PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly 1952 Vol. XXIII. No. 5.

Stablished 1930. for transmission hy post as a newspaper ] THESE are some of the large team of pretty Samoan girls who greeted the TEAL Solent Seaplane when it made its first call at Satapnala seadrome, near Apia, Western Samoa, in October, to inaugurate the New Corat Route service. They decorated all the plane's passengers with Leis.

S° much for your money when you fly by QANTAS Islands Air Services Linking over 70 points (listed here) in New Guinea and the Islands with Australia—no change of airline.

Services linking New Guinea with Sydney include fast, express Skymaster flights twice weekly via Brisbane; five DC3 flights fortnightly via North Queensland towns and one by Sandringham fortnightly from Moresby via Cairns and Brisbane. All New Guinea and Papua internal services are linked with the above. Regular services linking Norfolk Island, Noumea, Vila, Espiritu Santo, Suva with Sydney.

Save days and weeks of travel.

Enjoy de luxe cabin service on all main routes, with experienced stewards or hostesses. Delicious complimentary meals and drinks.

Books, magazines, everything for your comfort. Special facilities for children. 32 years' tropical flying experience are at your command when you fly Qantas. Veteran crews with many flying hours on nearly 50.000 miles of Qantas routes ensure that your trip will he a truly enjoyable experience. £

Qantas Empire Airways Limited

(Inc. in Qld.) in association with 8.0.A.C. and

Served Bt Qantas

Aitape • Aiyura Angoram • Arana Awar • Baiyer River Bant • Beno Bena Brisbane • Buin Buka • Bulolo Cairns • Chimbu Cooktown • Dam Oumpu • Esa'aia Espiritu Santo Finschhafen Garaina • Garoka Gusap • Honiara Inus * Jacquinot Bay Kaiapit • Kainantu Kavieng • Kerema Kerowagi • Kieta Kikori • Kup • Lae Lake Kutubu Lake Murray Lindenhafen • Losuia Madang • Manus Maprik • Menyamya Mini * Moewe Harbour • Mount Hagen • Nadzab Nondugl • Norfolk Is..

Noumea • Ogelbeng Port Moresby Queen Carola Harbour • Rabaul Rockhampton Samarai • Suva Sydney • Talasea Torokina • Townsville Vella Lavella Vila • Wdbag Wabamunda • Wana Wau • Wewak Woodlark Island Yandina • Yule Is.

TEAL pi i PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Coleman Table Lamps are 20 times as powerful as ordinary kerosene lamps and seven times as powerful as household electric bulbs.

They have two mantles, are 300 c.p. and the fuel capacity is sufficient tor 12 hours of abundant eye-saving light.

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yd. . . Dec. 11 Feb. 12 Apr. 16 uck. . Dec. 15- 16 Feb. 16-17 Apr. 20-21 iva . . Dec. 19 Feb. 20 Apr. 24 ’n’l’u . Dec. 26 Feb. 27 May 1 Ic. . .Jan. 1 Mch. 5 May 7 anc. . Jan. 2-8 Mch. 6-12 May 8-14 Ic. . . Jan. 8 Mch. 12 May 14 n’l’u . Jan. 15 Mch. 19 May 21 iva . . Jan. 24 Mch. 28 May 30 ick. . Jan. 27-29 Mch. 31-Apr. 2 June 2-4 r d. . . Feb. 2 Apr. 6 June 8 On arrival at Sydney June 8, 1953. irangi will withdraw from service.

London - Suva

direct VIA PANAMA For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To:

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Telegrams; “Halvorsens, Sydney.” ’Phone: Ryde 705.

Shipping Time-Tables

There now are comparatively few shiping lines running on regular time-tables i the Pacific Islands. The following timelines are only approximately correct— hey are subject to much alteration at hort notice:— Sydney-Suva-N. America Canadian-Australasian liner Aorangl 17,500 tons) maintains regular twoicnthly sailings—Sydney-Auckland-Suvaonolulu-Vlctoria-Vancouver. and return Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ;ry six weeks; Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbynarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul tnarai-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney. departure from Sydney December MV Malekula leaves Sydney about Dec. for Samarai, Rabaul, Manus, Wewak, idang, Lae, Samarai and return to dney.

Details from Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., 7 idge Street, Sydney.

JV Shansi and MV Sinkiang, modern 00 tons vessels, will leave every six weeks approximately (making a threeweekly service): Sydney-Brisbane-Port Moresby-Madang-Rabaul, Port Moresby, Sydney. Shansi departed December 2 on inaugural trip; Sinkiang follows on December 19.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (G. S. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

N. Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga Motor vessels Tofua and Matua, from New Zealand, serve Suva (Fiji), Nukualofa and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is.. Pago Pago (American Samoa), Apia Samoa). Tofua leaves Auckland tor any or all of above ports at approx, five weeks intervals. Matua calls at Wellington and Lyttelton (NZ), Lautoka (Fiji) and supplements Tofua’s schedule in Islands, calling at ports as directed by owners.

Tofua leaves Auckland on next voyage December 23.

Matua scheduled to leave Auckland on special voyage to Suva, December 18, and regular voyage on January 8.

Details from Union 88 Co.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The NZ Government’s old motor vessel 3 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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—Etablisseraents Donald Tahiti APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA —Etablissements Ballande PORT VILA —Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides New Guinea Australia Line

Regular Three Weekly Service

To

Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, And

Rabaul, Via Brisbane

With The Modern Motorships

“Shansi” “Sinkiang”

Agents for PAPUA: Agents for NEW GUINEA: STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO. LTD. COLYER WATSON (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

General Agents: G. S. YUILL & CO. PTY. LTD.

6 Bridge St, Sydney

Telephones: BW 2731 Cable Address: “YUILL”

BU 6313 (Freight only) Maui Pomare is scheduled to leave Auckland in November, December, 1952, and in January, 1953, for Rarotonga and other Islands in the lower Cooks, subject to requirements of trade. This vessel carries 30 passengers.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd., which Company acts as Agent for this vessel at some ports.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Malaita will make a round trip at about 8-weeks intervals from Sydney to Lord Howe-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides Ports - BSI ports - Bougainville - Rabaul - Samarai-Sydney.

Next sailing from Sydney about January 1.

Details from Burns Philp & Co., 7 Bridge Street. Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Llm coming from Marseilles, via West Indli and Panama, call about every sz weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebridesa Noumea and Sydney, and return by sarm route. Details from Messageries Man times.

Small motor-ships Polynesien (Mess« geries Maritimes) and Neo Hebridais (I C. Sleigh. Ltd.) maintain fairly regulsJ service between Noumea and Sydney.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, etc Norwegian motor vessel Thorsisle, carrjr ing cargo and passengers maintains a regia lar service between North American port' and French Oceania, Samoa, Fiji, Ne - : Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Details from General Steamships Con poration Ltd., 432 California St., Sas Francisco.

Airways Time-Table

Trans-Pacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes; and Berths Thur. and Mon.—Sydney-Nadi Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Prancisco-Seatthi Portland.

Sun. and Thur.—Return via same rout!

Sat. - Auckland-Nadi-Canton-HonoIulu-i- Pran.-Seattle-Los Angeles.

Tues.—Return by same route. 4 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

England r sac U.S.A.

Africa Far East Middle East To ail 6 Continents FLY - B O A C ACROSS Swift, sure, 8.0.A.C. Speedbird services link 51 countries on all six continents . . . save days, even weeks of travelling time. You fly without delay—on one ticket all the way. Four-engined Speedbird aircraft are pressurized for smooth, above the weather flying. You relax in deep-seated comfort, enjoy complimentary meals and meal-time drinks, and courteous, friendly attention. No tips or extras for traditional Speedbird service and experience.

THE WORLD

Australia • Indonesia • Malaya • Hong Kong

Japan • Ceylon • India • Pakistan • Middle East

Africa • Europe • Great Britain • U.S.A

Canada • Central & South America • Bermuda

0»otZ B.O.A.C.—first with the Comet services now operating Johannesburg—London, Colombo—London, and Singapore—London, are forerunners of world-wide 8.0.A.C. Jetliner services.

CONSULT YOUR TRAVEL AGENT.

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T British Comm On Wealth Pacific

Airlines (Bcpa)

r ed. and Sat.—Sydney-Nadl (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver. on. 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. 1—Dep. Vancouver and S. Francisco alternatively; thence same route to Auckland.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(CPAL) ternate Friday (December 19, etc.) — Sydney-Auckland-Nadi (Fiji) -Canton Is. Honolulu-Vancouver. ;ernate Friday (December 26, 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, ed.); and (Sun.) for Rabaul.

Mon., Fri. (DC3’s) ney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.30 pm sbane, 11.30 pm Rockhampton * Tue., Sat. khampton * Townsville, 4.00 am rnsville, 5.00 am Cairns, 6.15 am rns, 7.00 am Cooktown, 7.55 am ktown, 8.15 am Pt. Moresby, 11.10 am Moresby, 11.50 am Lae, 1.15 pm (Tue. only), 2.30 pm Madang, 3.45 pm Optional stop.

SOUTHWARDS Wednesdays (DCS) lang, 7 am Lae. 8.15 am Wednesdays (DCS) i, 11.30 am Lae, 12.35 pm Thursday (DCS) 5.45 am Moresby. 7.05 am esby, 7.35 am Sydney, 10.30 pm a Cairns. Towns., Brisbane, with mal call at Rockhampton.

Monday (DCS) iul, 7 am Moresby, 10.20 am :sby. 10.50 am Cairns.' 2.10 pm ns, 3.10 pm Towns, (overnight). 4.30 pm ns. (Tues.), 5 am Brisbane. 1 pn. >ane, 1.45 pm Sydney. 5 pm Wednesday, Sunday (Skymaster) 10.30 am Moresbv, n.40 am !Sby. 12.40 pm Bris.. TJO pm . 8.25 pm Sydney, V NORTHWARD? (Dec. 6, 20, etc.), ey, 6.00 am B’isbane, 9.20 am •ane, 10.20 am Oaims, 4.35 pro (Night stop) is, 8.00 am Pt. Moresby, 11.50 an? :. Sunday) Alt. Fridays (Sandringham). (Dec. 5, 19, etc.) Moresby, 6.00 am Brisbane, 3.00 pm 'ane, 3.45 pm Sydney, 7.05 pm 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas

Lae-Mancs (Dcs)

iry Wednesday.

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

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

MORESBY-DARU (Sandringham) Via Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), Kikorl, L. Kutubu.—Every alternate (Wednesday; returning same day (Dec 10, 24, Jan. 7, 21, etc.).

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Sandringham) Alternate Monday Dep. Moresby 9 a.m. arr. Samarai 11.00 a.m. (overnight) Dec. 8. 22. Jan. 5, 19, etc.

Alternative Tuesday (following dayl Dep.

Samarai 9.00 a.m. arr. Moresby 11 00 a.m.

Papua-New Britain

(Sandringham) Alt. Mon. (Dec. 1, 15, 29, Jan. 12, 26 etc.) —Pt. Moresby - Samarai - Esa’ala 4 Rabaul.

Alt. Thu. (Dsc. 4, 18, Jan. 1, 15, 29, etc ) Rabaul-Esa’ala-Samarai-Pt. Moresby Calls Esa’ala monthly only.

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

Alt. Tue. (Dec. 2, 16. 30, Jan. 13, 27, etc ) —Rabaul-Jacquinot Bay-*Llndenhafen- Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Rabaul.

N.S.—The direction of operation changes with each service, i.e., each alternate service operates Rabaul-Talasea-Moewe Harbour - *Lindenhafen - Jacquinot Bay - Rabaul. J * Optional Stop.

New Britain-Bougainville

Alt. Wed. (Dec. 3, 17. 31, Jan. 14. 28, etc.) —Rabaul-Queen Carola Hbr.-Buka- ~lnus-Kieta-Buin.

Alt. Wed. (same day) Buin-Kieta-*lnus- Buka-*Queen Carola Hbr.-Rabaul * Optional Stop. 5 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 19 52

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Save travel time, see more ... fly for extra comfort with Offices and Agents throughout New Zealand and the South- West Pacific for the Dominion and South-West Pacific Air Network. 6 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Stay at TUSCULUM in Sydney f ly tvfi fc KMc£oi n lts . own delightful gardens, Tusculum is only five minutes 2and vSSfS fn u° al ® e “ tres " of the Cit y- Tt is renowned among sendSP S°!r S its f comfort - restful atmosphere, and sincere personal service. Write or cable for reservations.

TUSCULUM PRIVATE HOTEL, 3 Manning Street, Pott’s Point.

Tel.: FL 1179.

Managing Agents: Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., 12 Spring St., Sydney.

Cable address: “Ivan”, Sydney.

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

■I t-mii (> nil Mm This well-known Hotel is centrally situated in Suva’s main 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.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul General

SERVICE Every Monday and Thursday by DC3.

Native traffic, not recommended for Europeans.

Central Highlands

(Drover) Mondays.—Madang (8 am) to Goroka, with optional stops at Kainantu, Aiyura, Arena, then returns io Madang 10 am).

Fridays.—Madang (8 am) to Wabag with optional stops at Baiyer R., Mt.

Hagen. Kerowagi. Returns to Madang 10.10 am), hursday.—Madang (8 am) to Mt. Hagen.

Returns direct to Madang arriving 10.50 am. rldays.—Lae (6.30 am) to Wabag, calling at any of: Nadzab, Kiaipit, Arona, Aiyura, Kainantu, Bena Bena, Goroka, Kerowagi, Kup, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Ogelbeng, Baiyer R„ Wabamunda, Wabag. Return to Lae (6 pm).

LAE-BULOLO*-WAU (DH84) ep. Lae.—Tues., Fri., Sat.—3 pm. iep. Wau. —Tues., Pri., Sat.—Direct to Lae. Arriving 5.05 pm. * The airstrip at Bulolo is closed temararily and therefore traffic can not be :cepted to Bulolo until the strip is reaened for use.

Services By Mandated Airlines

With headquarters at Lae, this company ms regular services for passengers, eight and mails to all New Guinea :ttlements. 4. Dutch N. Guinea-Darwin By Netherlands Government, with DCS eekly service, between Darwin and Biak.

Also, new KLM weekly service, calling Biak, on flight between Manila and istralia. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons Operated by Qantas ich Monday (DC3).—Lae (dep. 6 am) - Finschhafen - Rabaul - Torakina (Bougain.) - Vellalavella - Yandina - Honiara (BSI) (arr. 4.25 pm), ch Tuesday.—Honiara (dep. 7 am)- Yandina - Vellalavella-Toraklna-Rabaul- Finschhafen-Lae (arr. 3.15 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

'A (Skymaster) dep. Saigon, January 9, and every 28 days thereafter for Labuan-Darwin-Erisbane-Noumea, and return. stralian agents: Messageries Maritimes. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

Trans Oceanic Airways, with Flyingboats hght services per month—every Tuesday i Saturday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas. with Skymaster ernate Thursdays (Dec. 4, 18, Jan. 1, 15, 29, etc.), returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Sandringham ing Boats: Dec. 9, 23, Jan. 6, 20, etc.).

Depart: Arrive: iney, Alt. Tue., 6.30 am Noumea, 3.05 pm (nightstop) imea, Alt. Wed., 8.00 am Vila, 10.35 am i. 12.45 pm Santo. 2.00 pm ato, Alt. Thu.. p 6.00 am Vila. 7.15 am Vila, 8.15 am Noumea, 10.55 am Noumea, 12.30 pm Sydney, 7.30 pm (Additional flights operate subject to approval of Government concerned.) 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva By Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats—Weekly.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Thur., Noumea, 3.05 pm 6.30 am (nightstop) Noumea, Pri., Suva, 3.00 pm 8.30 am Suva, Sat., Noumea, 10.30 am 6.00 am Noumea, 12.30 pm Sydney, 7.30 pm 11. Auckland-Norfolk Is.

By NZ National Airways, with DC3’s Sundays—From Auckland double service returning same day. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney Wed., Sat., 7.30 am, Tue., Wed., Sun., 12 midnight., Sun. 2.00 am!

Dep. Auckland daily 8.30 am, Fri., 7.00 am, Sat., 12.00 noon. 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney (except 30/12) Mon., Tue., Fri., Sat. at 10.30 pm. 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Dep. Wellington Tue., Wed., Sat., Sum at 10.30 am (except 31/12). 14. Melbourne-Christchurchi Tasman E. Airways, with DC4 Skymastei!

Thurs.—Dep. Melb., 10.25 pm; arr. Ch’ch. 8.15 am next day.

Pri.—Dep. Ch’ch., 11 am; arr. Melb., 5.3 i pm.

Additional flights on 19/12, 22/12. 15. New Zealand-Fiji SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dept. Auckland 16, 20, 30 December; 3i 13, 17, 27, 31 January; 10, 14, 21 February.

Return to Auckland on following days (except sth January, 2nd February, 2no March, which leave an extra 24 hour; later).

Depart Arrive Auckland, 7.00 am Suva, 2.15 pm Suva, 8.00 am Auckland, 3.15 pm 16. Fiji-Western Samoa SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dept. Suva 4 January, 1 February, 1 March. Return to Suva on same day.

Depart Arrive Suva. 6.00 am Sun. Apia, 11.05 am Sat; Apia, 1.30 pm Sat. Suva, 4.35 pm Sum 17. New Zealand-Chatham Is, During the coming summer services between Auckland and Waikato Bay Chatham Is., via Wellington, will b« operated on the following dates:— December 15, 1952, January 28, 19531 March 11, 1952.

Solent flying-boats will leave Auckland on these dates at 3.30 am, arrive Wellington, 5.30 am, dept. Wellington, 7 am, arrive Chatham Is., 10.30 am. Return by same route, arriving Auckland 7.30 pm same day. 8 DECEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY'

? Rom Sydney To—

Table single iteiurn ISO. resby . £46 11 0 £83 10 0 2, 2a. haul .. 55 7 0 99 13 0 2. 3 64 19 0 116 19 0 2, 3 niara. 3SI .. 80 7 0 144 13 0 5 a, N. iebrldes 46 15 0 80 3 0 9 nmea, rc . .. 39 8 0 70 19 0 10, 9, 6 •folk Is. 25 0 0 45 0 0 8 Howe . 10 16 0 21 12 0 7 a d 1 PUD . 60 10 0 108 18 0 i v a Fiji) . 53 3 9 104 14 0 kland 47 6 0 84 2 0 12 Ilingm . .. 47 6 0 84 2 0 13 •Istch. from elb.) . 52 18 0 95 5 0 lolulu . 225 9 0 405 16 0 1 Fran’co 279 1 0 502 5 0 icouver 279 1 0 502 5 0 1 >eete via Suva irect) . 207 13 0 19 IOM AUCKLAND (NZ Currency) TO: f. Is. .

Single Return Table No. £15 12 0 £28 2 0 11 32 10 0 58 10 0 1 16 10a . . 42 16 0 77 1 0 16 itaki . 61 8 0 110 11 0 18 eete 75 0 0 135 0 0 18 QUEENSLAND INSURANCE CO. LTD. (Incorporated 1886 In Australia).

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Specialists in South Sea Fire, Marine & Accident Insurances Apply to:— FlJl.—Branch Office: J. F. Drury, Manager.

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VlLA.—Burns Philp (N.H.), Ltd.

Comptoirs Prancals Des Nouvelles Hebrides.

NOUMEA.—L. & W. Johnston.

NEW GUlNEA.—Manager for the Territory of New Guinea and Papua, W. A. Anderson.

Resident officer at Lae, B. Bembrick.

Port Moresby—Samarai—Lae

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OTHER SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

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Also to any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z. a 0 Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year Our everyday efforts to please our many friends in the Islands are, at this Season, amplified by our sincerest wish that they may have a Right Happy Xmas and Health and Prosperity in the Coming Year.

From the Makers of “Blue Superb” Flour MUNGO SCOTT PTY. LTD.

Smith St., Summer Hill, Sydney, Australia. & and Their Pacific Islands Representatives: C. L. HARRISON TRADING CO., Suva, Fiji.

A. McDONALD & CO., Apia, Western Samoa. #1 18. New Zealand-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents TEAL Service, Auckland-Suva-Apia- Ututaki-Papeete, is operated with Solent ?lying-Boats once every two weeks. Dep.

Auckland, Tuesday, 7.00 am. Arr. Suva 1.00 pm. Dep. Suva (Wednesday) 7.00 un, cross International Date Line: Arr.

Lpia 11.55 am Tuesday. Dep. Apia 2.00 un Wednesday. Arr. Aitutaki 7.20 am. )ep. Aitutaki 9.20 am. Arr Papeete 1.45 im. Return by same route every alt.

Friday, leaving Papeete 7.30 am.

The next flights leave Auckland 23 iecember; 6, 20 January; 17 February , 17, 31 March. 19. Micronesia Civilian services, based on Guam, using •engined amphibious Catallnas, run reularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West arollnes), Truk (Central Carolines), jnape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls) id Saipan (Marianas). Details from rans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu. 20. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, with twin-engine de Haviland Rapides (Effective Ist November) Suva-Nadi & Lautoka; Mornings—Daily cept Monday and Friday. Afternoons— lily except Friday.

Suva-Labasa: Daily except Thursday id Sunday.

Labasa-Suva: Daily except Tuesday and lursday.

Nadi & Lautoka to Labasa; Every mday.

Labasa to Nadi & Lautoka: Every ednesday. approximate Airways Fares Fhe following figures are not guaranteed curate, but they are approximately rrect. Details should be obtained from 5 Air Company named in the Table, less otherwise indicated, figures are In strallan currency.

Successful ASPA Students The following students of the Australian School of Pacific Administration have passed in all subjects (Anthropology, Government, Law, Geography and History):— Ashton, D. N. Galloway, R. T.

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Good News for Fiji . . . . 20 No Australia-NG Customs Union—Yet 21 Territories’ Talk Talk . . . . 25 Queen Salote to Attend Coronation 27 Temporary Relief for Papuan Rubber Planters 28 Life of BGD—Dredges Going, Plvwood Coming 30 Dairv Farmers Open War on Copra . . 31 From Notes Made in the Pacific by R. W. Robson 33 Cook’s Telescope for New Zealand 43 Samoan Interest in Tourism . 46 Future of P-NG Kenaf Industry—Experimental Stage Over 47 O’Keefe Film Unit Departs— More Beds in Fiji 49 Nature—ln and Out of Balance In Fiji 51 Falcon Is Missing Again . . 53 Border Murders—Dutch and Australians Affected . . . 57 Cattle Industry for the Islands 59 Move to Save Historic Sites in the Islands 63 Fiji Cannot Support Large Population—Plus Soil Erosion 65 Islands Council’s Sixth Session at Rarotonga 67

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More Experts for P-NG Oil Search 81 WPHC Moves to Honiara . . 82 Niueans Petition to Minister . 83 Inquiry Into Awahau Loss A Matter for Fiji 8S Pacific Representatives at Coronation 86 New Governor for Eastern Samoa 88 Discouraging New Enterprise in Solomon Islands /.. . . 91 Increased Banana Exports from Samoa 94 Canberra Still Discussing P-NG Soldier Settlement 99 For Pacific Radio Amateurs . 101 Drought Spreading in Fiji . . 102 New French Liner Makes Good Impression 109 Fiji’s £4 Million Budget . .. 110 Dutch Activity in N. Guinea Impresses SPC 11l Activities of South Pacific Commission 112 News of the Smallships . . . . 118 Fiji’s New Governor Off to a Good Start 126 W. D. Forsyth Speaks Frankly 127 OBITUARY: L. R. Dowling; F. W. Kruse; W. W. Apted; Mrs. C. H. Blanche; Andre Naturel; J. King; J. A Muir; F. Staughton; N. Kelly; W.

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Some Brutal Facts About the Indian Situation In Fiji and Elsewhere By R. W. ROBSON iRE are seemingly irreconcilable factors in a situation which, some- , must be reconciled.

The Indian population of Fiji >,000) is now much in excess of Fijian population (under 130,000), still is growing faster.

The great majority of the Fiji ms have been born in Fiji, and asingly are inclined to argue that have as much right to Fiji’s land natural resources as the indigent The only way to keep Fiji for Fijians is to deport the Indians Chinese—the two most rapidly ing communities—but such a dy (politically impracticable, ay) would bring about the 3mic collapse of one of the most )erous of Britain’s smaller lies.

There is racial antagonism bei Indians and Fijians. There is iter-marriage. Each race holds •ther in contempt. The Indian is iseless toiler. The Fijian is not.

Those who put their hopes in Jducated young Indian born in are discouraged by evidence of influence of India, exercised gh family tradition, school n and religion. That influence ally is anti-British.

Apart altogether from consid- ►ns of justice, defence, and the maintenance of a sound racial balance, the British are bound irrevocably, by the Fiji Deed of Cession, to protect the land rights of the Fijian, given him by his prior occupation of the country.

This Fiji-Indian problem—which has intrigued and baffled me every time I have visited Fiji in the last 25 years—becomes steadily worse, and now is aggravated by two recentlyadded factors: One is the appearance of India as an independent nation, member of the British Commonwealth; and the other is the tragic fall in British prestige in Asia, brought about primarily by the Attlee Socialist Government of 1945-51. The Indian is naturally anti-British—always has been and I think always will be—and these new factors tend to make him arrogant and cheeky generally in his relations with the British in Fiji, and elsewhere around the world.

TF this were purely a Fiji problem it could be fairly easy of solution; but it cannot be divorced from the problem of Indian implantations generally.

Those who, hundreds of years ago, gave the name of Indian Ocean to the huge sea enclosed by Asia, Africa, Indonesia and Australia had prescience. Large and growing Indian communities are established now along the coasts of Africa and Malaya, in Indonesia, and in the Indian Ocean islands. In Madagascar, Kenya, Natal and Mauritius their industry, their acquisitiveness and their amazing fecundity have created social and political problems even more acute than those of Fiji.

There is a difference between the Indians and other problem-making races—the Africans, for instance.

The Indian is proud of his race.

Racially, the Indian is closer to the European than any other non-European people. India had a civilisation and a culture which ante-dated those of Europe. India now is an independent nation, with a potential strength (if enormous population is strength) second only to that of China.

It is only natural that Indian leaders now dream of the day when India, a resurgent Power, will dominate the Indian Ocean, and when all the lands now populated by Indians (East Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, Indonesia and Malaya, and Fiji) will be part of the new Indian Empire. It is against that rather startling background that the Fiji-Indian problem should be considered.

Much may be done on the spot in Fiji, by a wise and long-visioned Government. But the final solution 7 —if ever there is to be one—lies not in Suva, but in London and Delhi; and it is irrevocably tied up with the Indian racial problem in those other countries around the Indian Ocean.

Are those various Indian communities to become an integral part of the countries in which they have planted themselves, conforming to

the manners, language and institutions of those countries? Or will they continue to cling to the language, ways and institutions of Mother India, while regarded by the host country with a suspicion that tends to become hatred? Sooner or later, Delhi must indicate a policy in relation to those questions, and the fate of Fiji could depend upon that policy.

HHHE Fiji-Indians, like any other community similarly placed, could •solve the Fiji problem by forgetting Mother India, and making common cause with the British and the Fijians in seeking a way out of the mess.

With a spirit of co-operation, goodwill and mutual trust, a way could be found of making Fiji a permanent and happy home for both Fijians and Indians, under British guardianship.

But that would mean the severance by the Fiji-Indians of all ties with the home-land; and there is not the slightest indication that this has ever been considered. Family ties, trading connections, juvenile education and, above all, religious teaching, seem to bind the Fiji-Indians completely to India. That such a system has the official blessing of Delhi is evident from the fact that, since India was granted independence, India has maintained in Fiji an Indian Commissioner, whose job apparently is to guard the interests of the Indians in the British Colony.

In Fiji, in October, I talked with numerous Indians, clever and intelligent young fellows, who have been educated in English and who never have seen India. All expressed substantially the same view: “Fiji is my home. I have no connection now with India. We will gladly sever all association with our Indian leaders here, who urge us to resist the British and the Fijians, if only the British administrators will trust us, and ask our co-operation in settling the future of Fiji.” Assurances like that.

It gave me at first some hope that there might be a way out. But this class of young Indian intelligentsia is so small; the Indian leaders generally are basically anti-British and anti- Fijian; the official and non-official ties with India are so strong—l cannot see any way out unless and until there is a clear understanding between India and Britain on the future of Indian implantations in British countries.

There is a deadly record against the possibility of Indian co-operation with the other races in Fiji. There is the wartime record—British and Fijians rallying to our defence in those critical years, with all they had; and the Indians lifting not a finger to help us, but devoting all their energies to a greedy exploitation of the trading opportunities created by wartime conditions.

There is the post-war record. This journal already has published some deplorable stories of Indian disloyalty.

There were, for example, scenes which attended the celebration of India Independence Day in 1948 and subsequently; and speeches made on October 6, 1948, when the first Indian Commissioner arrived.

Before me as I write is a published account of an incident in a Labasa cinema on November 5, 1952. The theatre was packed with Indians. The picture of Queen Elizabeth came upon the screen and the British National Anthem was played. About 50 out of 400 Indians stood up—the remainder, cheeky and arrogant, lounged in their seats. “Why should we stand—we were independent long ago,” said a young Indian to a young Fijian who was beside him, and who stood up.

One may note that I2i per cent, were loyal and decent; but is that a sufficient proportion to give us hope of reform from within Fiji itself?

IT'HESE young Indians, for the most part, are badly trained, badly instructed, badly led—nothing worth mentioning is done by the Fiji-Indian leaders (a poor lot) to counter the anti-British antagonism that is partly inherited and partly pumped into them by a biased press and unscrupulous agitators.

If ever there is to be agreeme between all races in relation to t future devlopment of Fiji, a me towards real co-operation must coi from the Indians themselves, eitl spontaneously, or as the result of Delhi directive. But that will mean big change in the attitude of offic India • towards Britain; and there not a sign of this to-day.

On the contrary, it is impossible escape the feeling that the lead* of India are following a folded-han policy, awaiting what they believe w be the disintegration of the Briti Empire, when they will have th« opportunity to jump in and seize t lands in which they already ha planted their tireless community Meanwhile (say the Pan-Indians) us breed, and work, and clamour, a hold together, as Indian communiti with a mission, India, officially, is a member of t British Commonwealth. Since tf status was achieved, there has be no outstanding act by India to she that she values membership, or loyal to it. She has created in me British countries the belief that s will leave the Commonwealth just soon as it profits her to do so.

If there is to be no move 1 Indians towards the inauguration a new and better era in Fiji, th the Indians cannot blame the Briti if the latter proceed to take steps Fiji—and in some other countriesto guard certain fundamental rigt which the present situation seems menace.

No Trained Territories Man Need Expect a Minor Administratorship BY appointing a military official to take charge of Norfolk Island, the Australian Government has continued the indefensible and deplorable system of rewarding its own nominees with the “cushy jobs” represented by the minor Pacific Administratorships, and ignoring the trained Territories men whose long and distinguished service should be rewarded with such appointments.

Australia has two senior (Papua- New Guinea and Northern Territory) and two minor (Nauru and Norfolk Island) Administratorships within its gift. The two latter are easy jobs.

Nauru and Norfolk Island each has only a few hundred residents and only a few thousand acres; but the Administrator is called “His Honour”; has a comfortable salary, substantial allowances and a residency; and even if he devotes himself enthusiastically to his job, he need develop no ulcers from worry and overwork.

The two sinecures (five years Norfolk Island or Nauru) should g as a matter of course, to the ou standing men of the Papua-Ne Guinea public service, who give tl best years of their lives to the toug thankless job of tropical administr tion and who otherwise have nothir at all to look forward to except retir ment on what is, in these inflationai days, a very modest pension.

But Government after Governmer Red and anti-Red, for at least 7 years, has selected for these pleasai jobs either some out-of-work politicfi who is seeking a “billet,” or military man who has sheathed h sword and is wondering how to mat a living. They rarely, if ever, ha had any experience of Territory administration; but that does m matter —the job is so easy that almo anyone can fill it. Which is all tf more reason why it should not go t politicians’ favourites, and why 14 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

iould go, as a sort of well-paid >liday and a reward, to the outmding men who have borne the at and burden of Papua-New uinea administration.

The same brush which tarred friend Idie Ward, who sent Adelaide ades Hall leader Tom Richards to e Nauru Residency, appears to ve also tarred Territories Minister Isluck, A new appointment to luru is about to be announced. It 11 be interesting to see what Mr. isluck makes of that.

This NI appointment is a bitter appointment. Some had expected nething new of Mr. Paul Hasluck. t he has merely carried on a system it is in itself completely bad, and lich is a gross reflection upon the libre and status of the men who ry on the P-NG administration. . . is all in pattern with the complete creditation of Australia’s Menziesdden Government.

No Mails Via Aitutaki?

OOK ISLANDS residents are asking why, since the suspension of the LC air service, mail to islands of Cook Group other than Aitutaki > not been accepted for air delivery TEAL as far as Aitutaki.

Auckland post office spokesman d there was no regular sea con- *tion between Aitutaki and Raroga, therefore it was just as reliable send by direct surface mail This i . 9 course, IS ridiculous. There IS a re frequent service between Raroga and Aitutaki than between ckland and Rarotonga.

Use Of New Guinea

LAND More Details of Australian Plan P. MORESBY, Dec. 5.

AN order that all the uncontrolled areas in Papua-New Guinea— about 30,000 square miles, containing at least 150,000 natives—be opened up within three years, is said to have been given the Administration by the Territories Minister in Port Moresby at the end of November.

This seems to be part of Australia’s plan for the rapid development of New Guinea, as a barrier against Asia.

Senior officials in Port Moresby said that it simply cannot be done in the time—not through unwillingness, but because there are not sufficient trained patrol officers and District staff to penetrate and take over the uncontrolled areas, and because of lack of suitable air-strips, materials and means of communication.

In Papua on November 21, Mr.

Hasluck said that a land settlement plan was being examined at Ministerial level, and the main proposals were:— The War Service Land Settlement division should provide funds and certain plant and equipment.

The New Guinea Administration should acquire, develop and subdivide land and give guidance and technical advice to settlers.

A credit authority comprising representatives of both the division and the administration should administer advances to settlers.

The Territories Minister should determine settlement policy.

The original proposal was that eligibility should be confined to exservicemen resident in the Territory but this might be widened if the supply of blocks of land exceeded demand.

Governor at Yacht Club Administrator of Papna- New Guinea THE Acting Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, Mr. D. M.

Cleland, has been in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra during December, attending a series of important conferences on Territoriesmatters.

An announcement by the Australian Minister for Territories, that Mr. Cleland has been appointed Administrator (he has been Acting, since July 1 last) is expected during December. The final announcement, however, may have to await the return from abroad of the Australian Prime Minister, late in December.

Carpenters May Provide Trans-Pacific Line ANEW and interesting possibility has developed in the Trans- Pacific shipping trade since it was announced that the liner Aorangi, 28 years old and limping, will make her last voyage between Sydney and Vancouver, via Auckland, Suva and Honolulu, in May next.

Sir Walter Carpenter, in Sydney on November 27, indicated that, if no other regular liner enters this trade to replace the Aorangi, the Carpenter shipping interests may purchase a 100-passenger liner to run between Sydney and Vancouver, in conjunction with the modern Carpenter motor-vessel Lakemba.

The Lakemba now runs on a fairly regular freight and passenger schedule in the Pacific, and carries 100 passengers in comfort.

The Carpenter shipping interests have had remarkable success since they first entered the Pacific trade.

When they introduced the Rabaul and Salamaua, nearly 20 years ago, no less than six large liners (Union Line, Matson Line and Canadian Australian Line) were maintaining regular Australia-North America services. Now, with the withdrawal of the Aorangi, there is none.

Recent presentation of trophies at the Royal Suva Yacht Club showing Sir [?]ald Garvey, Governor of Fiji, addressing the gathering. Left to right: Mr. A: Lee [?]e Commodore), Commander J. Mullins (Commodore), Mr. H Smith (Vice [?]modore) and Mr. C. Stinson, Master of Ceremonies. -Stinson Studios. 15 tCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

Oil Direct From Coconuts Philippines Claim New Process AN article in Food Engineering (an American journal) of October. 1952, entitled “Simple, Direct Extraction of Coconut Oil”, describing a new process now in operation in the Philippines, opens up rather startling possibilities in the coconut planting-copra-coconut oil industries.

The process was invented by a Spanish chemist, Pablo Robledano, and a Filipino, Eduardo Duiz de Luzuriaga; protected by them under Philippines Patent No. 1 of 1948; and bought from them by Coconut Processes Inc., of Manila. It is called the R-L Process.

The physico-chemical principle underlying the new process is the breaking up of the intractable protein envelope enclosing the oil globule in the fresh meat (1) by carefully controlled enzymatic action, then (2) by rupturing the envelope by chilling. Previous attempts to achieve this have revolved about treatment by high temperature, but this resulted in’ deterioration of the oil.

At a cost of 125,000 dollars (over £50,000 Aust.), a pilot plant was erected at Calamba, Luguna, and it has been producing five tons of oil per day, for some time. It can produce 10 tons per day, and that is called its “economic capacity”.

The company (C-P) claims that the correct way to operate the system is to install one of these plants in a place handy to a group of plantations producing a certain minimum of nuts.

C-P works with a Los Angeles concern called Southwest Engineering, which specialises in the form of equipment required. Steps have been taken by the latter to establish 10ton units in a number of Philippines districts. Production of the oil is not a straight-line procedure, but requires several branch operations.

At present, the coconuts are halved and the kernels removed by hand labour. The water in the nut runs to waste—but C-P says that research on this liquid is going on, with a view to recovering valuable products therefrom. Nothing is said about the fibre. The shells are burned as fuel, providing all the power that is required by the unit.

Following is the technical description of what then takes place:— “The meat is grated in a comminute!* and pre-pressed, yielding about even proportions of coconut milk (not to be confused with the liquid enclosed in the kernel) and a semi cake. Flaking and pressing of this cake yields additional milk, which is processed, together with that obtained from the fresh grated meat.

“Centrifugal separation of the milk yields a cream, some skim milk and a small amount of protein. The cream is pumped into maturing tanks, and subjected to enzymatic action under close temperature and pH control, then chilled in a continuous freezing machine.

Chilling is followed immediately by melting. The cream is now ready for centrifugal separation, which removes most of the oil. After filtering, it is ready for storage.

“The balance of the cream is again chilled, melted, and sent through a centrifugal classifier, which removes the remaining oil and separates that which is left into water and proteins. Additional protein is obtained by heating and then centrifuging the ‘skim milk’. In the meantime, the process continues in a branch production line on the flaked and pressed semi-cake. It is dehydrated in a drying unit, and an expeller then strips it of the remaining oil.

“The oil contains only a negligible quantity of free fatty acids and is claimed to be substantially identical in composition and flavour with the unextracted primary coconut oil. This is said to be due to the fact that it is not subject to bacterial and mould action, as coconut oil is in copra.”

Compared with the method of drying the meat to copra, and crushing the copra, the loss of oil under this new method appears to be about 1 per cent. But in the copra method there are substantial losses through chemical deterioration, and also in refining (no refining is needed in this new method). The article says; “The overall recovery rate, in terms of fresh nut meat, is reported to be 0.21 per cent, higher.” Whatever that means. It is not clear whether the new method gives an actual net recovery rate of oil over the copra method.

It is proposed, in due course, to extract the meat from the nuts by machine; to find new outlets for the protein constituents of the nut (the proteins are lost in the copra method): and that the meal resulting from the R-L process is of so much higher value (compared with copra cake) that it may be used as ci cereal EDITOR’S NOTE: To displace the present method of collecting, drying, transporting and milling coconuts the new process would have to show very definite advantages. But, for a long time, thoughful men in the coconut industry have argued that there is too great a waste of time, effort and substance in the copra method, and have been seeking some much quicker way of getting the pure oil direct from the nut. Any cheapening of the proo would allow coconut oil to compi more successfully against the varic other vegetable oils.

Why No Malaria?

NZ Scientist On An Interesting Quest Anew Zealand scientist wi is endeavouring to solve problem that has engaged the atte tion of medical research workers the Pacific for many years, is visiti; South Pacific Commission hea quarters this month in the course his investigations. He is Flight Liei M. Laird, M.Sc., Ph.D., of the Roy NZ Air Force Medical Service His mission is being sponsored 1 the NZ Government and Otago Ui versity.

Dr. Laird’s task is to try to di cover why Anopheles, the malari carrying mosquito, heavily infes some territories of the south-we Pacific while adjacent areas are coi pletely free from it. For examp] New Guinea, the Solomons and tl New Hebrides are among the me malarious areas in the world, whi Fiji, the Loyalty Islands, and Ne Caledonia are completely free i malaria.

The problem is regarded as i outstanding one in modern tropic diseases research, and it is consider* by workers in the field that i solution could point the way fundamental advances in malariolog Dr. Laird, whose wife is workii with him as his technical assistai has established a field base, wi laboratory, at Suva. He is makii field trips to islands in the malario and non-malarious areas, both carry out comparative ecologic studies of mosquito larvae breedin places and to collect specimens f subsequent laboratory examinatic At present Dr. Laird is engaged making field investigations in Ne Caledonia.

In his work, he is collaborate closely with the South Pacific Cob mission.

Mr. R. C. Higginson, judge the Fiji Supreme Court, arriw in Sydney at the end of Novemb on leave. He is staying at Wall ringa Mansions, Neutral Bay, un: he returns to Suva next April. M Higginson was in Tonga for sop years before taking his present j* in Fiji. 16 DECEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

FIGHT FOR £1,500,000 NG Copra Producers Demand The ‘Stabilisation’ Fund ATTLE has been joined between the strongly - organised New inea Planters’ Association and the stralian Minister for Territories, . Hasluck.

U in so many other spheres, the sent Australian Government has tinued the Socialist type of conimposed on the copra industry Chifley-Evatt-Eddie Ward set-up, the planters finally have decided ight it. /ard, as Minister, originally seized Territories’ production, including ra, and in 1946 he deducted from copra planters’ returns a levy, png to £4 per ton, for what he dually called a “Stabilisation d”. For years, it was a confused of thing—in fact, it was only :d “stabilisation” after the Dur Government was defeated— even now it has no clearlyled legal status. nowing the vagaries of the <:et, copra growers at first did protest too much; but, when the sh Ministry of Food Contract J in 1949, giving a fixed price nine years, the planters quite erly argued that there was now ’urther need for “stabilisation”, demanded the distribution of the reaucracy—hating, as always, to up any privilege or money— ed to either cease the levy or bute the Fund. For two years, 'lanters have hammered away at Minister. ’• Hasluck went to the Terrilast month and, in Moresby on mber 21, he announced:— The Government had “definitely out” the requests for the dison of the Fund to individual pros the Fund, now around £1,500,000, by levies for the benefit industry as a whole, it should be \ rt t d a . Stabilisation Fund to be 1 by Ordinance, and administered Board of who the majority would mt the producers. The levy would Je, unless and until cancelled by a f a majority of producers, wherethe Fund would revert to a 1 Fund, to be used for the assistof copra or other agricultural ies, as the then Minister might fhe present constitution of the Marketing Board will not be spection and grading of Copra will produced very soon, with a •tial of £3/10/0 per ton for hot- I sun-dned over smoked. tireless president of the NG Planters Association, Mr. Don Barrett, MLC, thereupon flew from Rabaul to Moresby, and interviewed the Minister.

The nature of the discussion is indicated by the forthright announcement made immediately afterwards by Mr. Barrett namely, that the Association, having received the advice of a leading constitutional lawyer in Australia, would forthwith promote a legal action against the Australian Government, to force it to return this accumulation of £1,500,000 to the people from whom it was taken, compulsorily and without consultation.

Some substantial sums are at stake. For example, a planter who has produced 50 tons of copra per month for six years and been subjected to that levy might expect to receive something like £lO,OOO if the Courts rule against the Government.

Mr. P. R. Searcy, general manager of Bunge (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.’s four flour mills in Australia, and Mr. D. M. Kamerling, manager of the firm’s Islands Department, made a business trip to Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti, by air from Sydney, in November.

Mr. George Hunt, formerly well known in Tahiti, expects to sail from Sydney for French Oceania in his yacht Corsair, at the end of December, accompanied by Mrs. Hunt and a small crew. Before heading Islands-ward, the yacht will call at Auckland, NZ.

Do You Remember?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

SUBJECTS of Islands interest do not change much, even in 20 years—copra, rubber, bananas and other crops; the ups and downs of the market are news to Islands folk at the end of 1952 as they were in December, 1932. And in many respects we seem to have gone no way at all towards solving some of the most pressing problems in the 20 years that have gone since the following matters were discussed in the December PIM of 1932: The Papuan rubber industry was menaced, we said in a front page headline, and Papuan growers were alarmed.

Cause: Australian rubber manufacturers refused to buy any more Papuan rubber until further notice and would give no reason why. It was believed, however, that they had decided to maintain this' attitude until the Government removed the 4d duty on all non-Papuan rubber.

The position, we said, was extraordinarily difficult for Papuan rubber planters. It seems that 20 years have not solved this problem. * * * The first shipment of Fiji bananas to Australia under the reciprocal clauses of the Ottawa Agreement was expected at the end of December. Melbourne fruit agents had already threatened to boycott them and the Federal Government was taking a “serious view” of the matter It was feared also that some banana merchants would try to sell large Queensiand bananas as “full-flavoured • The then Director of Agriculture Fiji, was coming to Sydney with the first shipment. * * * In Rabaul a road overseer named Bourke was sentenced to two years’ im prisonment in Australia for the manslaughter of a labourer (he flogged him put him in leg irons and allowed polfceboys to keep him in the run” until he fell dead from exhaustion). This sentence was compared unfavourably with the 10 years, received by Larkin some time earlier for a similar—or some people believed milder offence. * * * A local committee in Fiji approved the formation of Fiji Airways, Ltd., and their planned scheduled flights with small seaplanes. The committee recommended that ™ rt ° Ven i”! nt should pa y the company ±-1,500 subsidy per annum. Messrs A.

G. Cross and G. Jeffrey of Guinea Airways (New Guinea) offered to run the service. It was believed that it would commence operations in early 1933. * * * “Western Samoa as a result of world depression, has experienced an increase m crime some impudent thefts have been committed.” (W. Samoa in recent years has had an unprecedented wave of prosperity and an unprecedented wave of petty crime. Evidently world-depression the S iv?ng)* in& 40 d ° Wkh the incidenc « of * * * advertisement, popular brands of _/ 99/ 1 i 7 nnn al^ d tlnS ° f 50 Were Offered a^ I,o £° for Army C,ub - 29 / 6 Per Gold Slke e C and 15A a P er * * Unilever LW., announced that they had purchased the whole of the 1932-33 whale oil production for £ 3,,500,000-to the loud ®|?f. ers . ,? f wbalers generally. We said, editorially that it might be some con- *° t the hard Pressed coconut planters to know that it worked out at £l5 per ton, which left the whalers a very small margin—but none the less the action of the Lever combine would keep copra prices at “their present low level’V * * * Sangara Sugar Estates, Ltd. (Papua),, who were planting experimentally in Buna district reported that they were getting 7b tons of sugar cane to the a6re—a phenomenal return. Sangara had expected to go in for sugarcane in a bigway—but were engaged in experimental! cultivation only “for the present.” (The enterprise never got beyond the experimental stage—although the potential was there and presumably still is).

IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-D E C E M B E R , i 952

Mv Pollurian

Strange Prosecution In Rabaul THERE have been some extraordinary developments in connection with the Bougainville Company, which was formed nearly two years ago by certain leading planters of Bougainville and Captain Thomas Willis Coyne, of England, with a view to running the motor vessel Pollurian in the New Guinea trade, and thus relieving the shipping shortage. Captain Coyne was managing director of the Cos., and Mrs. Coyne was secretary.

After visiting Rabaul in 1950, Captain Coyne returned to England, and the Pollurian was sent out to Rabaul, via Sydney.

It was decided that certain goods in short supply be purchased in England, and sent out in the ship and, for this purpose, £5,000 was sent to England, to Captain Coyne, by Messrs. J. M, Joyes and J. H. Ellis, who are directors of the Cos. When the ship arrived in Rabaul, in January, 1952, Captain Coyne said there was an unexpended balance of £1,415/14/11.

During 1952 there appear to have been disputes between Captain Coyne and the members of the Cos., and finally the latter complained to the police. Asa result, Captain Coyne was charged in November with stealing £1,415 from Messrs. Ellis and Joyes. On November 29, after a three days’ hearing, the District Magistrate, Mr. J. R. Rigby, dismissed the charge on the ground that the prosecution had not established a prima facie case.

Since then other proceedings have been initiated, and indications are that the hearing of pleas affecting this Co. may be protracted.

NG Breach of Promise Claim Photographs of Miss Shirley Jacobs and Qantas Pilot R. J. Davis were part of a front-page display in the Sydney evening press of December 15. The couple were part of Qantas staff at Lae, New Guinea, in 1951, and became engaged. Miss Jacobs told the Supreme Court that Davis, after making wedding preparations, broke off the engagement. She therefore sought damages for breach of promise.

Mr. Craig Kirke, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Kirke, was married at Strathfield Anglican Church, on December 13, to Miss Pamela Robson, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Robson, of Kuring-Gai, NSW, Mr. Craig Kirke is now practising as a barrister in Port Moresby; he and his bride returned there before Christmas. Mr. Basil Kirke, wellknown in P-NG when he was ABC Controller of Broadcasting in External Territories a year or so ago, is now Acting Assistant General Manager of the ABC in Sydney.

New Administrator In

NORFOLK IS.

Brigadier C. H. B. Norman, DS MC, who has been appoim Administrator of Norfolk Island succeed Mr. A, Wilson, retiring December 31) is 48, and v engaged in primary production ui 1939. He went into World War in 1940 with captain’s rank, with much distinction in Midi East, New Guinea and Borneo z finished as Lieut.-Colonel, w< Military Cross and DSO awarded the field. He became West Austral Controller of Demobilisation at the war, in 1946, and later was W Australia’s Deputy Director of W Service Land Settlement, graduated and took the Colle Honours Medal at Hawkesbu Agricultural College in 1924.

The Australian Territories Minis; praised the work done on Norfo Island during seven years by N Wilson. Mr. Wilson left the isla in early December, and Mr. Iv.

Buffett, Government Secretary, acting Administrator.

See Comment on Method of A pointment, on page 13.

Mr. E. J. H. Colchester-Wemyj chief of police in BSI, with his w and two-years-old daughter were Australia in November en route Honiara from the UK where th have been spending six montJ leave. 6,000-Mile Cattle Airlift Probably the longest cattle airlift ever was completed on December 5 when a special Qantas DC-3 freighter landed 11 calves at Port Moresby. They are part of a gift to the Australian government from the Government of Pakistan and are of three breeds—Schindi, Sahiwal and Milch Buffalo— and will be used by the CSIRO for experimental breeding purposes for New Guinea conditions.

The 6,000 miles journey that the calves made is shown on the map herewith and on the left is the special feeding, watering and exercising pen designed by Qantas engineers.

As such cattle diseases as rinderpest, foot and mouth disease, etc., are prevalent in some of the countries in which the plane had to land it was decided that, if possible, the call would be kept in the plane and not permitted to land—her[?] the feeding pen.

The trip took five days—ls ports of call were made a[?] the calves did not come in contact with the ground at a[?] stage. On arrival they went into quarantine near P[?] Moresby while Qantas arranged for a second trip for [?] remaining 11 gift calves. 18 DECEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

The Editors’ Mailbag

on Luckner’s Treasure Mr. Hermann Kirmis, a PIM ider who now lives in the British me of Germany, but who 40 years 0 lived in Western Samoa, thinks it it is likely that von Luckner was irching for treasure when he visited Dpelia, in 1939. (It was suggested a PIM article in July, 1951, that er the wreck of the Seeadler on )pelia, von Luckner hid treasure valuables there before he escaped a motor boat, and that during his rid cruise of 1939 he went to the md and retrieved it.) tfr. Kirmis met von Luckner after had been captured and interned an island near Auckland. Mr. mis was there also as an unwilling :st of the NZ Government., He > sent back to Germany in 1919 1 met von Luckner several times although von Luckner spoke ;ly of his war-time raiding, he did mention treasure in any shape form. However, recently Mr. mis made some inquiries and nd that von Luckner, when reing in lectures to Mopelia, spoke his expedition to the schatzgra- «sel Mopelia”—meaning treasure ad. This, thinks Mr. Kirmis, ws pretty conclusively what was yon Luckner’s mind when he went k to Mopelia in 1939.

ATER.—Since the above was ten, a Reuter correspondent has >rted from Berlin that Count x von Luckner is going to a South ific island to search for certain ed treasure of the Incas. Von kner says that when the Spaniards •whelmed the Incas in Peru, the i priests tried to save a large len god from their hands by mg it into bars and burying it on island. All the ship’s company * killed, except two. The latter rned to the island, where one was d. The other got the loot, hid >mewhere else, and left it there, his deathbed, he gave it to the ch, and drew a map to show its tion. Von Luckner proceeded: According to this plan, the gold ear a huge stone marked with ?n which looks like a sombrero, island has been found and so the stone. )n the stone are chiselled names bout 80 ships which have been J for the gold, was there in 1937 and tried to the gold with a divining rod. It no use. Next time I shall try a mine-detector and shall find ‘I shall use the gold to enable young people to travel and understand one another.”

Von Luckner, presumably, was referring to Mopelia (or Mopiha) island, which is on the new air route, and directly west of Tahiti.

Japan’s Gift to the Islands A writer in June PIM, describing the anxiety with which countries around the Pacific are guarding their ports against invasion by the giant snail of Madagascar introduced into the Pacific Islands in wartime by the Japanese—said that the snail’s eggs hatch out a few hours after they are laid. An expert entomologist, writing from Southeast Asia, says this is not correct. The pest’s eggs do not hatch until from 9to 11 days after they are laid. This does give the port guardians a better chance of dealing with the thing.

P-NG Stamps Past Tense Mr. J. Nixonwestwood of Wellington, NZ, and an ex-Territorian, does not think much of the new issue of Papua-New Guinea postage stamps. (See PIM front cover September.) In particular he takes exception to the one that depicts the two Buin boys in their headdress—he says that he has a copy of the original photograph of those lads and was with the photographer when he took it—and to the two native shepherds who are armed with bows and arrows.

He feels that some of the stamps should have depicted some of the achievements of Australia during her long years of administration there.

If the stamps have the run of some of the earlier issues, he feels that overseas people will think that the Territories are still in the Stone and bow-and-arrow stage. (To which the cynic, no doubt, will reply, “Well, aren’t they?”) Coastwatchers’ Memorial A New Zealand reader suggests that no more fitting memorial to the Western Pacific coastwatchers of World War II could be erected than a radio broadcasting station to serve the Solomons-New Guinea area.

Just as in Auckland a splendid radio-telegraph station, which serves aircraft and shipping in the Pacific area, was dedicated to the memory of Captain Edwin C. Musick (who lost his life when pioneering Pan American Airways commercial trans-Pacific flying-boat service) so also could a much-needed radio station be a perpetual and practical reminder of the work of the coastwatchers and their secret radio transmitters which served the Allied powers so well.

Some Tongan History When we re-printed some old Bulletin verses in the August PIM we said that the author was “Mr.

Masterton who, over 40 years ago, was British Consul in Nukualofa.”

Mr. J. D. Whitcombe, of Auckland, writes that Mr. J. Masterton was never British Consul in Tonga, but was appointed Vice-British Consul, through the office of the High Commissioner in Fiji. His only son, Allan Masterton, was for some time clerk to the British Consul in Nukualofa. Mr. J. Masterton, an English journalist, arrived in Tonga about 1893, went on to Australia and NZ, and returned to and settled in Nukualofa, where he married Miss Ella Watkin (only daughter of the late Rev. J. B. Watkin, then head of the Free Church of Tonga). He was Nukualofa postmaster for many years.

Mr. Whitcombe has supplied a valuable list of British Consuls in Tonga since 1860. It has been filed for inclusion in the next edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book.

Where Virtue Resides Well-known American author J. C.

Lucas sends a note apropos of the Nordman story on page 67 of May PIM: “No doubt it’s a standard wheeze in some sections of Polynesia. But I should certainly advance as a candidate for its first appearance in print the version contained in Herman Melville’s Omoo. Some miscreant has gone off with my copy, I find, but anyway it goes: He asks a Tahitian girl is she mickonaree? and she says, with the indicated gestures,, first laying her hand on her heart: ‘Me mickonaree here—but me no mickonaree here ’ —or words to that effect. ‘Personally I think both versions are descendants of the ancient schoolboy howler, identifying Scylla (of Scylla & Charybdis, Ltd.) as ‘a mythological creature that was a virgin from the waist up.’ ”

Mr. Phillip E. Hairing, of the American Consular Service who was paying a visit to Tahiti, was involved in an accident in Papeete on Novyember 1 when the car he was driving crashed over a bridge into a ditch. He was not seriously injured. 19 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

Copra Prices

May Be Less

British Ministry of Food has informed Australia, Fiji and NZ that, “on account of the downward trend of oil prices during 1952,” the 1953 contract price will be reduced by the full 10 per cent, allowed under the contract.

All three countries are strongly opposing the reduction. Despite recent fluctuations, world price is still above MOF contract price.

The MOF officials, however, may try to force a reduction on Australia on the ground that too large a proportion of the New Guinea copra is poor quality smoke-dried. One of the largest Pacific shippers replied to this last month by offering to purchase all New Guinea smoke-dried, for shipment to Canada, at the last MOF rates.

Xmas Box For Planters

All P-NG planters who supplied copra to the Copra Marketing Board in the year ended June 30 last are to receive, in addition to amounts already credited, another £2/10/- per ton, as a result of a squaring off of accounts by the Board.

In Lae, New Guinea, in mid-November, District Commissioner Niall, on behalf of Acting Administrator Cleland, presented the MBE, awarded for distinguished service in developing the Territory’s resources, to Mr.

Michael J. Leahy. Mr. Leahy, incidentally, still is carrying on his campaign against the plan to build a bridge across the Markham at Markham Point—he contends that, from the developmental point of view, this would be a major error. When he found that officialdom was obstructing his arguments in what he felt was an unfair way, in October, he walked out of the Morobe District Advisory Council. Mick always was a fighter.

MOF Sugar Price Up Again Fiji Cane Farmers Will Benefit FOLLOWING discussions between the UK Ministry of Food and Commonwealth sugar producing countries in recent weeks, the MOF has agreed to a price of sugar for 1953 at £42//6/8 stg. per ton —an increase in 1952 price of £3/16/8 stg.

The Commonwealth sugar agreement, whereby the MOF takes a set annual quota of sugar from each of the British sugar producting countries has also been extended by one year, till the end of 1960.

The new rise in the sugar price will mean more money for Fiji cane farmers. Under the terms of the agreement they have with the CSR Co., the price they are paid for cane rises in a certain proportion to any rise received by the CSR for sugar.

In 1952 the price of sugar bought by the MOF rose by £5/12/6 per ton and the cane farmers received about 14/- Fijian more for their cane, bringing it to about 66/-F per ton.

If the cane farmers’ dividend rises by the same proportion this year they should receive about 9/- more for their cane, bringing the price about £3/15/- per ton.

The MOF price rise is somewl surprising as Cuba and other W Indies producers are now produci vigorously and world stocks i believed to be more than adequ; for demand. However, it does me more prosperity for Fiji.

Fiji expects a record sugar cr next year of an estimated 1,210,0 tons (the crop this year, just finish crushing, was 985,000 tons of su* cane). Higher price for sugar a bigger crops should do somethi towards getting Fiji out of financ troubles—she has had an adve: trade balance in the last year.

Tahiti-Honolulu Air Lin [?] Bryan Monkton at Work On Plan THE founder of Trans Oceai Airways, Captain Bryan Moi ton, was in Honolulu at the end October, with Mr. Frederick Barn of Sydney, organising a new airlii to be called South Pacific Air Lin to run a service between Honoli and Tahiti.

The plan was launched in S« tember, but a Honolulu newspaj said in October that it had be “stopped by lack of interest fr* prospective investors.” On Octol 27, however, Captain Monkton s; that “plans are still moving ahe and the airline has engaged Ha: Bowen, Washington attorney, to r< resent it before CAB in hopes getting early approval of that agec on its application for an airline c tificate.”

Governor Jean Petitbon, on way back to Tahiti, was interview in Honolulu late in October on t subject of a Honolulu-Papeete service. He expressed his inter© but did not commit himself to a opinion. He did say, however, t) he and the French Governnu favoured the encouragement of a side interests to build in Tahiti mt hotels for the tourist traffic.

Captain Monkton left the serv' of TOA a year ago, after Engli capital was introduced, and was la< reported to be doing a flying job Korea.

Increased cargo and excess b* gage rates on the Qantas Bird Paradise Service to Papua, Nil Guinea, New Britain and t Solomons, took effect on Decemtt 5. The approximate increase is per cent.

The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Ignatius Doggett with Archbishop Marella, Apostolic Delegate, who installed him as Prefect Apostolic of Aitape, New Guinea, at Mary Immaculate Church, Waverley, Sydney, in November. —Photo Courtesy Catholic Weekly. 20 DECEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Golden Wedding At Lae MR. and Mrs. Henry G. Eekhoff, of Lae, New Guinea, will cele- )rate their Golden Wedding on De- :ember 24. They were married at it. Matthews, West Kensington, Lonlon, on December 24, 1902.

The Eekhoffs were in Queensland n 1909, and after War I Henry ekhoff went to New Guinea on bedf of the Expropriation Board and as stationed at Mai, in the Ninigo lands. Later he was appointed to [atanatar, at Kokopo, where Mrs. skhoff joined him in 1921.

In 1928 the Eekhoffs went to Lae, here they have remained for the st 25 years, with the exception of e years of the Japanese occupation.

Mr. Eekhoff and his son, Gordon, -re engaged in business in Lae here the war. Their daughter, orothy (Mrs. Alf Priebe) is a relent in the Mary River Valley Disct of Queensland, where Mr. Priebe vns a dairy farm.

A new guest house has been opened Apia, Western Samoa, to cope with creasing tourist traffic.

No Australia-P-NG Customs Union —Yet Reprieve from Income Taxation?

A STATEMENT made by the Minister for Territories, Mr.

Hasluck, in Port Moresby on November 21 seems to dispose of the threat of direct income taxation on Territories residents—at least for the time being.

He said that, acting on the advice of a Committee which took evidence in Australia and the Territory at the beginning of the year, it had been directed that there would be no alteration in the present system whereby P-NG operates its own customs set-up as distinct from Australia’s.

Under the present system, in which Australia for export purposes treats P-NG as a separate country, there are the inevitable anomalies. The purpose of the committee was to see if customs-union between P-NG and Australia and subsequent abolition of the anomalies would be in the best interests of all concerned.

However, P-NG derives a great deal of its revenue from customs dues. If this revenue were lost it would have to be made up in another direction and income taxation seemed the obvious alternative. The great majority of Territories residents much prefer to keep the existing customs set-up with all its faults. rather than get into the toils of the Australian - type income - taxation monster.

Mr. Hasluck suggested that the customs policy might be re-examined in three to five years time. He said the Committee had expressed opinions on Australian export duties as they affected the Territory, and the Commonwealth Government was now considering them.

Santo Notes

From Our Own Correspondent.

SANTO, NH, Dec. 2, To date, two storm warnings have been issued, but Santo has not experienced a blow, as yet. It is reported that the small ships, TAMATEA and PAAMA, were blown ashore, further south in the Group on November 30.

M. W. Helme, Postmaster at Santo, was involved in an accident recently when his jeep left the road and overturned in a ditch. While M. Helme was unconscious, he was robbed of a considerable sum of money. Although he was fortunate enough to escape with minor injuries, his passenger was not so lucky, dying of multiple injuries a few hours after admission to the Hospital Francaise, Santo.

Burns Philp (New Hebrides), Ltd., closed for business on November 27 and re-opened in their new store on December I. Mr. Don Gubbay erected the shell of the building and Mr. George Haggar lined it, both by contract. Your correspondent fitted the shop and built the offices and general office.

Major and Mrs. Douglas Fregard, accompanied by children, Susan and lan, will leave the Group for six months’ leave which they will spend in England.

Major Fregard is the British District Agent in Santo.

New Suva Town Councillors The Eekhoffs—both 73, healthy and [?]ppy they say, and looking forward to [?]arting their second 50 years together [?] Christmas Day.

Recently elected Sava Town Councillors are shown here with the Mayor, Mr.

D. M. N. McFarlane. Left to right (standing) Mr. C. L. Cheng, Mr. Charles Stinson, Mr. R. D. Singh, Mr. J. B. Turner, Mr. G. D. Sharma, Mr. J. Judd, Mr. R. Spowart; (seated): Mr. CT. P. Bidesi, Mr. W. G. Johnson, Dr. Ramlakhan, Mr. McFarlane (Mayor), Dr. C. M. Gopalan, Mr. W. E. Goodsir (Deputy-Mayor), Mr. Bhindi. 21 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Having toured Papua and New uinea, Australian Army Minister rancis made a number of announceents to indicate the Territories’ role any scheme of defence;— • The Papua-N. Guinea Volunteer fles mostly European would be sisted and encouraged, so as to provide pool of officers and trained men as iders of an expanded native force, if quired. • Units of the Pacific Islands Regiment, w 650 strong, all natives, would be itioned at strategic points in both rritories. They were responding exllently to training as jungle fighters d craftsmen. Consideration was being yen to the establishment of more tive units. • The re-establishment of Manus as a eat base for the Navy and Air Force rth of New Guinea had been completed Australia two years before it was due. d It would be actively occupied. Steps re being taken to salvage a part of the luable war equipment left behind there Americans, and still there.

Statements by other Ministers exessed a hope that the Americans ain would make use of the Manus se.

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On November 13, the English freighter Maplebank reported by radio that she had lost a man overboard during the early hours of the morning at a position about 30 miles north-west of Palmerston Island in the Cooks.

Rabaul Entertained Some of the people [?]n stage during the [?]inale of Rabaul [?]oundabont, a revue [?]ith a local cast of [?]00 which had a eason of three [?]ights in November.

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By Tolala BINATANGS again! (Nov, PIM., page 19). I would hesitate to >lame the Japs for “introducing” the Oynastid family to NG plantations.

Vhat does seem logical to me is the phenomenal growth of the pests on plantations throughout the Territory luring the war years, and the postyar period, when estates were icglected and the beetles allowed to un riot with no preventive measures eing taken. No plantation beetle angs, no Dept, of Agriculture Pest nspectors and, as I said last month, here appears to be a laissez faire ttitude by present-day plantation eople towards binatangs. There an only be disaster for the industry pest gangs are not kept at work. :: :: :: Apropos of compensation to ivilian internees during the war Nov. PIM, p. 18): In Melbourne ;te r rnees W T™l S t irenHv k hanHlino the’ Th cretary S ta“s “The l“ of Tef ■ence by whfch the T™s™es of thL' rust Fund are bound restrict paylents from the fund to ex-internees ho were Australian citizens at the me of their internment and who lifer distress or hardship as a result : any loss of limb or other permanit disability (physical or mental) rectly referable to the conditions of ieir internment.”

A point which should not be issed by the authorities is that Serces personnel still drew their pay while POW’s, whereas many civilians drew nothing at all. Box 5303 88, Melbourne G.P.0., will reach the Secretary should anyone be interested. :: :: :: I note Editor Robson in his search for Coes in Samoa (relations of Queen Emma), as mentioned in Nov. PIM, p. 40, found few of them; but says “there are many in New Guinea.” I thought most of them had faded away, with the exception of a nephew (Paul Parkinson) and a couple of grand-nephews (Rud.

Diercke and H. Schultze), perhaps my grapevine has slipped a bit. At one time nearly everyone in NG, with Samoan blood in their veins, used to lay claim to being a relation some sort to Emma Kolbe, but older residents knew better. :: :: Turn down an empty glass for Bill Candler, who has gone to his wellearned rest (Nov ' PIM) ' 1 first w a d de was *he hfe of the ship, and K”h,tf the • ’ uT 5 ' L m going difficult for Hlt,c° r< r n ?u y civi, ‘ an ln those ear 'V fe* ruu ™ne" o = cupa * ,on : ?hirm w™ h h,v£ y ,. w, ■ na i ura him a host of frlends ln c rcie * :: :: • • Prophetic Section: Browsing through an old PIM (Dec. 1949, p. 49) recently I came across a par of You Will See This in Fiji in March EIGHT MILES A MINUTE-EIGHT MILES HIGH! That is the reputation of [?]is Comet Mark la aircraft which will give the Pacific its first jet service, leaving [?]dney on March 13, 1953. Canadian Pacific Airlines will call the new service the [?]t Empress Service.

The first of the new aircraft will be delivered to CPAL in Sydney in January— will be ferried from de Havillands in the UK via the Middle East. Crew training [?]ghts will then be carried out locally. Comet will make the run between Sydney [?]d Honolulu in 13½ hours flying time. Until such time (in 1954) as the Comet [?]ries II is available, passengers will transfer at Honolulu to a DC6B for the last leg the trans-Pacific journey to Vancouver. Length of Series la Comet is 93 feet [?]th a wing-span of 115 feet. It will carry 44 passengers. 25 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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I wonder now what Mr. Scott has to sqy about the Mau Mau in Kenya.

The first day cover of the P-NG stamps make a fine array, to gladden the heart of any philatelist. There is nothing particularly artistic about the designs or subjects portrayed, save perhaps the £1 issue, which approaches the standard of the Fiji 1/-, and is said to be the most artistic stamp in the British Empire. Personally I like the NZ idea of short descriptive captions on the pictorial series. Few people, outside the tropics, will know what the lad is doing in the 9d scene, and fewer still know the “Upi” hat on the Id stamp. The 10/- map is the least attractive of the series, while the 2/- marks will mystify most people.

However, it is a welcome change for the Territory to have its own stamps—and it will bring a few more bawbees to the Treasury.

B 4 New Guineaites will be interested to know that Gill Hemming has started off on a round-the-world tour the hard way: hitch-hiking from country to country. Latest advice is that she is in NZ. Gill, who has a flair for journalism, had reached the stage, on a Sydney evening paper, where her name appeared over her articles, and that is always a step up in the profession. Her friends wish her all the best of luck.

“The Minister for the Army will begin a nine days’ tour of Army units in Papua-New Guinea,” says a recent Canberra report. Just the difference between the League pf Nations, which tabooed under Article 4 “the military training of the natives,” and the present Trusteeship set-up.

One cannot help but wonder, despite its international significance, whether the present UNO is going to prove itself more practicable as a means towards international understanding, than its predecessor—the League. At least reports of the UNO meetings enable the Press of the World to let everyone know what a heckling, disunited mob it is, emphasising the differences between the East and West, the Russian bloc and the Rest of the World.

Politicians seem to have failed to bridge the gap of misunderstandings, perhaps, after all, it is up to religions of the world to achieve some modicum of success. But which religioi exactly, seems to be a bit obscure £ the moment.

And talking of world affairs, th more I think of present-day problem the more I am inclined to suppoi the theory of the Bavarian School teacher, Oswald Spengler, as put foi ward in his Der Untergang de Abendlandes (The Decline of th West) which points out the period! change of world culture down th ages.

Once again Bishop Strong break into the news with statements whicl are afterwards claimed to be mis reported, when he gives a warnin; that if commercial enterprises ridi roughshod over the natives, P-N( could face future uprisings similar t< those in Kenya. Sounds very mud like a revival of the old lament ove the Murray resignation. Would th< Bishop have expressed such ai opinion if J.K.M. had been chairmai of the Mission conference?

Mr. F. P. V. Robb, ADO a Mount Hagen, New Guinea, who ha been in the Territories’ Service sino World War 11, drew the first priz< recently in an Australian lottery— £ls,ooo. 26 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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Queen Salote to Attend Coronation SALOTE of Tonga will attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England next June, he has been invited to stay at St. ames Court for the occasion.

This will be Queen Salote’s first Isit to the United Kingdom and the rst visit of a reigning Tongan lonarch. Accompanied by Princess lataaho, wife of Crown Prince ungi, she will leave Auckland, NZ, >r London in the Rangitoto, in .pril.

Queen Elizabeth, Queen Juliana of le Netherlands, and Queen Salote :e the world’s three queens who ;ign in their own right.

At present Queen Salote is in ;sidence at her newly acquired ame in Epsom, Auckland. The aeen attended by her lady-inaiting, Miss Palu Vava’u Tupou, id accompanied by her second son rince Tu’ipelehake and his wife rincess Melena’ite and family rived in Auckland by Matua from anga on November 19.

Queen Salote’s new home has been Jled Atalanga after an ancestral angan god.

Queen Salote and an official party ere entertained at morning tea >oard the liner Rangitoto by Capin B. Evans on November 25.

They were shown over the ship id visited the quarters which Queen dote will occupy on her voyage the Coronation.

In early December, accompanied f Mrs. W. G. Bagnall as her secrery, she spent a week in Sydney, [ost of her time was occupied with 5r dressmaker and her Coronation ardrobe.

Left to right: Mr. L. Hawksley of [?] acific Insurance Co. who returned to [?] uva from leave in NZ. Mr. S. Gutten- [?]eil of Vavau, Mr. J. Peselley of Apia, [?] nd Mr. Carl Wolfgramm of Vavau, who returned home from Auckland on Tofua.

Mr. Einer Thompson on his way to Apia for the Christmas vacation (he is taking the pharmacy course at Wellington University) and Miss Nina Ah Siu and friend Marlene, also returning to Apia.

President J. Ottley of the Mormon Mission returned to Auckland from a visit to Aitutaki, Cook Is. 27 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1952

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Temporary Relief for Papuan Planters No Long-Term Solution t[?] Rubber Difficulties IVTR. HASLUCK, Minister for Ter* ritories, announced in Pori Moresby on November 29 that the Department of Supply would buy 400 tons of Papuan No. 1 and No. 2 sheet rubber in the next two months.

This will temporarily relieve the embarrassment of Papuan rubber planters who have been unable to sell their rubber in Australia for the last few months. (It is the equivalent of less than 2 months’ production from Papua.) The Department of Supply will release from the Government stockpile a similar amount of lower grade rubber which will be sold to Australian manufacturers. This is in line with a statement made by Mr.

Hasluck in Moresby on November 21.

Although this purchase will do something to solve planters’ immediate difficulties it does not give them what they had hoped for—a guaranteed market for all their rubber production in Australia. The long-term solution to this problem now seems to have been put back on to the laps of the planters.

In his statement of November 21, Mr. Hasluck said that the Government could not force Australian companies to buy rubber but that it was trying to persuade them to voluntarily buy Papuan rubber as it became available.

He said that the government stock-pile is full but that they were examining the possibility of selling some of the lower grades from it and replacing it with grades now available from Papua—the plan that has now been put into action. An alternative to this, also being considered, “would be to take steps to ensure” that no foreign rubber was purchased in Australia as long as Papuan was available. However, as some rubber used in Australia was of lower grade than any product in Papua, this might result in top grade Papuan being purchased in place of lower grades from other countries and consequently at a lower price than producers expect.

He suggested that planters, in their own interests, could build up some marketing organisation of their own which could help them “ride out short-term delay in marketing.”

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China Wants Ceylon

RUBBER It was reported in early Novemjr that Communist China had ffered to buy the entire sheet rub- ;r output of Ceylon (50,000 tons it year) for the next five years, rice offered is believed to be 32d Itg) per pound—which is far better lan Ceylon could hope to obtain se where. Ceylon’s Trade and ommerce Minister led a trade deletion to Peiping recently and ■ought back the offer. It seems now tat it is only a matter of solving jw China will pay for this rubber.

If Ceylon’s entire output goes to hina it is not expected that the odd price will be affected as Thaind is expected to re-enter the open arket next year when the United ates contract to buy from her exres and is not expected to be rejwed. The output of Thailand ould more than offset the loss of eylon rubber.

Limited Copra Shipments Resumed to NZ BELS, LTD., of Auckland, who operate the only copra crushing mill in NZ, cepted 200 tons of copra from Raronga and Niue in November—the first ipments since the end of June.

Due to present high prices of coconut local consumers have been drawing •m their reserves. As these are bausted it is probable that Abels will >n be able to handle the full Cook ands output, but for the present it is ely that British MOF vessels will have lift a percentage.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Seale, of Wau, ew Guinea, left the Territory at the id of December for 9 months leave Australia. He is ADO in Wau.

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\ MONO laymen who left recently on the Bulolo for Yule Island, New Guinea, to assist the Sacred Heart Mission for a period of years in its work among the natives, is M. Jean Huon de Navranconrt, a young Frenchman who has done important work for the Societe Speleologique de France.

This is an organisation which devotes special study to caves. At first glance, caves appear somewhat unimportant in world affairs; but, actually, knowledge of the underground is of Increasing value to mankind. Investigations in caves have unique archaeological interest—some have given us data about people who lived on earth 25,000 years ago; medical interest, because the waters found in deep caverns often flow out into rivers which give towns a water supply; biological interest, because of the changes which take place in mammals and insects which live underground; and commercial interests, because caves can be made interesting to tourists.

Now the exploration of caves has a new value. These places may provide humankind with a safe refuge from atom bombs.

M. de Navranconrt has made studies of caverns in the West Indies, Galapagos, Tahiti, New Caledonia, New South Wales, and will pursue his hobby in Papua. He expects the societies which specialise on this study to be linked soon in an international organisation.

Emperor Gold Mines Ltd., of Fiji, has just declared a dividend of 50 per cent. During some years, being prevented by heavy Australian taxation from distributing its profits, the Company returned a large proportion of their capital to shareholders, and thus reduced shares to the nominal value of 1/-. 29 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Dredges Going: Plywood Coming OF the eight dredges established in the Bulolo Valley of New Guinea in the ’Thirties by Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., five are still in operation. No, 1 closed down in 1949, and 3 and 6 in 1951. Nos. 1 and 6 were dismantled, and their parts are being used on the others.

No. 3 was sold for shipment overseas for $150,000.

BGD goldbearing gravels now are petering out. The current year will be profitable; but after June, 1953, a sharp decline in returns is expected.

Dredge 8 will cease in 1953, No. 2 probably in 1954, and No. 4 in 1955. The deep-diggers, Nos. 5 and 7, probably will keep going until the early ’Sixties.

Meanwhile, under its new partnership with the Australian Government, BDG now are designing and installing a ply-wood plant which will operate on the great stands of Hoop and Klinki Pine around the Bulolo Valley—an important industry that should have a long life.

In October, the Suva Theatre Group, staging “Cinderella” pantomine under great technical difficulties, provided the Fiji capital with a week of delightful entertainment. Messrs. James Crawford and Paddy Mulelly, assisted by a score of hard-working people, successfully drilled some two score of attractive young people and produced a series of stage settings, ballets, songs and solo dances which were pleasing to the eye and very entertaining. For six nights, the Town Hall was packed with happy audiences— and no one can say that that ancient building was planned for theatre productions. The three outstanding players were June Hedstrom (Cinderella), Jocelyn Exon (Prince Charming)—shown in above photograph—and Oonagh Bruen. who has outstanding talent, charm and skill as a dancer. 30 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Dairy Farmers Open War Against Copra AUSTRALIA’S dairy farmers who last year could not supply the Commonwealth’s domestic butter market, and could not have cared less, now want a higher tariff imposed on imported copra, basis of most table margarine.

Dairy farmers say that they are “alarmed” at the drop in butter consumption and apparently feel that they can make things better all round if they force up the price of margarine.

At present butter sells retail in Australia for 4/11 per pound. Margarine is 2/6 per pound. In the eight months up till August, 1952, butter xmsumption fell by 3,757 tons; margarine consumption rose by about 2,000.

Australia is traditionally a butterbating country. The only reason why lousewives are buying less butter and giving their families margarine is hat margarine is cheaper. Modern margarine has most of the virtues of cutter and can scarcely be disinguished from it—but most housevives would buy butter in preference f it were the same price.

If primary producers can prevail ipon the Government to levy special iuties on copra (and primary proiucers have votes and P-NG copra >roducers have not) so that the price >f margarine is forced up somewhere iear that of butter, the only practical esult will be that housewives will be ible to afford neither.

Australian producers (and manuacturers) have now become so used o their cost-plus system of economics hat they really believe that it is >etter to sell no butter at 4/H per >ound, than a great deal of butter it, say, 3/- per pound. If they can dd their percentage of profit to their osts, and the public still buys—then hey are happy. If the public stops ►uying, they do not try to reduce osts by way of more efficiency, but trive to stifle competition by forcing jovernments to impose restrictions >n the other fellow.

We may expect to hear any time iow that copra (therefore margarine) 5 produced by black slave labour in Australia’s tropical territories, fat •refits thus gained going to the lazy /hite planters who thereby virtually ake the bread out of the mouths of Australia’s down-trodden dairy armers.

Australian housewives’ associations say they will fight tooth and nail against any increase in the price of margarine, but the whole fracas is symptomatic of Australia’s muddled economic thinking.

BP Shipping Services Extended in P-NG As a result of improved shipping facilities in Papua-New Guinea, Burns Philp Co., Ltd., have decided to re-route their two principal vessels servicing Papua-New Guinea, so as to call at more ports.

Commencing December, the Bulolo will call at Lombrum, Manus, on her regular run between Madang and Rabaul.

Commencing February, the Malekula will extend her schedule to call at Wewak, after leaving Rabaul and Lorengau. In other words, she will call regularly at Wewak, on the run between Lorengau and Madang.

Miss Lauris Maiotui, of Tahiti, who has gone to NZ to live. She is a descendant of the Young family, of “Bounty” fame. 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— DECEMBER, 1952

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OLD HOME “In that house,” said Eddie Lund, riving us hospitably around the >vely island of Tahiti, “there once ved Robert Keable. It was there lat he wrote Simon Called Peter. oung Brook lives there now—we’ll d in and drink >me of his gin.”

As we drove in, small dog came lit. He was avelling at high •eed, and seemed ixious to go even ster. Behind him, mighty leaps, ere appeared a entleman in hite, who blaslemed horribly. I arned afterwards at he is a close lation of Rupert ook, famous >et, who once lived in Tahiti. It seemed that a fine command of English is common to the Brook family.

The dog is owned by Mr.

Devenish, and had been left in Mr.

Brook’s care while his master attended a picnic function in that area. But, in the course of the day, the dog’s uncontrolled fondness for eggs had just about wrecked the Brooks’ poultry-yard supply, and we had arrived at a moment of crisis.

Mr. Brook was eloquent on the subject of Mr. Devenish as an animal-lover. We learned the curious fact that the British Consul owns the only French poodle in French Oceania.

New Fijian Leader

In Fiji, they are watching, with interest and pleasure, the way Ratu Mara is coming to the fore as a leader of the Fijians. He has great natural ability; he has been very well educated; he is still only in his thirties; he is a Catholic; and he is held in high favour by the Council of Chiefs.

Wise old Lala Sukuna has been the leader of the Fijians for many years, and most people in the Colony hope that he may remain in that position for a long time yet. But, as is inevitable in nature, the years take their toll; and a community always is watching for oncoming leaders. Mara already has taken a strong stand in some Fijian arguments, and it is predicted that his Keable’s (now Brook's) house.

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This Grand Hotel was not complete when the press party was in Papeete, but there was enough of it available to provide them with excellent accommodation.

It is a 4-storeyed, wide-windowed, concrete structure, built on modern lines, right in the town, overlooking the waterfront. It has 36 rooms, practically all with private baths, and four suites, and it has spacious and well-fitted public rooms. An automatic lift takes guests to the roofgarden, where the breakfast cafe is "completion G f this fine hotel w iu a dd considerab 1 y to Tahiti’s claim on Jurists, The r e now are _ r , , °J" .^ rst " c lf ss hostlenes the Grand, Les Tropiques and Christian’s Royal Tahitian being in the lead.

Do You Like Fe’I?

At a friend’s table in Papeete I at( a succulent food, and liked it.

My host was delighted. “That h Fe’i,” he said. “You know what thai means!”

Fe’i is the plantain, or wild banana, of Tahiti. It grows plentifully, but it cannot be eaten ra\* —it must be boiled or baked. The French-Tahitians prepare it in severa] ways—some delicious, some not sc exciting.

Friends from overseas, for whom they have regard, are served with Fe’i, and watched anxiously. If they like Fe’i, they will surely return to the beautiful island. The omen never fails.

Papeete’s New Hotel. 34 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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RABAUL MADANG KAVIENG “Many years ago, when Robert Keable decided to leave Tahiti, 1 gave him a farewell dinner,” said my host. ‘I asked him if he ever would return, and he replied with an emphatic ‘No!’ ‘lt is too late,’ I said to him.

You have eaten the Fe’i.’ He only laughed at me—but he did return to Tahiti, and he died here.”

The Frisbie Kids

From Mrs. James Norman Hall, widow of the famous writer, (this photograph of her was taken at a Sunday picnic at the back of Tahiti) I had word of the children of the ate Robert Deane Frisbie. Hall, before he died, wrote for Weeks, iditor of The Atlantic Monthly, a ong article on Frisbie, and they igreed that the proceeds should go to assist the Frisbie kids. The article was published in three instalments, and sold to other journals; and thus they raised a fund of over 7,000 dollars.

By this means, the three Frisbie girls were sent to Honolulu, where they were taken in by American families. All are well and happy, lohnny, the eldest, is studying, and leld in high regard, and may become a professional writer. The two boys are being cared for in New Zealand.

It was a fine action by two famous writers.

Mrs. Hall looks rather absurdly young to be a grandmother—which »he proudly claims to be. I met a similarly comely grandmother in Fiji. Is it something in the South Seas air, or just the natural result of our steadily extending expectation of life?

One Moment Of Panic

The introduction of TEAL’s press party to Samoa consisted of a busride, through 20 miles of entrancing tropical scenery, but carried out at prodigious speed.

Soon, we saw another bus coming.

Both drivers placed a continuing heavy hand on their horns, and maintained speed. The journalists got restive. Both buses clung to the crown of the narrow road. Some of the journalists began to yell. Then our bus swung sharply right. The journalists panicked.

Melbourne Herald dived for the floor. Wellington Dominion tried to make a sideways leap. The fine contralto of Australian Women's Weekly wa * lifted in full-blooded shriek, The two vehicles passed in a rush °f spattering gravel, a whisker between them.

"No need for fright,” said the smiling Samoan driver. “In this country we keep to the right.” I think he had provided other newcomers with that little thrill, I wonder why Western Samoa sticks to the pre-1914 traffic rule of Imperial Germany, while all other countries under British administration observe the British keep-to-the-left rule. (Similarly, one can ask why all British countries keep to the left, while the rest of the world maintains Mrs. James Norman Hall at Tahitian picnic. 35 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 195 2

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the right-hand drive). I suppose, when NZ finally took over in 1920, there were too many trained Samoan irivers in charge of vehicles on the samoan roads to make a change-over Jesirable. A trained driver reacts lutomatically to traffic conditions md his habit, in an emergency, vould be to pull to the right.

The Australians, similarly taking iver the former German colony of few Guinea, did not have the same iroblem. In 1920, there were few oads and fewer motor vehicles in lew Guinea.

I told the journalists my choice tory of the early days of motoring i the Condominium of the New lebrides, when the French kept to le right, and the English, as was British and proper, stuck to their rinciples and kept to the left. But le shock of the non-colliding buses r as still too recent, and they did not 5e the humour of it.

A Cool Country House

This is the country home of apeete’s Oscar Nordman—cool, airy id beautifully furnished. It looks at over the lagoon at Papara, and surrounded by green lawns and ■illiant flowers—a suitable abode >r the seven lovely children who >mp around here, and call Oscar id Margot their grandparents in ree languages. (The fluency of ost kids in French, English and Julian, is one of the remarkable ings in Tahiti). In a green valley hind the residence, Mr. Nordman ns a fine herd of cattle, for beef d dairy. Like several other landmers in these parts, he breeds refully, and gets best results from small mixture of Cebu or Brahmin th European strains.

Many of the wiser folk in these >pical islands claim to get the best use for the climate by making the af of native construction and materials, as shown in this picture.

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To Cut Trochus In Fiji

A long overdue effort to establish in Fiji an industry for the manufacture of articles from trochus shell is being made by Mr. McGowan, of Levuka. It is reported that he has orders from USA for millions of button blanks, and that he is now importing the necessary machinery from Europe. Experts believe that there is enough trochus shell in Fiji waters to provide all he will need.

The export of trochus shell has been an important part of the economy of several Islands Territories for the better part of a century. It is cut and shaped for many purposes—mainly buttons.

Until World War 11, most of the manufacturing was done in Central 37 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Europe, Japan and, to a lesser extent, in America. The war altered all that and, since 1945, there has been only a precarious sort of market in United States. Japan may soon be an important buyer again.

Fiji gains substantially because a large and increasing proportion of her copra is milled in Fiji instead of in Europe. Why should not the same procedure be followed in the much smaller, but nonetheless important, trochus industry?

Isolated Pago Pago

En route to Tahiti, the TEAL plane flies over American Samoa and, from the air, one gets a remarkable picture of Tutuila and th famous port of Pago Pago.

This should be a place of call fc TEAL, but the harbour lies s narrowly between steep 2,000 mountains that it is unsafe for flying boats. One remembers the disaster thi befell Pan American Airways whe it tried to work Pago Pago wit flying-boats. There is no lagoon t use, as in Western Samoa. Tutuih for some reason, has no fringin coral reef—the waves actually brea against the base of the island' cliffs, like they do at Norfolk o Ocean islands.

Tutuila has a land strip for fairl big planes, and one day there wi] be a regular air service there. Br not at present. Since the US Nav pulled out, Eastern Samoa has bee in a state of painful economic re adjustment, trying to find somethin to take the place of the half millio or so dollars which Uncle Sam use to spend there each year; and jus now it cannot afford luxuries lik an air service.

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Soon after our TEAL Solent lei Lauthala Baly for Samoa, word wa passed around that we should fl; low over an island in the Lau group and. parachute urgently - neede< 38 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Canned Beef Mystery

\ staple article of diet throughout the South Pacific Islands is canned T. In some places, tins of beef accepted as currency.

Naturally, the canners of Australia I New Zealand hold most of the ie —although, every now and then, iners in America and Europe ke an assault on this “Anzac serve”. fhere is one thing about this rket that intrigues me. Why does med corned beef from New iland come in round tins, while t from Australia is always in are tins, slightly tapered. Because the nature of the demand, NZ’s nd tins have a definite advantage r Australia’s square product; but stralia cannot send round tins ause “the Government won’t >w it.”

This seemed strange, so I asked an Australian exporter. He said that that was so—for Islands trade he could buy beef only in square tins.

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Phenomenal Cocoa Tree

The prize exhibit of Reparation Estates—a phenomenal cocoa tree — interested the journalists who visited Samoa in October, just as it has excited cocoa-planters throughout the world.

Western Samoa claims that it produces the world’s best cocoa; and the price paid for the Territory’s product —which has enriched Samoa generally—bears this out.

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Western Samoa, in 1951, export* 3,200 tons of cocoa beans, won £BOl,OOO sterling (average, £250 pi ton).

They Earn Many Dollar

Practically all of the cocoa < Western Samoa (worth near £1,000,000 sterling per annum), ar most of the sugar and gold of Fi (another £6,000,000 to £7,000,000) j to United States and Canada, ar are turned into dollars. If it wei permitted, Fiji’s copra and coconi oil also could be sold in Nort America.

But neither Fiji nor Samoa gets ar special benefit from this direct ean ing of substantial dollar funds—it a goes into the sterling pool, to he] the Western European nation Economists, like doctors, are mad to differ; but there are some politic* economic students who argue thj the two big South Pacific Territori* are being somewhat sacrificed on th altar of their British connections.

If the Australian Prime Minister plan to make pound and dollar mor rapidly interchangeable succeeds, will spell immediate and substanth benefits for Fiji and Samoa.

Papeete’S Honoured Boss

Early one morning, in Papeete, i: Mayor Alfred Poroi’s hospitable cai I went back behind the town, to quiet and lovely valley, where I in spected the town’s excellent water supply. A stream comes down ou of the perpetually rain-soaked moun tains, and is led by special channel into a series of gravel beds, when it is thoroughly filtered before beinj sent on its healthful, cleansing wa? down the valley. There is an ingeni ous and economical system of con trols, to regulate the flow in flood time.

Alfred Poroi is quite a young man with a business of his own to loot after; but, over the years, he ha; done such a remarkable job in th« management of the careless little city of Papeete that the wise burghers— European, part Tahitian, Chinese.

Tahitian—are determined that nc other man shall rule their municipal organisation. With the goodwill and practical help of the Governor, he superintends bridge-building, school management, street control, and a score of other communal activities; (Continued on page 106) 40 DECEMBER, 1952-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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rWO pioneer New Guinea families were united in Madang in June, hen this well-known couple were larried—Mrs. Anna Johanna Muner, widow of the late Charles inster, of Manus, and Mr. Tom yliss, Bulolo goldminer.

Fhe Munsters were married 30 irs ago, and established some valuable coconut plantations in Manus.

Mrs. Munster, and their three children, got away South in December, 1941; but Mr. Munster was caught by the Japs when he sailed his schooner into Rabaul a little later. He was put onto a Jap ship along with various planters, and mission personnel (including women) from Madang, Kavieng and Manus; and then, on the high seas, the whole of the prisoners on that ship were ruthlessly murdered—one of the Jap’s most brutal New Guinea massacres, of which very little has been heard.

Tom Bayliss was in New Guinea in 1922, and he joined the Edie Creek gold rush in 1926. Eventually, he settled on some valuable country on the Bulolo, between the BGD leases, and—except for the war—he has been sluicing gold out of that area ever since. His claim now has been taken over by his son Colin, who was a fighter pilot in Europe in the war, but who now has settled down in the Bulolo Valley with a charming wife and two children.

The new Mrs. Bayliss also is" a grand-parent. Her daughter Carola (who in Madang married Mr. Kenny, of Mandated Airlines—he is now managing the Munster properties in Manus) is the mother of two children.

Hundreds of old Territorians will wish many years of happiness to the popular bride and bridegroom.

Mr. Pat Costello returned to Fiji in December, after 6 weeks in Australia. 41

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The telescope was given by Cook fi Sir Joseph Banks, naturalist aboar< the Endeavour, as a souvenir of hi voyage. In 1926 it was purchased a auction by Miss Edfth Kinch o Cornwall. She had recently been ap preached by an American collecto to sell the instrument, but offered i to the New Zealand Governmen which has paid £l5O for it.

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RABAUL 'T'HERE was a record attendance at th New Britain Women’s Club recent! when babies gathered from far and nea and Matron Hanlon, Sister Jones an Dr. Pure' had the difficult task of choo: ing the bonnfesl; Prize winners were:- Undc- ’e’x months: Jennifer Laing (Ist; Morag Light****’ (2nd), MarshaU Lf (3rd).

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Three to four years: Sonia Otto (Ist Roger Wilson (2nd), Len Lister (3rd).

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This was the message which was received in October from the Catholic Mission Station at Enarotali, at the SVissellakes in Netherlands New Guinea. There was a tragic but leroic story behind it.

Father Kammerer’s bearers had »me back at Enarotali without their naster. They said they were close witnesses of the, murder, which took dace before their eyes. When the ddani’s, who were after the trade :oods (axes, etc.) which Father Cammerer had with him, forbade im to continue his trip to the wellnown “Baliem Valley” (the Shangri-La” of American stories) he roke away. But the Ndani’s soon vertook him and his bearers. They grounded the priest and speared im to death, after which they buffed the wounds with leaves.

The bearers said that Father hammerer, who was seated on one f the bearer’s packs didn’t utter a 3und when the cruel spears hit him. md in the afternoon they saw a uge fire, from which they concluded iat their master was being cremated -as is the local Ndani custom with leir dead.

It was a very sad story and it ndoubtedly caused a lot of grief > the parents of the priest in olland. “Jungle Pimpernel” Dr. J. . de Bruyn, who became welllown because of his underground ork for the Allies in the Dutch NG entral Highlands during Japanese pupation, was sent to the fissellakes for an investigation. He •eaks the languages of the people ere. (A story of the exploits of J Bruyn was published in Australia id reviewed by PIM some years 50).

Two months passed and nobody mbted the murder any more. Then ry recently word came from larotali; Father Kammerer is still ive!

He did not meet murderous danis at all. He had wandered ound for weeks after his bearers id left him, he couldn’t find the iy back, suffered with a painful iee and was half-starved. But he is healthy and because his bearers i not come back, Father Misael turned to the Ndanis where he lyed for about a month waiting for his knee to mend. When he was fit again he went back to Enarotali; although the Ndanis asked him to stay forever.

One day before he reached the Wissellakes, Father Kammerer met a fellow-missionary who was searching for him. On that occasion he heard the story of his “murder”, his “heroism”, the “In Memoriam” notice which was written in one of the biggest Catholic newspapers in Holland about him.

But Father Misael Kammerer is still very much alive.

An American priest, the Rev.

Father Louis Luzbetak, SVD, PhD, has gone to New Guinea for two years where he will do field work and study linguistics among the natives. He studied anthropology and linguistics at Friburg (Vienna) and London Universities and later lectured in these subjects at the missionary training college, St. Mary’s Seminary, near Chicago.

When clearing residential sites on Namanula Hill, Rabaul, NG, recently, the foundations of Judge Phillips’ prewar house were revealed.

From the wrecks, parts, etc., strewn around, it seems that the Japs used the site for a transport depot. 43 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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l RABAUL, Nov. 30. ||R. GEOFF LANGE, of Rabaul, Ltl n cw Guinea, recently trapped a irocodile near the town. It has been iffered to Sydney’s Taronga Park too. If they accept it, it is believed hat Captain Bill Wilding of Bulolo rill get it there somehow—although ,e has not been consulted about it et.

The crocodile is believed to be one f two which have been noticed ccasionally. in the Sulphur Creek area in the last 12 months. Many attempts have been made to catch them.

Cl Crop Experiments

As a move towards the development of new export crops, and the improvement in strains of existing crops, a 44-acre section of land was taken over by the Rarotonga Department of Agriculture some time ago.

Ginger, canning beans, and coffee are some of the export crops now being tried out. In the category of existing crops are new strains of tomatoes, kumaras and taro.

Varieties of pasture grasses suitable for dairy-cows are also being tested.

Cows at present do very badly in the Cook Islands—probably because they are usually strains introduced from New Zealand and unused to tropical climate and feeding conditions.

A stage ensemble in Port Vila. New [?]brides, on October 18, when the Vila [?]eatre Group very successfully presented a mixed entertainment. The proceeds went to the Paton Memorial Hospital. —Photo by Fung Kuei. 45 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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W. Samoan Interest In Tourist Trade APIA, Nov. 11.

APIA hotels and boarding houses have recently raised their tariff to 28/- per day for casual visitors.

In view of the steadily rising prices of imported foodstuffs it is generally acknowledged that the increase is justified. However, hotel accommodation in Apia is not up to overseas standards—the absence of hot water supplies and the monotonous menus are two of the aspects of Apia hotel life criticised by visitors.

Great interest is displayed by tl public in proposals to stimulate tl tourist traffic and thus derive sonbenefit from the new improved TEA Coral Route air service. Visito: passing through Samoa on their w£ to Tahiti have been impressed by tl scenic attractions of the Territoi and have expressed surprise that r organised effort has so far been mac to publicise and advertise Samoa.

Mission Teachers Pastor R. W. Taylor, headmaster SDA Mission School at Vailoa, Savaii, a[?] his wife, who have been 4½ years Samoa, are now on leave in Australia They expect to return to Samoa February. 46 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Kenaf Industry

Experimental Stage Now Over is little doubt now that ■ kenaf fibre can be produced ccessfully in parts of Papua-New tinea and that it can be successlly spun into wool-packs, wheat |:ks, sugar bags, and similar Conners or for other purposes for tich jute has been the traditional re.

It remains now only to see if the rritory can produce it in comrcial quantities at an economic ce —and whether Australian manuturers will buy it and use it in ference to the better known jute. »Vith the current troubles of ma’s rubber planters as an mple, this last aspect is one that regarded with lively interest. It one thing to be able to produce iaf, another to be able to spin and ive it successfully—and quite ither to induce manufacturers to Y their share in providing the ritory with a new industry that Id add substantially to annual )me. Manufacturers would need, a beginning, to be guaranteed tinuity of supplies, standard lity and a steady price. They Id, if these requirements were , put the infant kenaf intry on its feet. On the other d, if ruled by prejudice, they Id kill it. here is nothing altruistic about mfacturers. If it suits them to ;et the jute troubles and scarcities he post-war years, this they will Nor can it be imagined that the producing countries of India and istan will let their profitable tralian market go without a ggle. In November-December a e commission from Pakistan was Australia surveying coal mines :h for the first time in 10 years producing beyond requirements, tralia is anxious to export coal— -3r no other reason than to keep vociferous coal-miners quiet, istan says it would take Ausan coal if the price is right. While e is a chance of unloading surplus Australia is unlikely to get tough i Pakistan over jute. is claimed that kenaf fibre can everything that jute will do and in addition it will take dye :h jute fails to do with any ease, ough the layman may fail to the advantage of coloured sacks, etc., this property is evidently regarded as important in trade circles.

Kenaf culture also lends itself to mechanisation, and is therefore economical of labour.

Private enterprise, in the person of Mr. R. A. Colyer of Colyer Watson, Ltd., and Government have combined with success to bring the NG kenaf fibre experiment to fruition in the last two to three years.

This year, a further 15,000 acres will be planted by private enterprise on Crown land in the Oro Bay area of Papua. The Administration will make its contribution by providing wharf, roads, bridges and a ford to serve it.

The experimental phase is over It is now up to the Territory to prove that kenaf fibre can be produced in commercial quantities at a price competitive to established jute, - ■ ~ , , ... 3 S/tS?' revolutionary „ t S drama rewith derive ST? ph ° h ne A Lautote report states that the recording was Publicly at an Indian gathering at Churchill Park, Lautoka before the Government’s ban. The recording is called Sardar Bhagat Singh. 47 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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O’Keefe Departs from Fiji-cum-Yap SUVA, Nov. 19.

PEOPLE connected with the film industry usually have big ideas bout money and, sometimes, about their own importance. For the moment, however, highwater mark has been reached with the statement by a member of the His Majesty O’Keefe personnel that “the unit’s visit has changed the life of Fiji.”

The film company spent a good deal of money in Fiji, but a substantial part of it went into the pockets of the limited number of people who were in a position to benefit. Building contractors and firms which supplied goods and services probably came off best. A few local people drew high salaries (in some cases, it is reported, over <£4o a week including “perks”) and Suva turned into old Hongkong for O’Keefe purposes. 49 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Smooth on the Palate Valiant PURE 11 Is a very good rum indeed, as one sip will tell you local extras and bit players did pretty well. But to the population at large, even in the Suva area, the nlrn unit s six months in Fiji was nothing more than a pleasant minor diversion; The woman who told a Sydney newspaper that O Keefe had changed the life of Fiji also seems to have said that the film is “a story of the early buccaneering history of the island.” Presumably Yap, which has no connection whatever with the hundreds of islands and islets of Fiji.

Like almost every film set in the South Seas, whether good, bad or indifferent, O’Keefe will show a si lime disregard of facts relating geography and history. There \ be some excellent colour phc graphy and some spectacular Fij mass-scenes, but the story says t nearly all of it happens on the ot] side of the Equator. But that, the words of a cynical film offic; is how movies are made.

Film-Makers Depart: Mor[?] Beds in Fiji When Mr. and Mrs. Colin Ph of Tasmania, part-owners of Beachcomber Hotel, at Deuba, Fiji, passed through Auckland cently en route to Hobart, they poir out that, with the Warner Broth film unit evacuating the hotel early November, 120 beds bec£ available for the use of tourists Fiji. Thus, the tourist situation been eased.

Mr. Philip said that two ot American film companies are at f sent investigating the possibility making use of some of the facili established by Warners during recent filming of “O’Keefe;” but to the time Mr. Philip left no cision had been reached. 50 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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From R. W. Robson Discussing pest controls with Mr. B. E. V. Parham, of Fiji Pepartment of Agriculture, I learned iome quaint things about the balance jf nature.

I Because bare country erodes ;asily, the Government stopped the Fijians from buring off scrub urn Necessarily. The burning of the crub used to kill off the surplus tukaki —the large swamp fowl which r ou will find in Fiji and other South !ea islands, as well as in New Zeaand. The pukaki now have so inireased in numbers that they are ating the food gardens and bananas f the natives; and the natives are owling accordingly.

The giant toad was brought in to heck the insect pests which preyed n the sugar-cane. The toad has been 3 efficient on the job that now there re not enough insects to feed the irds; and the birds are increasingly hacking the natives’ fruit and More native howling.

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Coconut scale flares up in patches.

Thereupon the people who know about these things seek a place where ladybirds flourish. They gather up a few pints of ladybirds and take them to the patch of scale. The ladybirds feast merrily on the scale, and restore the palms to health.

But the catching of ladybirds is an acquired art.

Mr. Loke Wan Tho, who has spent a couple of months in the NG Highlands photographing birds of paradise and other fauna, is at present holidaying in Australia with his wife. They will shortly return home to Singapore.

The Boy’s Brigade of New Zealand holds an annual Missionary Day when boys give donations to help the less fortunate Companies of the Pacific. This year Niue Island received £25 to help their 12 Boys’

Brigade Companies and other substantial gifts were sent to the Cook Islands (where the Brigade is very strong) and to Papua, Samoa, and the Solomon Islands, Mrs. J. A. Chapman of Wai-Ni-Van, [?]ji, photographed in Suva Hospital on [?]e occasion of her 90th birthday. She [?]s born in Victoria and has spent 62 [?]ars in Fiji. Some months ago she had leg amputated but is making an [?]azing recovery. Her husband died in [?]47. She has one son living (Mr. W. [?]apman of Suva), five grandchildren and [?] great-grandchildren. —Photo by Stinsons Studios. 51 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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MISSING [VfHEN Captain Carl Johnson *» brought the A’oniu to Auckland rom Tonga in November he said hat the famous jack-in-the-box olcano named Falcon was at present eneath the sea. He had sailed over 'alcon very recently and had made fundings of three or four fathoms 'ith nothing showing.

When the 1950 Year Book was üblished the “island” (a pile of >ose volcanic ash) was then 360 ;et high and H miles long. Since rst reported in 1865, Falcon has :peatedly popped up in successive uptions, only to be rapidly eroded »ain by the sea. It lies 45 miles NW of Nukualofa.

Captain Johnson reported also that iuafo’ou, another active Tongan dcanic island, which achieved me in the past with its Tin Can ail service and was evacuated •out six years ago after a bad uption has again been permanently ttled by about 60 copra makers.

A’oniu has been making regular calls at Niafo’ou picking • copra.

Captain Johnson said that Tonga’s laling industry, formerly carried on by the Cook family at Tongatabu, using open boats, is now no more.

Only an occasional whale is now caught, and for the meat only, not for the oil. In October, 1939, PIM published some interesting photos of Tongan whaling activities.

Artist Charles McPhee, who has been living in Tahiti for the last eight or nine months, was married to a local girl there recently. He and his new wife left Papeete on November 1 on Waitemata bound for Rarotonga, Cook Is., where they will live for the present. McPhee is an Australian but has lived in Polynesia for many years. His oil paintings of Islands scenes and people axe well known now from Australia to Tahiti—and, beyond, to the States where many of them were taken after the war by returning Gls. 53 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Fiji Thinks Again About

COCOA (From Our Own Correspondent) MSUVA, Nov. 4.

ANY years ago Fiji had what promised to become a flourishing cocoa industry. Plant disease killed it and there has been no subsequent attempt to revive it on a large scale.

There have been occasional wistful glances towards Western Samoa, where cocoa has been booming for years, and the question came up again last week after the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Mr. R. C. S. Stanley) said that BSI hoped to be doing something with cocoa.

Lately the New Zealand press has been publicising Samoa’s “perfect cocoa tree”—an allegedly remarkable product selected from many thousands of specimens at the New Zealand Reparations Estates in Upolu. Why, Fiji wondered, couldn’t the local Agriculture Department wangle a cutting or two from Samoa?

The Agriculture Department replied that at its Plant Introduction Station at Naduruloulou there are 40 flourishing young trees raised from seed of Samoa’s “perfect cocoa trees”. The seed came over in 1950, and Samoa has promised cuttings as soon as they can be made available.

Though the young seedling trees are growing well it will be some years before their individual characteristics of yield and disease resistance can be compared with those of the parent tree. The cuttings, however, would carry the full characteristics of the strain, which is described as a hybrid of high productivity and disease resistance.

Pastor lan Kleinig of the Lutheran Mission, Irelya, N.G., is on furlough in Australia with his family. 54 DECEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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DR. I. S. Phillips, the entomologist appointed to conduct research into coconut pests in the BSIP, is concerned about the possibility of the Rhinoceros Beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) being introduced from Rabaul into the British Solomons.

The beetle was introduced to Samoa 10 years ago as a stowaway in a jundle of rubber plants from Ceylon, md its destructive habits have renlted in thousands of dead palms md stumps in those fertile islands.

Introduced somehow into New Britain by the Japanese during the var years, it spread rapidly through- >ut the Gazelle Peninsula and coastal irea, where, Dr. Phillips states, you an see in many places the triangular ections bitten from palm-leaves zhich are the characteristic damageign of this beetle.

There are already two types of Rhinoceros beetle in the Solomons, fhich do some damage but are not erious pests; and there is therefore danger that the dangerous Oryctes hinoceros, which to the untrained ye looks very much like them, may e introduced and become established efore it is recognised.

Dr. Phillips has asked planters to eep a close watch for any palmsaves which may have triangular actions bitten out of them, and to irward any doubtful-looking Rhinosros beetles to him for examination.

Fear In Polynesia

SUVA, Nov. 1.

Now that TEAL planes call at amoa, en route from Fiji, the Govnment of French Oceania insists lat the planes, and passenger’ iggage, be carefully fumigated be- >re landing, as a precaution against ic Rhinoceros beetle. The fact that ic pest has spread from Samoa to onga has alarmed the Tahiti athorities.

As Aitutaki has the same risk, it is been suggested the plane and the iggage be fumigated while the plane undergoing its two hours fuelling op at Aitutaki, between Samoa and ahiti. This could prevent delay in iloading cargo at Papeete.

Actually, the risk is not great. The ane lies well out from shore in imoa. The beetle is night-flying and tracted by light, but it can fly only short distance over water.

The risk is much greater in Tonga, where ships dock, or lie close in, and beetles could easily fly aboard, Fiji authorities now are putting precautions into operation against ships coming from Tonga and Samoa, and causing shipping people some irritation. It is pointed out, however, that if only one Samoan Rhino beetle gets ashore in Fiji, incalculable damage could be done, once he has become established in an area.

The clerical work of the Bougainville Wholesale Association is now being handled by two native clerks trained by the Papua-New Guinea Administration Co-op. Section. The Association is satisfied with its clerks and the clerks are satisfied with the salary offered by the Association. 55 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—D E C E M B E R . 1852

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Father Raymond Quirk, of the Catholic mission station at Vanimo, P-NG, who regularly visits the Dutch area, told Dutch officials that about two months ago a P-NG patrol, led by an Australian police-officer, was ambushed near the border, on Australian territory and two of the patrol were killed. However, the Australian patrol caught three of the rebel leaders, who were taken to Wewak. One escaped and fled over the border into the Waris area.

The patrols now chasing the murderers in the inaccessible country of the Waris area are being regularly supplied by a Dakota aircraft, chartered by the Dutch Government.

The captain and the crew of the last New Zealand National Airways to pass through Apia, W. Samoa, were the guests of honour at a farewell cocktail party given by the Samoan Government and by the Chamber of Commerce. The splendid pioneering service rendered for 5 years by the NAC was eulogised by several speakers at the pleasant functions.

The delivery crew of the 33-ft. Presbyterian Mission launch Break of Day, after they had completed their voyage to Vila, New Hebrides, from Auckland, NZ. The crew (left to right): Messrs. Pope, Mark Anthony (Capt.) and Stewart Smith. —Photo by Fung Kuei. 57 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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KAVIENG, Nov. 23.

Mr. Raleigh Farlow has returned hei after extended leave in Australia, am again takes up the reins as Distrw Commissioner.

Mr. Dudley Young-Whitforde, who unti recently was ADO Namatanai has no become ADO Kavieng.

New Ireland planters are becomin cocoa-conscious and at least three ne: plantings are being started in Kavien Sub-District. The young plants are do ing well.

Carpenter’s LAUTOKA of 10,000 tons i expected ot Kavieng shortly. She wii be the largest ship to call since the wai The recently promulgated pric difference of £3/10/- per ton between Hot Air Dried and Smoke Dried copr has caught most producers of Smok grade. Most “Smoke” producers ar hurriedly changing their drying arrange ments. They feel that the Copr Marketing Board should have given mor warning of this change.

Mr. Jim White, who was well known a an Inspector of the Native Labour Dept; is now the lessee of Benge Plantation t New Hanover.

Mr. Frank Patten, of Tomallabat Plantation in the Tabar Groun, lefl Kavieng recently for a tour of the Fiji Tonga, and French Oceania. He mai visit America. 58 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI!

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Ssarch for Tropical Type Seems Near End ALL across the South Pacific Islands, from New Guinea to Tahiti, I have found a strong and growing interest in the problems of beef production in the tropical islands, This was highlighted when, quite unexpectedly, I met in Harold Gatty’s hospitable home in Suva the famous “Texas Cattle King,” Robert Justus Kleberg, who has “fixed” the Santa Gertrudis, the first new breed of cattle given to the world in 100 years, and the first ever produced in United States. (Readers Digest featured him in May, 1951.) The non-sweating, pure European :attle will not flourish in the tropics. \sian cattle (variously called Zebu, brahman, etc.) sweat and flourish, >ut they are a rangy, thin-flanked ype and are not economic producers )f milk and meat. Breeders, for a ;entury, have sought a cross for the ropics, without much success. Bob Cleberg, after 20 years of experiment, finally found and fixed a breed mat is five-eighths Brahman, threeighths Shorthorn. It is suitable for iot zones, but it flourishes in all limates, and it is one-third heavier man European cattle.

Australia now is importing his anta Gertrudis, to breed up herds mr its vast sub-tropical and tropical ry plains. Kleberg toured Australia i October, to look over this new larket for his cattle. Gatty, enterrising as ever, pulled him off the ans-Pacific plane at Nadi, and iptored and flew him over, all over iti Levu, to appraise cattle possibilities. He was tired; but, like all iese numerous American merchant oncers one now meets in the South tcific Islands, he was courteous, in- Tmative and helpful.

He had made a quick, thorough b of his Fiji inspection—he had rveyed the interior from the air, id he had been down on the ground, amining pastures and arguing about md fertilisation and cross-breeding th various farmers. He said, thout qualification, that Fiji could rry a million cattle. ‘ But” he added “this kind of instry can be carried on successfully ly by big ranchers; and no big icher will start operations—in Ausilia, or Fiji, or anywhere else— less there is security of land tenure you want a cattle industry, you deal with availability of I thought from that he must have been in New Guinea—but he said he had not—he was merely stating first principles. work in the study of cattle acclimatisation is being done by the Fiji Department of Agriculture; and here, as elsewhere, they are working steadily towards that Zebu cross. This is from a report issued in November: “The twin calf experiment made in partnership with New Zealand focuses attention on the importance of breeding livestock which are adapted to a tropical environment; a high plane of nutrition is not enough. Apart from heat-tolerant strains of European breeds, it would appear that attention must be given to animals with Zebu blood, such as the Red Sindhi Jersey Cross dairy stock, and the Santa Gertrudis beef breed evolved on the King Ranch, Texas, by the crossing of European Shorthorn cattte and the Nellore strain of Zebu.” in Samoa, 1 found similar " experiments being made by Mr, D. R. Eden, general manager of Reparations Estates. Samoans, grown rich on the cocoa industry, are now demanding increasing quantities of meat—last year, they ate 1,795 cattle, and huge quantities of canned stuff from NZ and Australia. Mr. Eden now is bringing in 3,000 new acres of inland land, at 1,000-2,000 feet, where Polled Angus cattle will eat the local grasses, such as mimosa (or sensitive grass).

He has imported Zebu bulls from Fiji, and is crossing them with Herefords, seeking a beast that will not be distressed by heat, and that will resist tuberculosis and tick fevers.

The French are trying out the same idea in their cooler islands of French Oceania—l saw Zebus and the Zebu cross along the flat coastal lands of Tahiti; and in Tahiti and the other French islands there are 59 *CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 19 52

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There are 90,000 cattle in that rench colony; and the majority of le ranchers have a special reason >i cursing the war—the Yanks rought in Queensland horses, and ic horses brought in the cattle-tick, id now all NC cattle have to be pped regularly.

I DMINISTRATION, mission *■ bodies and private enterprise >w are taking Australian cattle into ew Guinea in large numbers, and ere is little doubt that a large and iportant industry will be established ere, just as soon as the Australian ivernment and the Administration opt a clear-cut policy regarding j availability of land.

This move towards cattle should ve commenced years ago, but it was mplicated by the extreme sensiity of the late Administrator olonel J. K. Murray)—aided and etted by bureaucratic dreamers d missionary idealists—on the )ject of keeping all the Territory’s ids for the Territory’s natives.

New Guinea has the area and the high country suitable for cattle; and private enterprise already is solving the problems of pastures and suitable types. The major problem of finding a breed that will flourish profitably under tropical conditions —the Territory is very near the equator—seems close to solution (Kleberg’s Santa Gertrudis looks like the answer), and this could mean that beef production could become an important Islands industry.

A BIG cattle-ranch, unlike a big plantation or mine or factory, could be run by a comparatively small number of Islands natives, who probably would be adapted easily to this kind of life. In other words, this particular industry need not create a serious labour problem.

It seems to me that this is a subject on which there should be a pooling of knowledge and experience by all the South Pacific Territories.

It is the kind of thing for which the machinery of the South Pacific Commission was designed.—R. W.

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The Royal New Zealand Air Force will post 20 women for service in Fiji. WAAFS had served in Fiji during the war, and up until the end of 1945 at Lauthala Bay, Fresh Bread for Madang (Prom Our Own Correspondent) MADANG, Nov. 15.

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Mr. Peter Saunders left Kavien recently to spend Xmas in Sydney wit his mother Mrs. Frank Saunders and h sister Anne.

Tagged Swordfish A year ago PIM reported that the Bay of Islands Swordfish and Mako Shark Club, of Russell, NZ, would tag a number of swordfish during the fishing season and release them to aid science in determining their migratory habits.

Six fish were so tagged last season and more will be tagged in the coming months. The Club has supplied these photos to show readers in the Islands just what to look for if they land swordfish—as the fish are believed t[?] migrate to the tropics, or the Nort[?] Pacific. The tag says "Please retur[?] Box 55, Russell, NZ.” It goes witho[?] saying that what the Club really wan[?] returned is the tag, not the fish. (TH[?] tag, a round disc, can be seen on the fi[?] near the body at the right of the photo 62 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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THE South Pacific Commission plans to list historical sites throughout the Islands with a view to their protection and preservation.

Phis decision, which has only just been made public in Fiji, has led to sharp criticism of past neglect.

Very few people, even among the sducated, know anything of the sites )f the major episodes of Fijian listory in pre-European days. > robably only a handful of people n Suva know that the site of the ncient Suva Village is at the back •f the present Botanical Gardens. )n April 6, 1843 (according to )errick’s “History of Fiji’'), a Rewa eet landed a force near Suva Point 3 attack Suva, which was a ependency of Bau. The village was urned, many of its people were Hied, and three days later the surivors were massacred at Tamavua, here they were brought to bay on le brink of a 100 ft cliff.

Mr. J. M. Hedstrom, the new resident of the Fiji Society, says lat until a few years ago the ffensive earthworks on top of the iff were still clearly visible. But ey have now been obliterated by a overnment bulldozer and a house ands on the site.

Another Government bulldozer 1947, destroyed the base of the molished obelisk erected nearly 60 ars earlier by the Fijians to comsmorate the Golden Jubilee of ieen Victoria and also the Fijian eateries to the Deed of Cession 1874. This demolition was conmned by Europeans as unnecessary, * destruction being ordered aprently in the mistaken belief that ; Fijian memorial would be in the y of the new Anglican Cathedral, e first portion of the cathedral is w completed and it is clear that ' obelisk would not have intered in any way with the building. may be as much as another 50 irs before the Diocese of Polynesia i build the long nave and west end the cathedral). rhe fact that the marble tablets ring the names of Cakobau and other Deed of Cession signatories *e incorporated in an insignificant morial near the present Governnt Buildings has done little to inter the bitterness created by the dless demolition.

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Berndt. anthropologists of Sydney University, left Sydney by air in early November for Kainantu, New Guinea Eastern Highlands, where they will spend six months among natives who eat their dead The natives are located about two days’ walk from Kainantu and are already known to the Berndts who suspended a study of them in May this year.

As foreshadowed in PIM (October p. 107), the change in standard time’ for the Cook Islands came into force at 2 am., November 16.

Standard time for the Cooks is now lOi hours behind GMT. 63 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1952

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Mrs. Moran, now aged a cheerful 84 years, was assisted by her son, Mr.

Leonard Moran, the Association president, and her daughter Mrs. B. Tate, in doing honour to these distinguished guests.

They were welcomed, with kava and a presentation of Polynesian dances, which included “Ma’ulu’ulu,” “sa sa” and “tauoluga”.

A large and representative gathering helped in making the Tongan guests welcome. Among those present were: Mrs. Riro Light, formerly of Hikurangi, NZ, who is Club Chieftainess; Mrs. Amy Cubis, of the Dighton family of Suva (Mrs. Cubis is Hon Secretary, newly elected); Mr. and Mrs. Monty Griffin, formerly of Levuka and Suva; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gosnell, of Rotuma and Suva; former Tongan resident, Mr. and Mrs.

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At the kava drinking during the evening, The Hon. Ulukalala Ata honoured the Club president, Leonard Moran with a Tongan name of distinction (Tuboumalohi), by which name Mr.

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During the past months many visitors from the Islands have been to the Club’s gatherings. Among these were: Mr. Gary Anness Jnr., of Suva and Fanning Is.; Mr. and Mrs. Hector Harmon, who were farewelled on their return to Suva; Mr. and Mrs. George Griffin, and Mrs. May Griffin/ of Fiji; Mr. Don. Aukino, of Rarotonga: Mr. T. Gould, formerly of Vavau; Captain Natoba Kawalu of the Fiji Military Forces, on his way back home from Malaya; Mr. and Mrs. T. Stephenson of Bay of Islands, NZ. Another distinguished visitor was Doctor Ratu T.

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Fiji Cannot Support Large Population Plus Soil Erosion New Governor Sounds Grim Warning From Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, Nov. 30. lies ahead of Fiji unless ” soil erosion is stopped and soil conservation is drastically extended.

Fhis was the gist of an emphatic varning given by the Governor (Sir Donald Garvey) in his opening iddress at the Budget session of the legislative Council on November 28.

Sir Ronald said: “I feel I must inbrm this council immediately how tartled and horrified I have been to ee, almost everywhere, the growing igns of serious soil erosion. I know bat we have a team doing excellent oil conservation work in the Nadi asin, but this is not enough. While 'e talk with alarm about the growig population we are unwittingly etching the one means by which e can support it slip away before nr eyes. Fiji’s true capital asset is s good earth; and in my view it ust be preserved at all cost.”

The Governor’s statement is a refunding justification of the agitation a limited number of people who •r years have been asking in the cal press for adequate and faraching soil conservation measures, ften in the past this agitation has :en met by platitudinous official atements to the effect that while soil osion is undoubtedly going on in me areas, it is not yet anything to arrant startling or sensational warng statements. But in the opinion the new Governor it is, most aphatically, just that.

Sir Ronald told the Legislative )uncil: “I declare to you to-day that could not administer this Colony with a clear conscience if 1 did not press, with all the vigour that I can command, for a considerable expansion of our soil conservation measures. „ 1 have been very glad to learn, he continued, “that draft legislation is m preparation to deal in its widest aspects with the whole question of land use.

Reverting to the overwhelming evidence of serious soil erosion in Viti Levu, he said: “What I have seen from the air has filled me with dismay, for the damage done by faulty cultivation is probably small compared with the almost irreparable damage done by savannah and bush fires. Not only does this type jf burning bring soil erosion in its train but it lays the foundation for greater e yih in the form of dried-up streams. diminishing water supplies and in its most aggravated phase, an interference with seasonal rainfall itself We have only to consider the recent drought to realise how serious that can become, especially on the northwestern side of Viti Levu.”

He said that education to prevent forest fires and to aid soil conservation must be given in all the schools and he called for extensive treeplanting (including the observance of 65 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY_D E C E M B E R . 10 52

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Lastly, Sir Ronald pointed out that there appeared to be fairly large areas in north-western Viti Levu which could be reclaimed from the sea. By this means, he said, “we could recapture some of the soil that is now slipping away from us.”

Contour Ploughing

Soil conservation was also discussed, some days earlier, by the Director of Agriculture, jfrr. C.

Harvey, in the course of a talk to the Fiji Society.

“Has the land occupier the right to destroy the land, or is the land of such fundamental importance that it should be protected by law?” he asked.

For several years many Indian farmers had opposed soil conservation measures, even to the extent of ploughing out the contour-lines painstakingly put in for them by officers of the Agriculture Department. Now, however, the conservation campaign is showing signs of success—mainly because the farmers are on the way to realising that the result of soil erosion is low yields.

Generous Move by Mr.

D. C. Brown Mr. D, C. Brown, Rarotonga business man and ship-owner, will pay all expenses for a Manihiki Island boy to be sent to NZ to be educated there for three years.

The local Education Officer is to select a promising boy. The principal difficult} will be in finding a suitable boarding school in NZ, as the demand for boarding accommodation is heavy.

Mr. Brown is himself part-Mangaian. but his interest in Manihiki is through his considerable pearling activities there, Mrs. Garnett Malley returned tc Fiji on the Aorangi which lefl Sydney at the end of November. 66 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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I view of increased estimates and the •ssibility of the NZ Government reduce ig its subsidy to the Group, action be iken to introduce economies.

The Hon. Mr. Gladney, Resident Agent t Aitutaki, moved that the possibilities introducing harbour dues, customs duty i non-staple imports, and duty on :ports be investigated.

It was also suggested that each island given greater control of its own affairs the raising and spending of local venue.

Certain aspects were opposed by the irotongan representatives and a select mmittee was formed to examine and port upon the suggestions at the next >sion.

It was decided to approach the NZ vernment to finance a fruitcase timber- >wing scheme in the Group—all fruit d MOP cases at present having to be ported. The Director of Agriculture’s 'tion that the appointment of an ymologist be recommended, was also ssed.

Uso carried was a motion that In ure the amount of the NZ Government nt for the coming year be ascertained ore the annual meeting of the Islands incil, so that allotment of the funds the separate islands could be cussed. he motion that an open market be iblished at Rarotonga for the sale produce from the outer islands was sed. select committee was appointed to mine fruit prices for 1953. !r. Rae, MP, representing the NZ eminent, said that he and Mr. Wright, retary for Island Territories, would jmmend to the Government the ipletion of the central cool packing shed, urgently required at otonga to avoid fruit wastage under existing shipping service to overseas kets.

Cook Is. Fruit Wastage i example of how a large cool store ■he Cook Islands could mean a great to the economy of the fruit prong islands of the Lower Group, was onstrated in November, angaia was allotted space in the i Pomare for 5,000 cases of pinees for shipment to NZ—another 2,000 s were thrown to the pigs, en had the Maui Pomare been able :arry them, the crop ripened before arrival and these 2.000 cases were - for shipment. ven satisfactory inter-island shipping ces, this fruit could all be conveyed i central cool store at Rarotonga, 5 to be shipped at the convenience be vessel from NZ.

Large Party for Pitcairn When the Rangitoto cleared Auckland for Panama November 29, the passenger list included 17 passengers for Pitcairn, largest group to travel to the island for many years.

The party included Pastor Norman A.

Ferris and Mrs. Ferris of the Seventh Day Adventist Church who will spend a year there, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Allen, lately of Pye’s Pa Road School, near Tauranga. NZ. off to relieve Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Sanders and their two children who will return to NZ per Rangitiki in January.

Mr. Allen will be in charge of the Government School there for the next year. The Sauders have been 18 months on Pitcairn.

Mr. Floyd McCoy returned with his wife after undergoing police and radio training in NZ.

Mr. Parkin Christian, Mrs. R. K.

Jacobsen and two sons, Mr. and itfrs. R.

Young and son Alric, Mr. and Mrs. V.

Christian and son Desmond, and Miss I.

Warren completed the party.

Desmond Christian returned home after seven years at Clyde Quay School, Wellington, and Alric, who is deaf, had been taught to lip-read.

Guest speaker at the Toowoomba Rotary Club (Q.) on November 3, was Colonel J. K. Murray, former administrator of Papua and New Guinea. 67 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY_D E C E M B E R . i 952

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December, 1952 - Pacific Islands Monthly

Magazine Section

Tropicalities

Teaching Grandad (Brown)

To Make Bows

pHERE is an enthusiastic if small band of amateur archers in Victoria who not only fire at large bullssyes but actually go hunting with bows and arrows. What is more, :hey make most of their equipment From local material and from all iccounts are making a better job of t than their yeoman forebears.

Recently Melbourne bowmen hunted up some souvenir bows from New Guinea and the Solomons, reshaped the wood to give proper bend and action and fitted sights to them.

They say the result is double the range and twice the accuracy that Brown Brother ever got.

Nice to know that native arts and crafts are not altogether dying out.

Perhaps the Department of Territories would consider sending some of these bow-and-arrow hunters to P-NG to teach the natives the latest refinements of the art. Why not?

Practically every other “expert” has had a free trip to the Territory in the last six years.

The Things They Publish

In Papers!

fTHIS is what Jim Macdougall, Sydney Sun columnist wrote on November 8: Ever feel like chuckin’ it, going bush, living on yabbies and witchetty grubs just to lie back in the shade all day and hear the birds’ sweet music echoing down the blue halls of the sky and at night play music on the moonbeams? (A Sydney man) . . . recently in Fiji found a Sydney character who withdrew from business-life entirely and now paints in the silence of the Fijian countryside.

He’s Alfred Stone, who did a bit of daubing under Max Meldrum. Alf Is teaching the principles of painting to a class of 25 students, some of them Suva’s VlP’s, one of them being the Police Chief.

Twelve months ago Mr. Stone was certainly painting excellent pictures —maybe they were even after Max Meldrum. But in addition he was a qualified pharmacist (Burns Philps’ drug department), with a wife, a family, a car and a fixed domestic abode. Of course, since then he may have heard the call of the wild and gone to live on yabbies and witchetty grubs—or their Fiji equivalent. But this seems doubtful because the Sydney business man who so recently discovered him represents a wellknown manufacturer of chemists’ supplies.

Non-Bitter Orange Juice

PjPHE NSW Dept, of Agriculture _ and the CSIRO have announced in regard to orange juice experiments, that they are trying to produce an orange strain in which the juice will not go bitter when canned, or left standing in a refrigerator. They tried nine varieties of root-stock and found that the citrus variety known as trifoliata gives the best results under NSW conditions. Trifoliata has also been found capable of withstanding flooding and wet-soil conditions.

South Sea Prints’

From Japan

WE’RE all gone crazy on these hand-blocked South Sea prints”, said Mrs. Byron Haskin, of Hollywood, in a press interview when she arrived at Sydney from Fiji, where she had been working with the His Majesty O’Keefe film unit. Mrs.

Haskin said the material of her coat had been made in Samoa and that . the coat had been made up at Suva.

Although there is a Samoan artist at Apia who is producing occasional effective hand-painted designs on cotton, Samoa’s alleged textile industry is a surprise. Virtually all the “South Sea prints” (called Bula shirt material in Fiji) come from the enterprising looms of Japan.

Vividly and well printed on material of surprisingly good quality, the stuff has had a big sale in the Islands.

Which side did win the war?—J.K. (When a PIM representative was in Fiji last year, she, like most other visitors, was struck by the neat Bula silk and cotton skirtings printed with special Fiji designs, and bought freely of same. The designs were far superior to the rampant pineapples and frenzied palm trees of similar American material. She was told that the material came from Japan but that before orders were placed, UK textile manufacturers were asked to quote. This was before things got tough in the textile trade, and the UK manufacturers would not play unless they had a firm order for millions of yards of the material.

The Japs were not so choosey and since 'have supplied miles of the material to Fiji and other Pacific areas at prices with which the Welfare State could not hope to compete. To what “war” does our correspondent refer? If it is the textile war, the answer is obvious.). (Over) This Brett Hilder drawing is of Edward [?]omas Fulton of Makuranau Plantation, [?]w Britain. His planting activities are [?]mparatively recent however—Ted Fulton [?]nt to New Guinea in 1926 and except [?] war service has been there ever since bookkeeper, supercargo, Customs Beer, miner, recruiter, agent and im- [?]rter. He served with the Artillery [?]lst Contingent of 6th Div. AIF in the [?]iddle East in Second World War, [?]aping from Greece and Crete to serve [?]er in New Guinea. He was with the [?]ericans at the Aitape landing; later [?]th the British Army in Borneo.

At Present he is enjoying the rigours of [?]e Melbourne climate with his wife [?]en and two charming daughters [?]ry (aged 8) and Elizabeth (5). 69 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

Much Passion On Anahatan

MRS. KAZUKO RIGA, a woman who spent five years alone on Anahatan, 70 miles north of Saipan, with 31 obviously woman-crazy Japs, lived to tell the tale—and is going to be paid for it at one of Tokio’s largest theatres.

It is said that six men were killed because of her while they were on the island—but she denies it. She says there were only two.

When her husband disappeared at sea she went to live with No. 1. This lasted three years—until someone shot him. She then lived with No. 2 but this lasted only 20 days— then he was drowned while out fishmg. Then she lived with No. 3 for two years but did not love him.

No. 4 entered her life, and as No. 3 was an embarrassment, No. 4 stabbed him to death. She lived with No. 4 for nine months until she surrendered to the Americans.

Presumably Anahatan is the island which only recently surrendered to the Americans. For about six years after the end of the war, the handful of Japs who defended it refused to believe that the fighting was over. *hey Ju st sat r °und picking one another off, for love of Mrs. Higa. x _

Three Days Of ‘Islands’

Eats’ In Auckland

delicate odours of Islands’

J. dishes were drifting on the winds of upper Queen Street, Auckland, mid-November, when the Mormon Church held a fair in aid of its new church, being built there, Maori, Samoan and Tongan church members, of whom there are a large number in Auckland, spared no effort to outpoint one another on three successive days of feasting. The Maori cooks set the ball rolling on November 13 with foods cooked in the hangi. Next day the Samoans rolled their sleeves up and produced their favourite foods, raw ingredients of which were specially imported from the Islands. Not to be outdone, and with a two-day handicap of satisfied appetites, the Tongans took over the kitchens to show them how—and no one noticed any food lying about when the fair disbanded Saturday night.

The Maori Community Centre had been the main seat of cooking operations, though much had been done in private homes throughout Auckland.

Island handcrafts were on sale at . the fair, which was declared an unqualified success. Labour for building the chapel has been almost entirely voluntary.

Native Conchologists

THE occupants of No. 2 Administration Hostel, Rabaul, New Guinea, were recently surprised to find their habitat a matter of interest to groups of natives who would walk slowly past, staring at the verandah.

Then one evening the houseboy inquired whether Missus would like sell “sampela samting” to the visitors who stated they came from Misima.

The desired object was a shell, faded and chipped, but the boys offered £2 for it though they were happy enough to accept it as a present. —EG.

Worms, To You!

THE latest Cook Islands annual report discloses that “fully 90 per cent, of the population” suffers from intestinal helminthiasis, (in other words, hook-worm), “the chief helminths being Ascaris, Trichuris ; and Ankylostoma”, and the reinfection rate is nearly 100 per cent.

To combat the disease, the Cook Islands are going to see a lot more of those Rockefeller Foundation inventions—the little shack at the end of the jetty, and “slab and pedestal latrines”—during the coming year, if intentions as expressed : in the annual report are realised.

All-Time Record For

STOWAWAYS CONSIDERED on a stowaways-1 per-ton basis, the record of A. B.

Donald & Co’s Cook Islands trader Charlotte Donald must never have 1 been equalled.

A day after the vessel left Aitutaki, ; on November 12, 13 stowaways were • discovered on board. Just where 13 I stowaways could successfully conceal j themselves in a 300-ton vessel can \ only be understood by those familiar with Cook Islands shipping and its s dense crowds of deck passengers.

The ship took them to her nextf island, Manihiki, where it was some days later announced that they had . been released from custody. As J Manihiki has one policeman and no ; gaol we imagine that custody wasi rather an exaggeration.

Crossquiz — No. 35 (Solution on Page 80) ACROSS 1 _When is Ind e jendence Day celebrated n USA? 8. —What is the fruit >f the oak? 9. what title is due ;o the head of an empire? 10. —What is the name »f the art of making ninute and over-nice listinetions? 11. Which city is the apital of Lower Burma? 13. What was the surlame of a famous mthor of West e r n tories? 14. —Who reigned in ]ngl a n d when the Ipanish Armada was ;onquered? 17._What distinguishes he bishop’s feet from ther ecclesiastic feet? 19. —Who was often eminded by a riminologist that to ,nswer a question was lementary? 21. —What is the term or a bullfighter? 22.—Which part of a river is suitable ;or crossing?

DOWN 1. In sport what class is below the ight weights? 2. —What is the term for a man who xpects impossible perfection in a society? 3. —ln which North African country ire the ruins of ancient Carthage? 4. —What is the name of a drover who Irives cattle across Australia? 5. —Who was the chief god of the Romans? 6. —What is the term for a rowdy in Australia? 7. —What piece can you get from G-men inside a broken raft? 12.—What newspaper is published by the Government? 15. —What does the adjective, thermal, pertain to? 16. —After which European capital is a lunch named? 18.—What is 16V2 feet long? 20. —In whose land is situated the state of sleep? 70 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Fiji's Second City Has Crowing Pains AUTOKA is growing up. A few I years ago it was a shanty town ith metal tracks and wooden randahs. Now it is a shanty town ith sealed roads and concrete paveents. And even the shanties are ing supplemented and replaced in me places by the steady building d renovations taking place.

Two more concrete block strucres are being erected near BP’s; d over Drasa Avenue way there II soon be a full-blown suburb.

The sealing of the Nadi highway Drmerly a nightmare of dust and negations) is well under way, and finest stretch of road in the Colony now runs south of Lautoka.

It is becoming quite a speed-track, and we should soon be able to have a road accident-rate befitting a civilised country.

The market has proved a great innovation. The closing of the old gathering-place by the CSR lines induced everyone to go down to the new building. You now no longer buy your produce spread out on sacks on the dust; and some enterprising Indians have set up permanent stalls, something like greengrocers’ shops.

Up country, a trickle of murky water feeds a couple of duck-ponds.

With the grey sediment, and the green weed floating about, it is hardly the spot to go swimming; but it is doubtless a good breeding-place for toads and mosquitos. This fluid seeps through half a dozen rusty inlets, and is piped away to the town.

They call it a water supply. Though not quite opaque, the water certainly left its mark on the Town Board Report for 1951. The Government Pathologist had carried out some tests and turned in a report. The Chairman’s comment: “Not a satisfactory standard for human consumption”.

Well, who wants to consume water, anyway!—B. A. MILBURN.

Market emporium—powdered milk or toothbrush.

Finest stretch of road in the country—Lautoka-Nadi highway.

Enterprising Indian sets up a market stall.

Lautoka water-works. 71 IC IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

Who Owns The

Shabby Cheng Ho?

By R. W. Robson EARLY one morning in October I went out in an outrigger canoe and took this photograph. It shows the famous luxury junk Cheng Ho, as she now lies at anchor off the port of Papeete, in Tahiti, derelict and seemingly ownerless.

She is about half a mile from the waterfront. There is no caretaker aboard. Seabirds roost on her. Her rigging is broken and her sides are dirty and stained.

Back ashore, I sat on an old spar, near the Post Office, and watched the queer craft swing to the morning breeze, and wondered where I could get the story of her strange career.

And just then there came pedalling along that fascinating Tahitian thoroughfare my American friend, L, H. Simpson, skilled photographer.

He carried a book. Garden Islands of the Great East, written by the famous botanist, David Fairchild, and published a couple of years ago. In this book, Fairchild has something very interesting to say about Coconut Pearls; and we have been publishing bits and pieces in the PIM about these botanical freaks; and Simpson, remembering this, had kindly brought me the-book.

I will not deal with coconut pearls now—that subject can wait—because here is a coincidence almost beyond belief. Fairchild, the man who wrote the book that was thus brought to me as I sat staring at the Cheng Ho, actually was the first man to sail in the Cheng Ho, and in his book he tells how the junk was built, and why. And so, without moving from my lazy seat on the Papeete waterfront, I gathered the strange story.

Mrs. Anne Archbold, Of

Washington, USA, a member of one of America’s famous millionaire families, is generally famed as a patron of art and science; and she always has had a personal and special interest in botany. Thus, she became interested in David Fairchild’s great collection of tropical plants—and especially those from the Western Pacific-Southeast Asia region. She decided to organise, for Dr. Fairchild, a collecting expedition to the Philippines and East Indies, and that a ship should be built for the purpose, Mrs. Archbold knew a clever naval architect and builder, in Hongkong, Mr. Thomas Kilkenny. For years, Kilkenny had been “crazy” to design and build a new kind of craft, on the lines of a Chinese junk; and in 1938 Mrs. Archbold discussed the idea with him, and finally agreed on a plan.

The craft was designed by Kilkenny, who adhered to the Chinese style; and she was built in Hongkong under the personal supervision of Mrs.

Archbold.

She is 106 feet long, and her beam is 24 feet. Her draught is only 12 feet, so she is well suited to go among the shallow waters of the coralstrewn tropics. She is powered by twin Diesel engines, which can develop 110 hp, and send her along at 8 knots. She can carry 3,000 gallons of fresh water, and has a cruising radius of 5,000 miles. Mrs. Archbold named her Cheng Ho, after a famous Chinese admiral.

The junk was completed in 1939, almost simultaneously with the outbreak of World War 11. Dr. and Mrs. Fairchild went to the East late in 1939, and in January Mrs.

Archbold met them in Manila with the Cheng Ho, of which she was extremely proud. Wherever they went, the junk created great interest. She was very unusual and yet attractive in appearance, and was most luxuriously fitted out, and the voyagers on her enjoyed every service and amenity that money could buy.

During 1940, the party travelled! among the tropical islands—mostly Philippines and East Indies—and collected innumerable specimens. But the war situation was steadily worsening and, before that year ended, theexpedition was discontinued, the party returned to America, and the Cheng' Ho was left in a Philippines port.

THE junk was used by the United States Navy during the war, and was returned to Mrs. Archbold’s ownership in 1945 or 1946. Much had happened in those years, and Mrs. Archbold was no longer interested in the junk. With the generosity so characteristic of her, she handed the famous craft over to Mr. Otto Degener, of Honolulu, another famous botanist, to be used in advancing the cause of science.

In the then disturbed conditions,' Mr. Degener could not make effective use of the craft. He had a friend in Honolulu named Captain Eric de Bisschop. It is said that he is the' son of a very famous Frenchman, who was prominent in Vichy France between 1940 and 1945, and he held a high official post in Hawaii for some time.

Degener and Captain de Bisschop agreed that the junk should be taken over by a company headed by de Bisschop; that it should be employed in trading among the Pacific islands; and that Degener should have the option of taking her back again, for his own purposes, in July, 1952, on payment of 15,000 US dollars.

It was an uneasy partnership, f There were legal squabbles between the parties even in the first two years,! and the Cheng Ho was frequently ini the news.

Captain de Bisschop took the junk | to Tahiti, and registered her there | Cheng Ho photographed in Papeete in October. 72 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

in his own name.

During 1950 and 1951 he and his issociates used her : or trading and ransport in French Oceania. She lost nuch of her prisine glory. A large lumber of her filings were taken lut, to make room or cargo and iative passengers, nd it is reported bat they are lost. n h e rooms in diich the Amerian VlP’s travel- ;d in luxurious omfort were now iv e n over to imple islanders id the übiquitous ipra bug.

Mr. Degener. in 951, decided that 5 would exercise is option and reime possession of ie Cheng Ho. But ie situation was iund to be comicated beyond reckoning. Capin de Bisschop apparently would >t take the craft to Honolulu; she is on French-Tahitian registration, d the American courts had no juris- :tion; Degener evidently did not sh to go to Tahiti. Degener commced suit in Tahiti, directing the oceedings from Honolulu; inmerable legal difficulties cropped ; Oscar Nordman, asked to act as :gener’s agent in Papeete, in this itter, found himself helpless in the sence of Degener and his author- ;s; and no one seemed to be in a dtion to strike a financial balance as ;ween the 15,000 dollars which gener had to pay in order to take his option, and the compensation ich de Bisschop was expected to / in order to restore the junk to ' condition in which he took her ;r. \ few months ago, de Bisschop rendered the craft to the French horities in Papeete, and went off the outer islands of French -ania as an official surveyor, n October, de Bisschop still was veying in the outer islands; gener was said to be in Ceylon, some botanical business; Oscar rdman, from his big house facing quay, was helplessly biting his and taking an occasional ace at the Cheng Ho\ and the rdly-shaped dragons carved on the n of the junk glared alternately north and south, as the bedraggled Cheng Ho swung sleepily to the soft and scented trade-winds of Tahiti.

Seeking A Miscreant

A SYDNEY merchant, some time ago, got an export licence to ship 15 cases of nails to Rabaul, on the Malekula. There was some delay, and the cases missed the Malekula; but the Bulolo was sailing shortly afterwards. So some clerk wrote the name Bulolo alongside the name Malekula on the licence: the nails went forward, and everyone was happy.

The other day the merchant’s offices were invaded by a stern and unbending officer of the Customs Department. He insisted that the miscreant who had altered the precious form be delivered to him, for due and proper admonition.

After the weary merchant had dredged in vain through piles of old papers, the official gave it up, and went off to the wholesale suppliers of nails to ask what they knew about the fiendish crime.

Year by year, Australia becomes more hopelessly entangled in red tape and controls.

Pacific Nature Notes

Conducted By Raimanu

No. I—The Mongoose TN Fiji one soon comes up against A the fact that there are no indigenous land mammals in the Group.

Unless, perhaps, one allows that there is a native rat —a point on which opinions differ. Anyhow, there is one imported mammal which is all too common—the Mongoose.

So far this particular pest is common only on the two main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. Even the natives seem not to have tried to carry them from island to island.

Though I remember a story told me by an old man once. He had been living in a village on Kaba Point, and had trapped a number of mongoose and put them in a cage to take back to his home in Lau. Fortunately the then Tui Nayau boarded the boat on which he was travelling, and promptly ordered the cage and all therein carried ashore—this was at Moturiki —and cast on a big fire that was burning there.

Just how far they are going to multiply on the two main islands is not clear. So far they seem to have no natural enemies to keep them in control, and some believe that they are more numerous to-day than they were a few years ago.

Old residents consistently blame the mongoose for the disappearance of many species of birds once common.

So far as the ground nesting species go this is easily seen when one compares an island in Lau, with its swamp hens, land rails and sooty rails, with Vanua Levu, where these are no longer found. The black duck, too, is very much less numerous in mongoose areas.

Just how far tree-nesting species of birds have diminished, and how far the mongoose is responsible, are points difficult to estimate; but that the little animal does climb trees is without doubt.

A Fijian told me once of watching a mongoose climb a small coconut tree. Getting up was easy; but how to get down? As my friend watched, he saw the animal gather in his paws a bundle of the vulo, the fibrous cloth around the bases of the leaves. When the bundle was big enough the mongoose simply dropped from the tree and used the vulo as a cushion to break its fall.

R. A. Derrick mentions in his “Fiji Islands” thb catholic appetite of this The stern of the now shabby Cheng Ho in her heyday. Some of these beautiful carvings and paintings still exist, but under layers of ship’s paint. 73 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

animal, which includes a fondness for mangrove crabs. Usually the mongoose goes for the small crab, called kuka by the natives. It uses an ingenious method for catching them.

A paw is inserted into the crab hole in the mud, much as Australian schoolboys have been known to put a finger down a yabby hole (gilgie in some parts), so that the creature may nip it; then the paw is drawn smartly out and the crab flipped on to the mud, to be picked up and eaten.

My friend the Fijian even described the agonised look on the face of the mongoose as the crab nipped it. However, there was at least one occasion when the hunter met his match. One day a woman came back from the mangroves with a big crab—called qari—and grasped firmly in its claw by the head was a very dead mongoose.

An epidemic of mumps among school children in Rarotonga during November closed all schools, cinemas and public gatherings for several weeks.

“Bom-Bom ” Fishing At Mal Island

By Sydney H. Chance

THE New Guinea and Papuan natives have many ways of catching fish—hand and rod lines, set lines, spearing, underwater spear (bow and arrow), fishing, trapping, netting, line trawling, trolling, poisoning with derris root (known, appropriately, as “New Guinea Dynamite”) and—probably the most spectacular of all—by kite fishing.

This article will describe what I shall call, for want of a better word, “Bom Bom” fishing, as practised in Ninigo region of the Western Islands, some 180 miles WNW of Manus; to be precise, at Mai Island, one of the outer islands surrounding the huge lagoon. Mai is well-named. It is one of the Mal-est places in the world—steaming hot, sandflies by the million, and more mosquitoes than Bioto (described by the Italian D’Albertis as another of the torments of Hades!) All the Western Islands are surrounded by a shelf of coral reef, anything from a few to one hundred yards in width. In some casesj soundings of one thousand fathoms have been recorded not far off shore.

The only way to anchor is to put your “hook” on the reef edge and trust to the off shore wind to keep you off the coral. As a change ofi wind would spell disaster, skippers prefer to “lay off and on”—that is, keep well clear and just run up and down while waiting at each individual island.

The coral reef on the sea side ofi Mai, behind the plantation residence* is over one hundred yards fromi sandbeach to reef edge, and a good! tide covers it by two to three feet..

See (a). I was there in 1921, taking; over the plantations from the Germans for the Australian Government., In response to my query, as Native; Labour Inspector, “Do the labourers; get fish?” Herr Eyssen said: “Tonight you shall see. The tide willl be good and Manager Zoeller has; arranged to show you our Bomi Bom fishing”. A Bom Bom (Pidgin) is simply a coconut palm frond split: down the middle; the rope of Born; Boms (see sketch) is merely lengths; of cane (calamus) with the halffronds lashed on, one this way, one; that way!

Now for the moonlight fish. Twoi large canoes, loaded with the rope,, go out to the reef edge by a circuitous route so as not to frighten the fish. Here they join up and eventually finish up (see b) on the: sandbeach.

The rope is then slowly and surely hauled in until it forms a rectangle as at (d). Should it catch on a rock as at (b) c, it is lifted over by one of the perimeter-patrolling “fishermen” who, slowly walking forward, and to and fro, keep the frightened fish inside the rope. Of course a few fish jump the obstruction and quite a few are speared as they try to do so.

It is all very exciting, and quite thrilling. The frame net (see sketch) is then placed in position (d) and the concentration of captives is chased into it. I was amazed at the catch, hundred and hundreds, including several small sharks.

Then, as I was sceptical as to the continuity of supplies, the delighted natives, at my request, repeated the performance and got as many again —very many for each one of them,: and quite a number for the White Masters. 74 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

'Finish-Time’

BY JPS IHE engine room telegraph jangled faintly and the whine of the isel motor eased to a lower rumble.

The kuss-kuss dropped his book, ung his legs over the side of the nk, slipped his feet into a pair of ! sandals, and reached for a shirt, it visible from the single porte, ahead on the starboard bow, 5 the extremity of a low island.

Je thumbed through the Bills of ling—l 2 cases of meat, 2 bales ira sacks, 2 cases beer—awaiting usual call.

Masta! Captain ’e like talk along I ”

Alright, Mapu.” Just the usual ding.

"he Old Man was leaning over bridge rail watching the boats ig prepared.

Well, there she is. Mister,” he I. “The boss-boy knows the pas- J. Just keep the copra shed on end of the pier in line with the se ashore. That’ll lead you up the entrance. And keep ’em ring. We’ve got to get to-hell- -gone out of here before sunset.

II hold old Harper’s beer till the Tell ’im it’s buried under other ;o, or something. Otherwise we sn’t got a hope of getting away, won’t like it—but he’ll keep ’em nng till that beer comes ashore. ! remember those finish-time boys we’re taking back to Rabauf.” he engines were at dead slow , and the pinnace in its slings * the side, ready to drop in the it. There was no anchorage here, little ship would circle slowly all afternoon as the motor-pinnace tied back and forth from ship to e, the boats with plantation cargo mpty on the shoreward trip, and (-laden with bagged copra from shore. innace and first boat overside, the -kuss dropped into the boat signalled the pinnace-boy full id. Already there, with their den trade-chests, were twelve new k boys coming to replace the ; ashore who had finished their years’ contract. They were the :al scrawny bunch of raw recruits, witted, lack-lustre-eyed, stupid leep. Even the boat’s crew, their race, made fun of them, pushthem around. ow the hell could one get any jI work out of a bunch like this, kuss-kuss wondered. And yet, x months, they would be different Amazing what regular and le food could do to them. Soon would be almost fat, their skin sleek, eyes bright, and vastly more alert of mind.

But, even so, these Sepiks depressed the kuss-kuss. More like faithful dogs than human beings. Seemed to have no emotions whatever.

Imagine them being in love, for instance . . , All afternoon the work went on.

Harper had disappeared towards the house to read, and reply to his mail; reappearing at intervals to curse the Mate for having let the beer get buried. Wasn’t it an unwritten law that the liquor was always to come ashore in the first boat? What kind of a bloody Mate was he. Three months since the last boat. Hell!

With the sun already low, and the last 20 bags of copra crossing the weighing machine in the shade of the big fig tree, the kuss-kuss sent a chit to the Mate to lift all but one of the boats, and release the beer.

Yes, the finish-time boys were down at the end of the jetty with their boxes. There’d be no delay.

The kuss-kuss and the plantation manager walked down the coral pier.

“Well, there’s your dozen Sepiks” said Harper. “We no sooner break them in than we lose them. Always get the rough stuff out here in the Western Islands. Well, they‘re all yours. Sign here.”

The kuss-kuss, in a quick glance, saw that they were all present, signed, and jumped into the stern of the boat.

“Alright you-fella; get along boat quick-time,” he said to the Sepiks.

Slowly, almost sullenly, the Sepiks rose, shouldered their boxes and moved to the waiting boat. What the blazes is wrong with them, the kusskuss wondered. After two years on this lousy, mosquito-ridden sand-spit, you’d think they’d come at the gallop.

Then, suddenly, the men were surrounded by local women, many of them nursing babies, the women crying bitterly. Desolation in their eyes, each clung wailing to her man.

Momentarily, the kuss-kuss hesitated. But with Harper’s cynical, almost amused gaze on him, and the distant, dull, insistent bellow of the ship’s hooter sounding the Old Man’s impatience, this was no time for sentiment. Still, it made you think.

“Alright, come on you-fella. Maski this-fella fashion all man ’e cry allasame piccanny. Now get along boat quick-time.”

At the same time the boat’s crew seized the boxes and passed them quickly down. Reluctantly the Sepiks pushed the women aside and stepped down. “Alright, passim line ’long pinnace. Well, so long, Harper. See you in March.”

As the tow-line took the strain with a jerk, and the boat swung her bow seaward and surged away from the pier, the Sepiks, their faces streaming with tears, suddenly burst into a spontaneous, deep-throated chant of farewell, almost as though they realised that it was most unlikely that they would ever set eyes on these erst-while wives and their children again.

Well, what the Hell, the kuss~ kuss thought. This was nothing new.

It was going on everywhere around these Islands. After all, you could hardly expect a plantation-owner to hand out good money on the transport of labourers’ wives and children.

They didn’t do any useful work on the place. Anyway, these fellows would have forgotten the whole business by to-morrow. Still, it certainly made you think, didn’t it. Let’s get away from this bloody island-

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The Repudiated Annexation of 1883 By W. H. MacFarlane THE story of Sir Peter Scratchley’s foundation work in Papua, related in the August issue of PIM. presents a new feature of New Guinea history to many Territorians and Australians.

It is worth while recalling, however, that there is another name intimately bound up with early New Guinea days, and associated with a rather startling incident that happened a year or so before Sir Peter’s arrival—that of Lieutenant Henry Majoribanks Chester, late of the Indian Navy, the man who formally annexed British New Guinea on April 4, 1883. Chester’s name is fairly well known in connection with this act of annexation, of course; but usually there is the implication that he was merely a rubber-stamp Government official carrying out the instructions of his superior without much in the way of personal interest in the whole business. To the contrary, over the previous 15 years this determined, courageous Britisher of somewhat choleric disposition but far-seeing judgment and vision, had been urging that the flag, which had been shown from time to time and even hoisted on occasion in virtue of a British claim, should be followed by an act of duly-constituted settlement. Frequent excursions to New Guinea’s coastal areas and parts of the interior had led him to an appreciation of its commercial potentialities as well as its strategic importance.

Chester had a colourful background. Born on December 30, 1832, in the days of large families, he was the youngest sen and the twentieth child of a London Anglican clergyman who later became a military chaplain in Madras, leaving the boy at home to be educated. Young Henry Majoribanks was enrolled at the famous Blue Coat school in London, trained for the sea at the Royal Mathematical School, and then, about 1849 joined the Indian Navy, at that time under the control of the East India Company.

He was a lieutenant when the Indian Navy was abolished in 1862, and was given an appointment as British political agent at the court of the Imam of Muscat and Sultan of Oman. He served all through the Persian War; was navigating lieutenant at the bombardment of the Mohammerah forts; and twice mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the Persia War Medal and clasp. He was an accomplished linguist, speaking fluent French, Arabic and Hindustani; and he was proficient in Persian literature. A man of fine physique, he was a splendid athlete and an adept with the foils.

The middle ’sixties found the lieutenant in Australia, as correspondence clerk in the Union Bank at Brisbane. Then he was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands and Police Magistrate at Warrego. He had a practical knowledge of surveying and was called to lay out the townships of Charleville and Cunnamulla, both towns being sold on his survey. Bad times brought retrenchment, and Chester became Government Land Agent at Gladstone and Gympie.

When in 1869, Frank Jardine, then Resident Magistrate at Somerset, went on leave, Lieutenant Chester was sent up to Queensland’s fingertip to take charge of the settlement.

At that time the islands of Torres Strait were more or less open territory, and a big pearl-shelling rush was responsible for some lively happenings concerning which he had voluminous correspondence with the Colonial Secretary. Copies of these reports are in the old Somerset official letterbooks. New Guinea was less than 100 miles away. Chester immediately began to cast eyes in that direction, telling his superiors that something should be' done about control under British authority. As a step towards this, he acquired a small boat from a wreck, and sailed out into the Strait to have a look at things for himself.

The return of Frank Jardine left him temporarily without a job; but he took advantage of the chance to see more of New Guinea, and to estimate the possibilities of trade relations. On a visit to Brisbane in 1872, he read a lengthy paper on NG to a large gathering. He recounted his own experiences and those of others. During the previous year, the first missionaries of the London Missionary Society had gone to New Guinea; and shortly after, Captain Moresby in HMS Basilisk was travelling those waters, placing new names on the map, and incidentally following this up later by hoisting anotht flag—this time at Hayter Islam Chester was friendly with the mii sionaries; but his warmest missionaa association was with the Reveren James Chalmers (“Tamate”) wh joined the LMS staff in 1877. Th two men were like brothers, ii variably addressing one another £ “Tamate” and “Mamoose”, the latte being a name usually applied to Torres Strait chief.

The hoisting of the British flag at Poi Moresby in April 1888 is well-enoug; known. So is the name of the man wh performed the task; and subsequent ro pudiation by the British Government But most people have assumed that witl Chester this act of Empire-building wen no further than his carrying on instructions—little has been known of th man himself, or his avid interest in th then unclaimed territory of New Guines The act of repudiation has always bee 1 somewhat of a mystery. Apart from th averred desire not to offend a friendll Power, Germany, in the person of Princ Bismarck, then playing at heavs diplomacy in the disposal of NG, thi reasons may well have been as indicate; here: Horror that a fledgling Colony lib Queensland had taken the law into it own hands and had done the job wit; the minimum of fuss, and expense. N 1 sooner had the Imperial Governmen repudiated Queensland’s action than the: set about doing the same job, in theii own way. They chose their own man their own ships and their own method! but by that time Germany had addec that part of New Guinea we now cal the Trusteeship Territory to the Germai.

Empire. (See the story of Sir Pete; Scratchley in August PIM).

As one move towards New Guinea development. Chester attempted t< launch a “New Guinea Tradin.i Company” early in July, 1873. It! prospectus proposed a capital a £3,000 in 150 shares of £2O each There were to be two sections—f trading party and a mining expedi tion, the latter to be under commam of an ex-US army officer name* Bennett, with Chester in full charge The venture seems to have died af birth.

By 1875, owing to various changes in personnel, Chester was back again at Somerset as Police Magistrate, to direct the affairs of the outpost ano begin preparations for removing it to a more suitable site amongst th* islands, where the pearlers werr centred. Thursday Island was ultii mately selected by the authorities a:* the new headquarters, and accordf ingly, after necessary official build! ings had been erected, the Police Magistrate sailed across to his nev residence 30 miles away, and begar occupation in September, 1877.

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Represented in Suva, Fiji, by COLONIAL MOTORS happenings and by the insistent demands of Chester, began to stir up further interest in New Guinea. They looked to the Prince of Wales Islands (of which TI is the central island) as the place from where “we may attain to the peaceful acquisition of New Guinea.”

Chester had barely settled in when the Hon. John Douglas (then Premier of Queensland) requested him to make a further exploratory trip— this time to the south-western section of Papua—to encourage friendly relations with the little-known people there, and obtain samples of sago, nutmegs, ebony, or other articles of trade. The result was published by the Government in a 40-page booklet, printed in 1878, containing also a mass of information and details ot another expedition a few months afterwards when Chester and Chalmers spent several weeks investigating the coast in the missionary* steamer Ellangowan, and making lengthy land journeys.

The report met with criticism in some quarters. One Southern newspaper thought Chester’s picture was not rosy enough to justify Europeans facing the prospect of settling: in such moist, low-lying country' peopled by bold and hostile natives.

“It repels rather than invites occupation” it declared, and smugly went: on to say— “We have no desire for the discovery of any Land of Promise; or Garden of Eden so close as tempt any of our population—already too small for proper development of: our own resources—to desert us for the new enticements. We have room: and to spare for all-comers for a century or two to come.” A different; opinion was expressed by another journal, however, in 1880, after the; publication of an article giving cogent reasons for the annexation of New Guinea without delay. Readers were asked to picture the prospect of a.

Russian man-o’-war landing an armed, party and seizing the remaining part of the island of which the Dutch had already claimed a big slice.

Several more years were wasted; 78 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

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I •Ws esf 1W Always use SHELL Motor Spirit and Oil The Shell Company of Australia Limited (Incorporated in Great Britain). >wever until on a happy day in 1883, ieutenant Chester received an official jmmunication from Sir Thomas [ellwraith (Queensland Premier) lat he was to lead a party to Port Eoresby for the purpose of formally mexing British New Guinea, ■oudly the flag was run up on the ast of the little two-gun Governent cutter Pearl as Chester, a uple of ex-man-o’-war’s men as ew, and some others, sailed out of lursday Island harbour. He was ling (as he thought) with the action of the Home Government, take a most important step and ie that he had himself been urging r years.

The Pearl arrived at Port Moresby i April 3, 1883. Mr, Chester went hore, and acquainted the people at s mission station with the object his visit. The following morning, ten o’clock, the Police Magistrate lemnly hoisted the Union Jack at ; mission flagstaff. A salute of two ns followed from the Pearl, and J company gave loud cheers for the icen, who was now to be their ler. “I then,” says Chester, in his 3ort to the Chief Secretary, “in the ssence of the people, recognised ie Vagi as head crief of Moresby, d gave the flag into his charge, til such time as an official should sent to represent the Government. *. Lawes (missionary), kindly exlined the meaning of the ceremony the people, and assured them that :y would remain in undisturbed ssession of their lands. An missive prayer terminated the probings, after which about £5O worth trade was distributed to the heads families.”

After this the natives made the Jtomary present; and then the ropeans, with the native mission chers and their wives, and Boe gi, were entertained at a banquet Messrs. Lawes and Chalmers, at ich “Prosperity to the latest gem led to the British Crown” was ink. In due course the Pearl rened jubilantly to Thursday Island, ithern papers printed sketches of annexation group round the flag' ff. fhe rest of the story is well known, r Majesty’s ministers, after recovig from their first shock on being Drmed that a mere colonial policegistrate in a cutter little bigger n a fishing boat, had added a big tion of new land and a good many usands of part-civilised and comtely uncivilised natives to the Old .intry’s maternal care, debated the tter, and Mr. Gladstone in the use of Commons ponderously de- *ed that the proceedings were null and void. What Mr. Chester had to say about it when he heard of the decision is not on record, but may well be guessed.

But the Home Government was not altogether happy about events. In the same month that Gladstone had spoken (July, 1883), Mr. H. H.

Romilly, a man who had spent many years in the Eastern Pacific holding Government appointments, received a telegram from Lord Derby instructing him to proceed to Port Moresby.

He arrived in November, 1883.

Twelve months later, Commodore Erskine sailed into the port with an imposing squadron, and the official proclamation of a Protectorate was finally carried out, in a series of picturesque ceremonies which appealed to the native eye. Messrs. Lawes and Chalmers again giving a helping hand and tongue. Mr. Romilly was left in possession of the now accredited British New Guinea as Acting-Commissioner, pending the arrival of Sir Peter Scratchley.

Lieutenant Chester followed the succession of events with only halfhearted satisfaction. He had wished to see the whole of the section unoccupied by the Dutch under British colours. It was not until 1914 that he felt happy in the fulfilment of his long-cherished ideal. As he lay in a Brisbane hospital, nearing the end of his vigorously-active life, his son brought the news that Australian 79 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Western Islands (west of Manus) during the past two years. troops had reclaimed that part of Nev Guinea which had been within thi area of his own flag-hoisting. . . H] whispered a fervent “Thank God!!

They were almost his last words.

A grave in Toowong Cemetery (Brisbane) carries on its headstoni the announcement that Henry Majoribanks Chester formally an nexed British New Guinea at th< direction of Sir Thomas McllwraitH on April 4, 1883.

Wiht his undoubted administrai live gifts and other qualifications! his forceful personality, his urg« for pioneering and his full appre: ciation of the glory of th* British flag, he has left a worthy name in the annals of North Aus*! tralian and New Guinea history. Th« old hands of the North recall “HMC r as a colourful figure in the army of Empire builders, whose exploit; should not be allowed to fade awav into the mists. 80

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WPHC Moves to Honiar[?] (Prom Our Own Correspondent) SUVA, Nov. 19.

A CONSIDERABLE amount o agitation is evident in Wes? ern Pacific High Commission heao quarters in Suva as they prepare fc the move to Honiara, BSI.

There is a good deal of packing 0 be done because the records g; back for nearly eighty years.

The WPHC has announced: will be very difficult for the WPH* office at Suva to attend to routin correspondence on general matteii after December 1, and the co-opera tion of the public in this matte would be gratefully appreciated.”

The High Commissioner (Mr. F C. S. Stanley) expects to leave Suw in the RCS Kurimarau on Decembe 15 and to arrive at Honiara on De cember 22. The official date of thi headquarters transfer is January I The Chief Secretary will leave fa Honiara in January, and a small of fice will remain at Suva to completl the transfer.

Mr. D. R. Eden, general manage of Reparation Estates, W. Samos has been reappointed to the Soutl Pacific Commission. 82 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Niueans Petition To Minister From Our Own Correspondent NIUE, November 6.

PHE petition asking for the removal from the Island of Morion missionaries, sent to the Hon. lifton Webb, NZ Minister for land Territories, by the Niueans ceived a good deal of publicity in le New Zealand Press, although as te as September 18 Mr. Webb deed ever having received it. Mower, notwithstanding the ministerial nial, the Niueans received an ackawledgement of the receipt of the tition with an August date line and so an official reply dated October At a recent meeting of islanders, committee representing all the vilges sent another letter to Mr. Webb iting that they now wish to send eir complaints to Great Britain, ley asked also that the promise ade at the time of the Annexation the island—that Niue should have ne Church only, forever” be up- Id.

There is a distinct trend in Island : airs at the moment to re-establish e rule of the Patu (A Patu is a arried man who has a voice in the 'airs of the village) as there is ssatisfaction at the impotence of 2 Island Council to adequately exess the voice of the majority of e people. Many of the Niueans are ing even further and want to elect Patuiki (head or chief) or king as ey did in the old days. [?]o Penal Clauses in Nauru IENAL clauses have been deleted from the native and Chinese •our ordinances of Nauru. Some ie ago they were removed from ; P-NG native labour ordinance. . Hasluck (Minister for Australian rritories) says that this has been ie on a recommendation from the ited Nations Trusteeship Council. fust what it means to Nauru would hard to say. The British Phosde Commission is virtually the y employer of labour which it ains from the Gilberts or Hongig. Evidently their only redress breaches of labour contracts is ship the culprits back home—and p them while waiting for a ship do so. Unlike P-NG, absconding Durers should be no problem at On the small island of Nauru re is nowhere to abscond to.

Tonga’s Peanut Venture pRINCE TUTPELEHAKE, who is visiting Auckland with his mother. Queen Salote, in November- December, reported that the Tongan Department of Agriculture is pressing ahead with peanut growing. British tractors and bulldozers will aid in breaking up additional land and it is anticipated that peanuts will soon be a valuable alternative export crop to copra.

It is understood that New Zealand is willing to import a large quantity of peanuts.

Launching of Tahitien Governor petitbon, o f French Oceania, and Deputy Pouvaana a Oopa, who returned to Tahiti recently from France, were present there at the launching of the second of Messageries Maritimes new 10,700-ton, 15-knot passenger vessels for the Pacific service—the Tahitien.

Caledonien, at present on her maiden voyage to the Pacific, and Tahitien, are the first two of eight similar ships to be built for the company. Three will be used on the Pacific run. 83 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Brand Perlon Fishing Brand Briar Tobacco Indonesians Leave New Caledonia aptain Cook relics consisting of a of silver dividers, a silverinted pencil, an ivory rule and a ;r-mounted leather container were >ng articles stolen from the Ausan Museum in Sydney in November. Police believe that the culprit is a youth who picked the locks of the museum showcases. The other articles were recovered in a pawnshop but the Cook relics are still missing.

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Letter to the Editor THERE is considerable interest here in the failure of the Australian navigation authorities to make any official inquiry into the loss, between Sydney and Lord Howe Island, of the small Islands ship Awahou, which was well known here, and in ports northward. There have been persistent statements that the ship was an unsafe ship under certain conditions, and a marine inquiry would have cleared up some of these points.

I am, etc., JPS Auckland. NZ.

On receipt of this note, the PIM made a formal inquiry at the Australian Department of Navigation.

We were informed that the Awahou was registered in Fiji, not in Australia, and Australia, therefore, cannot undertake such an inquiry except at the direct request of the Fiji authorities.

The Navigation spokesman added that the Awahou had been closely examined by his officers before she left Sydney on her last voyage, and she was classed as completely seaworthy, and the stowage of her cargo was in all respects seaworthy. There was no fear in relation to her stability. Reports received from Lord Howe Island indicated that the weather in that vicinity, just before the last radio message was received from the Awahou . was worse than had been known for years, and the theory was that a huge wave had caught the little ship broadside, and overwhelmed her. It could have happened to any little ship.

The Indonesians, brought In originally as indentured labourers, and kept there by war conditions, now are leaving New Caledonia at their own wish.

A Norwegian ship (see photo above by Dunn) on September 18 took 1,200 of them away from. Noumea, and another shipload will leave within two months.

Their departure has sharply increased the labour shortage.

New Caledonia is planning to bring in more workers from overseas. Two large parties of Italians (mostly single men) arrived recently. There also Is talk of bringing in some thousands of Japanese mineworkers—really kite-flying, to see how Australia reacts to the idea.

Photo shows (above) the depart u r e scenes as 1,200 Javanese went aboard; (below) some of the departing children, born in NC. 85 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— DECEMBER, 1952

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Mr. J. A. Johnstone, MBE, of Honiara, and J. C Vouza, GM, District Headmen of Tasimboko, Guadalcanal, have been chosen as official representatives of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

P. Binatake Tokatake will represent the Gilbert and Ellice Islan colony.

Arrangements have been made 1 the representatives to travel to Lo don by air, leaving Sydney on Ml 23, 1953, and returning from t United Kingdom by sea approximate one month later.

While in the UK they will treated as distinguished visitors ai will be given seats in Westminst Abbey for the coronation ceremon Mr. J. A. Johnstone is well kno\ to Islands residents, has been in tl Protectorate for 30 years engaging commercial and mining activities a during the war serving there with t Americans. District Headman Vom as Sgt. Major Vouza, was awardl the George Medal for refusing to gii information when taken prisoner 1 the Japanese, in spite of beii bayoneted many times by li questioners.

Binatake Takatake is a descendai of Ten Binoka, High Chief Abemama, Kuria and Aranuka. t was appointed Assistant Admin: trative Officer in 1950.

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Rabaul, NG, in November. 86 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS iMONTHLI

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Matua sailed from Auckland on :tober 30, on her first Islands run ice she was withdrawn in February nding recovery of the banana ide. Matua will stay on the Pacific rvice. In December she will make trip Auckland-Suva and return.

January and February, she will d Lyttelton (NZ) and Lautoka iji) to her ports of call.

Maui Pomare, on the Cook Islands’ vice, is expected to sail from Auckid on November 6, December 8, i January 12, before being laid for her usual lengthy refit.

Hongkong Transfer for W. J. Blackie HE Deputy Director of Agriculture in Fiji, Mr. W. J. Blackie, has ;n appointed Director of Agriture, Hongkong. will leave Fiji in February and >ceed to his new appointment after ) months’ leave in New Zealand.

Vlr. Blackie is a New Zealander, attended the University there and 3 Yale, in the United States. He it to Fiji as Government Chemist 1 Analyst in 1929, and was tointed Deputy Director of Agriture in 1947. w Radio Stations for Tonga HE Tongan Post and Telegraph Department is to completely reip its radio stations. It is reported an Auckland firm will soon commence struction of a 250-watt telephone and ?raph transmitter for Nukualofa, and L5-watt transmitters and receivers for Nations. i interesting feature of the equipment g supplied in the short whip-type ical transmitting antenna, one of :h will be installed at each outstation. y are ideal for the short-range work Ived—in most cases about 20 miles id have the advantage of low wind stance in the event of hurricanes.

Northward Bound Auckland Arrivals And More Island Travellers Returning to the Islands from Auckland, NZ, in November were (left to right): Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Browne of Cable & Wireless, Suva, after nine months’ vacation in Australia and Europe. Mr. T. Robson, Resident Commissioner of Savaii, W. Samoa, who was taking Peter and David home for the Christmas holidays, from Auckland, where they attend school. Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Chisholm, after three months in NZ—Mr. Chisholm, manager for MH’s in W. Samoa, has been 31 years in the Islands.

Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Hodginson and Peter were bound for Apia where Mr. Hodginson has been appointed Dispenser at Apia Hospital, in succession to Mr. W. A. C. Turner, Mr. Henry Peterson, on three months' leave from Apia. Mrs. M. L. Panckhurst, of Nadi, who has been engaged with the “O’Keefe” film unit recently.

Maui Pomare passengers bound for the Cook Ilands in November included (left to right): Mr. D. MaMahon, of Wellington, to join the Department of Agriculture staff at Raotonga. Miss Margaret Vahua, representative in New Zealand pf the Cook Islands Girl Guide movement, who will visit Girl Guide units in the Cooks.

Mr. Keneth Holt , o f Wellington, who will join the Post & Telegraph Department st a ff at Rarotonga. Mrs. T. Gardner, now of Wellington, who made her first visit to her home island, Rarotonga, in 10 years.

Included in passenger list of Matua arriving in Auckland in November were (left to right): Miss D. Bartley, from Apia. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Clark, of Public Works Department, Suva, on leave. 87 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 195 2

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Southern Cross on Varied Mission Jobs (From Our Own Correspondent) NOUMEA, Nov. 4.

THE Melanesian Mission’s MV “Southern Cross” sailed from Honiara, BSI, for New Zealand via the New Hebrides oni October 31, with the Rt. Rev. S. G. Caulton, Bishop of Melanesia, who will tour New Hebrides Mission stations, andl Messrs. John Clayton and W. Harbutt wha are returning: to New’ Zealand after twoi years’ work with the Mission in BSI.

Recently from Lae, New Guinea, thei Southern Cross brought back two prefabricated houses, one for the Mission’s Girls’ School at Bungana, near Tulagl,, and one for the school for junior boys at!

Maravovo. Australian timber was taken to Fuabu on Malaita, for completion of the Mission’s leper colony there, and! timber from a church and house at Make,, South Malaita, was transferred to Pawa,. in Eastern Solomons for building a new chapel. The chapel at Pawa is welll known for the skilled native carving and mrther-of-pearl inlays used in the in-' terior of the building, and these examples: of craftemanship, now fast dying out,, will be incorporated in the new and! larger building. The exterior of the new Chapel will be constructed on European; lines.

The Mission’s printing press at Taroaniara has now been rebuilt by Mr.

F. W. Isom, and the first publication, since the war was produced at the end of October.

The appointment of Mr. L., Richards, formerly an Administrative officer in Tanganyika, to the British Service in the New Hebrides was; gazetted in the WPHC Gazette of October 7. His appointment—he will be Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific, a Deputy Registrad of High Commissioner’s Court in thej NH, British District Agent Central, District, and Commandant of Con-| stabulary—takes effect from mid-| August. 88 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Mannequin parades for charity are the thing these days-and Port Moresby in the fashion at the end of October when a parade was held for the local [?]ch of the County Women's Assn. Photo shows three of the local amateur [?]els going through their paces-from left to right, Mrs. Doreen McKillop, Mrs. [?]a Jones, and Miss Noreen Maher. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

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Further Advances in Lepro Treatment WHEN the annual appeal w made recently in New Zealai for funds to aid in the treatment leper patients, the great success the new sulphone drug DDS (dia ino-diphenyl-sulphone) was seen.

But although DDS is proving great healer, the after-effects of t disease, in the form of atrophi muscles, have until now remaim Mr. P. J. Twomey, of t Lepers Trust Board, returning frc New Caledonia in November, ; ported that a French scientist attach to the Ducos Leper Hospital the has developed an electrical machi which has already proved higl effective in aiding the complete mi cular rehabilitation of the patie: The Lepers’ Trust Board of Ni Zealand has now donated six of the machines to Ducos, and others v go to the Makogai hospital in F DDS and the new machines op up a new hope for complete cure this widespread disease in the Pad Islands.

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(A Letter to the Editor) RITISH Solomon Islands planters are still hammering away with r iew to drawing attention to their wances —but results, to date, have n nil. One wonders just what itehall intends for this neglected t of the British Empire—or if, ;ed, it intends anything. All indions, up to the present, point to a cy of sheer inanition: BSI, mtially rich, is evidently to be wed to wither on the vine.

SI needs new blood, new ideas, capital—but what, we ask cures, is there in the Protectorate to ict any of these? And the answer nothing. is profitable to work existing tations at Ministry of Food prices it is not profitable to lay down coconut areas—and even if it ; profitable at present costs and ;s, the overwhelming advantages imilar activities in New Guinea Id compel any investor to spurn in favour of the Australian itory. le same disadvantages apply to ng. The Government Trade me, as it is known, came into I in 1946 when it became ob- -5 that the big pre-war trading Janies of Burns Philp and W. R. enter would not recommence ng activities. The Scheme took a number of Quonset and igloo ings on Honiara waterfront and then have opened agencies on ■ islands and act as copra purng agents for the British dry of Food. The Trade Scheme a gap in the re-establishment anting, etc., after the war, but ier it should continue to ion along present lines is open ►ubt. :hough the Honiara stores conto be housed in shabby warbuildings, the Government will illow any private individual to stores in opposition within the ined limits of the so-called opolitan” area. Any private lercial buildings in the township jniara have to comply with the building regulations as Suva— s, be built in brick or concrete, is, in many respects, unle for Guadalcanal, h the exception of Lever Bros., ie but the Trade Scheme has a s to export copra—which means planters must sell their copra through this organisation or not at all. If the T.S. exercised a benevolent interest in the welfare of planters there might be some excuse for their continued experience but the purpose of the Trade Scheme is to make profits for the Government, and for nothing else. One instance of this was that for a long period they were charging 25/- per ton insurance against fire risk on stored copra for which they themselves were paying only 5/-. (Fairymead Sugar Co. more recently were given permission to buy copra.) Against all advice, the post-warcapital of the BSIP was set up at.

Honiara on Guadalcanal instead of at the pre-war site of Tulagi. The part of the coast near Honiara is without protection from the sea, subject to earthquakes, and, since the big storm of January 1952, has been. 91 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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There are now no wharves left on jadalcanal and ships use Tulagi. dications are that, in spite of what ; Government planners intend, ilagi may yet become the comsrcial centre, leaving Honiara to s Government. But these mixed licies are unlikely to attract comrcial enterprise which needs, above i good wharf and communication ilities. tfeavy income tax (with a surirge added thereto) causes prostive planters and others to look ance at the British Solomon inds as a field for investment, fhe grants made by the British vernment since the war have been ifficient to enable the Administrai to operate in the best interests the country or to make good the ages of war (no war-damage comsation was paid in BSIP) and the ninistration has been forced to ce good deficiencies in revenue by osing taxation. his state of affairs is in the nature a vicious circle—the commercial agricultural development of the P has been insufficient to justify e amounts being raised through tion, but with constantly recurdeficits the BSIP has been compelled to take the line of least resistance and impose taxation to an extent that is prejudicial to the ultimate welfare of the country and the development of agriculture, and, in particular coconut planting.

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So far as the natives are concerned.

Government attempts to stimulate native agriculture have been so unsuccessful as to scarcely warrant any comment. Native produced copra today is much less than it was in prewar days, and no other alternative cash crops have been introduced into the native economy.

I am, etc., SORROWFUL PLANTER.

Honiara, BSI.

October 1, 1952.

Dip Narayan Singh, of Fiji, was sentenced to six months gaol pending deportation in Sydney on Dec. 1. 93

Mfic Islands Monthly December. I 952

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Fijian Cricketers for NZ r T'HE New Zealand Cricket Council announced in November that it has accepted the offer of Fiji to send a team south in the 1953-54 summer season "subject to satisfactory financial terms being arranged”.

The last Fijian cricket team which visited New Zealand in 1948 won six of the 17 matches, drew 8 and lost 3.

As with their football, the Fijians managed to make cricket seem a lot more interesting than many of the public normally expect it to be.

Mr. Vincent Cottell, who has been assistant treasurer at Niue Is. for the past six months, has now returned to New Zealand.

Increased Banana Export: From Samoa Cocoa Still Slow to Move From Our Own Correspondent APIA, Nov. 11. I ON her first call at Apia, sine Suva’s January hurricane too! her from the Pacific run, MV Matu in November lifted 8,000 cases o bananas from this port.

The Tofua a month ago took on! about half of this quantity. Th improvement is due mainly to th breadfruit crop coming in now, thu releasing bananas ordinarily used fo food by the Samoans.

There are still fairly large stock of Samoan cocoa beans on hand ii Apia sheds as overseas buyers ii USA and UK have been cautious o late to make firm offers.

It is probable, however, that buy ing will again begin in January am February when cocoa manufacturer have to replenish their stocks afte the Christmas period.

Smaller parcels of cocoa have re cently been disposed of for price varying from £.220 to £240. 94 DECEMBER, 1952-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHIV

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Letter to the Editor STAVING just returned to my Police • Post from a rather long and wet »trol, I’ve taken the evening off from eftist Socialist Planning to read the ctober issue of PIM. Three articles irticularly caught my eye.

Firstly, there was your Moresby Special Correspondent’s” blurb about the :ting Administrator’s position, and his rrent inability, due to his “acting” role, dealing with the “many gentlemen of rong Socialist views who were planted the P-NG service by the Wardist gime, or have percolated here through e Mosman School of Pacific Administratn Are the statutory powers of an Acting Iministrator less than those of an apinted Administrator? I think not. As • these Long-haired Lettish Socialist -ASOPA l’m one, I ppose. I did a two years’ course there, e also spent some seven odd years up re, part of it scrapping against brother p, after a couple of years scrapping ainst brother Hun in the M.E.; but i only a boy yet.

Vow, on the whole, I wish 1 hadn’t ae that two years’ course. It’s given all the wrong ideas. At the School, ! Leftist Socialist Theorist staff used make us work like hell in Law, History, thropology and Colonial Administration.

Phis latter subject should be banned, involves us in reading all sorts of ngs about other colonial territories as II as Papua-New Guinea, and occasionf even the dullest—which was myself— an uneasy idea that maybe Australia sn’t in the vanguard of colonial progress the degree we’d assumed. At times even seemed that we might be eating the sort of blues other colonies de some 50 years ago. The L.S.T. ching staff, with typical Marxian ming, didn’t tell us that they just de us wade through masses of Annual lorts, and the works of dangerous tists like Lord Hailey, and draw our i conclusions.

UT that’s all in the past. Now I’m back to reality on my Police Post, ch, curiously, I like. I even like the d trader-recruiter, when he’s sober, the two missionaries are tolerable, for the local coons—l count ’em, se ’em, gaol ’em, medicate the odd , tell ’em to clean their villages, obey law (most of which they know nothabout) and be good boys. n and off, they’ve been told that now about 30 years. Several of my ;red and omniscient Senior Officers it part of their careers hereabouts ig just what I’m doing now. But the rateful savages don’t react the right They want a school, and they want get up a “blsnis”, and all sorts of things. They’re getting cheekier and more sullen every day—so the old missionary says—and as for their morals . .

Now. partly because I’ve been polluted at ASOPA, but mainly because, although dull, I’m not althogether daft, I’ve an idea or two on what we ought to be doing here. But am I going to start telling my omniscient Senior Officers?

Not me! Tried it once before, and they didn’t like it. This joint was OK when the Assistant Director (or some such ordinary) did a patrol here in 1928, so it must be OK now. As it was in the beginning . . . With luck, I should be transferred elsewhere before the strife is really on. Some other sucker will catch it, and I’ll have a clean record for an ex-ASOPA!—because I don’t raise awkward questions and behave i'ke a Woolly Leftish Socialist Planner, r T'HE second article that interested me F was on Native Co-ops. Now, I’m not a Co-op officer, but I always had the idea that a Co-op was essentially private 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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LAE and RABAUL apital enterprise—the capital being aised by large numbers of small men anding themselves together. Yet In your Editorial Comment on this topic you say !o-ops “are believed to check and underline the system of private enterrise . . .”

Something wrong somewhere. Or oesn’t your definition of “private iterprise” stretch to organisations other lan European and Chinese? I can well nagine various traders not liking native o-ops. Neither would I, if I’d been lying native copra at £1 per bag.

Seeing we’re all agreed on the >sirability of increased production in the trritory, I must say that a native coi. which results in the native copra it-put being doubled—as I believe has ■en the case in Kavieng—seems no bad ling. At least they can’t “blue” ALL the proceeds on grog, or take their in out of the country. Still, I’m a .L.S.P. Theorist, remember.

Over in Rabaul a REALLY woolly bunch bureaucratic Theorists has started Ilage Councils, the purpose of which is iparently to kid the local natives into xing themselves and paying for their m schools, hospitals, etc. That sort thing should be stopped. I bet that me of my ex-ASOPA class-mates are solved in it. They probably got the sa from reading all those subversive itish Colonial Office publications.

Personally, I’m content to wait until n told what to do and how to do it by Senior Officer who has been up here t less than 28 years. HE’LL know—and never mind about Hailey & Co.

The third article (page 66) that caught my eye was headed “The Harm That an Unmuzzled Scribbler May Do”. It has cowed ME into signing off. How about you?

I am, etc., REFORMED THEORIST.

New Guinea.

New Court Room Opened

AT MADANG Prom Our Own Correspondent MADANG, Nov. 15.

THE new district court at Madang, NG, Was officially opened on November 11, by Mr. Justice Kelly who said: “that it was a credit to the town.”

Although the building is made only of native materials, it is delightfully situated among palm and cedar trees on the lagoon, overlooking Kalibobo Avenue.

The new court is a big improvement on the old one, which was situated in a portion of the District Office. Adjacent to the courtroom, is a four-roomed flat, suitable for housing a jury whenever necessary.

Miss Joan Bunting, whose parents owned Manuae island coconut plantation in the Cook Islands for some years, was .recently chosen by the Auckland Combined Surf Clubs as their Queen in a forthcoming Queen Carnival. Now 22, she was born at San Jose, Cal., and has lived in Singapore as well as the Cooks.

Some years ago her family sold Manuae and settled permanently in NZ. 97 *CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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MORE or less chaotic conditions have existed in the Suva wharf cargo sheds for years. Since the January hurricane smashed much of the wharf area, things have been getting progressively worse.

A start has been made with the first of the new wharf sheds, but nothing much is likely to happen until the Government gets its cor sultant’s report on the siting of th new wharf to replace the ol structure which, although officiall written off after the hurricane, i still being used.

The Suva Chamber of Commerce in considerable vexation of spirit, ha called a special meeting to discus the allegedly “inequitable” levying o treble bond charges on goods nc removed from the Customs withi: the specified time. Members com plain that in some cases the good are block-stacked and importers can not even get at them to take ther away.

To this the Government retort that (a) treble bond charges are no levied on any goods at the whar until the Comptroller of Customs ha made a personal inspection to se whether cargo from any specific* ship is accessible to the importer (b) the Comptroller has authority t* postpone or waive these charges. H postpones them if the firm concerne* can show a good case for not im mediately collecting accessible goods and waives any charges assessed i it is shown that goods—evei individual items—are not accessible At the end of Round 2 it appear that the Comptroller has a clear lea* on points. 98

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The Australian Government is ow investigating the possibilities of war-service settlement scheme long the following lines:— • War Settlement Land Settlelent Division to provide funds and ertain plant and equipment; • the Administration to acquire, evelop and subdivide land and give tchnical advice; • a credit authority to be set up > administer advances to soldier jttlers; • Territories Department to dermine policy.

It was originally intended that igibility be limited to ex-servicemen ready resident in P-NG but this iay be widened if supply of land iceeds demand. There would, howler, be greater problems involved settling mainland Australians in e Territory on agricultural blocks an there would in settling men who id some knowledge of the country.

The scheme is still in the talking age; nonetheless it is a step forard after the hesitation of the preding years.

Soldier-settlement (or any scheme r alienation of land) has been tterly opposed by some of the issions of New Guinea, and by the :-Administrator, Colonel J. K. urray. Colonel Murray’s opposition is been successfully disposed of; can be taken as certain that the ission voice will be heard again, acre is no indication as to the cality or extent of the land that e Government had in mind for e settlement scheme. isuring Against Hurricanes ''HE desirability (or otherwise) of insurance against hurricanes (and tier natural disasters) is to be studied a committee recently set up in Fiji, ic Committee is as follows; Mr. W. G. Johnson (chairman), Mr. E.

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OINCE November 13, the British Solomons Islands Protectorate is larger by one island.

Capt. J. R. Adams, Master of the MV Malolo owned by South Pacific Traders, Ltd., observed and photographed a new volcano which came up out of the sea near Vangunu Island, New Georgia, on that date.

He gives its position as 9 deg. 3 min. South, 157 deg. 58 min. East, It is 100 feet long, 20 feet wide and 15 feet high, and is about 17 miles south of Vangunu Island, where Mt. Vangunu is active.

Earth tremors were reported from Gizo three days before the new volcano was observed, but it is not known whether its appearance coincided with the tremors, three of which were severe.

The earlier submarine volcanic activity which was observed in June was reported at 9 deg. 5 min. South, 157 deg. 49 min. East—very close to the position of the newly emerged volcano.

After making a motor tour of Australia, Mr. and Mrs. G. H.

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Notes Of Interest

’his month word comes from Phil mer, VR-3-C, on Fanning Island—one the most active Island stations heard Auckland. Phil wishes us the best of port with the radio notes and says, lis station will certainly abide by the Net 15-minute listening periods”, there’s an encouraging lead for didates for that rare YR3 card. 1-metres has been particularly good Pacific contacts at times during the t month, and on occasions a great I of overseas DX has also been heard ipecially from the Mediterraneanlean area. ost interesting of the Island stations ve this month are YJ-l-AA/AB in New Hebrides. YJ-l-AB is none other \ our anopheles-hunting friend Dr.

Black, last heard of as VR-4-AF, and VK-2-QZ when at home in Sydney, the time this reaches the outposts, l-AB may again have ceased to exist, nwhile he is active on 20-metre ''phone. Of YJ-l-AA we have no dls, but he has been heard mentioned active on 20 m. lother item of considerable interest he card hunters is that Pitcairn will n be on the air by late December, d McCoy, VR-6-AC, left Auckland i his wife by the RANGITOTO at the of November, He plans to operate ind 20 m. phone with a 25-watt rig. transmitter was built for him three s ago by W6CJE and operates from !-volt power supply and wind-charger, d also reported that VR-6-AY, rew Young, who was given a transer in 1930 by American Hams, has inactive since 1940 due to inability sffect repairs. oyd also told us something of the mercial radio set-up on Pitcairn.

Island at present has a NZ-made watt C & B transmitter for 500 kc/s another I kw. hf. transmitter which installed by the RNZN during the Due to the impossibility of obtainqualified technical staff at the terms ed, this equipment has become uniceable. The island is now being pped with a low-powered transmitter simpler design, which Floyd hopes >e able to keep going, and also a ’oni “Trans-Arctic” 50-watt marine smitter for 500 kc/s. While in NZ i has received some instruction on equipment. e existing power supply—two diesel raters —is also unserviceable and the equipment is being powered by mulators and ?. wind-charger supl by Quirk’s of Sydney.

Doug. Cunnold, Superintendent, Rarotonga Radio, packed his gear and returned to Auckland on leave on November MAUI POMARE. As Bob Hanley of Civil Aviation, only other active Ham in the Group, left some time ago, Thor Gundersen, Radio Officer/Purser of the MAUI POMARE, ZK-l-AZ/ZL-l-VU now provides the only means of collecting a ZK-1 card. Thor uses the ZK call while in the vicinity of the Cooks and the ZL call after passing the half-way line towards NZ. We believe, however, that the mobile cards are not always acceptable from the WAC points of view. However, as Doug, will return in April and radio staff transfers are occurring at intervals it may not be long ere Rarotonga again has an active Ham.

The Solomons caused some interest this month, with Frank, VR-4-AE—a new one to us, popping up, and, though not actually heard working, we heard reference to another—Vß-4-RW.

Tahiti, FO-8-AB, with a powerful 20 m. phone sig, was also heard calling a CQ early one morning—first FO-8 actually heard in Auckland for a very long time.

From Noumea FK-8-AI was also heard with a very fine 20 m. phone sig, but there has been no sign of the New Hebrides boys during limited hours of early morning and evening listening.

“Amateur Radio” reports that Felix, FK-8-AC, on leave in France, is now active under F-3-GQ from Sanmur, and does not anticipate returning to Noumea until mid-1953.

“Break In” has an interesting item for the 50 mc/s boys. Bill, ZK-2-AA will be 101 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Apia 'Stationed at Niue for at least another year and is going to be keenly active on that band. In Fiji VR-2-CG will soon be joined on 50 mc/s by VR-2-CB—both keen for ZL contacts—and doubtless also with VK-9 or whatever else offers.

Stations actually heard or known to be active during the month were: FKBAE/AI, FGBAB, KB6AO, KC6IG, KG6- AAL J ACG J ADZ / FA / FAA / FAB / GX / HL/IG/SL, KR6FN/HW, KX6AIK/AV,

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A recently listed addition to the VK9 list is VK9YY, A, J. Smith, AWA Aviation Service Depot, Government Aerodrome, Lae.

As usual we look forward to notes of interest to Island Hams from any quarter.

Helping to Pay For Niue Lightering Serv[?] (From Our Own Correspondent) NIUE, Nov. e rpHE Administration introduced form of direct taxation to N Is. during October which is cal.

Port Service Tax. It is imposed all goods imported into Niue, w the strange exception of goods arr ing by post, at a rate of 2i per ce ad valorem.

Reason given for the new taxj that the Administration cannot m; the lighterage service pay in spite: the fact that the charge is 13/4 ; ton and is the highest in the Soil Pacific area.

By the time the goods so tai have passed through the hands of traders it will mean about 4 per ce rise in the cost of living for Em peans. Traders are already findl that the natives are buying 11 tinned goods, especially meat, 2 the number of fishing canoes < each evening is a noticeable res of high prices.

DR. J. M. Sclafer, Assist: Medical Officer in the Cook Islar returned to New Zealand in H vember from Rarotonga having 1 minated his service there. 102 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L>

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RY conditions which have existed in parts of Viti Levu and in sr islands of Fiji since the January ricane are now becoming a fulle drought in some areas. This fie second consecutive dry year, uva’s water shortage, which atened to become acute early in ober, was recently relieved by a ;s of short but very heavy iderstorms. In other districts, ever, the driest October on record created a serious situation, ijian villages in the coastal ons of eastern Viti Levu report wells have dried up and that in e places coconuts, which had i reserved for copra production, being used as drinking nuts. At iges on the mainland opposite island of Bau, drinking water es mainly from newly-dug wells :h yield only an unhealthying liquid that has been described l cross between soup and badlye yaqona (kava). Village ing-places are no more than -puddles. tie provision of adequate supplies ure water is one of the objectives he fast-growing Fijian Developt Fund, but it is not known how h progress has been made in this :tion.

[?]Aul Tac Discusses

[?]ARVES

[?] Hospital Finance

(From Our Own Correspondent) RABAUL, Nov. 25. the November meeting- of the Rabaul Town Advisory Council, acillors again debated the quesof port facilities with the accent and for slipways and workshops small ships of which there are registered at the port of Rabaul. fr. J. Chinper said that p.rethe area east of Hap King’s was a forest of masts, and fact that the Germans had used r small ships indicated that exnce had proved it to be most ble. om the information available it s that the area west of Han s has been set aside for small ; this would place them at the y of a south-east blow. In de- Councillors appeared to have opinions but none of the motions submitted were passed.

The meeting learned that lack of funds was the reason for the present dilapidated state of the European Hospital and Sisters’ quarters. Mr.

Chipper drew attention to the fact that of the £690,700 allocated for hospital construction for the next financial year, Papua was to receive £604,500, the New Guinea Mainland £42,800 and New Guinea Islands £23,400.

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Mr. Dudley Jones outlined the dangers inherent in a judicial system where a junior member of the Administration, acting in his capacity as a Justice of the Peace, might have to decide a case involving a senior member. It was moved that the District Commissioner be asked to raise again the matter of the appointment of non-Government officials as IP’s.

Council considers it imperative that some IP’s be non-Government officials.

Mr. Peter Maurice Worsley, of the Australian National University, who a few months ago was refused a permit to go to New Guinea on the grounds that his presence would not be in the interests of the natives, will spend a year doing anthropological work on Groote Eylandt.

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Anglican Festivities in Nukualofa Norfolk Island Notes December 2, 1952.

A public electricity supply for Norfolk has advanced nearer to the extent of some transmission poles which have been dumped at roadsides and the fact that Administration staff have been signingup potential consumers.

Most of ns are not expecting reticulation until we have seen it. * ♦ ♦ Several residents made the round-trip in MALAITA and returned home convinced that there is no place so good as Norfolk Island. They report that the old-time hospitality is missing from Papua and New Guinea and that the tropics are not what they were. * * * The retiring Administrator, Mr. Alex Wilson, has been farewelled at a picnic and at an evening function at Rawson Hall. * * ♦ Bounteous crops were reflected in the altar display at the Harvest Thanksgiving service in All Saints church yesterday.

The collection and sale of produce realised £llO which will go towards cost of a new roof for the church. Material alone cost £soo—the work Itself has been done by volunteer workers.

It is interesting to reflect that to help raise money for the church in 1920, a parishioner said that if the public were given permission and gathered the lemons growing wild on Crown land he would buy 100,000 of them at 10/- per thousand and give the money to church funds. (Ed. Note: Did the public fall for it?

They seem mighty cheap lemons, even for charity—something like per dozen—even 100,000 of then would have benefitted the church by onlv £50.) The most successful military unit in Malaya in November was the Suffolk regiment, which skittled 12 terrorists. Next was the Fiji Battalion, with a bag of 7. [?]ile the Bishop in Polynesia, the Rt.

L. S. Kempthorne was in Tonga in [?]ber, for the Jubilee of the Anglican [?]ch, the new building for St. Andrew’s [?]ol (built by local volunteer labour financed by Anglican missionary [?]ties in UK, NZ and Australia) was [?]ated. Photograph at top left shows Bishop with Queen Salote and the Mr. Bastian at the dedication [?]ony. Top right is the new school, [?]g the days that followed the Jubilee celebrated by Tongan feasting and [?]ng, a Jubilee Ball and a garden [?] in the grounds of the British Residency. The four lower photographs were taken at the garden party. Centre left photo shows: (standing) Mr. J. F Garvin (Chief Justice), Mr. J. E. Windrum (British Consul), Mrs. O. Brahne, Mr. Brahne, Mrs. Windrum. Seated: Mrs.

Garvin Snr., and Mrs. Garvin Jnr.

Centre right photo: Chief Tuiha’ateiho, the Rev. Mr. Woodgate, Mr. Cormack, Mr. Windrum, Mr. A. Denny, Mr. Read and Bishop Kempthorne. Lower left photo: Mrs. Denny, Mr. and Mrs. Fordham, HM Queen Salote, Mrs. Jones, Mrs.

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and still finds time to entertain a stray visitor in the unsurpassed French way. Among his other qualtiies, he speaks colloquial English.

Memory Of Pierre Loti

As I strolled under the trees in that peaceful waterworks valley—not a soul in sight—l came unexpectedly upon a monument, erected to the memory of Pierre Loti, famous French sailor-author of exotic lovestories. He had an international reputation, and he died in 1923, aged 73—only 11 years after he had offered to throw out of his window the seconds of a Balkan major, who wanted to fight him because he sneered at Bulgaria.

I had forgotten that Loti lived for a time in Tahiti. He went there as a young naval officer, after the Franco-Prussian war, and his passionate love affair with a Tahitian girl inspired one of his most notable books, Rarehu. I learned then that, over 70 years ago, within a few yards of where I stood in that secluded valley, Pierre Loti and his devoted Tahitian mistress came frequently to bathe in the river pools. This, presumably, was the real setting Rarehu.

Tahiti is haunted by hundreds such memories. I suppose that, i its size, no country in the world h seen so many writers, artists, po< and dreamers who wanted only to \ away from it all.

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She was a comely lass of mis parentage and, I imagine, had be much pursued by “wolves.” 1 suppc that was why she let herself go ini mighty ululation when she found h» self trapped alone with me in tl only lift in the Western Pacific Islan —a modern automatic contraption Ed Pentecost’s new building Noumea.

The lift came to a shuddering stc between floors. I, having had mui Sydney experience, smiled resignec at my co-captive, and leaned again the wall. But she gasped, cried “Oc la, la!” or something, and hurled he self upon the control buttons. Not ing happened; and then she rea' reached for top notes. That startlJ me—only murder or rape cou justify noises like that.

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Tel.: 8X6331 (11 lines). Cables: “Kopsen, Sydney.” y French was not adequate to folw them, and my companion was i) horrified by her impending doom me or the lift, I still do not know to comprehend. So I blindly lacked into the buttons, and somee up above jiggled something, and 5 lift suddenly dived to the ground or. I opened the door, and idemoiselle left that place like a t just released from the evils of I. fhere is one other lift in the inch South Pacific Islands—in the v Grand Hotel, in Papeete—and I stuck in that, too. But this time as accompanied by a tough porter die, and I think it was the ?uage he used, rather than his vy hand, that put the instrument k so quickly to its proper courses.

In Papeete Town

he swarming cyclists of Papeete e two things peculiar to Tahiti early all the bicycles are made i no central crossbar, so that they r be used conveniently by both i and women; and an exrdinary proportion of them are 1 with light, little, two-popping pr-engines, which push the ists along at a good speed. ne needs to go to a virtually spaper-less country like Tahiti to se the usefulness of discarded spapers in bigger cities. The Ireds of household shoppers who 'd into Papeete’s early morning ket carry away their fish, vegeis, fruit, etc., either wrapped in uia leaves, or enclosed in a short th of fat bamboo, sealed over tied leaves, or tied up in plaited nut leaves, with coconut fibre, early morning markets of Suva, ml, Papeete are very similar character, but in Papeete they i to have the widest variety of e foodstuffs. In Tahiti, every- ; that swims in the sea or crawls :he lagoon rocks is considered e. Fish is a very important le of diet—everywhere one sees ■o (which were shaped by idence for the purpose) dangling heir tails from lorries, cycles, te cars—and the quiet seas ad these Windward Islands proan endless supply. iree Baptist missionaries were /died in Auckland in late No- •er before departing for work in Guinea. They were Miss •ey Turner, of Auckland, Mr.

' Cochrane, of Gisborne, and Alan Sinclair, of Invercargill.

Rabaul Tennis Titleholders Rabaul Hardcourt Tennis Association titleholders for 1952 are:— Ladies’ single champion, Miss Greta Lennarts; men’s singles champion, Mr.

Neil Topp; ladies’ doubles champions, Misses Sedgers and Egan; men’s doubles champions, Messrs. Willis and Normoyle. mixed doubles champion, Dr. Wright and Miss Egan; schoolboys singles champion, Joseph Chow; schoolboy doubles champions, Lucius Chow and Michael Woo.

Winners of the handicap events were' ladies singles, Miss Greta Lennartz; mens singles, Mr. N. Ruglen; ladies’ doubles. Misses Sedgers and Egan; mixed doubles, Mr. Willis and Miss Lennartz.

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t her principal Pacific ports of in October—and notably in icy and Papeete—the Messageries dimes new motor-liner Caleen celebrated her maiden voyage sumptuous cocktail parties, at h leading residents were happily 'tained. The Caledonien now is the regular Marseilles-Panamafic-Sydney run, in place of the ngking and Changchow, and the :ations are that she will be a ilar liner, ith a capacity for 300 passengers a crew of 140, the Caledonien truly modern ship. She has such ements as a tiled bathing pool, a -equipped surgery and operating :re where major operations can erformed, a mechanised laundry ash, dry and iron the entire ship’s Doors controlled by photoelectric cells, leading from pantry and servery to the saloon, fly open at the approach of laden stewards and quietly close behind them, thus excluding the galley’s odours from the air-conditioned dining-saloon. [?]ssengers on board WAITEMATA on arrival at Auckland in mid-November included [?] to right, top to bottom): MISS LAURIS MAIOTU, from Tahiti, to visit Mr. and [?] R. Christian, formerly of Tahiti, at Wellington. MRS. B. L. RUSSELL, returning [?] visiting relatives in San Francisco, was met by MR. RUSSELL, now USS Co. [?]ager at New Plymouth—formerly of Rarotonga and Apia. MISS GLADYS [?]UNDS, now resident at Napier, had been to visit her father at Tahiti. Mr. [?]unds was for many years manager of the ranch on Easter Island, MRS. J MUIR [?] A. HARVEY, MRS. HARVEY, RAMON BRILLIANT and MRS E. R. JACKSON. [?]e ladies were all born in Tahiti. They were meeting Ramon who came from [?]ete to live with his aunt, Mrs. Muir, on a farm at Thames, NZ. Ramon’s father well-known Customs officer in Papeete. MR. JOSEPH BUNTON met his wife daughter, down from Papeete. Mrs. Bunton was formerly Jeanine Ceran of a known Tahiti family. 109 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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UY general impression, from H what I have just seen, is that Itherlands New Guinea is an brmous land mass, covered with impetrable forests and inaccessible ountains, and that it contains a imber of very charming people Dm Holland, all of whom speak ffect English!”

In this way Sir Leslie Brian [eeston, KCMG, Secretary-General I the South Pacific Commission, ribed his impressions after his tenys’ visit to Western New Guinea.

“I have been amazed to see how ach has been accomplished here in very short time. In the face of imsnse natural difficulties, with very aited resources in men, money and iterial, and embarrassed until very :ently by uncertainty regarding the litical future, the Government and ople of Netherlands New Guinea ve done more in the last two years an has been achieved in any other Jpical territory that I know.

“Of course, it is only the beginng, and much remains to be done; *» as my French friends tell me: e est que le premier pas qui ute . And if the same high standards of wisdom, energy and faith can be maintained, the future of this territory is indeed full of hope.”

Asked what he thought of Netherlands New Guinea compared with the Australian part, he answered: “I have not yet seen Australia New Guinea—l am going there next week, As regards the rest of the Pacific, conditions in the smaller islands are so different that any comparison with New Guinea is almost meaningless.

“From what I have seen here, I am reminded of tropical Africa. In Tanganyika, for example, one was faced with the same enormous distances without adequate means of transport and communication; with natural resources only partially known and exploited; and with native peoples who, for the most part, had only reached the outer fringes of culture and enlightenment.”

Sir Brian visited the Nimboran area where, in the framework of the social development plans of the South Pacific Commission for underdeveloped countries, a “pilot project” is being carried out, for which SPC has granted £l,lOO to buy the essential plant. (Over) [?]r Brian Freeston arriving at Sentani [?]strip, Hollandia, Dutch N. Guinea. In [?] plane doorway, behind him, is Dr. [?] V. de Bruyn, who lived among the [?] untain tribes of the interior during [?] Jap occupation and eluded them so [?]cessfully that he was called “Jungle [?]pernel”. 111

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“From the house-building scheie which I have seen in progress, b on the isle of Biak and in Hollanc I have been struck by the impress scale and the careful lay-out, andt the astonishing rapidity of consti: tion,” he said. ‘The new technicp employed for the manufacture cheap but effective coral-cenn blocks are extremely interesting, ; the details will be eagerly studied! those who are concerned in hov building in other parts of the Soc Pacific.”

Northbound passengers per Maui Pom[?] in November included: Miss M. Reid [?] holiday to Rarotonga with Miss P. Bis[?] who was returning after 4½ years New Zealand.

Mrs. L. Jonassen, son Reinhardt [?] younger children were returning Rarotonga.

Mrs. A. Anderson was returning Aitutaki on holiday and Mr. J. Ma[?] was paying a business visit there. 112 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH U

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Dr. Emile Massal, Executive Officer for Health, has returned from France to headquarters, after six months’ leave. On his way back, Dr. Massal made a rapid visit to Guam and the Trust Territory of Micronesia to contact administrative officers and Health Department personnel. * * * Mr. D. B. Roberts, who is organising a supply of suitable reading matter for Pacific Islands literates, has gone to Netherlands New Guinea. He recently has made tours in New Caledonia, Fiji, Western Samoa and the Cook Islands. * * * Dr. K. Neijs, Ph.D., has taken up duty as an Adviser on Literacy to the South Pacific Literature Bureau.

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Next Sp Conference

IN APRIL Over 70 delegates from 18 Pacific Islands territories will assemble at Noumea next April to attend the second South Pacific Conference.

The Conference is an auxiliary body, set up to provide a direct link between the Commission and Island peoples it serves. The o gates, who will mostly be indigen peoples, will come from far aj as the Marianas in the no Netherlands New Guinea in west, Tahiti in the east, and Tc in the south. They will cons problems relating to the welfare progress of their own peoples.

Meteorologists on the M[?] Transfers of NZ Meteorological C staff recently included:— Metrologist R. W. Moir and fai back to NZ after a lengthy perioc Nadi, Fiji.

Senior Observer, S. J. Pollington become Observer-in-Charge, Inverca: NZ, after some years at Lauthala Fiji.

Senior Observer B. M. Dash leaves on transfer to Taieri, NZ.

Observer-in-Charge J. R. G. Hii lately of Apia, has joined NZ’s Force” in Korea and has been repl by Mr. N. A. Rapson.

Observer-in-Charge G. M. Smith, returned from Tonga earlier this j is now stationed at General Forecas Office, Wellington.

Dr. R. G. Simmers, assistant-din of the Meteorological Service made biennial tour of Pacific meteoroloj stations recently, calling at T Lauthala Bay, Tarawa, Apia, Aitutaki Rarotonga. 114 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Mr. Howard Hayden, Director of lucation, Fiji, returned from leave the UK in November.

New Mine Venture For

WOODLARK IS.

Old Islands mining men will be interested in a plan to resume mining on Woodlark Island, east of Papua, on a lode that was operated on first i it' 1900 and has not been worked since 1915.

Prospectus is out in Sydney for Woodlark Island (Papua) Gold, Ltd., offering 360,000 shares at 2/6 (par). The vendor of the leases, plant and equipment is to receive 200,000 paid-up shares and £17,500 in cash and, after the sale, he will invest £5,000 in 2/6 shares. It is calculated that the treatment each week of 500 tons of ore and 200 tons of sands, will give a yearly profit of £81,358. Life of the mine is estimated at 12 years.

Directors are Messrs. R. Eginton, J. J.

Johnston, H. J. Morrison, and N. H.

Bowers.

Mr. Willie P. Browne’s famous motor jalopy—the one that encircles the island on “movie nights” with drums crashing and cymbals jangling to announce to all and sundry the “bill-of-fare” at Mr.

Browne’s theatre—was involved in an accident in October. Near the western end of the airstrip, at Nikao, when a fault developed in the steering, the truck left the road, crashed into the fence. A passenger, Ngakau Tom, was thrown to the ground and was severely injured.

The Matua passenger list on arrival in [?]ckland in November included (top to [?]tom) the following:— [?]rs. and the Hon. A. M. Gurau, MLC, Apia, down to visit relatives. Mrs., and Fredrick Frizell returning to [?]ney after four years with the Bank NSW in Suva. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph [?]tersall, of W. Samoa. Brother Robert, Taveuni, and Brother More, of Suva, [?]n on vacation. 115 *OIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

~r ■ . s : 'S' Another view of the “Brahol”

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BRIEF SPECIFICATIONS: To help you get an accurate picture of the -Brahol” Special Export ? 1 ft SS IiS£ I v tt! i r f ? ase -. he^ e are main specifications: Overall size is 6 ft. long x 1 ft. 9 in. deep x 3 ft. 3 in. high. Made from first-class well seasoned Queensland Maple, hand French polished, wax finished’, natural maple colour. Glass parts are »/ 4 inch British plate glass.

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From Our Own Correspondent MADANG, Nov. 15.

ADANG, NG has had its third District Commissioner for 1952. i the early part of the year Mr.

Downs held the post. But, on return from leave of Mr. Charles is, Mr. Downs was transferred Moresby. bw Mr. Downs has been transed from Moresby to Goroka as rict Commissioner and Mr. 5s has been shifted to Moresby.

T. G. Aitchison (who was nerly Discom Manus) is to be new District Commissioner of iang. (Mr. W. M. English, is r DC to Manus), fith all these changes, Madang is progressing, and must now be Jed one of the pleasantest spots he territory.

New Bowling Green

Anew bowling: green was opened at Tailevu, Fiji, in October, teams from Suva, Nausori, Yatakoula, Ba, Lautoka.

Labasa and Levuka visiting for the occasion. The new greens were declared open by Mr. E. McIlwain, president of Fiji Bowling Assn. He is seen at left presenting the Sir Alport Barker trophy to Mr. A. Phillips at conclusion of play.

At right, some of the competitors on the greens. [?] an investiture at Government House, [?] Moresby, on October 25, decorations [?] presented to a number of residents [?]he P-NG territory who had figured [?]onours Lists in the past year. At [?] the Acting Administrator, Mr. D. M. [?]nd, is pinning the George Medal [?] Mr. W. Schleusener. At right, Miss [?]. Beale and Miss D. M. Maye who [?] received the MBE. —Papuan Prints.

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As an active mosquito-control measure, in the campaign to reduce the incidence of filariasis on Rarotonga, the Health Department allots points to each household, based on cleanliness of surroundings—especially in the removal of empty tincans, coconut shells, and other containers in which water may lodge and mosquitoes breed.

The village with the highest recent average is Ruatonga, followed by Titikaveka and Arorangi.

News Of The Small-Ships

Replacing Southern

CROSS VII From London in November the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.

Fisher, launched an appeal for £lOO,OOO to replace the nineteenyear-old ship Southern Cross VII.

The first Southern Cross was launched in 1855, though the Mission has had ships in the field since 1849.

No details of the type dimensions of the planned vessel! available yet.

Houses North, Huts Soi

The New Hebrides Shippinj Trading Co’s. Vila Star arrivec Auckland from Santo in i November with 30 former Amen Quonset huts on board. She taken north a cargo of pre-fab he of Czechoslovak origin for Nou from New Zealand—trans-shij from another vessel.

Vila Star also had a quantity non-ferrous scrap abroad on south-bound passage.

Skipper For Maureen

Elsewhere we have reported arrival of the yacht Forerunner 1 at Auckland after a six-moi Island cruise.

In mid-November it was repc that Mr. Gerry Douglas, part o\ of Forerunner, had been appoi master of the WPHC’s 60-fc Maureen, lately in Suva on refit soon to return to her normal di in the Gilberts.

Mr. Douglas, a Scot, and a foi deck officer of the Blue Funnel I left Auckland for Suva by TEAI November 15, to take over his command.

Mr. Willie Schutz, well-knowi 118 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Enjoy long, trouble-free service with £ Blaxland-Chapman marine engine Eight models from 21 H.P. to 20 H.P Illustrated is 5/7 H.P. Blaxland Twin model “TXRR”, featuring new improved “BOUNCE” start magneto providing reversibility of rotation foi running ahead or astern.

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Ibert Is. and Fiji, who was lorted to be master of Maureen ne time ago, has now transferred | Kia Kia.

[Ngan Flag In Auckland

the Tongan Copra Board’s [foot auxiliary ketch A'oniu £ved in Auckland on November 5 [ was probably the first vessel hg the Tongan flag to arrive at a w Zealand port. The flag of the pgan merchant service—three- Irters red, with a red cross super- |>osed on the white upper quarter L however, been seen in the past small craft which have been built Auckland for Tonga. i’oniu, built by Whippys of Suva mt 1947, was commanded by plain Carl Johnson, normally rbour Master at Nukualofa and ster of the Tongan Government sel Hifofua. Mr. David Fifita was te, and the 80-ton vessel carried prew of 13 including one stow- W- )n the slip it is evident that miu was lucky to get off the apai reef on which she had stranded some time ago. The 12-inch keel was pounded away right to its full depth in places, the hull had suffered relatively minor damage. A quantity of valuable cargo had to be jettisoned before the vessel came off six hours after stranding.

On the voyage to Auckland, A oniu had to be pumped every watch on the 6i-day run but arrived without incident. She should complete repairs by about Christmas.

When she returns Captain Johnson will be in command but a new master will also be aboard and will take over on arrival in Tongan waters.

Isa Lei In Service

xhe f orm er Marine Products freezer vessel Isa Lei, now converted to her new duties as a RNZN fleet auxiliary, has been commissioned as an ammU nition carrier.

Captain D. K. Matheson of Auckland, former master of Rawhiti and Tagua, who joined the vessel as Chief Officer when she departed from Suva some time agoj has now been appointed Master.

Long Way Home In

Wanderer Ii

Sydney yachtsmen Frank McNulty and Bill Howell were in Tahiti in [?]hief Engineer D. Cameron and Captain [?] Duff of VILA STAR. [?] ILA STAR at Auckland. [?]aptain R. D. Matheson, of Auckland, [?] take VILA STAR to Biak while [?]tain Duff is on leave. 119

C I F I C Islands Monthly December, 1952

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Sole Australian Distributors of Monel :: Phone; BX 1211 (Six Lines) •Monel is a registered trade-mark covering a rich nickel alloy, mined in Canada and rolled in Great Britain. 1 'ember on the way home in iderer II from London and exed to be there until early in the [year. To raise funds they are jging in shark fishing, he cruise so far has taken 14 jlhs; they arrived in Papeete e. cNulty is a journalist and ell a dentist. They decided to e the trip back to Australia three years in the UK because I were fed up with the English her. Wanderer 11, a gaff-rigged ir, is the smallest boat to have ;ed the Atlantic.

ERESTING COURT ACTION, r. M. Georgetti’s small trading il Loma, which left Auckland to : in the Solomons a year ago, the subject of an interesting NZ erne Court action in late ;mber. ickland ship-broker Andrew )van claimed £415 commission the previous owners of the 1, whom he alleged had given the selling agency. Georgetti first contacted him, then had to the former owners, Messrs, ss and Ure, who had sold Loma tn directly. Donovan claimed the :y fee on whatever price had Jly been paid for the boat.

Fatima In Rabaul

August and Felix Chan, of Rabaul, New Guinea, have recently taken delivery of auxiliary ketch Fatima (26 tons, 45 ft long). She cost £9,000 to build in the Brisbane shipyard of C. A. Cowley and she was brought to Rabaul by Captain Max Stanton.

Fatima will be used mostly to carry stores and equipment from Rabaul to the Chan plantations on New Ireland.

Medical Patrol Vessels

The Lepers’ Trust Board of NZ has approved the expenditure of about £50,000 on four small vessels for use in ths New Hebrides and Solomons and the plans are still being drawn up. When ready they will be submitted to medical authorities in the Islands for comment. Contracts will be let in New Zealand for the building of the small craft, each of which will cost between £12,000 and £15,000.

They will be operated by Island missions of various denominations already engaged in leper treatment.

Auxiliary ketch Fatima in Rabaul Harbour. 121 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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WORKBOAT.—36 ft. x 12 ft., professionally-built, 30 H.P. Lister. £3,150.

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Through our Business and Real Estate Branch, we can offer a wide variety of Sydney properties. All Island inquiries promptly and satisfactorily attended to.

We take this opportunity of Wishing all our Islands friends the Compliments of the Season—and for 1953, all they wish for themselves.

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Trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman planes are met at the airports of Auckland and Christchurch and the flying boat bases of Auckland and Wellington, while overseas passenger liners are met at the ports of Auckland and Wellington. Bank of New Zealand Travel Officers ah these points are at all times ready to assist you.

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Bank of New Zealand Branches in the Pacific Islands are located at Suva, Lautoka and Labasa, Fiji, : Apia, Samoa. Also Agencies at Nausori and at Marks St., Suva.

White Heron In Tahiti

The luxury motor-sailer White Heron arrived in Papeete on October 1 with Captain Peter Barber in command, having come from New York via Panama and the Galapagos, The owners of the White Heron are Mr. and Mrs. Richard J.

Reynolds who, through pressure of affairs, sent their yacht ahead of them and arrived here by TEAL on October 29.

In November they were visiting the Leeward Islands. They will leave Tahiti at the end of November bv air for the US and England where another yacht is being built them.

Mr. Reynolds is a principal oft tobacco firm, R. J. Reym Company, manufacturer of “Camr

Visitors To Suwarrow

When Mr. Tdm Neale went the side of the Cook Islands tn Mahurangi, in October, to commr his lone existence as sole resident Suwarrow Island, he probably diet expect to see another human face a month or two.

The day following his am however, the Dutch yacht Om westbound for Holland, last Papeete, called in at the rarely viii atoll before heading for Apia. On cleared Tom’s accumulation of —one letter —which duly arrives Rarotonga some time later.

News Of Some Cruising

YACHTS Two yachts that will be well I membered in the Eastern Pacific are; lying in New Zealand ports and for sale. Mr. P. Fisk’s 36-foot DEBONAIR is in Tanranga. The family arrived there two years ago ha tarried for some time in Papeete en i from England. Mr. Fisk is now an / ployee of the Tanranga Harbour B»3 At Whangarei Ronald and Donald I 122 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HB

™ Oceania Agencies Company Em!

Tolo Building, P.O. Box No. 284, Suva, Fiji Islands.

Manufacturers’ Representatives, Indentors, Exporters and Distributors, representing British and Colonial Manufacturers.

Exporters of Textile Piece Goods, Made-up Textile Goods, Tortoise-shell and Filigree Jewellery, Leather Sandals, Peanuts, Ginger, Rice, Bran, Island Curios, Mats, etc.

Cables: “Oceanage”, Suva. ’Phone: N 0.349 (3).

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Fiji.— Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Suva, Levuka, Lautoka, “Precision Built Since 1918” ‘Fisherman 6”, with Reverse Gear. still living aboard AXELLE pending osal, though working ashore and inling tc remain in New Zealand. They e from England, arriving in Whanf last summer. tptain J. Arnott’s KIMBALLA, on the t in an Auckland boat yard, has also I yet changed hands, though Capt. >tt is now a ship-master in Fiji irs. * * * ORNOWAY, Alfred Petersen’s stout 33-foot double-ender which passed through the Islands west-bound round the world in 1948-4.9, arrived home at Brooklyn, NY, recently.

Stornoway narrowly escaped the fate of ALK when, in the Red Sea she went on a reef. She was salvaged, but while Petersen was away seeking assistance Arabs looted the cutter of all valuables, including navigational instruments.

Terry Hammond, Auckland yachtsman, radio operator and amateur navigator, late in November was off to sea again, this time as skipper of the Brisbane motor sailer COONGOOLA bound for Europe via Suez.

Hammond has been seen in the Islands on a number of occasions—first as skipper of the Auckland yacht MANDALAY which [?] Tongan Copra Board’s auxiliary [?] A’oniu. [?]t. Carl Johnson and Mate David [?]. [?]e Seabird-type yawl Forerunner [?]oned last month. [?]erunner’s owners Denny Wing and [?] Gerry Douglas. Capt. Douglas has [?] joined the WPHC’s Maureen at 123 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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Agents for:— Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd. • Qantas Empire Airways Shell Company (P.L) Ltd. e Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

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Cables: “Thornmotor”, Sydney.

Consult us on your Marine Propulsion and Generating Sets Problems. 6/10 Wattle Street, Fyrmont, N.S.W. t delivered to a mission in the Solomons [ 1948, then, in 1949-50 as navigator of URREWA 111 on her trans-Pacific >yage from Sydney to take part in the ans-Pacific yacht classic from Sain rancisco to Honolulu. He has also ken part in many trans-Tasman races.

Coongoola will probably circumivigate the world and should be seen ong the usual Pacific yacht route entually.

Hammond abandoned medical studies at rdney University to answer the present 11. ■* * * The Mangonui, NZ, 38-foot sloop ANU MOANA met rough weather on the ime run from Suva early November, raer W. S. Holder suffering a broken 1) and one of his volunteer crew, mneth Rowe, was exhausted with acute il-de-mer when the 3-months’ cruise ded November 10, 13 days out of Suva.

Mr. Holder has been besieged with lunteers for the voyage and chose Bob irruhn, formerly of the Gilberts, John snnedy of Mackay, Qld., and Rowe— e latter a marine engineer but unused small-craft.

N'Z newspapers took considerable joy Mr. Rowe’s condition on arrival—but ! know of many cases of men with mble free years of experience in large ssels similarly succumbing to mal-de- ;r in small vessels. * * * \ recent inquiry as to the fate of Allan rell’s 36-foot staysail schooner W T IND )NG draws attention to the fact that r end was not reported in PIM at the time.

Farell, a Canadian, had disposed of the vessel at Suva, to Mr. Martin, a local yachtsman, and the vessel was moored in the creek at Walu Bay and was reportedly again for sale, when the hurricane struck early this year. The vessel was a write-off when the wind ceased blowing. It had been built by Alan Farell and his wife at Vancouver between 1944 and 1948. The vessel was in the Eastern Pacific last year. ♦ * * Warrant Officer Gordon Kells’ 32-foot sloop TEMPTRESS arrived at Suva on November 13 from Auckland after a 13day passage during which indifferent weather conditions were experienced.

It was not possible for the RNZAF to carry out the radar experiments which were to be made in conjunction with a special reflector which the sloop was carrying. (See PIM November). ♦ * * American yachtsman Pieben Kauffman, owner of L’HIRONDELLE, caused a sensation last year as he cruised down through French Oceania, Rarotonga, Tonga and Fiji with his long hair and beard. We now learn from Tonga that Mr. Kauffman’s yacht is for sale and that he has taken a temporary appointment with the Tongan Public W’orks Department as a civil engineer. It is also understood that, at the end of this six-months’ appointment Mr. Kauffman plans, with the permission of the Tongan Government, to settle alone on uninhabited Hunga Tonga, north-west of Tongatabu. (Next Page.) 125 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1952

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CHIQUITA, whose progress from Aim land towards the US we have reportfrom month to month, arrived at S 3 Pedro early November. The 2,800-mi run from Honolulu was made in 23 dac Some bad weather was experienced. * * i The Auckland ketch WAKAYA w having a bad-weather passage frn Tonga in November. It left Nukual*!

November 6 and with fair weather mig have been in Auckland 10 days latd however, on November 22 the master the USS Co’s. TOFUA, en route frr Auckland to Suva, radioed that he hi sighted WAKAYA and supplied the cm with some stores—position then 500 m 2 north of Auckland. Mr. Teddy Hay reported all well on board.

Bad weather and persistent head win had still prevented WAKAYA from ma ing port by end of the month.

Fiji’s New Governor Of To Good Start (From Our Own Correspondent) SUVA, Nov. 14..

FIJI’S new Governor (Sir Rons Garvey) and Lady Garvey has been visiting the western at northern districts of Viti Levu.

Everywhere the welcome accord; them has reflected the genui pleasure shown at Suva when thri first arrived. Seldom, if ever, base Governor of Fiji started his term office with the support of so mu openly-expressed goodwill.

Sir Ronald has been warmly cot mending the people in the hurricai, stricken areas for their admiral, efforts towards their own rehabilii tion. He has had a special word encouragement for the Fijians their steady progress in the develo ment of their communally-held lanr and has urged increased food p:< duction wherever it is possible, the same time, he has discussed 1 importance of Indian cane-farmii and has assured the Indians that the areas where land reverts to Fij i reserves after the expiry of leas the Government will do its utmr to ensure that the former leasehold! have alternative lands to go to.

At Vatukoula, Sir Ronald asH the elders among the Fijian mii workers to do their best to that the foundation of tradition a custom is not lost among the ms young Fijians who are living a working far from their home villag He emphasised the advantage negotiation and discussion in z disputes over wages or conditio and pointed out that strike actt inflicts loss on everybody concerm 126 DECEMBER, 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH 1

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“The Sponsors simply do not know lough about the practical side of e administration of dependent joples,” he said. “More than one : the sponsors has never had ex- ;rience of a general election in his vn country, and more than one ;longs to a country now under the wernment of dictatorship. More an one of the sponsor countries ily very recently achieved self- ►vernment, and in these countries ability of government is at present some doubt.”

The howls that arose from the Ixed-breed nations echoed around e world’s headlines on December 9. uatemala said that Mr. Forsyth as scornful and discourteous, azil objected to Mr. Forsyth’s very jlent manner. Ecuador protested ainst Mr. Forsyth’s discourtesy.

But, back in Australia, the many ends of “Bill” Forsyth applauded artily. It was time that someone th his feet on the earth should eak the plain truth to these itating little people, who have no owledge or experience of real adinistration, but who so persistently iticise the Trustee Powers.

Mr. Forsyth is widely known in e Pacific. As Secretary-General of e South Pacific Commission he did magnificent two-years’ job of undational organisation, and he iw is one of the outstanding young in of the Australian Foreign Affairs ipartment, and located at UN adquarters. He is about the last an one could accuse of discourtesy, orn or violence in a public stateent. The provocation must have ien very great.

Reports indicate he had endured veral weeks of attack from the ►viet and Latin-American countries.

Mr. Sam Besley, late meteorogical Observer in Charge, Cook lands, has recently been appointed the Weather Office at Dunedin, Z. He has been ill but is recovering.

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Harold James, District Magistrate Rigby, Mr. Gerard Chan, and Mr. Seto Song Yin. —Photo by C. H.

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Deaths Of Islands People

MR. L. R. DOWLING Mr. L. R. Dowling, a former jember of the Samoan Public Ser- !ce died recently in New Zealand I the age of 36 after a long illness, e had been a conscientious and licient official and his death is burned by a large circle of friends.

MR. F. W. KRUSE Mr. F. W. Kruse, a well-known isinessman of Apia, died suddenly i October 30 at the age of 46. One ! his son?, Mr. Hans Kruse, had leading part in the recently cometed moving picture Return to \radise.

MR. W. W. APTED The death occurred in Suva, Fiji, i November 6 of Mr. W. W. Apted, ;ed 67.

He was born in NSW but spent 38 ars in Fiji where until recently he rried on his trade of painter and pi-writer. He was keenly interested all varieties of sport in the Colony. ; is survived by his wife, three sons d two daughters.

Mrs. C. H. Blanche

The death of Mrs. C. H. Blanche, her 81st year, occurred in Suva in rly November. Her parents Mr. d Mrs. W. J. Abbott, went to Fiji the 1870’s to grow cotton and er settled on the upper Rewa. Mrs. anche married in 1890 and with r husband was one of the earliest :tlers of the Tailevu district where ;y grew bananas for export. Later, th their son William, they engaged dairy-farming. She lived in the strict until about 12 months ago len she went to live with a arried daughter in Suva. She is rvived by a son, five daughters, 16 andchildren and one great-grandild.

M. Andre Naturel

On November 24, M. Andre iturel died in Santo, New Hebrides, ;ed 65.

M. Naturel had long been a resist in the New Hebrides where he id extensive interests on the islands Aisse and Epi. He owned several iding vessels including the conrted Type B Fairmile Wailana.

In accordance with his wishes, he is buried on the island of Aisse, aich was his home, and a large thering was present to pay their st respects.

MR. J. KING A member of a well-known wuka family, Mr. Jack King, died Fiji on November 21.

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MR. J. A. MUIIR The death occurred in Suva, Fiji, on November 16, of Mr. James Andrew Muir, an old identity of the town, aged 83.

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Mr. Muir is survived by his wido a daughter, Mrs. A. Williams, ano son, Mr. John Muir,

Mr. F. Staugnton

Mr, Frank Staugnton, an associi of Mr. Bob Day, of Golden Sawn near Bulolo, NG, was killed on K vember 21 when a timber jinker tU he was driving on Manki Road roll over.

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Mr. Noel Kelly, aged 23, was kill by a fall of rock in the Upper Rid! underground mine, Wau, New Guinc on November 20, 1952, and v buried the following day in the W Cemetery.

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MR. W. C. FISHER Mr. William Charles Fisher, member of a pioneer Fiji family w had large coconut plantation holdii around Buca Bay, died at Parramatj NSW, where he had lived in reti ment for some years, on Novemlj 14, aged 76.

He is survived by his wido Mrs. Daisy Fisher, three daughters- Miss Deloi Fisher (who runs Pacific Travel Agency, Sydney), M Thora Murrau, Mrs. Pat Coles—s a son, Mr. William Fisher.

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British Consulate in Tahiti (A Letter to the Editor) IHE letter in the September PIM, . page 54, criticising the British msulate in Tahiti, provoked a good al of discussion.

First, who wrote it? There is not jch doubt about that among those jst interested. But the letter is riously signed “Merchantman.” A ‘rchantman, I think, is not a man, t a type of ship, used for carrying srchandise. Another name is •amp.” Owing to the nature of the ter, it might better have been ped “Man-o’-war.”

From my own experience (dating >m 1946, when I first came to Tail and judging from conversations th others, the British Consulate vays gives polite and impartial ■vice, within its sphere, to anyone 10 calls. Australians and New alanders receive the same treat- ;nt as other Britishers, even :mgh neither Australia nor New aland contributes to the upkeep d maintenance of the Consulate.

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R. G. STONE 124 Curranulla St Cronulla, NSW. [?]bourne NG Women Hold Xmas Party IF Christmas Party and Century 'Meeting of the New Guinea Women’s dation, Victoria, was held at wen House, Melbourne, on December fhe party this year took the form of ffet tea and was much appreciated by ■2O guests present. reral guests were down on leave from Guinea or were visitors from other SS. They were welcomed by the re- X President, Mrs. H. A. Gregory, who been in office for many years, ie success of the party was due to the t members of the Association, and partly to Miss Valda Youlden, the itary, and Mrs. Farnsworth, the rarer. birthday cake to rate the 100th ing, made by Roy Smith, was red by all. number of nbers of the id Batt. were mt. s. Alan Green, new President of Assn., will take in 1953.

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THE EURONESIAN Another Urgent Plea For Reform THERE is no greater anomaly and injustice in the South Pacific Islands than the treatment accorded persons of mixed blood by the Governments of New Zealand and Australia.

There has been close contact between Europeans and Islanders — especially Polynesians—for over 100 years. Countless people of part- Islands descent are honoured and respected members of practically every large community in the Islands, Australia and New Zealand. The great majority, quite naturally and properly, and on their own merits, have equal status with full Europeans, In a town like Suva, for example, at any assembly of Europeans, one will note that a large proportion of the people—often the best-1000 and intelligent—have some degree mixed blood.

Yet, under the immigration n lations arranged by the bumble-foo and unimaginative bureaucrats 8 New Zealand and Australia, U people are classed as undesirable, , are allowed to enter Australia New Zealand only after an j quisition that is humiliating to c persons concerned, and embarrasi to their friends. In the case of I Zealand, a person of partial IsLl descent may not enter the couj until he or she has filled iii special questionnaire, giving ceij references and received a permih enter —which often is so delayed J the people making the applicatiom obliged to abandon the visit. H is a statement made in October If leading European resident of Suv;\ The Department of Labour and Emit ment (Immigration Division) in Wellim is the Department which handles t matters and it requires a formal a£ cation from each part-European see! a permit to enter the country. It i with them in a most leisurely fashion ti it is not uncommon for over a mont) pass before an application is acknowledged.

Applicants who wish to go to Zealand on holiday are invariably as to state not only what relatives have in the Dominion but to names, ages and whereabouts of 1 children or relatives living outside and also to state whether the latter i at any time wish to enter New Zeals This is a particularly absurd question* One would expect that there would, some reciprocal policy between the 1 Governments. The Fiji Government five weeks to inform an inquirer: “ .. about the admission of part-Europtc Chinese and Indians into New Zealan. am directed to inform you that them no reciprocal agreement between the 1 ernment of Fiji and New Zealand reg; ing the immigration of such pern Before entering Fiji, New Zealand citii must comply with the Immigration I of this Colony and the converse apq to visitors to New Zealand from Fiji’i The Director of Employment in Zealand took six weeks and one ev;v interim reply before he finally answw “ . . . that when an application isi ceived it is dealt with strictly om individual merits”. He would not if his Government had otherwise firm policy.

The time taken in disposing of aK cations is inordinate and three mot is common.

Eventually if a permit is granted on conditions such as the following:-: (1) That, on arrival, she is in mental and physical health; (2) That, on arrival, she is in poses, of a valid passport: (3) That, on arrival, she deposits ; 134 DECEMBER. 1952 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHH

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BANKERS: BANK OP NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY. ;he Collector of Customs the sum of hirty-fi\e pounds (£35) together with a Deed authorising the Collector to ipply such sum in payment to the Drown of all moneys which she may >e called upon or liable to pay mrsuant to the conditions of her emporary permit. (Such deposit to •e refunded if she complies with the onditions of her temporary permit ,nd departs from New Zealand withn the period prescribed by the jermit); ’hat, on arrival, she makes a declaraion giving the following information: lame, age, nationality, race or people 0 which she belongs, occupation and esidence; also places of birth of herelf, father and mother; ’hat, on arrival, she produces to the Jollector of Customs two unretouched nd unmounted half-length recent (holographs of herself of a size ot exceeding 4Vi inches by 3Vi inches ,nd not less than 3 inches by 2 nches; ’hat, on arrival, she produces to the Jollector of Customs written evidence rom the Company concerned that her eturn passage to Fiji by sea or air, ias been paid and booked for a date fithin 6 (six) months from the date f her intended arrival in New lealand; ’hat she arrives in New Zealand fithin a period of six months from he date of issue of this certificate; ’hat, on arrival, she satisfies the !ollector of Customs that she will e permitted to re-enter Fiji at any [me within a period of twelve months rom the date of her arrival in New iealand. e can understand the need to prevent ns and Chinese from the Islands ming New Zealand’s labour markets, the difficulty of preventing them Ing even when they are allegedly on ay. But surely there is a vast ■ence between them and the European taking a holiday in the .re State. 1 an example of bureaucratic stupidity, the thing is bad igh. But the true character of the is seen when it is realised how procedure is poisoning the renship of Australia and New and with the South Pacific ids. The Islands people of mixed d are not negligible—in fact, in bers and in influence, they are lly becoming of greater imance than the purely European munities. In every group in r nesia (including Fiji) the pure Dpeans are—and have been for s—decreasing in numbers, and • places, quite naturally, are being n by persons of mixed blood ronesians). s tradesmen and artisans, as chants, as teachers, medical ers, navigators, the Euronesian are the equals of Europeans, usands of Euronesian women are wives of Europeans and—except n they wish to travel—their status omplete and unquestioned, low do these people feel when they are subjected to the stigma imposed by these archaic immigration laws—especially that New Zealand system? They know —because they have proved it in actual living—that, socially, culturally and industrially they are the equals of the Europeans with whom they associate. Yet, when they wish to travel, the freedom and privileges of Europeans are withheld from them, as if they were unclean.

Who can blame them if, in their secret hearts, there grows a great bitterness against Europeans? Yet, if the South Pacific Islands are going to be held, with Australia and New Zealand, as a solid bloc against Asia, we must have the utmost goodwill between those British countries and the Islanders.

THIS issue is not concerned in any way with the maintenance of a “white Australia” (or NZ). If 135 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

6mKs Windlite Wind-driven Power-generato* You’ll have no need to worry about installing an expensiyi motor to generate electricity for your home. You can operas all electrical home appliances without this unnecessary expense With this new model it takes just the lightest breeze to operati the generator. The secret is in its perfectly balanced three-blao. propeller, which automatically feathers when the wind velociti increases, reducing strain on tower and maintaining continues charging rate. You’ll find, too, that you can draw electriciti direct from the generator while the plant is charging, and froic the batteries, when the wind is low.

Two models now available—l,ooo and 1,500-watt. The I,OOK watt unit for 32 and 50-volt home lighting systems; the l,50l( watt for 32, 50 and 110-volt systems. • Slow speed generator • Aerofoil section propeller blades • Efficient low wind performances • Rugged construction* • Negligible maintenance • Grease packed ball-bearings oo all movable parts require no greasing for 5 years.

Benzine-operated Kitchen Kook Quirk’s Kitchen Kook—the Benzine-operated Stove that is far more economical than a gas or electric stove. Burns only 2 per cent fuel r 9B per cent, free air; that’s real economy.

Four full-size saucepans fit easily—without crowding—on the two spacious cooking burners There’s sufficient room in the spacious oven for a full family dinner. No guesswork . . . oven temperature can be read easily from the temperature gauge on the drop-down oven door. • Needs no special extra fittings, complete as one unit. • Cooks hot meals anywhere at anv time. 3 QUIRK’S Victory Light Co 229 CasHereagh Street, Sydney.

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Lithgow .22 Cal. Repeating Rifle .. .. £l5 19 6 I Post Lithgow .22 Cal. Single Shot £8 19 6 (Extra (Prices Subject to Change Without Notice.) SI L ROH U, 143 ELIZABETH STREET, SYDNEY.

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202 Pitt Street, Sydney. At Economy Pnccs

Choice Dessert PLUMS, 29 oz (usual price 30/6 doz.) Choice Clingstone PEACHES, 30 oz.

Choice Bartlett PEARS, 30 oz SOLID PACK APPLES, 14 oz., 22/6 doz.; 28 oz K. R. BONELESS COOKED HAM, 16 oz K. R. COOKED BACON RASHERS, 16 oz I.X.L. GOLDEN CORN, 8 oz Choice SLICED BEETROOT, 16 oz., 16/6 doz.; 30 oz “Letona” CELERY CUTS, 16 oz “Heinz” English MAYONNAISE, 7 oz. 19/6 doz. 39/- doz. 39/- doz. 36/- doz. 9/9 tin. 6/9 tin. 17/6 dcz. 21/- doz. 9/- doz. 2/111 jar.

Choice SWEET GHERKINS, 10 oz. jars “Gartsides” ASPARAGUS SOUP, 16 oz.

Bacos COFFEE & MILK, 13i oz. .

“Kraft” CHEDDAR CHEESE, 12 oz. tins “Meadowlea” TABLE MARGARINE, 16 oz., 3/3 tin; 2 lb Best BEEF DRIPPING, 16 oz. tins (no export levy) New Season’s HOPS, 2 oz. pkts “Mcllrath’s” FRUIT SALINE, 7 oz., 2/- jar; 16 oz Australian Dressed RICE (white or brown) £7B/15/ 29/6 doz. 15/- doz. 33/- doz. 37/6 doz. 6/- tin. 23/6 doz. 19/- doz. 3 6 jar. - per ton “MYNOR”, “KIA-ORA” or “BROOKES” PURE FRUIT CORDIALS LEMON ORANGE i _, ORANGE & LEMON ( 3/9 Lar S e Bottle.

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These pure fruit citrus cordials are economical, refreshing and rich in vitamins.

Piam Flour, Self Raising Flour and Sugar are available in new 25 lb. and 35 lb. Lever Lid tins for Island Customers.

A full range of Penfold’s, Lindeman’s, Seppelt’s and Hardy’s Wines now available from 4/9 bottle. Also leading Drands of Scotch Whisky. Rum, Gin, Brandy, Liqueurs available at competitive ex-bond prices. All prices F. 0.8. Sydney.

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Cable Address: “Rotunda,” Sydney tropeans are to hold those countries i their future home, they dare not mit the Negroid or Mongoloid jes. But there is no possible danger I the admission of our nearby ands races. Even if there were, it should not affect the position I the large and influential commity of Euronesians, whom we eady accept in every other way as itled to European status, fhe laws of Australia are a little ire tolerant than those of New iland; but the racial ideas of both mtries belong to the long-dead ly Victorian era, and are not to endured in this rapidly-changing rid. If Western Civilisation is to itinue, the Westerners will need all friends they can get. Our present tern not only rejects Euronesian ;ndship—it is likely to turn any h-spirited person of Europeanlynesian blood into an active and :er enemy. reform will come voluntarily m the brueaucrats. But perhaps in parliaments of the two countries re are enough elected men of the i-professional-politician type to ist that this most discreditable situation be examined against a background of justice and decency.

Pacific Islands Society The Pacific Islands Society, of Sydney, reorganised and re-formed to take care of soaring costs, now holds its monthly meetings (fourth Thursday) in the Feminist Club rooms, at 77 King Street, under the chairmanship of President C. A.

Swinbourne. Nearly 70 members attended the November meeting, when Islands colour films were screened. Christmas cocktail party is fixed for December 16—all Islanders welcome. No meeting in January—but there is one on evening of February 26.

Mr. and Mrs. Lex Haiiiday, of AVA Films, 6 Underwood Street.

Sydney, will leave by air for Nadi, Fiji, on December 24. At Nadi they will complete film sequences for BCPA and will then spend some weeks in Viti Levu and Taveuni.

Mr. Haiiiday was formerly with the 16 millimetre Division of MGM but is now in the documentary film business for himself.

The Biesel bulldog (see PIM Tropicalities, November) arrived in Papeete, Tahiti, on November 12, by TEAL. The dog which was purchased in New Zealand for Monsieur F. Biesel, Tahiti’s Chief of Police, for 25 guineas, arrived in good condition at 8 weeks of age. His sire is the official mascot of the RNZN. 137 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

—STAMPS ALBUMS, CATALOGUES AND ACCESSORIES.

CURRENT and RECENT.

ADEN & STATES: 1951 Overprints: Aden to 1/- at 5/3, 2/- at 3/3, 5/- at 8/-, 10/- at 16/-; Kathiri or Qu’aitl, ea., to 1/- at 3/6, 2/- at 3/3, 5/- at 8/-.

BARBADOS: to 24c 4/6, Stamp, Centy. 4/-.

BERMUDA: to 1/- at 5/-, 1/6 at 2/6, 2/at 3/3, 2/6 at 4/3, 10/- at 16/-, £1 32/-.

BRUNEI: to 50c 5/9, $1 4/-, $2 8/-, $5 20/-.

CANADA: 2c olive 4d. do. “G” 4d, do. coil 4d, 4c vermil Bd, do. “G” Bd, do. coil Bd, 20c Forestry 3/6, do. “G” 3/6, 4c Royal Visit 9d, 3c Borden 6d, 4c M. King 9d, 4c Red Cross Bd, 3c Abbott 6d, 4c Mackenzie Bd, 7c Goose 1/2, do “G” 1/2.

COOK IS.: to 1/- at 5/6, 2/6 at 3/3, 3/at 4/9.

DOMINICA: to 24c 6/-, 48c 3/3, 60c 4/3, $1.20 8/-.

EIRE: Holy Year 3/-.

FIJI: to 1/- at 5/-, 1/6 at 2/6, 2/- at 3/-, 2/6 at 3/9, 5/- at 7/6, 10/- at 15/-, £1 at 30/-, U.P.U. 6/-.

GIBRALTAR: to 1/- at 4/6, 2/- at 3/3.

GILBERT IS.: to 1/- at 3/-, 2/- at 3/-, 2/6 at 3/9, 5/- at 7/6. Peace 9d.

GREAT BRITAIN: to 1/- at 11/-, 2/6 at 4/-, 5/- at 8/-, 10/- at 16/-, £1 at 32/-, Id, IVad, 2d, 2 x / 2 d, wmk. s’ways 1/-, Festival 1/-, Queen iy 2 d & 2 x / 2 d at 7d.

GRENADA: to 25c 5/-, 50c 3/6, $1.50 10/6.

HONG KONG: to $1 7/6, $2 4/-, $5 10/-, $lO 20/-.

INDIA; New 2 x / 2 a & 4a 1/3, Asian Games 2/6.

JAMAICA: Scout Jamboree 1/6.

JORDAN: Arab Aid 5/-.

KENYA: to 1/- at 7/-, 2/- at 3/3, 3/- at 4/9, 5/- at 8/-, 10/- at 16/-, new vals. & cols. 2/-, Royal Visit 6/-.

MALAYA: 12 States ea. 5 new cols. 3/3 per State, complete 37/6.

MALTA: to 1/- at 5/-, 1/6 at 2/6, 2/- at 3/3, 2/6 at 4/3, 5/- at 8/-, 10/- at 16/-. Princess’s Visit 4/-, Scapular NEW ISSUE SERVICE.

Mint new issues of British Empire countries, including latest printing varieties of shade and perforation, also of Foreign Countries, can be supplied against prepaid standing orders at concession rates. Send for full particulars and application form, and be in this to receive all new Queen Elizabeth issues.

WANT-LIST SERVICE.

Naturally, we cannot have every stamp asked for, but it is our service to supply your needs, and we shall, if you give us a firm order, try to obtain for you any we lack, at the best possible prices.

All prices are in Australian Currency.

Postage extra on all stamp orders under 10/-. Albums, Accessories, Catalogues etc., Post Free. Air Mail Extra. Stamps to the value of £1 or more registered unless otherwise instructed. Registration extra on orders under £3. N.Z. Postal Notes or Money Orders payable Wellington acceptable.

We are buyers of used Pacific Islands stamps, on or off paper. Offers invited.

MAURITIUS: to R 1 7/-.

MONTSERRAT: to 24c 5/-, 60c 4/3, $1.20 8/-, $2.40 1/-, $4.80 32/-.

NEW ZEALAND: to 1/- at 7/-, 1/3 at 2/-, 2/- at 3/3, 3/- at 4/9, Lighthouses 3/6, Peace 7/-, Otago 1/9, Centennial 40/-, Canterbury 4/-, Healths 1932 37/6, 1933 22/6, 1934 15/-, 1935 3/6. 1936 3/6, 1937 3/6, 1938 4/-, 1939 7/6, 1940 10/-, 1941 7/6, 1942 3/6, 1943 1/3, 1944 1/6, 1945-6-7 ea. 9d, 1948- 9-50 ea. 1/-, 1951 9d, 1952 Bd.

NIUE; to 1/- at 5/6, 2/- at 3/3, 3/- at 4/9, NORFOLK IS.: complete 8/-.

NORTH BORNEO: to 50c 6/-, $1 4/-, $2 8/-, $5 20/-, $lO 40/-.

NYASALAND: D. Jubilee, 3 low vals. 3/6, complete 15/-.

PAKISTAN: 1951 Independence 12/-, Stamp Centy. 3/9.

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA; to 1/- at 6/-, 1/6 at 2/-, 2/- at 2/9, 2/6 at 3/6, 10/at 13/6, £1 at 27/-, PITCAIRN IS: complete 10/-.

ST. KITTS: to 24c 4/-, 48c 3/3, 60c 4/3, $1.20 8/-, $4.80 32/-, Anguilla 6/-.

SAMOA: to 1/- at 5/-, 2/- at 3/3, 3/at 4/9. Peace 2/6.

SEYCHELLES: to R 1 8/6, R 1.50 3/9, R 2.25 5/6, R 5 12/6, RlO 25/-. Dues 2/6.

SIERRA LEONE: to 1/- at 4/6, 1/3 at 2/-, 2/- at 3/3, 5/- at 8/-.

SOMALILAND; to 1/- at 5/-, 2/- (2 colours) at 3/3 ea., 5/- at 8/-, SOUTH AFRICA; van Riebeck 3/-, Exhib. 9d.

SOUTH WEST AFRICA: van Reibeck 3/-.

TONGA: Friendship 3/-.

TRISTAN DA CUNHA: to 1/- at 5/6, 2/6 at 4/3, 5/- at 8/-, 10/- at 16/-, UNITED NATIONS: Complete 37/6.

VIRGIN IS.: to 24c 4/3, 60c 4/3, $1.20 8/-, $2.40 16/-, $4.80 32/-, Leg.

Council 3 low vals. 5/-, complete 15/-.

WEST INDIES: University, complete 25/-.

WINDWARD IS.; New Constitution 10/-.

The stamps listed above are only a small selection from our stock. Enquiries invited for others, mint or used.

Catalogues And

HANDBOOKS.

“AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH POST- AGE STAMPS”, by H. Marshal Cummins.

A fully illustrated handbook, describing and classifying Commonwealth issues 4/6.

Orlo-Smith’s “C.S.C.”, 1952, 7/9.

Stanley Gibbons:— Part 1, British Empire, 1953. 30/- B.

E. King George VI, 1953, 7/9; do.

Special Interleaved Ed. 15/-.

Part 2, Europe & Colonies, 1952, 40/-.

Part 3, America, Asia & Africa, 32/6.

U.S.A., 1952, 4/6.

Simplified, Whole World, 1953, 35/6.

Pirn’s New Zealand, 1951, 24/-.

Yvert & Tellier, 1952, 65/-.

Commonwealth Stamp Co., 1953, 13/6.

Scott, Combined, 1953, 85/-.

Scott U.S.A. Specialists’, 1953, 45/-.

Annual Subscriptions:— Australian Stamp Monthly, 9/6.

Gibbons’ Stamp Monthly, 9/6. ■How to Arrange and Write up a Stamp Collection”, by Phillips & Rang, 11/6.

Albums, Leaves, Accessories

Wide range always in stock. Price list willingly sent on request.

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Native ‘Bigheads’ Om[?]

Coastal Ship

KAVIENG, Nov. 10J IN the District Court to-day 0 Dudley Young-Whitforde siding) two native seamen, Det Charlie, from the Madang distil were sentenced to six weeks’ prisonment for unlawful assault on the master (Captain Goya Heie of MV Mainiro.

Mr. Henry gave evidence that tr had “contemptuously returned" tf tobacco issue of two sticks. TI demanded “four sticks or nothix —in which latter case they propo« to get work ashore, “They did like the ship.”

He had ordered them to work forbade them to leave. They thri upon shouldered him aside seized the boat, in which they ro T c themselves ashore.

Supporting evidence was givenn the Mainiro’s engineer, Mr. W. new.

Mr. Young-Whitforde said conduct of the two seamen was U It was the custom of Sepik natiiJ if intent on causing harm, to gn together when approaching the i son against whom mischief was < tended. If either of the accm had had cause for complaint agae the captain, they should have proached him singly. He condemn the action of the two natives in t ing the ship’s dinghy. Such actc by crew members could leavo ship undermanned, and in dan should emergency arise.

Discussing the incident after Court hearing, Mr. Henry said: “T is a salutary lesson to a pair 'j malcontent ‘shrewdies,’ and a chd to the growing native notion thas contract is a kind of one-way doJ ment wherein all advantage lies w the boy, and employers may be fied at pleasure.

“The crews of vessels at anco —or anywhere, for that mattes: seem to be under the delusion tr their activities can be restricted t office hours and that the ships bot are useful conveniences for natives towards the pursuit of so<o engagements ashore.

“At any rate, there’s a differed already on this ship. I see no sy? pathy for the two now ashore—w have, as they asserted they wouc ‘found work.’ They seem to be ; garded not as martyrs, but as ing unlucky enough to back a IoJ —and as such not worth sympathi; Biggest rice crops in the historyy the Australian Northern Territti are now being planted. This shoo become an important industry. 138 DECEMBER, 1952-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHB

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Pacific Islands Miscellany

Among the discussions with which rritories Minister Hasluck became solved in Port Moresby in Nomber was a spirited protest made Burns Philp’s General Manager in JG, Mr. E. J. Frame, against the le by the Australian Government certain Government ships to ►’s chief trade rivals, Steamships ading Co.

Mr. Frame said that this sale had en made by private treaty, without mpetition. Favouritism like this is an improper thing in public 'airs. The public and his company re entitled to know the details.

The Minister retorted that Burns dip had had the same opporfities of bidding as the other Co. — ;re was no favouritism.

Mr. Frame said that the Govern- ;nt had invited the Companies to I for the whole fleet. He had Light information about the earnl power of the various units. This d been denied him. But the Goviment finally sold to ST Co. only at portion of the fleet working in pua, which everyone knew was ofitable.

The vessels being taken over by 'C are Moturina, Muniara, Manuka, Kura, Kina, Kano, Doma (300 ns).

Last year, the Emperor mine in ji made a profit of £89,820 —which as nearly £70,000 less than last year ■but Loloma, making £189,092, had very substantial gain. Emperior as the first mine developed. Loloma, uch richer, came into production ter. The real “bonanza” of this avua field, the Dolphin, came into eduction later still —but it does not iter the picture presented by the iblic companies.

The Burns Philp motor vessel r alaita, 3,300 tons, grounded on a ichartered reef three miles east of ieta (Bougainville) on December 3, hen making her usual run from the demons to Rabaul, Samarai and ydney; but eight hours later aptain Brett Milder advised she had ime off under her own power and iparently undamaged. She connued her schedule. When word of ie mishap reached Rabaul, the irbourmaster sent Pollurian and ■am to help, but the liner was off ie reef soon after, and they were called.

Every man and most women in the drt Moresby area tasted the new locally-brewed beer on November 26, and the majority declared it first-class.

Some of the experts said it was a good lager, something like the Brookvale Brewery product, produced by new Brookvale brewery, in Sydney.

A few said it lacked body— was “too watery.” There is no doubt about its alcoholic content. The enterprise cost £150,000 to establish, and is expected to become a permanent institution.

Much unexpected publicity came in November to Australian Lieut.

R. J. Sebastian and his six Army corporals when Australian War Minister Francis, touring the Territories, discovered they had been disposing of abandoned bombs, in the area between the Dutch border and the Solomon Islands, ever since the war ended. The Minister said that in October alone the squad found and disposed of 12,600 bombs, of which 4,000 were high explosive. Like the work of the war historians, it seems to be a forgotten kind of job that goes on from one war to the next.

It was widely reported in No- 139 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1952

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party fund were as follows:— £ s. d.

NG Ex-Servicemen’s Club .. 5 5 0 Mrs.

Northam 1 5 0 Sister Harris . . 1 1 0 Mrs.

Goss 1 0 0 Mrs.

Washington . 1 0 0 Miss Wall . . 1 12 0 Mrs.

Wauchope o 9 0 Mrs.

Adams 3 3 0 Mrs.

Taylour 1 0 0 Mr. V. B. Pennefather . . 3 3 0 Mrs.

Pfeiffer 8 0 Mrs.

Perriman 9 2 0 Mrs.

Downing 1 1 0 Mrs.

Bignell 10 0 Dr. Brennan 1 1 0 Mrs.

Page 1 1 0 Robt.

Gillespie Pty.. Ltd. 5 5 0 Burns Philp Co.. Ltd. . . 3 3 0 W. R . Carpenter Co., Ltd. . . . . 3 3 0 £83 5 0

Electric Power Generating Sets

35/40 K.V.A. Cadillac driven Alternator Set incorporatings— -35/40 K.V.A. 415 volt. 3-phase 50 cycle, 1500 revs., direct driven by Cadillac motor. Complete with switchboard, radiator, guards, batteries, ready for immediate use. Includes complete interchangeable La Salle engine and spare exciter. 85 K.V.A. Diesel driven Alternator Set incorporating:— 105/110 b.h.p. vertical, 4 cylinder, 2 stroke cycle, solid injection, cold starting Diesel Engine by Crossley, type DRS.4, Serial No. 121626; speed 500 r.p.m., fitted with electric light type flywheel and direct coupled to an 85 KVA Alternator by Greenwood & Batley, wound for 400/440 volts, 3-phase, 50 cycles, 4 wire supply; speed 500 r.p.m,, .8 power factor; revolving field pattern, mounted on baseplate and having direct coupled exciter; accessories for the Engine are:—tachometer, oil filter, water circulating pump, daily service fuel tank, exhaust silencer, air stating receiver and petrol engine driven charging compressor. For the Alternator, there is a cubicle type Switchboard carrying main voltmeter and ammeter with selector switches, triple pole circuit breaker with overloads, field breaking switch hand operated exciter regulator and automatic voltage regulator.

Both the above plants are in perfect working order and may be inspected in operation.

MASPRO INDUSTRIES PTY. LIMITED, 23-29 Addison Road, Marrickville, N.S.W., Australia 'Phone: LA 4351 Cable Address: “MASSPRODUCTION—Sydney” liber that the NZ Minister at asteeship Council (Mr. Munro) 1 said that the West Samoan aulation, in ten years, had inased from 62,000 to 85,000 and t 30 per cent, of them were Euroms. This was a grotesque error reporting. The Samoans are ceraly increasing rapidly, as stated, ; there are not 250 Europeans reining there now. Perhaps the nister said there were now 3 per it. of part-Samoans, but even that uld be an under-statement. Partnoans, who have European status I control most of the business, now nber between 3,000 and 4,000. \ planter from Lihir Island, near vieng, New Guinea, Mr. J. ortino, passed through Sydney on vember 29 like a whirlwind. He i gathered a consignment of pepper tings and seedlings in Malaya; and had been told that, unless they re planted within a week, they uld not survive. He arrived by air the morning, and left that even- ; for Rabaul and Kavieng. He told sorters that, if his plants grew, it •uld be two years before he got a rvest; but that, under present conions, there was a fortune in pepper.

A party of divers under Captain :rd, by November 21, recovered j whole of the £40,000 worth of Id from the sea-bottom off Lae, ;w Guinea, where it was lost when Drover plane crashed in July, 51. Captain Herd—who recovered ,000,000 worth of bullion from the 'agrra (sunk by enemy mine near jckland in 1941) —described the te job as “just routine”.

Another UN Trusteeship Mission headed for Nauru, New Guinea id Western Samoa. Representatives Britain, France, Syria, and ominica will leave New York for e South Pacific on February 9. hese Missions are sent out periodicly. They provide the gentlemen ith a glorified picnic, at UN ex- ;nse but are regarded by everyone se concerned—especially the busy dministrators—as a perambulating aisance.

Charles Weight, 62, former NSW olice officer and recently in charge f Aplin Convalescent Hostel, in hursday Island, was murdered on ie night of November 29 by a runken hoodlum—a halfcaste sealan named Morseu—with whom he ad remonstrated because the row rtorseu was making disturbed the patients. Morseu followed Weight to his quarters and deliberately shot him twice with a rifle. He has been charged with wilful murder.

A full gale on the night of December 1, with torrential rain, did much damage to buildings and shipping at Thursday Island. One lugger was sunk and several badly damaged. Three of the four licensed hotels were unroofed, the picturesque old Imperial Hotel was wrecked, shops and residences were unroofed and the Anglican Cathedral lost part of its roof. As the power plant was out of action, residents generally spent a miserable night.

Children's Christmas Party To November 30, donations to the Sydney NG Women’s Club children’s Xmas 141 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1952

Classified Advertisements Rate: 1/6 per Line—Minimum: 10 6.

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 1953. Apply: Headmistress, Mrs. Helen McT. Wayne, Stratford Church of England School for Girls, Lawson, N.S.W.

Cars For Hire

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.—At your service in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty.

Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward St., Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: B 3375.

Enquiries invited.

“COMING TO BRITAIN?”—I9SI/1952 8 to 18 h.p. cars to Drive Yourself, from £35 to £5O monthly. Delivery anywhere, Southampton free. Special Winter terms.

Martins Selfdrive Service, High Street, Winchester, England.

EXCHANGE FOR STAMPS.—I will send parcels of American magazines (comics, women’s, science-fiction, movie. Life, Collier’s, etc.) in exchange for your used Pacific Islands stamps. Friendly correspondence invited.

Arthur F. Ackley, 13 Clayton Street, Schenectady 4, N.Y., U.S.A.

ACCOMMODATION

Superior Accommodation

at “Keadue”.—Situated at beautiful Elizabeth Bay, transport at door, 7 minutes to City, tennis court, refrigeration. H.W.S., cooking facilities, moderate tariffs. Special attention for Islands visitors. Write or cable: “Keadue”, 84 Elizabeth Bay Rd., Elizabeth Bay, Sydney. ’Phone: FA 4036.

FOR SALE

On Beautiful. Sunny Norfolk

LAND.—No taxes, no rates, no worn- One of the world’s best climates and nn peaceful spots. Retired Gentleman’s Hoo fully furnished and equipped. All modr conveniences, electric light, septic tar sewerage, hot water system, refrigerate tennis court, etc. Two acres rich lei land, beautifully laid out in law/ gardens, etc. Large orchard with plesJ of oranges, bananas, mandarins, piic apples, pawpaws, passion-fruit, etc. Woo’ make an ideal convalescent home or sels guest-house. Price only £4,500, walWi walk-out. Write: “Norfolk”, c/o I 3408, G.P.0., Sydney. N.S.W.

NORFOLK ISLAND.—Pour hours fr': Auckland, five hours from Sydney, Nil the ideal place for retired people— equable climate (50° to 85°), frienn residents, golf, bowls, tennis, swimmer and fishing. Bounteous crops of sia tropical and temperate zone fruits s vegetables easily grown. No income ( or rates. Very central. IV 2 stoic Fibre home—furnished, with refrigerate Aladdin kerosene range, piano, eta 1-acre freehold, with good orange tr©' £2,250. Apply. Peter Goddard, Norfolk :

Positions Wanted

PRACTICAL agriculturist, 31, with fin class working experience, as well as goo: theoretical knowledge, of crops and anim husbandry, seeks Islands position in agg culture or commerce. Used to tropidi conditions; enjoys good health; is © serviceman. Willing to go to any Pacitc Territory in Melanesia or Polynesa; Reply to: “Agriculturist”, C/- Box 34(4- G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W.

QUALIFIED ACCOUNTANT, with thir years in the Pacific Islands prior qualifying, wants permanent position Islands; New Guinea or Fiji preferrei For further details, write to: Tomlinson c/- 39 Price Ave., Torrens Park, Souu Australia.

AUSTRALIAN, 23 years of age, desini suitable employment in Pacific Islanor plantation or otherwise. Experience ii eludes 5 years station overseer on famin property, 1 year at accountancy colleel and IVz years as assistant to insurant! manager. Pay own fare if required. Replfc “R.E.S.”, c/o Box 3403, G.P.0., Sydnex CATTLEMEN: New Caledonia & Fiji..!

Australian, 25, wants to contact cattliJ men in N. Caledonia, Fiji, re gaining eo perience in cattle and plantation manag§, ment. Refs., experienced grazing business good horseman. Has own sheep-cattk) property NSW. Will be visiting I Caledonia early in New Year. Repl;lc W.J.V.. C- Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney.

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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Dec. 1.

OPES that Fiji has acquired a vigorous and forthright Gov- -3r who will show scant patience i unnecessary official windowing and will inject a blast of h air into some of the stuffy tiers of the Colony’s governmental up may be justified. Sir Ronald vey’s opening address to the ;islative Council’s Budget session gested that some administrative ng-cleaning is on the way.

Vith almost uncanny accuracy, Ronald pointed a rebuking finger many of the blunders and shortlings which—too often glossed r or evaded in suave official statetits—have in the past caused anger I a feeling of frustration among •pie who have the interests of Fiji heart. Some of the points made the Governor’s address were: Kt a certain well-equipped district pital the laundry arrangements :ggar description’’ and result at sent in the spending of £l,OOO a x in “farming out the dirty linen.” \t another hospital, for the last 17 irs, lighting has been provided by landful of hurricane lanterns which any time could have been replaced an electric light plant at the cost a few hundred pounds. \ third hospital is “possibly quite fond redemption.”

While some of the housing for the lice in country districts is admire, in other cases it is “so cramped d squalid as to be a disgrace to * Department, the Administration d the Government.”

At Suva Gaol, the accommodation ■ condemned men, in relation to the Hows, is “inhumane and should be rtified without delay.”

Sir Ronald expressed surprise at * fact that no progress had been ide in the provision of cool holiday resorts such as a mountain resort at Nadarivatu. He said: “In view of the heavy cost of passages to the neighbouring Dominions, especially for a man with family responsibilities, as well as the cost of hotels and so on, I hope that we shall be able to press along a little faster with the provision of such facilities. I am not suggesting that the Government should enter the hotel business—God forbid!—but it may be that we can find the means to assist those who are interested in such a development.

The Governor said he had noted persistent criticism in the press of the conduct of Fiji’s War Memorial Anti- Tuberculosis Campaign. He promised to go into this matter at an early date, and added that the campaign was a subject in which Lady Garvey would take particular interest, j s som e time since Fiji has had so muc h plain speaking from a representative of the Sovereign. The public rea ction has indicated keen interest anc | a w ide measure of appreciation, recently Mr - _ * re> T’ £1 ♦ t l hi manager of K.madan Plantation, to gone to Ko p & Manager on Londip p^ a " tatl °"* ** place r at Meto Mr. J. Caulfield, formerly of Meto Plantation, Vitu. 143 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1952

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{Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency) COPRA Papua-NG.—Copra Marketing Board price: Main ports, Hot-air, £69/5/- per ton; FMS, £69/5/-; Smoked, £6B/5/-.

Sydney crushers pay: Plantation Hot-air, £9l; FMS, £9O/15/-; Smoked, £9O/2/6.

Australia has a 9 years’ UK contract (based on £Stg.s9/15/-, 1952).

Fiji.—At Suva and Levuka, 1952: Plantation Grade (60 points and over) £F6S/0/6 per ton; FMS (45-57V 2 points), £F64/15/-; Lower Grade £P6I/10/- min.

New Hebrides.—Recent quotation at 81 Metrop. francs kilo, c.i.f. Marseilles, iapprox. £AIO4/10/-, long ton).

Samoa.—MOF contract is at £65 Stg. per ton Western Samoa; producers receive about £lO less.

BSl.—Growers receive £A63/10/- per ton, delivered Honiara or £A63/15/- Yandina, under MOP contract.

Tahiti.—Recent price for Papeete copra- Dry, 7.80 Pac. frs. kilo (£ASS/4/- long ton); Super dry, 8.20 Pac. frs. kilo (£ASB/11/- long ton).

COCOA.—lslands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W.

Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on Dec. 8 was £ 5tg.237/10/- (£A296/17/6) c.i.f. Cont. ports.

N.G. — £ A2BO per ton, in store, Sydney.

New Hebrides.—Recent shipments to USA brought $550 f.o.b. per ton (£A247 per ton).

Samoa. —Sydney agents in December quoted Samoan cocoa at £ 5tg.235 (£A293/15/-) f.o.b. per ton, first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.).

COFFEE.—lslands prices ruling in Sydney in December:— Papua-N.G.—Arabica, approx. 6/- lb. ex. wharf Sydney (approx. £672 per ton).

Owing to import restrictions affecting shipments from elsewhere, Papua-N.G. coffee is bringing high prices in Sydney at present. However, trade indications are that it will level off at about 5/- lb., within the next few months.

New Caledonia.—Crop mainly exported to France. Marseilles price recently was equivalent to approximately £A64O per ton, ex wharf.

RUBBER.—Australian Rubber Pool quotation for December shipment.—Papua- NG: 23%d. Stg. per lb., c.i.f. Sydney i approx. 29y 8 d. Aust.) —Papuan rubber is allowed in primage-free (10 per cent, from elsewhere). Singapore rate (used by Australian firms as basis for buying Papuan rubber), Dec. 9; No. 1 grade RSS • sellers), spot 95%c. lb., c.i.f. (approx 35 3 /4d. Aust. lb.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Sydney quotation (by Victor Karp. Tulk & Co.): White Label, 22/-, Yellow, 22/-, Green, 21/- per lb c.i.f., Sydney.

RlCE.—Rice shipped from Sydney to Islands was fixed last year, at £75 per ton, f.0.b.. White, Unpolished and -own. (On plantation Papua-NG approx.

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agents quote Ceylon, 1/7% lb. spot, livered to store, Sydney. New Guiii 2/5 V 2 lb. spot, delivered in store, Sydb PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed betw Torres Strait producers and Otto Gen; Co. (USA) for 1952 were; AA/A/B gr«i 85 cents lb. (£ABSO approx, per I ton); C, 80c. lb. (£A800); D, 55c. . ( £ A 550): E, 40c. lb. (£A400); EE, lb. (£ A3OO) —all c.i.f., New York. O Is.—American market has recently she increased interest, with quotations in j cess of 35 cents U.S. per lb., c. SSb Rarotonga. Current production is ported to be about 50 tons per montH: TROCHUS SHELL.—Sydney agents cently quoted: £AI3S per ton for B.! shell. New Hebrides: Last sales Sydney were at £A9S per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney age; recently quoted: Ist grade, £AIBS-£a' per ton; 2nd grade, £AI4O per ton 8.5.1. shell.

London Prices

LONDON, Oct. 2i£ Copra, c.i.f., Continental Ports, tor< New Hebrides, Metrop. francs . . 79,( Tahiti, Metrop. francs 81,J FM Straits, Nov.-Dec. .. £Stg.77/i' Ceylon, P.M.S NomL Philippines, bulk, Nov.-Dee. .. US $2O) Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton— PM Straits, 3V 2 %, drums . .. £Stg.j Ceylon, 1% bulk, Nov.-Dec. .. £Stg.i Philippines, afloat US $5 Cocoa, per 50 kilos, c.i.f., Nth. CC tinental Ports, Stg.— Accra, Nov.- Jan., 237/6; Dec.-Feb., 235!

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FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, Ah BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on basis £lOO Fiji; Buying, £ All 1/2/6; SelliEi £ All 3. Fiji-London. basis £lOO Londro B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £IC NZ: B. £lll/11/9; s. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.— Through BANK OF M Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoi B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Samro London, basis £lOO London: £lOO/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-V! basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £lOO/10,1 Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £ll.

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