships had taken 40 or 50 persons.

Deputy Pouvanaa a Oopa is said to oppose permitting this migration while the Tuamotus are short of plantation labour and Makatea still obtains labour for its phosphate workings from the Cook Islands.

COPRA Readjustments In S. Pacific Countries IN Papua-New Guinea, Solomons, French Oceania —in fact, in most South Pacific Territories — there have been movements in the local copra prices.

Generally, world-market rates show a sagging tendency; but in the areas where the local price is controlled by the British Ministry of Food contract there have been substantial rises—due to the fact that the MOF price, for over two years, has been at least £3O per ton under the world price; and adjustments are now being made.

We announced, last issue, that the P-NG producers would get the 1952 rates from January 1 instead of from March 1; and that the new MOF price for 1952 would give them, at main Territory ports, £63/10/- Aus. per ton for FMS; while the price to Australian millers would be £B2/15/- Aus., ex-ship, Sydney.

The Territory ports price means a rise of approximately £7/10/- per ton over the price paid for 1951 deliveries.

It has been further announced that P-NG producers, as a result of price adjustments, will receive another £4 per ton (for sun and smoke-dried) for all copra delivered in the 1950-51 period.

There has been a substantial rise in the Solomons. At the end of 1951, the MOF Stg price was £53/15/-; 10 per cent, was added, to operate from January, 1952, making £59/2/6 Stg. per ton; in Australian currency, this was £7B/18/1; from that is deducted BSl’s heavy export duty of £ll/1/9 per ton (15 per cent); local deductions are about £4/2/6 per ton; which should have left, net, to the grower, about £5B/13/10 per ton.

However, the official announcement in Honiara, early in February, was that the price was £63/15/- Aus. per ton, from January 1; which therefore is £5 per ton better than some had expected. It is, however, almost exactly in line with the new price in New Guinea.

On December 23, under a new price order, the official copra price at Papeete, French Oceania, fell from 10.50 Pacific francs per kilo (equal to about £52/17/6 Aus. per long ton) to 7.10 Pacific francs per kilo —a decline of more than 25 per cent.

Fiji Discussions

IN Fiji—where the new copra price to producers is £59 Fijian (about £66AO/- Aus.) per ton— there was an interesting discussion proceeding concerning “the price structure.”

When the MOF contract was made, in 1949, the price was to rise or fall not more than 10 per cent, each year- Mr. W. G. Johnson, of Suva, contends that the starting price was too low by £4/15/- Fijian per ton; and as this was not built into the price structure, to get the benefit of the subsequent rises of 10 per cent, per annum, Fiji producers, one way and another, have lost £300,000, to the end of 1951.

Mr. Johnson says the MOF now has indicated a readiness to make an addition to the 10 per cent, for 1952 as an “incentive”; but he regards this as an attempt to rectify the original error of 1949, and he hopes to see an addition of maybe £6/15/- to the 1952 price, which according to his calculations would bring the account nearly square.

Mr. Johnson has argued that those who have protested that the devaluation of the £, after the signing of the MOF contract, robbed them of about £3O per ton have not a good case—because the producers’ representatives should have provided, in the contract, against currency devaluation.

In a legal sense, Mr. Johnson is perfectly right. But, until the event actually occurred, who would have anticipated an arbitrary devaluation (in terms of gold) oi over 30 per cent, in Sterling, the currency in which half the world traded, and which had been accepted for generations as being “as solid as the Bank of England”?

Now, we know that the economic position of Britain is such that we cannot depend upon Sterling maintaining its value in relation to gold, or the US dollar; and any wise trader provides accordingly in any contract likely to be affected; but in 1948-49 we accepted Sterling as we accept the tides and the calendar—something fixed and irrevocable.

Copra producers were not the only people caught by the Socialist trick of devaluation. Practically every producer who had a contract with Britain suffered, and was resentful accordingly. That attempt by Britain to pay the world for foodstuffs and raw materials in a debased currency did more than any other single thing of the 20th century to undermine confidence in Britain.

After 3h years on Norfolk Island, the Rev. J. Holmes. Mrs. Holmes and family have transferred to a Sydney parish. There were several farewell parties in their honour. 17 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

The Editors' Mailbag

Appeal for Distressed Fiji That well-known Australian artist, Mary Edwards, never has lost her affection for Fiji. Within a few days of the hurricane, she was busily organising a fete—at “Cooinoo,” Turramurra, Sydney, on March I—to1 —to raise funds for Fiji Relief, She is getting support; but her plan is under the handicap that there are in Australia to-day far more distressed bush-fire sufferers than there are hurricane sufferers in Fiji. Normally, Australia would have contributed liberally to help Fiji. Just now, all the available relief is urgently needed at home.

Nonetheless, sympathisers and friends of Fiji will wish to help Miss Edwards. Call her on JJ 2005.

Farewell to 'Leprosy’?

In ancient times, a leper was the complete human outcast. Fear of the disease he carried led to the perpetration of horrors indescribable.

Even to-day, when it is known that leprosy to a large extent can be cured, and that there is almost no risk of casual infection, most people recoil in terror from any chance of contact with sufferers.

In this respect, splendid work has been and is being done by an organisation called “The Relatives and Friends Association,” whose Australian secretary is Mr. E. H.

Hinton, of Richer St., Toowong, Brisbane. By constant propaganda, this body tries to remove pessimism from the minds of the diseased, ond fear from among the uninfected. They forbid the use of the words leprosy and leper.

They call it by its scientific name of Hansen’s Disease: they refer to “patients suffering from HD”; and they constantly quote facts and figures to show how the disease now can be arrested, and the high and growing rsrcentage of cures.

One need only remember Molokai and Makogai to realise that there is much of this disease in Polynesia; but how many know that it was brought into the Pacific Islands by Europeans?

It will not be easy to abolish the use of the word leprosy, used in our earliest records. But it is a fine idea; good luck to the Association.

More About Wahlenburg This photograph, which shows Wahlenburg as it is do-day, was taken about two months ago by Mr. Hal Evans of Madang, NG, while on a patrol of Maron.

It is something of a miracle that the old mansion, built by Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen, almost 50 years ago, is still standing after two World Wars and periods of considerable neglect. But this evidently is the evening of its days, for Mr.

Evans writes; “The house is still standing and is occupied by the present owner of Maron. Mr. G. Kuster. It is now, however, in quite decayed condition.

The timber has dry rot and the house appears to have been badly knocked about during World War II and, of course, neglected over the same period. It is now almost ‘a write-off,’ but from a distance it still looks imposing. None of the outhouses shown in the photograph in January PIM now exist.

“The wreck mentioned in the January article is still there, standing out prominently on the reef at the S-W entrance to the Hermit Group. It is shown on German charts published in 1912, so it must have been over 40 years since the ship went up. However, the boiler and main engine still stand half submerged on the reef, having withstood the ravages of sea and the elements all these years. Quite an advertisement for German workmanship and the quality of material used in those days.”

Concerning Fish I told a Melbourne friend about a couple of exciting hours one evening in Port Moresby harbour, and the kind of fish I caught. I have just received a postcard in his writing.

It says; Lord, suffer me to catch a fish So large that even I, When talking of it afterwards Shall have no need to lie.

Maybe times have changed. But I still insist that, alongside a certain reef in Port Moresby, in the ’thirties, you could catch big, fighting brutes of from 8 lb to 10 lb weight.—RWß.

Melanesian Mission Bay An Auckland reader, “more sorrow than in anger” wril to correct JT’s ignorance respect of Mission Bay,—Novemt PIM. page 51.

“Re Mission Bay—'wherever tt might be,’ ” he begins ominous and goes on to say; It is, of course, an abbrevial form of “Melanesian Mission Ba and even Australians ought to kn that the Melanesian Mission, whi runs the little ship Southern Cn and functions in the New Hebri< and the BSI, began in Auckla] NZ, under the auspices of the nol Bishop G. A. Selwyn; moved headquarters to Norfolk Island 1867 and shifted in 1919 to Siota, Florida Island, in the BSI.

Probably “J.T.” really knew wh Mission Bay was while at the Gl or found out later by following 1 methods of Sherlock Holmes wt round-tripping in the islands.

The Melanesian Mission and missions which set out to help 1 Black men of the Black Islai have done a fair job of work, a it seems only right that everyc who writes and talks about i Pacific should take a corresp( dence course in the history missions.

A feature of Auckland’s Miss Bay is that when the Mission la was cut up in fairly recent times, that rich men could build hou with harbour views, the streets w given appropriate names. T 1 there is a Patteson Av., and peo get to know how to spell it, and : confuse it with streets named ai Pattersons or Patersons; a “Melanesia Rd., Selwyn Av., Si Crescent,” etc.

Auckland’s Mission Bay is w! might be termed a “posh subui and apparently bears a resembla: to Sydney’s Potts Point—“where that may be —! ”

Some of the original miss buildings and some fine Nori Island pines remain at Mission 1 and are reminders of Selw Patteson and others. There is odour of history and the tropic s about the tiny bay with its tra tions that few people really kno\ (J.T. was interested in local Mission Bay and learning of associations with the Melanes Mission. Maybe even Australi should be experts in Mission 1 tory, but the fact is that J.T. i New Zealander, although not some time, and not of Auckla If forced to it, she would h located Mission Bay in Welling) However, she is now looking ab for a correspondence course Pacific missions, and another New Zealand geography). (Continued on Page 20) 18 FEBRUARY, 1 052 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Dangerous Situation Over

Dutch New Guinea’

SYDNEY. Feb. 11.

ITHAT Australia regards as a T highly dangerous situation exists in relation to Irian Dutch New Guinea). Strong inirvention by the Western Powers, r UNO, may be necessary.

Indonesia, after many changes, )w has a mixed government. Soeirno, head of the National Party i hotch-potch of totalitarian inilectuals, including many Reds), president. Sukiman, head of the [oslem Masjumi Party (following akistan in adherence to West) is •emier. Government represents lese two Parties and one other Greater Indonesia Party).

Parliament is wholly nominated, is split wide by political intrigue. :onomic collapse threatens the •untry. Some areas dominated by lerillas have set up local admlnisations, wherein Communists are fiuential.

Thousands of rich Chinese in Inmesia are much influenced by the eds. Chinese Ambassador Wang >n-shu, is a fanatical Communist. )ekamo's inclination is towards idia (now deeply penetrated by mimunists), Burma, Red China id Russia.

A few weeks ago Holland, reranging its constitution, referred ficially to “Dutch New Guinea-” lere was an outburst from Soeirno: Irian, he insisted, was Indossian Territory, |N January 16, at The Hague, f Dutch and Indonesian delegations began to discuss future lations. Indonesians showed clination to dissolve the Nethernds-Indonesian Union, a shadowy ilitical arrangement which is all at remains of Holland’s former .st dominion in the East Indies.

Certain interests in Holland .nicked. Because of the Union, ry large Dutch interests still are le to carry on planting and trad- ? in Indonesia. They could not ntemplate this huge economic SS.

The Indonesians replied that, a,ybe, if Irian were included in donesia, the Union could remain.

Between them, they worked out tentative plan under which Indosia would administer and police an, while the Union would relin, allowing Dutch commercial terests greater freedom.

That stirred Australia. An Ausilian representative at The Hague .d Professor Supomo (leader of donesian delegation) that Austracould not be indifferent to any in to alter the status of Western iw Guinea. [ndonesians reacted angrily. Djarta, late in January, asked Canrra to clarify the position.

Mr. Casey (External Affairs) on February 4 made a long and careful statement, which did not mean anything, except that Australia was interested in the future of Western New Guinea.

An incident, in January, created heat. Dynamite consigned to the New Guinea Petroleum Co., in Irian, was seized by the Indonesians in Djakarta on the ground that New Guinea is Indonesian territory, and dynamite cannot go in there without their permission. The Dutch, on January 31, protested vehemently against this high-handed action.

A GROUP of leading Dutch diplomats and merchants, who are opposed to the policy of the somewhat weak and radical Dutch Premier, Willem Drees, late in January sent Admiral Helfrich (commander who became famous in Pacific war) to Washington.

The Admiral caused a great stir by announcing that Indonesia had threatened Holland that, if she did not surrender Irian, Indonesia would dissolve the Union with Netherlands, and land armed forces in Irian from the Kei Islands (between Western New Guinea and Australia) where landing-craft are now being assembled. Holland, accordingly, had planned partial surrender of Irian.

The Dutch Ambassador at Washington denied that any such surrender was proposed.

But the Admiral seemed to be well briefed. Australian Ambassador Spender went into immediate consultation with the United States State Department, and with Canberra.

Further developments are awaited.

Editorial Note: Anglo-American inclination, of course, is to keep Indonesia quiet while enormously bigger issues are being worked out in Europe and Asia. But it seems impossible to keep the Indonesians quiet. Soekarno’s hold is shaky— unless he can stir trouble over Irian, he may go out. . . . Loss of the Union would be a serious thing for Dutch commerce. But compromise over Irian would be even worse for Australia, It would let Indonesia —already deeply penetrated by Reds —into New Guinea —too close for Australia’s liking. In view of the obligations under the Pacific Pact, Australia naturally appeals to America to help in keeping the Reds out of New Guinea. . . . The simplest and best solution for everyone would be for the Netherlands, with Anglo-American approval, to re-occupy this unstable, useless, mischief-making State of Indonesia.

What a legacy of trouble Australia’s Dr. Evatt gave to the Southwest Pacific when, as head of the United Nations, he drove the Dutch out of the East Indies and gave those archipelagoes to the Indonesians! . . . It is worth noting that the two countries which recognised King Farouk of Egypt as “king of the Soudan” (which is a form of spitting at Britain) are Persia and Indonesia.

Over £3 Per Ton For Sugar Cane Fiji-Indians Benefit By New MOF Sugar Price THIS year, Fiji Indian cane growers are expected to receive 14/- (Fijian currency) per ton more for their cane than they received last year.

This follows from last month’s announcement that the United Kingdom Ministry of Food would pay £5 12/6 Stg. more per ton for sugar. According to an agreement between tne Colonial Sugar Refining Co. and Fiji growers, the price paid for cane is increased when the price of sugar is increased.

It is estimated that the price paid to cane farmers this year will be about 66/-F. per ton.

The average yield per acre in Fiji is 20 tons of cane and the average holding of the Indian cane farmer is 11 acres. Probably no more than six of the acres produce cane in any one year but the new cane price makes the farmer, on local standards, well off.

The new price, theoretically, also makes sugarcane a possible crop for some European farmers with their larger holdings. However, these men would have to solve the labour problem, particularly during the cutting season and, as most European farmers are not near the CSR railway lines, most of the transport would be by lorry to the mills.

In recent years, when cane has been bringing high returns, Indian growers have been extending planting away from CSR rail lines. However, it is estimated that a road lift of 10 miles is about the economic limit for cane transportation.

Qea Freight Service To

P-NG QANTAS Empire Airways have begun a special aif-cargo service from Sydney to Port Moresby and Lae, and return.

A freight-plane (no passengers) will leave Sydney each Thursday evening, arrive at Moresby the following morning and reach Lae that afternoon. South-bound cargo service will leave Lae and Port Moresby each Wednesday.

The new service will allow for faster, bigger and heavier consignments. Qantas say that they will now accept even livestock. 19 4CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

A Man Lost at Tol Walter Kennedy, a young member of Works and Housing staff in Papua, has been seeking information about the fate of his uncle, wellknown Bob Kennedy, formerly a Medical Assistant in Rabaul. Gordon Thomas says that Kennedy did a fine job helping the wounded in Rabaul on fateful January 23, 1942; and then, with other members of NGVR, he got away into the South Coast jungles.

Bob was last seen in the vicinity of Tol Plantation, and it is probable that he was one of the many men murdered by the Japs in tne infamous Tol Massacre.

Remembering Tol, and Tarawa, and Amboin, we find it difficult still to classify the Japanese as anything other than sub-human. Yet to-day, only 10 years afterwards, we are asked, under the new Japanese Peace Treaty, to forgive them and accept them as allies against the Moscow-directed Asiatic Reds.

Time’s changes, indeed!

MacGregor of the Highlands Broadcasters and journalists should get hold of Bill MacGregor when he arrives in Australia on leave—he tells us he will say Hulloa to Sydney in May. This man has a story to tell.

With commendable wisdom, the Papua-New Guinea Administration engaged this tough pioneer a couple of years ago to take charge of the new Livestock Experimental Station in the Baiyer River Valley, in the Highlands. northwards of Mt.

Hagen. (Baiyer River is a headwater of the Sepik.) If temperate-country cattle can be acclimatised to the New Guinea Highlands—and some sound and practical people believe they can— the possibilities are enormous. Mr.

MacGregor, in this remote valley, has taken the keenest interest in his job, and in the possibilities of native co-operation. Ask him about language difficulties!

Maybe, his observations and conclusions are for the Administration, and therefore Hush-hush. But there are many thousands in Australia who would like to know about the agricultural and pastoral possibilities of our “Second Kenya.”

Vanikoro: an Industrial Headache A couple of guarded letters indicate that there has been something more than fun and games lately on the island of Vanikoro (Southern Solomons) where the good kauri pine comes from.

A core of European staff, and a large number of native labourers worKlng under contract for the Haling Brothers, of Cairns, Queensland, produce substantial shipments of this valuable timber for the Melbourne market. The Earopeans are supposed to go there for two years; but a number have broken away at shorter intervals, and seem full of fight.

It is a completely isolated community, working under conditions of everlasting rain, and a peaceful and contented atmosphere can be achieved only by supreme tact and vision in management. The belligerent recent arrivals from Vanikoro say their conditions were unendurable.

Bosses and staff doubtless will thresh it out to a conclusion. Meanwhile, Vanikoro production looks like falling somewhat in volume.

Even when European staff is happy there, Vanikoro is a headache for the management, owing to the difficulty of getting native labourers.

The black men, emphatically, do not like Vanikoro.

Maoriland’s Famous Son We learn from an overseas correspondent that Peter Henry Buck, just dead in Honolulu, carried the following distinctions: Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George—Conferred upon him by the King of England because of his great service to the Polynesian race and to science generally.

Distinguished Service Order —Won in World War I, when he was commander of the first Maori Battalion.

Master of Arts. Doctor of Literaature, Doctor of Science—All achieved by scholastic achievement in the world’s most notable universities.

MD, Ch B—Medical degrees gained by study, by which he qualified as a medical practitioner.

He was also MP for six years. He won the Northern Maori seat in NZ Parliament without making a speech.

His mother was a Maori chieftainess, and his father an Irish soldier, William Henry Neal. Neal was known to his intimates as “Buck”; and the Maori people, who reared and trained the brilliant boy, adopted that as his surname.

Apart from all else. Sir Peter was a very lovable individual. It is unlikely that New Zealand ever will produce another Peter Buck. But it is worth remembering that he was a man of mixed blood —a “halfcaste” —and that there have been other outstanding men of similar lineage.

M. Louis de Kerstrat, a bearded artist, aged 70, who is a professed Buddhist, and who has spent some time in Indian religious houses, passed through Sydney in February, on his return to his simple life in Tahiti. He had some forthright things to sav about “civilisation,” and the Australian newspapers gave him a lot of publicity.

Moresby Wharf Near

Complete Collapse

Prom Our Own Correspondent MORESBY, Feb. I LATE in January, Burns Phil general-manager for Papi New Guinea, Mr. E. J. Frar led a sharp and heated attack the Administration, on the subj of Port Moresby’s antiquated whi facilities.

Mr. Frame spoke at the Janu£ meeting of the Port Moresby To Advisory Council and, with no well prepared, blasted the Adm istration with details of promi and claims going back almost t years.

But Moresby still is “making d The matter came to a head wt the Harbourmaster, Captain Hawley, recently informed shipp; agents (including B.P.’s) that Wo: and Housing now considered \ wharf to be “in a dangerous cc dition” and that berthing restr tions would have to be imposed.

In future, vessels will be allov alongside the wharf only wl weather conditions are most favoi able. This means that costs \ mount still higher.

Mr. Frame said that for two ye; the Town Advisory Council had b< pressmg for some action to ei the waterfront problem. The sh were now hopelessly inadequate the needs of the port and cong tion was getting out of hand. A there was no alternative should 1 present wharf structure collapse apparently, it is likely to do at a moment.

Mr. Frame pointed out that long ago as April, 1950, the To Advisory Council had asked 1 Administration to provide light for use in case of emergency.

May, 1950, the Administration 1: informed the Council that: • Steel piping for the new wh was available. • Most of the required timl for the decking had b< stock-piled in Moresby. • Steel frames for 60-ft. stors sheds were available Moresby.

Now, almost two years later, 1 wharf contractor has done a lit preparatory work but is held up materials. No tenders have bf called for the sheds and there no money to build them anyway.

Despite the fact that many of motions have been ignored, t council unanimously passed t more, one calling on the Admin tration to provide lighters; I other asking them to seek an i: mediate special grant from Ca berra to save the port “from co: plete disruption.” 20 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Territories Talk-Talk

By Tolala [OSTALGIA is one of those de- I lightfully painful ailments, that pulls at the heart-strings and es you beautiful mental twinges, often inflict it on myself by >wsing through the pages of old lies of the PIM. It would seem ‘ Editor enjoys the same afflicn for he has started a column— -0 You Remember?” which will, doubt, prove popular. I thumbed ■ough a six-and-a-half year old lie and came upon: “. . . Out of Government and Military apntees wished upon Papua and w Guinea . . . [he] had the unique tinction of finding favour in the is of harassed Territorians. Withthe limited scope of wartime ulations and red tape he gave umed planters a fair deal.” Who s he? None other than ‘Donald ECinnon Cleland. This was written en he received his CBE and was >wn as Brigadier. latest reports he seems to be 1 living up to that reputation, hid talking about putting the ck back. In the Editor’s Mail- ; (Jan. PIM, p. 17) a corresponit asks the name of the Scanavian ship in the Rabaul harbour en the Japs invaded the place, was the Hoersten, a modem ship 7,000 tons and credited with a ied of 17 knots. hid, apropos of Editor Robson’s tation for the lifting of the iron tain on the Fall of Rabaul, I ;iced in an old PIM issue where • present PMG Anthony, took up i cudgels in the House, but ifley was against “raking over ashes.”

Minister Hasluck recently evaded i issue by saying; “It is the job the historian to hold inquests past events and to allocate, resisibility for past mistakes. That not the job of a man in public airs.”

Veil, he should know. Paul Hask, before he entered political life, s Honorary Secretary of the stern Australia Historical Society six years and for a couple of its a Lecturer in History at the iversity of WA, to say nothing the writing he has done on polial history for the Australian icial History of War 11.

Jut there seems a tacit undernding between the two Austrai political Parties that the iron •tain shall not be raised on baul. I suppose that when anier decade passes and the wounds /e healed, someone’s biography 1 divulge the sorry details.

So Flo and Jack Gilmore are trying to give tourism a boost in the Madang area with their new pub.

Good gatherings for Mine Host and Hostess!

It will not be the first time that they have catered for the weary wanderer or the thirsty traveller.

Back in the twenties they were running the Kokopo Hotel (and what tales could be told of that caravanserai!); later they were at Wunawutung, and later still at the Rabaul Hotel. But the spot where they lived in the Duke of Yorks — at Mioko —and dispensed Islands hospitality, is the ideal place for the tourist, with its golden sands and swaying palms, submarine coral gardens and lapis-lazuli-coloured waters.

There’s money in scenery and changed environment —providing there is comfort thrown in. And one important aspect is that it is all new money. Not the same old pound note that has been circulating among the locals for months, taut brand, spanking new dough.

Delicate Ground: Reports reaching me from New Britain indicate that there is a move afoot in one of the village Councils to change the old native custom of inheritance from the matrilineal to the patrilineal system. The inspiration comes from officialdom.

The old Mandate policy was to interfere as little as possible with native custom if it were not in conflict with law and order. Surely this is a somewhat radical step in these early years of Europeanising the New Guinea native, and must have a tendency to add further to his present social confusion.

Playing with Fire: The Rabaul Town Advisory Council is rightly concerned regarding amendments to Regulation 80 of the Native Administration Regulation which lifts the control of natives within the town area between certain hours. The impatience of Administration officials in native welfare matters can have very dangerous consequences.

Is it because present officials want ALL the credit for westernising the native, leaving no work of guidance for posterity? I can’t help thinking that a lot of this acceleration, where native policy is concerned, is more for the edification of Lake Success than for Papua-New Guinea.

There was a time when no one could step ashore in TNG without either a return-ticket or a landingbond, which eliminated the possibility of “insufficient means of support,” which I notice was the charge against a man in Rabaul recently, and for which he collected a month in the boob. A regrettable incident in a black country.

What! No numbers? Recent For Sale advertisement in the SP “Post” directed readers to So and So’s address: “. . . STC Plats. Paga Point.

Bottom Flat. Look for the striped blinds.”

One of the best illustrations of our present cock-eyed world to my mind was a newspaper item headed “Bulolo Homes for NSW” and telling of four pre-cut houses being exported FROM Bulolo ON Bulolo for an “open-cut coal-mining project in NSW.” A nice situation, surely, when New Guinea exports houses to NSW!

Incidentally, a two-bedroom, precut house was constructed at Bulolo by one European carpenter and two native helpers in 78 hours. It will probably take them 78 days to do the job in NSW.

Anticipating trouble? Said Administrator Murray in a “special New Year message to Territorians”: “. . . they [the natives] will appreciate that there would be not only no advantage for them, but only the greatest possible loss, in tying themselves to a people opposed to our ideals.”

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A magnificent brew of iceencrusted “Tahitian punch” was served from a giant kava bowl by “Tahitian” girls in sarongs and frangipani leis. Dancing followed a buffet dinner.

Agricultural circles report that sheep raising in New Guinea is going on under the difficulty of “a persistent intestinal worm problem.” Departmental officials in NSW, who had received specimens from Nondugl Livestock Station, Central NG Highlands, said that it was indicated that these sheep carried a “moderate worm burden.” 21 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - FEBRUARY. 1952

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REGARDED as one of the territ tory’s biggest white elephants, Fisherman’s Island airstrip has last been declared open as an ternate landing-strip to Jacksons miles east of Moresby).

The strip cost £73,000 to build, but ill be used only in emergencies. So r, only light planes have put down ere; but DC A experts have no ars about sending a Skymaster in, ould Jacksons go into smoke.

As far as the man-in-the-street concerned, the new strip means tie, except that he may be saved e inconvenience of being taken Lae when he is bound for oresby. But it will mean much to mpanies such as Qantas, who are iw compelled to carry sufficient fuel be able to get to Lae. This added el cuts down the payload conlerably.

As yet, DCA is not willing to low the extra fuel precaution to pse, because it has not been mly established that Fishermans 11 always be in the clear when rather has blotted out Jacksons, le indications, however, are that shermans will not often be )uded over.

Leasurer Imposes Water

RATES In his efforts to find new ways painlessly extracting funds from sidents, the Treasurer (Mr. H. H. ?eve> has decided to charge for iter supplies.

He laid down a scale of standard iarges for such as boarding- ►uses, hostels, missions, clubs, ctories, etc., and gave instruction Works and Housing to instal eters at private residences and her buildings.

For water supplied through a eter the charge will be 1/- per ousand gallons for the first 100,000 lions in a year, and l/6d, for each Iditional 1,000 gallons.

South Pacific Post pointed out at a meter was installed on a pipe itside its office, from which no ore than a bucketful of water is awn each day, five days a week, le revenue for this meter is likely be 1/- per year, against installam costs of about £7 (£5 for the eter, wages for one European and fe natives, and use of a huge uck).

Mr. and Mrs. Len Usher returned Suva (where he is Fiji PRO) in uuary, after long leave spent in irope.

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Feature of Post-War Administrative Policy IT is understood that two Australian officials who recently visited Papua-New Guinea to inquire into the need, if any, for providing credit facilities for native enterprises—such as co-operatives and trading concerns—have submitted a report directly to the Minister for Territories, Mr.

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Encouragement of native cooperative societies, for trading, planting and the provision of transport, has become a marked feature of administrative policy in some of the South Pacific Territories since World War 11.

Such movements have been noted in the Cook Islands, Western Samoa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Solomon Islands, Nauru and Papua- New Guinea. They appear to have gone hand-in-hand with discouragement of enterprise by the big trading companies, which also has been a feature of administrative nolicy in some of the groups named. 23

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Pacific Travellers Mrs. E. J. Greenwood, of Rabaul, ;w Guinea, was a passenger from dney on the Italian liner Ausilia in mid-February. With her ughter, she will spend several mths on the Continent and in the lited Kingdom. • Mrs. E. Maclean, enthusiastic jmber of the New Guinea omen’s Club, Sydney—when she is Sydney—is off on her travels ain. This time she. is visiting mru where her son Colin, atly ADO Sohano, New Guinea, on tour of duty.

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Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Jan. 27 THE Methodist Mission’s Agricultural School at Navuso, Fiji, with 100 Fijian students this year, is trying to build up a staff of competent, trained Fijian instructors. Three of the school’s students are now taking courses in Australia.

Taniela Raumakita. in his second year at Hawkesbury Agricultural College has just been joined by Ilaitia Butucama. Both are taking the full diploma course.

Meleti Sealolo has gone to Gatton College, Queensland, for a year’s special livestock course and will later study cane-farming in Northern Queensland.

Every penny of Ilaitia’s expenses has been paid by his family and the people of his home island of Beqa.

Meleti is also meeting his own expenses, with the help of a subsidy from the mission.

The principal of Navuso (Mr. D.

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Left to right, top to bottom:— Mr. W. Matthew and Captain Peter [?]anagan, general manager and Chief ot, Gibbes Sepik Airways, Wewak, NG, to came south with the company’s destar “Wewak Star” for Airworthiness [?]rvey in January.

The Rev. Father A. Benedetti, MSC, [?]th 13 year’s service in Catholic Mission [?]tions in Papua, returned there per Bulolo in January after leave in Australia. Mrs. Weedon, of Sydney, flew Bulolo, NG, in late January to see her [?]w grandchild; her son-in-law is a well- [?]own mining engineer there.

Mr. D. J. Pickwell flew north from Sydney in January to spend three weeks’ holiday with his parents. Mr. Pickwell, [?], with about 30 years’ residence in the [?]ands, is now Senior Medical Assistant, [?]vieng, New Ireland. Mr. T. H. [?]cobsen travelled by QEA to join Works [?]d Housing Department, Port Moresby, [?]a carpenter, in late January. 25 ACIFIt ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

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Travellers from Sydney in January February included (left to right, top to bottom): — Mr. Grady Parrott, United States President of the Missionary Aviation Fellow ship, who flew to New Guinea lat[?] January to discuss re-organisation on their air service in that area. (See els[?] where this issue.) Mr. V. G. Giddings, London motor mechanic, keen to obtai[?] employment in New Guinea, wrote to [?] firms there before finally getting a jo[?] with New Guinea Goldfields at Wau. H[?] went north by Qantas late in January.

Mr. and Mrs. George Etchells an[?] Patricia returned to Lae, NG, late [?] January, after 10 weeks’ leave. M[?] Etchells is QEA Catering Officer. M[?] Thomas, her daughter, Mrs. Digby, M[?] R. B. Digby and their two children [?] turned to Port Moresby in February after leave. Mr. Digby is Plant Engineer for Works and Housing Department.

Mr. A. G. Chaffey and Mr. B. I Roach, of Vacuum Oll Co. Mr. Chaffe[?] Engineer, Pacific Territories, and M[?] Roach, Constructional Engineer, flew [?] NG and Fiji to survey storm and hurry cane damage to their installations [?] both Territories.

Mr. D. Taylor, of Hornibrook Pty[?] Sydney, returned to Port Moresby after two months’ leave. He will be engaged o[?] the new wharf for which this firm ha[?] the contract.

Mrs. E. G. Pittaway flew to Lae. NO[?] to join her husband late in January, Mr. Pittaway is with Works and Housin[?] Department. They were married when [?] was on leave three months ago. M[?] Mick Burns, of Works and Housing Department, Port Moresby, returned their after six weeks’ leave late in January.

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Residents Not Civic-Minded From Our Own Corresponclem MORESBY, Feb. 5 HHE Chairman of Port Moresby’s L Town Advisory Council, Mr.

E. A. James is fighting a lone attle to give the Council statutory Dwers.

His idea is that the Council should dw be constituted along lines milar to the Canberra Advisory ouncil with certain members ected —but on the three occasions tat the matter has been raised he as not won a single member to Ls way of thinking.

It is hard to see what the obctions are but Mr. John Ahearn probably correct when he said iat the apathy of residents during le Legislative Council elections akes it certain that it would be farce if mere municipal elections ere staged.

Territorians, and Moresby residents in particular, show scant regard for civic affairs. This is a tragedy, because they are great critics and if their criticism were properly channelled it would probably do a great deal of good.

Other items of interest (which were dealt with at the last TAG meeting were: A report from the police commissioner recommended the provision of safety zones at various bus stops in the town. This was approved by the Council.

A sub-committee was formed to list commodities which are in short supply because of embargoes on export from Australia. The list will then go to the Government Secretary who will be asked to appeal to the Commonwealth Government for “leniency.”

A list of tentative street names for the new Boroka suburb, prepared by the Gov. Sec’s department was presented and approved. The name's are based on territory townships such as Daru, Madang.

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School of Pacific Administration, Mosman, NSW) has received the following subscriptions:— Mr. E. M. Bastard, £2/2/-; Dr. E.

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T. G. Pattrick, and his private secretary, Mir. Gay.

The party arrived by the February Tofua and met heads of Government Departments, European and Samoan representatives, business men and planters and otl European and Samoan leaders.

The party visited the Soi Coast of Upolu and paid a two-c visit to the Island of Savaii.

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Mr. and Mrs. Webb saw out visitation in the Grand Pac Hotel, which was undamaged. Tl saw the roofs of the buildings acr Albert Park blown off, while m of the abundant vegetation aroi them simply disappeared.

The Ministerial Party went on Western Samoa by the Tofua; a remain 16 days in Apia; spend few days in Rarotonga; and \ return to NZ by air about Februi 27.

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NG Natives Add [?]ethylated Spirits [?] Their Drink List From Our Own Correspondent MORESBY, Feb. 5 R. ARCHIE BALDWIN, long- 1, time resident of the territory, current president of the Port resby R.S.L. and an A.P.C. native Dur officer, in January, drew the m Advisory Council’s attention the increased use by natives of ;hylated spirit as a beverage, fr. Baldwin wanted the adminis- ;ion to take sterner action to b this growing habit, but Dr. n Gunther, the Director of ilic Health replied that any gestions would be more than come, although as long as ives were being sold lamps, then y must have access to spirit, and could offer no concrete plan to ;t the situation. The only thing ild be to prohibit the importation all but denatured methylated it which was too unpalatable to ik, although it was most unly that sufficient quantities of ; spirit could be found to meet territory s requirements. [r. Baldwin claimed that natives e getting hold of the spirit by ft, rather than by purchase. He ted the case of a four-gallon jar ippearing during a short coastal age. He also claimed that unipulous traders were supplying or, as well as methylated spirit latives. ther members referred to the :ming number of liquor cases ch have recently been before courts, particularly in Rabaul. srritorians are of the opinion that long as the Courts are handing paltry fines, with the option of jrief holiday at well-appointed, nana, natives will continue to trd drinking as a worthwhile risk. [?]rocker-Williams Wedding r the St. Francis Xavier Church, Rabaul, on December 20, Miss ma Crocker, of Sydney, was married Mr. Keith Williams, son of Mrs. Z. th, of Nonga, Rabaul. Mr. Williams m the staff of the Department of rict Services and Native Affairs, le bride was given away by Dr. R. A. ion, of Rabaul. Miss Jo Keating was esmaid and the best man was Mr. ry Leen, of Sohano. The reception held at the New Britain Women’s >.

Ir. J. K. McCarthy, District nmissioner, Rabaul, and Mc- Carthy, arrived back in Rabaul February, after five months’ ve in Australia.

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CORRECTION: In reviewing Dog Watch (journal of the Victorian Shiplovers’ Society) recently, we gave Miss S. A. Strom’s address as 177 Williams Rd. Prahran, Melbourne. This should be 117 Williams Road.

The vereran Roman Catholic missionary, Bishop Francis X. Gsell, was invested with the French Legion of Honor in Sydney on February 2. The award was for outstanding service in the Northern Territory and Papua. The Bishoo, who is 80 and retired from missionary work two years ago, is a native of Alsace. He left Prance for Australia in 1897. 29 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Tiere are now 34 pupils attending Rabaul’s European primary school. The room, previously used as a kindergarten, is now needed by the primary school. Parents’ and Citizens’ Assn, are asking that a new building be erected for the kindergarten in order that it may continue to function. [?]t. Robert Barrie, of Glasgow, Scotland, and his bride, formerly Miss Numai Mary [?]illips. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Phillips, of Vunidawa, Fiji, with [?]idesmaid Miss Rosemary Wooley and flowergirl Mary Lester. The best man is Sgt. Len Boyd, of the RNZAF, Lauthala Bay, Suva. Fiji.

Photo by Stinsons. 31 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Rev. John Chisholm, lately of St.

Stephens, Westminster, London, proceeded to Samarai in January to join the Anglican Mission, Papua.

Merkur's Moresby Call Burns Phiip’s 6,000 tons 1 senger ship Merkur called Port Moresby in early Fet ary in the course of her nor: run to Singapore.

The call was made because of withdrawal of Morinda from i vice, consequent rearrangement Papua-New Guinea schedules Bulolo and Malaita, and because a cargo lag that resulted from hold-up of the Bulolo a few mor ago when she was damaged by 1 This was Merkur’s first peg time call at Moresby.

She carried 1,600 tons of geni cargo for that port and 11 c which have been purchased private buyers and are valued £20,000.

It is expected that there will t certain amount of improvisation S-W Pacific shipping from A tralia until the arrival of BP’s ] Malekula which is expected f] her builders in Scotland shoi and will then go into the Sydn New Guinea service.

Mr. and Mrs. Chris Normoyle Rabaul, New Guinea, left the te tory in February for 9 mon leave. 32 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS ?.lONTHL

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Editorial Note: Last year the toral laws of New Caledonia e amended to give the franchise natives who had certain eduonal qualifications. This caused ie consternation in New Caleia, and the fear that native ;rs would swamp Europeans. It ot clear from the above message it seems likely, however, that opean electors will elect their i 16 members and native electors choose their own nine repretatives.) No Profit In It! markable Taxation Figures of Fiji Indian Business Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Jan. 27 IE latest issue of Fiji Information, a summary of official statistics, gives figures of the ony’s taxation. (The principal jes were published in the ember PIM). he tabulated figures in Fiji Innation include the following des of company taxation in 1950: uropean, Trading £636,139; pping and Insurance, £15,009; al, £651,148. idian, Trading £629; Shipping I Insurance, £1.008; Total, £1,637.

Unofficial statisticians (mostly Europeans) have been at work on the Indian returns. One of them has pointed out that as company taxation is set at 6/3 in the £, it follows that all the registered Indian companies in Fiji between them amassed the truly amazing profit of £2,012 in 1950.

This has drawn the obvious comment that something appears to be wrong with either the business acumen or the honesty of a good many Indian companies, and it has been hopefully suggested that the Suva, Lautoka and Labasa Indian Chambers of Commerce might be persuaded to make a statement.

With the arrival of the incometax-return season again it can only be reiterated that the extent of Asiatic tax-dodging in Fiji would be regarded as a major national scandal in any other British country.

Mr. C. D. Bates, one of Papua- New Guinea’s senior District men, has returned to Madang as District Commissioner, after long leave. His length of service entitled him to retirement and Port Moresby feared that he might be lost to the Administration at a difficult time. His decision to return was welcomed by all classes.

Mr. S. M. Haq. Press Attache to the Pakistan High Commissioner in Australia, paid a short official visit to Fiji in January. 33 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Mr. Julian Dashwood who, under the pen name of “Julian Hillas” gave early PIM readers interesting and amusing glimpses of Cook Islands history (see first ten years of PIM), was in Auckland on leave in January. He now is trade-store manager for A. B. Donald & Co., on Mauke Is.

Islands Ships In Sydney THE 550-ton motor-vessel Camano, flying the United Nations and United States flags, and under command of Captain Peter Bolton, of Honolulu, visited Sydney in mid- January. The Captain and Chief Engineer were the only Europeans —the junior engineers and deck officers were Filipinos and the seamen Micronesians.

Camano belongs to the Pacific Micronesian Line of Guam —the Government sponsored company providing communications within the Trust Territory. She is the “special run” ship five other similar vessels being stationed n pectively at Majuro, Ponape, Tri Palau, and Guam for inter-Gro communications. One other, 3,000-tonner, the Chicot, mainta; communications between t Groups and Guam.

Camano brought 6 medi( students for Suva Medical Schc She spent New Year at Raba loading scrap metal—and bun! oil well laced with salt water, whi gave the Chief Engineer soi worries coming south.

From Sydney Camano was hea ing for Vila, to pick up the si vivors of a Marshall Islands ves which drifted to the New Hebric in November (PIM Nov., page 12 Thence, on to Suva to land I Hughes (an English anthropolog bound for the Gilberts) and t medical students. Seven Micror sian students returning home v join the ship there.

The voyage was made mainly load Australian foodstuffs i Micronesia.

Kurimarau Visits Sydne

Kurimarau, flag-ship of t BSIP Administration fleet, v in Sydney in January. Bu in Hongkong in 1930 for Leve she was used in the Solomons. 1941, she carried out 75 civilian threatened by the war. In 1942 t Americans took her over and r her between Townsville. Cairns a NG in their small-ships supi fleet. She still carries shrapr marks.

In 1945, the BSIP Administrati purchased the vessel for use b tween Suva and Honiara. Sin 1949 she has been used within t Group.

Captain N, W. Macdonald e pects to make two voyages to Su to transfer WPHC staff a] archives to their new headquarte at Honiara.

Kurimarau brought 80 logs frc Tenaru (Guadalcanal) and quantity of Trade Scheme trochi She took back a cargo of timfc from Goffs Harbour and genei from Sydney.

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A BRISBANE-BUILT form Army supply vessel, a standa 66-foot trawler, has for sor months been under conversion Sydney to a hospital vessel for t Photos on Opposite Page Reading: from top downwards: — Captain Peter Bolton and Chief Engineer O. K. McCart, of the Camano.

The Camano lying at Circular Qua[?] Sydney.

Six medical students from Micrones[?] travelled by Camano to Suva.

Captain N. W. Macdonald was in command of the Kurimarau, from BSI.

The BSI Administration’s flagship Ku[?] marau at a Sydney wharf.

The new BSI Administration hospital ship Betua, on trial in Sydney Harbou[?] 34 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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DEUTGAN FOR N. HEBRID: THE 211-tons trading ve Deutgan (Capt. J. Gap) gone from Sydney to sup] ment the hurricane-depleted ra of New Hebrides shipping.

In May, 1947, Mr. M. Marins purchased the ex-Navy barge Australia from Disposals, and sp 2 years on refitting. Deutgan t] went to the Islands for a st period, Mr. Marinacce operal from a small islet south of Mi kula. He then decided to tram his headquarters to the ship.

Deutgan proceeded south months ago for additions to accc modation and other structi alterations, and now has an cellent cabin for the owner and wife. Deutgan is one of the : Islands ships to carry a won cook —a NH native.

Mr Marinacce has a number other lighters under preparat for shipment to the Islands fi Sydney.

Ships For Micronesia

CAPTAIN P. J. M. Sellars, Melbourne, returned to A tralia as a passenger in Pacific Micronesian Line ve Camano in mid-January, after livering the well-known 140- Tasmanian-built steel two-mas schooner Mileeta to Maji Mileeta sailed from Sydney ] August 14 by way of Rabaul j Truk.

Capt. Sellars reported t another Tasmanian-built s ketch/ —the 96-ft. yacht Frel which was also delivered to Maj last year, will probably be go to Honolulu for conversion tc hospital ship for use within Mic nesia.

Capt. Sellars foresees the poi bility of his delivering another T manian craft to a private tra in Micronesia in the near futur<

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\ N enterprising American journa 1 Bernard Covit, has produced “Official Directory and Boofc Tahiti,!* It provides most of the in mation that the visitor wants about rich and attractive French territ The community has supported Mr. C generously with advertisements; tl seems to be an announcement by ei trader in the place. All the data that tourist needs is here—all about Tat how to get to the other islands, what to see; lists of officials; the cost living and services; the value of mor the local laws which have to be obs6n There is a telephone directory and complete classification of the vari firms. Two features which should h been included and are missing are a r of French Oceania and an index of book. A handy compilation, nonethele 36 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Fail Of Rabaul

10th Anniversary JHE largest attendance since the war years marked the 10th anniversary service of the Fall Rabaul, at Sydney Cenotaph, on e morning of January 23, 1952.

All traffic was stopped in Martin ace shortly before 8.15. Two mutes silepce followed the placing wreaths; and a bugler sounding e Last Post ended the short remony. rhere were many private wreaths, well as those from the NGVR, •w Guinea Ex-Servicemen’s Club, iw Guinea Women’s Club, 22nd ittalion, Island firms and Governmtal bodies.

For the first time, there was a ■eath from the Australian Govern- »nt (personally placed on the motaph by Mr. John Howse, M.P., irliamentary Under-Secretary to ‘partment) and another from the spartment of Territories and the [ministration, placed by Mr. A. S.

Pearse (head of the Sydney staff the Department).

Phe organisers of the ceremony, e New Guinea Ex-Servicemen’s ub of Sydney, and the NG omen’s Club, were much gratified the interest thus shown by the ivemment and the Department.

Until this year, the January 23 niversary, kept so faithfully by iw Guinea folk in Sydney on that y, has been consistently ignored both the Commonwealth Governmt and officialdom generally. The 11 of Rabaul to the Japanese in nuary, 1942, and what led up to it, s been something they have been ppy to ignore or to forget.

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IMPORTANCE’’ [HIS attitude is still reflected by the NSW State Branch of the RSSAILA. An invitation to be esent at this year’s ceremony was ued to the Branch by the NG -Servicemen’s Club. It received ;urt letter to the effect that as the il of Rabaul was “not of national portance” the Branch had decided t to take part in its commemoran.

Members of the Ex-Servicemen’s üb, New Guinea returned soldiers, r widows and others have taken ception to the wording of the; ter and the Branch’s attitude. iey point out that, at Rabaul, istralian soldiers fell for the first ne in defence of Australian Titory; that it was the first d only Australian territory be occupied by the enemy; and at, if the Japs had not been in consolidating their sition in Rabaul. but had at once atinued southwards, there was thing then in mainland defence prevent their landing in Austlia itself.

THE fact is, of course, that the 'story of the fall of Rabaul has been lost in the larger story of the Pacific War. Few Australians are aware of the resistance made against the Japs in the dawn of January 23, 1942, by the few men of the NGVR and the 22nd Battalion AIF; of the subsequent grim struggle of the survivors through the New Britain jungles and mountains; of the internment of the captured soldiers and the 300 civilians who were abandoned to their fate by the Government of the day; of their death some months later in the Jap prison ship Montevideo Maru. Few Australians have heard of the massacre of Aussie soldiers at Tol plantation; or the courage of the half-dozen Wirraway pilots who took their obsolete planes into the air against modern Japanese fighters and, one by one, were shot down, Much of this phase of the Pacific war was lost in official hush-hush; the rest is quickly forgotten by the man-in-the-street. New Guinea folk expect no less; but New Guinea servicemen did expect something better from their brothers-in-arms in the NSW State Branch of the RSL.

It may be that it is NSW RSSAILA policy not to take part in the commemorations of various Service units. However, there are many ways of saying this, other than in the bald words of its letter to the Ex-Servicemen’s Club, (See photograph, page 39.) 37

A C I F I C Islands Monthly February, 19 52

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The Cheng Ho Again

IT appears that the ownership of the Chinese junk Cheng Ho is still in dispute between Hawaii interests and the people who took her to Tahiti and transferred her to French registry.

Mr. Otto Degener, of Honolulu, who claims ownership, has given his Power of Attorney to Mr. Os< Nordman, of Papeete, and has : structed him to take certain acti If a case is taken to the courts, probably will be orotracted and t ter.

Mr. and Mrs. Les Ingles are Melbourne on leave after three a a half years in Madang, N Guinea, where Mr. Ingles is a i cruiter and ship's captain.

The junk, Cheng Ho. 40 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY*

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Termites Close Suwarrow MTTHEN a hurricane passes through T? the Cook Is. it seems always to strike Palmerston and/or Suwarrow atolls. Great damage vas done at Suwarrow when the ast hurricane passed through the 3roup in 1942. The story was Iramatically told by the late Robert )ean Prisbie in Island of Desire, le was there with his children and NZ Public Works party at that ime.

Following that hurricane, when he island was still being used by !Z as a Coast Watching station, he late Bill Bryan of Rarotonga ras despatched with fnaterials to rect a hurricane shelter for the rotection of the small population, ’he structure consists of a conrete block 15 x 20 feet and about feet thick, on which is mounted wooden house 12 feet square, its Dor about 8 feet above the conete block. The legs are Bx 4 inch mbers, the bracings bolted with on bolts. (See photo.).

It is probably the only hurricane lelter in the South Pacific and srtainly the only one of this kind.

In the house was a supply of mned rations, medical supplies, c., and an emergency radio aerial as erected ready for use. In the rent of a hurricane the Coast r atchers—and latterly the Weather bservers —were expected to retire i the house with their radio equipent and carry on business as >ual.

However, those who have seen it, r en in its prime, have expressed insiderable doubt as to whether, ith a few fallen coconut trunks dged against its legs, it would resist the seas which sweep right across Anchorage Islet. Two years ago a NZ naval frigate withdrew the three native Weather Observers, the shelter being declared unsafe due to rot or termites.

It is believed that the NZ Meteorological Office, although anxious to re-establish the valuable weather station on Suwarrow, is not prepared to face the heavy expense involved in building a really safe hurricane shelter. The island is therefore unlikely to be resettled in the near future.

Apart from hurricane danger this atoll is heavily infested with a destructive termite which even the humcanes cannot eradicate. First introduced from a wrecked ship many years ago, the termites have ruined the atoll as a copra producer. The palms barely reach maturity before they come crashing down, riddled with holes in their trunks.

Naturally the Cook Is. Administration is anxious that this pest is not spread to any of the other Cook Is. Investigation into ways and means of ridding the atoll of termites has so far proved fruitless, experts declaring that there is no cure. Suwarrow has therefore been closed to shipping, and vessels may now call only with the ‘/express permission of the Resident Commissioner in Rarotonga, At the present high price of MOP shell, it is unfortunate that these termites cannot be overcome so as to permit pearling operations. Pearl [?]warrow hurricane shelter not long after it was constructed. 41 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Last man to call at Suwarrow was Ir. Ken Windsor, skipper of the mall trading vessel Siren. He says lat large numbers of pigs and fowls re now running wild on Anchorage Jet. The Rarotonga police suplied him with a rifle and ammunion to reduce the pig population, [though the main purpose of his ‘quest for a landing permit was to btain fresh water on the long [>yage to Puka Puka.

Norfolk Island Notes

From Our Own Correspondent January 23.

HHIS year’s bean-seed crop is ex- L pected to be a good one with excellent financial returns to le growers.

The crop was harvested under leal conditions: germination tests ndertaken in the Government fu- Ligation testing sheds are promisig- (Ed. Note: An almost unlimited mount of Norfolk Island bean seed )uld be sold in Australia where jgetable growers are paying about 15 per bushel —three times the rice they paid a few years ago— hen they can get it.) Lovely summer weather has been tperienced of late and is appreated by tourists from New Zea- .nd. NZ National Airways has .nded seven plane loads of New ealand visitors here since Christtas.

The tourist trade now justifies le use of larger aircraft from NZ. ne Skymaster would carry as (any passengers as the three akotas which NZNAC sent over i a recent Sunday.

One of the Island’s great needs a sawmill which would serve the ablic the year round. At present lere is a great demand for modern omes, with very little offering in le way of local timber. Sawmills ere are treated as a side-line by leir operators and of all the comments necessary for building a ouse, timber is the most difficult ) get.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tattle, old ;sidents of the Island recently reirned after an 18-months’ tour I the United Kingdom and urope.

Pastor N. A. Ferris, well known s a SDA missionary in Tonga, has Dne to Pitcairn Island for I months to relieve Mr. and Mrs. . P. Ward who are on leave in Aus- 'alia.

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ON January 1, the RAAF took over Halvorsen & Sons’ shipyard in Neutral Bay, Sydney.

From this yard, particularly during the lifetime of the late Lars Halvorsen, Snr., many a small Islands craft, still sailing the Pacific, commenced its life.

Halvorsen Sons have several other yards on Sydney Harbour now. It is understood that the RAAF will transfer the Catalinas and small craft of the SAR (Search & Rescue) organisation from Rathmines to Neutral Bay, Sydney, in the near future. SAR is part of the International Civil Aviation Organisation —each country being required to provide rescue facilities for planes on trans-oceanic flights within agreed distances of the country’s coastline.

Mrs. Mark Pitt has been in Brisbane making purchases for her Guest House which she will set up in the New Guinea Highlands near Goroka. She will continue with*her Guest House at Madang till October, 1952, when it is expected that the hotel will open. European women living on the NG coast will appreciate an opportunity to visit the cool Highlands. Hitherto there has been no accommodation. 43 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Some Blame For Lazy Europeans Prom Our Own Correspondent MORESBY, Jan. 28 COMMERCIAL interests in most ports of the Territory are making a legitimate howl about the disgraceful handling of incoming cargo—but they are not getting very far.

The Administration has tried to pass the buck to Australian ports; but it could not provide a convincing argument. Now, it is falling back on the all-embracing excusi “No funds.”

Since the Budget cut, this simp] little phrase has become a passwor in Administration circles. It covei up for much inefficiency.

But it cannot cover up for tt rank laziness and irresponsibilit of a good many men who are eir ployed on the wharves and in th Customs sheds. It is obvious ths the ports, and particularly Moresb; urgently need bigger sheds; but is equally obvious that much carg could remain undamaged and ur pilfered if certain Europeans did better job of supervising stowag and security.

The matter was raised at the la: meeting of the Moresby Town Ac visory Council, when membei voiced their complaints in whs must be a losing battle.

A contract has been let for th building of the new wharf; bi nothing can be done about tt sheds “because there are no funds No one could put forward an suggestions for improving th efficiency of existing buildings an employees.

Popular AMP Akuila, of Fij arrived in Sydney per Kurimarai en route to Suva after 6 years in tt BSIP Medical Service. Akuila held in high esteem by all class< in the Solomons.

Mr. Charles I. Buffett, LLB, and h[?] son Peter. Mr. Buffett has a doub[?] interest for Pacific Islanders. He is the first descendant of the Pitcairn Islande[?] to achieve distinction in law (he is graduate of the Law School of the University of Sydney) and he is going so[?] to Norfolk Island as Official Secretary [?] the Administration. He has been member of the Commonwealth Publ[?] Service since World War II. 44

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During his January visit to labaul and district, the Assistant Ldministrator of P-NG, Mr. D. M. fieland, was unable to give a deinite answer as to when or if the own will be moved; he said that without doubt, a decision will be lade at the earliest possible date.” n the meantime, he said, roads nd wharves in the existing town rould be maintained.

It was officially announced about he middle of last year that the iapopo move would be made withut delay. But shortly after this le Australian Government inroduced drastic anti-inflation leasures that cut down severely n public works. Nothing further as been heard of the move to apopo.

Rabaul citizens have never been ithusiastic about the move—parcularly in relation to the abandonee of RabauTs magnificent harbour icilities —and would be happy to stay where they are in spite of the volcanoes.

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Master Defends Native Foreman Unusual Case In N. Guinea RABAUL, Dec. 21.

PUBLIC interest was taken in a recent court case at Sohano, Buka Passage, when Patrol )fficer B. K. Leen brought two harges of “Spreading False Reorts” against a well-known native, liarua, who has been No. 1 Boss toy for Mr. Fred Archer, at Jame lantation, for the past 24 years.

The alleged offences, which carry penalty of a £3 fine, or six lonths’ imprisonment, or both, ccurred at Jame whilst Mr. rcher was absent in Rabaul. /Tien P. O. Leen swore the inforlation a warrant was issued for the crest of the native. Fortunately, roceedings were delayed until the ‘turn to Jame of its owner, as ;herwise the plantation, native bourers, copra, stores and equipient would not have been under ly responsible control. Siarua, for jars, has been left in complete mtrol during the owner’s absence.

After making enquiries, Mr. rcher was convinced that the itive was guiltless of all intent to iread false reports, but had, on the intrary, merely tried to convey through a Police Constable on patrol certain circulating native rumours that he thought the District Office should be aware of.

The charges appeared to Mr. Archer to have been too hastily made.

To ensure strictest impartiality for an old and faithful servant, Mr.

Archer requested a special Magistrate for the case. He also engaged Mr. Dudley Jones of Rabaul, to appear as counsel for Siarua.

The case came up on December 4 and both the Magistrate (Mr.

Warner Shand, of Rabaul) and Mr.

Dudley flew out to Sohano in the Catalina a distance of 180 miles.

Patrol Officer Leen prosecuted.

After the case for the prosecution had been stated, and the Crown witnesses had given their evidence, Mr. Dudley Jones raised several objections.

The Court adjourned whilst the Magistrate considered these objections, and, upon resumption, the Magistrate stated that the objections were upheld and, consequently both charges against Siarua were dismissed on technical grounds.

Mr. Dudley Jones, addressing the Bench, said that had it been necessary, a very strong case for the defence would have been put forward. He also referred to the native’s long service, good record and war services.

This is probably the first time in Bougainville District that a special Magistrate has been flown out from Rabaul, at an employer’s request, to sit on a native case.. Certainly, it is the first time in the district history that an employer has en- 47

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Tofua Welcomed In Api

From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Jan. 12. rE first trip around the Islam of the Union Steamship Co. new motor-vessel Tofua, ws an occasion for parties and cel< brations in most ports.

In Apia—where she arrived ear on New Year’s Day—Captain N. 1 Pearson and his officers entertaim representative citizens at a cockta party and gave them an opportune of inspecting the modern £ millic ship. Greater comfort, spaciousnes attractive fittings and latest ted nical aids to navigation and vent lation distinguish the new ship fro: the Matua which, in peace and i war, has served the needs of Same and neighbouring Groups for tl past 16 years and has thereby gain* a permanent place in the hearts < Islanders.

The High Commissioner of Westei Samoa, Mr. R. G. Powles, and Mi Powles, entertained the Captain Tofua and officers at a cockte party at Vailima on January 3, ar the Apia Turf Club held a ra« meeting in beautiful weather e January 2. The main event, Tofi Handicap, was won by Mr.

Thompson’s Fortune. Other even were appropriately named “Mati Sprint” and “Pearson Sprint”.

Mr. Gordon Clarke, manag PCB, Madang, New Guinea, flew Australia on leave late in Januarj 48 FEBRUARY. 1 952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Engineering and geological exerts came to look at the proposion last year, and have reported lat the scheme would cost >,000,000 —over £4 l million for the istallation, £315,000 for interest jring construction. This cost ould not include transmission lines id distribution organisation.

The experts also reported that le proposed dam would not prode 48 square miles of water as aped, but something like three [uare miles; and that borings down » 150 feet at the dam site had jled to reach bedrock.

Annual charges for interest, sinkig fund, etc., after the dam was mipleted, are estimated to be )out £290,900 with no possibility ' being covered by revenue for at ast 10 years. Fiji Government terefore agreed with the Colonial evelopment Corporation (who was pay a substantial part of the »st) that this kind of hydroectricity was not for Fiji and that >wer-hungry Suva would have to ok elsewhere for its needs.

W. Samoa’s Favourable Trade Balance From Our Own Correspondent APIA, January 25.

IOR the calendar year 1951, Western Samoa had a favourable trade balance of £527,244, Stg.

Cocoabeans topped the list of exerts with a value of £801,001; copra is second, with a value of 81,172; and bananas third with value of £53,376.

The figures show the healthy ate of Western Samoan finances it show also, that the Territory is tally dependent on two products cocoa and copra.

A little less than half of the jrritory’s cocoa went to the tiited States in 1951. Almost all the copra went to the United ingdom and the bananas to New ;aland.

Mr. Jack Keenan, ADO, Madang ls been promoted to District Comissioner, Kavieng. Mrs. Keenan is gone South for medical reasons.

Mr. Laurie Brooks, formerly of e meteorological station at Dniara, BSI, fcas been transferred Macquarie Island.

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This will bring the 1952 price to £59/15/- Samoan (equal to Stg.) f.0.b., Apia.

The Western Samoan Copra Board has announced that the price paid at trading stations will be increased by 3/- per 100 pounds.

Mr. B. A. Doyle, Attorney-General, Fiji, returned to Suva from overseas leave in December.

Mr. lan Downs, acting District Commissioner, Madang, has been transferred to Port Moresby as Assistant Director of District Services.

Mr. and Mrs. Downs made many friends in Madang and will be missed. Mr. Downs organised many patrols into districts which have been neglected in the post war era. 49 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

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Mr. W. Andrews-Baxter, who has been in Honiara, BSI, for the past 21 years with the Shell Company, has been transferred to Western Australia.

These new town-markets were officially opened by the Chairman of the Lautoka [?]own Board, Mr. E. F. Corbett, on Saturday morning, January 19. A representative [?]athering of the townspeople were present. Mr. C. K. H. Nott, District Commissioner Western, and Mr. A. H. Marlow, general manager of Fiji Builders Ltd., who were responsible for the construction, also spoke.

Cost of the building, which is of three-sided, half-hexagon shape, with adequate [?]oor area, was £10,570. The project was erected by the Town Board with the [?]nancial backing of the Central Government. The Board has every confidence that [?]le markets will be self-supporting and no drain whatsoever on local ratepayers. The Fiji Government, moreover, has agreed to meet any deficit in the running of the markets in the next five years.

Hitherto Lautoka’s only markets have been road-side affairs. The new modern building will be a boon to local housewives as well as to producers of vegetables and [?]her foodstuffs. Inset (left to right): Messrs. Corbett, Marlow and Nott. 51 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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From Our Own Correspondent Apia, Jan. 12.

ANOTHER serious road accidej occurred on the morning January 9 when a bus full passengers collided head-on with PWD truck on the Cross Islar road of Upolu, West Samoa.

The bus involved in collision w: one of two which were carryii passengers from the village Vaiala, near Apia, for a crick match. It is believed that the PW vehicle, having passed the first bi did not see the second bus in den clouds of dust.

Edward Crichton, road forema who was sitting alongside the trui driver, was killed instantly as w one of the bus passengers, a Samoi chief of Vaovai, Lealiifano Paamai Twenty passengers in the bus we Injured, eight of them seriously.

Both bus and truck were cor pletely wrecked.

Another bad bus accident occurr last July when a bus plunged c the road near Solosolo, down a cli killing four and injuring 16.

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[?]upport For Proposed New Guinea Crop Prom Our Own Correspondent MORESBY, Jan. 28 P the enthusiasm of a handful of | Territorians can be accepted as a guide, it will not be many iars before kenaf is a very popur crop in Papua-New Guinea.

So far, the leading light among ivate planters is Mr. R. A. Colyer, Rabaul, with Colonel Sefton, of oitaki, keeping step with him. ith Bill Conroy, of the Departent of Agriculture, they are all reed that, once started, kenaf will ahead “like a house on fire.”

In mid-January, Mr. J. M. Dempy. reputedly one of America’s iding experts on fibre production, rived in Port Moresby on a Com- Dnwealth Government-sponsored p to advise on various aspects of naf growing. He went first to see e Colyer-Sefton trials at Eriama tate near Sogeri; and, after aking several tests, said he was )st impressed by both quality and sld.

He then suggested that a bale of iama kenaf be airfreighted to nerica for spinning into sample oducts. His logic was so conicing that the Administration, for ce, turned on a show of speed id, within a couple of days, had ovided about £250 to pay the sight.

Mr. Dempsey explained that Ausilian interests will have a lot of estions to ask before they start icing orders for Territory kenaf, id that the quickest, simplest and ist convincing method of answer- ? them is to present the finished oduct.

There is no doubt that Australia n take a good deal of kenaf. It n be used for making sugar-bags, m, fertiliser sacks, wool-packs, loleum backing and many other mmodities.

It is particularly attractive to inters because it takes only 70 ys to grow, and it will need conlerably less labour than copra id rubber. The only fly in the itment is that a good deal of itial capital is required to buy corticating equipment.

The Rev. E. L. Sykes, after 13 ars service for the Presbyterian lurch in the New Hebrides, rently returned to Melbourne to molete some Bible translation irk which he hopes will shortly be iblished and returned to the lands.

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W. SAMOA From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Dec 31 AN investigation by a New Zealand official during the past few months, has shown that the cost of living for Europeans in W. Samoa has risen 17,6 per cent, since February, 1949. The rise has been greatest in foodstuffs which have risen by 30.5 per cent., with clothing next and household goods and services taking third place.

The figures will provide a basis for fixing salaries of members of the Public Service in the Territory.

The Samoan Government, has, as a result of the newly established living cost index for workers, raised the wages of labourers working for the Government as from January 1, 1952. Increases range from 1/- for the lowest paid, unskilled labourer (from 8/- to 9/- per day) to 4/6 for skilled tradesmen (from 40/- to 44/6). It is expected that private employers will follow the example set by the Government, Pastor C. E. Echermann, of the Gelem Training School for Lutheran native teachers. New Guinea, was on leave in Adelaide with his family in January. 53 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Another Ship Stolen W. Samoa Local Youths’ Misplaced Spi? of Adventure Prom Our Own Correspondent APIA Jan 1 WESTERN SAMOA, which ] been cursed by adventur; amateur pirates in reci years, is currently undergo: another ship-stealing incident.

Morris Hedstrom’s 18-ton mot boat Amy was stolen at Vaiss Savai’i, on January 6, was last s< heading out to sea and, at t date, has not been found.

The pirates, this time, appear be three brothers, Felisi, Sonny a Sone Crichton. Two of them ; members of Amy’s crew, the th lives near Vaisala. Amy was Vaisala on January 6, waiting load copra for Apia. The capta George Huch, the engineer a other members of the crew had gc ashore to church, leaving only 1 watchman on board. The th brothers came aboard, told 1 watchman he need not stay a: when he was safely ashore, star up and headed out to sea.

Pursuit could not be organised 24 hours when Captain Williams 1 Apia in another MH vessel with police representative.

Planes and other ships kept look-out for Amy—it was belies that she headed north-west Rotuma or Wallis Island.

She had fuel for 60 hours, a gc supply of food and some cargo Savai’i trading stations. £ recently has been reconditioned a is valued at £B,OOO.

AMY FOUND Jan. 21 THE Amy has arrived at Rotur 220 miles north of Fiji and ■ miles from Samoa. The three £ venturers were promptly arres and will be taken back to Apia Court proceedings. (Editorial Note: If other Paci islanders were afflicted with t same thirst for adventure on 1 high seas as are the Westc Samoans, owners of small sh would have a pretty thin time, is hard to understand what thi young hoodlums think they achic —it is about a century too late ; piracy and even the most rem< island now has radio and under the watchful eye of soi official. There have been thi conspicuous boat stealing cases Western Samoa in the last fi years: A. G. Smvth’s little ves; Wyben, which was piled up in t Solomons about 1947; O. F. Nelsoi Gaumatau, which was finally fou: in Eastern Samoa about Februa; 54 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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150; and now the Amy. Ringleader i the first two escapades was the If-styled “Dynamite Mac Mago” ho was in trouble again for ga9l- ■eaking in June, 1951. Authority , Western Samoa seems unable to irb this local lust for high ad- •nture but severer pufiishment for ie culprits when caught—as they evitably are—would probably have beneficial effect.) Mr. J. R. Halligan and Professor . O. Shatwell, Australia’s senior id junior Commissioners on the mth Pacific Commission, visited ipua-New Guinea centres in the ,rly part of February, and inected various institutions and calities likely to be of interest, om the SPC viewpoint. Mr. Hallin flies to New York, late this onth, to attend a meeting of the •usteeship Council of the United itions. The next meeting of the 5 C will be held in Noumea in jril.

The Rev. F. Harlan Delbridge, of e Methodist Church, Fiji, who has cently been discharged from Ep- >rth Hospital, Vic., is now holidayg in the Dandenongs.

Prizes of £5O each will be offered r two new Health Stamps which e Fiji Government will issue next ar. The current Health Stamps me into use for the first time last iptember.

Fatal Fire at W. Samoan Trade Store APIA, Jan. 12.

FIRE destroyed the trading station of A. G. Smyth & Co. at Vaitomuli, Savaii, Western Samoa, on December 31.

The trader, Fasi Scanlon, was filling a bottle of benzine from a drum while Lega-aia, a Chief of Fa’ala, was holding a kerosene lamp.

The bottle of benzine exploded, setting alight to the drum of benzine and a drum of kerosene. The chief was badly burned and died some days later on the way to Apia hospital. The trading station burned to the ground. 55 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Mr. Charlie Quintal, who is well known in Bougainville, has recently returned there from Norfolk Island to take over the management of Kekere Plantation, near Kieta, for Mr. J. Joyes. Mr. Quintal was for many years with Lever’s Pacific Plantations in BSI.

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January 3 PASSENGERS per Qantas pla from Australia via P Moresby and Honiara duri December included BPC staff a Judge Phillips of NG who came judge a High Court case. Nauru now included in his circuit.

Recent Nauru Local Governnu Council elections resulted in most the older Chiefs giving place seven younger men. Head Ch Detudamo, however, remains . office.

Seventeen students, at school Australia, returned home by sea : the Christmas holidays.

The annual Nauru Athle Competition, held on the air st: on Boxing Day, was won by t Übenide Club.

Due to a westerly blow, f freighters were delayed off t island awaiting their turn at t phosphate cantilever berth in li December.

The close of 1951 was gaily ce brated by a BPC dance, neld in t fine, new two-storied recreation hi Mr. Geoff Gaskell, with his w and baby daughter, recently turned from leave in Australia a is managing Iwi Plantation m Kieta, Bougainville. 56 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Indonesia, however, has increased reduction to 780,000 tons compared Ith 692,000 tons in 1950 (and about JO,OOO tons in 1948 and again in )49).

World consumption of natural ibber in 1951 is expected to be 510.000 tons—2o,ooo tons less than jtimated and a spectacular drop om the 1,705,000 tons consumed in >5O, despite the fact that during )51 both the UK and USA used tore natural rubber than had been itimated.

Synthetic rubber production in le United States is estimated at 15.000 tons in 1951; Canada proaced 64,000 tons and Germany 000 tons.

World consumption of all types 1 rubber, excluding rubber added to overnment and commercial stocklies, is estimated at 2,340,000 tons gainst a total production of natural nd synthetic of 2,760,000 tons. A ,rge part of the surplus of 420,000 »ns has gone into stockpiles.

It was announced in January this jar that the United States plans to sport limited quantities of synthetic ibber to friendly countries in the rst quarter of 1952. Hitherto ex- Drts of synthetic rubber from the S have been banned.

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Twelve Fijian seamen from SS uva, and two American negro seamen armed with knives had a brief id bloody battle on the Sydney aterfront at midnight on January 5, when an argument developed hile the men were awaiting their Jspective launches back to their lips, which were anchored off. everal Fijians and one negro were ounded, none seriously. One negro as charged with malicious wound-

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There were delegates also from Japan, Burma, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Indo-China and other countries fringing the Pacific Ocean. All were outstanding women in their own countries and all wore colourful native dress during the conference.

Two of the delegates were missionary sisters of the Society of Mary, Mother Mary Peter and Sister Mary Felicia, whose work takes them among the lepers of the South Pacific.

Ratu Tiale Vuiyasawa has been selected to be a member of the Fiji Legislative Council in the place of Major Ratu Edward Cakobau, MC, who has resigned.

The director of Education, Fiji, Mr. Howard Hayden, and Mrs. Hayden, left the Colony for the United Kingdom on leave in January. 57 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Mr. A. Smith, who has managed Tinputz Plantation. Bougainville, NG, for some years, recently underwent a severe operation in Australia. He has now returned to the plantation.

Mr. Charley Ashley, an experienced Administration officer, has been appointed Native Labour Officer, Sohano, New Guinea.

A ballet in the presentation, Nocturne, which was performed by the Suva Orchestra [?]d the Suva Ballet Group in Suva Town Hall some weeks ago. Nocturne was under [?]e direction of Hans Furrer (inset) who wrote the complete orchestration for the [?]chestra and formed the ballet group. His interest has always been in music, ballet [?]d theatre work. He has directed musical shows in Lucerne, Switzerland, and studied [?]sic at the Lucerne-Basle Conservatorium. The performance of Nocturne delighted [?]va audiences during its three nights’ season. Photo by Stinson Studios. 59 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Mr. Vernon Young and Mr, Christie Warren were elected Assessors; and Mr. Langford Warren, Chairman of the Internal Committee.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Don Briggs, of Rabaul, NG, on February 2 at Namanula Hospital.

Movie Script Competition READERS are reminded that t closing date for the mo script competition being run Australian Instructional Films Sydney—full details for which s peared in January and previc issues—is April 16. Entries beari a post-mark up to this date will accepted.

You are asked to submit a scri suitable for making a movie of so] aspect of life on your Island. Tec nically perfect or brilliantly writt scripts are not required. If j have a good story, Instructioi Films will put it into shape a later make the movie. Substant prizes are offered.

Special prizes for specific stor have been donated by Burns Ph (SS) Ltd. and Robert Gillespie PI Ltd.

Full details in recent PlM’s, from Australian Instructional Pilr Turrella, NSW.

Mr. Colin Maclean, who has be popular as Assistant Distr Officer in charge of Buka sr district, New Guinea, is on les in Australia. He will have a tc of duty as a Miagistrate in Nar before returning to NG duty.

Miss Rita Davis, who was with t P-NG Administration in P( Moresby is now with the Gover ment Secretary’s Department Honiara, BSI. 60 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Ever Heard of a Coconut Pearl? |N November 7, 1946, there apf peared in the Fiji Times an article entitled “Valuable reaks of Nature,” written by Dr. , M. Stevenson, MD, PhD, FRS. iquiry showed that Dr. Stevenson is not a resident of Fiji; and a ggestion that he might have been iving a joke at the expense of the iwspaper was coldly refuted by the dy in charge at the editorial office.

One part of the article discussed e Coconut Pearl. If the stateents made are facts, we still have discover a man who can verify em. Here (in part) is the stateent:— ‘ln addition . . , there is a pearl rmed by Nature which is rarely und, and which, when it does me to light, commands a very gh price in any market. It is one the most beautiful creations of iture known to man, and as nuine in every way as the saltiter oyster pearl.

How is it formed? By the same pe of process which forms the It-water oyster pearl. Everyone 10 has lived in a coconut country lows that in one end of each conut there are three round dark ots, through one of which access n be gained to the “milk” inside, r the filling of that hole is soft id easily pierced . . . should that closed, the shoot must turn back ion itself and subsist on its own leat” until it dies.

Occasionally—very occasionally, is true —this hole is not fficiently soft . . . and the young oot, turning back, sets up an ute irritation within, in exactly e same way in which irritation irts in a pearl oyster.

The result is the same in each se. Nature, in order to heal the ot, produces a sort of fluid which wrapped round the place, and lich, as growth progresses, incases in size and hardness until a arl is formed.

Every man who knows this (and ere are not very many) is always . the watch for just such a freak it, if it is his business to handle em. ‘Needless to say, if he finds the itives of the district ignorant of is he does not enlighten them.

'lf one could read the secret of e disease and apply it to a large imber of trees, the proportion of conut pearls would be very large id run to an enormous value. ‘lt is probably due to some .emical reaction which takes place the mud in which the roots ek their nourishment, and rough them the tree becomes oculated. ‘The writer of this article lived r a considerable time on the alabar Coast of India, one of the most extensive coconut-producing districts on the globe, and has seen some very fine specimens of the elephant pearls.’ o* , O much for Dr. Stevenson s article. The memory of this ■was brought to mind by a more recent Nature Note by I. W. T.

Munro, in the Auckland Star, on elephant pearls.

Mr. Munro discusses a letter received from Mr. D. J. G. Hennessy of Nelson, NZ, drawing attention to his book, “Green Aisles,” In this book Mr. Hennessy discusses elephant pearls—not very beautiful to look at, being dull, watery, pinkypearl in hue, and rarely bigger than a pepper com. They are found only in an elephant’s diseased tusk, and, according to Mr, Hennessy, ‘appear to be produced by the reaction of the pulp to disease or injury.’ He admits that they are a great rarity.s. 61 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

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A judge found Wilkinson guilty theft (or some such crime) a: sentenced him to 18 months’ ga Anotner judge, dealing with exaci the same charge and the sai circumstances, said the accused not guilty. One of the judges w wrong, it could have been Wilki son’s judge.

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Murray, accepted these points view. He reduced Wilkinson’s se tence from 18 to four months.

Wilkinson was tried and sentenc in Samarai. The Administrati officials, at Administration cc conveyed him from Samarai to P< Moresby, for imprisonment.

When he was released, on Dece] ber 22, they simply put him outsi the door of the gaol. He had to fi his own way, at his own cost, ba from Moresby to his home Samarai.

There is an expressive Australi word—not a nice word—to descr; that kind of thing. It can applied, in full measure, to the li act of the Administration in relati to Wilkinson.

Mr. Wilkinson writes to say th as soon as he can get the time a money, he will apply himself to t task of trying to clear his name the stigma of recent events. ' returned home to find his tradi business more or less shattered, a his two boats broken down. B habilitation is taking all his til and energy.

He will learn that he has lit hope of “clearing his name.” Tl vicious system they have in P-N of compelling a judge to act as be judge and jury makes it practica impossible for him to either ha that conviction quashed, or ma the Administration pay damages i wrongful imprisonment.

Philosophically, Mr. Wilkins writes that being a convict criminal “ gives a man a quite d: tinctive feeling.”

“I am reminded.” he says, “of incident in the old Macdhui, on o occasion, in Port Moresby. A fello passenger was ejected from t saloon on the ground that he w drunk, and disorderly, and doi mad things. He indignantly pr duced a discharge from a menl hospital on the ground that he w no longer mad; and he challeng any of us to similarly produ 62 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Prophet Without Honour U|R. JOHN LYNCH, of Bulolo, TjL New Guinea, was on his way back to Australia from the hited Kingdom in January to reime his 10-year-old fight with SW, Victorian and Commonwealth rovernments.

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In July, 1941, Mr. Lynch patented device that he claims would overdue break-of-gauge bottlenecks on ustralian railways, but for 10 jars State and Federal Governtents have refused to consider it.

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Mr. and Mrs. V. F. Pearson, with sons Richard and Robert, arrived back in Rabaul, NG, after leave at the end of January. On the same returning plane were Mrs. T. Corlass and Mrs. F. Boisen and her small daughter.

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I7HEN red-bearded Captain Brett ▼ Hilder brought Burns Philp’s veteran of the Western Pacific lands run alongside No. 6 Walsh iy wharf, Sydney in January, the orinda ended what seems to have en a remarkably well-behaved 39 ars of service in dangerous waters.

The owners were reluctant to disiss the old ship, but a search of years PIM files and visit to the itchell Library failed to disclose iy serious scandals. All that the eat Mitchell contains, in fact, is faded newspaper cutting photoaph from Sydney Daily Telegraph October 11, 1913, showing the ip on her trials in Scottish waters id a note to the effect that she id left Capetown October 2, on ir way to Sydney.

She was built by the Greenock Grangemouth Dockyard Co. and rived out in time to become an istralian troop ship.

After World War I she provided a link between Auckland and Norfolk Is. additional to the New Hebrides-Solomons service, but in February, 1933, BP’s discontinued the Auckland-Norfolk service due to insufficient trade.

After discharging her Islands cargo in this January, she was shifted quietly over to Mort’s Dock wharf, where the dismantling process has already begun. The old ship has ended her days but her name is perpetuated on nautical charts by the Morinda Shoal which her then Master first sighted and reported in 1928. Lying close to the Flinders passage through the Great Barrier Reef east of Townsville, many an Islands-bound vessel passes in sight of it.

Some Memories of 1917 By “The Supercargo”

RECENT reference to s.s. Morinda, I took my mind back to an episode of 1915, which some of ur readers may remember.

On February 3, 1915, we left from e Federal Wharf, Darling Harur (whence all the Burns Philp ssels used to sail in those days), the Morinda. She was under the tnmand of Captain Hillman; Mr. )thery, chief officer; Mr. Cowan, ief engineer: and she had on ard the first reinforcements for ibaul. t well remember the Captain of e troops (without mentioning iy names) coming into my cabin, . my invitation, to have a bottle of “Maitland” ale —which, by the way, was sd. per bottle at that time.

On rounding Millers Point, a number of the troops squatted on the hatch just outside my cabin and started playing Crown and Anchor. The Captain looked at me and said: “Don’t worry, when I get them three miles outside the Heads, I shall read them the King’s Regulations.” Which he duly did.

That afternoon, we arrived at Newcastle to coal, and no shore leave was granted to the troops. At midnight, one of the troops was seen coming aboard along the stern line; and, on arriving on board, he threw a life-line to his mate ashore, who tied on a bag of beer, which was duly hauled aboard, followed by the second soldier.

The sentry on watch immediately arrested them and the beer, reported to his commanding officer, and the men were placed in the “brig.” We sailed at 8 a.m. for Brisbane; and, on arrival at Pinkenbar, were met by the Provost- Marshal, and the two men were promptly discharged from the army.

For the remainder of the trip the discipline on board was 100 per cent.

ANOTHER interesting episode on that voyage was that we expected to pass the Marsina about 9 p.m. off Cooktown. We saw her lights, signalled her, and got no reply. Imagining she had anchored for the night, we went on our way. Next morning, at 8.30, passing through the mile and a half passage in the Great Barrier Reef, we received a wireless from the Marsina to say she was ashore on “D” Reef outside Cooktown.

We immediately turned back to her assistance, and spent three days getting her off.

It was my first visit to Cooktown. Being always interested in trains, I went to the Railway Station and asked when the next train went to Laura. The stationmaster said “Last Thursday, and the next one goes next Thursday.”

I was interested to note from a recent Queensland timetable that there is still only one train per week for Laura from Cooktown, and it still leaves on Thursday.

Morinda leaving Sydney on what was to be her last trip.

Rapa for His Kingdom A few notes on Jimmy Paul by JPS.

JIM FILLYLOVE and his aspiration to visit Rapa Is. (PIM, December) evoke memories of another Jim who was more successful than Mr. Fillylove is likely to be in realising his dream.

Buried in the musty files of NZ papers there are fragments of the history of Jimmy Paul; and there must still be many in Tahiti who remember that amazing character, and can fill in the gaps. If ever a man had a tale to tell, it was Jimmy Paul, I remember his coming aboard the Norwegian ship Arcadia in the winter of 1945 to take passage to Auckland —one of the many trips he had made in his 20 or 30 years at Rapa, but, as it happened, this was to be the last. The dream was ended, and Jimmy knew it.

One may develop cancer, even in Rapa.

Jimmy was a hard man to know; but, slowly, on the seven days’ run towards his native land, his sourness relaxed in the realisation that we were genuinely interested in his past.

In his youth, it seemed, he had been a top-ranking wrestler in NZ— and, at 70-odd, he was still ready to “step on deck and tackle anyone aboard, from the Old Man down.” 11l as he obviously was, he still rose at daybreak to go on deck and go through his “limbering up” exercises. He refused to believe that there was anything amiss that could not be shaken off.

He told of how he had introduced a flock of pedigree sheep to Rapa when first he decided to settle there; but within two years the people had eaten every sheep.

So he returned to NZ and brought back cattle. They had a better fate, and still survive. A few cattle, deposited on the deck of a schooner, invariably paid his fare to Papeete on the first stage of his trips back to NZ, where he had money invested.

From the proceeds of this investment he bought stores to last him for a couple of years on Rapa.

When they were exhausted—back to NZ for more.

“So you’re coming down for some more stores, Jimmy?” we asked him.

“No—just cement,” was all that he volunteered on this occasion.

It was not until next day that w© raised the cement subject again.

“What would you be wanting the cement down there for, Jimmy?” we asked.

“What do you THINK I’d want it for,” he snapped. “I’ve got three legal wives, all with families, back there on Rapa, and I give them everything I’ve got—but I’ve been down there long enough to know that those b ds will be too damn lazy to dig a decent hole for me when I go. I know their ways!

They’ll heave me into the taro swamps or plant me a couple of feet deep and the pigs will have me up.

So I’ve figured that if I dig myself a decent hole on the hill up back of the village, and cement it properly, they MIGHT find the energy to dump me in it. Guess I can’t live forever.”

Calling at Papeete a few months later we heard that Jimmy was back —but in hospital. He had undergone a serious operation, but he was already up and about on the verandah overlooking the hospital square.

He seemed happier. He was already planning to charter Captain Gilling’s little yacht to take him back home to Rapa. We said farewell to the old man.

The next news we had was that he was dead. We could only hope that he had completed his little building job down at lonely Rapa.

He was, we believe, the last European civilian allowed to remain, by right of long residence and by right of marriage, on the island, when the French Administration declared it a closed area in the 1930’5.

For Mr. Fillylove’s information we might add that Jimmy Paul admitted that leprosy, TB —and VD — are all well-known in this Last Paradise.

“And Here is the News . . .

No matter how hard plantation 1 No matter how hot the‘day.

No matter how dumb the Chim line, What trials are in the way; No matter if things are pre bad, And worries fill your cup: There’s always joy at seven o’clocl The news to cheer you up!

There’s trouble in Korea, There’s trouble in Sudan.

There’s trouble in the Middle Es And in the Yucatan.

The price of beans is going up And bh, the price of peas!

And what are your little w( compared With perilous things like these?

No matter what cares beset yc life, If stores and mail don’t come; If you’ve run out of 4-inch nail* Or worse, run out of rum.

What matter if you’ve busted t truck, Or lost the Melbourne Cup: There’s always the news at sev o’clock— And that will cheer you up.

There’s trouble in the Suez, There’s trouble in Iran, And no one knows the Feelings Peru or Pakistan.

They tell us Melbourne’s havi strikes, And Sydney’s on the freeze; What are your little woes compar With perilous things like these?

They’ve got some lovely atom bom To cheer you with to-night: They say the Upsi Woopsi tribes Are getting up to fight, And Barbara Hutton’s divorc again— Which shows she’s hard to please And what are your little wc compared With perilous things like these?

NOELLE MASON.

Bougainville, Approaching Rapa. 66 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

Tropicalities GNASHING OF TEETH DEPT.

PHOTOGRAPHS in Sydney and Brisbane newspapers in January showed six young men om the American Trust Territory Marshalls, Carolines and arianas.

They were in Sydney on their iy to Suva, the caption said, to in a few score of their fellow anders in the study of dentistry edicine, etc. But Suva's famous mtral Mjedical School was desibed as the AMERICAN Medical hool—which fact the cynical will obably be prepared to regard as i omen.

Case Of The Missing

RECORDS YING in bed on the ground i floor of his home overlooking Papeete harbour, Mr. Oscar jrdman, ship’s chandler, was irtled on the night of December by a crash upstairs, followed by otsteps descending to his bedom. Then an unsteady figure peared, bearing a valuable etched linese pot (Oscar’s own property), lich he offered to Oscar for ,000. The visitor was a member the engine-room staff of the USS i’s Wairata, then in port. He had oken a lock to enter the house. ; admitted his name, and finally t the house—and the pot—witht receiving $l,OOO.

Aboard, next day, the charges ire admitted before the Master, it Oscar decided, in view of his ig and happy business associain with the Union Co., not to rry the matter further.

Fhe Wairata sailed for Auckland, ixt day Oscar, going to his amophone to play over his yourite recordings. discovered /eral missing. Then he realised ly last night’s unwelcome visitor d had the tail of his shirt hangl out—conveniently covering the it of his pants, which had been ided with Hawaiian hula hits, car, still forgiving, asks only for e return of his recordings.

“Some Scoop—Some

DREDGES” !

NSW country newspaper, Wing- L ham Chronicle, said on January 18 that “a gentleman from ie Creek gold area, up Papua iy,” declared that there was ough gold-bearing gravel left ere “for another seven years.” ! added that “some of the world’s rgest dredges are in use there— each of the ten biggest has a capacity of 10,000 tons, and can scoop to a depth of 80 feet.” Adds the paper, appropriately: “Some dredges—some scoop!”

Now the Bulolo Valley can start gnashing its teeth with envy.

Cigars For Long Life

A CIGAR-SMOKING Man of God” was the heading which NZ Free Lance of January 23 put above an article about the Rev. J. F. Goldie, who pioneered the Methodist Mission organisation in the Solomons 49 years ago.

It is said that the Methodist Church heads, although they honoured and loved Mr. Goldie, were a little embarrassed over his habit of smoking big, strong cigars.

The Methodists, officially, deplore tobacco as they deplore alcohol and other human frailties. But they put on a good face over JFG’s cigars.

When, on his retirement, they made him a presentation, the Rev.

A. H. Scriven (himself well-known in the mission field) smilingly brought forward a smoker’s stand, handsomely made in walnut. “This” said Mr. Scriven, “is planned to hold a small aspidistra.”

Cheers and laughter indicated that Methodists do not lack a sense of humour.

Big cigars must have offset the BSI climate. At 81, Mr. Goldie is active and is putting the New Testament, in the New Georgian language, through the press.—AJS.

Success Story—Lau To

LONDON IN January, Miss Elizabeth Hennings, eldest of the three daughters of Mr. and Mrs.

G. M. Hennings of Naitauba, Lau Islands, Fiji, was paying a visit to her parents after an absence from the Colony of 16 years.

She is now a costume designer for J. Arthur Rank film productions and has also designed costumes for stage shows. She specialises in period costumes or at least something Crossquiz — No. 26 Solution on Page 75) ACROSS I. —What was the official rank of Oliver Cromwell? 6.—Who were the lyric poets who flourished in Southern France from the Xlth to the XlHth century? 9. —where are the bones of the dead sometimes deposited? 10. —What is a mass of Unwrought metal cast in a mould? 11. What is the popular name of the electrical phenomenon seen at the top of a mast? 13.—Which French scientist, who settled in England, was the first to put steam-power to a practical test? 16. —Who led the “Pilgrimage of Grace” against the Reformation and was executed in 1537? 17. —What is the name of a person who accompanies another for protection. guidance or merely courtesy, 19.—what single word would describe a river which flows under the ground?

DOWN 1. —What is the art of printing from stone? 2. —What is the name of a spire built over the entrance to the chancel? 3. —How does a man behave whose appearance and behaviour is unusual? 4. —what is knowledge gained by study? 5. was the name of emigrants, considered as typical idlers, who subsisted on support received from home? 7.—What person belongs to the highest caste among the Hindus? 8 —What was the name of the royal seal used for special purposes? 12.—What Morse Code is used in distress? 14.—What is an opening in the skin? 15.—What does an astronomer and a film fan gaze at? 16.—What word means “so let it be ? 18. —What sort of stuff is considered as sentimental writing?

that is away from ordinary, modern clothes. Some of the recent films that she has “dressed” are Black Narcissus, The Golden Salamander, Great Expectations and Blue Lagoon, part of which was filmed in Fiji.

It seems a long way and we don’t mean miles from a plantation in lonely Lau to what most people would regard as a glamour job in London. But with the Hennings family, anything is possible.

Miss Elizabeth and her younger sister left Fiji to try their fortunes in London in 1936 when they were youngsters. London rang no peals of bells when they arrived, and if it were not precisely life in a garret in traditional manner until they had made niches for themselves in that self-sufficient hub of the Empire, it was close to it.

Miss Hennings will spend a holiday at Naitauba before returning to England for her next costume designing assignment.

BRAINSTORM SYDNEY Telegraph columnist provided this, in January: From Fiji, good news for embryo millionaires: Because the natives in those parts are saving their sixpences in a big way there’s a big scarcity of that coin.

The official exchange rate is about 10£d Fijian for 1/- Australian, but if you take two sixpences the authorities will give you 1/- Fijian for them, just to get the coins.

Now: If you took £l,OOO of Australian sixpences to Fiji, collected £l,OOO Fijian, brought it back here, converted it into £1,130 Australian, changed it into sixpences, took them to Fiji, collected £1,130 Fijian, brought it back here, converted it Into £1,276/18/- Australian . . .

Money for Jam —except for fares and excess baggage on a chaff-bag full of zacs.

Fiji’S Kerosene Spring

FIJIAN villagers of Tamavua, near Suva, have what they think is a spring of kerosene.

Something that looks and smells like kerosene mixed with water has been oozing out of cracks in the soapstone. Rate of drip is about a medicine bottle per hour of what, pending analysis, seems to be onetenth kerosene and nine-tenths water.

It has been suggested that this may be a leak from an undiscovered wartime dump of kerosene.

When news of Tamavua’s kerosene-well became known, masses of people, enterprising Indians well to the fore, descended on Tamavua in the hope of finding diluted petroleum products in the Province of Naitasiri, although, nothing like the by-product kerosene is found unassisted in Nature.

Anyway, the watered kerosene of Tamavua, at this date, remains a mystery.—J.K.S.

Sydney Quid-A-Bag Copra

WHEN a lighter overturned at Lever Bros.’ soap works, Balmain, Sydney, in mid-January 1,400 bags of New Guinea copra, each valued at about £4/10/-, went in the drink. The insurance company involved immediately put a diver to work; but copra has a habit of floating.

How many bags the diver recovered is not known—but several days later bags were appearing on most of the northern beaches of the main harbour.

Commercial fishermen abandoned fish-hooks for boat-hooks, and landlubbers hired dinghies to salvage the precious jetsam, once it became known that the insurance company would pay £1 per bag for the wet copra. At latest report, half the cargo had been recovered.

Kava In Suburbia

FROM the social notes of a Sydney daily: “Kava wine, a Fijian native drink, was served to the 200 guests at the District Chamber of Commerce party in Double Bay (Sydney) The why and wherefore of the introduction of this exotic beverage to Sydney night life were not given.

Nor was the guests’ reaction to same.

Beating The Books

SYDNEY bookmakers were reported to be heaving deep sighs of relief late in 1951 when “Wet Weather Robbie,” proprietor of the Samarai guest house, Eastern Papua, returned home from leave in Australia.

It is said that, for an initial outlay of £3/10/-, Robbie returned home with £1,400, collected from the gentlemen who lay the odds.

They Will Prove It’S Good—

OR ELSE AUSTRALIA’S crocodile shooters —l5O of them —will get together this month in Melbourne for a four-days’ conference.

They will then probably ask the Federal Government to protect crocodiles under five feet long. Unless they are protected, say the shooters, there will bo no crocs in Australia within 10 years—which, of course, some people might think would be a very good thing.

At the dinner that will be the social high-light of the conference, the crocodile shooters will eat seasoned and cooked crocodile tail —in the hope of disproving the common belief that the tail is poisonous.

If the shooters are wrong about this—well, maybe there won’t be any crocodile shooters left in ten years, either.

Hurricane Settled Paly

QUESTION TO MOST people, the coconut the most graceful of all pah In Suva there are compai tively few coconut palms—tl opinionated place having gone for the straight-growing ro; palms because, it is said, somebc once had the idea that they wi safer than coconuts in a hurrica But, on January 28, many Suva’s royal palms went over 1: ninepins in the hurricane; wb even the five very old cocor palms in the Triangle came throu with no more damage than the L of some fronds.

A small group of coconut pal: near the Cable Office was virtua unharmed; while, a few yards aw; one of ZJV’s big radio masts v broken and bent over like a ha pin. The nearest royal palm wc fiat early in the storm, all I obliterating a public lavatory the way down.

As far as can be discovered, r body was injured by flying coc nuts in Suva. It all adds up to recent note in the PIM: Suva woi be well advised to scatter cocor palms round about with the sai enthusiasm as Honolulu.—S.

Post-Hurricane Suva Eye

Tourists Askance

With two of its six hot knocked out, post-hurricane Su has taken in the Welcome mat J tourists. Even the Grand Paci: which escaped serious damage, said to be limiting tourist bookir for part of February.

Apart from all the obvic worries, post-hurricane Suva frankly hideous. Some of t scars will disappear quite soon, fc many will remain for years. Tourii who gazed bemusedly at Fiji’s u usually flowery capital in Decei ber, and used up their colour fi on the blazing flamboyant tre would scarcely recognise the pla in February.

BERNHARDT rAT portion of the story Tavua Johnson (PIM, Septer ber, page 62) which refers his voyage to Australia in 1890, the original Mariposa, stirs tl memory of our Tahiti corresponde who was later purser in that vessi Mr. Johnson remembered th John L. Sullivan and San Bernhardt were travelling cor panions with him. Our corre pondent now recalls the arrival Tahiti in 1925 of a Mr. Georg Charton who, having asked hi why he had named his hot Mariposa and received the e; planation—went on to tell how 1 himself had travelled in Maripo. in the employ of Sarah Bemhan on the voyage referred to by M Johnson. Mr. Johnson may rec£ that the master of the ship at thi time was Captain James Rennie. 68 FEBRUARY. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

MIARASA —New Guinea's Last Cannibal Outpost By Pastor A. J. CAMPBELL, of SDA Mission, Kainantu, New Guinea. i SURPRISED person recently \ exclaimed to the writer, “I didn’t know there were any lore cannibals left in the world. It Jems incredible!” Doubtless it oes— particularly when cannibasm is practised as recently as this ear, 1952.

During the latter part of last ear. a party of our Central New Guinea mission workers, including le writer with his twin sons, some ative teachers and a carrier line f fifty, made up a missionary exedition into the primitive country ;mg south-west of Kainantu Highlands). We planned to reach le Moke area, which lies four days’ alk out in the mountainous reions of the Purari’s vast headwater rstem.

One morning, leaders of our arty set out in a jeep for our vani mission station, cared for by am and his wife. It is a pretty lace, where we have an organised lurch, by the main road between .amantu and Bena Bena. Here our Jhicle was placed in a shed to ivait the return of our tired legs id bodies, and we faced the ranges lying in tumbled profusion to the south.

The assault on this rugged country began in earnest as we climbed nearly 3,000 feet from the floor of the Komperina Valley, over the range into the next and higher Sunofyra Valley, which from that approach is the door to the cannibal country.

Mr. Gane, with some of his Omaura Mission teachers and students, after a long cross country walk, joined us for the weekend.

In a large building constructed for this occasion, meetings were attended by about 1,500 people.

Among the multitude attending the services were twelve cannibals, who had trustingly followed their teacher through country completely strange to them, and come to meet us.

NEXT morning, our cannibal friends accompanied us on their return journey, for we were bound for their land.

The mountains surrounding Sunofi are pierced by many large limestone caves, most having not been explored. Some of us penetrated a cave for one hundred yards and, with its stalagmites and stalactites, it reminded us of visits to Jenolan Caves. We turned back, but some of the boys went on, and came out in a small valley.

Ceaseless streams run through most of these caves. It is not long since the local people used them as hiding places from their enemies.

Here they concealed their families pigs, food and firewood. They had a good water supply.

That we were entering the gates of the cannibal areas of the southwest was impressed upon us one morning, when hushed exclamations called our attention to two skulls in position in the bushes, several feet from the ground. They had been placed opposite each other, on either side of the jungle trail. Victims of cannibalism, we were told.

In company with our twelve “hawk-eyed cannibals” (as one of our party called them), we arrived at Moke at 3 p.m.

The Fore area natives have informed our teachers that once their people sold their aged parents to the highest bidder, to be killed and eaten. As there has been no influence to bring any change for tne better, until the arrival of the The first two graves—those of a man and a woman—at Miarasa. The burial was carried out after a struggle with local natives.

Men of the Miarasa area, at the head of the Purari River, Central New Guinea, where the dead are not buried but eaten. The chief in the centre is still wearing an air pilot’s cap. Some Allied aircraft crashed thereabouts in 1943. 69 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY, 1952

Gospel recently, it can be assumed that this custom is still practised, but it would not be acknowledged.

Tired and weary, we made camp at Moke in a well-constructed House Kiap (Government patrol post), which is the Government’s most forward base. From this position we could see what surely must be some of Central New Guinea’s most magnificent scenery.

We have since established a mission outpost in this locality, with three others some distance further on, and all among cannibals. Some of these outposts are located among splendid stands of pine.

If we were to visit Aranke’s mission, at Miarasa, it would be necessary to go down nearly 2,000 feet, and return to Moke that evening. Our hearts wavered a little; but, fortunately, the decision was made to go on, though with some misgivings—not at the thought of being eaten, but because it was late to be facing an added big task that day, THIS is the cannibal country, where the people not only consume any stray enemy unfortunate enough to fall into their hands, but where they eat all of their own dead. That was until very recently, because in a remarkably short time the Mission teaching is turning them from such practises. Normally, these people have no shame in consuming human flesh.

Aranke and his fellow teachers are doing fine work out among these cannibals. It was there, when a Government party wanted to see the grave of a murdered man, that the village representatives said: “There is no grave. We have eaten the man according to our custom.

Our mouths are our graves.”

It was over the range, in country as yet not entered that this worker prayed for a man so ill that he had been left to die. Returning later, he was surmised to find the man alive and well. The man begged our teacher to remain there as a missionary, adding: “If you had not prayed for me and helped me then, I would have died and been eaten by my people, according to our custom.”

NEAR his new mission at Miarasa, Aranke took some of our party to see a double grave, representing two of the first five graves to be located in this area.

Armed warriors at the time of interment surrounded the open graves threateningly. Attempts were made to nrevent the bodies from being buried, so that they could be eaten.

But already the majority of these people have been persuaded to abandon cannibalism.

We learned that it was their revolting practice to first wash the corpse in the blood of a pig; then it was cut up by the people in the village “square”; and after that it was steam-cooked in bamboo sections, along with the flesh of the same pig.

Though those first graves were signs of the conquering hand of death, they were also far more than that —they were evidence of the wonderful victories of our Gospel message, gained through a Christian native of the Central Highlands.

These cannibals showed a great respect for Aranke and his associates, who have built neat mission stations among them. We were shown a tiny round-house, with a larger one of similar design a few yards removed from it. One night, a few weeks earlier, the first-mentioned contained the body of a woman, and the other the body of a man, both awaiting burial. Some of the natives were determined that this burial would not take place, and that the two bodies should be eaten.

During the night, flesh was taken from the legs of the dead woman and presumably eaten. But that she should be buried at all represented a great victory.

In an inter-tribal action, the man had killed an enemy, and in turn his own body was pierced with arrows. He died a few days later.

Previous to his death he begged that he should not be carried back to his village to die, for he was ashamed to see the face of Aranke.

At the burial his relations and friends, as did those of the dead woman, demanded that his body be released, to be eaten. After an exciting struggle, Aranke was able to see that both bodies were buried, and a grave-side service was successfully held.

A fence was placed around the double grave, and sticks of sugarcane were left to mark the actual division of the graves—the first known in this country. (See photograph) .

Setting forth next morning, we headed for Tarumu, which lay in the direction of South Chimbu. For the first time, we could see between the mighty ranges down to the lowlands of the Middle Purari.

Leo, with his wife and children, accompanied us for a short distance, then branched off into another section of cannibal country, where they have established their new mission station. We admired the spirit of that father and mother, as they smilingly left us, taking their chidren back to their home among the cannibals, loneliest representatives of our Christianity.

WE were shown a place where Flying Fortress crashed i flames in 1943, with the lo: of 12 lives. An Australian Arm officer and some of our teache] had happened to be walkin through to Port Moresby, a tri which took them a month. The buried 12 unidentified bodies; ar eleven only were located at a lat( date. Here, eight years afterwarc we photographed an old cannibi still wearing the cap of one of tl pilots.

Nearby, a Mitchell bomber ah crashed; but that crew of thr( parachuted to safety, one having leg broken. They were not moleste by the natives, whom they warm not to touch the unexploded bomb But the natives did touch ther and lost their lives in the resultir explosion.

It was a particularly tired line ( 70 travellers that reached Kem: that night, some with blistered fee For some time Kemiu was oi furthermost outpost, but it is no more nearly in the middle of oi field of operations.

Some of our party visited sever dark groves, away in the jungl One held, as its secret, a raise platform on which were 20 skull and other human bones—presun ably, victims of cannibalism.

In another grove was a sms raised house, in which was the d( composing body of a small child.

The people here do not eat the own dead, as do the Fore and Mol tribes. They do, however, disinh bodies some time after burial, an eat portion of the remains, so ths “strength” may be obtained. Aft( this, the remains are placed o drying racks hidden in the jungl Each day represented hai travelling over very rough countr; where it seemed impossible to fin a level stretch, even for a quartc of a mile. “Pushers” and “pullers helped some of our party up an down steep mountains, of whic there seemed to be no end.

In the final morning of oi eight-days trip we crossed a 10,0( ft. range, then dropped dow thousands of feet, back into th Komperina Valley, to Avani—an to our jeep, which was a real frien in need.

Two hours after leaving Avani w were back home at Kainantu, gla to know that our Message wa penetrating quickly throughout th country which we had visited, an beyond.

The New Guinea Club, Rabau held a Fancy Dress Ball on Year’s Eve. The majority wor fancy dress but those who wor evening dress were fined and pro ceeds went to the Club’s scholarshi; fund. 70 FEBRUARY, 1852 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Book Reviews

Last Word On RLS CHE book that J. C. Furnas gave us a few years ago, and which was entitled, with singular lack F imagination, Anatomy of Paraise, has become something of a assic on the subject of the Pacific lands. His latest book also comes Ithin the class of a major work, nd whether he intended it so, r not, seems to have said all that eed be said on the subject of obert Louis Stevenson —a topic lat has been nibbled at, and deated since RLS died in Samoa i December 3, 1894.

This book has been called Voyage i Windward, which is a happier mice than the naming of the natomy, and is apt in that much i Louis’ short life was indeed, a ?ad beat into the wind.

Furnas spent 15 years, many )llars and travelled 30,000 miles in •der to gather the material for the )ok. The finished product shows ie result of this meticulous care, id that it was a task much to the riter’s taste: written for the love it rather than it should find >pular favour.

To the layman of no literary prensions, whose world does not hang i the interpretation of what RLS eant by some obscure poem ritten in his youth concerning me real or imaginary parlourmaid, uch of the book will have no inrest whatsoever. The first section, bich deals with Louis’ youth, will ake hard reading, but after this )stacle is surmounted even the m-literary will probably find inrest in the human story of Louis id his varied house-hold. The Kent fact that emerges from the ory is that Louis was a very iman person, although not a :reat man,” in the real sense of ie term. He wrote well, he ruggled valiantly against tuberilosis, but apart from that there as no great purpose behind his e. One sympathises with his ill- ;sses but gains the impression that, the modern idiom, he could be considerable pain in the neck to lose who lived on the lower plane here the world is not well lost for ■t.

Louis’ was an era when the ;erary took themselves even more riously than is normal. In the rcles into which he gravitated, the irn of a phrase meant infinitely ore than a credit balance in the ink, or a steady profession which •ought in a monthly pay cheque, nd in this regard one has a fellowieling with father Thomas bevenson, civil engineer, designer of lighthouses, who for many years stood between Louis and bankruptcy; and, later with his wife, Fanny, whom most of Louis’ literary friends disliked, but who can be said to have stood between him and an even earlier grave.

Throughout the book, Furnas strives hard to be impartially fair to Fanny, the American divorcee who shared Louis’ penury and his haemorrhages for the 14 years of their married life. Fanny’s main mission in life after her marriage to Louis was to keep him alive and to defend him from his literary friends who were agreed about only one thing—their dislike of her. For her part, Fanny was a good hater and, according to RLS, no mean opponent in a row. and if she did not wean Louis entirely from those she considered his most undesirable friends, she did her best.

She had her fair share of human failings, but her life was no bed of roses. The cloud of Louis’ illness hung over them perpetually.

Money was never plentiful. There were perpetual journeyings, often in uncomfortable conditions, from one place to another in search of health, but throughout her devotion remained constant, although circumstances were such as to bring out the vixen in most women.

The story of Louis cannot be considered except in relation to his tuberculosis. ’ Without the disease his life doubtless would have been shaped very differently. Still a genius, perhaps; perhaps a plain civil engineer, or an unknown lawyer of Edinburgh.

What began as a “weak chest” sent him early to France from dank Scotland; to Switzerland; to America and to the South Seas. The modern reader, who had only a superficial knowledge of his life, is amazed at the hold the disease had upon him; the extraordinary treatment that he gave it; and the fact that, with the possible exception of Samoa, every one of his stopping places on his wide travels seems to have been marked by a haemorrhage of large or small degree. Yet in the end he did not die from TB, but of cerebral haemorrhage.

Apia, with its rain and its humidity, would not be considered ideal for the TB patient to-day. Yet here, and while at sea in Island schooners, Louis appears to have been comparatively well. At Vailima, Fanny and he carved a hole in the jungle and built their home.

Here he gathered around him his family, seemed to show signs of patriarchal contentment and a new maturity, dabbled, probably unwisely, in local politics and apparently was happy. Then suddenly— finish.

The Vailima phase is the best known of Louis’ life —the South Seas sojourn captured the imagination of his generation. Had it continued longer, the whole RLS tradition would probably have been consolidated and not left a borderline case between imperishable greatness and obscurity.

Who reads Robert Louis Stevenson to-day? If it were not for the movie script-writers, who have given doubtful patronage to this writer who died over a half-century ago, his name would be forgotten by the present generation—and even so. you will probably find his name in the smallest type among the list of Movie Credits.

Journey to Windward is not everyone’s meat. But it should become the final word on the subject for collectors of Stevensoniana. (Our copy from William Sloane Associates, New York.) Know Your Butterflies A BEAUTIFULLY illustrated book on “Butterflies of Australia and New Guinea” comes to us from Charles Barrett and A.

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Seward of Bourke St. Melbourne, at £2/15/- Australian). It should be of great value to amateur and professional naturalists in New Guinea, which is plentifully endowed with some of the world’s more spectacular butterflies.

Few residents of the Territory escape the butterfly phase and even those who do not go in for active bug-hunting will be interested in identifying and reading something of the history of their local butterflies.

There are eight full plates in colour, which make indentification easy, and numerous other illustrations. The text, while being scientific enough for the entomologist, is easily understood by the amateur.

This book is long overdue. During the war there was a great demand from Allied troops for books on P-NG’s birds, butterflies and other natural life but remarkably little has as yet been published on these subjects.

The Pacific —Again IF you can forget, or ignore, or agree with Dr. Oliver’s contention that no European who has gone to the Pacific in the last 400 years, had any right to be there, and was up to no good, anyhow, you will probably find that his The (Continued on page 74.) 71 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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The Pacific, of course, has be “done” so frequently that it 1 become tedious. Nonetheless, ] Oliver's book is very readable a has been well received by Ai tralian reviewers.

Douglas Oliver is Associate P] fessor of Anthropology at Harv£ University, He spent a number years in New Guinea and BSI doi field work and had some spec job in the Pacific area duri World War 11.

If my memory serves me correc that job was somehow concerr with boosting copra or rubber p] duction in the producing areas tb left to us, which seems to show tl the Professor, no less than the rest us, was willing to hitch Pacific islai production and Pacific islanders that business we once felt to be important—the Allied war effoi One somehow feels that he shoi have sustained the atmosphere his book, and viewed World II objectively, simply as a proc of evolution, and not been cc cerned at all in the business raising copra production.

However, Dr. Oliver is no star: eyed dreamer, He looks upon 1 whole European history of 1 Pacific, and colonisation genera more in sorrow than in ang realising that with the huir ahimal as well as the les varieties, the strong will alwi prey on the weak.

Looking back over 400 years fr the pinnacle of enlightenment tl we have now reached we can ag that we Europeans in our dealii with native peoples, have been pretty nasty lot.' But if our adventurous ancest had not exterminated the aborigii in Australia, overwhelmed Maoris of New Zealand, had 1 the Red Indians in charge America, the Hottentots and wh not in Africa; or not pushed aror the Islanders of the Pacific for tb own purpose; if they had all sta: home in their own little villages Europe, attending to the affairs the parish—well, what?

One sure result would be tl anthropologists like Dr. Oli would not have much to wi about. Sixty pages of this b( cover the pre-European history the Pacific. The rest of the 3 odd pages are devoted to wl came after. J- (The Pacific Islands, published by Oxl University Press, 346 Little Collins Str Melbourne. Price, 52/6 Australian.) 74 Book Reviews (Continued from page 71.) FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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How To Use Your Water Power

In all the high islands of the Pacific, countless millions of horse-power are running to waste, because no attempt is made to harness the mountain streams. In the following article, written by Bert Wilson and published in the well-known technical journal, Power Farming in Australia and New Zealand, the Islands resident is shown how he can make use of the water-power available to him.

IHE electrical blackouts we are at present experiencing in the country districts of NSW have resulted in a lot of inquiries regarding the possibilities using a flow of water to provide power to generate jctricity.

To obtain power from water you require either a I flow of water from a low head or a smaller flow 3m a high head, for as with all calculations conrning power it all boils down to the foot-pounds work which the water can produce. It is all a it ter of gravity; most water-engines are simply avity motors. For instance, if the available flow ls, say, 600 gallons per minute and the head or fall y, 10 ft., the power produced would be 60,000 footunds per minute (600 x 10 (lbs per gall) x 10 = 000). By the same token a flow of 100 gallons per nute with a fall of 60 ft would produce the same lount of work (100 x 10 (lb per gal.) x 60 = 60,000).

You will remember that theoretically 33,000 footunds of work per minute is required to produce hp, so (again theoretically) either of the proposins mentioned above would produce just under 2 hp. ifortunately, however, the factor which makes pertual motion impossible—namely, loss of efficiency— s to be taken into consideration. No machine is ) per cent, efficient. In other words the energy produces is less than the energy put into it, due to ction plus the machine’s inability to make use ectively of all the energy being put into it.

With a water turbine loss of efficiency is due to friction occurring in its bearings and the friction of the water itself in the casing. Efficiency is also lost due to the turbine’s inability to use fully the remaining work being put into it. Water turbines however, are pretty efficient machines when compared with engines, as the efficiency of a well-designed turbine is around 80 per cent. The efficiency of steam plants is from 10 per cent, to 30 per cent., that of a diesel engine around 30 per cent, and a petrol or kerosene engine around 20 per cent. In the case of engines, the loss of efficiency is mainly due to their inability to make full use of the power in the fuel.

Some literally goes up in smoke out of the exhaust and the rest is lost in heat which is not converted to work, such as the heat produced in the cooling water of an engine. So after finding the theoretical horsepower available from a water turbine, we reduce the figure to 80 per cent, to find the actual power available, thus 10 hp theoretically would be only 8 hp practically.

A simple formula for calculating the power available from a water turbine assuming an efficiency of 80 per cent, is:— Cubic feet per minute x feet fall Horsepower = 660 A cubic foot of water contains 6k gallons and weighs 62.5 lb. 77 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

Types Of Water Wheels And Turbines

THE oldest and simplest water power machine is the water wheel. I have no figures on the mechanical efficiency of water wheels, but I should say that it would be considerably less than that of their modern counterpart, the water turbine. This would be due to the water wheel’s inability to make the same full use of the work available in the stream.

However, I think it would be quite safe to calculate the efficiency of a water wheel as being around 50 per cent.

There are two types of water wheels, the undershot and the overshot. As their name implies, the water passes under the undershot wheel and over the overshot wheel. With the latter the water is carried in fluming or pipe and is allowed to pour on to the wheel at a point ahead of a vertical line above the wheel’s axle.

As with water wheels, there are two types of water turbines, the re-action and the impulse. A re-action turbine could be likened to a centrifugal pump in reverse, with the water flowing in through what would be normally the pump’s discharge opening and emerging from what would normally be the suction opening.

In its passage through the pump it would come into contact with the vanes of the impellor causing it to turn.

The impellor, or runner of a reaction turbine, is different in design from the impellor of a centrifugal pump, as will be seen on reference to Figures 1 and 2. (That shown in Figure 1 is used in a casing as Figure 3. Figure 2 shows the type used in Figures and 5.) Reaction turbines are best suited for low a: medium falls, whereas the impulse turbine is betl suited for high falls. A unit known as a Pelton win is the best form of impulse turbine and is t only type which can be used efficiently wi very high heads. Figure 6 shows a Pelton wh< with its top cover removed. As will be seen it co] prises a wheel or runner to which are fasten around its edge a series of closely spaced buckets cups. Water from a nozzle is directed against th( cups or buckets causing the wheel to rotate. Ho ever, unlike a re-action turbine, there is plenty clearance between the runner and its casing and, the bottom of the casing is open, there is no pressi Figure 1.-(Left) The runner of a Francis turgoimpulse reaction water turbine. Figure 2.-(Right) The runner of a Francis low fall reaction water turbine.

Figure 3.—General arrangement of a spiral cased Francis turgo-impulse reaction water turbine showing intake at turbine and supply pipe.

Figure 4.—Arrangement of horizontal shaft, low [?] single discharge, Gilkes reaction turbine.

Figure s.—General arrangement of low fall verti[?] shaft Gilkes reaction turbine.

Fig. 6.—Open view of a Gilkes Pelton wheel fit[?] for hand wheel regulation. 78 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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Speed Control

OME form of speed control is necessary on water turbines unless the load is constant, such as with that provided by a centrifugal pump or a genera- * charging batteries. They are unlike a steam or engine in this respect as the runaway speed of a iter turbine is usually not more than 80 per cent, ove its normal speed. Thus they would not race destruction as would be the case with an unirerned steam or oil engine if the load was removed, [ncidentaliy, speed control is very necessary when turbine is driving an alternator (AC generator) in ier to maintain the correct cycle, but it is not so cessary when operating a DC generator which is t working in parallel with other generators; an tomatic voltage regulator usually being sufficient to >p the voltage within reasonable limits.

With small hydro-electric sets the simplest form of reming is perhaps the electric brake. This courses a separate generator which imposes an artiial load on the turbine, the extent of which varies accordance with the load of the main generator, r instance, if the turbine develops say, 15 hp and the immediate load of the main generator is only equivalent to 10 hp, the electric brake governor will automatically present a load of 5 hp. This type of governor is suitable for both re-action and impulse turbines.

Another means of controlling the speed of a reaction turbine is by means of a governor which controls the amount of water allowed to enter it. This operates on a principle similar to that of a steamengine governor; revolving weights rise and fall to different positions according to the speed at which they are being driven.

A similar type of governor is used for impulse turbines (i.e. Pelton and Turgo-impulse wheels), but in this case, instead of reducing or increasing the amount of water being directed to the wheels, the governor causes the jet or stream to be deflected.

Electrical Calculations

IN estimating the amount of current that can be obtained from a given horsepower it is usual to allow for 1 hp to produce 500 watts. The theoretical electrical equivalent of 1 hp is 746 watts, but here again the loss-of-efiiciency factor has to be taken into consideration. With an electric generator the first loss is due to the friction in its bearings. Then comes its electrical losses. These make themselves evident by the heat which a generator produces within itself when working on load. (Continued Next Page) 79 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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fITHE cost of a hydro-electric plant is somewhat X higher than that of an engine driven set of the same size, but it must be remembered that once installed the running costs of a hydro-electric plant are practically nil and its maintenance cost negligible. To give you some idea of the initial cost, however, I might mention that Coates & Co. Pty., Ltd., of 252 Swanston Street, Melbourne, and 302 Pitt Street, Sydney, which is the Australasian agent for Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon Ltd., water turbine and pump manufacturers, of Kendall, England, quotes a low fall vertical shaft propeller type turbine direct coupled to a 1,500 watt 230 volt D.C. generator and an electric brake governor complete with switchgear and meters all built into the one compact frame at about £650. On top of this is, of course, the cost of installation, including the earth and water works.

Measurement Of Head

AS in pumping, the total or net head available for power is the vertical height from the lowest water level in the tail race to the level of the water in the stream less the loss of head due to nipe friction, for it does not matter whether the water is being pumped or is flowing by gravity, the loss due to pipe friction is the same. For this reason the usual practice is to use pipe of a size in which friction is practically nil.

For small plants the friction table quoted on page 81 will suffice. From this you will get an idea of size pipe required.

Measurement Of Flow In Small Stream

UNDER this heading I cannot do better than quote from page 35 of the 1950 Techn Annual:»— A convenient method of determining reasons closely the flow of small streams is by the of a weir and V-shaped notch. The stream is damr by means of boards long enough to reach acios with either end set into the bank, the topmost a 90 degree V-notch cut in it with the edges of opening levelled away on the downstream side so t a sharp edge is left. The notch must be big eno to take the whole stream flow through it, i.e., Wi must not be allowed to flow over the flat surface the top board. By measurement of the depth of wj flowing over the notch and reference to the ts given below, the approximate discharge in gal] per minute may then be found.

Fig. 7 shows the method of installing the weir ! measuring peg.

The measuring peg is driven into the bed of creek on a level with the apex of the V-notch, a feet upstream, in order to be outside the area of t bulent flow. By means of a measuring rod pla upon it, the height of water flowing over the peg i be determined, and since the latter is at the sj level as the apex of the notch the measurement obtained corresponds to the depth of the water fl ing through the weir.

DISCHARGE OF 90 DEG.

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MINUTE Figure 7. —Sketch showing method of installing weir and measuring peg for the measurement of flow in small streams. 80 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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H •5 1-7 3*8 6*5 10-0 14-8 20-0 26-0 32-0 40-0 57-0 •21 •8 1-8 3-1 4-8 7-0 9*3 12-0 15-0 19-0 27-0 2 •11 •4 •9 1-6 2-4 3-5 4-7 6-0 7-6 9-4 13-5 u — — — •5 •77 1-1 1-5 2-0 2-5 3-0 4-3 3 — — — — — •47 •63 •8 1-0 1-25 1*8 3£ — — — — — — — — — •55 •77 4 ““ — — — — — •4 ize of Pipe in Inches 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft.

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St. ft. ft. ft. 32-0 36-0 40-0 45-0 49-0 54-0 — ! 13-3 14-9 16-4 18-5 20-0 22-0 22-0 27-5 40-0 1 2 6-0 6-6 7-3 8-3 9-1 10-0 10-8 12-5 18-0 24-2 , 31-9 3*1 3-45 3-8 4*25 4-7 5-2 5-6 6-45 9-3 12-5 16-3 > •96 — — 1-33 — — 1-77 2-05 3-0 4-0 5-2 1 •44 — — •6 — — •78 •92 1-3 1-75 2-27 r .... •19 — — •26 — — •34 •4 •57 •75 •99 \ — — — •135 — — •17 •20 •29 •38 •5 i — — — — — — — •12 •17 •23 •3 i — — — — — — — — •095 •127 • 166 ■ — — — — — — — — •07 ze of Pipe in Inches 450 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. ft. t 20-0 25-0 34-0 — — — i 6-5 8-0 11-3 15-4 19-6 25-0 31-0 — — — 2-8 3-4 4-8 6-5 8-3 10-3 12-9 15-6 18-2 21-2 1-2 1-5 2-1 2-8 3-6 4-5 5-6 6-9 8-0 9-4 » •62 •76 1-07 1-44 . 1-83 2-3 2-8 3-43 4-05 4-75 •38 •46 •65 •87 1-1 1-4 1-7 2-1 2*45 2-83 1 •2 •25 •36 •48 •62 •77 •95 1-16 1-35 1-59 •086 •11 •15 •2 •26 •33 •4 •49 •58 •67 — — •079 •107 •137 •172 •214 •26 •304 •355 > — — — •065 •084 •105 •13 •157 •188 •22 — — — — •055 •07 •078 •103 •124 •143 — —■ — — — •043 •054 •064 •075 •086 — — — — — — — — — — •05 TABLE SHOWING FRICTION LOSS IN FEET HEAD FOR EACH 100 FEET LENGTH OF NEW STRAIGHT CAST IRON OR WROUGHT IRON PIPE. FOR SHORT LINES THIS TABLE MAY ALSO BE USED FOR CONCRETE, ASBESTOS-CEMENT OR SHEET METAL PIPING NOTE: The figures in Table 7 represent the loss 1 a percentage of the total length of pipe.

The friction head (H) may be interpolated for inrmediate quantities (Q) by using the approximate lation: —4- H 2 = Q x 2 -- q 2 2.

Straight direct leading pipes with the minimum of bends should, if possible, always be arranged, and when the piping is long, the output large and high ° verall efficiency desired, taper pipes and increased bore , mam P l ? es are necessary. It is however necessary to mamtam a balance between the increased cost of larger piping and the increased power costs incurred by the use of smaller piping. 81 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Pacific Travellers Mr. Brian Barrett, of Colyer Watson (NG) Ltd., who has been transferred from Rabaul branch to Kavieng was farewelled at the New Guinea Club just before his departure.

Territories men spending their holidays in Australia include Mr.

Noel Moloney, of Port Moresby; Mr. Rae Murdoch, merchandising manager for Burns Philp & Co. Lae; and Mr. Tom Bayliss, of Morobe.

Bulolo power station. Baiune, returned for a second term after 4 months’ leave in Sydney. . . . Mr. Bill Coles, also of John Stubbs & Sons, Port Moresby, returned after leave. A freezer for BP’s at Samarai is the next construction job in view by the firm.

Left to right and top to bottom.—Mr. [?] G. Lloyd, Airfield Fire Captain, [?]ioned at Lae, proceeded to Melbourne [?] January for a special fire-fighting [?]esher course. . . . Mr. Ken Windsor, [?]-known in many Territories as a [?]ner deck officer in New Golden Hind, [?]hiti, and as skipper of trading-ketch [?]n (recently lost at Rarotonga) came Sydney in January.

Mr. Stan Dinsdale and Mr. Peter King [?]rd row, right) of Qantas, NG, were [?]n for pilots’ licenses during January. [?] y are likely to be well-known at NG [?]elds in future. . Mr. F. M. McRae, [?]the building staff of John Stubbs & [?]s, of Port Moresby, returned after [?]e in Sydney.

Brother J. Jassmeier, MSC, of Vuna- [?]e Catholic Mission, came south for [?]ge after 20 years’ service in New [?]ain. . Mr. King. (See above.) Mr. C. J. Henderson, of the staff of 83 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY, 1952

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A measure welcomed by the many travellers between Western and Eastern (American) Samoa is the medical permits for all those departing from Apia to Pago. Still required, however, are permits to land in American Samoa and permits to depart from Western Samoa.

Ng Highlander In Sydney

i¥7HEN word was passed around W that the first New Guinea wicrbicmH nativp pvpr tn A . Highland native ever to visit Australia was arriving in Sydney on December 21, the PIM representative went along to a “press conference,” to observe the travelle reactions to civilisation.

Far from finding Primitive M cowering before the wonders civilisation, PIM was introduced Pastor Stewart, of the SDA Missi organisation to a healthy and pol: specimen of New Guinea manhot free of all shyness, well versed pidgin, and neatly dressed in Harris sports coat, collar, tie a: khaki shorts.

His name was Masive —missi name, John—and he joined the SI mission at Bena Bena some years ago. He told the report* that his father had killed a: probably eaten many men, but tfc as he was only 23 himself, he v too young for such pastimes wh the missionaries arrived and w him to better ways. His t brothers still “stop ‘long bush” t they, too, are now showing signs seeing the light.

The Harbour Bridge? Yes, tt looked like standing until “all gether ground ’e break up finis!

It is definitely “strong too mus And how about Sydney itself? “ got too muss man e stop—allasai whitesand!”

Masive and a companion, Past Manavaki, of Vella Lavella, BSI, on from Sydney to SDA Congres; in Tasmania and New Zealand. 1: fore returning to work in N Guinea. 84 FEBRUARY. 1952-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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SLI. ‘MICRONESIA' Commissioner Explains A Name and A Purpose HE alert and energetic editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Mr.

Riley H. Allen, referred to mer United States Senator Elbert Thomas (now High Commisler for the North Pacific Islands en over by the United Nations m Japan, and administered by United States as a Trust xitory) the Pacific Islands nthly’s suggestion that the mds should be known as “the erican Trust Territory of Microia,” instead of “the Trust Terri- -7 of the Pacific Islands.” he PIM has pointed out that the er designation is misleading, j Trust Territory referred to iprises the archipelagoes of rshall, Caroline and Mariana, ,ch are generally grouped as icronesia”; while the term cific Islands” embraces three or r major groups (including ronesia) north of the Equator, [ innumerable large and small bipelagoes south of the Equator, ided into about 14 separate ritories or Administrations.

Writing on October 30, High nmissioner Elbert Thomas kindly vided us with an authoritative I interesting survey, showing how criticised name came to be used, t is derived from the language d in the Trusteeship Agreement ween the United Nations and the ited States. Article 1 referred to le Territory of the Pacific mds;” and thenceforward that ame the official name of the ee groups (Marshalls, Carolines I Marianas) taken from Japan.

Whoever drafted that Agreement w singularly little about the lific Islands generally. [igh Commissioner Thomas iently believes that it is not cticable to change the name. v; but he says that the phrase list Territory of the Pacific mds” is rarely used unofficially, te says that the Americans are smpting to popularise the use of icronesia” in relation to the ritory. The steamship company ch operates the ships used by the ministration is called the Pacific Tonesian Line; and, he adds, “we substituting ‘Micronesian’ wherr we can for ‘native’ and ‘indite’. We continually use the names ;he island groups (Carolines, Mar- 11s, Marianas); and the design the Trust Territory flag includes ee stars, representing these three ind groups. In our historical ting and in all references to bitutions in the area we employ ere possible the geographic name .g., the Micronesian Educational ociation.”

Ir. Thomas also points out that Admiral Radford (who was the United States Navy’s High Commissioner in charge of the Trust Islands) was careful to use the term “Micronesia” and “Micronesian” when delivering an address at the ceremonies on September 12, 1951, when the Trustee Territory was formally handed over to civil administration.

What America Is Doing

In this letter, dated October 30, the High Commissioner writes very interestingly on the strategic importance of the Trust Territory of Micronesia:— “The strategic aspects of the Trust Territory are made larger than ‘American’ by the Peace Treaty with Japan, as well as the treaties of mutual defence with Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the Philippines. It will take a long time to develop relations with our neighbours to the point which we hope to achieve, but we are making beginnings.

“The Islands Trading Company of the Trust Territory has already purchased two auxiliary-type sailing schooners in Australia, for use in inter-island trade, as well as for trade with our neighbours. One of these vessels, the Meleeta, recently returned with a full cargo of commissionary supplies purchased in Australia for use by Trust Territory personnel.

“One of our vessels, the steamer Chicot, is in Japan to-day in drydock for a periodic over-haul, after 85 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

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We have traded during this last ,r with the Philippines, Australia, ailand, Japan and Guam.

Two Japanese fishing fleets, rating out of the Ryukyu Islands, fishing in Trust Territory waters ier the auspicies of SCAP; and >ther Japanese company is minphosphate in Angaur, with >ropriate reimbursement for iple of the Trust Territory.

All of these activities may be iracterised as small, but they are insignificant from the standnt of peace-keeping, and in the elopment of peaceful pursuits.

That the people of Hawaii .erally understand the spirit of comparatively modest but itegic contribution to the peace die Pacific is brought home to us lost every day by a call or a t. Such understanding is most tifying.” liss Margaret Stubbs, youngest ighter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H, hbs of Bellevue Hill and New inea, was married in Sydney on tuary 9, to Mr. Frederick [shire, of Lae, New Guinea, 'ort Moresby will be the future ne of Miss Betty Woods, of sensland, and Mr. John Benham ith, of Port Moresby, who were rried in Brisbane on January 5.

Con Pappas Likes

New Guinea

MR. CON PAPPAS has returned to Australia on leave after six years in Papua-New. Guinea with Anderson’s Industries (which has done much to solve the Territory’s meat problems), full of enthusiasm for life Up North.

Reported at length in the newspaper of the NSW country town where he had lived previously, he said: — That there was no racial antagonism, or fears for future security; New Guinea boys were wonderful workers, good learners and fine people. The missions do a fine job in training them in all trades. There were big developments in industry, and living conditions were excellent. Living is cheap—no sales tax or income tax which makes goods cheaper while people have more money. Tropical fruits are plentiful at next to nothing. The Works and Housing Dept, and the Commonwealth Government have done a “most remarkable job’’; there was now no real danger of tropical diseases and the education of all is most effectivelv carried out by the Federal Government and missions.

Well, Mr. Pappas’ opinion makes a nice change. There may even be something in it —why else would people continue to go back there year after year, if the picture were as black as some would have us believe?—J.T.

Sister Lois Blaess, Lutheran medical mission worker in New Guinea, returned to Australia in January after a year’s service. 87 ICIFI.C ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY, 1952

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In December, the directors of the company proposed that the company should wind up but a meeting of shareholders opposed the plan.

Chief-Pilot F. P. Ladd, of Fiji Airways, is noted for his ability as a swimming and diving coach in his native New Zealand. He is carrying on the good work in Suva baths when time permits and has discovered a promising young diver, Betty Smith, who, he believes, would make a champion.

Missionary Aviation

Fellowship In Ng

AN interesting traveller to by QEA plane on January was Mr. Grady Parrott, 1 President of the Missionary tion Fellowship whose objects “the serving of enangelical miss groups in undeveloped areas of world.”

Mr. Parrott was visiting NG discuss means of re-establishing organisation there following tragic interruption last year, w!

Pilot E. B. Hartwig, an Austral: was killed and their plane lost.

The Missionary Aviation Fell< ship personnel are lay workers the Lutheran Church. The org isation was formed 6 years ago the U.S. and is manned by military pilots. Mr. Grady Par] though young in appearance, 20 years’ flying experience, incl ing service in the late war. ' Fellowship is maintaining a skele service in NG until it can be equipped. It intends to supply cc munications for several miss groups operating on the NG ma land.

Mrs. Bob Newton-Daly and daughter Angela, of Fiji, arrived Sydney for a holiday in m January.

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breakfast i I o U i\ T AJ N FOUNTAIN p LUM PUDDltf G Fiji SPCA Owns an Island From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Jan. 20 [E Fiji Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is probably the only organisation ;s kind that possesses an island, ist year the litle island of udrau, in Natewa Bay, Vanua i, was bequeathed to the ety by the late Mr. W. W. ?ht, of Vanua Levu. Although 11, the island is planted with l-quality coconuts and its copra nue is valuable. lere was a certain amount of ussion within the Society as to t to do about the property, le members thought that if it j sold the money could be used uild an animals’ clinic and dog ad on the site at Walu Bay, a, already promised by the eminent. Others wanted to ) the island and its copra nue. weral would-be purchasers were k off the mark with offers; and e were applicants who wanted [ease the island or to manage n behalf of the Society. How- •, the SPCA will hold on to udrau. aunded at Lautoka five years by Mrs. Dunoon Kirk, the Fiji !A has had a hard battle against thy and the usually misinformed icism that assails almost every movement in Fiji, It has i kept going by a few tireless kers —European, Fijian and ian—and for the last four years had a measure of Government port as well as wide official aowledgment of the urgent need SPCA work throughout Fiji. r hile the Society’s propaganda been welcomed in schools of all is and notably in a number of ian schools, the worst apathy been found among educated partly-educated adults, pen antagonism has come nly from Indian people, many tvhom, for religious reasons, are osed to the taking of any form animal life and believe that it better to let an animal suffer irminably from disease or semi- •vation than to have it painly destroyed. he SPCA’s central executive imittee comprises the Rev. H. W. gess (chairman); Mr. R. C. ms (vice-chairman); Mrs. E. ith (secretary); and Mr. R. Kay ;asurer). The headquarters is v at Suva, but active committees working at Lautoka and Ba. liss Violet Field, Secretary of the mg Women’s Methodist Mission, ted mission stations in Fiji ing January.

Better Bank Notes

SOME time ago we published a complaint from French Oceania complaining about the dilapidated condition of the paper money circulating there.

M. Maurice Vienne, manager of the Banque de ITndochine, Papeete, has pointed out that it is not necessary for anyone to handle dirty notes —all such may be exchanged at the bank for new ones.

A sample of the attractive new notes shows that they are being printed on a much superior paper and should stand up better to the heavy handling they get in such communities. This good-quality paper was previously unavailable. 89

F I F I C Islands Monthly February, 1952

Buy Only The Best!

Riverside Products are Available Now for Immediate Shipment in the Fallowing Varieties and Curried Beef, 16 oz.

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The Great Name in Confectionery Pacific Islands: S. E. TATHAM & CO. PTY. LTD. 178 Collins St. r Melbourne - 73 York St., Sydney Pacific Travellers A new company, Eldorado Consolidated (NG) Options Co., NL, has been formed to test areas on Edie Creek, New Guinea. Subscribed capital is £6,250 and a larger company will be formed if test results are satisfactory.

Travellers who left Sydney for Islands destinations recently included (left to right, top to bottom): Mr. A. F. Gow, formerly ADO at Madang, returned to NG after 7½ months’ leave in England and the Continent. His next appointment was still undecided. . . . Mr. W. Moore, of Kokopo (left), and Mr. A. J. Gaskin, proprietor of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Rabaul, returned from leave per January Bulolo.

Mr. S. H. Christie, of APC, returned to Port Moresby per Bulolo in January, after spending two months’ leave with his parents in the Blue Mountains, NSW. ...Mr. and Mrs. Robb and family proceeded to Samarai per January Bulolo.

Mr. Robb, of District Services, has completed 2½ years’ study at the School of Pacific Administration, Sydney.

Dr. H. Langer, from Germany, proceeded to Vunapope Catholic Mission per January Bulolo. He relieves Dr. Schuy, who has been forced by ill-health to retire from the mission. . . . Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Heavey returned to Lae per January Bulolo after 3 months’ leave in Australia.

Mr. B. M. O’Neill returned to KaVieng per January Bulolo after 4 months’ leave in Australia. . . . The Rev. Fr. Sari (left) from Brazil, the Rev. Fr. Howard (first American negro Catholic priest to come to the Pacific), and the Rev. Fr. P.

McVinney travelled per Bulolo in January to join Catholic mission stations in the Wewak area. Fr. Howard will establish the first native Catholic seminary for New Guinea on Djaul Is. 91 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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RABAUL GALE DELAYS,

Damages Aircraft

From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL,January 27.

GALES, with gusts of wind up to 80 miles per hour, have swept Rabaul during the last week.

The weekly Qantas DCS plane was delayed after sustaining damage through a Walrus aircraft having been blown into it at the height of the storm.

Only small damage was sustained by the DCS but a relief plane was flown in to take its place. Damage to the Walrus is estimated at £3,000.

Spg Houses Complete

IN NOUMEA From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, Dec. I THE long-standing problem permanent housing for sonnel of the South Pa Commission at Noumea, has t partially solved by the comple of 14 houses on Mt. Coffyn, wl have magnificent views over the Mr. John Ryan, Deputy Secre General of the SPC, and Mr. Hi Vincent, Chief Accountant, me into their new homes in Decen and other members of the C mission staff will soon follow.

Sir Brian Free-ston, Secretarj the SPC, will, however, continui live at Headquarters at Anse V

Admiral Chase In

TROUBLE THE veteran Admiral Chase former WRC vessel and ir recently owned by the Ta H Co., of Hongkong, was reported be adrift in the Indian Ocean mid-January.

Under tow from Colombo Hongkong by the tug Caro] Moller, the tow parted in he weather but was resumed sev< days later. 92 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

we hand it to you V Real economy demands that you buy only good paint the best paint. Sherwin Williams Paints and Finishes are the result- of constant and intensive research by a compact corps of field specialists and qualified paint consultants. The combined fruits of this extensive research and developmental work by the Sherwin-Williams companies throughout the Empire are available to you when you specify Sherwin-Willia Paint for all tough paint assignments . . . espec ally those under trop ■cal climatic conditions Sherwin-Williams Paint To meet the test of the tropics m COLYER WATSON (NEW GUINEA) LTD. jian Development Fund Growing Fast Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA. Jan. 21.

E Fijian Development Fund Board, set up last year to operate the Fijian development me, started operations on ist 1. the end of December the d’s revenue totalled £66,747. isigned primarily to raise the g standard of the 50,000 Fijian le in the copra-producing areas, scheme was put before the dative Council by its principal ilect, Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, after some scurries of opposimainly in European com- :ial quarters, was passed timously. ie fund is made up of compuldeductions of not more than a ton from the purchase price >pra produced by Fijians. Ratu Lala said that the object was ibtain for the Fijian community s lasting benefit out of the high s being paid for commodities, oring the marketing of all omically important native uce under one control, to gain a better bargaining posiin business transactions, and elp the village communities to ge from the state of sole ree on subsistence economy.” . payments to the fund are ted to the person or body ng the payment and bear int at 2 per cent. Withdrawals be made only with the consent le administering Board for an oved purpose. e Board’s object is to ensure in the first instance the rs of the fund provide thems with better houses, healthier orighter surroundings, and good sufficient water supplies. ians produce nearly two-thirds e Colony’s copra—nearly 30.000 a year, worth about £1,500,000. [?]w Catholic Missionaries in Pacific r EN Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart received the Mission Cross in ey recently. ey were: Sister M. Helen (Port s), Sister M. Joseph (Nauru), r M. Virgil (Eastern Papua), r M. Cajetan and Sister M. St. ael (New Britain), Sister M. and Sister M. Constance nnel Island). Present were four * Sisters, on furlough from respective missions: Sister M.

Immaculate (New Britain), Sister M. Christopher (Nauru), Sister M.

Flavienne (Eastern Papua), Sister M, Antoinette (New Britain).

Superior-General of the Society of Mary (Very Rev. Father A. Cyr, S.M.), is about to visit the eight Marist missionary vicariates in the Pacific Islands Samoa, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and the North and South Solomons.

Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Malley, who have been spending some months in Sydney, returned to Suva on the Aorangi in early January. From Suva they will go to their plantation in the Lau Group.

The Rev. R. S. Pickup of the Baptist Church recently paid a visit to mission stations in New Guinea.

A son (Charles) was born to Mr. and Mrs. C. Blake, of Nonga, Rabaul, on January 4. 93 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 195 2

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Members were unanimous in ( demning the amendment w] they allege will remove all cor from natives in a town area.

Under the old regulation, nal were not permitted off t premises between 9 pm and 6 (unless they held a written “p from their employers); natives were not residents of a town ; were not permitted in the t area during these hours; n shouting, singing, beating dr and dancing had to cease at 9 and no natives could play games in any streets in a town z Under the new amendment it pears that none of these restrict hold good any longer, and Coi members believe that there is no power to force natives to ref from actions prejudicial to the { order and safety of the town its citizens.

Rabaul residents do not be] that natives will act like 1 gentlemen simply because they told to do so —local natives 1 not yet reached the stage of velopment where legal enforcer] is unnecessary. This was sh clearly when penal clauses i abolished from the Native Lai Ordinance. Natives know that i can evade their part of the « tract simply by deserting from t place of employmemt. The remedy that the employer ha a civil court case which in r cases is impracticable.

THE AORANGI IN 1952 THE year-by-year Governr subsidy agreement betwen Canadian Australasian and the Governments of Austr New Zealand and Canada was newed in mid-January. The 17, ton Aorangi will thus operate the trans-Pacific service another year. Canada pays 1 thirds of the £ All 1,600 total sub involved. The current agreen was first signed in February, 1

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Islands Shell Industry Disorganised

Why Producers Get Such Poor Returns

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E South Pacific shell industry to-day is an extremely valuable dollar-earner for the sh and French territories con- ;d. ese two articles seek to sumse the problems and prospects he two distinct branches of shell industry trochus and ier-of-pearl—and to offer a suggestions based on informagathered from buyers, brokers producers, as far apart as New ea and New York city, late destination of most of the this article, a distinction is ; between Torres Strait trochus Pacific Islands trochus. ry little trochus is being fished le Eastern or Central Pacific, le Western Pacific, the quality ■ochus varies almost as much le locations from which it is d —and the “marketed” quality tions are even more marked, far as natural quality is con- ;d, the Torres Strait area—no t due to favourable constituin the water, favourable tides other subtle factors—grows a ius much superior to the New Hebrides-Solomons-New Guinea product. Thus the same price cannot be expected for shell from the different areas.

Whether the extremely wide difference in price between Torres Strait and other trochus can be justified is another mater. Strait trochus is readily saleable at good prices while other trochus lies in Sydney stores unable to raise bids from world consumers.

The Torres Strait industry appears to have little to worry about. The other areas could scarcely be said to have a trochus industry at all.

WHATEVER effect the Australian brokers and buyers may have —and it cannot be denied that it could be to their interest to discredit the non-Torres Strait shell, buy it at a discount, and resell overseas at a price well 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Whereas in Torres Strait the fishermen are in the game for a living and are anxious to maintain the prestige of their product on the world market by rigid cleaning, grading and packing, in the Islands 90 per cent, or more of the trochus is fished as a sideline to a coconut plantation or some other industry.

Before World War II many plantation operators took a serious interest in trochus, and shipped as good a product as the location mitted. To-day, this appears far from the case. Planta which formerly had a good ] with the old established S 5 brokers and buyers, now sei very inferior, uncleaned, ungi product.

Previously, when these ph tions advised that they were 1 to ship a parcel of trochus, Sydney firms knew from exper exactly what would be coming ward. On this knowledge, were able to arrange a sale < seas without ever seeing the 1 in complete confidence that overseas’ buyer would be sati with the parcel.

To-day. with very rare ei tions, this cannot be done—c the Sydney firms declare. All e to clean and grade seems to been cast aside under the stin of the rising market of a year which peaked at about £A3OO.

THAT rise was occasioned 1 battle which developed tween certain New buyers who control the gn part of the world market, marked the commencement of complete downfall of the Is! trochus market. The indica are that every man jack in Islands started to gather troci even from the cemeteries and ga paths—and send it off to Sydi Undoubtedly, a large numbe 96 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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LTD. 255 a George St., Sydney. Box 3838, G.P.O. Cables: “Carefulness,” Sydney. »e people honestly did not have lue as to what constituted goodlity trochus. Others were not pared to waste time in grading cleaning, but preferred to let Sydney firms quote “as is.”

I others tried to work in a periage of useless shell with the i, to be “in on” the high price, he result was that Islands shell ime completely discredited on Sydney and overseas market, he Sydney firms emphasise that lay they no longer have the lities or labour to clean or ie shell. They cannot consider ;els of “as is” shell; and, they they can no longer even trust ipers who write down guaranng a parcel of shell to be “good lity.” To-day, they will only :e an offer for Islands trochus r it arrives in Sydney and is lected. ) the serious trochus fisherman in the Islands such conditions naturally intolerable. There is reason to suppose that Sydney iers or buyers are any more est than Islands shippers. Thus an very well be that, despite the itest care on the part of the )per, a parcel of shell can be iared of low quality on arrival Sydney, and the shipper is :ed to accept whatever he is red. here is reason to believe that has happened—though adtedly most of the shell coming vard is not in this class to-day. he solution surely must be for Island producers, be they station owners, operators of ie stores, or full-time fishermen, make up their minds whether y want a trochus industry; and, >o, to make some serious move ards its organisation. Under sent circumstances, they can er hope to obtain the true :ket value of their produce, he Torres Strait trochus proers are able to sell direct to v York to-day solely because V have organised a thorough ding system and established ir product. A New York buyer manufacturer knows exactly it is meant by Torres Strait ;hus, or Thursday Is. MOP. here is no reason why, in the ie way, Guadalcanal or Manus II should not have an iblished place on the market, if local producers would get toler and have their trochus dly graded—just as their copra o-day rigidly graded for export, he solution might lie in a corative system, whereby the local ducers would band together to )loy a conscientious grader to de all their trochus, at the port shipment, so that the shell Id be offered as one lot, under ertificate.

There is no reason to suppose that the shell fished throughout, say, the Solomons area, would vary more in quality than shell fished in the area, say, from Cooktown to the Gulf. Buyers will always prefer to deal with a large organisation or co-operative, rather than with a hundred unknown individuals.

IT may be thought that such a system of grading already exists. This is not the case, The official inspectors to-day are interested only in seeing that the law is complied with as regards minimum sizes fished. It is not their present duty to inspect or grade shell for its general condition —nor are most of them qualified to do so. The average person certainly would not differentiate overcooked or dead shell from good shell, unless first shown that difference.

The organisation of an efficient grading system in each Islands 97 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

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' ' AEPS itory would be to the imate advantage of all concerned. must obviously be the ultimate tion of the producers to raise standard of their product to a ; where the overseas buyers will s ready to deal directly with i (or their co-operatives) as are to-day in dealing with the es Strait producers. stralian agents, who are to-day mly people prepared to handle ids trochus, are almost without Dtion not representing overseas ifacturers directly. They ly buy and resell or sell on nission— to overseas manuirers’ representatives. They are ly an essential link between acer and manufacturer only use of the disorganised state he Islands trochus industry, e would be no. trochus sales at o-day without them. turally, the Australian dealers ot be expected to favour the of producers doing FOB telehic business with New York, indications are, however, that a day is a long way off and improvement in the grading of ius must therefore be to their Bdiate benefit, inasmuch as commissions will benefit from higher prices realised. xt month, the MOP situation be discussed.

Australian & Ng Gold On

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A COMPANY has been formed in Australia (The Gold Producers’ Association Ltd.) to take advantage of the Commonwealth Government’s recent decision to allow sales of newly-mined gold to be sold overseas at a premium above the fixed Australian price of £l5/9/10 per ounce.

Producers must be members of the new company if they wish to take advantage of the offer, which on present indications will bring them about £1 per ounce above the Australian fixed price. Seven men have been elected as a committee — in effect a directorate —of the new company. A Queenslander, Mr. J.

Macolm Newman, chairman of Mt.

Morgan Ltd., will represent NSW, Queensland and New Guinea.

Western Australia (which produces three-quarters of Australia’s gold)' will have three representatives on the committee; Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia will have one member between them; the Western Australian Government will nominate one member; and the seventh member is Mr. J. C. Guest, a director of North Broken Hill whom other committee members have themselves nominated.

All gold producers in Australia and Papua-New Guinea have until February 29 to apply for membership of the company. It is estimated that if all major producers join, the gain from open market gold sales will be something like £1 million Australian per annum.

Mrs. Jock Esson, of Madang, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney for a holiday in January. She will later be joined by Mr. Esson. 99 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY. 1952

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AN Educational Research Institute is being set up in Suva, Fiji. At present it will occupy premises in Carpenter’s Buildings; later it will erect a building of its own. It is being assisted by a Colonial Development Grant of £23,000.

Mr. R. S. Adam, formerly of the Teachers’ Training College, Nasinu, has been appointed principal. He will have an Indian and a Fijian assistant.

This gem of officialese as U purpose was issued with announcement that the Inst had come into existence: “Accordingly, the staff of the stitute will first undertake rese into the question of selection secondary school pupils) ultimately, as the result of the perience thus gained, into the s of teaching method and the cor of the curriculum, in their app tion to the many linguistic gr both in Fiji and the Western Ps High Commission territories, wi view to the ultimate productio courses of study and the neces textbooks for such courses b upon local needs and condition This may not make the purpos the Institute very clear to the man, but as the Colonial Dev« ment Fund’s share of the coj £23,000, obviously the creatioi such an institution is consid very important.

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Star, a scholarship winner 1 Nauru, arrived back in Aust] from Nauru with 10 other Nam secondary school boys, in Jam Willie is a pupil of Knox Gram School, Sydney. He is a sergear the school band, plays the bagp and wears “the kilt and everyth! 100 FEBRUARY. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

The Pacific Islands Society (Founded 1937).

Visitors from the Pacific Islands to Sydney, or persons interested in Islandsaffairs, are invited to communicate with the Honorary Secretary of the above Society which was formed to constitute a social centre for those interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gatherings, with lectures, are held at History House, 8 Young Street, Sydney, on the fourth Wednesday of each month, at 8 p.m.

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OUGH scarcely perceptible as yet, there is evidence of an undercurrent of Communistic rity in New Caledonia. The >ian virus is attacking the founms of life there, slowly dropping political poison into the French ny. It may eventually affect r colonial administrations of South Pacific. considerable portion of the e population here are direct endants of former political s from France who, in March- , 1871, participated in a revonary outbreak involving great nee and bloodshed. It was then the Commune of Paris was set y Communists, a brief but drasegime which was ended only by burning down of the Commune deportation to New Caledonia ae worst offenders, ms there is a possibility that modern Russian ideology would ial t o the grand-children of 3 old political prisoners, ace New Caledonia employs a ; contingent of Indonesian filed labour in the mines, the ;ian germ may be one of the i “import goods” passing uninto the country. Mining enhave pointed out to me that ersive currents are at work idy. ckily, our New Caledonians, on whole, are not interested in ics. No news vendors appear tie streets and papers are only in the big stores. There are no i headlines on public noticeds to incite the siesta-loving intants. jwever, it does seem a shortted policy on the part of the ich Government to refuse offers American enterprise to build ir roads, better hotels, to con- ;t a network of railways (after failure to maintain the only tiin-de-fer linking Noumea with a). Thus we delay an improvet in living conditions, higher :ies and general amenities for »le whose ears may be already ned to Russian propaganda, flourishing tourist trade would prosperity to the country, and is surprising to would-be “Hers to the charming island of Caledonia to find that the ich Consulate in Sydney is so Hipped with information on the ect. There are no booklets to 'e foreigners to New Caledonia; advice and adequate data apto be given unwillingly when d for.—Eß. r. and Mrs. F. P. Drury and • two children returned by air jae in early February, after 3 ths’ leave. Mr. Drury has Civil Aviation’s airport ager at Lae.

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FRANCISCAN Fathers at Aitape, New Guinea, are making an appeal for old newspapers and razor blades.

Natives use the papers, when cut into strips, to roll cigarettes.

With the razor blades they do not cut their beards, but carve fine tropical woods. One of their best wood carvings, of the Madonna, has been sent for exhibition to Canberra.

Papers and blades may be sent to the “Catholic Leader,” Brisbane.

An official visitor to Fiji in January was Dr. F. J. Harlow, technical education expert in the British Colonial Office. 101 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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She created a good impres She is a trim, steel ship, with hold accommodation and et ment. She is the biggest ii island ship in the copra-can business a'nd a distinct acquis to the fleet operating out of Ra The Bougainville Co. is bui its own wharf and storage she< Rabaul. Ability to make a < turn-around in Rabaul si contribute to successful opers Senator Roy Kendall, forme; Master in the pre-war New Gi inter-island vessels, is in charj the Polurrian during the Parlian ary recess. He was keen tc the conditions in these waters, to resume acquaintanceship wit friends and places.

Samoa’s Judge and Fa[?] Judge and Mrs. C. C. Marsacl[?] Western Samoa, with, left, their daughterin-law, Mrs. P. Marsack, of NZ, [?] grandchildren, Nigel and Jennifer, [?] have been visiting them in Apia.

Superflash photo. 102 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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Unfortunately Mr. McMahon dashed through Moresby too quickly to notice the W. & H. office set-up, where a good deal of his lost money is drained off in maintaining in luxury a staff of clerks that is out of all proportion to the works being carried out.

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The Mystery Of Tuanaki

ISLAND IT is hoped that John Greenstone and his romantic troupe “fleeing from city frustrations” (FIM December, page 81) will not be misled by the United States Air Force air navigation chart which, although an official document of the US Army Map Service, published in 1942 —shows New Island.

The name “New Island” will probably mean little to the average reader—but the name Taunaki will certainly mean something to people in the Cook Is.

So persistent are the stories in Rarotonga about Tuanaki that many believe than it once existed, and that it subsided probably less than 200 years ago.

A family living in Titikaveka district claims direct descent from a Tuanaki man. Others claim that their great - grand - parents had visited the island which was said to be “within sight of the mountains of Rarotonga.”

No island or reef has ever been discovered within this distance of Rarotonga, but 160 miles to the south, modern charts show Haymet Rock with the notation e.d. (existence doubtful).

In the days when navigation was less accurate than it is to-day, European navigators reported an island at varying points in this region but ’ modem search has failed to locate reef, rock, or isl The supposed Island —knowr New Island, and doubtless Tuanaki of the Polynesians long been struck off all navigati charts except the American c referred to above. There it is sh not as “e.d.” (or even “p.d.,” pos doubtful), but as substantial Rarotonga itself.

The island’s position accordin the US chart is 23 deg. 50 mi and 159 deg. .02 min. W.

The chart is the USAAF A Map Service Chart, Pitcairn sheet, dated June, 1942.

John Greenstone and other p dise hunters can blame the Army if they search in vain this particular Forgotten Island To Rebuild Martyrs’ Sc[?] TWO men left Brisbane by on January 19 to help rel a New Guinea school, destr a year ago in the Mt. Lamin eruption.

They are the Rev. Byan Rob former headmaster of Slade A can School, Warwick, and Douglas Jones, engineer and fo] Slade pupil.

The school, the Martyrs’ IV orial secondary school for ni boys is being rebuilt at Gons the New Guinea north coast, original school was at Sangara.

Mr. Roberts will be in charg the teaching staff and Mr. J in charge of building. 104 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Policeman Again T many years ago, the idea of a Fijian policeman advancing beyond the rank of subctor would not have been isly regarded. But on January e Fiji Royal Gazette disclosed a Fijian has been acting as tant Superintendent of Police October 1. is the man whose name has ently been quoted in the Press ew Zealand, Australia, Great in and the United States as Dngest held by any policeman.

He is Acting Assistant Superintendent Levani V. Tamanikairukurukuiovalau. Two years ago, when he went, with his wife, to - study police methods in New Zealand, he unintentionally started a quest for long Fijian names that was recorded in newspapers throughout the English-speaking world. Before World War II his name appeared in Punch, London, with the comment: “Obviously a Man of Letters!”

Nevertheless, some Fijian descriptive names are much longer.—S.

A daughter (Lynette Ann) was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Ashton, of Kokopo, at Namanula Hospital, Rabaul, on January 5. 105 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Assistant Administrator Entertained in Ra[?] COME of Rabaul’s leading; citizens entertained at a cocktail pari District Commissioner and Mrs. J. Br on January 11. Guest of honour Assistant Administrator D. M. Cl( who was paying; his first visit to K since the end of the war.

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The Rev. and Mrs. F. H. Woodfield for the Methodist Mission station viana, BSI, per January Malaita. tain W. Waterson, BSIP TVade e Stevedore, and Mr. Harry Wickto be Trade Scheme Manager at made the round trip in the Kuri- , which visited Sydney in January.

Mr. A. C. Adams, of Norfolk Is., (Next page.) 107 JFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1852

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PAPUA.—Port Moresby. NEW GUINEA.—Lae, Rabaul. (Incorporated in New South Wales with limited liability.) returned there r>.fter a year in Sydney. He travelled per January Malaita.

Mr. and Mrs. J. K. McCarthy returned to Rabaul per Malaita, after leave in Australia. As District Commissioner at Rabaul, Mr. McCarthy is an ex-officio member of the new P-NG Legislative Council. . . . Mr. B. Francis and his sister, Miss Helen Francis, of Rere Point, Guadalcanal, BSI, were seeing friends off by January Malaita. They expect to return to their father’s plantation shortly.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Owers, of Wau, New Guinea, with their twin sons and daughter were south-bound passengers on the February Bulolo, There were 21 wet days during January in Wau, New Guinea, and a total rainfall of over 10 inches. As a consequence, vegetable gardens suffered and there was a temporary shortage in February.

Search For Pearls, 19

THE death of Madame N Brault, reported elsew] brought an interesting r niscence from Correspondent N man, of Tahiti: In 1905, Mme. Brault, M. E Bodin and a Syrian pearl buyer, Habib (of Habib, Nass & Cie Paris) chartered the scho Tauturu, which belonged to Coppenrath, of Papeete, The v sailed on a pearling expeditioi the Tuamotus. Then 12 year age, I was aboard as cabin boy We left Papeete on Decembe 1905. At the island of Katir sailed close past the (1 schooner Tahitienne (Capt.

Dexter) —little realising, then, only two months later this and own vessel would be lost in terrific hurricane of February 1906, together with many other At Taiaro Island, we tried luck at the Pipi pearls. Ijc the divers, and had it not beer Mme. Brault I would have mad( last dive. Noticing my failur surface, she called to a diver na Turihara, who found me fast to the bottom, my hand caugl an oyster shell. Turihara pullec free, shell and all. While I la the beach, more dead than £ they released my hand —and their delight, a large pearl found in the oyster.

The voyage was terminated o to the illness of Mr. Habib, anc schooner arrived back in Papeet January 5, 1906.

Mr. Habib returned to Fran< very sick man, but wrote decls his intention to return. How he never did. His ship, La S collided with a sailing ship, heavy loss of life, and he was of the missing. Some said tha had a part of the famous Blue ] diamond aboard. It was a poi belief that whoever bought a of that diamond met disaste: violent death.

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TREES THE Christmas Tree is a ! event on Pitcairn Island, corated trees are “plantec the Public Square and are hung presents.

Towards evening the h people, with eager children, semble on the square. Several have the pleasant duty of cs the names they find on packages and handing the nre; to those who come forward t( reive them.

But this year a fatal acci caused the Christmas Tree t postponed until New Year’s Da; reported in January PIM, a resident, Raymond Pettigrew, accidentally shot while huri 108 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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J. Loschdorfer, an eye alist, said that he had exed the constable in November year and that before he heard history of the case he had formed the opinion that the injury had been caused by a sharp instrument. He admitted that it could have been caused by a long finger nail but said that it would not have been caused by the flat impact of a punch.

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E. J. Hallstrom, of Sydney, ake some credit for this; but National Geographic Magazine ing its bit as well. In recent , there have been numerous es published in the Magazine this region, and, even better, reds of photographs in black vhite and colour.

Tying on the good work in its of November, 1951, the nal Geographic publishers with i illustrations, an account of a and botanical-specimen huntxpedition conducted by Mr. E. rilliard, Assistant Curator of in the American Museum of *al History. ;h a plentiful supply of Soccer ills, red powder, beads, stick co, old newspapers, gold lip axes and other oddments of currency; 1,200 pounds of ition paraphernalia, including cameras and arsenic; the ance of two well-known resiof the Territory, William nt and Robert Doyle, Mr. rd collected 3,500 specimens in ays. i expedition began in April, at Lae. when Mr. Gilliard Bd aboard a little twin-motored avilland for the mountains of Guinea. i expedition’s special object was nale of the ribbon-tailed bird radise —a bird with a brilliant body and slender white tail than three feet long. i plane flew over the high tains and broad valleys “dised more than a decade earlier Michael Leahy, explorerector extraordinary, who in his ti for gold, roamed hundreds of through the mountainous inand found the great Wahgi y ... In our plane that momve followed in an hour and 10 tes, the 250 tortuous miles y traversed in making his 1 discovery.” advice and information, rd had the services of Mr. N. 1 of Hallstrom’s Nondugl •imental Station. At Nondugl, Mr. Gilliard, Blood has the ?st collection of birds of para- •ver seen by man. Many have conditioned to cage life, then ported by air and ship to ey’s Taronga- Park Zoo.

' coloured photographs of ugl’s homestead lake, white ► grazing in parklike surroundings, the blue water bordered by what appears to be acres of scarlet salvia and yellow dahlias, purple mountains in the background, is sufficient to make all embryo pioneers pull up stakes and light out for the New Kenya without loss of time.

The Wahgi River rises on the eastern slopes of 12,500-ft Mt. Hagen and here it was that Mr. Gilliard set up his base camp, instructed the local “naturalists” in the ways of hunting and planned the forays of his party onto neighbouring peaks.

Enlisting the aid of Pilot Bobby Gibbes, Gilliard with Doyle and six trained local natives, flew from Hagen through the 10,000-ft. Chimbu gorge to land on a sloping grass strip at 8,300 feet on the flank of Eastern New Guinea’s highest mountain, Mt. Wilhelm. “Gibbes put the plane down lightly as a feather. He took off again immediately, promising to return for us at 9 am, 17 days later.”

In this region, says Gilliard, population pressure has pushed farming right up the mountain to over 8,000 feet. Below the airstrip, the land had been totally cleared of trees and had been planted again and again in sweet potatoes. Some of the planted terraces were so steep, cane ladders were used to work them.

The soil is not particularly rich but the native farmers have worked out a rotation that keeps the soil fertile plantings of casuarina, 111 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Object of the trip to Mt. Wilhelm was a rare duck, Salvadorina, which Gilliard believed would be found around the two crater lakes high up the 15,000 ft mountain.

Two specimens of the duck were collected and, as well, the party was able to prove that the peak that had been thought was Wilhelm’s summit, was, in fact, some 300 feet below the true peak.

At the true summit (15,400 ft) Mr.

Gilliard unwrapped and waved aloft flag No. 128 of the Explorers’ Club, and left under three ston< message on American Museum paper, sealed in a bottle.

WHEN Mr. Gilliard went t( Highlands, world’s orr legists were divided a whether the ribbon-tail bir paradise mated and hybridized another bird of paradise, Princess Stephanie. The adult Stephanie resembles the ribbo except that the tail of the ril tail is white, and the Step black. The controversy began specimens of ribbon-tails were : with part-black, part-white ta Mr. Gilliard thinks that he ; the answer to the riddle or Hagen. He does not believe they hybridize. Some bird paradise are known to take as as six years to develop theii plumage. He thinks that the ril tail starts life with a dark tail i slowly turns white as it re maturity.

These photographs came to us roundabout way from Mr. A. E. Ada[?] Yorkshire, UK. The little native [?] Balam, of Manus Island, NG, and, [?] is Miss Wendy Adams, Mr. A[?] daughter. Balam is nursing a do[?] once belonged to Wendy and it a[?] pened like this:— A friend of the Adams family Walter Barker, lived on Manus. H[?] them how Balam and other small[?] girls, having no dolls, dress up [?] and pretend that they are dolls.

Wendy heard this she decided to one of her dolls to Balam. This duly accomplished and now here is [?] complete with doll, and the pr[?] youngster on Manus. 112

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F. G. Stokes of this museum an article questioning the nticity of the calabash, and an’s reply was really an eva- Rodman had told me in and that he had seen the ish, and measured the angle, was 19 degrees, the' elevation e Pole Star in Hawaii. The il feeling is that Rodman constructed the story on a theory which is not supported by any material evidence. We cannot find any mention of such a calabash in Hawaiian tradition. I am convinced that no such contrivance was ever used by the Polynesians.”

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Coconut As

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One of the research activit the new South Pacific Comm is concerned with the vah foodstuffs produced in the tr Islands; and attention recentl been given to the coconut.

An interim report in the mission’s quarterly Bulletin, that, so far, an examination published scientific literature revealed that no thorough inve tion of the food value of the nut has ever been undertaken, certain aspects have been exar It always has been regarded mercially merely as a sour sweet vegetable oil and as a for stock. Yet the growing i desiccated coconut shows the of the nut as a food for hurm bio-chemist is now making a amination.

Meanwhile, here are some ( facts already gathered.

The flesh of the fresh greer has a rather higher protein than maize as a chicken food, meal —what is left after desici and extraction of oil —is eqi maize as a food for pigs or < The amino-acid value of the nut is high and combined wit! nut or soya meal, the coconut in the form of press-cake, s make a very high-grade gr food for fowls or mammals.

So far as calories are cono the coconut is probably the h in value of all foods, and cc oil is the most easily digested fats —including butter fat.

The carbohydrate value is known, and will be investigat The coconut is low in vit£ but these could be added to cc products in the form of co trates. The calcium— boneing—value is low. Potash i principal mineral present, toddy (from the flower buds) tains 16 per cent, sugar.

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Three Communities Create Peculiar Problems In Rich British Colony From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Dec. 28 is been said more than once— . the PIM and elsew'here — at in an Islands group like here is seldom any single lent, expression or feeling [■ the population which can nly labelled “public opinion.” are as many publics as there cial sections, and each section ded into sub-sections, ound figures, there are in Fiji 30,000 Indians, 120,000 Fijians iss than 8,000 full Europeans. n iji it is always dangerous to ilise. But, as 1951 goes out, difficult to avoid a growing Df apprehension over what the future holds for this curious p of inter-racial ambitions *ars. ing over the sending of troops to Malaya has not sed, although the mild, and ary, plain-speaking by the Governor (Mr. A. F. Stoddart) unsuitability of young Indians e Army has apparently ended idian efforts on the defence at least for the time being, the other hand, there has remarkably little Indian exnt over the arrival on iber 14 of Mr. Aneel Kumar he second Commissioner for □vernment of India in Fiji.

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in the first Commissioner 3. A. Waiz) arrived in 1948 was an outburst of flagl enthusiasm. But nowadays, on Indian Independence only the more aggressive alists keep up the display used to exasperate a great non-Indians in this stilli country. lay be remembered that Mr. departed in 1950 with the cant comment that he had with nothing but courtesy Europeans and Fijians and t was high time for Indian to jettison its political s and try to fall into line he other races in Fiji, laps it is not saying too much, ■ end of 1951, to suggest that ore reasonable of the Indians ji are gradually gaining a ic outlook on the relations ?n Britain, India, Pakistan 'iji. Some of them, at least, hlling to concede that the has been reached in what can sed of the Fijians—or taken it asking. neither they, nor anybody an see what will happen when wamping Indian populationse reaches the danger-point.

And that will happen in a comparatively few years.

Mr. Sen, for the last 21 years was Indian Consul-General at Shanghai.

The European Community

The 6,000 Europeans in Fiji are anything but a compact minority group. The rapidly-dwindling group of those who remember Fiji as it was before World War I have either adjusted themselves to the new 115 If IC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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They say quite openly that sooner or later they are likely to find conditions too much for them.

This is not to say that this group consists of an array of parasites.

A great majority of them are doing valuable work in many directions, and sometimes at personal sacrifice; but they decline to look far Into the future, so far as it concerns themselves and their children in Fiji.

Add the maligned birds-ofparadise in commerce, in the Government service and elsewhere, and that disposes of virtually the whole European community.

When asked what they think is going to happen to Fiji in the next generation or two, all these people sidestep as adroitly as most Government officials.

The year has seen an unenthusiastic attempt to get together a European Taxpayers’ Association.

A sparse attendance showed a marked reluctance to produce active officers; and the general impression seemed to be that the plan was blighted in advance by the unlaid ghost of the European Electors’ Association, which expired after two futile atterrq scratch up a quorum for an a meeting in 1949.

Nothing has been heard o 1951 attempt for several m( and it will be astonishing i Taxpayers’ Association ever comes an active force-

Fijian Questions

Still holding the balance in homeland, the Fijians are plainly at the crossroads.

More Fijians are asking que than ever before some i awkward queries are said to been put to ex-Minister of John Dugdale by Fijian: mostly, to such questions ther tragic lack of answers.

It . is not in the Fijian nati be envious; but something preaching bitterness is to be when Fijians compare their condition—economic and oth( with that of the W( Samoans and the Tongans, be whom have been protected aj the danger of being swamp: aliens.

Equally apparent is a gr Fijian impatience with those peans who are full of exhorti but give no practical help i: carrying out of their precept If the Fijians take the i turning, the blame will lie wit conditions created by non-Fi, And if the Fijians are a crossroads, so is the whole oi

Fighting Rhinoceros

W. SAMOA Entomologists And Wa Play Their Part From Our Own Corresponder APIA, Jan, A PARTY of entomologists Gressit and Mr. Owei America, and the former Gc ment entomologist of Fiji, IV W. Simmons are at present vi the Territory to study met he control of the rhinoceros beetl the effects of scolia rufi( (Zanzibar wasp), introduced ir to combat the pest.

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n now, more than a week after isitation, it is most difficult to r enough data for a compreve description. the usual machinery of corncation was smashed. Cross ry wires are all down. Roads blocked by smashed vegetaand dead animals. Even in owns, the telephone networks ut, and so badly damaged that are being only slowly restored, mtless cars were damaged by g trees and buildings, j complete disruption of the electric power and light serput most industrial establish- -5 out of action. For 76 hours was no electric light, s Fiji Times office was un- -1 Torrential rain soaked all is and the printing machinery, lack of a news service so crossed the community that the > people produced a daily newson Armstrong and Springhalt's itner duplicator. Lack of power led the broadcasting station, i, with auxiliary plant, it got , all local receivers were useno power. •aculously, Fiji Airways escaped serious damage. The planes were saved by the hurricane revetment; and the maintenance of this service to Nadi and the early use of radio, gave the outside world the first details of Suva’s plight.

The hurricane worked up an enormous sea. Waves came crashing across the lagoon, and poured inland for distances of from 100 to 200 yards, adding chaos to the confusion of the gale’s wreckage, This invasion by the sea did a lot of damage. In the wnarf area it got right across to Jellicoe Road, But even greater damage was done by ram, pouring tnrough the roofless houses and stores onto unprotected furniture and goods. The rain the following day (.Tuesday) 117 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952 Fiji Hurricane Continued from Page 16.)

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Some Of The Wreckage

IT is impossible, at this stage, to give anything like a complete list of the wrecked houses and business buildings; but here are some details.

The Central Building, owned by Mr. W. H. Johnson, on the lagoon side of the main street, was partially unroofed and extensively smashed here fallmg masonry - Bad dama 3e The Club Hotel, McDonald’s Hotel, and the Fiji Times office, along the main street, are unroofed and badly damaged—the club and McDc probably beyond repair.

The Melbourne Hotel has L verandahs and some of its rc Noel MacFarlane’s establis] Is roofless.

The big stores have all su some battering, but generall in good condition.

The worst damage, in the 1 business section, was suffered 1 old buildings within a coui hundred yards of the Triangl The whole town is denud trees, and seems somehow si and flatter. The Botanical Gs are just a mass of smashec tangled trees. The famous ing figtree avenue from the town to the Grand Pacific has been almost wiped out they fell, the trees tore uj pavement. The GPH itself through with little damage.

Disappearance of the vege gives one startling glimpses, ernment House stands now o of its bare hill like a light] You can stand at Walu Ba] follow the Bypass Road rig the top. Trunks of denuded stick up everywhere like flag The residential section of th Club was completely wrecked Unwilling spectators of the were the New Zealand Ex Affairs Minister, Mr. Webb, ar wife, who have been visiting S and made a call at Fiji.

The Methodist Church esti: that the damage to its church,; and residential buildings in the ricane area is £50,000.

Residential Section

Damage done to resident Suva was freakish—especially c high ground behind the tow; house here and there woul wrecked: while the houses on ( side would be scarcely affectei This was reflected in the st Here you would see a large post, carrying wires, bent level with the ground. Then would be posts standing uo Then a couple of posts also be the ground—but in exactly th posite direction.

This list of damaged hous quite incomplete: Carl Corbett —Demolished, e for front portion.

Fred Corbett—C o m p 1 e wrecked, and members of f; injured.

Goodsir—Garage and sen quarters demolished.

Robert Kay—Garage gone; damaged—but generally OK.

Shell Co’s new house —Roof Thor flats —Part of roof gon< Don Warren—All roof and ings gone.

Jeff Carr —All one side molished.

Sir Henry Scott—Some damB H. E. Snell—Slight damage.

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re was tragic devastation at vua. The Fijian village was led, and most of the European ngs partly wrecked, i damaged area reached westalong the south coast as far vua, where there was flooding, vreckage; but immediately to stwards of Viti Levu there was mage. uka, all Vanua Levu, Kadavu ['aveuni were not affected, s Tamavua hospital escaped • damage. The Teachers’ ing School at Nasinu was Ly battered. ; New Zealand Air Force’s :-boat base at Laucala Bay, to Suva, was extensively ged. Landing-jetty and reng equipment were destroyed, t 40 per cent, of the break- ■ was smashed. Of the buildwhich housed the RNZAF nnel of 250 and their families, ; 70 per cent, of sleeping aclodation was lost, and half of Married quarters damaged, e huge hangar was battered, he three Catalinas inside were harmed. TEAL installations ed. ere were heavy losses of private ;rty. : a time, masses of debris tig out of the Rewa River made 3ay unsafe, but it was restored .e use of the flyingboats by the Df the week.

Damage To Wharves

E damage done in the docks area is so extensive that the port may have to be replanned, terrific sea came in and washed r a lot of the shore. One now see blue water between the :ess Street end of the wharf, the road. The reclaimed land id Kings Wharf has been y washed away. Some officials Kings Wharf is a complete !-off: damage perhaps 0,000. l the concrete is gone. The )our-master’s building is leaning out over the sea at a crazy angle, but is intact. Captain E. W. Harness clambered out through a window as the building sagged.

Assistant Harbour-master James was out trying to help a ship when the wind and gale smashed his house and tumbled his car into the harbour. Mrs. James had a terrifying experience. Her house literally disintegrated around her, and she saw the hurricane out by hanging on to a coconut tree. They lost everything. His car was pulled out of the harbour a couple of days later: it had been literally crushed flat.

There were two ships in the harbour—the Union Co s new Tofua, and the tanker North Britain. Both put up a great fight, and came undamaged, The Tofua went out into the harhour, put down two anchors, and steamed full speed into the wind, (Continued Page m> 119 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

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Tofua sailed on the 30th for and Samoa.

North Britain similarly ed out, but was blown all the harbour and back into Jay; but escaped undamaged, small vessels in Walu Bay recked. of Suva’s large fleet of small lowever, got away across the r to the shelter of Mosquito and survived.

CASUALTIES still impossible to give anyng like a casualty list —total iths seem to be between 20 , mostly Fijians and Indians, lese storekeeper was killed. :ies are beyond numbering War Memorial Hospital in which did a magnificent iad reported 200 casualties two days—the total is now bout 34 are critically injured.

Elief Organisation

lOUGH faced with a disaster Lthout precedent in Fiji, and nid almost incredible conthe Government did a good organising relief quickly. The -Governor, Mr. A. F. R. Stod- ,nd the Mayor, Mr. D. M. N. rlane got together on Monday >on, as soon as the hurricane Dved off to the Southeast, and d to co-opt all available 3, and get an organisation to m. But without light, power phones, and with so large a tion of transport out of ache handicaps at first were Dreaking. ever, within three or four elief measures were becoming fe. Appeals for help were ;o New Zealand and Aus- New Zealand’s response was late and effective; and withree days the RNZAF had sed an air-lift of essentials, ralia did what was possible h the Colonial Sugar Co. >ation—a shipload of material odstuffs was despatched from 7 by the CSR vessel Fiona on iry 7. sheerest bad luck. Australia’s nenal bush-fires were devasall Southeast Australia at the time that Fiji’s hurricane ed—so great were these disthat the news of them pushed ws of the Fiji disaster to one i the Australian newspapers, is this is written, appeals for re coming in from New South Victoria and Queensland — ime kind of help that Fiji -Ed. PIM.) •re the end of the week, the Committees had taken complete control of the distribution of foodstuffs and building materials.

Slowly but surely, order is being restored, and the relief organisation is applying itself to the enormous and truly appalling task of assisting the distressed, and restoring the conditions of normal life.

A joint emergency organisation of St. John Ambulance and Red Cross began to function on January 31.

GENERAL Some insist on calling this a typhoon—which they say is worse than a cyclone, hurricane or tornado.

The most urgent calls, once the visitation passed, were for copper wire, to repair various services, and for generators and batteries, to permit essential services to operate immediately. Local supplies were “frozen” by the Government, and NZ sent urgent consignments by air.

The absence of power, plus the breaking of the undersea cable, meant that Suva, for a couple of days, was almost completely isolated, except for weak morse radio signals obtained through emergency power sets.

It was reported, on February 3., that people were still searching for missing things in the wreckage of their houses, and that meat, milk, bread and vegetables were scarce.

As Government has frozen all supplies of certain electrical equipment, building materials and food, the unaffected districts now are gradually organising supplies to the wrecked districts.

The Government vessel Degee has left Lautoka with food and supplies for 270 native families whose homes and gardens in the northern Yasawa islands were wrecked.

The weather station in Northern Yasawas was staffed by Fijians.

After it was wrecked, the operator, by heroic efforts, got the equipment working again, and reported details of the hurricane, then appreaching Viti Levu. The collapse of the concrete building killed one son of the operator and seriously injured another. 121 TFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

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“Young Hurricane” Does Much Damage HONIARA, Feb. 3 WHAT has been described as a “young hurricane” struck the central islands of the Solomons on the night of January 23.

It lasted until well on in the morning of the 24th.

Great damage has been done over a wide area, not so much from the terrific wind, as from the enormous seas whipped up by the wind.

The night was made hideous by the screaming of the gale, the crash of falling trees, and the roar of the sea.

Here, the last of the three jetties (bequeathed by the war) was battered to pieces and disappeared.

This “port” now has no jetty.

Power and telephone lines are down in all directions. Many roofs have been damaged.

Invading seas undermined part of the Residency. The Trade Scheme jetty, battered by waves and debris, collapsed. So did some of TS buildings. Many waterfront buildings are damaged by coral boulders and debris thrown ashore by the huge waves.

Battered by the eroding waves, the Bailey bridge which connected the remnants of the old Kukum wharf to the shore simply collapsed into the sea.

A ship has arrived to pick up tons of scrap, stacked on the sho: now is going to have great 1 in loading.

All stations of the Mela Mission which have commui have reported heavy dama buHdings. Buildings and a pi jetty at the Mission’s HQ at were demolished.

Father de Kerk’s 20 years’ v Tangarere (mid-west coast, G canal) was wiped out in a few when the storm struck that n Father Wall and the Siste caped into the mountains whe natives are caring for then they lost everything.

The Catholic station at Av (mid-south coast, Guadal was similarly destroyed an mission staff, completely de: are sheltering in the jungle.

The Catholic Mission vessel Anna was wrecked on an isla Malaita, and the Govemmei sent a ship to rescue the Tan and Avu Avu missionaries.

Many coastal villages on tt Christoval and Ysabel coasts overwhelmed by the sea.

Those picturesque villages the Malaita coasts, built on i constructed out of boulders 1 coastal natives in the past 60 years, have been mostl molished.

All jungle paths are brok fallen trees.

Levers’ labour lines nea Honiara air-strip have bee: molished by the sea.

The flood in the Lunga carried away the well-] bridge built by the American There was no warning o storm. The day after the Fiji warned us that a dan storm was developing.

Tulagi Now In Favoi

There now is a strong and ing feeling among officials non-officials that a great m was made by high authority it abandoned war-torn Tulag placed the headquarters to\ Honiara.

Honiara has an airstrip, some land space around it Honiara emphatically is not a and BSl’s economy always v ruled by its sea transport. ' is a safe port.

If that “young hurricane’ come from any direction exce; west, we should all have washed into the sea.

The last of our wharves has What happens now? Do we fer the commercial shippir Tulagi?

Meanwhile, there is acute a: for the safety of the little Matoma, with Mr. Ernie Pi Up to February 3, there wi word of her. 122 FEBRUARY. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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TEAL First Flight Welc[?] TNAUGURATING TEAL’s new A Route, the 35-ton Solent A with a crew of eight and nine passengers, arrived on November 2 On November 30, Governor Petit ceived the official guests for dis on the future of the airline, wl Aparima made a flight to Bora-Bo local guests. In the evening, visit guests were entertained by th Agents, Etablissements Donald, at tail party at “Tropiques.”

On December 1, the Solent ma flights round Tahiti and Moore guests; and that evening G Fetitbon entertained the official at Government House. Later, most party attended the Fei-Pi Sporl Ball.

On December 2, the visitors wen tained at a native feast, organised Tourist Bureau.

They left on the return flight early on December 3.

TEAL officials expressed general faction with local facilities. The shops at Fare Ute would be cap handling any urgent maintenance Tropiques Hotel interferes somewhi the approach to the landing, and be necessary to undertake some < here, as well as at Faanui (on tl side of the harbour).

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There has been unfavourable cc in Tahiti on the leniency of a s< recently imposed on a Tubuai man The native, Hatarau Tehoiri, wa victed of rape and murder of a r woman in Tubuai in 1930. The t the woman was cut into small piec buried. He was sentenced to hard lor life but, after serving 15 yeai paroled and banished to the Marq Lately, he was again convicted c of a young girl in the Marquesas, he is said to be greatly fearee sentenced to one year in prison.

General News

The dismasted passenger-yacht was still lying in Papeete Uarb< early January (PIM, December, pag It is reported she was insured against total loss and that the formed Compagnie Generale des V Polynesiens will have to pay the bill.

A whooping-cough epidemic was re from Papeete early January. A number of children, over-taxinj hospital accommodation, were hou; the maternity ward.

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[?]V Hebrides Missions

ddition to Anglican, Catholic, terian and Seventh Day Ad- ; missions operating in the Hebrides, the Australian bes of Christ Mission Board lins stations on Aoba, Pentend Mae wo.

A Anderson, secretary of the sation has eight white *s in the field, maintains over irches, and has a following of ,000 natives. A 20-bed hospimaintained on Aoba and a al dispensary on Pentecost.

Fiji Battalion In Malaya

THE First Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, arrived in Singapore on the transport Asturias on January 19.

The Battalion’s commanding officer, Lieut-Colonel R. A, Tinker, flew from New Zealand to join them on the day of arrival. The battalion will go into camp about 14 miles from Singapore for training.

The day after the arrival of the Fijians, two battalions of African troops arrived in Singapore. 125 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

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Conducted by Ex ZK-1-AC/VR-2-AK TSLAND Hams In Sydney recently include A Phil Palmer, VR-3-C, who returned to Fanning Is. per Mullama early January and should be active on 20 m. phone by the time this appears.

Ken Windsor, ZL-I-OM, well-known round the Islands as Sparks and/or deck officer in Rawhiti, New Golden Hind, and Siren, was looking for a new ship in Sydney recently, Bruce McLeod, VR-4-AD, has abandoned the Solomons. He reports that the only active Hams there at present are Mr. Davies, VR-4-AA, In charge of the Government radio station, and Dr. Gerald Hoult, VR-4-AB.

Willie Schntz, formerly ZK-l-AZ, another sea-farer, is now skipper of the 60-footer Maureen operating in the Gilberts—so a new VR-1 call-sign may be heard on 40 m. CW soon.

Dr. R. H. Black, School of Tropical Medicine, Sydney, will operate from Trobriand Is., Papua, March-April, on 3.5/7/14 mc/s CW using call VK2QZ/P, Look for these and others on all bands, any day, at the Pacific Islands Net times of 0100/0700/1900 GMT. Call a CQ PIN on your favourite band and s shows up—but avoid answering DX for at least 15 minutes to | chaps in other Pacific Groups a to contact you and exchange th This net should be of particular Hams on outlying islands who 2 time may wish to make urgent with neighbours when other commu facilities are unavailable.

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Friday and 1000 Monday on 1887 7215/14110/28060 kc/s and on 52/14< In addition to the above, sped programmes which contain informa interest to Hams and short-wave li follow: 1. —Radio Australia, 0530/0700 I on 15.21/21.54/9.59 mc/s, repeal 1400 Monday. 2. —Radio New Zealand. 0920 first day of each month on 9.54/11.71 mc/s. 3. —Radio Denmark, 0315 Tuesd 9.52/15.16/15.18/19.76 mc/s. 4. —Radio Belgian Congo, 1910 W day on 9767 kc/s. 5. —Radio Switzerland, 1920 first day of each month on 9.53/11.71/] 15.30/21.52 mc/s. The programme peated on Wednesday at 0205/0330/ 0935/1320/1520/1720 GMT beamed t ferent countries.

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Though trochus prices are tied, it is understood that the o ing price for 1952 will be a £ABO f.o.b- Australian ports.

New MOP prices are liste( market reports, page 136. 126 FEBRUARY, 1952 - PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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[?]th Session in April Commission’s Ninth Session ill open at its headquarters i Noumea on April 28.

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Vocational Training jcational training authority of repute, Dr, F. J. Harlow, PhD, has arrived in Sydney London en route to Suva to detailed plans for the estab- ;nt there by the SPC, as a ype, of a central vocational ig institution for Islands peoples. Initially, it will embrace departments of technology, agriculture and social studies.

Dr. Harlow, before going to Suva, will confer with technical education authorities in Australia. Papua-New Guinea, and New Zealand.

Cocoa and Copra Surveys In pursuance of its investigations into cash crops of economic importance in the South Pacific, the Commission has engaged two experts to carry out surveys of the cocoa and copra industries.

Mr. D. H. Urquhart, BAgrSc. is coming from England to undertake (Continued on Page 129) 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1952

£, a* i f™" 4^ 4 ’ /^ 2 5 ft ‘i X 22 ft ‘ x 7 ft - En gine beds suitable for twin V 8 Caterpillar 115 H.P. Decking beech, planking Priced 10 500 W/L * then oregon - Fastenings copper.

B.S.36l.—Trawler just being pleted, 79 ft. x 20 ft. 6 in. x 6 in. Cargo capacity 60 tons of hatch 12 ft. x 3 ft. Accor datum 8 bunks. Twin Rustc Hornsby 6 cyl. engines, 90 each, with 2 to 1 reduction Derrick winch driven off engine. 16 ft. mahogany life safety and signal gear to Mar Services Survey. Pour w tight bulkheads. Price: £2i 8.5.385.—Aux. cargo vessel x 18 ft. 7 in. x 8 ft. 6 in.’ 10 ft. x 6 ft. 6 in. Allan 4 140 H.P. heavy duty diesel, 2 to 1 reduction, and £5OO of spares. Aux. 4 H.P. anchor winch, cargo, etc. j unit airstart compressor a compressor direct from Cargo capacity approx Price: £17,000. or, am om eni K. 68 8.5.456 (below). —Norwegianketch, 55 ft. 9 in. x 17 ft. 2 : 8 ft. 4 in. Engine is 60 “Burwain” diesel, w/ele starter motor. Built in 1949. 3 bunks in foc’sle. 2 dc cabins, owner’s double cabin Equipment includes dinghy, i and much miscellaneous ’ * Sails: 3 fore’sls, f/jib, jib stay’sl, gaff main, topsail, max mizzen. Squaresail 680 sq.

Construction oak and Norwe pine. Price: £10,500. 8.5.442.—HnH, suitable copra trade, 57 ft. x 12 ft. x 5 ft Fittings for 3 bunks (2 foc’sle, 1 aft). Craft has hold midships, engine room aft of same. Price: £l,BOO. vftt L gemhne P bu rlf™ * range of work boats available for all Island requiremen reomreri ? aspect photographs and leading particulars or let us know the particular type essei required and we shall post you details of those within your specified range.

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William E. Reed (Established 1913) 145 a George St., Circ Quay, Sydney, N.S.> Island Trade Broker & Commission Agent Cables: “WILREED,” Sydney. 128 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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GPO Box 509. CABLES: DANGARS. »coa survey. He recently comfor the Australian Governa survey of cocoa industry sets in Papua-New Guinea.

W. V. D. Pieris will underi similar survey of the copra ,ry. He is at present doing rel work at Kew Gardens. He lad long and extensive ex- ,ce with the Ceylon Coconut rch Scheme, where he was cist and Deputy Director of rch from 1930 to 1946. i surveys, practical in nature xtensive in scope, will include [eration of plantation manageproduction methods, marketjrocedures, by-products, cost >es and related problems. [?] Exploration in Papua tralasian Petroleum Company Ltd., reports that No. 2 Test )horo has been deepened 169 rom 9,973 feet to 10,142 feet, nd Exploration Company Pty., reports that the depth of the [ tests remains unchanged at feet, operations to free stuck ,g tools being still in progressi, A. A. Bailey, wife of Chief yor Alf Bailey of Rarotonga, spending part of their long in Sydney in January, while Bailey headed for the more ig air of NZ’s South Island, to relations.

More Ships For Cook Is.?

WHEN New Zealand’s External Affairs Minister Webb made the round trip on the new Tofua in January, one purpose was to collect first-hand information on the shipping requirements of the Groups visited.

Mr. Webb hopes to induce the Union Co. to extend the Tofua service to the Cooks. The latter now must depend on the Governmentowned, unprofitable Maui Pomare.

The Cook Islands people could increase production of citrus fruits, but Mr. Webb admits they must first be guaranteed shipping; while the ship operators are not interested in the Cook Islands unless guaranteed regular cargoes.

A New Zealand group with experience in Islands trade is interested in the idea of taking over the Maui Pomare on a subsidy basis, and is confident that it could not only save the taxpayer a lot of money but also do well for itself.

Although this would ease the burden of the NZ taxpayer, it would not provide any improvement in the tonnage available for fruit export.

Fiji Rugby Team For Australia A VISIT by a Fijian team of Rugby Union players is expected in Australia about July The Fijians will play about eight matches but no test matches. Their expenses will be paid and the Fiji association will receive a percentage of takings.

Australian Rugby Union circles expect the tour to give Union a boost; at present Rugby League is much the more popular game in Australia A Fijian Rugby Union team that toured New Zealand last winter was a spectacular success.

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Miners Invited In

BS1 Wants A Gold Industry BY an official announcement on January 12. 1952. the Solomon Islands Administration outlined liberal terms on which private enterprise is now invited to engage in mining operations in the Solomons.

It will be remembered that, soon after the war, the Fiji mining companies proposed to enter upon extensive prospecting for gold in Guadalcanal. But when the Administration, under direction of the British Socialist Government, introduced new regulations which would have forced the companies to pay over a large proportion of their earnings in royalties to the Government, the late Mr. E. G.

Theodore, head of the group, cancelled the whole plan., Since then—although it is believed there is substantial mineral wealth in the Solomon Islands— there has been no prospecting or mining worthy of note.

Under the new conditions announced, the scale of royall clearly set out; but the High missioner now is ready to gi emption over a period of yea if circumstances warrant it, h cancel royalties altogether, 1 tax, in BSI, is 1/6 in the £.

Weather Break In Pa [?] Prom Our Own Corresponder A MORESBY, Jan FTER a dry spell said to long as any in living me Port Moresby in Ja caught some of the effects c cyclonic disturbance off Northern Territory, and was ] by gale force winds and rains.

The town stood uo well t battering and, apart from ? leaky roofs and broken tele] cables, there was no damage o importance.

But the Australian Petn Company (and its insu brokers) did not get off so li Early on the morning of Ja] 21, one of the company’s twc Otter flying-boats capsized and at its mooring in Port Mo harbour.

The plane was valued at ; £15,000 and its loss left the C a spot because the second pi a out of action (and has beer four months) awaiting spares England.

The planes were used to men and supplies to the I where the search for oil drag Now. A.P.C. will rely on sea ti port and the Qantas Catalina to Kikori.

Loss of the Otter did not ticularly upset the Qantas pilots have been flying it. as they their engineers have long rega it as a bomb. They recorded • feelings on the Mess notice be “The Sea Otter passed away pe fully at its moorings this mon Inquiry For Missing Sol[?] Information about the fate of his is still being sought by Mr. A. Wyal 14 Station Street, Carlton, Sydney.

Mr. Wyatt’s son was Sergeant u Wyatt and he was a member of Australian Forces stationed in Ki when the Japanese invaded. Apparc he was taken prisoner, because about end of March, 19458, a Japanese \ which hew over Darwin dropped a of letters from prisoners of war, among these was a letter from Serg Wyatt to his parents and dated 22/ He said he was being we’l treated.

Since that time no further Inform] has been obtained about Sergeant W Perhaps he was among those lost in on the Montevideo Maru.

Mr. Wyatt would be very grateful information on the fate of his son. 130 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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New Zealand

HONOLULU, Feb. 6. ashes of the late Sir Peter Lick, for many years director the Bishop Museum in lu, and professor emeritus of pology at Yale University, ed here on December I, are interred among his Maori >rs at the hill fort of Okoki, Frenui, New Zealand.

Prime Minister of New Zea- Mr. Holland), when passing h Honolulu recently on his England, asked of Lady Buck e might take the ashes back dm, and Lady Buck agreed, [olland is expected to pass h Honolulu again about Feb- -22. •e will be a service on the of the ashes at Auckland, inch important Maori cerel will follow. ddition to a gift of £l,OOO, Sir left his insignia, decorations, wards to Te Aute College in Zealand. The Huxley Medal, the highest scientific decoran the world was. perhaps, the e prized most.

Peter worked until the last, dian Arts and Crafts,” his last is ready for editorial handling, is another volume, on early ; navigators, in the hands of shop Museum, ready for pubn. ie years ago Sir Peter began tutobiography, and planned 3rk with his usual care. Notes other material have been d by Lady Buck to Mr. Eric ien, the New Zealand author, n old friend of Sir Peter’s, to 'e for publication. Mr. Eamsivho has spent the past five is in the United States as the of the State Department inating historical source matconcerning early American- Zealand relations, will take of the material back with him iw Zealand. At a later date, rer, he hopes to return to ulu to complete the biography.

[?]Opulation Of New

CALEDONIA NOUMEA, Dec. 30.

RECENTLY completed census in New Caledonia shows that the European population has ised by 3,000 since the last ; in 1946 to 21,029; a large irtion of the increase is due igration. :ive population is estimated at ) —a figure that shows that Caledonian natives are still iling in numbers, atic population is smaller than nany years—3,ooo Indonesians a few hundred Tonkinese, ropean population of Noumea is Coroner 's Finding in Chee Chee Kwan Case Prom Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, Feb. 10.

A DECISION given by F. N.

Warner Shand, as Coroner, on February 6, 1952, stated that Chee Chee Kwan died in Dr. Eric Wright’s emergency ward at Rabaul, on December 20, 1951, from postoperative haemorrhage following a tonsilectomy upon him in the Administration Asiatic Hospital at Rabaul, by Dr. Wright, on December 19.

Hp found that in treating Chee Chee Kwan, Dr. Wright committed errors in judgment due to inexperience and that he based this conclusion on the failure by him to appreciate the sufficiency of the tests to be made as an indication as W o <^ h O^econs^^'^la^ma"^ necessary or not; and *v his failure to call another medical practitioner for his opinion.

Mr. Shand added as a rider to his decision that he considered, in view 0 f the other evidence given at the inquisition, that Dr. Wright’s remarks regarding the Administration Asiatic Hospital were uncalled for an d unjustified. Also in this matter he considered Dr. Wright to be illogical, as on one hand he accepted the Hospital as an institution equipped to perform surgery, and then condemned it. 131 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1952

Public Notice

Territory Of Papua And

New Guinea

New Guinea Land Titles Restoration Ordinance, 1951.

ALL PERSONS having any right, title or interest including mining and forestry interests, whether legal or equitable, in or over any land in the Territory of New Guinea are notified that claims under the New Guinea Land Titles Restoration Ordinance, 1951, must be lodged with the Commissioner of Titles. Port Moresby, Papua-New Guinea, by registered post not later than October 11, 1952.

Claim forms may be obtained from the Commissioner of Titles, Port Moiesby. or crom the Secretary, Department of Territories. Canberra.

Dated this 21st day of January. 1952. (Sgd.) J. K. Murray, Administrator.

THE SCOTS SCHOOL BATHURST Presbyterian Boarding School for Boys Primary to Leaving Certificate Standard.

Boarders admitted at seven years.

Bracing inland climate, 135 miles west of Sydney, N.S.W.

Possesses own dairy herd, poultry, vegetable garden.

Limited vacancies 1952, owing to expansion.

For Prospectus apply: Principal, A. E. McLucas, M.A., B.Ed.

GLASS TABLE and WALL KEROSENE LAMPS Also Spare Parts Enquiries are invited from Traders.

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Santo News

By Vernon Wheatley THE official death roll of the Christmas hurricane that hit parts of the New Hebrides Group is estimated at 114 including Europeans, Tonkinese and natives. This figure covers those lost at sea.

I understand that the cemetery at Vila is a fairly well-kept place but one cannot say the same for Santo’s cemetery.

Enclosed by a barbed-wire fence which was once in fair order before fence posts fell down, this plot of what should be hallowed ground is now a rendezvous for wandering cattle which eat any flowers put on the graves and uproot shrubs planted there by those who wish to beautify the place. It is a disgrace to Santo.

Mr. Bill Dean, late of the staff of BP s, is now in charge of the roadmaking in Santo. The weather has been against this project, but we look forward to wider and better roads in the future.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Maxwell are due back in Vila soon and it is reported that Mr. Maxwell will take over from Mr. P. Colley as Commissioner of Police. Mr. Maxwell is returning from leave; he was formerly British District Agent for Santo.

The Koro paid a visit to Santo recently, it will be recalled that this ship was successfully raised after sinking and has been completely reconditioned. She is “as good as new,“ but is no longer ketch-rigged.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barr, formerly of Wewak, NG, have settled in Brisbane, Q’ld.

Te Aroha Rugby F[?] Help Hurricane Vict[?] AMONG those New Zeals who subscribed liberally Fiji hurricane relief func the people of Te Aroha distrii miles from Auckland, who hosts to the 1951 Fiji Rugby ball team during its first w( NZ.

The Te Aroha Rugby Sub-1 whose enterprising secretary : G. O’Leary, opened a subscr list with a target of £100, bu three times that amount aft( days.

The Fijians were warm favo at Te Aroha, during their tn for their 1951 NZ tour, and t people could not do enoug] them.

The Fijians played their match there and were well b by a strong provincial team later they had a great ru success.

A.J.S.

Fiji Meteorologists Please Note: AT Queensland University, bane, they have installed sitive seismographs (the struments that are used for re ing earthquakes) in order that may plot cyclones when thej 2,000 miles or four or five day the coast.

The seismographs are fresh of top secret list of the US War partment.

The benefits of long-range ting of cyclones is obvious: : and planes can avoid them am land, preparations can be mac minimise their effect. The cy< season in NE Australia. New : rides, etc., extends from Decei to May. In Australia and the Pacific (although New Guinea most parts of the Solomons are of the area) these phenomena called cyclones. In Fiji and West Indies, etc., they are a hurricanes, which sounds more citing but is not. Cyclones tr at from 15 to 20 mph but their ternal wind velocity can be anyt] up to 300 mph. (See article page 14, this issut Proclamation In Fiji Queen Elizabeth’s acces was proclaimed on Pebruar by the Acting Governor of ] Mr. A. F. Stoddart, at the Govt ment buildings in Suva, near memorial commemorating the < sion of Fiji to Queen Victoria 1874.

The ceremony was colourful, i a big crowd, predominantly Fij: watched it. 132 FEBRUARY. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

sified Advertisements

Sitions Vacant

Ert And Ellice Islands

COLONY GOVERNMENT.

TIONS ARE INVITED from suitiified persons for appointment as of Christmas Island (about 1 3 minutes north 157 degrees 30 west) coconut plantations, post carries a fixed salary of Australian currency per annum Edition a bonus will be paid on gisterial functions for which he eive a special allowance of £lOO an currency per annum. engagement will be for a tworm from the date of arrival of aager at Christmas Island. Half ilary will be paid from the date irkation from place of engagement [ salary will be payable on arrival stmas Island. 4.—As far as can toe foreseen, the appointee will be required to travel to Christmas Island by a vessel tentatively arranged to leave Fiji in April, 1952.

Written applications giving full particulars of qualifications and supported by references should be addressed to:— Morris Hedstrom Limited, Agents for Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Government, Box 295, P. 0., Suva, Fiji Islands, from whom further particulars may be obtained.

Plantation Position Wanted Plantation Manager, married, desires situation. Full knowledge of copra production; good disciplinarian. Would consider percentage basis.

Isolation no handicap. Replies to; “TERRITORIAN,” c/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W.

Positions Wanted

YOUNG energetic, reliable, hardworking, Returned ex-Serviceman (6 years active service in R.A.N.), married Australian (wife and family will remain in Australia), desires position as assistant or manager on plantation anywhere in Pacific Islands.

Will pay own fare. Experienced in medical profession 15 years (3 years tropical medicine. T.N.G.), in medical care and administration of native labour, patrolling, business, banking and engineering accounts; also running, care and maintenance of station vehicles, vessels and plant; knowledge of orchard and mixed farming cultivation. Prefer start at £750 and all found. Reply to: “Morningside,’ c/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W.

TWO YOUNG MEN, early twenties, require positions in Islands —Kavieng district, New Guinea, preferred. Experienced in clerical work, paying wages, typing, shipping. etc. Can supply excellent character references. Willing to learn different type of work if necessary, provided it is interesting and respectable.

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POSITIONS WANTED (Continued) DUTCHMAN, 40, experienced in tea, rubber, rice and cinchona bark production and management, seeks position in South Pacific. New book- and storekeeper on cattle station in N. Australia. Can supply good testimonials. Married, two children. Write or cable: P. Uythoven Ord River Station, W.A., via Darwin N.T., Australia.

YOUNG MAN, aged 25, single, in excellent health, desires position in the Pacific Islands, experienced as engineering draughtsman, but willing to learn any kind of work with good future. Would be interested in a plantation job. Reply to: G. E. Callow, Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney.

MARRIED MAN, with Islands experience, seeks position in one of the South Pacific Territories. Good qualifications as engineer (general, diesel and mechanical), also able to do carpentering and handle small ships; experienced with native labour. Reply: “Qualified,” c/o Box 3408 G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W.

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SMALL ISLAND, suitable for middle-aged couple to retire and escape worldly worries. Only necessities are fresh water supply and soil suitable for growing normal vegetables. Bungalow not necessary. Anywhere with warm climate, not in mosquito zone. Details and price to: Field, 52 Cobbler’s Bridge Road, Herne Bay, Kent. England.

School For Girls

STRATFORD Day and Boarding School enjoys the fine climate of Lawson (Central Blue Mountains, N.5.W.—2,400 ft. above sea level) and resident pupils are well cared for by the Headmistress (formerly of Rabaul, T.N.G.) and an experienced Matron. Curriculum includes Primary and Secondary Courses, and pupils are prepared for Public Examinations and for Sydney Conservatorium Music Examinations. There are facilities for tennis, netball, swimming, etc. Vacancies for 1952. Apply: Headmistress, Mrs.

Helen McT. Wayne, Stratford Church of England School for Girls. Lawson, N.S.W.

STAMPS Wanted exchange or purchase individually or in quantity, Stamps of any British Pacific Islands. Use Airmails.

J. N. SMITH, Box 746, Christchurch, New Zealand FOR SALE Attractive Property in P< RESIDENTIAL SlTE—Fully Impr Take the sound step and invesi cash in Real Estate before you get up in the rising tide of “infl Offering to you, four complete furnished units, comprising all i cons., private bathrooms and kitchenettes and, especially in the 1 your own septic system. These p flats are situated in the centre o Moresby’s growing European settle only a few miles from town and ri main highway, handy to buses and No Cold Winters! Sound Security foi Port Moresby enjoys a warm, dry cl and is suited admirably for wishing to retire quietly and be free direct taxes. Mainland and tx flowers grow well, also all tropical Come! Enjoy an easy Income all thi round. Make your move now! O few flying hours from Australia.

Price: £6,500. All Inquiries ans promptly, so air-mail or cable: Corbett, c/o G.P.0., Port Moresby, I NORFOLK ISLAND.—The ideal pla< retired people—an equable climate to 85°), friendly residents, golf, tennis, swimming and fishing. Bom crops of sub-tropical and temperate fruits and vegetables easily grown Income tax or rates. Here is a bj —36 acres, by ocean frontage, ( lease, part grazing and part in crop roomy house and adequate furn £l,BOO the lot. Apply; Peter Got Norfolk Island.

ACCOMMODATION SYDNEY.—Furnished, serviced fiats, private bathroom and kitchenette, mo trays, situated in heart of the Double and family flats available—re able rates for Pacific Islands resh Wyobe Court, 52-54 Phillip Street, Sy Cable address: “Yarap,” Sydney.

Phone: BU 1376.

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by R. W. Robson and Judy Tudo collection of tales and sketches of Pacific Islands, by PIM writers, R, Robson and Judy Tudor; well bound profusely illustrated. 175 pages. I 7/6 (8/6 posted or $l.OO U.S. currei From Steele’s Book Store, Suva, Fij: direct from the publishers, Pacific lications Pty. Ltd., 247 George St., Syc BOOKS BUTTERFLIES and the Larger Moths WANTED.

From all parts of the World, especially Australia and all Islands in the Pacific.

Will pay from £25 to over £lOO per 1,000 butterflies first quality, perfect specimens, in papers only.

Collectors who can supply first quality Butterflies. Large Moths, Large Insects or Beetles, especially giants of all kinds, should write for instruction on how to pack and ship Butterflies, etc. Do not send any broken or rubbed specimens.

Will pay for sample shipment, and advance money to good collectors.

Write or print clearly, particularly your name and address.

Butterfly World Supply House, 289-291 East 98th Street, Brooklyn, 12, New York, U.S.A.

FOR SAT.F 'ISLAND PROPERTY.

“REOTAHI,” once well known as show place on NORFOLK ISLAND (“Paradise of the Paeific”).

Comprises 18-acres freehold, growing Oranges, Grape Fruit, Kentia Palms, Coffee, Mandarins, Lemons, Loquots, Guavas, Figs, etc.

Approximately one-third flat and cultivatable, balance good grazing.

Substantial house 7 rooms containing quantity of furniture. Several useful outbuildings.

After allowing for neglected state owing non-residence few years, a bargain at £6,500 New Zealand currency.

Reply “OWNER,” P.O. Box 803, Wellington, New Zealand. 134 FEBRUARY, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Deaths Of Islands People

MR. T. P. L. BYRNE Chief Collector of Papuaew Guinea Customs, Mr. T. . L. Byrne died suddenly on try 1 at his home on Paga >ort Moresby.

Byrne, an official member of ipua-New Guinea Legislative 11, had lived in the territory )re than 40 years. He leaves ridow, two sons (Pat and ) and a daughter (Mrs. A. er), all residents of the ry. funeral on February 2 was : the town’s largest since the Administrator, Colonel J. K. y, headed the Administration iers, who included heads of apartments and many other s. Senior members of most iss houses were also present i a last tribute.

Byrne, some weeks ago, ed severe injuries when his verturned, but his death came great shock as it had been ed that he had got over the ; of the mishao. He was able ce his place at the inaugural ag of the Legislative Council, h he was unable to stand up.

Lvera, Of Hanuabada

most prominent of all abadans (Port Moresby), died nly in his garden late in iry. He was an original memf the Village Council when it formed in 1926 and when it reformed as a statutory body 30 he was elected chairman, /era left five sons, all of whom naking their mark in native ■s. One is a pastor of the Dn Missionary Society, another scretary of the Hanuabada >r Red Cross. vera, who was in his sixties, tly received ray treatment at Brisbane General Hospital.

The Rev. W. Deane

3 Rev. Wallace Deane, who at one time served for nine years in the Methodist Mission in died in Sydney on February ged 74. ice leaving Fiji he had been dent of the Methodist Conice, principal of the Burwood ney) Methodist Ladies’ College had been minister in several iey methodist churches, i is survived by his wife and daughters.

Madame Antoinette

TITIPUPURE VDAME ANTOINETTE TlTlpupure, who was born at Nukuhiva, Marquesas Is., 81 s ago, died in Papeete on Deber 28. She is survived by five iren, Frank, Percy, Leon, Marguerite, and Alice Varney. The funeral was largely attended.

Arthur Pelletier

M. ARTHUR PELLETIER, Chief Accountant of the Credit Agricole in Noumea, New Caledonia, was killed in a car accident on December 24.

He was a well-known and popular local resident.

Madame Marcillac

News reached Tahiti in December of the death of Madame Suzanne Marcillac, nee Herault, at Haute- Savoie, France, on November 27.

She was connected with the families of Marcillac, Herault, Hoppenstedt, and Adams, all well known in Tahiti.

Mme Marie Brault

Madame Marie Brault, a member of one of the French pioneer families of Tahiti, passed away on December 21, 1951, aged 84. She was born in France and reared in Tahiti. She made a number of voyages to France, and had been in business in both countries.

MR. W. J. WIGMORE The death occurred recently of Mr W J. Wigmore at Raiatea Island, French Oceania.

Mr Wigmore was a New Zealander. He had resided for many years in Rarotonga, Cook Is., where he still owned a valuable plantation at the time of his death, in addition to his plantation on Raiatea.

Lutheran Mission

CONFERENCE From Our Own Correspondent WAU, Feb. 4 A LUTHERAN Mission conference opened at Wau, New Guinea, on January 28 and will last until February 9.

Seventy missionaries and their wives travelled from Madang, Lae, Central Highlands and Mor()be areas, those from Madang coming by small boat along the coast picking up other delegates on the way.

In addition, 15 native delegates attended the conference. On the opening day, the Assistant District officer of Wau, Mr. H. P. Seale and Mr. Dobbyns, Education Department, addressed the assembly.

The conference has already endorsed a building programme for 1952 Three churches will be built —at Wau, Lae and Madang. A school for native girls will be built at Nobonob, Madang district and two others in the Morobe district.

Two secondary schools for native boys will be built at Ulap (Finisterre Ranges) and another in the eastern Central Highlands.

Agents for Pacific Islands Monthly (Holding supplies for Cash Sale and authorised to receive annual Subscriptions.) In Pacific Islands Generally: All Branches of: Burns Philp & Co., Ltd.

Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd.

W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom, Ltd.

W. H. Grove & Sons, Ltd.

Papua-New Guinea: Burns Philp (NG) Ltd.

Steamships Trading Co., Ltd.

Colyer Watson (NG), Ltd.

New Guinea Co., Ltd.

A. H. Bunting, Ltd., Samarai.

Mrs. Jean Fraser, Lae.

Wan Jin Wah, Lae.

C. H. Meen, Rabaul.

Kriewaldt’s Stores, Port Moresby.

Fiji: Steele’s Central Store. Suva.

W. H. Grove & Sons (Fiji) Ltd.

Fiji Times & Herald, Suva.

Adams Pharmacies, Lautoka.

Western Samoa: A. M. Gurau, Apia.

Cook Islands: Cook Islands Trading Co., Rarotonga.

New Caledonia: Ed. Pentecost, Noumea.

Societe Gubbay Kerr et Cie, Noumea.

Thursday Island: P. H. Mendis. N. Mendis.

Norfolk Island: Mrs. Moltke’s Store.

Nauru; T. Daingirob.

Tahiti: O. G. Nordman, Papeete.

Rodolphe Klima, Papeete.

New Hebrides: Burns Philp (NH) Ltd., Vila, Santo.

Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., Market St.

Cordingley’s Bookstall, next G.P.0., George St.

Tyrrell’s Book Shop, 281 George St.

Swain’s Pty., Ltd., 123 Pitt St.

Dymock’s, Ltd., 424 George St.

Uneeda Newsagency, 18 Bond St.

Melbourne: McGill’s Newsagency, 183 Elizabeth St.

Collins Book Depot, 93 Elizabeth St.

Myers Emporium. Ltd., 314 Bourke St.

' Queensland: Mac’s Casket Agency, 289 Queen St., Brisbane.

J. Thomson. 311 Queen St., Brisbane.

Vernon E. White, M.Q.1.5., F.R.G.S., Coorparoo, Brisbane.

Card’s Bookstall, 102 Flinders St., Townsville.

Darwin: Burnett’s Newsagency Pty., Ltd., Darwin.

C. J. Cashman & Co., Darwin.

Auckland, NZ: A. G. Sims, Waverley Bookshop, 18 Queen St.

W H. Grove & Sons, Ltd., 16 Fanshawe St.

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Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency) COPRA Papua-NG.—Production Control Board price; Main ports. Hot-air, £64/10/- per ton; FMS, £63/10/-; Smoked, £62/17/6.

Sydney crushers pay: Plantation Hot-air FMS ' . £B3 /5/-; Smoked, £B2/12/6. Australia has 9 years’ contract with UK (based on £Stg.s9/15/-, 1952).

Fiji.—At Suva and Levuka, 1952: Plantation Grade (60 points and oven £FS9/5/6 per ton; FMS (45-57y 2 points) £FS9; Lower Grades £FS7/15/-/£FSS/15/-.

Copra, 35 points and under is rejected.

Samoa.—Producers receive £S49/11/- (par with Stg.) per ton. f.0.b.; Apiabased on MOF rate of £Stg.s9/15/- less taxes. rowers are now receiving £A63/15/- per ton, f.0.b., Honiara or Yandina under the MOF contract.

New Hebrides.—London quotation Dec. 27, 86,500 Metropolitan francs (approx £ AllO/2/-) per ton. d.w., c.i.f. Cont. ports.

Tahiti.—Effective Dec. 23, 1951, prices paid in Papeete to producers for two grades are; “Local,” 7.10 Pac. fr per kilo.; “Very Dried,” 7.50 Pac. fr. per kilo. (Equivalent to £ASI/15/- and £AS2/15/6 per long ton respectively.) COCOA.—lslands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W.

Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on February 11 was £Stg.3ls (£A393/15/-) c.i.f. Feb- April shipment.

Pacific cocoa was quoted nominally on Sydney market in February at;— New Guinea.—£A29o per ton, ex wharf.

New Hebrides.—Nominally £A2BS.

Samoa.—Sydney agents in February quoted Samoan cocoa at £S26O (£A325) f.o.b. per ton, first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.) COFFEE.—New Caledonia.—Production exported to France at nominal equivalent of £ A5OO per ton, Arabica; £A46P, Robusta.

Papua-NG.—Nominally £4lO to £440 per ton (c.i.f.), according to quality.

RUBBER.—Sydney firms use London and Singapore rates as basis to buy Papuan rubber. Feb. 6; No. 1 grade, RSS (sellers) Spot, 38%d. Stg. lb., c.i.f., London (48y 2 d. Aust. lb.); Singapore, RSS No. 1, 129V4d. cents lb., f.o.b.

VANILLA BEANS.—Sydney quotation (by Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.): White Label 18/-; Yellow, 18/-; Green, 16/9 per lb., c.i.f., Sydney.

RlCE.—Rice shipped from Sydney to Islands was fixed in May at £6O per ton, f.0.b., White, Unpolished and Brown. (On plantation in Papua-N.G., approx. £85.) DESICCATED COCONUT.—Sydney agents quoted Ceylon 1/5 Feb., l/4-7/Bd. March shipment, delivered to store, Sydney, market weakening. New Guinea, 1/5 lb. in cartons; 1/4 y 2 in bags.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed Torres Strait producers and Otto Co. (USA) for 1952 are: AA/A/B 85 cents lb. (£ABSO approx, pi ton); C, 80c. lb. (£ A 800); D, (£ A 550); E, 40c. lb. (£A400); E lb. (£ A 300).

TROCHUS SHELL.—Market for Pacific trochus very dull. Most will quote only upon inspection, with overseas buyers showing littl interest. Torres Strait.—l9sl £ A 450 (approx.) per ton; at 1952 season: £ABO, f.0.b., Aust.

Reported Japan offering £Ai: February shipment.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Nomini tation is at £165-£l7O per ton, on Sydney.

London Prices

LONDON, Dei Copra, c.i.f., Continental ports, 1 Tahiti nom. Metrop. frs.

PM Straits/DEI £BB/l( Ceylon, FMS Philippines (bulk), Jan.-Feb. .. $ Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton:— FM Straits (3y 2 %) £1 Ceylon (bulk) £i; Philippines, Jan.-Feb $2 Cocoa, Stg.:— Accra, 267/6 per 50 kilos, Jan.c.i.f., Cont. ports.

Bahia, 210/9 per 50 kilos, f.0.b., II

Islands Mining Sh[?]

FIJI Aug., 1939. Jan. 1. P Emperor . b9/ll b8/4 b Loloma . , s25/6 b32/- b

Papua-New Guinea

Bulolo G.D. . . bl24/- b57/6 b Mandated All. b3/8 s3/- si N.G.G. Ltd. , bl/10 bl/10 b: Oil Search . . s3/ll b3/ll bi Oriomo Oil . . b5/- b2/- b Papuan Apin. b4/ll bl/- b' Placer Dev. . b68/6 b425/- b: Sandy Creek . bl/5 slOd s c Sunshine Co. b6/5 bl/6 s2

Exchange Rates

The following exchange rates ex Sydney in February:— FlJl.—Through Bank of NSW and of NZ.—Australia on Fiji basis Fiji: Buying. £Alll/2/6; Selling, i Fiji-London, basis £lOO London: mg, £llO/12/6; Selling, £ll2.

NZ-Fiji, basis £lOO NZ; Bi £lll/11/9; Selling, £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through Bank of NZ.tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Si Buying, £AI23/12/6; Selling, £AI24 Samoa-London, basis £lOO Lo Buying, £lOO/7/6; Selling, £lOl/10/ Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ: B £100; Selling, £lOO/10/-.

Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: Bi £111; Selling, £llO.

PAPUA - NG.—Commonwealth (branches P. Moresby, Lae, Rj Madang) and Bank of NSW (P. Mo: Lae, Rabaul) quote exchange rate tralia-Papua-NG as 10/- per £lOO.

BSl.—Commonwealth Bank (branc Honiara) quotes exchange rate tralia-BSI as 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific fl most valuable of the three franc g in French Union, are used in N. donia, N. Hebrides, and Fr. Oce French Bank in Sydney quotes (nc ally): 141.75 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; 1 Pac. fr. to £Stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US i« A F, I ff IC i PU ? L lu A '^ <^ NS PTY< LTD - Union House, 247 George Street, Sydney. (Telephone: BW 5037.) Wholly se and printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA 7

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OVER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

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OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

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Cable Address: “CAMOHE.”

Telephone: BW 4421.

Postal Address: G.P.0., BOX 168, Sydney.

In London : W. R. Carpenter Cr Co. (London) Ltd., 4 Lloyd's Avenue, London, E.C.3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC : IN NEW GUINEA: New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

IN PAPUA: J. R. Clay & Co. Ltd., Port Moresby.

IN FIJI: W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Suva.

Pacific Islands Monthly - February. 1952