PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly IftEMBER, 1953 Vol. XXIV. No. 5. t for transmission by post as a newspaper] NOT a scene from a monastery in Tibet - but Tahitians in sleeping - bags.

They had just conquered the second - highest mountain in Tahiti, and went on to reach the summit of the highest, Mt. Orohena, 7.400 ft., seen in the background. —Photo by M. Jay.

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Islands Air Services

Travel in the Tropics is timesaving and a pleasure when you fly by Q ANT AS—Australia’s Overseas Airline with 33 years of flying experience.

Over SO'pgints in the S.W. Pacific Area are linked with Australia by fast, regular QANTAS services shown below.

QANTAS

Norfolk Island

SERVICE Sydney • Norfolk Island • Sydney.

Suva Service

Sydney • Brisbane • Noumea • Suva • Noumea • Sydney.

New Hebrides

SERVICE Sydney • Brisbane • Noumea • Vila • Espirifu Santo • Vila • Noumea • Sydney.

Trobrsand Service

Port Moresby • Samarai • Esa ala • Rabaul • Samarai • Port Moresby.

BOUGAINVILLE SERVICE Rabaul • Buka • Kieta ° Buin • Kieta • Buka • Rabaul.

Papua West Service

Port Moresby • Yule Island • Kerema • Wana • Kikori • Lake Kutubu • Daru • Kikori • Wana • Kerema • Yule Island • Port Moresby.

Solomons Service

Lae • Finschhafen • Rabaul • Buka • Vella Lavella • Yandina • Honiara • Yandina • Vella Lavella • Buka • Rabaul • Finschhafen • Lae.

Bismarck West

SERVICE Lae • Madang • Wewak • Manus Island • Kavieng • Rabaul • Madang • Lae.

Bismarck East

SERVICE Lae • Finschhafen • Rabaul • Kavieng • Manus Island • Kavieng • Rabaul • Lae.

"GOLDFIELD'S"

SERVICE Lae • Bulolo • Wau • Lae.

N.G. HIGHLANDS SERVICE Lae • Nadzab • Kaiapit • Arona • Kainantu • Bena Bena • Goroka • Nondugl • Banz • Minj • Mt. Hagen • Ogelbeng • Baiyer River • Wabamunda • Wabag and return.

New Britain Service

Rabaul • Jacquinot Bay • Moewe Harbour • Talasea • Rabaul (alternatively fortnightly) • Rabaul • Talasea • Moewe Harbour • Jacquinot Bay • Rabaul.

Hollandia Service

Lae • Madang • Wewak • Hollandia and return.

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Hipping Time-Tables

There now are comparatively few shipng lines running on regular time-tables the Pacific Islands. The following time- Dies are only approximately correct — ey are subject to much alteration at ort notice:— Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ery six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbymarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul unaral-Moresby-Brlsbane-Sydnev.

Next sailing latter half of December.

MV Malekula sailed from Sydney on jcember 4 for Samaral, Rabaul, Manus, ewak, Madang, Lae, Samara! and return Sydney.

Details from Burns Phllp & Cos. Ltd., 7 ridge Street, Sydney.

MV Soochow and MV Shansi, modern 300 tons vessels, leave every six seks approximately (making a threejekly service): Sydney-Brlsbane-Port oresby - Madang - Rabaul - Pt. Moresby, dney. Last sailing Shansi, December Next sailing Soochow, about Decemr 18.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line 1. S. Yulll & Cos., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge ~ Sydney.

I. Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga Motor vessels Tofua and Matua, from ew Zealand, serve Suva (FIJI), Nukuafa and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is., Pago igo (American Samoa), Apia (Western imoa). Tofua leaves Auckland for any all of above ports at approx, five weeks tervals. Matua calls at Wellington and Lyttelton (NZ), Lautoka (Fiji) and supplements Tofua’s schedule in Islands, calling at ports as directed by owners.

Tofua has been on annual survey.

Resumed from Auckland November 24.

Next sailing from Auckland, December 23.

Matua will leave Auckland on her next voyage on January 9.

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; her next departures from Auckland are Nov. 13, Dec. 10, and Jan. 7. On her return to Auckland after January voyage will withdraw for annual survey, expected to take about 2 months.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Cos. of NZ, Ltd., which Company acts as Agent for this vessel at some ports. 3 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 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

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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 Ballande 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

“Soochow” “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: 8W2731 6 BR,DGE ST ' SYDNEY BU 6313 (Freight only) Cable Address: “YUBLL”

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 - BS1 ports - Bougainville - Rabaui - Samaral-Sydney.

Last sailing from Sydney December 9.

Details from Burns Pbllp <Sc 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. Luxurious new liners Caledonien and Tahitien recently added to this service.

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 Thorslsle, carrying cargo and passengers maintains a regular service between North American ports and French Oceania. Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Next sailing from San Francisco Jan. 8, Papeete, Jan. 21, Apia, Jan. 30, Suva.

Feb. 6, Noumea, Feb. 16. (Dates approx, only).

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

Airways Time-Tables

Trans-Pacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

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

Thur. and Mon —Return via same route. * Thur. and Sun.-Auckland-Nadl (Fiji). •Wed. and Sat.—Nadi (Fiji)-Auckland. * Connecting with Strato Clipper at Nadi.

By British Commonwealth Pacific

Airlines (Bcpa)

(DC-6 Ail-Sleeper Service) Wed. and Sat.—Sydney-Nadl (Fiji)-Canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Mon. and first Thur. —Dep. southwards. same route. On second or alternas Thursday, flight commences at Francisco. rues.—Dep. Auckland-Nadl-Canton-Hom lulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

Frl.—Dep. Vancouver and S. Pranclsa alternatively; thence same route Auckland.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(CPAL) (With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Tuesday—Sydney - Auckland - Nat (Fiji) - Honolulu - Vancouver.

Every Friday return by same rout) 4 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Speedbird Services

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MALAYA, BURMA, THAILAND.

HONG KONG, JAPAN, CEYLON,

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Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays and Saturdays (Skymasters) Depart: Arrive: ydney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.15 pm rlsbane, 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 am (Wed., Sun.) [oresby, 7.30 am Lae, 8.45 am Connecting services north of Lae by rover to Bulolo and Wau. ednesday and Sundays (Sandrlnghams) Depart: Arrive: rdney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 pm rlsbane, 12.50 am Cairns, 7.05 am (Thur., Mon.) iirns, 8.35 am Moresby, 12.25 am (Night stop) oresby,* 8.30 am Samarai, 10.30 am (Tue.) unarai, 11.30 am Esa’ala, 12.10 pm (Alt. weeks) a’ala, 12.25 pm Rabaul, 3.25 pm The Wednesday Sandringham from dney terminates at Port Moresby, a nnection north to Lae on the following ty at 9.00 am being by D.C.3. * The Sunday Sandringham from Sydney rives Moresby Monday and after a night >p there goes on to Rabaul via Samarai, :., on Tuesday.

SOUTHWARDS lundays and Wednesdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: e, 10.25 am Moresby, 11.40 am >resby, 12.40 pm Brisbane, 7.15 pm isbane, 8.45 pm Sydney, 11.30 pm Connecting service from Wau by Drover, rives Lae 9.35 am Saturday.

Thursdays (Sandringham) Depart: Arrive: baul. 5.30 am Samarai, 8.45 am tnarai, 9.15 am Moresby, 11.15 am iresby, 12.15 pm Cairns, 4.5 pm (Night stop) Irns, 9.30 am Brisbane, 3.45 pm Pri.) sbane, 4.45 pm Sydney, 8.5 pm Saturdays (Sandringham) Depart: Arrive: resby, 6 am Cairns, 9.50 am rns, 11.20 am Brisbane, 5.35 pm sbane, 6.35 pm Sydney, 9.55 pm i connection from Lae, with a DC3, pick up Saturday Sandringham, arrives Moresby on Friday at 8.20 am. 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantaa I —HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DC3) ry 4th Monday (Dec. 28, Jan. 25, etc.) larts Lae 8 am, calls at Madang and JVewak, and arrives at Hollandia 1 5 >m. Every 4th Tuesday (Dec. 29, Jan. !6, etc.), departs Hollandia at 9 am, md, with calls at Wewak and Madang, irrives Lae at 3.5 pm.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

very Wednesday. . Lae, 10.45 am; Finschhafen, Rabaul, Savieng, Manus (5.45 pm) urns Saturdays (dep. 8 am), via iavieng and Rabaul; optional call at F’lnschhafen; arr. Lae, 2.45 pm.

MORESBY-DARU (Sandringham) Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), Cikorl, L. Kutubu.—Every alternate ’riday, returning same day. (Dec. 11, 5, Jan. 8, 22). 5 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Telephone: 80. VINCE COSTELLO, Proprietor.

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

(Sandringham) It. Wed. —Rabaul-Jacquinot Bay-Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Rabaul —Dec. 16, 30, Jan. 13, 27.

N.B. —The direction of operation changes rlth each service, i.e., each alternate srvice operates Rabaul-Talasea-Moewe [arbour-Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul.

New Britain-Bougainville

(Sandringham) It. Wed.—Rabaul - Buka - Kieta - Buin (Dec. 23, Jan. 6, 20).

It. Wed. (same day) Buin-Kieta-Buka- Rabaul.

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SERVICE (DCS) [on., Thur. Dep. Lae 6.30 am, Madang arr. 7.35 am Wewak, Manus Is., Kavieng, Rabaul arr. 3.35 pm. ue. only Dep. Rabaul 8.00 am, direct Madang arr. 11.00 am, Lae arr. 12.35 pm.

Central Highlands

(DCS) ridays—Lae (8.30 am) to Wabag, calling at any of: Nadzab, Kiaipit, Arona, Kainantu, Bena Bena, Goroka, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Wabag. Return to Lae arriving 6 pm.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU (Drover) ep. Lae.—Tues. 3 pm.—Mon. & Sat. 7.30 am. ep. Wau.—Tues. 4.30 pm—Mon. 9.00 am —Wed. 12.35 pm. Direct to Lae in 35 minutes.

LAE-FINSCHHAFEN (Drover) re ry 4th Tuesday, leaving Lae 1 pm, returning same day. (Dec. 29, Jan. 26, etc.).

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

•idays.—Depart Madang 8.25 am, arrive Goroka 9.00 am, returning same day; depart Goroka 9.30 am, arrive Madang 10.5 am.

Services By Mandated Airlines

With headquarters at Lae, this company ms regular services for passengers, eight and mails to all New Guinea ttlements. 4. Aust.-Dutch N. Guinea By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

A weekly service with Constellations tween Sydney and Amsterdam with a 11 at Biak, DNG, and Manila, Philippines.

DCS aircraft link Biak with Hollandia, irong, Merauke and Tannah Merah. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS 3 Flights Every Four Weeks, on. (Dec. 14, 21, Jan. 4, 11, 18, etc.), Lae fdep. 6 am) Finschhafen Rabaul Buka Vellalavella Yandina Honiara, BSI (arriving 4.30 pm). le. (Dec. 15, 22, Jan. 5, 12, 19, etc.), Honiara (dep. 7 am) Yandina Vellalavella Buka Rabaul Finschhafen Lae (arriving 3.30 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly, mstellation aircraft dep. Saigon, Jan. 3 and every 28 days thereafter for Darwln-Brisbane-Noumea, and return. istralian agents: Messageries Maritlmes. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is. r Ansett Flying-boat Service, with Sandrlnghams and Hythes.

Eight services per month, return same 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters.

Alternate Thursdays (Dec. 17, 31, Jan. 14, 28, etc.), returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Sandringham (Weekly Flying Boat Service) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Mon. 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 pm Brisbane, 12.20 am (Tue.) Noumea, 7.00 am Noumea, 8.30 am Vila, 11.05 am Vila, 12.35 pm Santo, 1.50 pm (Night sto*,; Santo, 6.00 am (Wed.) Vila, 7.15 am Vila, 8.15 am Noumea, 10.55 am Noumea, 1.00 pm Sydney, 8.40 pm 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva By Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats—Weekly.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Thur. 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 pm Brisbane, 12.20 am (Fri.) Noumea, 7.00 am Noumea, 8.30 am Suva, 3.00 pm Suva, Sat. 6.30 am Noumea, 11.00 am Noumea, 1.00 pm Sydney, 8.40 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 Tue., Sun.—Dept. Sydney 12 midnight arr. 8.30 am following day, Thur., Sat., Sun.—Dept. Sydney 7.30 am, arr. 4 pm.

Dep. Auckland 8.30 am, arr 1.30 pm Mon., Tue., Thur., Fri., Sat. 13. Sydney-Wellington Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Dep. Sydney 10.30 pm Mon., Tue., Thur., Fri. Arr. 7.30 am following day.

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

Fri.—Dep. Ch’ch., 11 am; arr. Melb., a. 38 pm. 7 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland— (December 22, 29, Januan 2,5, 16).

Return to Auckland on December, 28 3® January 4, 11, 18, etc. ®*P ,rt Arrive Auckland, 9.30 am Suva, 4.30 pn Suva, 9.00 am Auckland, 4.15 pn 16. Fiji-Western Samoa SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland, Dec. 22, Jan. 2,5, 19, etc Depart Arrive Auck.. 9.30 am Sat. Suva, 4.45 pm Sat Suva. 6.00 am Sun. Apia, 11.05 am Sat Apia, 1.30 pm Sat. Suva 4.35 pm Sun Suva, 9.00 am Mon. Auck., 4.15 pm Mon 17. New Zealand-Chatham Isi In the 1953-54 season, Solents will mak: flights to the Chatham Is. as follows; December 14, January 27, March 111 April 8. Departure from Auckland 33( am, dep. Wellington 7.30 am, am Chathams 10.30 am. Dep. 2.30 pm, sami day for Auckland. 18. New Zealand-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents TEAL Service, Auckland-Suva-Apla-j Aitutaki-Papeete, is operated with Solenb Flying-Boats once every two weeks. Depc Auckland, Tuesday, 9.30 am. Arr. Suva 4.30 pm. Dep. Suva (Wednesday) 9.ot< am, cross International Date Line; Arn Apia 1.55 pm Tuesday. Dep. Apia 2.0 t( am Wednesday. Arr. Aitutaki 7.30 amt Dep. Aitutaki 8.30 am. Arr. Papeete I pm. Return by same route every altd Friday, leaving Papeete 7.30 am.

The next flights leave Auckland December 22, January 5, 19. 19. Fiji-Tonga Tasman E. Airways with Solents.

Dep. Suva January 27, February 10, Depart Arrive Auckland, 9.30 am Suva, 4 45 pmr (Tuesday) (Tuesday) Suva, 7.00 am Nukualofa, 10.20 ami (Wednesday) (Wednesday) Nukualofa, 2.00 pm Suva, 4.10 pmr (Wednesday) (Wednesday) Suva, 9.00 am Auckland, 4.15 pnn (Thursday) (Thursday) 20. Micronesia Civilian services, based on Guam, usingg 2-engined amphibious Catalinas, run re—■ gularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West): Carolines), Truk (Central Carolines) j Ponape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshalls)(, and Saipan (Marianas). Details fromc Trans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu*! 21. Fiji Internal Airways By Fiji Airways, with twin-engine de Haviland Rapides Suva to Nadi & Lautoka* and return:.!

Mornings—Dally except Thursday. After-* noons—Daily except Monday.

Suva-Labasa: Dally.

Labasa-Suva: Daily. 8

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Table oresby . single £46 11 0 Keiurn £83 16 0 .NO. 2, 2a. ie .. .. 55 7 0 09 13 0 2, 3 abaul .. 64 19 0 116 19 0 2, 3 oniara, BSI .. 80 7 0 144 13 0 5 Ua. N Hebrides 51 9 0 92 13 0 9 Dumea, NC . . 43 3 0 77 14 0 10, 9, 6 orfolk It. 25 0 0 *5 0 0 8 Howe . 12 8 6 24 17 0 7 a d 1 (Fiji) . 60 10 0 108 18 0 u v a (Fiji) . 64 2 0 115 5 0 ickland 47 5 0 85 1 0 12 elllngton . .. 47 5 0 85 1 0 13 iristch. (from Melb.) . 52 18 0 95 5 0 molulu . 225 9 0 405 16 0 1 Fran’co 279 1 0 502 5 0 ancouver 279 1 0 502 5 0 1 apeete (via Suva direct) . 129 18 0 233 17 0 19

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Nadi-Taveuni: Mon., via Nausori; Tue., ia Nausari and Labasa; Thur., via ausori and Savusavu. • No call on Sundays.

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Workers Congress Meets in Suva REPRESENTATIVES of the seven % unions associated with the Fiji Industrial Worker’s Congress et at their second annual conrence at Suva recently. Unions presented were Fiji Airport Emoyees’, P.W.D. Employees’, Seaen’s, Sugar Workers’, Mine Workers’, Commercial Employees’, id Timber Workers’.

Pandit Ami Chandra, principal of ie DAY College, presided.

The emphasis of the meeting was i unity amongst all sections of Drkers in the Colony. Various >eakers urged all workers to join ieir respective unions.

Fijian and Indian representatives 1 expressed the aims of the conrence as striving for higher andards of living and better contions of work by means of peace- .l negotiation with employers. 11 Mr. W. E. Donnelly, who was headmaster of the Toorak Boy’s School in Suva, Fiji, for 11 years until 1947, has been appointed headmaster of the new intermediate school at Remuera, Auckland, NZ, which opens next year. He is at present headmaster of the Gisborne Central School, NZ.

H The Rev. C. W. Whonsbon-Aston, of the Anglican Church in Apia, Western Samoa, was in southern New South Wales in November in the course of an Australia-wide campaign to tell Australians something about the mission work performed in the large diocese of Polynesia. 9 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Index To Advertisers

~M.L. & F. . .40 Chun, G. & Co. 49 kta-Vite ... 128 luminium Ltd. 122 - & R. Ltd. . 34 rdath Co. Ltd. 54 jmstrong & Springhall . . 82 rnott, Wm. . 38 rt Union . . 39 spaxadrene . . 26 jspro .... 115 ssoc. Tr. Jnls. 45 aker, W., Jno. 59 akewell, R. H. 131 ank NSW 99, 140 ank of NZ . 136 arling Pipes . 139 ethell, Gwyn . 3 iere, 0 49 ilson’s Pty. . . 50 laxland-Rae . 109 lundell Spence 36 .O.A.C. ... 5 oston Batteries 31 orthwicks Ltd. 85 raybon Bros. 116 reckwoldt, W. 119 reden, W. S. 104 ristol-Myers . 95 ritish Book of Month ... 145 runton & Co. 37 ryant Bros . 126 unge Pty. . 51, 98 unting, A. H. . 69 ’way Motors . 46 .P. 57, 81, 110, 146 aine’s Studios 143 aims Ship Co. 107 arpenter 44, cov. iv arr Shipping 121 harmosan . . 137 lae Engines . 106 lassifled ... 151 bigate 114, 132, 138 olonial Meat . 88 olyer Watson . 24 ’wealth Bank . 43 ooke Bros. . . 9*7 rammond Co. . 96 ystex .... 93 angar, G. &M. 10 arling, J. Ltd. 58 avison Paints 11 ettol .... 133 onald Ltd. . . 62 ouglass, W. C. 87 unlop Rubber 45 ynon, J., Co. . 60 11 wood, Jack . 7 :rikson, L., Pty. 115 rskine Stamps 55 t. Donald . . 42 veready Pty. . 123 arrer, Wm. . 143 errier & Dickinson 102 'ord Sherington 105 rigate Rum . 83 rarrett, D. M. 152 rarrick Hotel . 7 rilbey, W. & A. 86 Hllespie Bros. 93 dllespie, R. 1, 33, 57, 113, 127, 136, 141 rillette, Ltd. . 56 roodall & Co. . 90 ordon’s Gin . 112 rrahame Books 29 r.P.H. (Suva) . 12 frove Ltd. 37, 98 :andi Works . 35 iarvey Trinder 32 ialvorsen, B. . 101 [alvorsens . . 3 ardman, Hall . 50 [art’s Agencies 140 [awleys Ltd. . 100 [einz & Co. . . 62 [. & R. . . .25 iellaby, R. &W. 67 [ercules Co. . . 63 Holbrooks Ltd. . 38 Holman Bros. . 34 Hygeia Co. . . 94 Is. Industries . 129 Is. Transport . 108 Jackson. B. W. 132 Johnson’s Wax 71 Karp, Tulk Co. 90 Kasper Refrig. 125 Kennedy, Capt. 102 Kerr Bros. . . 46 Kerry, M. Pty. 9 Ketch for Sale 109 Kiwi Polish . . 135 Kopsen & Co. 103 Kwit Detergent 84 Lillis & Co. . . 72 Maclntyre, T. . 120 Mcllrath’s Ltd. 147 Mendaco . . . 135 Millers Ltd. . . 58 Morgan Vernex 142 M. H. Ltd. 22, 59 Mungo Scott . 123 Needham & Co. 89 Nelson & Robertson . 9, 104, 131 NG Aust. Line . 4 Nile Products . 150 Nirex . 23, 28, 142 Nixoderm ... 85 Nordman, O. . . 70 NZNAC 6 Office Equipment 8 Pabco Co. . . . 118 P. I. Line ... 4 Pan Pacific Co. 65 Papuan Prints 137 Penfold, W. C. 119 Pres. Schools . 149 Qantas . . cov. ii Qld. Insurance 33 Quirk’s Co. . . 92 Ransomes Co. . 66 Reckitt’s Blue . 69 Reed. W. E. . . 101 Refrig. Inst. Co. 65 Riverstone Co. . 64 Rohu, Sil . . . 61 Seward Ltd, . . 127 Shell Co. . . . 144 Sleepmakers Ltd. 42 Smith, Sons & Rees 66 S.M.P. Co. . . 83 Spruso Co. . . 25 S. Ltd. . . 120 Stewarts-Lloyds 112 Stinson’s (Fiji) 30 Sthn. Pac. Ins. 26 Sullivan Ltd. . 53 Suva Motors . .91 Tait, W. S. . . 61 Taylor & Co. . 128 Taylor Woodrow 52 T. . cov. iii Thornycroft Co. 108 Tilley Lamps . 117 Tillock & Co. . 130 Tongan Photos 67 Tooheys Ltd. . 68 Tooth & Co. . 30 Translators . . 11l Turners Supply 124 Tusculum ... 86 Tyneside Eng. . 47 Typewriter Eff. 70 United Radio . 97 Vacuum Oil Co. 148 Valiant Rum . 54 Ventura Tr. Co. ... 94, 124, 152 Vidal, Emile . 133 Vi-Stim .... 139 Vincent’s APC . 27 Waltham Tr. . 2 Warnock Bros. 116 Westfield Meats 48 Wills, Ltd. . . 134 Wright & Co. . 107 Wright, N. R. 11l Wrigley’s ... 41 Wunderlich Co. 41 Yorkshire Ins. . 55 11 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

serv £ at stay #** w *> m£* *" m 3uSsiMt ° e^tf Ulh *> c 1 ve n t b^bo^O f kio tb’e of pjjj Ho ler °°%. Say' Ur ZlJd s °ciai fealty fronf'i ZZ e Oy ‘ be for Waiters by ' *°*n 40/ nd sL rai ned V «t- Qirr<*~- tariff Wons S bn JtT ency) Per be effec or Gr a Z <** -J’o n °Pacif >, r y l. . a PD],n~, r ess; IN THIS ISSUE; Editorial: “Peace On Earth, Goodwill Towards Men!” .. 13 Graduates from ASOPA .... 14 Finance for P-NG Enterprise 14 Fiji Mayoral Elections 14 The Royal Visit to the South Pacific 15 Suva Wharf Costs Have Risen 10/- (NZ) 16 Indian Workmen May Go To New Caledonia 16 Suva’s New Hotel Will Be 'Smaller, Now 17 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 17 The Copra Price In 1954—Representations to the MOF ~ 18 Editors’ Mailbag 19 Profit and Loss Across the Tasman 19 Threat of Detergents to Copra Market 20 Disposal of P-NG Copra Stabilisation Fund 20 Coastwatchers’ Memorial For Madang 20 The Telef o m i n Affair— Hysterical Newspaper Comment in Australia 21 Indonesian Threat to Western New Guinea 21 Territories Talk-Talk ....!' 23 P-NG Administrator Should Be High Commissioner 27 P-NG Has No Income Tax and £8,000,000 to Spend 29 Fiji Budgets for £4,140,000 Expenditure and BSIP for £600,000 3q Fiji’s New Beach Hotel On Hawaiian Plan 32 Wide Activities of South Pacific Commission 34 NZ-ers for the Cooks—and Cl Maoris for NZ 37 Niue Is. Murder Verdict Confirmed 38 Members of P-NG’s Legco State Their Views 39 Fiji Has a Rice Surplus .... 43 P-NG Legislative Council: “Govt.-Sponsored” Debating Society 45 These Were the Answers— Questions in P-NG Legco 49 You Wreck Them—Property Owners Mend Them 51 GATT’s 2d Per Pound Will Not Be Enough 53 Palmyra Instead of Christmas As An Air-base 57 NG Public Service—Too Many Holidays, Not Enough Land 59 Japs Get More Phosphate From Angaur 61 A Third Ship for the Booming Banana Trade 70 MAGAZINE SECTION: The Pacific Has Another Nature-Man, 73; Crossquiz, 74; Tropicalities, 75; Telefomin Has a Long History— for NG, 77.

Hawaii, Too, Has Record Sugar Crop 86 No Shipping, No Cold Store, No Progress in Cook Islands 94 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 97 The Samoans and Democracy 9« News of the Smallships .... 10 Hurricanes Predicted for Fiji— But No Earthquakes n: Awards to Pilots of Crashed Drover m Priest from Honduras Tells Fiji About Credit Unions ll n Fiji Now Has Plenty of Whales’

Teeth m The Cannery That Has Never Canned no Norfolk Island Notes .. 120 OBITUARY: Mr. E. C. Skelly; Archbishop de Boismenu; Mr.

H. G. Schuster; Mrs.

Tungane Savage; Mr. A.

Williams; The Hon Tuala Tulo; Mr. Ah Kuoi; Mr.

Frank Homes; M. Henri Stitz; Mrs. Ann Oelrichs 125-127 News Items from Our Correspondents In Papua-New Guinea 129 Western Samoa and Its Exchange Rate i3i More Sheep for Nondugl .... 132 Satan Goes to Reprove Sin in New Guinea 133 W. Samoa Kicks Britain Over Preferential Tairff 135 Minister Replies to Criticism Over War Graves Party .... 137 What Happened to theßaluana Proclamation? 140 P-NG Education—From the Top Down X4I Peril at Easter Island— Taylor’s Exciting Story of S. American Flight 145 Commercial, Markets, etc .. 152 12 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY'-

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Peace on Earth, Goodwill Towards Men’! [S I apply myself to the writing \of this, our first article for the Christmas issue, the newsboys i Pitt Street are selling newsapers which sensationally report 0 President Eisenhower’s frank arning that, if this A-bomb race Des not stop, much of the life on lis globe soon may be destroyed; )) the snarling hatred of Asians id Africans for all Europeans, and ipecially Anglo-Saxons: (c) the •rival in the mid-Pacific of ritain’s beautiful young t Queen, on sr way to visit her Antipodean rritories—the one bright gleam in world of extreme ugliness; (and) atistics which show the overhelming and increasing in fference of the white races toards the Christian Church; (e) le growing penetration of France id Italy by Communists, and a irrible upsurge of homosexuality England; and (f) in Australia, idence that, while Socialist policians are permitting wholesale •rruption and nepotism, non- )cialist classes are abandoning lemselves to an orgy of gambling istralia anri istralia, and all classes are spend- Merles SUmS ° n '' State ”

One tries to take a sane and fe al Sctures W n?Lented 1 riav* w af”- result Sf )W, as tn. result of intense newsgathering and instantaneous communication are, to say the least, extremely ugly and very alarming.

Many sober people believe that Western Civilisation is “on the skids.” There is no doubt about what would follow the collapse of our Western world. Our countries would be torn apart by the Communist nations, and our peoples overwhelmed by the rampant masses of Asia and Africa. The world’s shrewdest observers expect that 1954-55 will be the year of international crisis. r-DAY, the appeal is to Russia; but the issue really lies with the United States. If the gang of political adverturers in control in Moscow will align the Soviet bloc with United States and Britain, it may be possible to outlaw the atom bomb, and restore some sanity and calm to the human race. But United States, while sincerely trying for agreement, is without hope.

It is known that Russia now is claiming equality with us in the A-bomb and H-bomb, and it was authoritatively stated in London on December 1 that Russia now has the secret of the C-bomb (based on cobalt, and capable of the complete destruction of life over wide areas of the earth), and plans to get superiority over us with this by 1955.

The appeal is being made. If. presently, it appears that it has failed, it is very likely that United States will go to war forthwith, as the only way of putting an end to current terrors and saving Western civilisation from collapse. There is evidence that Eisenhower, and the men immediately behind him, wish to force the issue, now, even if it means World War III; and that Churchill, knowing in his great wisdom that, even if World War 111 breaks the Soviet power, it will mean the utter destruction of the United Kingdom, is trying to restrain the Americans, so as to make a supreme effort to secure some agreement with the Muscovites.

The Americans are confident that, if the thing is put to the hazard now, they can defeat Russia, and put an end to the wave of Communism that is surging across a frightened and resentful world.

The British want to delay action, while the Anglo-Americans re-build and re-arm Germany and Japan, to stand beside them and hold off the Slavonic bloc. But that is the British strategy of grandfather’s day. In America’s view, to-day’s strategy is dominated wholly by the atomic bomb.

In a world of horrors, the most disconcerting thing is the behaviour of the masses in the Western nations. Refusing to consider either the terrifying threats from without, or the corruption and inefficiency within, they are abandoning themselves to various uninhibited pleasures that are re

Pacific Publications “New Address The whole of the shares of Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty., Ltd., recently were purchased by Pacific Publications Pty., Ltd.—the company established over 20 years ago by Mr. R. W. Robson to hold and publish the Pacific Islands Monthly and Pacific Islands Year Book. Mr. Robson has been managing director of the S. & M.

Co. since 1937. The two companies will now be conducted as one business.

The S. & M. Co. owns and publishes six important trade and institutional monthly journals— Power Farming, Australasian Baker, Australasian Confectioner, Australian Cordial-Maker, Australasian Leather Trades Review, and NSW Country Trader— all from 30 to 50 years old—and it also prints various journals, including Pacific Islands Monthly and The Chartered Accountant in Australia, for other publishers. The company has a branch office in Melbourne The offices of Pacific Publications Pty., Ltd., Sydney, have been moved from Union House, 247 George St Sydney ( where they had been since S. & M. Co’s, building Alberta Street, which is within 10 yards of the intersection of Goulburn Street and Wentworth Avenue. The building has been named Technipress House—it is now wholly occupied by the literary staffs of the seven journals, and printing .and publishing technicians The new address is— Pacific Islands Monthly, Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street. SYDNEY— or G.P.O. Box 3408, Sydney ff A daughter was born recently at Namanula Hospital, Rabaul, to Mr and Mrs. A. McKee of Burns Philp (NG), Ltd. H garded as the negation of good citizenship.

Maybe, it is a reaction from long years of strain imposed by international uncertainties. Maybe, it will pass. Many bands of good citizens, like the promoters of Moral Rearmament, are making a fight against the trend. Maybe, if the crisis comes soon, all the qualities of gallantry and courage, which carried our race through two great wars, will be displayed again, again to save us.

Yes, in the belief of our now weakening Christian Church, this is a time of peace on earth, and goodwill towards men. But, to-day, there is scarcely one “civilised” country on earth where there really is peace; and as for goodwill towards men RWR.

Pacific Administration Graduates TWO interesting speeches—one by the Australian Minister for Territories (Mr. Hasluck) and one by the Principal of the School (Mr. Rowley)—were made on December 7, during the Ceremony of handing their Diplomas to the 26 young men of the Papua and New Guinea District Services who have just graduated from the South Pacific School of Pacific Administration, at the end of 2 years of study. The Secretary of the Territories Department (Mr. Lambert) presided and Mr. Hasluck presented the Diplomas.

The Minister, especially, made some significant statements about Australian policy in relation to New Guinea. These will be published in the January issue of the PIM.

The ceremony was witnessed by a large gathering of persons interested in the future of Papua and New Guinea—they included Administration officials, scientists, missionaries, commercial leaders and representatives of other countries.

The following is the list of graduates, most of whom are Patrol Officers:— ALLEN. W. W.; 1, 2, 3, 4.

ASHTON. D BORN. R.

BRIGHTWELL, M.; 4.

BUNTING. B.; 1, 2, 3,4, 5.

CHESTER, K.

CLANCY, D.

CLFFTON-BASSETT, D.; 3.

CRELLIN, W.; 4.

DENEHY, M.; 2, 3, 4. 5.

FLEAY, C.; 1, 4.

FOLEY, S. M.

GALLOWAY, R. : 2, 3, 4, 5.

GOW> A. F.

HICKS, E. G.; 1, 2, 5.

HOLMES, I. A.: 1, 2, 3. 4.

JONES, F. D.

KAAD, F. P.; 2, 3, 4, 5.

LINSLEY, G.; 2, 3, 4.

PAGE, J. B.: 1, 2, 3,4, 5.

ROBINSON, J. ; 4.

SIPPO, W. G.; 1, 2, 3,4, 5.

SMITH, S. S.

WILLIAMS, J.; 2, 3.

WAKEFORD. J.

ZWECK. A.; 1, 3. 1, Credit in Law: 2, Credit in Government; 3, Credit in Anthropology; 4, Credit in History; 5, Credit in Geography.

II Mr. J. p. Bayly, well-known Fiji businessman, has joined the Board of Directors of Messrs. Morris Hedstrom Ltd. of Fiji.

I 1 Miss Marie Reay, an anthropologist, left Sydney by air in mid- December for Minj in the New Guinea Highlands where she will, for the next few months, study the local natives.

Finance For P-Ng

ENTERPRISE New Section of Commonwealth Bank AN unofficial but reliable report! indicates that from January* 1, 1954. the Commonwealth: Bank of Australia will establish, im Fapua-New Guinea, a new trading section of the Bank, the purpose ot which will be to finance agricultural and industrial enterprise in th© Territories, and implement a hire-; purchase system.

There has been a demand for such an instrumentality for a considerable time. Private enterprise is quite readv to attempt the development! of the Territories’ resources; the Administration is favourable; but commentators have emphasised that three more factors are needed— land, money and labour.

The Administration insists that it. can make land available. It also argues that, other factors being present, there will be enough laboun to carry development—but that remains to be seen.

The Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, with a large staff, im August visited several areas ofi Papua and New Guinea. It is presumed that the decision to provide ' financial machinery, in the way£ outlined, is the result. The success or otherwise of the plan will depend,] of course, on the conditions imposed) by the Bank.

Fiji Mayoral Elections

DURING November, mayoral elections were held in Fiji.

Mr. D. M. N. McFarlane and) Mr. W. E. Goodsir were re-elected) Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Suva.!

This is Mr. McFarlane’s third con-, secutive term as Mayor.

In Lautoka, Mr. C. A. Adams was. elected Mayor, and Mr. M. B.{ Nityanand, Deputy Mayor.

The former Mayor, Mr. S.c Hollander, has resigned from th© Council.

The new officials will meet th©; Queen and Duke of Edinburgh during their visit.

Ng Groundnut Industry

SOUTH Pacific Traders of Lae,9 NG, are making inquiries im Melbourne for machinery neces-sary to obtain extraction of oil! from ground-nuts. This has been given valuable information! on this subject by the CSIRO. Asj this is something new in the Terri-*, tory, the local officers of the Dept.f of Agriculture advise seeking more*; information, on a wider basis. 14 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

The Royal Visit To The South Pacific

Fiji, Tonga, Australian and NZ Territories Share in Festivities BEFORE this issue of the PIM reaches the public, Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will have concluded their visits to Fiji and Tonga and be on their way to New Zealand and Australia where they will meet representatives of other Pacific territories which they will not be able to visit personally.

In Fiji and Tonga, in mid- December, finishing touches were being made to the preparations for the welcome of the Royal Party which was then steaming across the Pacific in the Royal Yacht Gothic after some memorable days spent in Bermuda, Jamaica and Panama.

In Fiji, rehearsals for the Royal visit on December 17 and 18 have been the order of the day. The last street decorations have been going up and the last arrangements being made for two days of celebrations which will long be remembered in the Colony, and, it is hoped, also by the Queen and the Duke.

In Tonga, Queen Salote and her lousehold, turned out of the Palace it Nukualofa in order that it should be entirely painted and refurbished :or the stay of Queen Elizabeth and ;he Duke of Edinburgh on December 19 and 20.

[N Charge Of Tongan Staff

Queen Salote announced in November that she had appointed Hr. Moli Ilolahia, of Auckland, to ake charge of the palace staff at Nukualofa during the Royal visit. 3e was on the staff of the British Residency in Tonga for four years snding 1942.

About 60 newspaper reporters and >ress photographers representing )apers from all parts of the globe, ire converging on Fiji, and are naking arrangements to then go m to Tonga so that the world may ead and see just what the Royal isits to Fiji and Tonga were like, n addition, film units from the JK, NZ and USA will be there to tiake colour films for movie screen nd television.

Ttcairn Island

REPRESENTATIVES Mr. John Fletcher Christian, Jhief Magistrate of Pitcairn Is., nth his wife, journeyed to Suva ia Auckland in December and will epresent the Island there during he celebrations. They took with hem some typical examples of •itcairn handicraft to present to he Queen and the Duke.

Fiji Has Special Stamp

To be on sale for on week only as rom 3 p.m. on December 17—the ay on which the Queen and Duke f Edinburgh arrive at Suva—a special Royal Visit stamp is being issued. It is the current 8d stamp but with an overprint.

Island Leaders in NZ for Royal Visit From New Zealand’s territories of Western Samoa, Cook Islands and Niue, 17 Chiefs and other leaders will go to the Dominion to be SUVA, December 15. Thirty journalists and Mr. L. G. Usher, who is in charge of arrangements for Fiji’s Royal Visit, were stranded at Tonga when the aircraft on which they were making a oneday check visit broke down. A special plane from NZ is on its way to their rescue but it is not expected that they will get back to Suva until the evening before the Royal party arrives. present during the Royal visit to that Dominion in December and January.

The Islands party includes, from the Cook Islands: Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki, Piri Maoate,Tuaivi Mose, Tangi- Trego Ariki, Mrs. Jane Tararoa Ariki, Tihau Napara.

From Niue: Mrs. Malama Head, Sergeant Tohovaka.

From Samoa: Malietoa Tanumafili 11, Mata’afa Mulinu’u, Matai’a Europa, Tulele Masoe, Jacob Helg, Lilomaiava To’omata, Gatoloai Peseta, Talamaivao; and from the Tokelaus: Peato.

Australian Territories Representatives to Canberra The Administrator of Papua and New Guinea, Brigadier D. M.

Cleland, accompanied by Mrs. Cleland, will lead a party of representatives from Papua-New Guinea during the Royal visit to Canberra between February 13 and 20.

Four European representatives from Papua will be in the party; and four from New Guinea. Mr.

Gabriel Achun will represent the Chinese community.

They are, from Papua: The Anglican Bishop of New Guinea, The Rt. Rev. P. N. W. Strong; Mr.

E. A. James, M.L.C., who is also chairman of the Port Moresby Town Advisory Council and secretary of the Papuan Planters’ Association; Mr. E. J. Frame, generalmanager of Burns Philp (NG), Ltd., and Mrs. Myra Humphries, the widow of Mr. D. W. R. Humphries, who was killed during the Mount Lamington disaster in 1951.

From New Guinea: Mr. D.

Barrett, MLC, well-known planter; Mrs. Doris Booth, OBE, who is one of the pioneer gold-miners of Morobe district and a nominated member of the P-NG Legislative Council; Mr. James Leahy, one of the three pioneer Leahy brothers, now of Goroka; and Mr. Paul Mason, Bougainville planter, who had an outstanding war record with the Coast-watchers.

Also in Canberra at the same time will be two officers and 20 native seamen from Manus; one officer and 12 O.R’s from the PNGVR; three officers, 100 O.R’s and the Pipe Band of 28 from the PIR; one officer, 20 native Police and the Police Band from the RPNC.

In early December there was a move to send also, some of the Some of Papua-N. Guinea Representatives Mrs. Humphries.

Mr. James.

Mr. Mason.

Mr. Frame.

Bishop Strong.

Mrs. Booth. 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

native leaders of P-NG to meet the Queen.

Norfolk Island

REPRESENTATION Norfolk Island will also be represented there by two residents whose names have not been announced.

Royal Programme

Dates of interest to the Islands during the Queen’s visit to the South Pacific are: December 17-18, in Fiji.

December 19-20, in Tonga.

Late December - early January, NZ Islands Territories’ representatives meet Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in New Zealand.

February 13-20, representatives of Australia’s Islands territories meet the Royal party in Canberra.

Suva Wharf Costs Have Risen 10- NZ OUR statement, in the November issue (p. 57), that the Suva port authority had levied 5/- per ton on cargo, to pay for wharf earthquake damage, was not correct.

A Suva merchant writes: The 5/- was an increase made by the shipowners carrying overseas freight to and from Fiji, and was declared to be for the purpose of recompensing them for the additional cost involved in handling cargo, owing to the tidal wave and hurricane damage to the Suva wharf.

There is considerable delay, and congestion, and cargo has to be taken much greater distances before it can be put down or stored in the wharf area. It is the shipowners’ responsibility, in Suva, to land the cargo and put it into its place of storage in the wharf area. This is. of course, included in the freight which the shipowners charge.

You quote a rate of 106/6 as ruling to-day. This, also, is not quite correct. It is 106/6 per ton, New Zealand Currency. This includes a rise of 5/-, effective from December 1, to cover increased charges, etc., applicable to overseas vessels. That is a rise over and above the 5/put on for wharf delays in Suva That 5/- was also based in New Zealand currency.

In the last few months the total rises have been from 97/6 New Zealand currency to the present rate of 107/6, NZ currency, for Auckland/ Suva.

In Fiji currency, 106/6 NZ is 119/8.

US Rubber Decision THE United States Government has withdrawn a control-order issued in April, 1952, which forced US rubber consumers to use a minimum of 450,000 long tons of general purpose synthetic rubber and 60,000 tons of butyl annually, ln order to protect the synthetic rubber industry. Our report says nothing, however, of any removal of the subsidy which keeps US synthetic at a price below cost of production of natural rubber. (See page 53, this issue).

Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Limited ADVICE has been received that during the month of October, 1953, approximately 63 ounces 16 dwts of gold were recovered from approximately 12,000 cubic yards of material treated at the Sandy Creek leases, New Guinea.

II Miss Margaret O’Sullivan and Mr. John Brown, both of Port Moresby, were married in Brisbane, Queensland, in November.

Indian Workmen May Go To N. Caledonia CONSIDERABLE interest ha i been aroused in Fiji and elsewhere by the proposal, recently made by the New Caledonia Government to the Governor of Fiji Sir Ronald Garvey, that Indian workmen should go to New Caledonia for a term of three years to work plantations and nickel mines On one hand the scheme offerr a solution to New Caledonia’s acutf post-war labour shortage; and on the other, may be a temporary solution to Fiji’s growing Indian population problem.

The Governor told the Fiji Legis-; lative Council in November that tlu conditions of employment appear favourable and that Indians going there would probably earn morr than they would in Fiji and b* able, therefore, to accumulate funds with which to set themselves; up on their return to the Colony* Accommodation would be supplied and in the case of agricultural workers, they probably could take their wives although workers in the nickel mines could not.

On the temination of their enj gagement they would be permittee to take back all the money whicM they had saved. Fares would b«( paid both ways.

By mid-December, although their had been a great deal of discussion about the proposal in Fiji, there was no clear indication as to how the Indians would react.

There is no suggestion, in tha details so far released, that tha Indians would be permitted to re? main in New Caledonia, and like the Indd-Chinese of the New Hebrides, ultimately be accepted an French citizens and allowed tic acquire property. They evident!:! would have to return to Fiji afte:s three years and, if as indicated) they returned with a considerable amount of cash, the basic problem of the Indians in Fiji—that is, theii inability to acquire land which ii all permanently secured to thr Fijians—is likely to be aggravates rather than solved.

Response to the offer will inr dicate just how large is the pool oo surplus labour (if any) in Fiji. II there are few takers, it will mean that the ambition of the Fijii Indian is still tied to the acquisii; tion of a personal stake in thr country and that economic pressun is not yet such that it drives mere away from the Colony simply as i means of earning a livelihood.

Extraordinary Australian Reaction A YEAR ago when New Caledonia, proposed introducing Japanesa; as labourers there was an outtj Tongan artists painting large clam shells which will be used as decorations in the Palace grounds, Nukualofa, during the visit of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. —Photo by Hettig. 16 DECEMBER. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

;ry from Australia on the grounds hat it was morally wrong to plant in Asiatic pocket so close to her acred shores.

To a much lesser degree there las been similar comment on the atest proposal. Douglas Wilkie, writing in the Sun News Pictorial, f Melbourne, sees it as an unworthy deal between London and ‘aris and calls it the creation of a gully-trap of rancor, right at the loor of an Australia whose national urvival depends on reconciling a tomogeneous racial and cultural ociety to friendship with Asia.”

He goes on to say that it is no olution of India’s over-population iroblem to have a new colony of weated labour planted in Noumea, ny more than France’s chronic tnancial crisis can be solved by raising obsolete colonial forms on a •acific Island, where the inhabitnts have much more in common ith Australia than with Franca.

He overlooks the fact that the ndians are apparently not to be ermitted to stay in New Caleonia. And even if they were, it r ould be hard to see what greater anger there would be for Aus- :alia in a small colony of Fijindians in New Caledonia than lere is in the same Fiji-Indians, ith a great many more, already jtablished in Fiji. Wilkie confuses idians with Fiji-Indians.

How long New Caledonia is going ) tolerate Australia’s interference i her means of settling her labour roblems remains to be seen, but as is solution to the whole problem :r. Wilkie suggests that Australia ly New Caledonia “before it goes ie way of Fiji.”

Australia already seems to have ?r fair share of problems in runng New Guinea to the satisfacan of the Australian newspapers id the United Nations Trusteelip Council without adding further sponsibilities to the Department Territories—even supposing that le land-loving French could be ;rsuaded to part with this piece Territory.

Uva’S New Hotel

Will Be Smaller

/MODIFICATIONS have been J. made in the plans for the new South Seas Hotel in iva, construction of which was )mmenced early this year by Messrs. Morris Hedstrom Ltd., of iji- The original plan provided for a uch taller building than previisly had been undertaken in Suva.

A few months ago, just when the i. was giving some throught to its )w burden of steadily rising buildg costs, the earthquake of Sepmber 14 occurred. Suva had not therto been regarded as in an rthquake belt. This event made ;cessary a drastic revision of the ans, so that precautions against earthquakes could be embodied in the construction.

The Co. has now decided that the rising costs experienced in the two storeys already constructed, plus the extra cost involved in providing against earthquakes, calls for a sum so much in excess of the amount originally provided that a review is necessary; and a formal announcement on behalf of the board at the end of November said: “We have decided to revise our plans, with a view to building in more stages than we had originally contemplated; and we have called for altered designs for a two, or at the most a three-storey building, in the first stage. We hope in these designs to provide for foundations capable of carrying the seven or eight storey building originally contemplated.”

It is not now expected that the building will go beyond two or at most three storeys.

Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

THE Highlands of New Guinea — which someone has called the “Glamour” District of the Territory—had only just been discovered 20 years ago. Few people were allowed as much as a glimpse of this “second Kenya” until very recent years. Firstly, the area was closed for many years to all but District Services men and the Leahy brothers (this following the murder of some Europeans by the natives); and after the war, the Edwardian tendency was to keep it as a human zoo for all but the most select and approved visitors.

In our issue of November, 1933, we published the first description of the Highlands. Other extracts from that issue follow: The Australian Commonwealth Government thought again over the matter of lopping £6,000 off Papua’s annual grant of £40,000; as a result, there was a reprieve from the threatened 10 per cent, reduction in the wages of Papuan Public Servants. * * * Eight Samoan chiefs, a secretary of the Mau movement, and Mr. O. F. Nelson, who was not long back in Apia after some years of banishment to New Zealand, had been arrested and were in process of being tried for “taking part in unlawful activities.” NZ, we said editorially, had finally decided to break up the 7-years old Mau, or Nationalist Movement.

“Some New Guinea planters, faced with the ruinous price of copra, have been able to keep the wolf at bay with cocoa.

At the end of 1932, 2,000 acres have been planted and about 750 acres are in bearing. The yield last year was 92 tons and as the price has held up well until recently, and there is a Commonwealth bounty of £ll per ton on cocoa, some NG planters have been able to gather in a considerable supplementary Income.” ♦ * * Burns Phllp (S.S.), Ltd’s, new building in Apia, Western Samoa, was opened by General Hart, the Administrator. * * * Sir Hubert Murray completed 25 years service as Lieutenant-Governor of Papua. (How coy the Australian government has always been in the matter of titles for its Territory chiefs. Lieut.-Governorships and Administratorships are the devices designed to dodge around the straight-out title of Governor—evidently on the theory that that title might detract from the prestige of the politician who was currently responsible for the Territories Department). In the same month, the London Missionary Society was celebrating the 30th anniversary of its arrival in Papua. ♦ ♦ • “One of the most interesting geographical discoveries in recent years has been recorded recently In New Guinea, but has been announced with such modesty by the New Guinea Administration that neither the newspapers nor the general public have awakened to its importance.” Thus we introduced the story of the Leahy-Taylor expedition that discovered the fertile, well-populated Wahgi- Bena Bena-Mt. Hagen, highlands area of NG. ADO J. L. Taylor and Messrs. M, J. and D. J. Leahy had come straight from their expedition to Sydney where they were induced to lecture before tho Anthropological Society of NSW. Sydney newspapers representatives were present, yet dismissed the explorers’ story in a few words. Australia was not New Guinea minded In 1933 and PIM had the honour of publishing the first photographs that had been taken in the area. * ♦ * It was rumoured that investigations at Bulolo, NG, had shown that a new stratum of gold-bearing material underneath that already being worked had been discovered on the BGD leases. There was speculation as to whether large dredges, suitable for working the deerp ground, could be transported by air, as had heen the original dredges, or whether it would mean constructing a road in from the coast at the "enormous capital cost of £250,000.” (They flew the dredges in; and Army engineers constructed the road in the later stages of the Pacific war.) * ♦ ♦ Burns Philp’s motor-vessel “Malaita” had arrived in Sydney from her makers on the Clyde and went onto the Solomons- NG-Sydney service, replacing the ancient “Mataram.” * * ♦ After being missing for many weeks, news was received that the trading schooner “Pro Patria” had been wrecked on a small uninhabited island near Mangareva. It had been on a voyage to Pitcairn and one of its passengers was James Norman Hall, seeking background material for the last of a triology which included “Mutiny” and “Men Against the Sea” and which he had written in collaboration with Charles B. Nordhoff.

The book was eventually written and called “Pitcairn’s Island.” * * * The price of trochus in Sydney was £B6 per ton for first-grade. Cocoa was £A2S- - A 32 per ton, fob, Sydney, Copra was £Stg.B/12/6 per ton, cif, London: rubber was 4%d per lb, cif, London. 17 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

Copra Price

IN 1954 United Representations To MOF ALL the British countries in the South Pacific which dispose of their copra under the British Ministry of Food nine-years’ contract (made in 1949 and due to expire at the end of 1957) are now making representations to London that, under the section of the contract which allows a 10 per cent, rise or fall in any one year, the price for 1954 shall be 10 per cent, higher than in 1953.

The countries concerned are Fiji Papua - New Guinea, British Solomon Islands, Tonga, Western Samoa, Cook Islands and Gilbert and Ellice.

The price paid by the MOF in 1953 has been approximately £65 per ton Sterling, f.o.b. Pacific ports —equal to about £73 Fijian and £BO Australian—but the price actually received by planters has varied a good deal in individual Territories.

The c pnt r act in every case is handled by the Administration concerned, and in each case the Admmistration makes various kinds of deductions. The average received bv the South Pacific shippers in 1953 has been around £7O Australian.

The 1953 world price of copra has been . consistently above the MOF price, and South Pacific planters have good grounds for ex- Pccpng a 10 per cent, rise in 1954 Ift J f the Pinters, in 1953, produced 100,000 tons (it is a good deal ?7°n r n e n nn? e 7 r . ece p ved approximately £7,000,000 Australian. A 10 per cent ri se means another £700,000. , The copra market in London has been strengthening steadily for some time,” said a leading South Pacific merchant to the PIM early m December, in the last week in November there were sales of Straits FMS at £B7/15/- c.if Forward quotations were, December/January, £B7/10/-, January/ February £B7/5/- which indicates a strong future market. (£BB Stg. c.i.f would be equal to about £95 Australian or £B5/10/- Fijian fob South Pacific port). ’

“The Ministry of Food is a long way up on the profit side and the contract has now run for almost five years. Producers have paid very dearly for the security which the contract has given them It seems only reasonable that the Ministry should pay the fullest price from now on, as they have already received more than an ample premium for the security they have given to producers “If the Ministry should lose money in 1954, under a 10 per cent rise, it could only be a fraction of the gam they have in hand; and the price could then be re-adjusted in 1955 to save further substantial losses to the Ministry—although they would have to lose a very large sum indeed to repay anything like the gain they have taken from the South West Pacific copra suppliers under the contract.”

Sale of P-NG Copra To Sweden The Australian Government has completed a sale of 5,000 tons of copra to Sweden at £75 Stg. f.o.b. per ton. The sale is on behalf of the Papua and New Guinea Copra Marketing Board and the price compares more than favourably with the British Ministry of Food contract price of £65 Stg. f.o.b.

The sale was made with the agreement of the Ministry of Food, which, under a long-term contract, has first call on all Territory copra surplus to Australian requirements.

Papua and New Guinea planters will benefit to the extent of about £A50,000 as a result of the sale. fl Mr. Vijay R. Singh, of Ba, Fiji, has passed his final examinations in Law in London.

Australian Imports Of

P-Ng Copra

ABOUT 27,000 tons of copra was imported into Australia from Australian territories during 1952-53.

The Minister for Territories (Mr Hasluck) gave the House of Representatives this information in replj to a question asked in November.

About one-third of the 17,000 01 18,000 tons of coconut oil obtainec from the copra was used for margarine manufacture.

About 7,000 or 8,000 tons of poultry feed and stock meal were also obtained from the copra.

Smaller Profit of WRC (Fiji) Ltd.

W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji), Ltd., merchants, made £21,197 net profit fo:« the year ended June 30, compared with £29,014 the previous year.

Steady 12Vz per cent, ordinary and 7 per cent, preference dividends absorbed £9,017.

More Buildings for Moresby Twenty native Scouts from Papua-New Guinea will visit Brisbane next y f ar 4.!? uring the stay there oi the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Top to bottom: The new freezer being erected in Douglas St. for Steamships Trading Co. It is on the site of the old Government Printery. The new freezer will open for business about March.

The new wing which has recently been added to the comparatively new Commonwealth Works building in Port Road.

The new and modern Bank of New South Wales building, takes shape on the corner of Douglas and Musgrave Streets.

It will take the place of the old corrugated-iron structure in which the bank has conducted its business since the war.

This new Native Market opened for business on November 14, at Koki, Port Moresby.

With concrete floors, iron roof and sides, with wooden fixtures, it should become an attractive market for Europeans as well as natives provided the natives manage to get the necessary supplies of fresh vegetables, fruit and fish. Local residents tip that after the novelty wears off the natives will once again be squatting with their wares beneath the coconut palms of Koki beach. —Photos by Papuan Prints. 18 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

The Editors' Mailbag

Too Many Statistics?

Why does the ABC, Port Moresby, turden listeners and waste valuable ime by broadcasting yards of useess and boring weather statistics? isks “Bored Listener” (who is a Jew Guinea coconut planter).

“Who is interested? Why should omeone in Rabaul be interested in he news that Misima had 15 points if rain before 9 a.m. yesterday, or hat the relative humidity in Port /loresby was a certain percentage he day before? I am sure the airraft companies don’t want the inormation, for they can get it hrough Air Radio.”

Logical Deductions From Dairymen's Squawks Political agitation against the sale f margarine is growing in Ausralia, although, in December the ederal Government refused, for the loment, anyway, to impose a duty n copra and coconut oil.

Under the fantastic economic :ructure imposed by the 40-hourseek, and other accepted methods f systematised loafing, the costs f living in Australia continue to icrease. Now, despite bounties, le cost of butter is so high that eople are turning, more and more, ) margarine—the quality of which as improved greatly in recent Bars.

Butter sales have fallen considerbly, and dairy farmers generally *e howling. Because they are putng pressure on their representaves, there have been loud protests ,tely in some of the State Parliaients, and in Canberra. “Why lould our decent white farmers iffer like this, while people eat Largarine made from copra proceed by cheap black labour in the lands?” shouted one demagogue.

Mr. S. Briant, writing from a Dspital in Cairns, -sends us a colction of newspaper cuttings.

Some people are always squawkg for free enterprise and com- ?tition,” he says. “But when the feet of enterprise hits them, they ■e the first to demand tariffs and •otection.”

And then he proceeds to give the •ices which planters in the islands ist of Papua have to pay for the ze, tobacco, matches, sugar, sacks, nned beef, etc. prices exbitantly high because the Ausalians insist on short hours and gh wages.

There is a great deal more to it lan “cheap native labour”. If e Australians want to sell their oducts overseas, they must act gically. If not, it will not be long ,s Mr. Briant quite correctly remarks) before Australia will be overwhelmed by masses of people from other countries less happily placed.

A Rising Market Well known Pacific planter, C. J.

T. Krone, writing from St. Helier, Jersey Channel Islands (where he and Mrs. Krone are residing temporarily) encloses a cutting from The Financial Times of November 3. It showed Straits copra at £B6/10/- Stg., and rising.

“This should reassure planters.” he says. “Copra is one of the few raw materials now in constant and steady demand.”

To Attack Missionaries “Be on the watch for a book by me, to be entitled The Gods are White. It deals with the primitives of the South Seas, and will be somewhat startling in content. In it I call the missionaries ‘The Great Curse.’ Pretty daring; and I may have to get my Gladstone all packed and passport and visas in order when the book comes out.”

This is from 72-years-old Jesse H. Buffum, who was briefly in Australia in 1947, getting lecture material; and again in 1949, when he went with the Elkin Expedition into Arnhem Land to make the official film of the Abos for the University of Sydney. He says he is “an amateur anthropologist, and a very inquiring newspaperman of long experience who tries to dig out the truth and make sure of the facts.”

Why Ban Alsatians?

Among the dogs that have coats suitable for life in the tropics is the Alsatian—a noble, intelligent, beautiful and safe animal which is a fine watchdog for outstations (writes a NG planter).

In 1932, the powers-that-be banned the entry of Alsatians to Australia, Papua and New Guinea.

There may have been good reasons in Australia, but why the ban in NG?

I have owned Alsatians for some time, and have them still. They were born here—should any testy bureaucrat be thinking of taking action. I also have three children.

None of the Alsatians has ever offered harm to the children, although they have been pulled around, ridden on, and rolled about, and even had their new puppies picked up by the children.

They are wonderful watch-dogs— no fear of peeping-toms and thieves at night. It seems a shame to ban their import to this country. There are plenty of the breed in the Territory, but their blood needs freshening; and as things stand they are doomed to extinction through constant inter-breeding.

This business of keeping out a 3 weeks-old Alsatian puppy, as recently happened in Port Moresby, smacks of bigotry, and shows a complete lack of knowledge of one of the finest breeds in the dogworld.

Lost!

To “Y”, who contributed a set of verses published on page 80 of October PIM: Would you be good enough to forward your name and address? Our accountant has something for you, and has lost your address.

Wanted—Shirley Baker's Diversions Mr. I. F. MacGregor, writing from Palm Beach, Queensland, asks if anyone could sell him a book called The Diversions of a Prime Minister,’' by Basil Thompson, which told the history of the Tongan Free Church during the regime of Shirley Baker.

Mr, MacGregor spent three years in Tonga, and thoroughly enjoyed it. He, therefore, was interested in the remarks of Mr. K. Pawson, who wrote about the Kingdom in a spirit of disillusionment, in a recent issue of PIM.

Profit and Loss Across the Tasman IT was reported in Australian papers in November that British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, in the 12 months to March 31, 1953, lost £A283,035; but that Qantas Empire Airways and Tasman Empire Airways made profits —of £A211,932 and £A39,782 respectively.

In October, we reported that TEAL had lost £lOO,OOO Stg. on the trans-Tasman route during that year; and £BO,OOO Stg. on the Coral route.

We have not been able to discover why this company has been credited with a profit in Australia and, at the same time, with a loss in New Zealand.

A TEAL spokesman could give our New Zealand representative no explantation. It possible that Australia is referring to 1951-52, when TEAL made a profit of £NZ31,812, which is £A39,765. We previously recorded this, in error, as a loss.

In respect of the loss on the Coral Route: —This is apparently £40,000 Stg for 1952-53 as this route is the sole responsibility of New Zealand and is not, as is usually believed, shared by the other partners in TEAL—Australia and UK. Therefore, NZ’s share of £40,000 Stg is, in fact, the whole loss and not just half of it, as we indicated in our October article. 19 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

Deductions from 1946 to £ Dec. 31, 1949 780,000 Deductions under Customs Export Tariff Ord. 1951/2, held by Commonwealth .. 672.000 Similar deductions, now held by Administration, up to Sept. 30, 1953 277,000 Similar deductions, Sept, to Nov. about 50,000 Total, approximately 1,779,000 Threat of Detergents to DISPOSAL OF P-NG COPRA STABILISATION FUND Copra Market Australian Government Submits A Plan A NOTE of warning to producers of all but first-class copra, was sounded at the October meeting of the British Solomon Islands Advisory Council at Honiara, on October 16.

An official member of the Council said that the Secretary of State for the Colonies had informed the BSIP Government of the difficulties that might be experienced in the copra market once the MOF contract ended in 1957. And one factor that had been little considered was the rise in popularity, in the last few years, of synthetic detergents which contained no oils or fats, and which were taking the place of soaps.

These detergents had forced soap manufacturers to concentrate only on high quality soaps which required high quality fats for their manufacture. There was a danger that these soap manufacturers might not be able to afford to purchase smoke-dried copra because of the extra cost of refining it. (At present most smoke-dried copra is used in soap manufacture, while the hot-air and sun-dried varieties are used for foods).

Other countries were placing great emphasis on the improvement in the quality of oils and fats they produced in order to compete in the wor id markets. The Protectorate must follow, or run the serious risk of losing its markets and facing rum its one vital industry This warning given to BSIP producers should be of equal significance 111 other parts of the Pacific where the standard of copra production is, generally, by no means as high as it might be.

AFTER seven years of nagging by planting interests, the Australian Government at last has decided upon how it will dispose of the fund—nearly £2,000,000 accumulated by an arbitrary deduction from the payments made to Papua-New Guinea planters for their exported copra. It is to be held intact, under the control of yet another Board, and it is to be used for the “stabilisation” of the copra industry.

The Copra Industry Stabilisation Bill was brought before the P-NG Legislative Council on November 18 by the Treasurer (Mr. Reeve), briefly discussed, and then adjourned to next Council meeting.

In the interim, it will be considered by the planters’ associations.

The plan, a fund for the stabilisation of the copra industry, was put into operation by Socialist Minister E. J. Ward, at the end of the war. With a 20 years’ record of terrific fluctuations in the world copra market before them, Mr.

Ward and his advisers felt justified in taking from the planters’ high post-war receipts from copra a certain regular sum per ton, wherewith to create a fund which would provide a subsidy to keep planters afloat in time of slump.

Despite its origin, none seriously challenged the plan—it was fundamentally sound.

But the whole situation changed at the end of 1949. The British Ministry of Food entered into a nine-years’ contract with British copra -producing countries, under which all their copra was to be purchased at a price which would ensure the prosperity of the planters.

The planters thereupon claimed, with reason, that the industry now was stabilised for at least a decade, apd there was no good reason why the deduction should continue. This view was placed before a non- Socialist Australian Government, which about this time replaced the S ®ciahst Administration. A section of the planters argued strongly that the £780,000 accumulated up to then by arbitrary deductions from their cheques should now be distributed to the planters who had produced the copra.

But the Government dodged and shilly-shallied, and avoided any P™D° unceme nt until November, 1952, when Minister Hasluck announced that the Fund would not be distributed, and that some plan of stabilisation would be maintained.

That, of course, was to be expected. In the history of modern government, few instances are known where such funds, created by arbitrary deductions from primary producers, are ultimately released to the men whose industry and enterprise brought them intc being. Bureaucrats now contro most governmental activities; and the commonest nightmare suffered by the average bureaucrat is the occasion when he is compelled tc surrender to private enterprise the funds which, on some administrative pretext or other, he has taken from the incomes of people who earned them.

IT is disclosed that the Copra Stabilisation Fund (the Minister now calls it that, but for years Canberra coyly refused to give the accumulation a name) has been built up in this way:— Right up until now, the Planters?

Association of New Guinea, with its headquarters in Rabaul, has fought against this tax on the The highest legal advice has indicated that, if it appealed to the High!

Court, the Association might force the Government to release at least; the £780,000 collected before 1950 C The Planters’ Association of Papua* on the other hand, has taken the view that the Fund should) be established (much in the manner now proposed) for the future protection of the industry.

The deduction from the planters? receipts per, ton has varied. At one time, in the Ward regime, it was, as high as £8 per ton. In the last; couple of years, it has been £2; deducted as part of the export tax? at present between £7 and £8 penton. rE following are the essentials; of the Government plan, as described to the Legislative Council by Mr. Reeve: — I.—The whole of the £1,800,000 goes into the Fund, plus currents deductions, which are at the rats of some £500,000 per annum, and) which apparently are to continues COMMENT: The price of copras under the MOF purchase contractis fixed every year. The Government has given no indication oA< whether the Fund deduction, pen' ton, will continue at the same rate, ; as in the past. If so, there will be* a Fund of some £4,000,000 tos £5,000,000 when the MOF contractu (Continued on Page 138) £500,000 for BSI But Nothing for War-Blitzed Planters THE British Government has allotted £500,000 to British Solomons Islands Protectorate from amounts received from Jananese reparations.

Plantation-owners in BSI (who suffered a “wipe-out” in the war received no rehabilitation help, and are now forced to pay heavy income taxation) asked that at least to f the £500,000 be allotted The BSI Government has announced bluntly that no war damage compensation will be naid and the £500,000 retained for special purposes.

I i R onald Ricketts, of Koro Island, Fiji, journeyed to New Zealand on vacation in November He expected to return to Fiji in January. J 11 20 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY 1

The Telefomin Affair Hysterical Newspaper Comment In Australia IT is officially believed that the attacks by natives of the Telefomin area of New Guinea, tvhich in November resulted in the deaths of Cadet Patrol Officer G.

B. Harris and Patrol Officer Gerald L. Szarka and two native policetoys, came from the Teraptavip group which numbers less than 200.

The District Commissioner of the Sepik District of New Guinea, Mr.

Alan Timperley, who has been investigating the murders and the circumstances surrounding them, aelieves that the attacks were preneditated and were made by young men. It seems to him probable that an initiation ceremony for voung men of the Teraptavip group las to take place in the near future md that an aged man of the group lad allegedly been advocating that he station at Telefomin should be removed so that tribal practices could be resumed. The District Commissioner discounts the theory ;hat the attacks were made as “pay sack” for the loss of five native carriers who were drowned when iccompanying a patrol in an id joining area earlier this year.

No one seems to know why the ;wo young men split their forces and Datrolled in different directions; or vhy they took so few policeboys vith them.

News of the tragedy was followed )y a spate of newspaper specula- ;ion and theory—most of it unnformed and designed purely as a colitical weapon. In Sydney, in November, most of the big daily lewspapers were “shopping around” hr comment from anyone who had ever been in the Territory, to prove ;hat the murders were due to Aus- ;ralian Government policy; or to he fact that the young men who net their deaths had been forced *) take unnecessary risks.

The Administrator of Papua and *ew Guinea, Brigadier D. M. Cleand, said, in regard to some of hese statements, that they were ‘irresponsible, impertinent and not n accordance with fact.”

In Australia, the peak of unnformed comment came from the Melbourne Argus —in politics decidedly Pink—which had this to lay in a leading article;— “Australians will be deceiving no- )ody but themselves if they pretend hat the Telefomin affair is lymptomatic of anything but i failure of colonial administration.

“If we do fail—and Telefomin is l disquieting danger-signal—then ve need blame nobody but ourelves. It is not the natives’ busiless to slmw us how to win their ;ood will; it is our business to win their good will in our own interests.”

This comment simply shows that, in spite of all the publicity New Guinea has had since the war, the problems of administering that primitive country are a closed book to the majority of Australians.

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ALTHOUGH much of the hysteria that followed the Telefomin affair can be dismissed as merely mischievous, the fact does emerge, however, that District Services field staff is much too small to do the gigantic job of bringing government to the New Guinea natives and that, as a consequence, some of the outposts are not always as fully staffed as they should be One of the greatest contributing causes of this staff shortage is, doubtless, the fact that at least 37 of its patrol-officers, and even Assistant District Officers, are away in Sydney spending up to two years learning the theory of Pacific administration. (See page 49 this issue).

There seems no reason at all why this Australian School of Pacific Administration should not function somewhere in the Territory where the students who are attending it could get to grips with what is actually happening there, and be available for much more practical work in the field.

The School is a post-war growth and at the beginning the course extended over a few months. Now the School course covers two years.

Before the war, Papuan officials got along without any formal instruction ip tropical administration; and in New Guinea, cadet patrol officers were given six months at Sydney University after a preliminary two years in the field in New Guinea.

It is quite fruitless to be always comparing the “good old days” with the present. It has yet to be proven, however, that the present system which includes some years at the ASOPA in Sydney makes better patrol-officers or District Commissioners than the old pre-war system. {See also article, Magazine Section, this issue.) if A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Cam Turner of Wellington, NZ, during October. Mrs. Turner was formerly Miss Pele Grey, daughter of popular Apia hotel hbstess, Mrs. Aggie Grey.

A party headed by Mr. L. J.

Davis, Tokelau Officer, made an official flight to the Tokelau Islands late November per RNZAF Sunderland aircraft. Official visits are made from Apia every three or four months.

Indonesian Chaos

Threat to West N. Guinea r:E politico-economic situation in Indonesia shows progressive deterioration. Month by month, during 1953, this journal has reported events which lead us to believe that, as the threat of complete collapse grows, there is growing danger that the gang of political adventurers in power at Djakarta will try to force the populace to support them by making some sort of armed demonstration against the Dutch in West New Guinea.

That, of course, would immediately involve Australia and Australian New Guinea.

In mid-November, we reported that organisations (some of them Islamic in character) which had revolted against the Government were in control of areas in North Sumatra, Western Java and the Celebes; and that Communists with strong Chinese affiliations were steadily infiltrating the archipelagoes.

It was reported on December 1 that Mr. Sunarjo, “Foreign Minister of Indonesia,” told the Aneta News Agency in Djakarta that the Cabinet is making preparations for the rapid abolition of the Union under which Indonesia is linked with the Netherlands, and “for the speedy incorporation of West New Guinea into the republic.”

No very early or dangerous armed attack is likely; but the writing is on the wall.

Governor Lowe Arrives At Pago Pago MR. RICHARD B. LOWE, fifth post-war Governor of American Samoa, arrived at Paen Pago and was officially inaugurated as Governor in ceremonies performed there on November 12. He was sworn in by Chief Judge Morrow and was greeted by the High Chiefs of American Samoa with a kava ceremony, the speech of welcome being delivered bv High Chief Sotoa, chairman of the Council of Paramount Chiefs.

Governor Lowe, in his inaugural soeech, said that the purpose of the E. Samoan Government is to help Samoans help themselves, and the first way that they can do this is by increasing agricultural production.

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By Tolala rHE Telefomin tragedy was a sorry business and makes one ’ealise that in New Guinea stoneige instincts still prevail. In the >ast, provocation has invariably ;entred around pigs or women — >oth top-level subjects of tribal ignificance and both holding cerain attractions for itinerant :arriers and police-boys attached to >atrols.

Various reasons have been sug- ;ested for the outbreak of stoneige tactics on this occasion: browning of local natives; nonlayment of promised compensation; >an on tribal rites and inxnerienced officers: but it is doubtul if the true cause will ever be lublished.

It was somewhere in this area hat attacks were made on the lagen-Sepik patrol in 1938-39 and ’aylor, in referring to the local ribe, quoted Black as saying, “They [o not encourage visitors.” * * * I cannot see that the position in he P-NG Legislative Council has hanged much since pre-war days rhen non-official members were ttle more than a token force, or powerless symbol of that Demoracy which is alleged to be the undamental principal of all our jgislation, and Bills were “rail- □aded” through the Chamber at !anberra’s command.

The Territory was justified in Peking autonomy and less bureauratic rule in pre-war days when it as self-supporting; but now Canerra, whence come millions of ounds to subsidise P-NG’s developlent, may think itself entitled to major voice in legislation.

Anyway, in these days, what arliamentary Opposition is capable f achieving much with voting on urely party lines? Solution: ecret ballots in our Legislative [alls. * * * A measure causing expressions of ivergent opinion in the Legislative ouncil of P-NG is that of sending atives to Australia for Secondary lucation. It is more evidence of le Administration rushing its mces in the Native Advancement takes and one, in my opinion, lied with dangerous possibilities.

Don Barrett, MLC, sounded a ►gical note of warning during the ebate regarding the risk of disiptive elements. And what country as more potential disruptive ements than Australia? Especially here such fertile ground as unjphisticated natives offer. It might b only a matter of time before one ill hear of a Makolkol student reirning from Sydney with the aughter of some Australian politician as his bride and taking her to his home in the centre of New Britain!

A local Secondary school is ostensibly the solution if the Administration feels that UNO pressure is so great that secondary education must be provided.

And New Guinea is where the School of Pacific Administration should be, too. * * * The release of P-NG production figures for 1952-53 has ca us e d favourable official comment. An analysis shows, however, that high prices and not the production, are responsible for the increased revenue. Copra exports in 1952-53 are shown as 76,392 tons. TNG alone, in 1936-37, exported 76,409 tons and Papua 13,600 tons, totalling over 90,000 tons. * * * And while we’re talking about opters Over Moresby This is the first helicopter seen in Port Moresby—on November 26 it flew over the town and landed and took off from Ela Beach. Its pilot was “Sandy” Wheeler, of California, USA.

Four of these machines are to be used by Australasian Petroleum Company in their oil-search surveys in Western Papua, mainly for carrying supplies, equipment and technicians in dense jungle and swamp country—or so the report goes. It is hard to see where any of these things are to be carried in this skeletonised machine.

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Wauchope’s work on Awar plantation. It is interesting to note that in 1937-38: in TNG alone there were 1,602 sheep, from which one concludes that the increase in 16 years, in both Territories, has been about 500. * * * I see where Archbishop Duhig has been on a visit to the Territory.

This is his first trip, so far as I can remember, though he is credited with having had an interest in the Kupei goldfield down in Bougainville, which was discovered in 1930 and run for some time by Jack Comb. I haven’t heard much about this field lately, but it will not surprise me if one of these days Bougainville is well and truly on the mining map.

Assays made in the German days gave very promising prospects of tin. * * * In October Talk-Talk I mentioned the first recruiting trip up the Sepik, and in this connection an Old-Timer writes: “I think, if checked, you will find the first team consisted of Dick Glasson, skipper of the Wunatali, Blue Ireland and Latham Hamilton ... He was on Garua when the Nips came in.

I remember in April, ’23 going back to Kelaua on that ship, with the McKells, a bridal couple. Cliff Judd did a lot, too, later on with Bob Palmer and Bluey Ireland, but really came into his own, recruiting up the Sepik for the Melco on the old Ralum .”

The same writer had something to say about coconut planting and production, to which I referred in October. Says he: “I guess Geoff Bliss— now of Dylup—and myself have ‘lined’ more coconuts than most in New Guinea. Unfortunately, though, for other people. We always ‘lined’ 32 ft. on the triangle, giving approximately 127 palms to the hectare. I ‘lined’ one place 35 ft. between the rows and 30 ft. distance in the rows. That gave about the same number of palms per hectare as the 32 ft. triangle and at the same time allowed greater space for cocoa planted between the rows.

As for production; Any of the plantations on Karkar, in full bearing, average output of not less than 40 cwt. per hectare, which in the case of the old German planting, averaging about 115 palms to the hectare, gives a yearly output of approximately 45 tons for every 2,600 palms.”

To this I would merely add that Karkar Island was the highest producing area, per hectare, in the Territory. In German times a ton to the hectare was reckoned an average return. * * * The eight people selected to represent the Territory for the Queen’s Visit next year comprise a good cross section of the white population and should meet with general approval—more or less.

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That, of course, is incorrect. She received the award 10 years before World War II broke out, in 1929. and for the fine work she did during the dysentry epidemic which broke out on the Morobe goldfields in 1926. Her work was widely appreciated when it was mentioned in the evidence which came out during the Royal Commission held in 1927 and given publicity in the Press. The Commissioner, Peter McGregor from Queensland, was appointed as a result of representations made by the Morobe Miners Assn, for the cancellation of the big mining leases held by the Big Six afteS* the discovery of Edie Creek in 1926. Counsel for the Miners was the present Mr. Justice Simpson, of Canberra, while the Big Six briefed the late Mr. (after Judge) Boyce. The Big Six won. * * * It’s good to see that a historical society has, at long last, been started in P-NG. We wish it every success. Director of Education Bill Groves, the newly-elected president, arrived in Rabaul in 1922 and was appointed Supervisor of Native Education, and has been getting around extensively ever since. The vice-president, G. A. V.

Stanley, has also been in the Territory some 30 years, connected mostly with oil research, and is a well-known bibliographer. The Society has a vast field for its activities. The proposed Bill to establish a museum, art gallery and library should be of assistance to lt - . P ;NG can do with some cultural interests other than these launched by starry-eyed theorists. * * * Ted Monk ’ s enquiries in “Editors Mailbag” (PIM, Nov.) will conjure up nostalgic memories for many readers, not the least of them those who knew Ethel at Usher’s.

Yorkie” Booth I last heard of at Salamaua: Eric Weine (not Wayne) was somewhere inland in NSW when last heard of; while Jackson Banks and Frank Pryke have both passed to their wellearned rest. Bill Cash I cannot place. * * * A propos of old-timers: A Brisbane correspondent writes that he often sees Percy Miller around the city and they exchange reminiscences of Manus in the good old days. Percy, who is an ex-RN man. was cruising around the Admiralties early in T 4 when that area was fairly primitive. During World War I he returned to England and, in World War 11, was with the American Red Cross in Brisbane.

Now retired, he is nursing his indifferent health. * * * Complaints from philatelists (PIM Nov. p. 49) also include the use, by the smaller post-offices in the Pacific, of red and purple stamping inks when stamps are being cancelled instead of the orthodox black PO ink. There used to be quite good tea-money made in some Islands’ offices by saving TNG stamps for which dealers paid half face value for cancelled issues, plus 20 per cent, for covers. * * * And so drinking intoxicating liquor by natives may now be legally permitted. I don’t know whether it will make much difference to existing conditions.

Natives who have a taste for liquor will still get it, with or without a permit, as they have done in the past. I saw some unpleasant incidents during the Jap occupation as a result of native drinking.

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Mr. E. A. James, elected Member for Papua in the P-NG Legislative Council, believes that it is high time this ridiculous position was remedied —and many people will agree with him. The matter was first discussed in an article in PIM in August, where it was said that if Brigadier Cleland should' have much to do with his neighbours and colleagues in other Territories the set-up could be embarrassing for him as a mere Administrator and bad for Australian prestige.

It is a fact that since the death in 1940 of Sir Hubert Murray, who was Lieutenant-Governor of Papua and entitled to be addressed as His Excellency, Australia has kept her chief executive officers in Papua and New Guinea as “Administrator” and therefore ranking after Governors, High Commissioners, Commonwealth Ministers and even Australian State Ministers. No reason has ever been given for this absurd policy and it is variously attributed to a hang-over from Wardist socialism or a jealous preservation of Canberra bureaucracy.

Mr. James, during the November session of the PNG Legislative Council, said that steps should be taken immediately to have the head of the P-NG Administration given a title befitting his position, and suggested that he should become His Excellency, The High Commissioner for Papua and New Guinea.

Diffidence, belittlement and selfabasement were not attributes that had any merit in the field of international affairs, he said, and if the present Administrator of P-NG ever found himself in conference with the leaders of other South Pacific territories—such as the Governor of Fiji, the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, the Governor- General of Netherlands New Guinea and the Governor of American Samoa, to name but a few —he would find himself down at the end of the table, last in order of precedence.

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No Income Tax And £8,000,000 to Spend P-NG Treasurer Presents His Budget BELIEF points from the Budget j speech made by the Papua-New Guinea Treasurer, Mr. H. H. fceeve, and presented at the Noember meeting of the P-NG Legisitive Council were: • Revenue will be: £5,500,000 Com lonwealth grant (£30,000 more lan last year); plus about £2,500,000 “venue raised in the Territory lostly from Customs collections. • The Administration was not reposing, at present, to open up ew fields of revenue. (This is taken ) mean that there is no immediate itention to impose direct income ixation on the residents of the l erritory ). • New P-NG postage stamps sued in October, 1952, boosted wenue by about £35,000. • This year, the territory will >end £850,000 more than last year— -187,000 more for salaries, half a lillion more for capital works and laintenance. • £750,000 is still owing for native ar-damage—but payments this ear will be limited to £250,000 “in rder not to endanger native :onomy.” (This is an extraordinary \ate of affairs eight years after the nd of hostilities. The compensaon is to he paid in respect of vents which took place in 1942-45 nd is presumably for loss of pigs, irdens, houses and possibly for loss f bread-winners, etc. Just how luch moral basis there ever was )r war-damage compensation to '-NG natives, on the lavish scale evised by the Australian governlent, is doubtful; and the good fleet it might have had—in showig the natives how scrupulously 2ir we are in compensating them ir damage caused while we drove he Japs out of their country—is irely dissipated by the long timeig in paying it. Money paid now > the natives will certainly be )oked upon as just another handut from the uncomprehensible uropeans who run the country). • A start will be made on the ew General Hospital at Lae, and lis, with the proposed new base ospital at Moresby, will absorb >OO,OOO. • The P-NG Administration has stablished its own Works Branch nd has taken over many of the etivities of the Commonwealth forks department; £400,000 will be Dent on housing this year as gainst £250,000 last year; and while le Commonwealth Works Dept, ist year was changing over from ay-labour to a system of outside contracts, £488,000 less than the estimated amount for capital works was spent.

TN the debate that followed the L Treasurer’s speech, Mr. E. A.

James, elected member for Papua, said that on his calculations revenue worked out at a contribution of £1,292,000 from the European and Asian communities, as against £676,000 from the natives. This was a tax of over £lOO per head for every man, woman and child of the European and Asian population—an increase of £lO per head since the previous year. In return, the estimates of expenditure for the coming year showed £885,000 for purely European and Asian purposes and an expenditure of £3i millions for native services. He did not suggest that the natives were receiving too much—but that there was not sufficient spent on essential amenities ftr the European and Aslan popula- * .. . . .

Mr. James attacked also the copra export tax. He said that copra producers in the Territory were contributing 40 per cent, of the total internal revenue of P-NG. He believed that sectional taxation on the gross earnings of the primary producer was wrong and that a full inquiry should be held into the Territory’s financial structure, pnnß roTT A poor country Mr. B. E. Fairfax-Ross, nominated member for Papua, said that although there were frequent colourful descriptions of the vast and 29 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Fiji's 1954 Expenditure Lower at £4,140,000 THE following are highlights from the Budget Session of the Fiji Legislative Council held in Suva during November. • TAXATION—No new or increased taxation will be introduced in 1954, pending receipt of a report awaited from the Fiscal Committee giving a comprehensive review of the Colony’s finances. Estimated expenditure for 1954, somewhat lower than in the two preceding years, is expected to be £4,140,000.

Only Government Departments in which expenditure will increase are Agriculture, by nearly 30%, as part of the economic development policy: Posts and Telegraphs, 20% in revenue-earning expenditure; Establishment Head of Works, 12i%, to secure better supervision; Education, 12%. • DEVELOPMENT Nearly £898,000 will be spent on development projects in 1954, as compared with £840,000 this year. Work ii hand or completed this year in eludes geological, soil, aerial, am hydro-electric surveys which wil prove of value for the future.

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welfare programme during the coming year. These were conditioned by earning power of the Colony.

The ten-year development plan will, during 1954, be financed largely by the Fiji Development Loan which was floated in 1952 and had realised £1,305,000. This fund should carry the plan on into the first few months of 1955.

BSIP Finds It Difficult To Spend Its Money £600,000 Budget for 1953 riTHE Advisory Council of the X British Solomon Islands met in Honiara in October. Here are some points made during discussions:— • Accounts for 1952 have not yet been finalised. It is, however, estimated that the deficit for that year will be only £58,800 instead of the £148,000 that had been contemplated. • It seemed that in respect of 1953, revenue would be about £534,000 and expenditure £586,000, leaving a deficit of £52,000 instead 3f the £300,000 that had been expected. The under-spending in both years was due to inability to carry Dut construction programmes as planned. • Due to a hardening of the 3opra market lately, it is expected ihat there will be no reduction in Ihe MOF price for copra in 1954 3r at the outside, one of not more than 5 per cent, • The Right Reverend S. G.

Uaulton, Bishop of Melanesia, spoke )f the diligence with which His Excellency the High Commissioner ind Mrs. Stanley had devoted flemselves, often with no little dis- :omfort, to the important duty of dsiting as many localities as poslible within the Protectorate.

Members had taken note of this nth gratification. • Mr. L. F. Gill, Mr. G. Kuper ind Mr. K. H. D. Hay all spoke of he difficulty of procuring sufficient ir efficient labour. Mr. Kuper idvocated a system of indentured abour; Mr. Hay suggested that abour be introduced from outside he Protectorate. • In referring to the proposals for n indentured labour system, Mr. *• N. Dalton, BSIP Attorneyleneral, said that if the reason or the suggestion of such a system ly in the desire to introduce penal anctions for breach of contract, he ras afraid they would be in for Dme difficulty because of the Interational Labour Convention agreelent adopted in 1948.

H The Most Rev. Dr. Lehman, Vicar Apostolic in the Cook Islands, returning by air from a visit to Rome, broke his journey in Fiji in mid- November to visit Cook Island patients at the Central Leper Hospital, Makogai, and students at St.

Johns College, Cawaci. He continued on to Auckland: from there he was to return to Rarotonga by sea.

H The Rev. Father J. J. O’Loughlin, one of a group of Irish Columban Fathers who came to Fiji last February, has been a patient at the Tamavua Sanatorium, Suva, for the past three months. In mid-November he journeyed to Sydney for further treatment.

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The new hotel, which was sent out from Holland, was the largest prefabricated hotel ever constructed in the Netherlands. It has 46 double bedrooms and was set up by 25 Dutch technicians, assisted by local labour. The new hotel meets every demand for modern comfort. 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, November 30.

THE news that Morris Hedstrom- Ltd. have finally decided to* ■ trim down the plans for the South Seas Hotel, at Suva, Fiji, isnot unexpected. (See on other page), .

But it is now clear that the new hotel will do comparatively little ■ to relieve Suva’s chronic accommodation shortage.

Meanwhile the expanded Korolevu Beach Hotel, 70 miles west of Suva, has been opened with a lavish display of hospitality.

At the opening on November 2S ' were the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) and Lady Garvey, plus . more than 100 invited guests of Northern Hotels, Ltd.

The Governor and other speakers ; congratulated Sir Hugh Ragg on., the greatly enlarged Korolevu link:, in the Northern Hotels chain round , Viti Levu and praised the 1 picturesque scheme at Korolevu, , which has been built on the 1 characteristic Islands plan popular * in Tahiti and Hawaii.

The presence of a party of 15 « travel-agency men from New Zea- land possibly indicated that the 1 promoters of the tourist trade inj Fiji expect that the Dominion willJ continue to supply a very sub- stantial proportion of Fiji’s tourists-.

This traffic, as Sir Ronald Garveys pointed out, is by no means entirely one-way. Many of those who can j afford it go to New Zealand to-< escape the hot months in Fiji just c as an increasing number of New T Zealanders come to the Islands to < dodge the southern winter.

The Korolevu Hotel on the south 1 coast of Viti Levu, 45 miles from 1 Suva, complete with modern equip- ment, will accommodate 60 guests. .

Twenty well-built Fijian-style cot- tages are placed along a perfect d beach shaded by coconut palms.

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NG Village Council Has to Pay £430 'N the Supreme Court held at . Rabaul, New Guinea, on November 23, 1953, before Mr. astice Kelly, the New Britain Taxi nd Carrying Co. Ltd. was awarded 130 damages against the Vunamami illage Council in respect of an acdent between trucks owned by the arties.

This is the first time that a native Village Council has been sued.

Mr. Dudley Jones appeared for the plaintiff company, and Mr.

Harold James for the Native Council. fl Mr, Mohammed Yusuff, Bsc., of Tavua, Fiji, who is studying for Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in New Zealand, has been credited a pass in Medical Jurisprudence and Preventive Medicine.

Yacht Club Function A happy moment at a recent function at the Royal Yacht Club, Suva, Fiji, when Lady Garvey, wife of Fiji’s Governor, presented the season’s trophies.

Mr. C. Stinson is shown at the microphone; Mr. Vernon Hawkesley, who has just received his trophy, is standing next to Mr. Heath - Hemphill, Vice- Commodore of the Club. 33 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Survey Of Eye Diseases

BRIEF surveys of eye diseases prevalent in Niue, American Samoa and Western Samoa are being made for the South Pacific Commission by Dr. J. J. Loschdorfer, ophthalmologist, of the Administration of Papua and New Guinea. His main tasks will include advices to local hospital staffs on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of eye diseases, and operative treatment of advanced cataract cases. He left Noumea in November for Niue, where he will assist in setting up a service to provide glasses for people needing them,

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Mosquito-Borne Diseases

DR. M. O. T. IYENGAR recently has taken up his appointment as specialist on mosquito-borne diseases (mainly malaria and fil~ ariasis). He will expand the work being carried on, to give effect to the recommendations of the conference on filariasis and elephantiasis, held under Commission auspices in Tahiti two years ago.

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npHE principal technical officers ox X the Commission attended tha Eighth Pacific Science Congress held in Manila from November h to 26, under the auspices of thu Pacific Science Association. Presem were leading scientific workers oc 34 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Coconut Expert In New

GUINEA CHE Commission’s coconut expert, Mr. W. V. D. Pieris, returned to headquarters on November 27 fter spending ten weeks on a surey of the coconut industry in apua, New Guinea, and the British olomon Islands.

Expert To Make Rice

SURVEY rHE possibilities of expanding rice production in certain South Pacific territories will shortly e examined by Mr. R. Watson, a ce expert with many years’ experiice in rice production and marketig in the Far East. His services ave been made available to the □mmission for the purpose by the aod and Agriculture Organisation.

Mr. Watson will arrive at Noumea irly in December to begin his sursy with an investigation of rice- ■owing possibilities in New Calemia. Early in 1954 he will visit .ji, New Guinea, and the Solomon lands.

Spc Quarterly Bulletin

PUBLICATION of the Commission’s Quarterly Bulletin for October completes the third ar of issue of this magazine, aich is devoted to the interests id activities of Pacific Islanders, wide range of articles on subjects the Commission’s three main ilds of activity (economic developsnt, health, and social develop- 3nt) has been published—such as i e industrial development of icific territories; rhinoceros beetle ntrol; copra production; cattle eeds for tropical conditions; fish rming; tropical pastures and dders; malaria and leprosy rearch; infant nutrition; health ucation; welfare centres; coeratives; adult education and mmunity development projects.

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Etablissements Donald Increase Capital 'HE old established firm of Etablissements Donald Tahiti, of Papeete, has reased its capital from 22,700.000 francs 25,000,000 francs (£ 5tg.143,000). ertain alterations in the management re also been announced, due to the ith of two directors in recent years.

Two Native Priests Ordained in Rabaul HISTORY was made on Sunday, November 15, when the first two New Britain natives ever to be raised to the priesthood were ordained.

The Rev. Herman Paivu of Tapo village was ordained by Bishop Scharmach at Vunapope; and the Rev. George Bata, of Malaguna Village, was ordained by Bishop Vesters at Vuvu Teachers’ Training College.

Both priests passed through mission primary and secondary schools as part of their training, and later concentrated on philosophy, scripture, theology under guidance from Australian and American priests in the Solomon Islands under the direction of His Lordshop, Bishop Wade.

Both priests speak fluent English.

If Following furlough in New Zealand during which they made an extensive motoring trip through the North Island, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.

Protheroe returned to Nukualofa per Tofua late in November. On his return to Tonga, where Mr.

Protheroe is manager for Morris Hedstrom & Co., Mr. W. J. L.

Philpott, of the company’s Suva office, relieving at Nukualofa, was to return to Fiji. 35 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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New Zealanders for the Cooks CI Maoris for NZ BITTER resentment of New Zealand policy in the Cook Islands has been expressed recently by D.I. residents arriving in NZ.

According to these critics, Raro- ;onga is New Zealand’s “cushiest reservation for Public Servants.”

Chief target of their abuse is the mpressive Public Works Depot constructed miles round the coast from she main settlement, which, they say, is out of all proportion to the requirements of the Cook Islands at the present stage of economic ievelopment. While money is aoured into this great installation, ;he roads of the island are allowed ;o deteriorate into their worst condition for many years.

It is alleged that vast sums of noney are being poured into nagnificent houses for the flood of veil-paid public servants who come n from New Zealand. Most of the unds set aside for the administraion of the group are now going owards the housing and maintenince of this “flock of excursionists,” lalf of whom could be replaced by ar less expensive, local men.

The critics point out that the pick of the local native artisans —or at least those with ambition —are leaving the Group for New Zealand, there to rapidly fit themselves into jobs calling for greater skill and responsibility than many jobs in the Cooks which are currently being filled by technicians brought at great expense from New Zealand.

While money is lavished on the Cl Public Works Department, the Education Department, which is the key to many of the Cook Islands manpower problems, is made to suffer financially, local residents point out. A year ago there was post-primary education up to the fourth year, and senior students were reaching a reasonably high standard; to-day there are but two years of post-primary education.

Little wonder, the critics say, that every Islander with any gumption—for the sake of his children and for his own sake—is getting out of the islands fast and abandoning it to its flock of New Zealand public servants. 37 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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rE New Zealand Full Court on November 18 dismissed the appeals by three Niue Islanders against their convictions for the murder of the Resident Commissioner, Mr, C. H. W. Larsen on August 16.

The appeals were heard in Auckland at the end of October.

The Full Court did not admit any of the points on which the appeals were based. (See PIM for October, 1953).

To Be Returned To Niue

Although the New Zealand Executive Council had not, to the end of November, considered the case of the convicted men, on whose behalf the Howard League for Penal Reform and other organisations have appealed for remission of the sentence to life imprisonment, the Minister of Justice (and Island Territories), Mr. Webb, announced on November 28 that the prisoners would be returned to Niue immediately.

The Minister’s statement read, in part, as follows: “ . . The Law states that if they are to die, then the execution must be carried out on Niue Island.” Mr. Webb said that, to avoid delay, the prisoners would be flown from Auckland to Tonga by RNZAF aircraft on December 1, there to connect with the T ?Q a which would, in the course S ™ yage ’ take them on .. . , If the death sentence is carried out v an executioner will have to be sent from New Zealand.

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Closing Date:—February S—TREAT THIS AS URGENT. REPLY BY AIRMAIL TO: ART UNION, MARYVALE, HUNTER’S HILL, SYDNEY, Members of Papua-N. Guinea's LegCo State Their Views While most of the major measures dealt with at the recent session of he Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council are reported elsewhere in this ssue, the following brief highlights on debates on subjects which ranged { rom the temporarily defunct desiccated coconut industry to drinking permits for natives, are currently of interest to, or are being discussed by, •esidents of the two Territories:

Tell Australia About

The Territory

[TULL marks went to Mr. Don Barrett, elected member for NG Islands for his uggestion that the Administration establish Territory publicity and liaison bureau i Sydney to tell Australian people about he Territory. (There is a tremendous amount of Ausralian interest in New Guinea at present; ut most of it is ill-informed and, short f press censorship, the problem is how > persuade Australian newspapers to resent the facts about New Guinea withut twisting them to produce “readeriterest”—in other words, sensationalism.)

Discourtesy To Our American

ALIENS RATHER DWYER, commenting upon the recent Aliens Registration Ordinance lid that it carried a danger of unecessary discourtesy, particularly to merican residents, most of whom were tigaged on missionary, medical and eduitional work. Thousands of Americans ad died in P-NG during the war, he ointed out and suggested that for irtain non-British persons whose bona des were beyond doubt some provision lould be made for exemption from ;gistration.

Hallstrom Trust And Natives

Come Into Line

N future neither the native residents of New Guinea nor the Hallstrom Live- ;ock Trust will have unrestricted right » take native birds as has been the case i the past.

Certain birds (notably the Birds of iradise) have been protected from Euro- »ans but it has been an "open go” as far > natives were concerned. Greater ovement of natives and an increased itive trade in plumes, and consequent roads into the bird population, are the :asons given for the new legislation hich will restrict the natives to their vn traditional hunting grounds for these irposes.

In future the Hallstrom Trust will have obtain a Collector’s licence to cover s operations—which will bring it into ic with other collectors. In the past ie Hallstrom Trust has collected a great any birds, etc., from New Guinea, for ie Taronga Zoo in Sydney, for exchange stween Taronga Zoo and other overseas ios, and sometimes as straight out gifts overseas dignitaries or institutions, resumably there was some clause in the ;reement under which the Hallstrom rust was set up to permit this. In the ■dinary way it is difficult to send either cal fauna or artifacts out of the country.

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A T the same time that this added protection is given to New Guinea birds, however, there was introduced a new ordinance which will provide for the issuing of shot-gun licences to natives, on the New Guinea side of the Territory where these permits have hitherto been unknown. A European has always been able to acquire a shooting licence for his "shoot-boy,” but In Papua, natives themselves have been able, for the last 50 years, to obtain licences to own shotguns and hunt with them on their own account.

At present there are 1,775 shotgun licences held by natives In Papua—and eight permits for .22 rifles.

The new legislation was (for once in a while) “designed to bring New Guinea into line with Papua” Instead of the other way about but several Legco members from NG expressed concern, either because they felt that the natives 39 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Mr. Ivan Champion, of Papua, in supporting the bill, said that in half s century in that Territory there had been only one attempted murder by the holden of a permit and not more than thret: accidents. The Director of District Services (Mr. A. A. Roberts) said tha, permits would be granted only to native* who knew how to use guns. He madt light of the argument that the permit: might lead to the indiscriminate rlesi truction of native fauna—natives had been hunting with other weapons for centuries and had always been aware of the neec for conservation of fauna, he said.

High Cost Of A Healthy Ng

A PART from Dutch New Guinea: Papua-New Guinea was spending lessi per head of population on health than any other Pacific territory, said Dr. J. T r Gunther, Director of Health. Malaria: tuberculosis, yaws and other diseases could be controlled but it would take large sums of money—and control of any one of these diseases would be a capita) investment that was well worth while: TB, he believed, could be controlled within 15 years—if sufficient money were avail-1 able. And the expenditure of £150,000 could eradicate yaws—by injecting every individual in the country with penicillins Malaria could also be controlled but not with the amount of money available in the present budget. (Expenditure by the Department of Health in the coming year is estimated at £1,350,000).

Better Be British

Member Simogen would like to see New Guinea brought withim the British Commonwealth of (Although Papua is an Australian terri-i tory, and so British, the New Guinea partof the Territory is a UN Trusteeship Territory; Simogen’s plea is, therefore,: tantamount to a plea for Australian! annexation).

Simogen doubted very much whethen United Nations missions which visited tho country understood what was being done there. On the other hand, Australians: who had settled down in the country; really knew the native way of life in m way that strangers—although they werealways giving their views on the country; —could not understand. “It would be a: good thing,” said Simogen, “if we wero British; our children, who should have as greater understanding than we have.a should be British.”

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T'VURING the debate on the Bill to pro-i hibit the sale of intoxicating liquoin to natives, another native member, A.i Satin, said that in practically every dis-< trict in P-NG Europeans were liquor to the natives. In his opinion, ifii half-castes were to be permitted to drinfcl he saw no reason why selected, intelligent): natives, such as members of the Natives Constabulary, could not be allowed too drink as well. 40 DECEMBER, 1953-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY’

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THE Assistant Director of Public Health of the University of Melbourne, Dr.

M. Wilson, was in the Territory on a second visit, said Dr. Gunther during the second reading of the Pure Food Ordinance amendment bill; and a bacteriologist had also arrived from Australia and would remain in the Territory until February.

Both specialists are working on the desiccated coconut industry and trying to pin-point the source of contamination of P-NG coconut which was suspected of causing a typhoid outbreak in Australia.

It was thought at the time of Dr.

Wilson’s first visit some weeks ago that bush rats might be the cause of contamination in local desiccated coconut and that the purity of the product could be controlled by sterilisation at the packing stage. However, according to Dr.

Gunther’s remarks to the Legislative Council, it appears now that the solution is not so simple and that investigations will have to extend back to the processing and control of the persons employed.

No Price War WE have been informed that there were inaccuracies in the title of a block which we published on page 37 of November PIM.

We inferred that Mr. R. Beim, of the New Hebrides Trading and Shipping Co. was cutting freight rates between Sydney and the New Hebrides. This is not so; his freight rates are the same as other Australian shippers; where he has the advantage, however, is that his “Vila Star” can tie up in places where larger freighters cannot. Conseouently, there is no charge for lightering which means an advantage of about £l/5/- per ton.

Commwlth. Bank Branch for Kavieng The Commonwealth Trading Bank raised its recently opened agency at Kavicng, New Guinea, to branch status on December 3—the day on which the new Bank took over the general banking business of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Mr. N. Nilsen, general-manager of Emperor Mines Ltd., and Loloma Gold Mines Ltd., paid a visit to the Company’s Fiji holdings in November. 41 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Pilot Walks Out fl Mr H T Duane fnrmerlv o'f f’ Iol jnerly w ell known at Niue, returned to Aucklancl m . November after several months In Tahiti. Mr. Duane is planning to establish a country hotel in the Punaavia District of Tahiti to cater for New Zealand and Australian tourists. He will return to Tahiti in February. crash occurred on November 17 and on the l9th some native police-boys, the advance guard of the rescue party, found him. The following day Mr. Sebire, ADO, Kokoda, and Mr. Ben Hale reached him— thence began the long trek back to civilisation. The Fox Moth plane belonging to Papuan Air Transport, which he was flying, is a total loss. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

Pilot Frank Goosens, above, suffered only slight injuries when, en route to Kokoda and Popendetta from Port Moresby, his plane crashed in the driedup lake bed of Lake Myola. He decided to try and walk in search of aid from natives but got lost and would probably have remained so had he not found a disused telephone cable which led him back to the scene of the crash. The 42 DECEMBER, 19 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Fiji Has Rice Surplus And a Bumper Season for Other Crops IN his address to the Legislative Council in Suva during November, the Governor said that Fiji has had a prosperous year in the agricultural sphere, with record crops of sugarcane, bananas and rice. Only copra was below average —output was reduced by drought md other circumstances.

The estimated quantity of sugarjane to be harvested this year is 1,482,000. tons—largest amount ever produced in Fiji in one year. That imount will yield between 180,000 md 190,000 tons of sugar—a little jelow the average for the quantity )f cane, but well in excess of Fiji’s luota of 170,000 tons for export.

Not since 1920 have exports of jananas reached this year’s level.

Cotal for the year is expected to be 180,000 cases, valued at £342,000. [he crate problem is being overtome by the establishment of local )ox-making mills and the output is low filling the two ships engaged n the export trade. The acreage mder bananas increased by 2,000 his year to 37,000, and arrangenents have been made for an exension of commercial plantings to )valau and Kadavu. Dispersal of he crop is desirable in the event f a hurricane which might otherwise wipe out the entire crop as b virtually did after the blow of anuary, 1952, The Colony has produced its ntire needs in rice this year, the lovernor reported. There has, in act, been a small surplus on Vanua ievu. The price of padi has Luctuated during the year from £5O [own to £3O per ton, then up again, with the retail price ranging from Od to 1/- per pound.

There should be good prospects or an export trade in rice, if mechnised methods of production can e introduced. Large areas of idle wamp land are available and are eing surveyed. An application for 83,000 Sterling as a grant under be Colonial Welfare and Developlent Act has been made by the Jolony to carry out this rice surey.

It is estimated that 19,500 acres f land are suitable, over and above be acreage at present in rice prouction. This land could yield an dditional 22,000 tons of rice each ear, and, on present requirements, rould allow an export of at least 5,000 tons, to satisfy what looked d be a permanent world-shortage f this staple food.

King Ueg of Ulithi, Western Carones, died there on September 25. :e was a senior high chief of Micmesia. Paralysed since a child, he as wheeled about in recent years a a war-surplus bomb-carrier.

Promotion for Mr. A. A. Roberts r 1 was announced in Port Moresby in mid-November that Mr. A. A.

Roberts had been appointed Director of District Services and Native Affairs in succession to Mr.

J. H. Jones, who is now an officer of the Department of Territories in Canberra.

Mr. Roberts joined the New Guinea Administration as a cadet patrol-officer in 1925 and is the sole remaining member of that 1925 group now remaining in the Public Service of Papua-New Guinea. He is also the first man who, having entered the service as a cadet has reached the top as Director of his department.

Mr. Roberts was sworn in as a new member at the Legislative Council meeting in Moresby in November.

Mr. Jones visited the Territory in November for discussions with various representative organisations in relation to the new native labour ordinance.

H Prince Tugi, Premier of Tonga, paid a two week’s visit to Auckland in November, travelling by PAA and TEAL aircraft. While in Auckland he resided at Atalanga, Queen Salote’s Auckland home. 43 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Committee to Report on Set-Up for 1954 Elections SOMETIME between now and November 10, 1954, the life of the present—and first Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea will end and be followed by election and nomination of unofficial members.

Before the recent session of Council ended on November 23, a select committee was appointed to review the composition of the present council and to make recommendations as to how the next Council could be improved in its composition and functions. The Select Committee consists of Mr. D.

Barrett, Father J. Dwyer, Mr. Ivan Champion, Mr. C. M. Jacobsen and Mr. A. A. Roberts. (Three unofficial members and two official).

Their report is to be placed before the Administrator by the end of January, 1954.

Composition of the Legislative Council, both before and after its formation, received wide criticism mainly because of its preponderance of official members who, almost without exception, introduce all the legislation and force it through the Council. Provision is made in the ordinance which sets up the Council for legislation to be introduced by un-official members; but this is rarely attempted.

Nonetheless, public opinion appears to be that they have received better value from the Council than was expected at the time of its inception.

Through elected and nominated members, whose role is that of a permanent Opposition, the public can at least let its voice be heard and pertinent questions can be asked of heads of departments.

And, instead of being governed by decrees and regulations, legislation is now introduced and given a public airing through the Council.

One of the severest critics of the set-up within the Council is elected Member for Papua, Mr. E, A. James.

At the November session he said that they appeared to just tinker with legislation, and that he was concerned at the number of Ordinances which had been disallowed by the Governor-General, or from which his assent had been withheld. He was also concerned about the high percentage of Bills brought down to amend legislation previously passed by the Council.

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Mr. James agreed with other Members, however, that until such time as the Territory could pay for governing itself there had to be a Government majority—although he thought the proportions of the present representation seriously restricted debates and therefore the conclusions of the Council. . H e thought there should be an increase in elected members—he, personally, had been seriously embarrassed at times as the sole elected representative of the European population of Papua,

Next Meeting

November session ended on the 23rd. The next meeting will take place early next year, at a date yet to be fixed. ff Mr. H. H. Hickling, a prominent Administrative official in the Cook Islands territory, is reported to be suffering a severe illness, and has gone to Suva for special treatment. in connection with the annual Cession Day celebrations In Fiji, Mr.

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Governor’s Pointed Remarks to Fijians THE Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, addressing the Fiji Legislative Council in Suva in November, emphasised the urgent need for the economic development of Fiji, and for a changed attitude towards land utilisation on the part of the Fijians.

“In a mixed community such as ours,” he said, “with three major races living cheek by jowl but having few social contacts, the economic development of any one of them must not be allowed so to lag behind as to retard the progress of the whole.”

Although much progress had been made by the Fijians since Cession, and their present contribution to the economy was considerable — especially in the banana and gold industries, and increasingly in the sugar industry of which they now produce 6 per cent, of the crop—it remains true that the Fijian economy has narrow foundations and is largely at a subsistence level based on primitive and unscientific methods of cultivation.

“I regard it as a matter of urgency,” said the Governor, “that the Fijian people themselves, and especially their leaders, should adopt every means available to broaden the basis of their agricultural production ... to ensure a more efficient use of their lands.

“It should be remembered that land in itself is of no value. It is the use to which it is put that gives it value. And this, of course, applies to Fijian reserves.

“The demarcation of these reserves, I am glad to say, is now approaching completion; but it will be a mistake for the owners to regard them as a guarantee of future economic security. To achieve this objective the land must be developed to the fullest extent.

“It is the duty of all to assist in this development. It may be that, in some ways, full land usage will conflict with the social structure and communal organisation at present applicable to the Fijian people.

If this is found to be the case, adaptions may be necessary since some traditions may conflict with full economic development.”

The Governor considered that the best way of putting this work into full effect was by the appointment of Development Officers and the amendment of the Social Services Regulation so as to make the growing and maintenance of economic crops a communal service.

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THE latest Cook Islands annual report shows that of the 57,000 acres of land in the Group, 35,000 acres are suitable for cultivation of some kind, yet over 15,000 acres of this lies idle.

Reasons why this land is idle are lack of any economic pressure forcing the occupiers to make use of it and legal difficulties preventing others from leasing it.

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These Were The Answers: DURING the November session of the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council in Port Moresby, official members supplied some revealing answers in reply to questions put by non-official members. Here are some of the gleanings from official replies which are of general interest to Territories residents:

A Million Acres Of Land On

OFFER Replying to a series of questions put by Mr. D. Barrett, elected member for the New Guinea Islands, and Missionary Member Father J. Dwyer, Secretary for Lands Mclnnes said that there were 1.150.000 acres of Crown or Administration land of varying quality in Papua and New Guinea for which no applications had been received.

Location of the land was: CENTRAL DISTRICT, PAPUA: 184,000 acres in the Mekeo area; 326,000 in the Brown River; 23,000 at Subitana and Jawarere; 100,000 acres from Marshall’s Lagoon to Abau, and 34,000 in other localities of the Central District.

MILNE BAY DISTRICT: 71,000 acres on W’oodlark Island; 4,000 on Goodenough Island; 26,000 acres scattered along the coast.

NORTHERN DISTRICT: 93,000 acres in the Kokoda-Yodda Valley; 27,000 at Sangara; 34,000 in the Wanigela area, and an additional 7,000 acres located throughout the district.

GULF DISTRICT: Kerema, 6,000 acres; Kikori, 2,000; Upoia, 2,500; miscellaneous, 1,500 acres.

WESTERN DISTRICT: Oriomo River, 23.000 acres; Islands between the Fly River and Daru, 15,000 acres; miscellaneous, 1,000 acres.

NEW GUINEA: Angoram, 62,500 acres at present covered by timber permits; Lae, 5.000 acres; Morobe district, 50,000 acres, most of this being very mountainous, and proclaimed under the Mining Ordinance; Eastern, Western and Central Highlands, 3,300 acres—about 1,500 acres agricultural and 1,800 acres pastoral land which will be put up for tender shortly.

No Administration land is available in Bougainville or New Ireland, but in the Madang District the Administration owns land between Bogadjim and Madang, and a check is being made to ascertain its area. There are about 50,000 acres of land in the New Britain district held mainly for reforestation; there are some other smaller areas on which a check is now being made.

In addition, to above there are 24,000 acres in the Markham Valley and 25,000 at Gusap (the meeting place of the proposed Highlands-Lae and Highlands- Madang roads), and applications for this land will be heard by the Land Board at Lae on December 7. Land designed for tender in the Eastern Highlands will be made available by end of 1953.

Negotiations are under way for the purchase of land from the Custodian of Expropriated Property—some of it a large area in the Gogol Valley in the Madang District.

Warangoi Valley Land

Replying to a question by Father Dwyer as to the ownership of land in the Warangoi Valley in the Gazelle Peninsula, Mr. Mclnnes said the particular area referred to by Father Dwyer totalled about 37.000 acres which was native-owned.

Timber rights had already been let on this land, and investigation was now being made by the District Commissioner to ascertain whether any of it was surplus to native requirements.

Mr. Mclnnes said there had been a speed-up in the handling of applications for land, and in most cases a decision could now be given on applications within a month. 43 NEW COMPANIES IN 1953 IN 1953 there were 199 local companies operating in Papua-New Guinea, with a total nominal capital of about £19,750,000. This is an increase over 1952 of 30 companies and £4,000,000 of capital.

In 1953 there were 99 foreign companies with nominal capital of £179,000,000, and §6,000,000 (there were 86 foreign companies in 1952). (Question by Father Dwyer; answered by Treasurer Reeves).

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AT the end of 1953 there are 37 District Services officers attending the School of Pacific Administration in Sydney; 26 will complete their course this year and return to the Territory, The remainder will complete their course at the end of 1954 ; 26 new officers will attend the ASOPA next year, (Question by Mr. Barrett to Director of District Services Roberts).

Native Standard Of Education

THERE are at least 150 native students in Administration and Mission Schools in P-NG who have reached Standard 8 level of education. So far 102 native students have applied for secondary education in Australia. (Director of Education Groves in reply to Mrs. Doris Booth, nominated member for NG).

Native scholarship winners will cost the Administration about £250 each when they are sent to school in Australia next year. The Administration does not propose to make similar scholarships available for European, Asian or half-caste children. (Mr. Groves in answer to Mr. Fairfax- Ross, nominated member for Papua).

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THE ROLE OF THE ROAD IN P-NG- You Wreck Them —Property-Owners Mend Them SOME residents of Papua-New Guinea see roads as a first requisite of development; one official as a spreader of disease. Some of the less fortunate property-owners are likely to see them as bottomless pits of wasted man-hours. But everyone agrees that they must come.

Prospective land-holders in Papua-New Guinea in the future would be wise to see that their holdings border only “trunk” roads.

If their roads (presupposing, of course, that they have any roads at all) come within the secondary or minor category they are likely to find themselves responsible for the maintenance of that portion of it which passes through or alongside their property.

There was long and involved debate on all aspects of roads and their maintenance during the November session of the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council, but few members appeared to emerge any clearer in mind as to how the roads were to be classified or who was to maintain them.

Declared trunk roads, and presumably roads within town limits, are to be the responsibility of Administration. Secondary roads and minor roads are to be the responsibility of those who have property along them. It is not clear who maintains the sections where no property-owners—or native villages —exist, and it is likely that this method of divided responsibility of road maintenance, which has been tried out in other parts of the world, and found wanting, will be as thoroughly unsatisfactory in P-NG.

However, failing a heavy road tax, it is hard to see what other means can be taken for spreading road maintenance costs more or less equitably. rE increase in size and number of vehicles seems not to have been sufficiently taken into account by framers of the new P-NG road ordinance. Increased road tonnage in Australia imposed great problems of maintenance in the immediate post-war years but this has been got over, in part, by heavy taxation in the form of motor vehicle registration on the motorist generally and, in particular, in extra taxation on a ton-mile basis on hauliers.

It is patently impossible, however, to finance the maintenance of P-NG roads by taxing the users who are comparatively few in number, although it is, at the same time, unfair to owners of property on these secondary and minor roads to be held responsible for repairs that are caused by heavy motor traffic, timber-jinkers, lorries carrying scrap metal and heavy-duty vehicles overladen with natives.

Mr. H. Niall, District Commissioner for Morobe said the proposed ordinance would be difficult to administer in some districts where there were large areas held under mining leases, timber leases and permits. He asked that, in these cases, the Crown Law officer give a definition of the distinction between “owner” and “occupier.”

Roads And Malaria

r:E Director of Health, Dr. J. T.

Gunther, has a new angle on road building. He said that experience had shown that malaria invariably followed construction of roads. In Milne Bay, during the war, one-third of the troops went down with fever as each stretch of road went in. In the early roadbuilding programme in the Valley of the Highlands malaria spread through every village located along the road. He said there was no better breeding place for mosquitoes than a roadside drain and suggested that road maintenance should take into consideration the absolute necessity of controlling malaria. 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Over 30 Years' Pacific Island Experience Expert Buying Service Original Invoices Furnished Overseas Indents Arranged BEST PRICES FOR COPRA, COCOA, SHELLS AND GENERAL ISLAND PRODUCE GATT'S 2d-a-Pound Will Not Be Enough A Survey of Papua's Rubber Industry WHEN Papua’s rubber industry began sinking into another period of doldrums about two years ago, it was understood that the main obstacle to Australia’s easing the burden by remitting Australian import duty, was that somewhat mysterious organisation called, for short, GATT (or General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs).

GATT is one of those post-war international organisations to which Australia gives its support—its purpose being, theoretically, to assist in boosting world trade. As this of Rim Rnost Restricted Rvorld* trade 6 ft can R?arcelv be said to have achieved that obiect Nevertheless Australia had to To Sirouah the form of asking l oermission of the organisation to g waive? If wished import duty on primary products from Papua-New Guinea. In relation to rubber—which comes from Australia’s own Territory of Papua, which is as much a part of the Commonwealth as the Northern Territory or Thursday Island—this seems quite unrealistic. But at the end of this October, GATT graciously gave Australia the required waiver in order to allow the “economic development of P-NG.”

So far, so good; and presumably there was considerable rejoicing among rubber planters in Papua, But before any real benefit can be gained by this GATT decision it appears that planters now have to jump through another hoop. In recent letters to interested parties, and in answer to a question in the House in November, Mr. Hasluck, Minister for Territories, has stated that “any additional assistance for the Papuan rubber industry can only be granted after inquiry by the Commonwealth Tariff Board.”

The Pinters’ Association of Papua doubtless has the matter in hand.

When they do a PP Iy to the Board ’ however ’ the inquiry will be open to all shades of opinion and it is certain that Australian rubber ?Jp^ facturers will P resen t their views - These views are believed to be that the duty—at present 2d per pound—and all primage (10 per cent. ad valorem, which is already waived in the case of Papuan rubber) should be removed on all rubber entering Australia, no matter what its source, in the interests of Australian consumers. If this view should prevail, then there would be no advantage in it for Papuan rubber interests—to the contrary Just what advantage Australian consumers have gained from the fall in price of raw rubber from the high levels reached just after the commencement of the Korean war —up to 6/- and 7/- per pound—is doubtful. There has recently been 53 ACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y D E C E M B E R , 1953

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Smooth on the Palate Valiant PURE HM Is a very good rum indeed, as one sip will tell you a I Slight fall in the price of tubes and tyres for motor vehicles, but rpost other rubber goods have remained at the same high price they became when raw rubber was three times the price it is to-day.

Back in the Depression days of the early Thirties, when the Papuan rubber industry was on the brink of disaster, the then Lieut.-Governor, Sir Hubert Murray, was instrumental of having a duty of 4d. put on Papuan rubber entering Australia —the money then being paid back to the rubber planters in the Territory as a bounty. Some months later this benefit was cut to 2d, per pound and it appears that' when the industry had sufficiently recovered, sometime towards the end of the decade, the bounty was discontinued altogether, j Something of the same scheme is envisioned now; the money collected by the Commonwealth Customs Department on Papuan rubber entering Australia would be paid back to the producers. Even this .aid would do no more than &eep rubber planters financially afloat until better times come.

COST of production varies in the Territory according to the location and age of the plantation and probably is somewhere between 1/9 and 2/- per pound. Present selling price is 1/10 for Number ,1 sheet —but Australian manufacturers generally will not pay Number 1 sheet price, and the Papuan producer must take a lesser grade price, no matter what kind of rubber he supplies.

It is calculated that to-day it costs £2OO per acre to bring rubber into bearing—a figure that is probably four times higher than planting-up costs of 20 years ago. To plant up 500 acres and wait until they are producing in eight or 10 years, would therefore mean an outlay of £lOO,OOO. An investor who was prepared to wait this time for a return, no doubt is deserving of 10 per cent, return on his money— on that capital outlay, a profit of 54 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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P.O. Box 9 # Beecroft, Australia. £lO,OOO per annum. To achieve this (supposing an acre of rubber will produce 400 pounds of raw rubber per annum) it would require a return of 1/- per pound above cost of production, that is, on present rates, a return of from 2/9 to 3/per pound. As we have said, the Papuan planter to-day is lucky to get 1/10 per lb. for his rubber.

Against this background of hard economic facts, it is hard to see why the Australian government continues to plug the “grow more rubber” line in Papua. Yet it does; scarcely a week goes by without some reference in press or radio to the vast potentialities of the Territory; that it can, amongst other things, supply ah Australia’s requirements of rubber, instead of, as at present, less than one-tenth of her annual requirements.

Even on those modest proportions, however, for one period of six months last year, Australian manufacturers would not take any Papuan rubber at all; they had, they said, all their requirements for the time being, and stopped buying.

But apart from brave words, the Australian Government has done virtually nothing practical to help the rubber industry. They say that they cannot force Australian manufacturers to buy Papuan in preference to other rubber; nor is it their policy to bolster industries with subsidies and bounties.

And most people will agree with this, in principle. The ideal is a ivorld of free trade where each industry must stand upon its own feet or go under. But so many restrictions have been now placed dn ;he free flow of trade, in Australia md overseas, that it is impossible my longer to subscribe entirely to hat theory of “an open go for everyone, and devil take the hindnost ”

The slump in the rubber industry s not, of course, peculiar to Papua, [n proportion to its total produc- ;ion, Papua is very small beer comjared with the enormous losses beng sustained by rubber producers n Malaya. But Papua is Australia’s concern and apart from the economic ingle, a rubber industry there is of itrategic importance as was discovered during the Pacific war, vhen supplies from Malaya were mtirely cut off. During the darkest lays of that period, rubber capping continued around Sogeri even when the Japs were only a ew miles away. r[E price of rubber is a world price and that price is dictated by the United States of America. [The synthetic rubber factories vhich were set up in the States luring the Pacific war when sup- >lies of natural rubber were cut off lave been carried on into the peace nd, in order to preserve them, all übber goods manufactured in the IS must contain a certain properion of their products. As synthetic übber cannot be produced as cheaply as natural rubber, the Federal Government subsidises the production of synthetic and, as a resuit of lobbying by powerful consumer interests, it is at present beke P‘ f jery lo" level-so ow rabber to comp P e°f on a pricrbas?s When the Republicans came to office in the United States, it was expected that these governmentowned synthetic rubber factories would be disposed of to private enterprise. But, not unnaturally, private enterprise has not been interested in taking over industries which function profitably only with a subsidy that could be withdrawn on the whim of the particular goveminent in office At the same time as this artificially low price level is maintained, the United States has urged upon its Allies the prohibition of the sale 0 f natural rubber to Communist china and other countries behind the Iron Curtaln . It was the embargo on this sale which first started the decline in the price of rubber, Should, on the other hand, there be free trade with Russia and satellite countries, then it is obvious that there would not be sufficient natural rubber to meet the demand, What America is doing, in effect, is to keep the world rubber price at an artificial, low level by subsidismg her own synthetic plants, and forcing manufacturers to use this product j und, ut the Scime time, seeking to close the only other pro- 55 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

Successful men use Gillette W 1 1 'K fl They know that a good appearance is all important. So they’re always careful to be perfectly shaved. They understand value too. So the blade they choose is Blue Gillette, sharpest in the world, and, because it lasts so long, the most economical.

G '// $ Blue Gillette Blades fitable mar k e t—the Communist countries—to producers of natural rubber.

Ceylon, which is the only rubberproducing country not in economic difficulties over the industry, was regarded as somewhat of a traitor when she undertook to supply Red Chma with rubber at a price far above the present ruling rate.

It is academically interesting to speculate on how long the US will co w nu ™ h^ve t J lings both wa ys —but maddening to planters who are human and must live. No one right maintain ner synthetic factories as an insurance against being cut off again from supplies of natural rubber in the event of war. The grudge comes when it is realised that the present price of rubber is not the true one f? rc eci down to that level at the instigation of domestic consumers in the United States It is obvious that matters cannot continue indefinitely as they are at present People do not go ?n for rubhPr lo n! investm ents as rubber planting represents for ?n^h ly H£o triotl L reas ° ns: and until as . th ere is some secure lutme for the industry, the oftrepeated phrase that Papua should of°AiistraU rubbe r requirements of Australia, is mere beating of the ciir.

In summary it can be said: * The repayment of the 2d per PflSmn du y U now S eing coveted on r Ss ber , b y Australia, to Papuan rubber planters would afford n J? 0 K ta i n - measur e of immediate relief but in most cases would bring Sf a productfon rnS ° nly Up t 0 price industry Stulurti ttaf as P ermits the world price to find its true level, or alternately, tb! K Q A^st J aI . ia subscribes to what the US is trying to do in relation to restricting trade with Com- Sii2iS? C fv, CO, U ltries ' Australia - itself qJlJ 16 * dom cstic policy of the United States and provides a buffer for its rubber industry in Papua by guaranteeing for say, the next 10 a re JiP r . n above cost of protoi^ 10n sufficiently encouraging to a£in Sont Producers in business field br ng new P r °ducers into the 1 Jhe Rev. D. N. McDiarmid, MBE, BA, formerly of St. Andrew’s Pres- CI JF c - h ’ Suva, was elected Moderator-Designate of the Presbytenan Church of New Zealand at rbiSSfS?* Church Conference at Christchurch, N.Z. He will assume office in a year’s time.

I Government figures covering Colnnv rS ICles re pstered in the Colony last year show that one in Tb 6 prp S 1 n X rp CarS T the road iS a taxi - There are no less than 376 taxis as compared with 1,712 private 155 of the taxis are concentrated in Suva. 56

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For Airline Base PALMYRA atoll, 960 miles south of Honolulu, may become a tourist resort.

During September, Mr. Richard K. Kimball, owner of the wellknown Halekulani Hotel, Honolulu, and other interested persons flew to the island from Hawaii to examine the possibilities of establishing a hotel there for fishermen and vacationists.

It is understood that the Fullard- Leo family, which owns the atoll, is agreeable to the plan. The Fullard- Leo property is at present in charge of a caretaker, who, with an assistant, represents the sole population of the atoll, whose 50 islets cover the area of about 250 acres surrounding an extensive system of shallow lagoons with land and water aircraft landing areas.

It is possible that the tourist promoters plan to work in with the proposed Honolulu-Papeete airline, which will require fueling facilities in this region. Christmas Island, 360 miles further south, had been tipped as the most probable island for this purpose. Both atolls were wartime staging points for aircraft bound from the States to the southwest Pacific.

There appears to be some hitch over providing facilities for the new airline on Christmas Is. Its European population is about the same as that of Palmyra; the Gilbert and Ellice Is. Colony maintains there a Government agent-cumplantation manager, and copra is being worked. There is no indigenous population and, in the past, at periods when copra was valueless, there was no population at all. At present the G & E Colony is profiting from the copra cut there, but, in the broad view, Christmas Is. is of small economic worth. It a rainfall of about 30 inches a year, is composed entirely of white coral sand in which only coconuts will grow, and one visitor has gone on record as saying that even the milk in the coconuts tasted brackish!

But Britain evidently attaches great strategic importance to Christmas. Hence the hitch in negotiations with the new airline promoters.

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Millers of Fine Flour 31 Macquarie Place, Sydney 44 King Street, Melbourne VC3 wonder what harm an airline fuelling base could do, even if the island is the most strategically important hunk of coral land in the whole Pacific. Unless, of course, the G & E. Colony itself contemplates setting up one of these non-paying airl i n es in which the British specialise.

Control Of Palmyra

Palmyra atoll, 960 miles south of Honolulu, may cease to be controlled from Honolulu if Hawaii gains Statehood, This was urged in Congress recently when Hawaiian Statehood was being debated.

Although Palmyra is densely planted with coconuts, the island lies completely unused, the two men there at present acting as caretakers for the Fullard-Leo family and another family which owns two of the islets. Occasional tuna boats from Honolulu are about the only callers.

At present copra prices it would seem that the 250-acre atoll might be profitably worked in conjunction with the neighbouring British islands of Fanning, Washington and Christmas which employ Gilbertese labour.

None of these islands have an indigenous population. One difficulty that would apparently arise under such an arrangement would be that whereas the British-owned islands ship their copra to Europe under contract to the British Ministry of Food, the Palmyra copra might have to go to the States.

Shipment of copra from the atoll is said to be the principle obstacle to economic operation of the plantations at present. Labour costs under Hawaiian conditions are excessive.

IT Mr. G. W. Johns, of Suva, Fiji, has had the honour of having two of his watercolours of the Rotorua district in New Zealand accepted for hanging in a suite of rooms to be occupied by the Queen during her New Zealand tour.

New Roads for Fiji FIJI reading: projects for 1954 include two important stretches on Vanua Levu. One of these is a 25-mile road from Namawa to Loa at Buca Bay, which will open up some valuable country and link a number of copra-growing areas which have poor anchorages, thus permitting shipment of copra by road to more suitable ship-loading points.

A new road will be commenced from Dreketi to Tabia in the DMacuata district.

On( Viti Levu preliminary work will commence on the Sewani-Seria road. 58 DECEM'RTrr> R ’ 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Laymen Examine the Public Service of P-NG mHERE are 12 unofficial members J. in the Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea; and there are 16 official members. The unofficial members, as spokesmen for the non-government section of the community, are more than ordinarily interested in the activities of the Public Service. The official members generally consider it their duty to defend the PS as a whole. In discussions between the two factions we learn that: • According to Mr. B. E. Fairfax-Ross the percentage of the Public Service on furlough at any given time Is 23.16 per cent, as against 8 per cent, in the commercial field. He suggests that this is excessive and that it is a legacy from the days when tropical service was more exhausting and tropical diseases took greater toll. Under to-day’s conditions present leave provisions are no longer necessary —and he asks whether the country can continue to afford the cost of such extended periods of furlough.

Probably by way of a small beginning, he proposed that the Tuesday after Easter should be eliminated as a PS holiday (Easter Tuesday was eliminated as a general public holiday by the Legislative Council last May). • Evidently the higher elements of the PS feel that the country can still afford them Mr. Fairfax-Ross’ proposal was outvoted. The Government Secretary said that, since the early days, there had been a reduction in PS recreation and longservice leave. • Mr, Don Barrett is of the opinion that the powers conferred on the Public Service Commissioner are greater than those held by the Administrator and heads of various departments and would like to see some curtailment in the very sweeping powers held by the Commissioner. • The whole matter of Public Servants holding land (other than land on which to build a home) is under consideration by the Administration. Under current regulations no Public Servant can hold shares in any company in the Territory or acquire land except for housing purposes. • Mr. Barrett believes that public servants should be permitted to acquire and develop land and continue as useful citizens of the Territory after their retirement, rather than that they should leave the country. • He would like also to see the status of the PS raised to something comparable with the British Colonial Service and, as with the Colonial Service, he would like to see that before a person can serve in the Territories Department at headquarters in Canberra he must, at some time, have served in one of the Territories. At the present time men in the Department in Canberra are completely Inexperienced in Territory matters because they have not lived or worked there, he said. • The axe will not fall on a number of temporary Public Servants who, for lack of educational qualifications, are unable to be appointed to permanent positions. Although these cannot be admitted to the “Second Division” (presumably adult male appointments) they will be admitted to the “Third Division” as Clerical Assistants and given an opportunity of passing examinations for the Second Division.

But when new recruits are found for the PS (200 next year, it is hoped) some temporary employees whose work and conduct has “not been as satisfactory as desired” will be replaced.

If Mr. J. S. Kean has taken up an appointment as representative in the South West Pacific for Shell Oil Company, with his headquarters in Suva. He was formerly stationed at Head Office, Melbourne.

U Mr. J. P. Bayly has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Fiji. 59 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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In 1951 it was reported that 600,000 ms of phosphate then remained n the parts of the island which le people had agreed to make vailable for exploitation. This was eing removed at the rate of 100,000 ms per annum by the 400 Japanese ibourers employed on Angaur. Certain other unwanted lands have now been surveyed and made available. The Angaur islanders received 25 cents per ton for all phosphate exported from recommencement of operations after the War to 1951, but a new agreement under which a considerably higher royalty was to be paid, was being negotiated that year.

Angaur is the only important source of high-grade phosphate in the North Pacific and is one of the Pacific’s four important sources of phosphate, the others being Nauru, Ocean Is. and Makatea.

Islands residents in NZ, in October: Mr. J.

O’Dwyer, Mr. C. Hickey and Mr. S. G. Young, on leave from Public Works Department, W. Samoa.

Mr. and Mrs. V. D.

Stace and child returned from W. Samoa, where Mr. Stace has completed preliminary work on an economic survey of the Territory for the South Pacific Commission.

Mrs. Papalii Ulu and grandsons Eddie and John Ryan, from W.

Samoa. 61 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Although privately-owned stations are no longer licensed in New Zealand, such a station in the Cooks could function until such time as the Administration is in a position to establish one of its own. The station would be staffed by qualified technical members of the Administration radio department in their spare time— they have already indicated their willingness to co-operate in this way.

The Cook Islands and Tonga are now the only Group in the South Pacific not served by some local broadcasting service —the New Hebrides being served from Noumea.

At the present time a very limited amount of information is distributed throughout the Cook Islands by means of a half-hour, week-day broadcast in morse. This is copied on all islands and published in the form of a single sheet of foolscap posted outside the local post office. It contains about two minutes of reading matter. For the same amount of broadcast-time, spoken broadcasts could cover a wider field and stimulate the interest of the people in local affairs.

The technical equipment for an interim station would not be costly; most of it would probably be contributed by interested parties if the necessary permission is granted by the New Zealand Government and the necessary cooperation received from the Radio Superintendent in Rarotonga who is reported as not altogether agreeable to the proposed plan.

One or two village receivers, as in W.

Samoa, would meet requirements. 11 Mr. Indar Jit Singh Walia recently arrived in Suva from India to teach at the Deenbandhoo High School. He is a graduate in science and mathematics at the Punjab University, and recently studied educational procedures in India under a UNESCO scholarship. He is a hockey player and athlete.

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If A son (Donald Gustav) was born to Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Miller, at Wagga, NSW, on November 14. Mrs.

Miller, before her marriage, was Miss Mara Hennings, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Hennings, of Naitamba, Lau Islands, Fiji. Mr.

Miller is on the staff of the Bank of New South Wales and for some years was in Fiji with the Lautoka branch of the Bank, U A section of the new road on the north coast of New Guinea, near Madang, is being constructed by Headmaster John W. Cox, who has been in Bougainville in recent years.

He is putting in entirely new construction between the existing Rempi road and the Bukawa River bridge, recently constructed. The section includes two bridges and four concrete culverts.

U Police Inspector J. Suguturaga and Sub-Inspector Walli Mohammed returned to Fiji per Matua in November after attending a special police course at Hendon police college, England. Inspector Suguturaga’s splendid head of Fijian hair was much photographed during his trip overseas.

In New Zealand from the Cook [?]lands:— Mr. and Mrs. R. J. A. Ingram. Mr. [?]gram is manager of United Island [?]raders, Rarotonga, and an active member [?] various public bodies on the island.

Mr. and Mrs. Don Bryan from Raro- [?]nga. Mr. Bryan is wharf superintendent 63 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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To Study in Australia 1938, three years later he joined the staff of the Poyer Junior High School. He was one of the original members of the faculty of the High School of American Samoa when the High School was founded in 1946. He has been assistant principal since 1919. He is 37, married with seven children.

Western Samoans Visit New Zealand Mr. Fiaui Mulitauopele, Assistant principal of the High School of American Samoa, Pago Pago, who has been advised that he has been awarded a United Nations Fellowship to study in Australia.

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PEANUT growing is interesting a number of agriculturalists in the Morobe District of New Guinea, and although the chances of establishing a substantial and economically sound industry are favourable, there is much to learn and some probable hardships to be endured by the pioneers before income from sales exceeds expenditure to a sufficient degree to provide that security necessary to the general stability of the enterprise.

The growers themselves may be unduly optimistic, but at least they are triers. They have backed their faith with their own cash and labour and from the point of view of general development, the Government would be wise to take an active interest in their welfare.

Fortunately for all concerned, there appears to be a feeling of satisfaction and confidence in the local Department and its officers, and hopes for the future are high.

Growers cannot keep on producing ground nuts without crop rotation to balance soil fertility and the Agricultural Department is in for a busy time investigating the commercial as well as the agricultural value of the rotation crops to be grown.

Rice is also becoming a firstfavourite with local farmers and if a suitable mill could be erected at Lae, production of this commodity would be of considerable volume in a very short time. Many of them are ready to plant rice now if milling facilities are made available.

Mr. Alpha F. Ward, son of Mrs.

A. E. Ward and the late Mr. Ward, of Fiji, has been appointed Comptroller of Customs, Trinidad, which position he will assume next June following furlough. Mr. Ward has been stationed at Mauritius since leaving Fiji in 1950. 66 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Holmes, Messrs. J. N. Falvey, J. P. Angus, A. R. Browning, R. A. Derrick, H. Gatty, G. J. Larsen and J. N. Mason. tl Mr. G. Nevill, Resident Commissioner, Cook Islands, accompanied by Mrs. Nevill, paid a visit to Tahiti and Makatea during November as guest of the Compagnie Francaise des Phosphates de I’Oceanie aboard their vessel Oiseau des lies, which made two visits to the Cooks exchanging labour gangs for the Makatea phosphate workings.

IT Sir Walter and Lady Carpenter, Mr. R. B. Carpenter and Mrs. Long, daughter of Sir Walter and Lady Carpenter, arrived in Sydney by air from Vancouver in October.

IT Mr. V. Ambler, who has been manager for A. B. Donald & Co. at Atiu Island, for the past five years, will leave the Cook Islands and return to Europe.

These Island residents left Auckland for their homes in November:— Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Burke, who returned to Tonga where Mr. Burke is Building Inspector for the Tongan Government.

Mr. Satiu Leasuasu, formerly of the W. Samoan Police, and now with E. A.

Coxon & Co., Apia, returned after leave in New Zealand, and (right) Pastor T.

Ioelu of the LMS Church, W. Samoa, returned after attending the Assembly of the Congregational Union at Palmerston North. NZ, and visiting Samoan people in various Darts of the country.

Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Harwood and Miss C. M. Harwood returned to Fiji after a year at Trinidad and in England. Mr.

Harwood had taken a post-graduate course at the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Cramer, formerly of Fiji, is now in private practice in Trinidad. The Harwood family spent three months in England also. fl The Rev. J. H. Hoadley, of the LMS Church, with his wife and family, returned to Western Samoa in November, after vacationing in England.

If A daughter was born on October 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Whitta, who recently transferred to Niue Island from Rarotonga.

After a period of service at Rarotonga Radio, Mr. Dan Maher and his family (left) transferred to Wollington Radio in November.

Their places were taken at Rarotonga by Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Ashwell (right).

Mr. Ashwell has recently been on the staff of Musick Point Radio, Auckland. 69

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At present, the bulk of the Islands export of bananas is handled by the passenger-freighter vessels Matua and Tofua. The new vessel, which could not be available for three years, would have no passenger accommodation and would be used on the Islands service only at the height of the season.

Meanwhile, the freighter Katui, which has been operating on the banana trade between Fiji tnd Auckland during the past Winter, will now be replaced by the larger 2,500 tons freighter Karamu.

Fiji banana plantations have now fully recovered from the hurricane of January, 1952, and 1953 is likely to be an all-time record export year.

Nonetheless, if an extra ship is provided for the banana trade there is likely to be heartburnings in the Cook Islands where lack of shipping connections with New Zealand is crippling the fruit industry.

When the new Tofua entered the Pacific Islands service at the end of 1951, the Cook Islands expected to be serviced by the Matua. This hope was not realised and the Group still makes do with the inadequate service provided by Maui Pomare.

The second camp meeting of the Eastern Solomon Islands Mission of Seventh Day Adventists on Guadalcanal began on October 9 and was attended by over 1000 native people as well as SDA Pastors from Australia and New Guinea, Four other camp meetings of a similar nature will be held in BSI this year.

UMr. John Hancock, who was in Tonga in 1944 as agricultural adviser to the Tongan Government, has been appointed livestock consultant to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development at Washington, DC. Mr. Hancock was born and educated in Finland and has recently been chief animal geneticist, Ruakura animal research station, Hamilton, NZ; the twin calf experiments carried out in Fiji and New Zealand and reported previously in PIM were under his supervision. 70 DECEMBER, 1353 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Mrs. M. Boyer, Mrs. Holloway and Miss F. Boyer from Suva.

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The Pacific Now Has Another Nature-Man

By Jack Thornton

AFTER planning and working for seven years with the object of setting himself completely apart from civilised society—surely one of the most sustained efforts ever made by a believer in the simple life —a 30-years-old civil engineer from Denmark recently made final contact with society at Nukualofa, and Is now living alone on a hitherto uninhabited islet in Tonga.

He intends to remain there for the rest of his life.

The appearance of this blue-eyed, bearded Dane aroused considerable interest during his voyagings in search of a home in the Islands.

He says he has arrived to stay, and looks like becoming another legend in the Pacific.

He has already replaced his Nordic Christian name, which he regards as an unnecessary reminder ef Western civilisation, with the Polynesian “Tavi,” conferred upon him when he was looking for an island where he could live without paying land tax. In Polynesian mythology, Tavi is the brother of Maui, who fished up several islands from the depths of the sea.

Kauffmann made up his mind in 1945 to renounce civilisation and revert to the Stone Age. He began to put a plan of operations into effect immediately he had graduated, in science, from Copenhagen University; the following year he , . _ , , , . moved to Sweden and worked for two years to save enough money to enter the USA; there he lived and worked in San Francisco for 2 h years.

“Frisco offered the apex of what most people strive to achieve,’’ Tavi, who speaks excellent English, told me recently in Fiji. “I studied navigation and was lucky enough to buy cheaply from a Marine Corps officer a 26-foot sloop in which I quesas and 63 Tahiti 18 'Mv°friend *Sho had*alreSdvhad ten eiZrt ence of living close to Nature ?n North America had found ft npppi sarv tosTarch for a warmerrlimate where°he%ould°hve^fthout Cl wearin| party Cl to h the a^ and killing of sheen He he came 1 discouraged° during P our Search fo“ a Pacificisland andleft' the shin at Tahiti He a£d hf* wife are P now living the nnhirni S Costa RidVherethe cltoate doesn’t interfere with their prm- . ... T ~ . . .

From Tahiti I sailed alone to the Cook Islands Tonga and Fiji— where I arrived last year—looking for somewhere to settle During these voyages I fished only once to pass the time; and saw only one shark. I lived on coconuts—we had taken a stock aboard at Frisco —fruit and vegetables. ‘ln Suva I received word that the Government of Tonga required the services of a consulting engineer, so I sailed back to Tonga and worked in that capacity for ten months. I gave away my sloop (it now belongs to the Royal Family of Tonga) and now I have been given this islet rent free, with an assurance that There seldom are nature-women (unless there is a nature-man somewhere in the picture) hut nature-men, going solo, are not new. In recent issues of PIM we have learned a lot about Tahiti’s nature-man who migrated to Fiji and died there in 1918. Now, here is news of another, right up to date in 1953, who believes that the world can be saved only if everyone returns to the Stone Age. The story is told by Jack Thornton. 11 is interestin 9 to reflect that, at the same time > Politicians, theorists and the gentlemen who belong to the UN Trusteeship Council, heat their collective chest gjf be* r^edJrorL St Z ne Age f° rthwith and hurled the Atom A ° e ‘ We wonder, therefore, if Mr. Kauffmann might Z ot servm 9 his convictions better by staying around to convert the politicians, theorists, etc., instead aW “ V °” “ I can stay on it undisturbed for the rest of my life “My new home is called Hunga, is about a mile long, a third of a mile wide at its widest, and rises to four hundred feet. It is 40 miles from Nukualofa, and there is no proper landing place. I have AT LEFT: Close-up of a man on his way back to the Stone Aee.

BELOW: KaufTmann, an object of Interest in a Suva Street, 73 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

visited Hunga with a Tongan Government official to plant fruit trees, and we had to haul things up the cliffs by rope. There is no fresh water except that which drips from roofs of caves, but this doesn’t matter as I shall drink coconut milk and bathe in the sea. If there are hurricanes I shall shelter in the caves. There is a submerged volcano about li miles offshore. It is due to erupt in 1962—it should be a wonderful spectacle. Hunga itself is a volcanic island.”

KAUFFMANN has no illusions about leading an idle life in his new home. And he does not run away from reality. During his recent visit to Suva, undertaken to have himself made dentally fit for the remainder of his life (“To repair the ravages of a civilised diet in early life”) he stuck to his principles of natural living by refusing anaesthetics.

In addition to his religious beliefs. based on personal and somewhat unusual interpretations of the Bible, Kauffmann is convinced of the bankruptcy of the atomic age.

“From the viewpoint of a dentist, or a doctor, or a psychologist or from any informed viewpoint at all, civilisation is all wrong, and the simple life is the one to be desired,” he informed me.

“I believe that personal example is the only way of converting others so that they will realise the futility of ordinary life. People should strive to achieve an affinity with all things in Nature. I’m not sure whether the discovery of fire or meat-eating came first; whichever it mis, it marked the beginning of mankind’s divorce from Nature, with the frightful effects to be seen in the world to-day. The discovery of steel was another backward step.

“Man is a product of Nature, yet he is trying to set himself apart. I ,to get into unison.

Civilised life is a make-believe built on appearances. To the superficial observer it appears to possess tremendous power, but it is a giant ?u ? a Z*eet. * s well to remember that this globe is a cemetery of dead civilisations. * “I realise the futility of inter- }£™fii SIn V knowledge is a tool through which we can pursue evil or good up to a point. Love is far greater than knowledge. For me the simple Stone Age life is the only life in which I can expend all mv Creation 1 the contem P la tion of “I don’t expect or intend to spend f* 1 da ys doing next to nothing £i h L SUns 5 lne V My island hasn’t had the advantage of inheriting "ies of Stone Age culture, so I shah have to use steel tools for the time it takes me to bring things under control. Money is the biggeit whip ever invented, and so my first hig job will be to cut down all palms except sufficient to supply mv needs. They have commercial value, and dead fronds attract mosquitoes, so I’ll chop them down and replace them with fruit trees. After that’s done I’ll throw my steel tools into the sea and live like a Stone Age man—l may even do it before I’ve achieved a final productive balance with Nature.

“My change into the Stone Age will be a big transition in Time, and I shall do some reading during the initial period of adjustment.

I’m taking about 30 books with me, including a Bible and Spengler’s Decline Of The West. I may eventually stop reading altogether.”

J. Arthur Rank Puts Back the Clock 2,000 Years IN preparation for the filming of a romantic story of the old days in New Zealand, the J. Arthur Rank organisation some time ago sent a team of talent scouts to the Dominion to select their heroine.

In mid-October they announced their selection—a Dutch-Javanese girl who had never set eyes on the Land of the Long Daylight In all of New Zealand, Mr. Rank could not discover one Maori girl up to his box-office specifications. What the Maori girls think about the decision is better left unsaid, but there may be trouble when glamorous Miss Lay a Raka and the film team arnves to film “The Seekers.”

Ra £ g1 ’ °t Rotorua, who looked over the script, however, was not at all perturbed. The heroine, she said, was a chief’s wife who was supposed to flirt with a pakeha sailor. As a chief’s wife, said Rangi. it would have been as much as her life was worth to so much as raise her eyes to another man. 0 . . , v. Several Photographs of Miss Raka save5 ave a PPeared in Australian papers, S £V s , sbowl l m , a reed skirt and * a £ looks to be a brassiere of feath ers: She is executing what a PPears to be a hula, and shows f great deal of shapely bare leg, from about the waist down, But back in your boxes, you ethnological critics—the Polynesians are supposed to have come originally from Indonesia, anyhow.

Pim Crossquiz No. 46

Solution on Page 82, ACROSS I. —Who was the author of “The Jungle”? 8- What was the type of man-of-war, the first British one of which was the Warrior”, launched in 1860? 9. —What tidal strait separates Manhatten and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn? 10. —What is the term for a rocky height? 11. What kind of vehicle is mounted on runners and can be used as a hammer? 13.—What extinct bird is a symbol of the irrevocable past? 14 - —Which element has the heaviest atomic weight? 17.—Who was the 13th century Persian poet whose name has survived from his work “The Garden of Roses’’? 19. —Which is the chief river of Germany? 20. Which early English historian was given the name of “The Venerable”? I 21. —What is the chief component of wood pulp?

DOWN I.—What is the largest federated republic of the world? is the term for a bride’s outfit? 3 —°f which country is Managua the capital? 4. What is the first name of a popular actress turned I director? I Besides the name* barrack, what other name is applied to a lodging for troops in a town? 6. —What unit in spectroscopy was named after a Swedish natural philosopher? 7. Where is the Domesday Book kept? 12.—Which famous collection of inscribed marbles was presented to th 6 Oxford University by the Duke of Norfolk? 15. —ln old England, who was the chief magistrate of a town or a district? 16. —Who invented dynamite? 18.—Who composed “Rule Britannia”? 74 DECEMBER. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Tropicalities

The Ng Women With The

ANSWER IF you just keep reading the Sunnanprs it is amazine what von P S learn Quite fammar Zees familiar places.

Some weeks back, the Sydney Sunday Sun-Herald reported (from South Africa, no less) the existence of a “primitive and uncivilised” tribe somewhere in New Guinea that was ruled by a Queen. If the rest of the women did not exactly wear the pants 5 (they are alleged not to have had as much as a grass skirt amongst theUot of them) they certainly had the'men where they wanted them: They kept them in cayes and brought them out as required.

Well, what’s so primitive and uncivilised about that?—J.T.

All Spit And Pollige

Ti/|R. ATHOL MELLARS, of Turner’s Supply Company, back m Auckland from one of his Periodic Island circuits reported this incident while a guest at the Labasa Hotel, Fiji, recently. in bed very early one morning, half-awake and dreaming of a tasty breakfast, he was surprised when the head of an Indian appeared around the door and inquired “Youse want pollige?”

Puzzled that he should be asked whether he wanted porridge at this ea rly hour, and before arriving at the table, the guest’s surprise evidently appeared on his face, “Pollige, pollige,” the boy repeated—pointing to the guest’s shoes beside his bed.

Then it dawned. Yes, yes, his shoes did want polishing!

SULUS AND TOP- HATS AT FLEMINGTON LIEUT.-COL. Ra t u Edward Oakobau, who has been spending a holiday in Australia on his way back to Fiji from Malaya had a great deal of public and press attention. He is shown here speaking to Australia’s Governor - General, Field - Marshal Sir William Slim. The place? Flemington, on Melbourne Cup Day, It was a “first Cup” for both Sir William and the Colonel.

The stories about Ratu Edward are now legion. “I suppose that is a sort of a kilt?” someone is supposed to have asked him—with regard to his sulu.

“Sure thing,” he is alleged to have replied, “I’m what might be described as a South Sea Highlander.” (Photograph at left by courtesy of Melbourne “Sun Pictorial.”) THE US HAS THEM, TOO 11IE poor benighted ▼ ▼ non-A mer'icans usually believe that our Yankee cousins have a way of getting things done, regardless. But that there is the usual amount of buck-passing in US government departments seems to be indicated by the following extract from Micronesian Monthly (a small journal circulated in the US Trust Territory) giving practical definitions of terms used by Pacific Administrators: Adequate : A term used to describe a leaky dwelling.

Consultant ; A man who recommends that a problem he was hired to study should be studied.

Cultural factors : A universal reason to be used when a project fails.

Cultural synthesis : Confusion.

Is being studied : We had forgotten about that.

Learning by doing'. Previously called working.

Operation'. Moving a paper from one desk to another.

Programme : A stack of papers stapled together telling about something that probably won’t be done.

More O’Keefe History

ANOTHER paragraph in the O’Keefe saga: This is Miss Daisy O’Keefe, His Majesty’s youngest daughter, photographed with friends some months ago in Macassar, Celebes.

Miss O’Keefe was interned by the Japs with her sisters, Mrs. Brown O’Keefe and Mrs. Scott, during the war but when they returned to Hollandia about the end of 1945, she stayed in Macassar where she is now conducting a ballet and dancing school and teaching English at a Chinese school.

From having a great deal, the O’Keefes now have very little; but have made the best of that little, and with great courage.

It is believed that Mrs. Brown has now returned to the family plantations on Mapia. The homesteads were bombed out of existence 75 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

during the war and no compensation .was forthcoming from the United States or the Dutch. It is understood that she now has outside backing to clean up the plantations and get back into copra production.

Miss Daisy O’Keefe was sent to England as a small child and was educated there. She always was fond of dancing and was trained in this art. Before the war she had a very successful dancing academv in Hongkong. News of Miss O’Keefe was recently brought back to Sydney by an Australian girl, Miss D. Gover, who spent two years in Macassar. * * * Nothing further has been heard of the O’Keefe film since the actors packed up and left Fiji towards the end of last year. It was said, at the time, that the film would be ready for exhibition about Coronation time. Its release is awaited with great interest in the South Pacific.

More Water—Less Odour

rTSHE MV Charlotte Donald called X at Pukapuka, Northern Cook Islands, at the end of August and landed a quantity of concrete slabs for making water tanks.

Pukapuka, is the most isolated of the Northern Cooks and has become widely known to readers of South Seas books through the writings of Robert Dean Frisbie, who lived there for many years, and also from the scientific treatises of several anthropologists who stayed there to study the customs of a people as yet almost unspoiled by contact with “civilisation.”

The Northern Cooks have experienced a lot of dry weather in recent years, so the C. I. administration is taking steps to increase the water supply of the islanders.

These sandy islands, only ten degrees below the equator, have no water except what falls from the skies. A feature of Pukapuka for many years has been the church with corrugated iron roof which serves as a catchment area, and the tankage into which the roof drains.

There are also plans for digging more wells. The water is hard but it is all right for bathing, and thanks to the influence of teachers and medical practitioners, the people of the Northern Cooks are using more water for bathing than they did a few years back.

In earlier times the people of Pukapuka had to do the best they could: there was little water for washing their hands, even after eating with their fingers*. Visitors noted that the men would clean their hands by rubbing them on their chests or over their pants (if they were wearing pants). The women used their long hair as a handy hand-towel. It used to be said that to be surrounded by a group of Pukapukans was “a bit of an ordeal.” Such an odour!

Thos .e days are now gone, and there is a general air of tidyness and cleanliness about Pukapuka’s villages, as recent visitors have been quick to notice.— A.J.S.

B The Bishop

ISHOP WADE, of the Marist Mission in the Northern Solomons, was born in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, USA, in 1 . ■ • i 1? was ordained in 1922, and ai rived in Bougainville the following year.

After seven years’ service in this mission field he went to Sydney to be consecrated at St. Patrick’s College at Manly as Vicar Apostolic PA /he Northern Solomons and titular Bishop of Barbalissos. His JLordship’ 5 mission is concentrated ?AAiP ka and Bougainville, but also Nl ssan and the Carterets, a nd the Shortlands in the British Solomons. the Japanese Invasion, fA SI APP Wade at first tried to carry Piston but found it impossmie, the Japanese interned him Some months later he t^ ga A^ ec *- freedom, and appealed A°mit? miral HaJ sey to rescue the +£ an nuns f rom Bougainville, On aV? 1 ®! ™ as done by submarine, i April 30, 1943, a second rescue was arranged from the beach at Teopasmo, Bougainville, when Bishop Wade and some Coastwatchers escaped in another Yankee submarine. The Bishop was then appointed Vicar-Delegate to the Catholics in the US Forces in the Sou’-West Pacific until the end of the war. Since then he has been rebuilding the devastated mission stations, helped by War Damage Compensation. A share of this money has been invested by the Bistmp in large properties in the district, and the development of these may enable the mission to become self-supporting in the future.

The Right Reverend Thomas Wade often fails to hide the boyish, young American priest who was affectionately known as Tommy Wade to his old friends in Bougainville.—Brett Hilder.

Suva’S Thriving Fine Arts

CLUB WHEN Suva held its second Fine Arts exhibition in November, no less than 20 local artists displayed their work. In all, about 80 paintings were presented—all works which had never previously been displayed. Oils and watercolours were included, and the subject matter was by no means confined to Fiji. One artist also displayed bronze casts and plaques.

Of interest in the oils were two works by Alfred Stone painted during his recent visit to Tahiti. One was a waterfront scene at Papeete, and the other, entitled “Maison Nordman,” depicting Mr. Oscar Nordman’s home in the country.

Some of Mr. Stones’ students have shown a marked improvement in their work since last year’s display.

Fiji’s Three-Headed Statue Carved form a solid blick of wood about three feet in firth and four feet high, this three-headed statue, housed in the Fiji Museum, Suva, evokes inquries from many visitors.

A four-line entry in the Museum's recirds mereky states that the statue was acquired in 1912. There is on record of its date or origin, but it is said ti be the work of a Fijian seer of ols who had a vision of the comong of (1) Europeans, (2) Christianity, and (3) Law-hence the three heads of the statue.

The heads are obviously not representations of Fijiens or other Islanders, and this perhaps is its strangest aspect.- JACK THORNTON. 76 DECEMrfd 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

OLD STORY RE-READ: Telefomin Has a Long History—for N. Guinea SOME of the most interesting books about Papua and New Guinea are those now out of print and, therefore, not generally available to the present generation which tends to believe that the discovery of these Territories occurred somewhere around 1942.

The publication recently of Colin Simpson’s Adam With Arrows was scarcely complete when natives of the country about which he wrote killed two young P-NG District Services patrol-officers. The murders seemed to give point to the whole tenor of Simpsoh’s narrative —that life for these men of the remotest outposts is about as comfortable as living inside a minefield; that nerves should have been —even if they were not—stretched to near breakingpoint. Although it might be a country fit only for heroes to live in, few District Services men will admit to their heroic role and it is as well to get the whole thing back into its correct perspective. For this I recommend a course of Ivan F. Champion.

Over 20 years ago he wrote a book called Across New Guinea From the Fly To the Sepik. In it, he tells how he accompanied the late Charles H. Karius on two attempts to do just what the title indicates —the first attempt lasting from December, 1926, to July, 1927, and being unsuccessful; the second lasting from September, 1927, to January, 1928, and being successful.

I read this book years ago, and, after Adam With Arrows and the recent Telefomin trouble, dipped into it again; I remembered that the second patrol had spent some time around Telefomin (which they called Kelefomin) . Having dipped, I began to read. And, having begun, I sat up all night and finished the job. Here are no journalistic tricks or angles; no attempt to “catch the interest of the reader.”

It is a plain story of a year of unremitting effort, and if it has one fault it is probably that it makes the task look too easy. Simpson made it look too hard.

It was Karius and Champion who were the first Europeans to stand on the 9,000-ft. divide in the Victor Emanuel Range and see that the Fly River (which flowed southwestward hundreds of miles through Papua) and the Sepik (which flowed north-westward into Dutch New Guinea before it turned eastward to empty itself into the sea between Madang and Wewak) rose within a few miles of each other.

The local, native name for the upper Sepik was Takin; for the Fly, at its source, Feneng. This is how Champion describes their first sight, from an elevation of 7,000 ft., of the Sepik basin: We were standing on a small grass plateau looking at what I thought was the most beautiful sight that one could ever wish to see. Several thousands of feet below us was a great basin, surrounded by mountains and through this basin, bordered by casuarina trees, meandered a slow-flowing stream.

It was the Promised Land. We saw where the Takin started its flow in a narrow ravine to the east, formed by two spurs of the Victor Emanuel For a distance of perhaps 15 miles it was flanked by a grass plain about eight miles broad and stretching north to the base of the mountains. Spaced at regular intervals along it, narrow lings of dark forest ran down to the river Numerous fires denoted the presence of many villages . . . What a contrast this was to the rugged gorge-like valleys of the upper Fly and Palmer, with their small and scattered population.

They dropped down to the banks of the Takin and camped. Less than a day’s walk brought them to Telefomin territory. Champion describes it: The Takin was no longer a placidly flowing stream. Dropping quickly, it was running strongly towards the west-southwest at an altitude of 4,200 feet. We left it and clambered up the steep bank on a native track which took us over some grassy hills to the edge of an immense grass plain. Mile upon mile it stretched to the base of the mountain to the north, seemingly as flat as a billiard table. On the native track that led in a north-westerly direction, our progress was fast and within half an hour we heard voices from the near -by scrub.

We went on to reach a large village which we were able to walk right into before our presence was dis covered.

There followed the usual shrieks; of surprise and fear as the natives saw Europeans for the first time, the usual flight for cover; the overtures of peace from the patrol party; the slow exchange of gifts and the establishment of good relations.

Then: There being no food available we moved off across the plain, men and boys following. Suddenly we heard the peculiar croaking of frogs, a variety of low and high notes from behind and then from our left and front. It was the assembly call of the Kelefomin .

Village after village was passed, prettily situated on the sides of the forest ravine and all of them surrounded with crotons and other gaily coloured shrubs. The smallest contained 10 houses, the others from 16 to 20 . . . Throughout the whole of our journey this Kelefomin plateau, at an altitude of 4,877 ft., was the only place we saw where an aeroplane could, land, and it is ideal although after heavy rains it would no doubt be a morass.

Those were the days before field radio and before planes had been called in to ease the burden of exploration in Papua or New Guinea.

Planes had already solved the transport problem between the new goldfields at Wau, and the coast at Lae and Salamaua but once they got away from navigable rivers patrolling was still a matter of foot-slogging. From the time that Karius and Champion, their police-boys and their carriers, left the Elevala on the Fly below Palmer junction, until they met up with her again, 500 miles up the Sepik River, they were entirely on their own, as far frcm contact with their own people as if the earth had opened and swallowed them. They had only their own resource, courage and en- An old photograph of Black, Taylor and Walsh on the 1938-39 patrol. 77 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

durance to carry them through.

Their food was the meagre supplies of rice that they carried with them, or what they could buy from the natives —very little on the second expedition as it was a time of hunger between two harvests.

For real exploration work Champion, however, saw planes only as an auxiliary to work on the ground. “Last year,” he wrote, “I had an opportunity of seeing the Fly river from the air. We flew as far as our old camp on Surprise Creek. The country stretched out below us as a vast, forest plain; my companions, who had not traversed it, noted it as such, but I knew that it was a mass of steep broken gullies, muddy creeks and dense undergrowth, not apparent from the air.”

By the second week in January, 1928, they had reached a point on the Sepik river where it was possible to take to the water. Five days were spent cutting trees and making rafts, and on January 18 they were able to push off into the swiftly-flowing river. It was 580 miles from the mouth of the Sepik: 300 miles from Ambunti, the Government station highest up the river.

But the party had only one full day of rafting. On the second morning the five rafts came rapidly round a bend in the river to find the Elevala, “her white sides gleammg in the sun, her blue ensign floating from the mizzen and her able commander, Richie, frantically waving his white shirt from the forecastle.”

The island of New Guinea had been crossed at its widest part. As Sir Hubert Murray had said when setting these men the task—it had to be done some day; it was unthinkable that it should be done bv anyone but men of the Papuan service.

AFTER Champion and Karius has passed on, on their journey down the Sepik, the people of Telefomin probably saw no other white men for more than ten years -—not until the arrival of J. L Taylor and John Black, of the New Guinea District Services Department, with Medical Assistant C B Walsh, on their remarkable patrol from Mt. Hagen to the Sepik between March, 1938, and June, 1939.

Some Europeans had been in the headwaters area of the great rivers between the visits of Karius and nafr^i Plo fßo n ? th u Ta u ylor and Black patrol—the Lqahy brothers from New Guinea, the Fox brothers from Papua the Ward Williams mining expedition—but they probably did not-visit Telefomin.

In !942’ Europeans again visited Telefomin— they were a party of Sn la tnnt fr lff the Wewak District J hat way out t 0 esca Pe from the Japs. They crossed the of New Guinea from the t 0 the Fly, via Telefomin, and finally made their way out to Daru after about eight months.

Because, as Champion had remarked in 1927, the Telefomin plateau was the only place thereabouts possible for landing aircraft, the Americans had an emergency strip built there in the early years of the war. But once the strip was down, the party which built it was withdrawn. Telefomin did not become a Government patrol-post until 1948, when D. Clifton-Bassett, one patrol-officer and a small detachment of native police were flown in to bring peace and good Government to the Stone-age inhabitants.

IN none of these operations, from the visit of Karius and Champion in 1927 until recently, was there trouble to the degree that resulted in the murders of the young patrol officers Harris and Szarka in this November.

But this fact, of itself, means very little. Trouble had always been an ever-present possibility. The only certain thing that can be said of these natives is their unpredictability; and that there has been no major trouble in the past, can be attributed to the courage, experience and intelligence of the men who made contact with them—and also to a certain amount of luck.

In March, April, May and June of 1940 we published in the PIM, Taylor’s report of his 1938-39 patro'l.

This, too, makes excellent reading for those who are apt to be carried away by the events of last month.

The patrol—or parts of the patrol— were attacked on several occasions and conflict with the natives was always a possibility. The operation, however, was carried through to a successful conclusion.

The operations of District Services in taking Government to the primitive peoples of the New Guinea interior has and always will have a certain degree of hazard. It is, however, a well-calculated risk and so long as nothing goes wrong, is generally approved by the residents of the rest of the Territory, the majority of whom are not backward m urging the Administration to open up the country.” no soon er had the murders of these two young patrol-officers become known than there began a bhc witch-hunt: In the Territory, the Department of District Services was castigated for sending young and inexperienced men out into isolated patrol posts.”

Australia, it was used as a political weapon to beat the Government particularly the Minister Territories, who was accused of bowing to United Nations pressure in his decision to open up the whole otPapua-New Guinea within a certain time.

Col l^ ing , . Opposition inferences, the killing of the men was Nrf result °f a native uprising of MQniJ^° portions of K enya Mau- C£ Wsed entirely by the present Territories Minister’s misguided policy, as well as to generations of oppressive rule by exploiting Europeans.

Possibly Australia’s desire to bring our civilisation to these people of the mid-New Guinea mountains is much too hasty although it is interesting to note in reading back over Taylor’s report, that he remarks that in the midthirties the Commonwealth Government had promised the League of Nations that they would take steps to bring the whole of New Guinea under control with all possible speed.

Possibly, too, the District Services Department is due for some soulsearching. Nonetheless it is only fair to say that many of the people who now so enthusiastically are putting the blame on Authority, have, until recently, been loudest in proclaiming that patrolling was a lost art. All District- Services personnel, it was said, sat at the District Offices doing paper-work.

No one ever patrolled any moreunless it could be done comfortably by jeep.

Maybe it all boils down to the old New Guinea business of measuring “experience.” Experience is a word more bandied about in NG than anywhere else in the world and, generally, it is built on the theory that a man who has lived in the country 10 years must necessarily be more knowledgeable than one who has been there only four years.

Frequently, the theory is correct.

Sometimes it is not.

Territorians being as they are, opinion will probably continue to be divided as to whether the risk Harris and Szarka were forced to take was a legitimate one, or whether the dice were too heavily loaded against them when they confidently undertook a short patrol from Telefomin station in November, 1953.

JUDY TUDOR.

St. Augustine’s Church of England Annual Ball, Wau, New Guinea, was held on November 7, and was attended by the Administrator, Brigadier Cleland and Mrs.

Cleland, and many other visitors who were in Wau during the week-end for the 4th District Show.

An interesting visitor to Sydney has been the French Marist priest Pere O’Reilly (pronounced O’Relly), who was formerly stationed in Bougainville, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia, and who is now a prominent writer on the French Pacific attached to the Musee de I’Homme in Paris. An important book of his which has just appeared gives the biographies of early colonists and others who have played a part in the making of New Caledonia as a source book it should be of value to the Pacific historian of the future. He was in New Caledonia for the centenary celebrations. 78 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

THE STORY OF WM.

REIHER-II

By William Schutz

SOMETIME in 1928 the Mauno was due again for overhaul, and William went over to the Makoa, a sister ship, under command of Captain Colgahoun, which vessel was to replace the Mauno.

Under this master, William learned navigating, by stars. Old Colgahoun had served on destroyers in World War I, and he told William that aboard those craft in the Channel and North Sea, they had to depend on star sights mostly. Hence he believed only in star navigation.

Joining the Mauno again on her return from overhaul, William served on her until about the end of 1929, when he resigned to go and build the church on Arorae. While on Betio, awaiting transport to Arorae, about February, 1930, the old Mauno developed engine trouble which the engineer, this time a Norwegian, could not fix.

The engineer was dismissed and William given the job to repair and run it, until anew engineer was found. The trouble, he found, was exactly the same as in Jaluit nearly ten years before —with the difference that this time anew key had to be manufactured with hacksaw and files. That fly-wheel key lasted until Mauno was put on the scrap heap five or six years later.

All the money he made out of church-building, William invested in land on Abemama for his wife.

By buying available land in different places and, after preliminary clearings, exchanging it with landowners adjacent to his holdings, he was able to form a block around and near his dwelling. While building his house, and clearing and planting his lands, he started building a 28-feet decked-in boat which, on completion, he named Minoris and used for bringing in supplies from outer islands.

About 1935, the Catholic Mission decided to build a ship for its own use around the group, and William got the commission to draft out plans and lists of materials required. The Minoris was handy for hauling in Teitai (in Fijian, Dilo) logs and bends needed for stanchions, rips and knees. The actual building started in 1937, and the launching with masts in place was in 1938.

Santa Teretia, the new ship, sailed to Betio to meet the loading ship, so as to have the engine (a 54 hp Gardner) placed on the bed from the ship’s sling, as the makers of the engine were not willing to send the engine in parts. She was towed back to Abemama and the engine room, cabin and deck fit- Last month, Mr. William Schutz, a well-known resident of the Gilbert Islands, began his story of William Reiher, who died at Abemama in August. Reiher was of mixed German-Marshall Islands descent, and a member of a family noted for having produced men who were masters of many trades. In telling the story of William Reiher, Mr. Schutz tells also a great deal of the history of the Marshalls (German, then Japanese and now under UN Trusteeship to USA) and of the Gilbert and Ellice Island Colony. This instalment completes his story. tings were completed there. William skippered the ship for nearly a year, until a Mission Brother took over.

Minoris was acquired by the Mission. She was sold to the Tangitang Co-operative Society later, and was destroyed by the Japanese in their raid on Betio on December 10, 1941, when they also burned the Nimanoa, the Government flagship.

Santa Teretia escaped to Suva, under command of Father Klipfel, and was used by the Government during the war. After a thorough refit at the end of the war, the vessel was returned to the Mission, and did useful work for her owners until the middle of 1950. While in Suva for overhaul she was put up for sale. No buyers; so she returned to Tarawa, and the Tangitang Co-operative Society bought her and named her Aratoba (meaning “Our adopted child”).

The Mission bought Halgard in Sydney, and renamed her Santa Teretia.

When the Americans attacked Abemama in World War II, a stick of fire bombs fell near William Reiher’s dwelling, and every house there was burned down. William placed his most valuable tools on Bike (Entrance Island), locked away in his house there. The American troops posted a detachment of coast-watchers there. After these left, everything of value was gone, too. He lodged a claim with the American Island Commander in charge at that time, and was told the claim would be forwarded to Washington.

WHEN the fleet, with transports, arrived at Abemama, all the large ships anchored off the NW side of the island, necessitating ferrying of cargo, materials and ammunition from 6 to 12 miles, according to where the dumps were.

Going out one day with the Island Commander on an LCT, William inquired the reason; and was told that the ships were too large to come in. When told the draft of the ships, he assured the Americans that they could go in. That day he piloted 5 or 6 Liberty ships in, in a row—the ships following the LCT, on which were he and the Island Commander. (Continued Next Page) New Stamps for Nauru Four of the nine new stamps that will be issued for Nauru on February 6, 1954.

The other five are ½d, Id, fid, 9d, and 2/6.

The current issue contains 14 stamps; the denominations not covered by next year’s issue will be retained. This issue dates back to 1924, was the first for Nauru and each of the 14 stamps had the same design.

Cost of the complete set of next year’s issue will be 10/6. Stamps and first-day covers will be obtainable from tho Postmaster, Nauru. Applications should be made as soon as possible as all communications are by sea. In addition, stamps in mint condition will be obtainable from the Philatelic Bureaux of the GPOs in Australian capital cities. 79 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

William did not keep account of the numbers of Liberty and Victory ships he piloted into Abemama, but it must have been hundreds; and for that service he got $l5O per month from the mighty USA. Yet, as wages, it was high—William never got that much from Burns Philp—but, figured on pilotage, it was poor pay. Prewar, the rate for pilotage at Tarawa, for vessels the size of Liberty and Victory ships, was at least £lO in and £lO out.

William never complained. His reasoning was that it was war, and everyone had to do his b e s t.

William’s feat in taking those large ships into Abemama, and showing them how to enter, was never mentioned in any report—he never even received a letter of thanks or appreciation from the American Navy authorities.

THE breadwinner for a large family is now dead. Perhaps someone with a kind heart, who reads this, may take action and try to find out what happened to his claim. If his claim for houses destroyed through war action cannot be entertained, surely his claim for stolen tools and other valuable personal property should be recognised.

If the claim never reached Washington, then USA owes William’s family the difference between the pay he collected, and the fees he should have received for piloting each ship in and out of Abemama.

Before the war, William applied for British naturalisation, and at the end of the war the application was granted.

From 1939 until 1950 he acted as a sort of stand-by, relieving Government masters going on holiday doing recruiting, piloting ships in and out of Tarawa, and stevedoring.

When commanding the Government ship Kia Kia, towards the end of 1940, one of the worst westerly seasons broke on small shipping in the group. The Kia Kia was right in it. A certain Government Official, if he reads this, may be willing to write something about his experience of that memorable trip to the Ellice.

William’s command was the Maureen, for a Phoenix Group trip When he was again offered a relieving command on the Kia Kia he declined, and went home to Abemama.

Many thought that his illness was imaginary. He always complained of heart trouble, but the doctors could find no fault with his k ea . r £- at last he la y °n his deathbed, Dr. Rees was sent to Abemama to see him, and he diagnosed cancer of the liver It was then too late, and he died a few days later.

With the passing of William, the first generation of male descendants Df Captain and Mrs. Reiher of S* lui i? are gone - William’s si’ster, Elizabeth, married an old sea captain named Schmidt, by whom she had three or four children. They settled in San Francisco; since the war, nothing has been heard of her.

Fritz was taken by a sea-monster while out fishing in a canoe, at Abaiang, just a few months before the arrival of the Americans in 1943. Proof of his being taken by a fish was that a week after his disappearance, his skull and shoulder blade, polished of all flesh and hair, were found on the reef of an islet off where he fished that night. Heinrich, the youngest of the Reihers, died on Ailinglaplap, Marshall Islands, in October, 1952.

The second generation are all well established in the Marshalls, in the Gilberts and in Suva, rearing large families. The third generation is going to school now and is worth watching; the Reihers are an outstandingly clever and talented family.

William is dead but his name will always be remembered when the talk is about the churches of Arorae or Tamana, or the Santa Teretia (Aratoba) .

“La Belam’’ (which is William) he was in the Marshalls; he was .William” to all Europeans; and Unam” to all the natives in the Colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. The Reihers can be proud of him.

Recipe Corner

EADERS are invited to send in AV recipes using Pacific Islands ingredients or ingredients readily obtainable in the Islands. Ten shillings will be paid for each one used.

Banana Chutney

b bananas. 1 breakfast cup raisins. 1, breakfast cup sugar. 1 dessertspoon salt. 1 large onion. 1 tablespoon garlic (chopped).

I tablespoon ground ginger. 1 tablespoon turmeric.

Chillies.

Vinegar to cover.

Chop all ingredients fine and boil with vinegar until cooked, then add sugar, ’ 1< f ,ng . er and turmeric, boil up again for 10 minutes, then bottle. Keen for a week before using. —Mrs. L. C. (Suva).

Coffee Fudge Pudding

1 cup Of flour. 3 teaspoons of baking powder.

Pinch of salt. 4 tablespoons of cocoa. 2 cup of milk, % cup Of sugar. 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 teaspoon vanilla. /2 cup brown sugar. 1 C *P Of hot strong coffee. v 16 flour, salt and baking powder . a kow1 ’ and add the sugar and two tablespoons of cocoa. Stir in the milk, butter and vanilla. Mix well. Pour m xture into a round, greased cake tin. fn x .5" e remaining cocoa and brown sugar together and sprinkle over the mixture. ™ ly paur the coffee over the top of *“. • , Bake -n a moderate oven for 30-45 . Remove from oven and let in u- i? r five minu tes. Invert onto servi! Sh . a ” d spoon the fudge sauce which formed, over it. Decorate with P* es ol pineapple or shredded coconut.

Serve warm. Eight servings.

Mrs. N. L. P. (Apia).

Some Party Suggestions

For The Holiday Season

(Extracts from talk broadcast from ZJV by the Nutrition Section of the South Pacific Health Service.) 'T'HE festive season is with us and many of us are searching for new ideas and variations on our recipes.

It doesn’t matter whether it is a children’s party, a bridge party or a Christmas party, it is an opportunity for you, thc{ housewife, to show your skill.

It is rather different preparing a party in the tropics to preparing one in a more temperate climate. As most of the food served will be cold and refreshing, it means that parties are easier to prepare, as many dishes can be made ready in advance.

Here are a few ideas for adding finishing touches to some of the recipes you already have. Finishing touches make; all the difference to any meal, no matter when it is served, but most people are in such a rush these days, that by the time a good wholesome meal for the family has been prepared there is little time for decorations and trimmings. It is a pity; the odd finishing touch makes all the difference between a very attractive dish and a dull one.

Here are several vegetable garnishes for salads and savoury dishes. RADISH LILIES are made quite easily. Choose round radishes, trim them carefully, wash and dry, make a Vandyke (VVVV) round the middle of each with a small, sharp, pointed knife. Cut in two crosswise and use the lilies for decorating hors d’oeuvres and green salads. To make RADISH ROSES, trim and wash and dry, then cut the coloured skin down in five sections almost to the stem end. Place in ice cold water and as they chill the petals will unfold and open out. TOMATO ROSES can be made in the same way but there is no need to chill them.

To garnish creamed fish, cold meats and meat loaves, make PICKLE FANS by using small gherkins. Cut into thin slices almost through to the other side and spread out carefully like a fan.

RADISH FANS can be made in the same way.

CUCUMBER CONES are always fascinating and are easy to make, Peel the cucumber and slice very thinly. Make a cut from the edge of each slice to the centre and draw the one cut edge over the other to form the cucumber slice into a cone.

To make attractive CARROT CURLS, take young carrots, clean and trim them and cut in half lengthwise with a sharp knife, shave into long thin slices. Roll each into a pinwheel. Pack them closely together in a shallow dish of ice cold water. Leave until they stay curled when lifted out of the water. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and use for garnishing any cold savoury dish.

When CELERY is available, it always proves popular with the family and can be used to garnish so many dishes. It curls easily if very thin strips are placed in cold water for a short time.

AS Christmas is approaching, many people are thinking of Christmas puddings. The children always remember plum puddings which blaze with fire. If you set fire to your pudding, remember to turn out the lights or draw the curtains for the ceremonial entrance, otherwise the flames will be almost invisible.

To fire the pudding, put it into a very hot dish, turn the brandy, rum or whisky into a hot metal spoon before pouring it over the pudding, theft set a (Continued on Page 82) 80

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Light it and the flames will spread.

Here are two holiday season r)eicipes:—>

Chicken Chow Mein

1 cup celery strips. 1 small onion sliced. 1 green pepper finely chopped. 2 cups chicken stock.

Pinch salt. 2 teaspoons soy sauce or substitute.

Vz cup sliced mushrooms (if available). 2 cups finely chopped cooked chicken. 1 teaspoon cornflour. 2 tablespoons water. 2 cups noodles (cooked).

Cook celery, onion and green pepper in stock for 30 minutes; add salt, soy sauce or substitute, mushrooms, chicken and cornflour mixed with water and cook for 10 minutes, stirring until thickened.

Serve on a bed of noodles.

This is sufficient for about six people.

Marshmallow Cream

Little more than Vz tin of evaporated milk. 1 pint packet jelly.

Melt jelly in Vz pint (not whole pint) of hot water. Leave to cool, stirring occasionally to prevent it setting. Pour a little more than half a tin of milk into a big mixing bowl and whip until it doubles its original bulk. Add jelly a little at a time, just before it sets, whip both together to mix completely. Pour at once into individual dishes or a large serving bowl.

Decorate with cherries or grated chocolate.

H Dr. Simon Cotton, recently appointed Chief Medical Officer in Tonga, told of the acute shortage of trained medical staff there when he came to Auckland in September with Mrs. Cotton, who has undergone an operation. He said he was the only fully-trained medical practitioner in Nukualofa. There is one other at Vavau. There are some very able Tongan medical practitioners, graduates of the Central Medical School, Suva, but their capabilities are limited to the level of training which they have received. More trained medical staff is most urgently required in Tonga.

Solution to Crossquiz from Page 74 82 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLTT

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BOOK REVIEWS : It Happened in the Deep South of France ONE of the most flamboyant products of Australasian journalism in recent years has been Mr.

Eric Baume —born in New Zealand and of Jewish descent, but having served most of his literary life in the cause of Australia’s big city dailies. During the recent war he was a war correspondent in Europe and the UK for the Sydney Daily Mirror and Truth interests; and after the war remained on as foreign correspondent.

More recently there was some rift in the lute of his happiness with the DM and he is now devoting himself to broadcasting from one of Sydney’s commercial stations — one of those very personal sessions which is said to be followed avidly by a listening-audience of middleaged women.

All this being so, one scarcely expects Daume to have written The Mortal Sin of Father Grossard, a delicately written, but gay story of southern France, recently at hand from Angus and Robertson, Sydney publishers.

It tells the story of a middleaged American spinster who adopts the identity of her dead friend and sets off to visit her dead friend’s son’s grave in the Dordogne district of France. Thereat begin the complications, because Byron (the son) becomes, in death, a much greater personage than he ever was in life: to the simple people of La Perige, where his plane was reported to have been shot down, a tangible reminder of the Gallant Allies who had died to help France, and, indeed, of all Youth that had died for France.

The story is light, amusing and exceedingly well done. Excellent holiday reading material; and worthy of a place on your Christmas gift list. (Australian price, 13/6).

Something About The Navy Also from A & R recently: Fighting Ships of Australia and New Zealand, by Lieu t.-Commander Frank Norton, RANVR. Probably a very suitable gift for a lad who contemplates making the sea his career; of interest, too, to lads of all ages who have served at sea or .who are interested in ships.

Lavishly illustrated by drawings and diagrams. Australian price 15/-. if Mr. D. M. Freegard arrived at Tarawa in July on transfer from the New Hebrides administration, and has assumed duties as Assistant Secretary to Government, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. 83 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Guides on the Road of the Loving Heart Guides Maluai, Sieni and Fiamama of Vailima village, W. Samoa, rest on the tomb of Robert Louis Stevenson on Vaea mountain, above Apia.

These children—and others like them— who live at Vailima at the foot of the Road of the Loving Heart that leads to the tomb of R.L.S., are always alert to the possibility of earning an honest coin from tourists and newcomers who make the pilgrimage.

When a PIM representative and a companion made the climb in September, these three took them in charge. The youngest one managed the show, leading the advance, with the others—equipped with banana leaves—bringing up the rear.

At regular intervals, when the pace seemed a little hot, Fiamama signalled a halt, while the other two busily employed the big leaves to fan the strangers.

Though steep, the climb through lovely rain forest, festooned with a lacework of creepers, and the ultimate view from the quiet tomb at the ton of Vaea, is sufficient reward. 85 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Cnr. Pyrmont Street and Pyrmont Bridge Road < Pyrmont, N.S.W. ’ ' 3 Hawaii, Too, Has Record Sugar Crop DROUGHT conditions in Hawaii, as in Fiji, seem to have reacted favourably on the sugarcane crop, record yields having been realised in both areas. Hawaii reports a total crop of close to 1,250,000 tons of 96-degree raw sugar —highest ever recorded. The average yield on Oahu was 99.3 tons of cane and 13.1 tons of sugar per planted acre.

Following on this record crop, the independent planters’ organisations have asked for an increase in price for the 1954 season from $1.09 per ton of cane to $l.lO per ton. The millers, contesting this request, claimed that during the past three years their net return per ton of sugar, before income tax deduction, amounted to only $2.69 on cane purchased from independent growers, as compared with a net return of $15.80 per ton of sugar from cane produced on their own plantations.

One milling company representative produced figures to show that it costs an independent planter only $40.31 to grow, harvest and deliver sufficient cane to produce one •P r l l - of 96 de £ ree sugar, and that it then costs the millers $27.09 per ton to do the actual processing.

Growers pay a variable charge of up to 25 cents per ton of cane to the millers, under an agreement with the Department of Agriculture, to cover cost of research and other services performed by the millers and not otherwise charged. The independent planters are claiming that this charge is excessive, and should be determined by negotiation between the millers and the individual planters, Hearings on the price to be set for 1954 took place before Department of Agriculture officials, 625 independent planters and eight milling organisations being represented. 86 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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FOUNTAIN FOUNTAIN c—a- u, ‘Protected By Kiminel Defended By Short!’

WHEN the Japanese made their sneak attack on Pearl Harbour, in the dawn of December 7, 1941—exactly 12 years ago—the Americans were taken completely by surprise, and suffered appalling naval losses.

An American serviceman reported, during the night, that he had picked up by radio the sounds of a large air fleet out over the Pacific: but his superiors did not take him seriously.

The Americans recovered from the disaster: but the two commanding officers in Hawaii, Admiral Kimmel and General Short, disappeared forever from the ranks of officialdom.

Early in 1942, James Norman Hall, of Tahiti, famous American author, wrote these bitter verses. His famous collaborator, Charles Nordhoff, soon afterwards placed a copy in the hands of the Editor of Pacific Islands Monthly. A couple of years later, when the Americans were on top in the Pacific, the PIM Editor proposed to publish the verses, and submitted same accordingly to the Australian censors. The latter gentlemen nearly had a fit, and insisted that the frightful composition be destroyed forthwith.

Hall died in July, 1951, but he left a copy of the verses with a friend in Tahiti, and this copy has just reached us. It is worth publishing now, because “Pearl Harbour” brought the United States into World War 11, angry and united as never before, and so changed the history of the world.

TIWAS some nights before X Christmas —a fateful nineteen — At the great island fortress, and all was serene.

Destroyers, battleships, cruisers and subs Were as safe at their berths as their men in their pubs Of the popular naval and movie resort, Protected by Kimmel, defended by Short.

In the hangars the bombers were safe, and the fighters As snug and as tight as the Saturday-night ers Who crowded the restaurants, beach-clubs and bars To dine and to dance to Hawaiian guitars.

Each high naval rating was safe at his post On (or at, to be truthful) the bridge he loved most.

Oh, the battles were grim and the rubbers hard-fought, And quarter was neither expected nor sought.

But the young personnel were all over the port Defended by Kivnmel, protected by Short.

But it seems that one sergeant was still on the job, And it seems that he heard from his post the faint throb 4s of motors of bombers, some scores at the least. ‘What’s this!’ he exclaimed, as the chiming increased; ‘Who dares fly at night off the pleasure resort Protected by Kimmel, defended by Short?’ ‘Lieutenant,’ said he, (for a loot was in charge; The Service requires it, to see that a sarge Makes no silly mistakes or conjectures) T hear The throbbing of engines, and coming more near, I can’t have mistook. Shall we send the report To Admiral Kimmel or General Short?’ (Next Page) 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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‘Engines? Whose engines ?’ the loot made reply, Looking up from his ‘Look’ with a luck-lustre eye. ‘lt might be the Japs, sir,’ the sergeant put in. ‘Or a squadron of Huns coming round from Berlin?’

The other riposted, with withering scorn; ‘Or Italians attacking by way of Cape Horn!

Would you make us a laughing-stock all round the port Defended by Kimmel, protected by Short?’ ‘But I swear I can hear them’, the sergeant insisted. ‘And I swear we should honour the day you enlisted With banners and joy-bells and rousing salutes!’

Said the loot, as he eyed him from forehead to boots. ‘The British are coming! ... 7 mean to say, Japs!

Comrades, to arms! . . . You greatest of saps!

Fly to Washington! Hurry! Put on your silk socks!

Take a word-of-mouth message to Stimson and Knox!

Farewell, Paul Revere! And return to this port Intelligence Chief for both Kimmel and Short!’

The Sergeant was silent. What more could he say?

The other lieutenants were off for the day And the night, and to-morrow was ‘hang-over Sunday’ ....

Pearl Harbour would open for duty on Monday.

He couldn’t go paging all over the port Calling ‘Admiral Kimmel’ or ‘General Short!’

Meanwhile, Honolulu was joy unconfined, And so was the ‘licker.’ They danced and they dined. ‘Aloha, aloha!’ sing wailing guitars. ‘All heaven is spangled with Hollywood stars.’

What else it ivas spangled with none of them guessed, For the East, it can never, no never meet West! ‘Aloha, aloha!’ the saxaphones cry. ‘Aloha, aloha!’ . . . response from the sky — But none of them heard, in that pearl of a port Protected by Kimmel, defended by Short.

Now heads without brains are beginning to spin, And the shank of the evening is wearing quite thin; So it’s hey, for the pleasure of hitting the hay And peacefully snoring through hang-over day; For what is so safe as an island resort Defended by Kimmel, protected by Short?

Hang-over it was—hut what hung overhead Cost six hundred wounded and three thousand dead.

Battleships, cruisers, destroyers sunk; Bombers and fighters a mass of old junk.

But junk has its uses. Enquire of the Jap The buyer, for years, of our mountains of scrap.

He will take and return it with joy to the port Protected by Kimmel, defended by Short.

Can history show a disaster so great?

Hongkong and Singapore left to their fate; The stout-hearted Dutch forced to battle alone, (Next Pa&e) 89 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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And gallant MacArthur! There never was known, For what hung in the balance, so huge a defeat.

Duty neglected . . . and ashes to eat!

Sing, Hey for the popular pleasure resort Protected by Kivnmel, defended by Short.

And while singing ‘Hey!’ let us sing very small For ourselves as a Nation. We’ve had a great fall Deserved and ordained; for who furnished the Jap With the oil and the steel and the mountains of scrap For the planes and the bombs that returned to the port Protected by Kimmel, defended by Short?

Sing, Hey, for the heads of the Nation! Sing, Hey For Congress and Public, as guilty as they!

Indict Uncle Sam and arraign him in court With Admiral Kimmel and General Short. —JNH, 1942.

Tenders have been invited locally by the British Solomon Islands Government for the construction of the Central Hospital, Honiara. It is to be built on the site of the existing temporary hospital a relic of the US Army between the Matamkau River and Kukum. r Mr. B. Brake, a N.Z. National Film Unit cameraman, visited Fiji and Tonga in October making colour-film tests in preparation for the Unit’s coverage of the Royal Visit in December. Such tests are necessary with colour film which is subject to changes in colour sensitivity under varying conditions of humidity and temperature. The 400 feet of film exposed during October have been flown to London.

II Mr, G. Sims, Deputy Director of Education in Fiji, has been appointed Rector of Royal College, Mauritius. He went to Suva in 1948 after having served previously at Hongkong and Cyprus. 90 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Mrs. B. M. Osborne, of Rossel Island, Papua, who returned to her plantation after leave in Australia. Mr. and Mrs.

E. C. Skelly, of Samarai, Papua, who were returning after Australian leave. (Shortly after his return, Mr. Shelly died suddenly. See “Deaths of Islands People,’’ elsewhere this issue).

A photograph, by Hettig, of the Bishop elect of Tonga, the Key. Father John Rogers. He is a New Zealander and will be consecrated in December. He succeeds Bishop Blanc who retired this year. 91 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Gabriel and his staff. The guests included Bishop Strong of the Anglican Mission, the District Commissioner and Mrs. Rutledge, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Abel from Kwato Mission and many other visitors from outlying districts.

Mr. Tom Craig, a very old resident of Samarai, who was one of the speakers, said he could remember when the late Captain James Inman of the schooner “Myrtle,” pioneered the island trade for Burns Philp way back In the 1890’s. The names of Burns and Philp would remain for ever associated with the Pacific. 93 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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No Shipping, No Cold Store— No Progress NZ Presents Cook Islands Report for 1952 A marked increase in national income due to greatly expanded fruit exports to New Zealand was the outstanding feature of the 1952 trade report on the Cook Islands. Revenue rose from £157,000 in the previous year to £226,000 in 1952, citrus fruit accounting for £70,000 and tomatoes and pineapples together yielding a further £54,000.

MOP shell which has been a valuable export since the war, declined slightly, both quantity and price falling (from 459 tons and £115,000 in 1951 to 301 tons and £70,000).

Average prices for the two years were £250 and £232 per ton respectively. MOP shell continues to be the Territory’s only dollar earner.

Copra accounted for £87,000, proceeds rising by £15,000 due to an increase in price under the 1949 9-year contract with British Ministry of Food, though the quantity of copra shipped 1,336 tons, was only 16 tons greater than in 1951.

Subsidies and grants from the New Zealand Government rose In proportion to the rise in income, amounting to £276,000 as compared to £lBl,OOO in 1951. Expenditure on health, education and public works rose last year by £9,000.

The only secondary industries in the Group one boot factory and two clothing factories, suffered a slump, many of the 170-odd employees having to be laid off.

Though costs will rise as public facilities continue to be extended,, especially on Rarotonga, given satisfactory shipping connections thei proceeds from exports of citrusi should substantially increase year by year as the planned plantings of: recent years come into bearing- Though serious efforts to extendi the pearling beds to Rakahanga,, Puka Puka and Suwarrow might: 94 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Titles To Land

Good progress, the report indiates, is being made by the native md court m settling titles to land, he main work during last year eing done on Mauke to facilitate he replanting scheme. Work of the ourt has been retarded by a shortge of survey staff in the Lands lepartment.

About 1,000 acres of land is now lanted with citrus in the Cooks, 72 acres having been established ince the 1945 scheme came into peration. Under the Replanting cheme, about £95,000 has now been laned to growers, in the form of •ees, fertilisers, etc. Loans are paid Ef by a deduction from the projeds of the sale of fruit, the deducon being raised last year by unanimous vote of the Legislative ssembly from two-thirds to threelarters of the proceeds.

The measure of increased prosjrity in the Cooks is shown by the ost Office Bank savings. The amber of Maori depositors rose by )0 and the amount banked by ',OOO. The number of Maori debitors has risen year by year since ie war from 4,700 to 6,400, and the im from £60,000 to £79,000.

3Nrhyn Airstrip Paid For

The report shows that the long itstanding claims by the people of mrhyn in respect of the war time rstrip that was built there, was lally settled during the year, some 1,000 being paid to individuals as mpensation for palms cut down id for rent of the land taken up r the now abandoned airstrip, ’he late James Norman Hall wrote novel based on war time invasion Penrhynj.

Other points from the report: The unber of Cook Islanders employed the French phosphate island of akatea rose from 239 to 255; a restry scheme was commenced on iu with a view to producing timber iteble for fruit cases; educational cilities for children, and adult ucation schemes were extended; ictric power and telephone facili- -5S on Rarotonga were expanded; i and pneumonia continued to count for by far the greatest mber of deaths in the Territory, ough sanitonum accommodation s expanded on Rarotonga; a com- ;te leper survey revealed 45 active ses.

Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bateson and Miss Bateson were in Auckland on vacation from Rarotonga in early November. Mr. Bateson, in addition to being Manager in the Cook Islands for A. B. Donald & Co., is also a noted astronomer whose work on variable stars has appeared in scientific journals in many parts of the world.

H Miss Anne Passey, an attractive 20-years-old schoolteacher from NSW, was the only passenger aboard MV Muliama when it left Sydney in November for the British Solomon Islands. Miss Passey will marry Mr.

Rex Campbell, Lever Bros, plantation inspector at Lingatu, in the Russell Islands, on December 12. 95 ISLANDS MONTHLY—D E C E M B E R , 1953

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CONDUCTED BY EX ZK-1-AC/VR-2-AK. (Address notes to P.O. Box 5179, Wellesley Street. Auckland, N.Z.) ISLANDS HAMS: Let your Pacific 'leighbours know you’re active by :hecking in on your favourite band vith a CQ at 0100/0700/ 1900 z. Use if a known time will help you— ind them.

Bound for Niue on November 24 per rOFUA from Auckland was Mr. E. Hickbrd, lately of Wellington Radio, to take •ver the duties of Bill Scarborough, who eturned to New Zealand by the same vessel. Mr. Hickford, though not a ZL lam, plans to be on the air with a ZK2 all on 3.5/7/14 Mc/s, CW and phone, so iy the time these notes appear he should ilready have made himself known to lamdom with the 35-watt rig which he ook with him from Auckland. We ssume the call will be ZK2AC, though his was indefinite.

Claude Wight, ZL-l-CI, one of ZL’s lost active Hams, reported in November hat Roland d’Assignics, FOSAD, on Rapa as been putting an excellent 80-metre hone and CW signal into ZL in recent reeks. Doug, ZK-l-BG, contacted Roland » make his 80-metre tally up to 14 ountries worked. Two powerful Japanese ignals, giving QTH’s as Tokyo—but ossibly operating mobile maritime from shing or other Japanese vessels in the outh Pacific, have also been recently card on 80-metres in ZL.

Claude had a rumour that VR3C on anning, unheard on the air for a long ime, had been hit by a heavy storm, but here seems to be no other evidence to iibstantiate the story. It has been ecently reported that another YR3 signal lay shortly show up—none other than Id friend W7FNK/FOBAI wearing another Use moustache as he cruises the Pacific i his yacht GEMINI—at least we assume hat Jack and his yacht are both to be t VR3-land. Possibly he is heading south gain for French Oceania. GEMINI was ist reported at Honolulu north-bound >me months ago.

Mobile maritimers are not no popular ith the DXers but it could be that Jack ill set up station ashore. We have ritten to a contact man in Honolulu for arther details so there may be more to eport next month.

Another ZK-1 signal should soon appear N. R. Ashwell, lately of Auckland adio, NZ, carries out his announced lans. Though not a ZL Ham, his inentions were, on leaving Auckland per IAUI POMARE November 14, to become ne on arrival at Rarotonga. Friends at uckland Radio said he would use .5/7/14 Mc/s CW. Mr. Ashwell replaces •an Maher, not a Ham, who returned to ew Zealand after several years at Raromga Radio, during which period he was istrumental in inaugurating the local idio press sheet for distribution to the üblic on Rarotonga.

Willie Schutz, formerly ZK-l-AL, and ecently skipper of the GEIC Government essel KIA KIA in the Gilberts, is exected in Auckland (without his ship) in December to attend navigation school.

While there an attempt will be made to reconvert him to the ranks so that more might be heard of YR-1 in future, even if only a mobile station. Willie had the unnerving experience of having a Japanese bayonet slammed through the dial of his receiver as he transmitted the news of the Japanese wartime landing in the Gilberts. By playing the simple little boy—he wasn’t much more than that at the time—he somehow escaped a fate that met other civilian radio men there at the time.

No reports of VR-1 signals have been seen for a long time, though the American Call Book of a year ago lists eight licensed stations in the Gilberts and Phoenix Groups. News from the area is hard to come by—despite letters to likely quarters.

From “Micronesian Monthly” of August, just to hand, we quote the following despatch from Yap, Western Carolines: “The Radio Amateurs’ Club of Yap is now in session. If any of you visit us and see someone coming down the road jerking his head from side to side erratically, or mumbling to himself, he isn’t nuts, he’s just practising his CW . . . We have Hatch (Dick Hatcher, in charge of the local communications station) to teach us and we shall have about six people taking Ham exams very shortly. In case anyone ever happens to be scanning the dial and hears KC6IY sounding off buddy, that’s us (Steve Spurlin). Dick, who has KC6AA, is the first Ham to operate from Yap ...” From which 97 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Late November a report reached Auckland (see Smallships Notes) that Tom Davis—formerly ZK-l-AN and last heard on the air from his yacht MIRU as she battered her way eastward from Wellington in June 1953—has lost his yacht, adrift from her moorings at Boston in a violent storm. Tom and family were reported planning to sail back to their home island of Rarotonga.

A recent announcement by the Post Office in New Zealand that they are now accepting commercial traffic for Pitcairn Island seems to suggest that at long last Floyd McCoy has got something on the air. It seems just possible that he may also now appear on the Ham bands, as forecast a year ago when he departed from Auckland, under his callsign VR6AC. A VR6 will be good news for the DX men—and another possible country for that keen 80-metre huntsman ZK-l-BG, who is almost a neighbour.

We have written to Floyd for the latest news.

With the world’s DX men apparently keener that ever, it is surprising that they have not got together to finance the sending of an operator to the more outlandish spots for a month or two to satisfy their QSL requirements. Volunteers for the job should not be hard to find.

Many a W would gladly pay a dollar or two for a VR6, CE-O, or even a VRS confirmed QSO. It’s just a thought! fi Mr. R. R. C. Caten, Assistant Public Relations Officer in Fiji, resigned from the position and left the Colony in November to settle in W. Australia. Mr. Caten had been in Fiji Government service since 1924, in the Supreme Court Registry, Supply and Production Board as Secretary and, since 1948, in the Public Relations Office. His place in Fiji has been taken by Mr. J. S. Thomson, recently in the Department of District Administration.

If Miss Hilda Billings, of Labasa, Fiji, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.

Billings, has announced her engagement to Mr. W. B. Davis, of Napier, NZ. 98 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Vlalietoa, in particular, made it dear that they are strongly opposed ;o any other form of government han that in force at present. They iiffered sharply with the New Zeaand interpretation of democracy is defined in the UN Declaration of Inman Rights and as outlined by he High Commissioner, Mr. Powles, md by some other Members.

Most outspoken in favour of a jontinuation of the present Matai ystem of representation, was the lon. Mr. Moors. “Samoa does not ear Democracy. She has it, she ives it, she loves it, she practises t,” he said. “That universal suftage is enjoyed by the Samoan >eople to-day cannot be denied, deipite many expert reports to the :ontrary. Every man and woman akes part in the election of a natai, in a ballot by open, oral ixpression.”

Replying to an implied suggesion by the Hon. Malietoa that New Zealand might be trying to divide he Samoans against themselves, he High Commissioner said, “I pant to express my very deep re- ;ret that any responsible member if this Assembly or any Samoan eader should think that under the iresent circumstances, because lothing is further from the truth.” rhe very reverse was the desire of Europeans in the Territory and of he New Zealand Government, said tfr. Powles.

The debate was eventually posttoned until the next session of the Assembly in March, 1954.

Earlier it was made evident that he Samoan leaders could see no ;rounds on which self-government night be delayed beyond the orignal target date—the end of 1954. ?he Samoans themselves might not le educationally equipped to take •ver all phases of the administraion, but where experts and skilled >ersonnel from overseas were retired they could be hired by the iamoan Government, said the Hon.

Eamasese.

Some other speakers took the view that economic independence must come before political independence. Most members seemed ready to admit that there is slight prospect of economic independence by the end of next year.

The debate was useful in that it made clearer to the general public the difficulties that lie ahead.

The Samoa Legislative Assembly adjourned the present session on October 21. The next will be in March, 1954.

U Returning to Papua on the November Soochow were Mr. and Mrs.

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IT HAPPENED IN THIS MONTH: There arrived in Auckland from Apia aboard the Manapouri on December 9, 1903 —just 50 years ago— ten Scandinavian seamen, survivors of the Norwegian barque Kalisto. They related how Kalisto, svith 1,100 tons of copra aboard and about to clear for Europe, was set Dnto the reef at Matauta, Savaii, >n November 27, by a sudden change Df wind as sail was being made. 3he was soon holed, and slipped off into deep water. All hands got ashore and were taken to Apia by ;he German despatch-launch O Le leto, where Captain Getmark and lis officers remained for a marine nquiry.

By a strange coincidence, O Le leto, on December 2, was also lost —totally destroyed by fire in Apia harbour, and the three-masted ichooner Samoa, a German Government recruiting vessel, also aarrowly escaped destruction when ;ases of blazing gasoline, floating ibout the harbour, set her alight. she was saved by the prompt action )f a boat’s crew from the German varship Condor. Only man to suffer njury in these various events was i Rotuman who was slightly burned before diving overboard from the D Le Aeto; he was the only person iboard at the time.

JAP PEARLERS: —The Japanese jearling fleet of 25 luggers, a nother-ship and a Japanese Fishiries Department patrol vessel, ifter five months of operations in he Arafura Sea, headed north for rapan on November 11.

The harvest of MOP taken by he fleet was reported as “very satsfactory”—the value being estimated by £i million, Australian curency.

MAGNETIC SURVEY PLANNED: -A nautical adventure that seems 0 have the blessing of the British Admiralty and various scientific Jodies has just commenced from Southampton, England. Dr. Bohdon Cwilong (pronounced Sweelong), a :5-year-old Polish physicist, will lead a small expedition which will :onduct a lengthy magnetic survey >f the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Dceans, taking in all about seven 'ears to complete.

Backed by the University of British Columbia, where he has been 1 lecturer, Dr. Cwilong designed, md is now having built at Vancouver, a small non-magnetic vessel o be named Non-Magnetic 111. The irst non-magnetic survey ship was he Carnegie, which was destroyed >y fire at Apia, The second was he British vessel Research, which vas never completed due to the cost. The latest vessel is very much smaller —too small to live aboard or a lengthy period. For use as a >ase-ship, Dr. Cwilong has pur- :hased the English yacht Celia, a 60-foot wooden yawl with a beam of 14 feet and a draft of 10 feet 3 inches, built in 1909. He has renamed her Princess Waimai —“after a Maori Princess whom he met whilst employed as a lecturer at Victoria University College, Wellington, shortly after the war.”

Aboard Princess Waimai, which has now sailed from England for Honolulu, is Dr. Cwilong and his wife (who is English), an Irishman, two Poles and a 16-year-old London boy, and it is possible that the French scientist, Dr. Alain Bombard, who made a drift voyage across the Atlantic in a rubber dinghy recently, may join the party at Lisbon.

From Honolulu, Dr. Cwilong and one other will fly to Vancouver to bring the non-magnetic yacht south to Honolulu from where the survey will commence. However, while in the Atlantic Dr. Cwilong will carry out research work in the doldrums in connection with waterspouts and 101 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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LONG VOYAGE FOR VASU : Tasman Steamship's 300-ton tramp Vasu had a long voyage ahead of her when she left Auckland late November on her third Islands sortie from that port. Captain Ross was to load building materials and a construction gang for Whan Construction Co. at Suva, then head north for Tarawa to take aboard Gilbertese labourers for Fanning Island. At Fanning, Whan’s team will rebuild the cable station buildings which are now in poor condition. Vasu will also make a call at Christmas Island before returning to Tarawa and Suva.

MASTERS CHANGE SHIPS; Captain H. Simpson, who has been Master of the Fiji trader Ax Sokula since she was put into service by her present owners in 1952, handed over the command to Captain N. W. Macdonald, late of the BSIP vessel Kurimarau, recently.

Captain Simpson went to Auckland on leave, was offered a voyage as Second Officer in the Cook Islands vessel Rannah and left for the Cooks in that capacity November 4.

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D. C. Brown’s 300-tonner Rannah experienced engine trouble soon after clearing Auckland on her November voyage to the Cooks. She was to have picked up a cargo of 4,000 cases of pineapples at Mangaia to connect with the Waitemata at Rarotonga bound for Auckland, then to return to Mangaia to bring a further cargo of pineapples to New Zealand. Waitemata was unable to wait and Maui Pomare, instead of doing a South Island run from the Cooks, as scheduled, loaded the pineapples at Mangaia for Auckland. Rannah meanwhile limped north, days late in reaching Rarotonga where she was under repair late in November.

PML RETRENCHMENT: —Pacific Micronesian Lines, of Guam, which provides the inter-island and some of the overseas communications in the American Trust Territory, is in the process of disposing of some of its present tonnage and in changing over to the auxiliary schooner type of vessel, which has proved far more economical and suitable for the Islands trade than the war-built motor vessels in use. The changeover has been forced by heavy Government budget cuts this year.

Auxiliaries in use by the Line include the 140-ton ketch Mileeta and the 30-ton ketch Frey la, both formerly of Tasmania. Six 500tonners similar to Camano, which came to Australia in 1951, are for disposal.

NEW FIJI CHART:—A chart of the Natewa Bay area of Vanua Levu, Fiji, has just been issued by the Lands Department, Suva. With a scale of one inch to the mile and based on a recent aerial survey, the chart should be of considerable value to local mariners.

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AND DRAGS —The cable ship Stanley Angwin brought from Singapore to repair submarine telegraph cables damaged in Fiji’s September earthquake, has had plenty of trouble with the Norfolk Island cable. Four cables connect Suva with the outside world, two—to Auckland and Fanning Island respectively—pass through the Nukulau Passage to the “ast of Suva. These were easily located and repaired. The other two pass through the main Suva Harbour entrance passage. One of these also goes to Fanning, heading abruptly north-east as it clears the land. It, too, was readily located md repaired. But the cable heading south-west towards Norfolk has obviously passed through an area )f considerable undersea disturbance. As Stanley Angwin has iragged back and forth across the ine she has either failed to locate ;he cable, or has brought up tangled md twisted spans. Not till she had nade 57 separate “drives” and reached a point nearly 70 miles from Suva and 1,200 fathoms deep was an unsevered end picked up. Late in November the ship returned to Suva to load that length of new cable from the Walu Bay cable ta JL s ‘ ~. ~ ~ . ..

The indications are that if the disturbance that occurred on the sea bottom southwest of Suva had been luva r mfghf Lve suffe?ed ve?y severely. tto ATDTv/rxr nTAOTMP US ARMY CLOSING PORT.

The US Army, as an economy measure, is closing down its $5,000,000 port at Honolulu. Construction of the cargo and passenger terminal at Kapalama was commenced in 1942. Last year the port handled 327,600 tons of military cargo. It is understood that the Navy will take over Army cargo handling operations, at Pearl Harbour,

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Captain E. Harness returned to Suva in November after leave spent partly on a voyage to the Gilberts f n T^man steamship’s Vasu (then ™™ ed Aia) and partly in New Zea ’

Canoe Fleet At Suva;—Six

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US NAVAL RADIO STATION: On November 18, the US Navy put into operation the world’s most powerful long-wave (low frequency) morse transmitter. Located at Jim Creek, Washington State, the transmitter has a power of H million watts and is designed to provide communication with naval shipping in any part of the world, at any time of day or night, regardless of ionispheric disturbances which disrupt high-frequency communications. The 14 million dollar station was commenced in 1947 and has an enormous aerial system extending across a valley between two mountains. Ordinary radio receivers do not cover the very low frequency in use.

LOSS OF NORA :—A preliminary inquiry into the loss of the 11-ton. 35-foot cutter Nora, of Levuka, Fiji, on October 21, held in Suva during November showed that the disaster which accounted for the loss of nine lives, was “due largely to adverse weather conditions, but was probably caused, in part, by the gross overloading of the vessel with passengers—a total of 43 persons (including crew) compared with the 19 persons authorised by the vessel’s certificate.” A formal inquiry will be held.

News of Cruising Yachts • KONA (Bob Houtz and Paul Blackford) of Honolulu, cleared that port during the first week in October bound for Tahiti via ports. • (MOONBEAM, 36-foot ketch of Newport Harbour, Cal., a participant in thi July trans-Pacific yacht race to Hone lulu, returning to the States with a paii crew, went ashore at Point Vincente, during a fog and became a total losi October 9. The $lB,OOO yacht was ownei by Orin Thorkildsen. • ID ALIA, once luxurious 75-fi schooner-yacht, formerly English-owned was to be put up for auction at Honoi lulu to satisfy debts incurred, accordln; 104 DECEMBER. 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY"

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(Wholesale only) o a report from Hawaii dated October, ’he yacht went to Honolulu in 1949 after laving been involved in an armsmuggling exploit from Los Angeles to Mexico. The then owner, freed from that charge when he proved to a Los Angeles court that he had been forced at gunpoint by four members of his crew to join in the venture, had his yacht impounded by the Honolulu Customs for infringement of navigation laws. Owner Lewis freed the vessel in 1951 by paying $442 in Customs charges. She has since accumulated charges and debts amounting to $1,135 and is being sold by ordei of a Court to satisfy claims. IDALIA is said now to be so badly neglected that she is beyond repair. • LEDA, Wilson family of Tauranga, NZ, arrived at San Francisco November 20, having called en route at Tonga, Fiji, Tahiti, the Tuamotu, Marquesas and Hawaii. It is understood that the 54-foot cutter will be offered for sale there. • LADY STERLING, the motor-sailer of Whangarei, NZ, which we reported last month as having been sold in Auckland, has been purchased by a group of young Dutch immigrants, whose plans are understood to include an appearance in the Islands next year. • FLAMINGO, W. McCarthy, of Auckland, a 32-foot home-built Bermudan sloop, was expected to clear Auckland late November for Australia. This yacht was reported last May as probably heading for Polynesia, but owner McCarthy and his three companions, B. Heerdegen, W.

Pledger and A. Petrie are now heading westward on a probable round-the-world cruise via the Queensland coast and Torres Strait. If all goes well, in a year or two, the yacht should again enter the Pacific via Panama. • LEONORA, another of the fleet of New Zealand yachts that planned to RANNAIH’S deck officers, Captain D. K.

Matheson, Chief Officer R. J. Rae, and Second Offider Simpson, (formerly of Suva).

RANNAH clearing Auckland on her November voyage to the Cooks.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hepworth of ARTHUR ROGERS, and Manase of Tonga, who [?]oined the yacht at Nukualofa. Manase [?]s one of two men holding an unrestricted Tonga Mate’s certificate.

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Further information about Monel propeller shafting will gladly be forwarded by: WRIGHT & COMPANY PTY. LTD., 81 Clarence St., Sydney Sole Australian Distributors of Monel Phone: BXI2II (Six Lines) •Monel Is a registered trade-mark covering a rich nickel •alloy, mined in Canada and rolled in Great Britain. l Bruise in the Islands last winter, never iid get away. En route from Paremata to Auckland she went aground at Waitarere on the west coast of the North [sland. She was to have entered the lonolulu-Tahiti race. Perhaps next winter the 28-foot cutter will head north. She vas built in Wellington in 1939. • GEMINI of Portland, Oregon, with er radio-ham owner Jack Wheeler and rife Leah, may be heading south again s there are reports circulating amongst adio hams that Jack will soon be on he air from the Fanning Islands area, 'he 38-foot double-ender cruised down rom Honolulu through the Marquesas and 'uamotns to Tahiti last summer. • There still are persistent rumours hat LA CORRIGAN, perhaps to be reamed, is preparing in Tahiti for an stensive cruise. Monsieur F. Faye, re- Ired French naval officer, has been workig on the vessel at Fareute for a year r more. He is a man who insists on verything being 100 per cent, right and he yacht has practically been rebuilt Ince he acquired her. It would seem nlikely, however, that the cruise would •mmence at this time of the year. • Though there has been no news of RIES, Mr. R. J. Reynolds’ beautiful new 5-foot English-built ketch, the yacht and er owner are expected in Tahiti in tnuary from Panama. The American tbacco magnate has acquired a property tere with private jetty. • FITHEACH BAN, Captain Alexander Fatchlin’s beautiful 83-ft., o.a. 52 GT Btch, which called at Papeete, Suva, and ther ports en route to Auckland, was In ouble on November 17. On a cruise »und the North Island the yacht piled up on rocks at Young Nick’s Head, at the southern side of Poverty Bay at 3 a.m. The owner, his niece and an Italian boy who is a permanent crew member, were forced to abandon ship, landing later in an exhausted condition. The Gisborne harbour-master succeeded, later in the day, in towing the vessel off and into that port, where she now lies awaiting a full survey. It appears, however, that she may not be as badly damaged as was at first thought. The retired Auckland master mariner purchased the yacht in England several years ago and has since made her his home. • TERN 11, Lieutenant Benjamin Pester, RNZN, with sailing companion Peter Fox, bound for Auckland from Plymouth, was reported at Trinidad, West Indies, early November. • BEATRIX, a 26-foot yacht of extraordinary design and appearance arrived at Papeete October 24 from Holland, having sailed from Amsterdam August 24, 1952.

Of welded steel construction and shaped like a whale, with raised rounded deck forward, sloping away aft, the yacht has a beam of 10 feet and a draught of only 4 feet 6 Inches, but with 9 feet of headroom.

The vessel is owned and manned by Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Leyen and two others, Mr. M. K. Keetman and Mr. J. Bogcrs.

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The yacht has had an uneventful voyage out, having called at Galapagos and Marquesas since clearing Panama.

Probable calls are planned at the Cook Islands, Tonga and Suva, from whence the yacht will head for Sydney—possibly via Auckland, as the owner is considering entering the Tasman Race next January.

BEATRIX, whose plans have recently been published and discussed in a popular American yachting magazine, will create wide interest at her future ports of call. • MIRU (formerly SOUBRETTE) stout New Zealand-built, 48-foot ketch in which 107 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Dr. Davis and family of Rarotonga plugged their way across the South Pacific from Wellington to Peru and then on through Panama to Boston, is a total loss. The yacht broke adrift from her moorings at Marblehead, 30 miles north of Boston, on November 7—apparently while no one was aboard, and in a severe storm. She went ashore on the only patch of rocks along a stretch of sandy beach. Unable to sell the yacht in Boston, the Davis family was considering sailing back to Rarotonga at the conclusion of Dr. Tom’s period of study at Harvard. • YANKEE, Irving and Electra Johnson’s 96-foot brigantine of Gloucester, Mass., USA, is off again on another circumnavigation of the world with a fresh volunteer crew. She will appear in the Islands again next year, but her exact itinerary is not yet known. • MARINER, Seattle 34-footer, bound for Australia, is now in Lower California or Mexican waters. • DWYN WEN (wrongly spelt DWEN WEN in a recent issue) 110-foot Coronado staysail schooner, seems now unlikely to get south of Honolulu. Returning to that port after taking a charter party of Mainland college students to the outer Hawaiian islands, she found herself in a legal tangle that may hold her indefinitely. She will probably return to the States. • ANNA ELIZABETH, reported elsewhere this issue, arrived back in Papeete October 17, with owner E. W. Lamberty and Miss Rebecca Frebault aboard. The 38-footer had come back from the Marquesas via the Tuamotu. • SKYLINE, New Zealand yacht, which has been in Papeete for some time, left there October 28 for Honolulu in continuation of cruise. A call was planned at the Marquesas.

O MANDALAY, 40-foot American ketch owned by J. Rockefeller of Greenwich, Conn., arrived at Papeete October 15 from the Galapagos and Panama. The owner, who is accompanied by one companion, Anthony Richardson, plans to remain two years in French Oceania and gives the Tuamotu island of Ahe as his destination for the time being. Built in 1938, the yacht cleared the home port on her present cruise in 1951. e MISTRESS, SILHOUETTE II and CHIRIQUI, contestants in the recent Honolulu-Tahiti race, all cleared Honolulu late September northbound for the States,i • In the words of the advertisement, Ronald Johnson who has been involved in a series of nautical adventures in recent years, appears to be a toger fon punishment. Most publicised was his unplanned drift from near Hawaii to Fiji in a war-surnlus sub-chaser, SC-671—nowi named TOVATA—several years ago.

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Delivery could be arranged and quoted for. eventful voyage with a French female companion in the yacht PURPLE SEA from Sydney to the Solomons, where the yacht was sold in August. Following that adventure, Johnson swore an end to female companions. Early November, however, the intrepid mariner reported from Sydney that he was on point of sailing in the yacht PAMPERO, which he had just purchased, for Honiara. Signed on before the mast was a crew of two female university students!

Only details of PAMPERO available are that she is copper sheathed, has a petrol motor, and appears to be a sizeable vessel with plenty of room. It seems just possible that the latter feature may prove important before the peaks of Guadalcanal rise out of the blue. Interesting developments are expected. As a bluewater adventurer he will have the blessing of most our nautical readers.

LATER (end of November): A late and reliable report indicates that Ronald Johnson, has just completed another interesting manoeuvre. We have reported above that he recently sailed from Sydney with a crew of two female University students, heading Solomonwards. The office seagull now reports that the good ship PAMPERO. 400 miles on her way, aboutturned—but only to land two University students. The cruise continues singlehanded. • Anyone seeking a stout 70-foot Brixham trawler that has proved her seaworthiness in six years of sailing the »ceans? There is one available in Auckland where ARTHUR ROGERS arrived from Tonga November 3, probably ending ber wanderings under the ownership of lom and Diana Hepworth of England, fhe yacht, which would be an ideal work- >oat for many Islands purposes, with her iroad decks and 200-horsepower diesel motor, is now on sale for £8,500. If unsold in Auckland, there is a possibility :hat the Hepworths may return to Tonga >r carry on to the New Hebrides or the Solomons.

From Tonga to Russell the owners were iccompanied by American Kim Fletcher, vho had been a crew member in the last frans-Pacific racer GOODWILL. A Tongan sailor also joined the yacht at Nukualofa. • LITTLE BEAR, Buzz and June Champion of San Diego, reported from Salboa, C.Z. in mid-September that they vould clear that port directly for Hilo, lawaii —a 5,000 mile non-stop hop—instead of calling first at the Galapagos, •lanning to sail early October, they hoped o be in Honolulu for Christmas. • CALIFORNIA, which we reported in he Mediterranean some months ago, ileared Balboa for Los Angeles in midleptember on the last leg of her circumlavigation which began years ago. dany in the Islands will remember the 13-ft., 3-masted schooner. • MOONRAKER, Peter and Anne Pye •f Fowey, England, now lies snug at Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, at the nd of her 16,700-mile cruise from England to Canada via Panama and Cahiti. The owners are now living ishore with friends. • WANDERER 111, Eric and Susan liscock of England, slipped into Auckland luring November, made the unpleasant liscovery that a good many sheets of opper required replacing. Cause of the ather rapid corrosion is unknown but assumed to be poor quality copper as here seems no possibility of elecrolytic iction. Copper replaced. Wanderer 111 rill do a little coastwise cruising in New Zealand northern waters before pressing westward for Sydney in January. • BOUNTY, Ken Parley’s Auckland yacht, re-rigged as a cutter, resumed her voyage from Suva on November 6, heading for Aneityum, New Hebrides. From there, unless sold, the yacht will continue via ports for Brisbane on present plans. • There has been no news of NELLIE BRUSH, Tahiti ketch from Florida, which was last reported due Balboa from the Bahamas in April. This yacht was then bound for Tahiti. tl A daughter was born recently at Namanula Hospital, Rabaul, to Mr. and Mrs. U. Gesling, of the Methodist Mission, Rabaul.

H The engagement has been announced of Miss Carol Brennan of Burns Philp (NG), Ltd., Rabaul, New Guinea, to Mr. Graeme Blake of Qantas Empire Airways. 109 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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The "MISS PAPUA” contest, in aid of [?]e Church of England, Port Moresby, [?]ised £1,614/2/8 which will be used for improvements to the Church. The winner of (he contest, Miss Winifred Bywater, at extreme right, holding silver trophy and £lOO prize, was first, having raised £664; she was “Miss Steamships’’. Second was “Miss Comworks”, Mrs. Nancy Andrews, who raised £4OO. (In centre of picture holding silver dish and £5O). Third, “Miss R.S.L.", Mrs. E. Young, at left, raised £192/2/- (she Is holding large wooden tray and cheque for £25). —Photo by Papuan Priits. 111 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Fagan—Orken Wedding The wedding of Miss Sheila Josephine Fagan to Mr. Marcus Benjamin (Max) Orken, took place on November 7, at St.

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The bride was given away by District Commissioner J. K. McCarthy.

She wore a pale-blue satin brocade ballerina-length frock, a blue Mary- Queen-of-Scots hat, and carried a sheatl of pink roses, frangipanni and orchids The bridesmaid was Miss Noreen Byrne Mr. L. J. Kent was best-man. Masses 01 bougainvillea, frangipanni, red roses witl bamboo fronds decorated the church. Thi bride was formerly Sister-in-charge at thi Native Hospital. Miss J. Jones was hostesat the reception for the 40 guests at thi Sisters’ Quarters. Mr. and Mrs. Orken wil live at Kokopo, where Mr. Orken is ADO 112 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLTT

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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, NOV. 29.

A NUMBER of older people in Fiji are confidently predicting a hurricane in the current season. This sort of thing is usually predicted after the event by people who say that all along they had had a feeling that something was on the way.

The main reason for the present prediction is the prolonged drought and the absence of thunderstorms. (It is a widespread belief that thunder somehow prevents hurricanes) .

Suva’s first big thunderstorm of the season occurred on the last day of November. Torrents of rain fell for nearly an hour and went a long way towards ending the semidrought which started at the end of July and by October had become a full drought.

Some rain fell in the western districts of Viti Levu towards the end of the month, but not enough.

In parts of the western area, the unprecedented dry spell has been much more than serious, threatening the production of sugarcane and rice and creating water shortages.

Meanwhile, November is going out with a series of earth tremors sharper than anything felt since the period immediately following the big shake on September 14. A double tremor on the morning of November 28 was accompanied by a slight “earthquake rumble” and was sufficient to send a good many Suva people scurrying into the streets.

However, nothing has occurred to alter the experts’ view that another major quake in the Suva area is extremely unlikely, and no official notice is taken of the tremors.

Certainly there is nothing to warrant an Australian broadcast statement bracketing the latest Suva tremors with the fact that the Queen will arrive on December 17—the implication being that Fiji might be a good place to be avoided.

As far as that goes, Suva is probably a safer place than some parts of New Zealand where earthquakes are frequent.

Australians seem to have lost their sense of proportion over the Suva shake, and it is rumoured that there is some difficulty in filling the two Orient cruise liners scheduled to come to Suva this summer. This sort of thing makes the average New Zealander in Fiji assume an air of haughty superiority.

IT Lieutenant Hollins Crompton, of Suva, has returned on leave after two years with the Fiji Forces in Malaya.

Half Island Suffers From Leprosy DR. E. H. BRIDGMEN, of Rotorua, NZ, reporting to the Leper’s Trust Board following a recent visit to French Oceania as a representative of the Board, said that over half the 170 people of Reao atoll in the Tuamotu, is suffering from leprosy. As a result, the French Oceania medical authorities had decided to leave these people on Reao rather than to transfer them to the Orafara leper settlement on Tahiti.

The islanders, said Dr. Bridgmen, are being cared for from a medical point of view by the local priest who goes t 0 Tahiti about once a year t 0 obtain supp iies. The island has ong been recognised as heavily infected with leprosy and few trading vessels call there.

Jap Boats—But U.S. Capital IT is reported that those Japanese fishing boats —and also possibly pearling boats—seen in the South Pacific this year are, in some cases, American owned.

Hawaiian Tuna Packers, for example, are operating out of Japan and have a large cannery there. It is believed that American capital in Japan is being expanded in this direction. 113 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 195 3

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A young Tongan named Sione? ix To’a, from a village on Tonga— tabu, was admitted to the?

Vaiola Hospital, Nukualofa to-dajn suffering from extensive injuries to< hands, chest and face. The injuries had been caused by a stick: of gelignite which exploded prematurely when Sione was dynamiting’ fish on the reef near his village..

Both his hands had to bet amputated and it is feared that he? will lose his left eye.

Dynamiting fish is prohibited in: Tonga but this method is considered an easy and profitable one? and many are prepared to risk the? consequences.

Fourth Archbold Expedition to New Guinea Completed r pHE fourth Archbold Expedition of the ■ American Museum of Natural History has completed its 1953 survey of the natural history of Cape Vogel, Mt.

Dayman and Goodenough Island areas of Eastern Papua.

Under the leadership of Leonard J.

Brass, Botanist and a member of the three previous Archbold Expeditions, the work of the party was conducted on the plant and mammal life of the region.

Hobart M. Van Deusen, of the American- Museum of Natural history, was in charge ■ of the mammal studies, and Geoffrey M.

Tate conducted the general zoological! !i collecting.

Interviewed en route to Sydney, Mr.

Van Deusen said that by reason of its j long geological isolation, many plants and animals are found only in New Guinea, “Any resident in doubt as to the identity of any animal found in the area,” said Mr. Van Dusen, “need only forward its head, preserved in methylated ' spirits, to Messrs. A. H. Bunting, Samarai, , who will immediately forward the specimen to our Museum for identification.”

The Department of Agriculture’s ; Herbarium at Port Moresby will receive ■ a complete set of the plant specimens j collected by the expedition.

Loloma Profit Slows Up TO June 30, 1953, results from Loloma Gold Mines were lower than in the previous year; but its companion.

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Profit of Loloma fell by £13,405 to £ 176,687, while Emperor earned £91,90S 3 against £89,820 last year, Loloma paid dividends totalling 1/9 a share, absorbed only £73,188, during the year, compared with a payout of 27in 1951-52. A further 1/- has been declared since the close of accounts.

High grade sections of ore in the Loloma mine, worked in recent years, are almost depleted, directors report.

In future they will not be available toimprove the yield from low grade ore which will now form the major part of production.

Emperor ore reserves are almost unchanged at 850,000 tons, averaging 7.9dwt. a ton. 114 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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ERVINESS EUMATISM and FLU IJicfuA&i (RxnLuct Developing Outports in Fiji fl The Rev. Father Connolly, Superior-General of the Columban Fathers, visited Fiji in December.

If Passengers leaving Auckland by Maui Pomare for the Cook Islands in November included Mr. K. M.

Davidson to take up an appointment as electrician, Public Works Department, Rarotonga; and Mr.

J. R. Underhill, who will join the Customs Department.

The photo shows a recent scene at [?]avusavu, Vanua Levu, Fiji. Lying at [?]nchor is one of the Bank Line vessels, [?]aking on a load of copra by lighter as [?]0 deepwater berth is available. These [?]essels call perhaps four times a year.

In the right foreground is part of the Government wharf built only a few years [?]go, and currently catering for the needs [?]f inter - island vessels such as the "Yanawai”, “Ai Sokula” and so on. It [?]s already in such a bad state that the [?]hole structure sways with the movement [?]f the vessels tied up there. Repairs are [?]lanned. To take this photo the photorapher stood on one of a number of [?]ement piles which have been cast this [?]ear and now lie waiting on the beach or the next step.

In the centre of the picture is a P.W.D. [?]arge from which soundings were being [?]aken for the piles for a big extension [?]f the wharf-head. When completed, the wharf will be 100 ft. long with adequate depth for the copra ships, and capable of handling two holds at a time. Lightering will then no longer be needed.

There are some critics who point out that the copra mill in Suva, operated by Island Industries, is capable of handling all the copra produced in the Colony.

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AWARDS have been made to two men involved in an airplane crash in New Guinea 19 months ago.

The men are C. R. Hibbert, who has been awarded the George Medal; and T. P. Drury, who has been awarded a civil commendation for valuable services in the air.

In April, 1952, Hibbert, senior examiner for the P-NG Dept, of Civil Aviation, was piloting a Drover plane from Wewak across the Bismarck Sea to Momote, Manus Island. In the plane were Drury and another passenger.

When 100 mile on their journey, part of the port engine propeller broke away, penetrated the cockpit and injured Hibbert’s foot. Although in severe pain, Hibbert got the plane under control and sent out a distress signal. He then was forced, because of his injured foot, to hand over to Drury who, although he had not handled a Drover before, successfully ditched it in the sea. Although weak from loss of blood, Hibbert continued to discharge his responsibilities as captain, organised the escape of the party to a rubber dinghy and the assembly of an emergency radio transmitter which helped in subsequent rescue operations.

The party spent many hours in the dinghy before a rescue craft from Manus reached them.

New Education Chief for Fiji MR. W. W. LEWIS-JONES has been appointed Director of Education in Fiji.

At present he is Senior Education Officer in Kenya; he will take up his new appointment early in 1954.

Mr. Jones is 44; took his MA degree at Cambridge University and hold! a Diploma of Education of London University.

Mr. Francis Vivian Dunstan, oc Nausori, Fiji, was married to Mrs Guelda Rankine, of Murray Bridge South Australia, at the CSR Anglii can Church, Nausori, on November 5. The Rev. H. W. Figgess officiated 116

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2 Burns Phiip Buildings, SUVA Priest From Honduras Tells Fiji About Credit Unions Something New in Cooperative Movements A N event of considerable interest CX to Fiji was the arrival during November of the Rev. Father Vlarion Ganey, S.J., Credit Union ;xpert from British Honduras. He vas there at the invitation of Bishop and on the recommendation >f the Governor, Sir Ronald Garvey, vho came in contact with Father Haney's work during his recent :erm as Governor of British Honduras.

In a broadcast from ZJV, on November 21, Father Ganey explained ;he object and operation of Credit Unions in British Honduras, and low their establishment in Fiji can lid economic development, particularly for the Fijian people.

British Honduras, where Father Haney has been working for the last 16 years, is about twice the size ind has about one quarter the population of Fiji. There is a coniiderable racial admixture, the prinjipal groups being Creole, Carib, American Indian and European of Spanish and English extraction.

Local industries, in order, forestry, litrus, chicle (basis of chewing ?um), and a small sugar industry with one mill.

The first Credit Union was established in 1943 with a membership if 35 Carib fishermen and assets if $17.50. To-day there are 23 Uredit Unions with assets of over £300,000 and a record of loans to members of over $750,000. Losses through death or failure to repay have been less than one-tenth of one per cent.

Father Ganey described the Credit Union as a co-operative society of people with a common bond of employment, association or residence, ivith the purpose of encouraging thrift in regular amounts, and from he savings thus made, to olfer loans to members for provident or productive purposes at reasonable rates of interest.

This is how the Credit Union works:— Any person who is of good charicter, is prepared to pay 1/- entrance fee, and purchase at least one share valued at £l, may enter. Shares may be purchased by regular deposits of 1/-. A Board of Directors, elected by members, governs the Union. The Board elects a treasurer, and members elect a credits committee to pass on applications for loans, and a supervisory committee to examine the books and records at least quarterly. Financial safeguards are ensured by the law under which the union is registered, by the supervisory committee, and by annual legal audit, and by bonding the treasurer and all others who handle money.

Loans from the fund are made only to members, and the Union’s earnings are from interest paid on these loans, at the rate of 1% per month on the unpaid balance. Interest is paid on shares up to a maximum of 6%.

The Credit Union, Father Ganey pointed out, has intangible values more important than its function as a banking institution: it is constructive and engenders a spirit of mutual help and trust, giving the people an ideal they have long needed.

Father Ganey was a guest at Government House for several days after his arrival in Fiji. He will remain in the Colony for about six months, before returning to British Honduras.

The new Judicial Commissioner of the BSIF, Mr. G. J. Horsfall, took his seat on the Bench in Honiara for the first time on November 5, when the November sittings of the Judicial Commissioner’s Court was formally opened. The Attorney- General, Mr. P. N. Dalton, welcomed Mr. Horsfall to the Protectorate in a brief* speech. Cases (all native) listed for hearing at the November sittings included burglary, larceny, incest, demanding money with menaces, murder and rape. 117 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Voters of Genuine Mo//W Boofag . on</ ' PAI2-52 Fiji Now Has Plenty Of Whales’ Teeth From Our Own Correspondent wwrmn* ~ SUVA, NOV. 30. 11/HEN a Government official fromr TT Fiji (Mr. W. J. Eason) wentJ about New Zealand asking* museums if they happened to haves any spare whales’ teeth, it was am event regarded as unlikely to be ofl world-wide interest.

Yet when the New Zealand press,, and news agencies in both the* Dominion and Fiji, took the matter' up seriously, the shortage of whales” teeth (as tabua for essential Fijiam ceremonial purposes) suddenly became featured in innumerable: newspapers in the most extraordinary places.

Some New Zealand papers, par- ■ ticularly in the South Island, have: given tabua stories three-columns? headlines on front pages.

In Norway, the stories inspired ] the A/S Thor Dahl shipping com- ■ pany of Sandefjord (whose Thor • ships have long been welcome: callers at Suva) to ship 500 whales” teeth as a goodwill gift to the i Fijian people.

On November 27 the Thorsisle • arrived at Suva and the Fijian office was informed of the gift Immediately a Fijian official , party was despatched to the ship to thank Captain Olaf Niemann with traditional ceremony, but at this point a minor hitch occurred: Everything was there except the three big cases containing the 500 teeth, and it was discovered that the gift had been accidentally off-loaded at Noumea.

Another ship will bring the cases to Suva, but, Captain Niemann said, his company was determined that the gift should reach Fiji before the Royal visit, and if a ship had not been available the cases would have been air-freighted from Noumea to Suva.

The Norwegian gift, together with a large consignment of tabua bought by Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna in Scotland, and gifts made by New Zealand museums, will ease, the Fijian crisis considerably.

During her two days in Fiji, the Queen will receive dozens of the finest specimens of tabua, presented to her in accordance with the strict ! ancient ritual without which the gift of a whale’s tooth means nothing.

The Queen received her first tabua early in 1952 after a gathering of Fijian chiefs had presented a noble specimen to the then acting Governor for forwarding to the new Sovereign as a token of unchanging loyalty. ff Mr. Harold Gatty, of Fiji Airways, Suva, paid a visit to Honolulu during November. 118 ECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY"

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New Plans for Pago Industry IN Pago Pago Harbour, American Samoa, across the bay from the township, there is a fish cannery that has never canned a fish. Built in 1949 for South Sea Marine Products of Suva, it was to process fish caught by that organisation—which never succeeded in catching the right kinds of fish in payable quantities.

When SSMP closed down, the cannery was in process of being dismantled when word came to build it up again. There was a waterfront rumour that tuna boats operating out of Honolulu would discharge their catches there for canning by another American concern. This plan never eventuated and the cannery continued to lie idle.

It is now reported that a plan is afoot for American tuna boats to fish from a base stationed on Christmas Island, central Pacific — if permission can be obtained from the Western Pacific High Commissioner—and to run the fish in a freezer mother-ship to the cannery at Pago Pago. It is believed that following the November visit of high Trust Territory officials to Eastern Samoa from Honolulu, something definite will be attempted in the way of establishing a fish canning industry in Eastern Samoa which is urgently seeking new industries. (See new Governor’s statement, page 20).

Presumably fish could be canned at a lower price in Pago Pago than in Hawaii, but whether the price would still be lower after cost of transporting the fish 1,300 miles from Christmas, then presumably all the way back to Honolulu or the States, seems doubtful. [I Miss Joan Dexter, of the Agricultural Department, Port Moresby, was in Brisbane on leave in November, but was making plans for a< trip in the Nellore to Japan, Hongkong and Indonesia. ff Pastor and Mrs. Gustav Bergmann, of the Lutheran Mission, Boana, near Lae, New Guinea, are on their way back to the Territory after 12 months’ leave in Germany.

With them is their 4-years-old daughter Hedwig; their seven other children have been left in Germany for their education. Mr. Bergmann has given 23 years of his life to mission work in New Guinea.

The Assistant Purser of the M.V.

Malaita (Mr. D. Lilly) sustained a fractured skull when he fell into the vessel’s hold at Honiara on October 31. Mr. Lilly was admitted to the Central Hospital, Matanikau. 119 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Norfolk Island Notes From Our Own Correspondent TV/TR. WARD PRICE, the celebrated English journalist and war correspondent, paid a short visit to Norfolk Island recently. He didn’t get around much as his health is not good, but he collected a lot of data about the Island and its early history from the Administration, and some articles or a story will probably be forthcoming.

Another Federal Government financial expert is with us, and it looks as though one of his chores is to find out whether there is enough talent or craftsmen on the Island to do essential building and constructional work without the aid of the Commonwealth Works and Housing Department.

The Administrator evidently thinks so, as renovation work on Government House is being done by local tradesmen and tenders are being called locally for repairs to the gaol, etc.

It is years since the gaol had a tenant, but now that we have a retired detectiveinspector as our police officer, it is probable that a few malefactors will experience durance vile (or a pleasant holiday at the seaside).

The Governor-General, Sir William Slim, paid a five-day visit to us in early December.

Although we were overawed at the pages of instructions, issued beforehand, telling us what to wear and what to do on the occasion, the visit has been happily informal and we are all pleased at His Excellency’s lack of starchiness.

On December 2, Norfolk folk put on one of their famous and lavish picnic luncheons, spread on tarpaulins on the grass at Government House. Later, Miss Kitty Quintal made a presentation to Sir William who, in a brief speech, replied mentioning the warmth of his welcome, he said that he felt very happy—despite the fact that he had eaten too much lunch. tl Mr. Maynard Hedstrom, of Suva, accompanied by Mrs. Hedstrom, is on holiday in New Zealand recouperating from a recent illness.

Outward passengers for Australia by the MV Malaita which sailed from Honiara on November 7, were Miss Milling, Mrs. R. Johnson anc child, Mrs. R. Westbrook, Mrs. J. J C. Sucklind and two children, Mrs) Harper, the Rev. Father D. J Moore, the Rev. A. T. Hill, and Mrsi Muller and two daughters, from Yandina. 120 DECEMBER, 1953—-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Islands Bound IT A daughter was born at Namanula Hospital, Rabaul, recently to Mr. and Mrs, J. Dowling of Toma Plantation.

H A son was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. K. Desborough of Gavit Plantation, the Balnings, New Britain.

Taveuni Airstrip in Use rHE new Matei airstrip on Taveuni, Fiji, came into operation on October 31 when a Fiji drways aircraft piloted by Mr. Tom ’rench inaugurated a regular serice. About 400 local residents made ight-seeing flights over the suraunding area.

A Government rest-house has also een opened at a point some 12 riles from the airfield. Linen, rockery and cutlery and the serices of a cook-caretaker are vailable. The accommodation harge is 5/- per person per night nd the house can accommodate Dur persons.

Praise For Fiji Airways

The Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Jarvey, addressing the Legislative Jouncil in Suva during November, ommended Mr. Harold Gatty and ds enteprising Fiji Airways.

The Governor recalled that when he Government explored means of stablishing an internal air service .fter the war there seemed to be no olution within the financial means f the Colony. Mr. Gatty then made .n offer to run a service. For two ears the Colony has now enjoyed a egular service between Suva, Nadi .nd Vanua Levu, which had removed the sense of isolation of nany of the people living on the ther island. No doubt it will now lo the same for Taveuni.

Many difficulties that confronted 7 iji Airways had been surmounted y Mr. Gatty who had amply Hied his contract with the Government.

Homeward bound to the Islands from Auckland, NZ, in November: Lance-Cpl. Samuel Fuimaono, of W.

Samoa, returned on leave after two years’ [?]ervice with the NZ Army in Korea. The [?]on. M. Tualaulelei. after two months’ [?]ospitalisation in Auckland, returned to [?]. Samoa with (Mrs. Tualaulelei. Miss [?]heilagh Heenan and Miss Kate Cowley [?]ound for Tonga, where Miss Cowley is [?]o marry Mr. Carl Riechelmann. Sgt.

T. L. Hennings, after two years in Korea with the NZ Army, returned to Levuka [?]n leave. 121 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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A T present screening in New Zea- Zealand is a film, The Link, made by Messrs Roger Mirams ind John O’Shea for Tasman Empire Airways. The film gives shots )f Samoa, Aitutaki, Tahiti and Hoorea and the photography would >e difficult to fault. But it seems >adly put together. It does not de- )ict the Coral Route flight—the link” between Sydney and Tahiti — is a traveller would see it. There s constant chopping from one island o another. This may be unnoticed >y the would-be tourist, but for hose who have travelled the route he mixture of shots seems conusing.

A recent New York newspaper ;ives a lengthy' review of another [Tahiti film, Tanga Tika, produced, lirected, and photographed by he well-known circumnavigating r achtsman Dwight Long, who will >e remembered by many in his acht Idle Hour twenty years ago.

After that cruise, Long joined the Lmerican explorer Martin Johnson ,s a cameraman during an expediion to the hinterland of Malaya, jater, Long wrote another book, leven Seas on a Shoe String a ollow-up on his earlier book Sailng All Seas in the Idle Hour. That Bad to an extensive lecture tour n the States, until World War 11. jong then became a cameraman in he US Navy—eventually directing he film, The Fighting Lady, the life of an aircraft carrier, which won an Academy Award, and prompted Mr. Roosevelt to decorate Long, who then had the rank of Lieutenant-Commander.

The war over, Long was in Hollywood as a cameraman. Then, unable to obtain financial support for a film of Tahiti which he had long wanted to make, he went to Tahiti in 1949 with his own equipment and an original story. Helped by the late James Norman Hall and by Mrs. Hall, he commenced work. The male lead was played by Paul Meoe, and the female lead by Adeline Tetahamaue, both of Tahiti. To sign the girl, Long says, he had to pay her father a bonus of a set of tyres for a 1926 Buick and a shortwave radio —in addition, of course, to the girl’s salary. After a year, his funds were exhausted and the film only half complete. He returned to the States, showed what he had taken to some likely backers, and was able to return in 1951 for another year.

The final result had its preview in September this year, and will be awaited in the Islands. The characters in the story are all played by local people.

Our Tahiti correspondent also reports that film star Jon Hall, whose uncle, Emile Martin, is one of Tahiti’s most wealthy business men, will be going to Tahiti in January with a group of actors to film yet another “nature in the raw” film to be entitled, Storm Over Tahiti. 123 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1953

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Jon seems to have been through more Hollywood hurricanes in his career than a South Seas skipper would see in several life-times. His mother, born in Tahiti, was a daughter of the famous Lovaina Chapman who operated the longdemolished Tiare Hotel publicised in Frederick O’Brien’s books.

This film is likely to be more in the Hollywood tradition than Dwight Long’s effort.

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DESIGNED by Suva artists (Messrs. K. Payne, E. Were and H. Furrer) and beautifully made by Sydney craftsmen, the Suva City Council’s new mayoral chain is strikingly original.

The mayoral panels consist of gold-plated silver mounted on turtleshell (commonly miscalled tortoiseshell in Fiji). The handpainted enamel medallion bears the City Council’s new Fijian motto, “Valataka na ka dina” (roughly, “Fight for the truth” although purists may disagree with that translation), and above the medallion is a Fijian head in sjlver with black hair and with the details hand-engraved. The head is set in conjunction with a coconut palm in gold.

The medallion bears the dates 1882-1953 —1882 being the year in which Suva was proclaimed capital of Fiji and 1953 the year in which the town became a city. The onl name on the panel so far is that 01 last Mayor of Suva Town and th first Mayor of Suva City—Mr U M. N. McFarlane, The Sydney firm which made tin chain is Angus and Coote Pty., Ltd 124 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY'

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Deaths Of Islands People

MR. E. C. SKELLY The death occurred in Samarai, >apua, on November 18, of Mr. 3. C. Skelly.

He went to the Territory as a oung man over 40 years ago, workag at first as a trader along the oast, then as a Government Patrol Officer. Later he went recruiting rith the late Mr. Tom Powell, anther old identity, in their schooner hamrock. They were well-known gures in Territory waters in the ays when BNG Co. first set up in usiness.

At the time of his marriage, Mr. kelly owned two boats and was scruiting in a big way; however, tiortly after he joined Burns Philp o. and was transferred to Samarai. [ere the Skellys purchased a hotel rhich was capably run by Mrs. kelly.

They were evacuated along with le other residents during World far 11, but returned as soon as it 'as possible to do so.

Mr. Skelly was still with Burns hilp when he died. He and Mrs. kelly had recently returned to amarai after leave in Australia.

Archbishop De Boismenu

The Most Rev. Alain Marie uynot de Boismenu, MSC, former icar-Apostolic of the former icariate Apostolic of Papuasia, has led at Kabuna, a mission station i the mountains of the Vicariate : Port Moresby (as it is now tiled), where he had been living nee his retirement in 1945.

Archbishop de Boismenu was msecrated at the Basilica of the acred Heart, Montmartre, Paris, i March, 1900.

Born at St. Malo, of a noble reton family, he joined the Society the Missionaries of the Sacred eart and was professed in 1888, id ordained in 1895.

After two years he was appointed the Papuan Mission and arrived ; Yule Island Mission headlarters early in 1898.

As a young missionary, Father de pismenu launched an attack on the ild and almost inaccessible mounins to take the faith to the hostile afulu tribesmen.

It was while recuperating from is exhausing expedition that ither de Boismenu learnt that the ply See had nominated him Co- Ijutor to Bishop Navarre.

He succeded as Vicar Apostolic len Bishop Navarre retired in 08.

When, in 1945, he himself rered, after almost half a century of mission work, the Holy See raised him to the dignity of Archbishop.

Island, attended by thousands of native Catholics, and by Bishops Wade, SM (North Solomons) and Arkfeld, SVD (Central New Guinea), and many visitors from Australia,

Mr. Henry George Schuster

there on November 6. Mr. Schuster, of a very well-known family, was a keen sportsman and an employee of Morris Hedstrom, Ltd.

Mr. Frank Homes

Mr. Frank Homes, a well-known English resident of Tahiti, died there on October 8, at the age of 85.

He went to Tahiti at the age of 20, in 1888, setting himself up in a jewellery business. He married Madame Spitz, widow of the late George Spitz, Senior, and after her death married Miss Alice Gooding, an English girl born in Tahiti of a well-known family.

Mr. Homes formerly owned Tupai island, which he sold in 1951. He leaves a considerable fortune, half of which goes to Dr. Barnardo’s Homes in England. (Next Page) 125 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Mrs. Tungane Savage

Mrs. Tungane Tavita Savage, wii of the late Stephen Savage, noU student of the Cook Islanu language, died at Rarotonga o September 24.

She had been ill for seven months.

Mr. Arthur Williams

An old and respected member the European community of Api Mr. Arthur Williams, died o October 3 at Apia Government Hoc pital. He arrived in Samoa froc Australia many years ago an established himself in business ; a master plumber. He took s active part in political and socii activities and was elected a membc of the old Legislative Council nc replaced by the Legislative A / sembly.

He was also a foundation membc of Masonic Lodge “Calliope,” which he was a Master and office of the Grand Lodge of New Zes; land. He leaves a wife and frJ sons and three daughters.

The Hon. Tuala Tulo

A well-known and highly spected Samoan leader, the Hoc Tuala Tulo, died at his home Leauvaa on Sunday, October 1953, after a protracted illnea; Tuala Tulo represented a Savs district in the Legislative Assembc and the Secretary to the Samos Government, Mr. F. J. H. Grattac paid a tribute to him during tK. recent session of the Assembly, motion expressing the sympathy ■ the House was carried and mem bers stood in silence for one minui to signify their respect.

Tuala Tulo had served as a menn ber of the Samoan legislature sina its first constitution in 1936. TM' High Commissioner, Mr. R. 0 Powles, and the Hon. Fautua a£ tended the funeral which took pla« at Leauvaa.

Mr. Ah Kuoi

One of the oldest and most rn spected Chinese resident of Apit< Mr. Ah Kuoi, died on October in his 75th year.

Mr. Ah Kuoi conducted a tailo:c ing business for many years, bic most recently had taken up plane ing. He left six sons and s:a daughters.

Mrs Ann Oelrichs

One of the last of the few sue viving links of the British Ne 3 Guinea (later Papua) of the da;* of C. A. W. Monckton (he of “Sonn Experiences” fame) was severei when Mrs. Ann (Nancy) Oelrick (69) died in Brisbane in early Not vember. The deceased, who is su;u vived by a son and daughter, live\ at Buna before the outbreak ( World War I and readers i Monckton’s books will recall thir the late Mr. “Ted” Oelrichs was ?

RM serving with Monckton. MV Oelrichs died in the 20’s. 126 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Mr. Henri Spitz died in Papeete, ahiti, on November 2, aged 67.

Of a very well-known French ceania family, he is survived by his ife, formerly Miss Lena Brothers, : Raiatea, and a daughter in the nited States.

BCD Values Fall )UARTERLY production figures of Bulolo Gold Dredging for the quarter ending August 31 have recently been led. For comparison, figures for the [responding period in 1952 are also iblished herewith;— 1953 1952 rdage 3,113,150 4,346,700 inces Fine Gold 19,892 31,064 lue (at $35 US >er oz) . $696,220 $1,087,240 lue per yard in US cents .. .. 22.36 c 25.01 c [nterlm Dividend No. 28 of 50 cents per ire was declared on October 27, payable cember 1, 1953.

Fine Halapua was dedicated a aeon of the Anglican Church in mga in December. He is the first »ngan to be so ordained. The dination was to be carried out by e Rt. Rev. L. S. Kempthorne, shop in Polynesia. Fine Halapua, 10 has for many years been a icher at St. Andrew’s School, ikualofa, has recently been studyl at Wailoku, Fiji, under the Rev. onard Greensides.

The Assemblies of God First Church in Suva was beautifully decorated for the wedding, on November 14, of Miss Colleen Loloma Bish, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A, J. Bish of Lami, and Mr.

Edward Keith Broadbridge, who is on the staff of the Fiji Broadcasting Co.

The bride wore a gown of white lace over white taffeta and net. Her bridesmaid was Miss Pat Ladd; flower girl, Claire Smith.

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RACE THOUGH entries for the Auckland-Hobart Race, which commences January 30, at 10.30 a.m., closed on November 30, there are likely to be some changes.

This was the situation early December: —Probable starters Black Rose, a new 29-ft ketch; Hope, 30-ft ketch; Ghost, 28-ft sloop; Taihoa, 45-ft ketch; Snow Goose, cutter of Sydney.

Other possible starters; Nina, 33ft ketch still building in Auckland; Wraith of Odin, 57-ft Sydney ketch, entered subject to satisfactory performance in the Sydney-Hobart Race, which precedes the Trans- Tasman; Te Rapunga, domiciled at Tasmania, but registered in California; and Beatrix, of Holland, lately in Tahiti.

Snow Goose and Wraith of Odin are Australian boats, others unsnecified are all New Zealand.

Taihoa, of Lyttelton, is skippered by Neil Arrow, who sailed with the Davis family, of Rarotonga from Wellington to Boston in the recently-wrecked Miru. Crews of other boats will include men who cruised the Islands in New Zealand yachts last winter.

Radio communications during the race may be heard on 2182/6280 kc/s.

Tongan Boxer Kitione Lave, Tonga’s champion boxer (second from left) returned to Tonga from NZ on the November Matua for a short visit to his parents who live in the Vavau Group.

He flew back to NZ in early December.

In the next few months he will fight Ken Brady, Crevic, Don Mullet and a number of others.

His plans include a visit to England, as soon as possible, to try for the British Empire heavyweight title, and after that, America. He is shown here with Hale Vete, his Tongan agent (left) and two relatives. —Photo by Hettig. 128 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

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P-Ng Has An Historical

SOCIETY A T a public meeting held at the f*. Red Cross Hall on November 2, 1953, a body to be known as the listorical Society of Papua and lew Guinea came into being. Its bject is to encourage study of the listory of the Territory of Papua ,nd New Guinea, to promote the ompilation of historical records, to .cquire and preserve books, manucripts, newspapers, coins, stamps, irints, pictures, relics and any laterial which may have a bearing n the history of the Territory, and o use its influence to preserve laces of historic interest.

It is hoped that members of the ommunity will lend their support 0 the Society. Inquiries should be lade to the Secretary, Miss R.

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Goilalas On Trial

The tribal flare-up among Goilala atives in Papua in October had its equel in the Supreme Court on lovember 24, when ten Goilalas rere found guilty of murder.

They were sentenced to gaol terms f four and five years each, eventeen others were found not uilty and were discharged. One ther native who had been charged dth murder was found guilty of mnslaughter and given 12 months aol.

The trouble occurred on Oc- Dber 4, in a village near the Govrnment station at Tapini, in the ientral District, when a pig was tolen after a tribal dance and sast in which the village groups ad taken part.

Cadet patrol officer J. G. Maclellan, r ho was in charge at Tapini in le absence of his senior set off )r the trouble area with a patrol s soon as news of the fighting ame through. He arrived back at 'apini with some of the bodies of le victims, and a large number of atives from the villages concerned.

The Central District Commisloner, Mr. F. A. Bensted, comlended Maclellan’s courage and litiative. He said he had underaken a difficult, and what might ave been a dangerous task, in a lanner which would have been a redit to an officer of much more xperience.

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TERRITORY A move is to be made to form a ranch of the Boy Scouts in Papua nd New Guinea instead of having tie Territory as a district of Queensland.

Commissioner J. Jackson, who r as in Port Moresby recently, said tiere had been such a remarkable rowth in the Scout movement 1 the Territory that the move was warranted.

Business Interest Across

The Dutch Border

The managing director of the Sentani Trading Company in Hollandia, Netherlands NG, Mr. P. N.

Groot, arrived in Port Moresby recently to investigate the possibilities of trade between the Dutch and Australian territories. He said that one of the biggest difficulties to be overcome was shipping as there was no direct link between the two Territories; air-freight may be the answer.

Remembrance Day

PILGRIMAGE Remembrance Day services were held in most churches in the Territory on Sunday, November 8.

A pilgrimage of twenty-two men and women made the journey from Cairns by special chartered ANA aircraft to visit the Bomana war cemetery. All were ex-servicemen or relatives of ex-servicemen.

They attended a service at the cemetery in the morning and later visited the Kokoda memorial. More than 4,000 poppies were scattered over the Bomana war cemetery from the plane as the party passed over the cemetery on its way South. (Next Page)

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The advancement of the Terri tory has been marked lately be the completion of new wharves se Samarai, Lae and Madang, and thr letting of a £228,000 contract fee j the new Rabaul wharf.

The new method of cathodic proc ! tection against corrosion has installed on the Lae wharf.

The main wharf and small ships; W i ? r l es Madang have been comr pleted, and work on the cargo anu copra sheds is going ahead, a water supply is also being installed The Rabaul wharf contract foe more than £228,000, has been let ti Dayal Singh Constructions Ltd. oc Lismore, NSW.

Import Restrictions Lifteii

* m P° rt restrictions have beer lifted in the Territory of Papuai New Guinea in respect of goods imi ported from non-dollar and nom Japanese countries. For some gooo« reason best known to the bureau] crats, it is still necessary to obtain a licence to import—although mer' chants have been informed thai these will be issued freely.

Greatly increased overseas mg is anticipated as a result ano. this in turn will bring morr customs revenue to the Territory..

Educating The Ng Nativese

■ Miss Marie Egan, who for the pas* five years has been teaching Chinese; and native children in the Rabaui area, left Sydney in November in the Citros for a round-trip to Hong-; kong and Japan. When she returns] to Rabaul in k the new year, she will take charge of a new departure in native education in the Territory— a boarding school for native girls! which is sponsored by native village; councils in the Rabaul district.

It is expected that 20 girls willl attend the school. Miss Egan said) in Sydney that the school would) equip the girls for a better life ira their native villages but any who showed promise would be encouraged) to go as far as possible academic-; ally.

In November, a secondary schoolc for native boys was opened in tho Madang district. The boys willl grow their own food and do theiri. own domestic chores and academic subjects with what is left! of their time.

French Oceania Inter-Island Air Services TpHE Journal Officiel of French Oceanian A announced on November 13, that thea following air services would in futures be operated by the Government to thes outer islands;— Papeete - Huahine - Baiatea - Bora twice weekly. One flight will operates eVery Wednesday, and the other flight willii operate alternately on Friday and Satur — day. (Thus, on one week flights will takes place Wednesday and Friday, and thes following week Wtednesday and Saturday,,’j then Wednesday and Friday, etc.). 130 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY*

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HORRID” was the description one Opposition member gave to a clause of the Western Jamoa Amendment Bill passed by he New Zealand Parliament durng November.

The offensive clause gives the Samoan Government the power to Jter the rate of exchange of Samoan currency as compared with Jew Zealand currency. The Hon.

I. G. P. Mason said that the clause ,dds another division to an overloaded world and will lead to unertainty in the legal world.

Mr. Webb, Minister of Island ?erritories, said that the provision let the request of the Samoan iegislative Assembly. Restoration ©f he New Zealand pound to a par nth Sterling in 1949 had, he was uformed, caused distress in Samoa.

L Select Committee set up by the V. Samoan Government had reommended an independent curency for Samoa.

Another clause in the Bill will mpower Western Samoan Judges o impose terms of imprisonment nd deal with cases involving perms other than Samoans.

Carnegie Hrant For

Survey Of Samoas

rHE Department of Geography at Auckland University College, NZ, has recently been made a rant by the Carnegie Social cience Research Grant Committee ir the purpose of appraising the ature and extent of the resources f Samoa, presumably, Western and merican.

The project will involve, among ther things, a field survey of the esources, population, economy and mtemporary land-use practices oth indigenous and introduced. A etailed investigation will be made f some of the more serious prolems of commercial agriculture ndertaken in tropical conditions nd other social, economic and olitical problems arising from the 'ansition from traditional subsistnce to a modern commercial Bonomy.

An attempt will be made to find Jlutions for these problems and to lake proposals for the most efficient mg-term use and conservation of amoan resources.

The Auckland University College department of Geography Samoan urvey, as the research organisaon will be called, will be headed y Professor Kenneth B. Cumbermd, MA (London), DSc, who is Iready well known for his interest i Pacific affairs. Members of the urvey team have specialised in md use survey, resource evalualon, economic climatology and hysical geography. The present taff of AUCDGSS, other than the director, will be James W. Fox, BA (Lond), Leslie Curry, BA (Dunelm), MA (Johns Hopkins), Bryan H.

Farrell, BA, MA (Washington) and William J. Brockie, MA (Edin.).

The research programme is planned to commence in December, 1953, when Mr. Leslie Curry will undertake a preliminary survey of the physical geography of the islands. In the summer of 1954, a concerted effort will be made to carry out detailed mapping and interpretation and for this work it is expected that four members of the Survey will be in Samoa. if Miss Mackie McCown, BA, BSc, of Levuka, returned to Fiji recently after graduating Bachelor of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University, USA. 131

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More Sheep for Nondugl From a Special Correspondent SIR Edward Hallstrom arrived in Pt. Moresby en route to the Hallstrom Trust Property at Nondugl in early November. It was his first visit to Moresby since Brigadier D. M. Cleland took office as Administrator. With them he attended the Moresby Arts Theatre to see the local production of “Captain Carvallo” that night, and left early next morning in a chartered Drover for Nondugl. The Administrator and Mrs. Cleland accompanied him.

The party returned to Port Moresby two days later and the following morning Sir Edward left for Australia. He said that his sheep were thriving and hoped to send more up by air shortly.

He assured us there was no chance of Nondugl closing down, even though rumour had it otherwise. “Nondugl is here to stay,” he said.

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Siatan Goes To Reprove Sin In New Guinea!

Papua-new guinea can expect another politico-economic visitation. This time, it is a ommittee of the executive of the ISW Labour Party which has been nstructed to investigate reports of 11-treatment of natives.

It appears that some former pubic servants of NSW, of prolounced Socialist views, were enaged as members of the public ervice in P-NG. When, in the ourse of their duties, they came nto direct contact with the natives, hey tried to apply the “Brown Jrother” technique which made he P-NG service notorious during he Ward-Murray regime, after the far. Their superior officers tried o explain to them the differences ©tween administration in Austraia and New Guinea; but they beame argumentative and hostile— nd were promptly shown the leaning of discipline, and shipped ack to Australia, So far as we can ascertain, there fere only two or three such cases, hit, of course, the gentlemen conerned went howling to the Trades [all politicians, with the result tated.

TIE do not know the names of the ff “committee of investigation.”

But to-day, before the commitee gets into action, we could decribe the procedure which it will dopt, the attitude of the investiators in P-NG, and the nature of he report which they will give to he Trades Hall. The pattern never aries.

Nothing will convince the Ausralian Socialists that Brown Jrother is not being exploited by reedy Capitalism, in the shape of lanters, traders, miners, etc. [©thing will persuade Trades Hall conomists that it is not possible o pay to native workers in New iuinea the wage rates paid to white workers in Australia. We have heard he silly arguments going on, in 11 the Pacific Islands countries, for quarter-century; and, presumably, hey will go on interminably.

Meanwhile, P-NG residents will erive some grim amusement from he “investigations” of the Sydney 'rades Hall committee.

PRRITORIANS should remember the investigators’ background. The Socialists have tad control of the New South Vales State and local administraions for many years; and, year by ear, living conditions in the State lave become more intolerable. All üblic transport is increasingly infficient, and its deficits are now lonumental.

The laziness and inefficiency of much of the huge public service have poisoned the whole industrial and social structure. This is most plainly seen in the building industry, where costs now are so high that every kind of building is away behind public demand, so that the form of black-marketing called “key money” now has become established practice.

Every public inquiry made under Royal Commission has disclosed commercial or political corruption, or both. Government of the State by Trades Hall puppets, directed from their hidden places by a Socialist junta, has exposed a series of scandals which have rocked public life in Australia, and shaken the people’s confidence in the so-called Parliamentary system.

The gentlemen who are generally responsible for this chaos and corruption in NSW are the very same gentlemen who are sending a committee of “investigators” to New Guinea!

Four Fijian athletes are to tour the Southland Province of New Zealand in January, at the invitation of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. fl Miss Greta Lennartz and Mr.

Gordon Ashwood, both of Rabaul, New Guinea, are to be married in Sydney, NSW, in December.

A group of American Trust Territories officials visited Eastern and Western Samoa during November.

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Strand, Chief of the Office of Territories; Delbert H. Nucker, executive officer, Officer of Territories; Senator Guy Cordon, of Oregon, and his administrative assistant, Robert B.

Darkman; Senator Milton R. Young, of North Dakota; and Riley H.

Allen, editor of the Honolulu Star- Bulletin. The party intended also to visit the Trust Territory of Micronesia. 133 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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Until the NZ Government was nterrogated, and a belated statement made late in October, the Jnited Kingdom, New Zealand and Australian trading interests were ompletely unaware of what had een done.

The latter consider they have een treated with indifference and iscourtesy by the NZ Government, nd are making a protest accordantly.

The NZ Government says bolition of the Tariff came about ecause a Select Committee, which xamined the proposal, found that i was wanted by the Samoan eople and it made the recomlendaticn accordingly. Western lamoa trade is now open to all ountries.

The merchants concerned say bat NZ might at least have onsulted them before making the hange, and that a very shortighted view has been taken. They ay that the British countries, biich purchase most of Samoa’s xports, and provide Samoa’s sea nd air communications, deserve reater consideration. They point m the UK copra contract and the FZ banana market, and point out bat the removal of the Tariff may ow cause a serious disturbance of be balance of trade. They wonder blether Samoa has given conideration to the effects of a trade ecession, which may now develop.

Samoan traders (they say) in beir anxiety to enjoy the quick rofits that foreign markets may or a time provide, might find bemselves cut off from these Dreign connections—and their old stablished British connections estroyed. They might also find, bth their encouragement of outide shipping lines, that the line bat has served them best for many ears may be forced to further rCuce its services through shortage f cargoes.

Latest Samoan Trade figures bow the following trade situation i 1952: The Preferential Tariff is scheduled to come to an end next March. It is hoped that before then the Samoan Administration and the New Zealand Government will have given the subject some more sober thought.

Law—Lucas Wedding Why Samoa Wants Freer Trade APIA, Nov. 30.

COMMENTING on protests from New Zealand and elsewhere, against the abolition of the British Preferential Tariff in Western Samoa a spokesman for Mr. and Mrs. Rex Law (bride formerly Miss Daphne Lucas) who were married at St. John’s Anglican Church, Port Moresby, on November 14. Both work at Steamships Trading Co. and are keen supporters of the Port Moresby Golf Club. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 135 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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The decision was arrived at by leaders of the Samoan advisory body after consultation with a wide cross-section of the population and business interests there.

Removal of preference will have little or no effect on British exporters, as customers are reluctant to abandon produce which they have used over a long period and with which they are familiar.

It would be unfair to continue discrimination against the United States, which is a very large and consistent buyer of Samoan cocoa.

The opinion is widely held in Samoa that the present high cost of living in Samoa could be reduced by obtaining Samoa’s requirements from the cheapest possible sources Samoa has for years sold its copra at less than world prices to Britain under contract, and New Zealand also has been supplied with all her copra needs at those same low prices. It is not Samoa’s fault or responsibility that British sources cannot offer many lines at prices comparable with the goods supplied from USA, Hong Kong, India, Germany, etc.

New Zealand’s imports from Samoa last year totalled £190,000, which is only a small part of the total value of Samoan exports (£1,778,000); so why should NZ expect preferential treatment? Produce from NZ (not re-exports) will be unaffected by the change.

Shipping services from New Zealand to Samoa are a commercial proposition, and would not be operating unless they are yielding profits. Such services from NZ operated long before the preferential tariff was introduced.

Samoa is self-sustaining at the present time and can easily continue to be so in the forseeable future.

Samoa is dissatisfied with the shipping services from NZ and Britain, but has no desire to introduce outside competition if the existing services are improved.

It is not considered that trade with Japan will increase, after abolition of the tariff, to an extent that would warrant the Japanese providing a direct shipping com nection to Samoa.

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IN TAHITI rE British Consul in Tahiti, Mi Fred Devenish, left Papeete ok Noyember 4 for Europe, pe Caledomen, on three months’ vacai tion. His many friends in Tahit expect hun to return; but there ar semi-official rumours that oppor tumty may be taken to review thi British Consular post in Frencl Oceania.

Britain and United States estab< hshed minor Consulates in Tahiti a long time ago. Gradually, aj much of the non-French traffic waj taken over by the growing ano independent British nations of Aus: tralia and New Zealand, the neeo for direct London and Washington representation declined. The USA Consulate was closed some yearr ago, and the American Consul in Noumea pays regular visits to Papeete.

The British Consul in Tahiti has. acted, on occasion, for New Zealano and Australian interests; but there has been for some time a growing feeling that either Australia, on New Zealand, should have an official representative there The matter has been discussed at Governmental level during the past year. 136 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Composition of Official Party The PIM criticism (Nov., p. 18) of \e composition of the official Ausalian party which went to Papuaew Guinea in October to witness \e unveiling of War Memorials by \e Governor-General of Australia ibout 50 officials and their women- Ik, and 23 next-of-kin of the iried servicemen) has brought to i the following letter from the on. W. S. Kent Hughes, Minister •r the Interior: TOUR statements re the official [ guests at the unveiling ceremonies at the War Cemeteries e apparently based on a misiderstanding of the facts.

The original arrangement was to larter one plane, a DC4, which as mistaken by someone for a C 3, which caused the original isunderstanding. There were 18 itside the Governor-General and s staff, not “40 or more,” as stated your November issue, and 23 latives.

Of these, there were two reprenting the Air Force Association id Ex-Navalmen’s League the SL representative being the •esident of the Territories RSL. ivo were the High Commissioners •r India and Pakistan, with no aff but representing their respecve countries.

The rest of the official party were imposed of seven Service reprentatives (one of them being eneral Morris, whose return to e area receives an honourable ention in another part of your sue) six Parliamentarians (all of bom were returned servicemen) id Brigadier Brown (the jcretary-General of the Imperial r ar Graves Commission Anzac gency).

There were three Ministers—the iinister for the Territories (Mr. asluck, whom you rightly report 5 taking an important part in the :oceedings) the Minister for the iterior (who is the head of the nperial War Graves Commission— nzac Agency), and the Minister »r Defence. The only “attendant omenfolk” were their wives. The [inisters and their wives travelled Y the ordinary Qantas Services, s they are entitled to do at any me.

Owing to the excellent organisaon and kind hospitality of the dministrator, his staff and private tizens, the whole of the official arty were present at all three iremonies.

Your comment about the delay lat occurred in the unveiling jremonies is, I sumbit, hardly fair ) Brigadier Brown and my prcecessor. The Anzac Agency of ae Imperial War Graves Commission has had a tremendous task covering the whole Pacific area, and. has, I feel, done a difficult job very well indeed. The lateness in the issuing of the invitations was due to a desire that the Governor-General should unveil the Crosses of Sacrifice, and the ceremonies were arranged so that he could be present.

I am etc., W. S. KENT HUGHES.

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BY a lucky chance, Dr. John J.

Valentine, who had been engaged in leprosy research work in the South Pacific, escaped from the BCPA plane disaster at San Francisco on October 29. Dr. Valentine was in New Zealand, and his passport visa stipulated that, when he joined a trans-Pacific plane, he must proceed directly to his home in Alberta, Canada. He wanted to stop over in some places, so he wrote to Canada for an extended visa.

This did not arrive, so he arranged to join the fatal BCPA plane in Nadi, Fiji.

Two hours before he left NZ, the visa arrived. So, at Nadi, he caught a plane which gave a full day at Canton Island; and at Canton he joined the BCPA plane, which crashed, but which, under the new visa, he left at Honolulu. Had the visa not arrived in NZ, he must have lost his life.

It was Dr. Valentine who wrote to us recently about Islands shellmoney see page 95 of October PIM.

Mrs. Bepe Gauta, and her two children, who joined the BCPA plane at Nadi, Fiji, also left the plane at Honolulu.

H The Hon. Havea Tu’iaha’teiho, Deputy Premier and Minister of Public Works in Tonga, accompanied by his wife, arrived in Auckland in late November on furlough. 137 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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COMMENT: Mr. Fairfax Ro& who is chairman of the Papu Planters’ Association, immediatei challenged this proposal. Why creat another Board, he asked, wit secretarial staff and all the otht trimmings, when the. Copn Marketing Board, in constitution and purpose, and with specialise local knowledge, is quite capabi of directing the administration o the Fund. Why, indeed! This typical of the haste and eagernes of bureaucracy in creating new am expensive governmental instrument talities ... So far, the plan plain enough. But the next sta o bristles with difficulties: 3.—To ensure stabilisation, tM Board will decide when the tirm has come to declare a bounty, anr a bounty shall be declared accord] mgly, and the Treasurer shall pas it out. Then come provisions “tt ensure that the bounty paymem reaches the producer.”

COMMENT: This is where tht Government’s plan begins t\ assume the earmarks of urw workableness. The plan apparentl\ envisages the payment of bounty at the point of shipment, or theres abouts; and the planners are most, anxious that the full amount of tht bounty shall go back to the actual producer, even to the native village cutter who may have handed oves to the small trader, cruising alows his coast, a couple of baskets do copra.

Anyone who knows anything about the conditions of copra proc duction and collection in P-NO will realise the difficulties of adl ministering a bounty plan in this manner proposed. No wonder this Government proposes to set up o special Board and staff —a largtx, staff would be needed to trace this origin . of all copra, if the actual producer is to become entitled toi a bounty declared some time after s the copra has been cut and sen\s away-.

The Council should insist thais some practical body, like the Copra - Marketing Board, shall be responsible for the administration Oj.c the Fund, and especially that it's assumes the task of providing as simple and easy method of dis~< tributing the bounty. Otherwises officialdom, in its eagerness to protect the native copra-cutter against, exploitation by the greedy andb 138 Disposal of P-NG Copra Fun (Continued from Page 20) DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

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The president (Administrator eland) said that any proposed nendments of the Bill, from ther Papua or New Guinea, ould be in his hands by the end December.

This gives very little time for lequate discussion of so important matter. The NG planters must icide whether they will (a) conlue their fight for distribution of least a portion of the accumuted funds; or (b) accept the plan r the establishment of a formal md; or (c) accept the Fund, but sist the proposal that a special lard and machinery be set up to [minister it.

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IHE proposal to extend local government in Fiji by creating Rural Councils appears to ive been dropped—at least for e time being.

The idea was conceived by Dvernment officials but was left r the unofficial members of the ji Legislative Council to decide ther the scheme should be proeded with, or not.

The scheme mostly affected idians living in rural areas and is not a popular idea amongst em—mainly because they were be asked to pay rates to finance e projects sponsored by the mncils.

When Queen Salote of Tonga rently visited Britain her journeygs included a trip to the Hebrides lere she showed great interest in ie manufacture of Harris tweed, ae Queen has now been advised at a length of Harris tweed, hand- Dven by a crofter’s daughter in ornoway, in the Queen’s favirite colour of “ice blue,” is on its iy to Tonga as a gift from the ecrides.

What Happened to the Threatened Raluana Proclamation?

IT is now seven months since the Raluana affair, at a native village near Kokopo, New Britain, resulted in a native schoolteacher, Tuvi, assaulting the District Commissioner, Mr. J. K.

McCarthy.

It will be remembered that what led up to the assault was the announcement by Mr. McCarthy to the 1,400 people assembled in the Raluana school-grounds, that there was shortly to be a proclamation whereby the Raluana Village group would become part of the area under the Vunamami Village Council.

Most of the Tolais (the natives of the Eastern end of New Britain) have accepted the village-council system which has always been described as voluntary, but the natives of Raluana held aloof, levied their own taxes and did what they liked with them. This caused discontent amongst the other Tolais who had conformed to the system.

Tuvi got four months’ gaol for his assault on McCarthy but completed his sentence some time ago. It was remarked that during the visit of the Governor-General of Australia to New Britain recently he plugged the advantages of the villagecouncil system when addressing the natives, and that Tuvi listened 139 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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THE COOKS ® American recording companies ai. showing a keen interest in songs of tH Cook Islands and of other Cook Island material. One company recently wroi to the Further Education Officer askin for recording's of musical games, chant) the Polynesian flute, and an old persoj telling ?. lerend or f«lk-*a!e The interei; has been aroused by recordings recent!; made by Mr. Ronald Syme, a writer a present resident in the Cooks. • About 3,00 ft cases of tomatoes loads at Atiu Island in October by the inter island vessel “Mahurangi” were lor when, due to engine trouble, the car® failed to connect with the “Wairuna” fo Auckland. “Mahurangi” was towed 0 port by “Rr.nnrh.” « Four new concrete water tanks, wit) a total capacity of 60,000 gallons, wen completed on Puka Puka atoll in October The Public Works construction team under Mr. Tai Nicholas, completed thd task in one month. They had earlie erected similar tanks at Manihiki am Rakahanga. • Pastor Tariu Teaia, who went t) New Zealand nine years »»o to can for the welfare of Cook Islanders til Auckland, was recently granted the status of a Minister of the Gongres gational Church and will be transferring his headquarters to Wellington at the enu of the year. He and the Rev. Mr. ChalUi are invariably present at the arrival hi Auckland of every aircraft and passenger vessel from the Islands. • TUMU KORERO, a new publication of, by and for Cook Islanders, publisher by the Further Education Office, issue*; its first copy in September and has beer; favourably commented upon. • Mr. John Webb, of Rarotonga, It Acting Resident Agent, Mauke, in thu absence of Mr. Stanaway on furlough. • Palmerston Island, which until now has been leased by the Government t#i the Masters family, has been given t*J them as Native Customary Land. Mn Ned Masters has been recognised as th*£ representative head of the family. • Miss Maria Tuaeu, of Aitutaki, was married to Mr. Percy Henderson, Furthers Education Officer, at Rarotonga on September 3. The wedding was attended; by a large number of friends and»i relatives.

About 80 per cent, of Fijian soldiers who have spent their two-( year-term in Malaya are volunteer--; ing for a second term after leaver spent in Fiji. This is officially de-i scribed as “gratifying.” Other in-i terested onlookers express concern! that the interminable military situation in Malaya should take the bests of Fiji’s young men away fromr their country for so long. 140 DECEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Other points in the scholarship theme are: ® It originated at the inaugural iceting of the Education Advisory oard in Port Moresby in October; • It is designed to operate only jnding the establishment of native icondary schools in P-NG; • Candidates for selection may J nominated by virtually anyone i the Territory. • Natives already attending thool in Australia (if any) are igible; • Scholarship winners will be en- >lled in North Queensland boardig schools; • Normally, students should not s over 14 years of age, and have le required standards of English, 'ithmetic and mental and social laptability.

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IHE whole plan appears to be pre- . cipitate, ill-advised, unrealistic and to be completely worthless ■ the general policy of taking lucation to the great mass of iterate natives of the Territory. it has any virtue, it is only so r as it can be regarded as a smart ece of window-dressing for the 3d members of the United Nations rusteeship Council.

The plan has already caused missings, not only amongst the Euro- ;an residents of Papua-New ninea, but among native leaders.

European critics will doubtless be cused of bias by the originators the scheme, but a down-to-earth, ahstic survey of what education eans in Papua and New Guinea overdue: From the flood of correondence we have received on the bject, it seems very much open to übt whether the authorities could oduce from New Guinea (and in is we exclude Papua where educam in English is not so new) any ild of 14 or younger who could, Australia, measure up, in general towledge, to a sth Grade child, in the above connection, the irding of the scholarship anuncement, that “normally” can- 141 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—D E C E M B E R , 1953

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Many of these young men are tarried, or live as married men. re these the scholarship holders ho are to go South and live with 5 and 13-year-olds in Australian larding schools?

It is now an accepted principle tat education should be made availlie to the natives of the Territory, nd, implicit in that accepted prinple, is the rider that when they ave reached the same social and iltural level as ourselves, they lould be accepted by us in the full icial sense. If this is not implicit, len it would be better that the isophisticated savage of New uinea is left precisely where he is, ithout European education with s benefits and penalties; etherise we will soon have on our hands discontented group of people ,ught mid-way between our world id theirs —prospective recruits to ie first brand of Mau-Mauism that itches their fancy.

If there should emerge some llage genius, then by all means, t him be afforded all the educamal advantages which are ours command —as has been the case Fiji for years. But this could i accomplished without the bally- >o of 20 suddenly-offered scholarlips whereby 20 insufficiently preired native youths are to be reed through the process of our condary education —for no good ason that can be discovered expt in that it brings some doubtful idos to Papua-New Guinea Educa- )n Department and makes plain the world that Australia is doing ;r bit in providing secondary ucation for her dependent people the Territory. |N the Director of Education’s " own figures, there are no more than 150 children in NG fit for condary education. It seems :traordinary then that provision nnot be made immediately in the jrritory to provide them with a gher grade of education than that »w available in native primary bools already established.

The more sophisticated natives of ipua and New Guinea ardently isire education in so far as it aches them to read and undermd English, for in our ability to ad and to write they believe lies r power. But their own part in quiring “education” is a purely gative one: They believe that the irpose of the teacher is simply to ur the requisite knowledge into em, as water from a jug.

If education has any purpose at I, it is to raise man above the fel of the beast; to provide him with reasoning ability and help him to look ahead and to plan. But so far as can be ascertained, education, as it exists in P-NG to-day, provides for none of these things.

The children have excellent memories, they copy blackboard notes diligently and with care, and upon these two points the whole education system seems to be suspended. They rarely ask questions and any departure from routine is apt to throw the delicate machine of acquiring ready-cut knowledge completely out of gear.

An example was given us in the method of writing a composition.

On the first day, words connected with the proposed subject are written on the blackboard and probably copied into note-books. On a second day, sentences using the words are discussed and probably written into note-books. On yet a third day, the composition is written —and is usually turned out in the precise order in which the words and sentences were used by the teacher.

Six months later they would probably be incapable of writing the same composition.

Teacher-boys in the lower-grades also teach according to a set plan that allows for no innovations. And to illustrate this we have been told this story: A mission inspector visited a school which was in charge of a teacher-boy. The teacher-boy immediately prepared to go through all the motions according to set lesson number so-and-so.

“All right, class,” he said, “get out your slates.”

There was a pause. “Now get out your pencils.” Another pause. “Now take this down.” The teacher-boy then went to the blackboard and started to write.

“That’s fine,” said the inspector.

“Yes, sir,” wailed the teacher, putting the teaching routine behind him for a moment. “It would be —but you see, they have no slates!”

IT is inevitable that in a country like Papua-New Guinea, where all but a very few of the large native population have had small contact with Europeans, education in order that they might take their place in the complicated world of to-day will be a problem of extraordinary complexity. The sympathy of all who know New Guinea must be with the people whose task it is to do this. But sympathisers are merely irritated at gestures like the scholarship scheme, introduced with flourish of trumpets, when they realise that the foundations of the 143 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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The very nursery jingles, the fairy stories, the small traditional bits and pieces of knowledge which our own children learn before school age, and which lead naturally to our own system of education, are nothing to these children who are forced to learn in a strange language and against a cultural background that is entirely foreign to them.

Papua-New Guinea is about 50 years behind other Pacific territories in education; and, whatever is done to remedy the situation in the coming generations, it is inevitable that some natives, more intelligent than the rest, will suffer in the general plan to raise the educational level of the whole. This has happened throughout all our own history and surely is no more a tragedy in Papua-New Guinea than it has been with us Put in thp frmnrtQtinnc ™ * u the children f Eneh?h V* 8, + h me cnnaren English, if that is to be the general plan, as early in their lives as possible; leave the fancy scroll-work, in the form of secondary school scholarships, to time and to future generations. The leeway that has to be made up in education for New Guinea natives is not going to be accomplished in two years, or 10—no matter how ardently Australian departmental window-dressers may wish it. j n the meantime, the P-NG natives probably have a great more of W orth to be learned from their Pacific neighbours than from Australia and, in this regard, the Rev f. G. Lewis, a Missionary member of the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council, has made a valuable contribution to the solution of the problem. He believes that it would be a major blunder to send isolated groups of native children to Australia where they will forget their own culture, only partially digest ours and become more or less outcasts among their own people.

If, he says, they went to more advanced Pacific Islands where the people had a similar culture to their own, it would be a much more valuable experience for them than going to Australia where houses, schools, transport and civic matters were in no way akin to those in their own country T * „ , , . rr— the ,., Q V een Victoria School in COul i be Persuaded to accept 20 New Guinea scholars it might be a very good thing—notwithstand ing the fact that the experimen of sending students from P-NG ti the Suva Medical School has no been an unqualified success, due ti the fact that the lads had not haj a sufficient grounding in Engilsh.

Such a sane course is not, how ever, likely to commend itself ti Australia which is apt to believ that its problems are unique in th field of native administration, am prefers to make its mistakes on th home front rather than to see; assistance from other countries whr have solved these particular pro: blems and left them, years ag» like milestones, way back along th road of progress.

Mr. Sultan Ali, an Indian teache at the Methodist Mission school i:i Ba, Fiji, returned to Fiji recentll after seven months’ deputation work in Australia.

H Three new Methodist Mission recruits sailed for Papua and Nev Guinea from Sydney on the Noc vember Bulolo. They were Sister Jeaj Sinclair, who proceeds to Vunairimj in New Britain. Miss Beryl Wilson who will go to Misima, Papua, as ; teacher, and Mrs. R. Imms, whi was the only woman passenger on the Mur or o when she became a tota wreck 50 miles from Rockhampton who now proceeds to Salamo to joii. her husband there. 144 December, 1953 pacific islands monthly

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ISLAND Taylor’s Exciting Story of S. American Flight M’OST people know that Captain 1 P. G. Taylor (“Bill” to his thousand friends) in 1951 oneered the South Pacific airute between Sydney (Australia) id Valparaiso (South America), st as he pioneered the transicific route to Central America, a Clipperton Island, and the ans-Indian Ocean route, between ustralia and South Africa; but >w many know that, both going and coming from South America, ‘ escaped from disaster at Easter land by a combination of skill, tylor tenacity, and Providence?

Going west, Taylor’s Catalina anlane was caught by darkness id a southerly storm while reelling on the ocean alongside ister Island and could not take :. It rode out the wild night at ichor; began to zigzag slowly over ountainous waves at dawn; was us, during the 10 hours, gradually irked through fearful seas around the lee side of the island; and, led by rockets, got into the air ain 24 hours after the storm oke.

Coming east, 10 days later, the :men had an almost exactly nilar experience, except that they st managed to get air-borne off ing seas as the tempest and the ?ht were closing down upon em.

JHESE are only two of scores of dramatic incidents described by Taylor in his new book, titled Frigate Bird, .iust pubhed by Angus & Robertson, dney. In this full story of the ?ht from Sydney back to Sydney, i meet scores of old friends in lumea, Suva, Apia, Aitutaki and ihiti. “Bill” Taylor and some of 3 four companions were already ill known in South Pacific air msportation and they were seted and feted as heroes in uth America.

Captain Taylor has done some rilous flying in the last 35 years, der folk will remember that it is he who climbed out on a wing Kingsford Smith’s plane during b trans-Tasman pioneer flight a arter-century ago, in order to al with an oil-failure crisis—a it seldom equalled in aviation, it he was never closer to death an he was on at least three Basions in 1951, out over those 00 miles of un - beaconed, ather-torn, virtually landless sea tween French Oceania and the ast Of Chile. (Next Page) 145 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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TAYLOR is sure that, presently there will be a regular ah service from Australia acros the South Pacific to South Americ —and he is right, of course. Bo his own experiences make it cleai beyond all doubt, that it is a rout for land-planes; and such a servio cannot be contemplated until then are, at Easter Island, not only first-class airfield, but also even modern aid to trans-ocean flying Tropical islands provide calm watej enclosed by coral reefs; and, s there are warm-water archipelagoe right across from Australia tt French Oceania, there are als countless refuges for flying-boat: But, beyond French Oceania, then are no coral-reef islands, and n sheltered water at all for more thaj 4,000 miles.

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Case lots 4 doz 12/6 doz.

MIXED VEGETABLES (Potatoes, Cut Carrots and Green Peas) 16 oz. tins, 10 - doz.

Case lots 4 doz 8/- doz.

Cut CARROTS, 16 oz. tins, 7/6 doz.

Case lots 4 doz 6/3 doz.

Cut CARROTS, 30 oz. tins, 11/9 doz.

Case lots 2 doz 10/6 doz.

Sliced BEETROOT, 16 oz. tins, .. .. 11 9 doz.

Case lots 4 doz 10/6 doz.

ASPARAGUS SOUP, 16 oz. tins, .. .. 14/- doz.

Case lots 4 doz 12/6 doz.

TOMATO SOUP, 16 oz. tins, 15/6 doz.

Case lots 4 doz 14/- doz. 1 TOMATO PUREE, 29 oz. tins, .. .. 25/6 doz.

Case lots 2 doz 23/6 doz.

BRAISED BEEF & VEGETABLES, 16 oz. tins 17/9 doz.

Case lots 4 doz 16/6 doz.

PLUM PUDDINGS, 12 oz. tins, .. ..186 doz.

Case lots 4 doz 17/6 doz.

SLICED APPLES in Syrup, 16 oz. tins, . 15/6 doz.

Case lots 4 doz 13/9 doz.

TOMATO JUICE, 16 oz. tins 16 doz.

Case lots 4 doz 15/6 doz.

TOMATO JUICE, 30 oz. tins 22/6 doz.

Case lots 2 doz 20/9 doz.

I.X.L. Peeled TOMATOES, 28 oz. tins, 22/6 doz.

Case lots 2 doz 21/- doz.

Cottee’s FRUIT JUICE CORDIALS, Lemon, Orange, Fruit Cup, etc., 26 oz. bottles .. 37/6 doz.

A full range of general groceries available at lowest rates, together with full supplies of Penfold’s, Lindeman’s and Hardy’s wines; also leading brands of Scotch Whisky, Rum, Gin, Brandy and Liqueurs available at competitive in bond prices.

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Mclf DATH’Q DTV I TFI 202 Pitt St., Sydney, Austral Ikja4tk JL O Wr ST iI 9 £. a Cable Address: “Rotunda”, Sydnej The Legislative Council of the Cook Islands U Mr. and Mrs. Phil Chapman, of Rabaul, New Guinea, have been busy with a round of farewell parties. They will settle permanently in Australia. ff Mr. G. K. Roth has been appointed a member of the Fiji Executive Council for the period ending December 31, 1954. He is Deputy Secretary of Fijian Affairs.

The Cook Islands [?]egislative Council photographed during the [?]ctober sitting. Absent [?]om the photo are Dr. [?]. T. Romans, Chief [?]edical Officer, Mr. R. [?]. Thorby, Resident [?]gent at Atiu, and Mr. bela Williams, Mem - [?]er for Manihiki.

Left to right, front Row: Akava Toki (Atiu), [?] Tamaiva (Rarotonga), [?]akea Nui Teremoana [?]riki (Rarotonga), Mr. [?]. Nevill (Resident Comlissioner), Miss P. [?]eade (official steno rapher), Mr. R. F. [?] akefield (official secre- [?]ry). Rangi Nooroa [?]iki (Mangaia); middle row: J. W. W. Graham Resident Agent, Manala), W. N. A. Allison Acting Education (officer), R. M. L. Glad- [?]ey (Resident Agent, [?]tutaki), G. Crummer official interpreter), H. [?] McKegg (European [?]ember, Rarotonga), M. [?]. Baker (Director of [?]griculture); back row: Piri Maoate Rarotonga), Hareti (Penrhyn), N. B. [?]anaway (Resident Agent, Mauke), Mata- [?]arua (Manke), L. K. Pitt (Treasurer), [?]aivi Mose (Aitutaki), Takao Tinirau [?]anihiki), M. L. Began (Clerk of Council). 147 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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The Pacific Islands Society (Founded 1937).

Visitors from the Pacific Islands to Sydney, or persons interested in Islands affairs, are invited to communicate with the Honorary Secretary of the above Society which was formed to constitute a social and cultural centre for those interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gatherings, with lectures, are held at the Feminist Club Rooms, 7th Floor, 77 King St., Sydney, on the fourth Thursday of each month, at 8 p.m.

Address for correspondence:— THE PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY, Box 3434, G.P.0., Sydney. (The President may be contacted by telephone at XJ 3205.)

Schools For Island Children

Thornburgh College for boys ’Phone: Charters Towers, 164.

Blackheath College for girls ’Phone: Charters Towers, 110.

Kindergarten to University )urses available; Academic, Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Science.

Music and Art of Speech.

Excellent Sporting Facilities, including Swimming Pool.

Prospectus and full information from the Principal.

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Nature Notes

By Raimanu lALOLO FOR LUNCH: At Lakeba, Iji, the balolo rose on November 1. in 1951. I had heard in the illage the previous day and had een warned to be ready for an arly start. So just after daybreak was down on the beach, to find aat two or three canoes and punts r ere ready near the passage, away ) the west of the village. The last unt to go out had just left the md, and I was lucky to get a lift.

We poled and paddled quickly out cross the lagoon. Clouds covered le sky, and a cool wind was blowig, but the water felt warm.

Just at this point there is a small reak in the reef, and on the inner de a small, but deep pool. Here, ist out of reach of the big rollers hich were breaking outside, we mght the balolo.

They came wriggling up out of the depths, thousands of them. Just thin, threadlike worms, varying in colour from dark green to brown.

They were not unpleasant to handle ; just a bit slimy to the touch.

Fishing was done with longhandled scoops made specially for the occasion. The business end was formed from a strip of green sapling bent around, with its ends lashed to a forked stick. Across this snowshoe-shaped loop, strips of hibiscus bark had been laced. The net thus formed was almost flat, and it was really surprising to see how many of the worms stayed on it.

Like all true fishermen, my Fijian friends assured me that this was not a good year for balolo. They had seen many better rises. You should just have seen what a haul they got in such and such a year!

At all events, within an hour the numbers wriggling up from the depths had become too small to be worth staying for. So we headed home again, and later in the day enjoyed a snack of fried balolo on toast. Not bad, either.

Another Tongan Boxer For NZ JELAKISITEKEI NAUFAHA. said to be A almost as good a boxer as Kitiene Lave, arrived in NZ, together with re. from Tonga at the beginning of cember. In more than 20 bouts in the mds, Naufaha has been defeated twice points and each time to Lave, and w Zealand boxing-fans were looking ward to his first appearance against luey” Allen. An outdoor fight may er be arranged between the two agans. \ ihlle holidaying in Tonga, Lave rered an offer from former English ivyweight champion to train Lave and ange fights for him in the British !s. Lave’s New Zealand manager said it the matter would be considered at ! end of summer when Lave completed i schedule of local commitments.

New Dock Area For Suva

THE Suva dock area, centre of the busiest port in the South Seas, is to be moved to nearby Walu Bay, the Fiji Government announced on November 24.

The wharves, long due for replacement, were wrecked in the 1952 hurricane and serious new subsidences occurred in the earthquake this year.

The new dock system will cost £2,500,000. It will provide berths for four ocean-going ships.

The work is expected to take four years from the time of acceptance of the tender.

Breckwoldts in BSIP VYTM. BRECKWOLDT & CO., merchants and import agents particularly of Continental goods who already have branches in Rabaul, New Guinea, and Suva, Fiji, recently opened a branch at Honiara. BSIP.

The balolo harvest. 149 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1953

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FOR SALE FOR SALE.—Completely equipped and stocked 25-acre freehold, home, on beach.

Write: C. Bickel, Waiyevo, Taveuni, Fiji Islands.

OWNER offers for purchase Lumbom (Walis) Island, Territory of New Guinea.

Location: Namatanai end of New Ireland —St. George’s Channel. Area about 750 acres. Surveyed freehold. No encumbrances. Approximately 2,000 palms (native), also grove Areca (betelnut) palms. Excellent all weather anchorage.

About 40 miles s.e. Rabaul. Talbung and lai-lai on reef. Price, etc., from Nick (“Tadji”) Carter, 67 Bayliss St., Toowong, Queensland.

WANTED TO SELL OR LEASE.—Freehold property on thei Island of Aoba, in New Hebrides, 407 acres already growing coconuts, portion No. 10. Will the person or persons responsible please cease removing coconuts from the Estate. Alfred E.

Sturt, 17 Musgrave St.. Mosman, Sydney, N.S.W. ’Phone: XM 2589.

CARGO VESSEL.—Coppered, 48 ft. x 13 ft. x 5 ft., twin Listers, powered winch, forecastle and deck accomm., general condition excellent. £3,500. CLINKER LIFE- BOAT.—27 ft. x 8 ft. 6 in. beam, good order. £3OO, f.0.b., Sydney. RAISED DECK TRAWLER.—S 6 ft. x 6 ft. 6 in., accomm. 6., 165 H.P. diesel, 3 to 1 red., diesel auxiliaries, coppered, firstclass heavy duty vessel particularly suited for Islands work. £7,800. Photograph and full particulars from; W. E. Reed, 145 a George St., Sydney, N.S.W. ’Phones: BU 3505 (3 lines). Cables: “Wllreed, Sydney”.

Positions Wanted

PLANTATION MANAGER, married, requires Islands position or seeks plantation to lease on percentage basis. Good disciplinarian. Replies: Clark, 110 Moran St., Boulder, Western Australia.

AUSTRALIAN, 28, married, requires position in Islands or North Queensland.

Has spent 3Vi years New Guinea. Clerical and mechanical ability, small craft skipper. Go anywhere pay fares, if necessary. Reply; “Tropical”, c/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W.

DUTCHMAN, 30, single, three years technical university, exp. car and truck maintenance, speaks English, French, German, wants job Islands; go anywhere do anything, pay own passage: P.O. Box 3145, Auckland, New Zealand.

PLANTER, Dutch, 34, married, 2 children; 11 years Java, British Plantations Co.; thorough knowledge sisal-fibre preparation, tapioca flour manufacturing, and administrative duties; conversant with planting; fluent English, Malay. Any occupation anywhere with prospects.

Replies to; “Planter”, Flat 5, August Place, Ellerslie, Auckland, New Zealand.

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I Classified Advertisements ( ACCOMMODATION DR. AND MRS. H. L. ZIELE, New Zealanders, wish to announce they have opened their home, centrally situated in peaceful surroundings at Double Bay, for Pacific Islands and Interstate guests, for bed and breakfast. Laundry facilities; adjacent to excellent restaurants at Double Bay; 10 minutes from City.

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ETTALONG.—Visit beautiful Ettalong for your next holidays; 2 hrs. from Sydney.

Cottages For Sale or To Let; moderate rates. R. Lundie, L.E.A., Ettalong Beach, N.S.W. ’Phone; Woy Woy 259.

NORFOLK ISLAND. “Burnt Pine” Real Estate Agency. Cable Address: “Adage, Norfolk Island’’. Properties for sale in peaceful surroundings and beautiful climate of Norfolk Island. All enquiries promptly attended to.

STOP, when in Sydney, at the French Pension beautifully situated in Double Bay, within walking distance of the Cross: 10 minutes to the city. ENJOY the large pleasant rooms, the convenience of having both breakfast and dinner, the cosmopolitan atmosphere and an opportunity to speak French as well as English. WRITE or phone for reservations to: Mrs. M. Laigle, 6 South Ave., Double Bay, Sydney. Telephone: FB 3549.

MAN (British), 50, desires to utilise some months of vacation leave in early part of 1954 as paying guest with occupation on established private estate or plantation, T.N.G. or 8.5.1. preferred. Engaged T.N.G. Personal references if so desired.

Please state terms. Reply; A.J.S., C/- Box 3408, G.P.O. Sydney.

AVAILABLE ON LEASE for 8 months from February 2nd, 4-bedroomed fully furnished home, el. H.W.S., wash, mach., refrig., double garage, unsurpassed view overlooking bay. Excellent swimming. Weekly rental: Ten Guineas. Apply: Dr. Davies, “Malesh”, Cliff Rd., Frankston, Victoria.

IF you are planning to settle in New Zealand, and intend to buy property, consult Stacey & Wass, Ltd., Real Estate Agents, F.R.E.1.N.Z., 138 Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand, who can offer you a wide selection.

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GUEST HOUSE or similar.—Middle - aged English couple, seeking semi-retirement within next 12 months, desire purchase Guest House, or any proposition giving small income with easy life; sub-tropics, Norfolk Island or similar climate. R.M.G., 151 Sea St., Herne Bay, Kent, England.

STAMPS WANTED.—2/0d per 100 paid for Pacific Islands stamps on piece of envelope undamaged. Forward to: Publishing & Distributing Co., Limited, 167, Strand. London, W.C.2., England.

PERSONAL DON’T BE LONELY.—Men and women all over Australia are finding happiness through my Friendship & Matrimonial Correspondence! Club. Someone wants to be YOUR friend. Select and confidential.

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BOOKS MATTER where you have tried for : English book you want, I can find [ anyone can. Booklet of testimonials on request. To save time on both s, I need a deposit before I commence. ; deposit must NOT be posted to U.K., paid into my account at the Bank of South Wales, either at King’s Cross ich, Sydney, N.S.W., or at Lambton y, Wellington, N.Z., as you prefer. Be to airmail me counterfoil and write e and address on the back. Pull rel if no success.— Philip R. Boulton, tbury, Wilts, England.

Police Chief on Leave Another Paradise Gone rhere is a chapter on Tonga on new book, Magical Mission, by orge Sandwith, which is now in ; press. He spent some time in ; South Pacific in the years after ; war. Mr. and Mrs. Sandwith at ;sent are residents of the Scilly ands, a small paradise south-east England, where the temperature dom goes below 60. But the pent is approaching: the British vernment has just announced it, henceforth, residents of the Hies will pay income tax. Preaably, this horror will extend also the Channel Islands. ?he Very Rev. Leo Lemay, SM, > been appointed Provincial for ! Marist Fathers in the Pacific mds in succession to the Very v. E. Roe, SM.

Colonel J. S. Grimshaw, Commissioner Police, P-NG, who left for Australia nine months’ leave in November. [?]erintendent C. Normoyle will become [?]ing Commissioner during Col. Grim- [?]w’s absence. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 151 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— DECEMBER. 1953

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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 named.) PAPUA-NEW GUINEA.—Copra Marketing Board rates; Main ports, Hot air, £7O per ton; FMS. £69/5/-; Smoked, £66/10/ —at main ports (except Kokopo, where rates are 17/6 less). Sydney crushers pay: Plantation Hot-air; £9l; FMS, £9l; Smoked, £9O.

FIJI.—At Suva and Levuka, 1953; Plantation grade (60 points and over) £F66/5/6 per ton; FMS (45-57% points) £F66; other grades £F64/15/-- £F62/15/-.

W. SAMOA.—MOP contract is £Stg.6s per ton, f.0.b., Western Samoa; producers receive about £lO less.

BSl.—Prices based on MOP contract of £Stg.6s, 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.

COCOA. —Islands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W.

Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on December 3 was £ Stg.3oo (£A375 approx.) c.i.f., ton, Cont. ports.

N.G.— £350 approx, per ton, in store, Sydney.

Samoa.—Sydney agents in December quoted Samoan cocoa at £Stg.29o (£ A362/10/- approx.) f.o.b. per ton, first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.).

COFFEE.—P.-N.G. remains firm at 5/3 per lb. Price is expected to ease owing to overseas competition now that coffee is no longer a restricted import into Australia.

New Caledonia.—Crop mainly exported to France. Recent quotation was 398 Metrop. francs per kilo (£ASI3 approx, per long ton).

RUBBER.—This market has firmed over the past month. Papua-New Guinea. —price based on Singapore figure which fluctuates from day to day. Quotation on December 4 was 29-4/5d Aust. lb.

Singapore rate December 4 No. 1 grade RSS (sellers) spot 60 7 /sc. lb c.i.f. (approx. 26V 2 d Aust. lb.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Sydney nominal quotations (by Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.): Tahiti: White Label 49/-. Yellow, 49/-, all per lb, c.i.f. Sydney. No Green available at present.

RlCE.—Price for 1953 - 1954: Papua - N.G.—Dry brown £9O per ton; Dressed £96 per ton. Other Pacific Is., except NZ dependencies, £96 per ton.

PEARL SHELL. —Prices fixed between Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for 1953-1954: AA/A/B grades. 85c lb. (£ AB5O approx, per long ton); C, 80c lb. (£A800); D, 55c lb. (£ASSO); E. 40c lb. (£A400); EE, 30c lb. (£A3OO) all c.i.f., New York. No change from last season. Manihiki blacklip.—America market firm at 35-37 cents U.S. per lb f.0.b., Rarotonga; producers currently receive 1/9 lb. Aust. (approx. £AI96 lon ton). Tuamotu blacklip.—£Asoo f.o.b New York; divers receive 47 Pac. frani per kilo. (£A336 per long ton) on beaci TROCHUS SHELL.—Market brisk Sydney at present. NG, £250- £2l! (highest post war price) per ton ei; wharf, less rejects. Fiji, £165 per to f.0.b., Suva.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Little interea in Sydney lately. NG., £2lO per ton e;; wharf, less rejects. NH., £205 per to f.o.b. BSI, No. 1 grade £l7O-£lBO, » 2 £BO per ton, both ex-wharf.

PEANUTS.—P-NG: Owing to inferitj quality of P-NG nuts sales in Sydm. were as low as 1/- per lb on December

London Prices

LONDON, October 22..

Copra, c.i.f., Continental Ports, ton:-: New Hebrides . .. 88,000 Metrop. fram (approx. £ AIIJ Tahiti 89,000 Metrop. franr (approx. £ AIIJ FM Straits, Nov.-Dec. . .. £Stg.B7/10C (approx. £AIO9/7/)'' Philippines, bulk, Nov.-Dec. . .. USs2£ (approx. £AIU Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton:— FM Straits, 3V 2 % drums . .. £Stg.U (approx. £ Al6l/5A Ceylon, bulk £Stg.H (approx. £AI6E Cocoa, per 50 kilos, c.i.f., North Co:c tinental Ports: — Accra, Nov.-Jan £Stg.l3/100 (£ A 270 approx, per long ton

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FIJI. —Through BANK OF NSW, AI.

BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fi r basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £ All 1/2/6; Sellin. £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO Londoo B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £ll NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.— Through BANK OF Sr Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoo B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/». Samoo London, basis £lOO London: £lOO/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-W basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £lOO/10,0 Samoa-Fijl, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £ll.

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BSI.—COMMONWEALTH BANK (brann at Honiara) quotes exchange rate Aro tralla-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.— Pacific frana most valuable of the three franc groan in French Union, are used in New Cate donia. New Hebrides, and Fr. Oceana FRENCH BANK (Comptoir Natiorr D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quoio (nominally): 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; I Pac. fr. to £stg.; 64 Pac. fr. to US $. .

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ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: in PAPUA; IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng.

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