PACIFIC ISLANDS MOnthly FEBRUARY, 1954 Vol. XXIV. No. 7.

Part of Her Southern Empire Wished 1930. ooxfaev for transmission by post as a newspaper J THe Papua-New Guinea unit of the Royal Australian Navy which will be amongst the Servicemen who will parade before Queen Elizabeth.and the Duke of Edinburgh during their Canberra visit fron 13th to 18th of February. They have trained for two years at HMAS Tarangau, Manus Island, where this photograph was taken just Prior to their departure for Australia in the Soochow. The white uniform is ceremonial rig; the other, ordinary shore-going ri g —Photo by Papuan Prints.

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Islands Air Services

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

Over 50 points in the S.W. Pacific Area are linked with Australia by fast, regular QANTAS services shown below.

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Norfolk Island

SERVICE Sydney • Norfolk Island • Sydney.

Suva Service

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

New Hebrides

SERVICE Sydney • Brisbane • Noumea • Vila • Espiri+u Santo • Vila • Noumea • Sydney.

Trobriand 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 • Arena • 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 0 Wewak • Hollandia and return.

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Agents for PAPUA: STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO. LTD.

Agents for NEW GUINEA: COLYER WATSON (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

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

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Telephones: BW 2731 BU 6313 (Freight only) Cable Address: “YUnX”

Shihpping Time-Tables

here now are comparatively few ship- If lines running on regular time-tables the Pacific Islands. The following timeles are only approximately correct — y are subject to much alteration at rt notice: — Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea [V Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ry six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbylaral - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul naral-Moresby-Brlsbane-Sydney. ast sailing February 9.

IV Malekula sailed from Sydney on iuary 30 for Samarai, Rabaul, Manus, wak, Madang, Lae, Samarai and return Sydney. Next sailing about mid-March. )etaiis from Burns PhUp «K Co. Ltd., 7 Idge Street, Sydney. £V Soochow and MV Shansi, modem DO tons vessels, leave every six sks approximately (making a three- Bkly service): Sydney-Brlsbane-Port iresby - Madang - Rabaul - Pt. Moresby, iney. Next sailing Shansi, February Last sailing Soochow, February 9. end of March, Sinkiang which was hdrawn for refit some months ago, 1 resume in this service. Sinkiang will lude Melbourne in her itinerary, ving from that port March 19, from iney March 25.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line . S. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge . Sydney. . Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga Motor vessels Tofua and Matua. from !W Zealand, serve Suva (Fiji), Nukuaa and Vavau (Tonga), Niue Is., Pago go (American Samoa), Apia moa). Tofua leaves Auckland for any SSSS plements Tofua’s schedule in Islands, calling at ports as directed by owners.

Tofua’s next voyages are scheduled to leave Auckland February 15 and March 15. f Matua will leave Auckland on her next voyage March 6. «; “; C °: k ± _ The NZ Government s old motor 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 2 months.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Terrltories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union S 3 Co. of NZ Ltd which Company acts as Agent for this vessel at some ports.

Sydney-New UdM» Pakoiil Kabatll, LtC.

Malalta makes a round trio at MV Malalta makes a rouna trip ai about 8-weeks intervals from Sydney to 3 » A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Lord Howe-Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides Ports - BSI ports - Bougainville - uaoaui - Samaral-Sydney.

Last sailing from Sydney February 9.

Details from Burns Phllp <& Co., ?

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 Messagerles Marines. Luxurious new liners Caledonien and Tahitien recently added to this service.

Small motor-ships Polynesian (Messagerles Maritimes) and Neo Hebridais (H.

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

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, etc.

Norwegian motor vessel Thorslsle carryng cargo and passengers maintains a regular service between North American porta and Frencn Oceania, Samoa, pm jncw Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Last sailing from San Francisco Jan 8, Papeete, Jan. 23, Nukualofa, Jan. 29.

Suva, Feb. 5, Lutoka, Feb. 9, Vila, Feb.

Noumea, Feb. 16. Apia, Feb. 22 (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 Tues. and Frl.—Sydney - Nadi (Fiji) canton Is.-Honolulu-S. Franclsco-Seattle- Portland.

Tues. and Sat.—Return via same route. * Tues. and Pri.—Auckland - Nadi (Fiji) * Thurs. and Mon.—Nadi (Fiji)-Auckland. * Connecting with Strato Clipper at Nadi.

By British Commonwealth Pacific

Airlines (Bcpa)

(DC-6 All-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 alternate Thursday, flight commences at S.

Francisco.

Tues.—Dept. Auckland-Nadl-Canton-Honolulu-S. Francisco-Vancouver.

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

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

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

Every Friday return by same route.

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays and Saturdays (Skymasters) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.15 pm Brisbane, 11.40 pm Moresby, 6.30 am (Wed., Sun.) Moresby, 7.30 am Lae, 8.45 am Connecting services north of Lae by Drover to Bulolo and Wau.

Sundays and alt. Wednesdays (Sandringhams) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 pm Brisbane, 12.20 am Cairns, 6.35 am (Mon. and Alt. Thur.) Cairns, 8.05 am Moresby, 11.55 am (Night stop) Moresby,* 8.30 am Samaral, 10.30 am (Tue.) Samaral, 11.00 am Esa’ala, 11.40 pm (Alt. weeks) Esa’ala, 11.55 pm Rabaul, 2.55 pm The alt. Wednesday Sandringham from Sydney terminates at Port Moresby, a connection north to Lae on the following day at 9.00 am being by D.C.3. 4 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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A42/PIM • The Sunday Sandringham from Sydney .rrives Moresby Monday and after a night top then goes on to Rabaul via Samaral. tc., on Tuesday.

SOUTHWARDS Sundays and Wednesdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: ,ae, 10.25 am Moresby, 11.40 am loresby, 12.40 pm Brisbane, 7.15 pm (risbane, 8.45 pm Sydney, 11.30 pm Connecting service from Wau by Drover, drives Lae 9.35 am Saturday.

Thursdays (Sandringham) Depart: Arrive: •abaul, 5.30 am Samarai, 8.45 am lamaral, 9.15 am Moresby, 11.15 am loresby, 12.15 pm Cairns, 3.40 pm (Night stop) aims, 8.30 am Brisbane, 2.15 pm (Pri.) irisbane, 3.45 pm Sydney, 7.0 pm Alt. Saturdays (Sandringham) Depart: Arrive; loresby, 6 am Cairns, 9.25 am aims, 10.55 am Brisbane, 4.40 pm irisbane, 6.10 pm Sydney, 9.30 pm A connection from Lae, with a DC3, > pick up Saturday Sandringham, arrives i Moresby on Friday at 8.20 am. 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas AE—HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) very 4th Monday (Feb. 22, Mar. 22, etc.), ►eparts Lae 8 am, calls at Madang and Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia 1.5 pm. Every 4th Tuesday (Feb. 23, Mar. 23, etc.), departs Hollandia at 9 am, and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.5 pm.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Every Wednesday. iep. Lae, 10.45 am; Finschhafen, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus (5.45 pm) leturns Saturdays (dep. 8 am), via Kavieng and Rabaul; optional call at Finschhafen; arr. Lae. 2.45 pm.

MORESBY-DARU (Sandringham) la Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), Kikorl, L. Kutubu. —Every alternate Friday, returning same day (Feb. 19, Mar. 5, 19, etc.).

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

(Sandringham) It. Wed. —Rabaul-Jacquinot Bay-Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Rabaul —Feb. 24, Mar. 10, 24, etc.).

N.B.—The direction of operation changes r ith each service, i.e., each alternate srvlce operates Rabaul-Talasea-Moewe arbour-Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul.

New Brit Ain-Bougainville

(Sandringham) It. Wed.—Rabaul - Buka - Kieta - Buin —Feb. 17, Mar. 3, 17, etc.).

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

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Central Highlands

(DCS) ridays.—Lae (8.30 am) to Wabag, calling at any of; Nadzab, Kiaipit. Arena, Kainantu, Bena Bena, Goroka, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Wabag. Return to Lae arriving 6 pm. 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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

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Services By Mandated Airlines

Vlth headquarters at Lae, this company is regular services for passengers light and mails to all New Guinea tlements. 4. Aust.-Dutch N. Guinea By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

I weekly service with Constellations ween Sydney and Amsterdam with a 1 at Biak. DNG, and Manila. Philippines. )C3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandia, •ong, Merauke and Tannah Merah. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS 3 Flights Every Four Weeks, n. (March 1,8, 15, 29, etc.), Lae (dep. 6 am) Finschhafen Rabaul Buka Vellalavella Yandina Honiara, BSI (arriving 4.30 pm). s. (Feb. 16, Mar. 2,9, 16, 30, etc.), loniara (dep. 7 am) Yandina Vellalavella Buka Rabaul Finschhafen Lae (arriving 3.30 pm). 6. In Jo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France. Monthly. istellation aircraft dep. Saigon, Feb. 6 and every 28 days thereafter for Darwm-Bnsbane-Noumea, and return, itrahan agents; Messageries Maritimes. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

Ansett Flying-boat Service, with Sandringhams and Hythes. light services per month, return same r # 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters. ernate Thursdays (Feb. 25, Mar. 11, 15, etc.), returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas. with Sandringham (Weekly Flying Boat Service) »art: Arrive: Iney, Mon. 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 pm sbane. 12.20 am Noumea, 7.00 am imea, 8.30 am Vila, 11.05 am 1. 12.35 pm Santo, 1.50 pm (Night stop) ito, 6.00 am i Wed.) Vila, 7.15 am i, 8.15 am Noumea, 10.55 am mea, 1.00 pm Sydney, 8.40 pm 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva 7 Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats—Weekly.

Depart: Arrive: d n e y , Thur. 7.30 pm Brisbane, 10.50 pm Brisbane, 12.20 am (Prl.) 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 pro 11. Auckland-Norfolk I*.

By NZ National Airways, with DC3’§ Sundays—From Auckland double service returning same day. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with Solents Tue., Thur., Sun.—Dept Sydney 12 midnight, arr. 8.30 am following day.

Thur., Sat.—Dept. Sydney 8.30 am, arr. 5 pm.

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

Dep. Wellington 10.30 am Tue., Wed., Thur., Fri., 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.. 5.36 pm. 15. New Zealand-Fiji SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland —February 23, 27, March 2, 13, 16. 23, 27, 30.

Return to Auckland on February 22, 24, March 1,8, 15, 22 ,25, 29.) Depart Arrive Auckland, 9.30 am Suva, 4.30 pm Suva. 9.00 am Auckland, 4.15 pm 16. Fiji-Western Samoa SEE ALSO TABLE 18.

Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with Solents.

Dep. Auckland, Feb. 27, Mar. 3, 17, 28.

Depart Arrive Auck.. 9.30 am Sat. Suva, 4.45 pm Sat.

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Apia, 1.30 pm Sat. Suva 4.35 pm Sun.

Suva, 9.00 am Mon. Auck., 4.15 pm Mon. 7 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY, 1954

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Suva-Labasa; Daily.

Labasa-Suva: Daily.

Nadi & Lautoka to Labasa: Pridav? (direct).

Labasa to Nadi & Lautoka: Wednesday? (direct).

Suva-Savusavu: Mon., Thur., Sat.

Suva-Taveuni; Tues., via Labasa; Thur.,, via Savusavu; Mon., Wed. (direct).

Nadi-Taveuni: Mon.; via Nausori. Tue.*. via Nausari and Labasa, Thur., via* Nausori and Savusavu. * No call on Sundays. 8 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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History of Torres St.

Pearling Industry In January PIM, on pages 93-4, WHM tells the interesting story of the origin of the now famous pearling industry of Torres Strait.

His story carried the history to 1871. Here is a further instalment—an account of what happened in the years immediately following 1871. , S was to be expected, there was L very keen rivalry between the gangs of shellers; and one of icir methods of keeping a good ,tch to themselves was the hoisting a yellow flag when an opposition aft appeared. One such incident ncerns a rival captain who, bowlg up to inquire why the quarantine ig was flying, was informed that aallpox had broken out “ten en already dead, 15 others not ipected to live!” The solicitous :ipper cleared out straightaway, id the men “not expected to live” illected a ton of shell before dark!

When the first band of L.M.S. misonaries landed in the Strait in 71, Captain Banner (whom they id previously known in Lifu as saring a good reputation) aided tern by lending a whaleboat and •oviding them with useful inforation about the Islands and New uinea. approximate Airways Fares Hie following figures ate not guaranteed curate, but they are approximately rrect. Details should be obtained from e Air Company named in the Table, iless otherwise indicated, figures are in istrallan currency.

TWELVE months later, the Government Resident at Somerset reported that the Captain had dipd on Tnhr 99 at Warrior Island. Since this happened, he wrote, the Island has been a perfeet pandemonium. The Kanakas appear to have taken possession of the large quantity of rum and other spirits landed from the Pakeha and, while maddened with drink, to have plundered the station and distributed the trade amongst the natives of the island. The only two Europeans there had lost all control over the men, and it will be well if nothing more serious occurs before the rum is all finished.”

When I was in the Strait thirty years ago, old hands amongst the Tu-Tu men (then living at Yam Island) still recounted with deeply reminiscent trimmings the big junketing that followed the demise of r I T ? a^ a ii n Ba 2 na -”

The Sydney firm with which he was connected sent up a tombstone to mar k his grave. High tides caused it to collapse some time later; and islanders found its broken sections just the right thing for sharpening their sheath knives. But portions of it were carried away by native friends of the old captain, and placed on one of their own graves at Stephen Island, That was where I last saw the remains of the monument to the man who inaugurated the Torres Strait pearling era with its adventure, romance, and tragedy, and who although perhaps he didn’t know it may be accounted one of the colonisers to whom the British race owes so much. 9 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY, 1954

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Territories Talk-Talk 21

Papuan Coconut Still Not Wanted 25 Asia and the South Pacific .... 27 Australia and the Japanese Pearling War 31 Mana and Atu Are Regarded Seriously 35 The Genius of the Late Sir Walter Carpenter 39 Future of NG Goldfield .. .. 43 Low Price For NG Peanuts— Kingaroy Nuts Swamp Market 45 Native Papuan Ordained As Priest 51 Mr. Wilberforce Clint on Warpath 55 The Travels of Niue Murderers 56 DC 6 on Trans-Tasman Service 59 Dutch NG’s Economic Future 62 Phenomenal Fish-Catching Off Samoa—Japs Show Us How and Put Pago Cannery Into Operation 63 Phenomenal Prices For NG Cocoa Beans And What Buyers Look For In Your Cocoa 70 MAGAZINE SECTION: Topicalities, 73; Mclnerney, 75; The Queen Came to the Realm of Dakuwangga, 76; South Pacific Cooking, 80.

Pacific Nature Notes 82 News From Tonga 85 News From Mangaia, Cook Is. 96 For Pacific Radio Amateurs .. 97 Rejuvenating the Cook Is. Pearling Industry iqo News of the Smallships .. .. 103 Only One Crop and Lack of Labour Officials Comment On BSIP H 4 No Relief Yet For Papua’s Rubber Planters 117 Raluanas Come Into The Fold 119 Higher and Higher Cost Of Living In Fiji 129 Current News From Our Correspondents in P-NG 121 Savoie Adds To His Fleet .. .. 135 OBITUARY: Sir Walter Carpenter, 39; Capt. D. H. Cambridge, Mr. V. Ngatae; Mr.

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Fiji’S Major Problem Shifts

From Indian To Fijian

[THE Indian population of Fiji L keeps on growing; Indian influence extends and becomes tronger; the British rulers express n ever livelier concern for the iture of the Fijian race, already utnumbered and threatened by le Indian community; but no ractical plan for the future just overnment of Fiji has appeared.

On nnnthpr nnp-p nf thic i«np iere is an artFcll who is n old rpsidpnt nf Fiii nnd n lOUghtful observer He has desribed a grave weakness of the resent set-up in Fiii namelv the immunity system under which the ative Fijians are deprived of all litiative and political power but e does not suggest how the obvious 3 medy is to be attained This erhaps, is the most important ictor in the problem of Fiji SniifiPQi 6 .cause m a political sense they do VuoTr.' fJrS?

XL ahe Clidv of thPm F.T 3rn^ established hi TfiT that lev now dominate the economv h Sf ! y rich Cofonv- and that thev re af actor imnortantas l the i?ians f in all the IturS Of Fiii It k?hew waS time to think of them in Snv her Y [ner relationship.

We feel sure that that is the lew of the very small section of the British Colonial Office that knows anything about Fiji. Probably, the chief concern now of high officialdom is to find an administrative policy which will give practical effect to Britain’s solemn obligation to protect the land rights and social privileges of the indigenous people, while giving the Indians a voice in Government. That is not ea sy. In fact > calls for a whfch^hltherto the P which hitherto has § ulded the Brltlsh ad m™stration. rmwA-r nv,Qno-P Vmc Lppn inHinafoH 'JTHAT change has been indicated 1 by some of the more thoughtful old residents of Fiji. In 80 man y plain words, it calls for a far-reaching change in the Fijians’ system of life. As soon as possible, the y , mus s abandon the ancient feudal system of absolute rule by their herditary chiefs, hulls, or headmen, over their communities, a nd change to the Western or democratic system, under which there is self-government in local and national affairs—the system now f oll l ? w ® d ll by ?£ ltl P 1 > . and soon to be fol i OW( r d ] he Indians.

In other wo y ds ’ J[T Btead of merely “protecting” the Fijians, the British must teach the . FlJlans how to meet the Indians m government on equal terms : Already, in Fiji, the Europeans and the Indians are in charge, as communities, of their own local —each European and each Indian, in some form or other, has a voice. machinery*of *the Fijians, are cared for by the Native Department, through the native headmen—the individual Fijian has no voice whatever, Sooner or later, the Indians will exercise greater administrative power through the national government, whatever form it takes; and ft follows, as a matter of course, that if the Fijian is to have future security as against the Indian, he must meet the Indian on at least eqUal , te t rms in the national ad " ministration.

While present conditions remain ? 1J i an has n 0 ho P e , of tjj a L If the Indians were now to attain a governmental 'voice, the only way in which the Fijians could get protection would be by the creation by the British of some special legal machinery, which would give the non-voting Fijian certain powers and privileges over the voting Indians. How long would that last? \\TE do not for one moment argue W that the present Fijian communal system is a bad system. Actually, as demonstrated over the last century, it is a very good system, so long as the men in charge of the communities are wise and just—and most of them are. So far as administrative efficiency and individual happiness are concerned, it probably is a better system than that of the West. Most of the political evils of

Australia, for example, would disappear overnight, if the one-manone-vote method of government were wiped out, and small communities placed in charge of wise and trained men with autocratic powers.

The present Fijian system is bad only in relation to the political set-up in Fiji. The Fijians must be trained to meet the other races in self-government; and they cannot do that unless their political organisation can stand alongside that of the Europeans and Indians.

Acceptance of the fact that the Ration to (a) prepare for the ?,w when the Indian P communitv S take its shS-e TWeste and (b) simultaneouslv Fijians prep|? themselves accept the same resnon?ihliitv t 0 tn responsibility.

Failure to do this simply will create a certainty of grave conflict, sooner or later.

The Fijian, in intelligence, and in adaptableness to changing conditions, is fully the equal of European or Indian. He can be trained quickly in citizenship responsibility.

In all European colonies where the native people out-number the Europeans—especially in Asia and Africa —the Europeans now are on their way out. There is nothing to suggest that that rule will not apply in Fiji.

While the British are in Fiji, they can take care of the Fijian.

They will be wise to train the Fijian to take care of himself, in the field of government as well as in other important fields, when the Westerners move out. In that task, they probably will get support and valuable help from the more thoughtful men of the Asiatic communities and especially the educated Fijian-born Indians.

Have You Forgotten, Uncle Sam?

THE United States—and probably a few other countries—was surprised at the howl of indignation which arose from Australia when it was suggested that selected Japanese should assist the teams of Americans who propose to re-survey the tropical waters north of Australia. The plan has been dropped. If the survey is made, Americans and/or Australians will do the job.

Australia’s protest was not based on security reasons. Australia knows that, in the long years before 1941, every reef and rock in the Southwest Pacific was charted by the Japs, as part of their plan for seizing and settling all these South Pacific countries.

Australia’s angry refusal to have anything to do with Japs, in the connection suggested, was based oh sentiment—on her still vivid memories of what Australians suffered at the hands of this people. How can Australians forget the cruelty and beastliness with which their soldiers and civilians were treated by this sub-human species in Malaya, Burma, Borneo, East Indies, New Guinea? In ali the annals of warfare, there has been nothing more horrible than the torture and massacre of our people by the Japs in the Pacific Islands and Indonesia.

Eight years have passed since the Japan which plotted our destruction was battered into abject, shameful surrender in Tokio Bay; but we who were so close to the Pacific War, still are sickened by the memories of what happened to men and women we knew, caught by these Asiatic gentlemen at Tol and Tarawa, Buna and Amboina and Borneo.

We know that the Communist menace of the Cold War is as great as the Jap menace of the Pacific War, and that it is important to our security that Japan, if possible, be lined up with the Western Powers against Red Asia. American strategy is quite correct. International politics makes strange bedfellows.

But please. Uncle Sam, don’t ask us to accept Japanese as friends and comrades, yet awhile. Why, among them there may be some of the human swine recently released from Manus. Have you already forgotten, Uncle Sam, that the evidence written down in the long months of Australia’s trials of Jap war criminals at Manus is probably the foulest story of human treachery and cruelty ever recorded?

More Shipping Between

P-Ng And The East

REGULAR calls will be made, beginning March, at P-NG ports by the Australian Oriental Line ships Shansha and Taiyuan. The ships’ southern terminal nort will be Melbourne; the northern terminal Hong-kong, where easy arrangements have been made for trans-shipment to the UK.

The ships will call at two Territory ports, but only on the southbound journey. They will call, as W tit at Sydney, Mlanila and Japan.

With this new service, the Territortes will have a double link with Melbourne without trans-shipment at Sydney: Sinkiang, of the New Guinea-Australia line, will terminate its run in Melbourne, beginning end of March.

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January 23 RELATIVES and friends of New Guinea men who were lost in New Guinea during and after the fall of Rabaul, in 1942, met at Sydney Cenotaph at 8 a.m. on January 23.

Wreaths were placed on the monument by the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney and the NG Ex-Servicemen’s Club and by others.

The attendance was somewhat smaller than in other years.

Bsip Advisory Council

HONIARA, Feb. 11.

THE formal opening of the first 1954 meeting of the Solomon Islands Advisory Council took place on Thursday, February 11.

At the parade preceding the ceremony, the High Commissioner (Sir Robert Stanley) presented the Colonial Police Medal to the Superintendent of Police (Mr. E. J. H.

Colchester-Wemyss).

More New Year Honors A NUMBER of names of Fiji in- 1 terest were included in the | Colonial Section of New Year 3 Honours List. Mr. J. D. Rankine was made a KCMG-Sir John was born in Fiji and during the war served in the Colony as an Assistant Colonial Secretary. He is now British Resident, Zanzibar. Mr. J. L.

Brown, formerly Director of Public j Works in Fiji and now Director of • Public Works in Cyprus, was! awarded the CBE.

Mr. C. E. Leembruggen, a former member of the staff of the Customs j Department in Fiji and now Deputy S Comptroller of Customs and Excise i in Nigeria, was awarded the OBE.

Another Step towards New Wharves for Suva MESSRS. Wilton and Bell, London consulting engineers, have been asked to prepare contract drawings and other documents for ; the new dock system at Walu Bay, j Suva, which will replace the present earthquake and hurricane damaged structure, and make of Suva j a much better port.

The new wharf scheme calls for] covered storage sheds, cold storage and administrative buildings. There will be berths for four ocean-going vessels which will allow them to approach and leave in the line of i the prevailing wind.

Estimated cost of the whole operation is £2 h million. It will take about 4 years to build. 14 FEBRUARY, 1954-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

10 PER CENT. MORE

For Copra This Year

Australia Is Confident SYDNEY, Feb. 9.

Discussions between the British Ministry of Food and the various British Administrations in the South Pacific, concerning the 1954 price of copra mder the MOF contract, are still joing on. A decision should be •cached at any time.

Australia is so confident that here will be a 10 per cent, increase, is from January 1, that it has fixed ;he price to Australian crushers at 199 Aust. per ton for hot-air and lun-dried, and £9B per ton for imoked —an increase of £8 per ton.

This is based on Minister Hasuck’s belief that the new MOF ;opra price will rise by 10 per cent, rom £65 Stg. f.o.b. Territory ports o £7l/10/- Stg. It has been agreed hat, if that is not the new price or 1954, adjustments will be made rith the crushers accordingly.

Planters generally may expect he higher price in 1954. The world’s copra quotation remains irm, at a figure around £9O Stg. •i-f- European ports—which is in xcess of £7l/10/- Stg. f.o.b. Pacific iorts (which is the highest figure o which copra may go, in 1954, inder the MOF 9-years contract).

The copra prices reported in Lonon on January 29 were, per ton, cif luropean port: Straits £94/10/-Stg.; ffiihppines, 247 US dollars; Indoesion, 99 guilders per 100 kilos— rise of about 3 per cent, in 6 reeks.

In Ex-Sultan With

CONCUBINES Reported New Home in Tahiti rry , . PAPEETE, Jan. 30. [T 18 reported here, with some authority, that the Government of France has decided to give the ecently-deposed Sultan of Morocco sylum in Tahiti; and that a home 1 bemg prepared immediately for— The ex-Sultan.

Three wives.

Two sons.

Unspecified number of daughters 20 concubines.

The party is to be flown from Launtius to Sydney by Qantas; and hience by TEAL, via Auckland nd Suva, to Papeete. * * * The PIM on February 9 checked ith Qantas in Sydney. The officials lere sighed ecstatically over what icy seemed to regard as a luscious ookmg; but said regretfully that ley had no record of it at all

Australian To Be

Tongan Judge

TONGA will soon have a new Judge of the Supreme Court— Mr. David Hunter, a Sydney barrister, and the first Australianborn person to hold the position, although Mr. Raynar Hyne was almost an Australian.

Negotiations have been going on for months. Mr. Hunter was finally appointed on February 9, after some weeks waiting for documents.

The new Justice, with Mrs. Hunter, will leave shortly for Tonga. His term is for three years with an option of renewal.

The new judge is a son of Mr.

Percy Hunter, well-known businessman and journalist, now retired.

Usually Tongan legal positions are filled from the legal branch of the Colonial Service. In the case of Mr. Ragnar Hyne, now Chief Justice of Fiji, who was born in Norway but educated in Australia, entry to the Colonial Service was via the teaching profession—after serving with the First AIF he went to Tonga in 1920 as Director of Education. He was called to the bar in Queensland in 1924 and thereafter, in the legal branch of the Service, served in Tonga, BSIP, Sierra Leone and Gold Coast before being appointed to Fiji in late 1952.

W. Samoa And British

TARIFF No Abolition in March, But— THE report published in the November and December PIM, that the New Zealand-Western Samoa governments have agreed to the adolition, in March, of the British Preferential Tariff, is denied by the Western Samoan Government.

It says that the matter has been under official discussion for a long time, and it has been agreed that the way now is clear for abolition: but abolition has not yet been decided upon. A further official inquiry is proceeding.

This statement arrived as this issue is going to press—it will be published in full in March.

On the known facts, abolition seems likely.

Our report that the Tariff would be abolished in March came from a semi-official quarter at United Nations headquarters. If it is incorrect, and embarrassment is thereby caused, officialdom has only itself to blame. Although discussions on this important matter have been going on for at least a year, not a word has been published by either the NZ or Western Samoa Governments to indicate what is proposed, and why.

Orient Co.’s Successful Pacific Experiment AN indication of the success of the first of three test services across the Pacific by the Orient liners (See PIM for January) was the announcement that there would be an additional two services at the end of the year—making five for 1954.

Oronsay (28,000 tons) will leave Sydney on November 19, and her sister ship Orcades will leave on December 17. They will follow the same itinerary, calling at Auckland, Suva, Honolulu, Vancouver and San Francisco.

Unless there is some unforeseen slump in the demand for transpacific passages, it is expected that the Orient Co. will announce still more services on the same run, in 1955.

Oronsay was due to return to Sydney from the first trip on February 8. She will leave on the second trip on May 21, and Orion will leave on the third on September 17.

New Roads In N. Guinea

P. MORESBY, Feb. 2.

THE Minister for Territories (Mr.

Hasluck) says there has been greater development on road building in the Territory during the past two years than in any comparable period. On his present tour he has travelled over new roads built in the Highlands, and the Madang area by the District Services and Native Affairs Department, with the co-operation of native communities. These included suspension and conventional span bridges. Mr. Hasluck said new roads were important agents of civilisation, and valuable in opening up the country for general administration.

Pan American Chief U Mr. A. J. McMahon, of Wellington, has taken up an appointment at the Rarotonga Post Office in succession to Mr. Ken Holt.

Mr. William J.

M uII a hey, who recently has been appointed Pan American World Airways Director for the Central and South Pacific with HQ at Honolulu. 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 19 54

Queen Meets Territorians

At Canberra

Formal Ceremony Under Grey Skies From Our Special Reporter CANBERRA, Feb. 15. rE functions attending the Queen’s reception of the Territorians actually began on Friday, the 12th, when all the Delegates gathered for a rehearsal of the Territories function. That evening, Territories Secretary Lambert entertained all the Delegates at a reception.

On the Saturday, a few Territories’ delegates went to the official welcome at Civic Centre and got their first glimpse of the Queen and Duke; but, due to muddle, no place was reserved for them officially.

So far, this was entirely a Canberra set-up. But this, Monday morning, the Territorians came into their own.

The Territorians were in four groups, representing Northern Territory, Norfolk Island, Papua-New Guinea and Nauru, and delegates were presented in that order. Papua and New Guinea were represented as follows: Special Delegation of 12—9 Europeans, 2 Natives, 1 Chinese.

From the Australian Navy at Manus—2 officers and 20 native seamen.

P-NG Volunteer Rifles—l officer and 12 other ranks.

Pacific Islands Regiment 3 officers, 100 native soldiers and a Pipe Band of 28.

Papuan officer, 20 native police and the Police Band.

New Guinea Delegation

t Administrator. BRIGADIER CLE- LAND. and MRS. CLELAND.

Representing- Papua

Bishop P. N. W. Strong

Mrs, Myra Humphries

MR. E. A. JAMES, MLC MR. E. J. FRAME.

Representing New Guinea

Mrs. Doris Booth. Mlc

Mr. D. Barrett, Mlc

MR. JAMES LEAHY.

MR. PAUL MASON.

Native Representatives

Mr. Simogun, Mlc

MR. WILLIE GAVERA.

Representing the Chinese Community MR. GABRIEL ACHUN.

Norfolk Is. Delegation

BRIGADIER C. H. B. NORMAN (Administrator) and MRS. NORMAN MR. H. S. CHRISTIAN.

MR. P. ADAMS.

Nauru Delegation

MR. J. K. LAWRENCE (Acting Administrator) and MRS. LAWRENCE

Mr. Raymond Gad Abu

MR. AUSTIN BERNICKE.

PREPARATIONS for “Territories Day” began early this morning. The various Delegations and Services parties were drawn up on the lawns before Government House; and at 10.35 a.m. the Minister for Territories (Mr. Paul Hasluck) escorted Her Majesty, the Duke, and the Royal Party onto the dais.

At the Queen’s left were seated the Federal Ministers and their wives;, at her right, the Diplomatic Corps. The Territorians were seated behind the dais.

Although the delegates were presented without their wives, some wives were present on this occasion as onlookers, seated behind delegates. They will not attend any other functions: and some delegates may not attend the ball for this reason. Their wives have had to make their own accommodation arrangements.

Accompanied by Major Bishop, of the Pacific Islands Regiment, the Queen and Duke inspected the P-NG Police and Servicemen, who made a very fine show —their bearing, appearance and drill were Guardsman-perfect.

When the Royal Party returned to the dais, the delegates had fm’med a queue, and the presentations began. The Queen only occasionally spoke to a delegate but the Duke frequently—which caused frequent hold-ups between the Queen and Duke.

The P-NG people were presented m this order; Brigadier and Mrs.

Cleland, Mr. Barrett, Mrs. Booth, Mr. James, Mr. Simogun, Bishop Strong, Mr. Frame, Mrs. Humphries, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Mason, Mr. Achun, and Mr. Gavera.

Mr. C. R. Lambert, Permanent Head of the Department of Territories, and Mrs. Lambert, were also presented.

The Duke talked at length to Paul Mason, and spoke also to Simogun; but, judging by the( Duke’s expression, the latter conversation was not very enlightening. Simogun speaks only pidgin.

WHILE the Administrator of NT, Mr. Wise, gave an address of loyalty, the microphone did not function and what he said could only be guessed at—but, whatever was, it was exceedingly brief.

The first few words of the Queen’s reply were also lost.

Mr. Hasluck then presented to Her Majesty an album of 50 photographs, and maps of the Territories richly bound and inscribed, and contained in a case of beautiful wood, with handles of Bulolo gold.

The table on which it rested was made of selected NG timbers, with, a map of the Territory, in inlaid wood, on top. This could not be accepted as a Royal gift and it remained behind on the dais after an equerry had borne off the album.

The only cheers to shatter the dignified silence then came from the NG troops. The Queen then moved off to Government House.

The Queen wore a grey shantung frock, with matching gloves and hat—they all toned with the sodden morning.

Reporters then descended on the Territorians—and particularly on Mrs. Doris Booth, whom women reporters evidently regarded as “top feature material.” Mrs. Booth said she was still walking on air: The Queen had spoken to her.

Generally, it was a stiff and very formal occasion, but the Territorians seemed content.

IN the afternoon, a 3-hours’ downpour stopped just before the Queen arrived in her magnificent Coronation gown to open Parliament.

Mr. James, Mr. Barrett, Mrs.

Booth and Mr. Simogun were admitted to the Senate for the event.

Mr. Simogun arrived after the Queen, but apparently was allowed in as an act of grace.

Later, all four had official seats for the review of 4,500 troops. The weather was a sartorial disaster for i most of those present.

The review of the troops was the most stirring spectacle of the day. ' A marvellous reception of the New I Guinea troops was given by the j crowd, obviously pleasing to the smiling Mr. Hasluck, who stood in ! the rain to watch.

All the members of the Dele-1 gation will attend other official i functions tomorrow and Wednesday—and all of the P-NG repre- i sentatives will see the presentation of Colours at Duntroon, and attend the Garden Party at Government House on Wednesday afternoon.

The Native Police Band played i at the Territorial function at j Government House this morning.

It is booked for a full programme i of engagements in Sydney prior to j leaving Australia for the Terri- j tory. The Police Band probably, will travel aboard HMAS Australia when it escorts the Royal Yacht!

Gothic to Cairns in March.

The Australia will sail for Manus j and the Papua and New Guinea i Naval Contingent will travel on her.

The Department has planned a full recreation programme for all 1 Territory native people in Canberra for the Queen’s Visit. This includes a cricket match, special picture shows, swimming parties, visits to one of the largest sheep stations in the district, etc. The YMCA at Canberra has set aside its Club Rooms for their exclusive use during • the evenings. (More on p. 142.) 16 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

£5 Million-A-Year

INDUSTRY CNGT Mill Opened at Bulolo [THE plyw r ood factory at Bulolo, L owned jointly by Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., and the Ausalian Government, was officially lened, on January 26, by the [mister for Territories, Mr. Paul asluck.

The mill is now in production id it is expected that the first lipment of ply will be made tp te United States in March. Daily itput of the mill will be about i tons of 3 16 in. plywood in four fferent sizes. It will add £5 illion, to the annual overseas [ports of the Territory.

American experts say that the ywood is better than any proiced in America and Canada (cause it has the minimum of lots in the wood, very little grain id the logs are of even cylindrical easurement —the trees that prode them going up 90 feet before ,ey branch.

For these reasons Bulolo will oduce a high grade ply with the inimum of wastage.

Everyone is pleased with the ilolo mill—except a few disuntled Australian manufacturers plywood and some Labour liticians who imagine that it is threat to Australian industry.

Provision is made for a certain lount of Bulolo’s production to made available to Australia if juired, but the bulk of production to go to North America where it 11 earn dollars.

Here are some facts and figures out the new undertaking; ► The mill was built at a total cost £1,340,000.

I The company, Commonwealth-New inea Timbers, Limited, has an horised canital of £2,000,000, and led capital of £1,500,000. Half the res, plus one, are held by the Comawealth Government, and the other f, less one, by Bulolo Gold Dredging, lited. i Board of Directors: Mr. F. H. vitt, Mr. G. Gummow (Commonwealth rt.), Mr. A. W. Austin, Mr. L. W. gstrand (BGD, Ltd.), i Chairman of the Board of Directors, L. W. Austin; General Manager of company, Mr. L. W. Bergstrand. (Mr. gstrand, who is also General Manager Bulolo Gold Dredging, Limited, joined staff of that company in 1931 and i been associated with it ever since), i The mill, covering an area of four es, was designed by an American firm Engineers and Contractors, Inporated. of Tacoma—who have built 25 wood plants. As a result the mill has ry proved and known device for chanisation of plywood processing, is, it is hoped, will offset the high our costs in the Territory.

Although plywood production is expected to occupy the mill for the present, it is probable that in the future wall-board and wood-pulp for high grade writing paper will also be manufactured.

The new undertaking has given the Bulolo valley a new lease of life. Five senior technical men sent from BGD to the United States last year to study the latest production methods are key personnel now the mill is in production. Gradually, as the gold-mining part of BGD’s activities diminish, men will be transfered to plywood production.

Although pioneering and development in Papua New Guinea has largely been left to the “small man” to whom most public sympathy goes large-scale development of the type undertaken by CNGT is the only method likely to get quick results and in our time. It is the answer to the thousands who are wont to say that “They should do something about developing New Guinea.” Reduced to £SD it means an outlay of millions instead of hundreds or thousands.

MUMENG BRIDGE OPENED, TOO During his visit to Morobe for the opening of the plywood mill, Mr. Hasluck also opened a bridge across the Mumeng Creek on the Lae-Wau road. The bridging of the Mumeng is a vital link in the success of the plywood venture. All ply is to be freighted out by road in a fleet of 7-ton trucks to warehouses at Lae on the coast.

Mumeng crossing has been a nightmare to drivers on the Wau- Labu road for years. It is a swiftlyrunning mountain torrent that crosses the road just below the Mumeng Hotel; it is dangerous at any time and a death-trap after I dill.

They Are After Fiji’S

Tax-Dodgers

SUVA, Feb. 1.

AN old administrative difficulty in Fiji, the dodging of income tax by well-to-do Asiatics, is likely to be dealt with in the near future. The Acting Commissioner of Inland Revenue (Mr. W. J.

Drysdale) has announced that the tax net is being widened to rope in all defaulters. He said that few Indian cane-farmers send in income tax returns, but this happy state was coming to an end. H? added, cryptically, that no racial pot had any call to describe any kettle as black in the matter of dodging, where possible.

Noumea-Loyalties Air Service CAPTAIN E. Savoie, of Noumea, in Auckland in February, referring to the air service to be established by M. Sylvestre Leconte, with an aircraft purchased in Australia (January PIM) said that he understood the service would operate to Chepenehe (north-western Lifu, Loyalty Islands). An airfield is being prepared there. This service would probably be additional to services within New Caledonia. if Recent appointments to the Gilbert & Ellice Islands Administration staff include Assistant Marine Superintendent Eland, who with his wife is to leave London for the Colony in mid-February, and a Mr.

Rose as Mechanical Engineer, who left England by air in December. if Mr. Glendining Anstice, son of the Rev. A. Anstice, a retired Baptist Minister in Auckland, has been appointed principal of the Suva Boys’ Grammar School. He left for Fiji with his wife and two children by air in mid-January. • The plant will be operating 24 hours a day, five days a week, with 155 Europeans and a similar number of native assistants. • CNGT has a timber permit over 40,000 acres comprising mainly hoop and klinki pine, and expects to use 12,000,000 superfeet of logs a year for its plywood operations.

This will clear about 500 acres yearly. • A perpetual forest is to be established through replanting of logged-out areas by the Administration Forestry Department thus establishing a 50-years cycle.

First postwar plantings by the Forestry Department have already reached a height of 20 feet in three years, and pines in a small pre-war test plot have grown to 80 feet in 11 years. (This compares with an average growth of a little over a foot a year in coldclimate pine forests).

The giant plywood mill before the outside sheathing had been put on. 17 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY, 1954

19 Native Scholars Arrive In Australia

Emphasis on Poverty of New Guinea’s Native Education Machinery NO time was lost by the Papua and New Guinea Education Department in announcing 19 of the names of the 20 New Guinea natives who, under a scholarship scheme, are to go to secondary schools in Australia for two years. The names were announced on January 23, and the “students” were on their way South by air on February 2. Except three, all will attend Queensland schools. Three (from Kwato) go to Victoria.

The plan has been sharply criticised—not because it lacks merit in itself, but because (a) it is completely ill-timed, and (b) these young natives should be trained in their own Territories, and not subjected to the innumerable social influences which must affect their training in Australia.

IT was pointed out in January PIM that Papua-New Guinea’s sporadic, piecemeal attempts at native education may be excellent in themselves, but they only emphasise the Territory’s lack of an overall plan of native education.

The Minister in charge says that Australia’s first duty is to raise the standard of native life and win the goodwill of the natives. How can this be done when the administering authority is shut off from the 1| million natives by the harrier of language? Except for the Pidgin speakers, and the few coastal natives who understand English, there is no means of communication whatever between the mass of the Territory’s primitive peoples, and the Administration.

In other Territories, the Government learns and uses the native languages. That is impossible in New Guinea, because there are scores and scores of completely different languages.

The only alternative, therefore, is to start with the village children, and teach simple English to the natives. That calls for big institutions, in Papua and New Guinea, where natives can be trained to teach village schools, That, in turn, requires a large staff specially trained to train the native school-teachers.

Since civil administration was resumed, Australia has spent at least £40,000,000 on the “development” of Papua and New Guinea Native education should have first priority—otherwise, all this talk about native welfare is so much eye-wash for the Trusteeship Council—but after the lapse of eight years, and the expenditure of so huge a sum, there not only are no institutions for the training of teachers on a worth-while scale, but no sign of an over-all plan of native education.

IF the idea of awarding scholarships to a few selected natives had been integrated with such a plan, the idea could have been praised. As it is—well, here are the names of the scholarship-holders:

From Sogeri

Gomea Varoka, 15, Central District.

Berareia Bwanoan, 15, Misima.

Nega Mark, 15, Milne Bay.

Jack Baure. 14, Central District.

Andrew Tiraka, 15, Milne Bay.

Gavera Rea, 14, Hanuabada, Port Moresby.

David Lawrence, 15, Hanuabada, Pdf Moresby.

Banian Pilikesa, 15, Milne Bay.

Bate Alasina, 15, Milne Bay.

From Misima

Sanoi Sanoi, 15, Milne Bay.

From Xavieng

Israel Langau, 13, New Ireland.

Konda Aisol, 15, New Ireland.

Pasangan Sialis, 12, New Ireland.

Abraham Jacob, 15, New Ireland.

FROM DARU Patrick Samson, 15, Daru.

From Keravat

Robin Vuaina, 13, New Britain.

From Kwato Mission

Titus Tiso, 15, Milne Bay.

Miss Maria Sioni, 13, Milne Bay.

Miss Dalai Maniana, 17, Milne Bay.

The 20th student comes from Bougainville—he :s already at school in Australia.

If Mr. Ralph Albrecht, accompanied: by his wife and two children, left Sydney on the Bulolo on February 9 to take up the managership of Mackay Kerry Pty. Ltd.’s new branch at Lae, New Guinea.

Do You Remember ?

From PIM oj 20 Years ago.

THE year 1934 was not proving any better than 1933 for the planting fraternity in the Pacific Islands. But gold mining was enjoying a boom and Territories where gold was found were still balancing their budgets. The others had got almost beyond despair. Here are some other extracts from our issue of the PIM of February, 1934.

Although the copra market had crashed and showed no signs of reviving, gold was going to the economic rescue of New Guinea. We reported that in the year ending December 31, 1933, Bulolo Gold Dredging had recovered £683,000 worth of gold; and New Guinea Goldfields £157,000 for the same period. (The amount per ounce received for this gold was about one-third the present price). * * * Plans were being made for a conference in Canberra of all the Administrators of Australia’s Pacific Territories New Guinea, Papua, Norfolk Island and Nauru.

First item on the agenda was a discussion on the “amalgamation of the Territories.”

New Guinea’s first slip way was opened in Rabaul by W T . R. Carpenter & Co. -f * * Fiji Airways, Ltd., were “disappointed with their 10 months’ operations in the Colony”. They had not received the support* hoped for from either the public or the Government and were therefore disinclined to continue after March, 1934.

It was said that it would be years before Fiji would be air-minded enough to support a decent air-service. (For once prophets seem to have been right.

Fiji’s present successful internal airservice is just a little over two years old.) * * * The New Guinea Planters’ Assn, started a movement for an investigation into the “ramifications of Unilever, Ltd. ... in view of the control, exercised by this company and its associate companies over the world’s vegetable oil products, which is directly instrumental in maintaining the price of the products below cost of production.”

TOUGH DAYS: We reported that om January 29, “500 natives of both sexes? and a small number of Europeans,, assembled on the hillside near Port!

Moresby gaol to witness the execution ofl Stephen, a native sergeant of the Papuani Armed Constabulary, who had committed! a grave assault on a European child agedl five.” * * * “Development work is still going on at) the Tavua goldfield in Northern Viti Levui where Mr. E. G. Theodore has been thea first to bring in Australian capital. Thea ground has been proved to a depth ofl 50 feet and assays have given three ounces? to the ton.” * * * Editorially we said that Australia’s? fiscal policy seemed to be under the con-trol of lunatics—and quoted Fiji bananas? to prove it. Special duties imposed om Fiji bananas amounted to 3/6; import i duty a further 2/-. Fiji exporters werea suggesting that Fiji retaliate as some; other countries had done, and pointed out) that, while Fiji took £380,000 worth ofl Australian goods per annum, Australia* bought only £43,000 worth of goods from* Fiji, * * * Such Goings On Dept. (from our - Fashion Notes): “The vogue for less? clothes is world wide. Even the sternen sex follows it with reckless abandon . . . .

On Continental beaches men sport scarlet 1 shirts and brown slacks, their berets ? matching their vivid shirts!” * * * Guinea Airways were calling at over 30 <1 aerodromes in Papua and New Guinea all but three of them on the New Guinea * side. Some of these landing strips have a long returned to the jungle and have been i forgotten; some are still in use. They were: Bubuai, Bapi, Bulolo, Bulwa, , Gabanziz, Garina, Juni, Kajabit, Kidjura, , Kokoda, Kabuna, Mt. Hagen, Marilinan, , Menyamya, Marawassa, Nadzab, Port 1 Moresby, Purari, Ramu, Salamaua, San- gan, Sunshine, Surprise Creek, Upper V/atut, Wagau, Wahgi, Wampit, Warona, .

Wau and Zenag.

Still Going The

ROUNDS!

Fiji Legco Plea For Population Inquiry LONDON, Jan. 12. rHE resolution of the Fiji Legislative Council of December, 1952, namely— “ That this Council urges that a comission of enquiry from the United Kingim be appointed forthwith to enquire to and advise as to what steps should taken to ensure that this Colony will it suffer from overpopulation to the triment of the standard of living of I races in the Colony.” is been under consideration dur- :g 1953 by the Pacific Islands Subroup of the Commonwealth ouncil of the Conservative Party.

The Sub-Group, at meetings held i November 6 and December 3 icommended that a Commission Inquiry be appointed, and arned against a Commission “with irrow and irrelevant terms of ference which ignore the racial •oblem.”

It was decided that the following irther considerations be sent on, ong with the recommendation: Migration: To what extent, if at 1, can Fiji’s problem be solved, iving regard to the rights of its habitants and the views of other tvernments that might be conrned, by encouraging migration other parts of the Common- Balth where the pressure of popution is less.

Voluntary Limitation of Birth 2te: How far can the present exssive increase in population be Lecked by (a) voluntary co- ►eration of the younger genera- )n of both races, and (b) legisla- )n, to raise the marriage age?

Land Tenure: Might not further nstitutional developments neces- :ate modification of the present stem of land tenure, to allow dian cultivators to acquire longer ases of freehold title in agri- Itural land? If so, can adequate feguards be framed to regulate e alienation of rights in land to m-cultivators?

Development: Is the development present envisaged under CD and A likely to prove adequate to the :eds of a swollen population, and mid it be advisable to invite the orld Bank to survey the resources the Colony and make recomendations?

EDITORIAL NOTE: It is perlent to wonder why the Fiji quest, a whole year after it was ade, should be wandering around e halls and by-ways of the •itish Conservative Party. It also ay be pertinent to note that the wspapers of February 8 reported, part of a pending re-shuffle of r Winston Churchill’s Cabinet, the probable removal of Mr.

Lyttleton from the office of Secretary of State for the Colonies.

The suggestion was that Mr.

Lyttleton and others had outlived their usefulness.

Farewell to New Zealand Delegates from New Zealand’s Island Territories who attended the Royal Visit to New Zealand as representatives of their Territories—Western Samoa, the Tokelaus, the Cooks and Niue.

They saw the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on four occasions first at Putaruru where the Royal Party passed while the delegates were travelling by their own bus; then at Rotorua; and again twice at Wellington. At the Royal garden party at Wellington, leaders of the delegations were officially presented to the Queen, who also spoke to some other members during the course of the party. They were greatly impressed by Her Majesty’s natural, friendly and unaffected manner.

Probably their visit to the Fox glacier took top place in the list of “sights”.

Five members of the party Malietoa Tanumafili II, Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki, Jane Tararo Ariki, and Sergeant Tohovaka, with a guide, made the effort to ascend the glacier and considered themselves amply rewarded.

On January 18, the delegates were finally farewelled from Auckland at a kava ceremony given by the Mayor, Mr.

J. H. Luxford, well-known as a former magistrate in W. Samoa.

These photographs were taken at that function.

TOP (left to right), front row: Mr.

Don Read of Island Territories Department. who conducted the party throughout their New Zealand tour: Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki, leader of the Cook Islands delegation: Mrs. Malama Head, leader of the Niue delegation; Miss Jane Tararo Ariki representing Mauke, Atiu and Mitiaro Islands; the official chauffeur.

Back row: Mr. Piri Maoate representing Rarotonga: Gatoloai Peseta S. Sio of Savaii; Mr. Tihau Napara representing Cook Islands Northern Group; Sergeant Tohovaka of Niue; Mr. Tuaivi Mose of Aitutaki; Peato of Tokelau; Tulele Masoe of Upolu; Tangi Trego Ariki of Mangaia; Mr. Jacob Helg of Apia: Lilomaiava To’omata of Upolo; and Matai’a Europa of Upolu. (Malletoa Tanumafili II, Mataafa Mulinuu and Talamaivao are missing from photo.) LOWER: Malietoa Tanumafili II has just been presented with a bowl of kava by the bearer who is stepping back.

Nearer, and watching, is the Mayor, Mr.

Luxfoid. with Makeau Nui Teremoana Ariki, in white, next to him. 19 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

Britain And New Hebrides

Depressing Story of An Unhappy Political Experiment THE report that Britain is preparing to abandon, to France, her administrative responsibilities in the New Hebrides Condominium, published in the January PIM, caused a considerable stir in Australia.

The Foreign Office, and the Colonial Office, London, denied that any such plan was in contemplation; Canberra said it knew nothing of it; and finally Britain’s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Robert Stanley, announced that “the report is without foundation.”

I| is acknowledged, however, that and French High Commissioners for the Western Pacific, and’ the British and French Resident Commissioners in the New Hebrides, will meet formally in Honiara (BSD early in March. The report published by the PIM came from a reliable source. Whether or not it is premature, it can be taken as a fact that Britain’s future connection with the New Hebrides is under official consideration.

BRITAIN’S readiness to abandon her administrative obligations in the New Hebrides —thus putting an end to the 50-years-old Condominium and leaving the valuable archipelago entirely to France —is quite logical. These Islands are of no strategic, political or economic use to Britain. They are merely an irritating source of endless cost.

Seventy years ago, when Germany was urgently seeking colonies and showing the liveliest interest in any unattached lands, Britain and France grabbed simultaneously at and jointly held the New Hebrides.

They kept the Germans out, but created an awkward little problem of their own, which they solved eventually (1906) by forming a Condominium Government.

In the field of Islands administration, the Condominium has been a joke for 50 years. It has become famous as “the Pandemonium Government.” It should have been wiped out in 1920, after World War I removed the German colonial threat, but neither of the two jealous nations would give way.

IN the beginning there were many British planters and traders . . The French section of the jomt Government went to great lengths to assist and encourage the French nationals, especially in providing the latter with plenty of indentured Asiatic labour. But the British Government never at any time assisted British nationals and in time most of the British dropped out. A certain number stayed and obtained French nationality—and the essential labour by which their continued residence become possible Decade by decade, the New Hebrides economy became more French. To-day the only British institutions there, apart from a thin sprinkling of depressed Colonial Office officials, are Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. and the Presbyterian Mission both Australian. Threequarters of the 300-400 British there are Australians.

Britain’s share in the New Hebrides, and her Solomon Islands, were offered to Australia in 1949-50; and rejected by Canberra on the ground that Australia already has all the Islands expense and trouble she can cope with in Papua and New Guinea. France doubtless could make effective use of New Hebrides, run in administrative combination with New Caledonia.

THERE is only one reason why Britain’s withdrawal from NH should be opposed by Australia —but that reason is paramount. It is Asia.

In East and South-east Asia there are more than 1,000,000,000 quickbreeding people, the majority of them actually hungry. In the South Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand, there are lands which could feed Asia’s surplus population and which are held by only 10,000,000 whites.

Natural laws operate to-day as they have done for 10,000 years. If we European communities are to remain established and free in the South Pacific, we must have protection against overcrowded Asia especially against the new Asia which has taken shape in the last quarter-century. That protection can come from only two directions —Western Europe and North America.

The Lord helps those who help themselves. We can expect no assistance from overseas unless we put in our own defence organisation. The events of 1941-45 showed that our outer defences must be built up in the chain of archipelagoes which lie like a natural barrier between Australia and Asia —the archipelagoes of Indonesia, New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, the Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, and New Caledonia.

It is this consideration which induces Australia to spend up to £8,000,000 per annum in Papua and New Guinea. We contend that it would be sound tactics for Australia to extend that defence organisation eastwards from the New Guinea area, across Solomons and New Hebrides.

Of course, it would be expensive.

But would it not be more logical, and more realistic, to spend the money in trying to ensure our own safety, rather than in the hopeless task of cultivating Asian goodwill, by giving away millions through the: Colombo Plan?

A score of Colombo Plans will not, alter Nature’s fundamental laws. If' ever we lose the protection of Western Europe and/or North America, nothing will prevent the; swamping and probable extermina-J tion of all European communities, in the South Pacific by countless; millions of Asiatics. These Colombo : Plan idealists should read the: history of what Asiatics did to help 4 less Europeans, on various in the last century—the Indians Mutiny, for example, and th e* Chinese Boxer rebellion, and the* Japs’ performances in the Islands! they overwhelmed in 1941-43.

If Australia thinks its future is: secure here, in the shadow of Asia,; then let it forget New Hebrides— which never has been much more* than a frustration and an adminis-i trative joke, anyway. But if Aus-| tralians are impressed with thef; logic that lies in Asia’s over-popu4 lation, Asia’s hunger, and th e* under-populated South Pacific’s! helplessness, they should see to it; that the Solomons, as well as the* New Hebrides, become part of what-l ever structure of defence Australia), is capable of building.—R.W.R.

Of Vital Concern To BP’s THE only British institution vitally concerned in any change in New Hebrides status is Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.

This Co. has large investments in NH, and it conducts a regular ship] ping service through the group. If France took over, the French probably would force the BP stores and shipping out of NH, just as they forced them out of Wallis and Futuna Islands, several years ago. I In such matters, the French are* ruthless. No Australian concerns!: maintain trading or shipping establishments in Noumea, for example,; although Noumea is the only non- British port within a few hundred! miles of Australia.

Fifty years ago, the late Sir James : Burns formally presented, to thejs new Commonwealth Government ofll Australia, rights to about 100.000 k acres of valuable land in Newh Hebrides—the idea, of course, beingfc that this should be made available]* to British planters. Australia still]! holds those rights—but regards them with indifference, be# cause nothing has been done aboutW them. If they go by default theyfj probably will enrich some long# sighted Frenchmen, who have beenii watching them for many years.

The 600-tons motorship Viriah owned by New Guinea Industrieag Ltd., en route from Brisbane to Laeis and Madang with oil products, de# veloped trouble in her pipe systen® and put into Cairns for repairs lateie in January. She resumed her voyage s three days later. 20 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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By Tolala F reports in Sydney evening papers can be taken as correct, it seems odds-on that “forced labour” in -NG will be a political platform lank of the ALP in the forthcomig Federal elections. And so, once gain, poor old P-NG becomes a elitical chopping-block.

The press reports that the NSW entral Executive of the Federal xecutive of the ALP appointed a act-finding” committee on “allegaons of forced labour on governent projects in P-NG.” One of le Central Executive is a Mr. G. ’Donnell, one-time ADO, “who regned in 1952 after 15 years in the ;rvice after clashing with the Adinistration on treatment of itives.” The Committee is “conrring with former Territories inister Ward, Australian Board of ifsions and other missionary )dies.”

So there is every indication of isty hustings in the offing which ill do the Territory no good and ily increase the sectional antagonn up there. * * * Amongst the many and various government hand-outs coming over the air from the ABC recently (on the twelfth anniversary of the Fall of Rabaul, to be exact) was the announcement of a week-end tour of Minister Hasluck to P-NG for the purpose (so it stated) of speeding up the production of beef cattle and rice for the consumption of the local native population and then, incidentally, reference was made of the Minister attending the opening of the big ply-mill at Buloio on January 26.

Presumably the listening public, following such an announcement, is to visualise the Minister personally hastening the breeding of stock and the planting of rice in order to make P-NG self-supporting and so justify the week-end jaunt, which would become a charge to Native Affairs account. The Speed Age must have added many thousands of pounds to Administration Travelling Expenses. * * * “The Hill,” not far from Rabaul, has been the centre of considerable controversy, conflict and court action, ending in “calaboose” for one party and a nolle prosequi for another. But, from what an oldtimer tells me (and he keeps his ear well to the ground) the matter is not ended yet.

The Hill, by the way, translated into the Blanche Bay dialect, is Raluana. There have been several features of the Raluana incident that need clarifying. Iron curtain tactics in such matters only lead to serious misunderstandings.

Latest development, according to the SP Post, tells that Administrator Cleland has adopted strong-arm tactics with the Raluana folk and told them it was his job to put them in the Council, “like it or not.”

Somehow, I don’t think they will like it. * * * American anthropologist Margaret Mead figured in Sydney newspapers last month when she reviewed present conditions with those existing 25 years ago, when gathering material for her Growing Up In- New Guinea, a book which has become a classic of its kind.

Many people in Australia, reading her remarks about the speed with which the Manus folk have progressed, according to Western standards, are liable to apply her remarks to New Guinea natives as a whole and raise their eyebrows at recent incidents in the Telefomin and Kukukuku countries. Manus, of course, was one of the most sophisticated areas of T-NG even 25 years ago, so little wonder at the “speed” they have shown after having made contact with Yanks, Jap prisoners, Service personnel and the gentleman known as Paliau.

I would like to see Beatrice Blackwood, Oxford anthropologist, who studied the Kukukuku tribe back in the early thirties, make a return trip and give us her comparative observations. * * * Sea communication with P-NG, Australia and the East seems to be on the increase, and a welcome step, too. Australia does not want to neglect this trade route. It would not surprise me if the NDL steamers are ploughing through these seas in the not-distant future. * * * The general outcry against Japanese being included in the ANZUS survey of NG was only natural, and for a few days public feeling ran high on the subject. I don’t think the Japs have very much left to learn about the coastlines of New Guinea or New Britain, and particularly the Manus area. Japanese hydrographers were by no means idle during the 3 h years of the Nippon occupation of our Territory and for many years before the war Japanese nationals, engaged in shell-fishing, Recruiting and ordinary freighting, in territorial waters, were always acknowledged as being well versed on their inter-island voyages.

What the late Captain Komine didn’t know about NG waters was nobody’s business. His own plantation at Pipitalai, which afterwards became the property of Nagahama, formed a part of the famous Manus base.

The greatest danger, in my opinion, of carrying out the suggestion would have been the impression made upon the natives when they Buloio Passengers Mrs. R. Frame, who with her husband, returned to Port Moresby recently on the Buloio, after three months leave in the NSW Blue Mountains.

Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Maloney and their two children who also travelled back to Moresby on the Buloio, after almost a year in the UK and on the Continent. —Photos by Papuan Prints. 21 fcCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY. 1954

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Dlicy is not readily understood by rown Brother and, before we knew here we were, the rumour could isily have been started by some iterprising agitator that Japan as making a check-up before iquiring a new property! * * * “Twenty Kanaka police bands- .en from Port Moresby arrived in /dney. . . .” Thus the SMH on its ont page one day last month. Tut, it! Scarcely a tactful appellation t fellow-students in our Ausalian Secondary Schools, even tough it may be etymologically ►rrect! * * * And, while on the important subct of secondary education for NG itives: Don Barrett, MLC for NG lands, seems to have a justifiable mplaint that the Administration ithheld a UN Trustee Council port dealing with this subject. It >pears that Mr. J. H. Jones (NG ecial representative and onene DDS), in answer to a ques- Dn by the Syrian representative, id NG indigenous children had )t yet reached the stage for condary education; and, when ady, it would be provided in the ‘rritory. Mr. Barrett believes the lange of policy was the result of trong representation by missionies from the Kwato Mission.”

Ee should have described the repsentation as Abel, not Strong.) To me, this proposed colour coucation scheme is a very risky isiness, from the sociological pect. Time will tell; but the inion of the Australian parents those attending schools with NG idents should be obtained. * * * It was only natural that P-NG id native welfare should come up r discussion at the congress of the istralian and New Zealand Assn, r the Advancement of Science.

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Spate plugged for the extension of European plantations and nativegeared economy in the Territory.

“Forced European development,” he envisaged as “leading to a Second Kenya.” . . . Anthropologist Stanner criticised mission teaching as subordinating native cultures; and Prof.

Elkin thought many years would elapse before full-bloods of NT became assimilated, adding: “If we are honest we may have to admit that we are not sure whether we want them to be assimilated.” And the Professor has got something there which could apply to P-NG “if we are honest,” and not propounding policies for the edification of the UN critics. * * . * A new film star arising in London is Diane Cilento, daughter of T-NG’s one-time PMO, Sir Raphael Cilento. Press blurbs say she was born in NG, but as she is only 21 now that would mean 1932 as her birth year. If my memory serves me aright, Sir Raphael and Dr.

Phyllis (his so-capable wife who is well remembered especially in Rabaul Chinatown, for her childwelfare work) left the Territory circa 1928. Still, if Diane wants to claim NG as her birth-place, I don’t suppose anyone will have objection. * * * ■ Critics criticised section; UN Trusteeship Council delegates, who visited P-NG last year and were free with criticism of local conditions, have themselves come in for some outspoken criticism from the Moresby branch of the Australian Ass’c’n. for UN, which complains of rudeness, and lack of tact on the part of delegates. Special exception is taken to the remarks of the Dominican member.

I am not at all surprised—it is time P-NG locals stood up for themselves. For years, planters and commercial enterprises have been accused by L of N and UNO of being tyrants and exploiters of natives, and Government officials of not A group of native Administration employees who were presented with Long Service [?]dals at a ceremony in Hanuabada. near Port Moresby, on January 19. From the [?]t (departments in parenthesis); Heni-Heni (Gov. Printer), Mara-Hekura (P & T. [?]lesman), Gavara-Lohia (Postal Services), Lohia-Gabe (Marine), Kabua-Gairo [?]upreme Court), Nogo-Ru (Gov. Secretary), Morea-Hila (Agriculture), Gaba-Boe (Gov. Stores), Bodu-Mea (Medical Services). 23 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Administration officials always remain mute and tactful (an attitude, no doubt, prescribed by Canberra) but non-officials certainly do the Territory good by challenging UN representatives’ attitude towards dwellers in Trust territories.

For years, now, I have wanted to tell these unqualified critics of NG to jump into the Lakes —first Geneva and now Success —and until more people do this Australia will always be bounced by these folk who are handing out pompous criticisms in order to hold their jobs. * * ♦ Lae is anxious that the RPC parade ground at Malahang should be resumed as an historical site.

Another site, with greater historical interest, is Proclamation Square in Rabaul, where the ceremony of taking over German New Guinea by the Australians in September, 1914, was carried out. It was also the scene of the public flogging administered to the German civilians involved in the flogging and ill-treatment of the Australian missionary, Rev. W. H. Cox, during the first days of War I. It is block 21 on the current Rabaul town plan. * * * Bits and Pieces: Old-time T-NG resident Willy Dupain and his charming wife were in Sydney last month at the Australia—he now is BP Manager at Cairns. . . , Edwina Hordern, of Bowral, is engaged to marry Peter Bailleu, of Victoria. He is a step-son of Harold (3LO) Coldham, a popular T-NG old-timer. . ..

Hon Camilla Wedgwood, of the SOPA, has been elected a member of the Social Scientific Research Council of Australia the only woman member. . . . Passed to his rest in Moresby is Lionel P. B.

Armitt, one of Papua’s oldest and best-known residents. By his magazine articles in US and Britain he put Papua on the map. He arrived in Papua about 1898. . . .

U Mr. R. M. Taylor, for m e r ly, Financial Secretary in the Government of Fiji, who was transferred to Northern Rhodesia in 1952, has been seconded to the post of] Secretary of Transport in the new Central African Federal Government.

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At the moment there is an insurmountable prejudice in favour of ZJeylon desiccated coconut.

Although the exact figures are not available, an enormous quantity of Slew Guinea coconut must have peen seized under the direction of he Commonwealth and State health mthorities soon after the first yphoid germ was detected in Can- A spokesman for the NSW Department of Public Health told PIM :hat at least 230 tons had been placed under seizure in that State.

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JAPAN, already, is on the job.

Japan is pleading with the victors of World War II for a ittle understanding and help in the atal problem of providing for an 30-millions population that grows )y more than one million each year. \ group of Tokio business men is 'eported to have announced that it vill pay Australia and Netherlands some £3,000,000,000 for the island continent of New Guinea. Another >roup has said that Australia and Netherlands must be forced to open New Guinea to Asiatic immigration.

Without navy, army or air force, Japan is no more a threat to our security at present than is Indonesia, which insists periodically [whenever the political situation sets sticky) that “Dutch New Guinea must and shall be Indonesian.” But we dare not forget the hreat. If anything happens to keep .

Britain and United States deeply engaged elsewhere, Japan within a year could build enough armaments to challenge Australia, which then would be the South Pacific s only guardian.

IT is with Hindustani that this 1 survey is primarily concerned— our fellow member ;n the British Commonwealth of Nations. Suspicion of Hindustani’s good faith is growing, and not without reason. It is th? g Hiridni? C pncoiira ’

BHtis?eSments f n ?helndo-PaSfic vf™ 2 mlv be nushed P out and Indians tag their P pface ’

The London Daily Express, in a series of startling disclosures in January, made the following charges- India’s High Commissioner in East Africa, a Mr. Pant, was recalled after the Governor-General of Kenya, Sir Lawrence Baring, had protested to Delhi, alleging that Mr.

Pant was responsible for much of the propaganda carried out by Indians among Africans, wherein the Africans were urged to follow India’s example and liberate themselves from the British. The Daily Express says: “Delhi radio broadcasts daily in African dialects, exaggerating every incident of African defiance or disobedience. Indian merchants are financing the African opposition Press, and even the Mau Mau.”

This is in line with what is known about growing anti-European sentiment among the large Indian communities in British East Africa generally, in Madagascar, in Natal, and in Mauritius.

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According to Mr. Ssfton Delmer. a special correspondent sent by the Daily Express to Mauritius, half the population of Mauritius are Hindus, who are dominated by the “Indianled and Indian-financed Labour Party.”

He says the latter is “one of the most sinister Marxist machines outside the Iron Curtain,” and alleges it is working for Indian domination cf the colony and a Marxist Socialis e revolution in its economic and social set-up.”

Mr. Delmer says:—“lf Indian plans are allowed to go unchecked in Mauritius it will encourage and help their take-over ambitions in many other parts of the Colonial Empire where large groups of Indian immigrants are among the inhabitants.” (Continued on Page 133) 27 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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These three fine new permanent buildings have recently been opened in Rabaul, [?]ew Guinea. From top to bottom: Colyer Watson (NG), Ltd.’s, new premises (see [?]M for January); the new establishment of the New Guinea Company, Ltd.; and [?]e new shop of Besswicks, Ltd., which was opened just before Christmas. —Photos by C. H. Meen. 29 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Some Polynesian Delegates Not Presented To Queen Delegates from the island Territories of Western Samoa, the Tokelaus, Cook Islands and Niue were grateful to the New Zealad Government for its hospitality to them during their tour of New Zealand at the time of the Royal Visit. But, although no public statement was made, it is known that they were displeased in regard to the major reason for their visit —to represent their people in paying respects to the Queen.

For reasons best known to the New Zealand Government, only six of the 17 representatives were officially presented to Her Majesty. A few others, presumably at the request of the Queen, were presented to her during the course of a garden party at Wellington. Others were not presented officially or unofficially. If there was a reason for this it was not explained to the delegates—and they were not amused. Their feelings were supported by members who mi.b. een . officially presented.

Their view is that as some of the members who were not presented were representing the people of certain islands or districts of their respective Territories, these islands or w& lstr f£ ts were hereby slighted.

Why the entire party could not be presented—it would have taken. not clear another ten minutes—is

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H Mr, Jack Cowan, who has operated a stevedoring business on the Papeete waterfront for the 20 years since settling in Tahiti from the Cook Islands, has now become a naturalised French citizen. 30

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Australia And The apanese earling War Skirmishing on Eve of New Season r appears from recent Canberra announcements, that the Jap pearling-luggers and motherip will be back this year in irth Australian waters under the ence system set up last September the Pearl Fisheries Act. At that ne Australia declared sovereignty er the “Continental Shelf” which, far as north Australian waters e concerned, stretches about 300 les off-shore. rhe season lasts from about April November.

Io fish for pearlshell in this area eryone—and that includes Ausilians—must have a licence, or Australia says. The Japanese e disputing Australia’s right to e Continental Shelf and will take e case to the International Court. , the present moment Australia id Japan are exchanging “notes” id “preliminary documents” and ing through all the motions at gh diplomatic level although it expected that the International >urt will not get down to cases r anything up to two years.

In the meantime, Australia says at she has agreed to the matter ing to the Court if Japan will serve a provisional pearling reement acceptable to Australia.

Australian MOP interests believe at the reappearance of the panese in north Australian iters to fish for pearlshell is due American pressure on the Ausalian Government; they believe, so, that an American firm was hind the Jap pearling fleet of 25 so small ships and a mother ip which collected at least 1,000 ns of shell in northern waters st season.

This is what they say happened; nerica informed the Australian svernment that if more MOP ire not forthcoming from Ausalian waters, American buttonctories would switch over entirely plastic buttons. This would timately force the Australian ell industry out of existence, nerica suggested that a Jap fleet, eked by American money, collect ell for American button manucturers only—only the secondiss or broken shell being retained Japan. [THAT actually happened was ▼ that the shell the Japanese fished, plus the regular Ausalian production, plus shell from e half-dozen other parts of the Drld where it is produced, overipplied the market—particularly ,e American market —and depressed the price.

The American firm that was behind the Japanese enterprise not only had sufficient to supply American manufacturers, which was the point on which they applied their pressure on Canberra, but had, also, sufficient to sell to UK and Continental consumers— that is, Jap-fished Australian shell was being sold by Americans to the UK and the Continent.

The Japanese made 1,500,000 dollars out of their part of the proceedings That is what most of the pearl shell interests in Australia believe; and it does not please them.

Since the war, and the withdrawal of the Jap divers, who realists admit made the North Australian pearling industry, costs of pearling with the inefficient labour now available has made the industry uneconomic unless fantastically high prices are received for shell. Pearling masters in the north now simply cannot compete with the Japanese on a cost basis.

It is estimated that the men employed on the Jap fleet received about £2O or £25 per month for the duration of the season; for this they lived in most primitive conditions and worked unlimited hours. No Australian government w ° ul J ™ U thelr which the Japanese work on their luggers. ~ A few - Japanese the area should be worked by Australians, under Australian <conditions of available labour mostly islanders, (Next Page) 31 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1954

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BRING BACK THE JAPS.

THEY SAY As an alternative, the realists [who are in the majority), say bring back the Jap pearl divers, inder a system of indenture, to /ork for Australians.” And, alhough this would bring the usual lowl of protest from people in the >outh, particularly from returned ervicemen who, with all due espect to them, know nothing -bout the pearling industry, it is, n fact, the only sane solution.

There is scarcely a pearling aaster in northern waters who /ould not welcome back the Japs nth open arms; and morally, what 3 the difference between Ausralians, in their own waters, emiloying Japanese to produce shell, ,nd Americans employing Japs to [o the same thing?

The difference as far as Australia /as concerned in the last season /as the 1,500,000 dollars which /ere lost to the country.

Objection to any plan to reproduce Jap pearldivers would ertainly come from the Queensand Government which, since the /ar, has made a great effort to rain and finance Torres Strait slanders to run their own luggers. >ome of these luggers are doing n efficient job. A great many of hem are not. There would be no eason why the efficient should not ontinue their operations. In a ompetitive industry the inefficient, -s is right, would soon be weeded iut.

It is unlikely that even if the nternational Court upholds Ausralia’s claim to the Continental >helf, that Australia will be able o efficiently police the vast area if water it involves in the north, (articularly against the wily Japs vho respect other peoples’ rules nly when they are at the wrong end if a gun. None of us like Japs, iut let us face it: There are some hings they can do better than we. *earl diving is one of them,' and Lshing is another.

The clever thing for Australia o do is to use Japanese know-how or the benefit of Australia. But /ill it? The whole conduct of the >earl-shell industry since the end if the war indicates political neptitude and muddled thinking.

The chances are that north Australia is now in for a long period of squabbling over the pearling grounds for, unless Australia employs a whole fleet of inspection vessels, the odds are very much in favour of the Japs.

IN PASSING: One of the few reparations Australia received from Japan was the secret of producing “culture pearls.” We know that experiments have been going on in northern waters but so far as we know Australia has not produced any results. Nor have there been any progress reports.

Poet’S Imagery

Shall I burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateway of the day?

Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise Droops the heavy-blossom’d bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in darkpurple. spheres of sea. —By Tennyson (who never even saw the Islands), in Locksley Hall.

Mr. W. A. Milne, assistant-Super intendent of Police in Fiji, has been transferred to a similar position in Kenya.

U Sir Alport and Lady Barker, of Fiji, recently visited Norfolk Island for a short visit. Sir Alport’s sister, Mrs. E. Moltke, is a resident of the island. 33 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Probably the last time this Pagan ceremony will be performed in a village on the outskirts of Port Moresby: When Peter-Vagi, an old Hanuabadan, died early in Jaunary, his two wives went through the age-old Papuan ritual of bedecking themselves for several months of mourning. Wearing ropes of the dead man’s hair around their necks, and native-made string bags containing feathers, they have blackened their faces with burnt coconut. Peter-Vagi who was over 90 at the time of his death, was one of the few old-timers who refused to conform to Christianity. But he was a village councillor for some years and well respected by his people. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 34 FEBRUARY. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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It would appear that these writers who spent some time in the South icific Islands in 1951-52—believe miracles and accept as scientific cts “the controlled use of Mana,”

Jian fire-walking, the power of le Atua, the authenticity of the atib of the Fiji-Indians, and other tings customarily regarded as part the mysticism of uneducated jople.

There is a very amusing section, herein Mr. Sandwith describes at ngth a bitter and merciless ruggle in 1951 between a Fijian izard, working through an old ijian chief, and a Tongan Atua itone idol), which Mr. Sandwith imself “activated.” But Mr. Sandith does not think it amusing— is seriously presented as a contriition to scientific knowledge.

Mr. and Mrs. Sandwith claim to ave had a great deal of trouble ith Mana —it seemed to attach itilf to various things and houses, id at times the unfortunate Sandiths found themselves completely [hausted —their vitality could not and up to the persistent attacks : the malevolent spirits. (This riter, at certain times in Fiji and amoa, has suffered similar exhauson, but always attributed it to the imate, combined maybe with a ttle unwise mixture of chilled averages).

It is a pity that the investigators id not visit New Guinea in the onsoonal season. It probably would ave convinced them of the terrifyig potency of Papuan witchcraft.

Anyone who wants to read a irrago of nonsense, seriously pre- :nted in excellent English as a ;ientific treatise, should send 4/6 > the Omega Press, in Reigate, urrey.

NB; This is written on February Auckland’s birthday. To-day, as irt of Auckland’s festival, 20 Fijian rewalkers from Beqa are putting a one of their performances—they roll, unharmed, across a pit of hite-hot stones. The method of reparing their feet to resist intense eat for a short time is a tribal ;cret —something to do with herbal •eatment. But the Sandwiths say lat it is pure Mana.

Important decisions on Public /orks Priorities and work to be ndertaken in the Cook Islands are spected to be made at Wellington uring February. Mr. Ryan, of the üblic Works Department, travelled mth per January Maui Pomare to ttend the conference.

Little Benefit to W. Samoa While English and Australian cocoa buyers were offering £4OO to £420 Stg. per ton, FOB Apia, for W. Samoa cocoa during January, the American market continued to hold back, believing that the present sellers’ boom is only temporary and that prices will soon level off at a much lower figure.

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Members of the Kavieng Sub-Branch of the RSSAILA met on January 3, for their annual general meeting.

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Before the advent of the ship two years ago the district depended upon the Government-owned shipping service which was irregular, and very unsatisfactory and with constantly rising freights.

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The com p a n y’s Bougainville shareholders purchased recently all interests that had been held by the former English owners of the vessel in the form of vendor’s shares.

Passenger and freight rates on the Polurrian have been lower than the rates charged by the Government-owned vessels. fl Mareko Mareko has been selecte< as the first recipient of the Did Brown Scholarship, which provide funds for the education of a Mani hiki (Cook Is.) boy in New Zealand Mareko goes to the Timaru Bovs High School. * 38 FEBRUARY. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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CARPENTER Born: Singapore, IS??, son of Captain J. B. Carpenter.

Educated in Sydney.

Manager of J. B. Carpenter & Son, in nearl shell industry, Thursday Island, in 1899. Mayor of TI for two vears.

Established V. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd., in 1914.

Knighted in 1936, in recognition of his gifts to charity.

Removed his home to Vancouver in 1940, and became a Canadian citizen.

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A CCORDING to the records, Sn* \ Walter Randolph Carpenter was 76 when he died, and a sick lan But to those who knew him rell he was never old or sick —he etained always the qualities of ynamic youth. He was a trader efore he wore long pants; he oranised and registered J. B. Carenter & Son before he was 21; he ras still the active Chairman of tie Carpenter group of companies rhen he died.

He got more fun out of directing large and growing organisation, nd playing the money market, than nyone I have ever known. The scret of successful finance, of ourse, is to see and assess the larket trends before anyone else, n that, he was truly remarkable [e would sit in that little office of is on the western side of O’Connell itreet, and doodle by the hour on is blotting pad—half calculations, alf whorls and symbols—and then lake up his mind. He was nearly Iways right; but the joy of success [id not lie in the money he made.

Valter Carpenter was right again— hat was what mattered.

From boyhood, he was trained in he quick analysis of the conditions yhich govern markets; and, of ourse, because of his environment, le became a specialist in handling ropical produce. He was a shrewd md successful young Islands trader before World War I and, when that war gave New Guinea into Australia’s care, he saw his big opportunity.

WALTER, and his father before him (the famous Captain Carpenter). had had many opportunities of learning the trading technique of the South Pacific’s most successful firm, Burns Philp & Co. Ltd.; and when W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. began to operate in what was later the Mandated Territory, as BP’s liveliest competitors, it was BP methods which made it so formidable so soon. Carpenters went immediately as coprabuyers and traders into a field that was wide open; and in spite of the steady opposition of the experienced BP men, they had phenomenal sue- COSS.

This success created Walter Carpenter’s first real problem: How to finance a big and growing turnover. That he solved it was the first outstanding proof of his quality.

He was helped, of course, by the way in which copra “skyrocketed”

Sir Walter Carpenter. 39 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Also to any of the Company’s Offices in Australia or N.Z. * ■ _i tUirst. thar •~ -> ■; jb«: K 8.70 tOOIH’S brew E D AND bottled i the ’Twenties. He easily could ave been ruined by what happened l 1929-30, for in those early days 5 must have been carrying a lot : borrowed money. ■Rnt tv-ip cwinfT-hnrk from the S? of the ’Twenties bringing the ep?ession he and 6 starVaUon'Ticel .r copra had been foreseen by The oss - he had his anchors down in rm 'ground, and he rode out the orm without damage. In fact, he -ofited by it. Many properties, ading and planting concerns, colpsed financially, and Carpenters ithered them into the WRC organation.

N the beginning with capital small, thfCarp B ente W r trade con- « S l S h e ere of on” P co y uW y at 6 f profit t u P nassed and P more mital became available Walter’s a P n became^lear—nameiv control industries andlinking them to- ‘ther so tLrone fed the omer The trading stores bought the irvrrT and sold essentiaf goods ck to the d nlanter Profit on copra ? nrofiton goods'for the Co Then le Co beean to get control antations—sometimes by purchase, metimes by financing the planter. here were now three profits—on te copra, on the goods supplied, on ie operation of the plantation. He tablished his own insurance commy and got a fourth profit.

Once the Depression was past, Walter’s tireless mind turned to transport. Every activity of his Co. had to pay for sea-carriage, in some form or other. The next logical step, therefore, was to own and operate ships. The Co. ran its own small boats along the New Guinea coasts, but by 1934 it had acquired two elderly motor-ships which it named the Salamaua and the Rabaul, for carrying its copra overseas, and bringing back the goods for its Islands stores. That was the beginning of the Carpenter line ot modern motor-ships, now known in most Pacific ports, Ships could not carry goods and passengers between the sea and the Morobe goldfield, however—that was °« of “tors ?hem suddenly appeared in New Guinea a couple of little to run between Lae and Wau in the Carpenter interests.

So was established Mandated Airways, stm operating in New Guinea.

A few yew* later > Carpenter airways interests tendered for and captured from Guinea Airways the contract for running the air-mails between Sydney and New Guinea; 1 wit^nDanta^ 86^6^17 merged with Qantas.

A ND so it went on—copra buying and selling, plantations, trade stores, ships, air services, and various subsidiaries, all linked together, each feeding the other, and 41 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Walter’s brothers—Jack and Bill, notably—became associated with the Co. early in its history, and the Co. also was (and still is) magnificently served by managers like Bert Perriman and Jack Sedgers. Two of Walter’s sons, R.B. (“Ranji”) and C.H. (“Wick”), grew up beside him as his loyal and exceedingly competent lieutenants. To-day they are the men in charge.

“The Boss” was rarely seen in public or in the Islands; but he was always there in his little room, scribbling figures on his tortured pad and planning each developmental step. In the beginning, there were croakers a-plenty, who foresaw Walter’s downfall; but when the Depression only brought him greater strength, and the Carpenter dividend continued and grew, Carpenter shares slowly and steadily entered the gilt-edged field.

Of course, the Co. had its critics and its implacable enemies—success in a highly competitive field usually produces a crop. The Carpenters were tough traders, and there was no coddling of staff in the Islands.

Those who stuck it mostly went on to reap solid rewards; but many found the going too hard, and dropped out, to become vociferous Carpenterphobes. Walter himself, like most folk with a quick brain and dominating character, was not easy to live with, at headquarters.

But the staff men who survived never had reason to complain of lack of kindness or generosity.

AN important development was seen before World War 11. Carpenters now were getting the production profit, the trading profit, and the transport profit. But still Walter was not happy. Why could they not share in the end profit m^ ufacturin S and distribution?' The first step was taken at Pond New Britain. By the middf Thirties, a Carpenter mill thewas producing desiccated cocom from Carpenter plantations’ copr On my last visit there, in 1940, be fore the place was torn to piece by the Japs, some new and ingeni ous appliances were working c 42 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT

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IN their annual report, the Directors of New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., express the hope that they will pay a dividend during the current financial year.

The company, in the year ended September 30 last, made a profit of £37,373 —about the same as last year.

After years of heavy struggling, the company appears to be entering a period of small, regular profits. It has completed the construction of its cyanide treatment mills (cost £87,000) which strengthens revenue.

There is nothing about NGG, Ltd., to excite the speculator. The year’s profit (£37,000) is only 3}fc per cent, on the total subscribed capital of £950,000; and there is nothing to indicate that profits will rise substantially. NGG’s neighbour, Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., seeing the

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Compo Road, Rocklea, Brisbane, Queensland oconut husks, and bales of coir fibre ly beside the sacks of desiccated oconut, awaiting shipment.

Walter, sometime, had noticea hat. although Canada consumed oconut oil and meal, there was no opra mill in Canada. So oefore 7orld War II broke out, Walter was i Vancouver at the official opening f a crushing mill, for the establishlent of which he was personally reponsible. .

The story of the mills is a long tory— but to-day, in Suva and in Labaul, there are large crushing lills, producing coconut oil and leal in bulk, both owned and perated by Carpenter interests.

Carpenters thus get some of the nd profit on their copra; and, by stablishing these secondary indusries they have enriched the conomy of both Territories. r SAW this immense organisation, L and all these inter-locking industries, come into existence ver the last 30 years. Enormous apital, of course, was needed —and t was provided, and still the Cartenter family retained control. How jas it done? Only God and Walter Carpenter knew. I never ceased to .dmire the man’s financial genius, le never failed his colleagues, and Lis backers. . , , . , Naturally, with his knowledge of tig finance, Walter Carpenter was ntensely interested in government, t was through that that I fi r st met iim 24 years ago. He believed that he solution of Australia’s then Lnancial troubles lay in the depreiation of the Australian £. Most leople shuddered in horror at the dea that there should be any diference between the Australian £ md Sterling. His understanding f international finance, and his ogic, convinced me, and I helped iim many times in the compilation >f newspaper articles, advocating [evaluation. As everyone knows, it ame in 1933.

LONG before World War 11, WRC foresaw the effect of Socialist trends on Ausralian economy trends that ,re so apparent now. He believed hat, if anything ever happens to listurb the oversea markets for Australia’s chief products, there will ie a grave collapse in Australian conomy, and that Socialist polticians then will ruthlessly despoil ich men and rich companies.

So, little by little, all of the Car- >enter interests which could be relieved from Australia, were widely tased overseas —the newer enter- >rises were never even brought to Australia. The parent company, mce so big and flourishing and proitable, remains in Australia, of ;ourse, but it now is little more han a holding Company; a good leal of its original capital has been eturned to the shareholders. That vas Walter Carpenter’s last big job; md it represents the comment of lis financial genius upon the future )f Australia.

Walter Carpenter belongs, as of right, to a remarkable company o outstanding British men whose genius, foresight and industry established great trading and industrial organisations in the South Pacific.

They are the late Sir James Burns (founder of the Burns Philp group) : ‘he late Sir ~ Carpenter (founder Of the Carpenter group), the late Sir Maynard Hedfitrom (founder of Morris Hedstrom Ltd.) ; Captain A. S. Fitch (founder of Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., of Pnmia’l thp IntP O F Nelson.

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J. C. Merrillees Pty. Ltd. end of its gold bearing country, went inteJ partnership with the Australian Govern -t ment in a very large timber industry* based on the famous Bulolo pines. NGG£ Ltd., also have established a large timbeie plant; but the authorities seem deter-mined that NGG, Ltd., shall not get any substantial share of the available forests —they are reserved for BGD. NGG, Ltd., appears to have no future in New Guineas timber.

However, while the gold lasts, an* under the present competent, cautious) and conservative management, it is likeljr] that NGG, Ltd., will be a small but steady dividend payer for some years.

Fiji-Indian School Annual Is Interesting C° far -the Government of Fiji has only?; LJ partially undertaken the task ofl« providing secondary education inn that growing Colony; and the schools! that it has provided are generally onn racial lines. There is a Boys’ and an Girls’ Grammer School for Europeans) and part-Europeans; the Queen Victoria); and Kadavulevu Schools for Fijian Boys„e and the Adi Cakabau Intermediate fon< Fijian Girls; and the Natabua Secondary?' School for Indians.

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Campbell—P assey Wedding TpHE marriage of Mr. Rex Campbell to « J- Miss Anne Passey, of Griffith, NSW, at Lingatu in the Russell Group, < BSIP, took place at the residence of Mr. ,1 and Mrs. L. C. Thomas. Ilua, on Dec- ember 13.

The ceremony was performed by the e Rev. Fr. Garrity; the bride was attended b by Miss Etta Palmer and the best man □ was Mr. Brian Cullen. The bride was g, given away by Mr. L. C. Thomas, managing - director of Lever’s Pacific 01 Plantations.

The bride wore a ballerina-length frock A of white Broderie Anglaise with pearl Itrimmings and matching mittens. Her t tulle veil was held by a Juliette cap of the same material. She wore a locket, an heirloom belonging to her father, which arrived on her wedding day.

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Thomas, who wore a grey shark skin n ensemble with matching straw hat.

The bride and groom, after being pre- sented with frangipanni leis, sailed on n the gaily decorated “Monokai” to spend b their honeymoon at Ufa. 44 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Low Price for NG Peanuts Kingaroy Nuts Swamp Market INSTEAD of rising, as expected, L the price of New Guinea peanuts in shell had dropped by nid-January to 1/- lb, delivered hto store, Sydney. 4 At the end of the month there yas no sign of a recovery, even hough it was the so-called offseason for Kingaroy peanuts when territory nuts could normally be sxpected to bring about 1/8 lb. Top irice in the last twelve months was ,/lli —brought in early 1953.

The main factor in the price fall las been the announcement, by the Queensland Peanut Board, that it las increased the acreage for April- £ay harvesting by no less than 300 >er cent. Contributing factors have leen the prejudice of Australian myers against the Territory nuts, md the late release of quantities if Kingaroy nuts which were held iver by the growers from last seaon.

Trebling the current Queensland leanut acreage is expected to yield 2,000 tons. Crops from Darwin and he NSW North Coast will probably ncrease the total yield to 25,000 ons, enough to satisfy Australia’s equirements of nuts in shell for his year. Queensland growers are already contracting to sell at lOd lb, into store, Brisbane.

If the Australian crop is successful, importers will be hardpressed to find a market for any considerable quantity of the Territory nuts in shell. Besides competing in a market that will be fully supplied, they will have to overcome the ingrained prejudice of buyers who have come to expect that about 75 per cent, of Territory nuts will be unattractive and undersized.

Although importers report some improvement in the appearance of nuts coming from the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain (where almost all the growers are natives), the 45 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Previously, they had to obtain approval from Canberra.

IT Mrs. J. N. Hall, together with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Rutger, returned from Hawaii to live in Tahiti in January.

Four new Government Officers from the United Kingdom arrived in Honiara, BSIP, in December.

They are Mr. C. J. Hadley, a new Forestry Officer, who will be posted to Vanikoro; Dr. R. Bevan, a new Medical Officer; and Mr. R. M.

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H Dr. Andre Tourneux, Papeete surgeon and radiologist, dee parted suddenly on Tahitien in Dee cember, on receiving advice from France that his mother was seri-i ously ill. 46 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Cook Is. Visitors Recent arrivals in New Zealand from he Cook Islands included (left to right): Hr. and Mrs. H. S. Moreland on three nonths’ vacation to New Zealand; Mr.

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Consecration of Bishop in BSIP rHE Consecration of the Rev.

A. T. Hill as Bishop of Melanesia will take place in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in May, 1954.

The Archbishop of New Zealand (The Very Rev. R. Owen) will be the Chief Consecrator, and the Bishop of Dunedin, NZ, will assist.

Ihe Bishop of New Guinea will also be present.

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Islands residents returning from NZ recently, included (left to right): Mr. and Mrs.

J. M. McEwen and sons, bound for Niue where Mr. McEwen has just been appointed Resident Commissioner in succession to the late Mr. C. H. W. Larsen; the Rev. Brother Patrick Managreve homeward bound for Rotuma, on leave from his studies at Auckland University; Mr. and Mrs. R. Marlow and children returned to Suva from leave in New Zealand.

LOWER: Mr. E. R. Moyle of A. B. Donald & Co’s. Rarotonga shipping department arrived in Auckland on vacation; Mr. Manukuo, at school in New Zealand, returned to Niue for the holidays; the Rev. William Etueni Moungaloa. L.Th.. returned to Tonga after four years of study at Leigh Theological College, Sydney; Miss Ann Scott was bound for Suva. 49 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY, 1954

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The Rev. S. G. C. Cowled, QBE, Chairman of the Methodist Mission in Fiji, has gone to Malaya to pay a brief visit to the Ist Battalion.

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In this car a man and his wife plunged over the cliffs near the Rouna Hotel, about 30 miles out of Port Moresby, at 1.30 a.m. on December 19. Neither was seriously hurt, but this is what the car looked like after its 200-ft. plunge. The couple were Mr. and Mrs. G. Bugg. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 50 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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A New Era in P-NG

By Renata Cochrane

TO-DAY, in Mainohana village, Julian Efi became a priest, the first Papuan ever to be ordained in his own country.

Sixteen years before, he had left for St. Mary's Seminary, at Vunapope Mission, near Rabaul. “At first, when I started, I didn’t understand what it was all about,” he said. “But as the years went on —well, things seemed to get clear. Botany and physics and history I found easy; but dogma and philosophy, they were hard; and I think we all had difficulty with Latin to begin with.”

Julian’s studies were interrupted by the Japanese invasion in 1942.

With his fellow-students, he was forced to labour side by side with Australian prisoners-of-war. Later, he was interned in company with all the members of Vunapope Mission.

By the end of the war, there was not a single building left at the Mission. There was no question of re-opening the seminary. Then Bishop Wade, of the Solomon Islands, came to the rescue. He bought an Army camp at Torokina, in his own diocese, and founded a new seminary, where Julian was able to finish his studies. Then he returned to Papua to report to his superior, Bishop Andre Sorin, MSC, of the Catholic Mission, Yule Island. Broad shouldered and selfassured, quiet and with a ready smile, he held himself in readiness for his great day.

“I don’t know where the Bishop will send me,” he said. “All the Fathers here are Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, but the Pope prefers that the clergy of a country should be taken from its own people. So if I wish to remain a secular priest, I can do so.” He spoke decisively, well knowing that he represented the beginning of the Church in Papua.

FOR this reason, the Bishop had decided that the ordination should take place at the village of Mainohana, the natural meeting-place of the Mekeo, Roro and Waima people, inhabiting the coastal plain across from Yule Island. Julian is a Mekeo, like the only other Papuan priest, Father Louis Vangeke, MBC; but Father Louis was ordained in Madagascar, and the Papuan people had never seen an ordination.

So, on this Sunday morning, Julian’s people got up long before drawn to attend Mass and hurry along the paths through the kunal grass and along the creeks in their canoes, so that, for once in their unhurried lives, they might be in good time. Mothers carried their babies in net bags slung from their foreheads. Grave Mekeo men, their carefully-combed frizzy hair clipped like a round, full wig, walked with their heads held high. Some were The Ordination of Julian Efi, 51 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Roro girls, tatooed from head to foot in delicate, sooty, geometric patterns swayed their hips and set their fine, yellow-dyed grass skirts swinging. Round their necks hung massive necklaces of dogs’ teeth, plaques of gold-lip pearl shell, finely-worked ornaments of tortoiseshell —all their portable wealth for the prospective husbands to see and admire.

The crowd grew denser as they neared Mainohana Mission Station.

Schoolboys dressed uniformly in blue ramis marched in; a troop of Scouts; young men with their faces intricately painted all over in traditional designs of many colours; old women with shaven heads and no adornment, naked piccaninnies.

All the people—Julian’s people— came hurrying in for the ordination.

ABOUT 4,000 of them gathered in the open space near the newlyerected Mission buildings. The unfinished church was too small to house them, so the village people had built a sanctuary out of doors, high up on a platform. They used the traditional design of a Papuan house, a pointed arch rising uninterrupted from floor to roof tree.

Delicate young coconut fronds outlined the entrance, indicating a chief’s house. The walls were of local bamboo, tied with vines.

The front of the altar was hung with a native fishing net, the centre decorated with a design of flaming bird-of-paradise plumes. Grass skirts hung on the walls, and mats woven by the women from dried sago leaves carpeted the floor.

It was the Bishop’s wish that this should be a feast for Julian’s people, that they should understand that this was the beginning of the Church in Papua. Even the embroidery on Julian’s new white chasuble caught the theme—a birdof-paradise escaping from a broken net, with taro leaves in the background to symbolise the Mekeb countryside.

“Laqueus contritus est et nos liberati sumus.” —“Our soul was freed as a bird from the snare of the trappers: the snare was broken and we were delivered.”

PRESENTLY the procession came walking under the arches of swaying coconut fronds. The brown-skinned schoolchildren led the way, followed by the Sisters in their white habits and pale blue veils. Then came the Papuan Little Sisters in grey, with a demure white collar: then the laymen, builders, boatmen and farmers of the Mission; the Brothers, European and Papuan, dressed alike in black soutanes and starched white lace; and lastly the Fathers —all those who could possibly leave their stations for a little while.

From the steps of the sanctuary, the Bishop in his robes spoke to the people in the Roro language: “God, who is all powerful, created man. Man, by sin, cut himself off from God. God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to stand between Himself and man. He is therefore the only true priest. But, just before He died, Jesus Christ gave to the Apostles the power to stand before 53 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1954

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The Bishop asked the people if they knew of anything which might prevent Julian from becoming a priest. No one spoke. He turned to Julian, reminded him of the duties he will have to undertake.

Beautifully and meticulously, the ceremony continued. Julian prostrated himself before the altar, while the Waima, Roro and Mekeo people, accustomed to Latin, took up the responses of the Litany of the Saints. Julian rose and knelt before the Bishop. In silence, in the fierce hot sunlight of the tropic morning, the Bishop laid his hands on Julian’s head, asking the Holy Spirit to come down on him and make him a priest forever.

Sweat ran down the faces of the attentive native people. No one stirred. In the front row, a woman with a shaven head wept quietly.

She is one of Julian’s sisters. * * * The crowd jostles and pushes round the Mission House. The sun beats down on eager, painted faces.

From shining brown skins comes a smell of coconut oil, slightly rancid in the hot sun. The red and yellow flowers around the top-knots of the young women begin to wilt. Suddenly, there is silence. Father Julian in his white chasuble, the bird-of-paradise escaping from the broken net of paganism, comes out to his people to give them his first blessing.

The Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Munster, who attended the Finance Ministers’ Conference in Sydney, had brief informal talks with the Governor of Fiji when he passed through Nadi, on his return to the UK via America, in late January. 54 FEBRUARY. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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He said that the “minor, paltry methods of the whites and the exploitation of the native Papuans” had reached such a pitch that Australia might find terror striking to the north of her shores. Further, the natives were finding their efforts to establish agricultural and trading co-operatives hampered at every turn; land that had belonged to their tribes for centuries was taken from them by the Crown and the white man’s laws were denying them the use of it. * * * We think we have heard of the Rev. Mr. Clint before. If we remember aright, he was for a short time stationed at Anglican Missions in the North-Eastern Division of Papua. More recently, he has been in the Bathurst district of NSW where he took it upon himself to make frequent utterances about the iniquity of the European in P-NG — particularly as it related to depriving the natives of land. He has been fighting actively against soldier settlement in P-NG, and other enterprises.

He now appears to be at the Lockhart River mission, up in northern Australia.

Mr. Clint is typical of a certain type of missionary who has emerged since the war, and who feels that not only is it incumbent upon him to convert the heathen to Christianity, but also to stand between him and the evil machinations of all non-mission Europeans.

If P-NG ever develops any type of Mau-Mauism (and this is, of course, possible) a large proportion of the blame will be attributable to such men as Mr. Flint whose rabid sectionalism and misguided feeling of “dedication” has done more to stir up racial feeling and distrust between natives and Europeans and European institutions than any other factor.

The cry of exploitation from the theorists, trade-unionists and other reformers with an axe to grind, is old stuff now. It usually slides off the backs of wicked planters and traders with accustomed ease. But such utterances still make the headlines, and for this reason, we fancy, are used deliberately by missionaries who desire a little publicity for their own purposes.

Mr. Clint and his ilk, of course, go further than the castigation of “vested interests” in the Territory and impertinently accused the Administration of falling down on the job of protecting the interests of those people whom they are there to protect—the natives.

This deliberate rms-use of publicity for the sake of cheap sensationalism has done a great deal of harm to missions. If they continue to play politics in a country such as P-NG, it could lead to disaster for them, as well as for the Territory.

Hawaiian music fans—and there are many in the Islands—will learn with regret of the recent death of Sol K. Hoopi, one of the most popular exponents of this music. He was Hawaiian born; his full name was Sol K. Hoopi Kaaiai, but he dropped the final surname on commencing professional performances in 1923. He died while in Seattle, USA, aged 48.

Samoan Trainee Nurses for US FOUR Eastern Samoan girls, Repeka Isara, Sinira Talatonu, Ofeira Tuliau and Rufo Suiaunoa, will shortly leave Pago Pago for a three-years training course at the Kaiser Foundation School of Nursing, Oakland, Cal.

All the girls are graduates of the High School of American Samoa and are daughters of Samoan Faifeaus (missionaries).

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As there are no suitable prison facilities for holding the men there for any period, they were again placed aboard the Tofua, in January, and transferred to Apia orison, where, presumably, they will now remain pending the appeal.

Pelope Shoal is Still There From Our Own Correspondent HONIARA, Dec. 31.

ATTEMPTS were made on December 10 and 12 to demolish Pelope Shoal, which is an obstruction to shipping at Point Cruz, Honiara, by exploding salvaged under-water demolition bombs.

The operation was carried out by 2 Aust. Bomb Disposal Section personnel and despite careful planning and preparation, the attempts were not successful.

On December 10 the three large bombs which had been placed in position failed to explode. Ropes were placed round them and they were hauled to the surface after the primers had gone off without detonating the bombs. It was found that owing to exposure to weather during the post-war years the bombs were useless.

At the second attempt, another set of bombs duly exploded, but could not shift the coral rock of the shoal. Great credit is due to the Bomb Disposal Section for their conscientious hard work on a difficult and dangerous task.

The bombs used were salvaged in the Western Solomons..

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Exhibition of Hilder Paintings AN exhibition of watercolours by Brett Hilder will be opened at the Woodford Hotel, Honiara, BSIP, on March 11.

There will be 16 landscapes of the Solomons area, and 16 Solomon Islander portraits.

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New Melanesian Chapel Built by Bishop Elect A NEW chapel was consecrated by c\ Bishop S. G. Caulton, at Pawa mission station, on Ungi Island, BSI, on January 3.

The Mission shin Southern Cross nade a tour of Melanesian Mission stations gathering teachers and school pupils and assembling them it Pawa for the event.

The chapel is constructed on the Tamework of a Strand hut, raised I feet above a concrete basement md with a broad verandah en- Jircling it.

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Following the dedication service in the morning, the 1,000 people present were entertained with dancing and a feast; a Nativity Play was presented by the school pupils that evening, a very fine performance being given under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Rawcliffe.— G.H.H.

MV Aros, of the Australian-West Pacific Line, whose service between Sydney and Japan and Hongkong is already well known in New Guinea, called at Honiara, BSIP, early in December. She is expected to make a second call there about mid-March.

Governor Petitbon Returns Governor petitbon, of French Oceania, was expected back at Papeete from France by air on February 17.

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Among Territorians who returned home on the January “Buflolo” were left) Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bunting and their two children. Mr. Bunting has been attending the two-years course at the School of Pacific Administration in Sydney; he has now been posted to Finschhafen, NG. At right is Mr. Hobart Spiller, of Menapo Plantation, and his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs, B. Spiller. They have been abroad for 11 months. —Photos by Papuan Prints. 61 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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The Governor, Dr. Jan van Baal (who is at present in The Hague) has held conferences on import and excise duties, price pegging, and wages.

Dr. van Baal stated that the high cost of living in Netherlands New Guinea is appalling. He said “something must be done in this respect and I can assure you that the best part of my stay at present is being given to this problem.” Workers in the Territory should be able to make a decent living. Only thus could something be built up in the area.

Dr. van Baal said he was bewildered by the rapidly growing interest in New Guinea. This was welcomed, but he warned against over-estimating the Territory. There are possibilities, he stated, but not all can be seen at once.

New Guinea is not a romantic country full of promises—instead, it is a challenge. It would not do to put millions in to New Guinea straight away. We must make a start on a modest scale which is economically warranted.

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Even more imnortant, it seems certain now that the local cannery, -which was set up about five years " ago and has never canned a fish, will at last have some raw material to work on. , Reason for this change on the fisheries front is the arrival in Pago of a flotilla of half a dozen Japanese vessels and a mother-ship. They are owned by the American fishing , companv. Van Camp, but are operated on a pay-by-results basis, by Japanese who use a long-line fishing technique that gets results.

About 150 Samoans will be employed in the shore-based part of the industry; Mr. Paul J. Hendrick, with five other Americans, is already in Pago in charge of operations.

The mother ship is North Star; the fishing vessels Takuyo Maru, Daijin. Maru, Shinko Maru, Kiyo Maru, Kyuei Maru, and Kotoku Maru. Two of them fished on their wav south to Pago from Japan, and arrived in Eastern Samoa with lh tons of marlin and about eight tons of tuna. To show it was no accident, while waiting for serious operations to begin, the ships go out off American Samoa and regularly bring in large hauls of fish, including tuna.

The early success of Japanese methods in bringing in the elusive tuna is naturally causing broad grins in Pago, and all over the Eastern Pacific men are asking what it is the Japs have that the expensive South Seas Marine Products of Fiji did not.

The answer obviously is knowhow.

SSMP was set up with headquarters in Fiji, about 1948. It had a solid backing of American capital, expensive American equipment, including special tuna clippers, and a spotting plane. The cannery in Pago was part of the plan;—lt was to process for the American market, tuna caught by specially trained Fijians in the specially equipped tuna clippers. Earnings by the British end of the outfit were to help balance our dollar deficit.

South Seas Marine Products cannot be blamed for what happened The first of the Japanese fishing boats to arrive in Pago Pago—in early January.

She is the first Jap vessel to visit Pago since the raising of the American flag in 1900. —Photo by Pan American Prints. 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Fish From 60 Fathoms Amaze Pago Pago DESPATCH FROM JAMES F. McKENNEY.

PAGO PAGO, Jan. 26.

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa, is in the fish business —in a big way, with big fish. Every inch of refrigeration space on shore is filled with fish, Black Marlin monsters up to, and over 1000 lbs. each; Malu, Bonita, Sail-fish.

The seven Japanese fishing vessels in the harbour are carrying from eight to twenty tons each of sleek, fat, gleaming yellow-tail 200-lbs tuna.

These vessels dash into the harbour, fill up with several tons more ice, then clear off again to catch more tuna. All are anxiously awaiting the arrival ,of the mother-ship, to-day, so that they may disgorge their bursting holds into her vast refrigerated chambers, and be off again for more.

The Samoans do not believe it.

Never have they seen such large fish nor so many. Neither has the writer, in his 33 years in the Islands.

Some years ago when Nea Stevenson, of Suva, took her Fiji maid to Sydney for the first time and introduced her to a giraffe at the Zoo, the maid’s reaction was; “Sa sega ni rawa.” (It isn’t possible. It can’t be done).

That is the reaction here, and these good people really believe that these fish have been brought from Japan—they call them “the Japanese fish.”

They were all caught within sight of Tutuila —some within sight of Pago Pago—but . ... at from the sixty to eighty fathoms level , a depth never before explored, and never expected to contain such large quantities of edible fish.

LET us go back to late last year when two high executives from the well known American packing house—Van Camp—arrived to check over the canning plant here and make recommendations to their firm. Within a month of their return to the States a leafee was signed: Government of American Samoa, lessor; Van Camps, lessee.

This was something out of the blue; Santa Claus in disguise; something never dreamed of by the local Government nor by the large number of also impoverished Samoans in this area. Here was an industry —the first of its kind—work in sight, money to spend, cheap fish for food and for all.

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EUIVIATISNI and FLU TJiciuAao (Furdad ■source. The canning people don’t talk much.

Early this month a team of five Americans arrived to begin the arduous job of getting ready, for production, a canning plant that had been idle for years. Seemingly still quite unconcerned about the supply of fish, they did say that a contract had been signed with a Japanese fishing Co. to supply tuna, A mother-ship, The North Star, was to arrive middle January, and the Jap fleet about the same time.

The relative duties of the ships were that the mother-ship—practically all refrigerated space below—would meet the fishing fleet at sea, take over the tuna catch and supply ice for a further six days’ fishing, about twenty tons each ship.

When Van Camp were asked how far out the fishermen might have to go, they replied that in some Stateside canneries Tuna were fished as far as 1,000 miles from the base.

No one knew that, deep in these local virgin waters, there lurked more fish than even the Jap fishermen had ever encountered anywhere. They were amazed at the quantity and the ease with which they could be caught. .

This is January 26. The mothership is due to-day. Last week the first of the Jap fishermen arrived.

A strange looking vessel. High protruding prow, 1o w waist, little superstructure, every inch of below deck space for the storage of fish.

Where the crew of 30 slept appeared a mystery; may-be with their beloved fish.

AFTER usual customs and health formalities it was expected that the ship would call for water, fresh vegetables, food, etc.; but the call was for ice—tons of ice. Four tons were supplied forthwith.

During the operation of stowing this ice, it was disclosed what lay below. Eight tons of Tuna, caught while approaching this island: the answer to a fisherman’s prayer.

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PAPUA Tuna only; the ice was to preserve this fish until the mother-ship arrived. But, while catching Tuna, they incidentally catch Marlin, Bonita, Walu, Sail-fish, and many others. The immediate concern of the master of the vessel was the disposal of this surplus catch at some profit to themselves.

Governor Lowe quickly and wisely convened a meeting of his Departmental heads and decided that, for price control mainly, and for the preservation of the large quantities, the Government would purchase all fish, surplus to Cannery, and hold it in cold storage, and thus maintain a steady and reasonably cheap supply to merchants and public in general.

ALL local fishermen, of varying degrees of prowess in both catching and letting the big ones get away, had by this time gravitated to the dock. The hatch containing the surplus fish was opened.

Holy Mackerel, what a sight! An almost audible silence. Heads turned to one another and returned to stare, goggle-eyed, at these deepsea monsters. Secretary Lee Draney glanced at Attorney-General Bill Hedman, as much as to say, “Don’t look now, but do you see what I see?” Dr. Alec Earle shuddered and shaded his eyes, but was quickly reassured by Ed. Davis’ remark, “Take it easy, Alec, it’s true.” Phil Mosher, a fisherman of some class, but who had been a guest of Levuka-ite Jim Sword the night before, just moved quietly away.

The unloading began. Fish up to 500 lbs were easily man-handled; but soon an ancient winch and sling had to be brought into action.

Amidst grunts, Jap jargon and protests from the winch, up came a 9001bs Black Marlin; later, the top-weight, a l,oBolbs. Marlin. These weights are authentic.

That was the first fishing vessel.

Since then, the others have come in at intervals, each with its mixed load of fish, each with its estimated tonnage—the top being around 20 tons. One disgorged 47 Marlin, all heavy fish.

If only Sir Maynard or E. G.

Theodore could have seen this!

They always believed that these Islands waters held big fish, if only they could be caught.

THE Japanese technique is simple.

No poles, no coloured surface bait, no nets. A large number of glass ball floats, about one foot diameter, enmeshed in rope netting to prevent breakage. These are strung together, at intervals, by a fairly heavy rope, thus making what could be termed the master-line.

Each glass float is fitted with a socket, to carry a bamboo pole with flag attached. Between each ball on the master-line the real fishing gear is attached —sixty to eighty to one hundred fathoms of stout line, with barbless hooks, each baited with something special brought from Japan. It is a fish almost like our small garfish—about one foot long, about one inch diameter, all packed like sardines in hundreds of small flat cases. This may be the secret of their success. No other bait has been tried—so far.

The endless master-line is paid out with marked rapidity by these craftsmen. The lines are baited with remarkable speed, and then all relax and wait. But not for long.

A flag begins to show signs of Monday morning tremens. The nearest line is pounched upon, a fish secured, the line rebaited and reset; and so it goes on. Average, six tons of Tuna a day for each fishing craft, and they are only experimenting !

Governor Lowe expressed a desire to see this technique put into action and so last Saturday his barge was prepared for sea. His party con- (Continued on Page 86) 67 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Phenomenal Prices For NG Cocoa-beans But Buyers Still Say “Poor Quality”

IF there had been more and better New Guinea cocoa-beans on the Australian market in the last few weeks, they would have been snapped up at a price not far below that for West African beans. As it was the price quoted for NG beans at the end of January was £465 a ton, ex wharf, Sydney. The De'cember price was £320 to £330.

The reason for the big jump in price was that the perennial world shortage of beans was accentuated by reports that the Accra crop was smaller this year. It is now known of swollen-shoot disease, but to seathat this is not due to a flare-up sonal difficulties.

The shortage skyrocketed the price of Accra beans in Sydney to £537 towards the end of January, and there followed a corresponding rise in the price of NG beans.

The world demand for cocoa beans has been estimated at one million tons a year. Production is said to be something less than 700,000 tons.

The New Guinea crop was 616 tons in 1952-53. Average production from Accra is about 400,000 tons a year.

The current world shortage has also been accentuated by Germany’s purchase of 50,000 tons last y6ar.

She had not bought beans for some years previously.

Although there were signs of trade resistance to the high price of Accra beans, one of the leading Sydney manufacturers said on January 27 that he thought the Australian chocolate trade would be in difficulties for some years because of the shortage and wildly inflated price of the beans.

He said there would be a strong temptation for some manufacturers to use substitutes.

The acreage under cocoa is steadily increasing in New Guinea and Australian importers and users report that the quality of the beans is steadily improving. However, the quality has not nearly reached the stage of being readily acceptable, and buyers have been taking delivery on the condition that they may .reject some, or all, of the beans within one week.

Principal faults of cocoa beans from the point of view of processors are mould, bad fermentation and immaturity.

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One “good” lot was 5 per cent, unfermented and had a slight foreign aroma, probably from copra.

The other was 6, per cent, unfermented and 3 per cent, mouldy.

The main fault in the poor lots was bad fermentation. One lot was reported to have 35 per cent, unfermented beans.

Doubts have been expressed at both the manufacturing and growing ends of the cocoa industry as to whether these phenomenal prices are a good thing. As cocoa and cocoa products are commodities which the average consumer takes or leaves according to the state of his finances, it is feared that high cost of raw materials will force manufacturers to price their goods out of a market.

Already the price of some chocolate lines has risen in Australia.

What Makes Bad Cocoa

WHEN buyers are inspecting your cocoa, they cut the beans longitudinally and look for these bad features: — • GRUBBY: That is, any sign, however slight, of insect attack. Insect attack does not, as a rule, affect flavour of finished product; importance lies in the fact that heavily infested beans represent a menace to the storing establishment. • MOULDY: Beans should show no signs of mould inside; any percentage over five per cent, will have an adverse effect on flavour of the finished product. • UNFERMENTED: If beans are not sufficiently fermented they are grey to black in colour (in the case of Forastero): or almost white (in the case of Criollo).

Forastero shows a mottled appearance on face of bean. • SHRIVELLED: A shrivelled bean is thin and flat—roasting and kibbling gives little or no nib (small crushed pieces). • GERMINATED: In a germinated bean the radicle protrudes through bottom of bean or is missing entirely. Is not lower in quality than a good bean but it can be readily infested because the radicle, in falling out, leaves an entry hole. • PARTLY FERMENTED; A partly fermented bean is intermediate in character between unfermented and good—it shows colour partly black or violet, tight in shell. Cheesy when cut. Affects flavour if high percentage is included. • IMMATURE; Immature beans need no description. New Guinea shipments always have a percentage included.

SOME FURTHER POINTERS; • Absence of mould shows that drying conditions were good. • Partly fermented beans are evidence that fermentation was conducted for insufficient period. • Considerable variation in size is not liked by manufacturers because smaller beans tend to be over roasted. • Shell percentage obtained by removing shells and weighing shows Accra averages 12 per cent.; it is undesirable for NG beans to exceed this percentage. 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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THE BBC feature, ‘This is Fiji, and Tonga,” broadcast during the Queen’s visit to the Pacific, was written and narrated by Phillip Snow, a former administrative officer in Fiji. Heard in the session were Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, Secretary for Fijian Affairs, Sir Harry Luke, former Governor of Fiji, and Corporal N. Lalabalavu, a member of the Fijian Force in Malaya.

The second part of the programme, dealing with Tonga, included an extract from Queen Salote’s message to her people, broadcast while she was in London, and descriptions of her palace at Nukualofa. J. S. Neill, one-time British Agent and Consul in Tonga, spoke of its government, and a New Zealand anthropologist explained Fijian and Tongan racial origins. Music from both countries was heard, ending with the Tongan national anthem. — H.E.L.P.

Cheaper By The Hundred

EDWIN GOLD, of Mangaia, reports that Cook Islands shipowners who quote a special cheap rate to organised tere parties, who are forever on the move from island to island, are being diddled.

They’re finding that whenever a tere party comes aboard there are no regular-rate passengers. The full-rate passengers are slipping in as members of the tere party, which is allowed up to 100 persons at the contract rate.

How to tell a legitimate feretripper from full-rate customer is just one more of the Cook Islands ship-owners’ many worries.

Fijians Firewalk In

AUCKLAND CHIEF attraction of Auckland’s annual Birthday Carnival this January-February was three performances by a party of 20 Fijian firewalkers from the little island of Beqa.

Due to a succession of misfortunes, the firewalkers almost found themselves without their specially imported stones to walk on. First the January hurricane scare caused the launch bound for Suva with the rocks to put back to Beqa. Then the USS Co. ship Karamu, for the same reason, fled from Suva before her normal loading was completed—leaving the stones behind. They were loaded on the next available ship, which went first to Lyttelton. There they were duly trans-shipped to a ferry steamer for Wellington to be railed on to Auckland by an express train instead of the normal goods train.

Here an unexpected snag was met in the form of a Watersiders’ picnic —but by special appeal they were discharged and despatched to Auckland with no time to spare.

Finally the two tons of stones were loaded on a motor truck for despatch to the Fair ground—and the truck broke down en route, finally being towed there by another truck just in time to heat them up for the first performance.

And there was no doubt about the stones being very, very red hot when the Beqa men, who arrived by specially .chartered TEAL aircraft, eventually stepped onto them.

So hot in fact that the public round the fire-pit were glad to try the free bowls of kava dispensed by Paula Tabaki, a (male) member of TEAL’S Suva office staff, nearby.

Gill Hemming Again

WHEN Captain Dibbern arrived in Auckland late January with his yacht Te Rapunga to enter the Auckland-Hobart race, PIM’S Auckland correspondent went down to make the acquaintance of the skipper who has done considerable cruising in the Eastern Pacific.

Down in the cabin, a young woman with pencil and notebook, busily cross-examining Dibbern and his attractive all-girl crew, pricked up her ears when PIM was mentioned —and with good reason. She was Gill Hemming—Mrs. Maurice Shadbolt since last November 21— who lived with her parents at Kolube Plantation, New Ireland, until the Japs drove her and her mother out. Her father was one of that little band of New Ireland planters whose fate was never clearly established.

Gill is now a special writer on the staff of the Auckland Weekly News —having graduated to Auckland some time ago from the Sydnew Sun staff. Her husband is an Auckland journalist. Her mother, well-known to pre-war New Guinea people, now lives at Pine Street, Manly.

For a while in pre-war days PlM’s Auckland man served in New Guinea coasters which ran. amongst other places, to Kolube.

Grimble’S G & E Story

FOR FILMS ANOTHER film may be shot in Fiji shortly. At the end of January, two men from Strato Films, of London, which is in Sir Henry Korda’s group, visited the Colony on a preliminary survey for making a film based on Sir Arthur Grimble’s book Pattern of Islands.

Sir Arthur’s book was interesting reading but old residents of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands considered it a much exaggerated account of the life of a young Colonial Service official in that Colony—and of the Colony itself. (Oven Fish—Whole or in Part Thid strange object is and said to be a whole fish-not just a part. It is belieyed to be a sun fish although judging by its end-on view (left), jet-fish might be a better name. It appears that the mouth of the fish is always open and as the photograph show, it looks like a jet aero engine. The fish was eaught by Mr. W.

Reid and we would like to hrar from readers who have met up with anything of the same sort in other parts of the Pacific. Photo by Fung Kuei. 73 TI r v FEBRUARY, 1954

Pacific Islands Monthly

Even as written, however, it will probably not be as exciting and “glamorous” as the film men will like. One may therefore expect a few cases of apoplexy amongst retired members of the Colonial Service if and when the film version of Pattern of Islands is made and released sometime in the future.

The Low Down On Germs

“T ORD LISTER was not a very ±J important person at first. He was a Englishman.” This alarming statement was made by Alisi, a young Fijian schoolgirl from a remote village, in a social studies examination paper at the end of the year. But Alisi’s trouble was largely with the vagaries of the English language. She had both Lord Lister and Louis Pasteur very well summed up.

“One day,” she wrote, “Lord Lister heard that Louis Pasteur has found out the germs and how to cure them.

Louis Pasteur said by heating and cooling those germs can’t stand it.

And thought of boiling everything for operation. He boiled them. The first person operate alive. By that time Lord Lister was in a very high standard.”

Which was perfectly true, and the small Alisi netted 42 marks out of a possible 50 for the whole paper.—S.

Printer’S World Record?

WE nominate the printer and publisher of the Papua and New Guinea Government Gazette for unusual behaviour. The issue dated Port Moresby, January 28, was in our hands before February was two days old.

Publishers of Gazettes throughout the world are notorious for delay in production of their compilations—probably the result of dilatory methods in Government Departments. There are one or two Administrations in the Pacific Islands whose Gazette usually appears 2 years behind the official date of publication. Even in Sydney and Canberra, the depressing little official newspapers are generally three or four weeks late.

But the Port Moresby printer for some reason (which probably will be found in Government House methods) has gradually shortened the gap until to-day there is no delay at all. Probably a world record.

Stand Back, Archangelsky!

OUR Tahiti correspondent thought he was on safe ground when in July PIM (p. 70) he described Alexandre Archangelsky as “believed to be the oldest European resident of Tahiti to-day.”

Seeing this recently, another Tahiti veteran, Monsieur Henri Grand, after comparing notes with Archangelsky stepped smartly into our correspondent’s office and let it be known that not only was he senior to the old Alaskan, but, at 83, is still actively engaged in managing his own Papeete business.

Monsieur Grand, indeed, having arrived in Papeete in 1885, sounds like a man who could tell a tale or two. Before World War I he was manager for Societe Commercial de 1 Oceanic, French Oceania affiliate of the famous Deutsch Handels Plantagen Gasselschaft which controlled the lion’s share of Pacific business in those days.

City Limits

PALMYRA Island might be the last place that possible future tourists would expect to find a Honolulu cop pacing his beat.

Yet Otto Hornung, retired Honolulu commercial photographer, who looks after the atoll for the Fullard Leo family is just that—and not by accident.

For Palmyra, 900 miles south of the Hawaiian capital—together with the Pearl and Hermes Reefs, 1,100 miles to the north-west—is, administratively, an integral part of Honolulu city, under the direct control of Mayor Wilson and subject to the city bylaws. Hornung is an officially appointed reserve policeman, fully empowered to arrest the nonexistent population and control the island’s non-existent traffic.

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The thundering surf upon the reef, A sound that tells of long-past grief; And rolling on into the night, The snarling of a canine fight.

The music of the soft guitar— A lovely sound that’s heard afar That nothing in the world can mar— The honking of a V 8 car!

The murmur of a tiny brook; No need to read that restful book.

A sound far-reaching and so tireless— Your friend’s turned on his blasted wireless!

The Uke with all its rythmic strains, Stirring blood within your veins— Words preserved with long-told c&rc — Benny Goodman takes the air!

The so-clear, yet so-fragrant breeze, Is sighing in the stately trees— No clash and clang of gears and cogs— An uproar from a million dogs!

The age-old dancelof fine tradtions— No need here for new additions.

The happy pair just smile and shrug— And gaily jive the jitterbug!

The lovely girl, and age-old song: Here there can be nothing wrong.

She, smiling shows her pearly teeth— And breaks into “Beyond the Reef”!

You wonder where the hell we are, And why we stay in lands so far.

You wonder why we linger longer— Then why not come to Rarotonga!

If Mr. and Mrs. Bruce McCaig went to Auckland on short leave in December-January. Mr. McCaig is an Administrative Officer in the Gilbert & Ellice. Prior to her marriage last July, Mrs. McCaig was matron of the Tarawa hospital, having gone there after short periods in Tonga and Fiji in the course of a working tour of the world.

HO MAN is the massive restaurateur of Honiara-in-the-Solomons who kept the settlement alive during the hungry post-war years after the Americans had left. He was born in the village of Sing Tong, in the Yan Ping district of Kwang-tung Province of Imperial China in 1900. He came to the British Solomons in 1933, and has been there ever since.

During the Japanese occupation he retired to the southern island of San Cristobal, for health reasons. Since Michener wrote him up in “Return to Paradise”, his restaurant has fallen into third place in Honiara, but he has hopes of reviving business by getting a hotel licence. May his massive shadow never grow less,—BRETT HILDER. 74

February, 19 5 4 _Pacific Islands Monthly

McINERNEY

By Peter England

(NOTE: Dr. Mclnerney, New Guinea's famed and loved flying doctor, was killed when his plane crashed into Vanimo harbour, near the Dutch border, in March, 1953.) TO-DAY we buried Mclnerney— John Valiant d’Artagnan Pimpernel Icarus Mclnerney. He had a little of each. And he died flying “too near the sun,” the sun of adventure, of dangerous living, of the full life, of looking Death in the face—and laughing.

He died as he would have wished, suddenly; and doing what he loved best, flying. He was a good flier.

If he took risks they were calculated risks, as a hunting man will take a stiff fence rather than go around through the gate. Mclnerney always rode straight ahead. What, do you want to live for ever? We owe God a death—he that dies this year is quit for the next. Death plays with loaded dice; but I know that Mclnerney laughed as he paid. . .

We stood on the airstrip at Wewak as the Dragon touched down.

All Wewak Europeans, Chinese, natives. The motors stopped, somebody opened the door, and a squad of native “doctor-boys” sprang forward.

The door was narrow, and the coffin a little difficult to get out.

They loaded him on to a truck, a battered old Army truck. They covered him with flowers, hibiscus, frangipanni, crotons, cannas, zinnias, big wreaths, little wreaths, crosses, sprays, and tiny bunches of New Guinea violets tied with frayed bits of string.

A long line of jeeps, and an odd car, moved in behind the truck, and we followed slowly to the cemetery.

X, who was driving me, one of Mclnerney’s oldest friends, blew his nose violently. The jeep in front slowed down and he nearly bumped it. He said: “Why the hell doesn’t that bastard keep moving!”

We reached the cemetery and pulled off the road and got out.

Somebody called; “Come on, you’re one of the pall-bearers.”

We carried him from the truck and rested him for a while on a few sticks of four-by-two, over the open grave. The Bishop started to read the burial service—a flying bishop burying a flying doctor, a mate burying a mate. There was moss on the sides of the grave. The prayers went on.

McINERNEY. I first met him during the war. In the Ramu valley. On one occasion I came home from a patrol with a hole through the back of my neck. We met Mac. a day out from the camp.

He was very annoyed—he hadn’t had any casualties for a couple of days, and had borrowed a Bren gun and was just starting out on a patrol of his own. To fill in time between fighting, and swearing at the odd casualties, he climbed all the highest peaks in the Bismarck Range.

The prayers went on. There were eight pall-bearers, four on each side of the grave. Stretched across, under the coffin, were four pieces of new rope. The one at the foot was out of line.

Mclnerney. We had a few days together in Brisbane, once. On leave. We confided to one another our domestic troubles. I had a few at the time. Mclnerney always had them. He was what is sometimes called a “man’s man,’’ which meant that women would always fall for him, and rue it. We had one tremendous night out.

We took hold of the ropes. The two end pall-bearers had to adjust theirs—l knew the darn thing was out of line. The doctor-boys pulled the timbers away and we lowered him gently into the grave.

The prayers went on. The coffin was a plain box, wider at the head than at the trade lap-lap. I could see the heads of four small brass screws on each Slde - McINERNEY. I lost sight of him for a while. Later in the war he joined a parachute unit which, much to his annoyance, never got out of Australia. Then, in 1947, he came back to Wewak as DMO.

He learned to fly, and bought a plane. Live dangerously, live dangerously. He gave all his knowledge, all his skill, to the ingrate, scarcehuman people of New Guinea.

The prayers went on. There was a strong smell of camphor. Prosently, they would fill the grave up with earth, and tamp it down, and outline it with coral rocks. But Mclnerney wouldn’t be there because he was flying—flying higher than he ever flew before, Last Sunday, at half-past eleven, I pinned a note to the steeringwheel of his jeep in the empty hangar, asking him to fly me to Marienberg when he got back. But he didn’t fly with me to Marienberg, because last Sunday, at halfpast eleven, he did a vertical turn over Vanimo harbour, and sideslipped to a crash in the sea.

The prayers were finished. The Bishop threw a handful of earth down on to the coffin. A bugle blew the “Last Post.” * * * This afternoon the B ishop flew me in to Marienberg. We took off in the duster and rose easily an( j s t ea( iiiy into the north-west breeze. Then he went into a smooth, steep, 180-degrees turn. He said: “That’s what Mac did, but he did it too low to the ground.”

Then he put the control stick between his knees, took off his white helmet, replaced it with a rather dirty baseball cap, and pulled a prayer-book out of the glove-box.

Pim Crossquiz No. 48

Solution on Page 85.

ACROSS I. —what is the northern terminus to the Panama Canal? 4.—which is the largest of the Inner Hebrides? 8 What is the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury? 11. —What famous motor-car manufacturer was the first Englishman to be killed while flying? 12. —What was Henry VIII often called? 13. —What is the most briliant star? 15. —At which US University was Einstein a professor? 16. —What is a feeling of weariness? 17—who was the 27th President of the USA? 18. —What is the term for Americans of Japanese origin? 20.—What is the river of central England? 22 —W hat famous philosopher lived 500 years, BC?

DOWN 1. who wrote “The Ancient Mariner”? 2. What monkey - like animal is fox faced? 3. what lace is made with a single thread? 5. What is used in playing two-up? . , . . 6. —On which island is New York built? 7. what famous Duke lived 1769-1852? 9 what battle took place in 1066? 10— What material is obtained from a camel-like animal? 14.—where do trans-Atlantic planes land in Newfoundland? 19 _Who sold his birthright to his brother? 20. To what did Disney give the name “Little Toot”? r , . 21. —What is the native word for food in Hawaii? 75 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

The Queen Came to the Realm of Dakuwangga BY FRANK EXON.

WHEN Gothic picked up the leading marks that guided her safely through the reef passage into Suva harbour, she passed into the realm of Dakuwangga who, in the words of Her Britannic Majesty’s own passport, “afforded her every assistance and protection of which she may stand in need.”

A mile to port, perched -on the reef, sits the rusted skeleton of an old sailing ship which had come from the ocean bed especially to see the Queen. Two months previously, this wreck somehow contrived to have herself violently erupted from the depths where she had lain for years. Once free, she travelled shorewards in style, on the back of the giant wave that swept all before it after Fiji’s recent earthquake.

The experts are still arguing as to the origin of that earthquake; but none of their theories explains satisfactorily the macabre emergence from the sea-bed of this barnacled old ship; or her triumphant ride to the reef from which chosen eminence no power, neither God nor man, -is likely to dislodge her until the end of time.

So, realising it was all beyond the ken of the scientists, I went to the people who have known the land and the sea and its mysteries the longest—to the unscientific, unlettered Fijians. They told me about the Shark God Dakuwangga, and their theory is the most satisfying yet.

IT seems that Dakuwangga, who might be described . as the equivalent of our Davy Jones, and who is the keeper of the seas and the final arbiter in any matters relating thereto, has been doing things just as spectacular right through Fiji’s history. He is the Shark God and is so real an entity to the Fijians, that not one of that mariner race would dream of having a bowl of yangona or a bite to eat in local waters without first flipping over a libation to him.

For Dakuwangga is unpredictable.

Relatively trivial things upset him and are likely to start something titanic without any warning. From the legends, it appears that the last time he got really tough was beyond living memory; but there was a curious resemblance between his tantrums then—and their effects—and those of Fiji’s recent happenings.

Anne Gittins, in her South Sea Legends, tells how Dakuwangga, on occasion, had been challenged by a lesser god in his own domainright at the reef entrance to Suva harbour, which he guarded. There ensued a battle out there in the passage that shook the world; the sea boiled and finally erupted; the earth groaned as it echoed the roars of the combatants and the gigantic waves set up by this homeric brawl spread destruction on all the low-lying lands from Kandavu to the Rewa delta. Had we white folk been here in those days we should, of course, have mistaken the affair for an earthquake—and argued as to whether it was of tectonic or volcanic origin!

Very well; but why has Dakuwangga not been heard of in a big way since we established ourselves in Fiji, until this year of the Royal visit? And what provoked him to such great lengths on this last occasion? Here again the Fijians have the partial answer and from it we can piece the rest of the story together.

FIFTY years ago the mighty Dakuwangga—the once omnipotent keeper of the Suva reef passage—was subdued, not by one of his own kind but by an underhand, undersea manoeuvre of the white man; and has lain quiescent and humiliated, as impotent as a broken-backed walu, ever since.

For in 1902, Dakuwangga was bound—inadvertently it is true, but effectively—with our deepsea cables, laid through the reef passage and across the unsuspecting Shark God while he slept; and he has sulked and smouldered and planned his revenge ever since.

The other day he broke his bonds as the result of information supplied, at a price, by one who hated him —and who shared his bed down there in the womb of the world. You have guessed aright. It was our sailing ship. Let me introduce her.

In the winter of 1926 there came sailing through the entrance into the lovely harbour beyond, as pretty a sight as the old shellbacks on the beachfront had seen for many a day. She was a threemaster —square rigged on all —and she took that tricky reef opening that was Dakuwangga’s special chastener for conceited ships as if it were as innocuous as a paper hoop. Under the drive of her taut canvas she surged confidently through the passage with contempt m her cold northern heart for Sf.Si Wa o gga " for a ny other South Seas deity. For she was Finnish and made obeisance only to Nordic gods, and sparingly at trlclL.

Was she not the proud Hulda Thorden of 2,400 tons gross, come from Sydney in record time with her holds full of good Newcastle coal? Why should she pay tribute to a barbaric Shark God who should have been relegated to limbo long ago?

She didn’t; and Dakuwangga never forgave her. She did not know then what was in store for her—that she had made her last voyage and was to lie forever at anchor in a steamy tropic port serving smudgy little steamers with their filthy coal ration—stripped and naked to the gaze of heathen in this stagnant backwater.

Hulda never forgot her prideful past and never conformed. Even when they changed her to British registry and re-christened her Woodhurn she remained a rebel.

She was always a nuisance and her owners gladly dispensed with her in 1938—when the diesel age caught up with the local interisland shipping. They arranged for her to be towed outside the reef and there consigned to the vasty deep where, it was thought, the arms of Dakuwangga would keep her out of mischief for ever and ever.

BUT not Hulda Thorden, now Woodhurn. She was a law unto herself; she would select her own resting place and go when and where she liked, not when and where her owners planned. She took her plunge prematurely and unexpectedly and nearly took the hearse and the mourners with her.

Hurriedly the towline was cut and down and down she zigzaged into those cool translucent depths —away from the sun she had loved and the sou’east trades from which her great and lovely strength had been drawn, down to “the great grey level plains of ooze where the shellburred cables creep.” And unerringly—out of the whole vast Pacific —she chose for her resting place the one spot where she had no business to be —close, but not 76 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

too close, to the enmeshed but still dangerous Dakuwangga.

Normally, when one consigns a ship to Davy Jones and writes her obituary, that is the end of her.

But Hulda had one of those unconquerable souls. She remembered the sunshine and the clean winds and hated death down there in the dark: and then and there planned a resurrection even if it meant selling her soul to the devil —or the Dakuwangga.

It took her 15 long years to humble her pride sufficiently to put her impossible proposition to Dakuwangga.

Briefly, in return for a free passage to the surface in time for the Queen’s visit and a permanent place in the sun for her old and aching bones (and if he were a worthwhile god he could surely arrange that) she would whisper a secret which, aided by his own efforts, would assuredly free him from his bonds that gripped him as firmly as did the mud that filled her bowels.

Dakuwangga came to terms and more than kept his word. That is why on a peaceful spring day in 1953, after those titanic convulsions that the experts mistook for an earthquake, the Shark God broke his bonds and Hulda reappeared from the ocean bed and rode triumphantly shoreward on a tidal wave—tsunami if you like —balancing as adroitly on the crest of it as did the huge rocks spewed up with her. The reef intercepted that mad ride, of course, but her determination was such that she and the rocks clawed their way well clear of its seaward rim.

And there Hulda and her henchmen still sit basking in the sun she had dreamed of and longed for for 15 years. More than that, she had a grandstand view of the Queen’s ship.

AS for Dakuwangga, he made a most thorough job of bursting his fetters. Of the two cables that held him he tore a length of 20 miles from one; and he set sliding a submarine avalanche that buried some 70 miles of the other.

But what really puzzles the cableship Stanley Angwin, which came to fix the cables, was a two-mile length recovered some 50 miles out —with its end inexplicably and inextricably tangled with an almost new ship’s hawser.

Dakuwangga himself has resumed business off the reef and advises that he is perfectly willing, as of old, to take on all comers, any weight, any time. Every now and then, when he thinks of his wrongs and the Stanley Angwin’s grapnels which bit deep into him, he roars with rage and hits the world such a clout that Fiji trembles and its nervous citizens look at each other with a wild surmise.

It only remains' to let you into the secret of Hulda’s abracadabra the whispering taunt that roused Dakuwangga from his half century of apathy and gave him the strength needed for that final mighty convulsion. She simply told him what she had kept to herself for years- that the cables that bound him were not the unbreakable fetters he thought they were.

For she herself—frail and aged and feminine as she was—had easily sliced through one of them as 15 vears before, she had settled into the ultimate ooze which man, in his ignorance, had thought would hold her for ever.

Book Reviews:

This Month’S New Reading

Post-Mortem for Greece, Crete THE second volume of the official Army history of Australia in World War II was published at the end of January. Called Greece, Crete and Syria, it is by Gavin Long, who was also responsible for the first volume in the series, To Benghazi.

Five other volumes are yet to come on the Australian Army’s part in the Second World War. The 4th, sth and 6th volumes will deal with the campaigns against the Japanese.

These post-mortems, published so long after the events, have the full flavour of ancient history. Perhaps it is as well. The dull, still-remembered agony of those dark days reduced to facts from the perspective of 13 years later, becomes not a matter of emotion, heroism or Conducted by the Assistant Editor. patriotic purpose but a calm appraisal of the moves, the reasons, the mistakes of two disastrous campaigns in that period of too-littleand-too-late.

The blunders of modern, totalwar come into the realm of the the stupendous; there are no small blunders. And those in Greece and Crete cost the British 32,000 casualties—the bulk of them POW—and all their arms and equipment.

Mr. Long suggests that the fatal decision to withdraw the British from North Africa, where they should have remained to consolidate that position, for the brief and costly adventures in Greece and Crete, was due to Mr. Churchill’s autocratic nature and his determination to establish a Balkan front, come what may. Australia and New Zealand, who supplied—and lost—the bulk of the fighting units in the two campaigns, in those days of 1940-41, were prone, says Mr.

Long, to allow matters of grand strategy to rest unreservedly in the hands of the UK leaders.

In addition, records of consultations between the Greek and British military, show now that the campaign there was begun in a state of misundertsanding and mistrust on the part of Greece.

But at all events, the Greek campaign was no long-drawn-out agony.

It was short—just 16 days between the time the Germans launched their attack and when the British troops were evacuated.

The scene then passed to the island of Crete which the British higher staff had failed entirely to prepare for defence. Australian and New Zealand troops evacuated there after bitter fighting in Greece were psychologically—and in the matter of arms—totally unprepared for the fact that in three weeks they were again trying to beat off the overwhelming might of a fully-prepared Germany. This campaign also amounted to a mere matter of days.

The campaigns in Greece and Crete, perhaps achieved one object —German losses were heavy, and in Crete alone amounted to 4,000 killed and 2,600 wounded —all highly trained troops. It is believed that these heavy losses caused Hitler to review his plan for a similar aerial invasion of Cyprus.

This volume also contains an account of the Syrian campaign.

This was a victory, but doubt is now cast on whether it was necessary.

It is inferred that had it been undertaken at a later stage when the Germans were fully extended in Russia, Syria could have been picked off, almost at will, with larger forces of troops than were then available.

After the fighting ceased and the Australians, who had taken the brunt of it, were resting in Palestine, there came the old complaints of their lack of discipline from the French and from the British. Australians shrugged off most of the complaints but it did not make for good relations.

The Australians were accused of stealing Vichy officers’ wedding rings and depriving prisoners of their water bottles.

Such pin-pricks, too, make up total war. (Published by the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Obtainable at all Australian booksellers. Australian price, 25/-.) Louise —Snuggling and Smuggling IN a thoroughly nice, refined way (of course), most people are interested in smuggling, and although Smugglers’ Paradise will not help you much in getting that camphor-wood chest or extra bottle 77 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

of whisky through the Customs, you may be interested in how it is done in International circles.

This is the Big Time. Since the end of World War ll—an era of credit restrictions, dollar restrictions, currency controls, prohibited this and prohibited that —it has been a world peculiarly suited to smuggling on a large scale. Even at that, you say, is there enough material for a book?

We would not have thought so, ourselves, but this is written by a Mr. Anthony Were, who makes of it a very personal narrative, indeed.

Apart from the various smuggling rackets that it covers in the UK and all the Continent and North Africa, there is, for variation, a detailed description of the sex life of the creme de la creme of smuggling society. Even in these uninhibited days, it is still unusual for the biographer, as it were, to give one, for free, such a large chunk of his own sex life, but if half of what Mr. Were writes is true, then he, too, is a bloke-and-ahalf.

Above all, there is Louise, who after five years in the French Resistance found the life of a social butterfly, to which she had been born, singularly tame. She therefore teamed up with a smuggler in a middling big way.

Mr. Were and Louise were soon en rapport— and Louise’s technique: La La! And likewise, whee!

Arm-chair adventurers (male) who have a yen to know what it is to make love with a house-broke tigress are strongly recommended to a course of Mr. Were. They will then know all.

Even if strictly true, a book of this sort cannot escape a flavour of bombast. However, Were has a gift of getting his odd characters on paper in a way that makes them human beings, if odd. One does not expect the international racketeer to be pint sized, suburban; and the characters are, therefore, satisfyingly larger-than-life.

Good entertainment, even though it cannot truly come within the category of a useful contribution to human knowledge. (Published by Martin, Seeker & Warburg, Ltd.; Australian price, 13/3.) Murder with Emotion SOME of our cleverer writers make a fetish of taking a number of indigestible ingredients and fashioning them into a story which the reader can manage to swallow even if it lies somewhat heavily on the stomach.

Edith Pargeter has done something of this sort with Most Loving Mere Folly.

A potter and her painter husband live compatible lives for 10 years in a village on the outskirts of London, when their tranquility is shattered by husband being brought home from a drinking jag by the 22-years-old mechanic from the local garage.

Suspiria, the wife, is 36 but the mechanic, Dennis and she fall in love and become lovers. They know they will “never change.” There remains artist husband.

Suspiria, believing that what she does with herself is for her to decide, thinks that husband will also regard it as “one of those things” and co-operate in finding a solution to the three-cornered problem. But husband is more touched on his masculine dignity than Suspiria had imagined, stubbornly refuses to discuss the situation and commences to drink himself into a permanent state of intoxication.

Meantime Dennis, experiencing more of the conventional misgivings than either of the others, nonetheless does what he is told and before the situation has time to resolve itself further, husband is found dead, in his studio. Poisoned.

He could have taken the poison accidentally. Or deliberately. It could have been administered by Suspiria. Or by Dennis. Or by both in collaboration. Yet none of these possibilities completely fits the circumstances. Finally Suspiria is arrested and tried for murder, and, due to her strength of purpose, her clear-sighted anticipation of events, she is acquitted. Thereupon commences the private hell of the two lovers.

Considering Suspiria’s mental attiude, the circumstances which forced these two ill-a ssor t e d creatures to bow to the convention of marriage are unconvincing. But marry they did, and settled down in Suspiria’s house. Dennis returned to his job at the garage; Suspiria, unsuccessfully, to her pots.

She was a cultured woman, an artist, Dennis, sensitive but the product of a lower-class large family living in a council house, subject to all the pressures and prejudices of the stratum of society into which he was born. They were pursued by a relentless publicity and torn by doubts; at no time did they discuss, freely, how the husband had met his death therefore, although never put into words, each entertained some corroding suspicion of the other.

It is this play and tug of emotion that takes up the greater part of the novel. In the end—one problem is solved; the other, unresolved.

Police court cases served up in the metropolitan daily papers are proof that it is by no means improbable for youth and maturity to indulge in promiscuous love passages. In common-sense, of course, Dennis and Suspiria would have parted after a brief encounter; or even if caught up in the police proceedings that occupy the middle stages of their story, made a complete break to pastures new after Suspiria was freed. But if you accept the material circumstances as laid down by Miss Pargeter, then the emotional stresses and strains and the reactions of her characters will have a ring of truth and sincerity.

In fact nothing about this book makes common-sense. In commonsense there was no need for any of the basic structure on which the story is hung—but if you can accept the basic structure as feasible, then the rest of the story is credible Within that limit, the dissection of emotions is skilfully done. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltd.

Australian price, 15/6.) Plain Boiled Potatoes THIS is a different dish—good ingredients and a very flat result.

If there were no readers of the sweet-simple story, with its measure of disasters but with virtue triumphant in the end, then obviously publishers would not print them. However, one wonders what place, exactly, there is in this overbooked world for such stories as Kathleen Foyle’s Dancing Town.

Set in Northern Ireland, in the last years of last century and the early years of this, it would be much more fitting for the novel readers of that era.

It is well written, in a literary sense, but there is no depth to it.

The ingredients for a full-blooded story are there: the poverty of a mill-town, the autocratic but just mill owner whose obligations he feels, end with giving them sufficient to keep their souls within their bodies; the missionising zeal of the young doctor and the young priest; tantalising and destroying attraction of the beautiful gypsy girl. But the result is stodgy British cooking where there should be a French cuisine.

The significant parts of the story are skipped over quickly, as though to put them out of sight. This, of course, is probably a fair summingup of life itself in that late-Victoria. early-Edward period. But it is unsatisfying to the average reader of novels in 1954.

Some women might find it helps to pass an idle hour. Or your teenage daughter might like it—if teenage daughters read such things these days—which we doubt. (Published by Peter Davies, Ltd.; Australian price, 15/6.) The annual general meeting of the Pacific Islands Society will be held in the Feminist Club rooms in Sydney on the evening of February 25. This organisation is now many years old, and it regularly holds social gatherings where former residents of the Pacific Islands meet each other, and hear addresses. Colour films of Indonesia were shown by Mr. M. Sellev at the January meeting. The Society’s president is Major C. A. Swinbourne (Telephone XJ 3205), and he is happy to see Islands visitors at the monthly meetings. 78 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

ALL JOURNEYS HAVE AN ENDING...

By “AMEL”

THE trouble was that we had been travelling in a Stratocruiser.

And when one goes flying in a Stratocruiser. purring smoothly along at 25,000 feet, up above flossy pink clouds, eating steak dinners with all the fixings, drinking delicious wines, gazing blearily at a beautiful hostess and wondering whether one is heading for Nadi or Heaven, one is apt to forget the existence of such things as the MV Samoa.

But the MV Samoa had not forgotten us. There she was, the grim reality of her 35 tons of devilry waiting for us with steam up, at the Apia wharf, Western Samoa, to take us back to Pago Pago, Eastern Samoa.

It was 6 p.m., and the other passengers, numbering about 40, were already on board, the majority scattered about the deck munching quantities of food and staring at us reproachfully.

We could not understand why they were stuffing themselves in this fashion, until we heard them losing it all in the stillness of the night.

Their philosophy apparently was; “ Tis better to have eaten and lost, than never to have eaten . , .

' People in all walks of life travel on the MV (for motor vessel) Samoa, because usually it is the only means of transport between Eastern and Western Samoa. The distance between the two territories is only 80 miles, but it can seem like 800.

If you are very lucky, you may get a bunk in a cabin with five other passengers. But if your luck is out, you sleep on the deck, with a hard board for a mattress, your suitcase for a pillow, and the stars to cover you. And while the seas wash over you, and the wind screams around you, and the groans of the dead and dying rise above the shriek of the storm, you can ponder over your past life, and think of all those stories about the Romantic South Seas.

Cabin passengers on Samoa are jumbled haphazardly into the two available cabins, irrespective of sex, social position, race or creed. For 11 hours, they are classed simply as “human beings.” A prim spinster may find herself the only female in a cabin filled with men. A cynical bachelor may be at the mercy of a bevy of chattering females. LMS missionaries, Catholic priests, SDA Pastors,, Mormon Elders and atheists together share a cabin and the common woe of travel on the Samoa and for 11 hours out of their lives, they share a common thought: “How soon will this torture end?”

Many wealthy, important and influential people come from the United States to Pago Pago, American Samoa—people who are accustomed to the best and most luxurious in travel comfort. To them, the last stage of their journey must surely be a great shock. Samoa is definitely not in the Coronia class.

No lovely stewardess smooths your brow when you are seasick, or brings you a tray of dainty food to tempt your failing appetite.

There is no bathroom, but there is (whisper it!) a “convenience,” a boxjike contraption attached to the stern, of which those who are in dire need may avail themselves. But the need must be very dire indeed, and it is also imperative that one be heavily insured and have made a will quite recently.

To reach this “convenience” on a dark and stormy night—supposing you have managed to get out of the cabin or up from your hard bed on deck —you feel your way cautiously along the rail, which is draped at intervals with wretched figures like illustrations from The Ancient Mariner. Past the after-cabin your objective is in sight, but to attain it, you have to cross what seems like an acre of deck littered with inanimate forms. Hoping they are sound sleepers, you step from one body to the next until the goal is reached, then, standing unsteadily on someone’s hip, you wrench the door open and plunge inside, taking care not to dive, head first, into the raging seas below. It is an adventure, but one to be avoided if possible.

OF course, when travelling on Samoa a Ipt depends on the weather. When Captain Bill Steffany told us it would be a rough trip, we believed him. We put our basket of food under the bunk and forgot it for 11 hours. Outside Apia harbour we ran into a first-class gale Samoa lurched from side to side with a wicked roll. Wind, rain, seas, thunder and lightning enveloped us. Waves swept across the cabin floor. Deck passengers crept into the cabin for shelter, and during the wild night a cold hand came out of the darkness and touched my face. I sat up and swung my feet over the edge of the bunk and put them smack onto a recumbent Samoan.

The Samoa would dive down to the bottom of the sea like a sounding whale, and, it seemed years later, decided to shake the Pacific off her back and come up for air.

But all journeys have an ending, and at dawn, Samoa glided into the fiord-like peace of Pago Pago harbour. The sound of roosters crowing and dogs barking that drifted across the water was to us the sweetest music in the world.

Hawaii Drought Busters FOLLOWING a protracted and severe drought in the Hawaiian Islands —in common with large areas of the South Pacific —through last year, the Board of Agriculture and Forestry there is seriously looking into the question of rain-making. Some time ago a Drought Study Committee established by Governor King gave the agricultural authorities permission and made available funds for them to “seed” clouds over the main drought areas.

However, the Board of Agriculture is well aware of the legal tangles in which US mainland rainmakers have found themselves. Individuals and State Governments there have brought actions —which are still being fought out in the courts— against cloud-seeders for stealing other peoples’ clouds and rain or for actually provoking droughts in neighbouring areas.

Meteorologists have made it clear that cloud-seeding is not something that may be approached haphazardly though it is now wellestablished that under suitable conditions, and with suitable types of clouds overhead, it is possible to cause rain to fall by seeding the clouds from an aircraft with inexpensive materials such as common salt and other chemicals, or by smoke projectors on the ground.

Wide-scale use is being made of the discovery over certain farming areas of California. Experiments are also being made along the same lines to dissipate hurricanes in their early stages and some success has been claimed, especially with the more localised but no less violent tornadoes of the Gulf of Mexico.

A new Post Office at Yandina, in the Russell Islands, BSIP, was officially opened by the Protectorate Postmaster (Mr. T. H. Manning) on January 2. The Police Station at Yandina was also formally opened on January 2 by the Superintendent, Police and Prisons (Mr. E. J. H.

Colchester- Wemyss, CPM). A detachment of police under a European police officer (Inspector J. L.

Holland) has been stationed in the Russell Islands for some months, pending the completion of the new station building.

Making The Best Use

Of Fresh Meat

(Extracts from talk broadcast from ZJV by the Nutrition Section of the South Pacific Health Service).

TV/TEAT is one of the most prized foods in the world. Nearly every nation likes to eat meat and because of this great demand, it is expensive and the average family cannot afford to include it in its meals every day.

The consumption of meat varies considerably throughout the world. According to the returns of the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, Argentina produces enough meat for every one of its people to obtain over 10 oz a day, if they can afford it. Australia, New Zealand and some of the other South American countries are the next largest meat producers and could provide their people with 1 to 9 oz a day.

The other countries of the world have much less, the lowest amounts ieing one-sixth to half an ounce in South East Asia and parts of the Far East.

All lean meats provide body building proteins, iron and some of the vitamins necessary for good health. Liver and other organs are even richer in iron and vitamins than the so-called better cuts of meat The cheapest grades and cuts of meat, such as brisket and stewing steak, though fairly lean and not so tender, are as equally nutritious as the higher priced steaks and roasts. These cuts can taste just as well if prepared and cooked the right way. The chief difference is that cheaper meat takes more time in cooking and more skill in seasoning.

Cuts of meat differ in tenderness according to the age, fatness and part of the animal from which they are taken.

The part of the animal which gets the most exercise has more tough muscle.

The tender cuts of beef come from the rib and loin and make up about a quarter of the carcass. The less tender and less expensive cuts are the shoulder, flank, round, rump, neck brisket and shank.

In plump young lamb and pork all cuts are tender, while the rib and loin of veal are generally more tender than the rest of the carcass. The cheaper cuts of lamb, pork and veal—that is shoulder, breast and shank—make good chops, roasts, pot roasts and stews.

When buying meat, choose with care and thrift and always bear in mind how it is going to be cooked. This is important because meat cooked the wrong way can be tough and tasteless.

Bought meat should be unwrapped as soon as possible because the wrapping paper tends to draw r out the juices. Wipe with a damp cloth, place on a dry plate and coyer loosely with waxed paper or plastic and store in the coolest place possible. A slight drying of the cut surface will retard the growth of bacteria.

Use minced meat, whether it is cooked •r raw, as promptly as possible as it spoils more quickly than whole pieces.

After cooking, allow the meat to cool uncovered and then cover tightly to prevent the drying of the surfaces.

Meat nies, stews, soups and savoury sauces which have been thickened with flour or potatoes should be used as promptly as possible as they go bad very quickly.

There are many and various ways of cooking meat. To boil fresh meats, cut off any superfluous fat and weigh the joint. If over 4 lb allow the following cooking times, but if lighter than 4 lb allow proportionately less. For a thin piece, such as ribs of mutton, allow 15 minutes to the pound and 15 minutes over, but if the piece is thick, like a leg of mutton or round of beef, 20 minutes to the pound and 20 minutes over is the correct length of time to allow.

Pork and veal require 25 minutes to the pound and 25 minutes over. .If necessary, tie the meat in shape. Place the meat in boiling water sufficient to cover, bring to boiling point and skim.

Let it boil for five minutes to harden the outside, then allow to simmer during the rest of the time. Seasoning should be added when half cooked.

Serve boiled mutton with white, parsley, onion or caper sauce, boiled rabbit with onion sauce, and boiled fowl with egg sauce. A small fowl or rabbit will cook in three quarters of an hour; large ones will take from IVz hours to 2 hours according to their age. A rabbit should he soaked in salted water for one hour before cooking.

Heavily salted meat should be soaked overnight in cold water and then placed in fresh cold water and brought very slowly to boiling point. The water should be poured off and fresh boiling water poured on. The meat should then be simmered very slowly until tender. Allow 30-35 minutes to every pound according to the thickness of the piece.

Skim frequently when simmering and when tender serve with cooked carrot, turnip, dumplings and greens.

Boiled salt pork should be skinned and sprinkled with bread raspings. Boiled ham is cooked in the same way. If ham is to be eaten cold, allow it to cool in the cooking water. This makes the ham more mellow and juicy. When taken out of the water, remove the skin and cover with bread raspings or glaze. meat is a good hot weather food.

There are several ways of serving it, but one of the most delicious and less well-known is with a glaze. This is merely a strong, well-flavoured gelatine mixture. It can be made by adding gelatine to a stock, or by evaporating stock to form a jelly. When the mixture begins to thicken it is poured oyer the cold meat or the meat may be placed in a mould and the glaze mixture poured round it.

Meat Glaze

Place 2 quarts of good stock (white) in a clean pan with 1 or 2 pints of cold water and reduce. Skim well during reduction. As liquid decreases in bulk change into smaller pans. As liquid thickens care must be taken to prevent burning. When reduced to a consistency of treacle pour into jars and seal. Use as required.

Quickly Made Meat Glaze

1 gill brown stock. *4 oz gelatine. 1 teaspoon Marmite, Vegemite or Bovril if liked.

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MEAT LOAF IVz cups stale breadcrumbs.

Vz cup milk. 2 eggs beaten or 2 dried eggs reconstituted. 3 cups fresh meat minced. 2 apples, peeled, cored and chopped (if available).

Vz teaspoon salt.

Dash of pepper.

Little thyme.

'Mix together breadcrumbs, milk and eggs and allow to stand Vz hour. Mix together meat, apples, and onion, stir in seasonings and soaked crumbs and pack into a loaf tin. Bake in a moderately hot oven for about 35 minutes. This quantity will give a fair sized loaf which should serve about eight people. It may be served hot with gravy or sauce, or sliced cold with gravy or tomato sauce or sliced with salad.

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Take one dozen bananas or more and mash same; add an equal quantity of flour, to which has been added 3 to 3 teaspoons of baking-powder.

Grate 3 coconuts or more, extract the coconut cream; turn cream into the dish with the mashed bananas and flour (sugar may be added if desired) and stir thoroughly.

Pour mixture into a greased baking dish, sprinkle with sugar and desiccated coconut and bake in a moderate oven.

Cinnamon may be mixed with sugar and used instead of the desiccated coconut. —“Old Trader,” BSIP.

Ice Cream Pudding

2 cups of hot milk. 2 tablespoons of butter. 2 tablespoons of sugar. 2 tablespoons of flour. 1 egg.

Pinch of salt.

Vz teaspoon vanilla.

V. hile the milk is heating, cream the butter and sugar well. Add the beaten egg and the flour alternately. Gradually add the hot milk stirring all the time.

Return to the fire and stir until the mixture thickens. Remove from fire, add vanilla, pour into serving dish. Chill.

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Snakes In The Eastern Pacific: An

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Mr. Lee’s letter opens up the question on snakes generally in the islands. As with mammals and birds, so with the reptiles, the general rule seems to apply, that as you go further east, and so further away from the big land masses, the variety of fauna decreases. Indonesia has the king cobra of Asia, at least as far as Sumatra, Java and Borneo.

By the time you get to New Guinea the cobra has disappeared, though the death-adder is found; and the pythons continue on into the Solomons and New Hebrides, with some other smaller species as well.

But once you pass on east to Fiji and the rest of the Islands, venomous snakes seem unknown. Here in Fiji, snakes are still found, though apparently less easily The Western Samoan Snake. 82 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Even before the advent of the mongoose there seems to have been some difference of opinion as to how plentiful these reptiles were in Fiji. William Lockerby in Western Vuna Levu in 1808, had an unenviable experience when, with a companion. he was benighted in thick forest.

“Our distressful situation,” he wrote, ‘‘was made still more intolerable by the immense number of the largest kind of snakes we disturbed and which kept hissing about us.” In fairness to Lockerby it ought to be mentioned that he appears to have taken nothing more intoxicating than breadfruit during the afternoon.

By contrast we note that Mrs. Gordon Gumming, in extensive travelling in Fiji in 1875-1877, saw only two snakes, and both were probably the harmless “dadakulathi” of the shore.

Personally, in three years on one of the Lau Islands, where there are no mongoose, I saw only two, a black one of some four feet long which had been killed; and a smaller one of a light brown colour, which was in the top of a coconut tree. However, the people of Moala assured me that there are many there, especially in their yam gardens.

But to get back to our Samoan snake.

It is evidently the tree-climbing type.

There are plenty of tree snakes in North Queensland, even within a few miles of Townsville. Troops from the south who camped there during the war well remember them. They seem to have a very wide distribution, and some interesting facts are related concerning them.

In Borneo, for example, is a snake which flies. At least, it takes flying leaps from tree to tree, supporting itself in mid-air by drawing up the belly till it nearly touches the backbone, the body thus flattened giving it support from the air. It resembles a split bamboo in flight.

But from the Amazon area of South America comes another story quite as good. It is said of the tree-snakes there, that if one happens to fall when travelling through the branches, it will coil its body and tail like a watch-spring and land safely on the spiral, so breaking its fall. Now, I’ve seen a few tree-snakes, but I have yet to see one behave like that. Perhaps another reader can tell us if our Pacific Island specimens have learnt the trick? fl Dr. Pierre Cassiau, appointed in January as Chief of the Service of Hygiene, lost no time in instituting a “Cleaner Papeete” drive in Tahiti.

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H Master Cyril Chan, formerly a student at the Sacred Heart Mission school in Rabaul, and now at a school conducted by the Sacred Heart Fathers at Burradoo, NSW. passed the NSW Leaving Examination with honours in Greek, Latin and French. He is a member of a well-known Chinese family. (The Chinese language is no longer taught in Administration schools in New Guinea.)

News From Tonga

Both Protestant and Catholic members of the community are renewing acquaintance with two popular priests who have recently returned to Tonga.

His Lordship Bishop Blanc, who retired in 1952 after 30 years service in Tonga has come back from his native Father E. Tremblay who spent 20 years to the Ha’apai group where he was instrumental in building the boys’ college, has come from Canada and America for a year’s working holiday. * * * Mr. Hank van der Moeln of the -Government Experimental Farm in Vava’u has gone to Nuku’alofa to supervise Agriculture Department activities during the absence of Director Pym Straatsman who will holiday in Holland. * * * The Misses Silia and Meleane Piukala, of Vava’u, shared honours recently at a feast held in celebration of their 21st birthdays. Some 200 Tongan and European friends met in the Piukala home in Pangai village for good food and an afternoon of singing and dancing. Miss Silia Piukala is just back from Nuku’alofa where she was a member of the graduating class of Queen Salote College.

If Police Inspector Ron Clammer, who has been stationed for some time at Sohano, in the Bougainville area of New Guinea, has been promoted Acting Superintendent of Police in Rabaul.

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Through an interpreter, the Japs were quite willing to catch fish within the harbour limits but it was suggested that they proceed outside the entrance. Through binoculars the writer personally watched the proceedings.

Some time was taken to prepare and bait the line, which was in the water for no more than one hour.

Result, ten fish—but what fish' Great fat streamlined 180 to 2001bs Tuna. Yet this ton of delicate seafood was not supposed to be there.

The wonderful and unexpected result is that the Cannery seems an assued success. The Samoans will learn how to catch these tons of sea-meat and so fill a large gap in their, at present, unbalanced diet.

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Rabaul First To See “Long Line” Methods IT is obvious that the Jap longline method does get results, even with Tuna. There is nothing particularly secret about their methods. Anyone in doubt should apply for the court records of the trial of Captain Kimio Ohyama, his crew and his ship, Sumiyoshi Mam, at Rabaul last April. During the trial the captain explained fully the methods they used in fishing with long lines.

This Jap ship which was caught fishing illegally i n Territorial waters was a seven-days’ wonder in New Guinea and Australia. However far from being resentful of tne Japs who were held some time m custody in Rabaul, local people (who, heaven knows, suffered more at the hands of the Japs during the war than almost anyone else) were intrigued at their ship and their methods.

Over 20 men lived aboard the small ship in the most primitive and uncomfortable conditions, but 86 FEBRUARY, 1954—PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY Phenomenal Fish-Catching Off Samoa (Continued from Page 67)

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Briefly, their method was to use literally miles of line suspended on glass floats; smaller lines carrying baited hooks trailed from the mam line. When arrested, it had taken 14 h hours for the crew to wind in the main line. „ . . .

It was freely said in Rabaul, at that time, that the Japs should not be fined but asked to stay around to catch fish for the local market.

It was said also, that more had been learned about successful fish catching methods from the evidence given by the Captain and crew, than from the expensive fisheries survey that had been conducted by the Australian Government some time previously—and which, to our knowledge, has not put one more fish into New Guinea larders to this day.

THERE were more red faces in North Australia this year when Jap pearl shell fishers, working again with small ships and a large mother ship, collected more shell in a month than Torres Strait crews had done in the whole of the previous season. This Jap enterprise led to Australia declaring jurisdiction over the whole Continental shelf. (See “Australia and the Jap Pearling War” elsewhere).

Fish in Australia is a luxury food.

It might be a very good thing if some Japanese fishing boats were invited to supply the local rharket; or if some tie-up were arranged between Australian capital and Jap industry on the lines of the Van Camp enterprise in Pago.

But the mere suggestion would, of course, bring screams of anguish from every fisherman in the Commonwealth —just as there were screams of anguish a few years ago when one of the South Seas Marine Products’ clippers fished experimentally in NSW waters for a few months.

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There was a double wedding at St. John’s Church, Port Moresby, on December 26, when Miss June Gosney married Mr. George Harrison, and Miss Sheila Gosney married Mr. Ronald Powell.

The photo shows the double bridal party (left to right): Mr. J. Pinney (best man), Miss Elizabeth Britton (bridesmaid). Mr. and Mrs, George Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Powell, Miss June Scott (bridesmaid), Mr. Harley Lake (bestman).

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Next scheduled visit to Mangaia is by the Atiu people late in 1954—by which time it is hoped that the taro will have grown again and the livestock bred in sufficient quantities to provide once more the lavish hospitality expected.

Four days intensive toil by all on Mangaia late in November in shipping twelve thousand cases of pineapples, had an unhappy sequel.

Bad weather delayed the loading, resulting in the over-ripening of the fruit by the time it reached Auckland. Instead of the exnected 19/- per case, growers had to accept 8/6—though even this amount was not expected under the circumstances.

A visitor from overseas—and a somewhat outspoken critic of the Administration—was silenced recently at this Cook Island outpost. Emphatic that the Atuakoro reef passage could be readily deepened to aid boat work, he was promptly presented with explosives and a gang of labourers and told to fire away.

For two days, explosions reveberated from Atau-koro to the central settlement, and then stopped— permanently. An inspection showed no discernible changes to the soundings and the useful result was simply nil.

In 1951 the Royal New Zealand Navy tried a depth charge in this pass, which did no more than chip blocks off the edge of the reef.

A cantilever system—quite uneconomic) —seems the only solution to the reeflproblem at Mangaia and other sucbd “bad passage’’ reefs. tl Dr. Welch, newly appointed Assist-v ant Medical Officer for the Cookrf Islands, arrived at Rarotonga during December. 90 FEBRUARY. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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SALE A RETIRED veteran of the South Pacific Islands, Mr. J. D. Whitcombe, of 7 Philomel Crescent, Bayswater, Auckland, NZ, informs us that he is prepared to sell, for £5l/16 - (NZ or Sterling) the following old and rare books connected with the history of Tonga; Mariner’s Tonga (Ist edition), 1817. Perfect condition. Ist and 2nd vol. Large size.

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Shirley W. Baker, 1897. fl Mr. F. N. M. Pusinelli and family and Mr. P. G. Roberts returned to the Gilberts in December after leave in New Zealand.

This new Catholic Mission church at Avuavu, near Honiara, BSIP, replaces the old church which stood there for 14 years of war and peace until it was given the final coup de grace in the near-hurricane which destroyed the whole station in 1952.

This new church has not been built on the same site as the old church, but has gone up in a new clearing in the jungle surrounding the mission station. Some iron and timber which was salvaged after the storm, plus native material, three tons of cement and a great deal of individual effort has gone into its construction. The church is 26 feet wide and 84 feet long. A special feature of its architecture is 2 successful compromise between native and European design.

It has a colonnade of reinforced concrete pillars all round the building. The spaces between them are filled in, at the bottom, with concrete sections and the upper part left open as windows. 91 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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The severe Hawaii drought ot 1953, though causing an increased yield for that year, is expected to nave an adverse effect in the long run and the total yield for 1954 is likely to he lower. Hawaii’s sugar industry topped the million-ton mark last year for the first time in 20 years.

Mr. J. J. Bruen, who has been Director of Public Works in Fiji since May, 1950, is to retire in, March from the Colonial Engineering Service. Mr. Bruen is at present on leave in the United Kingdom, and he will not return to Fiji before he retires. Before coming to Fiji, Mr. Bruen had served for 20 years in British Guiana.

Passengers on the December “Bulolo” to P-NG ports from Australia included heft to right): Father Joseph Heinemaus, a Dutchman, who joins the Catholic Mission at Wewak. Mr. C. Doran who has joined the new branch of the Bank of NSW, at Samarai. Mr. Basil Ferguson who will manage the Samarai branch until Mr. Max Hebden arrives to take over. —Photos by Papuan Prints. 93 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY,

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Too Many Dead-Heads in P-NG, Says Visitor A MELBOURNE visitor to Papua- New Guinea who passed through Brisbane on . the Bulolo in December said that he was “appalled” at the little progress made in New Guinea. His five weeks’ visit to the Islands was his biggest disappointment in a world tour.

He said he saw good road equipment lying idle, while cars were being wrecked on roads full of pot holes. Wharves were in poor condition, and it took from one to four years to build a house because of a shortage of materials..

In his opinion there were too many deadheads in the New Guinea administration. He felt that unless Australians woke up they would lose the Territory.

Mr. H. Willet, of the New Guinea Department of Works, who also returned on the Bulolo, said the Administration had limited materials and money.

The Administration had to overcome many obstacles. He thought it was doing a good job with the money and materials available.

U Mr. I. Stourton, CMG, OBE, 'Deputy Inspector-General, Colonial Police Forces, paid an official visit to Fiji during December. He was accorded a Fijian reception, with presentation of tambua by Fijian police units at Nasova Police Depot.

A training school for pearl divers Islan°d soo^om£l.soo hafffi SLSrttS? immeS“ It°U proposed to levy a charge of £1 per ton on all shell fished, as well as S‘ Isla " ds ’*» Annual rents on Crown land in Papua became due on January 1.

Individual rents range from 1/- per year paid by one lessee for a small area at Daru, in Western Papua, to £250 for the site of the former Government Printing office in Port Moresby. In all, the Treasurer benefits to the extent of £12,127 per annum from rents on Crown land in Papua. 94

February, 1 8 5 4 Pacific Islands Monthly

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ANZ. 103. 12 Cook Islands Residents In and Out of NZ Weddings in Moresby agriculture experience in Indonesia. Mr.

W. Allison, head teacher at Avarua School, Rarotonga, returned after furlough in New Zealand.

These Islands residents were travellers to or from Auckland, NZ, recently: Mr.

S R. Evans, of Aitutaki, paid a visit to relatives in New Zealand. Mr. John Kadler, recently of Aitutaki and formerly resident for a period in Tahiti, came to settle in New Zealand. Mrs. D. E. Dive went to live on Rarotonga. Mr. G.

Ulberg came to Auckland from Apia.

Mr. W. Lefehre, of Holland, took up an appointment as Agricultural Officer in the Cook Islands, after 20 years tropical Mr. and Mrs. K. Sloane who were married at the Catholic Church, Port Moresby, on December 34. The bride was formerly Miss Fredrickson.

Mr. and Mrs. D. Mlnnigan who also were married in Port Moresby on December 24.—Photos by Papuan Prints. 95 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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We regret to record the death of a inner popular Islands Ham, Bob Hanley- K-I-BC, together with his wife and »n, in the disastrous Christmas Eve lilway crash into the Tangiwai River, Z. The Hanleys had returned to New ealand some time ago on completion f a tour of duty at Rarotonga Radio.

From Aitutaki comes word that Bob »nes-ZK-l-BD has been replaced in the üblic Works position by Tony Aldridge, Iready well known there as former K-l-AM, who has been back in New ealand for several years. ZK-l-BD goes ff the air to return to NZ.

No sign yet of N. R. Ashwell who is lomentarily expected to appear with a K-l call, QTH Rarotonga Radio.

Ron Berry, former ZK-l-BA and back i New Zealand for some time past, has ow been posted to Apia and should soon ppear as ZM6.

Doug-ZK-l-AB, back from a business our round all the Cook Islands Northern ■roup radio stations, has been heard ctive on 7/14 mc/s since returning. Ron IK-I-BE is also active, as is the Pacific’s Host active 80-metre man, Doug-ZK-1-BG.

While Floyd on Pitcairn fails to appear n the air, an active pirate has been aaking good use of the VR6AC call-sign n 7 mc/s CW. Location unknown but uspected somewhere south of the W/K •order.

Way north on Fanning, Phil-VR3C, hough confining his activities to 14 cm/s •hone contacts with friends in VK/VR2/- CB/KH6, reported late December that toy Baty, an ex-VK?, would soon join he Cable staff and appear with a VR3 •all. There were rumours that he was ilready active late January. This should >e good news for the DX men.

From Tahiti, Joseph Bourne-FOSAB reports on the FOSs. He himself works 7 mc/s CV.I on Friday evenings, 14 mc/s almost every night, and 21 mc/s Saturday afternoons. FOSAC is frequently heard in the evenings on 14 mc/s phone and CW. Roland—FGBAD down on lonely Rap?, is very active on 7/14/21 mc/s, phone and CW. On the latter band he is using a cubical quad antenna with excellent results. The two maintain a sked on this band on Saturday afternoons and Sunday evenings. Roland expects to return to Papeete from Rapa in August.

FOBAG and FOBAH, only other licensed Hams, are seldom heard. FOBAI, normally W7FNK, has long since departed and that call is withdrawn. (Over) Some Pacific radio Hams (left to right): Stan—VR2AS. Fiji’s veteran and QSL [?]ager Jack VR2AC at Nadi; Pat Senior —ZM6AA, reported returning to ZL; Floyd [?]VR6AC on Pitcairn —the man the DXers are clamoring for and the pirates are abusing! 97 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY,

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Jo reports that 21 mc/s conditions have been suitable for ZL and W contacts for one or two hours in the afternoons frequently. Conditions on 14 mc/s limited to ZL/VK/W contacts; on 7 mc/s conditions good for CW contacts.

Moving westward, Stan Mayne-VR2AS lists the latest VR2 additions: 2CX-Barry Spring-Rice, C/- F.M.F. (Radar Station); 2CV —Noel Fincham, Aerodio, Nadi; 2CY Don Allen, C/- C. & W., Suva. With 2CY, 2BZ and 2AS all within 10 yards of one another at Suva Point, something of a QRM cell has developed. A roster system is working smoothly.

The Royal Visit to Fiji was a big Ham event there, with 2AS operating the portable station out on the pilot boat.

At the wharf 2CX managed another portable. Along the Royal route 2CT came into operation, and 2BZ at Albert Park looking after the trickiest set-up of the lot, with a close watch to be kept on three mikes from a hide-out at the official platform. At the official ball 2AS and an announcer were concealed in a bamboo pylon within a few feet of the Royal Visitors. All in all, the radio communciations, under control of Keith Broadbridge-VR2CS, chief technician of the local broadcast station, were a great success. All gear used was professional equipment, the outside Hams merely operating it.

On the Lautoka side W*yn—2CG, with his excellent mobile car rig, was called in to assist. Royal Tour Organiser Mr.

Sykes and Police Inspector Halstead depended upon his equipment and services for mobile communications there. 98

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Stan, in a brief late message reports at his Zepp came down in the January ow, but his ground-plane survived, kere were gale force wirids in Suva, irri Hogg’s ground-plane and folded pole came down. Stan kept his monies running—the town power reained on—but in spite of that dampness lied his VFO filament tranny. The ystal rig is still on the air—and a new fht-weight quick-lowering rotary will on be tried—something that can be ■opped readily whenever a blow comes ong.

Stan reports that an unnamed ST2 am. a former G4/VQ3/VQ4/VQS, recently ild him, during a QSO, that he expects ion to come to Fiji as a staff member ►r International Aeradio, the English rganisation providing radio facilities at Iji’s smaller airfields.

Before Christmas we wrote to ZL3JA to mfirm or deny the many rumours of is projected ZM7-Tokelau expedition. Up t late in January no reply had been Helved, nor have we further news of (7FNK/FOBAI reputedly to appear as a R 3.

Eric—-BERS-195 reports that FWBAB is drien Montjoie—on Wallis.

Jock—ZL3GX reports from Frank astick-VR4AE —only active VR4—that r. Gerald Hoult-VR4AB may possibly »on appear on 14,030 CW (crystal) from lunda. Frank, technician at the Honiara overnment communications station, puts good 14 mc/s phone signal into ZL rith his p/p 807’s and folded dipole.

QST” says that Frank is going to give be 14 mc/s CW boys a better chance this ear.

The yacht COONGOOLA dropped in to LUckland in January, on the last stages f a round-the-world trip, bound Brisbane ia Lord Howe. Aboard was ZL-l-OE as kipper and VK4OA as engineer-radio perator. Doug—VK4oA has done a certain mount of hamming during the cruise, nt electrical and mechanical noise aboard loes not make it a pleasure. Doug ilanned to do some 7 mc/s work on the rans-Tasman when the yacht departed January 36. She was due Brisbane February 6.

Another mobile liable to be heard well n the Islands at times is SMBBZU, ►perator in the Swedish ship MIRRA- JOOKA.

From New Guinea we hear that Arnold Some more Pacific radio Hams (left to right): N. R. Ashwell will soon appear a ZK-1; Bill, formerly ZK2AA, now to ZL soon; E. Hickford now at Niue replacing ZK2AA, should soon appear on the air.

ZL-l-BA; Jean-FK8AB with his Noumea set-up; Ray-KS6AB represents Hamdom at Pago Pago; Arnold—ZM6AC will return 99 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Honolulu reports that Yamashiro-c KBtfAQ, on Canton, will be showing h with some high-powered 7 mc/s phone.

BiII—ZK2AA, back in New Zealand, msi now be heard as ZL-l-BA on 7 mc/s CV and possibly on other bands.

Pat—ZM6AA at Apia, was rumoured ♦ be returning to ZL in the near futun according to z late-January repou ZL2AAB, now at Apia, has not yet be©! heard on with a ZM6 call.

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MR. TIHAU NAPARA. Island) Councillor for Manihiki, whri attended the Royal Visit tt New Zealand as representative foo the Cook Islands Northern Groufli said that the marked decline ii MOP shell output from ManihiMi for the year ending last March— as shown in the latest Cook Islandb annual report—was entirely due tJ a year of unfavourable weather foo diving. Constant winds and rougl? water greatly interfered with operae tions.

Commenting on exploratory diw ing that was carried out as Suwarrow last year by Manihiki divers, Mr. Napara said he is conr vinced that there is good shell ill that lagoon and that further, wel; supervised work should be donn there. He believes that the diverse without serious supervision, madb little attempt to explore the lagooic thoroughly. What shell they goo was of a good and heavy grade anox gave every indication that them must be plenty more of it there.

Referring to attempts to propa-r gate MOP shell in other lagoonsx Mr. Napara said that a trial haox been made in transferring shell fronn Manihiki to nearby Rakahanga, ano also to Pukapuka, but not much: care had been taken.

He feels that the Administrationc could make some serious efforts ini this direction by properly equipping! a vessel with suitable circulating-? water tanks in which to transfers the pearlshell. It would be even*: better to fit out a vessel to transfeis the much better quality Torress Strait shell from that region to ther Cooks, as was done by Levens Brothers 50 years ago.

Mr. Napara considers that ther present system of licensing machine diving operations should be altered.b The few licenses available should}.! be issued on a rotational systemm and not granted to the same holders-: year after year. Financial assist-r ance should be given to othens syndicates of divers to allow themm to purchase diving equipment. 100 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

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Much hard work by all concerned suited in an excellent display of alls and considerable enthusiasm rev both stalls and sideshows. The te was well attended by Europeans, hinese and natives and made a ital net profit of £215.

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U Rev. Norman Cruttwell returned to the Menapi Anglican Mission, NE Papua, in December, after seven months’ leave in England. He was accompanied by his mother. Mr.

Cruttwell has been in Papua since 1946, and—apart from mission activities—has become * a noted botanist.

II Mr. and MMs. Otto Sundin who, 18 months ago, retired to Wellington, NZ, after many years in Tonga, are journeying to Sweden, Mr.

Sundin’s native land, in April. They will stay there with a son who left Tonga in about 1932 and has since made a name for himself as an engineer in Sweden. 101 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY,

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GETTING AROUND:— Peter hrockmorton, of Honolulu, who lade himself known to ship-owners 11 the way from Tahiti to New aledonia last year (see PIM, July, 153) seeking business for his shiproking and repairing organisation, as been places since then.

After completing a survey of raft for sale in English waters hich were suitable for Pacific slands trade, and visiting Eire and ranee, Mr. Throckmorton was in ew York in December homeward Dund for Honolulu. This year his usiness travels will take him to adonesia for some months. The ddress, he says, is still Box 59, jTaimanalo, Honolulu.

' OLD TIMBERS STILL WANTED: [-Last year, after we had written f Captain Ostenfeld’s fascinating ible, surfaced with tiny inlays of mber from old and interesting recks, this master of the USS Co.’s •ans-Pacific freighter Waihemo, regived two further valuable contriutions. One was a piece of timber rom Captain Cook’s Endeavour, snt by a Milford Sounds, NZ, reident; and the other a piece from Itcairn Island—an ancient fraglentment of the Bounty. The table op still has plenty of room for arther rare additions.

Point Of No Return:—In

Auckland, in January, was Percy Edwards, of Tahiti, for nearly 30 years manager of the 40,000-acre sheep station which occupies most of Easter Island. He was the last Englishman to speak to the German officers of Von Spec’s Paci fl c Squadron in 1914. When the German squadron called at Easter, Edmunds knew nothing of the outbreak of World War I. He supplied the vessels with fresh meat and, in due course they departed, shortly to defeat Admiral Cradock off Coronel, and themselves to be destroyed by Admiral Sturdee’s squadron off the Falklands. Easter Island was undoubtedly the last port of call made by the German squadron.

HURRICANE WARNINGS: With another hurricane season in full swing, and several alerts already issued, we list again the existing voice weather broadcasts of interest to mariners: French Oceania, the Cook Islands, Tonga and the Gilbert and Ellice have no regular weather broadcasts on voice, though if a hurricane is in their areas, shipping is warned at the usual radio schedule times in use in these Groups.

Fiji weather is broadcast from Suva PO on 6300 kc/s at 0230 and 2130 GMT. from Suva broadcast station ZJV/ZJV3 on 930 3980 kc/s at 0000 GMT and 0907 GMT and from Nadi on 7530 kc/s at 0915 GMT.

Suva Cable and Wireless station VPD also will supply weather information on request at the usual 0400/2300 GMT schedules on 5887.5 —ships on 6280 kc/s.

Vila, as reported elsewhere, now gives a weather broadcast on 6900 kc/s at 2115 GMT for the New 103 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY.

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Established 1909 Hebrides area. Noumea broadcast station on 3275 6030 kc/s broadcasts weather information in French at 0830 GMT and possible at other times.

Port Moresby broadcast station 9PA VLT6 on 1250/6130 kc/s broadcasts weather for the whole Solomons-Coral Sea-New Guinea area at 0225/0855 1230 2200 GMT Monday to Friday, 0225 0855 2155 GMT Saturday, and at 0855 GMT only on Sunday.

For this same area, Brisbane short-wave broadcast station also gives an area forecast and summary at 0815 GMT on 4917.5/9660 kl s daily except Sunday. All Islands stations’ mentioned give frequent broadcasts—at hourly or even halfhourly intervals once a hurricane alert has been issued for their particular area.

KAVIENG WHARF;—Work commenced in January on wharf facilities at New Ireland’s main port, Kavieng, which will provide berthage for one large overseas vessel and two coasters. Total cost of the wharf will be in the vicinity of £75,000.

FOR KAVIENG CO-OPERATIVE: —Skippered by Mr. George Wyeth with Messrs. Max Mathews and Allen Duke as crew, the 45-foot auxiliary craft Ninisa called at Samarai, January 10, on delivery voyage from Cairns to Kavieng, New Ireland. She has been purchased by the native co-operative society there for copra carrying.

MIENA FOR SALE:—Captain J. W. Richmond’s staunch little Tasmanian-built ketch Miena, which tramps about Solomons-New Guinea waters, is reported to be for sale.

Of 109 gross tons, Miena foun her way to the Islands as a militaii supply craft during the Pacific was Captain Richmond, who operated! navigation school in Auckland an later in Sydney, purchased her whe. she was disposed of at the end < hostilities, and has since operate: out of Honiara, ranging north 1 104 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Apia Harbourmaster;—To

relieve Captain Jones while on vacation, Captain F. W. Allen, of Auckland, left Auckland for Apia per Tofua in mid-January.

Another Newcomer: —I N

mid-January a firm in the Islands was reported to be investigating the possible purchase of the New Zealand coaster Hokitika, currently lying idle in Auckland. Present owners were not prepared to confirm rumours that the interested party was Captain E. Savoie, of Noumea, who has already purchased several vessels from New Zealand during the past few years. Hokitika, ex Waipu, has a cargo capacity of about 160 tons. Built in Dunedin, NZ, in 1916, she is 101 ft x 23.1 ft x 6.8 ft and is a twin-screw, steel motor vessel. She has in recent years been engaged on the cement trade from Whangarei to Auckland.

She has been replaced in this service by the recently purchased Dutch-built Sumatra.

LONG TOW: Commanded by Lieut. Commander Morrison, RAN, the 500-ton salvage-tug Sprightly left Manus, January 20, with a 1,500ton oil barge in tow, bound for Sydney.

Co-Operatives Are Buying

SHIPS: —Native co-operative societies at New Britain and New Ireland appear to be in the market for small-craft at the present time.

Three craft have recently gone to New Ireland and one to New Britain from Australia, all of under 50 feet.

SLIGHT MISTAKE:—Four Chinese seamen of a visiting ship were arrested for smuggling goods ashore at Madang, NG, after one of their number made the fatal error of trying to sell a smuggled watch to a man on the wharf. The man happened to be Mr. T. Clark, Collector of Customs! Result: Watch confiscated; £2O fine.

LIGHT WANTED;—Mariners in New Guinea waters are pressing for the establishment of a light at the entrance to Hornbill Channel, between D’Entrecasteaux Island and the Eastern Papua mainland —an important waterway much used by local shipping.

INTERESTING VISITOR: Wongala —better remembered as the polar expedition ship Wyatt Earp— was in the news early January when the 34-years-old Norwegian-built 400-tonner went aground on Coconut Island, midway between Cape York and Daru, New Guinea, with a cargo of explosives aboard. Now owned by a Sydney syndicate, Wongala was under charter to an oil company at the time and was delivering explosives to New Guinea.

She came off the reef without damage.

N. HEBRIDES WEATHER RE- PORTS:—A recent Notice to Mariners reports that Vila-YJX on 6,900 kc/s now broadcasts voice weather bulletins for the New Hebrides area at 2115 GMT daily.

Following a hurricane alert the station will give bulletins every half-hour. ttvt jZe IN TOWN:—Lieut.-Commander G. R. Woods, naval liaison officer for Suva and an honorary aide to the Governor of Fiji, was in Auckland on sick leave during January.

BLOW AT P. MORESBY:—Some smallcraft parted their moorings s-k tsisstnngm moderate hurricane hit Port Moresby in the early hours of January 4. The hurricane centre crossed Cape York Peninsula from the westward then moved down midway between Australia and New Caledonia, gradually filling after crossing Lord Howe Island and eventually dissipating as it finally crossed the South Island of New aland in the latitude of Hokitika.

SCARE IN COOKS:—A hurricane warning was issued in the Cook Islands late in December when a minor hurricane developed near TJe^ikeWo Rarotonea B However*V eventua w&ms- s.sr ON LEAVE:—Mr. R, D. Mathe- 105 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY,

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Phone: BX 1211 (Six Lines) •Monel alloy, is a mined Bolstered trade-mark covering a rich nickel fn ranada and rolled in Great Britain, son, mate of Vila Star, flew home to Auckland on leave in January, his place being taken until February by Mr. Goddard, lately mate of Holmburn, who flew to Sydney to join the ship.

VEGA MAY MOVE;—Mr. Cornelius Crane’s big steel auxiliary yacht Vega, dismasted near Tahiti late in 1951, and idle in Papeete since then, may go to sea again.

An insurance settlement has apparently now been made. Pacific Micronesian Lines of Guam were reported some time ago to be interested in the vessel as an addition to their fleet operating in the American Trust Territory.

When dismasted, the big yacht was inaugurating a passenger service between Tahiti and Honolulu for a company registered in Papeete. f YANDINA;—A Solomon Islands report indicates that Yandina is to be declared an official BSI port of entry. Fairymead Sugar Co. has been pressing for some time for this to facilitate working of overseas vessels.

AI SOKULA: —Rumours that W. R. Carpenter & Co.’s Fiji trader, Ai Sokula, 556 GT former Japanese steam tug, was to be sold, was denied by the company in January. Tenders have now been called locally for conversion of the vessel to oil burning.

Meanwhile she is being renamed Oliver Mac, and the name Ai Sokula will be transferred to another ship, said to be of about the same tonnage, which was expected at Suva from Singapore late January. Details of this ship were unavailable as we go to press.

The transfer of names seems likely to cause all sorts of headscratching and dire predictions amongst old salts —and the Fijian chiefs who permitted the name to be used in the first place.

KOMAIWAI: —W. R. Carpenter’s 140-ton Komowai, lately withdrawn from the Fiji inter-island trade, is reported as likely to be transferred to the firm’s New Guinea runs.

LE PHOQUE RENAMED:— This ship, which Morris Hedstrom & Co., Suva, recently purchased from Noumea, is to be named Adi Keva and will be in the Fiji service by February. Unofficial reports indicated that the company might institute a regular Suva-Apia service with the 261 GT Altair, at present in the Fiji trade. The company would run its own trans-shipment cargo to Apia, thus saving lengthy delays on cargoes from the UK which occur under the existing shipping arrangements.

Tuvalu And Tungaru:—

Tuvalu arrived in Suva for refit in January, commanded by Captain Vic Ward—beating the hurricane to port by a narrow margin. On her return in a few weeks, the GEIC’s other similar inter-island vessel, Tungaru, will come south from the Gilberts for similar refit.

Nukalau Misnamed: By

error, South Pacific Shipping Co.’s new wooden 400-ton Italian-built vessel, which arrived at Suva in mid-January, has had her name mis-spelt Nukalau —i nst e a d of Nukulau, correct spelling of the name of the little island near Suva.

As spellings cannot lightly be altered once registered, it seems that 107 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY,

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Nukalau will have to follow in the Jootsteps of Scott, correct name Scot, which was acquired from New Zealand by one of the owners of Nukalau a year or more ago, and mis-registered in Suva through error of the owner.

Late in January, Nukalau’s future was very much in doubt. Lengthy delays in delivery from Cyprus had caused the company considerable expense and an uncomfortable passage out due to having missed the favourable winds along the route. Drawing 14 feet loaded, the vessel is considered unsuitable for use in the Fiji inter-island trade.

A number of possible services are being considered, as was also the sale of the vessel.

Crew for the delivery voyage were British Jews who, disappointed with conditions in Israel, were emigrating to Australia or New Zealand. They journeyed to Auckland from Suva per Vasu and Tofua.

KURIMARAU: —This former WPHC flag-ship, stripped of all moveable gear and now lying for sale at Ballina, NSW, is said to have a price-tag of £12,000 on her— which seems reasonable considering that the 288-ton motor-ship had a very extensive and expensive refit In Suva two years ago.

BSIP SHlPYARD:—Conditions are reported as far from happy at the BSIP Government ship-repair workshops which are hampered by inadequate equipment and untrained staff. Mr. E. Horton, who has been associated with the shipping side of WPHC affairs for a good many years, recently tendered his resignation, and returned to Fiji from Honiara.

PERSONAL:—On arrival of the LMS vessel John Williams in Suva late January, Captain Stanton Page came ashore and was to go to New Zealand on furlough. Mr. Bottom, chief officer, takes the command temporarily. The ship was to do a Samoa voyage in February. The London Missionary Society is saidi to be perturbed at the high ano increasing cost of ship maintenance —and John Williams VI, 419 GT is a large vessel to maintain.

INSPIRE REFITS.— Mr. HugM Williams’ Brixham trawler Inspire arrived in Auckland for refit and to avoid the hurricane season in the Cooks, on January 24. The passage took 14 days from Rarotonga. Im 108 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY*

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"Precision Built Since 1918. addition to Chief Engineer Les Livingstone, she carried a crew of five Islanders and five passageworkers. Skipper and engineer reported that they have recently acquired an 8-acre farm on Rarotonga and are hoping to swallow the anchor. Inspire, with twin 40- HP Rustons, is for sale at £B,OOO.

Following repairs in Papeete a year ago the hull is said to be in firstclass condition. If unsold, it is likely that Inspire may be chartered, or alternatively a skipper and engineer hired to operate her in the Cooks. Carrying 40 tons below decks, she is well suited, to Cook Islands Lower Group trade.

No Help To Mariners From

Cl: —Mr. Williams emphasised that, though the Administration is anxious that the present small-craft continue to operate in the Group, there is no co-operation whatever in providing navigational aids or harbour improvements at Rarotonga. Equipment for a lighthouse for Maina islet on Aitutaki reef has been lying there for many months.

At Avarua Passage, Rarotonga, there is no dredging of the narrow harbour or provision for better berthage or moorings. One local craft, out of action, has for months been blocking the main fairway in which she is moored with a network fo lines. Laying-up moorings could Easily be provided at Ngatangiia Harbour. At present, should a sudden blow come up at Avarua, it would be impossible for another craft to make the open sea in a hurry.

One particular rock in Avatiu Harbour and another in Avarua which badly need removing, remain there in spite of intermittent promises of removal.

At Aitutaki the Americans established two buoyed moorings during the war. One carried away years ago. The other chain parted in 1952. This mooring was of tremendous aid to Island shipping. All that is wanted is a new piece of heavy chain. Local men could readily shackle it under water to the mooring. The buoy Is still serviceable.

But the Administration will not provide the funds for even this facility.

Unless some services are provided in this way the Administration may find before long that they will have to operate the inter-island services themselves.

Samoans For Us Navy

The United States Navy will shortly despatch a seven-man recruiting team to Pago Pago to select 100 Samoans under a new plan to recommence recruiting in Eastern Samoa. The team will comprise two officers, one of them a doctor, and five enlisted men.

Recruits must be single. They will first be given an intelligence test, then the usual medical examination. (Over) A recent photograph taken in Pago Pago, American Samoa, of the ketch “Swains” over which there was some trouble about ownership a year ago.

Formerly named “Alsirat”, the ketch now belongs to Mr. Elai Jennings of Swain’s Island.

Since she changed her name, “Swains” has had a narrow escape from the reef at Apia, Western Samoa. She was got off after she was holed and partly flooded. She was patched up and has now returned to Pago. —Photo by Pan American Prints. 109 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY. 1954

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OFF: —ln mid-January, wha r ft labourers refused to load the islandb motor ship Maria Del Mar becauses they claimed the hold was in as “filthy condition.”

The Maria Del Mar had just completed a voyage from Noumea.

VASU CHASED BY HURRI- CANE;—Tasman Steamships’ Vasu a Auckland bound from Suva after as charter-voyage to Fanning, played) tag with the hurricane which moved) south after narrowly missing Fiji!

Vasu made various large changes? of course but the hurricane kept!' pace to the westward, giving th© little 300-tonner a very rough time.e However, she arrived safely in portt* January 24 without damage. Cap-' tain Ross reported that throughout the entire charter-voyage the weather was generally poor, withl poor visibility and frequent head) winds.

News of Cruising Yachts • Ever since Heyerdahl made hissi planned drift from Peru to the Tuamotu,u in 1947, drifting: has become a popular) pastime. One expedition in which as former Nadi meteoroligist is a leadings, light, is at present drifting across thesi Atlantic.

Another Pacific drifter is making plans< as reported in a recent PIM, to drift fromtr Honolulu to nowhere in particular.

We now hear from London that as farmer-ex-naval lieutenant, John Gwyther,!

RNVR, Fellow of the Royal Geographically Society, of Alton, Hampshire, will shortly? head for Tahiti, there to launch himselft! in a canoe hewn from a coconut log, too try to drift to New Zealand—in further! support of Heyerdahl’s westward-migrationn theory.

Possibly a tender-craft of some kindb will accomnany the canoe, as Gwythen* would seem over optimistic in hoping thath he will be accompanied in his canoe by?an Admiralty surgeon, an oceanographer!? from Cambridge, and a meteorologist, imr his total party of about six—as reported!* from London. Tender-craft are accom— ( panying both of the other driftings, operations mentioned earlier—as reported!) in recent PlM’s. • PAMPERO, with lone-hander Ronaldbi Johnson in command, arrived at BSI, December 38 from Sydney, after as not uninteresting voyage. A two-womapn crew signed on in Sydney proved “in--< compatible” and the decision was made,,.? when 400 miles at sea, to offload samesi with all despatch, at the nearest point onm the mainland.

Johnson put to sea again November 26,,a but met light winds. Some days later,.! rolling in a calm, there was almostig another unsolved mystery of the sea andbi Johnson’s unorthodox nautical career wasa. almost terminated when a blow on tliesi head from a swinging boom hurled himm into the cockpit, instead of overboard.

Temporarily paralyzed on one side, andbi convinced for a fearful five minutes that? his neck was broken, the skipper lay inni a very unskipperly pose—and fully expecting to hold that pose until he starved b to death. 110 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY*

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As Yandina was then not a port of entry the yacht was promptly thumbed on to Honiara. This passage proved the most tiresome of all with three days of calms and currents, and islets and reefs on all sides. The auxiliary motor was not working, so the yacht had frequently to be towed out of danger by the dinghy.

Skipper Johnson was ready for some wellearned rest by the time he eventually made port. His next port is not stated. • TOHU-BOHU, a twin-hulled catamaran-type yacht, with the accommodation built up between the hulls, may be seen in the Pacific this year and next if the plans of her four French owners are successful. She is to make a roundthe-world voyage from Marne. It will be recalled that a somewhat similar type yacht named KAIMILOA was sailed from Honolulu to France in the 1930’5, by Eric de Bisschop and Joseph Tatibouet, two Frenchmen who had been wrecked in the Hawaiian Islands in the course of a cruise in a Chinese junk, FUO PO 11.

De Bisschop, now resident in French Oceania, later became associated in the famous and unresolved affair of the junkyacht CHENG HO. Owners of the TOHU- BOHU are not yet known. She is less than 30 feet in hull-length. o V.Qien an American ex-navy man, R. K. Smith of Los Angeles, now resident in Wellington, NZ, let it be known that he was seeking volunteers to help sail a yacht down to New Zealand this year, he was deluged with inquiries in January. (See January PIM). The volunteers have to pay their own fares to America.

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LHAP.X. for Sydney, was also dismasted by the same blow, further north. TE RAPUNGA plans to enter the Trans-Tasman Race from Auckland to Hobart, commencing January 30, but up to late January race officials had not OK'd her. • GESTURE, mentioned above, was passed by the New Guinea trader VIRIA 100 miles north of Sydney, January 10, making for Newcastle under jury rig.

GESTURE reported all well and no assistance required. A competitor in the 1952 Trans-Tasman race, this yacht is a 30-foot sloop. Her cruising plans are not known. • ONRUST of Holland, with owner Dirk Tober and two others aboard, was to return to New Zealand after having taken part in the Sydney-Hobart race in January. Some New Zealand coastwise cruising is planned. Tober and his yacht will be remembered in the Islands. He arrived in Auckland from Holland a year ago. • FLAMINGO, another Auckland backyard-built yacht recently mentioned here, suffered damage in heavy weather during the Sydney - Hobart race. Warren McCarthy spoke afterwards of selling the yacht in Sydney, if possible, and purchasing a larger one in which to continue a planned world cruise. • Remember VIATOR, owned by Harry Close and his wife of the Pacific Coast of the States, which has made two cruises to the South Pacific, the last two years ago? Crew-member George Eggleston, former Reader’s Digest and Life staffer, has just written a book on the latest cruise—with the usual American-type title: “Tahiti, Voyage Through Paradise” with 100 pages of photographs. It deals with the Cook Islands as well as Tahiti. • BEATRIX, unorthodox whale-backed steel 36-footer of Holland, with Mr. and 112 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Queensland rs. J. S. Leyen and friends aboard, eared Papeete December 15 for Bora >ra and Nukualofa. • KONA, bound for New Zealand, made ipeete Christmas Day, having cleared onolulu mid-October and called at tenga and Makemo in the Tnamotu. ml Blackford and Robert Houtz are rners, with Stuart Johnson as crew.

DNA is a 12-ton 39-footer with 14-feet jam, built in San Pedro, 1933. • One of those not-infrequent yachting amas developed in Papeete December , when the 50-foot American schooner ENTURER left port without too many rmalities, presumably bound for Honolu. Owners Bob Burke and John Grant id that day notified the authorities that Monsieur Paul Farge would be joining e crew. M. Farge arrived two years ■o in the little French yacht KURUN, Inch sailed on to continue her voyage ound the world with her owner, Mimelin.

VENTURER sailed at night, and in the orning light it was discovered that iere also had gone the wife and two tildren of a man who came to Tahiti his own yacht in December, 1950, from mama. He and his wife are British bjects, and have been popular residents Tahiti. Since trouble developed bereen them, he had been given temporary istody of the children, pending divorce oceedings. • SEARCH, said to be a luxurious otor-sailer, owned by James Mcmnaughey who has property in the lea District of Tahiti, is reported enute to that Island from an American irt. SEARCH formerly belonged to Mr. ivid Chapman, industrial designer, of e USA. • COONGOOLA, Brisbane 74-foot twinrew motor-sailer, arrived at Auckland, .nuary 5, and departed again on the th on the last lap of her circumivigation of the world. She called briefly Rarotonga, Nukualofa and Raoul Island ter leaving Tahiti. A call was to be ade at Lord Howe on the home run.

COONGOOLA is of particular interest Fiji in that she is a larger version of [KING AHOY which now belongs to the sventh Day Adventist Mission there, iptain Frewen who took VIKING AHOY Fiji to assist in filming BLUE LAGOON me years ago, purchased her from Mr.

H. Griffiths, owner of COONGOOLA. »th craft are fitted with Southern Cross esels, which Mr. Griffiths’ Toowoomba >undry manufactures. COONGOOLA ade a voyage to South Africa two years ;o. The crew are largely employees of le Foundry. • MARINER, with Jim Robinson and eorge Karl of Seattle aboard, which we st reported heading Islandwards and in >wer California waters, was to make a ill at Pitcairn after a lengthy stay in le Galapagos, which she was to clear te November. Destination is Sydney. • The Royal Suva Yacht Club proded an escort of yachts into Suva on »e occasion of the Royal Visit to Fiji, •ecember 17. The Club presented a ttyal Address to Her Majesty the Queen, he Duke of Edinburgh, a keen yachtsan, regretted that, due to the heavy shedule of engagements, he would not be able to visit the Club but he sent his private secretary, Lieutenant-Commander Michael Parker, RN, to convey his good wishes. Next day the Club was honoured by a visit from Vice-Admiral E. M. C. Abel Smith, CV, CVO. Flag Officer, Royal Yachts. • Mr. Des Ashton, who has been a student at the Mosman School of Administration. Sydney, returned to Rabaul in December-January in his Tasmanianbuilt yacht LAHARA. It will be recalled that Mr. Ashton, with companions, made a cruise to Auckland a year ago. • KERERU of Auckland, with owner Ray Johnson and three companions, which cruised to Norfolk Island in December, and is one of the few to lie in Emily Bay, late in January was reported preparing to head on for Noumea. • WANDERER 111, Eric and Susan Hiscock, continuing her world cruise, arrived at Sydney, January 33, from a northern New Zealand port.

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His main impressions of his brielc visit, while flying over the archi-i pelago, were the emptiness; thei grandeur and wonder of the up-c heavals which produce the volcanioi cores of most of the Islands; thei luxuriance of the tropical growth! induced by a continuation of soil! and rainfall; and the reliance; everywhere on coconuts and coprasproduction as the basis of the Pro-( tectorate’s economy.

Overall, he said, one could note escape the prime importance of thei problem created by the scarcity oh the labour supply available, note only for the reopening and main-i tenance of existing plantations, buti for the extension and diversification! of production.

Against this background (limited) labour supply) the experiments being carried out in the use otc arsenical and hormone sprays im weed control, and re-establishmenti of a low ground cover, and the im-i portance of restocking with cattlel as a means of reducing the , highl cost of brushing, are of great im-i portance.

So, also, is the research work omi control of amblypelta —the pest re-; sponsible for nutfall —which in many;: areas is so severe as to render thei reopening of the old plantations; uneconomic. He was glad to know# that this research—interrupted the resignation of Dr. Phillips— will be resumed with the arrival oftc his successor, Mr. Brown, in Ma p, or June.

No time should be lost in trying§i to establish, by well-organisecfo; trials, the possibilities of tree crops alternative to copra, oftc which cocoa would appear to be oneei of the most promising.

The objective of planters shouldbJ be the production of high produce, and he was pleased to hearu this policy expressed at the Copras- Board meeting which he had thattc day attended. He hoped that inni any campaign for the expansion oftc kiln-dried copra, financial assistance, where necessary, would beec forthcoming to both natives andbi Europeans. (Next Page) (a 114 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLYY

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What is wrong? What does it lack? As we have pointed out, again and again, there can be no development in this Cinderella Territory until there are (a) a labour supply and (b) inducements for investors.

There are not enough natives in the huge archipelago (only 100,000) to provide indigenous labour; and the stupid policies of the British Colonial Office have scared off whatever enterprise was inclined in recent years to take an interest in development.

A British Colonial Office plan to really encourage European enterprise on a big scale (a sine qua non being the introduction of suitable labour from overseas) might achieve something; but there is no prospect of anything like that. There are too many post-war idealists in the picture, Who insist that the archipelago must be preserved for the natives (although the native population is small, and almost wholly confined to Malaita); there is no security of tenure for new settlers, because Britain may soon return to Socialist control, and it was a Socialist Government which gave the Protectorate its coup de grace after the last War; and, even if such a plan were* introduced successfully, it would benefit not Britain, but Australia. The present slender economy of BSI is about 80 per cent.

Australian —is now, and always has been. BSI should, of course, have been taken over by Australia after the War.

In the opinion of this journal, the only practicable plan that has been offered for the solution of BSI troubles is the transfer of Fiji-born Indian agriculturalists and traders, from Fiji (where there are too many of them) to the Solomons (where there is room for a million small settlers) But the high panjandrums of the Colonial Office will not even comment upon it.

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There have, as yet, been no imlediate, beneficial effects from the svo developments at the American nd. Papuan rubber, first quality, ras still selling at 1/9 lb, delivered lydney, end of January.

And there certainly have been no esults from the cost investigator’s rip to the Territory. It can be xpected, in fact, that the investiator will take some time to comlete his task, and before he gets ound to making the inevitable Titten report to Canberra, the costs ie is looking at may have jumped me way or the other.

Planters remember the investigaion that was made by another exert some years ago. Between the ime the investigations were made nd the report written, the price of übber had jumped by about 300 er cent; by the time the report r as published, it had slumped again.

Planters’ can hope that the preent investigation is not going to •e another 2-years’ job.

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What Papuan planters do not mderstand is the reason for the inestigator’s trip, when the cost of übber production is firmly enough stablished to show that ruling narket prices are too low T to cover t. The planters are impatient of my delay in the Government’s decision on the 2d per pound duty.

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_ . . x Some long-term assistance to the Papuan rubber industry has been given recently by the Administration which has undertaken to pay the air freight from Malaya on planting material from high-yielding rubber trees. Transport charges increased the cost of this by about 50 per cent.

However, Papua is unlikely to benefit by these better type rubber trees for at least 10 years—the time the trees take to come into bearing. And in that time there could, of course, be no Papuan rubber industry to bother about.

Optimism In Malaya

i n Malaya, in January, there was a belief that rubber prices might rise in the first months of this year. This optimism was based on prospects of America being in the market for increased supplies of natural rubber. The chiefs of the big us rubber companies, Goodyear and Firestone, had both stated that 1954 should be a year of greater production of motor tyres, It i s hoped, also, that the recent visit of US Vice-President Nixon to Malaya may do some good at political level. One way to help keep Communism out of this part of Asia is for the US to provide a market for its chief product. Depression amongst rubber workers now would give the green light to Red agitators. 117 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY,

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The Raluana natives of the ;abaul district, it will be rememered, refused to join the Adminis- •ation’s Village Council programme Ithough all the other natives in lis area had fallen into line.

The Raluanas refusal led to the cuffle at a village in May, 1953, hen District Officer McCarthy was ddressing them. Mr. McCarthy 'as assaulted by a teacher-boy amed Tuvi and Tuvi was subseuently tried and given a few lonths’ gaol.

The Village Council system was Iways described as a voluntary one ut when the Raluanas refused to onform like the other Tolais natives of the Gazelle Peninsula rea), levied their own taxes and id what they wished with them, tie rest of the natives became disontented. So, in spite of its voluntarv” nature, the Raluanas rere told that if they did not join f their own free will, the Adminisration would issue a proclamation orcing them to join.

But in spite of this threat, the Administration held its hand for eight months. During the Administrator’s visit to Rabaul in January it must have been decided to bring up the big guns and tell the Raluanas to get into the Council movement, or else. At this point, however, the Raluanas seem to have, in effect, remarked mildly that they thought that joining a Council was a very good idea.

Neither the big guns nor the proclamation appear now to be necessary.

IT Mrs. Norman left Norfolk Island late in January and was followed in February by the Administrator, Brigadier H. B. Norman, who with other delegates, will attend the Territories functions in Canberra between February 13-18.

NG’s 1953 COPRA EXPORT

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ACCORDING to Rabaul representative Don Barrett, MLC (who passed South for the Royal functions in Canberra in mid-February), New Guinea, in the year ending December 31 last, exported 93,000 tons of copra—an alltime high.

A quick calculation shows that this industry brought no less than £5,000,000 Aust. to New Guinea planting interests —of which the P-NG Government’s share was at least £500,000.

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'FUJI has two cost-of-living indices, -T for Europeans and for Indians.

There is none for the Fijians—because, in the official view, all Fijians live in communal villages where changes in the cost of necessities are not readily felt.

This is one of Fiji’s minor injustices, if only because thousands of Fijian urban workers belong to neither index.

As both indices have gone to new peaks since New Year, a moderate Increase in pay is required for a limited number of workers, including Public Works and CSR Co. employees. An increase for all civil servants has been a certainty for some time; and that, in due course, means increases in many places outside the service. Finally, electricity charges have been increased at Suva, so that prices of locally-made products may rise, just as the prices of most imports go up with great persistence.

There is some agitation in Suva for the reimposition of price control on market charges for many locally-grown foodstuffs. Both Stiva and Lautoka town authorities have pointed out that price-control is outside their jurisdiction. Lautoka council has asked the local Chamber of Commerce to look into things with the idea of possible representations to the Government.

When price control was abolished In 1950 the Government promised that if there were any exploitation of the public, back would go control. Since then there have been repeated wails from sections of the public; and there has now been a sharp increase in 4 the agitation because of the high charges by vendoic at the public markets for local pro' duce which cannot be called scaro' by any standard.

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For European Children

European schools in Papua-New Guinea will have a revised syllabus [or 1954 which will be adapted from those now in use in NSW and Queensland.

The Territory, in many ways, is jetter off with its schools than many Australian States. It is estimated that here about one teacher is used [or every 25 pupils. The figure in Australia is sometimes one teacher t 0 40—generally regarded as far too high. , • I Last year, the Lae Advisory Council complained that the school was overcrowded and that it needed two new class-rooms. The two new class-rooms are expected to be opened early in the new school pear. The Lae school has three teachers.

Another Plane Crash

A Mandated Airlines Dragon was smashed about at Wewak on January 8, when it ran off the strip during take-off. Pilots Norman Lather and Bill Englebeck and a native passenger suffered bruises.

The aircraft was badly damaged about the wings and undercarriage and will need extensive repairs.

Most of the accidents at Wewak are caused by running off the strip, which is rough at the take-off end. (Mr. W. J. Mort, of the P-NG Civil Aviation Dept., said in Brisbane, where he arrived on leave recently, that the Department has tightened flying regulations in New Guinea to reduce small plane accidents. He said that there had been more than 12 small plane accidents in New Guinea in the last two years, and that all small planes, including Austers, now had to carry radio and were grounded in bad weather.

Searching for small planes lost in New Guinea, he said, had been very fostly).

Losuia Now Off Air-Route

The alighting area at Losuia, in the Trobriands, Papua, will not be used again as a regular alighting irea for flying-boats. It will be used only in emergencies.

The area is outside the reef and is regarded as too choppy most of the time to be satisfactory.

Sandringhams used to call there regularly.

DCA intend to maintain the area with marker buoys in case it is wanted during emergencies.

Rsl Affairs In Moresby

May Escape From Doldrums

The Port Moresby branch of the RSSAILA elected new office-bearers at its annual general meeting on January 12.

The meeting this year was notable for the big attendance of members in comparison with last year when only a few attended to take an interest in the League. There has not been the interest in RSL affairs that one would normally expect in a town the size of Moresby.

The new president is Mr. W.

Watkins, who is the Crown Law Officer at Port Moresby. New vicepresidents are the Director of Education, Mr. W. C. Groves, and the Commonwealth Department of Works construction manager, Mr.

Tom Brockington.

Mr. Vince Sanders was re-elected secretary.

The offices of Treasurer and committee were left vacant until a later meeting in February. The retiring treasurer, Mr. Kidney, was in Australia, and it was felt the RSL could not elect a committee without first hearing a treasurer’s report.

The retiring President, Mr. Fred Edwards (who has since relinquished his position as acting manager of 9PA, and has returned to the ABC in Perth) made a verbal report on the year’s activities. He said activities had been covered in detail in monthly reports during the year.

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members that there was no written x report or a treasurer’s report, but J the meeting decided to accept the 6 verbal report from Mr. Edwards.

Before being farewelled, Mr. .

Edward was handed a certificate ; making him a life member of the ; RSL.

Big Rice Plantings In The I

MARKHAM About 1,000 acres of rice will be £ planted in the Markham Valley in x 1954. This is estimated to yield I roughly 1,000 tons.

In the Mekeo district of Papua, . natives are planting more than 100 ( acres this year. It will be cultivated i by family groups, replacing the £ former system of production by T . rural progress societies.

Kavieng Wharf

Work has begun on Kavieng’s new i overseas wharf. In January the £ contractors, Modern Constructions g Pty. Ltd., of Ipswich, Queensland,, began pile-driving.

ABC’s New Manager Mr. H. S. Sibary, formerly Federal I Programme Executive, and now ABC C manager for Papua-New Guinea, took up q his duties there early in January. Mrs.

Sibary will leave Sydney to join him in n February. The third member of the 9 family, 13-year-old John, will remain at 1 Barker College. Mr. Sibary was born in n England, was educated at Ardingly 7 College, Sussex, and the Royal Military j College, Sandhurst. Commissioned to the 9 Norfolk Regiment, he later transferred to o the Indian Army and saw service in n Palestine and Syria during World War I, ,1 and afterwards in India. He retired with n the rank of Captain. In 1923 he settled b in Australia, making a career in farming g and in business. He became associated b with broadcasting in 1929, first as a announcer for the AWA station at the 9 All-Australian Exhibition in Melbourne, ,s and then as manager for 6PR, Perth. He 9 joined the ABC as Studio Supervisor in n Melbourne in 1937, and by 1939, transferred to head office in Sydney where he 9 became Federal Programme Executive. 122

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Cattle Breeding

The 22 cattle which were air-lifted rom Pakistan to Port Moresby in December, 1952, and which have >een held in special quarantine here since, will be released shortly [or breeding experiments in the territory.

Six Zebu cattle are being purhased from the United States for similar experiments, but will spend heir term of quarantine in Australia before being shipped to P-NG.

Although European breeds of jattle are doing very well in the lill and mountain country of P-NG, t is believed that in the hotter joastal regions, a Zebu-European ;ross will be more suitable. The long range plan, of course, is to nake P-NG independent of imported meat supplies. That is a long way off yet. As each beast ,n the Territory at present represents an outlay of about £lOO in jold cash, eating local beef can still se classed as a millionaire’s hobby.

Feeding Moresby

The problem of feeding Port Moresby—the largest concentration Df European population in the Territory—has recently been taking up he attention of the Administration.

Moresby is unfortunate from this point of view, as it is in the rainshadow of the Owen Stanley mountains and is the most arid spot in the Territory.

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A survey has been made of suitable market-garden land on the Laloki River, out of Moresby, and it is hoped that blocks will soon be made available to private individuals by the Administration. At the same time, natives outside the dry zone are being encouraged to grow produce for the town.

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It is believed that the southern coastal plains of Papua, including the trans-Fly area, are the most suitable cattle areas. There are one million acres of land in this area, surplus to native requirements, suitable for the purpose. This area would support 66,000 head of cattle.

If this number were run, a canning works and fertiliser factory near Port Moresby would be feasible.

Until these long-range plans come to fruition, of course, most of Moresby’s meals will continue to be ex-freezer—when they are not excan.

Two Weeks At Wau For

Public Servants

The P-NG Administration will lease six fully-furnished holiday bungalows at Wau, New Guinea, for public servants’ between-leaves holidays.

The bungalows will allow local public servants to have the option of two weeks’ local leave at Wau— the two weeks to be deducted from the three months’ overseas leave they receive after every 21 months’ service.

The bungalows will rent for about £3/10/- per week, including the services of a native servant.

With an elevation of 3,500 feet, Wau has a very pleasant climate.

Most European fruits and vegetables do well there; local milk is available, the days are warm and the nights pleasantly cool. If the local leave idea “takes,” the Administration will erect additional bungalows.

The experiment w T ill be watched with considerable interest; a great many Territorians are wedded to. the idea of the three months leave South; and no substitutes will do. .

They Want A Papuan Flag I

The Milne Bay District Advisory Council has come int® the dis-e cussion over a Papuan flag.

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They suggested a flag based on ie Australian Blue Ensign,

Ew Cadet Patrol Officers

ARRIVE Nineteen new Cadet Patrol Officers ■rived in the Territory during inuary. They then began a sixeeks’ induction course at Port oresby before being sent to widely fferent parts of Papua and New uinea, where they will get their ore practical training.

Until recently, cadets did a preninary course at the School of icific Administration, Sydney, but is felt these days that the initial Auction course is better at Port oresby.

[ Men Y Amy A Natives On

WARPATH Nineteen natives who were inilved in fighting in the Menyamya ■ea last December have been intenced to short terms of gaol, tiey were charged with riotous betviour and assault.

In January, 11 more were awaitg trial on charges of murder and itempted murder.

Patrol officers arrested the 30 itives following a report that eight id been killed in fighting in the ienyamya area. The patrol who ent looking for the culprits found ie number killed to be 16, includig women and children.

Patrols will continue looking for ;her culprits; the Administration hopeful that some of the natives, )w in gaol, will when released, help ith some advice on how to pacify ie rest of their people.

Medical Benefits Scheme

Has Problems

The Papua-New Guinea Admintration is considering a compreensive medical benefits scheme for ie Territory.

A lot of hard work has been put ito it by some Administration ficials in the last couple of years, at the Administration and Canjrra cannot agree on how it should i handled.

In January, the Public Service ssociation of the Territory, with eadquarters at Port Moresby, was idressed on the problem of the iheme by the Director of Health, r. John Gunther. The Association as now decided to see if it can in the scheme itself, with the Adlinistration’s support.

The plan on which the Associaon is working, is that Adminisation officials will be compulsory embers and anyone else outside ie Public Service, voluntary. A igular subscription would give members a complete medical and hospital coverage, even, it is hoped to the extent of providing cost of a fare to Australia for special treatment, if this is prescribed.

One difficulty concerns private practitioners and government Medical Officers, the latter in the Territory being in the majority.

What, for instance, would happen if a private practitioner decided that a patient should be sent to Australia, and the Health Department thought adequate treatment was available in the Territory?

The Flu Reached The

HIGHLANDS Local quarantine restrictions were lifted on January 21. They were imposed in November to try to prevent the then prevailing coastal influenza epidemic from reaching Highland and other remote areas.

Movement of personnel into these areas was not made without special precautions. The precautions were not successful in keeping the flu out of any of the areas intended; but (Continued on Page 128) 125 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1954

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One of the first restricted areas to get the epidemic was Telefomin.

The attacks on Patrol Officers Szarka and Harris occurred about the same time as the restrictions were announced, but they could not be applied in that Sepik outpost as large numbers of men had to be flown in and out.

Plantation Labourers In

FIGHT One native was killed and two seriously wounded when fighting occurred among natives on plantations in the Kairuku Sub-District of Papua on January 22 after a native woman had been abducted.

The trouble started when an Abau native working on Kenosia Plantation abduc ed a local Kuni girl. He was then killed with tomahawks and spears, allegedly by Kuni natives from the plantation labour line.

Three plantations subsequently became involved in fighting until stopped by Europeans from local plantations.

Assistant District Officer H. C.

Gaywood, arrived at Kenosia from the Kairuka District Office on January 23, and reported that the situation was quiet again.

Following an investigation, three Kuni natives were charged with murder, one Musa labourer with attempted murder, seven Abau natives were charged with abduction, and six Musas with rioting.

In his report, ADO Gaywood commended the prompt action taken at personal risk by the European staff of the Kanosia, Doa and Lolorua plantations, and said this had prevented many casualties. 370 GO HOME The 370 natives who were evacuated from Long Island in May last year, have been permitted to return to their old homes.

The evacuation followed an eruption in a crater-lake on Long Island and the natives were sent to Saidor, on the mainlapd.

It is considered now, by the vucj canologists, that it is unlikely th;r the volcano on Long Island wi r ever be a danger to the islande:s who have asked to return home rn peatedly since their evacuation appears that the soil is richer oo Long Island, that they had t abandon large herds of pigs there-e and that anyway, they like it bettd than Saidor.

Composition Of Legislative

COUNCIL The select committee set up la* November to investigate the corxr position of the Legislative Couno finished its work at the end c January and handed a copy of ii There was a full attendance of Samaraui residents when District Commissioner, M. J.

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Mangrove Bark Industry

Gets Going

The Territory’s new mangrove ark industry hopes to begin proluction' by the middle of the year, ccording to the company’s manger, Mr. C. R. Fisher.

An evaporator has already been nstalled at the works at Aird Hills, tear Kikori, and a boiler is to be nstalled there shortly.

The product from the mangrove s called cutch and is used for taniing and dyeing. There is a sale or it in America and Japan, and he company, the New Guinea Jorneo Mangrove Company, intends o send it in that direction.

Madang Wants Permanent

DO’S Madang people are taking a dim lew of the process of moving Disrict Commissioners about.

The January meeting of the Town Advisory Council carried a resoluion which viewed with concern the wactice of appointing temporary DC’s. It said the practice was a iisadvantage to the district, and igainst its progress.

The resolution asked that the Administration consider appointing lermanent DC’s and ADO’s at Madang.

There have been seven appointnents as DC to Madang in the last ieven years. Present man is Mr.

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A T. Temperley, who is on leave n Australia).

Papua’S Helicopter Pilot

An Australian, Robert Wilson, was presented with his helicopter ‘wings” at Port Moresby on January 29, thus creating some kind 3f a record.

DCA officials in the Territory, who passed Wilson, don’t know what the record is, but they think perhaps he’s the first Australian within the Australian Territories to be granted permission to commercially operate a helicopter.

Wilson, who has had other flying experience, is employed by Bahamas Helicopters, who are carrying out a contract for APC. They are using three Bell machines, which are stationed at Everill Junction, in the west.

Until Wilson was put on, and trained by Bahamas’ chief pilot, “Sandy” Wheeler, all the pilots were American.

It’s understood that Bahamas intend to retain a few more Australians. nr a rfttpr TTOTTTPPFn m , L ' UA _ illjK The Territory Dept, of Civil Aviation took delivery of a new Territory* for some new Anson will enable them to make more surveys, similar to that of the Baiyer River area last year.

This was the first of a new system of aerial surveys, made as a combined effort with DCA and District Services as the leading partners, The DCA men look for airfield sites, and have a general look at * he country while District Services inspects native populations and movements and seeks out patrol routes The'new Anson has a number of It is also fitted with Distance Measuring Equipment—a fairly recent navigational aid which, it is 129 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY,

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’Rans-Busu Timber In June

In February, the company which 5 operating the big Trans-Busu imber lease, outside of Lae, had lalf-way completed a log-span ridge across the Busu.

The company, the Victorian firm f Murdoch and Murphy, hopes to iave the mill in operation by June, of the mill will start s soon as the bridge is finished.

Territory demands will have riority; this is a good thing for he Territory, which is still short f timber.

Police Officers Win Case

After a five-day trial, which reated a great deal of interest hroujhout the Territory, Sub-Inpector Colin Evans was acquitted f a perjury charge on February 4.

Immediately after the acquittal, he Crown decided not to proceed nth a similar charge against Subnspector Ernest Young.

Beth officers were members of he Criminal Investigation Branch dien, in December, they gave evidnce at the trial of a Port Moresby nan, John Mumford, who was harged with indecent assault on a lative woman.

Mumford alleged that Young and Evans had assaulted him while Uestioning him. The officers denied his.

The day that Mr. Justice Bignold vas to give his judgment in the ase, the Crown notified the Court hat it had fresh evidence, based in allegations of a native police unstable, Coro, that he had seen Gva-is assaulting Mumford at the :ib.

Mumford was acquitted, and both •fficers committed for trial on sharges of perjury and suspended fom duty.

Evans’ trial began in the Supreme Uourt at Port Moresby on January 18, and Evans pleaded not guilty. He lenied the assault and said that evidence by the police constable 3oro was a lie.

Mr. Justice Kelly’s judgment took ibout 11 hours to read. He said he lid not feel disposed to accept some 3f the evidence as sufficient corroboration to prove assault.

The suspension of Evans and SToung was lifted the following day.

Another Legal Eagle For

RABAUL t Mr. Warner Shand, a District Commissioner in the P-NG Service, has resigned to put up his shingle in Rabaul as a barrister and solicitor.

Mr. Shand, who is somewhat older than the usual law student, has spent his own time—and particularly his last long leave —in qualifying.

Territorians feel that he has earned any success that comes his way and wish him well.

In recent months he was posted to Rabaul to relieve DC McCarthy whom it was thought was due for leave. However, Mr. McCarthy has remained in Rabaul.

Other Resignations

Other recent resignations from the P-NG service are ADO Reg Boyan and ADO Ken Jones. Mr.

Boyan was assistant Registrar of Co- Operative Assns. in the Territory and it is understood that he is going to Western Samoa to a similar sort of job.

Mr. Jones has bought a plantation in the Kokopo area.

Tough Native Survives

A native was rescued by the lighthouse vessel Wallach off the South coast of New Britain in mid- January. He was the sole survivor of a party of seven natives who were in a canoe which was badly damaged in a storm while they were on a voyage between Kitava in the Trobriands to Egum Atoll, about 50 miles to the S.E. They had begun th Afte°r y ?he had been in the damaged canoe for three days alone he decided to swim for the land. He took some pieces of wood from the canoe and some of his personal belongings. He says he was in the sea for five days before being picked up.

When rescued he had on his small raft four bush knives, his lime pot and a small bag on his arm. He was still wearing a rami.

Telefomin Murder Suspects

At the end of January, 24 suspects were being held at Telefomin in connection with the inquiries into the Harris and Szarka murders last November.

The last eight were captured in mid-January after word had been received that they were in a village eight hours’ walk west .of the Goveminent station Sepik District DC, Mr. S. Elliott- Smith, said that further investigations would continue until the task of locating the murderers of the two young patrol officers was cornplete.

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P.O. BOX 299 SUVA, FIJI 1 P-NG Native Labour Ordinance came into force on January 21. (These amendments should not be confused with the proposed new NL Ordinance which, after receiving suggestions from employers in the Territory, is still doing the rounds somewhere between Canberra and Moresby).

The amendments were approved at the May, 1953, meeting of the P-NG Legislative Council and most people had forgotten about them.

It is believed that they received the Governor-General’s approval last July and since then have been delayed in Moresby.

The amendments provide for some alteration in the agreement form to be used by employers, to medical examination procedure, holidays, accommodation, equipment issues and place of paying off time-expired labour BETTER AIRCRAFT CONTROT, A new system of keeping check on the flight progress of aircraft ™aybe instit uted in Papua and New An official from the Department of Civil Aviation in Melbourne, Mr.

W. J. Barclay, was visiting the Territory end of January to see whether the system can be installed at the main air centres at Port Moresby Lae and Madang y ’

The system is the same one operating at Sydney’s Kingsford- Smith airport, and overseas, and enables control officers to see where aircraft are in relation to each other Their movements are recorded ok a panel.

Housing For Teachers

Both the Bulolo and Madanix k* anches of the Territory Parents, and Citizens’ Association wanr adequate housing for school teachx ers.

The Bulolo branch has complaineo? that accommodation for teachers ax Bulolo is “deplorable.” The Terri-i tory recently had a batch of new teachers from Australia, and an-x other party will arrive later in thei year. Many teachers are boardeo 1 ky townspeople in the Territory Public servants in Papua anoj New Guinea are to be allowed to: retire at 55.

During his visit in late January fu op *£ the Bulol ° plywood factory the Minister for Territories, Mri Hasluck, said the principle of thej lower retiring age (at present 60)0 had been approved.

He said officers were examining, amendments to the ordinance. One ol the matters to be worked outx was the difference in superannua-j limit contributions for the altereo the absence of any details! about the increased payments, most? public servants have been busilw workmg out their own figures. Somej of the older ones have declared thatfj it will mean a. few lump-sum pay-mems an strained budgets, if they? are to retire with their full pensiom St 00.

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Islands’ Oil Supply

AMPOL interests— based in Australia—announce that, withri the production of oil inn Western Australia, they expect too be able to distribute oil products especially motor-fuel—in the Pacifico islands at a competitive price; andfc are made accordingly./ They already have commenced £ the shipment of Ampol kerosene too the Islands, and they report that! ing S ” ra(^e * s “ con stantly expand- - If this development occurs, thee trade may tend to follow the best l distribution service; and in this a respect the old-established com- panics have a big initial advantage...; The Australian company, however, ,• thinks that, as the result of the 9 West Australian development, it f can cope with this.

Search In Papua

Meanwhile, the Australian Pet- roleum Co. has returned with r vigour to its search for oil in Papua £ —interrupted several months by a t. broken drill at the 2J-miles-deep c Omati bore. Operations in the bore s have been resumed; another bore 9 is being put down two miles away; and preparations for another drill- ing are being made on a site at j Kuru, 25 miles northwest of Kikori. 132 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Labour officials whom Mr. Delmer nterviewed denied Communist ympathies but the correspondent asserts: “Like Jagan’s party in British Guiana they are fighting nth every weapon the order foriidding Communist and subversive iterature “Even if, as seems likely, they lave no connection with Moscow md Peking, everything they say ind do is helping Communism.”

The Daily Express editorially lays: Britain should now demand he withdrawal of India’s High Commissioner in Mauritius, Mr. *.nand Sahay, who among other ictivities, told the Daily Worker, ‘Jagan is the most intelligent and •esponsible man in the whole of West Indies politics.”

There is no evidence whatever of my similar situation in Fiji. Present ndications are that, if there are inti-British tendencies there, they ire kept in check by an intelligent lection of the Fiji-born Indians, and Dy the small Moslem element. But, if . Hindustani continues to drift iway from its Commonwealth Dbligations, developments like those in Mauritius are possible in Fiji.

Many little incidents of the past year or two have given the impression that Hindustani, under Prime Minister Nehru, is not a dependable partner of Britain, no more than is Eire. If World War 111 should come along, it is probable that Hindustani will be officially neutral, with a strong leaning towards Red China.

Hindustani has a population problem just as acute as that of Japan and China, and is as eager as they to see the Europeans out of the Indo- Pacific region.

These Asiatic countries, instead of exercising the God-given faculty of reason, and limiting their birthrate, prefer the animal method of unrestricted breeding, with the animal concomitant of swarming over into other lands, and exterminating the populations already established there.

CHINA, of course, is in a different category. China is behind the Iron Curtain, under Russian .domination and, while the Cold War lasts, China is at least our potential enemy. She is allied with Communist nations in a determination to destroy the structure of Western civilisation.

Should that structure disappear, the Reds would immediately move into Africa, Australia and the South Pacific countries, and establish their own regime; and in our case we should disappear under a flood of Asiatics, giving mouth service to Communism, but actuated only by the desire to establish themselves in new, empty countries.

The Chinese, like the Hindus, already have strong implantations in the Indo-Pacific region—notably in Malaya, Indonesia, New Guinea and Tahiti. Generally, they are silent communities, and politically inactive —that is especially the case in New Guinea, Fiji and Tahiti. But there appear to be channels of communication open between Red China and most of these Indo-Pacific communities; and, if Red China should enter World War 111 besides Russia, these communities would call for a lot of attention.

IT Mr. Sutherland, manager of Cable & Wireless, at Fanning Island, completed his term in December and departed per Wairuna. His successor, Mr. Guthrie, arrived bythe same vessel from Australia.

II Mr. J. E. Brundell, British District Officer at Canton Island, with his wife and daughter, left the Island per Kia Kia in January, en route to New Zealand, via Tarawa, on pre-resignation leave.

U Latu and Atele, two Samoan boys, recently have achieved some success in Sydney as radio and nightclub entertainers. They arrived in Sydney in January and their presentations of Samoan songs were so popular with Australian audiences that they recently “cut” their first recording—two compositions by Mrs.

Rstzlaff, a member of the wellknown Nelson family, of Western Samoa. Mrs. Retzlaff (known professionally as Billie Nelson) was expected in Sydney on February 18. 133 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954 Uia and the South Pacific (Continued from Page 27)

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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, Jan. 25.

THE new Commissioner for thr Government of India in Fiji (Dr. N. V. Rajkumar) arouseoe comment when he said to an Indianj audience at Ba: “These and similar developments in India you should try to understand and appreciated and, if possible, copy, in so far au they affect your way of life here.

I would particularly request yoiui fellow-citizens here—Fijians of inr digenous origin—to come and havo\ a look at what we are doing. They? and we have many things in com-i mon.”

People here naturally ask: Whatx is this Indian Mission here for?' Six years ago, when the first?

Indian Commissioner arrived, thei Government of Fiji—knowing there-: was European and Fijian opposi-i tion to such a post being created)! here—stated specifically and em-i phatically that the Commissionene was to concern himself solely withl Indian transients in Fiji—that isa Indians from India who might visit!

Fiji or live here temporarily.

As such transients have beera virtually non-existent since the wan it appeared that the Commissioner’s' job would be a sinecure.

BUT the Indian Commissioner’s' office at Suva now has beem built up into the Indian equivalent of the British Council, completes; with a small library and readingroom; and Dr. Rajkumar has statedb that it is intended to operate ae mobile library and cinema in thee outlying districts.

All the non-Indian that was created by the flag-flyingg and jubilation attending the observance of India’s Independence Dayy (it has faded out in recent years) ( has been now revived by an announcement that Republic of Indiae Day (January 26) is to be celebratedb with a public flag-hoisting ceremonyy at the Commissioner’s office (frees sweets for children) and a “Culturalh Show” at the Suva Town Hall.

This hardly squares with thes original stated purpose of the Commission; nor do the Commissioner’s a' speeches, which are not addressed b to transients (if any) but to thes Fiji-born Indians.

Shortly after the Commissioner!! made his appeal to Fijians to goo and learn what India is doing, an n Indian weekly published a venomous article, the basis of which was a that the Indians were the champions a ; of the Fijians against the Euro- -i peans—a line that has been fol—. lowed in Indian propaganda amongg the natives in East Africa. 134

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Savoie Adds to Fleet CAPTAIN Emile Savoie, wellj known Noumea ship-owner, added to his fleet in February r hen he purchased in New Zealand le coasters Hokitika and Holmurn, renaming them respectively 'olorado Del Mar and Jacques Del tar. (See Smallships’ section, this isue).

Several months ago he disposed f the Estrella Del Mar (ex Hau- %ru) to a Brisbane sand-andtiingle firm.

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Jacques Del Mar, ex Holmhurn, x Port Whangarei, ex Marion 'leigh, ex Mars, ex Marie Kothe, x Newston, ex Favorita Dona Cata- Ina has had a varied career, as her Ist of names well indicate. Also I twin-screw steel motor vessel, of 12 GT, 265 nett, she was launched a Germany in 1906 and has reently been employed by the Holm Shipping Co. in the Chathams— Campbell Island —Raoul Island rade and on the New Zealand oast. Measuring 145.3’ x 29.7’ x 1.9’, she will enter the Sydney- •Joumea-Wallis Island trade, toother with Captain Savoie’s other essel, Maria Del Mar.

Crews were brought down from he Islands for both vessels. Re- »orted sale prices were respectively 12,000 and £6,500 Sterling.

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Notes From Wau, Ng

"pHE Administrator, Brigadier D. M.

Cleland, visited Wau on January 34, accompanied by Mr. Paul Hasluck, Minister for Territories, Mr. J. Howse, 4P, and Mr. R. K. Downey. The District Commissioner, Lae, Mr. H. L. R. Niall md Asst. District Officer Mr. H. P. Seale vere also in the party which travelled ip from Lae by road and visited White fc Baker’s property at Gabensis and also Wr. M. J. Leahy at Zenag, en route.

Mr. S. H. Yeoman, Assistant District Officer, Wau, and Mrs. Yeoman entertained the party at a buffet dinner in »rder they might meet some local residents.

On January 36, Mr. Hasluck performed the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers, Ltd., Ply Mill at Bulolo. This opening was attended by over 400 people including many visitors from Lae and Wau, who were able to inspect the Production of plywood—from the huge logs entering the mill to the finished sheet of plywood.

The Lutheran Mission New Guinea, in February, held its annual conference at the Katherine Lehmann School. Wau. The Superintendent, Dr. John Kuder, has welcomed over 160 missionaries from the Morobe, Madang and Central Highlands Districts of New Guinea.

A very successful swimming carnival was held at Wau on January 39, and visitors from Bulolo and Lae competed in the various events.

At the annual meeting of the Wau Sub- Branch of the RSS & AILA, Mr. N.

Owers was elected president; Mr. A.

Stephens secretary, and Mr. M. Infante, treasurer, for the ensuing year. Mr.

George W’hittaker, State president for New Guinea, was present at the largely attended meeting, and addressed the members. At the conclusion members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary provided supper.

Lord Nuffield, who was a passenger in the Oronsay when she passed through Fiji in January, has promised £l,OOO to assist in the building of the nave of the Church of England Holy Trinity Cathedral in Suva. A gift of £5,000, made on a previous visit, did much to enable the present Eastern portion of the Cathedral to be built. When he was in Suva, Lord Nuffield expressed his pleasure at the progress that had been made. The Cathedral authorities hope to begin work on the foundations of the nave this year. The estimated cost is £lO,OOO. 135 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY,

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Deaths Of Islands People

See deaths of Sir W. Carpenter, p. 39; Mr. S. A. Greenland and Mr.

H. A. Markham, p. 142.)

Capt. D. H. Cambridge

Captain D. H. Cambridge, former master of the Polynesian schooners Tiare Taporo and Tagua, and ownermaster of the extraordinary, nowwrecked ketch Taipi, died at Manihiki atoll, Northern Cooks, on January 12.

Captain Cambridge’s last sea-going task, we believe, was as master of A. B. Donald & Co.’s Cook Islands motor vessel Charlotte Donald on a voyage to New Zealand two years ago. Since then he has been living quietly at Manihiki.

The story of the wanderings of Captain Cambridge and his famous Taipi in the Cook Islands has been told at some length in past PlM’s.

On numerous occasions he was reported lost at sea, only to turn up at last with half his cargo used as ship-stores and he and his crew reduced to drinking the water from dry coconuts, a supply of which he always carried in the bottom of the hold to keep the cargo clear of bilge water.

Captain Cambridge, was, we believe, born in New Zealand, where he was well known, in sail and steam. He was in his seventies at the time of his death.

Mr. Vaevae Ngatae

Mr. Vaevae Ngatae, prominent member of a well-known Rarotonga family, died there recently at ttl early age of forty years, from in fluenza complications. He leaves widow and young family.

Greatly esteemed by Maori am Pakeha alike, Mr. Ngatae spent hr youth at Puka Puka, later acquire property in Rarotonga, where he be< came an important exporter o Islands produce.

In 1948, when the Cook Island Progressive Association was badlii directed by some of its advisers, MI Ngatae, through his peaceful ann friendly nature, was a powerful steadying influence. He saw thl Association as means of unifying thri Cook Islands planters and of aidino the agricultural development of thd Group.

Mr. Alex Wilson

Mr. Alexander Wilson, who was Administrator of Norfolk Island foo seven years—retiring early in 1955 —died in Victoria on January 26< aged 63.

Mr. Wilson, a farmer in Victoria had a brief political career. HI entered the Commonwealth Parliae ment in 1940 as a Country Part;! man, but in 1941 he joined witi) the Labour Party to defeat thr Country Party Government. HI soon afterwards retired and, abouo 1945, he was appointed Adminr istrator of NI. News of his untimely death was received in NI with man;r expressions of regret, and the flag? were flown half-mast.

MR. A. F. SMALL Mr. Arthur Frederick Small dieo? in his sleep on January 12, afteis a long illness, aged 67. He was s son of the late Rev. A. J. and Mrs:' Small, of Suva, and was born on< the beautiful and historic island ole Viwa, where his father was s Methodist missionary. He received? his later education at Newingtorn College, Sydney, and returned ini 1903 to Fiji, when his father was/ appointed to the new Mission!

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Mr. Small joined the Bank oic New Zealand, and in 1910 he wasi transferred to Sydney. After service in World War I he returned); to Suva in 1919, and became theaj Bank’s accountant there. He married) Miss Ethel Bond, of Auckland, and) later he was the Bank’s managen? at Levuka and Apia (Samoa). Hissi later service before retirement inn 1947 was in New Zealand. He ieavess? a widow, two sisters (Mrs. J. J.. 1 McHugh, of Suva, and Mrs. R. B.c Gosnell, of Ashburton) and as brother, Mr. A. W. Small, a retiredb Civil Servant in NZ.

Major J. M. Cauty

The death occurred recently inn Fiji of Major J. M. Cauty, of Waini--. vesi, Tailevu. He was a New Zea— lander and went to Fiji during thee Second World War to assist in thee, training of Fijian Commandos. Hee settled in the Colony at the endb of the war.

He had a distinguished record inn the First World War. 136

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MR. N. C. BLAZEY Alter a long illness, Mr. N. Claude azey died in Port Moresby on >xing Day.

An electrical engineer with the immonwealth Dept, of Works, he ined the Pt. Moresby office in fvember, 1950. He was 56.

With his wife and daughter he japed from Burma at the time the Japanese invasion and went England.

IE REV. FR. JOHN VERBAYS, SM.

On the eve of his return to Fiji ter his first vacation in France ice joining the Catholic mission ere in 1936. Father Verbays. SM. sd suddenly last Christmas Eve, ed 45. He had served at Nabala, levu, Naiserelagi and Loreto. He ;t Fiji last May.

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The accidental death of Mr. Maitad Wright, Jnr., occurred at his irents’ home in Suva on Janiry 29.

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Mrs. Iris Thomas

The death, after a long illness, occurred on Norfolk Island in early January of Mrs. Iris Thomas. She was the proprietress of Hillcrest guest house and a charming hostess to many visitors to the island.

She was, as well, extremely popular amongst the Island folk She is survived by her husband, Mr. Clem Thomas.

The six MOP shell machine-diving licenses allocated to the Manihiki lagoon, Cook Is., were assigned for 1954 season to Messrs. Abela Williams, Ben Ellis, Philip Woonton, Pepe Macate, Tarackt and Allan Brown. 137 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY. 1954

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IHERE seems little hope of a solution of the Fijian-Indian problem, based upon anything far produced in the writings of r. Amie Ragg, Mr. Pratap, and tiers. Mr. Ragg and Mr. Pratap t forward impressive arguments t they are so obviously partisan at they more or less cancel each tier out, as extremists.

Even putting the blame upon the ■itish Government for allowing ch a position to develop, although rfectly justified, is getting nolere. The problem is here and list be faced—although the prosm is not so urgent as Mr. Ragg mid have us believe.

There is one angle to the aua:r at has not been approached, expt obliquely; but to my mind it uld well be the crux of the whole lestion. That is the utter incom- ,tibility of the present system of jian communal life with the leds of a modern world.

The whole pattern of Fijian life a denial of thrift. The Fijian nnot reap the rewards of industry id husbandry, simply because he not allowed to.

It often has been alleged that itives of South Seas Islands have sen exploited. If that is so, they e not being exploited by the large ading companies—not to-day, at ly rate. Prices fixed for the Dlony’s produce are sound, and do )t favour the European or Indian relation to the indigenous Fijian, e has equal opportunity and he is the land “frozen” for him by overnment. If there is exploita- Dn, then it must be laid at the >or of his Chiefs.

T is often quoted by old-timers in the group that the Fijian people are the victims of a gantic confidence-trick, perpsated by the Chiefs and connived ; by the British Government; and hen that statement is analysed i unpleasant grain of truth >pears. Certainly, when the Chiefs iy, “Gimme!” they get.

Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna said, not so ng ago, that if a Fijian were diswered who possessed £l,OOO the imediate reaction among his kind ould be the devising of ways and leans of taking it away from him. his would be done legally, of >urse, per the medium of “Fijian istom.” So what incentive has the •dinary Fijian to toil or spin?

The ordinary Fijian, living in his yro, and having access to good )pra-producing stands and any nount of fertile, untilled soils, orks just sufficiently to get by. fhen his Chief comes along with periodical “Gimme,” he works a *ifle harder, until the request is itisfied, and then falls back into the enough-for-today attitude.

He loves to see his children obtaining the benefits of education and so, when the school fees are due, there is some extra work; but he will not consistently toil and build because he would not be allowed to keep the rewards of his industry; and that, in any language, forbids progress. He does not plant, he does not clear and he certainly does not till new soil.

ALL of which leads to what we are beginning to call the Fijian Land Problem. If all the workable, fertile soil of Fiji were subject to intelligent cultivation, the dire prophecies of Mr. Amie Ragg anent food production would be nullified.

Strangely enough, the good price being obtained for copra has not been a benefit to the native producer. He now gets what he requires with less effort, and so his land goes back instead of onwards.

Most Fijian copra sections are masses of tangled undergrowth, covering fallen trees, rotting logs and piles of old coconut husks. In many of them, it is impossble to gather even a fair percentage of the nuts which fall; those unfound turn to vara or rot in the jungle of undergrowth.

The remarks of the Governor, reported in your December issue, make it appear that Government is becoming aware, rather belatedly, of this fact. The suggested appointment of Development Officers would add to an already sadly topheavy Civil List; but could be of some benefit if wisely selected and efficiently supervised.

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Branches in —Melbourne : Brisbane : Adelaide : Perth. vision affects nearly all Governme departments. Far too many tf executives are housed in Suva, a£ show a disinclination to leave tM city to attend to what is, after s their duty.

SOME years ago, Captain Gn came under fire in certs, circles for his trenchant crit:f ism of the Fijian as a laboo prospect. In my opinion the goo Captain erred on the side of len [ ency.

The Fijian, not an unintelligea fellow by any standards, is the pm duct of his social system and tf “what’s yours is ours” aspect hi turned him into an unreliable au untrustworthy person. His loyah is directed to two places, his Chir and his Mission, with the Chir leading handily. We are all tf prone to judge the mass of tf Fijian people by the standards s by our “show-window” exhibits, tf soldiers, footballers, etc.

If the Fijians would show tf same industry towards the cultiw tion of their lands as they shor towards the cultivation of ther soldiers, there would be no need ft champions such as Mr. Amie Rajs to fight for them.

Mr. Ragg is honest and sinceie and I have nothing but admiratid for the fight he is putting up; bet he must be sure that the cause ] is championing is worthy of tf effort.

I HAVE little liking for t M Indians. In the main they as arrogant and disloyal, and as dishonest insofar as their evasid; of taxation is concerned. Yet thri do have the saving graces of i:i dustry and thrift. To send the3j away, as Mr. Ragg suggests, worn do the Colony’s economy irrepas able harm.

In any case, to deny a man H own country, or the country of hi birth, would be a direct negation .

Mr. Ragg’s own principles; and tit Indians are now, to an overwhelmJ ing extent, Fiji-born. Far bettf: would it be to give the ordinal Fijian a greater stake in his ow: country and allow him the benefit of the industry which he can shoo To do this, however, would mess the radical re-arrangement of tlf whole structure of Fijian life.

Britain guaranteed the retentioi and preservation of the Fijian wsv of life; but, as she has departed so far from the “intention” of tKf original Deed of Cession, a furthrf departure could be excused, if were obviously for the benefit the race itself. After all the finf principle of good government the greatest good of the greatee: number.

It would mean a curtailment » the powers of the Chiefs, and tluri is a snag which would have to I closely watched. Government man even be working in that directioi slowly, as evidenced by the fact thsrf the two senior Leg. Co. Fijian menn; 140 FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLJ

ķ •s at present are not of chiefly ik. ?he whole problem is like a bogey- ,n in a box, with everyone afraid open the box. The longer the ;ey remains in the box the *rier he will become. s erhaps, if they were to place the i upon a table in Leg. Co., and ik the European and Indian mbers on each side, then recall ; Fijian war-party from Malaya confront him, the bogeyman ght prove to be quite a docile low after all.

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Despite the hardships of living, e population of 29,000, on the 114 nare miles of the Gilberts, conmes to increase, and over-popunon is a problem, which out- .gration to previously uninhabited oils in the Phoenix and Line lands has scarcely begun to help. [?]eed To Familiarise [?]atives [?] r ith Modern Commerce REPORT on an economic L survey made in 1952-53 for the South Pacific Commission in ji, Eastern and Western Samoa, tpua-New Guinea, Dutch New uinea and New Caledonia by Mr.

D. Stace, economist on the staff the Reserve Bank of New ;aland, has been published.

Lack of understanding by most icific Islanders of a money onomy, and insufficient attention ► economic development of the ‘ea, were the outstanding features vealed by the survey. Lack of chnical and agricultural education was very evident, and called for correction.

Mr, Stace is strongly in favour of fostering native co-operative societies, which give the people practical experience and training in providing and making use of credit facilities. This lack of credit facilities for the native populations is regarded by the Commission as a major problem.

Co-operatives reward the industry of individuals more directly than the normal village custom.

Participation of the Islanders in commercial activities was important, in Mr. Stace’s view. He has recommended that trading banks should be urged to employ natives in clerical and skilled capacities, and that banking facilities be extended to Islanders wherever possible. if Lt.-Col. A. H. Stafford, OBE, ED, and Mrs. Stafford left Suva in the Oronsay on February 2 to make their home in the United Kingdom.

Mrs. Stafford was Miss Doreen Rennie, a member of one of the oldest European families in Fiji.

She is one of the Colony’s leading artists. Col. Stafford has been in Fiji since 1923 and has always been connected with the Fiji Defence Forces. When he retired in January he held the post of Chief of Staff.

He was awarded the OBE in 1946 as a result of his war service. 141 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY,

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TERRITORIAL Another Meeting at Cairns A second Delegation of 28 representatives of the native people, the ■Chinese community and people of mixed race will fly to Cairns in March, to be present during the ■Queen’s Visit to that city. These Delegates will be accompanied to Cairns by the Director of District Services, Mr. A. A. Roberts, and Mr. R. Brennan, of the Public Service Commission Department.

DEATH OF MR. S. A.

GREENLAND A WELL-KNOWN retired public servant of Papua, Mr. Stanley Arthur Greenland, died on February 12 in St. Luke’s Hospital, Sydney, aged 71, from lung cancer.

Mr. Greenland was a welleducated Englishman who joined the Papuan service early in the century, and served until the ’Thirties under Sir Hubert Murray, mostly in the Native Affairs Department, where he was Chief Inspector when he retired. He had lived for many years in Macleay Street, Potts Point, Sydney, and he is survived by his wife.

There was a private cremation o February 15. Mr. J. T. Bensteas on behalf of the Retired Office- Association of Papua and Nel Guinea, attended the ceremony.

DEATH OF MR. H. A.

MARKHAM ONE of the most famous Solomons Islands old-time:9 Mr. Harold Aubrey Markhan died in Lidcombe Hospital, Sydnei on February 8. He was advance in -years, and had been ill a loir time.

Mr. Markham, for many yean owned Segi, on Maravo Lagoon, oic of the show places of the Solomon' and he was a notable host. Til war rolled over Segi in 1943, and I was wiped out. Mr. Markham db not return to BSl—he served a tern as administrative officer at Christmn Island, and then retired to liiJ with his daughter, Lily, in Sydnei Samoa Felt January Hurricane JANUARY’S near-miss Fiji hunr cane, born in the region of tIJ Tokelaus, gave Western Samer a buffeting before it moved off the south-west.

Commencing on January 10, raiif wind and heavy seas, associate with the depression, continued duu ing the following week, delayhri loading of the Matua, causing somi damage to lighters, and forcing tIJ Waitomo to remain at sea unto conditions moderated on January I Heavy seas broke across Upolul north-coast road, and some floo«o ing took place in the Apia ares-: due to the heavy rain.

Small craft at the Apia jetty we:o forced to seek shelter behini Mulinu’u Point.

Plantations were buffeted by hea T £ wind squalls but no major damage seems to have been done anywhene New Catholic Bishop in Samoa FOLLOWING the retirement through advanced years, of Mod] Rev. Bishop Darnand, Father John Dieter, SM, has beee appointed Bishop of Gerafi am Vicar Apostolic of Samoa. Fathri Dieter, now 50 years of age, hid been stationed in Western Samon since 1936. Advice of his appoinn ment was given to him by tH: Apostolic Delegate while he was m cently in Sydney.

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Mr. Watson, who arrived in Noumea early in December, carried out investigations in New Caledonia and Fiji, and left Suva on January 16 for Papua and New Guinea to continue his survey there. He will also visit Netherlands New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides.

In each territory Mr. Watson is studying rice production and potential rice-growing areas, with a view to recommending action for Young rice, soon after transplanting, [?]wing at St. Louis Mission, near umea.

Mr. Watson (left) discusses wet land rice cultivation with Dr. Alex Kroon, who is in charge of the Commission’s economic development programme. 143 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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This survey has been arranged by e South Pacific Commission beuse it considers rice production the area can be expanded to ake a more significant contribum to needs that are growing, as ;e becomes more popularly icepted in the region as a staple ;m of diet.

With the exception of Fiji, rice oduction in South Pacific terriries is negligible, as figures in the companying table show. They w“e?eal that imports totalling «ded. At uuu per ton, rice mere fore costs the South Pacific £2l millions Australian per annum.

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Watson will visit, steps are already being taken to expand production— for example, the Mekeo scheme in Papua and New Guinea; the Nimboran development project in Netherlands New Guinea; and the investigations being carried out by the Fiji Department of Agriculture.

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SPORTS AND LOCAL PRODUCTION OF RICE IN SOUTH PACIFIC TERRITORIES Note: Figures given are latest available for each territory.

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Papua’s Lonely Graves A man who should have some inresting material for the new Papua id New Guinea Historical Society Mr. S. H. Chance, now of Brisine, but formerly, and for many lars, in the Papuan Service. He ys he would like to know how to in the Society, and we suggest at he simply write to the secretary i Port Moresby.

Mr. Chance writes: “In my many years in both New uinea and Papua it was my hobby delve into old records, books and aps to try to find the origin of ace names. For instance, Murray oad, Daru, named for whom?

'here is the Clyde River? And ho was Bevan of Port Bevan?

“Tolala writes interestingly of nely graves. The Anglican Parson ho wrote ‘An outpost in Papua’ :11s of a burial ‘way down the Penisula’ that juts into the sea to the ast of Cape Nelson Station (Tuf).

Tien I was there in 1922 the buried uropean had already been for- Dtten! The graves at Buna and ima could well be investigated; and len there is the burial place of an id Cairns prospector above the rira River Crossing on the way to Vhitten’s Fly’; I carved' the cross lyself.” fl Mr. Ivan Champion, a prominent Departmental head of the Papua and New Guinea Administration, has been awarded the Lewis Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia, for “land exploration in Papua and New Guinea” —recognition of his achievements of about 25 years ago.

Well-known natives who were ineluded in the Territories delegameet Queen Elizabeth II SS rfm I S rr^ er Simogun, BEM > °l Papua, “ a yj lond Gadabu, Head ~ mel . oi Nauru; ana Austin Bermcke, a native medical practitioner in Nauru, Mr. Raymond John Deland, BSc, eldest son of Dr. and Mrs, C. M.

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“The two younger men (who has been there 18 months) had has toothache; the third Coastwatchei (a hardy World War I type, witf dentures) had done his best witf a pair of pliers to remove the offeno ing molars —but had merely brokes them off. So the three isolate NZ-ers radioed for a pair o dentists’ forceps. Sure enough then were forceps among the supplier from NZ that came along with thl relief-men. But these forceps neve were used on Nassau.

“Kauffman, aged only 30, and witf. a Continental upbringing, may haw a mouthful of sound teeth to tatof to his lonely isle. Most youm Australians and NZers have teett adorned with fillings which soon© or later need more fillings, am finally extractions.

“If Kauffman remains “dentalli fit” by sticking to his diet of homei grown fruits and vegetables he wit be an interesting experiment in ho T c to keep away from the dentist.” ' The only way we know of becorrrr ing “dentally fit for life” is to haw every tooth pulled out, be fittes: with an upper and lower set o dentures, and have several pain of same on hand for emergencies And we presume that the writ©] meant just that when he wrottabout Mr. Kauffman’s visit to Suva dentist.

Possibly as sequel to publicity re: garding the illicit liquor situatioo in and around Apia, the W. Samoajs police became very active in Januam and a large numer of offenders appeared before Chief Judge C. O Marsack charged with the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating bevens ages. Most of the free-lance brewens were fined £lO to £l5, though om* female was sent to a month’s imm prisonraent on two charges of thrl same nature.

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A Fishing Experience off Pitcairn Is.

LONE or with one companion in l a small canoe on the open sea, fishing with a line sometimes to 200 fathoms long, would be a ique experience for many. But at is the way the Pitcairn anders obtain their fish. Usually a Thursday the men will go out their strong little craft, one or o in each canoe. tn this way Freddy and Len, ther and son, were fishing on mrsday, October 22, southward of e island. Some distance away, st within earshot, was Christie, sy with his line and hooks.

Suddenly, with a crunching sound id a bump that startled father id son, a gaping hole was torn in eir canoe near the bow. A shark id attacked the boat. As they Dod terror-stricken, water rushed through a hole bigger than a an’s head. The canoe was sinkg, while the monster lay in the iter.

But the shark disappeared as the en turned their canoe over and t on top of it. Christie heard ieir shouts but took no notice till sn put his hat on the end of his ng fishing spear and waved it. He ok them in tow back to Bounty ay.—MYRTLE L. WARD. [?]estern Samoan Education the fine new buildings of Samoa lege which was opened near Apia last [?]ober to provide higher education for Samoa’s brightest youngsters. Com- [?]e cost of the college will be £130,000, [?]ch was all provided from Reparation [?]ates profits. 147 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Cable & Telegraphic Address: SUPERB, Sydney Captain Williams Tells A Story

By Kathleen Newick

is true to say of Apia, as of other Island capitals, turn a corner and find a man with a •y to tell. One such man is )tain F. J. Williams, Burns Ip’s genial marine superintendent, lost 40 years spent under Capriti rest lightly on him.

'.e was born in Brooklyn, New k, and the sea claimed him le he was still a restless schooli May, 1917, the 24-year-old Fred liams left Newcastle, New South les, as mate of the 4-masted US loner Manila. July 8 found lila, with her cargo of coal for Naval Station at Pearl Harbour, deg. 02 min. West and 6 deg. nin. North. She was carrying sails in a heavy sea when a ■rigged ship was sighted, jured by rain and haze. shell across Manila’s rigging ounced the stranger’s intens. Manila’s captain gave orders abandon ship. His Imperial esty’s Auxiliary Cruiser Seeadler, command of Captain Felix von kner, had secured another, and l, victim. Already aboard Seer were the crews of the Ameriships R. C. Slade and A. B. nson, which had shared Manila’s readier was a 1,500 tons steel t ship. In the Atlantic from beginning of January to the end March, 1917, she had sunk 11 lels, destroying 40,000 tons of >ping. On July 29, Mopeha (or >eha) an uninhabited islet in outlying Societies, was sighted. idler anchored on the lee side, e to the breakers. Manila’s iter, Captain Southerd, formerly haler, realised that the slightest t of wind would pile up the ship, Count von Luckner trusted un- *ly to the steady trade winds, t 9 o’clock one morning, while Count was ashore, the wind 1 out. Then a light puff came from westward and Seeadler ng broadside on the reef. She never to leave. his methodical log of Manila’s last voyage, Captain Williams records his first, and exceedy unfavourable, impressions of outh Sea island. Mopeha had i captured by an insect army cockroaches, mosquitoes, ants —the worst curse of all—fleas, ef was obtainable only in the ;rs of the lagoon, n August 23, the largest of idler’s boats left Mopeha carryvon Luckner and five of his It was well-armed with a nine-gun, rifles, pistols and d-grenades. During the week ng September 8, the Germans Mopeha picked up a wireless message which announced the capture of the ship off Fiji. On September 9, Lutece, a 120-tons foreand-aft schooner, was seized as she stood in for Mopeha and at sunset Lieutenant Kling, Seeadler’s executive officer, and the 60 remaining Germans sailed out of the lagoon in their prize.

Kling left with the castaways a lifeboat, canvas, rope and provisions, after ordering his men to smash a few planks and ribs of the boat in order to give Lutece a good start. A set of tools was left on the island for the repair work. Captain Williams says of Kling: “He was a gentleman.”

Williams took part in the lifeboat’s nightmare journey towards Bora Bora, 150 miles distant, beating against the trade winds. Bitter gales threatened to swamp the 18-ft boat. The crew bailed and pulled on the oars alternately for 20 hours at a stretch. Then the heartbreaking decision to return to Mopeha had to be made. The six men. aboard, Captain Southerd, Williams, three Polynesian sailors from Lutece and her owner, Miller, were lifted ashore, close to death.

Those are ten days which Captain Williams would like to forget.

A few days later a second crew was chosen to try to reach Pago Pago in American Samoa, eleven hundred miles away. Of the first ship’s company only Williams was well enough to make the second attempt. The other members of the party were Captain Smith of Slade, his second mate and a Norwegian AB from Manila. They left Mopeha on September 26th and made landfall at Pago Pago on October 6, travelling with the trade winds’ blessing. Ironically, the four men were placed under arrest until Governor Poyer received confirmation of their story.

Captain Williams remained in Samoa as master of the US Government ship Manua when his three shipmates returned to America.

The islands had set their seal on him.

Captain Williams

149 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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Apply to "CORDIAL-MAKER," BOX 3408, G.P.O. SYDNEY Moribund Pidgin is Mutilated English Letter to the Editor V September’s issue of PIM, Mr. Harry Dawkins contributed a very interesting: article in defence of this moribund Sgin, and as I read It, Mr. Dawkins deavoured to prove that Pidgin, being conglomeration of words from diverse irces can live and expand, even to such extent as to become a universal iguage. He contends, to prove his esis, that all the great modern iguages, particularly English, are igins. English he describes as a eco-Latin-Teutonic Pidgin. [ am not really interested in the fate Pidgin as much as in his dialectics, lich I shall attempt to confute, fhe first point is that Pidgin must be rather large collection of words derived •m many outside sources. J. J. irray’s “Book of Pidgin English” is >re or less accepted as a standard thority. This book contains 1,760 words Pidgin. Of these 1,560 are grossly dilated English words; 330 are native rds for trees, plants, fish and animals, ligenous in New Guinea, and about 10 • Malay and German. The average live can, some with difficulty, undernd the English pronounciation of these 60 words. f these facts be accepted, then the leal conclusion is that Pidgin is just dn English less its syntax, but still a Igin language in as much as English elf is a “Greco-Latin-Teutonic Pidgin.” vould like to show that English is not Pidgin. dr. Dawkins states that somewhere in ! dim and distant past, there sprang in India a basic foundation language, is Centum language was divided into Itic, Teutonic,- Hellenic and Italic. The >ple of the first two were undoubtedly ; more virile as they travelled further d chose tougher, colder countries, reloped a fluent expressive speech sely related to that mother tongue »m India. This speech, perpetuated the present day may be heard in the mric-Welsh and Breton; Goedelic-Irish d Manx; and Gaelic in the Stornaways. »m the Teutonic arose the rich, mellow glish of the Tudors, of Shakespeare, the Bible and of Churchill. Some rds were added by the Normans (whose iguage was more closely joined to the etonic than the French), and later ne French, during the time of the ench-loving Stuarts.

L.atin and Greek, the classical languages, re laboriously built-up, artificial iguages, developed by scholars to whom e written word was a fetish. Their rfect conjunctions and declensions, an omination to all schoolboys, has been fried through the ages by priests and Molars but even in the time of the ghty Roman Empire, it never became e language of' even Italy itself.

Now, my contention is that English and elsh are living virile languages, not ad classical languages and that indreds of Welsh words are the same those that were used in that mother ngue in India. Dictionaries are a modern innovation, compiled by gents like Dr. Johnson who was a profound Greek and Latin scholar, but whose knowledge of the Celtic and Teutonic tongues took a very secondary place, and therefore it was quite natural for him to assume that nearly all English words were derived from Classical sources.

Borrow was a great student of languages, but even he could blunder occasionally. As Mr. Dawkins quotes— the word “Cymraeg” which Borrow stated was derived from Cape “Comorin” in India. “Cymry” was Celtic which first became a household word in Wales during the fighting under Cunedda as late as 400 AD and meant, and still means, “Comrade.”

The English of England, and America and South Africa and Australia is a pure, but enriched language spoken by millions, but a few doddering thousands here in the SW Pacific are trying to foist on a defenceless people 1,500 horribly mutilated but English words, because we prefer to say to the house-boy “Go-go-go-go-go”, instead of "Go two miles”, or some idiot thinks he has found a new Esperanto because he can make himself understood to a Frenchman in the New Hebrides.

If he went to Paris he would find that practically every shop-assistant spoke English.

When Mr. Dawkins comes to Madang we will find a quiet corner in the Club and argue in Pidgin.

I am, etc., DAFYDD AP RHYS.

Madang, NG.

October 1, 1953. fl Ml'. Lewis Jones, MA, Dip. Ed., accompanied by his wife, has arrived in Suva to take up duty as Director of Education. He joined the Colonial Service in 1930, and served in the RAF 1939-44, reaching the rank of Squadron-leader. He is 44.

There is Money in Shells THOUGH it is well-known that mother-of-pearl, trochus and green-snail shells are worth good money, it is perhaps less well known that there is still an excellent market in the United States for all kinds of other, small ornamental shells from the Islands.

A number of people are making good money as a side-line in exporting packages of such shells to curio dealers.

Shells picked up above the highwater mark are usually sun-bleached and are of no value, but occasionally after a storm, many small varieties of attractive shells are washed up from the reef and are suitable for export, after boiling.

Market value depends on attractiveness of markings. Even quite small shells are known to be bringing 1/- or 1/6 each.

American contacts are a closely guarded secret and it is up to the prospective exporter to find his own outlet there. But markets certainly do exist at the present time.

II Sir Geoffrey Clay, KCMG, OBE, MC, agricultural adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, after visiting the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, was expected to spend a month in Fiji in January- February. His visit to Fiji is linked with the Colony’s application for a considerable grant from the Development Fund for the establishment of a greatly extended rice industry.

A Japanese fishing vessel was given permission in early February to enter Rabaul Harbour to obtain medical aid for a crew member suffering from suspected appendicitis. 151 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954

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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 will pay. in 1954: Plantatiofi Hot-air; £99, FMS £99 Smoked, £9B; these prices are only tentative as an agreement has not yet been finalised.

FIJI.—At Suva and Levuka, 1954; Plantation grade (60 points and over) £F7O/15/6 per ton; FMS (45-57 */ 2 points) £F7O/10/-.

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.—lslands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W.

Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson Ltd., Sydney) for which on February 10 was £ Stg.4ls (£ASIB/9/- approx.) c.i.f., ton, Cont. ports.

N.G. — £465 approx, per ton, in store, Sydney.

Samoa. —Sydney agents in February quoted Samoa cocoa at £Stg.4oo (£ASOO approx.) f.o.b. per ton, first grade. (Samoan currency equals Stg.).

COFFEE.—P.-N.G. Overseas market increases have brought Territories coffee to 6/- per lb. All supplies assured of quick sale.

New Caledonia.—Crop mainly exported to France. Recent quotation was 398 Metrop. francs per kilo (£ASI3 approx, per long ton).

RUBBER, —This market weakened over the past month. Papua-New Guinea. —price based on Singapore .figure which fluctuates from day to day. Quotation on February 8 was 27-1/6. Aust. lb.

Singapore rate February 8 No. 1 grade RSS (sellers) spot 54 3 / B c. lb. c.i.f. (approx. 24-2/3d Aust. lb.).

VANILLA BEANS.—Sydney nominal quotations (by Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.): Tahiti. —Crop finished. New season expected to commence about July. Nominal price, 62/- c.i.f., Sydney.

RICE. —Price for 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 • 1954; AA/A/B grades, 85c lb. (£ABSO approx, per long ton); C, 80c lb. (£ A 800); D, 55c lb. (£ASSO); E, 40c lb. (£A400); EE, 30c lb. (£A3OO) all c.i.f., New York. No change from last season. Manihikl.— £NZ292 (£A2> c.i.f., Auckland. Rarotonga.— £NS (£ A287/10/-) f.0.b., Auckland.

TROCHUS SHELL.—N.G.: £290 per ex-wharf less rejects with few sales owing to heavy sales from Andara Islands and later Singapore. Falls i NG price can be expected. Fiji, £H per ton f.0.b., Suva.

GREEN SNAIL SHELL.—Market fae steady in Sydney at present. N.G., £3t per ton less rejects. N.H., £205 per free ex-wharf. 8.5.1., No. 1 grade £1 £l9O, Spotted £BO both per ton wharf.

PEANUTS.—P.-N.G.: Quality of n still poor. Market depressed at 1/3 lb. (nuts and shell).

London Prices

LONDON, January 2£ Copra, c.i.f., Continental Ports, tom New Hebrides . .. 95,000 Metrop. fra* (£ A122/12/- appm Tahiti 96;000 Metrop. fras (£ A123/12/- appm PM Straits, Jan.-Feb. . .. £Stg.94/]\ (£ AllB/2/6 appm Philippines, bulk USs£ (£ AlO9/8/- appm Coconut Oil, c.i.f., ton:— FM Straits, 3%% drums . £Stg.l33/:' (£ A166/17/6 appm Ceylon, bulk £Stg.l3s/;\ (£ A169/7/6 appm Copra, per 50 kilos, c.i.f., North O tinental Ports: — Accra, Jan.-March £Stg.l6/!\ (£ A332/10/- approx, per long tod

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Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, A BANK and BANK OF NZ, Australia on I basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; SellTI; £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO Lontbr B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fljl, basis £1 NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.— Through BANK OF Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Sane B. £ A123/12/6; 8. £AI24/10/9. Sam London, basis £lOO London: £lOO/7/6; 8. £lOl/10/-. Samoabasis £lOO NZ: B. £100; 8. £lOO/11 Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £ S. £llO.

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BSI.—COMMONWEALTH BANK (bras at Honiara) quotes exchange rate A tralla-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

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If you live along the Coral Route in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands, Tahiti—you’ll do better business by visiting your nearest associates.

TEAL provides regular, comfortable transport with Solent flying boats.

Enquiries and reservations at TEAL offices or Travel Agents at all TEAL route points. (See below). association with QANTAS and 8.0.A..C MELBOURNE

Suva (Fiji)

AUCKLAND • CHRISTCHURCH

Apia (Samoa)

Tonga Aitutaki (Cook Islands)

Papeete (Tahiti)

—O FEBRUARY, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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General Merchants

•- U *~.J Capital £1,000,000 ESTABLISHED 1914

General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

Agents For Australian, European

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

Distributors Of Every Description

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Head Office: 16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: Telephone: Postal Address: “CAMOHE.” BW 4421. G.P.0., BOX 168, Sydney.

In London : W. R. Carpenter & Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, Island Products Ltd., W. R. Carpenter Co. (Fiji) Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng. Port Moresby. Ltd., Suva.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1954