PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly MAY, 1953 Vol. XXIII. No. 10. sftj for transmission by post as a newspaper ] AN aerial photograph of Hollandia, chief town and port of the Dutch Territory of Western New Guinea. Hollandia, which is only a few miles west of the Dutch- Australian border, on the north coast of New Guinea, was the scene of a very successful American-Australian exploit during the Pacific War. This new town was ouilt around the former American Army Hospital. The Cyclops Mountain (“a mass of nickelore") is seen in background.

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ISLAND Experienced travellers say that “BY QANTAS” is the only way to travel in the Tropics. Over 60 points in New Guinea.

Papua, S.W. Pacific Islands are now linked with Australia by Qantas Islands Air Services.

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Cargo carrying capacity: 350 tons deadweight, 550 tons measurement.

Enquiries invited for voyages or time-charters anywhere in the Pacific.

Direct all correspondence and enquiries to the Managing Agent •

Richard N. Beim

SYDNEY: 75 Pitt St. Phone: BU 1196, BW 7144. Cables: “Belmshlp, Sydney.”

AUCKLAND: G.P.O. Box 2243. Phone: 40-803. Cables: “Belmshlp. Auckland.” • *V*\ j» ■ •••;& .'.IW

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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, Lautoka and Labasa, Fiji, and Apia, Samoa. Also Agencies at Nausori and at Marks Street, Suva.

Shipping Time-Tables

There now arc comparatively few shipting lines running on regular time-tables n the Pacific Islands. The following time- ;ames are only approximately correct— ;hey are subject to much alteration at short notice:— Sydney-Suva-N. America Canadian-Australasian liner Aomngi (17,500 tons) maintains regular twononthly sailings—Sydney-Auckland-Suva- Flonolulu-Vlctoila-Vancouver. and return On arrival at Sydney June 8, 1953, \orangi will withdraw from service. (See ?age 15.) Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about (very six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbylamarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul - Jamaral-Moresby-Brlsbane-Sydney.

Next departures from Sydney about May !2 and early July.

MV Malekula will leave Sydney ibout May 15 for Samarai, Rabaul, Manus, Wewak, Madang. Lae, Samarai md return to Sydney. f Mr. Chris Legge, popular District Officer in the Ba District, Fiji, has )een transferred to Labasa as Dis- ;rict Commissioner Northern. Before he left for his new appointnent he was given many farewell )arties in Ea, Tavua and Raki iaki. He will be succeeded at Ba >y District Officer Hill.

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

MV Shansi and MV Sinklang, modern 3,000 tons vessels, will leave every six weeks approximately (making a threeweekly service): Sydney-Brisbane-Port Moresby-Madang-Rabaul, Port Moresby, Sydney. Shansi departed from Sydney May 12; Sinkiang on June 5.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (G. S. Yuill 8: 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 3 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway - M.V, "THORSISLE" - 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.

PAPEETE—Etablissements Donald Tahiti APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

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

Regular Three Weekly Service

To PORT MORESBY, SAMARA), LAE, MADANG, KAVIENG,

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.

Telephones: BW 2731 BU 6313 (Freight only)

6 Bridge St., Sydney

Cable Address: “YUILL”

Samoa). Tofaa leaves Auckland for 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 voyages about June 9 and July 7.

Matua scheduled to leave Auckland on May 29; and on arrival at Auckland on June 29 is temporarily withdrawn.

Details from Union SS Co.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The NZ Government’s old motor vessel Maui Pomare is scheduled to leave Auckland every month for Rarotonga and other Islands in the lower Cooks, subject to requirements of trade. This vessel carries 30 passengers and will provide, for the next several months, a connection between Rarotonga and Aitutaki for the benefit of passengers travelling on TEAL Coral Route. Next sailing: Late May.

Pull 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 makes a round trip at about 8-weeks intervals from Sydney to Lord Howe-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides Ports - BSI ports - Bougainville - HaDam • Samarai-Sydney.

Sailed from Sydney on April 28; next sailing mid-June.

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

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Line, coming from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route. Details from Messageries Marltimes. Caledonienne leaves May 8; Tahltlerme, July 5.

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

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

N. America- Fiji-Hebrides, etc.

Norwegian motor vessel Thorsisle, carrying cargo and passengers maintains a regular service between North American ports and French Oceania, Samoa, Fiji, iNew Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Details from General Steamships Corporation Ltd., 432 California St.. San Francisco. 4 MAY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Stay at TUSCULUM in Sydney r* 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 personal service.

Flats and flatettes also are available. 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.

Rways Time-Tables

'Rans-Pacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

th Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths ir. and Mon.—Sydney-Nadl (PlJDiton ls.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Seattletland. u and Thur. —Return via same route. - Auckland - Nadi - Canton - Honolulu - Fran.-Seattle-Los Angeles, i.—Return by same route.

British Commonwealth Pacific

Airlines (Bcpa)

i. and Sat. —Sydney-Nadl (Fiji)-Canton [s.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver. i. and first Thur. —Dep. southwards, lame route. On second or alternate Thursday, flight commences at S.

Francisco. is. —Dep. Auckland-Nadi-Canton-Honoulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver. —Dep. Vancouver and S. Francisco ilternatively; thence same route to Auckland.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(CPAL) ry Friday—Sydney - Auckland - Nadi (Fiji)-Canton Is. Honolulu-Vancouver. ry Friday—Return by same route.

Iectional 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 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 am (Wed., Sun.) ■esby, 7.30 am Lae 8.50 am jnnects at Lae with Drover for Bulolo Wau (Wed.); and (Sun.) with DC3 Rabaul.

Mon., Frl. (DC3’s) ney, 7 pm Brisbane, 10.15 pm ibane, 11.15 pm Rockhampton * Tue., Sat. khampton * Townsville, 4.00 am nsville, 5.00 am Cairns, 6.15 am •ns, 7.00 am Ft. Moresby, 10.30 am Moresby, 11.30 am Lae, 1 pm (Tue. only), 2.30 pm Madang, 3.45 pm Optional stop.

SOUTHWARDS Wednesdays (DC3) lang, 7 am Lae, 8.15 am (Wednesdays (Drover) i, 12.30 pm Lae, 1.05 pm Thursday (DCS) , 9.00 am Moresby, 10.20 am Monday, Thursday (DCS) Monday only Rabaul-Moresby and iday and Thursday Moresby-Sydney.) aul, 7 am (Mon.) Moresby, 10.20 am esby, 10.50 am Cairns, 2.10 pm Mon., Thu.) •ns, 3.10 pm Towns, 4.30 pm (night stop) r ns. (Tues., Fri) 15 am Brisbane, 1 pm bane. 1.45 pm Sydney, 5 pm Wednesday, Sunday (Skymaster) , 10.30 am Moresbv. 11.40 am esby, 12 40 pm Bris., 7.10 pm i.. 8.25 pm Sydney, 11 nm NORTHWARDS Alt. Saturdays (Sandringham) (May 23, June 6, 20, etc.) Sydney, 6.00 am Brisbane, 9.20 am Brisbane, 10.20 am Caims, 4.35 pm (Night stop) Cairns, 9.30 am Pt. Moresby, 1.20 pm (Alt. Sunday) SOUTHWARDS Alt. Fridays (Sandringham). (May 22, June 5, 19, etc.) Pt. Moresby, 6.00 am Brisbane, 3.00 pm Brisbane, 4.00 pm. Sydney, 7.20 pm. 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Every Wednesday.

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

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

MORESBY-DABU (Sandringham) Via Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), Klkorl, L. Kutubu.—Every alternate Wednesday: returning same day (April May 13, 27, June 10, 24, etc.).

MORESBY-EAST PAPUA (Sandringham) Alternate Monday Dep. Moresby 9 a.m. arr. Samarai 11.00 am May 11, 25, June 8, 22, etc.

Alternate Tuesday (following day) dep.

Samarai 9.00 a.m. arr. Moresby 11.00 a.m.

Papua-New Britain

(Sandringham) Alt. Mon.—Pt. Moresby-Samarai-Esa’ala * Rabaul—May 18, June 1, 15, 29, etc.

Alt. Thu.—Rabaul - Esa'ala - Samarai - Pt.

Moresby—May 21, June 4, 18, etc. * Calls Esa’ala monthly only.

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

Alt. Tue.—Rabaul-Jacquinot Bay-*Lindenhafen-Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Rabaul —May 19, June 2, 16, 30.

N.B.—The direction of operation changes 5 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 1953

There's so much to do NEW ZEALAND.

Imagine a holiday in this land of breathtaking beauty!

At any time of the year there’s so much to do . . . watching geysers play in wondrous thermal regions . . . fishing in placid lake or swift-running stream or spectacular big-game waters . . . climbing in the towering Southern Alps . . . deer shooting in virgin forest . . . slaloming on perfect ski runs . . . swimming and boating in fascinating fiordlands! flying gives you so much more time Air travel will save you days in which to play, let you see so much more of this scenic wonderland.

And it’s so much more comfortable.

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Tel. and Cables: “MANSTOCKS, SYDNEY.” h each service, i.e., each alternate vice operates Rabaul-Talasea-Moewe rbour - Llndenhafen - Jacquinot Bay haul.

Optional stop.

New Britain-Bougainville

. Wed.—Rabaul-Queen Carola Hbr.- Buka-Inus*-Kieta-Buin —May 20, June 3, 17, etc. . Wed. (same day) Buin-Kieta-Inus*- Buka-Rabaul. tptional Stop.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul General

SERVICE :ry Monday and Thursday by DC3.

Native traffic, not recommended for Europeans.

Central Highlands

(Drover) days.—Lae (7.00 am) to Wabag, calling at any of: Nadzab, Kiaipit, Arena, Aiyura, Kainantu, Bena Bena, Goroka, Kerowagi, Kup, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Ogelbeng, Balyer R., Wabamunda, Wabag. Return to Lae arriving 6 pm.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU (Drover) ). Lae.—Tues., Sat. —3 pm.—Mon. 7.30 am. j. Wau.—Tues., Sat. 4.30 pm—Mon., 0.00 am—Direct to Lae in 35 minutes.

Ervices By Mandated Airlines

Dith headquarters at Lae, this company is regular services for passengers, Ight and mails to all New Guinea dements. . Dutch N. Guinea-Darwin y Netherlands Government, with DCS skly service, between Darwin and Blak.

Iso, new KLM weekly service, calling Blak, on flight between Manila and tralla. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS 3 Flights Every Four Weeks, Mon. (May 25, June 1,8, 22, 29, etc.), Lae (dep. 6 am)—Finschhafen Rabaul Torokina (Bougain.) Vellalavella Yandina Honiara, BSI (arriving 4.25 pm).

Tue. (May 26, June 2,9, 23, 30, etc.), Honiara (dep. 7 am) —Yandina —Vellavella Torokina Rabaul Pinschhafen Lae (arriving 3.15 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

Constellation aircraft dep. Saigon, April 5, and every 28 days thereafter for Darwin-Brisbane-Noumea, and return.

Australian agents: Messageries Maritlmes. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Trans Oceanic Airways, with Flyingboats Six services per month —every Tuesday and alternate Saturday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters.

Alternate Thursdays (May 21, June 4, 18, etc.) returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Sandringham Flying Boats: May 26, June 9, 23, etc.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Alt. Tue., 6.30 am Noumea, 3.05 pm Noumea, Alt. Wed., (Night stop) 8.00 am Vila, 10.35 am Vila, 12.45 pm Santo, 2.00 pm Santo, Alt. Thu. (Night stop) 6.00 am Vila, 7.15 am Vila, 8.15 am Noumea, 10.55 am Noumea, 12.30 pm Sydney, 7.30 pm (Additional flights operate subject to approval of Governments concerned.) 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

SERVING ALL PARTS OF FIJI.

Carrying Passengers and Cargo Steam Tug: "Al SOKULA"

Motor Vessels: "KOMAIWAI," "TOVATA" (t/s) All equipped with Radio telephone. Operating to time-tables published in the Press and announced from ZJV Broadcasting Station.

“Ai Sokula” is equipped for deep sea towing and carries line rocket gear and towing wires. Available for emergency service.

ISLAND TRANSPORT LIMITED.

Managing Agents: W. R. CARPENTER Cr CO. (Fiji) LTD.

SUVA, FIJI.

Telephone: 114—4 lines. P.O. Box 299.

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Also Engines and Generating Sets for Auxiliary uses.

Illustration is of 2V 2 H.P. Diesel Marine Engine which is suitable for all open boats up to about 16 feet.

Price: £l6O, Packed, F. 0.8., Sydney.

Distributorships in some areas still . available, SOUTHERN CROSS ENGINE & WINDMILL CO. PTY. LTD. 2 IGUNG STREE T, SYDNEY, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA.

Available again

“Where The Trade

Winds Blow”

A COLLECTION of fascinating tales and sketches of the South Pacific Islands by R. W.

ROBSON and JUDY TUDOR.

Well Bound and Profusely Illustrated.

Price: 7/6 (Posted 8/3 or $1 U.S.) Prom Island stores, from Steele’s Book Store, Suva, or direct from — Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd.

Union House, 247 George Street, SYDNEY. 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva By Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats —Weekly, Depart; Arrive; Sydney, Thur., Noumea 3.05 pm 6.30 am (nightstop) Noumea, Pri., Suva, 3.00 pm 8.30 am Suva, Sat., Noumea, 10.30 am 6.00 am Noumea, 12 noon Sydney, 7.00 pm 11. Auckland-Norfolk Is.

By NZ National Airways, with DC3’s Sundays—From Auckland double service returning same day. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Wed., Sun.—Dept. Sydney 12 midnigri arr. 8.45 am following day.

Wed., Sat. —Dept. Sydney 7.30 am, arl 4.15 pm.

Dep. Auckland 8.30 am. arr. 1.45 pm Mon Tue., Thur., Pri. 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney 10.30 pm Mon., Tue., Thur Pri., Arr. 7.30 am following day.

Dep. Wellington 10.30 am Tue., Wed., Pri, Sat. arriving 3.45 pm. 14. Melbourne-Christchurch Tasman E. Airways, with DC4 Skymastei Thurs.—Dep. Melb., 10.25 pm; arr. Ch’ch. 8.15 am next day.

Pri.—:Dep. Ch’ch., 11 am; arr. Melb., 5.31 pm. 15. New Zealand-Fiji SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland—June 2,6, 16, 30, Julj 4. 14, 28.

Return to Auckland on June 3,8, 17, July 1,6, 15, 29.

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

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland, May 23, June 20, July 18.

Depart Arrive Auck., 7.00 am Sat. Suva, 2.15 pm Sati Suva, 6.00 am Sun. Apia, 11.05 am Sat.

Apia, 1.30 pm Sat. Suva 4.35 pm Sum Suva. 8.00 am Mon. Auck., 3.15 pm Mod 17. New Zealand-Chatham Is.

Six return services are operated by the Solent Flying Boats during the summer months. Next service, November, 1953. 18. New Zealand-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents TEAL Service, Aitutaki-Papeete, is operated with Solentl Flying-Boats once every two weeks. DepJ Auckland, Tuesday, 7.00 am. Arr. Suva 2.00 pm. Dep. Suva (Wednesday) 7,00 i am, cross International Date Line: ArrJ Apia 11.55 am Tuesday. Dep. Apia 2.00 am Wednesday. Arr. Aitutaki 7.10 amj Dep. Aitutaki 9.10 am. Arr. Papeete 1.45 pm. Return by same route every altl Friday, leaving Papeete 7.30 am.

The next flights leave Auckland May 12, 26, June 9, 23, July 7, 21. 19. Micronesia Civilian services, based on Guam, using* 2-engined amphibious Catalinas, run re-1 gularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West!

Carolines), Truk (Central Carolines)!

Ponape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls)! and Saipan (Marianas). Details from!

Trans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu.! 8 May, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Rom Sydney To—

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NOUMEA.—L. & W. Johnston.

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Resident officer at Lae, B. Bembrick.

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BRISBANE, May 10. the Bulolo, going South, I noticed Mr. E. C. Skelly, oldtimer from Samar ai; Jack Earthy, of Kikori, out of Papua the first time in eight years— is an English Army man who t through the Buna show; Bert 7, of Native Affairs; Archie ntyre; and last, but not least, lly old lady Mrs. Thompson, wife Archdeacon A. J. Thompson, on way to Melbourne, r. A. L. Simpson, of Bulwa, New nea—who went first to the ritory in 1926 —is on holiday in ensland at present, and will not irn to New Guinea before the of the year. —Special Correrident.

Public Market at Koki, Port Moresby AT the suggestion of the Port Moresby Advisory Council the Administration will erect a public market on the Native Reserve along the Koki foreshore.

A public market has been needed at Port Moresby for a long time.

Residents have envied their Rabaul contemporaries the fine supply of fruit and vegetables available at the native market in that town.

A building at Koki will not produce vegetables, but it may encourage native growers to develop a regular trade instead of the casual system of distribution now prevailing.

New Records In Fiji’S

Oversea Trade

DURING 1952, Fiji’s overseas trade reached new records — imports were £12,000,000 and exports nearly £11,000,000. There are “invisible” earnings which partly take care of the apparent gap of £1,000,000.

In these days of shifting values, such statements often mean little.

From the viewpoint of sound economics, trade movements should also be stated in quantities. However, so far as can be ascertained, there have been satisfactory increases in some of the chief exports. 9 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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Itid. the at fan Per w f/ '" a ° Cu^c ,?** H°* h s? om% effe j-ttl; J h, P CoZ of the rfoted t° tu r by r ,.P a tiy Tess: IN THIS ISSUE; Editorial: Some Useful Achievements at Noumea in April .. 13 P-NG Leg. Council Churns out Bills 14 Australian Duty on Rubber May Be Abolished 15 Hotel Position in Fiji—Tourist Industry Wants More Accommodation 15 Aorangi for Scrap Heap .. .. 15 Some South Pacific Coronation Activities 16 Do You Remember? —Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 16 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Peace in Indo-China Could Mean Cheaper Rice 18 Fiji’s War on Rhinoceros Beetle —SPC to Direct Attack .... 19 Press Panic over Rabaul’s Earthquake 20 M. Poroi Again Mayor of Papeete 20 Tulagi Wharf Finally Gives Up Ghost 21 Territories Talk-Talk 23 G & E Officials Visit BSI .... 25 Vessel’s Narrow Escape off Noumea 27 PNG Sawmillers Suffer from Wet “Wet” and Australian Bureaucracy 29 No Reform of W. Samoa Liquor System 31 Rich and Idle Nauruans Set an Administrative Problem .... 32 Whose Yacht is It?—Love and Sea Saga From Pago Pago 33 Japs Pay Fishing Fine and Go 34 American Samoa Governors Come and Go 35 The Touring Stanleys Visit Gizo 39 Sheep in the NG Highlands— Cloud Over Nondugl 41 Two Sides to Islands Medical Service 46 Survey of Islands Shell Inrustries 47 Real Progress by Pacific Islanders —Future Needs Discussed by Delegates at Second South Pacific Conference .. 53

Magazine Section—

The Menace that Lies East of One-Seven-T hre e; A Crocodile Interlude in Papua; On Justice in Noumea; Tropicalities; Recipe Corner 65-72 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 75 Famous Tahiti Artist Leaves Huge Fortune 78 New Guinea’s New Passionfruit Industry 79 Smallships of the Pacific .... 85 Two More Years of Malaya For Fijians 94 Road Links for NG Highlands —May Open Up Large Area of Crown Land 96 Lively Politics in Tahiti—Governor Stops Duel Between Party Leaders 10 P-NG Students at Suva Medical School 10; New Britain Planters Reject Cocoa Grading 101 Goilala Air Service Back on Job io!

MM Purchases Changchow .. .. 10 Kenaf—And the Falling Price of Jute hi Honolulu-Papeete Air Line- New Set-up Will Affect Pacific Generally n New Ireland Notes u< Cheng Ho Still at Anchor ..111 One Less Holiday for Territorians Hi New Cathedral Consecrated by Bishop in Polynesia 12 OBITUARY: M. George Poroi; Mr. John George; Mrs. Marie M. Halstead; Sub-Inspector Tremaine 12; Prosperous Samoa—More Funds for Social Services 12 Why the Taper Tins? Charles Sullivan Loses Battle With Bureaucracy 12 PX-1 is 111 in Brisbane .. .. 12' Future of Fijian Lands 12!

Burns Philp (SS) Shown Steady Figures 13; Commercial, Markets, etc I3i 12 may, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Ome Useful Achievements

At Noumea In April

r UCH that is likely to be of L direct benefit to the South Pacific Territories, in the fields administration, commerce and Lai service, was accomplished in imea during April. Some of the isions taken may yet be accepted milestones marking the march progress in the Islands, he Second South Pacific Confer e (when 60 men and women, resenting native communities in Island Territories, met in imea) was much more ‘valuable n the First Conference, held in three years ago. The Islanders r have acquired a clearer idea he purpose and structure of the th Pacific Commission, and of way in which their Conference into it; and this time they came with something to say, and th-while plans to submit, hey had more confidence, not r in themselves, but also in the ects advanced by the European linistrations, with the net result ; when the recommendations of Conference reached the South fie Commission (in session imately after the Conference ;d) the Commissioners found they had been supplied with a . programme, some of which was [y constructive, and all of which id for their serious considion. i example of how the native ties are likely to react to all was seen in Port Moresby, when Papua-New Guinea delegates rned, and discussed their impressions with Administrator D. M.

Cleland. They commented on the atmosphere of friendship which they had found, and which they thought opened the way to greater co-operation between the Territories; and they were impressed by the interest which the people of other Territories showed in the social services and dietary research being carried on in Papua-New Guinea.

Much was accomplished in the Conference hall, and in the list of resolutions which was finally arranged for presentation to the Commission. But there was more lasting value in what happened outside of Conference hours, in the hotels and dormitories, where Polynesians, Micronesians and Melanesians, from near a score of different Island countries, met under the happiest social conditions, and learned how closely they are united by similar conditions of life, and a common destiny. All this has tended to build up the morale of the more backward people—the Melanesians.

ALTHOUGH its session was comparatively short, the Commission did some very important work.

It gave sympathetic, preliminary consideration to the recommendatipns of the Conference: it dealt with the vocational training proposals of Dr. Harlow; and it gave effective shape and impetus to a plan under which the war against the Rhinoceros beetle—which recently has invaded Tonga, Fiji and some sections of New Guinea —will be prosecuted on a Pacific-wide basis. (Details published on another page).

The menace of this beetle cannot be exaggerated. The coconut palm is the essential unit of Pacific Islands economy. Most Territories have an alternative industry or two —such as gold, cocoa, shell, sugar, coffee —but practically every one of them depends in some degree on its income from the sale of copra.

Anything which strikes at the health of the palm strikes at the general well-being of the Islands.

The rapidity with which the beetle has spread recently is the most alarming development in the Pacific Islands since the Japanese invasion.

It was a fortunate circumstance that the Chairman pro tem of this session of the. Commission was Sir Henry Milne Scott, of Suva, and that Sir Henry was acting as deputy for the Governor of Fiji (Sir Ronald Garvey). The Governor is putting great drive and energy behind the Fijian attack upon the beetle; and Sir Henry, as a director of large commercial organisations, was fully conscious of the need for immediate practical action—there! was no time to await consultation with the heads of six Governments.

On behalf of the Governor, Sir Henry offered £lO,OOO Stg. to finance prompt action; and, as Chairman of the session, he urged the Commission to accept the money, and get busy.

The Commissioners needed no urging, however. With the funds thus made available, they were able to give their energetic Secretary- General carte blanche; and Sir Brian Freeston had his team in action before the session ended.

That is the sort of thing that appeals to the imagination and the heart of non-official observers.

Planters and merchants can be assured that everything possible is being done to deal with the Rhinoceros beetle. fTIHE Commission is now fully JL aware that, in the general field of its obligations, its most important duty is the provision of some machinery through which education—and more especially technical training—can be carried to these Islanders, who are so heavily handicapped in this respect by their multiplicity of languages.

Therefore, at this session, it gave high priority to the notable report by Dr. Harlow on the proposed central vocational training institution. Dr. Harlow strongly endorses the plan to establish in Fiji an initial training centre, so as to provide a prototype for other Territories, and to assist Governments and Departments in assembling data in relation to cost, operation, etc.

Dr. Harlow has based his estimates on an establishment for three faculties technology, agriculture and forestry, and social studies— best suited to Islands needs: and he indicates that the capital cost of providing land, buildings and equipment for such an institution in Fiji would be about £500,000 Stg.

It seems a great deal of money; but it really is small, compared with what some Governments are now spending on “native welfare” —and vocational training probably is the most important thing now to be considered in relation to the future of the Islanders.

The Commission has asked its Research Council to study the report; and the report also is being submitted to the six member Governments, so that recommendations can proceed from that point, on an inter-Governmental basis. * * * It was a notable session of the Commission. The Senior Commissioner for France thanked Sir Henry Milne Scott for the way in which he had controlled the sittings; and Sir Henry expressed his appreciation of the co-operation understanding, support and courtesy which he had received from the Commissioners. fl Mr. and Mrs. Jack Barber, who celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary in Fiji last year, are leaving Fiji permanently after 45 years in the Group. Mr. Barber has been a successful farmer and plahtation owner, II Mr. W. C. Gee, Divisional Engineer, Overseas Telecommunications Commission, Fort Moresby, returned there in April after recreational leave.

Anzac Day—New Guinea The fine entrance to the Australian War Cemetery at Lae, New Guinea. The whole area, built and maintained by the War Graves Commission, is a magnificent park and in time the Botanical Gardens, now taking shape under the direction of local personnel of the Department of Agriculture, will make this Lae’s green belt.

This photo was taken on April 25 when Lae’s residents were gathering on the green lawns beneath the cross seen through the archways, where in company with thousands of Australia’s war dead, they participated in a simple but impressive service. After the service, ex-servicemen retired to their club and during the rest of the day celebrated in a manner peculiar to the Australian servicemen of any war.

On Anzac Day similar observances loo® place all over Papua and New Guinea—j but Lae has the edge on all othei Territory towns in possessing the finest Returned Servicemen’s Club—perhaps thq finest club of any sort in the Territory] Built on the edge of the terrace, member! can, if they wish, sit out on an enclosed lawn to drink their beer. Lae “flat’l falls away at their feet, and beyond, the| ocean. To the original part of the clan buildings has lately been added a vers fine ballroom in which polished New Guinea timbers have been used effectivels as an interior finish.

P-NG Leg. Council Churns Out Bills But No One Knows if They Are Law, Says Mr. James DURING an adjournment of the Legislative Council at its May session in Port Moresby, Mr.

E. A. James, elected member for Papua, called for an “Armistice on Lawmaking.” He said that since the Legislative Council had come into being at the end of 1951, the Council had passed over 200 ordinances. However, he defied anyone to know which of the measures so passed had received the various assents and approvals that were necessary to make them Territory law.

He said that of the 29 Bills before the present session, 11 of them were devised to correct previous bills. To his mind this was the result of hasty legislation: He also begged that someone be detailed to prepare a workable index to the volumes of the Consolidated Laws of Papua—and the Consolidated Laws of New Guinea — which were prominently displayed in the Council Chamber. He said that occasionally he had been able to find something in these volumes but that was in spite of, rather than because of the assistance given by the index supplied at present.

Pim Representative

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Stationed In Fiji

r:E Auckland representative of the Pacific Islands Monthly, Mr] James P. Shortall, will arrive in Suva in May, and will be ’stationed in Suva for some months as correspondent of the Pacific Islands Monthly and business repl resentative of Pacific Publications Pty., Ltd. Mr. Shortall is a well! known writer on Islands affairs. I Until office accommodation has been arranged, Mr. Shortall maj be contracted in Suva at the Grand Pacific Hotel, or through Steel’s Central News Agency, Suva.

New Handbooks

During his stay in Fiji, Mij Shortall will do much of the worjj of compilation of the new Handbook of Fiji. Pacific Publications Ltd| will publish, before the end of 1953 a two Handbooks which are now much! in request—one covering Papua and New Guinea, and one covering Fiji. They will contain all the usual official and statistical inform mation, lists of traders and a Directory of Residents, arrange® according to administrative districts} The compilation of the Handbook of Papua-New Guinea is now well advanced. The compilation of Handbook of Fiji will follow im* mediately—and the latter should be in circulation before the Royal visit in December. 14 May, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

AUst. Duty May Be [?]bolished [?] Papuan Rubber (See also article on page 83) IR. B. E. FAIRFAX-ROSS, President of the Planters’ Association of Papua, announced in >ril that his organisation would k the Federal Government to olish the duty of 2d a pound on ,puan rubber entering Australia, lis followed Mr. Hasluck’s anuncement on willingness to apply GATT for additional preference Territory products. (See article timber, page 29 this issue).

Commenting on the Minister’s itement, Mr. Fairfax-Ross said the Ling of the 2d a pound duty was rticularly needed at this time as stralian manufacturers were now iefly interested in low-grade Dber. fhe Papuan Rubber Pool in Aus- ,lia informed the Association that could place 568 tons of rubber for mediate delivery. The order aprised 25 tons at the No. 1 price; tons at the No. 2 price; 225 tons the No. 3 price; and 235 tons at 5 No. 4 price. 7he price will be averaged over i whole shipment to give an equal urn to all growers. [?]istralian Minister and Papuan Rubber Production CONFERENCE held in Canberra on March 25 had ironed out many of the difficulties surnding rubber production in )ua, the Australian Minister for ritories (Mr. Hasluck) told refers on March 26. [e said there was room now for 3 investment in Papuan rubber duction; that such production > in the national interest, “strategic reasons”; and the ential of rice, fibre and tea in v Guinea was “great.” ut that was all he did say. Until sstors are convinced that Papuan ber production is going to get, n Australia, a much fairer deal n it has had in the past, they be pardoned if they remain a e shy about the “potentialities” rice, tea and fibre.

Ir. S. Elliott Smith has taken r as District Commissioner at t Moresby in succession to Mr.

B. C. Bramell, who now goes as to the Northern District with dquarters at Popondetta. Mr. ott Smith was formerly DC at tondetta but had been on region leave in Australia.

Hotels Position In

FIJI Tourist Industry Wants More Accommodation in Suva SUVA, facing the opening of a new and very promising tourist season, with a Royal visit in the following December, remains desperately short of hotel accommodation. The five licensed houses available (McDonald’s was wrecked by the 1952 hurricane) even now cannot house all travellers, and they have to fight continuously to keep house-hungry Suva residents from settling in on them as “permanents.”

Messrs. Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., some time ago, began to construct the foundations for their proposed 5-storeyed building (shops, offices and modern hotel) facing Victoria Parade. This is no light job—in this area the piers must go down to find the solids.

Rumours were circulating in Auckland and Sydney, in early May, that MH Ltd., appalled by the growing difficulties of assembling material and builders, had decided to cease building when two storeys (shops and offices) had been erected, thus abandoning the hotel plan. The PIM cabled Suva for any authoritative comment on these reports. The Managing Director of Morris Hedstrom Ltd. (Mr. H. E.

Snell) replied; “Rumours without foundation.”

Future Of “Mcdonalds”

The hurricane-devastated area, facing the western end of Victoria Parade, in which McDonald’s Hotel was situated, is owned by Burns Philp and associated interests.

The latter have been giving much thought, in recent months, to the question of rebuilding this section, including a modern hotel structure to take over the McDonald’s Hotel license. Funds are available; but the cautious BP people will not commit themselves to a programme which might easily involve £500,- 000, unless they can get some firm quotations in relation to building operations. A visit to Sydney in early May, by Mr. Les Martin, a partner in Messrs. Pearce and Martin, is believed to be connected with plans for a new McDonald’s Hotel.

The chain of Fijian country hotels owned by Northern Hotels Ltd. has been extended lately; and there are new and well-conducted hotels at places like Deuba and Tayua. But those who hope to see Fiji enjoying tourist revenues running into * seven figures will not be happy until those new Suva hotels take definite and final shape.

Aorangi For Scrap Heap

ASAD fate awaits the well-known trans-Pacific liner Aorangi when she arrives in Sydney from Vancouver on June B—it will mark the end of her active life and shortly afterwards she will leave for the UK where she has been sold for scrap.

Her normal crew will take her to Britain.

Except for the war years when Aorangi played an important role in Singapore and later in European waters she has been on the Pacific service since 1925.

Her age, her size, post-war conditions demanded by Australian maritime unions, dollar shortages and the introduction of transpacific air transport have all combined to make her run unprofitable since she resumed service in 1948.

When she leaves the Pacific next month, for the first time in maybe three-quarters of a century there will be no regular passenger service from Australia to North America.

Omati —Deepest Hole In

Southern Hemisphere

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Pty., Ltd., and Island Exploration Co. Pty., Ltd., report that their test at Omati, in Papua, reached a depth of 13,254 feet by May 10. This is almost 2 h miles deep and is the deepest hole so far drilled in the Southern Hemisphere.

It beats a hole drilled in Brazil, which previously held the record, by over 40 feet, and is still going deeper.

Senator Kendall in a Vital Role MANY people in Papua-New Guinea would note with pleasure, soon after May 9. that the re-election of Senator Roy Kendall, of Queensland, was considered certain. He was the third man on the Liberal ticket; and his return (and Australia’s immediate administrative future) depended entirely on whether Queensland (electing 5 Senators) went for or against the Menzies Government.

Queensland decided for Mr. Menzies, which meant that three Senators would be pro-Menzies, and two Labour.

Therefore, the former New Guinea sea-captain not only was re-elected; but, as the Liberal- Country Party’s Senate majority now is only two, he may be regarded as the Government’s most cherished possession. 15 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

Some South Pacific Coronation Activities Rarotonga’s Gift mo represent Cook Islands at the 1 Coronation, Makea Nui Ariki ((native ruler of Rarotonga) and her husband, Tau Mataiapo, have gone to England by air, via Fiji and USA. Before they left, Mr.

G. Nevill (Resident Commissioner for Cook Islands) handed to the Makea the Cook Islands’ official Coronation gift to Queen Elizabeth.

This consists of two large and exquisite mother-o’-pearl shells, mounted on a base of tamanu, a rare and beautiful native wood.

One shell is carved with a likeness of Captain Cook; the other with a representation of one of the great double-canoes in which the Polynesians first voyaged southward to New Zealand.

The shells were shaped and polished by Mr. Ronald Powell, an Englishman long resident in Rarotonga, who specialises in this delicate and intricate art. The actual engraving was carried out by Mr.

Powell’s two highly-skilled Polynesian craftsmen.

BSPs Stamp Issue CORONATION Stamps, value 2d, will be released for sale at Honiara, Gizo, and Auki, British Solomon Islands, on June 2, and will remain on sale for six months. To allow posting of first day covers, those post offices will be open briefly on Coronation Day.

Qantas Provides “Free Drinks ,, AMONG other special measures to mark the occasion, Qantas have arranged that passengers who fly on the Company’s routes on Coronation Day will not be charged for drinks. Champagne, liqueurs and brandy will be served as part of “a delectable menu.”

An exciting recipe for the Champagne Royal Cocktail will be posted to all Qantas catering personnel along the routes, and all Flight Stewards will mix this “Speciality de Jour.”

A delectable menu has been prepared, so all passengers may happily celebrate the Coronation though thousands of feet in the air.

J. A. Johnstone of BSI Leaves for Coronation

Mr. J. A. Johnstone, Mbe

one of the two BSIP officii representatives at the Cor onation, left Honiara by Qantas or April 14. He will spend some week in Sydney before going on to th( UK.

Mr. Johnstone, who was born ii England, was one of the origina Anzacs. He went to the BSI in thi early 20’s and was one of the parti which went to Malaita to restori Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

PAPUAN rubber planters, after their technical triumph of a few months earlier, were unhappy again in May, 1933. With copra planters, of course, unhappiness had long become a habit. But air companies and gold mines were making handsome profits and New Guinea had got its first Legislative Council though we indicated, editorially, that we did not expect that it would do them much real good.

Here are some of the other things we published in the issue of May, 1935: “A number of Talkie pictures have been Exhibited in Rarotonga recently but owing to the absence of the necessary equipment have appeared as ordinary silent films They are hard to understand as they are devoid of captions. Mr. W.

Browne has decided to install talkie plant in his theatre and the first sound picture is being awaited with great interest by the native people.” * * * Newspapers—including the PlM—apoarently had much more spare space in those days (and printing paper was about 3d per lb in comparison with 2/- to-day).

Therefore, we were able to devote the whole of page 7 to a lengthy description by the late (and wordy) A. J. Vogan on how to resuscitate after shock. Perhaps he, and we, had harassed planters in mind. He said that suicide by gaspoisoning was greatly on the increase in England and America but this, fortunately, was beyond the reach of owners of plantations. * * * A Solomon Islands resident who evidently believed in the blessings of isolation, wrote complaining that the steamer services between Australia and BSI were too frequent—he said that it was gross extravagance that planters and business men in the Group had to “dance attendance” on steamers 10 times a year now instead of eight. He said that although it was “very nice” to receive mail 10 times per annum, it was of no real benefit to the coconut industry. * * Dr. Loftus Hills, a geologist, had arried in Suva and had been met by Mr. Pat Costello whom we described as a wellknown mining man. It was believed that Dr. Hills was in Fiji to inspect areas near Tavau where colours had been found, although Fiji’s biggest gold find, we said, was on Vanua Levu. Dr. Woo Thou« r h Australian Government geologist, who had recently passed through Fiji had given th opinion that Fiji was not old enoug to produce a substantial find of gold. * * * Japanese “mystery ships” were reportt over a wide area of the SW-Pacific. Or had been arrested at Thursday Islam another sighted in Torres Strait, a thii had made a raid on trochus beds i Bougainville and there seemed to be tv in the Solomons area. One of the las described as being of peculiar build, of 2i tons with triple engines and powerfi wireless, was wrecked near Ontong, Javi The ships were generally supposed to 1 shell poachers but some people, even thei suspected them of even more ulteru motives. History has shown that the Ja ships combined the business of poachir with useful spying. * * * More trouble was reported from tl area between the Papuan border an Surprise Creek, New Guinea, where Patr Officer J. K. McCarthy (in 1953 Distil Commissioner of New Britain) was trad ing down the murderers of Naylor an Clarius. P.O. McCarthy had taken ] prisoners and was on his way back to tl patrol post when the party was ambushei He collected an arrow in the stomac and another in the thigh; six of h police boys were hit; and five of tl prisoners killed in the fighting. Mr. M( Carthy was able to rally his police-bo] and they beat off the attack. ,h* eventually got back to base where an a police-boy were taken to hospital s Salamaua. ❖ Sfc $ The Minister in Charge of Australia Pacific Territories, Major C. W. C. Mar and party, toured Papua a' ' New Guinf in April and May 1933 j,.id on May i at Rabaul, formally opened the fin session of New Guinea’s first Legislath Council. * * * Papuan rubber planters were still i trouble. Although they should have bee receiving back from the Commonwealt Government the 4d per pound duty whic was to have been collected on their rubb< when entering Australia, they had, i fact, received nothing as the Australia manufacturers were holding the rubb* in bond and the Customs Department wa collecting nothing. They told Ministc Marr when he was in Port Moresby tha unless something was done immediately the Papuan rubber industry would soo; cease. **• *s* Robusta coffee was bringing about £4 per ton; top grade Arabica £79 per ton Accra cocoa was £3O per ton, Trinadai £35 per ton. 16 may, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLf

Administration Grant .. £700 0 0 Mrs. Una Adams 50 0 0 The Estate of the late Harry Adams 50 0 0 Rabaul Basketball Association 50 0 0 Mr. J. K. McCarthy 10 0 0 Mr. M. Orken 3 3 0 Mr. D. Barrett 10 0 0 Mr. R. Elliott 5 0 0 Mrs. Pudge 10 0 0 Mr. P. Boisen 15 0 0 Mr. W. J. Reid 20 0 0 Mr. J. T. Allen 20 0 0 Miss M. Egan 3 3 0 £946 6 0 ier after the murder of Bell and lies in 1925.

U:ter the Japanese occupation of lagi in 1942 he and several others ; away in a small vessel and, er a hazardous voyage, reached ; New Hebrides. Mr. Johnstone er served with the rank of Major the British Solomon Islands hour Corps, He is one of the st respected and popular Frotorate residents; his selection as official representative at the ronation has been warmly welned.

Who Gets The Band?

ABAUL will have a week of the usual festivities to mark the Coronation a procession of its, fireworks, tree-p la nti n g, ner and ball—and in addition, as permanent reminder of the asion, a- reconditioned sportsund. ‘lans are to level the ground, in e remove some of the buildings ,t encroach upon it now, build nis courts, baseball field, cricket ;hes, etc., and erect memorial es on which will be recorded the nes of New Guinea residents, pice and civilian, who lost their ;s during World War 11. ’he whole project will cost about )00; and £7OO of this has been nted by the Administration and rest will be raised locally. A ;ery, with 2,000 £1 tickets and a it prize of a trip to Japan and igkong, and £lOO spending money low being organised towards the ject. lut one thing that Rabaul thinks it will have for the Coronation celebration —and probably will not have—is one of Port Moresby’s two bands. Both Rabaul and Lae have asked for the second band. Rabaul thinks it has got in first; Lae says it definitely will have the band.

And a band is not to be sneezed at in these parts.

Lae will telescope most of its celebrations into two days—which will probably disorganise the labour less and please businessmen more.

They will name a new roadway Coronation Drive.—JT.

At the end of April, the following donations had been made towards the Fund for the Reconstruction of Queen Elizabeth Park, Rabaul:—

Madang Plans

The citizens of Madang are building a pavilion at the Sports Ground to commemorate the Coronation; this is being financed entirely by the townsfolk. The necessary building materials have been donated, and artisans are giving their services in erecting and painting the structure. The pavilion will seat 200 people, and Is to be fully equipped with dressing rooms and showers.

The Administration is likewise creating a permanent “Coronation” asset in the form of a two-mile marine drive to be called “Corona r tion Drive.” It will give the town a beautiful marine roadway which will be planted on each side with peltophorum trees. The work is being done by the District Services Department without dipping into official “Coronation Funds,” and is expected to be finished in time for the Coronation celebrations.

Nz Islands

REPRESENTATIVES New Zealand Islands Territories representatives to the Coronation were selected in April—Flight Sergeant Marama Nicholas, of Cook Islands, Wartime member of the RNZAF; and Bombardier Eric Groves, of Western Samoa, who had almost five years’ service in the Second NZEF.

Eruption on Long Island AN eruption began on Long Is., 100 miles off the Madang coast, New Guinea, about May 9. The eruption is occurring in Lake Wisdom, itself a volcanic crater, 500 feet above sea level.

District Commissioner C. Bates, from Madang, and other Government officials, flew over the lake and inspected the disturbance. Some 370 natives who live on the east coast of the Island have been evacuated by ship to the NG mainland at Paidor.

Waria Synd. Claim Up

For Hearing

r[E claim by powerful American and Swedish interest for recognition of claim for land which it says it has rights over in New Guinea (see Feb. PIM) will come before Mr. C. P. McCubbery (Commissioner of Titles) in Port Moresby on May 25.

A concession over a large section of NG mainland was granted in July, in Berlin, to Waria Syndicate, formed by Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen.

After World War I, a large proportion of Wahlen’s Waria Syndicate shares were sold to Ragnar Erfass, Swedish national, of Stockholm; but the Warburg family retained its interests. In 1922, the Administrator, Rabaul, informed the syndicate that the Australian Government did not recognise the concession. Consequently, the German interests in the Waria Syndicate were not expropriated.

The Morobe goldfield (which is in the area claimed by the Syndicate) was opened up under leases granted by the Australian authority.

The Warburg-Erfass interests were preparing to bring their claim before the International Court at The Hague when World War II broke out.

An artist’s impression of the Queen Elizabeth Park which Rabaul residents are [?]nning as a permanent Coronation memorial. The park is to be divided into four tions, each bordered by trees. In the top left section there is room for a swimming [?] bowling green and four tennis courts, as well as stands and picnic areas. The [?] right section contains cricket and baseball fields. Bottom left, rugby football [?]ds; and, bottom right, soccer fields, basketball courts and more picnic areas, [?] whole park will cost about £5,000 to recondition —the present sports ground will incorporated in it. The whole area is bounded by Yara Avenue, Kamarere St., cambium Ave., and Court St.

LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1953

The Editors' Mailbag

Advocate for Square Bananas Back in New York Mrs. Elizabeth S. Williams of New York, former Recreation Director of the American Red Cross Hospital Service in the South West Pacific during the Pacific war, and later well known throught her travels by unorthodox means throughout the Islands, writes interestingly from New York.

Mrs. Williams has just completed a lengthy lecture tour in the States, speaking at public gatherings and before television and radio. Since leaving Fiji she spent a period as a voluntary worker at a leprosarium in India and later this year she will attend a leprosy conference in Madrid, then return to India. She is at present completing a travel book, illustrated with her unique sketches and cartoons.

Her letter was accompanied by the January issue of the New York Botanical Garden’s publication The Garden Journal, in which is a hand-illustrated article by Mrs.

Williams entitled “Plants as food in the South Pacific.” Her sketches depict all the principal native food plants and fruits of the Islands.

Last year PIM published one or two articles, written by this indefatigable traveller —in one of which she advised Fiji to grow a square banana so that it would fit more easily in the square cases used.

Wong You—Under His Own Steam Mr. Wong You, best known and respected merchant of Kieta and Buka Passage, writes to take us to task for printing the popular version of his success story (PIM for April). He says that he was not brought out by the Germans under any indentured labour scheme to work in New Ireland, but that as a lad of 17, in 1912, he went out under his own steam, paying his own fare and seeking employment on his own behalf on arrival in the Territory.

He worked at Fileba Plantation for a couple of years in a minor overseeing capacity; then at the Kavieng Hotel for another couple of years, before striking out on his own in Bougainville—where he has been ever since, and where he now owns and manages the largest retail distributing organisation in the area.

Mr. Wong You says that liquor may be bought at the Wong You stores; but it may not be lawfully consumed by the buyers on the premises. The only people who consume beer on the Wong You verandahs are his guests.

Deportation of Fijians The ruthlessness with which Fijians, and Islanders of similar status, are deported from Australia as prohibited immigrants, often has been commented upon by this journal. Recently, we sent to the Government of Fiji a newspaper report of the case of Semesa Delana, 28, a Fijian charged in February in Brisbane with being a prohibited immigrant, and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, pending deportation to Fiji.

We have received from the Acting Colonial Secretary of Fiji a letter dated April 21, in which he says; “I appreciate your interest in the question of the entry of Pacific Islanders into Australia; but as far as Fijians are concerned, the Commonwealth Government’s restrictions on immigration are fully endorsed by this Government and also by the leaders of the Fijian people.

“In fact, the emigration of Fijians from the Colony is also very strictly controlled; and only recently the Fijian Affairs Board specifically asked that the Australian authorities take steps to deport to Fiji any Fijian ‘who has deserted his ship, stowed away, or is in Australia without a permit.’

The reasons for this control are to protect unsophisticated Fijians from being exploited overseas and also to ensure that their families and dependents are not neglected.

“Fijians who wish to follow approved courses of study in Australian institutions are, of course, officially sponsored, and enter the Commonwealth with the full approval of this Government.”

Suwarrow’s Crusoe Some time ago Dutch yachtsman Dirk Tober reported on arrival at Auckland that he had made a call at Suwarrow Island and, departing, had lifted the lone resident’s accumulation of mail—one letter— for posting in Apia.

Extracts from the letter: “There’s a month’s hard work around the camp (ex-meteorological observer’s quarters) alone, cleaning up and repairing. In the meantime I’m living on biscuits, coconuts and coffee until I get the kai-room and cookhouse fixed to my satisfaction —then I can set about doing a bit of cooking.

“Rats are plentiful; my old cat brings in three and four nightly.

The pigs are wild, after being chased by the Mahurangi’s passengers, who failed to catch any but said there was no female in the four they saw. They are a nuisance, and it will mean putting a fence round the garden.”

Bsi Tax Challenge

FAILS HONIARA, May 11.

THE action in which Mr. R. C Symes, planter, challenged th authority of the British Solo mon Islands Government to irn pose income taxation was dismisses by Judicial Commissioner W. 1 Charles in a reserved judgment o: May 11. He held that the Incom Tax Regulation was valid, and with in the legislative power conferre by the Pacific Order in Counci 1893, on the High Commissioner.

In the case of Blomqvist versu Hay, connected with war disposal goods, the same court held tha K. H. Dalrymple Hay Pty., Ltd. hai broken its contract to sell Marsto] matting to the plaintiff. Plaintil was awarded specified damages o £17,000, representing loss of profit* The Court reserved in favour a the plaintiff determination of it entitlement to damages arising ou of its breach of contract with th Swedish Royal Air Board, and th owners of the vessel which it hai chartered, such breaches of con tract being the result of defend ant’s breach of contract with th Company.

A stay of execution was grantei defendant.

Mr. Devenish Meares, instructed by Mi P. F. Galvin, of Sydney, appeared for E C. Symes in the taxation case, for K H. Dalrymple Hay Pty., Ltd., in the othe case. Mr. Jacobs, of Sydney, instruct© by Mr. D. F. Jones, of Rabaul, appear© for Erland Blomqvist (Aust.), Ltd.

At the conclusion of the sitting Mr. Charles (who was on the poin of leaving BSI for Hongkong, wher he has been appointed to th magistracy) was formally farewells by the Territory’s law officials am compliments were paid to the ser vice he had rendered the Terri tory since he assumed duty ii Honiara in 1946.

PEACE IN INDO-

China Could

Mean Cheaper Rice

IT may appear that events ii Indo-China, where the Chines Reds have been providing th French with a first-class probleii in defence, have only a general in terest for the Pacific Islands.

But if the war there should ceas —and the sudden retirement of th Reds from Laos this month ma; have some significance—and Indo China is permitted to make ai economic recovery, the Pacific suppl; of rice may be greatly changed. Ii the opinion of experienced mer chants, the resumption of rice ex ports from Saigon could ver; quickly bring the Islands rice prici down to £3O per ton. 18 may, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Fiji'S War On Rhinoceros Beetle

South Pacific Commission to Direct Research and Attack [NCE it was discovered, early in March, that the Rhinoceros Beetle, deadly menace to the omit industry, was established in i, near Suva, administrative and nmercial forces have gone into ion. under the direction of the vernor of Fiji and his Departnt of Agriculture, in a way lorn seen in these lethargic days, luring the past month, the fol- Ing steps have been taken:— > Teams of searchers, numbering mt 150 men, have combed the tricts around Suva, It has been ived that the whole of the area it, north and north-east of Suva, m the western side of the harir right around to Laucala Bay, i including the Nasinu district, beetle-infested. • Said the Governor (Sir Ronald rvey) : “The infestation is light I scattered; but so long as the tie is present in any part of Colony, or in any neighbourterritory linked with Fiji by imerce, there is a danger that infestation may spread to the acipal copra districts.” (Comatively little copra is produced Viti Levu. Fiji’s valuable coco- ; plantations are in the other nds —especially Taveuni, on the er side of the Koro Sea.) Men are being trained to go out d the infested districts and tematically destroy all substances ich might harbour the eggs and t ae of the beetle—especially dead her and decaying vegetable tter. From March 1 to May 5, searchers found and identil 21 adult beetles, 18 pupae, 444 bs and about 150 eggs.

The Fiji Government provided ,500 for the early campaign inst the beetle.

A wider scope and stronger imus was given to the anti-beetle ipaign when Sir Henry Scott, of ra, went to the chairmanship of South Pacific Commission,, in imea, as the direct representative the Governor of Fiji. The Govor had suggested that this war inst the pest was essentially a tter to be dealt with by the nmission; and Sir Henry inned the Commission that, in er to encourage an immediate rt, Fiji would guarantee a fund ilo,ooo Sterling, to finance operais.

The Commission accepted the proposal at once, and endorsed the following plan submitted by the Commission’s plant and animal quarantine officer, Mr. L. J. Dumbleton, who had just returned from a personal examination of the position in Fiji (where he worked closely with Mr. B. A. O’Connor, Fiji’s senior entomologist) ; Two entomologists and one chemist will be engaged for work on this special project.

One entomologist will study the cultural, climatic and biological factors which determine the population level of the beetle, in Western Samoa and adjacent countries, with special reference to biological control by means of parasites, predators, or disease which can be transferred from India to the Pacific. A special search would be made in Asia and Africa.

The second entomologist will test attractants, study beetle ecology (and the colonising of parasites, if required) in Western Samoa, among other places.

The chemist will work on the extraction and fractionation of palin extracts, and the preparation of materials for testing, and possible attractants. This work could be done in existing laboratories in Fiji or Hawaii, or possibly Noumea.

India and adjoining countries were suggested as the location for part of the work, since those countries were believed to be the original home of the beetle, and controlling factors may exist there which do not exist in the Pacific countries. The fact that the beetle does not, in general, do as much damage to palms in India and adjoining countries as in some parts of the Pacific where it has recently appeared, supports that supposition—although it may be that human or agricultural factors played a part in keeping the beetle population lower there than in the Pacific.

Plans at this stage are to be on the basis of a three-years period.

The Commission authorised the Secretary-General to give effect to the project, subject to any technical modification which may be recommended by the Research Council at its next meeting.

IN order to finance the anti-beetle campaign, the Fiji Government is imposing a levy of £2 per ton on all copra sold through the Fiji Copra Board, and an additional 1/8 per ton on copra bought for milling in Fiji.

The beetle has been established in Western Samoa for 40 years— it is believed to have been brought from Ceylon in a consignment of rubber plants. It has done a great deal of damage to palms in Samoa, but has not wrought the destruction that might have been expected A year ago, it was found to have become established in Vavau, Tonga: and indications were that it had been introduced there two years before that. It is believed that the pest spread from Vavau to Suva before it was discovered in Vavau.

The Tongan Government has taken most vigorous measures against the beetle in Vavau. Our Vavau correspondent, writing late in April, says that the anti-beetle campaign is going so well that the total eradication of the insect is expected. We are reminded that the Tongan island of Niuatoputapu, some years ago, was far more badly infested than Vavau has been, and the Tongans there eradicated it completely.

The Fiji inter-island vessels Yanawai and Degei were scheduled to make special trips to Makogai leper hospital in May with parties from various parts of Fiji who will visit friends and relatives who are patients on the island.

The Rhinoceros Beetle.

David (on the left and Cecil Cheng, sons of Mr. C. L. Cheng, of Suva, were among the graduates in engineering who were “capped” at the University of Sydney on April 22. They received their Chinese primary and secondary education in China, and then entered the University of Sydney in 1949. The photograph, taken by Mr. Cheng outside the Great Hall after the graduation ceremony, shows David (right) and Cecil, with Mrs. Cheng.

The youngest son, Homer Cheng, is also a third year engineering student at Sydney University.

Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Roach who were married in Suva Cathedral recently. Mrs.

Roach was formerly Miss Olga Sinclair of Noumea, NC; she wore an ice blue, street-length frock with matching hat, for her wedding. A reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glover of Suva.

Mr. Roach is in charge of the Vacuum Oil Co’s, new bulk installation at Vuda Point near Lautoka, Fiji. When the installation is complete shortly, he and his bride will return to Noumea. 19 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1853

Press Panic Over Rabaul

EARTHQUAKE Legislative Council Censures “Misleading and Inaccurate” Reports AN extraordinary wave of news paper hysteria followed the severe Force-7 earthquake that rocked Rabaul, New Guinea, at 2.30 a.m. on April 24. This has alter nately amused and enraged Rabaul residents, who, on the whole, have taken this earthquake, as they have taken many others in the past, with equanimity.

No one who has experienced an earthquake will minimise the effect of a severe shake in the early hours of the morning but by the following day Rabaul was going quietly about its usual Anzac Day obser vances while the rest of the world, encouraged by panic newspaper headlines, was contemplating large scale rescue operations.

Some newspapers went to the trouble to point out that while the last Administrator, Colonel J. K.

Murray, had “pleaded with the (Australian) Government to shift Rabaul,” the decision to retain it was largely the work of the present Administrator, Mr. D. M. Cleland.

They added that Mr. Cleland had “refused to comment” on the Fors,e 7 shake of April 24. Mr. Cleland was, however, almost the only per son who exercised such reticence.

It has been conveniently forgotten that the majority of Rabaul citizens were inordinately pleased when it was decided to retain Rabaul as the capital of New Britain; and that, even if the capital had been shifted to Rapopo, which is 20 miles from Rabaul, that site also would have been subject to severe earth quakes, as it was on this occasion.

After the opening of the recent session of the Papua and New Guinea Legislative Council in Port Moresby on May 4, Mr. D. Barrett, member for New Guinea Islands, moved an adjournment to discuss the press reports on the Rabaul earthquake. He said that the reports from Australian and local news papers and Australian radio were misleading and inaccurate. One Australian newspaper had had a volcano in Talasea in violent erup tion although there was no activity in the area at all. The disturbance had been tectonic and not volcanic and while the latter can be pre dicted there is no way at all of predicting the former. (The news papers had made much capital out of the fact that although Rabaul residents had been promised warn ing of volcanic disturbances, on this occasion they had been given none).

Damage, said Mr. Barret, was con fined mainly to poorly constructed temporary homes where there was breakage of crockery and glassware.

But it was worth noting that there was no damage at all to the delicate equipment of Department of Civil Aviation installations, or to the X-Ray plant in the local hospital or to the delicate machinery in the oil mill of Coconut Products Ltd.

No one enjoyed earthquakes, he said, and it was certain that some residents of Rabaul were far from happy. But this unhappiness was caused more by bad, temporary housing and bad road conditions than by earthquakes.

During the quake, a door in one of these temporary houses jammed and a woman and two children Kavieng’s Force- 8 Earthquake—see page 114 of this issue. were trapped inside until a native servant smashed in the door with an axe.

Mr. Barrett, in conclusion said that the District Commissioner should be the one to decide whether there was a state of emergency— and not someone in a newspaper office, 500 to 2,000 miles away.

The Rev. F. G. Lewis spoke in support of Mr. Barrett and sug gested that at such times there should be censorship of “irrespon sible press reports.”

Dc’S Summary

Mr. J. K. McCarthy, District Commissioner New Britain, said that 2.30 a.m. is a frightening time to face a crisis but Rabaul had faced it with courage. The ohly section to panic was the press and radio. Four administration tem porary houses had been damaged so as to be unfit for habitation.

There were many burst rainwater tanks. Tunnel Hill escape road was in bad condition—but from rain, not from the quake. Namanula Hi] road had been blocked by fallihj earth and trees but was clearel in two hours. The coast road t Kok o p o had remained opei throughout. He said that followinj the quake there had been an un usual rising and falling of the tid but no one had seen the four-fee tidal waves reported in the loca paper and no ship had been dam aged or swept onto a reef, as hai been reported. The telephone ser vice had remained in operatic!

The electricity circuit had beei (Continued on Page 117)

M. Poroi Again

MAYOR

Of Papeete

M. ALFRED POROI was again re elected Mayor of Papeete, 01 April 26, by a very largi majority. There is no doubt aboil the confidence which the people o Tahiti have in this outstandiil young man.

This is M. Poroi’s third triumpj within a few weeks. He has bed appointed manager for the Uniol SS Co. in Tahiti; and he is tM leader of the Moderates in the nei Assembly, in opposition to the largi group led by Pouvanaa a Oopjj which is inclined to the Left, ani regarded as anti-European.

M. Poroi’s record as Mayor o: Papeete is an excellent one. Hi has taken a keen personal interes in making all public servica efficient, and his building programrq is well-planned and progressive. 1 More NZ-Fiji Flights

Pan American Airways Too

its weekly Boeing Strata cruiser service off the Nandi Auckland run this month and re placed it with a twice-weekly Skja master service. Though smallel these aircraft have been fitted fa 20 passengers to travel in luxurj and can handle the traffic on thil sector.

Northbound from NZ in Tofua in April (l. to r.): Mr. A. R. Cobcroft and son D. B Cobcroft who returned to Vaipoto cocoa plantation, W. Samoa. Mr. E. F. Oldehaven of radio station staff. Apia, who returned from leave. The Rev. Brother Jerome Principal of The Brothers Secondary School, Apia, during the past seven years, who transferred to Pago Pago after leave in New Zealand. Samoan Medical Practitioner U. F. Toelupe and Mrs. Toelupe who returned to the new Poutasi hospital. W. Samoa after vacation. 20 may, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLfS

Ulagi Wharf Finally

Gives Up The Ghost

|UR Honiara (BSIP) corresr pondent reports that the wartime wharf at Tulagi collapsed 'April 9—apparently a Bank Line pra ship, the Eskbank, leaned too avily upon it. The wharf had en partially repaired but has en unsound for some time.

Construction of a temporary hter wharf has been completed Point Cruz, Honiara. This, it is ped, will enable cargo from overas ships to be lightered at hilar a.

The bulk of the cargo brought to BSIP comes in the Burns Philp )tor-vessels Malaita and Mulidma. lese vessels have made a practice dropping mail and freezer cargo ; Honiara then going off to Tulagi about two hours away—and uniding the rest of their cargo onto e war-time wharf. From there it s been laboriously lightered back ain to Honiara. This lightering sts about £2 per ton—the cost of ;ight from Sydney to Tulagi alady having cost about £l2 per n.

The decision to unload general rgo at Tulagi was evidently that the shipowners because from miara’s point of view, this is full disadvantages in higher landed st of goods and delay—several jeks usually elapse between disarge of the cargo from Malaita id its arrival by lighter in miara.

Point Cruz, of course, affords no otection for overseas ships which List anchor in the open roadstead. »r most of the time, the sea thereouts is calm but occasionally it subjected to a blow that makes irking onto lighters impossible, ithout the safe harbour of Tulagi, esumably Honiara will have to do thout its cargo if overseas ships rive there during periods of >rm; or be prepared to pay a ;her freight rate as an insurance the shipping companies against ig delays during bad weather. * The Maui Pomare brought no citrus fruit to Auckland on her first trip of the season following lay-up, and the Waikawa brought only 8.000 cases. Due to dry weather early in the year the crop has been slow in developing. r Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Pearson—he is secretary of the Associated Goldmining Companies at Vatakoula, Fiji—returned recently to the Colony with their three children after two months leave in Australia.

E. W. Oakley—Very Much Alive Mr. E. W. Oakley rang PIM durg the month to say that he was till very much aliveln the )o You Remember?” section, of oril PIM, we said that Mr. Oakley , e time of the New Guinea District rmces Department, was dead. We thdraw and apologise.

Mr. Oakley has been engaged in isiness in Sydney for the past 10 ars.

Recent Port Moresby Weddings TOP: Mr. and Mrs. James Kelly (bride was formerly Miss Margaret Ponsonby ) after their wedding at St. John’s Church, Port Moresby, on April 29. Bridesmaid Miss Pam Blazey and best man Mr.

William Kelly are also in the picture.

CENTRE: Mr. and Mrs. G. Jones (bride was formerly Miss Busuttin) after they were married at the Roman Catholic Church, Port Moresby, on April 11.

LOWER: Two popular couples—Mr. and Mrs. C. Whitmore, and Mr. and Mrs. A.

Jefford—left Port Moresby recently to spend a long leave in England. This photograph shows them at a Farewell Party. —Photos by Papuan Prints. 21 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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By Tolala 3ME rather caustic comments have reached me concerning the strines tied to the distri- :ion of Japlnese assets to civilian ernees by the official orgamsan known as The Citizens’ Innees Trust Fund Vidows of deceased internees ich as those who were lost in > Montevideo Maru) are subted to a means test; and internee Dlicants for grants must produce dical evidence of suffering from manent disabilities before their ims can be considered. have yet to learn that anyone 0 spent the war years as a Jap W or internee, has not been ected in. some way—and per- S'SsrL Sufi'S rtfSLr./sfSwvaj ' * , n July a large-scale suivey to ess the agricultural potential of ?Uf L'^ ew 11 1. *>? 8 nched under aegis of the IRO. And so P-NG goes uuder 1 microscope again, to be studied scientific theorists, keen to cole information-much of which 5 already been acquned through c l lca L expe £ ience I P hands, who would be only too ased to pass it on if asked.

Vhat will it cost. And how much 1 these surveys expedite the deopmept of the country? .heres no doubt but that New mea is the scientists playground i the politicians holiday resort. :: t was good news to read of the proposed erection of a memorial to the Coastwatchers. who paid the supreme sacrifice in War n. a meeting was held in Melbournes in the middle of last month to decide on the location. . .

We owe to the Coastwatcheis fai more than is generally realised, They did a wonderful job. I remember well the gratitude expressed by Rabaul residents when each timely warning was received from young Con Page, on Tabar, of approaching enemy aircraft It’s to be hoped that Australian history books will give this band of gallants their proper place in the records. ; ; :; ;: iS« b " ss murmured, “I told you so.” Even Doc. Deland’s forecast received some prominence. More recently Prof Bullen> of the Sydney University, expressed his opinion on the “smH” leader page that “a tectonic earthquake is almost equally likely to be centred anyhere y in N £ w Britain. ... The earthquake of April 24 is not in itsejf a SU fft C i en t argument for shifting the site of Rabaul to elsewhere in & New Britain.” He then mentions the danger, in the event of major earthquake, of a lava flow on Ra fc a ul.

All of w mch leads to the belief that Ra b au ] i s not more dangerous than parts of New Britain, anc j s j te of principal town might just as well be on a natural harbour as somewhere else where 23 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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The reference in “Do You Remember?” column—and a very interesting column, too—(PIM, April) to the “latrines built at the end of long jetties out over the sea,” reminds me of the often embarrassing questions by tourists when approaching Samarai whr|rf in pre-war days. “What are all those funny-looking little houses over the sea?” But, if I remember rightly, they were there before Dr.

Lambert arrived in NG, which was only in the early Twenties. A great cove, the Doc., running around ill his pyjama-striped pants and full of vigour. He certainly put the hook-worm where it belonged in NG.

I noticed in the April PIM (page 19) that the Rhinoceros beetle is referred to as Brontispa froggatti.

Quite incorrect. The rhinoceros belongs to the dynastid family, a large hard-baked beetle with a snout like a rhinoceros, while the Brontfspa froggatti is a leaf hispa, a little cove of the weevil type, and found mostly in the sheaths of young palms.

It is named after W. W. Froggatt one-time NSW Government Entomologist, who discovered the pest in the BSI back in the early 1900’s and was always combatted by prewar planters in NG, owing to the attitude adopted by Expro Board inspectors, who had received their schooling from the Chairman of the Expro Board (W. H. Lucas), a previous Island Inspector for BP’s in the Solomons, and the man who selected the BP properties in Bougainville prior to War I.

The late W. W. Froggatt was the father of J.L., who was TNG Entomologist for many years.

Last I heard of W. H. Lucas, hi was still going strong at Canberra where he had retired these mam years. When World War I broki out he was appointed by “Billy 1 Hughes as Adviser to the Government on Islands affairs. A pity sucl an Adviser was not appointed aftei War 11.

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Phe passing of Padre Freddie shop will be a loss to many of e old New Guineaites, especially □se who take a trip to England casionally, for invariably they iuld meet this lovable character, 10 always retained a soft spot in 5 heart for Rabaul, where he was e first C. of E. padre at St. (orge’s. He had an amazing pacity for partaking of afternoon is at the numerous homes he Ited, tootling about on his motor ce. Many a night he gave his rvices at a dance, playing his irionet with the local orchestra, s, a good fellow was Freddie shop and held in high esteem, ly he rest peacefully.

A.nd so our RPNGC contingent 1 its spectacular march to the dney Cenotaph and has sailed r the Coronation. Their idierly bearing impressed the jctators—a fine showing they ide. There is no doubt but they 11 arouse favourable comment, *n in dear old phlegmatic London. \n old Islander summed up the uation very truly the other day len he remarked to me: “The ison why the old hands take a n view' of sending these lads ay from New Guinea is because debunks the white man and the iys’ find that their masters have ly feet of clay after all.”

Vly thoughts went back to the ys—some 40 years ago—when the lite man w r as an omnipotent bel in the eyes of the native, when did such things as making fire im a box of matches, pressing a ch button for light, bringing isic out of a box and often curing o them —incurable diseases. In 3se days w r e tried to live up to r reputation as demi-gods, and my of us succeeded. But now — m with an* travel, wireless and nicillin—we have lost our fame • omnipotency. Neither do we empt to preserve it. And the adulum swings the other way. \.n interesting little book conning 32 stories of legends of the ands —17 of Fiji and the relinder of Polynesian islands —was blished in Suva in April. Entitled lies from the South Seas, the per-covered book sells at 2 - per ?y.

G & E Officcials Visit BSI From Our Own correspondent HONIARA, April 30.

THE Resident Commissioner, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony.

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Turbott (Secretary to Government), and Mr. K. Nicholson (Co-operative Societies Officer) arrived in Honiara in the RCS Nareau on April 19 to confer with the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Mr. R. C. S.

Stanley, regarding Colony matters.

This is the first time that a Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands has visited the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. f Dr. Ted Kn owles and his wife are i eav i ng Fiji j n June or July.

Dr. Knowles is CMO. Western, and he will probably attend a twoyears radiographer’s course in United Kingdom before rejoining.

II Mr. and Mrs. MacDufT (he has been Chief Magistrate, Western Fiji, for the last four years), have gone to UK on leave. Mr. Mac Duff served with the NZ Forces in the Western Desert, Greece and Italy, with the rank of Lt/Col. (and with an MC) in W War 11. _, w . * t Mr. and Mrs. M. Ballande of Noumea, New Caledonia, were m the Tavua-Vatukoula area of Fiji recently where they were visiting their daughter who is the wife of Mr. Bruce Roach of Voco, Lautoka. 25 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1953

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Motor Rickshas for Papua Prom Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, April 30.

BACK from an overseas trip, Captain Bobby Gibbes produced a motor ricksha in w'hich he and Mrs. Gibbes did much of their itravelling through Europe. Now he intends to import several of these machines and a company is to be formed to operate a motor-ricksha taxi service in Port Moresby and other Territory towns.

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Tiger Moth’s Forced Landing in Highlands Father j. wallachy (better known as Father Joe), Madang’s Flying Priest, made a forced landing in his Tiger Moth north of Keglsugl in the Eastern Highlands on April 21. The planwas badly damaged but Father Waliachy and his passenger, 75-vear-old Father Weisdnthal, were unhurt.

The latter was being flown to Madang for medical treatment.

The machine landed in rough country 9,600 feet above sea levc and Fathdr WaUachy walked [ miles to Keglsugl airstrip to g< help for his passenger, who wj later carried there. Keglsugl is or of the highest airstrips in the wor] —B,OOO feet above sea level.

Air search for the missing plar began from Madang as soon i Father Joe was reported overdi but heavy weather in the Highlam made the job difficult. Pilot Ra Harris of Territory Air Lines lande at Keglsugl early on the 22nd an got news of the forced landing. Ti two priests were flown to Madang If Administration officers who n turned to duty in Port Moresby ; April included the Director ( Education, Mr. W. C. Groves ar the Treasurer and Director i Finance, Mr. H. H. Reeve 28 M A Y , 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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P. to mi % NG Sawmillers Suffer from Wet “Wet” And Australian Bureaucracy UE to a more than usually wet 1 “wet”, building timber is in short supply in most of the Titory of Papua-New Guinea, I housing and other construction rk is held up, as a consequence, n New Britain, millers have been ible to move logs from the bush the mills for two or three nths. At Bulolo, sawn pine is ng stockpiled for construction of huge plywood factory of Comnwealth Timbers Ltd. (in which Commonwealth Government ds 51 per cent, of the shares and D 49 per cent).

Tie three acres of cement floor the factory is now being laid — tons of cement are being used h day on this part of the pro- 5. In addition, new housing is ig erected nearby for additional ff. >ur Port Moresby correspondent orts that acute shortage of ber, partly due to the wet season, lolding up building in that area; I that until recently there has n a scarcity of cement. A coniment of Japanese cement has ed the situation for the present, there is no comfortable reserve future operations. The Works jartment receives its cement jet from Australia —but most er requirements still come from •an or Europe, although the lent shortage in Australia eased siderably in 1952 and all Ausian home requirements were bemet.

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TIMBER As reported in April PIM, the Wau community in New Guinea—and New Guinea timber interests genera lly_ W ere much interested in the imposition by Australia of duty on timber imported from PNG. (From 6/- to 12/- per 100 superfeet;.

Until the end of 1952, PNG timber was admitted to Australia duty free.

Presumably, the imposition of duty now is designed to protect Australian millers who, after years of exploiting the home-hungry Australian public, found last year that most Australians had had to give up building houses because of high prices, and that there was consequently a slump in the timber 29 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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market. This imposition of duty is just another of those irreconcilable acts between Commonwealth Govw ernment departments, and does not measure up to the Department of Territories’ expressed intention to foster new enterprises in PNG.

There may, however, be a way out of this duty difficulty—an appeal to what evidently is an international institution for fixing duties and which is generally called GATT.

Papuan rubber planters who have agitated for some time for the rel moval of the 2d duty on rubber going into Australia, hdve until recently been told that this could not be done as the deliberations of this GATT, which evidently fixes these things, were sacrosanct. But recently they have been informed by the Commonwealth Government that an appeal can now be made on the grounds that the removal of the duty in the case of P-NG would help in the establishment of a new and struggling industry.

Some rubber planters in Papua believe that this sudden discovery (that an appeal can be made to GATT) could get the Australian Government out of a difficulty not only with rubber but also with the new timber duty.

It seems that about the only people affected by timber duty, at present, would be New Guinea Goldfields; there are virtually no other exporters operating because all local production can be absorbed locally. By the end of the year! however, Commonwealth Timbers Ltd. will be in production and when at full capacity expect to produce something like 10,000 sheets of plyl wood per day for export.

This normally would be subject to the Australian duty but in the agreement between the Commons wealth Government and Common-1 wealth Timbers there is reported to be a clause which says that in the event of duty being imposed in Australia, the full amount of it will be refunded by the Commonwealth to the company. If this is so. the present intention of the Customs authorities in Australia to impose duty is purely discriminatory against New Guinea Goldfields* timber exports and against anyone else who in the future decided to export timber from PNG to Australia.

But here, again, in the newly disf covered knowledge that it is post sible to appeal to GATT, preseni and future timber exporters may be able to escape the duty on the grounds that they need this help to establish a new industry.

Regarded purely in the light of ccmmonsense, the above manner of encouraging a Territory industry is a good example of bureaucratic* government run riot.

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The Nauruans are not Melanesians, of the type with which Australia is familiar in New Guinea.

They have sometimes been called ‘a pocket of Polynesians”—at any rate, they are an intelligent, tractable people of Polynesian characteristics. Because they have been receiving royalties on their phosphate for a * couple of generations, they are a rich community. Nauru, unlike its sister phosphate island of Ocean, is a pleasant place—its old name actually was Pleasant Island —and life in the non-phosphatic section is quite comfortable.

But the Nauruans insist that they are not happy. “Use our accumulated funds to buy us another island somewhere,” is their ceaseless cry to the Government.

But the Government’s experts say that another island wdll not end the Nauruan restlessness. Whatthev want is occupation—regular work of some kind. So Mr. Pitman, a Commonwealth education officer, has gone to Nauru to take charge of education there. He will try to establish an education system under which adults, as well as children, will be trained in useful trades and handicrafts, so that, instead of sitting idle in their villages, th( may do useful work at Europea level.

Meanwhile, although seven months have elapsed since M Richards retired from the Admihii tratorship, the top position has m been filled. Evidently, it is propose to carry on as at present, pendir some internal reorganisation. 32 M A Y , 1953-PACIFIC ISLANDS -MONTHLY

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Pago, and returning with sups. He was elated with his buy ; said the stores and surplus • which he had removed from Alsirat were alone worth 4,000 ars.

VRMON was getting his papers in order, ready for departure for USA at the end of February, n the Philante 11, with skipper Dl Rusden, mate Reggie mbers and Emile Sorenson, e into Pago. Then fireworks ,y started. le Philante II men went imiately to the American author - , and demanded the arrest of non, charging him with fraud forgery in connection with the hase of the Alsirat in Panama, nson, who claimed to be the I owner of the boat, said that non was wanted also in Panama “misappropriation of Governt property.” They told an exrdinary tale. appears that Mr. and Mrs. nson had taken the yacht out Denmark to Panama. There still a lien or mortgage on the for about $6,000. Then Sorenlad to make a trip to Denmark, he left Mrs. Sorenson in charge le boat, at Panama, mehow, Mrs. Sorenson and non became associated; and those two took the Alsirat from Panama to Punta Arenas, in Costa Rica. There, allegedly by fraud, they had the registered ownership of the yacht changed from the name of Mr. Sorenson to Mrs.

Sorenson. Then they sailed her back to Panama where, as the resuit of further representations alleged to be fraudulent, the authorities permitted the sale of the Alsirat from Mrs. Sorenson to Harmon.

Then the couple, as Mr. and Mrs.

Harmon, brought the Alsirat, via Panama Canal, and by pleasant Islands stages, to American Samoa.

Meanwhile, Mr. Sorenson returned to Panama, got on the track of the runaway couple and the yacht, and 33 D I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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Box 192, G.P.0.. Sydney 5C7.82 finally joined the company of th« Fairmile craft Philante 11. when ii was running between Tahiti anc Honolulu, at the end of last year THE Attorney-General in Pago Mr. Gerald Gottlieb, heard th( representations of Mr. Sorenson and took the case under advisement; but he pointed out that hi could not take further action unti he had examined the evidence That examination might take time Mr. Sorenson had many document —in Danish, Spanish and English the laws of various countries wen involved: and Mr. Harmon insiste( that his purchase of the vessel wai completely legal.

The Philante II people decide< that, while they were waiting, the; would make a business trip to Apia in Western Samoa. They made thi mistake of taking Sorenson along It was understood that the polio chief in Pago would keep an ey on Harmon, When the Philante II returnd to Pago, Harmon was gone. Some how —no one seems to know howhe had got away as a passenger o| the little inter-island ship Gauma tau (run by Nelson and Co, of Apia around the Samoas) and which ha( come into Pago most opportune! for him. Before the chase could to resumed, Harmon had travelled b; TEAL (early in March) from Apii to Suva; and from there it is pre sumed he travelled by air to USA Mr. Sorenson wants to blame th American authorities at Pago. Bu the latter could not detain Harmci until a warrant had been issues Probably, the American law offices thanked all the gods they know tha Harmon departed, thus removiil from their lap what looked like th father and mother of all nautica legal tangles.

But they may not have escaped If there is a lien on the yacht hel( by some Danish interest, the latte: may proceed direct to Pago am appeal to the US Governor fo possession of the craft from “King 1 Jennings. That, in turn, will in volve most complicated procedure in the examination of the “King’s' title. Or Mr. Sorenson may not to out of the picture, even althougl Harmon is gone. If he can co operate with the Danish holder o: the lien, and has the necessar evidence to establish ownership, hi also may have grounds for ai appeal for possession to the Pagt authorities— Special Correspondent Japs Pay Fine and Go AT Rabaul on April 18, the maste of the Japanese fishing vesse KNI-7, paid the £505 total fin imposed on Anril 9, by the District Court for fishing in Territor;: waters without a licence.

The ship sailed the folio will morning for Japan. 34 MAY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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rNDER the American system, I which causes a change in most overseas diplomatic posts when tew President of another political rty is elected, Governor James thur Ewdng has retired from the vernorship of American Samoa. has been succeeded by Mr. vrence Judd, of Honolulu. ’he photograph shows Mr. and s. Ewing being farewelled with vers, Samoa fashion, on their deture. He took over the office y last October.

Mr. Judd, 67, Is very well known in the Pacific.. He was formerly Governor of Hawaii, Director of the Molokai Leper Colony and a Director of the-Bishop Museum.

' *Mr. J. S. Coster (who recently retired after 20 years as manager of the Union SS Go’s Papeete branch) and Mrs. Coster, are at present in Rarotonga on holiday, having left Papeete on April 10 per Waikawa. The Costers may settle in Apia.

Aero Club of Papua Mr. A. R. Murray of the Civil Aviation Department has been elected President of the Club’s permanent committee, with Messrs. V. Sanders and ,G. Bugg as Vice- Presidents. Mr. Peter Grimshaw is the secretary, and Mr. L. Rudder, treasurer.

The Club has initiated a general appeal for funds, and enquiries are being made in Australia regarding the acquisition of aircraft.

By late April 86 members had joined, including 10 women. 35 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1053

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iring the last week of April, Loan fishermen reaped a rich r est in and around Apia and r districts. Large quantities of small and large fish, including Samoan herrings, mullet, bonito and other favourite fish were caught in Apia harbour.

Lucky Simunovich, a Hawaiian wrestler, 6 ft 2 in. tall and weighing 250 lbs arrived in Auckland recently for a season in the ring.

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THE LEFT: At St. John’s Church, Moresby, on April 10, Miss Jean of Newcastle, NSW, married Mr. A. [?]rd. The photo shows the bride cutthe cake.

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W. Samoa Testing on Short-Wave Broadcast station 2ap of Apia advises that, late in May, it expects to be ready to commence test transmissions on the short-wave channel of 6040 kc/s in the 49-metre band, in parallel with their normal broadcast-band outlet on 1420 kc/s. Reports to the station on reception throughout the Islands will be gratefully received.

If reports show that 6040 kc/s is, unsatisfactory after several weeks trial, tests will be made on 3241 kc/s in the 92-metre irrjic?’ broadcast-band.

A satisfactory short-wave channel would be of interest to the many Samoans living in New Zealand, as the present broadcastband channel is poorly received and badly jammed there by an Australian station of better strength. Indications are that 6040 kc/s will not be satisfactory in the evenings due to congestion on that frequency. The 3241 kc/s outlet might be well received in NZ, but static might spoil results in the Islands, especially during the Summer months.

Broadcasting hours for the tests are Monday to Friday 2130-2230 GMT, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 0530-0830 GMT, Sunday 0630»-0730 GMT.

BGD’s Bigger Output THE New Guinea gold co., Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., will show a big profit for the year ending May 31. In the nine months ended February 28 its figures, as compared with the same nine months of 1952, were as follows: The Lae Branch of the Bank of NSW celebrated six years of continuous service on May 12. Originally opened in November, 1941, it had to close two months later whe the Japs arrived and staff membei had to leave hurriedly for tt Highlands. They were able to sat all records for future use. Tl present branch, which is still carrie on in temporary quarters pendir erection of the permanent bank i the new town area, was opened i Lae on May 12, 1947, with a sta of two. 38 MAY, 1053 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The Touring Stanleys Visit Gizo T the end of March, the High _ Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Mr. R. C. S. Stanley, ;h Mrs. Stanley and Miss Stanley, t Honiara for a tour of the stem Solomons. They were met newhere along the way by strict Commissioner Peter Hughes a conducted back to Gizo for a ef stay.

Jizo, a great hump of red canic clay covered with picesque casuarinas, coconuts and redibly green and well kept ,ss, is surrounded by small mds like cup-cakes and with the iked seven or eight thousand t of Kolombangara as a dramatic :kdrop. It surely must be one the most beautiful Government tions in the whole South-West nfic.

Tiere are three or four Chinese de stores, which keep a very ited amount of European goods, i an outpost of the Trade teme whose retail store was sed all boat-day. ’he Japs occupied the area durthe war but the Americans bysed it. Either to throw a scare ) the Japs, or for target practice, y machine-gunned many of the -war buildings. One white nted store on the foreshore has 7 had its machine-gun-bullet es stopped up with red paint il it looks like a large-scale isles epidemic. ■here is a new native hospital, It in a small gulley, out of Army material but such equip it as it has has been salvaged the new Doctor in charge, from ious junk heaps. He is assisted an AMP who was trained in tistry at Suva Medical School, some local dressers. The place ns to scream for the presence of east one European nursing sister one could be persuaded to iple the beautiful isolation of d. However, it seems that the e of the BSIP exchequer will yet permit. he houses of the District Comsioner, police inspector and ;or (and their respective ilies) are built along the top he island. All have magnificent rs but, at this time of the year east, not much breeze. There two methods of approach open he weary pilgrim (there are no Is and no motors on Gizo) er by the path that leads upi through flowering hibiscus frangipanni to the house of District Commissioner; or by perpendicular track and steps the doctor has recently had :ed out from behind the >ital to his house. In either it, you will reach the top with your tongue hanging out and your clothes sweated fast to your body.

The D.C. has enthusiastic plans for the advancem e n t of the natives of the District who, in fact, seem more amenable to new ideas than their more truculent (or dumb) brothers to the south of the Group. The European officials are keen and, strangely, seem less prone to the depressions wrought of continued frustration than their brethren in Honiara. (Over) The new native hospital at Gizo. 39 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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They are concerned, with reasm in “keeping themselves up to tb mark” and in this respect, the vis of the High Commissioner and h; family provided a high spot. Hei as elsewhere there is great ad miration for the Stanley brand j hardihood and evident willingnq to tour frequently in boats so sma and stuffy that the ordinary citize would not commit himself to thei and the sea unless dragged o board unconscious.

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Dogs—Not Dozers r[E Cook Islands, in mid-Apri produced a fair average sampl of how the coconut radio ca get its wires crossed.

A TEAL aircraft, Tahiti-boum passed through Aitutaki with thij pedigree bulldog pups aboard-i hundred guineas’ worth —consign} to Mr. John Rolley, of Papeete. A Aitutaki the TEAL aircraft facil ities are located far from the mai settlement and radio station, whic maintains contact with Rarotongi Someone’s cousin, back in th Aitutaki village from the distal air terminal, reported that he 1 heard that the aircraft was carrs ing three bulldozers to Papeet Wasn’t it just amazing what the could get into those Solents!

The Aitutaki native radio operator, hearing the news, passe it along to Rarotonga as his con tribution to the daily Islands new bulletin, which is re-broadcast I the outer Islands.

In Rarotonga, however, a Eure pean operator, smelling a rat —on bulldog—included the item in tb press release with a notation thai pending confirmation from Aitu taki, he suspected that the carg might be bulldogs, not bulldozers!

At the invitation of the Com mandant of the French Navi Forces in Tahiti, and with tb patronage of Governor Petitbon an Madame Petitbon, a notable ba was held at the Naval Statiot Papeete, on April 30. Most t Tahiti’s leading citizens were pre sent. 40 MAY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLf

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HIGHLANDS Cloud Over Nondugl From JUDY TUDOR LAE, April 22.

JO one quite knows the score at S Nondugl—the 1,200-acre livestock station of the Hallstrom rust in the Eastern Highlands of gw Guinea.

When Mr. and Mrs. N. Blood and lughter Susan returned from leave Australia in mid-April it was ily to pack up at Nondugl and go i to the Korn Farm, near Hagen, lere the Agricultural Department developing an experimental coffee ation. This will be pioneering all er again for the Blood family, lose name is just about synonymis with Nondugl.

The story, locally, is that Sir iward, of refrigerator fame, has st interest in Nondugl since the port of rare birds was prohibited •out six months ago (it was sugsted that they might carry Newstle Disease into Australia). Exrt of birds will probably be reined soon, however—some birds e booked for the United States May.

The sheep at Nondugl are not ing as well as popular report >uld have us believe. The quidnuncs are of the opinion that it is only a matter of time before they all die off.

At present there are 900—a considerable number less than originally imported in spite of some natural increase in the early stages.

Reasons given are a worm or a parasite infestation and unsuitability of climate and soil at Nondugl, plus the fact that there has been little of the planned improvement of pastures with imported grasses, which evidently is essential there in the Highlands.

The local veterinary officer of the Department of Agriculture is of the opinion that while European cattle are a sure-fire success in the Highlands area, sheep are out of their 41 k C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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The sheep that are doing best, he says, are those owned by Mr. Danny Leahy, near Mt. Hagen and at 7,000 feet. They probably would do reasonably well also in an area with only 40 or so inches of rain per year.

Mr. Jim Leahy has a few sheep, just outside of Goroka, which produced a dozen lambs in one week in mid-April; but he has not got them in such large numbers that they cannot receive almost individual attention. rpHE terms of the Nondugl Trust JL have always been something of a mystery to the layman; but it was generally understood that the reason for the introduction of sheep was to provide the local natives with blankets and warm clothing. Except to a very limited experimental degree, Nondugl has provided no wool for this purpose— what has been shorn has been sent to Sydney for sale.

The only person to produce blankets in quantity from his own wool is again Danny Leahy, who has taught the natives to spin and to weave the blankets that are given as part of the usual labour issue.

Mr. Jim Leahy has also done a small amount of blanket weaving from wool from his own flock.

Some sheep were given to local natives who either expressed a desire for them or were persuaded that they would like them. But they neglected them, did not attempt to shear or drench them, and refused to bring them into the stations for that purpose. Some sheep recently taken back from the natives carried three years’ fleece and when shorn promptly succumbed to the cold.

They are at present advertising for a new manager for Nondugl; but the cynics say that it will eventually become a bird-collecting centre and little else.

Miss Jacqueline Milne, daughter of Superintendent and Mrs. Milne, of Tavua, Fiji, entertained a number of her friends at a party on the occasion of her fourth birthdal on April 26. 42 MAY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Smaller Banana Case 3.UIT DISTRIBUTORS LTD., of Wellington, recently reported that, to assist in handr, they are changing over to a tiler type of banana crate for it imports from the Islands to v Zealand. The new case will tain about 70 lbs of bananas as ipared with 90 lbs. formerly.

Outrigger Up To Date [?] European Medical Assistant at [?] Bougainville has added this out- [?] motor to his outrigger canoe and through the water with the greatest [?]ase. As well, the canoe is equipped sails and If both sails and engine the two native henchmen shown get out the paddles. in World War II anchored their naval craft in this deep-water channel which is now little used. young daughter Gay (at right), standing on the remains of one of the pontoon wharves in Sunlight Passage—the Yanks 43 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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DR. ROY SCRAGG, Administration medical officer in Kavieng, P-NG, has for the past 9 months been treating half a dozen of the 300 lepers at the settlement at Anelaua, New Hanover. with a new drug called (approximately) Isonrazed. He says results are hopeful but that “it is too early to tell yet.”

The drug was obtained in the United Kingdom by the Kavieng Red Cross branch and paid for by local natives—in Christmas 1951, through their co-operatives they collected £lBO for a “treat” for the leprosy patients. Part was spent on Christmas cheer, the rest on the new drug.

The leprosy hospital at Anelaua is in charge of Sister Clematia, a native of Germany who is assisted by four Sisters of Mary and one of the New Guinea natives who were trained in the Central Medical School in Suva.

If Dr. Scragg is moved on elsewhere —and that seems to be the fate of all enthusiastic officials in the P-NG administration —he will leave a monument in Kavieng in the shape of the local baths now betno- built at the left of the town wharf. About £2OO was provided by the Kavieng Club for materials to build the baths but most of the work of erecting the concrete piles, and the arctic mesh that will make the baths shark-proof, seems to be done by the doctor, with the help of Mr. Hal Evans and one or two other public-spirited citizens who devote an occasional half holiday to the necessary submarine activities, JUDY TUDOR.

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INDUSTRIES Probable Effect of (a) Plastics and (b) the Returning Japanese By .J. p. SHORT ALL February and March, 1952, the PIM reviewed the Pacific shell industry, and indicated some of factors which governed the protion and price levels of this nable dollar-earner. Here is a unary of what happened since n in the trochus and MOP )ther-of-pearl) industries, ome trochus producers in the stern Pacific islands have been jping their produce to overseas ers, and have obtained prices in gss of £A2OO per ton f.o.b. durthe past year—though the iority of Sydney agents, (who in past have sold the greater part :he total production on a collision basis) have remained—at it publicly—very pessimistic, aul Rie, a leading New York er, when recently asked about quality of trochus coming from Western Pacific, made criticism r against the Cairns shippers, se people, he said, have done industry a very poor service by grading the quality and the shell rtments. He made no reference my excessively bad shell from Islands. 1 general, however, we might 2 expected, from the prevailing ney atmosphere of gloom reling Pacific trochus, that the seas market had remained dull, even declined during the past years. So it is interesting to i, from the published figures of US Department of Commerce, whereas the average price per id of trochus from all sources, irted into US in 1950, was about cents, by 1952 it had risen to ly 21 cents. In 1950, Australia ond on the list as regards itity) shipped 492 tons of bus and received 12 cents per id. But in 1952, now topping list, Australia shipped 1,424 and received an average 25 1 s per pound—more than double 1950 price. hat this price might have been 11 shell had been well graded interesting to speculate. Highest is paid in America in the two s mentioned were 14.3 cents be Philippines in 1950, and 311 s to Malaya in 1952. icific Islands shell from British ces in 1950 was 97 tons at Hi s. In 1952, it rose to 149 tons 9 h cents. le 1952 US figures list “British Guinea” shell under a heading :s own—22l tons was imported, averaged 22.6 cents per pound. rpHESE quantities, it is em- JL phasteed, do not necessarily represent total exports from the areas mentioned. They are the tonnages actually imported into the States. Some trochus, we know, went to Continental destinations.

But the prices here given do give an excellent indication of ruling world prices and of price trends in the past two years.

If the French Western Pacific Territories were producing any quantity of trochus in 1950, little of it was finding its way to America. But by 1952 it is clear that an excellent 47 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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Blue Gillette Blades grade of shell was being produced! there, as the 34 tons shipped to the) US averaged 29.4 cents per pound. 3 This price—30 per cent, better thani New Guinea—may be accounted for,| at least partly, by a better natural] type of shell from the New Cale-j donia-New Hebrides waters, ini addition to better grading.

By a coincidence, the multiplica-i tion by 10 of the above price in] cents per pound gives the price in £A per long ton —from which we see that the average f.o.b. price* paid in 1952 to New Guinea] shippers or their agents, was £A226 per long ton—and to shippers from: the French Territories, £A294.

Other South West Pacific British! islands—Fiji, the Solomons, and possibly some of the other WPHC areas, together shipped 149 tons, and were paid an average of 19.5 cents (£AI9S). Obviously some shippers received well above these average figures, which certainly in-| dicate that the trochus market] was considerably brighter than some? reports from Sydney would suggest!

IN general, Paul Rie, of New York, had this to say on current] trends: As events have developed] the glut of trochus that existed in early 1952 has gradually been digested, mostly by Japan and Europe. USA has also absorbed the inflated inventory of trochus resulting from the 1951 abuses, which we discussed last year; but, at the same time, has become more servative in its purchases of this, type of shell, because the Japanese are able to outbid USA, and then to sell the finished buttons in the USA, duty paid, at lower prices than can be met by American manufacturers.

Faced with this situation (Mr. Rie points out), a good many American manufacturers are currently buying trochus buttons from Japan rather than face the grief and strain of importing shell of unknown quality, with an unknown percentage of loss in production. Buying the finished buttons, they know exactly what they are paying for.

This trend is not necessarily a bad one for the Pacific producers, l though it must affect dollar earnings—unless the Japanese are forced to pay in dollars.

CONTRARY to earlier expectations, the Japanese have not yet started to fish much shell themselves. Clearly, they have been restrained by some behind-thescenes influences, as with their MOP planned activities.

Some months, now, a modern, well-equipped Japanese pearling fleet of 25 large diving tenders and a mother-ship has been standing by in Japan, ready to sail South to the shell-beds outside, but close to the territorial waters of the Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia, 48 MAY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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n April 13, a secret conference ,lly got under way in Canberra veen Australia and Japanese srnment representatives to dis- -5 attitudes and implications. »ending on decisions reached, an will buy less or more shell n foreign sources. If she fishes own shell, she will apparently lire to buy less, and the effect ild be depressing to Islands )pers. n event of outstanding interest this regard is the opening of a hus processing factory at Levuka, —first enterprise of its kind in South Pacific —which will be able of handling at least the re Fiji trochus output, if the i’s aspirations are realised. An cle on this factory, which will i out buttons, medical lines, netic powder, manures and Itry grit, will appear in PIM at early date. the Southeast Pacific, where the interest is in MOP shell, little or no trochus is produced, market has also tended to imre since our last survey, ml Rie considers that if Japan nters the MOP production field, effect will be good for all conled. Australia’s low output of te shell has embarrassed the on manufacturers who handled ; particular product and find themselves in short supply, and unable to meet their button orders.

This has the effect of giving plastics a footing in the well-established shell-button market. Preventing such a tendency, by the purchase of shell from whatever source, is a long-term safeguard to the Australian shell export market, Australia’s low output might other wise force the button-makers to turn to plastics permanently, , . _ ... , „ , riIHE output of white shell has X almost no effect on the French Oceania-Cook Islands black-lip 49 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1853

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Thus Paul Rie explains the rising tendency of Manihiki shell over the past year or so as having been mainly due to a shortage of Tuamotu shell in late 1951, and last year.

The Tuamotu, Rie says, is now producing at a better rate and he feels that the Manihiki prices will not go higher, and may even drop.

Nevertheless, the Manihiki price is good, and the earnings from this lagoon mean a great deal to the Cook Islands. High hopes are held out for a successful development of £he Suwarrow lagoon, which may be as rich as Manihiki.

Mr, D. C. Brown, shell trader, has recently received permission to do some exploratory diving in this lagoon. Unfortunately, the coconuts of this island are infested heavily with a termite which seems to defy eradication. Otherwise, a good many people might permanently settle there, and produce copra as well as shell—that is, assuming the lagoon proves fruitful, and the shark menace is not what tradition has painted it to be.

AS to the inroads of plastics on the button market, Mr. Rie says that at present the best of the synthetics sell at a price which is not much lower than the price of trochus buttons. They are a very real threat to the shell industry.

But abandonment of shell means abandonment of considerable capital invested in shell-processing machinery, skilled shell workers, etc., which influences restrain a change-over to synthetics.

Rie indicates how good the best synthetics are, as imitations of the! real thing. Professional experts cannot detect the genuine pearl-1 shell from the synthetic button at three feet. In fact, he knows of experienced men who have bought shirts with what they thought weri shell buttons and did not discover! until they made a close examina-l tion later, that they had purchased synthetic mountings.

Australian figures on mop exports for 1952 are not readily! 50 M AY, 1053 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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TRAVELLERS April, 1952, for 35 Japanese divers to be employed at Broome they did not arrive until March of 1953 and were greeted with considerable hostility by all but their employers.

Darwin and Thursday Island, though forced to admit the inefficiency of most of their present Torres Strait Islands divers, refuse to consider the use of Japanese; and in April there was a move afoot to introduce Italian divers to Darwin.

Thursday Island boats are largely owned by the Torres Strait Islanders, under the guiding hand of the Queensland Government. Plans are afoot in TI for the establishment of a diving-school to improve efficiency, as the introduction of outside labour would simply mean unemployment for the Torres Strait Islanders. The latter’s sources of livelihood are very limited. back from filming scenes in Tahiti, late erch, came Mr. John O’Shea (left) and Roger Mirams, of Pacific Films, Ltd., [?]llington. They had received great peration from Government departments all concerned in Tahiti, Miss Anna Herman and Mrs. W. Tau Lived per TEAL in Auckland from [?]itaki.

Mr Stan Mayne, popular Suva optician, Mr. Frank Ryan, of Fiji' Times & ald, departed for Suva per Tofua. 51 kCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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ISLANDERS Future Needs Discussed by Delegates from 18 Territories in 12 Days’ Conference Special Report for Pacific Islands Monthly by C. E. SAYERS NOUMEA, April 28.

HE Second South Pacific Conference, which ended a twelvedays’ Session at the Noumea idquarters of the South Pacific nmission on April 27, advanced a further stage the aspirations the peoples of the region.

The discussions covered a wide d of activity and endeavour, and iewed the work of the Commisi and its technical officers since first Conference was held at linu, Fiji, three years ago. jnong observers at the Confer e were representatives of the srnational Labour Organisation, lific Science Board of the iional Research Council of USA, rid Health Organisation, French titute of Oceania and missionary anisations of Australia, New land, the Netherlands and the th Pacific. he flags of the six nations formthe Commission Australia, nee, the Netherlands, New Zea- 3, the United Kingdom and the ted States of America—flew from the Commission’s headquarters. Delegates were welcomed by the Governor of New Caledonia, M R. Angammarre.

List Of Delegates

Papua-New Guinea

Delegates (Papua): Paulus Arek (Teacher on staff of Sogeri Education Centre); Miss Tani Sisa (Stationed at Saiho, near Mount Lamington, engaged in rehabilitation work).

Alternates: Timeaus Sambuba (Chief Instructor at Saiho Medical Orderly School); Elliott Elijar (Co-operative Inspector, Bougainville).

Delegates (New Guinea): Advent Tarosi (Senior Teacher with Department of Education); Waiau Ahnon (Member of the Rabaul Town Advisory Council and President of the Kambiu Club, Rabaul).

Alternates: Takapan (Paramount Luluai of his District); Nason (Chairman of Nanga Nanga Village Council: Responsible for the development of the Tapipip Cacao Project).

Advisers: H. L. R. Niall (Senior District Commissioner); Miss B. A. McLachlan (Officer-in-Charge, Female Education Division, Department of Education); R. S- Came (Senior Agricultural Officer for Central Highlands); R. Thomson (Social Welfare Officer in Administration).

NAURU Delegate; Alternate: James Ategan Bop (Councillor and Treasurer, Nauru Local Government Council).

Adviser: J. N. Snell (Accountant, Nauru Administration).

New Caledonia

Delegates: High Chief Kowe Bouillant (High Chief of Poyes Tribe; President of 53 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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Delegates: Jean Millaud (former President of the French Oceania Representative Assembly); Antelme Buillard (Member of staff of Bank of Indo-China).

Netherlands New Guinea

Delegates: M. Kaisiepo (Official of Information and Broadcasting Service, Hollandia); W. Inury (School Inspector, Hollandia).

Advisers: Rev. I. S. Kijne (Field Director of NG Missions of the Dutch Reformed Church); Dr, J. V. de Bruyn (Assistant Resident, Bureau of Native Affairs, Hollandia).

Western Samoa

Delegates: Hon. Gatoloai Peseta Sio (Chairman of Fono of Faipule); Hon.

Tualaulelei (Member of Legislative Assembly).

Advisers: Hon. Maualaivao Sunu (Member of the Fono of Faipule); Hon. Te’o Leutele (Member of Legislative Assembly).

Cook Islands

Delegates: William Parau Browne (Member of Rarotonga Islands Council); Tiri Trigo.

Alternates: Mrs. Tapaeru Terito Taite Ariki (Member of Rarotonga Council); J. W. W. Graham.

NIUE Delegates: Councillor Anaki (Island Council Member for Tamakautoga).

Adviser: Leslie Rex.

FIJI Delegates; Hon. Ratu G. C. Tuisawai, OBE (Senior Fijian Member of Legislative Council); Hon. T. R. Sharma (Indian Member of Legislative Council: Barrister and Solicitor in Supreme Court of Fiji).

Alternatives: Rata Tiale Duiyasawa (a Senior Native Administrator of Fiji); Hon. B. M. Jannif (Indian Member of Legislative Council).

Gilbert & Ellice Islands

Delegates (Gilbert Islands): Tutu Tekanene, BEM (Senior Assistant Medical Practitioner); Monokoa (Clerk, British Phosphate Commissioners).

Delegates (Ellice Islands): Falanl Pasefika (Clerk and Customs Officer!

Melitiana (Headmaster).

Adviser: R. G. Roberts (Administratis officer).

British Solomon Islands

Delegates: Simon Siapu (Sergeant, BSlf Constabulary); Gideon Zoleveke (Assistant Medical Practitioner).

Adviser: J. L. Bergelin (Inspector ol Labour). 54 May, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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American Samoa

delegates: Hon. Mariota Tuiasosopo resident of Senate); Hon. Salofi moegalogo (Speaker of House), llternate: Tufele Faiaoga (Paramount ief). kdviser: John Cole Cool (Staff thropologist).

GUAM Jelegates: Manuel F. E. Guerrero •esident of House of Council, Guam igress, 1935-1950); Baltazar J. Bordallo ember of Legislature).

Rust Territory Of Micronesia

lelegates: Roman Tmetuchl (Administive Assistant); Ignacio V. Benevente icretary of Congress of Saipan and ociate Judge of Saipan District mcil).

Jternatives: Amata Kabua (Instructor, rshall Islands Intermediate School); tz Weilbacher (Staff of Ponape Corative Co.).

New Hebrides

'elegate (British); A. M. P. Philip Ho sistant Medical Practitioner), elegate (French): M. Kaisautu (Chief Mele Village, Vate Island).

TONGA elegate: H. R. H. Prince Tu’ipelehake »vernor of Ha’apai). dviser: W. Straatmans (Senior Agri- ;ural Officer).

OBSERVERS ev. Father John Soury Lavergne, nan Catholic Missions. ev. V, W. Coombes, National Missionary ncil, Australia. . G. Horwell, National Missionary ncil, Australia. r. A. J. Patterson, World Health anisation. . R. Bray, International Labour Office, rof. J. W. Davidson, Australian ional University. arold J. Coolidge, Pacific Science rd, Pacific Science Association, epresentative of Institute Francais ceanie. . Krijger, Netherlands Commissioners’ erver for Royal Institute for the pics, Amsterdam. ev. I. S. Kijne, Adviser Netherlands r Guinea Delegation; Observer for ted Netherlands Missions, N.H.G. t. Lynford Keyes, Public Health Eduon Adviser to the Regional Office of World Health Organisation, Manila, nded the Conference in a private acity. ?he Chairman, M. R. Lassalle- •e, Senior Commissioner for ince, told delegates that he felt : greatest benefits they could de- -2 would come through the cents they made, conversations with h other and the knowledge they Lild gain in this way, at least, the outside world. Let no one that that would be a slender ult. ’he Secretary-General, Sir Brian seston, reviewed the work that i been done since the first Conence was held in Suva in 1950. finite, practical action, he said, i been taken on at least 30 of 43 recommendations of that iference. Filariasis control asures, vacational training and r elopment of food and export ps were examples. The Commission had done its utmost, within limited resources, to bring nearer to realisation the hopes and aspirations of the Pacific people by correspondence, specialist conference and personal contact. Specialist conferences were planned for next year on rice production, and technical aspects of the co-operative movement. axtat vsiis of pi mrcpw

Analysis Of Progress

DR. E. M. OJALA, Deputy Chairman of the Research Council, an auxiliary of the Commission, said the main impression he had gained in moving about the Pacific in the past year was that very few people were not interested in progress. The course of progress was well under way in some Pacific territories, and was just beginning in others. He was impressed with the vital role that administrations were playing in helping the people to express their aspirations in practical achievements roads, cooperative societies, village councils, new tools and machinery, new crops, hospitals, schools, The people, missions, traders, planters and the administrations played the vital role in Pacific progress. The Commission had the selective but important role of regional research and action, in cooperation with governments. It was always looking for new ways of working with the people, and was most anxious to have their recommendations.

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Opulation Pressures

ND FOOD POPULATION trends and pressures and problems of food production and conservation of reurces, were keenly debated on the isis of a paper prepared by Prince ungi, Premier of Tonga.

Prince Tu’ipelehake, who presend the paper, said the Tonga overnment had made efforts to lucate its people in birth-control, it with little success. One possible lution was to remove people from erpopulated to less crowded ands in the group. Another •ssibility was to study intensive Itivation to see if it was possible r people to make a living on a mller area than the 81 acres every mgan boy was granted on reachg sixteen years.

The Nauru delegation asked the inference to support a request to e Australian Government that a w home be found for the people that Territory somewhere in the uth Pacific, where resources ►uld be adequate for an increasing pulation.

That delegation opposed birthcontrol; but it was put forward by the Gilbert and Ellice Islands delegation “as the only rational means of limiting population after it reached the optimum level relative to resources.”

American Samoa also opposed birth-control, not only on moral grounds, but because they had pride in their people and wished to see them increase. Migration of young men was also rejected. The solution offered was the possibility of introducing new techniques and ideas for the fuller development of available resources.

A delegate from the Trust Territory of Micronesia warned against the standard of living being taken too far out of balance with resources.

The Australian-New Guinea delegation told of an underpopulated, under-developed country, with little more than a million people settled on 93,000 square miles.

It would welcome people from Nauru as settlers.

A debate on the development and conservation of resources showed the need for the greater use of existing resources, and the development of new ones. This need was stressed because of growing populations in most territories.

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Warnings of the danger of tryg to change native food habits d quickly were sounded by several legations.

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Miss Tani Sisa (Papua), one of e three women delegates to the inference, said the diet of Islands ople would be improved only if e women were taught in their imes.

“It is no use asking the women grow better food if we do not ich them how to cook it in better d cleaner ways,” Miss Sisa said.

Ced For Health

HJCATION [EALTH education was considered, on a paper presented by the Netherlands New Guinea legation, which urged, as a great Bd, education and propaganda it would persuade the people to n with administrators, village cials and chiefs, medical officers 1 teachers in furthering measures the prevention of disease.

Delegates from Papua-New linea developed this theme by png the greatest use of visual s in health education.

We need educational aids that 1 both amuse and instruct,” one w Guinea delegate said. “Colour i humour are part of the peoples’ ;s, and should be used to the full health education.” .n indication of the practical help ,t is being given by one Pacific ritory to another was contained facts given about medical and •sing services in Papua and New inea. Since the war, five New inea students have been receivtraining at the Central Medical tool in Fiji. Three have qualified Assistant Medical Assistants so , and are now working in the •ritories.

'ifty students from the United tes Trust Territory are being Ined in medicine, dentistry and Ration at the Fiji Medical tool. he use of modern health educai techniques—books, pamphlets, ters, films and other visual aids as generally applauded; but a sgate from American Samoa sug- ;ed that locally-developed educaial material would be more ctive than anything imported n outside the region, he Conference affirmed the imtance of health education and ed that territorial administrais be asked to intensify that k. The Commission was asked luggest to them the inclusion of rses on the subject in any inction programmes for the training of health and education personnel.

It was also recommended that the best possible use should be made of territorial broadcasting services for the purposes of health education, and that a series of simple illustrated booklets should be issued on the basic aspects of sanitation and hygiene. The series should be devised to meet the needs of a particular territory or groups of territories.

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Applause greeted the response of Western Samoa delegate that they ould be represented at the next onference not by four men, but y “two couples.”

Mariota Tuiasosopa (American amoa) suggested to Miss Sisa that te mother birds were more importit in the nests looking after mngsters, and allowing the males i get out to the ocean and catch 5h for them. It would be wrong start an inter-territorial women’s ganisation which might destroy ie village organisation.

Mrs. Tapaeru Terito Taite Ariki Rarotonga) said there was absolute uality of the sexes in the Cook lands group. In one district over of the 40 Arikis were women. l the villages, women’s commites inspected homes and lands, id each month decided the crops at should be planted by the men r family use. Any man who did it carry out these orders was iblicly reprimanded.

Mme. Terorotua Moua (French ;eania) said Tahitian women now ,d equal opportunities with men. lere were more women teachers an men, more women were becom- ? medical students. The Red oss was directed by women, and ey were playing an important rt in industry and commerce.

Langing Ways Of Life

IHE last paper before the Conference was on the subject of child education. It was preited by the Cook Island delegan which said that a child should educated to select the best out his traditional way of life and discard the things that were not aptable to the new life. 3 aulus Arek (Papua) said that ;n in the remotest parts of his intry, villagers were becoming are that theirs was not the only y of life. To meet the challenge, i need was felt for knowledge of i basic skills of civilisation.

We have to consider,” he said, dw we can take the best from r own way of life, and that of i West, and make a new mixture. 5 feel that, like a new cook withi a recipe, we are likely to mix ! wrong ingredients if we are not en guidance.”

Pects Of Education

QUAL education opportunities was regarded as one means of recognising the necessity for 1 and continuous co-operation ween men and women in the deopment of indigenous communis. Territorial administrations, e Conference recommended, •uld promote this by legislative 1 other measures.

"he provision of more schools for girls was urged, with facilities for domestic training, hygiene and elementary civics. Opportunities for co-education activities, and the encouragement of further education for women, including the organisation of women’s clubs and committees were also recommended.

The establishment of a central technical school, with facilities for training ships’ masters and marine engineers, was supported, and the Commission was requested to enquire into the possibility of providing more technical and professional education on a regional basis.

Another recommendation urged the Commission to take steps to ensure that what remains of the traditional social organisation of the Islanders be preserved in written form “so that our descendants may not live in ignorance of their heritage."

International Courtesies

/'AN Anzac Day (April 25) the conference stood in silence for two minutes in commemoration of the part played by Australian and New Zealand Forces in two World Wars.

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The Next Conference

DELEGATES agreed, by 22 votes to 11, to recommend that the third Conference be held two years hence.

The agreement establishing the Commission provides that the Conference shall meet at intervals not exceeding three years. The Conference at Suva, in 1950, left a decision on the date of the Second Conference to the Commission.

Mr. C. G. R. McKay, Senior Commissioner for New Zealand, explained that the Commission had felt that an interval of two years was not sufficient to allow of effective work being done on recommendations from the first Conference. It had decided, therefore, that three years should be the interval between the holding of the first and the second Conferences.

Three sites were suggested for the third Conference —Lae (Australian New Guinea), American Samoa, and West Samoa. These recommendations will be considered by the Commission, which will decide both the date and the site for the third Conference.

Delegates suggested to the Commission that subjects for discussion at the third Conference should include the establishment of a South Pacific university, a survey of new indigenous industries, education in economics, modernisation of industry, the encouragement of native arts, and labour and working conditions in the South Pacific.

In his closing address, the Chair-1 man congratulated delegates on the! success of the Conference. The solidarity of the South Pacificf peoples was being forged little by little, he said. At Suva, three dayd ago, there were some hesitations and doubts about the Conference! 62 may, 1 9 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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PATCHES Bulominski’s Famous New Ireland Road JEW IRELAND towards the end l of a very wet season finds Itself with its famous East Dast road a thing of shreds and itches. The first 50 miles out of avieng are fair, although lacking le perfection demanded by its lilder, Bulominski. After that, for stretch of 10 miles, there are )les into which (it is said) you luld drop a three tons truck and Dt notice it.

The 170 miles to Namatanai can >w be covered in not less than 15 >urs, including the time it takes be dragged out of morasses.

The villages through which the ad passes are still responsible for e maintenance of their piece of ad, as they were in the days of alominski; and, similarly, the anters are responsible for the road at goes through their plantations, 'ivately, you are told by some anters that the villagers now lamefully neglect their road duty; id by Administration officials that, ough the villagers keep their road good condition, some planters mply refuse to do anything to ,eirs.

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The Menace That Lies East

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A MEMORY BY JPS riEORGE,” I said, laying down IJ a copy of the November PIM, just to hand, “what do you ake of this Longitude 173 East ctor in the distribution of malaria? see they’re doing a little research i it.”

My host, along the verandah, zed dreamily out across the reefs. was the noon siesta on one of ji’s outer islands. He was silent long I suspected he hadn’t heard e. Then he turned and gazed at wall map of the Pacific.

“H’m! By Gad, that is peculiar, coincides almost exactly,” he rearked, finally. “The other probn, I mean,” he added, as an ter-thought. Then, noting that I is floundering, he continued: “Look at the map, man! Doesn’t occur to you that the experts e grappling with only half the oblem?”

“How come, George?”

“Man-alive,” said George, “look the map! To the west of 173 s’re battling with malaria. To the st of it the White Man—the igle man, anyway—has another oblem on his hands, just as debating. I refer to the Brown oman! Why, west of 173, old boy, u’ll admit the problem’s practicy non-existent. Yes, 173 is dedtely the glamour line—with the •ay exception, of course!” [ stared speculatively at my common. George, remarkably handne at 50, was an ex-seafarer, and d the reputation of being a bit a rake, in his day. That was fore he came to manage this ace out in the Lau.

“Well, ask any seaman,” said Jorge, observing my glance. “West the glamour line expenses are actically nil under the ‘Brown omen’ heading. East of it ill, I wish I had half of it now!”

'Maybe you’ve got something 2re, George,” I remarked. “Though tether there’s any co-relation with e anopheles mosquito is another int altogether. Could it be more an a coincidence, d’you think?” ‘Coincidence or not, I’ve certainly t something,” George observed, ietly—and I noticed a far-away »k in his eye. His mind wasn’t in e Lau Group, at the moment, yo beers later he got going.

IHIS is a much bigger economic problem that you seem to realise (said George). It probably as into millions. Then, again, ere’s another aspect altogether, irnmit, if it wasn’t for the happy cumstance that they have short memories hereabout I doubt whether I could hold my head up in, say, Pago Pago to-day.

It’s not exactly a story that I want to shout around. But it’ll give you an idea of what I mean.

You'll remember I was in the old SS. Bmatang a year or two back. Well, we dropped into Pago Pa Jf9 After Tahiti and Hawaii, if ever a place has had a Publicity build- V Vi Pago Pago So naturally the chaps were expecting something. I admit I was rather carried away myself.

We weren’t alongside the wharf an hour when one of the Mates passed the word that he had everything jacked up for what looked like a very pleasant South Seas evening. There was a foreman on the engine job. Very nice bloke, it seemed. He’d fix up a little party —yes, some really nice girls, cousins of his, or something. Be ready by 7 pm. He’d send a taxi for us.

Looked like a good cheap evening —what with the problem of getting dollars and all that.

The taxi was there on the dot.

Yes, and a girl apiece. Good lookers, too, believe me!

We piled into the taxi—a big American bus—and the girls suggested we take a moonlight run out to Tafuna. There were several cartons of American beer in the boot. This host of ours, whoever he was, had thought of everything.

We understood that the taxi driver was also a cousin of his—so probably he’d not charge the normal rates. Still, damn nice of him to look after a bunch of strangers.

There was a lot of skylarking and the beer, of course, went down steadily. But —let’s admit it—we were getting a little restive. Maybe these girls were too nice. Progress was slower than we’d figured—for a place with a build-up like Pago.

Then one of the girls suggested we head for her home —and supper —and we moved off in the taxi.

Along the road, we pulled up outside a store. It was now close on midnight, but the storekeeper was another cousin of the organiser— so naturally he wouldn’t mind assisting us. It seemed we had to pick up a little canned goods for the supper.

With the lights on, the girls indicated various articles on the well-stocked shelves —a pile of goods being placed on the counter in front of each lady. Seemed to be doing a lot of unnecessary shopping, too, for that hour of night—stuff like soap, a yard or two of lavalava material, perfume, etc—and large quantities of canned foods.

About that time we began to wake up. The respective piles of goods completed, a significant silence came over the store. Each girl smiled and looked her man over—and the storekeeper looked us all over. Then it hit us. We were to pay.

My heap, I remember, ran into around fifteen dollars.

We paid like lambs, got this junk into the back of the car, and moved off. The fellows were less happy

Kon Tiki Man Is Back Again

Mr. Bengt Danielsson, with wife and daughter, arriving in Auckland recently, were met by Mr. Carl Swenson (right), who presented the ex-Kon Tiki man with a tin of “Kon Tiki” fish soup a brand on sale in NZ.

Mr . Danielsson, only Swede of the party, was cook on the Kon Tiki raft on its 101-days Pacific drift in 1947; and Mr. Swenson, Swedish-born but French - naturalised, was resident in Tahiti when the Kon Tiki party arrived there.

The Danielsson family left NZ by air on April 28 to settle in Tahiti, after Bengt completed research work in NZ libraries. 65 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

than they had been. Fifteen bucks seemed a little high for the South Sea Islands. Never mind! The night was young. < ? i^ reS a nt t l wo t stoAld i S U amoan P me S chonlderld our burdens and a5 U r\irsSr over steenTne wome/and children g From m< ano^er CPP carton ™of AmerT?an bee? annlared Amencan beer appearea.

Supper was to be entirely liquid it seemed. The stores were being packed away in large cases. It was some time since the last ship had called; but, looking back now, I recall that there was still a big stockpfie of stores in the larder. Still— the night was yet young.

Then an old man on a mat, through the thin floor just above our heads, began to speak quietly in Samoan. I didn’t take much notice of him at first—until I noticed that the girls had frozen to dead silence, and were looking at one another. Then I started to remember what Samoan I knew— enonSh waSn t much ’ But was , , . , Get those pa alangi dogs from under this roof”—either that, or the girls would never enter the house again. Take them for all they them kto 3 tlf Cse-n™ Get them outside—anvwherel-tn hell with them. Hadn’t the eirls any shame? Didn’t they know what theee do f s were after? Veil, then!

Levs get to We moved outside, the girls folv°eYrcooSor a Sgo P Pag e o very cool tor Pago Pago.

Across the yard the taxi driver was Sleeping in his car.

Well—what’s wrong hnvs9 wen wnats wrong, boys.

Nothing—nothing at all—we just wanted to get back to the ship.

That was impossible, it seemed.

There was a strict curfew from midnight until dawn. Navy base, and all that. No, we’d have to stick around till morning—but he’d fix us with some blankets. The girls had somehow disappeared.

“Look,”' said George. “Have you ever slept on the ground in Samoa?

The whole blessed place is lava rocks— then, of course, the rain sets in an y time after midnight. It was on time! Man-what a nightwhat agony! We were all dead tired, and soaked through by dawn, w hen the dejected caravan moved off for the waterfront, “Foreign port, and all that, you know. No use causing any trouble, We go t o ut of the car and said to the driver , ‘ We ii—tell us the worst—how much?’ Evidently he was used to some protests. Seemed sort of taken aback for the moment —but made a quick recovery, “‘Let’s see now, fellers—that’s a hundred and twenty bucks for the car—with waitin’ time, y’see—and then the beer. Total of one forty, Fine! Hope to take you out again SO me night. Nice bunch a’guys.’ ”

“Somehow we just raised the wind to cover expenses—by getting an advance against wages, “After that” Georo-e cnnelnded JS’ c f£ c i uded ; ginned 1 P ?k<f' The Second '\late tooklfto heart properiy SpenYaU wandering between the charthouse—checking to see if we really Pag ,9 Pag S~ a F l v? his , cabin ’ n the Se& literature ~ utterl y “T heard he was nut a wav later the disillusionment seemed to get him—like a little kid being told there was no Santa Claus. (IT , . . „ But man! for the South Seas lt wos an expensive lesson in morality.

Thank the Lord, I’m happily married and settled down, now.

Still, for the sake of other blokes, I think the problem ought to be looked into, don’t you? Cheers!”

Old Ships As Marine Museums

THE old-time barquentine City of Papeete is to become a Marine Museum, says Tahiti reports.

Interested in the old ship, Oscar Nordman wrote from Papeete to the lady-owner, asking if she would give him one of the name boards from the bow. She replied that they no longer exist but she would be very glad to give him the old ship, which she had fitted out as a house-boat for week-end vacations.

The vessel, of course, is a derelict and sits on piles off Sausalito, USA, its hold flooded at high tide.

Now comes advice that the vessel has been donated as a marine museum.

Reporting this, Mr. Nordman suggests that another suitable vessel for a marine museum, its history closely linked with Tahiti, would be the brigantine Galilee, which also sits on piles in San Francisco Bay and is the perl manent home of a former Britisll Army captain, John Quinn, now ail antique dealer.

Galilee was built in 1891 by Capl tain Matthew Turner, creator of many a famous old-time South Seas sailing craft. Quinn purchased the vessel in 1936, when she had ended her useful life. The piles which support her are linked with the shore by a narrow wharf which is illuminated at night by old! fashioned gas lamps. Aboard, she is stocked with marine curios picked up from all over £he world.

The 132-ft, 328-tons wooded vessel had a good turn of speed in her day, once making a run of 305' miles in 24 hours, fully laden. She ran supplies to a Tahiti mission for some years; then, from 1905 to 1908, she made a magnetic sur4 vey of the Pacific for the Carnegie Institute. For this voyage all her steel wire rigging was substituted by hemp, to reduce magnetic effects in the ship. The 64,000-mile survei voyage was by way of the Islands to New Zealand, Japan and back to San Francisco.

Memory Of Rls

This photograph, taken recently, shows the steps of the Protestant Church, Tautira, Tahiti, and the set of silver plate which was presented by Robert Louis Stevenson to the church in 1889.

The Brigantine Galilee, as she lay in Papeete Harbour in 1897. 66 MAY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Crocodile Interlude In Papua

By John D. Wilkinson r was a quiet night. We (plantation manager and visiting trader —me) had talked curves out of subjects; the rum was gone; it was too early to retire, ‘Let’s go and get a crocodile,” id the FM. “There are some big lows over in the swamp, there, want a good hide.”

Fhe VT agreed. He was not fond being near crocodiles; but it ght fill the evening. \ dinghy, lamp, batteries, rifle, d two natives as helpers and me movers were soon assembled, d the expedition departed. An ur later the party was weary— ary of being aground on soft, tiking mud, of being bitten by Hess lines of mosquitoes, of irly falling overboard, of hearing ; PM say, “There always have :n some here before.” [’hen the spotlight picked up tiething in the fringing mangoes hundred yards away. It looked ; the tail-light of a car. It was ! reflection from a croc’s eyes. >lowly, slowly, the boat crept ser. At 15ft. distance, the PM’s ivy rifle went off with an exsion that just about lifted the (edition out of the water, and .ttered three sets of nerves, ds shrieked, the plantation cattle lowed, and the VT, holding the flight, just saved himself from a ider into the creek . . . lack went the spotlight. Bang it the rifle. This time, all nature lly did itself proud. The din was rific. !ut the target did not react. It e only a slight shiver. There ! no tail-light showing.

Conversation was carried on in whispers. The boat crept nearer, When only five feet away, one of the natives prodded the object hard with an oar.

The resulting activity was astounding. The sea seemed to erupt, Mud, water, sticks and stones flew in all directions—and the croc’s huge tail came threshing around.

It seemed to miss the dinghy, at each swipe, by only six inches.

The VT howled “Go astern”; the PM insisted “I’ll give him another”’; the natives pushed like mad—and the dinghy grounded within two feet of the snapping jaws, which had come to the surface at the writhing creature’s opposite end.

The VT thought of his misspent life, and wondered whether he could get twenty feet from the madly rocking dinghy to the nearest mangrove tree. Then the tail stayed quiet. The PM got in another careful shot—and a beautiful stillness descended on the huge reptile The VT and two frantic natives heaved frantically; the PM cursed and argued; but nothing could stop those three intense human beings—they departed from that sheltered haven so fast that the bow-wave became notable in local history.

The PM went back next day and retrieved the carcase and got the hide. That croc, measured a few inches over 17ft.

The PM wants another croc, so as to complete his set of croc.-skin travelling bags. But the VT is content to rest on his laurels. There has been, as yet, no second croc.shooting expedition.

MYSTERIOUS

Spy In Tonga

By DR. HANS HURLIMANN, of Burligstreet 6, Winterthur, Switzerland.

IWAS in Nukualofa in 1951, awaiting transport, so that I might return to my home in Switzerland. I had completed a botanical investigation in Tonga, partly for my own interests, and partly in association with the Tongan Department of Agriculture.

My companion at a party one night in the pleasant little town was a vivacious young Tongan. He entertained me with a story about a “foreign spy.” The latter’s activities had just been uncovered, and the Tongan Government was seriously perturbed.

It appeared that a certain foreign nation was investigating the South Sea Islands, seeking possible bases for naval craft. A ship, keeping carefully out of sight, had been cruising in the Tongan archipelago.

It had put a European ashore on Eua island; and the European had gone up into the mountains, and had marked the trees and had made fire signals at night. The fire signals kept him in communication with the ship. It had been intended to put a party ashore, /but the alarmed people of Eua watched the stranger so closely that that part of the plan failed.

The mysterious European thereupon departed from Eua, and had himself conveyed to Tongatabu, and remained in Nukualofa a little while. Then, when the Tongan Government ship Hifofua was about to sail northwards, he stowed himself away on the Hifofua; and he contrived to damage the Hifofua when she was away north, so that the vessel was obliged to run into Suva for repairs. The spy left the Hifofua hr Suva, and thus escaped Tongan justice, and got clear away.

AT first, I was merely bored.

But, as the story unfolded, I became really interested. I began to see some resemblance between my recent activities, and those of the mysterious spy.

I had been for some time on Eua, carrying a rucksack and a big knife: making unexplained expeditions into the mountains; marking the trees; going to high and almost inaccessible spots to gather certain plants. I had one Tongan servant, and I slept whenever I could on the higher hills, where it was cool, and where he cooked my meals, often on an open fire after dark.

I had heard of some mysterious ship when I returned to Nukualofa, but I knew nothing about it. I knew that the Hifofua had gone about this time on her run to Niuafo’ou, and there had developed e crocodile measuring 17 ft 4 in., shot Ir. M. King, manager of Sawataitai tation, Normanby Island, Papua, in January, 1953, as described in the accompanying article. Mr. King is seen beside the corpse. 67 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

a bad leak which had taken her to Suva for attention.

I had disappeared from Nukualofa about that time. The small vessel Aoniu had provided me with an unexpected chance to get across to Niuatoputapa island for six weeks, and I had gone gladly, and without notice, to get in some valuable botanical work. I had only just returned from there. The spy story had grown feathers and flown strongly while I was away in Niuatoputapu.

So I disclosed myself to my astonished Tongan friends, right there in the party, as the original spy himself. We fitted the details or my wanderings to the popular story of the spy; and we found that they all tallied. I still can hear their roars of laughter. No one, however, could explain the mysterious vessel which, it was said, had hung around Eua for a while; and, of course, we had to accept the Hifofua’s leak as one of the unfortunate Hifofua’s many accidents.

Coals To Newcastle!

DON BEACHCOMBER, Honolulu restaurateur, recently imported a ton of Pahua shells from Tahiti. It is understood that each shell bleached white by sea and sun, will be painted with a miniature South Sea motif and handed to guests as a souvenior of Hawaii.

By the same vessel, a consignment of bamboo fish-cages was despatched. These are moored in shallow water and are used for holding in captivity, alive and fresh until required, fish caught by other means.

Tropocalities

Wau—Goldminers’ Ghosts

And Peanuts And Cabbage

LIKE most other towns in the Territory of New Guinea, Wau is blessed (or cursed, whichever way you look at it) with a Town Plan. But unlike the others, Wau has linked history with the future by remembering its pioneers. Pyrke, Money, Dover, Stower, Darby, Glasson, Booth, Darling, Arnold, Mustar, Royal, Joubert, Chisholm, and Levien, all these names and more appear upon the Plan—as streets, and roads and avenues and crescents.

Some of these men whose names are perpetuated in the new Wau have passed on; some have quit the Territory; a few still pioneer on.

The present generation of Territorians has scarcely heard these names—and they were once the Territory’s Big Names—but then, Wau to-day bears small resemblance to the wild frontier town of the 20’s and 30’s. A quiet, small township now, its inhabitants are not concerned with gold nuggets so much as with the size of the cabbages it grows, or the succulence of its peas and beans and carrots and tomatoes that are shipped out in ton lots by air and road to Lae and Moresby and as far as the Naval establishment at Manus.

But the battle of the leases still goes on—land leases, this time, for coffee estates and peanut farms, etc., and which the Administration for various (and not always plain) time-absorbing reasons is reluctanl to grant. * * Down at the BGD township at Bulolo, another method has been adopted for naming the streets-] they have been given the names of BGD men who died in active service during World War 11.

On The Bonnie Banks

Of The Butibum

ALTHOUGH it is an affront to my long line of Macdonald and Wallace ancestors, I’m reluctantly driven to the conclusion that there is an affinity between the wild Highlanders of Scotland and the maybe not-so-wild-natives of Papual New Guinea: Both appear to be emotionally stirred by the sound of bagpipes.

I guess some anthropologist, or some other specialist adviser to the Administration of PNG, discovered this—how else would they have had the temerity to use a recorded pipe band, playing (I’m told) Cock of the North, to introduce the 5.30 p.m. native session from 9PA Port Moresby? The skirl of the pipes at this time of the evening brings the houseboys runing to surreptitH ously hang round the masta’s radios receiver for the betterment of his mind. The evening I listened it was a discourse, in Pidgin, on how to best set about the business of rice-growing.

In New Guinea the sound of bagl pipes is apparently now so asso-i dated with natives —and not neces-| sarily Highland ones either—that Mr. Harry Starr, proprietor of Lae theatre, uses the same Cock of the North recording to introduce boys’i night at the local picture show, j And some courageous soul, with About 100 representatives of Islands communities,divided among 18 Territories, assembled at South Pacific commission headquarters in Noumea in April, for the Second South Pacific Conference. Report of this remarkable event is published elsewhere in this issue. 68 may, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY (CONTINUED FROM P. 67)

a good Scots name, has actually formed a pipe band among the native members of the Pacific Islands Regiment in Port Moresby.

It was not my fortune to hear or see this phenomenon but according to those who had, it is capable of performing in orthodox fashion. It is this band that is going to Lae to help them with their Coronation celebrations —much to the chagrin af Rabaul, who also coveted the autfit.

I’ve spent a few idle minutes iere and there, wondering whether Robert the Bruce would be pleased it this missionary zeal that has jarried the music of Scotland to ;he Brown Brethren of the South Seas, or whether poor old Bob is, ■ight now, turning handsprings in lis grave at the very idea of it.— JT.

AN ILL WIND ....

A T least one man profited by the :x Fiji hurricane of January, 1952. Mr. A. V. Cole, of the iterary staff of the NZ Herald, was ately awarded the Cowan Memorial >rize for good journalism in 1952.

Subject: a series of articles on the r iji Hurricane and its after-effects.

Those Irish Beetles!

JOHN GUNDRY, in his Auckland P Star weekly column, Listen Here, complained bitterly in ipril about the mispronunciations lade by New Zealand school-broadast speakers. Cited for special conemnation was an educational talk n the depredations of the yanosseris beetle (in other words, le Rhinoceros beetle, which is >ose in Fiji).

Gundry’s comment: “Apologies re surely due to all the Ryans in le world for suggesting that they ave some family resemblance to, r that they may have stemmed om either the largish horned ■eature, or the beetle.”

Papuan Tadpoles For

LONDON BRITISH scientists want to know > why tadpoles in Papua reach maturity so quickly; and, at leir request, a collection of specially-preserved specimens is being sent to the British Museum. The collectors were asked to get the tadpoles straight from their swamp and pond hideouts into a special preservative fluid to enable the stomach contents to be studied.

The collaborators in this bit of research discovered tadpoles in wheel-ruts in the Mekeo district which had contained water for a very short time; and they heard of other tadpoles being found in the accumulated rainfall between the stem and leaves of banana plants.

Mavis Rivers For Us

Attractive and popular 23year-old Samoan “torch”-singer Mavis Rivers is to study music at the Brigham Young Mormon University of Provo, Utah, USA.

Miss Rivers went to NZ in 1947, and her plaintively appealing voice —not unlike that of the English singer Vera Lynn—made an immediate hit in radio broadcasts there. Up to the time that Miss Rivers returned to Samoa late last year, as the first Samoan passenger on the Coral Route Service to Samoa, she had recorded over 50 songs.

Entente Cordiale

BUSINESS houses and consulates in Papeete, chief town of French Oceania, hoisted their flags at half-mast on the announcement of the death of Queen Mary in March, and they were flown thus until after the funeral.

The courtesy and the compliment were much appreciated by British residents.

From New Hebrides

Pim Crossquiz No. 40

Solution on p. 85.

ACROSS 1. —Which European capital city gave its name to a vegetable? 2. —Where was Napoleon first interned? 9. —Which famous French sculptor created the statue “The Thinker”? 10. —Which famous Irish poet’s name could be used with very little change for brewing beer or raising bread? 11. —What was one of Rider Haggard’s famous books? 12. —What is the art of cultivating land? 13. —What is a part performed by an actor? 14. —What empty container makes the most sound?

DOWN 1. —What is the boat-song of a Venetian gondolier? 2. —Whose business is marine insurance? 3. —What was the name given to any rabid republican during the French Revolution? 4. —Who founded the Jesuit order? 6. —Who built the Suez canal? 7. —Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth the First? 8. —What was the name of the rod carried by Mercury, messenger of the gods? 15.—What drawing is made with coloured crayons? 18. —What did Shakespeare make much of about nothing? 19. —Who is the queen of the fairies? 20. —What old cloth measure is equal to iy 4 yards? 21. —What word of respect is used in addressing a man? 16. —What was the name of Paris in Roman times? 17. —What Hook projects into the lower bay of New York? 18. Where was the base of British operations against Lille during the first World War? 22. Who was the servant of Shylock? 23. —What was the name of a follower of John Wycliffe?

A Brett Milder drawing of a well known and popular lady of the Condominium: Mrs. Caroline Dubois, wife of Mr. Steve Dubois. 69 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

On Justice In Noumea

By E. Berkeley

IF you happen to be a tourist, enjoying the invigorating tradewinds that fan Anse Vata, popular Noumean beach resort, if you have had your full share of sunbaking or a refreshing swim in the green-blue waves of the Pacific, you may consider attending the Court of Justice in “town” an interesting, and rather welcome change.

I did!

You cover the distance of 2 miles in one of the numerous buses—tiny vehicles, which the New Caledonian fondly calls “baby-cars”. They run frequently and stop wherever you like.

The Place des Cocotiers is the terminus for all bus lines. It is situated in the centre of Noumea itself; and, with its flamboyant trees covered in bright red blossoms at this time of the year, it forms a beautiful square indeed.

In a sidestreet, within 5 minutes’ walk, stands the Palais de Justice. It is an imposing Colonial building for such a small Islands capital as Noumea, and has retained its charm for half a century.

A wide verandah encircles the first floor, and serves as ante-room for police, witnesses, accused, as well as for leisurely spectators of all ages.

Here the Tribunal assembles twice a week in the adjoining Courtroom. Here foregather judges and barristers in their (pseudo) ermine - trimmed gowns, so much resembling the professional apparel of the Australian and English courts —with the sole difference, that our French confreres have wisely abandoned their wigs.

As it is already now in the early summer, they turn up their moist faces towards the purring electric fans, trying to keep cool; occasionally a flap with red-taped documents offers relief . . . ca v a bien, ca!

Before the official opening of the court usually a coloured sergeant busies himself. With rhythmic movements he sprays DDT underneath the ornate chairs of the Tribunal. The presidential seat is favoured with a particularly liberal dose!

The last sound of “phuttttt” from the spray (this seems to be one of the few UN written laws in Noumea) automatically gives the signal for a general exodus from the verandah into the lofty courtroom, which by now is ablaze with a gleaming fluorescent light. Even on the sunniest of days. The wooden benches behind me, soon are filled by white and coloured people. They sit huddled together in respectful silence— Tonkinese, Indigenes (Kanakas) from the distant brousse, rub shoulders with white French townfolks. Even a native from the Loyalty Islands group is present this morning, for whom a special enterpreter must be appointed.

How colourful these people look!

Some have spotted jersies which form a vivid contrast against their dark skins, others in khaki are less gaily attired. Most of the native women are in voluminous Mother Hubbard frocks, with wide frills on hems and sleeves. They suit them charmingly.

THE first case on the agenda to-day is on of the illicit sale of alocohol to a native boy. It occurs often and is always considered as a grave offence.

An old Chinaman is the accused.

He stands before us, his head bent in shame. His voice is inaudible, as he replies to the cross-examination of Monsieur le President. Now his counsel begins to plead in exquisite phrases for mercy for his client, accompanied by vehement Latin gesticulations, which are never superfluous, but strikingly illustrative. He informs the Tribunal that the accused has actually sold the bottle of wine at cost price to the native (who had been found by the police sergeant savagely beating his horse whilst “under the influence”).

Furthermore, the defence proves to the judges that the Chinese vendor at once had acknowledged the origin of the bottle, without resorting to false statements, and that his client had never previously infringed the law.

Finally counsel sums up with an appeal for leniency.

The President puts the accused on a bond of good behaviour under the First offenders act. Our Chinaman is 83!

A wrinkled yellow face turns around towards his lawyer, and his lips form the words: “Merci Monsieur”.

Next, a case of juvenile delinquency. An ebony-skinned lad stands before the judges, not knowing where to look, where to put his hands or when to speak. Fourteen-yearsold Francois is , extremely nervous.

He is charged with entering a house and stealing a small sum of money.

From the barrister I learn the casehistory: The boy’s mother, an Indigene, had been married to an American Negro soldier from World War 11, when USA troops were stationed in A recent aerial photograph of Noumea, capital of New Caledonia, and now the Headquarters of the South Pacific Commission. 70 may, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

4ew Caledonia. This boy was their egitimate offspring. Since the end f the war, however, the mother had entured out on a few “affairs of he heart”, with the result of addiional illegitimate brothers and sissrs for the accused. There was little upervision over the children at ome, and the boy drifted into bad ompany. He has an innocent, hildlike expression. He is well-fed, nd is neatly dressed. Somehow, my eart goes out to him, and I feel rateful for the Tribunal’s decision, 5 remove the boy from his home nvironment, and to place him incad with a reliable farmer, away •om the temptations of town life, nd enabling him to learn an honest ade.

It is 10 o’clock. Officially, the aurt is now closed to the public, he benches are empty. A few barsters remain, standing about in •oups chatting quietly. However the ribunal on the rostrum retains its •namental chairs. The President rokes his hair, adjusts his pince-nez id in his well-modulated voice eminiscent of Maurice Chevalier) j reads out certain police evidence • the judges beside him. It consrns a recent car-accident, near the Tail township of La Foa. The driver in hospital in a serious condition -he sustained two compound fracres and a severe haemorrhage, tie policeman, sole witness, said: )river slightly injured”. The Presi- :nt stops. He shrugs his shoulders, files tolerantly and I can overhear m whispering to his colleagues: Messieurs, it looks as if our worthy ►liceman has forgotten to put on his asses!”

PTHAT always fascinates me during * the court sessions in Noumea, on tesdays and Fridays, is the animated atory of the barristers, their elently-worded appeals revealing an tounding vocabulary. In critical iments they sharply beat down an gument of the opposing counsel, ijestically waving their wide-sleeved ms in true Latin style. Their reds are often spiced with personal mments, but a civilised decorum is untained. However, cynical their usions may be, in the fight for a ent’s rights, yet never do they avail jmselves of our modern Parliamtary diction.

Furthermore, I am impressed with ; humane attitude which the legal ads of this small French colony opt in dealing with coloured and ite offenders of the law. Many a le did we hear the Tribunal* postne a verdict, in order to obtain yet more precise evidence before finalising the case.

The Court really tries to do its utmost to act with unbiassed fairness to both races and parties concerned.

Justice here seems to be upheld with Solomonian tact.

Only one trivial difference could I discern. Whereas white citizens are addressed with the formal Vous, the president will employ the more familiar personal pronoun of tu for coloured men or women—although his gentle tone of voice, and his immense patience, I have never known to change, regardless of race.

This favourable impression of the Palais de Justice of Noumea will forever linger in my mind, as the embodiment of the historical French motto: “Fraternite, Egalite et Liberfe.”

MR. PAT COSTELLO, owner of a little island (Nananu Ira) off the north-east coast of Viti Levu, declares that the following really is a true fish story. But he has given up the telling of it in the Defence Club, in Suva—he has found the fines there too heavy.

On Sunday, February 15, Paul Miller and others were fishing off Nananu Ira when Paul hooked a big one. The line broke, and Paul lost his tackle. Five minutes later he again hooked a fish. When he pulled it in, it had attached to it the equipment he had just lost.

On Sunday, March 15, Paul fished in the same area. He was pulling in a small fish, when a big fish snapped up the lot, and severed his line. But the big fish evidently disliked the little fish, because a few minutes later its mangled body rose to the surface, near the boat. Paul collected it with his gaff, and retrieved the lost tackle.

Story Of A Name

By Claude Belloni

THIS happened recently in Ajamaru, a cosy little village— it isn’t more than that —on Netherlands New Guinea’s north coast, known as “Vogelkop.”

The wife of the Dutch civil administrator at Ajamaru had given birth to a daughter, a small, fairhaired child with clear, blue eyes.

She had little help. There are not many doctors in Netherlands New Guinea.

The civil administrator was very much liked by the Papuan inhabitants. The day following the baby’s arrival, his house was crowded with natives —most of them in the sleeping-room where his wife still was abed. “Oohs” and “aahs” greeted the sight of the new-born girl.

Then, when the chief came forward, all noise ceased —nothing was heard except the crying of the infant. He contemplated the small, white bundle in the cradle for some minutes, and there suddenly appeared a glistening tear out of the corner of his eye, running down his nose; and another, and another.

The chief stood motionless, and cried in silence.

Then he turned, and with a few long steps stood in front of the administrator.

“It is the first time,” he said in his simple language, “that in my country a white child has been born, and I am very proud about it. I cry with joy because such a thing has happened in Ajamaru. As the native head of those whom you see crowded here, I ask you to name the child after this place, Ajamaru.

As is the custom, you furthermore are to give a great festival to celebrate this name-giving.”

It took a few minutes for the administrator to realise the consequences of giving a native name to his daughter. But he granted the request.

The festival took place some days later. A huge fire, surrounded by happily-laughing and steadily-eating brown people; a white man and a white woman looking on; and, before them, the little girl in her cradle, sleeping soundly and not in the least disturbed by the drums and flute-orchestra.

Then the chief hushed them and, stretching his hands above the cradle, said: “I, chief of Ajamaru and surrounding kampongs, give this little Dutch girl the name of” .... here he paused, “of Iris Ajamaru.” (In Dutch, “Iris” is pronounced “Eris”).

The administrator and his wife were amazed. Wherever did the chief get this Christian name? I may explain that the name “Iris” often is given to Dutch girls because it means “apple of the eye.” It was astonishing that the chief, who did not speak Dutch at all, should thus have chosen a well known European name.

The administrator asked the chief about it. The native seemed surprised, but would give no information.

Months later, when the administrator was speaking through his radio-transmitter with the districtofficer at Sorong, he suddenly discovered how the chief got the name.

The room in which he operated his transmitter was usually crowded with natives, who must often have heard him call Sorong: “Hallo Sorong, hallo Sorong, here is Ajamaru, here is Ajamaru.” As none of them understood the Dutch words “Hier is Ajamaru” (which are pronounced exactly the same as the English “here is”), they evidently thought it was an indication of the title of rank of the speaker, something like “head of Ajamaru.”

That is how a little white girl was appointed “head of Ajamaru” (Iris Ajamaru). 71 &GIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 1953

Effective Use Of Bananas

(Extracts from talk broadcast from ZJV by the Nutrition Section of the South Pacific Health Service on April 2.) BANANAS may be divided into two classes: the cooking banana, which is palatable after cooking; and the eating banana, which is usually used raw, but may be served as a vegetable.

If the skin is green, the fruit is partially ripe. The pulp will be firm, starchy and slightly raw—in fact, just right for baking or frying. The flavour of cooked bananas is different, but delicious.

When the banana skin is all yellow, it is ready to eat or cook, and can be used for baking.

The fully ripe fruit has a yellow skin flecked with brown, and at this stage it is better for eating, infant feeding and as an ingredient for cakes. You will find that it is sweet and mellow.

Many people have a mistaken impression that the banana is difficult to digest. This is probably due to eating it before it is ripe. Like other fruits, if it is eaten in the unripe stages it may cause digestive disturbances; but, when fully ripe, or if cooked when partially ripe, the banana is one of the most easilydigested foods, and is of great diet value to both young and old. Mashed ripe banana can be given to children at a very early age.

Growing Bananas Banana cultivation is simple. A welldrained, deep soil is the best.

Dig a hole about 18 inches deep by 18 inches wide, work the soil well and dig In some well rotted manure or compost. This will help to keep the soil moist and cool.

Take a good strong sucker, which should measure about 12 inches in diameter. Plant firmly in the prepared hole—October to January are the best months for this—and cut it back to about two feet off the ground.

As the sucker gets well established, young shoots will appear round its base.

These should be removed by pruning, which is easily done by inserting a sharp spade between the young sucker and the parent plant.

About six months after planting, allow two young suckers to grow on, as these will replace the parent after the old plant has borne fruit. The plants usually bear fruit nine to 18 months after planting, depending on the maturity of the original plant.

Using Bananas To keep bananas from turning dark once they have been skinned, prepare as near serving time as possible, with a sharp stainless steel or silver knife. If they have to be prepared 1-2 hours beforehand, it is a good idea to dip the slices into or cover them with juice from lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit or pineapple.

To make a cold banana dessert more interesting, run the prongs of a fork lengthwise down the peeled fruit and then slice the banana crosswise. You will find by doing this that you will get dainty crinkly-edged rounds.

Bananas should always be stored at room temperature, and never in a refrigerator—although they are delicious when chilled quickly in desserts and ice creams.

Bananas make ideal sandwich fillings and spreads. Some of the best combinations are:— Banana, peanut butter and lemon juice; Banana, raisins and mayonnaise; Cooked banana and chopped ham.

Here Are Some Recipes

Baked Bananas in the Skins You will require six large ripe bananas.

Leave the bananas in their skins, wash and place in a baking tin with just enough water to cover the bottom of the tin. Bake in a moderate oven 350 deg.

Fahr. for about 30 minutes, or until soft and the skins brust. Serve in the skins, seasoned with butter, salt and pepper.

A variation on this recipe is to skin the bananas, put a small cup of cold water, the juice of one lemon and (fc-cup sugar in the pie dish. Bake until the bananas are soft. Serve cold with cream or hot raisin sauce. This makes a very nice sweet.

Banana Biscuits Ingredients.— 2(4 cups sifted flour. 2 teaspoons baking powder.

Pinch salt. 2 eggs. 1 teaspoon vanilla essence. 1 tablespoon sugar. 1 cup sugar. (4 teaspoon baking soda. 2/3 cup butter or margarine. 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (usually 2 to 3 bananas). (4 teaspoon cinnamon.

Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, soda and salt. Rub in batter or margarine. Add eggs, bananas and vanilla and beat thoroughly. Place teaspoons of the mixture on a greased baking tin leaving about IVt inches between each. Sprinkle with a mixture of cinnamon and 1 tablespoon sugar. Bake in a fairly hot oven about 400 deg. Fahr. for 12 minutes. Cool on a cooling tray This will make about 3 dozen biscuits| which, if stored in a screw top jar, will keep for some time.

About 6 oz of chocolate pieces or 4 o* cocoa added to this simple mixture will make a pleasant change.

Banana Jam Ingredients.—24 bananas and 18 lemons^ Skin the bananas and cut into rounds, mix with the lemon juice. Measure into a pan by cupfuls. Bring to the boil. Tie the lemon pips in a muslin bag and boil with the fruit. To each cup of fruit add 1 cup of sugar. Boil quickly for one hour.

Test and pour into hot sterile jars. This jam is an attractive red colour when made.

Recipe Corner

READERS are invited to send in theirl favourite recipes using Islands in-| gredients or ingredients obtainable] in the Islands. Ten shillings will be paid for each one used.

Apricot And Pineapple Jam

2 pounds dried apricots.

Juice of two limes or lemons. 8 lb sugar. 1 Pineapple cut small and 1 extra pint of water, or 1 large tin of pineapple,! with juice. 6 Pints water.

Soak the apricots and pineapple over-1 night. In the morning do not drain, but boil Vz hour. Add the sugar and lime juice, and boil till it jells. —Arora, Niue Is. I

Pineapple Chocolate Roll

Filling: 1 cup crushed pineapple. 2 tablespoons sugar. 1 teaspoon butter or margarine. 2 tablespoons cornflour.

Vi teaspoon grated lemon peel.

Cake: 3 eggs, beaten till light.

I cup sugar. 1/3 cup water. % teaspoon vanilla. •■*4 cup sifted flour. 2 tablespoons cocoa. 1 teaspoon baking powder.

V-t teaspoon salt.

Filling: Mix ingredients in saucepan!

Stir constantly over heat till mixture! reaches boiling point. Cook one minute! or till clear. Cool.

Cake: Gradually add sugar to eggs,l while continuing to beat. Beat in water! vanilla. Sift dry ingredients. Fold quickly into egg mixture. Spread batter! in jelly roll pan (151 b” x 16lb” x lined with paper, well greased. Bake in moderate oven (375 deg. Fahr.) about 30 minutes. Turn out on towel which has been wrung out of hot water. Quickly, cut off cake edges, roll up in towel, let cool. Unroll. Spread with filling, roll.

Wrap in the towel, tie securely at both ends. Hang up by one end until ready to serve. Slice. Serve with additional chilled crushed pineapple. Serves six to eight.

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From JUDY TUDOR KAVIENG, April 4. J THERE are rules and regulations! even about charity these days.J’

As reported in the March PIM, Kavieng (New Ireland) branch of the Red Cross Society, smartly donated £lOO for the relief of victims! after the flood disaster hit England! and Holland.

But it is not as easy as that* the cheque was as smartly returned! from Australian KQ, with a terse letter to the effect that all dona-t tions should be made through Port Moresby; and that, as Australian!

Red Cross was making the princely! donation of £l,OOO to the samel cause, Papua-New Guinea, of which Kavieng is part, would be afforded opportunity to contribute in due course.

Elsewhere, and in roundabout fashion, it was intimated that as Kavieng was so well endowed, it could perhaps pay for the expensive! radio equipment that had been sent along irom Moresby—though not asked for —about a year previously! for the local European hospital.

The set, which consists of a re! ceiver and separate headphones and; cost over £2OO, has been idle since! it was received because no tech! nician with the knowledge or the; time necessary to install it has been forthcoming. Kavieng would; have been happy to settle for a £2O broadcast receiver for its hospital!

News In The Islands

Reception of 9PA Moresby is bad in the evening in New Ireland and in New Britain, when it is talkea off the air by an Asiatic statioi!

Reception in the morning is fair! although there is the almost uni| versal complaint that the statiodj caters only for Moresby interests.!

What unfortunate news editors consider a well-balanced cover of events in their order of importance will never please the individual listener or reader. In Fiji, Samoa,* etc. representatives of PIM are: always told that all the news in the Monthly is about Papua-New Guinea. In New Guinea the com! plaint is that there is “nothin* about New Guinea —it’s all about Fiji or Tahiti or somewhere oven there.” Theoretically there is sup! posed to be a great community of interest between all portions of thes South Pacific: in practice the dinl ner party given by the Bill Brown! of Kavieng or Madang is much! more interesting to Kavieng or Madang than the biggest tidal! wave or bloodiest revolution in somel part of (to them) remote Polynesia!

The Suva-Levuka very-h ig hfrequency radio telephone servica came into operation in April, 74

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DNDUCTED BY EX ZK-1-AC/VR-2-AK. (Address notes to P.O. Box 5179, ellesley Street, Auckland, N.Z.) ISLAND HAMS: Let your Pacific zighbours know you’re active by lecking in on your favourite band ith a CQ at 0100/0700/19002. Use ’■ a known time will help you— id them.

First this month is an explanation of e mysterious FOSAI. Vic Schoenberg, Honolulu, KH6AGB, reported just too ke for inclusion last month that this 11 had lapsed with Air Tahiti and was en in use by Jack Wheeler—W7FNK, 10, with his wife, Leah, is cruising lynesia in their yacht Gemini. Jack plied for and received from Papeete rmission to operate under the FOB call tile lying in port at Takaroa, Tuamotus. mini was due to move on to Papeete e in April and Jack was heard to say it he would revert to the W 7 call on tting to sea. He maintains a twiceekly 30-metre sched. with KH6AGB.

Pic asks us to publicise the fact that nolulu hams are holding a convention August 15-16 and that anyone passing -ough on those dates will be warmly loomed. Contests of all kinds are nned, with prizes ranging from a 100tt transmitter kit downwards. Further ;ails to likely visitors by writing Vic, 0 is committee chairman for the conition. 1 welcome summary of the present FOS nation arrived this month from Jo iirke —FoBAß, who is a Customs officer Papeete. Here it is: FOBAB, normally CW and phone, 14/28 mc/s, off with a temporary breakdown, on again very soon. FOBAC, Georges Vincent, of Papeete, normally CW and phone, 14 and sometimes 28 mc/s, but lately shifted to an area of the town where no AC power, so temporarily hamstrung. FOBAD, Roland d’Assignies, CW and phone, 7, mainly 14, and 28 mc/s: After a silence of two months, apparently with a breakdown, is again active—will probably return to Papeete from his current QTH on Rapa Is. at the end of 1953. FOBAG, Emile Helme, of Papeete—formerly of Makatea Is.—rarely on, but then on 14 mc/s CW. FOBAH, on Tabuai Is., Pierre 75 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L Y MAY, 1953

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'he stations above-mentioned do nol, of rse, include the Papua boys. A current amary from there would be appreciated.

Amateur Radio” lists VK9FY as disutled.

'he Cook Is. are in the news again.

Maui Pomare in April the passenger included Doug. Cunnold, ZK-l-AB, Cooks R. 1., returning to Rarotonga m Auckland after leave. Also aboard i Doug. Berry, a survey draughtsman, i ZL2AJT, a very keen Ham, now to active as ZK-l-BG on Rarotonga, m in the hold were ARCS’s, modulators sundry other gear. Bands to be ked, 20/40/80 metres, mainly CW. inly interested in giving 6 metres a try not equipped for that band yet. If one has gone out of the 6-metre [ness and wants to dispose, Doug, will : turkey in cash or kind! Doug, will on other bands by the time this ears.

Iso active on 80 phone, and soon to be 20, is Trevor Nixon, call presumably •1-BH, who went from ZL in March replace ZK-l-BE, rarely on the air. taining for another six months, but stive, is ZK-l-BF, of the lonisphere ion, whose normal tour of duty mtly ended. a Auckland report says that the call 1-AC, recently used for a short time n Aitutaki by visiting Air Dept, tnician Max Armstrong (former BY) has lately been employed by a ican pirate station. an Mayne, homeward bound for Suva r shack-touring the North Island of dropped in with the latest. In lington Radio-NZ lured him into a lio, whipped on a recorder and popped e radio questions for later broadcast their DX’ers and Ham programme, is Radio Age” heard first Tuesday he month at 0930 Z. Warning of the it has arrived too late to alert Pacific is, as the broadcast is expected for May session. an also reported that Alan Akin, ler VR2AP, who quit Civil Aviation at 1 last year, has returned to the fold— under different management. Cable tireless, Suva—and the old call-sign— find him. Meanwhile Nadi is being on the map by Wyn McGee, VR2CG, : from leave in NZ—heard with a good c/s phone sig.

Ireak-In” reports that, after delays, 4G was to leave Valparaiso for Easter April 10, there to operate, as from it April 19, on 14,005 kc/s CW under call CE-0-AA for four or five days, also planned to use 14,100 kc/s phone, and also CW or phone on 3.5/7/21 mc/s.

Wonder whether any Islands stations worked him; nothing was heard in Auckland. (See February).

What goes on in the Solomons? Some time ago we heard mention of a VR4RW.

“Amateur Radio” now mentions a VR4RV.

Anyone know these boys? Also noted that YJ-l-AB in New Hebrides was very active in the VK-ZL Contest, with American servicemen in Japan KA2KW/7SL/9AA, and Japanese JA-1-AF/3AB in evidence, as was KR6CA. Jean, FKBAB in Noumea, was heard with a nice 14 mc/s phone sig.

He says the FUB/FKB Sunday morning roundtable on 7 mc/s still functions at 2100 Z—so get in the queue, if you can hear them.

Heard in maiply evening listening during April; FKBAB; FGBAI; KA-O-RR/ 2GB/NA/NB/NY/OM; KA3AF/RR; KASHM; KA7LJ/RC (using tiny portable motorbike rig but on good antenna): KB6ABIC;

Kg6Ab/Fa/ Aal/Aa Y/Ad W/Fab; Krftkf/

KY/LJ; KX2AKL/ASV; VR2CG: ZK2AA; ZM6AA. Most were on 14 mc/s, KGftAB, KX2AKL and VR2CG on 7 mc/s.

Your scribe expects to spend two or three months, from mid-May, in Suva.

A little Type-A/Mk.3, with a couple of 40-metre CW crystals, is going along, and the old call of VR2AK will be temporarily applied for. Mail to the Auckland address will find the column as usual. *Mr. and Mrs. Bengt Daniellson and child left Auckland on April 28 per TEAL Solent to take up residence in Tahiti. Mr. Daniellson was the Swedish member of the crew of the Norwegian Kon Tiki raft expedition, which explored the Humboldt Current a couple of years ago. 77 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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FRENCH Admiral du Saint Front, executor of the Will of the late Edgar Leetag, noted American artist, of Tahiti, who was killed while pillion-riding on a motor cycle near Papeete on February 7, estimates the value of the estate at 250 million francs—about $700,000, or over £200,000 Aust. The beneficiaries include his mother and his children Laverne (13), Edgar (11) and Ropati (4).

The publishing house of Little & Brown had requested Leetag to write an autobiography, and the artist had made a rough draft of it.

It will be completed by friends.

Meanwhile, Herbert Case, 31, a machinist then employed as engineer in the Fairmile launch Philante 11, who was at the controls of the motor-cycle when the accident occurred, was arrested on his discharge from hospital and faces charges of intoxication, and probably manslaughter.

Admiral du Saint Front writes: “Herbert Case and Edgar came out of Les Tropiques after dining there, some time about 11.30 p.m., and mounted the former’s motor-cycle.

Other members of the party—which had started at about 6 p.m aboard Philante —took to cars. Case says they were coming to my place, as I was unwell and unable to attend the party, but had told Edgar he might come with a few for a quiet chat and a drink, so as to keep out of over-drinking, which he very sincerely wished to do. According to witness he was not what can be called intoxicated, nor did Case appear to be. The accident happened a bare 200 yards from my house.” *Mr. Frank C. Kugelberg, well known in Tahiti, recently retired from his departmental managership in Williams, Dimond & Co., of San Francisco. He was employed by the US Government during the late war as an economic service officer, and in that capacity he visited many Pacific Territories. 78 may, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Native-Grown Pulp Comes Out By Plane and Freezer Review of A New Industry, by JUDY TUDOR LAE, April 25.

THE pilot passionfruit pulping . plant, which began operations in a small building on the outirts of Goroka, New Guinea istern Highlands, last January, in e first four or five months of its istence has produced between 50tons of passionfruit pulp.

None of this is from the six acres passionfruit planted by Mr.

Jorge Greathead, or from the ,000 passionfruit plants which he s distributed to the local natives , behalf of Messrs. Cottee, the istralian fruit juice manufacrers who are sponsoring the instry in the Highlands. All the Ip so far produced has come from [f-grown vines, progeny of the ssionfruit introduced into the ghlands about 20 years ago by, it thought, Mr. James Taylor, rhe new, organised plantings are o progeny of the original local ssionfruit because, so far, they ve been —with the exception of own Spot—almost disease-free, own Spot is being attacked by jular sprayings with Bordeaux. ?he local natives —who have taken thusiastically t o passionfruit ture —are advised by an exision officer of the Department of riculture; and Mr. Greathead 0 has an occasional field-day on 1 property to show the local itry how passionfruit should be rwn. i?he vines in the Greathead six ■es have been pruned back to 0 branches about six or eight t long and are now being trained ng the newly-installed posts and •es. The first fruit is reaching -turity and it is of tremendous 3 and excellent quality and /our. Fruit from the self-sown es is also large—at least equal A grade passionfruit grown in stralia.

HE economics of the Highlands passionfruit industry are by no means certain as yet, but for 1 present the natives are paid i penny per pound for their fruit t averages about 10 fruit to the md —and this appears to make it isible for the company to pulp i fruit at Goroka, put it in cans h preservative, air-freight it is coast, put it in the freezer there, d it as ships’ freezer cargo to stralia —all at a cost not too muph of gear with Australian-grown i processed pulp. )n the face of it, the business of ting passionfruit from the remote ■ Highlands, when it grows pertly well right in Australia, may m screwy. But Cottees have never been able to get sufficient pulp for their requirements in the Commonwealth; they already have made an abortive attempt to get it from Norfolk Island, where the vines also grow wild in the hedgerows but where the residents could not care less about collecting it; and, of recent years, they have grown a considerable quantity in South Africa for their Australian requirements. been fetching a high price in the open market and growers presumably P refer to dispose of their crop in that fashion rather than sell on bulk contract to the processors.

It is likely that when the promoters are better able to assess the £SD of the new enterprise, the price to the Highlanders will be increased. It is acknowledged that the

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THERE is no doubt that the . Highlands will grow excellent passionfruit. The unknown ctors at present are the yield of iltivated passionfruit per acre, lether they will bear continuously seasonally, and whether the dives will maintain their interest the industry.

In regard to the last X-factor; e local natives, although they live the most primitive fashion taginable, appear to have taken the European money economy th their ears right back. They ve no small opinion of the worth their hire, or the worth of the lits of their toil —in the vegetable ie or any other. With them, right •w, the passionfruit industry is pular. It is conceivable, however, at their present desire for hard sh is just a passing phase; and lere the new industry would be, Bn, is anyone’s guess. But, having w learned the joys of trade-store )d, maybe even the Highlanders 11 be reluctant to go back to their iditional diet of almost unieved sweet-potato.

IT is unlikely that the industry will ever seriously interest European growers because of the difficulty of getting posts, and the cost of the wire on which the vines run.

One has to see Goroka to get the full meaning of this. The timber begins about 2,000 feet higher up, and a considerable number of miles from the township.

Within the area where the best agricultural land lies, there virtually is nothing in the nature of wood, or timber that can be used for firewood —much less fencing or passionfruit posts. The absence of firewood is the bane of local housewives’ existence. They make plans for “buying a dead tree off the kanakas”; and, in the meantime, make do with a couple of packing cases, or even semi-dry pieces of the weedy shrub they grow as coffee shade-trees.

These large areas of grass-land must once have carried a natural timber growth, which has been removed over the ages by a deliberate policy of de-forestation. Before the Europeans came, these grasslands were the traditional fighting grounds; the villages were far up the mountains, on the timber line.

Since European settlement began in earnest—say District Services personnel —the tendency has been for these natives to come back to the grasslands to live; and their claim to their tribal portions of the fighting-lands, they, of course, have never relinquished.

NATIVE passionfruit growers get over the difficulty of posts and wire by weaving trellis of bamboo or pit-pit, and even in some cases have planted the vines under their groves of casuarina trees, and let them spread into the trees.

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Heyerdahl Returns to His Quest THOR HEYERDAHL, leader of the Norwegian 1947 Kon Tiki Expedition, returned to Guayaquil, Ecuador, on March 22, after visiting the Galapagos Is. He said that he had found in the Galapagos further evidence to support his contention that South American Indians had migrated westwards into the Pacific. He also declared that, since the Kon Tiki voyage, he had experimented further with simple log rafts and had found that, by varying the depth of half a dozen centre-board keels, it was possible even to beat into the wind. He said there seemed little doubt that the South American Indians did employ such keels on their rafts. *Mr. C. B. V. Wheeler, Sydney branch manager of the Union SS Co., retired on March 31, after 48 years of service. He was Purser in the old Navua, on the Fiji run, prior to World War I, and he went from that position to join the Ist NZ Expeditionary Force. He rejoined the Co. in 1920, and was stationed in Wellington until 1934; Auckland thence until 1936; and later at Melbourne and Sydney. Mr. W. (“Billy”) Hancock, from the Melbourne office, and formerly manager at Suva, succeeds Mr. Wheeler in the Sydney position. 82 MAY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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Soochow has been refitted for erritory conditions recently in hngkong; she is identical with hansi. When Shansi has been retted and is back on the run, inkiang will be withdrawn.

Shansi and Sinkiang at present ich carry about 16 passengers and le service on the ships is so good iat there is now a waiting list for issages.

With Eastern registration these issels have a Chinese crew, and linese crews do not as yet know uch about 40-hour-weeks, or aritime unions. On vessels on istralian registry, what the pasngers want is always subordinated what the stewards union think ey should have.

That pre-war institution on BP ips, the bathroom steward, seems be as extinct as a dodo. On me of their ships they still have e pre-war method of bathing— It water plunge bath and showers th a wooden tub full of fresh iter to sluice off. [n the days before the war, the throom steward filled up both and sn called you. To-day if you are sguided enough to say you will ve your bath now, steward, thank a, he leads you firmly to the throom and says: “There it is, ly,” (or “mate” as the case may » and leaves you to fill up the th with salt, and the tub with sh water—laboriously, from a 7 tap on the other side of the >m—and struggle with it across ; heaving floor to the plank on > of the bath. •lod. cons, are for softies, anyway.

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P. MORESBY, April 20.

ACK from conferences in Australia, the President of the Planters Association of Papua, . Fairfax Ross, had no cheering ys for rubber growers, ifter the Association’s committee I heard their President’s reports the market position, they exssed the opinion that the marin Australia for sheet rubber ; not sufficiently strong at pret to absorb all Papuan sheet ber at the No. 2, or higher price.

They therefore recommended that members of the Association authorise their pool agents in Australia to accept the best price possible.

It was further recommended that growers tell their agents immediately what amount of rubber they were prepared to sell on this basis.

The committee added that this, of course, would not preclude growers from shipping their rubber overseas.

Commenting on the position, the Association’s Secretary, Mr. E. A.

James, said the position was grim— particularly in view of the steady decline in the Singapore rubber market.

When this statement was made, Singapore quotations were 66i cents for No. 1 grade, and 631 and 601 respectively for second and third grade. * According to the official Government bulletin, dated Paris, October 24, 1952, Mr. Yves Martin, of Papeete, has been appointed, and accepted by the French Government, as Swedish Consul in French Oceania. 83 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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Artemise Inquiry

Inquiry into the loss of the 80-ft. ffiooner Artemise, of Papeete, died to disclose the cause of the re, which started in the engine- )om.

Captain Marcel Amaru reported lat it had not been possible to ;ach the vessel, which sank at her ichorage in Raroia lagoon.

Oiseau Des Iles

Captain Bernard Pirault, who has en in command of the CFPO 350n, 3-masted schooner Oileau des is on the Papeete-Makatea run ice 1948, has resigned and will on return to France with his wife d children. The family may later ttle in New Zealand, where adame Pirault, an Englishwoman, s relations at Napier.

Command of the schooner has m taken over by populat Captain »bert Argod, who brought the all vessel Fleur d’Ocean to Tahiti m France in 1950, and sold her ;re for two million francs. Later brought the schooner Vega down >m Honolulu to Papeete for mpagnie Generale des Voyages lynesiens. He has lately cominded Orohena.

Oiseau des lies made a labour- :hange run from Makatea phosate island to the Cooks early ril.

Ngan Shipping Facilities

i badly-needed lighthouse few kualofa’s western approaches •uld be in operation by the end the year, Captain Carl Johnson, rbour-master at Tonga, reported April. Delay on the construci of the light (which will be on iau Mamao reef on the south ; of the main entrance to the igan capital) has been occasioned insufficient funds, aptain Johnson said it is not mded to re-establish the Eua Iki light in the eastern approaches at the present time, as there are now no regular trading vessels arriving from or clearing for the eastward. Eua Iki light collapsed a couple of years ago. Occasional overseas vessels arriving from the east could use the western pass.

Captain Johnson reported that good progress is being made on the new slipway for local inter-island cutters, and with alterations to the wharf there. Heavy silting had occurred alongside the stone wharf and this was being overcome by extending a piled section beyond the stonework. This work is in charge of American civil engineer Pleben Kauffman, who, dressed in a lavalava and luxuriant beard, causes some local interest. Mr. Kauffman arrived in his yacht L’Hirondelle a year or so ago.

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Telegrams ; “ Cunnig,” Melbourne or Sydney. eluded in the Raoul Id. (Kermadecs) trip. . r , Iftn With the arrival of a new 1,100 ton motor vessel from Holland, April 18, to be used on this service, the old Holmburn is no longer required. Being 46 years old, with a checkered history, Holmburn now seems to possess the usual qualifications for entering the Pacific Islands Port Whangarei, this vessel was once owned by retired Auckland master mariner Captain Watchlin, who called at Tahiti and Fiji some months ago in his magnificent yacht, Fitheach Ban.

The new vessel, named Holmwood, takes the name of the 550-tonner which was sunk in the late war. A few hours out of the Chatham Islands, bound for Lyttelton, NZ, with a cargo of sheep and some passengers (including a radio man and his family returning after service in the Chathams), the Holmwood was intercepted by the raider Komet. Obeying the Hornet’s signals to maintain radio silence, the Holmwood was sunk by gunfire only after all persons and several hundred sheep had been taken off.

Two days later the Komet and two other raiders — Orion and Kulmerland —intercepted and sank the 16,000-ton Rangitane, which had left Auckland for Panama after the sinking of the Holmwood. The Holmwood’s failure to transmit a distress message later became the subject of a naval investigation, it being maintained that, as there was a warship in Lyttelton at the time, the raiders might have been brought to action, and also that the Rangitan e would not have been allowed to sail with raiders known to be in the vicinity. In defence it was said that the Holmwood’s radio was in poor condition. Certainly, had the Holmwood used her radio, there would have been loss of life aboard when she was shelled.

Survivors from the Holmwood 86 MAY. 1053 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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Hifofua On Survey

Jnder Capt. Carl Johnson, with orge Walder as Mate and David umoepeau as Chief Engineer, the ngan Government’s auxiliary f ofua arrived in Auckland, April after a rough 8-days’ passage m Suva, for survey. Five leper ients had been taken from kualofa and Haapai to Makogai, ’his was her first visit to Auckd since she was built in the ley yard there in 1926 —surveys ally are made in Suva.

Ufofua is a wooden, copperathed vessel of pleasant lines, by 18’, with a loaded draft of 6”. She is of 108 tons gross, ;ons nett, and has a cargo-carrycapacity of about 50 tons, with in accommodation for ten and a nse to carry 80 deck passengers the Tongan islands trade, auled up on Lowe’s slip, an exnation showed that the iron -bolts, which had not been re- ;ed since the vessel was built, e almost completely corroded, h these, and parts of the steel heads fore and aft of the engine n to be replaced, it is unlikely ~>fua will return to Tonga be- July.

Philante Ii

essrs. Rusden and Baker’s Fairi Philante II called at Suva ;bound from Tahiti late March. vessel was reported for sale e at £13,000.

The Orohena

.V. Orohena, flagship of the ich Oceania inter-island fleet, been purchased from the Govtient by M. O. Andre Blouin & of Papeete, for 7,010,000 francs ut £39,000 Stg.). idre Blouin purchased the wellm schooner Tagua from Cook ids Trading Co. in January, In that same month Orohena, based from the US, arrived in ;ete from the Pacific Coast. In Bound for the Cooks, per Maui Pomare ft to right):— Mr. I, A. Forbes, on a staff-training [?]ignment with the Government printing [?]ce, Rarotonga.

Mr. and Mrs. William Evaroa, on a [?]eymoon trip. Mr. Evaroa, of Raro- [?]ga, has recently been schoolteaching at Tauranga, NZ, where he met his bride.

Sister R. E. Rishworth was going to a position with the Dental Department, Rarotonga.

Mr. G. L. (Tom) Snow returned from leave to his position as manager for Messrs. A. B. Donald & Co., at Mangaia Is. 87 'IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1953

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Her late master, Captain Robert Argod, has joined the Oiseau des lies, and his place is taken by Captain Alfred Voirin.

Te Matapula Launched

Too late for April PIM came news of the launching of Te Matapula, for the Colony Wholesale Society of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands, from the yard of Charles Whippy & Co., of Suva.

Sixth of her type—the others were HP’s Taveuni, Macuata, Moala and Koro (sold and later lost in N.

Cal. waters) and the Tongan Copra Board’s A’oniu —she will be the last vessel launched from the Walu Bay location.

Te Matapula was quietly launched on March 26. The type are wooden vessels 86’ 0.a., 71’ wJ., with a beam of 22’ and a midship depth of 9’— nett tonnage 80. This one, owing to delays in material, took a year to build, the others five months each.

Te Matapula is framed with Australian and Fijian hardwoods, planked with Fijian kauri, and decked with Oregon. Much of the local timber came from Mr. G.

Barratt’s Deloi Estate.

The vessel had only a 3” side clearance through the Walu Bay bridge piles, and had to be loaded! with drums of water to clear the< bridge decking at low tide. Brought out to the harbour, she will now be ketch-rigged. She is powered by a 200 b.h.p. Ruston-Hornsby which,: with two-to-one reduction gear, should drive the vessel at 10 knots.

A 30 hp Southern Cross takes care of the electrical supply to lighting, winch and windlass.

Captain A. R. Peckham, lately master of R.C.S. Tuvalu, will have the command.

Suva Docking Facilities I

Mr. W. Whippy, of Charles Whippy! & Co., Suva shipbuilders, gave details recently of new building facil-l ities planned by the firm for that* port. Modern machinery is on order from England, and a new slipway has been designed to build wooden vessels up to 120 feet long. With the launching of Te Matapula in March, no further vessels will be built at the former location.

Awahou Inquiry

Over seven months after her loss somewhere in the north-west Tasman Sea on September 10 last, a Marine Court of Inquiry in Sydney —presumably at the request of the authorities in Suva, where the ship 88 MAY. 1953-P A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY

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WILLIAM ARNOTT PTY. LIMITED, HOMEBUSH, N.S.W. is registered—looked into the sappearance with all hands of the tie 438-ton tramp Awahou.

The court found that she had en surveyed and issued a rtificate of seaworthiness on Sepnber 8; that the cargo at time of Qing from Sydney for Lord Howe .. was properly stowed (though e widow of the Mate, Mrs. tyllis Maxwell, told the Court that r husband had been worried rerding the stowage); and there is no cause it could find for the raster which cost the lives of all card —ten Fijian or part-Fijian imen and eight Europeans, iniding Captain Robert Darroch, of va, who had joined in a relievj capacity for that voyage, rhe distress message heard from oahou, picked up at Hobart and lelaide marine radio, was weak, d both stations gave different :sions. Hobart, at 7 p.m., on Sepnber 10, reported hearing the innational distress signal on radioone—the word MAYDAY —equivmt to the SOS in morse—followed ninutes later by “. . . . sixty miles st of . . . .” That was all. Adele, however, reported hearing the itress word MAYDAY repeated, m . , . seeking shelter sixty les off Sugarloaf Point.” £any seamen consider that the jar Loaf referred to in this ssage was Sugar Loaf Point, •th of Port Stevens, on the NSW ist, and a little south of the latitude of Lord Howe Id. Why, they say, would a vessel, approaching Lord Howe from the south-west, give a position in relation to a point on the opposite side of the island.

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D A Articles, with a Fijian crew. She was to sail for Suva in May, after dry-docking in Auckland, and would pick up her first Islands cargo in Apia for Auckland.

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News of Cruising Yachts • The American yacht Calypso, is lying at Tahiti while her owner, John W. Litton, and his English brother-in-law, Kim Powell, a resident of Tahiti, have gone to Panama canal. Calypso, 12-tons, arrived in Papeete last July 20 from Panama, after two months in the Galapagos, a week at Taiohae (Marquesas), a fortnight at Takaroa, and a month in the Leeward Isles.

Owner Litton was accompanied by his wife Gene, small daughter Kathleen, and crew-member Choppy White. Ultimate destination is given as Honolulu. Calypso is at present moored off Mr. Powell's property at Pirae.

Kim Powell, his wife Peg, and Kim Robin, 5, arrived at Tahiti in December, 1950, from Panama in their schooner Wind’s Will. They, too, spent two months in the Galapagos and a fortnight each at Marquesas and Tuamotus. Since then they have cruised through the Leeward Isles to the Lower Cooks, and via Penrhyn back to Tahiti, where they plan to remain. Mr.

Powell, an experienced bulldozer operator, has done considerable roadmaking work on the property of Mi*. Van den Broek d’Obrennan, and elsewhere, since his arrival from Panama, where he was formerly employed on the Panama canal. He now leases a small property from Mr. Van den Broek d’Obrennan. • From Honolulu comes further details of Gemini (reported recently at Takaroa, Tuamotus, and bound for Papeete). • Vic. Schoenberg, who maintains Ham radio contact with Jack Wheeler aboard the yacht, advises that Gemini is a steel 38 ft doubleender ketch. She was scheduled to clear Takaroa for Papeete in mid-April. Owners Jack and Leah Wheeler plan to be back in Honolulu, homeward bound for Portland, Ore., late in the year. • Eric and Susan Hiscock, in their 90 May. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Cables: NIREX, Sydney xm jib-headed sloop Wanderer arrived at Papeete, March 25, »m England, via Atlantic ports, nama and the Marquesas. » Departure reported from Pacific ast is two-masted schooner mona, commanded by Captain in Ozanne, (one-time skipper of » big American luxury yacht, ca, which has cruised the cific). Ramona is owned by Mr. d Mrs. William A. Pomeroy, of usalito, Cal. Aboard also are }ir three children and a crew 10. The owners plan calls at hiti, Samoa, Fiji, Rapa and rotonga. » The British yacht Arthur gers, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Tom pworth, of England, cleared peete April 12 for Bora Bora, rotonga and Auckland, after a gthy stay in the Tahiti capital. ► The 8-ton Swedish yawl Viking, sviously unreported in these ;es, arrived in Papeete from the irquesas, April 11. Owned by ;ve and Brita Holmdahl, of thenburg, the voyage was made way of Falmouth, Madeira, nary Is., Las Palmas and the nama canal. Present plans are a month in Papeete before movon westward. Mr. Holmdahl is jarpenter by trade, and his wife professional dressmaker. ► Trans-Pacific Yacht Club of ; Angeles reported in March that r 40 yachts are this year exted to cross the starting line for 2,228-miles Trans-Pacific yacht ssic from Los Angeles to Honoi, due to start on July 4. Yachtsn will follow with interest the v system of handicapping worked by Dr. Clark B. Milliken and dents at the California Institute Technology. Tabulating the permance of all yachts in the 1947- 51 races the experts drew three formances curves, from which y produced an average curve v named the Caltech Curve. All idicapping will this year be in ordance with the Caltech Curve. lS the Honolulu-Tahiti race is eduled to commence July 24, it evident that few vessels could er for both races, as an average ed of over 4.6 knots would be uired on the Trans-Pacific race make the deadline, with little e for a rest in Honolulu for the r boats that could make the ;ance in time. It is not clear V this early date was fixed for Tahiti race.

UHirondelle, in which Ameri- Pleben Kauffman cruised down ough the eastern Pacific to illy settle in Tonga, seems to r e ended her wanderings for the sent. Mr, Kauffman, now emped as a civil engineer by the igan Government, has made a of the yacht to young 7-year- Prince Taufa’ahau, son of Prince Tungi. On completion of his present contract Kauffman has obtained permission to become a lone settler on the island of Hunga Tonga • Remember Alfred F. Loomis and his 33-foot Colin Archer-type yacht Stornoway, which circumnavigated the world in 1951-52? In January, Loomis was awarded the coveted Cruising Club of America s Blue Water Medal for the year s outstanding deep-water cruise.

Others considered were Carnbhee, Sopramno, and Dr. Tom Davis (Rarotonga) and family with their yacht Miru. • With the popular press giving great publicity in recent months to the round-the-world voyage completed last year by M. Toumelin in his yacht Kurun, of France, it should be mentioned that this was not a single-handed circumnavigation. From France to Tahiti, Toumelin was accompanied by M.

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Great Auckland Exodus

• As forecast in March, Auckland is this autumn witnessing the great Polynesian migration in reverse.

Never in the history of New Zealand yachting have so many vessels ventured forth for the Islands in a single season. • Ghost, first away on March 9, reached Rarotonga April 2, and left on 15th for Papeete. A pro- 91 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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Idon, nosed out, Tahiti bound, h a possible call for water at pa. Mr. Edmonds’ father was le years ago a schoolteacher at le. Launched this season, this -ft. cutter has been well tested coastal racing.

Blue Water (sister ship to White tall) and Leda made a specular twin departure on April 28. lunch-hour crowd watched their ;-minute preparation at the Adalty steps, in the centre of Auckd. Blue Water, 31-ft., for Tahiti h a possible call at Rapa, carried ' —owners L. Vitali and K. Kirkd, and crewmen N. Wright, D.

Duane and H. Gordon. Leda, 54footer flying Tauranga Yacht Club pennant, was headed for America via Tonga, Fiji, the Cooks, French Oceania and Hawaii. She was manned by her owners (brothers C. G. and W. A. Wilson), their wives, Mr. D. Woolf, and the two little daughters and a tiny 2months-old son of Mrs. C. G. Wilson.

The women and children will return from Suva. • Wakaya, in Tonga and Fiji waters last year, and a newly launched craft, Flamingo, were expected out in early May from Auckland; with Aloha, 38-ft., and the Wellington craft Leonora, 28-ft, soon to follow. Leonora, bound for Auckland, went aground down the coast, but was undamaged. Others known to be preparing are the Sydney yacht Corsair and George Dibbern’s Te Rapunga, at Hobart, to clear for the Islands from Auckland.

Yet other owners are known to have the fever and may join the north-bound throng this winter— even if it costs a fur coat or two!

Memorial for Coast Watchers \ N appeal for funds to erect a memorial in New Guinea to the Coast Watchers who lost their lives in the Second World War, has been launched.

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Prom a Special Correspondent SUVA, April 24.

NO outburst of criticism has followed the announcement that the Fijian Battalion in Malaya Is to serve there until January, 1956—tw0 years longer than the original two-years term. But it is impossible to find a single responsible European who approves.

There is thoughtful, soundlybased opposition arising from the belief that the despatch of hundreds of the best of young Fijian manhood to south-east Asia places an unjust burden on a people who, numbering only 135,000, are being increasingly outnumbered in their homeland by aliens.

When he made the announcement* the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) said that the Fijian Affairs Board —the body which tops the Fijian Administration as more or less distinct from the Central Government —had stated that “the Fijian people are proud to agree to their sons serving the Empire for yet another period.” But the average European, with all respect to the Governor and the FAB, comments that this is what the Board might be expected to say.

The Governor said the request for the extension had come from the Secretary of State for the Colonies with the active support of the War Office and the High Commissioner for Malaya, General Sir Gerald Templer. They recognised the outstanding service rendered by the First Battalion in jungle operations.

He said the extension would not affect the promise to the men now serving that they would be over-j seas for two years only. The men in Malaya would be gradually replaced by a high proportion of new recruits. Officers, senior non-Coms. and specialists who could not be replaced would get leave in Fiji. Periodical visits to the Battalion would be made by representatives of the Fijian people and by Public Relations staff. The War Office had agreed to provide married 94 MAY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Sir Ronald said he knew there »uld be criticism in some quarters the decision to extend the period service in Malaya. “I know it asserted that we are depriving ji of the flower of its manhood a time when these men should rearing families in their homeid,” he continued. “But the erage age of the Fijian soldiers wing overseas is 22, which is, I derstand, below the average age which a Fijian man marries.”

HE Fijians and their friends are naturally very pleased with the compliment that has been paid their loyalty and their prowess jungle fighters. But they are ling pointedly whether the British thorities really understand the lies that are involved in this ng—whether the Fijians are not ng sacrificed to official selflsh- >s and expediency.

'’or many years, the British itary forces made a truly lamente showing against the Red rorists in Malaya. Their record lained black until General npler took charge. This able amander has made effective use the special qualities of the ians. But neither General npler nor the British Governnt nor any other interest seems think that the welfare of the ian race is as important as the d to keep good jungle fighters Malaya. ■he position, quite brutally ted, is that while a thousand ng Fijians are held in Malaya, Indian community of Fiji 'eady numbering 150,000 as inst the Fijian total of 135,000) steadily extending its hungry ) upon the Colony, at the exse of the indigenous race. If re were no Indians in Fiji, or n if the Fiji-Indians had the s and the political nous to also vide a battalion for Malaya, no icism of the British and of leral Templer in relation to intion of the Fijians in Malaya ild be possible. he Governor, with characteristic ness and frankness, has put the ; possible face on the situation, the point we stress against him iot so much the potentialities of absent battalion in the matter fatherhood, as the psychological 3t on the race of having so many ng men away from the Colony so long, just at a time when r race is under so much social commercial and political >sure by the extremely fecund ians. The verdict of history be against the British. t. Dan Costello, of Tavua, has intly returned to Fiji after a day in Australia and New Zeal. His mother, Mrs. Dan Costello, ~ is still away on holiday.

Tribute to Sir Alport Barker SIR THOMAS ALPORT BARKER, of Suva, who is retiring from public life in Fiji, and who probably will in future reside in New Zealand, is to be allowed to retain the title of “Honourable,” in recognition of his long service to the Colony. Sir Alport has been for many years a member of the Legislative Council, and Executive Council, and of many public bodies, and he has been Mayor of Suva on several occasions. At the last meeting of the Legislative Council the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) warmly praised the services given in a public capacity, and as editorproprietor of The Fiji Times, by Sir Alport Barker.

Miss Margaret Ali married Mr. A. Sully at the Catholic Church, Koki, Port Moresby, early in April. 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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HIGHLANDS May Open Up Large Area of Crown Lands

By Judy Tudor

IN maybe eighteen months’ time it will be possible to drive a jeep from Madang, on the New Guinea mainland coast, to Mt.

Hagen in the Western Highlands.

Two very determined people are working towards this Objective- District Commissioner I. F. G.

Downs, at Goroka, and ADO T. W.

Ellis, at Madang.

Madang and Highlands Districts have been able to rid themselves of the assistance of the Works and Housing Department (Commonwealth Works, it is called now) and as a consequence have begun to make real progress with reading, employing local material and local talent which may not be up to civil engineering standard, but which seems to be able to produce, within the budget allowed, jeepable roads and fair bridges.

Except for a few places where bridges are being repaired or replaced, and one gap of about six miles where some rock-blasting is needed, it is now possible in the dry season to go by jeep from Mt. Hagen to Aiyura.

In addition, there are many feeder roads leading off this main route—in the Eastern Highlands district alone (and that excludes Mt. Hagen) there are now 353 miles of vehicular roads, over 170 of which have been added in the last twelve months. Maybe before this 1953 is out, this main route will have reached Gusap—and from Gusap to Madang the road is the responsibility of Madang District.!

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Commonwealth Works is building e two or three miles of approach ad, from the main Markham Uley road to the Point, and Drnibrook Construction Co. will ke over from there and build the idge.

The approach road is through go swamps, and most of it is lilt up three or four feet on top of rduroy to get it above swamp level. The estimated cost of the road is £14,000; but it looks more like a £40,000 job.

On one morning this mid-April, after Lae had had eight inches of rain in the previous night, the last mile of the bridge was impassable because of local flooding from storm-water —the Markham at that stage was not in flood. The road in this last mile will have to be raised another three or four feet to get it above this local storm-water.

This bridge at Markham Point is being built against the judgment of a number of local residents, who fought to have the Markham bridged much higher up. They claimed that a bridge at a crossing several miles further west would not be subject to flooding and would, at the same time, allow easy access to the Highlands.

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High Class Cattle for Tahiti WHEN the Waitemata left Auckland early in April she carried over 50 stud cattle, six Berkshire pigs and six Suffolk sheep, consigned to Tahiti. The stock was in care of veterinary surgeon Dr. Y. Pincemin and Mr.

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The greater part of the shipment was for the Government. Mr. J. D.

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Fifteen of the cattle—heifers and bulls —were for a private buyer, and were shipped by Messrs. Wright, Stephenson & Co.

Dr. Pincemin, director of stud breeding in French Oceania, said that he hoped now to start a Freisian herd book.

A large amount of stud stock has been imported from New Zealand by Tahiti buyers since the war.

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Samoa and Fiji, Air Tahiti Personnel ■fTIURTHER to the recent appoint- J* ment of Mr. Frame of New Zealand, as pilot for Air Tahiti, in succession to M. Pommier (who was injured in a crash at Papeete last July), it is now announced that M. Jean-Marie Arbelot has succeeded M. Marcel Lasserre as director of the company. M. Lasserre has resigned.

M. Arbelot, a resident of Tahiti and a former aviator, was organiser of the now defunct Tahiti Aero Club. —— U Mr. C. D. Barford, manager of the Suva Branch of the Bank of New Zealand, returned to Suva early in May after leave in New Zealand. 98 May, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLf

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Moana” Lost By Fire

NE of the Pacific’s best-known schooners second lost this year in French Oceania—the -tons Moana, was destroyed by six miles off Anaa atoll, Tuatus, in the early hours of April Captain, crew and passengers ndoned the vessel and landed jly on Anaa. loana was not burnt completely, 1 the schooner Paraita, 78-tons, despatched from Papeete to ite the hulk and sink it or tow ishore. However, she failed to I the derelict. Paraita returned Papeete April 29 with the ma’s company aboard. Cause of fire has not been stated.

'oana was launched for Societe imerciale de L'Oceanie (an iate of the German DHPG firm) san Francisco in 1911, says Oscar dman. She was commanded on maiden voyage to Tahiti by tain William Berude, for many •s commander of the old Ameribarquentine City of Papeete, later of the Oceanic Line. oana was acquired after World ‘ I by Mr. Charles Brown jrsen, well-known Tahiti boat der and business man, and more ntly came under the ownership Madame Violette Johnson and Yong. oana is the third sizeable inter id craft of French Oceania lost ntly. Tagua, 200-tons, had a ow escape also from destruction fire last year. Late 1952 hatu, 138 tons, was wrecked on Liai. In February, Artemise, 133- , was burned completely at )ia.

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ervin Brothers’ Kaumoana •il PIM) has met trouble on delivery voyage from France to :ete. The ex-sub-chaser reached hae, Marquesas, with a broken shaft. A vessel left Papeete in 1 to tow her home.

A Fiji Airways aircraft was damaged and the company’s schedules disorganised early in April when a motor truck accidentally backed into the aircraft.

Anzac Day is never forgotten in the comparatively isolated community of Port Vila, New Hebrides Condominium. This year, on April 25, over two score of British, Australian and New Zealand exservicemen marched to the Memorial and again, in the presence of the two Resident Commissioners Blackwell (Britain) and Jouve (France) wreaths were placed in position, and a religions service conducted by the Rev. T. J. K. Jamieson.

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TAHITI [?]vernor Stops Duel Between Party Leaders From Our Own Correspondent FNDER date of April 17, our I Tahiti correspondent reports several developments in the disced political spheres of French eania (as reported in April PIM, se 15). [’he unrest became manifest after ; elections for the Assembles rritoriale on January 18. follow- ; which charges were said to ve been made by M. Pouvanaa a pa (leader of the Radical party) 1 his followers, that the election Tahiti island had been rigged in our of the opposing party, led the Mayor of Papeete, M. Alfred roi. On all other islands the ivanaa a Oopa party was vicious. xovernor Petitbon then ordered official investigation, and the :er found the charges false.

HERE was much bitterness at the first session of the new Assembles, which opened on rch 14. On April 10, M. Poroi 1 M. Noel Hari were forcibly refined from coming to blows in Chamber. M, Ilari then chalged M. Poroi to a duel, and M. oi accepted. ’he two were in earnest. The :1 was to take place at the end die Sitting. M. Frank Richmond i M. Walter Grand were apnted as seconds for M. Ilari, and Tuterai Garbut and M. Legarde eed to act for M. Poroi. r ews of the impending clash sad rapidly, and Governor Petit- . proceeded to the radio station t evening and broadcast a warn- He said that the duel must take plaoe, and that he had inicted his gendarmes to prevent nd to arrest anyone who assisted n any way. Police were theren stationed at the residence of h contender, and the duel did take place. n the following day a strike of 1 servants began, because agreeit could not be reached in the emblee on a Bill granting payit of certain back-salary that i due. üblic services, including telene exchange, post office and rseas radio communications sed operation, except for certain intial services. * April 15, the TEAL Solent Amnui arrived from Auckland with M. Docteur Florisson, dy-appointed Senator for nch Oceania, and successor to Lassalle-Sere. He warmly eomed by the followers of vanaa a Oopa—less warmly by the Poroi party followers.

On this day, also, the strike was called off on a promise from the Governor that the matter would be settled at a meeting of the Assemblee scheduled for May 6.

The following day the Post Office started sorting an accumulation of mail that had arrived in the vessels Waikawa. Pioneer Gem, Thorisle Sainte Mere Eghse, Waitemata, and by aircraft.

ALSO during this week. Deputy Pouvaana a Oopa was charged in court with striking a clerk at the City Hall. Papeete, for refusing te supply him with a copy of the birth certificate of a third party. It appears that such certificates may be issued only to the person whose birth is concerned, or members of his family. Judgment in this case was reserved for 15 days, and is not available at this writing.

The politics of French Oceania are mo st complex, and the parties represented appear to have no direct relationship with recognised parties in France, The rdjp.t. party, headed by Depu ty Pouvaana a Oopa, is of the Left w | n g a nd stands for a larger measure of independence front France. The R.D.P.T. gained 15,- 062 of the 29,030 votes cast in the January election. M. Poroi’s U.D.1.0.F. party (which is a coalition of the UJD.S.R. and the R.PJ.) registered 7,851 votes on Tahiti island, and 2,772 votes on the outer islands. This coalition is less extreme, and more pro-French. 101 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAT, 1953

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Volcanos Come and Go in BSI Prom Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, April 30.

AN intermittent eruption of sulphurous vapour has been observed in Marovo Island in the Western Solomons. This synchronises with similar eruptions from the underwater volcano which recently rose from the sea and sank again some miles south of Vangunu Island.

Marovo Island is in a direct line with the site of the underwater volcano, the line passing through Vangunu Island (where a quiescent volcano, Mt. Vangunu, exists! and covering a distance of approximately 40 miles.

It is assumed that the eruption of the undemater volcano and on Maravo Island act as safety valves for intense volcanic activity in the area between the two points of eruption. But the native inhabitants of Vangunu Island are, not unnaturally, somewhat perturbed.

A Maori football team will tour Fiji in 1954 —not in 1953 as requested by the Fiji Rugby Union. The tour cannot be made this year as the absence of the Maoris from New Zealand would prejudice the possible selection of some of them for a planned All Black tour of the British Isles.

P-NG Scrap for Japan Prom Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, April 30.

Another goo tons of scrap metal was shipped to Japan from Port Moresby by Messrs.

W. Murphy and K. Bourke on the Chinese Nationalist freighter, Unions Builder late in April. Union Builder called also at Lae and Finschafeiil to pick up more scrap before leav-1 ing Territory waters for Japan.

The bid of the Japanese buyers} for the Port Moresby consignment was £9 a ton higher than other* overseas offers. 102 MAY. 1953-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Papua-New Guinea Students at Suva Medical School SUVA. April 25.

TF all goes well, three of the Papua-New Guinea natives pictured below will qualify as assistant Medical Practitioners in wo years time (they have already :ompleted the first two years of 'he course at the Central Medical school, Suva); while the cheerful tttle fellow kneeling in the ex- Teme right of the photograph is expected to graduate at the end of December, 1953. (He is not taking he full medical course*.

Prank Aisi, of Yule Island (not hown in the photograph) is doing ds fourth year, and should return o Papua with his AMP Diploma t the end of this year.

Natives who have already qualited and are back in the territory re Moi, of Tufi (first to qualify); ’om, of Misima; and Reuben of lula (the last-named married a alented Fijian girl).

Much sympathy was felt for poor ieslie Atiu, of Gasmata, District of lew Britain; for, despite his seven ears’ study at Suva, he just could iot make the grade. He was opular among the heterogeneous roup of South Pacific students at he school, and tried hard to pass is final examination. He returned 3 P-NG in 1952 and may be given ompassionate consideration. It is aid that he failed in theory but his ractical work was satisfactory.

Highest credit is due to these '-NO lads, who must suffer insrioritv complex, for they are at n immediate disadvantage when in lass with the more sophisticated Frians, Cook Islanders, amoans, Tongans, etc., all of whom may have been fairly skilled in the use of the English language from infancy.

The students are well-fed and well-clothed. Accommodation is good. They are quite happy, though they occasionally sigh for Papua- New r Guinea. Every bed has a good mattress, with snow-white bed linen and mosquito net. There is every facility for sport and all sporting equipment is supplied free.

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The four natives in the photograph, which was taken In the Government Gardens, Suva, in April, are, standing from left to right: Maori Kiki (of Orokoro, Papua >; Mr. J. A. Crockett (or Rabaul, who was in Suva at this time); Kahu Sugoho (of Bukawa, 103 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY. 1953

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It is interesting to note that the Wew Guinea boy, Kahu Sugoho, is Holding his own with the Papuans —indeed, he is considered as “quite , bright prospect.” —Special Correspondent.

Cruising Yachts at Tahiti ?APEETE reports the following yacht movements; Arrived from Pacific Coast, Gemini, on April ;0: Ramona . April 30. Departed: Wanderer 111, for Sydney via islands; Sin Miedo, for Honolulu; md Viking, for New Zealand via islands, April 25. El Petal, owner Herman B. Woolworth, left Los Jigeles late in April for Tahiti via islands. (In addition to those published Isewhere in this issue).

If Mr, W. H. (“Tavua”) Johnson ; not careful, he w T ill find himself ibelled “the Grand Old Man of iji.” On April 10 he attained the reat age of 91, and —like a famous rand of liquor—he still is going xong. He is well known on his svn account; but he also is disnguished as the sire of Mr. W. G. ‘Tui’’) Johnson, now T probably the iost active and energetic figure in ic commercial and public life of ava.

New Britain Planters Do Not Want Cocoa Grading, Inspection PORT MORESBY, April 30.

COCOA growers in the New Britain area have requested the Administrator not to introduce legislation on inspection, grading or control of cocoa.

The matter was discussed at a special general meeting of the New Britain Branch of the New Guinea Planters’ Association at Rabaul in April, and the Association then sought the views of its New Ireland and Bougainville Branches.

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Barrett, in a press statement later said the New Britain growers—who produced over 80 per cent, of the Territory’s cocoa—were convinced that any grading or control of cocoa would result in lower prices.

This view was based on a survey of world markets and a comparison of the prices obtained for Territory cocoa in the last five years compared with prices In countries w here cocoa was subject to grading.

Mr. Barrett said that growers of many years’ experience had stressed that the inspection of cocoa was an expert’s job, and they doubted w’hether any competent person could be obtained for the meagre salaries which were being offered for other produce-inspectors in the Administration service.

Mrs. D. A. Donald, of Honiara, BSI, was a passenger to Sydney on April Malaita. She was joined there in mid-May by Mr. Donald, who is Chief Agricultural Officer in BSI. and they will shortly proceed to the UK on leave. 105 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1953

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Lieutenant-Colonel T. W. Young, took up his new appointment in Port Moresby on April 30, replacing Lieutenant-Colonel N. P. Maddern who is now Assistant Adjutant- General at Army Headquarters in Melbourne. The new CO was ir Moresby in time for the Anzac Service, and had previously visited La* and Rabaul with Colonel Maddem He is also Area Commander. Papua and New Guinea.

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Letter to the Editor 'VTOUR interesting publication falls X sometimes by the wayside, over the Cook Islands. May I point :out: No Cook Islands tomato-grower ;can be found who last year got £4 :per 20 lb box—or even 3 - per lb, NZ breeds of cattle, much crossed ;over the years, thrive exceedingly .well here, and are good milk and beef producers. As in Fiji, no Zebu blood is needed, even to keep an official in a job.

The “farm” of 49 acres stands mostly on end, and has only about 112 acres good for experiments in cotton, ginger, coffee and peppers —the last of which grow wild —and they have all been tried by oldtime growers and found non-commercial. Many, including officials, cannot see what they have got for some £3,000 of the NZ taxpayers’ money, allocated for agriculture.

According to the genial but ver- Dose Ross Walker, manager of the fruit monopoly, no start has been made on the cold store building, liter some 20 years’ gab-fest. Everyone is “agreed in principle” from Cabinet down—but no one does mything.

Your correspondents seem shy of stating as cold facts that there still ire 62 lepers in Aitutaki: that the arge outer-islands passenger service continues; and that the Island las hundreds of cases of yaws and luge sores, with which a lone NMP xas to battle among a recalcitrant >opulation without any adequate lospital or even good quarters for limself and his wife.

The horses at the Beachside races ire by no means longhaired or »oorly fed—quite the contrary. Your mknown correspondent knows nothing about horses, races, or the fun he crowd gets out of it all.

You would be surprised to know low fed up residents and some fficials are with the Planners’ wild waste of good cash on £B,OOO houses • for officials), on lime and rock houses, and on God knows what, while there is no road-building, and very little being done to water intakes—a pipe shoved into a creek which cattle, pigs and dogs use, not always with parlour manners! PWD has been shifted 6 miles away from Avarua, the centre of trade and Government. It is an interesting process to get a few bolts or a couple of pounds of nails—by truck rated at 3 - per mile!

Scott, of Fiji, hit it on the head when he remarked that “newcomers and honourable birds of passage” didn’t know what they were talking about. Rarotonga applauds, having some 40 or more of them doing, badly, what 13 or so used to do, with success.

Both races are fed up. The CIPA- Commo organisation is by no means dead. An article in Auckland Star said: “If the minister is too busy to visit the Cook Islands, then he should give his job to someone who can.” Those sentiments get loud applause here.

I am etc., R. V. HOSKING Rarotonga.

April 7. 1953. f; Mrs. Ella Maiming, a well-known resident of Honiara, BSIP, arrived in Sydney on a 2-months’ business visit on May 6. 107 AOIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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,Jf private air company with headquarters at Tapini, Papua, is •iow in operation again after hav- :ig had its charter licence and licences of its personnel suspended ;y the Civil Aviation Department ;arly in February.

The suspension came after one :f the company’s Anson aircraft ;ad a forced landing at Embessa in February 4. The pilot lost his r ay between Popondetta and Port lloresby and landed across an old rar-time strip. DCA promptly uspended the licence of the comiany to operate, the licence of the Hot involved and the licence of ne chief pilot of the company who r as not involved in the incident, t is understood that the chief pilot as refused a licence to fly privately.

DCA deliberations on the crash nd the circumstances of the comany lasted from early February ntil late in April, The Managing Director of the )mpany is Dr. A. Caselburg, a rered medical man who had to give p his practice in New South Wales st year due to ill health. During holiday visit to Papua, and parcularly the Tapini area, his ealth improved so much that he id his wdfe decided to make their ime at Goilala. Now the doctor managing Goilala Air Services and at the same time developing an agricultural property at Tapini.

The Chief-pilot, Mr. E. F. Reid, and his charming young wife have planted 16 acres of coffee at Tapini —which is at an altitude of 3.500 feet, about 65 miles from Moresby, and half-way to Wau, New Guinea.

In connection with their air service venture they hope soon to develop a tourist centre at Tapini by building small self-contained cabin units. This should be of considerable interest to Port Moresby folk who have few facilities, at present, for escaping from the coastal heat.

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She will be retained on the run, together with the new vessels Caledonien and Tahitien.

Tahitien was to clear Marseilles on her maiden voyage to the French Pacific Territories and Sydney May 4. Changchow, under her new name, sails June 15.

Miss Ethel Nordman, of Tahiti, represented Tahiti in song and dance at Tahitien’s official send-off in Marseilles.

H The Most Rev. Übald Lehman.

DD. CSSCC, Vicar Apostolic of the Catholic church in the Cook Islands, travelled to New Zealand in April per Maui Pomare, en route to Europe, on two months’ leave.

He was accompanied by the Rev.

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Kenaf—And The Falling

Price Of Jute

r[E practical commercial people who are backing the Kenaf industry in New Guinea refuse to be discouraged by the way in which Indian jute is coming down in price.

“Indian jute may be available at £7O per ton,” said one of their representatives. “We can Produce profitably at £9O per ton We think we can close the gap and make the industry economic. We are mechanised. while jute is worked entirely by man-power, and the cost of labour in India tends to rise.

“The most significant thing is the interest people are taking in this new industry, and the way they are putting their money into it.

Treasury officials cannot be blind to this angle.”

Price Of Copra Sacks

It is noted that in mid-April, copra sacks were quoted in Sydney at 19 11 per dozen—which is equal to 2/2 each on the plantation. This may be compared with the price of 6 - per sack which was the ruling price a couple of years ago, when jute production in India was under a cloud.

It is interesting to note that a 3member delegation from India is now in Australia “to make a study of the Australian market for jute goods.” (An article on the Kenaf industry in Papua and New Guinea, illustrated with photographs will appear in the June PIM.) U Mrs. F. S. Stewart, owner and manager of the Hotel Cecil. Lae. left Sydney by air in May for Europe. She flew via the Indian Ocean route to South Africa; and. after seeing the Coronation, and travelling in Europe, she will return to New Guinea via America. She was accompanied from Lae to Sydney by daughter Ela (now Mrs. J Birrell, of Lae), and the latter’s 7-months-old son. 110 MAY, 1953-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LJ

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AIR LINE New Set-Up Affects Tahiti and S. Pacific Generally i N important rearrangement of Ik air-transport and hotel facilities in the Eastern Pacific indicates iat Tahiti is making its biggest id for American tourist traffic.

Well-endowed Americans, eager enjoy Pacific Islands pleasures, uve greatly enriched Hawaii. But onolulu is now more of a modern merican city than an Islands re- :rt, and discriminating travellers ive been looking farther afield, id especially to the South Pacific.

Tahiti, for years, has been taking Dnolulu’s place in song and story; id now the drift towards French 3eania has begun.

There are several hotels in Tahiti -day; but the three most ready cater for rich visitors are Les •opiques, the Grand, and the >yal Tahitian. Two are in a rden and seaside setting, a little stance out; but the Grand, large d recently completed, is right in e town.

Les Tropiques has just been taken er by Captain F. I. L. Barnes, of dney, and Mr. Don Beachcomber, Honolulu—Mr. and Mrs. Barnes d their two children arrived in peete in April. Mr. J. G. Haddad, 10 is to be head-waiter, arrived out the same time—he had been bh Romano’s, in Sydney, for the it two or three years.

South Pacific Airlines

’ was announced in New York on April 25 that South Pacific Airlines had purchased two Solent ingined flying-boats from Trans eanic Airways, of Sydney, and ;y would be used to maintain a ekly service between Honolulu d Tahiti, via Christmas Island, is new Co. is connected with Uar Associates, a well-known lerican corporation, is indicated in PIM a few months >, Captain Brian Monkton under of Trans Oceanic Airways) 1 Captain Barnes are interested the formation of South Pacific lines; and Captain Monkton is present in Sydney, and has taken r the two Solents on behalf of new Company. They are underag overhaul at Rose Bay, Sydney paratory to the flight to Honoi. •he completion of this work, and provision of landing and fuelfacilities at Christmas Island heated as the half-way stop been Honolulu and Papeete) may e a few weeks; but it is expected t South Pacific Airlines will in the regular service in time take care of the 1953 tourist son.

The establishment of this important air-link between Tahiti and the United States will be a develcpment of major economic importance to French Oceania.

It is also an important step in South Pacific Airways organisation.

For example, it will provide trans- Pacific travellers with a very attractive round trip. Instead of flying both ways by the Sydney-Fiji- Canton-Honolulu route, they can use that route in one direction only; and, going in the opposite direction, they can break off in Honolulu, and go by South Pacific Airlines to Tahiti; then by the new TEAL service to Samoa and Fiji; and in Fiji they can rejoin the main Sydney-North America airlm es.

Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki, High Chieftainess of the Cook Islands, was entertained at a garden party by the Resident Commissioner and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. G. Nevill, at Rarotonga, in April. About 90 guests were present. The occasion was to say farewell to the Makea and her husband, Mr. Tau Cowanthey will represent the Cook Islands at the Coronation. They later left by air from Aitutaki.

Mr. S. Bennett, Islands Inspector for Messrs. A. B. Donald & Co., of Auckland, travelled to Rarotonga from Tahiti in the Co.’s Cook Islands 300-tonner Charlotte Donald late April, when that vessel returned to Rarotonga after refit in Papeete. 111 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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Suva Builds Another

82 FT SHIP For Co-op. Society in G & E [pHIS handy little ship (82 ft long, 1 22 ft beam, 8 ft draft) was built by Charles Whippy and So., of Suva, and launched in tfarch. She is the ;.ixth of her class; !;he will run at 10 mots under a 204 hp Ruston Hornsby diesel; Jie will have two Auxiliaries for ight, etc.; she has i>een named Te Vlatapula; and he shows what an now be done n shipbuilding in !uva. She will be ;etch rigged.

The other five 2 ft ships are the “ aveuni; Macuta; Moala (built or Burns Philp SS) Co., for use n Fiji waters); toro (wrecked in few Hebrides); n d A’o Nieu built for Tongan iovernment and sed in that roup).

Te Matapula as built for Gilert & Ellice slands Colony Wholesale Society >r use in the :oup, and will be Ased on Funafuti. She probably will be in charge of Captain A. R. Peckham, first officer of the Society’s other ship, Tungara.

The Whippy firm are transferring operations to their new sheds on the Tofua St. reclamation, where their new slipway will take ships up to 120 ft.

The boatbuilders in the photograph, from left to right, are Messrs J. Whippy, F. Tate. O. Wendt, O Horton, F. Robinson. W. Whippy, Captain M. Whippy, and G. Barratt (Stinson photo.)

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From Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, April 30.

IHE Public Service Regulations . of Papua and New Guinea have been amended to permit e transfer of a portion of the >st-of-Living allowance to stanrd salary rates. On salaries for ult males, £204 a year is to be msferred to the standard salary; r women officers £161; minors of -20 years, £136, and minors under years, £lO2. Since the current )L variation wijl be reduced by rresponding amounts, there will no actual change in the amount salary being paid to public sernts. If the COL should fall arply, however, Territory public wants will benefit accordingly. \ son was born to the Rev. and ■s. G. Lutton, on April 16, at the manula Hospital, Rabaul, New linea.

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KAVIENG, April 24.

Burns Philp's MV Malaita made her first call at Kavieng at Easter. A number of residents were entertained aboard.

MV’s Sinkiang and Shansi of the New Guinea -Australia Line have both called at Kavieng with general cargo. These two, with Malaita, are the first passenger vessels to call here since the war.

Anzao Day was celebrated in the traditional Kavieng fashion with commemorative services held in the morning and a fancy dress ball at the Kavieng Club at night. The snorts programme planned for the afternoon had to be abandoned owing to heavy rain.

Mr. Harry Cameron, of Djaul Plantation, has gone to Australia on leave.

Miss Elizabeth Kenward leaves Kavieng shortly for a trip to England and the Continent.

Mr. E. A. F. Stanfield, of Piera Plantation, is now very fit after holidaying in Australia where he visited his old property at Stanthorpe. Queensland.

Mrs. H. Adams visited Kavieng recently.

She had been surveying her property and old home, Patlangat Plantation, on the west coast.

A severe earthquake was felt over the whole Island at 2.30 a.m. on April 24, The shocks continued for more than a minute and brought most people from their beds. It was later estimated at Force 8.

Oil Search in Papua IN Papua, the field of oil exploration by the Australasian Petroleum Company is to be transferred to the limestone region westward from the Purari River to the Dutch border. No more test wells will be drilled in the mudstone region of the Vailala District. Decision to move the field of operations is based on the comparison of five wells drilled in mudstone with two in the limestone region.

Anglc-Iranian and Standard Vacuum experts have just completed an inspection of the company's permit area in Western Papua and this, in conjunction with a study of the maps compiled from the result of a 35,000 square miles aerial magnetometer survey by a Canadian Catalina team, has enabled the APC and Island Exploration Co. to draw up a general outline of future oil exploration in Western Papua.

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Cheng Ho Still At

ANCHOR Mr. Otto Degener Is Married ITTHE mystery of the once-luxurious 1L Pacific Islands cruising ship Cheng Ho. (built by the Arched interests, modelled on a Chinese junk, and intended for use •y botanists) becomes deeper.

The Cheng Ho was transferred by sirs. Archbold, several years ago, to Ir. Otto Degener, well-known •otanist, of Hawaii. Mr. Degener •ermitted her use, for a time, by Captain Eric de Bisschop, who was 7 ichy Consul in Honolulu in warime, and who took her to French Oceania and used her for trading, nd had her registered in Papeete.

For a year, the ownership of the essel has been subject to comlicated legal proceedings. In 1952, ! aptain de Bisschop anchored her i the harbour, off Papeete, and ;ft her there —and she still is there, neared for and obviously deterirating.

It was expected that Mr. Degener ould have gone to Papeete in 1952 nd attempted to have title and igistration clarified; but he has sen travelling in various countries, i April, writing to Mr. Oscar ordman, of Papeete, he stated that i January 10 last he married “a vely young botanist of Danisherman Huguenotte extraction, and e are living in the Black Forest. • the French Zone.” He states also tat he is in frequent touch with aris about the Cheng Ho; that he ill not accept her in her present imaged and deteriorated condition, e indicates that he wants around 0,000 compensation, and he exicts the French Administration to ty this to him, and accept ownerip of the Cheng Ho. He blames e French authorities for the prent legal tangle, which leaves the leng Ho swinging ownerless at ichor; and he is writing many :ters to American officials on the bject.

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Prom Our Own Correspondent PORT MORESBY, April 30.

TURING April, the Territories * Department again invited applications for the position of blic Service Commissioner for pua-New Guinea, a post which 11 fall vacant as soon as the preit Commissioner. Mr. E. A. F. ad, takes up his new appoint- ;nt as Commonwealth Public Service Inspector at Perth, WA.

The first call for applications was made last November—evidently without result—and Mr. Head has been waiting to pack his bags since that time.

A colour film called Tahiti on the Coral Route, produced last year for Tasman Airways Ltd., was given its first public showing to press and travel agency representatives in Auckland at the end of April. The film had already been shown privately to M. Petitbon. Governor of French Oceania. The film is intended for circulation among travel agencies, particularly 7 in USA.

There are shots of Aitutaki, Tahiti, Huahine and Moorea. Some sequences show Papeete during the Bastille Day celebrations which take place in July each year and it it all calculated to lure the dollar tourist to the South Seas, Mr. W. L. Bygrave recently retired from the Fiji Lands, Mines and Survey Department, after 23 years’ service, latterly as Deputy Director. He intends settling at Ba 115 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - MAY, 1953

STAMPS ALBUMS, CATALOGUES AND ACCESSORIES.

CORONATION, JUNE 2, 1953 3t is necessary for us to plan as lar ahead as possible for the special Coronation issue throughout the British Commonwealth, and an early notification of your requirements will help us considerably.

The Crown Colonies have already announced the denominations for their special issues, and the lace value of these is approximately 10 6 sterling.

In addition, New : Zealand will have a set of five values with a total lace of 2 11, and the four Dependencies (Cook Is., Niue. Samoa and Tokelau Is.) will have theirs, with a total face value of 2/5.

Doubtless most if not all of the other British Countries will also have their special stamps.

We shall supply these stamps, either complete for all issuing countries or specified areas thereof on the basis of 1/7 Australian per 1 - sterling of the face value.

Used sets can also be supplied at 1/9 Australian per 1 - stg.

As mentioned above, it will be of great assistance to us if you will place your order as early as possible. It will be appreciated if a £1 deposit be sent with each order —balance payable on receipt.

Queen Elizabeth Ii

DEFINITIVES These have already started to appear, and from now on there wall be an increasing flow of new' stamps for most of the British Countries, either in single denominations or complete sets.

Here, too, we shall be glad to know as early as possible what your requirements wall be. If you are a member of our New Issue Service, you will receive them automatically at the regular New Issue concession rates. If not, it will be to your advantage to join, or otherwise please let us know in good time what you wall be needing, as With the present import and currency restrictions it is most essential that we can plan our ordering Well in advance.

Our regular price basis for these Queen Elizabeth II stamps will be: Mint setsvto 1/- face or equiv. 1/8 Single values above 1/- or equiv. 1/7 Used sets to 1 - face or equiv. 1/10 Single values above I/- or equiv. 1/9 Aust. per 1/- sterling.

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ISSUES It will be wise to fill any gaps in your collection while these stamps kre still on sale, for immediately they are withdrawn they will start to increase in price. These can be supplied in mint condition on the same price basis as is set out for the new Queen Elizabeth II stamps.

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One Less Holiday For

TERRITORIANS DUE to an amendment proposed by Mr. B. E. Fairfax-Ross, residents of Papua and New Guinea may have one less holiday next year than they have enjoyed in 1953.

When the Public Holidays Ordinance, 1953, was before the Legislative Council at its May session, Mr. Fairfax-Ross objected to the inclusion of the Tuesday aftei Easter in the list of Public Holidays. He said that it was not the general practice in Australia to have this holiday and this was a gooc opportunity to withdraw it.

In support, Mr. E. A. James saic that the Tuesday after Easter was evidently a legacy from the Nev Guinea side; he could not remembe] Papua ever having had this extn holiday before the war. April this year had been disastrous fo: planters as it had contained only IS working days—five days at Easte: and Anzac Day were holidays.

Mrs. D. R. Booth said that Apri had been equally disastrous for thi mining community and that ii outports all communications shu down from the Thursday befor Easter until the following Wednes day morning.

Mr. Fairfax-Ross’ amendmen was accepted by Mr. S. Lonerga: (Government Secretary) who ha, introduced the Bill. Private member agreed that this was the first tim official members had accepted a; amendment to a measure withou any apparent reluctance.

P-NG will still retain 11 publi holidays in 1954, including one o September 15, which commemorate three historical occasions;—The an nexation of Papua by Australia 0( September 4, 1888; the landing c the Australian forces at Rabaul O' September 12, 1914; and the Sep tember 15 landing of the Aux tralians at Lae during Worl War 11.

No Hotel Licence for Sapphire Creek From Our Own Correspondent.

PORT MORESBY, April 30.

DURING April the Licensin Court at Port Moresby r<‘ jected an application by M James Eadie for a publican licence. This was sought for pi" mises at the Seventeen Mile on tl Moresby-Rouna Falls Road ne< Sapphire Creek which were to haj been known as the “Sapphit Hotel.” An objection was lodge by the Licensing Inspector wl claimed that the needs of resident and travellers in the area did nr justify the granting of a licence.. 116 MAY, 1 9 5 3 -PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L

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A check of local volcanoes showed mo unusual thermal activity.

He said the position was not im- [proved by an ABC commentator (“a scientific instrument in human iform”) who went on the air to istate, from 2,000 miles away in JSydney, that the centre of the disturbance was the eruption of the !South Son about 80 miles southwest of Rabaul. Ships and aircraft diverted to this area reported that there was no sign of volcanic iactivity in the area.

He said that what Rabaul needed most of all was for the Administration to hurry on with the building of permanent homes for the people, and for the escape routes to be sealed.

Mr. S. Lonergan, Government Secretary, said that “action will be taken to replace all Administration houses as soon as possible” and that Tunnel Hill and Namanula roads will shortly be sealed. He also read a statement from the Administration Senior Geologist, Mr.

J. Thomson, who claimed that he had been mis-reported in the South Pacific Post.

Mr. Thomson And The

REPORTERS On the evening of May 1, following a headline “Rabaul Shake Alarms Government Expert” that appeared earlier in the day in the local Port Moresby paper, Mr. J.

Thomson issued a statement over 9PA denying that there was any cause for alarm, and stated that earth tremors of similar origin but varying strength occurred throughout the world every few minutes, that it was estimated that severe earthquakes which would be catastrophic in populated areas, occurred on an average once a fortnight, and that most of them originated in a broad zone of crustal instability which roughly encircled the Pacific Ocean.

But Mr. Thomson was not to be permitted to get out of it as easily as that. In the Sydney Morning Herald of May 5 (and this, thanks to Skymaster service is on sale in Port Moresby by 10 a.m. the same morning) there was a headline thus: “Rabaul Sits on a Powder Barrel”.

The story beneath said that in Mr. Thomson’s opinion Rabaul was sitting on a gun-powder barrel—that the tremor they had had was tectonic and similar to those that had caused the world’s greatest earthquake tragedies. He said that Federal Cabinet had decided last June to let Rabaul remain where it was despite the pleadings of the former Administrator, Mr. J. K.

Murray. He said (reportedly) that there was absolutely no limiit to the damage such a tremor can do —that Rabaul could be destroyed by other tectonic tremors or by a volcano and was therefore in a very unhappy position.

This was dated Port Moresby, Monday (4th). (Over) 117 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953 Press Panic Over Rabaul Earthquake (Continued from Page 20)

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NOTHING can be done about Rabaul’s earthquakes; but a great deal can be done about the living conditions of residents, and in this regard, the statement from Mr.

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The roads in Rabaul are another disgrace particularly the main escape route over Tunnel Hill. No one but a civil engineer could safely comment on these roads but even to the lay eye there is something strange and even terrifying about the local thoroughfares. Except for a sealed strip in the middle of the town, all have been surfaced with pumice dust. This has the virtue of not going into a bog in heavy rain, but has also the disadvantage that it floats in water. In the recent very wet wet that is just what it has done—floated away in the heavy downpours until the socalled roads are simply a net-work of gullies and chasms. Tunnel Hill road is the most extraordinary sight. This road was built by the Germans originally and the steep road at one time actually went through a tunnel —I believe that the tunnel was still there in 1920.

Sometime shortly afterwards the roof of the tunnel was removed and thus it remained—like a narrow cutting—until 1939. I cannot remember any very great trouble with its surface, even after heavy rain, at that time. Now, however, it has been greatly widened —to two or three times the width it was in 1939 —and surfaced with pumice.

Down the sides of the road are now great gullies, maybe 10 or 12 feet deep in places, that storm water has torn out for itself. When very heavy rain has fallen these gullies extend across the road and all traffic is held up until repairs can be made.

There no doubt is an engineering solution to the problem of Tunnel Hill—possibly sealing the surface would be sufficient —but Rabaul’s present roadmakers, who seem more than reluctant over the matter of culverts and drainage, have not found it yet.

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SUVA, April 27.

THE most impressive gathering in Fiji’s history of Church of England dignitaries took place in Suva at the end of the April, to mark the consecration of the new 3Holy Trinity Cathedral, centre of ;:he widely-spread Diocese of Polynesia.

The completed portion of the cathedral —the east end and Lady Chapel—is a comparatively small sart of the great structure of the future; but there is enough to show chat this will be a building of superb dignity—the first cathedral n the South Pacific Islands to llustrate the stately simplicity of modern English church architecture.

In the cool of early morning, on April 26, the building was consecrated by the Bishop in Polynesia fThe Rt. Rev. L. S. Kempthorne). rhere was an overflowing congrega- :ion, headed by the Governor of Fiji (Sir Ronald Garvey) and Lady 3arvey, and the Mayor and Mayoress of Suva (Mr. and Mrs.

D. M. N. McFarlane).

Visiting Church dignitaries induded the Archbishop of New Zeaand (the Most Rev. Reginald Dwen), the Archbishop of Sydney !the Most Rev. Howard Mowll) and he Bishop of New Guinea (the Rt. lev. Philip Strong). The Archleacon of Newcastle, NSW, represented the Diocese of Newcastle, md the Rev. E. S. Bucknill, the society for the Propagation of the Jospel.

It is significant that the essentiilly Anglican occasion of the conlecration of the cathedral has ireated much interest among people mtside the Anglican communion, md has evoked expressions of joodwill from other denominations, tome non-Anglican Churches were officially represented at the conecration service.

The dignity and beauty of Church if England ritual were the dominant notes of the ceremony. The Bishop, with Archbishop Owen, moved in procession round the outside of the cathedral while the Litany was being said within. The Bishop knocked at the south, east and north doors, at each of which the mark of the consecration (a cross in the circle of eternity) was placed on a jamb of the door. At the west door the appeal was answered: the door was opened and the Cathedral Chapter handed the key of the building to the Bishop.

The procession entered for the service of dedication and the subsequent Eucharist, at which the sermon was preached by Archbishop Mowll.

The Deed of Consecration was signed by the chosen witnesses, who included the Governor, the two Archbishops, the Rector of Suva (the Rev. H. W. Figgess), the Chief Justice of Fiji (Mr. Ragnar Hyne) and the Mayor of Suva.

One of the highlights of the celebrations in the following week was a public meeting at the Suva Town Hall under the auspices of the World Council of Churches.

The Governor was chairman and the three speakers were the Archbishop of New Zealand, the Archbishop of Sydney, and a young Fijian Methodist layman, Anare Raiwalui.

This probably unique association of speakers caught the popular imagination, as an indication of the fellowship which is growing up among denominations which were once widely separated. Anare Raiwalui, conductor of the Jubilee Church Fijian Choir, was the Fijian delegate to last year’s world Christian youth conference at Travancore, India.

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Deaths Of Islands People

M. Georges Poroi

Monsieur Georges Poroi, uncle of :ae present Mayor of Papeete and nember of an old and respected family of Tahiti, died in Papeete in April 11 after a long illness, ite is survived by his wife (nee Richmond) and several sons and laughters.

Mr. John George

John George, known as Jock Doull, aged 32, died in the Lae Hospital on April 15 from brain injuries received when a motorycle was involved in a collision nth a taxicab on April 12. George ras a pillion passenger on the ycle driven by Ronald Cummins; loth men were thrown from the lachine in a collision with a Huon "axi Company cab driven by a ’apuan named Pelei.

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Mrs. Marie M. Halstead

Mrs. Marie M. Halstead, of Suva, ’iji, died on April 6 at Auckland, rhere she had been living for the ast few years. She is survived by er husband, a daughter (Mrs. eanne Hogan) and a number of tep-children. Mrs. ilalstead was orn in France.

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Sub-Inspector J. H. Tremaine, age only 26, died in the Cairns Hospital early in April, after being flown from Port Moresby for medical treatment. He became ill about a week earlier, and was taken to the Moresby Hospital, but it was decided to send him to Brisbane for further treatment. At Cairns, his condition was so bad that he was taken from the plane to the Hospital, where he died. He joined the Papua-New Guinea Police Force in 1947, and in his last post he was temporarily in charge of Bomana Jail. Mr. Harold Tremaine, of Port Moresby, is his brother, and a sister is Mrs. George Gough, of Bomana. He was buried with full police honours.

Bishop Blanc Leaves Tonga fIIHE Most Rev. Albertus F. Blanc, X DD, SM, departed from Nukualofa per April Tofua, en route to retirement in France, after 52 years service in the Islands —the last 40 years as Vicar Apostolic of the Catholic mission field in Tonga. fl Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Lawlor, of Suva, left for USA in April on a world tour. They will return from Europe via the Far East and Australia. 123 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1953

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IT was indicated, when the Legislative Assembly was in budget session, that Western Samoa this year may spend over £1,000,000 on its general services. In addition, there will be substantial expenditure on capital works.

The latter will include port improvements in Apia, an aerial survey of the whole territory, and the completion of a hydro-electric installation on the Vaisigano River, designed to produce 1,000 kilowatts.

As the result of continued good trading conditions, the Territory’s revenues are booming; and most of the new money is going back into social services. The proposed expenditure on education and health, £286,000, exceeds the whole of the 1947 budget.

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Members of the Assembly argue that control of the Public Service should be vested in the Samoan Government instead of in the NZ Minister for Territories. This change is now provided for in the new policy just issued by New Zealand.

U Soon to go on leave to Britain via Canada, are Dr. Leon Achmatowicz and his wife. He has served three years in Fiji as surgeon at Suva and at Lautoka. He will be much misssed in Lautoka, where his skill and devotion to his patients earned him high praise from all races. 124 may. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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One of the young men is the eldest son of the Administrator, 23years-old Mr. Robert Cleland.

Island travellers in Auckland:— Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Berry and family bound for Rarotonga where Mr.

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Dr. and Mrs. T. T. Romans and children.

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Mr. A. E. Williams, ' Dr. Ivan Wilson and Mr. E. F. Willcox visited the Cook Islands as members of a Pensions Bbard investigating pension claims.

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Charles Sullivan, of Sydney, head of a well-known company exporting foodstuffs, etc., to the Islands.

For some reason, which no experienced merchant can understand, the Department will not allow Australian packers to pack corned beef for export in round cans—it must go into square, tapered cans.

Islands consumers will not buy the tapered cans if they can get round cans; and as the meat-packers of New Zealand are under no such handicap, a large proportion of the Australian canned corned-beef trade has been lost to NZ.

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However, when the meat is mixed with cereals, etc., the Australian; Department permits its export in round tins, under various names; and these lines have a big sale in Papua-New Guinea, where they are issued to labour as meat rations.

Why do the bureaucrats allow these lines to go in round tins, while “straight” corned beef is forced into taper tins?

Mr. Sullivan tried in vain to get the Minister to examine this thing, personally. But all he achieved was a typical letter from a Departmental official saying “the Minister is unable to agree to the relaxation of requirements desired as it is evident that it would result in the lowering of the standard and reputation of Australian canned cornedl beef.” He ignores the success NZ and other Countries has had with the round cans.

The outstanding weakness of the Australian Government to-day is said to be the way in which Ministers have surrendered the business of administration to a powerful andl dictatorial bureaucracy.

Tf Mr. and Mrs. Pat Costello lefti Suva early in May for Europe. They; will visit, in London, their daughter and her husband, Wing-Commander J, Bray, who is on the staff of the; High Commissioner for New Zealand.

If Mr. V. C. Gabriel, of Burns Philpc (NG) Ltd., Samarai, Papua, reachedt Sydney in mid-April on threes months’ sick leave. 126 MAY, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Smallships in the News (See also Smallships Section, page 85, this issue.) PX1 Is III in Brisbane jV/fR. BILL SIMPSON, who is one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of Port Moresby, Papua, became suddenly ill recently and was flown out to the Repatriation Hospital, Greenslopes, Brisbane on April 29.

He has been a resident of the Territory since 1935 when he was associated with some of APC’s early exploratory work in the Fly River and Western Papua. Just prior to World War II he joined the Commonwealth Department of the Interior when they were constructing the road around Paga Hill, Port Moresby and installing coastal artillery.

He was a veteran of both World Wars, serving in the First with the 7th Light Horse and later in France with the 2nd Divisional Engineers. He was one or the first of the Territory’s residents to enlist in World War II and became the holder of AIF registration number PX 1. and as such was widely known. He served in the Middle East and with ANGAU in the Territory.

Since the end of the war he has been an enthusiastic supporter of all exservicemen’s activities, and in addition was a member of the Konedobu Club, Aquatic Club and a foundation member of the Port Moresby Bowling Club.

II Mr. and Mrs. Jim Peterson, of Lae, New Guinea, will sail on the June Bulolo for leave in Sydney and Queensland.

Tf Monsieur Lassalle Sere, Inspector- General of French Oceania, has been awarded the Order of Commander of the Legion of Honour.

M. Lassalle Sere has given outstanding service in many ways to the South Pacific Islands, especially as a member of the South Pacific Commission.

Orohena changed hands in Papeete, his was taken in Devonport Naval Dock, Auckland.

Hifofua. The keelbolts almost fell out hen she was docked in Auckland.

Taurangi having her bottom painted efore heading for Tahiti and (right) is cock's Wanderer-III arrived in Papeete.

White Squall, with everything drawing, earing Auckland for Papeete. 127 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1953

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These are Bombs—not Bottles Some of the live shells that are still being gathered up at Hell’s Point, near Tenarau, Guadalcanal, by an Australian bomb disposals unit. This area was an American ammunition dump during the war, and the Japs, as a last gesture before they were driven out, dropped a bomb on it. These are some of the unexploded small stuff that fell over a wide area.

Most of it is carted out to sea and dumped.

Have You Good Reason To Believe That An Antiquity Exists?

ELECTED members of the Papua and New Guinea Legislative Council were sarcastic over the legal draftsmanship of the so-called Antiquities Ordinance that came before the Council early in May. A better name for it, suggested Mr.

E. A. James, member for Papua, would be the Iniquities Bill. Mr.

D. Barrett, member for New Guinea Islands, believed that it had probably been drafted by the late Joseph Stalin.

The Bill was designed to protect native relics or curios and other articles of ethnological and anthropological interest, cave paintings and the like. Everyone agreed that this was a worthy aim. However, in parts of the Bill, it was believed that its architect has “run amok ”

Penalties were set out for people who “had good reason to believe that there exists” in any locality a cave or other place of ancient remains, carvings, paintings, historical remains, etc., and did not immediately report them to the nearest District Officer. There were equally dire penalties for those who defaced, uncovered, damaged or exposed any of these objects without the written permission of the Administrator —without any provision for the accidental exposing or damaging of same.

Debate on the Bill was deferred to later in the session, evidently in the hope that those who had fathered it would think better of its Behind-the-Iron-Curtain implications.

Wildsmith-McKee Wedding MISS ROSEMARY WILDSMITH wore a ballerina frock of self-patterned organza when she married Mr. Alan McKee at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Rabaul, NG, on Easter Saturday.

The Rev. Fr. Dwyer officiated.

Mrs. Jill O’Farrell was Matron of Honour. Mr. E. W. Smith gave the bride away and Mr. Graeme Blake was bestman. A reception was given for 30 guests in Burns Philp Women’s Mess. Both bride and groom are members of BP staff. 128 may, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Future Of Fijian

LANDS Re-Statement of British Pledge SUVA, April 27.

TN the days of political disturb i ances and non-co-operation in Western Samoa (more than 25 jears ago) the Samoan nationalist irganisation adopted the motto Samoa mo Samoa” (Samoa for the ;amoans). Since peace returned to Vestern Samoa, the NZ Government has implemented the slogan :d the point where the trusteeship srritory is near complete self-govirnment.

The independent Kingdom of 'onga is emphatically all-Tongan.

“Fiji for the Fijians,” however, ; not a current slogan. The question If whether it may become one has ieen raised lately.

The latest faint murmur (from luropean sources) has risen from -of all things—a passage in the sport of the 1953 Economic Review Jommittee. It has come down with solid reaffirmation of the sanctity f the Fijian land reserves.

It points out that in 1938 the 'ijians, “by a generous and farighted act which must forever band to their credit,” agreed that sserves should be set aside for leir present and future needs and lat the rest of their land should e made available to the Native and Trust Board for leasing.

The reserved land, the report conjures, is the inalienable property f the Fijians, and “in making any jcommendation to the Fijians we salise that this is their country, rat the land has been guaranteed ) them by the most solemn and revocable undertakings, and that e can only advise and exhort lem.”

The Fijians’ greatest protection >r the future, the report states, vill be full and adequate use of le land they have.” It also menons that “it is a fact of history rat land not used becomes land rveted, and land coveted leads to scontent and strife.”

JO one is likely to quarrel with “ such pronouncements. But the question may well be asked why is necessary for the indigenous ;ople’s rights to be stated and reated so often.

In 1949, the former Governor (Sir rian Freeston) told the Legistive Council that there can be no ting back on history and no icroachment, by legislative or her changes, on the principle that .jian land belongs to the Fijians, id will not be taken from them, bat was clear enough, and the iteration of the solemn pledge evitably leads to speculation. Why must it be emphasised so carefully and so frequently?

The delicately-implied warning to use the land or somebody else might grab it (meaning the land in the demarcated Fijian reserves) inspires a degree of exasperation.

Imagine such a thing being hinted at in the case of the touchy and politically-conscious people of the African and Eastern colonies! With the example of the Indians, who told the British to “quit India,” and of the British, who obligingly did so, in front of them, who could blame the Fijians if they started thinking along the lines of Fiji for the Fijians?

As for the use of their lands, some people think that the Fijians, in spite of heavy obstacles, are doing a remarkably good job, and the bulging coffers of the Fijian Development Fund is partial proof of it, (The fund is being built up from levies of £lO a ton on Fijian-produced copra, to which in the near future may be added parallel levies on bananas, yaqona (kava) and other profitable products).

Finally, the report makes no mention of the drain on the Fijian population (total 135,000) represented by the withdrawal of many hundreds of the finest young Fijians for Army service at home and overseas, in addition to those drawn into the police, the shipping services, mining and urban industry, and Government service. Only a 129 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1953

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Rabaul Easter Golf With Madang '\ T the golf tournament played in Rabaul over Easter week-end, when golfers from Madang were visitors, tfr. Roy Sowerby, of Madang, won the first post-war open title with 82; three •ther players tied for second place with * score of 90—they were Messrs. R. Dun- :an, M. Rees, K. Drabsch, all of Rabaul.

Other matches resulted as follows: fissociates 9-hole Stableford, Miss J.

Wheeler, Ist; Mrs. Con Esson, 2nd; Mrs.

T. Black. 3rd.

Members 18-hole Stableford, R. Duncan, st; E. Williams. 2nd; and J. White, 3rd.

Eighteen-hole handicap in conjunction rith Open Title, J, Fletcher, Ist; K. •fanning, 2nd; E. Munro, 3rd.

Associates New Britain Open, Mrs. Con Jsson, Ist; Mrs. J. Black, 2nd; Miss M. igan, 3rd.

Twelve-hole handicap held in conunction with above: Mrs. Con Esson, Ist; ifrs. J. Black, 2nd; and Miss J. Wheeler, rd.

Madang versus Rabaul: M. Rees defeated White, 6 up and 4; L. Webb defeated J. Sidaway, 9 up and 7: D. Jones defeated Thirrell, 2 up and 1; R. Duncan lefeated R. Sowerby, one up at 19; E.

Williams defeated J. Goude, 5 up and 3; L Manning defeated B. Bud. 3 up and A. W. Esson defeated Wolfendon, 9 up .nd 7.

Coconut Processing Machinery on Exhibition [>ETWEEN May and September, in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, the 55ears-old firm of Tyneside Foundry and Ingineering Co., Ltd., will stage a special zhibition of machinery designed for the rocessing of coconuts and rubber. This rm’s “Chula” (coconuts) and “Huttenach” (rubber) machines are well known i the South Pacific—it claims that it as sent equipment to every Territory, s well as to many countries of West adies. Central America, Africa and Asia.

Any South Pacific planter in Britain nring this time might find a visit to the zhibition profitable. It will include ifferent types of copra dryers, a coconut arer, various machines designed to assist aconut dessication, a new highspeed ontinuons sheeter for rubber, a direct rive crepeing battery, and so forth. «cause labour is progressively becoming tore of a problem, most of the machines re designed to eliminate labour as much s possible.

Mr. F. P. Hewitt retired in May ifter 48 years service on the en- :ineering staff of the Union Steam Ship Co., including service in essels on the Islands run.

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36 YEARS SERVICE SUVA, April 27.

ONE of the best-known of Fijian medical men, Assistant Medical Practitioner (Special Grade) Samisoni Fotu, has retired after 36 years’ service. Now appreaching 60 years of age, AMP Fotu says that he is “going back to the koro,” which means his home village of Lomaloma, in Lau.

In 1907 he was among the first pupils at the then newly-established Queen Victoria School. He joined the Suva Medical School (now r the Central Medical School) in 1913 and, in the years since graduation, he has been stationed in almost every medical district in the Colony, including Rotuma.

Respected by people of all races, AMP Samisoni is one of the Fijian medical men to whom Europeans in the outer districts firmly cling, often putting their trust in the instinctive ability of trained Fijians rather than going afield for European doctors. Samisoni Fotu is foremost among the Fijians who, in emergencies, have brilliantly performed complicated surgical work.

His wife, Nurse Fine Liku, died two years ago. He had three sons (one of whom, AMP Tevita Fotu. is stationed at Tamavua) and three daughters. 131 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1953

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Former POW’s at Dinner In Moresby THE third annual reunion dinner of former Prisoners of War was held in Port Moresby, Papua, on April 23. The one former POW from the First World War, Mr. W. C. Groves, was chairman and toastmaster for the occasion.

Mr. Tony Parsons urged those present to join up with the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War and Relatives Association, 340 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, whose good work was deserving of every support.

It was agreed before the conclusion of the function that a similar dinner would be arranged for 1954.

Burns Philp (SS) Co.

Shows Steady Figures A NET profit of £106,831 was made by Burns Philp (South Seas), Ltd., in the year ended February 28 last.

This is substantially the same as the previous year. The subscribed capital of this company (registered in Suva—all figures represent Fiji currency) is £750,000, and the usual dividend of 10 per cent, therefore takes a little less than three-quarters of the year’s profit. Most of the balance is added to the General Reserve, bringing it to £375,000, There is also an Equalisation and Rehabilitation Reserve of over half a million, and nearly IVz millions of funds representing accounts in credit and deposits held at call. In other words, the company’s available capital is over £3,060,000, of which only £750,000 was subscribed by shareholders. Two balancesheet items, investments £813,570, shares in subsidiaries £314,960, suggest that over £ 1 million is not actually working in this business; but they do indicate the tremendous reserve strength of the organisation.

The steel bodies of some mobile; X-ray units for use in Fiji recentlyarrived in Suva and the units are 1 now being assembled. Meanwhile a large number of school children have already been X-rayed at Health Department headquarters in Suva pending completion of the units which will be used in the anti-TB campaign. 132 M A ¥ , 1 9 5 3 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

[?] igger Oil Output From Dutch NG To Go To Australia For Refining >iOR some time, considerable quantities of crude oil have been sent from the western end of jitch New Guinea for refining— iistly at refineries near Melurne. The new industry has been iadily expanding since the war, :d it has created a new port, irong, on the Vogelkop peninsula.

It was reported recently that ere has been much new developed on the Vogelkop oilfield — :rk is proceeding on a plan which 11 be completed in 1954. A Dutch m is laying down a pipe-line over miles, from the oil-bores in the •kelkop area to a point at the »uth of the Montori River, where sre will be loading facilities for ikers. rhe report says that most of this will go to Australia.

Lautoka’S New Town

COUNCIL LAUTOKA, April 30.

FTER a very lively campaign, Lautoka elected the following Town Council lines in order of voting): Europeans— Hollander, W. Beddoes, C. A. Adams, F. Corbett. Unsuccessful: R. P. ibert, K. Stuart. Indians—G. K.

Idu, M. B. Nityand, B. A. Patel, A. M. ishad. Unsuccessful: Tulsi Ram Sharma 1 Dr. Sahu Khan. Government ninated: H. Stokes and Rev. Kblinio Ikuru. fr. Hollander was elected Mayor in a itest in which Mr. Patel (nominated by , Adams) was defeated. Mr. Stokes was cted Deputy Mayor.

'he Council plans a public works promme Involving some £40,000.

'here is much public interest in the Btricity supply. It is considered that PWD mismanages the undertaking, 1 does not study the needs of the town, 1 a movement is afoot to have the nagement transferred to the new Town incll. <autoka Yacht Club has been formed h 20 enthusiastic members Harry kes is Commodore and Frank Taylor retary.

L modern X-Ray plant is now being inlled at Lautoka Hospital, few officers of Chamber of Commerce 1953 are—President: A. Lambourne; e-president: R. P. A. Probert; secretary; Smith. ?he tourist attractions of Lautoka are ng publicised by the Chamber, and se co-operation with the Visitors Bureau being arranged. With the expansion of aba and Korolevu it appears that Itors should now get good accommodan and a closer look at the lesser own parts of Vltl Levu.

Pacific Air Transport

CONTROL SUVA, May 11. r[E South Pacific Air Transport Council, which represents all the countries and interests which have airlines in the South Pacific, and controls airlines organisation, commenced a session at Nadi to-day. The Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) is presiding; the Air Ministers from Australia and New Zealand are present; and the United Kingdom delegation is led by Air Vice-Marshall R. P. Willock.

Big Game Fish in Western Fiji LAUTOKA, April 20.

TWO experienced American big game fishermen, Mr. A. Schwabacher and Dr. Robert Dunn, came to Fiji to investigate reports of large marlin swordfish in the Yasawas, and they chartered the MV Turanga Levu (Captain Trev.

Withers) for this purpose.

Captain Withers, himself an experienced big-game fisherman, said that while the Americans’ gear was the finest he had seen, unfortunately their heaviest line was only 24thread, and he doubted whether this would hold the fish which he knew were in the Yasawa grounds.

His predictions were correct. On the first day three heavy fish were hooked, but simply smashed the tackle. On the third day a fish estimated at between 500 and 600 pounds, after being played by Dr.

Dunn for over an hour, shook the hook loose when the boatman was getting ready to gaff him.

Captain Withers declares “there are far bigger fish in these waters than those found around New Zealand.” He should know!

H Mr. Howard Hayden, who has been Director of Education in Fiji since 1946, and who since has been prominent in educational research in the Pacific, has been appointed Director of Education in Trinidad, and will leave Fiji at the end of June. He formerly was stationed in Barbados. fl Mr. D. M. Kamerling, manager of the Islands department of Bunge (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., returned to Sydney early last month after a business visit to Papua and New Guinea.

He leaves for New Caledonia and New Hebrides early in June.

Owing to crop failures in NZ and Australia, Fiji expects to suffer a severe shortage of potatoes—of which the Colony normally imports 2,000 tons per annum. Officials are urging widespread planting of kumalas (sweet potatoes) as a substitute.

Future Of Cook Islands

MB. D. M. RAE, MP, of Auckland, has reported to the NZ Government after his visit to the Cook Islands that the future of the citrus and other planting: schemes was dependant on a reliable shipping service linking the Lower Group islands and Rarotonga, and between Rarotonga and New Zealand. He agreed with the point stressed in PIM In the past that a reliable feeder service from the outer islands to Rarotonga was as essential as a service from Rarotonga to New Zealand if wastage of fruit was to be avoided.

Mr. Rae considered that a reasonable air-passenger service from Rarotonga to New Zealand was an urgent necessity.

He recommends the Government should arrange charter-flights with NAC as required.

Mr. Rae found there was a “difficulty in Rarotonga teacher-trainees in New Zealand receiving C certificates and demanding New Zealand rates of pay, tropical allowances and furlough leave like New Zealand teachers in Rarotonga”, and suggested alternatively the training of teachers in the Cook Islands to a standard lower than the C certificate but adequate, as he saw it, for local requirements.

Mr. Rae has praised the efforts of the Cl Department of Agriculture and Mr.

Maurice Baker, its head, in the drive to reorganise the citrus industry. He found that the revitalised fruit industry would help to employ many, though by no means all, of the idle Cook Island youths. ♦ * * Agriculture officials from Rarotonga who inspected new citrus plantings at Altutakl recently expressed disappointment. A number of plots, they said, had not been properly cared for, and 50 new plots projected for Aitutaki will not be planted until the older plots are properly tended.

Good progress is being made on Atlu with a new stone Catholic Church of Gothic design. The work commenced under Rev. Father Florlbert three years ago.

Three acres of case-wood timber trees are being planted on Atiu by local school boys, as a contribution towards the development of timber stands in the Group to ultimately supply the fruit and MOP case needs.

Although American Forces departed from Penrhyn Island In 1947, the Administration only lately called for tenders for 80 drums of lubricating oil which have been there since then. Some of the drums are now so rusted they will probably burst on movement.

Progress is being made on Rarotonga in the volunteer tree-planting scheme, to prevent erosion and beautify the encircling coastal road.

Constable Tomaiti, of Manihiki atoll, died in March —second fatal case within a few months —as a result of a collapse while shell diving in the lagoon.

Good runs of ature fish were taking place in March and the stone fish-traps were taking a rich harvest of the succulent little mackerel. Price on the beach: 14 fish for 1/-. As a result of a strict police ban on dynamiting shoals of ature have entered Avarua lagoon area for the first time in three years. The fish are only about 4 inches long, as compared with the usual 8 or 9 inches.

Takeu Paitai, a leading member of the Vakatini family of Rarotonga, died in hospital there on February 18, 133 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1953

Position Vacant

PLANTATION INSPECTOR for New Guinea. Must be fully experienced coconuts, cocoa, etc. Apply by airmail stating experience and salary required and submitting copies of references to; “Plantation Inspector”, C/- Box 3408, G.P.O., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

Classified Advertisements Rate: 1/6 per Line—Minimum: 10/6.

FOR SALE IN* NEW GUINEA.—For sale agricuUur) lease 25 acres (48 years), planted coct nuts and cocoa, also trading allotmei (2y a acres) with dwelling and trad stores together with cruiser-type con mercial freighting motor-launch, 50 ba( copra capacity. Price: £3,750, walk-j with trade store stock at valuation.] Reply: “Lease & Store”, C/- Box 98 G.P.O., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

A SMALL SHIP right on the spot, f( sale at Rabaul; Trading vessel, 48 ft.] 13 ft. 6 in. beam, 6.98 net tonnage, ( h.p. Lister diesel, 4 bunks, toilet, sma galley, etc. Now trading between Nunc and Rabaul. Requires about £400 e : pendlture to make first-class. Hold 6( cu. ft. £4,000. Wm, E. Reed, 145a Georf St., Sydney. Cables: “Wllreed”, Sydne SPARE PARTS.—Winches, power-take-of for G.M.C.. 6x6 Ford and Chev. Bill Jeeps, all ex-Army vehicles. Reply t airmail to: J. Walsh, Box 3066, G.P.C Sydney. N.S.W., Australia.

COLES Diesel and Petrol-Electric Mobi and Lorry-Mounted Cranes, 2-5 tom overhauled and passed to B. of 1 specifications. Further particulars an photographs upon application. Chessin] ton Salvage Co., Ltd., Church Lan Chessington, Surrey. England. Telephom Epsom 4026 (4 lines).

PERSONAL TO AUCKLAND EX-ISLANDERS.—Board wanted for well-behaved European girl of 13, who will attend day school. Would any kind couple willing to assist, please reply to; Islands Student, C/- “P.I.M.”

Box 5179, Wellesley St. Post Office, Auckland. N.Z.

PEN-FRIEND WANTED,—Young American pen-pal would like to correspond with girl in Islands or Australia, interested in starting a pen-friendship. Write: Billy Watson, Palmetto, Florida, U.S.A.

Positions Wanted

QUALIFIED SECRETARY.—Army Officer’s Widow, British, seeks position in South Pacific as Secretary/Housekeeper. Shorthand and typing good speed—at present Confidential Secretary to general manager of large steel works. Seeks change; no encumbrances; pay own passage. Reply; Mrs. N. Gwynn, C/o The Indian Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., Burnpur (West Bengal), India.

YOUNG MARRIED MAN, 29, seeks position in the Islands. Will consider any type of job. Holder of all road machine driving licences. Reply; V. E. Mills, C/- Moblle Plant, Auckland Harbour Board.

Quay St., Auckland. New Zealand.

DENTIST, aged 44, wife and child.

Russian refugee from China, seeks work of any kind in Islands. 15 years general practice, laboratory and hospital work with Allied armies in S. China. Experience in tropical diseases, general surgery, first aid. Open for engagement from June 1 1953. A.l references. Replies: C. N.

Nedachin, 25 Foos St., Forest Lodge Sydney, N.S.W.

BOOKS I’LL find that English book you want, if anyone can. See last or next month’s advertisement in this space for details. —Philip R. Boulton, Westbury, Wilts, England.

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Fairmile For Sale

Fairmile Cruiser, 112 ft., powered twin Cadillac-Momy engines, decks proofed, excellent accommodation, complete with navigation instruments, motor tender, space available for cargo fore and aft. Recently Surveyed. £5,500.

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the Supreme Court of the Territory of tpua and New Guinea, 1953, No. M.P.2. the matter of the Trustees and scutors Ordinance 1912 of the Territory [Papua and in the matter of the trusts the Port Moresby Library Institute. :on motion made to the Supreme Court the Territory of Papua and New ilnea on the 7th day of May, 1953. on aalf of ERNEST ALFRED JAMES AND [HERS as trustees of the society known ■iously as the Port Moresby Institute [3 the Port Moresby Library Institute for • said Court to give its sanction to a >se dated the 17th day of April, 1953. the said trustees to STANLEY lOMAS LAWRANCE for a term of 5 ars of part of the Institute’s land and »mises in Douglas Street, Port Moresby, mg allotment 9 of section 5, Port •resby, on which is erected a concrete ilding hitherto known as the Port .resby Library Institute Building and metimes referred to as the ‘‘Twilight fe”, IT WAS ORDERED that the said •tion stand adjourned to a day to be ed and that this advertisement be publed advising all persons who may be sirous of objecting to the said lease it they may lodge objections thereto in iting with the Registrar of the said urt at the Court House, Port Moresby t later than fourteen days after the blication hereof and that thereafter tne d motion may proceed without regard any objection not then lodged with j Registrar of the said Court.

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(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency) COPRA (The following are based on the MOF contract prices for 1953 in the Territories hamed.) PAPUA-NEW GUINEA.—Copra Marketing Board rates: Main ports, Hot air, £69/5/- per ton; FMS, £69/5/-; Smoked, £68/5/-. Sydney crushers pay: Plantation Hot-air; £91; FMS, £90/15/-; Smoked, £90/2/6.

FIJI.—At Suva and Levuka, 1953: Plantation grade (60 points and oven £F66/5/6 per ton; FMS (45-57V 2 points) £ F66; other grades from £F64/15/-, down to £F62/15/-.

W. SAMOA.—MOF contract is £Stg.65 per ton, f.o.b., Western Samoa; producers receive about £10 less.

BSI.—Prices based on MOF contract of £Stg.65, per ton, f.o.b. Rates to producers are: £A62/3/4 per ton, delivered Honiara: £A63/3/4, delivered Tulagi or Yandina; £A62/18/4, delivered Gizo.

NEW HEBRIDES.—April quotations 94 Metrop. francs per kilo in store, Marseilles ( £A121/5/10 approx, per long ton).

FRENCH OCEANIA.—Tahiti: 10.25 francs per kilo (£A74/6/- per long ton); Tuamotu 10.80 francs per kilo (£A74/6/per long ton).

COCOA. —Islands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W.

Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on May 1 was £ Stg.262 (£ A327/10/-) c.i.f. ton, Cont ports.

N.G.— £ A280 approx, per ton, in store Sydney.

New Hebrides.—Sales to France in April brought: 250-255 Metrop. francs per kilo (£A322/ll/7-£A329 approx, per long ton) for Superior grades; average grades, 240 Metrop. francs per kilo. (£A309 approx, per long ton).

Samoa.—Sydney agents in May quoted Samoan cocoa at £Stg.250 (£A312/10/-) f.o.b. per ton, first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.).

COFFEE.—Islands prices ruling in May were: Papua-N.G.—No shipments received in Sydney lately. Last price was at 7/6 approx, per lb. (approx. £840 per ton), which was abnormally high.

New Caledonia.—Crop mainly exported to Prance. Recent quotation was 398 Metrop. francs per kilo (£A513 approx, per long ton).

RUBBER. Papua-New Guinea.—Market fluctuates from day to day, based on price ruling in Singapore. Quotation on May 7 was: 33 3 / 4 d Aust. lb. Singapore rate May 7: No. 1 grade RSS (sellers) spot 70y 2 c lb c.i.f. (approx. 30-2/3d Aust. lb.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Sydney quotation (by Victor Karp. Tulk & Co.); White Label. 25/6 per lb.; Yellow, 25/6, c.i.f. Sydney.

Green, unavailable in Sydney at present.

RICE.—New season’s (1953-1954) price; Papua-N.G.—Dry brown £90 per ton; Dressed £96 per ton.

DESICCATED COCONUT. — Sydney agents quote Ceylon, 1/7-1/16 Stg. per lb. spot, delivered to store, Sydney (1/11-13/16 Aust. per lb.). New Guinea: 2/5V& lb. spot, delivered in store, Sydney.

PEARL SHELL.— Prices fixed betwet lorres Strait producers and Otto Gerds 8?’ Jnt SA) n, f0r^ 1952 ’ 53: AA/A/B grad ? Bn i s ( ,£ A850 approx, per lor C. 80c. lb. (£A800); D, 55c. 1 (£A550); E, 40c. lb. (£A400); EE, 30 lb. (£A300)—all c.i.f., New York Ne price expected within next few month Cook Is.—American market firm at ; cents U.S. per lb., f.o.b. Rarotonga. Pn ducers currently receive 1/8 lb. Aus (approx. £187 Aust. long ton).

TROCHUS SHELL.—Little interest be< shown in shell in Sydney lately. Recei quotations are: B.S.I., £A135 per to: New Hebrides, £A100 approx, per toi N.G., £A205-£A210 per ton.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Sydney agen recently quoted; N.G.—£220 per to: N.H.—£220 per ton. B.S.I.—£200 per td

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LONDON, April 10.; Copra, c.i.f., Continental ports, ton:- New Hebrides . .. 92,000 Metrop. fram _ ,’V (£ A118 appro* Tahiti 95,500 Metrop. frani (£ A123 approx.

FM Straits (Mar.-Apr.) .. .. £Stg.j _ (£A118/15/- appro* Ceylon, FMS Nomini Philippines, bulk US$21 (£ A116/7/- approx Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton;— PM Straits, 3V Z % drums . . . . £Stg.l‘ (£A170 approx.

Ceylon, bulk £Stg.K (£A116/5/- approx; Philippines, afloat Nomini Cocoa, per 50 kilos, c.i.f., Nth. Cor tinental Ports.—Accra, March - Ma £Stg.l2/2/6 (£A303/2/6 approx, per Ion ton).

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FIJI.—Through BANK OF NSW, AN BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji oasis £100 Fiji; Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling £ A113. Fiji-London, basis £100 London B. £110/12/6; S. £112. NZ-Fiji, basis £10 NZ: B. £111/11/9; S. £110/4/3.

SAMOA.— Through BANK OF NZ Australia on Samoa, basis £100 Samoa B. £ A123/12/6; S. £A124/10/9. Samoa* London, basis £100 London; B £100/7/6; S. £101/10/-. Samoa-NZ basis £100 NZ; B. £100; S. £100/10/- Samoa-Flji, basis £100 Samoa: B. £111!

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