PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly JANUARY, 1953 Vol. XXIII. No. 6. sdfh /° r transmission hy post as a newspaper]

Old Ways And

NEW-a recent photograph taken in Papeete, Tahiti, by Mr. F. H. Simpson who calls it “Birds of the Islands.” The ship is Oiseau des Iles which runs between Papeete and Makatea phosphate islandwith the aid of her engines more than her sails these days. The flying-boat is a TEAL Solent.

So much for your money when you ffy by QANTAS Islands Air Services and Papua internal services are Regular 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; twice weekly DCS flights via North Queensland towns and one by Sandringham fortnightly from Moresby via Cairns and Brisbane. All New Guinea linked with the above, services linking Norfolk Island, Noumea. \ ila. 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 dying experience is at your command when you fly Qantas. Veteran crews with many living hours on over 60,000 miles of Qantas routes ensure that vour truly enjoyable V qantas empire airways limited (Inc. in Qld.) in association with 8.0.A.C. and TEAL

Served By Qantas

Aitape • Aiyura Anqoram • Arono Awar • Baiyer River Banz • Bena Bena Brisbane • Buin Buka • Bulolo Cairns * Chimbu Cooktown * Daru Dumpu • Esa'ala Espiritu Santo Finschhafen Garaina • Goroka Gusap * Honiara Inus * Jacquinot Ba> Kaiapit * Kainantu Kavienq • Kerema Kerowaqi • Kieta Kikori • Kup • Lae Lake Kutubu Lake Murray Lindenhafen • Losuia Madanq * Manus Maprik • Menyamyo Minj • Moewe Harbour • Mount Nadzab • Norfolk is. • Oqelbenq Haqen • Nonduql Noumea Port Moresby Queen Carola Harbour • Rabaul Rockhampton Samara! • Suva Sydney • Talasea Torokina • Townsville Vella Lavella Vila • Wdbaq Wabamunda • Wans Wau • Wewak Yandina • Yule Is.

Australia'S International Airline

PI i,i PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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I: The big glass-smooth ironing base 16 square inches of surface of the Coleman Self-heating Iron is double pointed and heavily nickel - plated to glide smoothly and easily over any fabric.

The Coleman Self-heating Iron lights instantly, makes and burns its own gas, permitting continuous ironing and the, fount holds one pint of fuel, sufficient for hours-. The body has a blue vitreous finish which is easy to clean and keep clean. With rtfs rust-proof body and heavily nickeled ironing surface, the Coleman Self-heating Iron will last indefinitely and, because it heats itself, the ironing can be /done anywhere, indoors or out-of-doors.

Representatives for the Pacific tstands 54a PITT STREET SYDNEY

Robert Gillespie P T Jltp

PEARCE & CO. LTD.

SUVA

For Fiji Islands

1 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-JANUARY, 1053

SH for METALS HIGHEST PRICES FOR Copper Brass Aluminium ~ Lead Muntz Metal ★ i/nt LA 5111 Newtown, Sydney, N.S.W.

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Branches Throughout N.S.W., Victoria, Queensland

(through subsidiary Abrahams and Williams Pty. Ltd.) and

South Australia

Leader of the Secondary Metal Industry for 30 Years Telegraphic Address: "SIMSMETAL," Sydney. 2 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

RMS AORANGI pd. . .

Dec. 11 Feb. 12 Apr. 16 lick. .

Dec. 15-16 Feb. 16-17 Apr. 20-21 liva , .

Dec. 19 Feb. 20 Apr. 24 nTu . Dec. 26 Feb. 27 May 1 1c. . , . Jan. 1 Mch. 5 May 7 ianc. .

Jan. 2-8 Mch. 6-12 May 8-14 1c. . , Jan. 8 Mch. 12 May 14 rnTu , . Jan. 15 Mch. 19 May 21 liva . , , Jan. 24 Mch. 28 May 30 |Uck. . , Jan. 27-20 Mch. 31-Apr. 2 June 2-4 yd. . .

Feb. 2 Apr. 6 June 8 On arrival at Sydney June 8, 1953, brangi will withdraw from service.

London - Suva

direct se* \V 'C K PANAMA N For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To

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

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

“S.S”

Eastern Star. •* INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD.

Agents For

PAPUA AND

New Guinea

A ustralia-China Line The Indo China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., of Hong Kong, have appointed us their agents for New Guinea and Papua.

The fleet which consists of the fast modern vessels, *S.S. Eastern Star *S.S. Eastern Glorv *M.V. Eastern Saga M.V. Kafiristan conduct regular sailings from Japan to Australia via ports. * Spacious and luxurious accommodation for 12 passengers.

ROBERT GILLESPIE NEW GUINEA LTD., LAE, RABAUL, MADANG.

Pt. Moresby Representative—E. E. Kriewaldt ty Co. Ltd.

Shipping Time-Tables

There now are comparatively few striping lines running on regular time-tables i the Pacific Islands. The following timebies are only approximately correct— icy are subject to much alteration at lort notice:— Sydney-Suva-N. America Canadian-Australasian liner Aornngl 7,500 tons) maintains regular twopnthly sailings—Sydney-Atrckland-Suvabnolulu-Victoiia-Vancouver, and return Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about 'ery six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbyunaral - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul imaral-Moresby-Brlsbane-Sydney.

Next departure from Sydney about inuary 21.

MV Malekula left Sydney oh January 9 ir Samaral, Rabaul, Manus, Wewak ladang, Lae, Samara! and return to fdney.

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

MV Shansi and MV Sinkiang, modern 000 tons vessels, will leave every six weeks approximately (making a threeweekly service): Sydney-Brisbane-Port Moresby-Madang-Rabaul, Port Moresby, Sydney. Shansi departs next trip Feb. 17; Sinkiang on January 27.

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 Western Samoa). Tofua leaves Auckland lor 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 about January 20.

Matua scheduled to leave Auckland on January 8, February 5.

Details from Union SS Co.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The NZ Government’s old motor vessel Maui Pomare is scheduled to leave Auck- 3 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

Pacific Islands Transport Line

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

Tahiti Samoa —Fiji New Caledonia

New Hebrides

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, LTD.

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

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

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

Last sailing from Sydney January 10.

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

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Lin coming from Marseilles, via West Ind!) and Panama, call about every s weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides* Noumea and Sydney, and return by san route. Details from Messageries Man times.

Small motor-ships Polynesien (Messa geries Maritimes) and Neo Hebrldais () C. Sleigh. Ltd.) maintain fairly regull service between Noumea and Sydney, N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, etc Norwegian motor vessel Thorsisle, carr*] ing cargo and passengers maintains a regi’ lar service between North American pon and French Oceania, Samoa, Fiji, Ne Caledonia and New Hebrides.

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

Airways Time-Table

Trans-Pacific Services*

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

By Pan-American Airways

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperette and Berths Thur. and Mon. —Sydney-Nadi (FIJI!

Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Seattl; Portland.

Sun. and Thur. —Return via same rout Sat. - Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Honolulu-, Fran.-Seattle-Los Angeles.

Tues. —Return by same route. 4 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH II

All Over The World

Good mornings begin with Gillette Though the Eskimo lives in the cold all his days, For Blue Gillette shaving there’s warmth in his praise.

He knows when he’s using the sharpest edge made, Gillette is the name for both razor and blade.

Blue Gillette Blades ~bTue~ Gillette BLADES always use a Gillette Razor as well. Because razor and blade are made for each other.

With Gillette, cool customers the world over enjoy smooth, money-saving shaves. There is no blade so sharp and none that lasts so Jong as Blue Gillette. And they

F British Commonwealth Pacific

Airlines (Bcpa)

Bd. and Sat. —Sydney-Nadl (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver. >n. and first Thur. —Dep. southwards, same route. On second or alternate Thursday, flight commences at S.

Francisco. ,es.—Dep. Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

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

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(CPAL) Brnate Friday (January 16, 30, etc.) i-Sydney-Auckland-Nadi (Fiji) -Canton Is. Honolulu-Vancouver. ernate Friday (Jan. 23, Feb. 6, etc.) —Return by same route.

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays, Saturdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: ney, 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 mnects at Lae with DC3’s for Wau, fd.); 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 nsville, 5.00 am Cairns, 6.15 am ms, 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) i 5.45 am Moresby. 7.05 am esby, 7.35 am Sydney, 10.30 pm a Cairns. Towns., Brisbane, with anal call at Rockhampton.

Monday (DCS) aul, 7 am Moresby, 10.20 am esby, 10.50 am Cairns, 2.10 pm ns, 3.10 pm Towns, 4.30 pm (night stop) ns. (Tues.), i 5 am Brisbane. 1 pm bane, 1.45 pm Sydney, 5 pm Ith optional call at Rockhampton.

Wednesday, Sunday (Skymaster) 10.30 am Moresbv. 11.40 am esby, 12.40 pm Bris., 7.10 pm .. 8.25 pm Sydney, NORTHWARDS Alt. Saturdays (Sandringham) (Dec. 6, 20, etc,). iey, 6.00 am Brisbane, 9.20 am bane, 10.20 am Cairns, 4.35 pm (Night stop) ns, 9.30 am Pt. Moresby, 1.20 pm t. Sunday) SOUTHWARDS Alt. Fridays (Sandringham). (Dec. 5, 19, etc.) Moresby, 6.00 am Brisbane, 3.00 pm bane, 3.45 pm Sydney, 7,05 pm 5 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 195 3

* * * A SYMBOL

Of Banking

SERVICE All A.N.Z. Bank buildings and publications display this symbol which now identifies Australia and New Zealand Bank Limited one of the most progressive banking organisations serving the people of Australia, New Zealand, and Fiii AUSTRALIA

And New Zealand

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in which are merged Bank of Australasia The Union Bank of Australia Ltd. (Established 1835) (Established 1837) Over 720 Branches and Agencies throughout Australia and New Zealand, in Fiji, and in London.

Agents throughout the world.

ANZ 49-16 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Every Wednesday.

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

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

MORESBY-DABU (Sandringham) Fla Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (options Kikorl, L. Kutubu. —Every alternu Wednesday; returning same day (JsT 21, Feb. 4, 18, etc.).

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Sandringham Alternate Monday Dep. Moresby 9 a.j arr. Samarai 11.00 a.m. (overnight i Jan. 19, Feb. 2, 16, etc.

Alternate Tuesday (following day) df: Samarai 9.00 a.m. arr. Moresby 11J a.m.

Papua-New Britain

(Sandringham) Alt. Mon. (Jan. 26, Feb. 9, 23, ett —Pt. Moresby - Samarai - Esa’ae Rabaul.

Alt. Thu. (Jan. 15. 29, Feb. 12. 26. etc..

Rabaul-Esa’ala-Samarai-Pt. Moresby a * Calls Esa’ala monthly only.

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

Alt. Tue. (Jan 27. Feb. 10, 24, et; —Rabaul-Jacquinot Bay-*Lindenhafl Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Rabaul.

N.B.—The direction of operation chann with each service, i.e., each alternn service operates Rabaul-Talasea-Mo«< Harbour - "Lindenhafen - Jacquinot Bs Rabaul. * Optional Stop.

New Britain-Bougainvtlle

Alt. Wed. (Jan 28, Feb. 11, 25. elj —Rabaul-Queen Carola Hbr.-Bui Inus-Kieta-Buin.

Alt. Wed. (same day) Buin-Kieta-Im Buka-*Queen Carola Hbr.-Rabaul. * Optional Stop.

LAE -MAD ANG - WE W AK-MANUS -

Kavieng-Rabaul General

SERVICE Every Monday and Thursday by DC Native traffic, not recommended Europeans.

Central Highlands

(Drover) Mondays.—Madang (8 am) to Oora with optional stops at Kainantu, Aiyir Arona, then returns to Madi arriving 10 am.

Fridays.—Madang (8 am) to Was with optional stops at Baiyer R., Hagen. Kerowagi. Returns to Madt arriving 10.10 am.

Thursday.—Madang (8 am) to Mt, Returns direct to Madang arrivj 10.50 am.

Fridays.—Lae (6.30 am) to Wabag, call, at any of: Nadzab, Kiaipit, Arr Aiyura, Kainantu, Bena BU Goroka, Kerowagi, Kup, Nondfc Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen. Ogelbw Baiyer R., Wabamunda, Wabag. ReWi to Lae arriving 6 pm.

Lae-Bulolo*-Wau (Dhb4)

Dep. Lae.—Tues., Fri., Sat. —3 pm, Dep. Wau.—Tues., Fri., Sat. —Direct d Lae. Arriving 5.05 pm. * The airstrip at Bulolo is closed tJ porarily and therefore traffic can not) accepted to Bulolo until the strip is ; opened for use.

Services By Mandated Airline

With headquarters at Lae, this compi runs regular services for passen®, freight and mails to all New GUU settlements. 6 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON T H L

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

JL rnmmmmm t nil ' 1 lib; * * *3 * 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.

VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD. 26 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY.

Island Merchants

• All Classes of Merchandise Purchased at Lowest Wholesale Prices. • Original Invoices Supplied to Island Clients. • Island Produce Sold on Commission. • Suppliers of ''Goodyear" Tyres, Batteries and Automotive Products. • Island Distributors for Armstrong- Siddeley Diesel Engines. Mercedes- Benz Diesel Marine Engines.

We invite your inquiries for goods of all description—Prompt and careful attention given to all orders and inquiries.

CABLES:—"VENTURA/' SYDNEY. 4. Dutch N. Guinea-Darwin By Netherlands Government, with DCS eekly service, between Darwin and Blak.

Also, new KLM weekly service, calling , Blak, on flight between Manila and istralia. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS 3 Flights Every Four Weeks, Miday (Jan. 19, Feb. 2,9, 16), Lae |(dep. 6 am)—Finschhafen Rabaul Torokina (Bougain.) Vellalavella ' Yandina Honiara, BSI (arriving 4.25 pm). lesday (Jan. 20, Feb. 3, 10, 17), Honiara ; (dep. 7 am) Yandina Vellalavella Torokina Rabaul - Finschhafen Lae (arriving 3.15 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

J 4 (Skymaster) dep. Saigon, January 9, and every 28 days thereafter for Labuan-Darwin-Brisbane-Noumea, and return. stralian agents: Messageries Maritlmes. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

Trans Oceanic Airways, with Flyingboats Sight services per Tuesday d Saturday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters. ernate Thursdays (Jan. 29, Feb. 12, 26, etc.), returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Sandringham Flying Boats: (Jan. 20, Feb. 3, 17, etc.).

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Alt. Tue., 6;30 am Noumea, • 3.05 pm o.«. frnightstep). • Noumea-. Alt. Wed.; . -i- ,• •. 8.00 am Vila» 10.35 . am Vila, 12.45 pm Santo, 2.00 pm Santo, Alt. Thu., , . > i 6.00 am Vila, 7.15 am 7 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— JANUARY.' 1953

Stay at TUSCULUM in Sydney Ideally situated in its own delightful gardens, Tusculum is only five minutes from the business and social centres of the City. It is renowned among ISLAND VISITORS for its 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 Bank Of New Zealand

Provides World-Wide Facilities

Helpful, friendly and confidential service in all matters concerning local and overseas transactions

Bank Of New Zealand

Established 1861—The Dominion’s Largest Banking Business.

Bank of New Zealand Branches in the Pacific Islands are located at Suva and Lautoka, Fiji, and Apia, Samoa. Also Agencies at Nausori and at Marks St., Suva.

Vila 845 am Noumea, 10.55 am Noumea. 42 30 pm Sydney. 7.30 pm (Additional flights operate subject to approval, of Government concerned.) 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva By Qanias with Sandringham Flying Boats— Weekly, Depart: Arrive: Sydney Thur., Noumea, 3.05 pm 6.30 am (nightstop) Noumea, Fri., 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 DOS’s Sundays—From Auckland double service returning same day. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Approximately 7 flights weekly in b<d directions during January.

Dept. Sydney 7.30 am or 12 midniggj arr. 4 pm same day, or 8.30 following day.

Dep.Auckland 8.30 am, arriving 1.30 p 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney 10.30 pm weekdays, arr. 7f am following day.

Dep. Wellington 10.30 am weekdb arriving 3.45 pm. 14. Melbourne-Christchuro Tasman E. Airways, with DC4 Skymas* Thurs. —Dep. Melb., 10.25 pm; arr. ChVj 8.15 am next day.

Pri.—Dep. Ch’ch., 11 am; arr. Melb., 52 pm.

Additional flights on 19/1, 23/2. 15. New Zealand-Fiji SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dept. Auckland Jan 31; Feb. 10, 14, , 28; Mar. 10, 14, 24, 28.

Return to Auckland on following db (except February 2 and March 2, wh’ leave an extra 24 hours later).

Depart Arrive !

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

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dept. Suva February 1, March 1, .

Return to Suva on same day. 8 JANUARY. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

•nuT* T'Ht YOUR Will Grows Older Faster Than You Do Often a Will is hopelessly out of date a few months after it is signed.

That is because changes in your assets affect the specific gifts it mentions.

An increase in your family is another reason for revision. To provide for such changes, you will do well to recast your plans at regular intervals.

Next time your Solicitor revises your Will, be sure to appoint Burns Philp Trust Company Limited as your Executor. Then your Estate will be certain of efficient and prompt administration. Remember, too, that the Company—acting as your Attorney—frees you from all business worries when you go overseas. Ask for a copy of “Hands That Never Leave The Wheel.” This 20-page booklet is obtainable from any branch of Burns Philp (South Sea) Company, Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited, or direct from this Company’s head office.

DIRECTORS: James Burns.

P. T. W. Black.

Joseph Mitchell.

Eric Priestley Lee.

MANAGER: L. S. Parker.

SECRETARY: E. R. Overton, F.P.I.A.

Burns Philp Trust

Company Limited

Executor • Trustee • Attorney Head Office: 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

TeL: BU 5901 Box 543, G.P.O.

Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby ( Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides).

Depart Arrive ira, 6.00 am Sun. Apia, 11.05 am Sat. ia, 1.30 pm Sat. Suva, 4.35 pm Sun. \ New Zealand-Chatham Is. )urlng the coming summer services ween Auckland and Waikato Bay, atham Is., via Wellington, will be irated on the following dates:— anuary 28, 1953, March 11, 1952. olent flying-boats will leave Auckland these dates at 3.30 am, arrive Welling- , 5.30 am, dept. Wellington, 7 am, ive Chatham Is., 10.30 am. Return same route, arriving Auckland 7.30 pm ic day. 18. New Zealand-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents EAL Service, Auckland-Suva-Apiajtaki-Papeete, is operated with Solent ing-Boats once every two weeks. Dep. ikland, Tuesday, 7.00 am. Arr. Suva ) pm. Dep. Suva (Wednesday) 7.00 cross International Date Line: Arr. a 11.55 am Tuesday. Dep. Apia 2.00 Wednesday. Arr. Aitutaki 7.20 am. . Aitutaki 9.20 am. Arr Papeete 1.45 Return by same route every alt. iay, leaving Papeete 7.30 am. he next flights leave Auckland uary 20; February 3, 17; March 3, 31. 19. Micronesia Ivilian services, based on Guam, using igined amphibious Catalinas, run reirly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West alines), Truk (Central Carolines), ape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls) Saipan (Marianas). Details from ns-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu. 20. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, with twin-engine de Haviland Rapides (Effective Ist November) iva-Nadi & Lautoka: Mornings—Daily ‘pt Monday and Friday. Afternoons— iy except Friday. iva-Labasa: Daily except Thursday Sunday. tbasa-Suva: Daily except Tuesday and rsday. idi & Lautoka to Labasa: Every day. ibasa to Nadi & Lautoka: Every nesday.

It. S. J. Pollington, who has it the past six years as an Inspecof Meteorological Stations, ioned at Laucala Bay, Suva, has i transferred to the Meteorologi- Station at Invercargill, New land.

Tuitavua, captain of the an Rugby Union team which •ed NSW and Queensland in '-August, 1952, returned to Fiji December. When the rest of the n returned to Suva, Apakuki rened in Sydney to study meat •action methods.

Ir. Lyn Thrift, superintendent of cational work for the Seventh 1 Adventist Mission in N-E New nea (headquarters Madang), was furlough in Brisbane in Novem- He spent his holiday sitting for iversity examinations. 9 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

L i Edmonds Garden Factory—one of the sights of Christchurch, New Zealand.

Known for generations in New Zealand and already firmly established favourites in the Fiji Group. Edmonds Quality Products are now available for shipment to other islands.

Enquiries are invited from island territories where Edmonds are not already represented.

Should you desire to handle these popular lines in your territory, please write to T. J.

EDMONDS LTD., Ferry Road, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Edmonds Quality Products

EDMONDS “SURE TO RlSE’'' (Pure grape cream of tartar) BAKING POWDER EDMONDS “ACTO" (Pure food phosphate) BAKING POWDER

Edmonds Custard Powder

Edmonds Pure Maize Packet Corn Flour

6’ mf o t *o* T. J. EDMONDS LTD., CHRISTCHURCH, N.Z. Established 1879.

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at stay V I ' * 4 H 00 's&&&**■ V\v^ s it - beg?!** ,Q SUVi pitiful centra * Cl s c •Spec tr ciall y w cia topics „ Oesig DM *°tiv e ser Excell St * for th *aiter s v,c e b v , cui sioe be from 0 and Gained 1 s£t£cf °®<* o/ «. «**ted • ° f * Per 0 j/Jjf direc t atly UI JV2 IN THIS ISSUE: Editorial; The South Seas in 1953 ;: NG Native Labourers Can Now Defy Employers 13—14 Still No Announcement of Appointment of NG Administrator 15 Old Landmarks Go in Suva .. 15 British Copra Producers in Pacific May Lose £1,000,000 16 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 16 Remarkable NG Case of*Superintendent Steeples 17 Ship for NZ-Norfolk Is. Run 17 More Plans for Suva Wharf .. 18 UK Ship on Ocean Is. Reef .. 18 WPHC Now Functioning at Honiara, BSI 19 Knighthood for J. F. Nicol — New Year Honours 19 Notes Made in the Pacific — Third Instalment by R. W.

Robson 21 Territories Talk-Talk 23 European Woman Drifts 3 Days Off Samarai 27 Four China Line Ships for P-NG 29 Unpopular Amendment to NG Labour Ordinance 29 High Court Upholds Creighton Appeal 33 South Pacific Commission’s Activities 34 NZ Knighthoods of Islands Interest 35 Fiji’s Population Problem Handed Back to Britain .... 37 Calais Found After 5-weeks Drift 43 Expert Complains of Lack of Coconut Culture in Islands 45 Cattle, Rice and Kenaf—New Industries in P-NG 47 Pearl Shell Find in North ~ 53 Hurricane on Nissan Is 54 1952: Summary of South Pacific Events 55 New Copra Handling at Blanche Bay 59 Party Investigates Mineral Deposits in Netherlands New Guinea 61 Doubled Indian Jute Threat to P-NG Kenaf 63

Magazine Section—

Notes Made in and Around Tahiti, 55; Tropicalities, 67; The O’Keefe Story Up to Date, 68; New Books About the Pacific, 70.

News from the Cook Is 79 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 81 Lone Rabbit on Phoenix Island 83 P-NG Would Like Renewal of “Penal Clauses”

How Coconut Pearls are Formed Successful Students at Suva CMS Umboi Is. —Another NG Hot Spot Profit—and Hard Work —In Papuan Crocodile Shooting War on Rhino Beetle in N.

Guinea Some Aspects of Moresby’s Abduction Case II Politico-Economic Confusion in Indonesia U News of the Small-Ships .... U OBITUARY; Fr. Roduit; Mr.

A. Head; Mrs. E. J. Matthews; Mr. C. C. David; Mrs. Emma Walker; Mr. Kelvin P. Hardy; Mr. H. Irwin; Mr. R. Main; Mr. Harry Goodwin; Mr.

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Evenett 120—U Watch on Introduced Pests in P-NG II Christmas Parties for Islands Folk H Nauru News H Generous Payments to P-NG Natives II MOP from Suwarrow II Produce, Markets, etc II 12 JANUARY, 1953-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Which Colour Blue Or Rose?

The South Pacific in 1953 IWO sets of circumstances, one presented in a blue and the other in rosy light, affect the foreseeable nditions in the South Pacific Islands 1953. In other words, while the de outlook is quite good, the innational position continues to deiorate.

The political cheer-leaders at New ar tried to reassure the collective nd of an apprehensive world—even r. Churchill declared that “the nger of war has receded”—but the :ts are there to be seen by any inligent man, and they are not rearing.

The Cold (or ideological) War still es on, as ugly as ever; but it has anged its character, in accordance :h Muscovite planning. Five years 3, the issue was quite clear—the -stern system versus Communism; tich meant that the Western Eurom nations, with which United ites is aligned, resolutely faced the mmunist bloc, led by Russia. To- Y, the issue is substantially the ne, but it is much obscured by the ;t that Russia has successfully ■ned the Asiatics and the Africans, a howling, chaotic mass, against ! Western nations.

When, five years ago, it was deled to re-arm against Russia, nerica’s two principal allies were to the British Commonwealth and ance, while the smaller Powers, like the Benelux and Scandinavian countries, were to rally around. Democracy’s challenge to the Red forces took definite shape in Korea.

The Communists, with great cleverness, countered all that by (a) bringing in 450 millions of Chinese to smother the UNO effort in Korea; and (b) stirring up the peoples of Indochina, Malaya, Persia, other Middle East countries, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya, and Soudan to a nationalist frenzy, directed against America’s chief allies, Britain and France.

France is deeply involved now in troubles in Indo-China, Tunisia and Morocco; Britain is spending countless millions in Malaya and Kenya, and seems on the point of committal to a new campaign in Egypt and the Soudan. If we become embroiled in Egypt, the trouble must extend throughout the Mahommedan and Arab countries of the Middle East.

The Westerners are in an appalling muddle. Their armed forces are so bogged down in Korea, Indo-China, Malaya, the Middle East and Africa that the Westerners’ military plans against the Red bloc are out of gear, while the cost of these numerous and growing campaigns is very gravely upsetting the economic balance in most of the Western countries, and that in turn helps the Communists.

Meanwhile, the Red forces—military, naval and air—are not engaged anywhere and—apparently in accordance with a carefully co-ordinated plan—are preparing for Der Tag. Incredible swarms of Red agents are all over the Western world, stirring up industrial troubles among the Westerners and nationalist troubles among Asiatics and Africans who are dependent upon the Westerners. There is no shadow of doubt that the outbreaks in all the disturbed countries have a Communist origin. For example, at least 3,000 Red agents, based in the now independent State of Ethiopia, are the chief cause of the disturbances in Egypt, Kenya, French Africa and the Middle East.

Embarrassed almost beyond description by these mounting difficulties, the Western Governments cannot get on with their international plans for meeting the Communist campaign, and are in danger of quarrelling among themselves. France has just set up another of her countless governments; and the latest premier is demanding a revision of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, set up by the Westerners as their chief defence against the Reds).

Chief blame for the discomfiture of the Westerners in the Cold War must go to the Westerners’ Socialist Governments—the Attlee Government in Britain, the various set-ups in France, and the Truman Administration in the United States. Except the French, they all now are wiped out; but their fumbling and stupidity, and their inability to recognise the danger

between 1945 and 1951. laid the foundations of the present dreadful mess.

Strength and firmness, and the ruthless employment of force, were the qualities mainly called for in those years; but the Socialists played into Red hands by trying political appeasement and a policy of sweet tenderness towards Asiatic and African Brother —whose chief purpose in life is to cut European throats.

Non-Socialists now are in control in USA and Britain; but maybe it is a little too late now to employ strength and ruthless force. The fat is in the fire —and the fire is sweeping across the world in a manner literally terrifying. At the earliest possible moment after the American election, Churchill went to America —talks with Eisenhower —a conference of the gravest moment for all humanity.

No one can guess at the outcome of those talks. We only know that something must be done, and soon— this Cold War, in its latest shape, cannot go on. In other words, a stop must be put to the mischief-making of the Muscovite Reds.

APART from all that, the outlook, as we see it in the South Pacific, is pleasant and stimulating. We see, in all directions, developing opportunities for new industries and new trade, and capital in sight to finance them. Huge funds still are in circulation in Papua-New Guinea, and there are big things afoot in that country.

The research work of the South Pacific Commission, carried out over the past three years by a band of devoted men in the Research Council, is beginning to have a real effect on South Pacific economy. This soon should be translated into real action through the member nations. It is an unhappy reflection, however, that the six member nations—United States, France, Holland, and the three British countries of United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand—are directly and deeply involved in the Cold War. This could have a bad reaction through the SPC.

The brightest aspect of South Pacific affairs —and it is purely coincidental—is the almost simultaneous appearance in the chief South Pacific countries of three new men of outstanding ability—Sir Ronald Garvey, Governor of Fiji; Mr. D. M. Cleland, Administrator of Papua-New Guinea; and Mr. C. M. S. Stanley, High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.

There also are, at the moment, firstclass top men in French Oceania, Western Samoa and New Caledonia.

In other words, the South Pacific Islands, in 1953, are “all set to go”— if only the genie which control the Cold War can be captured and kept in a bottle!

NG Native Labour Now Can Defy NG Employers THE judgment of Mr. Justice Kelly, of the New Guinea Supreme Court, quashing the conviction of a native labourer who had been proceeded against in a District Court for failing to work the 44 hours for which he had contracted, directs pointed attention to one of the heritages of the Ward-Murray regime of 1945-50.

The Native Labour Ordinance of 1946 (immediately after the war) wiped out the earlier laws covering native labour, and considerably modified the system; but it nevertheless did make provision that an indentured native labourer should work a 44-hours week, and that, if he refused to do this, without reasonable excuse, he could be found guilty of an offence and fined heavily and, in certain circumstances, he could be arrested and a magistrate could order that he be returned to his employer.

But Minister Ward and Administrator Murray were not satisfied with the 1946 Ordinance. In 1950 it was superseded by another Ordinance—framed, on the face of it, to express the hatred of Minister Ward for all employers, and the tender concern of Administrator Murray for all natives.

The 1950 Ordinance merely provides that a native under contract shall work a 44-hours week; and, if he refuses to do so, he cannot be punished in a way that he will understand. The former indenture is now called an “agreement”, and provision is made that the agreement shall “contain an undertaking by the employee that he will at all times and to the best of his ability perform the duties allotted to him under the agreement”. Then there is provision that if the labourer does not honour his undertaking, the agreement may be cancelled. The employer’s only remedy against a defaulting employee is at common law.

It was pointed out at the time that the 1950 Ordinance appeared to be an absurdity, because it proposed to treat these primitive New Guinea native labourers as if they were educated and responsible Europeas This latest case justifies that criticisi IN this particular case, a Rabd employer, Mr. G. B. Black, pq ceeded in the District Court again a native labourer, Kariman Kwonoi meri, who had refused to work stipulated 44-hours week, and H defied him. The Magistrate, K Rigby, convicted the native. T native’s case was taken up by Crown Law Office, and an appq lodged, on the ground that no offeit had been proved.

Judge Kelly upheld this contend!

He pointed out that the provisions? the 1946 Ordinance had been cm pletely wiped out, and other pq visions inserted, so that the e ployer’s only recourse against a oz tract labourer who refused to won a 44-hours week was a civil actii; at common law. There was no doic that the removal of the pee remedies allowed the employer umr the 1946 Ordinance was the liberate intention of the law-maid authority. All that the employer nn can do is to apply to a Court permission to withhold payment . the deferred wages of a default! employee.

So the conviction recorded agaii Kariman is quashed. It can be taL as certain that all “contras labourers soon will understand tIL apart from the risk of losing tH deferred pay, they are under penalty if they decide to break tH labour contract and defy their © ployer. Yet this Australian Gov© ment is trying to induce people e invest in New Guinea, whd adequate and dependable lab«c is essential to the development : any enterprise.

As will be seen in an article ; page 85, this matter of labour-Idesertions (already a serious problea has been put before the Australx Minister for Territories, in his usi vigorous style, by President Barn of the New Guinea Planters’ Aev ciation. There is no doubt that Minister will see the urgent need J appropriate action. But, with Menzies Government’s now notorir fear of Socialist reactions, and w one eye on the gentlemen of Trusteeship Council, Mr. HaslL may be slow to move. The Planth Association should not let the mae be pigeon-holed. Prompt actiona necessary, if further demoralisatr of the native labour situation is?j be avoided. 14 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

P-Ng Administrator

Still No Announcement T is generally understood by ? usually well-informed people that r r n J Cleland Assistant Ad- -7 \ leJ^ na ’ ssisia “ l umstrator of Papua-New Gumea. id Acting Administrator since olonel Murray retired on June 30, is been accepted by the Australian overnment for appointment to the nior position An announcement as expected after the Prime Minister turned from London and before .turned trom London, ana oerorc tr. Cleland returned to Port [oresby late in December.

But both Mr Menzies and Mr.

Ipianrt flr p hark in harness and ud the momeVit ofVTwritine Ifcere the moment of this writing, thete no announcement. Six months of Acting seems an unconscionable ne; but stranger things are on cord The New Zealand Socialist overnment kept Alfred Turnbull trtino” in the Arlrninktratnrshin of S Loa mr vears estern bamoa tor about six years, :fore it finally gave him the job, id a knighthood.

Meanwhile, Mr. Cleland has settled .ietly and effectively into the P-NG dmimstratorship, there is ’ i-operative spirit evident throughout e services; and the ordered developent of the big Territories is beginng to really take shape. Mr. eland already has found that P-NG a land of tireless critics, and ala * uo, Uuc *~~aa*„ „ ’ „ ady ne has trodden upon a tew es. But lerntonans always respect man who has strength of purpose and knows his own mind; and ‘ the new man” appears to have these qualities. 1953 is likely to be an important and interesting year in Papua- New Guinea.

Political Possibilities

The forecast among certain politically-conscious gossips in Australia at the moment is that the late Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, Colonel J. K. Murray, will be invited to contest a safe Labour seat in the next general election and that, if he and Labour generally are successful—and the defeat of the Menzies- Fadden Government is at present anticipated—Colonel Murray will be the next Minister for Territories.

Some say that a Queensland seat is already ear-marked for the former Queensland Professor.

No one expects that Mr. E. J Ward will again be Minister for Territories. All sorts of jobs are forecast for him. One bright Brisbane writer says that if Colonel Murray becomes Minister, he may invite Mr.

Ward to become Administrator!

Assistant Editor for Southwest Territories Assistant Editor of Pacific Islands Monthly, Mrs. Judy Tudor, will travel by Malaita in March to New Hebrides and Solomons. She will leave the ship at Rabaul, and spend some weeks in the chief centres of New Guinea and Papua. Mrs.

Tudor will write for PIM a series of articles describing the newlyestablished and developing industries of the Australian Territories.

Australian Public Servants For P-NG Key Positions From Our Own Correspondent urnnwenv t o PORT MORESBY, Jan. 2. nT HE new Papua and New Guinea 1 Secretary for Lands is Mr.

TwronTnnp« 4Q-vpar-old barrister economist and accountant. and f ormer Acting Director for Lands in the Northern Territory.

Mr. C. L. Anthony is the new Assistant Secretary of the Department.

Tony Anthony has been m the government service of the Islands gince 192? when he joined the New Guinea Public Service as a draftsman. Before that he was busy getting experience with the New South Wales Lands Department. He moves up from the post of Chief Lands Department draftsman to his present appoin t m ent.

Another new departmental head and a newcomer to the Territory Public Service is Mr. Frank Lee, who relinquished the job of Collector of Customs at Townsville to become Chief Customs Collector for Papua and New Guinea. This fills the vacancy caused by the death of the former Chief Collector, Mr.

Vr, oTir T Grahamslaw, who has been Acting Chief Collector.

Applications for the post of Public Service Commissioner for Papua and New Guinea closed at Canberra on December 31. The present Commissioner Mr. E. A. F Head, will finish his term next September, and he already has been appointed Commonwealth Public Service Inspector at Perth, W.A.

Old Suva Landmarks Go

[IGH authority has altered the face of the famous Triangle, in the centre of Suva. For ng years, there was a sort of dais ere, and there a bearded Indian dice official, or a big fuzzy-headed jian in the attractive police jacket id sulu, directed the little city’s hicular traffic. But now, follower modern practice, the approachg traffic is automatically divided r a series of cement contraptions.

Having thus removed the picresque police, High Authority now removing, from the Triangle ,rden alongside, the four picresque palm trees which have [ured in thousands of photographs.

A says the palms are now too 1, and in danger of being blown r er. But they survived last muary’s hurricane, which unofed several of the buildings ound the Triangle.

This photograph, taken in October, shows (centre and right foreground) the cement constructions which have replaced the traffic “cops”; and, behind, the four palm trees in the garden. This is the intersection of Ren wick Road (right), Thomson Street (left) and (foreground) Victoria Parade. 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

Per Ton £ s. d.

Papua-New Guinea .. 69 5 0 Fiji 73 2 6 Solomon Is 63 10 0 Samoa, approx 68 0 0

British Copra Producers May

LOSE £1,000,000 P.A.

IT was announced at the end of the year that Australia (Papua and New Guinea), New Zealand (Cook Is. and Samoa), Fiji and Western Pacific Commission (Solomon Is. and Gilbert and Ellice) had been informed by the British Ministry of Food that, in acceptance with the terms of the nineyears-contract, the prices paid by Britain for South Pacific copra in 1953 would be 10 per cent, less than in 1952. This was “on account of the downward trend of oil prices during 1952.”

Up to January 19 no official announcement had been made by Australia, Fiji or New Zealand—it was known that the authorities there were sharply arguing the matter with London. But it was formally announced in Honiara on January 2 that the 1953 price for Solomons copra would be £56/4/6 Australian per ton at Honiara (£1 more at Tulagi and Yandina), which is a fall of 10 per cent, on the 1952 rates.

The late 1952 rates paid by the local authority in the various Territories, in Australian currency, were (for best grade at main port) ; The MOF price to the various Governments, in 1952, was between £59 and £6O Sterling per ton fob (between £73 and £74 Australian), and the local Governments paid the above rates after deducting their own various charges.

The MOF Sterling price as fixed in January, 1952, was then very considerably under world parity (as it had been also in 1951 and 1950) and South Pacific planters protested accordingly. But from February, 1952, a combination of circumstances (a growing output from Indonesia was the principal one) caused the world price to sag steadily, until by June it was down close to the price being paid to the South Pacific Governments by the British Ministry of Food—namely, £6O Sterling. Consequently, the Pacific planters resigned themselves to a 10% fall in the 1953 MOF price.

But then the open market price began to recover. Hurricane damage in the Philippines was a factor. By the end of October it was over £7O Sterling. The Bank of NZ Produce Circular of December 12 gave the London cif price, for Straits, at £7B Sterling, cif (to which figure it had fallen from £BB Sterling, cif, in late November). £7B is £lB Sterling better than the price of around £6O Sterling per ton, paid by the MOF under its nineyears’ contract during 1952. That is why the Pacific Governments are contesting the MOF price of about £53/15 - Sterling (a reduction of 10 per cent.) proposed by the British Ministry for the year 1953.

ACCORDING to a statistical survey made by the South Pacific Commission, the following were the exports of copra from the South Pacific Territories in 1951: Tons New Guinea 64,300 Papua 9,500 W. Samoa 14,600 Cook Is 1,300 Fiji 15,400( Fiji (milled there) .. 19,500' Solomons (1950) 10,100* Gilbert & E. (1950) .. 5,600( Tonga (1950) 16,700' N. Caledonia 2,600( Fr. Oceania 25,800' N. Hebrides 27,700' Neth, N. Guinea .. .. 3,500' East Samoa I,ooo* Micronesia 10,500* There is a total there of ov 200,000 tons, and about thre quarters of it is under the Briti: MOF contract. It is probable thl in 1952 the South Pacific productii increased generally by 10 per ceis On a rough estimate, the Britii: Territories, which are subject the MOF contract, produced 180,0 tons in 1952. If the MOF contrs price is reduced 10 per cent, £A6 per ton) the loss in revenr to the South Pacific, compan with 1952, will be approximate. £A1,000,000.

Do You Remember ?

ZoleZZaZ IN January, 1933, most Pacific Islands residents seemed to be suffering from post-Christmas blues. The Depression, according to Officialdom, showed signs of lifting, but Pacific copra producers could not agree on this point.

The only people who seemed to be having fun were those who could afford to indulge in Pacific cruises (and they cost only a few £s in those days)—and here again there were rifts in the lute; 1,500 unhappy voyagers from Sydney to Norfolk sland had been “seasick all the way”. Those were the days before Dramamine.

We reported a “currency muddle” in Fiji—Fiji having tied its currency to that of New Zealand and later having depreciated it with NZ to 25 per cent, under Sterling. This, we pointed out, while a good thing for Fiji primary producers was “ridiculous on the face of it as Fiji’s external and internal finances are so sound that the Colony should be ‘on gold’—not 45 per cent, below it”. * * * The death was reported from Papeete of Father Rougier, aged 68. “Ordained as a priest in the Marist Order in 1887, he arrived in Fiji in 1888 and went to a mission station on the Rewa. He spent some years in the New Hebrides but about the time of the Great War withdrew from active participation in the religious life of his Order and henceforth engaged actively in large plantation enterprises”. * * * “The Australian Government has decided that there should be no renewal of the Moratorium extended in 1931 to the purchasers of plantations in New Guinea, and from January 1, 1933, the payments of interest and principal will be resumed although at 4 per cent, instead of 5 per cent.” (The Moratorium was a Depression measure—but in 1933 the Depression had by no means lift! from the copra industry which was sz struggling along with prices of £l3-o per ton, cif London).

“A company called Ceiba Plantation Ltd., is being organised to undertas extensive kapok planting between ♦ Brown and Laloki Rivers, 12 miles frn Port Moresby. The organiser as manager is Mr. K. G. Leydin. The kan trees take six years to mature and it i expected that there will be a reas market for the product in Australia (Well, what happened to this infant : dustry? If it had come to anything thic would have been a great demand for t in Australia in the post-war years wW kapok was in very short supply). $ * The first shipment of Fiji banana:i 1,000 cases—had arrived in Sydney the Niagara and the threatened boyco had come to nothing—all were snapn< up by eager buyers and orders had coo from as far afield as Western AuStralt ❖ ❖ * “A London newspaper writing of t departure from London of the ill-fali mission-ship ‘Southern Cross’ (she w wrecked in the New Hebrides on M maiden voyage) headed it ‘Crew Doonn to Isles of Danger’ and said that ‘Ca’ nfbals will keep them busy’. TM r evidently had only a vague idea of whirl the ‘Southern Cross’ would be used I they were right about one thing wM they called the vessel the ‘ship that vr never return’.” ❖ * * Pacific cruises were the order of t day. The P&O Maloja was booked an 11-day cruise to Samarai, Papua; ♦ 20,000-ton Cunarder, Carinthia, was onn 4-months cruise of the Pacific includib Tahiti, Cook Islands, Apia, Suva as Port Moresby; Stella Polaris was also a world cruise and was calling at Facia Islands ports; The Strathaird had tabL 1,500 pleasure-seekers to Norfolk Islam Oronsay had been to New Caledonia, as Strathaird, Karoola and Moldavia w»v going there. 16 JANUARY, 195 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

P-NG Machinery Out of Gear?

Remarkable Case of Police Superintendent Steeples |NE of the most remarkable cases f in the administrative history of Papua-New Guinea is that Mr. Ernest Steeples, high police Beer. One correspondent says: 'he case is an example of rank justice being supported by reote technicalities and fumbling ireaucracy.”

Steeples arrived in New Guinea May, 1927, with rank of Warrant Bficer; gave good service under Idfields pioneering conditions; id on January 28, 1931, was pointed Inspector in Charge of ibaul Police District.

He was the only commissioned lice officer to return after World ar 11, and he did a good job of irganisation in Moresby, Lae and au. In 1947, he was given the nk of Acting Superintendent, hen Colonel Grimshaw took arge as Police Commissioner he, May, 1951, transferred Steeples Moresby, to take charge there, izette 17, of March 20, 1952, anunced his provisional promotion im Inspector to Superintendent.

A junior officer, named Rackem, who had come from the leensland police and had had 2i ars’ service around Moresby, pealed against the promotion of eeples on the grounds of “superior iciency.” Steeples treated the delopment with contempt. He had en away on sick leave when the iblic Service Ordinance was zetted, and he apparently did not iow that if an officer is appealed ainst, he then must appeal against I officers junior to himself. Even he had appreciated the position, is doubtful whether he would ive acted, so certain were he and s associates that his 25 years’ cord of unblemished service would pport his promotion.

To the amazement of many ople, the Public Service Comissioner and the Promotions )peals Committee ruled against ;eeples; which appeared to put ickeman next in police authority the Commissioner.

IHEN ensued a series of events which are beyond the comprehension of an ordinary layan. Steeples apparently got legal [vice and decided to fight. Anher junior police officer, named len, also appealed against Steeples’ ■emotion on the grounds of perior efficiency. Steeples chalnged the authority of the Appeals sard, on the ground that as a ember of the original New Guinea slice Force he was not a member the Public Service. Then he ent to the Supreme Court for a rit of prohibition.

In a long judgment, Acting Judge Gore appeared to accept the legality of Steeples’ claims; but threw a bombshell by saying that he had been given no evidence that Steeples was a commissioned officer of the NG Police Force. He therefore found against Steeples (who meanwhile had been stationed at Rabaul).

That started a legal earthquake.

If Steeples was not a commissioned officer, then many court decisions in cases where he had been the prosecutor were invalidated. First reaction was seen when the case of Bougainville Company against Captain Coyne was thrown out because Steeples had no standing in the court.

Things were becoming desperately mixed. Moresby radio’d Steeples to go there and see the Public Service Commissioner immediately, and he left Rabaul on December 18.

There has been frantic searching through records to establish the legality of Steeples’ original appointments as a commissioned officer.

After Mr. Steeples left Rabaul for Moresby, on December 18, Mrs.

Steeples found a copy of Steeples’ oath of service, given at Lae on November 22, 1949. This is regarded as a vital missing link in the legal tangle.

Meanwhile, all the older Public Servants are curious to know something of the reasons which induced a sober body of men to adjudge an official with 21 years’ Territory service to have “superior efficiency” over another official with a clean record of 25 years’ service.

Some of the events on the justicepublic service commission side of the P-NG Administration in recent years suggest that it is about time that high authority had a look over the machinery. Is it top-heavy, or is it merely out of gear?

A memorial will be erected on Norfolk Island to Captain James Cook, who discovered the island on October 10, 1774. 11th ANNIVERSARY OF

Fall Of Rabaul

JANUARY 23, 1953, will mark the 11th anniversary of the fall of Rabaul, NG, to the Japanese in 1942.

In Sydney, as usual, New Guinea Returned Servicemen, the New Guinea Women’s Club and othei Territorians will gather with Sydney members of the 2/22 Battalion AIF at 8.15 a.m. on that date, a' the Cenotaph, Martin Place, to take part in a simple ceremony of commemoration and laying of wreaths

Ship For Norfolk

NOUMEA-

N. Hebrides Service

IN February, the motor vessel Vila Star, 350 tons deadweight will inaugurate a regular two monthly freight service betweer Auckland. NZ, and Norfolk Island Noumea (New Caledonia), Vila anc Santo (New Hebrides) New Zealand is reaching otit aftei trade in this part of the Pacific and is offering the Territorie: named canned meat, dairy products timber in various forms, potatoer and honey. It is expected thai Norfolk Island produce will sell ir the more northerly groups.

To handle this trade, Mr, Richarc N. Beim. of 312 Karangahape Hoad Auckland, has organised the Nev Hebrides Trading & Shipping Co Ltd., and the Co. has opened a ne\ office at 75 Pitt St , Sydney M: Vernon Wheatley, who has beei resident for some time in Santc will represent the new Ca. in Nor folk Is.

Mrs. L. F. Roethel reached Sydney from USA by air on December 3 on her way tc Dutch NO, when she will join her husband who is ii charge of three oil-search heli copters.

Suva Point Church The attractive local-stone Anglican Church at Suva Point, Fiji, which is now nearing completion, will be a lasting monument to the enthusiasm and industry of local Anglicans. Virtually all the work has been performed by volunteer labour.

Seated on the highest timber immediately over the Church porch is Mr. A. E.

Kennard who voluntarily undertook to put the roof on —he is a building contracter by trade. 17 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

Port Of Suva

Alternative Plans for Wharves i has passed since the January'hurricane created havoc in the port of Suva, and partially destroyed the King’s Wharf &nd the principal docking area; arid shipping and cargo have bben handled under considerable difficulties ever since.

Only ’ temporary repairs were made because it was decided to turn adversity to advantage by resurveying the docks which, experience had shown, had not been so well planned and located as they might have been.

The main wharf now parallels the shore and, when big ships lie beside it, and the prevailing southeaster is blowing them strongly against the dockside, there is considerable difficulty in getting them clear, and out into the harbour.

Other critics say that the wharves should not run parallel with the shore, but at right angles—it makes for easier berthing.

The Government formed an advisory committee of all the interests concerned, and brought in a Lonron firm of consulting engineers, Messrs. Wilton and Bell; and a series of alternative plans have taken shape.

One proposal is that the present King’s Wharf be rebuilt, but on a line 30 feet further out, and providing a deep-water berth around the western corner, on the side facing Walu Bay.

More elaborate plans provide that the present wharf area be mostly abandoned, and the deep-water wharves for ships be constructed further west, on the western side of Walu Bay, where the Public Works and various other similar installations now are located. It is proposed also to build slipways for small ships.

The King’s Wharf rebuilding would cost around £1,000,000, while either of the other (Walu Bas plans would probably run in £1,500,000; and to that must added the cost of removing mas workshops and similar installation Consultations are now proceeds and it is hoped that a decision w be reached early this year.

P-NG Scouts at Sydney Jamboree One of those “not-done” things in Papua-New Guinea, perhaps (where the whiteman’s burden bears heavily), but apparently part of the fun at the Scouts Jamboree at Greystanes, Sydney, in December-January - photo at left (by courtesy of Sydney Morning Herald) shows an Australian Cub-Mistress cutting the hair of a Scout from New Guinea, while a Papuan friend looks on. Below is a photograph (by C. H. Meen) of New Britain Scouts who were part of the large contingent from P-NG. In the centre is Scoutmaster L. Hastings who accompanied them to Sydney. He is not long returned from a World Jamboree in Austria.

Obe For John Bray

An OBE for Wing Commano.

John Bray was among the NP Year Honours. John Bray w well known in Fiji when he was i charge of Laucala Bay station the RNZAF, and he married P c the attractive daughter of Mr a* Mrs. Pat Costello. Wing Coi< mander Bray now is on a specs job in London, and he and his wv have been residing there for soi< time.

R. A. Derrick to Retire IT is expected that Mr. R.

Derrick, Supervisor of Teo nical Services in Fiji, w. shortly go on overseas leave pr~ to retirement.

He has given high service technical education in Fiji. He wwell-known for his technical trait, ing with the Methodist Mission b fore he joined the Governm© Education Department and h: been the originator of a numb of well-equipped technical trainii centres in the Colony and in ado. tion is the author of a compn hensive geographical handbook - Fiji and of a history of the grpi( up to the time of Cession. He n cently completed a survey of tf technical education of Paci;i peoples for the South Pacific Con mission.

After his retirement he will td come Curator of the Fiji Museuii First Fijian Battle Casual Private Jone Luwei, 22, of tJ Fiji Infantry Regiment servi;i against the terrorists in Malajj was killed in an enemy ambush ■ December 16, He is the first battle casualty the FMF in Malaya.

UK Ship on Ocean Is. Rees WHEN this issue went to prr (January 19) the 7,000-td UK ship Kelvinhank was sh fast on a reef at Ocean Island who she had gone aground earlier January.

Salvage teams feared she worn become a total wreck.

Mr. *JH. Halstead, Superintes dent of police, Fiji, was marrii* in early December to Miss Bas bara Corbett, daughter of M and Mrs. F. C. Corbett of Suyj Mr. Halstead is now on vacatid leave which he and his wife w * spend in the UK. 18

January. 1 953 Pacific Islands It O N T M Li

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Is London Trying To Torpedo

The Mof Copra Contract ?

CHE position of the South Pacific copra market, as on January 16, is clearly set out in the Tticle on page 16 hereof.

The position was that the British linistry of Food had informed the [ritish Governments affected by its ine-years’ copra-buying contract Australia, in respect of Papua and 'ew Guinea; New Zealand, in reject of Western Samoa and Cook stands; Fiji, in respect of Fiji and 'onga; and Western Pacific High 'ommission, in respect of Solomons nd Gilbert and Ellice Islands) that price reduction of 10 per cent, was roposed for 1953.

On January 20, after page 16 was rinted, but just as this page was oing to press, new information beame available.

It npw is believed that the British roverhment is trying to create a tuation which will bring about the mediation of the MOF contract.

The British Socialist Government lade many food contracts with overseas countries —the 9-years’ copra contract was only one of them. The non-Socialist Government has found those contracts embarrassing, and is prepared, as a matter of policy, to get rid of them.

Already some have been cancelled.

The position that now has developed in relation to copra gives the Government a chance to get rid of the copra contract, also.

The British MOF contract, made in 1949 for nine years, provided that the price should not vary more than 10 per cent., up or down, in any one year. The price has risen twice since then. The 1952 price was a rise of 10% over 1951.

At the end of 1952, the British MOF decided to reduce the price for 1953 by 10 per cent. (See page 16.) But world rate now is £2O sterling per ton better than the MOF contract rate for 1952, and is rising.

The South Pacific Governments were confident, therefore, that the MOF 1953 rate at least would remain at tihe 1952 rate. But it was learned on January 20 that not only is the British Government insisting on the 10 per cent, reduction for 1953—it also is delicately offering as an alternative the cancellation of its 9-years’ copra contract, made in 1949.

There was trickery from the beginning in this MOF contract. The original MOF price (1949-50) was close to world price, and the planters were well pleased with it. Then, overnight, the British Socialist Government depreciated Sterling by 30 per cent, and insisted on paying its MOF copra contract prices in Sterling; so that the South Seas planters, during 1950 and 1951, were paid for their copra at least £3O per ton under world parity.

World price fell in 1952, but never fell below the MOF price, so the British Government did not lose.

Now, the world price is £2O per ton over the 1952 MOF price, and still the British are trying to reduce the MOF price by 10 per cent.

The London bureaucrats apparently are saying: Take the 1952 rate, less 10%, or cancel the contract and go onto the world market.

Not a word about the bare-faced robbery of the planters in 1950-51.

It leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.

British Western Pacific New Commission Now Functioning at Honiara From Our Own Correspondent.

HONIARA, January 2.

CHE new Government of the British Territories of the South Pacific (Solomons Protectorate, rilbert and Ellice Colony and the British side of the New Hebrides bndominium), created in 1952 hen the High Commissionership f Western Pacific was separated rom the Governorship of Fiji, is ow functioning at Honiara, adminitrative centre of the Solomons nd headquarters of the Comlission.

His Excellency the High Comlissioner for the Western Pacific Mr. R. C. S. Stanley, CMG, OBE) ccompanied by Mrs. Stanley, Miss tanley, the Financial Secretary, Mr. A. M. MacLeod Smith), tie Assistant Secretary (Mr. T. t-ussell), and Mrs. Russell, arrived t Honiara on December 22 n the MV Kurimarau, as the -dvance party of the Western ‘acific High Commission whose leadquarters are now being estabished at Honiara.

The High Commissioner landed it Point Cruz at 9 a.m., with due ceremony, in the uniform of the Jritish Colonial Civil Service, and was met by the Acting Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands (Mr. P. Hughes), the Government (BSD Secretary (Mr. P. A.

Richardson) and the District Commissioner, Central Solomons (Mr.

G. A. Skipper), with their wives.

After inspecting a police Guardof Honour, Mr. Stanley proceeded to a dais, where a loyal address was read by Mr. W. G. Paia, BEM, a member of the Advisory Council representing the Western Solomons; and a ceremonial presentation of Malaita red shell-money was made by a senior Malaita headman.

His Excellency replied to the loyal, address, and pledged himself to do his utmost for the Protectorate.

The party then drove to Government House.

The remainder of the HCWP establishment is still in Suva, but will follow the chief official party to Honiara as soon as accommodation is available.

Knighthood For

J. F. NICOLL HAVING recently received the appointment of Governor of Singapore, Mr. J. F. Nicoll, who spent some years in Fiji aS Government Secretary, and acted on several occasions as Governor, has been raised to knighthood. He receive his KCMG in. the New Year Honours.

Sir John Nicoll always was regarded in Fiji as a man of marked ability, and certain to receive a Governorship.

It is interesting to note that two former outstanding officials of Fiji, Sir Alexander Grantham and Sir John Nicoll, are to-day respectively Governor of Hongkong and Governor of Singapore. Those were the two first British territories to be over-run by the Japanese in 1941-2, and they now are regarded —in view of continuing developments in Asia —as being in the front of the Cold War.

Sir John Nicoll 19 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

Queensland Likes Batiki

Grass From Fiji

AS a result of Mr. S. L, Everist, a Queensland Government botanist, being sent by the South Pacific Commission to New Caledonia and Fiji, to study grasslands —part of a plan to improve Pacific Islands pastures—it is thought probable that the Queensland cattle industry may get the benefit of a valuable new grass.

In Fiji, Mr. Everist found and was much impressed with Batiki Blue Grass, which does well in a wide variety of soil types, appears palatable in all stages of growth, and does not need the same careful management as Para and Guinea grasses.

He has taken specimens of Batiki to Queensland, and it is hoped that this may prove to be a plant that will considerably strengthen and improve the pastures in the Queensland high-rainfall coastal districts.

Data From Twin Calves

It is expected that valuable data will be gathered, to assist the pastoral industry in the Islands, as a result of the twin-calves experiment now being carried out by the South Pacific Commission, in cooperation with the NZ Agriculture Department.

Eight sets of twin heifer calves were selected in NZ; and one calf of each set was sent to the Experiment Station at Sigatoka, Fiji, while the other is being kept under observation at the Animal Research Station at Ruakura, NZ. They are being reared as far as possible under exactly the same conditions, except that one of the sets of twins is growing up in cool NZ, while the other is subjected to the tropical Islands climate. The animals are subject to two years of observation.

Inspector and Mrs. T. Upson, of Wau, NG, were present when their son, Corporal T. Upson, 19. graduated as an electrician at the Army Apprentice School, Vic., in December.

SPC Project Under Way in Netherlands NG From Our Own Correspondent HOLLANDIA, Jan. 1.

A DEVELOPMENT project, carried out under the auspices of the South Pacific Commission, on the Nimboran Plains, south of Lake Sentani and inland from Hollandia, Netherlands New Guinea, has been under way for several months. (See PIM for November) .

Economic development is one of the main objects of the project and with this in view mechanised agriculture is being introduced. An SPC grant of £l,lOO has been used to buy a Fordson tractor and various equipment. For the time being only 40 acres of the 1,000 acres of the Plains will be cultivated.

The District Officer of Nimboran has set up a co-operative store which for the first few months will be financed by the Netherlands Administration. Later, attention will be focused on education and health.

Bottle-neck of the project at present is the road connecting the area with Lake Sentani from which point the journey to Hollandia is completed by barge and lorry. The “road” was originally only a native track but it is now possible to reach the Plains by jeep, even in the wet season. This is due to the work put into it by Plains natives. To complete an all-weather road, including one Bailey Bridge, will cost an estimated £29,000.

There are six members on the Supervisory Board of the Nimboran project which was set up three months ago—one of which, the Civil Commissioner of the North Division of NNG, Mr. A. Lamers, acts as Chairman.

Dr. Fisher, Australian vulcanologist, says that Mount Lamington (which erupted in Papua and killed hundreds of people in 1951), is likely to explode again “any time after 2000 AD.”

Papua-New Guinea Travellers Gift from the Japs Severe Quakes in Rabaul District From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, Dec. 26.« BEGINNING with a three-minute earthquake on Christmas Erl Rabaul-Kokopo District New Britain had 26 earth tremo in the following 36 hours. Eig? of the tremors were classed major.

It is thought that the centre some hundreds of miles away. ? date no reports of damage ha* come in.

Mrs. John Cramer-Roberts Vatukoula, Fiji, entertained at z afternoon-tea-cocktail party at tH: end of November in honour of Mil N. E. Neilson and her daughtt Marjanne. Among those preses were: Mesdames Yarrow, Blatchfon Webster, Cayser, Crabbe, Paul, Ml Girr, Hancock, Plaisted, Pearsoc Turner, Dennis, Millar.

North bound on the December Bulolo, after leave in Australia, were (left to right): Mr. Arthur Eldridge of the Papua Pulmbing Company, Port Moresby; Mr. J. B. Bell, of the Radio Station, Port Moresby, Panua; Mr. F. I. Patten, of Tamalabatt Plantation Tatar, Kavieng who has been in the Territory for 25 years; Mr. J. Peck, radio Technicain, attached to the Department of Civil Aviation, Port Moresby; Mr. Peter Saunders, son of late Mr. Frank Saunders, who was killed by the Japs during the war.

New Britain’s number-one post-w[?] curse—some giant snails on a tree tru[?] near Rabaul. The snails were introduo[?] by the Japs. 20 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH I,

Notes Made In The Pacific

Third Instalment, By R. W. Robson

Another Complication

HESE international complications! I already have described how a blown-away native of the kelaus, fetching up in French ritory (Futuna), created headles in Noumea, Paris, Wellingi and Apia. Here is another exple of the worries of poor old reaucracy. forth of Tahiti, out in the wide lan spaces between the Northern 3k s and the Marquesas, there are ee tiny islands, Flint, Caroline 1 Vostock, and they belong to the itish Crown. Why Britain rens them, Heaven knows —they je no population, nothing except :ew groves of healthy coconuts.

Jut coconuts nowadays represent ney and, under some formal angement, the Bambridge inests of Papeete sent labourers •ench) to Flint and Caroline to ke copra. The labourers took iir wives along; and three wives st inconsiderately produced offing.

Lccording to the law’s strict inpretation, those babies, having m born in British territory, are tish subjects. The Chancelleries Great Britain and the French ion, are arguing heavily about Probably an Act of Parliament I be needed to put the matter tit.

Jut the farce does not end there, e enterprise produced 85 tons of ira. Because it was produced on tish territory, it is not rated as ;nch, and therefore cannot get French Metropolitan bonus, e thoroughly fed-up Papeete rchants finally offered it to the rpenter crushing mills, in Fiji, 1 Carpenters bought it, and it came in as British copra, duty free.

That stirred up certain Fiji planting interests —they insisted it was French copra, and should be treated accordingly. Merchants and bureaucrats were still discussing the matter, with animation, at the year’s end.

J. P. Bayly’S Cattle

IN all this growing talk about the possibilities of developing the cattle industry in the tropical Islands, I was interested in the experience of my friend, Mr. J. P.

Bayly, one of Fiji’s landowners. He makes a comfortable income out of grazing, handling about 5,000 head of cattle at the south-western corner of Viti Levu, and his success is based on observation and experience. He breeds the ordinary English types on the dry and fairly high country around Nadi and then, for fattening, he transfers them to the lush green valleys above Sigatoka. Thence they are sold to retail butchers.

There is little disease to plague cattle in Fiji and, with careful supervision, the industry, in Mr.

Bayly’s opinion, has big possibilities.

There is a lot of good natural pasture, but the grazier has to be always seeking improvement in grasses. His greatest trouble in that area is the wild guava—a strong, tenacious plant that, if neglected, will grow eight or 10 feet high and choke all other vegetation.

Once it gets a hold, it has to be torn out with machines, and the land planted with Para, Guinea Grass, or something of that sort.

On this experience, Mr. Bayly does not consider that the Cebu or Brahmin cross is necessary for successful cattle production in Fiji.

Young Hooligan Problem

THE wave of petty village crime in the central archipelagoes is giving the local governments a lot of concern. It is seen mostly in a mean type of theft, and especially in the practice of young men of creeping into other people’s gardens and carrying off their bananas, taro and other common foodstuffs. There also is an increasing amount of intereference with young women—there have been some unpleasant rape cases. This evidence of growing hooliganism is worst in Western Samoa, but there has been a good deal of similar trouble in Tonga, and some evidence of the same trend in Fiji.

From observations made in Samoa, I think there has been police weakness there—too easy a relationship between officers and villagers. When there is general prosperity, as in Samoa, there is a tendency among youths towards “flashness”; and the answer is stern discipline—stern in this case meaning the prompt application of a cane in the place designated by Nature for that purpose, rather than court and prison procedure.

Happy Accident For Fiji

IT was just a happy accident that Warner Brothers film unit — which has now completed the making of the O’Keefe film— selected a location in Fiji, and left at least £250,000 in the Colony.

Two Warner Bros, executives, planning the enterprise, arrived in Fiji by air, en route to Samoa, which it was generally understood, would be the location. They had to wait a little while in Suva for transportation, and Mr. Robert Hewlett, Tourist Officer, of Nadi, was asked to show them something of Fiji during their stay. Mr.

Hewlett motored them along the South Coast road, and they liked what they saw.

They went on to Samoa; and then came back and had another look at the South Coast. They had no fault to find with Samoa’s scenery; but they thought that Fiji’s scenery was just as good, and Fiji could supply all sorts of film requirements —old-style street scenes, Chinese crowds, players’ accommodation and so forth, items of transport—which were not available in Samoa.

Finally, the choice fell upon Fiji; and, at the producers’ request, Mr.

Hewlett —the cause of it all—was detached from Tourism for six months to act as liaison officer between the big film organisation and the Government.

The experience has not soured his nature; but I notice that he has become fussy about his drinks, and is addicted to a Bala jacket,

Beetle-Conscious

1 FOUND the alert officials of the Fiji Agriculture Department very Rhino-beetle-conscious. The (Continued on Page 109)

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By Tolala So here comes 1953! May I wish u all a happy and a peaceful year, ic from international tensions and th hopes of lesser fears of atom mbs and clashes among the tions of the world. It is the one riod of the year when, I think, >st of us have thoughts towards ace and Goodwill, despite the mmercialisation of “Xmas” (which, contend, should always be spent hristmas”, for “X” is usually conered to be the unknown quantity, d Christ was certainly not that!), t’s hope the coming year brings something concrete and practical a policy among the Nations, who present are certainly not United, ;n though we kid ourselves that is doing a wonderful job . . . :re’s hoping!

Planter Sciortino, of Lihir Island, e of those delightful spots off the :w Ireland coast, has put his mey into pepper. And there’s no ison why he shouldn’t show a good )fit in that sneezy commodity. It jd to grow quite well on Matanatar ear Kokopo) in New Britain. Let n beware of the Sydney watereers declaring it “black”. That’s :ontingency Minister Hasluck might :e steps to overcome. That is, if yone can placate those gentlemen the hook. Their argument would , of course, that the pepper is >wn by “slave” labour to the detriment of their comrades in Malaya and Java.

A typographical error (due, probably, to my bad typing) occurred in my par last month about the P-NG stamps. It should, obviously, read “masks” instead of “marks” when referring to the 2/- stamps.

And apropos of stamps I notice Mr. Nixonwestwood (Dec. PIM, p. 19) refers to the “two Buin boys in their headdress”. Presumably he means the “Upi” lads on the Id issue. This is the first time I have ever heard of their being Buin natives. I always knew their home as being North Bougainville, not far distant from Soraken. They could easily have been located at Buin— either working or being missionised —for the hat is worn continuously from eight or ten years of age to the time they undergo their initiation, which is sometimes in the early twenties.

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C. L. HARRISON, BOX 413, SUVA, FIJI lath warnings to me from his commons, I removed the hat by cutting fough many long strands of his ir. There was great wailing. That ght, true to native prognostication, died. At any rate I had a “blackit”, while reading a book on my randah, and came to about three furs later.

What’s sauce for the goose . . . ipan and Tinian, just north of jam, in the Marianas, are to revert US Navy control, after 18 months’ ministration as a Trust Territory, ley will be under a strategic trusteeip. which is the best type of all ; UN trusteeships, because you can it tell everyone to go chase them- !ves when they start “poking their )s” into matters concerning its ministration. The excuse is “for :urity reasons” and an iron curtain mediately drops. Why shouldn’t istralia obtain a “strategic trusteeip” over New Guinea? It would /e a lot of headaches.

Latest news to reach me concerning ; attack on the police boy, who Uegedly shot three Goilala natives”, sms to suggest the PB might not altogether blameless. PB’s out on trol have been known to cause considerable trouble, unbeknownst to their senior offcers, who naturally have to take the rap. Most of the trouble used to be women and pigs; and I don’t suppose the causes have altered much during the past 30 years.

Reference is made in a recent issue of South Pacific Post to Tench Island, north of Kavieng where, it is reported, the natives use kites and spider-webs for catching fish. This method is also adopted by natives around the Teop (Bougainville) area.

Tench Island was a spot of interest for years. The Germans, in their day, stuck up a “Verboten” sign on this place, and banned landing, or any contact with the Tench Islanders.

The idea was to leave them entirely untouched by civilisation for half a century or so, and then check up on them. Our own government followed out this policy and Tench was a forbidden area. All went well until an inquisitive missionary skipper anchored one day and landed there about 1936. This action caused no little flutter in the Administration dovecotes at the time. It is possible that the Tenchians have their cooperative society, radio sets and a few high-powered motor-launches by now. (Next Page) 25 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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There’s a movement on in H Moresby to replace native operate on the telephone exchange vw Europeans. Rabaul had its cross 2 bear at one time, when nah operators were engaged on switchboard and often gave p*( service. The problem was solved engaging Malay and Euronesz girls, who proved excellent on job. Mention is made of install! an automatic exchange in PJ Rabaul technicians toyed with idea before the War but found tIJ the high humidity affected i shutters (or whatever it is they hs on automatics >. Possibly science I now found something to overcoK this.

It will be interesting to see ha “The Man” gets on who is sui the government over the copra sat levies. His identity is being kept! dark secret. For security reason no doubt! It sounds to me like o: of these cases that will end up befo the Privy Council. Here’s wishii him luck, anyway.

The war being waged by A? tralian dairymen against copra margarine (Dec. PIM, p. 31) certainly not an original feud. Ov 20 years ago USA dairymen launchf a similar campaign against oleo () margarine is called in the States To read some of the reports, oil was the dirtiest commodity on tJ market, collected from unwashu natives, left to rot in the sun on ul hygienic wharves in the South Ses An adventure story, written alleged: by a young girl who had travell! throughout the South Seas, m quoted at great length.

It is indeed good news to hes that the South Pacific Commissio is to list historical sites throughoc the Islands (Dec. PIM, p. 63?

Where New Guinea is concerned, any rate, it wants to lose no tirm otherwise there will be few left assist the Commission in locating an historical spots. The best contact: I should think, would be some ♦ the older Catholic Fathers, who harabout the longest residence in tH Territory.

Mrs. Kathleen Newick of Ape has recorded a series of talks on lit in Samoa for the New Zealand Broa*f casting Service under the title, “ M Samoan Newsletter.” The talks wi\ be broadcast in the weekly Womem Hour on the commercial network. 26 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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IRS. NORMAN IZOD, aged between 50 and 60, had a rrowing experience in late Decemr when the launch in which she is travelling between Normanby and and Samarai, broke down and ;nt adrift.

With her on the 24-foot craft, the wenix, was a native girl and a tive crew.

The craft broke down on the night December 20, and was sighted rift the next afternoon. When an tensive search of the area between marai and Normanby Island (Mrs. ad’s home), proved unsuccessful, e Qantas Sandringham was reuted to make a search of the area i its routine flight. When that iled, the Catalina was sent to make i aerial sweep of the whole area, eluding the coastline from Noranby Island towards Tufi on the ainland. On December 24, the italina sighted Phoenix in tow bend the Spiders’ launch, having apirently been just picked up.

Although those aboard had had a very anxious time during the three days and nights adrift, all came through it without serious effects. It was particularly worrying for Mrs.

Izod, as at the time she was on her way to Samarai where her husband was seriously ill in hospital.

Mr. Pat Henry of Madang, New Guinea, was on leave in Australia in January. 27 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1053

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Delay in Comet Service OWING to delay in delivery De Havillands, the inaugui Comet service between Sydn and Honolulu will be postpon until Tuesday, April 28, Canadi Pacific Airlines announced in Ja uary.

It was originally anticipated tb the service would commence fro Sydney on March 13.

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Canadian Pacific Airlines press schedule will be stepped un to weekly service on March 13, opera mg via Auckland, Fiji and Cant: Island to Honolulu where conns tion to Vancouver is by DC.681 28

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Beautifying Rarotonga lESIDENT Commissioner G. • Nevill convened a public meet- I in Raratonga on December 4 to icuss ways and means of beautify- £ the island’s roads, villages and iterfront.

It was decided, as a first move, to list the co-operation of schools, iblic bodies and residents in largeale tree plantings on eroded parts the coast-line which the island’s -mile encircling road closely folws.

The Department of Agriculture II provide suitable shrubs and trees soon as they are ready for plantg-out. The virtues of the ironsod tree for coastal plantings was tiphasised, and many self-sown ironsod plants are available along the •uth coast for immediate planting.

Unpopular Amendment to NG Native Labour Ordinance AN amendment to the Native Labour Ordinance which came into effect in Papua-New Guinea in December is causing concern among employers. Native labourers finishing their labour contracts must now be paid off in the district of their employment instead of, as formerly, at the District Office nearest their village.

In some cases this means transporting natives in a direction away frou their homes and involves extra transport and rationing costs as well as a delay in getting them back to their villages. At the same time it provides added opportunity for time-expired labourers to squander or lose their accumulated wages before starting home.

New Navigation Beacon in BSI ANEW beacon light has been installed and is at present on test in Honiara, BSI.

The light, which is a revolving white light, is situated on the top of the tower of the radio station at Honiara. It is a flashing white every four seconds, and its height above mean low water ordinary spring tides is 210 feet.

At present the light can be seen over a range of about 12 miles. 29 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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r is noted, as a matter of significant international trade, that British ships have been uring British goods into the lony of Fiji.

During the war years the greater rt of Fiji’s needs was supplied >m Australia, New Zealand and North America. In 1946, only three ships came from Britain to Fiji, With 7,212 tons of cargo. But British trade recovered steadily. In 1950, nine ships landed 36,506 tons of British merchandise. In 1952 ten ships discharged in Suva 49,071 tons from the United Kingdom, A good deal of potential Australian trade with Fiji has been lost because of transportation difficulties and high costs.

During his first tour of Viti Levu in November, Fiji new Governor, Sir Ronald [?]rvey, was entertained at morning tea at the Tavua Hotel by Mr. and Mrs. J. [?]rner and met local residents. This photograph, taken outside the hotel, shows in [?]t row (left to right): District Commissioner Harley Nott; Mr. J. Turner, manager the hotel Mr Carver of the CSR Co., Mrs Turner, Sir Ronald Garvey, Mrs. [?]zanne Gullidge, Mesdames Mune, Aiken, Holborough, Freeman, Carver, Sugar [?]d Thomas. 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY 1953

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The Indian and European communities of Tavua, Fiji, held a cocktail party at the Tavua Hotel on December 1 to farewell Superintendent and Mrs. Stan Gullidge who left Fiji on December 10 for six months leave in Adelaide, SA. Mr. Pat Clay, of the CSR Co., on behalf of the European community, and the headmaster of the Indian School, Tavua, on behalf of the Indian community, spoke with appreciation of the service Mr.

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Ordeal On The Sepik

AIF veteran Bill Lester is leave in Sydney recuperatt from a terrible ordeal he s* fered while on patrol as officer charge of the native hospital Ambunti, on the Sepik River, N' Guinea (said Sydney Daily Mir i of January 7).

Appropriately, he told us i story of his ordeal while he enjoy his first beer for a long time Usher’s New Guinea bar.

While travelling to Black Wai m a canoe during an examinati; of 1,000 natives, Lester burst artery in his throat. After tj days he was taken back by can to Ambunti where he crawled in bed.

Early in the morning he foui his pillow soaked with blood. Ve weak, he got the natives to can him to the radio station where sent a message for a plane.

Less than an hour later, Kei Hooper, of Mandated Lines, toucht down and flew Lester to Wewai “You’ve only got one chance; I cut into your throat to see if I ca locate the artery and tie it ofl said a New Australian medico, E Roth. He successfully perform! the operation and after a coup of blood transfusions Lester edgr away from death’s door. 32 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY?

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ST appeal by William Mervyn Creighton, medical orderly, was upheld by the Australian High rt in Sydney on December 23, as a result Creighton was reed on bail from Lae (NG) gaol, ire he has been since August, e was convicted of an offence inst a native NG woman by a j and sentenced by Mr. Justice •e to 4J years’ imprisonment, he High Court appeal was upi on technical points of law. No e has yet been fixed for a new L

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BAY lecil George William Coller, a penter, was released from Long r gaol, Sydney, on December 1 *r serving only six months of a years’ sentence imposed by Mr. tice Kelly in Port Moresby last r. Coller pleaded guilty of havbroken into a Moresby shop and en clothing valued at £2l/10/-. loller appealed to the High Court the grounds of undue severity of i sentence. [?]ssengers arriving in Auckland on the [?]L Coral Route Service in December [?]ided (left to right):— [?] P. F. Henderson, Officer for her Education in Rarotonga, who is Four months’ leave. [?]rs. G. Nevill, wife of the Resident [?]missioner of the Cook Islands, who have a short holiday.

Madame Annette Chaze, of Papeete, who was visiting her father, Mr. C. Swenson of Auckland.

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Mr. S. C. Falkenberg, of Tahiti, who arrived on Waitomo on a visit to Auckland. 33 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 19 5 3

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The Commission is issuing a seif of Technical Papers mainly co prising reports on projects be carried out in the fields of econoi development, health, and social velopment. Titles issued over past six months are: A Survey of Leprosy in British Solomon Islands Proti torate. By Dr. C. J. Austin, Direct Mokogai Leprosy Hospital, F. 12 pp., map.

Coral as a Building Mater 10 pp., bibliography.

Current Research in the Sot Pacific in the Field of Econon Development. 82 pp., map.

Bibliography of Cargo Cults a other Nativistic Movements in % South Pacific. By Ida Leeson, fora Mitchell Librarian. 16 pp., map.( Cocoa Plantation Management Western Samoa. By D. R. A. Ed'J General Manager, New Zealai Reparation Estates and W.

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Roberts, Organiser of Island Lite ature, South Pacific Commissi© 10 pp., map, A Survey of Malaria in the Briti Solomon Islands Protectorate.

Dr. R. H. Black, School of Pubc Health and Tropical Medicii University of Sydney. 42 p: bibliography, appendices.

Rhinoceros Beetle Control in tJ Kingdom of Tonga. By L.

Dumbleton, Plant and Anim Quarantine Officer, South Paci;j Commission. 10 pp.

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Interesting Aspects of The Council Debate From Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, December 22. brought into the open by ex- • Governor Sir Brian Freeston’s amouS “birthi-control” warning to le Indian political leaders in 1949, Iji’s problem of potential overjpulation reached a new stage this onth, when the Legislative Council lanimously asked that a Commison be sent from the United King- >m to survey the whole situation, id to advise on any action consided necessary to prevent a slump in e living standards of the racial oups in Fiji.

This diplomatically-worded move ;arly fell over backwards in its ideavour to avoid any appearance pointing a finger of rebuke at any mmunity. It was much less amatic than the straightforward itz sprung in the Council by the rmer Governor. Although it has used widespread interest, it has not ovoked anything in the nature of i inter-racial brawl.

The mover, Mr. H. Maurice Scott (who was born in Fiji) and the seconder, Sir Alport Barker (who has lived here for 60-odd years), simply stressed the mounting fear (first publicly voiced by Sir Brian Freeston) that within the next half-century Fiji may well find itself unable to support its fast-mounting population.

Mr. Scott pointed out that at the present rate of increase, the population in the year 2,000 —that is, only 48 years ahead—will be nearly 1,500,000 (835,000 Indians, 425,000 Fijians and 148,000 other races) and that there would be only 0.7 of an acre of land available for each person. He appealed to the Council to take a broad view of the question and to remember that over-population in the future could produce bitter strife as well as pestilence, hunger and dirt. If the present opportunity for surveying the situation rationally were lost, it would be lost for ever.

The Fijian members solidly supported the motion. One of them (Joeli K. Ravai) quoted cases in which Fijian communities themselves were already seriously short of land in Viti Levu and in the Lau Group.

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This view was supported by some of the Indians.

Strong support for the motion came from the Secretary for Fijian Affairs (Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna) who said that Fiji must continue to depend primarily on agriculture, and that most of the best land' was already taken up with sugarcane culture, and most of the second-class land with rice, grown mainly by Indians. There was not much land available for grazing. He added: “We should be finding out many things now before a Commission is appointed. We should know where the good lands and bad lands are, and their extent.

For the benefit of all we should H moving now, so that in the years t come we will still have a content© population.”

One or two Government officia seemed inclined to support M Gatty’s viewpoint.

Both the Governor (Sir Ronaf Garvey) and the Colonial Secretai, (Mr. A, F. R. Stoddart), at the en of the debate, firmly indicated tK Government’s approval of the motio as a means of meeting the genuii fears long expressed by sections « responsible opinion in Fiji.

Mr. Scott contributed the ter statement that most of the oppositio to his motion came from “new bo< in the Colony or from honourab birds-of-passage.”

OUTSIDE the council, there hi been some sour comment on tl bringing up of a possible labor shortage as a talking-point. Peop remember that precisely the san argument was produced (mainly 1 European copra-planters) whe many years ago, a move was ma*. to curb the flood of Indian imn grants. As a result of the argumei the flood was not curbed and thi the present population problem w. materially added to.

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Earlier in the session, a delicate ■ift was perceptible in the Indian :amp, when Mr. B. M. Jannif came ip with an earnest plea for the provision of birth-control information to inable parents to plan their families, ndia, said Mr. Jannif, was already idvocating birth control, and he laimed wide support for his proposal.

With a pontifical air, the Senior ndian Member (Mr. Vishnu Deo) ountered with the statement that phat was needed was self-control, not jirth control, to which Mr. Jannif rented tartly: “More easily said than one.’’ [ Government speakers, with an bvious eye to religious susceptibiljies and possibly with an uneasy lemory of how the last Governor had ;emed (but only seemed) to skate imbly on the thin ice of the populaon question, were diplomatically Dn-committal on this aspect of the ifficult subject.

In the end, the motion went rough unanimously; but some of the [itside public wonders whether the reposed unbiased commission will rer be in a position to do or to tommend anything effectual.

Ditorial Comment

[?]he Position of the Fiji-Indian kLD observers of the Fiji problem " were intrigued by the moves and iunter-moves which attended the bate and acceptance by the Legistive Council of the motion: “That w Council urges that a Commission Inquiry from the United Kingdom appointed forthwith to inquire into d advise as to what steps should taken to ensure that this Colony ll not suffer from over-population the detriment of the standard of ing of all races in the Colony”

The resolution hurts no racial feel- ?s. It allows the new Governor— -10 is eager to contribute something irthwhile to the solution of this insasingly difficult problem—to place i problem just where it belongs— mely, in the lap of the British Goviment. Fiji, alone, cannot find a iution. Fiji’s headache is merely part of the major problem of what to be done with the large Indian lonies that have been planted in itish and French territories all sund the Indian Ocean. Before Fiji can decide upon a policy, certain fundamental principles should be agreed upon as between London and Delhi, affecting conditions in such places as Mauritius, Natal, Uganda, and Madagascar.

The verbiage of Mr. Scott’s motion suggests that it was hurriedly framed —probably to meet a situation created by the Fijians’ determination that this racial problem should no longer be ignored by the Government.

Raviama Vimivalu had had prepared, for the Council, a motion that was directed specifically at the Indian threat to the future of the Fijians; and the more belligerent of the younger Fijians were all for it. But wise old Lala Sukuna said that the time was not ripe for an outright 39 ACI F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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Everyone avoided direct refermce to the threat implicit in the apid increase of Fiji’s Indians and Chinese; yet everyone knew that, if his increase continues at the rate the last decade, the Fijian race is loomed. The Fijians frankly reognise the menace, but—probably in leference to the new Governor—they leld their feelings in check.

Harold Gatty’s stand against the lotion was not as unreasonable as ome would suggest. All history hows that, in such crises of populabn, Nature does almost always take t hand and provide a solution. The Dlution here probably will come trough the younger, or Fiji-born adians, by natural rather than deberate birth-control. But a frank nd open official inquiry into the hole situation will assist rather than stard this process.

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AN old friend in Fiji writes: “As I have said to you before, there is a good deal of personal friendship and goodwill between the races in Fiji, and I think that that must be the basis on which the country’s future is to be built. If Indians will voluntarily cut down their population growth that will be a contribution of immeasurable value, because it will lessen the threat to Fijian ownership of land and make the Indians’ economic future more secure. ... A vicious influence at work is racial hatred, which finds particular expression in the Pacific Review and other Indian papers published in the Lautoka-Nadi area.”

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An example is a weekly column in one of these newspapers by someone calling himself “Ratu Beachcomber” —probably a decadent European. It is supposed to be a funny column, but the humour is so infantile in character as to be embarrassing to the average adult reader; and it is flavoured by a thoroughly nasty colour antagonism.

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THERE is no proper coconut culture in the Pacific islands, said Mr. W. D. Pieris, an expert from Ceylon who has been surveying the coconut-growing and copra iniustries for the South Pacific Commission, when he addressed the Fiji Society at Suva in November, [ The result of this lack, even on plantations, was reflected in yields, in the Pacific Islands, the yields of plantation copra were about a (uarter of a ton to the acre, only >ne-third of the yield in Ceylon. [ Mr. Pieris said that in the islands Host of the palms were old, and in 5 or 20 years the plantations would 10 longer pay. [ “Replacement of plantations is difficult and costly, and so owners end to leave the old palms because B uncertainty about the future,” he aid: and added: “Replanting and panagement of plantations is a lational problem, not a problem for he individual, and it should be bated as such.”

I These comments referred mainly 0 European-owned plantations. In Fijian holdings—which produce between half and two-thirds of Fiji’s copra—palms of all ages are found crowded together. In this case, said Mr. Pieris, although the yield was low, production was steady.

He urged soil-rehabilitation by artificial fertilisers or by feeding coconut meal to cattle in the plantations.

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In an open discussion which followed the address, Mr. C. Harvey (Director of Agriculture, Fiji) said that South Seas copra was of comparatively poor quality because overseas prices were the same for all grades of copra, and clean copra was costly to produce. He asked Mr.

Pieris if the greater expense in producing higher grade copra in Ceylon was repaid by the higher yields and better market prices.

Mr. Pieris pointed out that the uniform price paid to Fiji and other British Islands territories applied only so long as the United* Kingdom Ministry of Food bought the total output for export. On the open market good copra, which gave a white, almost odourless oil, was of higher value. South Seas copra gave a dark, acrid oil which in London 45 Pacific islands monthly January. 1953

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With regard to the rhinoceros beetle pest in Samoa, which has now appeared at Vavau, Tonga, and has caused official palpitations in Fiji, Mr. Pieris said that in Ceylon the beetle seemed to have reached a balance with its natural enemies.

In reply to another question he said that in Ceylon the nuts were cut from the palms and not gathered from the ground. Picking the nuts allowed labour problems to be solv» and prevented sprouting, as frequent occurred in the Islands. It is not question of lower labour costs Ceylon; it was simply that in Ceyl« the industry was large and efficiei not haphazard as in the Pacific.

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Samoa must put its tourist fa( ities in order to benefit fully fre the service.

Tahiti is the greatest gainer, bei now only 6 days from Paris—an av age of 220 lbs of mail from Frar reaches there each trip. 46 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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New Industries in Papua-N. Guinea Now Rapidly Taking Shape From Our Own Correspondent P. MORESBY, Jan. 2.

MANY people have stressed that the future of the Papua-N.

Guinea Territory must rest largely on development of its agricultural and pastoral potentialities. Now, after the long and possibly inevitable delays which attend such ventures, the Agricultural Department reports real progress, f Though the experiments with —the rival to jute—may yet strike some tough going, this new prop has got away to an excellent Start. The venture is particularly promising because both private interests and Administration are pushing it. Eriama Estates Ltd., which has already had its first kenaf test crop processed into sample wool packs, cordage and twine, is planting 125 acres on its land just outside Port Moresby this season. And the Administration is also putting an irea near Port Moresby under seed production.

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I Perhaps even more important to the future of the Territory is the uccessful end of long planning, in the kctual landing of 18 head of Zebu tattle, and four Murrah waterbuffalo calves, from Pakistan.

I The importation of Zebu breedingstock for experimental work has been advocated by the Agricultural Department ever since civil administration was resumed. But a thousand snarls had to be untangled before those 22 calves were actually landed on the airstrip at Port Moresby. The real danger of introiucing new diseases had to be offset, ikewise the transport problem, and half a dozen other difficulties which bogged down the hopes of the livestock men.

But at long last the Zebus are safely in a specially-built quarantine paddock near Port Moresby, and the experiment is now in its first stage. > Private settlers (like the Leahy brothers in the Highlands districts), ind several of the leading Christian Missions, are assisting greatly in the pastoral task by bringing in selected breeds of cattle, and experimenting with them in cross-breeding and in pastures preparation.

Coconut Products Limited, at Rabaul, are likewise doing some excellent work in helping to reestablish cattle herds in the New Britain area. In November they imported 82 head of a Shorthorn- Durham cross for their Wangaramut Plantation, and a further shipment of 225 head is due early in 1953. Some time ago they brought a few Zebu cattle from Australia with the aim of breeding a more suitable strain for the Territory. The Company also have cattle and horses on their Kolube and Marangis plantations, and there is a herd of 133 on Ulavio plantation.

Rice—Present And Future

Much the same story is told about rice-growing experiments. A lot of money undoubtedly went into the Mekeo rice venture; but, now, rice is starting to arrive in Port Moresby from the Mekeo district. Recently several bags of Mekeo rice were put up for tender, and although these are “something nothing” compared 47 pacific islands monthly January, 1953

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Rice is being grown in limited Amounts on several private plantains for native labor rations, and the natives themselves are taking a keen and practical interest in growing rice on a peasant-holding basis.

Quite a sizeable quantity has been produced by native communities in the Madang district, Dagua (northwest of Wewak) and in several other [districts.

And now comes the latest Administration move—negotiations for the purchase of 5,000 acres of the Sepik Plains to be used for rice-growing Rice has already been planted by the Agricultural Department on a 50-acres block near the ©ld wartime airstrip at Hayfield, just south of Maprik. | These rice plots are showing up Very well. With something like a million acres of grassland in the Sepik, and a native population eager and anxious to see European development in their area, the set-up is quite promising. i The natives themselves do not live on the grasslands but have their villages along the creeks and riverbanks, or on the lower slopes of the Torricelli Range. Many Sepik natives are quite familiar with European towns and settlements, and they are keen to have a commercial centre in their own district. So there was no humming and hawing when the Government suggested the purchase of the 5,000 acres of land. They themselves are getting quite interested in growing rice, and already some are also having a shot at cocoa production.

Given time and patience, plus a lot of hard work and the capacity to keep going despite setbacks, Sepik rice may eventually replace the Australian imported variety over a big area of New Guinea.

Maui Pomare is scheduled to make one of her very infrequent calls at Raoul, Kermadecs, en route to Niue and Rarotonga on her January run fnom Auckland.

In Auckland on December 22, Leonard Alafurai, of the Melanesian Mission, was ordained a deacon of the church. He is a native of Malaita and is the first Melanesian to be ordained since 1872, and the second in the history of the Mission.

Alafurai went to New Zealand four years ago, going first to the Te Ante Maori boys college in Hawke’s Bay, and later to St. John’s College, Auckland. Before returning to Melanesia, he will create another precedent by becoming the first Melanesian to serve as a curate in an Anglican Church in New Zealand—St.

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Mr. Paul Hasluck, Australia: Minister for Territories, has chose Norfolk Is. for a fortnight’s holiday With his family he will arrive by ai on January 1.

Islanders are pleased at thi honour and hope that first-ham knowledge of the Island will enabl the Minister to brief the new Ad ministrator, Brigadier Norman.

Mr, Alex Wilson, the retiring Ad ministrator of Norfolk Island, lef here in mid-December for Austral! where he will again engage in farm ing. He has been Administrator o Norfolk for seven years.

The holiday rush started on th< island in mid-December and betweei then and Christmas Day, 11 plane arrived from Australia or Nev Zealand, each bringing its quot of visitors.

Mr. Ross Henry of the Common wealth Bank, Rabaul, NG, has beei on leave in Brisbane, Qld. 50 January, 1953 pacific islands monthly

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Christening of Islands Interest O r N November 2, 1952, the christening of Pamela Anne, the daughter of ; Commander(S) and Mrs. J. G. Batchelor, took place in St. Patrick’s Church, Manoel Island, Malta, the Ship’s Chapel of HMS Phoenicia. Mrs. Batchelor will "be better remembered as Miss Dawn Macdonald of the staff of the Western Pacific High Commission before her marriage in Suva, Fiji, in December, 1950.

The date of the christening was of special significance as the New Zealand Cruiser Bellona was in Malta for one day only on her way back to New Zealand from the UK and, as a longstanding engagement, the ceremony was performed by her Chaplain, the Rev. W.

R. Castle, RNZN. It was while Commander Batchelor was serving in Bellona on the New Zealand Station that Pamela Anne’s parents met.

She wore the Christening robe which had been made in New Zealand 60 years before for the Christening of her grandfather, Captain N. W. Macdonald, now the Master of RCS Kurimarau in the service of the WPHC. Padre Castle used as a dipper from Phoenicia’s bell (doing duty as a font) a gold-lipped shell which he had collected in Rabaul, New Britain, during his war service there.

At the reception afterwards in the Ward Room of HMS Phoenicia several guests well-known in the Pacific were present and included Captain G. V. M.

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R. C. H. Webber, once Miss Gwen Cochrane of Suva, Fiji, standing proxy as godmother for Miss Pamela Macdonald of Suva, and a number of Officers from HMNZS Bellona.

When HMNZS Bellona returned to Auckland in mid-December concluding an extensive cruise to Britain, she had aboard 10 Fijian soldiers who had joined the ship as passengers at Singapore. Eight of the men were on the sick list and the other two were returning to Fiji to train reinforcements.

Mr. G. Grove, manager of the Madang, NG, branch of the Commonwealth Bank for the past twc years, has been transferred to Australia. Mr. R. Bird will succeed him in Madang. During his stay in Madang, Mr. Grove has taken an active interest in the Madang Club and the Golf Club.

Chaplain W. R. Castle christening Pamela Anne Batchelor. 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— J A N U A R Y , 1953

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The Wellington club received a message of warm appreciation in early January.

Shell Find in Gulf THURSDAY ISLAND pearlers are re ported to have found "significant new deposits in the Gulf of Carpen taria.”

It was claimed in Brisbane that the deposits totalled 300 to 400 tons. (The present price of shell ranges from £A3OO to £A85O per ton, in New York according to grade).

The discovery, it is believed, will help the industry to keep up the supply of pearl shell to American factories which otherwise would convert their machinery to making plastic buttons.

Mr. Paul Harricks has become Pan American Airways District Traffic and Sales manager in Fiji, with head quarters in Nadi. He is well known there. His parents were connected with the CSR Co. for many years, and he was a member of the Fiji second contingent to the RAF to serve in World War II. He has represented PAA at Canton Island for two years.

The Anglican Cathedral at Suva, Fiji, the first stage of which has now been [completed. Photo by Stinsons Studios. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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Hurricane On Nissan

FIRST blow reported during the current hurricane season in the South Pacific was at Nissan —a small island about 100 miles east of New Ireland and 80 miles north of Buka.

The hurricane struck during the first week in December.

Excessive damage was done to houses and gardens but there was no loss of life. Nissan has a native population of about 1,500. There is also a Catholic Mission Station there.

All the roads on the island were blocked by fallen trees, and apart from wind damage many gardens were ruined by salt spray. Two ships —a government trawler and mission vessel—set out for Nis with relief stores and staff mediately news of the hurric damage reached Bougainville.

Blow In Sw Pacific

A cyclone of moderate inter developed north-west of New C donia in mid-December, its ce passing down off the south-west c< of that island on December 18. serious damage seems to have t reported though there were winds up to 40 knots.

The centre crossed Norfolk Isl a day later, deepening as it ] gressed. It eventually passed d( to the west of the North Island NZ, and moved off to the eastw; The northern part of NZ experier winds of gale force with s< damage. The Tongan Copra Boa 80-ton ketch A’oniu, about to rel to Nukualofa after replacement her keel following stranding on Russell Reef, Haapai, was held Auckland for a couple of days to the storm. Vessels in the eas Tasman met very heavy weathe Mr. N. I. Baker will rel: Dr. H. S. Evans as District Offi Rotuma, while the latter is vacation leave. 54 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Rice Available for Prompt Shipment 952: Summary of Events In The Pacific JANUARY Sir Ronald Garvey appointed Governor f Fiji in succession to Sir Brian Freeon.

Mr. R. C. S. Stanley appointed High nnmissioner for Western Pacific. 10th anniversary of fall of Rabaul to ipanese, January 33, 1943.

Fiji Battalion denarts for service against rrorists in Malaya.

TEAL commences Solent fiying-boat rvice Auckland-Tahiti via Suva, itntaki.

Hurricane lashes Viti Levu; over 30 laths and a conservative £1 million damage.

MOF price for copra rises full 10 per nt. (Stg.s9/15/-); MOF price for sugar ses to £3B/10/- per ton.

FEBRUARY Hurricane damage to Fiji plantations uses withdrawal of USS Co.’s Matua >m Island service.

Price of rice in NG rises to £lOO per a.

Australian Government and BGD, Ltd., rm company for exploitation of Bulolo tie forests.

Mr. R. G. Powles reappointed High immissioner. Western Samoa, for second rm of three years.

MARCH Perm of New Caledonian General uncil expires and due to local and tnch metropolican political dissension, prospect of electing new one.

APRIL frans-Oceanic Airways ceases flying-boat rvice Sydney-Port Moresby.

London price for free market copra wn to £6oStg.

Cyclone hits Louisiades, Papua; eight lives killed.

Fiji announces trade deficit for year £3 million.

MAY ipecial committee begins taking evidence • and against Australia-PNG Customs ion.

Minister for Territories announces reement end of June of Col. J. K. irray, Administrator P-NG.

IPC’s No. 3 bore at Hohoro, Papua, andoned after costing £500,000, but irch for oil goes on.

SPC Fisheries Conference held in umea.

JUNE LB-footer yacht sailing championships Id Suva.

Announcement that Rabaul will be refit on Simpson Harbour and not rewed to Rapopo. two undersea volcanoes erupt off New ®rgia, BSI.

Fijians in action in Malaya and kill it terrorists.

FEAL completes 11 accident-free years.

JULY Fijian R.U. football team arrives in flney for tour of NSW and Qld.

Bros, begin making O’Keefe n in Fiji and “Return to Paradise” in sstern Samoa.

Hr. R. C. S. Stanley sworn in as HCWP.

M) Eastern Samoans leave to live rmanently in Hawaii.

Mr, J. c. Elliott appointed Governor E. Samoa in succession to Mr. Phelps ielps.

AUGUST PS, Australian and NZ representatives set in Honolulu to make Pacific Security territories Minister makes limited statement on P-NG land policy.

Mr. H. S. Richards, Administrator Nauru since 1949, resigns.

Fijian footballers complete Aust. tour —won eight matches, lost one, drew one.

SEPTEMBER The BSI Protectorate Government’s power to levy income taxation is challenged by certain residents of BSI.

It is expected that the case will be heard in Suva, Fiji.

W. R. Carpenter & Co.’s new copra crushing mill in operation in Rabaul.

Some residents challenge right of BSIP Government to levy income tax.

USS Co. announce that Aorangi, sole surviving Pacific passenger ship, will be withdrawn from Sydney-Nth. America service mid-1953 and not be replaced.

Island trading ship Awahou disappears on voyage between Sydney and Lord Howe Is.

OCTOBER Sir Ronald Garvey arrives Suva and sworn in as Governor of Fiji.

Australian manufacturers stop buying Papuan rubber.

NZ National Airways Corp. ceases operating Pacific routes which now served by TEAL.

TEAL includes Western Samoa in Auckland-Tahiti service.

After drought since January hurricane, Fiji has driest October on record.

Papuan rubber planters’ representatives meet representatives of Australian Government and rubber manufacturers in attempt to solve marketing: difficulties. 55 Ac IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1953

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NOVEMBER [improvement in free market price of »pra.

APC bore at Omati, Papua, down two liles.

First beer from Moresby’s South Pacific trewery on sale locally.

New Shipping company (New Guinea- ■stralia Line) enters wvice with two ships.

James Arthur Ewing replaces J. C. lliott as Governor E, Samoa.

First stage of Suva’s Anglican Cathedral impleted.

Education Conference between Adminisration and Missions in Port Moresby.

Australian Government to buy 400 tons f Papuan rubber.

Australian Government decides against ftstralian-PNG Customs union.

Queen Salote of Tonga invited to oronation in 1953.

DECEMBER PNG planters begin legal proceedings »r distribution of Copra Stabilisation nnd.

Brigadier C. H. B. Norman to succeed Ir. Alex Wilson as Administrator of brfolk Is. on December 31.

Qantas E, Airways completes longest tttle-airlift—bringing 22 calves from ftkistan to Port Moresby.

Announced that MOF copra price in (53 will be 10 per cent, less than in (52. MOF price for sugar will rise by 18/16/8 Stg. per ton.

WPHC headquarters moved from Suva » Honiara, BSI.

Mr. R. H. (“Bobby”) Gibbes, wellno wn owner-operator of Sepik Airways, New Guinea, returned from a sit to the United Kingdom in Desmber.

C I's War Veterans DURING December Mr. Raitia Tepuretu, President of the Cook Is. Returned Servicemen’s Assn., and Mr. Barrie Good, of the Resident Commissioner’s office, made a round of the Lower Group as passengers in the Maui Pomare, investigating claims for the recently announced War Veteran’s Allowance.

Applicants on Rarotonga have been investigated and are now receiving the allowance, which applies to veterans of the First World War, who, for some reason, are no longer able to support themselves. Previously, the allowance was made only to islanders resident in New Zealand.

The New Britain Women’s Club, Rabaul, held its annual Christmas cocktail party on December 22.

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Mr. G. S. Barrack left Suva, Fiji, on pre-retirement leave in early December after 27 years’ service with the Fiji Government and the WPHC.

Marist Mission Changes PJ'OLLOWING the transfer of Man Mission headquarters from Lyoi France, to Rome, certain administrati changes have been announced. First these, in so far as the Pacific Islar are concerned, is the appointment of Religious Superior in Fiji. The post t: been filled by the Rev. Father C.

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Shansi Passengers Passengers on the Shansi, which [?] Sydney on December 2, on the inaugu[?] voyage of the newly-formed New Guin Australia line, included (left to right) Mr. J. P. Sinclair, who was leaving take up his new post as Patrol Offi[?] at Ioma, Papua, after five months’ f[?] lough in Australia. Miss Dorothy Brig of the Department of Civil Aviation, P Moresby, who was returning after spe[?] ing her four months’ leave tour[?] Australia. 58 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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New Copra Handling at Blanche Bay The P-NG Copra Marketing Board has opened a new depot at Kabakanl In the Kokopo area, New Britain, and the former receiving: centre at Takubar has been closed. The Board says the hew depot is more central for producers on the southern shore of Blanche Bay, and It also has a better anchorage. A new causeway and jetty has been built at the new depot, and the possibility of Bank line freighters lying off Kabakaul to take direct loading for Britain, is being discussed. Speedier handling of copra from producers’ trucks has been made possible by the installation of a road weighbridge, instead of the old system of single-bag scales. 59 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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The mining party is now carrying out other soil and mining investigations near Ifar, where General Douglas McArthur had his military Headquarters in World War 11, and in the hills near “Camp Walker” where another big American unit once set up its tents.

Christmas trees and parties for members’ children were held in Rabaul in December by the New Guinea Club and by the New Britain Club in conjunction with the RSL Club, Mr. J. A. J. Glen, at present in charge of the secondary department of the Lincoln District High School, Canterbury, NZ, has been appointed first Principal of the newly completed £120,000 Samoa College at Apia, W. Samoa. He left Auckland^ on December Tofua, accompanied, by his wife and 13-years-old daughter. 61 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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From Our Own Correspondent KAVIENG. Dec. 16.

A most successful Ball was held in the Kavieng Club on Saturday, December 6, to raise funds for the swimming pool.

The pool is being re-constructed on its pre-war site.

Sister D. Beale, MBE, returned recently from a medical conference in Formosa and is again Sister-in-Charge at the Kimidan Native Hospital.

Colyer Watson (NG), Ltd., are building a new store at Kavieng. It is being erected on the foundations of Mr. H. J.

Murray’s pre-war store and workshop which has been acquired by the company.

Mr. H. J. Murray, of Lakuramau Plantation, has proceeded to Australia on holiday.

The Rev. B. Chenoweth, of Kavieng, was in Rabaul early in the month. He is at present Acting Chairman of the Methodist Overseas Mission.

Mr. P. R. Kennedy Murray, of Libba- Lossu, has returned to his plantation after a business trip to Rabaul.

Accidents in the Cooks r I ''HREE serious acidents one fatal,,l occurred in the Cook Islands inn November-December.

Kaimana Anguna, aged 3 years, wasej struck and killed by a car driven by Mm Jim Price, while playing on the road atU Tupapa, Rarotonga.

An Aitutaki youth named Mareko wasaj struck on the head by a falling boomer as passengers were disembarking fromr the Charlotte Donald. He fell overboard,! where he immediately sank. A mam named Taringa Tamaka dived in andb undoubtedly saved his life.

At Black Rock, Rarotonga, Tuaine Elia,£ illegally fishing with dynamite, had hisi right hand blown off. His forearm was* later amputated. This accident was the* occasion of a stern warning by the Chiefs of Police that his department intended) 1 to stamp out dynamite fishing.

Japanese War-Dead TAPANESE military authorities estimated? in December that the remains of at* least 100,000 Japanese war-dead have stiili to be recovered from eight islands in thcr US Trust Territory of the North Pacifica A 30-man team, with the permission* of the US military authorities, is currently! investigating ways and means of returh-r ing the remains to Japan. 62 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY^

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JUST after the announcement by Australian Territories Minister Hasluck that top priority now will be given to the establishment of a kenaf fibre industry in New Guinea (see page 47, December), there came an important report from India.

The Minister for Agriculture, addressing the Indian Central Jute Committee, declared that great headway has been made in establishing jute plantings, and India’s jute mills were now assured of supplies. (In December, 1951, dealing with the copra-sack situation, we pointed out that with the partition of India and the establishment of the separate State of Pakistan, one country found itself with the jute crop and the other country (India) with the mills. To protect its important jute industry, India immediately set about establishing plantings of her own.) The Minister said that in the year of partition—l947—Pakistan took over 75 per cent, of the jute-growing areas. The remaining 650,000 acres produced 1.7 million bales of raw jute. But by 1952, India had 2 million acres planted, and the output was 4.8 million bales—four-fifths of India’s jute requirements. Of the 5 million bales required by India’s 112 mills, 5.3 million bales “is within easy reach of accomplishment” in 1955-56.

The effect of this already is seen n reduced prices of copra-sacks. If Pakistan now presses ahead with the establishment of mills, the competition must become keener, and prices inevitably fall.

These developments, though immediate good news to the copraproducer, must be looked on with ome misgivings by parties interested n the establishment of a kenaf inlustry in New Guinea. Their product, however good, will have o compete with the jute products of ndia and Pakistan.

P-NG Stevedoring Back to Private Enterprise From Our Own Correspondent

Port Moresby, Jan. 5

pHE postwar handling of stevedoring by the Administration in s apua-New Guinea has now ended, md various private firms took over his work as from January 1. The hange was made earlier in some listricts in regard to the handling of ertain ship agencies. 63 'ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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By R. W. Robson

(Photos by TEAL and Whites Aviation) JJNAP impressions of a newcomer 9 in the streets of Papeete: [ The grace with which the merry fahitian girls on bicycles—an endless procession—swing round the corner of the Quai and the Rue ponnard . . . | Every two out of three shops is in charge of a Chinese —übiquitous, Impassive, industrious. The Tahitians insist that they do not like the Chinese, but they run practically the whole of the small trade of the town ...» Some of these signs have a meaning in English that the French do not intend. For example, over one Section of a hospital, was the word ” At another section, only a few yards away, a little group of women awaited pre-natal care.

They took it as a matter of course — there was not one, even one thoughtful glance at the big sign . . . | Most trading signs in Tahiti are extremely modest and small. Reason: The municipality gets part of its Revenues from a tax on signs, at so much per square inch.

Not only does the keep-to-theright traffic indicate that one is outside the British Commonwealth: there also is the everlasting hooting of motor-horns—the one thing in t this happy French community which pminds one of Paris . . . ; One gets used to them after a [time; but, at first one’s eye is offended by the silly little plaited bats which so many Tahitian men wear. They are shaped like the oldptyle straw boater, but are very high in the crown and narrow in the ■brim ...

The importance of bonito in the country’s diet is seen in the rows of fish which dangle from the buses which convey the morning’s shoppers back to the districts. Bonito has a thin tail and a big tail-fin—simply designed by Nature to hang from bicycles, lorries, buses, private cars, and pedestrians’ shopping baskets.

Indications axe that whole families live under and around those little, lamp-lit food-stalls along the lagoon side of the Quai, where one may buy mangoes, coconuts, alligator pears, confections—all sorts of lightly-cooked stuff. When it is fine, they sleep right there on the ground.

When it rains, they move across the street, and sleep on the concrete under the verandahs. alone knows how sanitary needs are provided for—but the thoroughfare is quite clean.

Teal’S New Era

Now that a British line, Tasman Empire Airways Limited, is running Polynesia’s most important air service between New Zealand, Fiji and Tahiti, the British Consulate in Papeete has assumed a new importance. It has been there for a long time—the never-to-be-forgotten Pritchard was the first Consul, 100 years ago—and, as Australian and New Zealand trade has displaced much of that formerly held by Britain, some people have wondered why the establishment is maintained. But the new era introduced by TEAL makes British official representation very necessary.

Mr. E. Devenish—an Englishman with no apparent “colonial” affiliations—is the present Consul; and the Secretary is Mr. Walter Asmus, who was born in Australia. Both Mr.

Devenish and Mr. Asmus speak excellent French—Mr. Asmus grew up in New Caledonia, and has lived 30 years in Tahiti, and married a Tahitian girl.

Formal Claim

I claim no authority as a gourmet; but I formally make the claim that Papaya Poi, as concocted by Mrs. Margot Nordman out of papaya, arrowroot, vanilla beans, and coconut milk, is the most delicious sweet in the South Seas.

PAINTERS Painters come and go in Tahiti.

There were half a dozen French artists there in October, selling an occasional picture and living—very happily—close to nature. Charles McPhee, of Samoa and Rarotonga, had made a landfall there during the year, and produced some of his typical landscapes and seascapes; but the Government would not give him residential rights, so he revenged himself by taking away with him, to Rarotonga, as his second wife, one of Papeete’s fairest ladies.

The country’s outstanding artist today is Edgar Leetag, an American, who has built himself a delightful retreat on one of loveliest bays in Moorea. He is a small, energetic man in his fifties, and his paintings on velvet have gained such a vogue that he now writes his own pricetickets. He is a most generous, Luscious fruit for Papeete’s early morning market. 65 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1953

friendly man and his occasional visits to Papeete are made memorable by endless hospitality and wild waterfront wassail.

Floating Luxury

At Captain Barber’s invitation, I went aboard the Millionaire Reynolds yacht White Heron, which was tied up to Papeete’s main street in October. I never have seen so much luxury, artistry and amenities packed into so small a space. As I went ashore, I thought I saw the ghosts of Cook’s Endeavour and Bligh’s Bounty, lying in their old anchorage a few yards away. There was “wild amaze” in the faces of those tough Old mariners as they saw what could be put into a little hull, only 150 years after they pioneered Papeete.

Incidentally, Captain Barber wanted the address of Mr. H. A.

Markham, formerly of Marovo Lagoon, Solomons, and later of Christmas Island. I have lost track of the veteran. Does anybody know what has become of him?

Pacific Japanese?

In a delightful place of retirement at the back of Tahiti I found H. W.

Kinney, famous as a Far East newspaperman and diplomat before World War 11. He has close Japanese associations, reads and speaks Japanese, and keeps in touch with affairs in Japan.

“There is no chance of the Japanese again becoming belligerent,” he said to me. “The majority of Japanese are pacifists, and they will stubbornly remain so.”

One hopes fervently he is right.

But somehow we cannot forget that Japan’s population increases by over a million per annum, and there is no more room in Japan and that— as demonstrated in 1941-42—the thoughts of many Japanese are focussea upon those great islands of the Southwest Pacific, comparatively unpopulated. Has anyone ever tried to compare the area and fertility and population of New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville, the six big Solomons and the two big Hebrides with the islands of Japan?

Has anyone ever heard of Canute, who tried to hold back the tide?

Polynesian Brewery

New Guinea has not pioneered the Pacific Islands brewery idea, as some suppose—a brewery has been operating in Tahiti for several years. It was originally established by an American company, which did not nourish; and then it was taken over by Emil Martin, who has made of it a commercial success. The product is quaffed by most of Tahiti, and it has a big market in the outer islan There is no restriction on the s; of liquor to the natives. The bt is palatable enough, and has ale rolic kick; but to my Sydney-train taste it seemed to lack strength a body. The brewery produces or bottled beer—no draught. It seei to have no difficulty in getting suffi ent supplies of imported bottles.

I found that there was some terest in Fiji in the successful est£ lishment of the brewery at P< Moresby. Fiji’s beer now con; from New Zealand and Australia, large quantities. Said a Fiji mi chant: “If New Guinea and Tahiti c do it profitably, why not Fiji?”

Chinese And French

CITIZENSHIP One of the minor anxieties of t Government of French Oceania Quinn’s —inside that, under the laws of the Frem Union, any person of French natio ality can enter or leave Tahiti, whe ever he wishes. To protect t] kindly and hospitable Tahitians (wl are the natural prey of any kind beachcomber) the French exercise strict control over immigration. B practically any person born with the French Empire is free to con and go.

However, by some interpretatic of the law which I do not unde stand, Tahiti-born Chinese do n automatically acquire French natio ality; and the French thereby ke< the Tahiti Chinese under close chec The future of the growing Chine: community in Tahiti is as big headache, in its way, as is the futui of the Indians in Fiji.

There is a very considerable con (Continued on Page 77) Quinn’s bar—outside view. 66 JANUARY, 195 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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ITHEN Fiji’s new Governor, Sir FT Ronald Garvey, toured the hot, rought-ridden western and northern istricts of Viti Levu in November, b looked for—and failed to find — Icashew nut tree.

I “That tree,” said Sir Ronald, produces both an edible nut and an dible fruit. It will grow in infertile oil and it is resistant to drought, imong its other virtues it readily fopagates itself. If we had the roduct available to-day I believe we ould sell some thousands of tons to lie confectionery trade,”

Horrified by the extent of forest jestruction and soil erosion in Viti ,evu, the Governor is forcefully dvocating an annual Arbor Day iroughout Fiji as the first treelanting step to offset the loss of rees through forest fires, [(The cashew nut is also the source f a valuable industrial oil. Plans for lanting the trees and stepping up reduction of the oil recently conerned the Administrations of some f the British Colonies in Africa, ’he cashew apparently is a native of Lfrictv)

I Fijian As A Stabiliser

| MONG the potent factors for stability in Fiji is the character I the Fijian, said the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) when addressing the legislative Council last month.

With his graceful calm, he has been ble to resist the impact of most of he less creditable elements of Vestern civilisation,” said Sir Ronald.

The fruit of his faith in the pax fritannica and the British way of ife can mean peace and tranquility or many generations to come. It oust be our first duty to see that (either he nor anyone else in the ommunity has cause to lose that aith”.

In 1947 another Governor, Sir lllexander Grantham (now Governor tf Hongkong) said that the Fijians (old the balance in Fiji and that it s Fijian tolerance, patience and liveind-let-live philosophy that has kept he balance between conflicting racial nterests in these islands. When he eft Suva, Sir Alexander warned Europeans against the common mistake of believing that everything they did and thought was inevitably right, and urged the Indians to stop constantly looking for slights when slights were not administered or intended. For the Fijians, said Sir Alexander, he had no message on these lines. They suffered from neither a superiority nor an inferiority complex and thus could exercise a unique stabilising influence.

Beer As You Want It

ONE of the economic achievements of Papua-New Guinea in 1952 was the establishment of a brewery with an initial output of something like 200,000 gallons of beer annually. The South Pacific Brewery located at Badili, Port Moresby, .is supplying beer both in bottles and in stainless steel kegs.

It is a light ale and its quality, of course, is the subject of much discussion among Territorians. But the master brewer says they can have whatever specific qualities they like— the only question is, what does the general public want? He’s confident that when that jackpot question is finally threshed out, Islanders will find “South Pacific” right up to their specific standards.

Anyway the brewery has certainly ended the local scramble for bottled beer. You can now buy a dozen any time, anywhere, and, strangely enough, even Aussie brands have suddenly re-appeared from their hiding places “under the counter.”— VJ.

Sport Of Kings—Rarotonga

STYLE A MONTH before Christmas Rarotonga was preparing for the great day. And the following notices on the official board outside the post office told the story: On November 21: “A meeting of the Rarotonga Jockey Club will be held in the Court Room, at 4 p.m., Tuesday, to make the usual arrangements for the annual race-meeting at Muri. It appears that the tides will be suitable for holding the meeting on Boxing Day. Sergeant Nia Rua with a working party (of prisoners) will commence re-roofing the Club’s building to-day.”

On November 22: “The Arorangi horses have commenced training .... one big horse, owned by Levi . . is showing promise.” (Though the board didn’t say it, the phrase, “commenced training,” merely meant that Rarotonga’s herd of scraggy little, long-haired, undernourished ponies, after completing their normal day in harness on the plantation, were being given an extra bare-backed gallop in the evenings— on the beach and “at the Sanatorium where there is a suitable stretch.”

The course is unusual, to say the least, involving a 180-degree turn).

November 27 (and here the modern touch): “ . . . A radio-telephone will be installed at the turn at the far (Continued on Page 72) STEVE DUBOIS, of the New Hebrides, is in Sydney on leave, his first visit to Australia since 1924. He is a French- Canadian, born at Montmagny, in Quebec, 60 years ago. After attending the Merchant Venturers’ School at Bristol in England he went to sea as an apprentice in square-rigged sailing ships and got his Second Mate’s Certificate. Soon after that Steve settled in Australia for nine years before being attracted to the Islands. He first went to the Solomons to work for the well-known “Squeaker”

Hamilton, and was in Choiseul and at Inus in Bougainville. After two years in the Solomons, he went to the company at Port Patteson in the Banks Group of the Hebrides, and later settled at “Asauan” on Malo, where he traded for 14 years but still without making a fortune. While he was there he found real treasure —a wife, Caroline Stephens, most beautiful daughter of the half- Tongan Stephens family, of Uralapa Island, off South Santo. They have three sons, the eldest 15, all at school in Sydney.

During the last 11 years, Steve has been at the Condominium Joint Court in Vila as Registry Clerk, Interpreter and Bailiff, where the conflicting interests of French, British and natives have been giving much entertainment to observers since the inception of the Court in 1911.

BRETT HILDER. 67 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

The O'Keefe Story Brought Up-To-Date Another Chapter in a Remarkable Family Story IT all started back in April when, through PIM, Mr. John Riedel, of Washington, DC, asked us for details of Mapia and a “Miss Brown” who had lived there. Mr. Riedel had served there in the US forces during the war. Since then we have had almost enough material about O'Keefe, the people who were connected with him and his Mapia and Yap families to write another “His Majesty O'Keefe.”

The following episode in the story comes from a correspondent in Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, and answers the question asked originally by Mr. Riedel—the whereabouts of Miss Brown (in actual fact Mrs.

Brown) and whether she is still alive.

It was told our correspondent by Mr.

Fred Ellis, now of Hollandia, grandson of Radja Marwedi, of Mapia, and son of Louis Charles Ellis, a Welshman, who was mate on one of O’Keefe’s schooners. “Mrs. Brown O’Keefe is still alive and in her early seventies, now,” he reports. “The story told by Mr. Davenport is true but this is how it went with the O’Keefes after 1942:”

They were all on Mapia when the Japs landed there—Mrs. Brown O’Keefe, her two sisters, Mrs. Eugenia Scott O’Keefe, and Miss Daisy O’Keefe and Lewis and Violet Ellis, elder brother and younger sister of Fred Ellis. All were taken aboard a Jap ship bound in convoy for the Netherlands Indies. The convoy first went to Manokwari and some days later departed again for Kendari and Makassar on South Celebes.

Fred Ellis was in Java at the time the Japs invaded the Indies.

In Makassar, Mrs. Brown, Eugene and Daisy O’Keefe were sent to a women’s camp together with Violet Ellis; Lewis was sent to a men’s camp. And there they stayed until they were liberated in 1945 by Australian Forces.

An Australian plane flew all except Mrs. Brown and Daisy O’Keefe, who remained in Makassar, to Morotai, in January, 1946.

Nineteen days later a US Airforce plane took them on to Biak, the pilot detouring over Mapia. In the plane Lewis Ellis wrote a letter in whic(i he informed the Mapia inhabitants that Mrs. Brown O’Keefe and all the others who left Mapia in 1942 were still alive. A “streamer” was attached to the letter and the whole thing dropped by the pilot.

Miss Daisy O’Keefe remained in Makassar where she opened a ballet dancing school. She still lives there; but intends to go back to Mapia when the O’Keefes and Ellises have the funds to open their coconut-plantations up again.

Originally the concession of the three islets of Mapia—for a term of 30 years—was applied for in 1907 by the late Mrs. Lottie Terry, daughter of Captain Henry Terry, an English Master Mariner, and mother of Mrs. Brown O’Keefe. Mrs. Terry died in 1942, a few months before the Japs came.

In 1937 the concession-lease for the islets (which are in the Tidore area) was extended for 20 years.

Although the Administration in Netherlands New Guinea already has given permission for Mrs. Brown to re-open the plantation, she has not yet done so. Lack of finance keeps her on Biak for the time being, where she lives with her sister, Mrs, Eugenia Scott O’Keefe. Her four bungalows (one with 14 rooms) on Mapia and all other properties, estimated to be worth £30,000, were completely destroyed by Allied naval and aerial bombardments in 1944 and 1945. Mapia was at that stage occupied by about 175 Japanese.

Mrs. Brown’s claims were honoured in spite of her request the US War Department in Washir ton.

From the estimated 250,000 coc nut trees on the plantations, abc 10,000 were also destroyed; 50 f cent of the remaining palms are be; ing and could be in production agj within a year of reopening the pla< MAFIA was discovered in 1537 Fernando de Guyabra. In 17( a certain James Dewar re-discover the atoll and the islets were nam St. Davids or “Freewill” islands.

It is believed that Polynesians liv there before Captain O’Keefe fi anchored his ship at Mapia. T large flat tomb-stones on the isl seem to prove this as they are simii to other stones found in Polynes Papuans or Micronesians have He's used such stones for their graves.

Radja Paul, who has already be mentioned in PIM (Sept. p. 70) v, the successor to the Radja Marwc of Mapia. Louis Charles Ellis marri a relative of Radja Paul and had U sons and a daughter—Lewis, Fr and Violet. Violet married a Frisi gentleman in Leeuwarden, and nc lives in Holland, Radja Paul told Fred Ellis that 1872 a “very rich trader,” known “Captain O’Keefe” arrived with 1 sailing ship at Mapia and there met a number of inhabitants of Pol nesian origin and a few Germ traders. The latter were local repi sentatives of the “Jaluit Gesellschaf a German trading concern on Jalu in the Marshalls.

Captain O’Keefe returned eve three or four months to Mapia whe he managed to get on such friend terms with the inhabitants that tl German traders soon packed up ai left the islands.

Lewis and Violet Ellis photographed on Mania before the w[?] 68 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

[ O’Keefe really was a “king” in his day. He asked the Radja Marwedi to hoist the American flag whenever he came to the islands and thereon bangs a tale: One day during O’Keefe’s absence Mapia was visited by the Resident of the Moluccas, Mr. Van der Horst. Seeing the Stars and Stripes flying above the palms the Resident asked the Radja Marwedi svhat was the meaning of hoisting an American flag on Dutch territory.

Upon which the old Radja answered: “My boss, Captain O’Keefe, ordered me. This island his island, no?”

Another story of the Radja Marwedi concerns the occasion when Mr.

Henry Davenport left Mapia and went to Radja Marwedi to bid him goodbye. The old man really regretted Captain Davenport’s departure but his English was shaky. The Radja Marwedi took both Davenport’s hands in his own, said: “Oh, you going away?

Well, me, an’ de you, an’ de all people on this island very, very glad.”

Mr, Davenport kept a straight face and answered; “Yes, I know you’re all glad to see me go.” And the Radja; “Yes, glad, all glad.”

Later, when told of his mistake, Radja Marwedi was loud in his remorse. He died in 1910.

The Hollywood Version: “His Majesty O’Keefe’s” Chinese Junk By Jack Thornton BUILT under the supervision of Mr. Alex Bentley, of Suva, to pecifications drawn up by Warner iros.’ property-making department, ae KATHLEEN, an outwardly aithful replica of a Chinese junk of le 1870’s, will, by virtue of its unsualness and photogenic qualities, robably prove the main inanimate ttraction of His Majesty O’Keefe dien that film, recently completed in f iji, is' eventually released.

Powered by two GMC marine etrol engines, all that is necessary to lanoeuvre the craft for filming, the junk, with its beautiful sails of calico, became a familiar sight to residents of Suva and villages along the coast as far as Thalanuku.

Constructed on a 40-foot petroldrum lighter, with an overhang of 20 feet at each end, the vessel moved gracefully through the water.

A crew of eight, engaged in Suva, will appear in many scenes of the completed film. Under the direction of Chinese-American actor Benson Fong, who acted as the junk’s first mate, the crew from Suva played their part realistically, contributing a lot of “islands atmosphere” to this film version of the life of Captain David Dean O’Keefe.

The photos above shown (left to right): Joan Rice, English film-star, who plays the feminine lead in the O’Keefe film.

Chinese-American actor Benson Fong, who plays Mate of the junk—film fans will remember him as Charlie Chan’s “Number One Boy” in the Chan series of the 30’s.

The junk Kathleen under full (calico) sail. George Houng Lee, of Suva, shown here in his role as the junk’s cook— three of his sons also made up part of the Kathleen’s film crew.

During the last week of October, he Governor of Tahiti, M. Petitbon, tccompanied by M. Lassalle Sere, enior French Commissioner of Tench Colonies and Senator for ? rench Oceania, and by the Tahitian [eputy in the French Chamber of Commerce, Pouvana’a Oopa, passed hrough Apia, W. Samoa, on their by TEAL plane to Tahiti. They J[ere entertained at dinner at the Hotel by the Acting High Commissioner, Mr. Grattan. His -ordship Bishop Daraand and Govrnment officers and political leaders were amongst the guests at the function.

Tasman Empire Airways announced in December that, as from April 1, 1953, the International Air Transport Organisation has approved the company’s offering a reduction of 10 per cent, on the fares of parties of ten or more persons travelling together along the Coral Route service to Tahiti. The reduction will apply to intermediate stops also and, it is understood, will be available between Sydney-Auckland-Suva via other trans-Pacific airlines in addition to TEAL.

Generous public support enabled 11 European, Fijian, Indian and Chinese Girl Guides to attend the first international camp at Marton, NZ, in December-January. The girls representing Fiji are: Annie Williams, Wendy Cockell, Ofa Peterson, Agnes Gibson, Lorna Smith, Rita Ah Ben, Mere Naikaukau, Maca Salapavi, Meresiana Fugawai, Hanifa Sahu Khan and Evangeline Kuarpati.

New Books About The Pacific

A Grimble Book

250 Pages of Entertainment SIR ARTHUR GRIMBLE, formerly a Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Colony, and a distinguished officer of the British Colonial Service, always was known as a “born writer”; and now he has proved his merit by producing A Pattern of Islands, acclaimed in Britain and United States as “a book of the month”.

It is a collection of his memories of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and nothing quite so delightfullyreadable has come our way in years.

Grimble went originally to the Islands as a cadet officer, with a young wife and a very small salary; his official status grew, and so did his family; but he brought to his official troubles, as to his private economic difficulties, a habit of observation, a sense of lively humour, and a memory which have enabled him to hit the literary jackpot.

As a fellow-resident, he got right into the lives of the Gilbertese, and those interesting and generally lovable Micronesians never have been more sympathetically presented to the world. They may be primitives, in some respects; but, all through his descriptions of them, Grimble shows them as Nature’s gentlemen.

The value and virtue of the book lie in the fact that the author gives us a long series of facts and incidents, and leaves us to make the generalisations. In the majority of books of this kind, one gets the summaries and conclusions, without the essential facts.

The newspaper reviewers, quoting liberally; show that the book’s sections are devoted to humorous incidents, gay adventure, nature studies, native myths. The parts we like best are those in which the now retired Grimble, author, describes without mercy the ridiculous and exceedingly funny situations in which Grimble, the eager young cadet, frequently found himself. There is the story of how he was sent out in a storm to a ship off Ocean Island, to bring in the RC’s new bath and the community’s Christmas whisky, and of the deplorable things which happened to him; and, another, of the occasion when he went in a small boat to arrest a very large chief engineer who had chased the captain off his ship.

Grimble spent some time on Abemama; and here we have— probably for the first time—the full and authentic story of that remarkable man, George McGhee Murdoch.

Murdoch shares with Bully Hayes the doubtful honour of having been the subject of an extraordinary number of purely imaginative tales, by unscrupulous penny-a-liners. Murdoch may have been occasionally in contact with pirates; but Grimble, who seems to have known his story well, says nothing about it.

Pattern of Islands, well indexed, is a useful work of reference, as well as providing 250 pages of fascinating description, sketch and story. ★ RALPH RASHLEIGH: This is Australia’s wonder-book of the year which, in recent weeks, has received the full attention of local book-reviewers. The story itself, classed as a novel, is remarkable enough; the fact that it ever saw print in its present form, even more so.

James Tucker, the author, arrived in Sydney in 1827 as a convict —sentenced to deportation “for the term of his natural life’’ for trying to extort £5 from his cousin. At the time of his arrival in NSW he was 19, 5 ft. 3 in. tall and described as a clerk. During his first five years in the Colony he evidently spent some time at the notorious agricultural establishment at Emu Plains of which he writes in his book, probably served in one of Mitchell’s road gangs and also spent some time in the Campbelltown district. It was during this period he founded his long friendship with a sturdy Scots carpenter, Alexander Burnett, into whose keeping the manuscript of Ralph Rashleigh was eventually given and whose descendants preserved it for 70 or 80 years.

After these first five years, and interspersed with periods of clerking, Tucker had tickets-of-leave which he invariably forfeited for some misdemeanour or other.

In 1844 he lost the latest of his tickets at Maitland and was sent as a “special” to a convict establishment at Port Macquarie. At that time William Gray was Police Magistrate (and a founder of the Macquarie Literary Club) and Stephen Partridge, Superintendent of Convicts. Their patronage of literature provided him with a new interest and it was here, with government pens, ink, paper and time he wrote “Ralph Rashleigh or the Life of an Exile, by Giacomo di Rosenberg”—also a drama called “Jemmy Green in Australia”, and a drama “The Grahames’ Vengeance or the Fate of James the First, King of Scotland by Otto von Rosenberg”—and probably others.

In 1847 the establishment at Port Macquarie was closed down and Tucker was granted a ticket-of-leave for Port Macquarie but lost it again in 1840 an was sent to prison in Goulburn. He r< ceived a ticket again in 1850 but lost for stealing a watch. In 1853 he had ticket for Morton Bay district but tl rest of his life is obscure—he died i Liverpool Asylum of “decay of natun in 1866. His age was presumed to be 7 actually it was 56—comment enough the life he had led as a deportee.

Tucker’s wasted life was largely tl result of the penal system, but he w essentially a weak man without the mor stamina to beat his environment. It w a vicious system, but men did rise abo it—as did his friend Burnett. Tuck knew the dire punishments, but he st succumbed.

The manuscripts of Ralph Rashk etc., were then forgotten until 19 when the Royal Historical Society he an exhibition of rare manuscripts, it a Mr. Robert Baxter brought t tattered manuscript that had been h to his wife, Margaret Burnett, 50 yea earlier by her father. He could tell t Society nothing about the author.

A garbled version of the story was pu lished in London in 1929 but for 30 yea the identity of “Ralph Rashleigh’ author remained a mystery. In 1949, IS Colin Roderick who edits the prese book, was given all the facts as th were known then, and set out to pro the identity of the author. It took h two years of intensive research—he te how it was done in the Foreword to t book.

'TT'HE story that Tucker tells is pai fiction obviously part - autobi graphical. For the most part is concei sheer brutality—the brutality of the t portation system as a whole; t brutality of prisoner to prisoner; of pel official to prisoner. Of not-so-petty offic to prisoners—and of all and sundry anyone of weaker fibre. Here and the like a rare flower rising out of a stinki swamp, there is an official or a man or woman with the ordinary virtues of fa mindedness. These latter seem to ma the story credible. One interrupts on reading a thousand times to ask—coi men live through such savagery apparently was the lot of the ordina convict? Yet, there remains the undi lying conviction that Ralph brought most of his troubles himself.

At one stage he is sent to the Ne castle coalmines. There the coiivi exist underground, seeing no light 1 six days of the week, living on a mea| ration of cornmeal and salt beef, doi an incredible amount of the most arduc labour. On Sundays they are brought the surface and men, apparently at ra dom, were picked out for punishment 50 or 100 or more lashes.

In these vitamin-conscious, heali conscious days it seems almost pi believing that the human body coi stand such treatment.

Much of this part of Ralph’s story believed to have been based on the st< of the author and one begins to undi stand why, at the age of 56, he looked The remainder of the story is pi 70 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

fiction. Ralph escapes from Newcastle, eventually falls in with some aborigines end in company with two lubras makes his way to the tip of Cape York. In the light of modern knowledge, his adventures luring this phase are silly but they are In accord with the knowledge a convict rould have of the natives and the sountry beyond the narrow confines of lis ticket-of-leave. - Ralph Rashleigh is a remarkable book -of deep interest to the student of Inman nature as well as of history. It B the only book written by a convict ibout the NSW convict system. Its author Feak, drifting, an outcast from decent ociety is resurrected in his book, more han 100 years after he had written it, 10 years after his death. He would be a ■rprised man if could know it.—JT.

Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd., lydney, for 18/9. ★ COME AWAY, PEARLER; by Colin llmpson: It is a stock axiom of the Bviewers’ trade that a writer cannot urn out fact and fiction with equal acility. It may be so, but the average eader will probably find Colin Simpson’s irst novel entertaining enough, if ntertainment is what he is looking for— nd why read a novel if you are not?

Last year Simpson gave us “Adam in khre”, a factual story of the Arnhemmd native which quickly became an astralian best-seller. “Come Away, 'earler’’ is a different kettle of fish.

I has a heroine, two love stories, a plot, nd is certainly action-packed—sudden eath, hurricanes, opium dens, fights, and 11 the perils of pearling.

It is a story of pearl diving around bout the 1890’s; the location—all the way rom Thursday Island to Derby; and the haracters a mixed bunch gathered from ranee, England, India, the South Seas, nstralia and the Pacific Islands.

It is not the “Great Australian Novel’’ ut as Australian novels go it is better lian most. If one must drop a brick Mnewhere (in order to maintain one’s lembership of the Book-Reviewer’s hion) then let it fall on the heroine who »uld have been, with profit, less full f high principles and more like a human eing, and who engenders in one a esire to kick her in the lace drawers or hatever real ladies wore in 1890.—JT. [Published by Angus & Robertson, Ltd., ydney, price 16/-. ★ THE CANNIBALS, by Lucille Iremonger, I about Fiji, But it is not, as one light think, about Fijian cannibals. Alkough a Fijian girl indirectly supplies lie motif, the native Fijians are in- Idental to the story which is peopled by lie same sort of small-time, small-town ige-of-the-outer social class who incited her previous novel (about the Pest Indies). Whether she does this ecause she believes all Colonials are art of the submerged tenth, or because he finds this class interesting, is anyne’s guess.

This is no glamour story about the South Sea Islands—she draws a cruel picture of Fiji, but it is a picture that could be drawn about most any small community. If Fiji scores badly, New Zealand (and New Zealanders) come even lower down the scale.

The time is 1942, when most South Pacific communities expected to find Japs at the bottom of the garden (and many did). And that is part of the theme—whether to bolt or to stay put.

Viti, the heroine, who at one stage goes as a nurse to a nearby (and mythical) phosphate island says; “If they (the native women) are to be left here why should I be saved? It is bad enough for all the phosphate staff, all the teadrinking, mahjongg-playing European wives running away like scalded cats!”

The plot concerns the momentary lapse of Viti’s bethrothed—a plonky, unimaginative, John Bull of a District Officer—with the village virgin and the male child that resulted therefrom. The reactions of the characters from that point on are credible enough—but the lapse itself seems scarcely so. The village virgin was never out of mother’s sight— except when, in the dusk, she once sat near the stream and dabbled her feet in the water. There the District Officer stumbled upon her in the dark, and, although he had not set eyes upon her previously—presto, a part-Fijian son.

It is interesting to reflect that beneath the forbidding front of some Colonial Officers (who, taken in the main, have been within the category Stuffed Shirt) there maybe beats the heart of the Wildest Wolf.

Summing up; It will make some Fiji residents spit—for the things that are true rather than for its inaccuracies.

Good entertainment, even without the Fiji background.—JT.

Published by Hammond, Hammond & Co., Ltd., London, for 9/6 Stg.

Pacific Nature Notes CONDUCTED BY RAIMANU.

No. 2.—Where Do The Waders Go?

To the average Australian there’s a good deal of interest in the old query—Where do the flies go in the winter time? The question loses much of its point in many of the Pacific Islands, because there are so few flies.

But there is a similar and equally puzzling matter—where do the snipe go ia the winter time? By snipe, most people mean the wading birds generally which are found in goodly numbers on the island beaches during the hot months, but are very scarce during the other six. t. ij u • . .i It would be interesting to know what the natives of other island groups think about it, if they think at all, but in Fiji this annual phenomenon gave rise to a proverb.

When a Fijian simply can't find something, he is likely to use this saying, which can be roughly translated as “You can't find a snipe’s gg * „ . „ . , Im using snipe here as the common word among Europeans in Fiji; and it fits in with the Fijian idiom too, as they have one term to cover quite a number of different species. For myself, I’ve yet to see a real snipe here; but there are plenty of plover, tatler, godwit and other tyP 6B - And just as we talk about looking for a needle in a haystack, so the Fijian talks about looking for a “dilio’s egg”. He knows that these waders are common enough on the beaches for certain periods of the year; and equally uncommon for the rest of the time. He has found too, that no-one ever seems to catch these birds nesting. Hence no eggs; hence the proverb. there’s a bit more to it than Introduce the subject when your re sitting yarning in a Fijian y ou ’H find a variety of explanations of why there are no e BB s - Not far from Na Savusavu, man told. me that it was believed that the birds secreted their eggs In the yam gardens. He couldn’t e “ lain wh / n 0 ' have ever been fo £ nd the / c • T * ~ , , , .

“ ?f, U Th , f birds , ' . eir ? e ! s l^e J - P ?[ aCeS I V , ” f , . or annual dis- STSTtf "Tnd Vt£t the eggs hatch out into fish— probably the flying fish—which in turn change into the young dilio or snipe.

I’ve tried to tell them some of the established facts about bird-migration But apart from the fact that names like Siberia and Alaska mean little or nothing to most of those present, I rather think they believe I’m pulling the long bow a bit. There are just a few to whom the truth is even more wonderful than the old tales. 71 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

end of the course.” And other hazards: “The committee hopes to start the first race at 10 a.m. so that the last race will conclude before high tid » (Chief event, the Ayson Cup, called for 1/- entrance fee for the qualifying heats, all others free).

This Should Be Good

VIEW GUINEA is not altogether JM being left out of the current spate of Pacific movie-making. Now showing in Sydney (we have not seen it yet) is a Hollywood epic about a hunt for treasure in unexplored New Guinea. The action was “shot” in a remote section of Florida which is said to resemble tropical NG.

The action shots include scenes of undersea fights between men, crocodile attacks, ambushes by headhunters and battles with natives in canoes. Cast includes John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Alan Mowbray, It’s all in techmcolour and is called Crosswinds.

Wait for it, you sceptical Territonans.

Housing Problems For

Suva’S Pigeons

, the . Januar y hurricane, ° pigeon populationpossibly as big as that in Trafalgar Square, London, but not so wellmannered—has faced an acute housin& shortage. With the demolition of old, gabled wooden buildings which provided ample roof-accommodation, the pigeons have moved to low verandahs with frequently disastrous results to pedestrians fcHow.

It is becoming alarmingly comm< to have to dodge apprehensively, ai sometimes the worst is not knov until one is tapped on the arm by fellow-pedestrian with the advic “Excuse me, but a bird has—erbehaved very badly down the ba of your shirt” (or dress as the ca may be).

A curious sidelight on pigec nature is provided by the respor to the years-old custom of an eldei Indian peanut-seller. Every day noon the old man carefully empt his bags of peanut shells at the ed of the roadway near the corner wh( the Club Hotel used to be. Befc the hurricane the high-pitched re (Continued on Page 74) Crossquiz — No. 36 (Solution on Page 78) ACROSS I.—What is the name of the tomb that Queen Artemisia erected to her husband? 7. —Who composed “The Dream of Gerontius”? 8. —What is the term of the 98th Psalm? 9. —What is the name of the Drift in Zululand where British soldiers took a heroic stand in 1879? 10. What name is usea lor a lever wim cold, hot and sweating stages? 12. W hat is the name of the prescribed discharge of guns as a token of respect? 13. —ln which country is Bangkok? 16.—W hat is the astronomical name of the end of an eclipse or transit? 18.—What would you call a white vestment reaching to the feet. 19.—Who was associated for many years with Ira D. Sankey, the “American Singing Pilgrim”? 21. —Who is the famous Russian whose Christian names are Joseph Vissarionovitch? 22. What kind of sides were Cromwell’s troopers? 23. was the son of Seraiah, himse i x . a whA be -rrv, 24. —Who composed the opera “The Jewess”? •? 5 T™ Ch , largC o Russian river flows into the Azof sea?

DOWN 1. Where was Mohammed born? 2. —Which is the inner bone of the forearm? j.—au which state is Bloemfontein? 4.—Which is the highest mountain of the world? s. —what is the science of weights and measures? 6.—Who was the first king of all England? ii.—who painted the celebrated “The Angelus”? 14,-What is the name of the famous Belgian seaside and watering place on the North Sea? 15.—Who was the British Admiral -who routed the French fleet under the Comte de Grasse? 16. — Who was the first English king to rebuild Westminster Abbey? 17.—Under what name are known the offsprings of any animal before birth? 20.—Which is the chief river of Germany flowing into the North Sea?

Recipe Corner

(Ten Shillings paid for each Recipi published.) KEEP the recipes coming—lo/- will paid for each one published and addition you will be helping ot Islands housewives —the new ones, p ticularly. Recipes should Include 1c ingredients or those readily available, medium of the can and otherwise.

Islands stores. The potential pool recipes is as yet virtually untapped.

Assistant Editor remembers for exam how in Fiji prawns, or maybe freshwa shrimps (which she usually abhors), wrapped up like small packets in t leaves and cooked in coconut milkone has sent in the recipe that delicious dish yet.

Kau-Kau (Sweet Potato) Or

TARO SOUP 2 medium sized pieces of kau-kau taro. 2 cups milk.

Salt and pepper.

Boil kau-kau or taro till soft. Mi then add milk, salt and pepper. Sim for few minutes. Serves four.

This is a very good substitute potato soup. —Mrs. L. J. 8., Bougainv

Tropical Steamed Pudding

(Delicious, nourishing and very econom —no sugar, eggs or butter required 4 bananas (mashed).

Vz cup grated coconut. 1 cup breadcrumbs. 1 cup mixed fruit. 1 teaspoon Carb. Soda dissolved in tablespoon water.

Mix all ingredients together and st for IV2-2 hours.

Serve with custard or prefers coconut cream, made by squeezing remainder of the grated coconut thr< a strong cloth. —Mrs. R. P., Kavieng,

Coconut Crisp

lb butter or fresh lard. 2 tablespoon sugar. 1 cup flour. 1 cup coconut, dried slowly in ove 1 teaspoon baking powder. 2 teaspoons cocoa.

Cream butter and sugar, and add 0 ingredients. Press onto greased ba dish and bake in moderate oven abou minutes. Remove from oven and with chocolate icing while still Cut into fingers at once with sharp k and take out of tin before it cools. —Arora, Central Pa 72 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH Tropicalities (Continued from Page 67)

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(Copyright) P.S.—Hof Horlicks before bed induces deep, restful sleep. of the Club was haunted by doze of pigeons which have now mo\ far afield, but daily at noon 1 birds still collect from no-one-kno where to receive their ration. Tl will probably be doing it in IS when the new hotel should be stai ing on the site of the old pi (Work on the building started mid-November).

Surprise On Suwarrow

Dirk Tober, of the yacht Onn brought perplexing news from Suw row to Auckland. It seems that wl he dropped in on Tom Neal, island’s only inhabitant, the day al Tom took up residence there in < tober, he found him officiating ai maternity case. Tom’s famous t cat (PIM, September, p. 121, 1 vember, p. 50) had just produ kittens.

More Treasure Islands

Mr. Robert J. Cunningha

originally of NSW but who ' been living on Tupai, Frei Oceania, for the last 24 ye; arrived in Sydney in November the new French liner Caledonien i was hailed with joy by local porters. This was not because anything that Mr. Cunningham s —but in this overcrowded part the world it is always interesting have news of someone who lives a spot not so crowded. They s (as is usual in these cases) that 1 Cunningham was the uncrowned k of Tupai.

Mr. Cunningham said that there was idyllic but monotonous j that there were only three topics conversation—fish, the wind i coconuts because each in its o was very important to the 44 habitants.

He said that Tupai was repu to be a treasure island—that milli( of pounds worth of gems and g —Chilean pirates’ loot—was belie 1 to be buried on the island. He h self had never seen any sign of i be he had hunted off would seekers who had come along to lo (In December PIM, p. 19, we ported that Count von Luckner > to leave shortly for an undisclo Pacific Island where treasure —1 time Inca—was believed to buried. It was thought that > Luckner was referring to Mope Cocos Island (Pacific) is also famous treasure island—Chib pirates again.) 74 Tropicalities (Continued from Page 72) JANUARY, 10 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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I Suva Has A Gifted Poet

LAURENCE DAKIN, who is considered by many competent aides to be one of the most gifted ©ntemporary poets—John Masefield las described him as a man of genius i-has been living in Suva for the >ast year, and is now building a imall house well out of town. [ He was born in Nova Scotia, nucated in medicine, and studied Iterature in Paris and Venice. He las spent most of his life in Europe, »ut has also lived in South America, Lsia and New Zealand. He speaks ix languages, reads nine, and has translations from the Italian of teopardi. Pascoli and Zanelli; from he Greek of Anaceon and Sappho; fam Spanish folk songs and the forks of Spanish poets; and from ie French of Verlaine and Ronsard. #r. Dakin’s own works have been anslated into Spanish, Italian, tench and Armenian, tLaurence Dakin is the author of ine major volumes, in addition to horter published poetry. Among his fajor works, Sorrows of the Hopeful ras described by Rabinbranath agore as “a beautiful work”; The I ream of Abaris has been recently |anslated into Italian for use in the pools of Italy; Ireneo—A Tragedy; Marco Polo, of which Burns Martin wrote , . rich and varied, and the whole drama is shot through w |th exquisite lyrics”; The Tower of uf The Fire of which Prof . George P. Oikonoms, of the Academy of Athens, wrote; “A beautiful '>' ric drama b V a deep and inspired creator”

The poet is of retiring disposition and is working quietly in Suva—at present correcting the proofs of his next publication, The House of Orleoli. One of his earlier works, since revised, sold 30,000 copies in the USA—an unusual achievement for any poet, and particularly for one who writes in the classic style, Prometheus, _j A CK THORNTON. ===== Miss Therese O’Brien, member of a well-known family of Madang, NO, left on the MV Sinkiang in December for Brisbane on the first stage of a tour of Canada, and probably the United States. Miss O’Brien is on the staff of the Department of District Services.

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‘ For Aviation Affairs

High French officialdom in Tahiti ippears to be giving real co-operation md practical assistance to TEAL, so hat the new air service will be of maximum value to the somewhat solated French Territory.

I TEAL’S happiest discovery in its lew dominion is the new officer in ‘harge of Civil Aviation in Tahiti, VI. Pierre Challet. M. Challet not >nly speaks perfect English—he Ipeaks it with an Oxford accent. He (pent some years with the RAF, and Fas a distinguished flier. Then, tfhen he was piloting a Boston in a logfight, someone cut his tail off.

Be crashed, of course; miraculously Scaped death, but got a badly smashed leg. After several operations, his leg was amputated below he knee. They describe him in Tahiti as “a fine bloke, with tons )f guts and a very charming wife”— >o he fits admirably into the new firways set-up in Oceania.

Apia And Suva Should

NOTE | Western Samoa and Fiji—especially Samoa—should try to organise something like the Syndicat dTnitia- Jve, or Tourist Bureau, which functions so energetically in Tahiti, h has the Government’s blessing, and practical help: but it functions as an independent organisation of free citizens, under the active direction of a handsome blond Dutch giant, Charles van den Broek.

When big planes and ships arrive, bevies of distressingly pretty girls, directed by Madame Quinn, throw leis of lovely flowers around the necks of all incoming passengers; and, irrespective of whether they are perspiring dowagers, American millionaires or dehydrated commercial travellers, they love the ceremony, and will not be separated from the fragrant mass until they have secured a photographic record.

All Papeete citizens with cars can be co-opted for transport of visitors.

It is the unwritten law: one bristling of the big van den Broek moustache, and the busiest merchant breaks off to do his share in making Tahiti’s beauties known to the world.

In due course, Tahiti will reap a rich harvest, in dollars from the east and pounds from the west. Apia and Suva should make a note of the French way of lining up the merchants and traders. After all, who benefits most when the tourist party arrives? 77 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1953 Notes Made In And Around Tahiti (Continued from Page 68)

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Wphc Now Established

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THE High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Mr. R. C. S.

Stanley, left Suva on December 15 for Honiara, BSI, which in future will be the headquarters of the WPHC.

Mr. Stanley was accompanied by his wife and daughter, Mr. A.

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Russell. Mr, Russell is an Assistant Secretary to the High Commissioner.

The party travelled on RCS Kurimarau.

The Fiji Transport Control Bo« has invited applications for ti licences from persons or firn Main qualification of success applicants will be ability to g service to the public. A rec( survey of taxi cabs in the Cole showed that many now bperati were in such condition that th cannot provide adequate or effici service. 78 JANUARY. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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News From The Cooks

Two new wards for the Rarotonga mitorium were completed in November.

I further ward, wash rooms and a motor wage were under way.

To Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Caldwell a »n. on November 22 at Rarotonga •spital. Mr. Caldwell is a clerk in the wrthouse.

In preparation for the building of a overnment school on Rakahanga Is., N. ooks two lime pits were prepared by lie people in November. The site for a ew school on neighbouring Manihiki was Iso surveyed during the month.

Matnia Teokotai Williams, of Manihiki, nnounced her engagement to loane iaitera last November. The marriage as planned for mid-January.

Foundations for A. B. Donald & Co.’s ew store at Aitutaki were laid in early lecember.

Ngaie Tou, CIMP, left Rarotonga for hie Central Medical School, Suva, in lecember to undergo a post-graduate »urse in surgery. By the same aircraft -om Aitutaki went John Tapaki, of itutaki, Tingika Tere, of Rarotonga, and Drse Vaine Tangata, of Mauke, for ■aining at the Medical School.

The NZ Meteorological Service plans to istal radar upper-wind measuring equiplent at Rarotonga during the present ear. Wind-measuring balloon-flights are t present limited to the visual method, seless in conditions of low cloud.

Golf history was made for the Raromga links (the now unused airfield) in lecember, when Mr. Ted Estall “holed in Be”. If the feat had been made in a impetition match, Mr. Estall would have rawn a £lO jackpot.

Two of the inter-island vessels— harlotte Donald and Inspire—have dearted from the Group for the hurricane eason. They will undergo refit in apeete. The third craft, Mahurangi, wlil emain in the Group, based on Penrhyn, nd will make runs south to Rarotonga I intervals.

The Administration has received a umber of requests to organise, in Raro- >nga, night classes In elementary bookeeping. Subject to sufficient people beig interested, Mr. L. K. Pitt, of it Administration, is prepared to offer his trvices as instructor.

Mr. Temana Ngatama, elementary school 6acher attached to the Administration ehool at Mauke Is., has been selected to roceed for a teacher’s training course Auckland, NZ, commencing February.

Vero Tora, a leading mataiapo of lauke Is., died there aged 63 years on •ecember 13. He was a member of the sland Council, a church deacon, and lember of a family famous as composers t religious hymns. He is survived by ‘is wife and by one son who succeeds ® the title of mataiaoo.

Shooting Affray in Port Romilly From Our Own Correspondent MORESBY, Jan. 2.

On December 23, two Europeans suffering from shotgun wounds were flown by Catalina from Port Romilly, Papua, to the Port Moresby Hospital. They were Sydney Ernest O’Neill, age 32, and James Paterson, 29, both employed by Sawmillers and Traders, Limited, on mill work.

O’Neill’s injuries were serious, but his condition improved steadily in hospital.

Paterson had suffered only minor injuries.

Police officers from Port Moresby investigated. On December 31, a 25-year old European woman, Joan Phyllis Watson, was charged in the Court of Petty Sessions with intent to do grievous bodily harm to O’Neill. Bail was granted.

Brisbane’s NG Women Hold Xmas Party HpHE Brisbane New Guinea Women’s Assn, held its annual Christmas Party at the Lyceum Club, Brisbane, on December 13, Mrs. Roy Kendall, President of the Assn., welcomed about 50 members and their friends. Proceeds went towards the Queensland Division of the NG Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Mr. Milton Rees is New Guinea Club (Rabaul) golf champion for 1952. 79

I Aci F I C Islands Monthly January, 1953

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CONDUCTED BY EX ZK-1-AC/VR-2-AK. (Address notes to P.O. Box 5179, Wellesley Street, Auckland, NZ.) Hsland Hams: Try a CQ at the Pacific [lands Net times, 0100/0700/1900Z on your [vourite band. Use of the net times will kve you and your Islands neighbours, e Stan Mayne, VR2AS, brings us up I date: VR2AP, A 1 Akin, departed in Member for ZL and does not anticipate turning.

VRABZ, Bari Hogg is headed for igland via ZL and will eventually return | a crew member of one of the RNZAF’s ». 6 Squadron Sunderlands.

VR2CK, Murray Ewin, has departed for L and eventually for VK, on transfer.

A 1 Akin’s departure leaves Stan Mayne ie Grand Old Man of the VR2’s—or was R2AW not active before the war?

Stan plans a vacation in ZL in March, son taking over his optical practice in ie interim. • More than usual was heard from Lhiti of late. Georges, FOBAB and larles, FOBAC both being heard—and it ems likely that FOSAG, formerly of ftkatea but now of Papeete, may also be [ at times—so, with Roland, FOBAD, on ipa, the card men seem to have at least nr chances on 20-metres. • Ham Radio as an aid to the outsts came into its own in December len VR3C, Phil Palmer, and friends used 20-metre addicts to push aside eir keys and mikes, set their receivers i 14140, charge their pipes and sit on the most interesting radio drama the year.

Is started off smoothly enough with Mrs. ilmer and the two children taking leave Australia—and maintaining contact ith Papa via VK2 and VK4 lends. At this stage we enjoyed, perips unkindly, Phil’s despatches on the fours of life without a wife. Then ddenly the human-interest story Itched to the other end—Sydney—where rs. Palmer had hastily to undergo an icration. VR2AEA, himself a doctor, is the connecting link at this stage, and nbtless the listening multitude suffered Ith Phil as they awaited each night the 00Z report.

All went well—except for one thing: ie family was booked home on Waikawa llich was on point of sailing. The lildren departed in the ship with lends. Would mother make the conation at Fiji by air? That was the eat question.

Phil burnt the midnight oil and lowatts and good news came from B6AO on Canton. It seems there was a mtleman named Dusty, with some kind a craft named Joita, or something tailar, down at Hull, who’d soon leave Inton for Fanning. There would be a Issage available if the worst came to k worst. But it didn’t—Mother safely mght Waikawa and the children, at Iva, and eventually completed leave in I* routine way.

But the outside followers of this radio drama were cheated, in a sense. Dusty, the hero by all radio-serial standards, was sidetracked. We wanted to hear more of this mystery man who wanders from Honolulu down through the Line Islands and the Phoenix Group, and who eventually left Canton and friend Bill, KB6AO, laden with Christmas presents to solace Phil—whose wife wouldn’t be home until much later, via Papeete.

If not running quite true to tradition, the story ended happily and was intensely interesting while it lasted. It was also a demonstration of Ham Radio at its best, with men from Hawaii, Fiji, Brisbane, Sydney, ZL, Canton, and other points combining to assist the man on the outpost of Fanning. • From Niue, ZK2AA reported some misfortune. He blew the secondary of his modulation transformer. Two weeks later he was heard again under jury rig. Bill reported having worked VR2CG on 6metres early November. • Six-metre men might look for ZK2AA at 0630 Z and later daily—and for VRCB/CG from 0630-0650 Z and from 0030-0040 Z when they are on the lookout on that band. • “Amateur Radio’’ reports FKBAJ as active, in addition to the FKS’s reported here in September. • That active Samarai Is. man, VK9XK, has folded his tent and departed, to become VK3XK. Bad news for the vhf boys. • There are changes brewing on all bands if the American FCC’s suggestions come into force. Changes adopted in the States are likely to be world operating procedure. (See next page) 81 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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Telegrams ; “ Cunnig,” Melbourne The idea is that a portion of each band be set aside for calling only. When contact is made the stations then QSY to the main part of the band. This, of course, is normal commercial mobile procedure. In so far as the 10, 20 and 40metre bands are concerned, the proposal is as follows—Calling: 29630-29650 kc/s, 14040-14050 kc/s (Al), 14220-14230 (A 3), 7095/7105 kc/s (Al), 7200/7300 (A 3). The idea seems sound enough but whether DX-hounds, having hooked a thin lit sig in the calling band are going to ti kindly to trying to again locate him the main band is something that tl alone will show. What we do like the proposal of a limitation to four C and four call-sign repetitions only— tl no more of the same thing for at le five minutes if no contact is establish However, at present, these are mer proposals. • Island stations actually heard act during the month in mainly ea evening listening included: FKB FOSAB/C, KB6AO, KG/6AD/ADZ/FAB/1 W4PTL/KG6, KJ6AW, KR6AC/AF/HL/

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VR2BJ/CG, VR3C, ZK2AA/B. Conditi. were moderately good on 20-metres Island contacts during December evenln though not so good as the prevl month at Auckland.

Notes on stations active in your a will be appreciated.

A successful cabaret-dinner v held at the Tavua Hotel, Fiji, November and was attended people from Suva, Singatol Lautoka, Ba and Vatukoula as w as by local residents. Mr. and M A. B latch ford, of Vatukoula, ent tained a large party to celebrate th wedding anniversary. 82 JANUARY, 195 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Lone Rabbits

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Phoenix Island

IT must be 40 or 50 years since rabbits were first reported on tiny Phoenix atoll, in the Phoenix group, last of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands; but—so far as we know—no one ever bas told how they got there, or how they live.

I In his recent article in the Polynesian Journal, describing the colonisation of the Phoenix Islands (see Hsewhere in this issue) Mr, H. E.

Maude says: [ “On Phoenix we found the only pbbits I have ever met with on any [oral island. They appeared to be jharing their burrows with the petrels hnd shearwaters, and one had to step Sarefully to avoid crushing rabbits and birds wherever one went.

I “They were in very poor condition md. although when chased they )vo uld be off like a rocket for a hundred yards or so, they soon gave I despairing squeak and lay still with heir ears back, ready to be captured, the delegates (Gilbertese natives) WlO had never, of course, seen such [nimals called them pussies and reused to eat them.

I “We took 25 away with us, with i view to breeding them in the Gilberts, but were unsuccessful, as hey were killed by dogs before they bad time to establish themselves. [ “I am told that rabbits never drink, fcertainly, those on Phoenix could not New Guinea Engagement have done so for, though we dug six wells down to 12 feet, we found nothing but salt water.”

Another Lone Colony

A hundred years ago, to provide food and sport, the Norfolk Island community established a colony of rabbits on Phillip Island, then a green mound off the coast of Norfolk Island. The rabbits still are there, but how they live is a mystery. They have eaten away every vestige of verdure, and Phillip to-day is just an unsightly heap of rock, and red and yellow clay.

Surgery Saves NG Native Lives RUPTURED spleen cases among New Guinea natives are now not necessarily fatal. In one week recently in Rabaul, four spleen cases were operated on and all made a rapid recovery.

One native came to the native hospital 10 hours after the rupture (in a village brawl) and had his spleen completely removed.

A young girl had her spleen perforated when a war-time grenade exploded.

Mr. Ron Furlonger, electrical foreman, Dept, of Works, Rabaul, NG, and Miss Shirley Bowcock, of Sydney, who announced their engagement in December.

Mr Furlonger recently spent three months’ leave in Sydney. 83 pacific islands monthly January, 1953

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P-NG Employers Want Penal Clauses Restored ■ From Our Own Correspondent.

Port Moresby, Jan. 1.

IT the same time that Democracy I (or UN) Mas rejoicing at the moval of penal clauses from labour I ntracts on Nauru (see December \M), there was agitation in Papuapv Guinea to hare some of them ttored. [The President of the Planters’ Asjpiation of New Guinea, Mr. D. brett, raised the question of native fcertions with the Minister during k November visit to Papua. He [lined that there were upwards of P cases of desertion in the Rabaularea during the last 18 bnths, or approximately 15 to 20 r cent, of the native labour working der agreement.

He emphasised that employers had [effective redress when natives defied, and said that this was leading Increasing irresponsibility by native [rkers towards their agreement ugations. Native deserters were Id to return to their jobs by an [ministration officer, but if they re- Sed there was nothing more that the Administration officials could do about it.

The Central District Advisory Council at Port Moresby has also discussed the same subject. When the familiar ground of fixed obligations—and fixed penalties—for employers defaulting on their agreements, but no effective penalty when the default is on the side of the employee had been gone over, the Council passed a resolution recommending re-introduction of a penal clause for employees who broke their agreement.

The problem goes far beyond the matter of a monetary loss to employers and it might be argued that the present system of natives getting out of their obligations scot-free is a serious breach of Trusteeship responsibilities. The aim of Trusteeship is to bring the natives to civilised standards. But to initiate and perpetuate a system whereby a native can enter into a formal legal agreement undertaking certain obligations in return for fixed and rigidly defined benefits and wages, and then allow him to break that agreement without effective penalty, is to encourage irresponsibility, lawlessness and deterioration of character.

In his own primitive environment a breach of tribal law brings its own swift punishment.

Native labour desertions very acutely concerns the UN Trusteeship Council since sentimental toleration of desertions constitutes a breach of their own indirect responsibility to> the natives. 85 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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How They Are Formed THE character and origin of the coconut pearl, which have been discussed in the PIM on several occasions in recent years, seem now to be clearly established. We made serious reference to the queer thing on p. 61 of the PIM of Feb., 1952, and the opinion then was expressed that the pearl was a botanical freak, caused when a coconut tried to sprout, and failed.

In Garden Islands of the Great East, published a couple of years ago, David Fairchild has a sec on “The Coconut Pearl”. He that when he was in the Celebe 1940, Wong, a copra buyer, prese him with a magnificent pearl, wl Wong said, had come out of a c nut. Wong said that such p< occurred only rarely—he had only four or five in 15 y trading.

Fairchild became interested, searched all available literature the subject. He found that a Hunger had conducted a thorough research concerning c nut pearls, and had proved that pearl resulted from an abno growth in a nut. This happened \ a nut formed with all three o pores, or holes, closed. The em tried to grow but could not get and this led to a diseased condi and sometimes, as a result, a ] was formed. It is composed carbonate of calcium, like the ] that is formed in an oyster.

These abnormal nuts occur rarely—Fairchild thought per one in 750,000. In the old day the East Indies, coconut pearls the perquisites of the Rajahs, are of great beauty, and are enl to the high place they hold ar jewels. 86 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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HCE growing in P-NG has now benefited to the extent of £7,000 •m the Rural Credits Development nd (a department of the Commonalth Bank). The second £3,500 ® approved recently and will go vards the cost of the rice expansion leme in the Territory. The first mt of £3,500 was made towards the st of a rice breeding laboratory in t Mekeo district of Papua.

In addition to their grants for rice Dduction, the RCDF has granted ,500 towards fibres experimentation ,the Territory.

Mr. Graham Neviil, formerly of the Fruit Office, Rarotonga, and son of Mr. G. Neviil, Resident Commissioner of the Cook Is., gained a pass in Greek History, Art and Literature in his first-year studies for Bachelor of Science degree at Victoria University College, Wellington, NZ. His aviator-uncle, Sir Arthur Neviil, also attending the same university, gained his Master of Science degree this year, There was a well-built, clean, weatherproof, plainly furnished room to let on Mauke, Cook Island, in December. The new gaol had just been completed and the population speculated as to who would be the first to try it. island residents arriving in Auckland, [?] on TEAL Solent recently included:— [?]Ir. and Mrs. McVeagh and children, [?]dy and Robert, on leave from Aitutaki. [?]s. McYeagh’s position as hostess to [?]AL passengers at Aitutaki is tem- [?]arily taken by Mrs. W. Jones.

Guide Niotangi Robati and 1st Lieut. [?]aeru Tereora, who will represent the [?]k Islands Girl Guide movement at a [?]boree at Marton, NZ.

Irs. T. N. Solomon and Mrs. A. L. minings of Rarotonga. 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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Over 30 Years' Pacific Island Experience Expert Buying Service Original Invoices Furnished Overseas Indents Arranged BEST PRICES FOR COPRA, COCOA, SHELLS AND GENERAL ISLAND PRODUCE No Merry-Go-Rounds For Rabaul Natives A DECISION given recently by 1* Mr. J. K. McCarthy, District Commissioner New Britain (and in vhich he was supported by Rabaul [own Advisory Council) will cost sland Amusements Ltd. £.2,000. (So he Company alleges).

At a recent meeting of the TAC, Ar. McCarthy said that Island (tomsements had visited Rabaul about jx months ago and set up merry-goounds, chair-o-planes, hoop-las, etc., t Matupi Farm. He thought that he amplified records must have nnoyed some people living nearby, Ithough they had not complained and he was not sure that the set-up was in the general interests of local natives. The company had later left but had recently returned and had applied for a licence to operate again.

The TAC agreed with the DC that the company should not be given a licence on the grounds of exploitation of the natives; encouragement to break the law by disregarding curfew; outbreak of thieving during last season; children nearby being unsettled; noise and crowds objectionable to nearby residents.

A member of the company said that no hint of disapproval had been given during the previous visit and that the decision meant a loss of £2,000 to them.

Rarotonga's Christmas shoppers this year found something new in the form of locally made wooden toys, sold at prices more than competitive with imported articles. They were manufactured by Mr. Don Percival.

Islands residents arriving in Auckland, NZ, on TEAL Solent recently included (left to right): Miss E. Solomon, Allan Cummings, and Miss M. Solomon, from Rarotonga.

Ir. [?]W. N. Gay, well-known farmer of Tavua, Fiji. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Storck of Suva. 89 pacific islands monthly January, 1953

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Mission Jubilee in Samoa THE Marist Mission station at Aliepata, Upolu, celebrated its centenary in December, and the Rev.

Father John Fotheringham, SM.. attached to that mission, celebrated, at the same time, the silver jubilee of his own ordination in New Zealand.

Father Fotheringham has spent the full 25 years of his religious life in Samoa. ' • The Commonwealth Bank branch in Madang, NG, held its annual Christmas party at the staff quarters on December 12. About 150 guests were entertained.

A Fracas In Santo

From Our Own Correspondent.

SANTO, Dec. 21 A NEWS item cut from the p< of a recent issue of Syd Morning Herald and maybe fairy story appeared in other / tralian papers— tells us of war deeds and so forth up on the > coast of Santo. This ‘’news” received in the New Hebrides various ways, ranging from pc boredom to raucous laughter, story originated in Vila and, I m add, is completely untrue, to the pi of absurdity.

Originally, I wrote the story i: small PIM paragraph, telling of in tribal brawling on the estate of Chaverot. This is substantially < rect. Some “bushies” interfe with M. Chaverot’s native lab< thus causing a disturbance suffic to warrant M. Chaverot’s inten tion.

In the resultant fracas two nat (“bushies”) were killed, while anol died some days later from (it is ported) internal injuries.

The gory story of how a na cut off M. Chaverot’s arm witl cane knife is pure fiction.

Chaverot suffered a slight cut on hand. M. Chaverot recently trave to Noumea. 90 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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THE list of Graduates and Special Prize-winners, issued at the pear's end by the Central Medical School. Suva, Fiji, is notable for two kings. The first is the large projection of outstanding men from “the \merican contingent”—the selected itudents sent from the American trusteeship Territory of Micronesia, vhich decided, only two years ago, 0 support the Suva institution. The rther is the issue of Diplomas to two )f the six young men sent to the School four years ago from Papua- Guinea. Experience has shown, rowever, that generally the standard if village school education in P-NG s not high enough to provide a wide koice of New Guinea lads for the Suva School; and a system of trainng selected young men for medical fervice is now being developed within fapua-New Guinea itself.

THE 1952 GRADUATES DENTAL Momotaro Lanitulok, of Marshall Is- »nds.

Augustine Harris, of Ponape, Eastern Carolines.

Jack Helkera, of Marshall Islands.

Ifisistant Medical Practitioners

[lsaac Karim, of Fiji.

Sateki Uhila, of Tonga.

Marika Vuki, of Fiji, 1 Francisco Manoru, of W. Carolines. [Alexander Panuelo, of E. Carolines.

Tom Gaunede, of Papua-New Guinea. | Reuben Taureka, of Papua-New Guinea.

Winners Of Prizes And

Gold Medals

[First year medical-dental Class, A.M.P. standard —First place, Mane Sirumau, of [astern Samoa. [First year medical-dental class, A.M.O.

Itandard —First place, Satyalal of Fiji. [Second year dental—First place, Jacob Jiksa. of E. Carolines. [Senior dental—First place, Augustine |arris of, E. Carolines.

Second Year Medical

IFirst place, Yad Ram Sadhu, of Fiji.

Sir Henry Scott Gold Medal in Anatomy Eliuel Pretrick, of E. Carolines. [Burns Philp Gold Medal in Physiology— tarton Jano, of E. Carolines.

Third Year Medical

[First place, Harnam Singh, of Fiji.

Sir Maynard Hedstrom Gold Medal in *®bllc Health—Mumui, of Tonga.

Fourth Year

Head Student—Tiko Toga, of Fiji. (First Place in Surgery (Prize donated y Dr, Maxwell) —Maika Vuki, of Fiji.

I Second Place in Class—’Uhila, of Tonga.

First Place in Class, Rotary Gold Medal I Obstetrics and Sir Alport Barker Gold ledal in Medicine—lsaac Karim, of Fiji.

Driver S. Gilbert of W Samoa one of three sick-list “K-Force” oldiers who arrived back in NZ by lircraft on December 11.

Rabaul Tennis RABAUL Hardcourt Tennis Association elected the following officials in December: President, Mr.

J. K. McCarthy; vice-president, Mr.

A. Squires; secretary-treasurer. Miss M. Egan; Committee, Miss P. Cargeeg, Messrs. Midgley, Gall and Wright.

The 1951 Davis Cup film was shown to members at Xavier Hall on December 16, after which the president presented trophies won during the recent tournaments.

Observations taken by the Union Steamship Co. at Avarua, Rarotonga, during 1952 show that over the twelve months there were 35i days on which sea conditions were such that shipping could not have been worked at the open roadstead. 91 pacific islands monthly January, 1953

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Umboi Island —Another NG “Hot Spot” }N October 10, Umboi Island off the western tip of New Britain, xperienced a severe earthquake and ince then the problem has been whether this was a normal New Juinea tectonic tremor or a preininary to something more serious.

A survey has been made by the tovernment vulcanologist, Mr. Tony 'aylor, who found that one volcanic entre in the island has been showing fciusnal conditions for several lonths. From this and other evipnce he considers that major seismic ttivity could occur there during Ibruary or March, 1953, but embasises that seismic activity would ot necessarily mean volcanic eruppns.

IThe Administration with Mt. Lam- Igton still fresh in memory, is tak- »g no chances and an emergency lan has been worked out: the ptheran Mission staff on the island ill. in the event of dangerous volume activity, form an Emergency puncil with leading natives from le villages in the possible danger bne, to supervise any hasty evacuabn which might become necessary. [The inhabitants of a semi-circle of llages perched on what is probably the rim of an extinct volcano have been advised to build subsidiary homes and gardens on the coastal areas where they can take refuge in the event of trouble—they already have shelters and small gardens on the coast which have always been part of their food-raising programme.

It is not feasible in P-NG to move all native populations living in areas which may or may not become volcanically dangerous. The only alternative is to prepare emergency plans and maintain a close vulcanological scrutiny of the potential trouble spot.

And that is exactly what is being done in regard to Umboi.

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From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, January 1.

RABAUL now has a detailed evacuation scheme in the event of volcanic eruptions—but successful carrying out of the plan depends upon provision of at least two all-weather roads out of the town.

Money has already been allocated for this work but so far funds have not percolated through. the Government machine and reached Rabaul.

At the December meeting of the Town Advisory Council members decided to make representations in the strongest terms for the work to be put in hand immediately.

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A FOUR-MONTHS shooting trip, 250 miles up the Fly River, Papua, has yielded a bag of 1,400 crocodiles for two young Europeans.

The two hunters—Mr. J. Langhorne and Mr. Sandy Braes—used .303 rifles, spotlights, a 45-foot launch and two dinghies fitted with outboard engines. Each of the dinghies had a crew of three natives.

Mr. Langhorne says with this outfit it is possible to get 100 crocodiles a night, but he and his partner cut the number to 50 because of the difficulty of handling more skins on the day after the shoot.

He says that there is a good profit in crocodile shooting in waters which have not previously been worked o by other hunters. But mud, mosq toes, the general hardship of liv on small boats in a vast swan night-shooting patrols and dayti supervision of skinning and salt the hides, all make the profits ha earned. The partners realised fr £3 to £3/10/- for each hide livered in Australia—between £4,( and £5,000, less heavy expenses, four months’ hard work.

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In pointing out that the Foundaf had made grants totalling two mill dollars between 1925-1950, Mr. R declared that not until “certain pe< closely associated with the Institute” recently refused to answer questions to Communist affiliations, was Institute suspect.

“Important misgivings” in regard IPR had developed in 1945, Mr. R declared before a US House of Rej sentatives committee investigating t exempt foundations. 94 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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BANKERS: BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY. [?]ome New Caledonians Appear Unfriendly! p WAS surprised when those two f excellent newspapers of New Saledonia, Bulletin du Commerce, of tecember 10, and La France fystrole, of December 11, expressed isentment of the short article on New ialedonia which I published in Nopmber PIM. But I was really stonished and discomfited when the ig Noumea commercial establishing Maison Barrau, wrote angrily {pout the same date, declaring I had jt>elled the French Colony, and candling forthwith the whole of the |ven annual subscriptions for which [was responsible! ■Since then, I have carefully . resad my article; and, although I am ell aware of the extraordinary msitivity of the French in the matter [Anglo-Saxon criticism —it is someling almost beyond belief—l still innot understand exactly what it is lat the worthy representatives of pumea object to.

H said I had found Noumea a debssing place, and I thought that few Caledonia was in something of [politico-economic mess; and 1 exfessed the opinion, by inference, it most of New Caledonia’s political publes stem from the rather ruthless [ntrol exercised over the country for any years by the commercial set-up Uled the Nickel Combine. Upon flection, I am not inclined to alter [word of it.

It is true, I was only three days I the country, and my impressions [ay be all wrong. But I am sure lat my journalistic friends of pumea will be the first to accept the ptum of their great Voltaire —“l do it agree with a word you say—but I will fight to the death for your wedom to say it” —or something it that. [But my reaction to the brimstonebathing letter of Maison Barrau [entirely different. “I do not agree ith your opinion,” says this arrogant Mnmunication, in effect. “There- >re. I shall have none of your serice. Cancel it forthwith!” - Until IM expressed an opinion with which I disagreed, the House of Barrau pparently was quite happy to receive p service. [it is exactly that spirit of ruthlesscss and intolerance in the realm of ig Business that has created in New pledonia the political conditions toich we so much deplore. [No one has for Communism, and II that it implies, a greater detestation tan has this writer. Muscovite Communism, which is the logical developtent of academic Socialism, is the negation of all that is best in Western civilisation, and in human relations.

But this writer believes that the most potent factor in the creation of Socialism and the development of Communism in the past century was the abuse of individualism (personal freedom) by certain forms of Capitalism—and one of the worst forms of Capitalism is the International Combine. Anyone who is acquainted with conditions in New Caledonia will follow the implication.

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P. MORESBY, Jan. 2. iVERAL shipments of the Scolia Ruficornus wasp have arrived m Zanzibar and been released on ious plantations in the Gazelle linsula. This is a Rhinoceros tie parasite, and it is hoped in this f to get this coconut pest under itrol. he Rhinoceros Beetle is now a ous menace, having flourished uncked throughout the war years, ( it is vital for the future of the ra industry that effective control isures be found. dr. Charles Barrett, the famous stralian naturalist, looked after release of the wasps for the ministration during the absence Mr. G. Dunn, the government sinologist, who was in Zanzibar patching the wasp consignments, returned to the territory in late member. dr. Barrett’s son, Don (president the NG Planters’ Association), suggested that European planters, owners of native coconut groves. get busy and clear their properties of pest-breeding grounds. He thinks, too, that a lot of help could be given by collecting adult coconut beetles, as was done in pre-war years. These measures, he considers, are necessary to assist the present Ruficornus wasp effort at biological control of the Rhinoceros Beetle.

The favourite breeding-ground of the beetle is the rotting stumps of old palms, and they have also been quick to utilise the pockets of rotten trunks caused by wartime strafihg and machine-gun firing.

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DESPITE the failure of Papua-New Guinea, over many years, to plant up any large new areas in coconuts, the copra production of the Territory in the year ended June 30, 1952, was 80,000 tons. This is rather better than the average production, pre-war.

The Copra Marketing Board’s decision to distribute another 50/per ton in respect of that year (“result of a successful trading year”) therefore put £200,000 straight into the pockets of Territories planters—a pleasing kind of Christmas box.

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Moresby's Practical Hell For Korean Veterans From Our Own Correspondent.

MORESBY, Jan. ; VERY practical appreciation Australian soldiers’ part in Korean campaign is being given Port Moresby by the Serv' Comfort Fund committee. Mem! of this committee are meeting planes carrying Australian fighj men to and from Korea when tl make their short staging stop at 11 Moresby and now, instead of a ] tiresome wait while the plane is fuelled, the men get a welcome fi the committee members, refn ments, and are provided v facilities for a shower and are issi with cigarettes and other “comfoii During the Christmas week they w also given a special Christmas pai Funds for this work are provii by public donations. Christmas w expenses were met by special gn donations from clubs, firms, depi mental staffs and other organisatic 98 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

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G Planters Must Register Cocoa Plantations 'From Our Qwn Correspondent.

MORESBY, Jan. 1.

PPLICATION forms for registration of cocoa plantations are f available from the Agricultural •artment at Port Moresby, and n various District Officers and icultural Officers as well as the nters’ Association of New Guinea.

Registration is compulsory under Ordinance recently passed by the iua and New Guinea Legislative jncil.

'omplete registration of all cocoa ss will enable their inspection fold any serious disease occur.

Jerience in West Africa has shown I disease spreads rapidly from Jected and almost forgotten bush ntings to well-tended commercial illations. territory cocoa acreage is increasrapidly, and last year output was irly 500 tons.

New Air Terminal Buildings For Moresby From Our Own Corresponded.

PORT MORESBY, Jan. 1.

NEW terminal buildings are to be erected at Jacksons Strip, Port Moresby; <£60,000 has been allocated for the job.

The plans were made in 1948, but by the time materials and labour were available the basic principles of airport layout had moved a step forward. New plans are being drafted and eventually there will be a new operational building, Langer, transmitter building, powerhouse and an up-to-date passenger lounge on the Port Moresby aerodrome.

Meanwhile, £2,400 is being spent to improve the present passenger lounge as the new one will not be ready before next June. It is hoped that some useful purpose will be served by the reconditioned lounge when it is replaced, so that present expenditure on renovations will not be lost.

Construction has begun on the new store of Colyer Watson (NG) Ltd., at Mango Avenue, Rabaul. The building will be two-storied—the lower floor will contain retail departments where provision is being made for deep-freeze foods, small-goods, sports and music department, pharmacy, etc., and the top floor will contain the company’s offices, travel bureau and showrooms. 99 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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The PNGVR is not a spectaci military force, its numbers are few : its peacetime role is the solid dog; training which rarely hits the headlii But both the regular army staff ! the spare-time rank and file of the ti are doing a much needed job.

The PIR is equally important. T regiment has been raised and trained] a remarkably short time, and on parade ground and in battle exerci displays good progress. The Minister approved the expansion of the regiim Recent arrivals in Auckland, NZ, Tofua included, top to bottom:— Mr. F. W. Arp, of Alafua, W. San who was on holiday; he was met his daughter.

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Mr. Justice Kelly fined him £lOO id in summing up said that Corlett ad a good record in the Tertory but, if he imposed upon him light sentence, it might encourage hers to follow his example—’ though he could imagine few her residents behaving in so tolish a manner.

Interest for Territory residents is it so much the abduction and its mishment, as the moral and legal igle on European men paying a iride price” to the parents of a rl whom they intend to “marry” ider native law. (In his summing ), Mr. Justice Kelly specially did )t deal with the matter of whether irlett was within the law in payg bride-price for the girl). Are ch marriages to be recognised ?ally, or can the European subquently discard the girl without e formality of divorce?

There are at least two or three iropean men living in the Port bresby district with a native “wife”; but many residents of the Territory are of the opinion that if bride-price—that is, the paying of money or goods to a native girl’s parents—were banned for Europeans, few natives would consent to their daughter’s “marrying” a European. In the past, in Papua, there have been Europeans who married native girls legally, under British law, and in these cases there has invariably been a genuine effort to safeguard the welfare of children of the marriages. Children of bride-price marriages have little hope of such treatment, The laws of cohabitation between European and native were far stricter in the old Mandated Territory than in Papua, and in any 101 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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Miss Daphne Carpenter, who has been State Secretary of the Queensland Girl Guides’ Assn, for 9i years, will leave at end of January or early February for Port Moresby where she will become private secretary to Mrs. D. M. Cleland, wife of the Acting Administrator of Papua-New Guinea.

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DESIGNS Letter to the Editor I DISAGREE with Mr. J. Nixoc westwood (PIM Dec.) when says he does not think mui of the new issue of Papua-Ni Guinea stamps, and with “Tolal? who says there is nothing ps ticularly artistic about the desig and subjects portrayed.

I think the issue as a whole a creditable job, artistically, wib out any individual stamp beii particularly outstanding; but I agr with Nixonwestwood when he ss that some of the stamps shoii have depicted some of the ments of Australia during her loi years of administration.

There is one thing which thought very strange. Consider! the part commercial aviation a; gold-mining have played in t development of both Territorii particularly New Guinea, an aei plane, and either an hydrau sluicing operation or a dredge, mig have been incorporated in the si they could both have been shoi on one of the big stamps. May it is intended, eventually, to extei the set by issuing a 5/- stamp, a £2 and a £5 stamp, as in the c TNG stamps, and that the features will be used.

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Fears of a Drift Towards Communism BECAUSE the Indonesian archi- ' pelagoes are the bottle-neck trough which Asia may presently *ek to approach the South Pacific, \e condition of Indonesia is a matter j sharp interest to the peoples of [ustralia, New Zealand and the South acific Islands. .Much has been happening there in s cent months in the fields of politics id economics, but the situation has ten so confused that no clear picture Is been presented to us here. There tve been occasional yelps from jakarta about the Indonesian deterination to seize Western New uinea, and rumours of rebellion gainst the Republic of Indonesia; but e general position has been obscure.

On December 12, in Hollandia, a ell-known Dutch official, who knows donesia well, compiled the followg summary for the Pacific Islands 'onthly.

He makes it clear that Western ew Guinea is now not a dominant ' ue, and Indonesian struggle is tween the old revolutionary party, i more or less by President l ekarno, and a Rightist set-up based i the Army, and led, more or less, ' the Minister for Defence, the Itan Hamengku Buwono. Leaderip, and the line between the parties, e very much undefined. Soekarno, r example, is the Army's Commder-in-Chief, yet the tendency of ° Army group is to go against ekarno because Soekarno wants to ep the Parliament in being.

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ffUSTOPO is typical. Mustopo is * a dentist who played a big part the Indonesian “struggle for erty,” and who got the rank of a ilonel.

A picturesque character, but a hement patriot. He belongs to the >e of people which one can always :et in countries where the national sblem is the centre of everything e: always ready to “save his untry,” always ready to take the tiative.

Mustopo, for a long time, has been ry much annoyed with the Indosian Parliament. So also were a uple of young officers who couldn’t Jid any longer the politicians’ at- :ks on their Defence Minister and my Commander. They agreed to the initiative in demonstrations ■ the end of the Parliament. The monstrations were fixed for fober 17.

The night before, however, President Soekarno was informed by his secret service and he sent for Mustopo.

Mustopo proudly told Soekarno about the plans to dissolve that “bunch of profiteers and black marketeers.” He would have told Soekarno much more, but the President stopped his “flux de parole.” He told Mustopo that “he was plotting S^lhe e sta\eTsecur”y- r actionsi i, rwiXi^.o^S that °evii%°adiament. Mustopo didn't understand a bit of it. His mouth fell open, when Soekarno, as his C-in-C, told him to put off the demonstrations. But this was no longer possible.

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Soekarno, however, calmed the iters by coming out of his palace d firing off a speech in which he itd the demonstrators to trust him. [n the meantime, another group tered the Parliament building, iere considerable damage was ised.

During the riots the Dutch flag, ing at the official residence of the itch High Commissioner, was lied down and torn to pieces. The ole affair on October 17 had the Jearances of a coup d’etat.

For Soekarno, the visit to his ace was not unexpected. He had good one-and-a-half hour speech dy which, it was clear, had been pared carefully. He spoke about in (Dutch New Guinea) exsively, although nobody had menled the question during the demonitions. fhe members of Parliament hastily at into recess; some of them dis- >eared; another six were arrested the Army, but released later on. t Soekarno worked on. iome days later the officers of the •awidjaja” division on East Java irabaia) decided to cashier their )., Dr. Suwondo. This officer was tying the Defence Minister, Sultan tnengku Buwono. In his place •Col. Sudirman—follower of the sident —took over. That was one k for Soekarno.

East Java the turn was to ith Celebes. In Makassar, Col.

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Warouw, who said he was willing to obey the C-in-C, President Soekarno.

He even refused to receive the Sultan and the Army Commander, who flew to Makassar after the disturbances.

That was trick number two for Soekarno.

After the President had visited South Sumatra (Palembang) the same thing happened with the territorial and divisional commander, Lt.-Col.

Kosasih, who was taken into custody by Lt.-Col. Kretarto, again a disciple of the President.

That put the President, in a military sense, in a very strong position. because now three out of the seven divisions of the Indonesian Army were at his disposal, You may see here something of the struggle for power. Right from the beginning there had existed between the Sultan Hamengku Buwono (Defence Minister) and President Soekarno a struggle as to who was to lead the Army. This is emphasised by the events which took place after October 17, as outlined above, HPHE Indonesian Cabinet is faced -A- with the necessity to play its cards forcibly. Before the Makassar affair, the Cabinet was obviously in-

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But when Col. Gatot Subroto was arrested in Makassar, the Indonesian Government was obliged to broadcast a statement, in which it said that breaches of the limits of the military authority could not be tolerated and, where such happened, the necessa steps would be taken.

The events in Palembang, howev\ again created tension. Sultan Haj engku Buwono may accept this. B resignation would cause consideral difficulties, because he is the most ii portant member of the Indonesi Cabinet.

For Soekarno, too, the present si ation is not an easy one. He has f: lowed the road of the slightest ; sistance so far, by putting both part] in the wrong.

There is one other thing. The P' sident hopes to maintain the revoi tionary spirit among his troops; ai with this he puts himself in diarr trical opposition to the Sultan, w certainly is not the type to yield, ai who is convinced that the Army f to be reformed into a non-politic effective and trusted instrument the Government.

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I7HEN a SDA Mission launch exy ploded some miles up the Turama River, Western Papua, i December 29, Mrs. Del Lemke, , and her two small sons aged ur and seven years were swept vay in the river and not seen ;ain. Mr. Ernest Lemke, a misonary stationed near Daru, reived burns, the Lemkes’ 20 onths-old-son was saved by one the natives on the launch and ie 14 native passengers reached fety.

The Lemkes were en route to ission headquarters in Port oresby. The 39-ft. petrol launch which they were travelling was ichored for the night off a village, hen Mr. Lemke started it again «t morning the petrol tanks exoded. Everyone jumped from the anch and immediately Mrs. Lemke id the boys were swept away.

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MANY Honiara, BSI, residents noticed an explosion on the night of November 26, which was described as resembling the detonation of a heavy bomb underground and coming from a direction west of Honiara.

The BSI Government Geologist (Mr. J. C. Grover) believes that it could have originated from a point 10 miles up the Boneggi River and 13 miles west of Honiara, This area is thermally active and the hot waters there are well-known among the bush natives for their healing powers, particularly for skin diseases.

Mr. Grover believes that there has been some renewal on a small scale of volcanic activity on Guadalcanal, though this activity is very much less than in the middle of last century, when Savo Island, near Guadalcanal, was erupting. Savo Island still has hot springs and areas where steam rises from fissures in the ground, but has not been otherwise active for many years.

The 1,250 tourists on the December cruise of Orient liner Orcades, spent £29,200 during two days in New Zealand and two in Fiji. 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— J A N U A R Y . 1053

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THE new Prefect Apostolic of t Roman Catholic diocese Western New Guinea, Mo signor I. Doggett, spoke his mil frankly in Brisbane in late D cember, concerning the place New Guinea in Australia’s scher of defence.

“Whoever holds New Guin holds Australia,” he said, in a pub statement. “It is the neare strategic jumping-off point.

“If Indo-China and Malaya shou fall there would be nothing mu' to stop the downward sweep Communism into Indonesia.

“New Guinea, the last bulwai would then lie open and unpr tected.”

He urged that the Australii people should recognise this ai take an active part in pioneeri] and developing New Guinea.

TRANSPLANTATIONS Gilbertese in the Phoenix Atolls IN an article in the June, 1952, iss of the Journal of the Polynesi Society, Mr. H. E. Maude, OBE, the South Pacific Commission, te the fascinating story of how, just I fore the Pacific War, the totally i inhabited atolls of the Phoenix Gro were settled by the transfer of si plus people from the over-populat Gilbert Islands.

There are now in those islands especially Gardner, Sydney and Hi or, to give them their new nati names, Nikumaroro, Manra a Orona—over 1,000 people, settled a series of happy and content village communities.

Mr. Maude did much of t pioneering work; and then the esfi lishment of the new settlements v taken over with great enthusiasm a young Colonial Office cadet, ft G. B. Gallagher. It will be membered that he died on Gardi Island, in September, 1941, at 1 early age of 29.

Another interesting transplantati carried out by the G and E Admin tration was the removal of the Bai bans from Ocean Island, after 1 war, to Rabi Island, off the coi of Vanua Levu, Fiji. This co munity also is flourishing.

Mr. Ted Atkinson, of Madai New Guinea, was on holiday in Br bane in January. 108 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Therefore, Fiji officials are tryg to prevent ships coming directly Fiji from Tonga; and, if they list come direct, they are urged to I well out “in the stream” at ghts, so that if there are beetles icard, and they go flying, they will U into the water. Shipowners do it like it much; but there is no Sguising the menace of the beetle.

The experts told me that they are especially to guard the ilbert and Ellice Islands. The iter’s only product is copra; and e pandanus nut also is an imrtant item in their economy. The lino beetle attacks both coconuts id pandanus nuts and, if it got >se in the G. and E. Colony, it ally would be a disaster. [ J.S.K.B.’S SNAKE FARM FIM” BORRON’S latest funny I story—he and Mrs. Borron have just returned from a visit to iited States and Britain—was in culation in the GPH, Suva, When in New York, he called on a broker, on the 4th floor of a 45storey building; and he told the American that he had a plantation —a copra farm, he called it—on Mago Island, in the Lau group.

The interested broker asked how he kept his stock under control — what kind of fences did he use.

James said he had no fences — Mago was a self-contained island.

“Well, that must be very handy,” said the American. “But, tell me, how do you breed the things?”

“What things?” asked James, puzzled.

“These cobras,” said the American. “Guess you must have one of the biggest snake farms in the world.”

It took some sorting out, but the explanation is simple enough. “Jim” 1 09 IC IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY_ J A N U A R Y . 1953 From Notes Made in the Pacific (Continued from Page 21)

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AS “Europeanisation” changes the living standards of the native Fijians, there is a growing need for the production by the Fijians of goods which they can exchange for their daily requirements. I found that the chief Fijian leader, Sir Lala Sukuna, has been giving a lot of thought to this aspect of native life.

“The Fijians have commenced to grow sugar-cane for the mills,” he said, “and I expect that this industry will grow steadily. But it is not intended that Fijian can growers shall enter the industry a way to create ill-feeling with t Indians, who are mainly responsii for cane-growing. We think tM we may be able to produce abc one-tenth of the quantity of cs produced by the Indians.

“We are aiming more at catti farming, and industries of tl kind, for the Fijians. I think tl a great deal can be done throu co-operatives.

“We have done a good d already with Fijian co-operat societies; but our chief weakness lack of efficient managers. I hs advocated the establishment ofi school for the training of operative managers—that would of real help to the Fijian econo of the future.

“The production of copra, as v as of bananas, is now an import; native Fijian industry—l calcul that copra production now ta care of about 50,000 Fijians.”

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Everywhere there were orchids, id I learned that already she.has tablished there special and rare ants, from many parts of the >rld. She has some rare speci- ;ns for exchange; and any orchid thusiast anywhere who wants to tablish a Fiji connection should ite to her—Mrs. J. Maynard sdstrom, Suva, Fiji, is sufficient. [ know nothing about this inguing jungle product; but I am sured that conditions in Fiji are sal for its growth. Mrs. Hedstrom eager to make contact with ;hid-growers in New Guinea.

Fiji Flower Exports

|UITE a flourishing little industry ; developed during 1952 in Fiji, based on the enthusiasm of ne Suva gardeners, the enterprise Agent Robert Hutchinson, and s airlines’ search for back loading New Zealand. The agent bought rden produce*—common orchids 4d per bloom, croton leaves iked into cartons at 6d per dozen, ngipanni and other common pical blooms at profitable rates; i airlines carried the packages to ckland; and New Zealand florists d the lot at remarkably high ces, especially in winter-time.

Iveryone was happy about it— iecially some elderly ladies in /a who are trying to live on a id income under inflation condins. Then, to paraphrase the ;ient poem, the NZ Departments Customs and Agriculture came vn on the infant enterprise like volf on the fold, and they were ) appeased by the scarlet and d of the lovely Suva flowers, ey said that blooms and foliage, *ught in in such a fashion, might reduce all sorts of pests, and each ikage, in future, must carry a nigation certificate, igent Hutchinson, when I passed ough, was defending his enterse doughtily, and appealing to h authority: but it seemed to , he was at the losing end of the ht. Air transport does create is that did not attend the much wer sea transport. On the other nd, the process and delay of nigation would almost certainly i the flower industry.

TRUSTWORTHINESS HE comparative trustworthiness of Islanders was the subject of discussion; and a Suva man, o has been 40 years in the mtry, spoke interestingly.

“The best man of the lot is the old-time Solomon Islander —the survivors of those Melanesian labourers who were brought in here a long time ago,” he said. “They are completely trustworthy, and their loyalty has to be experienced to be believed. A ‘black boy’ attaches himself to your household, and takes your name, and nothing you can do is wrong.

“Most people criticise Indians," he went on. “I can say that the decent class of Indian, once he really knows you, can be trusted absolutely. I say that after a lifetime of experience. Of course, we all have a warm affection for our Fijians and they also are dependable; but, by nature and temperament, they are a bit unreliable in commerciar matters.” 111 IC,FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1053

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Pamir Again For Sale

Pamir, one of the few square- Iggers still in service, is again for ale. The four-masted barque is ell remembered in Pacific shipping teles. Seized by the NZ Governlent as she lay in Wellington when Inland entered! the war, she was perated on the trans-Pacific trade Hough a large part of World War I On one occasion she was circled y a submarine thought to be lemy, but was unmolested.

A few years ago Pamir cleared uckland for the last time, bound ir the Thames on return to her riginal Finnish owners. For a me she lay in an English port as store ship, then she was purchased f Heinz Schliewen, a German lipowner and lover of sailing sssels, who hoped to persuade the ’est German Government to back ie enterprise.

According to a German special irrespondent writing from Hamirg to the Auckland Star, Schlie- Jn borrowed money at 9% to re- [Uip and fit, engines in Pamir and issat, then, with 60 volunteer dets, German, British and Italian loard, Pamir made two successful ns to South America under Capin Paul Greiff.

Now, however, with freight-rates lling, Schliewen cannot carry on. seems unlikely that the German )vernment will find the finance [juired to continue operations, ough Schliewen has a queue of 2,000 boys under 20 awaiting their turn to serve in Pamir, Passat or the more recently acquired Moshulu or Carl Vinnen for food and pocketmoney only.

Tasman Company Buys

ANOTHER The Tasman Steamship Co. of Auckland, owners of Viti on the trans-Tasman trade, announced early December that they have purchased a small Italian motor vessel named Ada for use on the trans- Tasman explosives trade. The little ship, of 550 tons measurement (450 dw), will be commanded by Captain P. E. Nash of the Tasman Co.’s shore staff on the delivery voyage.

Mr. S. K. Upton, the company’s senior engineer, will be his Chief Engineer. An Italian crew will be employed.

Ada is expected in Auckland in March.

VILA STAR Vila Star cleared Auckland November 26 with some general cargo for Norfolk and there to load 180 tons of airfield steel matting for Sydney. On arrival there Captain A. Duff intended going ashore for treatment to his wrist, which he broke while in the New Hebrides some time ago. His place will temporarily be taken by Captain R. D. Matheson, formerly of Tagua and Rawhiti, who travelled as passenger in the vessel from Auckland.

Signed on in Auckland as Second Officer was Mr. Joe Spring, lately Mate in Oiseau des lies.

From Sydney Vila Star is making a special voyage to Biak Island, NET, to bring a cargo of warsurplus motor parts to Tauranga, NZ. A call will be made at Noumea with general cargo on the northbound trip, and at Lae both ways for bunkers.

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SEINE TRAWLERS.—SS ft., in survey. Gardner diesel, £6,500, 38 ft. x 12 ft. 6 in., 30 H.P. Lister, 8 H.P. diesel aux., £3,255.

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Many Sizes in Stock Others Early Delivery in port by bad weather for two days, cleared Auckland for Nukualofa just before Christmas. Lowe’s shipyard had completed replacement of hardwood keel, copper plating, and sundry other work in record lime.

Captain James G. McCormick joined the vessel before departure and would take over as master from Captain Carl Johnson on arrival in Tongan waters. Captain McCormick has recently been in the Holm Shipping Co. of Wellington and served 18 years in the RNZN prior to that, including periods in the Islands.

Captain Johnson will resume as Master of the Tongan Government vessel Hifofua and Harbour Master, Nukualofa.

A’oniu carried a small cargo drummed oil and sundry Goveii ment stores. The passage was e pected to take about seven days

Tully Falls Coral Sea Th

(See photo page 117) The motor tug Tully Falls, Marine Contractors fleet, Cair has just completed a quick voy£ to Willis Islet and return to Cair Captain A (Bertie) Hall, known in New Guinea and 1 Islands, was in charge. (Continued Col. 11, Page 115) ONRUST in which Dirk Tober (ins[?] completed a notable single-handed voy[?] from Holland to Auckland early December[?] Steel yachts like Onrust complete [?] ready for sea, cost about £2,300 Holland. 114 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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The purpose of the trip was to evacuate the last of the Dept, of Works personnel who have been on Willis for some months rebuilding the weather station and living quarters—also to take Christmas mail and stores to the permanent staff.

The Tully Falls made an average speed of over eight knots for the round trip, despite heavy seas and head winds for most of the way.

Two different cyclonic centres were operating near the area during the voyage and landing had to be effected an the north-western extremity of the Islet owing to onshore winds and dangerous surf in the normal anchorage.

This is the second time the Tully Falls has been called upon to do this trip owing to the amount of work now piling up for the Cape because of new-lighthouse construction on the Queensland, coast.

Willis Islet is approximately 250 miles east of Cairns in the Coral Sea and is one of the main weather watching centres in this area.

Francis Lost On Ng Reef

On the afternoon of December 16, the small NG coastal vessel Francis,. struck a reef off Reva, a native village near Madang, New Guinea, and sank. All hands are reported Mr. W. B. Crawford (left), local- [?]pping manager for WRC at Fiji, came Auckland on leave December. Captain mes G. McCormick joined A’oniu as [?]ster.

Ready for sea but delayed two days in [?]ckland by a tropical storm, the crew A’oniu spent Christmas at sea instead back at Nukualofa, their home port.

Salutes for the Royal cannon: A’oniu’s [?]stow cases of blank ammunition low. It will be used for courtesy- [?]ute purposes at Nukualofa.

La Reta, a Fairlime launch used for [?]icial purposes in the Cook Islands [?]eral years ago, now takes fishing [?]ties regularly out from Auckland. Here she lies at the Auckland waterfront, beside another converted Fairmile, Iris Moana, with the liner Rangitane in the background. 115 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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Cables: ‘‘Beimship, Auckland.” d be safe, but it is feared the vessel fill be a total loss.

The Francis until recently, has een engaged picking up shell at tie remote Ninigo Islands, also at arious islands in the Vitiaz Straits. [ few months ago it was leased ) a Madang syndicate, and has een kept busy collecting copra at arious plantations near Madang, he ship will be a loss to the lanters who depended on her to lear their copra.

News of Cruising Yachts Dirk Tober, of Onrust, has given f news of two yachts not previisly reported in these notes —both bierican owned.

One is Calypso, which he met in Eipeete and. it is believed, intends i remain there until April before •essing on westward. The other the 55-foot Danish-built Colin rcher-type ketch Al Sirat, whose mers were formerly employed by le Panama Canal Authority. This issel is now at Pago Pago and is jparently likely to remain there r an indefinite period as her mers have found employment in nerican Samoa.

Pleaides, the 40-foot “home-brew” >tch from Taranaki, NZ, which sared Whangaroa, October 24, rived at Lord Howe, December 6, id after a few days there proeded on to Sydney, arriving safely ere December 21.

The five NZ boys who share in this dream-ship may be seen in f,he Islands this year.

The 33-foot sloop Lahara, owned and sailed by Mr. Des. Ashton, of Port Moresby, was expected in Auckland late December according to brief advice received there.

Lahara, built in Hobart, received her christening last summer in the Sydney-Hobart and the Trans-Tasman races, leaving Auckland for Port Moresby early this year.

It was hoped in Auckland that Lahara might arrive in time to take part in one or other of the Christmas coastwise cruising races.

Calms and contrary winds were the lot of Wakaya, 24 days elapsing on the Tun from Nukualofa to Russel, NZ. Short of food—except bananas and a few uninteresting “staples”—Mr. Teddy Hayes stood to the westward in the hope of intercepting the USS Co.’s Tofua on her run from Auckland to Suva— and he was not disappointed. When Tofua was sighted on the evening of December 22 blue flares were burnt on Wakaya. Tofua stopped, the yacht came alongside, and supplies of fresh bread and meat were transferred.

The operation provided a minor diversion for the passengers. (What the captain thought is not recorded) . (Next Pa?e)

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These troubles are easily corrected by safe, gentle Pinkettes for you and all the family. Pinkettes are simple to take; and do not have harsh after-effects which can be dangerous. Being compounded of harmless vegetable ingredients only, Pinkettes act in Nature’s way. Thousands and thousands of people have found Pinkettes the ideal laxative, because they are not habit-forming and the dose is reduced as they make you regular. Always at chemists and stores.

Tully Falls—See page 114. 117 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1953

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Pleiades, mentioned in October, left Auckland in mid-November and Whangaroa, North Auckland, on November 24 for Sydney. Skippered by L. Mallet the five men aboard plan to cruise the Queensland coast until autumn when they are likely to head out for the Islands, though no fixed plans have yet been made.

The Seven Seas Cruising Association (PO Box 163, Coronado, California, USA) which is dedicated to small-boat cruising, reports on some members now on world cruises: Harry and Oceana Scott, Australians 5 years out of Sydney in their 44-foot ketch New Silver Gull, reported returned to California in November from a tT months’ cruise through Puget Soi and were going off to Vancom where their HQ would be the Rc Vancouver Yacht Club.

Another SSCA member, Jc Caldwell, with his wife Mary s three sons, is still in Tahiti, expects to leave shortly on the \ to Australia.

The 34-foot Novia is expected leave California waters for Pacific shortly.

The 10-tons Australian ke Peer Gynt arrived in Noumea, I s Caledonia, late December from A tralia via Lord Howe Island.

The Peer Gynt is owned j commanded by Mr. Norman Ro: Miss Sylvia Roach acts as o (when the weather is good enoi for her not to be seasick, she sa and Mr. Jim Davies as crew, embarked at Lord Howe and is i planning to return to Australis Rome says he will remain Noumea for three months, dur the hurricane season. He is i looking for work there. He is lo ing for someone to take the pi of Davies if the latter goes b to Australia. Rome hopes to to San Francisco via the us Pacific Islands.

The Peer Gynt ran into he seas between Lord Howe and I Caledonia; Rome and Miss Ro say that the height of the ws on occasions could have been a thing between 25 and 30 feet. 118 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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“Precision Built Since 1918.” •Fisherman 6”, with Reverse Gear.

In NZ on Leave Captain S. Middlemiss, a Queensland pilot, begins a “busman’s holiday” in February. With half a dozen friends, he is departing from Australia in a Catalina flying-boat for an unscheduled wander through the South Pacific. They will visit Noumea, Suva, Tonga, Samoa, Cook.

Islands and Tahiti.

Mrs. J. R. Rigby, wife of New Britain’s District Magistrate, is organising an appeal for the International Children’s Emergency Fund and by the end of December had already collected £lOO. Some years ago Mrs. Rigby conducted a very successful drive for child relief while living at Wewak, NG.

Passengers arriving in Auckland from the Islands during December included (top to bottom):— Mr. and Mrs. W. H. B. Buckhurst and daughters from Fiji—Mr. Buckhurst is retiring Director of Lands, Mines and Surveys.

Mrs. E. A. Low, who was met by Mr.

Low on her arrival from Suva on TEAL Solent.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Lawlor, of Suva, who are on holiday in NZ.

Mrs. Etevise Brown, who was met by Mrs. L. Kristoffersen on her arrival from Apia.

Mr. B. Beale, of CSR Co., Labasa, who was on sick leave.

Mr. C. W. Blakelock, of the Fiji Government engineering works, Walu Bay, on vacation. 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1953

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Deaths Of Islands People

Father Roduit

The Roman Catholic Mission of the Sacred Heart Order has suffered another loss in staff, through the death of Father Roduit who was stationed at Ononghe in the Goilala district of Papua.

He died at the mission on December 12.

Father Roduit, 42, was a Swiss by nationality, and came to the Papuan mission field in 1936. He played a vital part in the establishment of the mission and out-station missions in the mountainous region of Ononghe, working on construction of I essential network of roads and ste tracks linking the various missi centres. He was also responsible J much of the work on the construct! of the out-station buildings.

In 1946 he was ordered back Europe for health reasons; howev in early 1952 he was able to reti to Papua where he resumed his 1 of service at Ononghe.

Soon after his return a fall earth in a dug-out storehouse at 1 Ononghe Mission collapsed on c of the missionaries who died aim immediately. Father Roduit assist in the rescue operations and it thought that the shock brought hi a return of his old complaint.

Mr. Arthur Head

Mr. Arthur Head, one of Nil] oldest identities, died at his home Alofi on November 18, aged 80.

His father, Robert Henry He was one-time Mate of the Lond Missionary Society’s barque the Jc Williams II which was wrecked Niue in 1867, on her first voyage the South Seas. Robert Head marr a Niuean woman, Perinese, a d Cendant of one of the old kin Their family eventually scattei over the Pacific and one of few s living is Mr. Allan Head, who a resides on Niue.

Arthur spent many years schooners and later larger shi making a voyage to England wh he was able to visit his fath( relatives.

In 1901 he married Kilimana, granddaughter of the second to 1 king of Niue, Fataaiki. Soon al their marriage they went to E Island where Arthur worked Lever Brothers as an overseer, his return to Niue, he comment trading and continued in that oc pation until 1950. Because of fluent command of both English £ Niuean he was official interpreter the Administration for some yes All their family have settled o side Niue—most of them in N Zealand. He is survived by his \* and 15 of their 18 children.

Mrs. E. J. Mathews

Mrs. E. J. Mathews, daughter Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shearman, Rarotonga, and herself well kno in the Cook Islands for many yei died in Auckland recently. I husband pre-deceased her last Ap at the age of 82. Mr. Mathews 1 120 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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MR. C. C. DAVID Mr. Chonam Cheng David, one of e best-known of Suva’s Chinese erchants, died on December 28. p was about 52, spent most of his lyhood in Hong Kong and over [ years ago, after a short time in svuka, moved to Suva with his wife id opened the confectionery and ilk bar business which bears his |me,

Mrs. Emma Walker

Mrs. Emma Walker, who was born Kanacea, Fiji, in 1871, died at iva on Christmas Day. Before her arriage, Mrs. Walker was Miss bman.

She is survived by three sons Messrs. W. Hatch and N. R. Walker Suva and Mr. H. M. Walker of iranaki, New Zealand), three lighters (Mrs. N. J. Macdonald and d Mrs. J. J. Florian, of Suva, and rs. A. J. Carter, of Auckland), 30 andchildren and 22 great-grandlildren.

Mr. Kelvin P. Hardy

Vn Australasian Petroleum Company iptain, Kelvin Patrick Hardy, aged 30 years, died aboard the barge Gabuna on January 1.

Hardy (who was the master of the barge) became ill when the craft was on a routine voyage from Port Moresby to Vailala, Papua, and died as the vessel reached Kairuku.

The Coroner returned a verdict of death by natural causes.

Mr. Hardy, who is survived by his mother, Mrs. D. Hardy of Sydney, had been with the APC in charge of various vessels since late 1950.

Mr. H. Irwin

Mr. Harry Irwin, Inspector of Police, Western Samoa, died suddenly 121 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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Produce and General Merchants n Auckland on New Year’s Day, Iged 50. [Mr. Irwin, who was on leave in ifew Zealand, went to Samoa in 919, and had a long record of dis- [nguished service. Last year he was tppointed inspector and second in bmmand of the reorganised Force.

Ie was due to retire late in 1953. [ Many members of the Samoan jommunity in Auckland attended his pneral, including Mr. A. L. Lewis, if the Island Territories Department, nd the Hon. A. M. Gurau, member if the Legislative Assembly of Western Samoa.

Mr. Irwin is survived by his wife bur sons and three daughters.

MR. R. MAIN The death occurred in Levuka, f iji. on December 4, of Mr.

Reginald Main, one of Levuka’s lest known personalities.

I He was 74 and had been a resilent of Levuka since 1911 when he irrived from Lincolnshire via Ausralia. He was a departmental hanager in Morris Hedstrom’s local iranch until his retirement two years igo. He was a former president of he Levuka Bowling Club and Ovaau Club and a prominent Mason. ; He is survived by his wife, one laughter, Mrs. D. Grieb, and a stepon and step-daughter—Mr. Howard ■eder and Mrs. A. Lee of Suva.

Mr. Harry Goodman

Mr. Harry Goodman died in Suva in December 30 at the age of 79. ie was born at Chepstow, England md spent his youth in Queensland.

He went to Fiji to work for Jrodziak’s and was later employed y other firms in the Colony.

MR. R. G. SPEEDIE The death occurred in Papua retently of Mr. Ronald G. Speedie vho was believed to have been in lis early fifties.

I Mr. Speedie joined Sir Hubert Murray’s staff when he was 17 and nade history by retiring on pension if ter 20 years’ service at the age )f 37—he was then an Assistant Resident Magistrate. In 1935, with Watkins, he was the first to ascend Mt. Yule. He retired about 1938 md since has been engaged in plantbg in Papua.

MR. ALEXANDER G.

CRUICKSHANK A well-known resident of the Morobe District, 27-years old Alexander George Cruickshank, died at Lae on December 15 from malignant cerebral malaria and black- Water fever.

Mr. Cruickshank was a war veteran and when he first arrived in the Territory in 1948 worked at Bulolo, and then later for the Morobe Transport Company.

MR. L. C. GRAHAME At Buin (Bougainville) on November 30, Mr. Lynn Colin Grahame, aged 42, died while fishing with explosives.

He is survived by his widow and a daughter who were living at Buin when his death occurred.

Mr. Grahame had been on the District Services staff from 1947 to 1950, and then left to engage in private enterprise in Bougainville.

Cantato C I Apqpxt

Captain C. S. Larsen

Captain Carl Sevrin Larsen, father of Mr. C. H. W. Larsen, Resident Commissioner of Niue, died at Weilington, NZ, on December 13, aged 76.

Captain Larsen was born at Tonsberg, Norway and went to sea at an early age. He spent some time on the Queensland opal fields before going to New Zealand where he obtained his Master’s Certificate a " d JL erved . a number of vessels of NZ re B lstr y- Mr. C. H. W. Larsen arrived in Auckland on Tofua only the day preceding his father’s death.

Mr Ernest Evenett

f , eve of going to press news has been received of the death, on December 28 of one of Papua s °‘ d | st residents Mr. Ernest Evenett, ° f Samarai > 3 8 ed 80 rr , , .... . , .

He has been ,n '“-health for some t,me - He is survived by his widow and seven children, three of whom live in Samarai. 123 pacific islands monthly January, 1953

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Watch On Ng Pests

MR. L. J. DUMBLETON, plant and animal quarantine officer to the South Pacific Commission, returned to headquarters at Noumea in December following visits to Australian and Dutch New Guinea.

“The two most serious pests threatening crops in New Guinea are the giant snail and the rhinoceros beetle,” said Mr. Dumbleton.

“The giant snail, which was introduced by the Japanese during the war as a form of emergency ration for their troops, attacks a wide variety of leaf crops, even young cocoa and teak. It occurs around Kavieng in New Ireland, and Rabaul in New Britain; but, fortunately, on the mainland it is fairly well contained in a small area near Madang, enclosed on three sides by two rivers and the sea. In Dutch New Guinea it occurs at Manokwari. Poison baits offer the best form of control so far discovered.

Speaking of the rhinoceros beetle, Mr. Dumbleton said it was causing serious damage to coconut plantations in certain areas, mainly in New Britain and New Ireland.

In an attempt to control it, the authorities were introducing a parasite wasp from Zanzibar. (See article elsewhere in this issue).

Bulolo Passengers Sailing on the December Bulolo [?] Sydney were (left to right, top bottom): Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Briggs, w[?] have been in New Guinea for 30 year and who were returning to their plant tion, Londip, at Kokopo, New Guine after holidaying in Sydney. Miss Barbara and Pat Farlow, daughters Mr. and Mrs. R. Farlow, of Kavier New Guinea, who were going home school holidays. Mr. and Mrs. R Vicary, with their daughters Pam, Be and Robin, who were going home aft holidaying in Sydney—Mr. Vicary, is [?] known as District Agricultural Officer Madang, New Guinea.

Mr. Loke W The, wealth business - m[?] from Singapo[?] and amateur bi[?] photographer [?] spent some ti[?] recently with M[?] F. Shaw May in the Nondu area and arou[?] Mount Hage New Guine Highlands. 124 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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With stabilisation of industry following the post-war era, our Buying Department has progressed to a state of perfection unprecedented in Island trading history.

All merchandise purchased at best wholesale prices and original invoices supplied.

Commodities previously in short supply within the Commonwealth are now readily available to our clients.

Island Produce

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Catalogue of selected vessels will be sent on request to bona fide enquirers. Our associated contractors will quote a firm figure for sea delivery.

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Islands Xmas Parties

E (See elsewhere this issue also)

He Pacific Islands Society

[THE Pacific Is. Society held a very [ successful Christmas cocktail \ party at the Feminist Club ooms, Sydney, on December 16, hen over 90 members and their lends, who were welcomed on rrival by the President, Major . A. Swinbourne, Mrs. Swinbourne id the Council, had a happy reiiion.

Change of meeting place appears 1 have rejuvenated the Society.

Arrangements have now been ,ade for the next meeting to be eld at the Feminist Club Rooms 1 Thursday, January 22, at 8 p.m., id succeeding gatherings on the ;h Thursday evening in each tenth.

Stew Guinea Women’S Club

THRISTMAS parties were held in Sydney as usual by the New Guinea Women’s Club.

The children’s party on the afterion of December 15 was voted >etter than ever” this year and le adults’ cocktail party on De- ;mber 19 drew the accustomed jge crowd of Territorians and leir friends who exchanged notes 1 the old and the new New uinea and made wassail in le approved Territory fashion.

There was a good attendance of le younger generation—many of tern now married with growing imilies but who were themselves ily children at the time of th* racuation of NG and the formaon of the club over 10 years ago.

Madang, Ng

BETWEEN December 20 and > January 4, parties for European adults, children and the natives ere the order of the season in [adang, NG. Madang Club and viat Club each held a party for lildren. In the first case Santa laus arrived by launch and in the ‘cond, he came by plane. There as carol singing on Xmas night, fter a false start on Christmas Eve, nd the Aviat Club Ball on Boxing ight. Boxing Day was given per to the native community with sports day and a sing-sing and *ast at night. On New Year’s Eve ladang Club held its annual ball.

MV Bulolo was in port on Desmber 24-25. Passengers and jurists joined in local festivities nd on Christmas morning the dministration trawler Koro took iem on an excursion around local dands.

Guadalcanal Club, Bsi

pHE annual Christmas party L given by the Guadalcanal Club for the children of Honiara ras held on December 19 and was notable success. A very fine fternoon tea was provided by the Dint efforts of the organising committee and the parents, a brightly iecorated Christmas tree and atractive paper caps for each child dded colour to the scene, and the hildren themselves looked very decorative in their party frocks.

Father Christmas arrived perched on the tank of the fire truck, escorted by the fire brigade and preceded by the noise of the fire truck’s siren. Four large bags containing a present for each child came along with him.

More Gravel: But Value Less IN the six months ended November 30, Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. of New Guinea got 57,358 ounces of fine gold, worth 2 million dollars (about £850,000 Australian) from nearly 9 million yards of gravel. This is a 75 per cent, bigger return than in the same period of 1951. In the 1951 period, value per yard of gravel dredged was 25.6 cents; in the 1952 pferiod, it was 22.6 cents. In the last three months of 1951 and 1952 value per yard was 27.5 and 20.3 cents respectively.

In other words, while the yardage of gravel dredged has nearly doubled over the year, the amount of gold recovered per yard is substantially less. This was forecast; and no higher values are expected.

Miss Peggy Dickson was married to Mr. John McKean in Sydney on December 27. The couple met in Lae, NG, where the bride was a Sister at the hospital, and the bridegroom a chemist. 125 pacific islands monthly January, 1953

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WhH Kidneys WSorkToo Often Are you embarrassed and bothered by too frequent elimination during the day and night? These symptoms, as well as Bladder Irritation, Backache, Swollen Ankles, Leg Pains, Nervousness, Dizziness, Lumbago, Interrupted Sleep, Circles Under the Eyes and a generally rundown feeling, are usually due to germ-caused kidney and bladder troubles. The very first dose of Cystex, the scientifically compounded medicine, goes right to work overcoming these troubles in 3 ways. 1. Quickly kills germs causing troubles. 2. Gets rid of poisonous acids. 3. Strengthens and reinvigorates the kidneys and bladder. Get Cystex from your chemist to-day under the guarantee of complete satisfaction or money back Ordained in Papua The two ships, Horizon an Beard, of the Scripps Oceane graphic Expedition now in tl Pacific, arrived at Suva in mi( December. The ships have bee studying the ocean bed in tl northern Pacific and have call( at Honolulu, Kwajalein and Oces Island. From Suva they will go c to Tonga for an examination < the Tongan Deep and will lab call at Apia, Pago Pago, Rare tonga and Tahiti.

Julian Eli, who on December 21, w[?] ordained a Sub-Deacon by the Vic[?] Apostolic of Papua, Bishop Sorin. T[?] ceremony took place at Yule Island Julian, who is 32, is a native of t[?] Mekeo district, Papua, and has recent completed his ecclesiastical studies at t[?] Catholic Seminary at Torokina, Bougai[?] ville. 126 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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HEAD OFFICE—QUAI DU COMMERCE—PAPEETE.

Telegraphic Address: “DONALD, PAPEETE.”

General Merchants (Wholesale & Retail) Cr Shipowners Importers Cr Exporters Branches Throughout the Marquesas Islands. ’ ASSOCIATE HOUSES: A. B. Donald, Ltd.. Auckland.

Lloyd's Aqents New Zealand; A. B. Donald, Ltd., Rarotonga, Cook 7 a Islands; Dominion Fruit Co., Suva. Fiji.

Agents and Distributors for: FRANCE: Hennessy Cognacs; Marie Brizard & Roger Liqueurs; Charles Heidsieck Champagnes; Perrier Water; Gruber Beer.

NEW ZEALAND: Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd., Petroleum Products.

SWEDEN: Hjorth & Co., Primus Stoves.

U.S.A.: General Steamship Corp.; Radio Corp. of America; Brown & Williamson, Ltd.; Cigarettes; Lucky Strike, Wings, Old Gold; Champion Spark Plug Co.; Rainier Beer.

ENGLAND: Reckitt & Colman (Overseas), Ltd.; Phillips Bicycles; The Bank Line, Ltd.

Sydney Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO.. LTD. San Francisco Agents: BURNS- PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO, INC. London Agents; BURNS, PHILP & CO..

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Mr. P. N. Dalton, Solicitor- General, Fiji, has accepted a transfer on promotion to the British Solomon Island Protectorate as Legal Adviser to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific and Attorney- General, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. He will leave for Honiara in January, 1953.

Mr. W. H. B. Buckhurst, Director of Lands, Mines and Surveys in Fiji since 1944, with Mrs. Buckhurst . and family, left Suva on December 6 for New Zealand on pre-retirement leave. Mr. Buckhurst was a prominent Rotarian, interested himself in the housing of Fijians working in Suva and took a leading part in reviving amateur athletics in the Colony.

In appreciation of this this latter interest, Buckhutst Park, Suva, has been named after him). He has been in Fiji since 1928. Mr.

R. V. Cole has been appointed acting Director of Lands.

Savusavu Airstrip Opened In Fiji THE first trial trip to the new airstrip at Savusavu, Vanua Levu, (see photograph November PIM) was successfully undertaken by Fiji Airways on December 6.

A large crowd gathered at the strip to see the first aircraft land and a number of local residents and PWD personnel were given short flights over Savusavu Bay.

Fiji Airways will now add Savusavu to their schedules which already cover Suva, Lautoka, Nadi and Labasa.

Northbound per Matua late December: — Mr. F. M. Giblin, formerly of Fiji but low of Auckland, who took his fiancee, Mliss Joy Howell, north on holiday, Miss K. Vakalala, of Mbua, who [?] [?]mpleted her training as a nurse at Tauranga hospital, NZ, returned home on holiday.

Miss Lorraine Stewart and Miss Beverley Anderson were to be guests of he Payne family of Suva for Christmas, Miss L. Boyer and Anne Boyer who were to visit Suva relatives. 127 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

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Nauru News

THE Secretary of the Australian Territories Department, Mr. [ C. R. Lambert, arrived at Nauru i an official visit on November I He was officially welcomed on rival by the Acting Administrator dr J. K. Laurence), the Head tiief, the Director of Police (Mr.

H. Cude) and the BPC Manager dr. L. E. Cameron). On the eveng of his arrival a Nauruan concert as arranged for him and during is two-weeks’ stay he inspected wernment departments and the tiosphate workings.

The recently-established Nauruan econdary School held its first speech ight in December. Prizes were resented by the Acting Adminis- [ator.

A westerly gale began in midecember with heavy rain and lused great inconvenience to shiping, which was unable to load hosphate or unload passengers id cargo. Nineteen Nauruan udents who are at school in Sydey arrived for the Christmas ication during this time and spent vo days off Nauru before they mid land. The westerly also preented the contingent of Nauruan oy Scouts from departing in time > attend the Jamboree at Sydney.

The Head Chief, T. Detudamo, ift Nauru in December for a holiay in Melbourne.

During Christmas a special church ervice in four languages—English, fauruan, Gilbert and Ellice —was eld in the Nauruan Protestant Ihurch under the direction of the ,MS minister, the Rev. John S. tobinson. Hymns were sung and be lessons read in four languages nd the sermon was ably preached i English by Itubwa Amram, a fauruan theological student who was on leave from Camden College, Sydney.

It is understood that Mr. Robinson, who has worked energetically for the Nauruan church, will retire shortly.

Generous Payments to NG Natives Letter to the Editor Ihave lived in this Territory for some years, and partaken of much of the sweat and toil of rehabilitation. I am not a Government employee.

I am amazed that, while Australian citizens are paying such huge taxes, their Government still is paying out so much in War Damage Compensation to Ne'w Guinea natives. I have personally seen what a native places in his claim and I consider it a gross insult to taxpayer and returned soldier to expect them to reimburse these lazy people for what really amounted to the protection of their own rights.

Only recently I was informed of an impending pay-out of War Damage claims to the natives, amounting to £20,000, on a small island. I went to witness the deed.

It amazed me and I thought of how long it took my mother —who had raised six “soldier sons”—before she could get any allowance, let alone war damage. It was .shovelled out to these natives and they will dissipate it among the “Vulture Enterprises” of this locality. I admit we want the goodwill of the TNG population, but not at such expense to our Australian pioneers.

I am, etc., Rabaul.

R.C. 129 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

TAMPS 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’aiti, 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/-.

BUI: 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, iy 2 d, 2d, 2y 2 d, wmk. s’ways 1/-, Festival 1/, Queen iy 2 d & 2Vfed at 7d.

GREAT BRITAIN AGENCIES: Queen iy 2 d, 2y 2 d or equiv., 5 Territories 3/3.

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 2Via, 4a 1/3, Asian Games 2/6.

JAMAICA: Scout Jamboree 1/6.

JORDAN; Arab Aid 5/-.

HENYA: 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 4/-, Scapular 3/-.

MAURITIUS: to R 1 7/-.

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WANT-LIST SERVICE.

Naturally, we cannot have every stami asked for, but it is our service to supph your needs, and we shall, if you give u : ;a firm order, try to obtain for you am we lack, at the best possible prices ‘ All prices are in Australian .Currency i^w^ age .®* tra on al * stamp orders unde: r, Accessories, Catalogues •etc. Post Free. Air Mail Extra. Stamp: to the value of £ 1 or more registered unless otherwise instructed. Registratior extra on orders under £3. N.Z. Posta Notes or Money Orders payable Wellington acceptable. ■We are buyers of used Pacific Islands stamps, on or off paper. Offers invited.

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/-, 194 1 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. 3d surcharge 6d, 3/- wmk. inv. 30/-.

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.”, 1953, 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

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Islands Mission Competitio Letter to the Editor I wonder how many people hi begun to lose faith in the mean of the word “religion” because what they have witnessed in name in small native communil similar to Tonga?

Here, it is possible to see sevei various religions competing, as ch stores or football pools comp elsewhere, for the greatest num of subscribers.

Surely this cannot be the way bring a sincere religious feeling a country—putting it on a le closely akin to big business. I sor times wonder why it is that th seems to be so much mission activity here. Perhaps it is beca the mind of a South Sea Islanc having little experience of the wo at large, is an easier victory tt that of an East London, New Y( or Auckland dock-worker!

I have met many missionar here and elsewhere, and most —1 regrettably by no means all—hi been very fine fellows, going i to their work in the best of fai But I am afraid that many 1 sight of their original goal in t rather pointless and harmful co petition—similar to the way which a good member of a G( ernment often gets bogged down party politics, to the great loss all concerned.

I am, etc..

K. PAWSON Nukualofa, Tonga.

Mr. F. I. Ryan, who recently tired from the post of secret} of the Fiji Publicity Board a Tourist Bureau, left Fiji in D ember to join the staff of f Wellington “Dominion.” 130 JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Telegrams A Cables: "Foundry, Newcastle-on-Tyne .’

Codes: ABC 5th & 6th Editions.

Agents: Papua : The B.N.G. Trading Co. Ltd. Port Moresby.

New Guinea : Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

Rabaul, Lae, Madang and Kavieng.

French Islands in South Pacific: Levesque Freres, Papeete, Tahiti.

Fiji, Samoa, Tonga: Morris Hedstrom, Suva, Fiji.

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Mop From Suwarrow

[R. D. C. BROWN, well-known pearlshell trader and ship owner of Rarotonga, reported an interesting development in the valuable liar-earning MOP trade of the Cook Is. when he went to Auckland December.

Mr. Brown has been trying to obtain permission to fish the Suwarrow lagoon for MOP and lately received a permit to survey the shell situation there and lift up to five tons on an experimental basis. He now plans to :e divers and a suit from Manihiki er the present hurricane season.

It is believed that there is conerable black-lip shell there, though doubt infested with worm. Experience has shown, however, that, once a lagoon is worked for a time, the wormy shell is cleared and the quality improves.

Suwarrow has a reputation for being unworkable due to sharks, though why this should be so when Penrhyn, a similar open lagoon, can be worked without trouble, it is not easy to see. Mr. Brown says that if the sharks prove troublesome, he means to try shark repellents as developed by the armed forces for rubber-dingy use during the late war.

Although A. B. Donald & Co. hed some shell from Suwarrow prior to the First World war, the beds were reported damaged in the 1914 hurricane and not much shell has since been fished there. Prior to that Lever Brothers obtained quantities of black-lip and made an experimental planting of gold lip shell—transferred from Sunday Is., Torres Strait in 1906 (as told by Captain Menmuir, of Sydney, in PIM of November, 1935).

Earlier still, as told in PIM of August, 1935, the Pacific Islands Trading Co., of Melbourne, made a short-lived attempt to work the island, fishing about four tons of shell in 1867-8.

In recent years the atoll has been closed due to a serious infestation of termites, said to be not present on the other islands of the Cooks.

Is seems now, however, that, in view of the comparative ease with which a shell cargo could be fumigated, and the great economic importance of the shell possibly lying wasting in the lagoon, that the matter has been further considered and a less severe policy is in view At the present time the two other Cook Is. pearlshell lagoons, Mamhiki and Penrhyn, are together producing about 50 tons of shell per month, valued at about 35 cents US per pound weight. Suwarrow may sub stantially increase those earnings and place shell well ahead of all other C.I exports in value.

A northern Cook Island couple showing finished hat made from the young coconut leaves, and (at left) a hat in course of construction. 131 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY. 1953

BURNS PULP (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD.

Registered Office: SUVA, Fiji.

Code Address: “BURNSOUTH.”

General Merchants And Shipowners

BRANCHES: r• • • Fiji Suva.

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Pty.

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Ltd.

Ardath Tobacco Co.

Charles Hope Ltd.—Cold Flame Refrigerators.

Jantzen (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Associated British Oil Engines.

Ferguson Tractors (Exp.) Ltd.

Slazengers (Australia) Ptv Ltd.

Standard Motor Co.

Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.

International Harvester Co.

Mullard (Overseas) Ltd.

Helena Rubenstein's Cosmetics.

McLeay Duff Gr Co. (Whisky).

Marie Brizard Gr Roger (Liqueurs).

Voigtlander-Photographies.

Shipping 9 Customs and Forwarding A gents Shipping Agents for SHAW SAVILL. 8.1.5. N.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

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tenders for ship “VEIMAURI”. —Tenders are invited for the purchase from S. F.

Stewart & Sons, Ltd., of the undermentioned ship now lying in Port Moresby harbour, Papua, on the terras and conditions set out; — Auxiliary Ketch “Veimauri”. 53.36 Bjoj tons, 34 registered tons, length 65 feet, registered British ship at Port Moregby. powered by Gardner diesel engine 6LVt type No 78719, in excellent condition which" has run 60 hours since new liners and pistons fitted, also 4 h.p. Southern Cross auxiliary power unit in good condition. The ship is generally in very good seaworthy condition.

Further particulars of ship and engines may be had on application to undersigned. . , (Continued on next page) Classified Advertisements Rate: 1/6 per Line—Minimum: 10/6.

“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.

Cars For H!Re

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.—At your service in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty.

Ltd., Rowes CafeLane Edward St Brisbane. Queensland. Phone; B 3J/o. vice in Brisbane. Lloyd-D Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Brisbane, Queensland. I Enquiries invited.

Crankshaft Grinding Cylinder

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We now have installed in our Lauioka Workshops, in Fiji, the most modern equipment, with experienced technicians, to handle the above and all machining operations to Automotive and other engines.

Clients can be assured that any work we carry out will be to manufacturers 7 specifications and tolerances, and returned with the least possible delay.

Don't forget—-we can do the complete machining operations necessary on engine overhauls, including bearing re-metalling.

Capacities of the work we are able to undertake are as follows: — CRANKSHAFT GRINDING: Maximum Shaft Length; 5 ft.

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Ok Reviews

Pacific Book for Youngsters IE London publishing firm called 'Phoenix House has added to its wellrn “Young Traveller” series a new me called “The Young Traveller in South Seas”—it is the twelfth of the ss. It is a description of the South fic Islands, specially written for teenchildren by Lucille Iremonger. Mrs. longer was for some time in the tern Pacific Commission Islands with husband, a Colonial Office official, and ecent years she has earned a reputaas writer, lecturer and broadcaster Pacific Islands subjects. In this iveller” production she has done an illent job—all the aspects of life and ig conditions in the majority of the th Pacific Islands are described faithr and, for the most part, entertainingly.

Groups particularly dealt with are , New Hebrides, Solomons, Gilberts, ce, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti and Pitcairn. , omissions which matter are Papuar Guinea and New Caledonia. Quite rt from Its value as a reader for ngsters, the oook is so carefully com- ;d that it could serve quite well as a srence book for anyone seeking a ieral picture of the South Seas.

P-NG Souvenir Book LARGE book, exceedingly well-printed and bound, has been prepared under tructions from Sir Edward Hallstrom a memento and official record of the ,uguration of the Legislative Council Papua-New Guinea, which was opened Port Moresby on November 26, 1951. contains all the essential details of Is important step in the development the South Pacific’s biggest Territory, is illustrated by a large number of cellent photographs. rhis donation reminds us of what Aasilia’s most famous philanthropist has ren Papua-New Guinea —namely, £40,000 r the establishment of the animal isbandry station at Nondugl, in the ghlands; £lO,OOO for the establishment a library at the Australian School of iclflc Administration, in Sydney; and veral smaller amounts. Sir Edward illstrom always has been an admirer the wartime and post-war Adinistrator, Colonel J. K. Murray, and ds volume is mostly a tribute to his irvices. It contains a record of istorical value.

The Rev. Harold J. Short, of apua, retired last year after more lan 30 years of missionary work in le Islands, in the service of the Lonon Missionary Society. In an adress in Brisbane recently he desribed the work of the missions, and iow they had prepared the younger •apuans to meet the impact of Wese.rn conditions. 133 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JANUARY, 1953

Ten per cent, of the amount tendered must accompany each tender.

The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

Tenders close In the office of the undersigned at 12 noon, March 2, 1953.

Tenders should be enclosed in a sealed envelope endorsed “Velmauri”.

NORMAN WHITE, Solicitor, Port Moresby, Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

Estate Joseph Thomas Mceyoy

(Deceased).—Sealed Tenders endorsed “Tenders Estate J. T. McEvoy” are invited and will be received by the undersigned until 5 p.m. February 16 1953, for the purchase of:— NUWORK PLANTATION, situated in the district of Lorengau, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, and having an area of approximately 100 hectares (250 acres).

Title.—The successful tenderer shall accept such title as the Administrator of the Estate now has and without further investigation.

Terms.—The property will be sold subject to the consent of the Administrator of the Territory of Papua-New Guinea.

On acceptance of tender, 25 per cent, of tender price to be deposited and the balance Is to be paid upon the execution by the Administrator of the Estate of a conveyance of the property or such other document or Instrument as the successful tenderer may reasonably require to evidence the sale In the absence of a registerable transfer.

Burns Philp Trust Company

LIMITED. 7 Bridge Street, Sydney.

Administrator of the Estate of Joseph Thomas McEvoy (Deceased).

Sydney. December 22, 1952.

BOOKS BOOK BARGAINS.—Send for list of real bargains from 2/- upwards. State your Interests, please. I also find out-of-print English Books. Mention “PIM,” Nearly 400 customers in the area where “PlM'’ circulates.—Philip Boulton, Bookseller Westbury, Wilts, England.

In Memoriam

WOOD.—Cherished memories of my dear husband and our father Davis (Dave) who suddenly departed this life on January 19, 1952, at But, via Wewak, New Guinea. Late of “Loloma”, Palnswich Street, North Rockhampton.

As long as life and memory last We shall remember you.

Inserted by his loving wife, Stella, and daughters Beverley and Adele, Lae, T.N.G.

Positions Wanted

AUSTRALIAN ex-Serviceman and <a.ged 30) are desirous of obtal positions anywhere in the Islands; is electrical mechanic, wife d machinist—but will take anything tho suitable. Reply; G. E. Corbett, Cardigan St., Auburn, Sydney, N.S.\ SINGLE MAN, 30, seeks employmen Pacific Islands. Understands farming agricultural machinery. Has had perience in tobacco cultivation in Q’land. Familiar with book-keeping clerical work. Well educated, sp French, German and Arabic. Go i where. Air Mail replies to- P Mackenzie, 127 Mlllswyn St.. S. Yj S.E. 1, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia POSITION REQUIRED in New Guinei any of the Pacific Islands by a rell young man aged 26, re-gaining experi in the management of a »übber or C( plantation. Experienced in handling i knowledge of welding, driving, and ger business methods. Willing to 1 Sydney at employer’s convenience, own fare, if required. Please re L. Olsen, C/- Box 3408, G.P.O. Syd FOR SALE STENO'TYPE, Grandjean, Modele Sll excellent condition, also 12 rolls. P] £25 Aust. Write, by airmail, M. Dyble, Flat 6, 241 Old South F Road, Bondi, N.S.W., Australia.

NORFOLK ISLAND.—Four hours f Auckland, five hours from Sydney, N the ideal place for retired peopleequable climate (50° to 85°), frlei residents, golf, bowls, tennis, swimn and fishing. Bounteous crops of s tropical and temperate zone fruits vegetables easily grown. No Income or rates. Very central, IVfe stc Flbro home—furnished, with refrlgera Aladdin kerosene range, piano, e 1-acre freehold, with good orange tr £2,250. Apply: Peter Goddard, Norfolk ACCOMMODATION DR. AND MRS. H. L. ZIELE, New Z landers, wish to announce they h opened their home, centrally situated peaceful surroundings at Double Bay, Pacific Islands and Interstate guests, bed and breakfast. Laundry faciliti adjacent to excellent restaurants Double Bay; 10 minutes from C: Under the personal supervision of IM Zlele, 37 Manning Rd., Double B Sydney. Phone: FM 2761.

WANTED—Accommodation on NG Plan tion.—European, 40, educated (spei English, French, German), wishes sp« holiday in NG. Able fit in with £ surroundings; interested in NG and nat life. Reply; Eric Scholl, 27 Ithaca Fls Ithaca Rd., Elizabeth Bay, Sydney.

Superior Accommodatk

at “Keadue”.—Situated at beautl Elizabeth Bay, transport at door, minutes to City, tennis court, refrlgei tion, H.W.S., cooking facilities, moden tariffs. Special attention for Islar visitors. Write or cable: “Keadue”, Elizabeth Bay Rd., Elizabeth Bi Sydney. ’Phone: PA 4036.

ACCOUNTANT required for

Gilbert And Ellice

Islands Colony

WHOLESALE SOCIETY, TARAWA.

Qualified Accountant preferred, but not essential.

Commencing salary £AB4O/-/per annum.

Two year contract. Free quarters provided, with essential furniture. Provident Fund Benefits.

Closing date for applications, February 28, 1953.

Apply in writing, stating age, marital status, qualifications, experience, etc., to: —

Morris Hedstrom Ltd

Box 2530, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

Announcement r * W ' annour| ce that we hove been appointed C.A.V Lucas Agents for Fiji. We can now attend to Sp are Parts requirements and will shortly have installed, w,th qualified technicians, the most modern equipment to handle full service requirements for C.A.V. Fuel Electrical Unilf" 9 Ca ' ibrQtin9 Qnd phasin 9' Qnd Lucas . ... A furth et announcement will be made when the testing and calibrating equipment is installed. burns PHILP (SS) CO.

LTD. 134 JANUARY, 19 5 3 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Public Notice

Mrs. L. J. Sasse wishes to advise that she has sold her business In Beach Road, Apia. Western Samoa, and wishes to thank her customers and suppliers for their past support.

Stamp Collecting

—A modern way of education, teaching your child history, geography. languages by pleasant pastime occupation. Special offer; 1,000 different selected stamps (Whole World), plus album and 1,000 hinges for 24/-. Send Money Order to WHITE STAR STAMP CLUB, Londonderry, NSW (Australia).

NEW YEAR BOOK LIST. on the Balinese Held work ol the two authors. £3/H/d. Post 2/9.

AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE PACIFIC (T. Tills work the tacts supporting his theory olPotyneslanorlglns examine the New World fn ree stl‘c 5 k S °Ls A o US Srco a p n es ZT ifS "keying Instruments, Binoculars.

Magnifiers, etc. Lists on application. ___ TCl<>Q N. H. SEWARD PTY. LTD., 457 Bourke St., Melbourne, Aust. ML bi^.

“Aspaxadrene is Like Magic.. -—writes a resident of Tonga.

In a letter ordering supplies of Aspaxadrene, which was received on January 10 (1953 not 1853), Mrs. K. T ,of Haapai Tonga, says, “Mrs. S. A advised me to send for your MAGIC Aspaxadrene; I know you are a magician, because 1 know her well and how she USED to have horrible attacks of asthma.” (No time to ask permission to use the full names arri addresses for above Islands people, but they are in the possession of this Journal.) • Remember, you can use any all-staM, very Aspaxadrene against your Asthma, Catairh Hay Fever Heaaacnes, Bronchitis, etc., so it is not necessary to Aspaxadrene by itself is only 12/6 (complete Outfit, 28/b).

ASPAXADRENE [Reg. under Vic. Health (Pat. Med.) Act 1942.] Obtainable at all Chemists and Island Stores |wann & Qiivn Fiii* Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Fiji ana isiancnes, T W S Johnston’, Port Moresby, Papua-New Guinea) or direct from A. H. CRUNDALL, Box 58, Prohron, Victoria, Australia.

Dangers of Diving Ignored In Cook Is.

IHE death, as a result of pearl - diving, of a married man with to children, at Manihiki, Cook is., November, should show the nessity fot a simple course of instruc- ,n and subsequent examination tor I suit-divers and diver’s tenders t r e.

In Manihiki medical instructions r the control of divers, standardised I over the world, are ignored and ually the divers are completely unbare of the insidious dangers mllved in their trade.

The naval diving manual lays jwn that suit-divers operating at ) fathoms must not remain at this »pth for longer than 55 m mutes, ien be brought up in stages. If they ive been down for 30 minutes they iust be brought to 20 ft. and held iere for at least 5 minutes, then rought to 10 ft. and held for a irther 11 minutes. If they have een down longer, the times of as* -nt are further increased. It a iver collapses when brought to the irface, he should immediately be ►nt down again and brought up in lower stages. Had this been done i this case the diver s life might ave been saved. . _ , At present, any diver in the Cooks /ho is prepared to “have a go in >ne of the licensed suits, may go lown. , ~ Shell diving is a most valuable ndustry in the Cook Islands. Under iresent conditions, it is remarkable hat more accidents have not oc- :urred.

Bad Drought In Tokelaus THE Rev. Father A. McDonald, SM, only European resident In the Fokelaus—those three small atolls lying iorth of Samoa—reports on events of 1953 while waiting in expectation of a ship from Apia in October. He says;— “The Tokelaus have really been the •Isles of Isolation’ with a vengance this year. We’ve had only one boat and one plane since December. 1951. The last mall was in May—the next in early October—if we’re lucky! The reason—a bad year for coconuts due to drought.

Thank God, there have been enough for food, but the surplus for export has becrr very little. Usually we export about 2,400 sacks of copra—this year we’ve shipped 300. Needless to say, it’s been a hard year for the people.

“At present the water ration per person per day is about two quarts for all purposes— though that’s hardly enough for drinking— and In fact it’s touching to see much of that small ration used for bathing the babies. Imagine the difficulty of doing the weekly washing under present conditions, not to mention a dally shower, so necessary in this climate.”

Father McDonald says that Nukunono. the middle atoll, is the worst off. the other two each having a small well which provides water suitable for washing.

Father McDonald, a New Zealander, went to Nukunono In 1948, and has been there ever since. For the past two years he has been able to make occasional visits to his flock on Fakaofu, to the south-east, by means of a small launch presented to him by well-wishers In Napier, NZ. Apart from that, his only contact with outsiders is the welcome visit of the Trade Scheme officials from Apia to exchange the copra, woodcarving, fans and mats produced in the Group for flour, canned meat, kerosene, textiles and other necessities.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.

Ken Williams of Rabaul, NG, on December 26. 135 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JANUARY. 1953

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We can offer highest prices for all types of Shell and Island Produce, and invite your inquiry.

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Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency) COPRA iNOTE: Following are 1953 MOF prices.

MOF contract rates for 1953 not yet officially announced.) 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 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 £F6I/10/- miii New Hebrides.—Recent quotation at 81 Metrop. francs kilo, c,i.f. Marseilles (approx. £AIO4/10/-, long ton).

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 Jan. 6 was £ 5tg.265 (£ A331/5/-) c.i.f. Cont. ports.

N.G.— £ A 275 approx, per ton, in store, Sydney.

New Hebrides.—Recent, sales in Sydney brought £ A240-£A2SO per ton, in store.

Samoa.—Sydney agents in January quoted Samoan cocoa at £ Stg.24o i £ A 300) f.o.b.* per ton, first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.).

COFFEE.—islands prices ruling in Sydney in January.

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 January shipment.—Papua- NG: 24V 2 d Stg. per lb., c.i.f. Sydney (approx. 30Vzd 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), Jan. 12; No. 1 grade RSS (sellers), spot lb., c.i.f. (approx. 31d 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 Brown. (On plantation Papua-NG approx. desiccated COCONUT. Sydney agents quote Ceylon, 1/7 V 2 lb. spot, deto store, Sydney. New Guinea: <VS/ 2 lb. spot, delivered in store, Sydney.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed be Torres Strait producers and Otto Q Co. (USA) for 1952 were: AA/A/B £ 85 cents lb. (£ABSO approx, per ton); C, 80c. / lb. (£ A 800); D. 55 (£ A 550); E, 40c. lb. (£A400); EE lb. (£ A3OO) —all c.i.f., New York.

Is.—American market has recently i increased interest, with quotations i cess of 35 cents U.S. per lb c Rarotonga.

TROCHUS SHELL.—lnterest in which has almost been negligibl Sydney during the past six m< diminished even further over the C mas period. Latest quotations are - 1 £ A 135 per ton; New Hebrides, i approx, per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney a recently quoted: Ist grade, £AIBS-i per ton; 2nd grade, £AI4O per toi 8.5.1. shell.

London Prices

LONDON, Nov.

Copra, c.i.f., Continental Ports, t New Hebrides .. 80,000 Metrop. f m ■ (£ AlO3/4/- ap F Tahiti 84,000 Metrop. f: (£AIO3/4/- ape FM Straits, Dec.-Jan. . .. £Stg.79 „ , (£ A99/7/6 app Ceylon, F.M.S N oi Philippines, bulk, Dec-Jan. .. US „ (£ A96/5/8 app Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton.— FM Straits, 3Vz% drums .. .. £st (£ Al4l/5/- app Ceylon, bulk, resellers £st (£ Al4l/5/- app Philippines, afloat Nor Cocoa, per 50 kilos, c.i.f., Nth. tinental Ports, Stg.-Accra, Feb.-i 1 £ll/2/6 (£278 Aust. approx, long

Islands Mining Shai

Exchange Rates

FIJI-—Through BANK OF NSW, BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Sell £AII3. Fijl-London, basis £lOO Lorn B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Flji, basis £ NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.— Through BANK OF Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO San B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. San London, basis £lOO London: £lOO/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoabasis £lOO NZ; B. £100; S. £lOO/1 Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa; B. £ S. £llO.

Fafua-Nc.—Commonwealth Ba

(branches Port Moresby, Lae, Rabi Madang) and BANK OF NSW (I Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) quote excha rate Australla-Papua-NG: 10/- per £ BSL—COMMONWEALTH BANK (bra: at Honiara) quotes exchange rate A tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific frai most valuable of the three franc gro in French Union, are used In New Cc donla, New Hebrides, and Fr. Ocear FRENCH BANK (Comptoir Natlo D’Escompte de Paris) In Sydney quo (nominally): 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; Pac. fr. to £ stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US $ and printed In Australia by P amT 247 Geor S e Street, Sydney. (Telephone; BW 5037.) Wholly set ua Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street. Sydney. (Telephone: MA 710

t»n cC TtM On fast and frequent schedules tour-engined TEAL airliners now operate over 8,000 route miles. Flying with TEAL you enjoy finest service and delicious fresh-cooked meals.

There are two flight stewards and a flight stewardess on every flight. Free baggage allowance 66 lb. Australia, New Zealand and the islands of the South Seas are nearer by far by TEAL.

Book through TEAL offices at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Suva or your local travel agent.

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Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Chatham Islands, Sydney, Melbourne, Suva, Samoa, Cook Islands, Papeete JANUARY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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General Merchants

* y Capital £1,000,000 ESTABLISHED 1914

General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, MO P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

Agents For Australian, European

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

Distributors Of Every Description

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

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Cable Address: “CAMOHE.”

In London: Telephone: Postal Address: BW 4421. G.P.0., BOX 168, Sydney.

W * R ’ Cor Penter & Co. (London) Ltd., 4 Lloyd's Avenue, London, E.C. 3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: New Guinea Company Limited, Rabani. Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: •L R. Clay & Co. Ltd., W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Port Moresby. Ltd., Suva.

ICIFIC islands monthly January, i 9i3