PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly December, 1954 Vol. XXV. No. 5. lished 1930 {Registered at the C.P.0., Syinev for tennsmi\sinrt<s4m\nnsP a\ a newspaper ) THE photographer called this picture “The young Naiouli” —a Naiouli being a species of eucalypt tree —but in New Caledonia this name is given also to young girls. The girl is drinking of a green coconut-a favourite occupation on every South Seas Island.

Photo: F. E. Dunn.

From Local Routes to World Wide Travel Unking the Pacific

With Australia And The World

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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-D E C E M B E R . 1954

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DECEMBER. 1954-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

SYDNEY Sailings depart of Orient ORONSAY 1954 19 Nov.

" vaildU Line Passenger Ships,

Orcades Orsova

1954/5 1955 a - UjA 1954-55.

Orion 1955 ORONSAY 1955 AUCKLAND arr/dep SUVA arr/dep HONOLULU arr/dep VANCOUVER arrive depart SAN FRANCISCO arr depart HONOLULU arr/dep SUVA arr/dep AUCKLAND arr/dep 22 Nov. 25 Nov. 30 Nov. 6 Dec. 7 Dec. 9 Dec. 10 Dec. 14 Dec. 21 Dec. 24 Dec. x I JJCU. 20 Dec. 23 Dec. 28 Dec. 3 Jan. 4 Jan. 6 Jan.

Jan. 11 Jan. 18 Jan. 21 Jan. 24 Jan.

Will mr 28 Jan. 31 Jan. 3 Feb. 8 Feb. 14 Feb. 15 Feb. 17 Feb. 18 Feb. 22 Feb. 1 Mar. 25 Mar. 29 Mar. 2 Apl. 8 Apl. 14 Apl. 15 Apl. 18 Apl. 19 Apl. 24 Apl. 2 May 15 July 18 July 21 July 26 July 1 Aug. 2 Aug. 4 Aug. 5 Aug. 9 Aug. 16 Aug.

SYDNEY The liners arrive 27 Dec.

Orsova and Orcades 4 Mar. 7 Mar. 5 May 9 May 19 Aug. 22 Aug New Guinea Australia Line Regular Service from MELBOURNE, SYDNEY AND BRISBANE TO PORT MORESBY.

Samara), Lae, Madang, Kavieng, And Rabaul

“Soochow” “Shansi”

“SINKIANG”

Agents for PAPUA: STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO. LTD.

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

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

6 Bridge St. ( Sydney

Telephones: 8W2731 BU 6313 (Freight only) Cable Address: “YUILL”

Shipping Time-TaWes Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea (There was a complete tie-up of Islands ilps, due to wharf strike, in November, se page 17.) MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ery six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbymarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul maral-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney.

Next sailing about January 7.

MV Malekula sails from Sydney for marai, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, Bxishafen, Madang, Lae, Samarai and ;urn to Sydney. Next sailing about cember 17. details from Burns Phllp & Co Ltd Bridge Street, Sydney. dV’s Soochow, Shansi and Sinkiang, :h 3,000 tons, provide regular service ween Sydney and Papua-New Guinea ts; Sinkiang now provides a fast service Iney-Brlsbane-Port Moresby and return same route. Soochow and Shansi will tinue Sydney - Brisbane - Moresby aarai - Lae - Madang - Kavieng - >aul and return, with 'calls at Melrne as required. ext Sydney sailing, Soochow; Jan. 21. ext Sydney sailing, Sinkiang: Jan. 7. ext Sydney sailing, Shansi; Jan. 7. etails from New Guinea Australia Line S. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge Sydney.

Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga otor vessels Tofua and Matua, from Zealand, serve Suva (Fiji), Nukuaand Vavau (Tonga). Niue Is., Pago » (American Samoa), Apia (Western oa). Tofua leaves Auckland for any ,11 above ports at approx, five weeks intervals. Matua calls at Wellington and Lyttelton (NZ), Lautoka (Fiji) and supplements Tofua’s schedule in Islands, calling at ports as directed by owners.

Tofua’s next voyages scheduled to leave Auckland December 7 and January 4.

Matua will leave Auckland December 23 and January 22.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The NZ Government’s old motor vessel Maui Pomare is scheduled to leave Auckland every month for Rarotonga and other Islands in the Lower Cooks, subject to requirements of trade. This vessel carries 30 passengers.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories in Wellington, or to any office ef the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd., which Sf2Sf,S£ as Agents ,or thls « Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

Malaita makes a round trip at about S-weeks intervals from Sydney to Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides Ports-BSI ports- Bougai nv ili e -R a b au i.s amar a i.gydnev Details £ S £ dney about 29.

Details from Burns Philo &• p 0 7 Bridge Street, Sydney. C 0” 7 Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti rnmlnt el f ° f Marltimes Line coming from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides). Noumea Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA 1955 Th SrsX r^m SO leave%d°eT d f e o S r add ( i tional Pacifi c crossing in Su Va Honolulu. Vancouver, San Francisco Los WIU Ca ~ at: Auckl » n d.

Cherbourg. She will reach London on July 13 orSdi ™fn , Colon ' Trini dad, August 22 bound lor Sydney via the same route She wm aSveTn SeTher T° D °"

III IFU ISLANDS MONXHLY_D E C E M B E R . 1954

Pacific Islands Transport Line

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

Tahiti Samoa Fiji New Caledonia

New Hebrides New Guinea

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, LTD.

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

PAPEETE Etablissements Donald Tahiti. APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA— Etablissements Ballande.

PORT VILA —Comptoirs Francals des LAE—Burns Phllp (New Guinea) Ltd.

Nouvelles Hebrides. SYDNEY-Birt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd.

The one class tourist liner “Southern Cross” on the maiden voyage calls at Papeete (23rd April, 1955) and Suva (28th April, 1955), thence to England via New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. On the second voyage calls at Suva (Ist November, 1955) and Papeete (sth November, 1955), en route to England via Panama, Curacao and Trinidad; thereafter two eastbound and two westbound voyages each year form this vessel s round-the-world itinerary.

Dates subject to alteration without notice.

Linking the Pacific Islands with Europe, West Indies, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa The new Shaw Savill \ Tourist Class Liner

S. S. I Southern Cross

Minimum Fares: To England from Suva via Panama £lO5 stg. via South Africa £132 stg.

From Tahiti via Panama £lOO via South Africa £l5l stg.

For full particulars apply: Fiji Any Branch or Agency Burns Philp (South See Co. Ltd., Head Office: Suva.

Cable address: Burnsouth.

Tahiti Etablissements Donal Tahiti, Papeete Cable address : Donald Papeete. and Sydney, and return by same route.

Details from Messageries Maritimes.

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

Sailing dates:— From Sydney, Northbound Tahitien; January 7. May 24, 1955. Caledonien; April 11, August 23, 1955.

From Papeete, Southbound —December 14, 1954, April 30, 1955. Caledonien; March 18, July 30, 1955.

Small motor-ships Polynesien (Messageries Maritimes) and Neo Hebrides (H C. Sleigh, Ltd.) maintain fairly regular service between Noumea and Sydney.

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacific Ports-Sydney A service by Shaw Savill, with their new all-passenger liner Southern Cross, will commence from the UK early in 1955.

Calls on maiden voyage will be made West Indies ports, Panama, Papee (Tahiti), Suva, Auckland, Sydney, Av tralian ports, South African ports, Cana Islands, UK.

Four round trips per year will be ma and direction of service will alterm (i.e. the second voyage from UK will South Africa about); about 1,200 one-ch passengers will be carried. Single, tv berth and multi-berth cabins are ava able. Fares Sydney-UK are from £1 Stg.; Suva-UK, via Panama, from £!

Stg.; via the Cape, from £132 St Papeete-UK, via Panama, from £; Stg.; via Cape, £l5l Stg.

Tentative sailing dates for maiden voyai Papeete, April 22-23, 1955.

Suva, April 28, 1955.

Auckland, May 2-3, 1955.

Sydney, May 6-9, 1955.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, el Norwegian motor vessel Thorsisle, car ing cargo and passengers, maintains regular service between North Ameri ports and French Oceania, Samoa, I New Caledonia and New Hebrides.

Suggested sailing dates for the Thorsisle are as follows; San Francisco (Southbound) .. Jan Papeete Jan Apia Jan Nukualofa Suva Ja^ Lautoka (Vatia) Feb Noumea Feb Lae Feb San Francisco (Inbound) .. Mar Details from General Steamships ( poration Ltd., 432 California St..

Francisco, U.S.A.

IV DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 8.00 pm Brisbane, 10.45 pm Brisbane, 11.45 pm Moresby, 6.35 am Moresby, 7.55 am (Wed., Frl., Sun.) Lae, 9.10 am Js north of Lae by Wau on Wednesdays.

Connecting servic« D.C.3 to Bulolo and operating Moresby-Lae sector.

Sundays (Sandringhams) depart: Sydney, 7.30 pm Brisbane, 12.20 am (Mon.) Arrive: Brisbane, 10.50 pm Cairns, 6.35 am Cairns, 8.05 am Moresby, 11.55 am Moresby.* 8.30 am (Tue.) (Night stop) Samarai, 10.30 am

London ■ Suva

o\f.ect S£^ VIA PANAMA For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To:

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

138 LEADENHALL ST., CO. LTD., LONDON, E.C.3. SUVA, FUI 4$ hi c <*

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Airways Time-Tables

Trans-Pacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

Flth Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths* ies., Pri. and Sun.*—Sydney-Nadi (Fiji).

Canton Is - Honolulu - S. Francisco - Seattle - Portland. es., Thur.* and Sat.—Return via same route.

'Additional departure days which will srate from October 3 till March 31, 1955. ties, and Pri.—Auckland - Nadi (Fiji), hurs. and Mon.—Nadi (Fiji) - Auckland, onnecting with Strato Clipper at Nadi.

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS d.* and Sat.* Sydney - Nadi (Fiji) - Canton Is. - Honolulu - San Francisco— with every Saturday service and alt.

Wednesday service extending to Vancouver.

SOUTHWARDS i.* and Fri.*—San Francisco-Honolulu- 3anton Is.-Nadi (Fiji)-Sydney. Monday service and alt. Friday service comnences from Vancouver.

EAL DC6 services between Auckland Nadi connect at Nadi Wednesdays and irdays northward; Wednesdays and day southwards.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

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

Every Friday return from Vancouver bv same route. • Tourist Class Services are available on these planes at 30 per cent, less normal fares.

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (Skymasters)* 1 JIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

There's so much to do

New Zealand

Imagine a holiday in this land of breathtaking beauty!

At any time of the year there’s so much to do . . . watching geysers play in wondrous thermal regions . . . fishing in placid lake or swift-running stream or spectacular big-game waters . . . climbing in the towering Southern Alps . . . deer shooting in virgin forest . . . slaloming on perfect ski runs . . . swimming and boating in fascinating fiordlands!

Hying gives you so much more time Air travel will save you days in which to play, let you see so much more of this scenic wonderland.

And it’s so much more comfortable.

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2 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

-“B VCIVI V Depart: Arrive: Syd., Wed. 8.30 pm Brisbane, 11.50 pm Bris., Thu. 1.20 am Noumea, 8.00 am Noumea. 9.30 am Vila, 12.05 pm Vila. 1.20 pm Santo, 2.35 pm (Night stop) Santo, Fri. 6.00 am Vila, 7,15 am Vila, 7.45 am Noumea, 10.25 am* Noumea, 1.00 pmf Sydney. 8.40 pm

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

IBfe, Sill X >.. M ZM if : 1 mm ill -fe~~ k * »' This well-known Hotel is centrally situated in Suva’s main business quarter :: Modern accommodation provides comfort in all climatic conditions :: Only the best of Beers, Spirits and Wines is served.

Telephone; 80. VINCE COSTELLO. Proprietor. ptmarai, 11.00 am Esa’ala, 11.40 am (Alt. weeks) fca’ala. 11.55 am Rabaul, 2.55 pm When Esa’ala is omitted, arrival Rabaul I 2.00 pm.

SOUTHWARDS ' Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays (Skymaster)* Depart: Arrive: le 5.45 am Moresby, 7.05 am loresby, 8.30 am Brisbane, 3.05 pm nsbane, 4.30 pm Sydney, 7.15 pm Connecting services from Wau by Drover, rrives Lae 9.35 am Saturday. ? DC3 operating Lae-Moresby sector.

Alt. Thursdays (Sandringham) (Dec. 16, 30, etc.) Depart: Arrive: ibaul, 5.30 am Samarai, 8.45 am imarai, 9.15 am Moresby, 11.15 am »resby, 12.15 pm Cairns, 3.40 pm (Night stop) Jrns. 8.30 am Brisbane, 2.15 pm (alt. Fri.) isbane, 3.45 pm Sydney, 7.05 pm lit. Thursdays (Nov. 25, Dec. 9, etc.) (Sandringhams) haul, 5.30 am Samarai, 8.45 am marai, 9.15 am Moresby, 11.15 am »assengers wait in Moresby until alt. j. (Nov. 27, Dec. 11, etc.) then: Depart: Arrive: resby, 6 am Cairns, 9.25 am irns, 10.55 am Brisbane, 4.40 pm sbane, 6.10 pm Sydney, 9.30 pm 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas I —HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) srnate Wed. (Nov. 17, Dec. 1, etc.) tarts Lae 10.30 am, calls at Madang ind Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia 1.0 pm. Every alt. Thursday (Nov. 18, Dec. 2, etc.), depart Hollandia at 9 am, md, with calls at Wewak and Madang, irrives Lae at 2.40 pm.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

irery Wednesday. . Lae, 10.45 am: Finschhafen, Rabaul, Cavieng, arr. Manus 5.45 pm. arns Saturdays (dep. 8 am), via Cavieng, Rabaul and Finschhafen; arr. jae, 2.55 pm.

MORESBY-DARU (Sandringham) Yule Is., Kerema, Wana (optional), i-lkori, L. Kutubu.—Every alternate 'riday, returning same day (Nov 12 6, Dec. 10, 24, etc.).

Rabaul-Moewe Harbour

(Sandringham) Wed.—Rabaul-Jacquinot Bay-Moewe tarbour - Talasea - Rabaul Nov 10 24 •ec. 8, 22, etc.

B.— The direction of operation changes each service, i.e., each alternate ice operates Rabaul-Talasea-Moewe >our-Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul.

NEW britain-bougainville (Sandringham) Wed.—Rabaul - -Buka - Kieta - Buin ov. 3, 17, Dec. 1, 15, etc.

Wed. (same day) Buin-Kieta-Bukaabaul.

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) , Thur. Dep. Lae 6.30 am, Madang r. 7.35 am Wewak, Manus Is., avieng, Rabaul arr. 3.40 pm. only Dep. Rabaul 8.00 am direct adang, arr. 10.50 am, Wewak, adang, Lae arr. 4.35 pm.

Central Highlands

(DCS) days—Lae <8.30 am) to Wabamunda, < calling at any of; Nadzab, Kainantu Goroka, Nondugl, Banz, Minj Mt’

Hagen, Baiyer R„ Wabag, Wabamunda' Return to Lae arriving 6 pm

Lower Highlands

(Drover) Fridays.—Lae (7.30 am) to Gusap, calling at any of: Nadzab, Kaiapit, Arena Kamantu. Return to Lae arriving 10.30 am.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU (Drover) Dep. Lae.—Tues. 3 pm.—Mon. & sat 7.30 am.

Dep. Wau.—Tues. 4.30 pm—Mon, 9.00 am —Wed. 1.00 pm. Direct to Lae in 35 minutes.

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

Fridays.—Depart Madang 8.25 am, arrive Goroka 0.00 am, returning same day depart Goroka 9.30 am, arrive Madang 10.5 am.

New Guinea-New Britain

(DCS) Fridays—Depart Lae 12 noon. Finschhafen 1.0 pm, arrive Rabaul 3.10 pm.

Saturdays—Depart Rabaul 10 am. Madang 1.25 pm, arrive Lae 2.30 pm.

Services By Mandated Airlines

With headquarters at Lae, this company runs regular services for passengers freight and mails to all New Guinea settlements.

Scheduled Flights with DCS Aircraft Mon.: Depart Lae at 7.30 am for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul remaining overnight.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul at 6.30 am for Madang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Depart Lae 7.30 am for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae Thurs.: Depart Lae at 7.30 am for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau.

Goroka, Lae.

Fri.; Depart Lae at 7 am for Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul remaining overnight.

Sat ; Depart Rabaul at 7 am for Kavieng Momote. Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae. 4. Aust,-Dutch N. Guinea By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

A weekly service with Constellations cafl We6 «t Sy £ ne £ and Ams terdam with a Philippines, ' DN °' aM DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandla Sorong, Merauke and Tannah Merah. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons ~ R y Qantas with DCS Mon. (Dec 20. 27, Jan. 3. 10. 17 etc) rS« i dep ' 6 „ a I m) Fmschhafen ~ xt U a ~ Vellalavella pm) dma Honiara, BSI (arriving 5.25 Tu esda y (December 21, 28, January 4, 11, vii, ? oma , ra (de P- 7 am) _ Yandina —VellalayeHa - Buka - Rabaul Fmschhafen Lae (arriving 3.50 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

Constellation aircraft depart Saigon December 13 for Darwin - Brisbane - Noumea and return. Depart Noumea, December 16.

Australian agents; Messageries Maritimes. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Ansett Flying-boat Service, with Sandringhams Twice weekly services, operating mainly day Tuesday and Saturday, return same 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters Alternate Thursdays (Deccember 16 30 etc.), returning same day. 9 Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats—Weekly 3 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

TO ALL WHO FLY 8.0.A.C. . .

Men of business, men of action.

Men of politics of every faction — Film stars, lawyers, graziers, airmen, Doctors, dentists, engineers and chairmen . . .

We’ve only space to name a few.

So here’s to daughters, wives and girl friends, too . , .

Best Wishes For A Very Happy Christmas

And A Prosperous New Year !

Reservations and information from all Travel Agents and Qantas Empire Airways Ltd. (8.0.A.C. General Agents for Australia).

British Overseas Airways Corporation

A49/AU * Every second service night stops Noumea to allow connection with Noum Suva service—see below, Table 10. t Alternate Friday, Dec. 10, 24. alternate Saturdays (Dec. 18, Jan. 1) pis departs Noumea 2 pm, arriving Sydi 9.40 pm. 10. Sydney-Noumea-Suva By Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats—Fortnightly Depart: Arrive: Noumea, 11.25 am Suva, 5.55 Alt. Fri.* (Night stop) Suva, 8.00 am Alt. Noumea, 12.30 Sat.f * Alt. Fri. Dec. 17, 31, Jan. 14, 28, ( t Alt. Sat. Dec. 18, Jan. 1, 15, etc. (Service allows connection at Nour with Sydney-New Hebrides Serviceabove.) 11. Auckland-Norfolk Is By NZ National Airways, with DC3’

Double services each Sunday from S« 30 to Feb. 27, 1955. 12. Sydney-Auckland Tasman E. Airways, with DC6 Aircrs During December aircraft servicing 1 route will leave Sydney and Auckland most every day. When the holiday sea ends, services will resume as follows: Mon., Fri., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 9.00 arr. Auckland 4.15 pm. Wed. oi Dep. Sydney 12.30 am, arr. Auckl: 7.45 am. Mon., Wed., Thur., Sun.: I Auckland 11.00 am, arr. Sydney f pm. 13. Sydney-Christchurcl Tasman E. Airways, with DC6’s Dep. Sydney 12.30 am and arr. Chi church 7.40 am Mon., Thurs., Sat.

Dep. Christchurch 11.00 am, arr. Syd 2.40 pm Tues., Thurs., Sat. 14. Melbourne-Christchur Tasman E. Airways, with DC6’s Mon. —Dep. Melb., midnight; arr. Ch 8 am next day.

Mon—Dep. Ch'ch., 10 am; arr. Melb., : pm. 15. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., with DC6’s Dep. Auckland every Wed. and Sat.

Return to Auckland every Wed. and !

Dep. Auckland: Wed. 10.15 am, Sat. pm. Arr. Nadi: Wed. 3.30 pm, 7.15 pm.

Dep. Nadi: Wed. 5.00 pm. Sun. 2.00 Arr. Auckland: Wed. 10.25 pm, ! 7.25 pm. 16. Fiji-Tahiti Tasman E, Airways Ltd., with Solenl Services will depart Suva for A Aitutaki, Papeete and return fortnig or more frequently if required.

Dep. Suva (Mon.) 9.00 am, cross Ie national Date Line; arr. Apia (S 1.55 pm; dep. Apia (Mon.) 2.00 arr. Aitutaki 7.30 am; dep. Altu 8.30 am; arr. Papeete 1.00 pm. turn flight dep. Papeete 7.30 am Thursdays.

Next flights, eastbound, December 6, Next flights, westbound, December 9. etc. 17. Fiji-Tonga Tasman E. Airways with Solents Dep. Suva December 17.

Depart Arrive Suva, 6.30 am Nukualofa, 9.50 Nukualofa, 2.45 pm Suva. 4.35 4

December, 1954-Pacific Islands Mon T H L

C^JfWjy ed „> iBc U L b*rlZy oo & g m ***io( Pi/l Hotell°%. Suva; P ' CS - E^ desi ,be o u tte ft 0 4<C Per ®r»« cfed oq 18. Micronesia ' Civilian services, based on Guam, using 2agined amphibious Grumman Albatrosses, in regularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West arolines), Truk (Central Carolines), onape (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshals) nd Saipan (Marianas). Details from rans-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu, 19 Fiji Internal Airways f Fi Ji Airways, with 3-engined Drovers iva-Nadi: 1 flight on Monday, Thursday and Friday. 2 flights on Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday. 3 flights on Saturday. idi-Suva: 1 flight on Monday, Thursday and Friday. 2 flights on Tuesday and Saturday. 3 flights on Sunday. 4 flights on Wednesday. ya-Lambasa-Suva; Tuesday and Friday, va - Lambasa - Savusavu - Lambasa - Suva: Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. pa-Lambasa; Tuesday. mbasa-Nadi-Suva: Wednesday. pa-Savusavu-Suva: Monday, Thursday, Saturday. pa - Taveunl - Lambasa - Savusavu - Taveuni - Suva: Tuesday.

' a - Taveuni - Savusavu - Lambasa - Taveuni - Suva: Friday. ra-Taveuni-Suva: Wednesday. 20. French Oceania Inter- Island Service Regie Aerienne Interinsulaire (Catalina) Ice weekly service to the Leeward 3roup. dnesday; Papeete-Raiatea-Bora Bora- Raiatea-Papeete. lay: Papeete-Huahine-Raiatea-Papeete.

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Tribute to Matron Burgess of Norfolk Island WE are shortly to lose Matron Burgess, who has given such kindness and work to Norfolk Island. Some of us can remember the bleak barracks of a hospital as it was before she arrived 3 h years ago. We watched the tremendous enthusiasm with which she gathered willing helpers around her and tackled the clearing up, furnishing and gardening—all of which was necessary to make the place resemble a hospital.

Matron Burgess was loved by her patients, and few of us can remember a Matron who stayed with us so long.

She has given her life to nursing and we appreciate the fact that we had so much of her valuable skill and experience. Her outstanding qualifications in her profession so frequently praised by visiting doctors have been of the greatest value to Norfolk Island.

We do not forget her drive and zest which was responsible for the raising of £5OO for hospital needs through the medium of a Gymkhana and socials, together with various parties run by her many supporters. In wishing Matron Burgess good health and happiness in the future, we also offer our simple thanks.- NEWBOLD.

W. N. SELBY THE 1914-1922 PERIOD IN

New Guinea

New Compilation by C. D. Rowley THE Principal 0 f the Australian A °9J °LPacific Administration, • AT Mr - c - D - Rowely, left Sydney in November for Indo-China where mpJsSiif9 r °£ e . of , the un O instru- Srw5 h S eS ’ 18 to make a social survey of socio-economic conditions. for some months, in SSf ern . Sla T m and the mountainous regions in Laos and Cambodia—not exactly a healthy region under the present political tensions in those countries.

In recent years, Mr. Rowley has written a book entitled, New Guinea —From Protectorate to Mandate; but in view of its length, it is unlikely that it will be published un- IfnHuJk 18 . subsidised. It should be published, because there really is no comprehensive or reliable record ol the late German and early Australian period in New Guinea—so far as records are concerned, the period from 1914 to the middle Twenties is almost a blank. Mr.

Rowley appears, voluntarily, to have undertaken a great amount of difficult research in order to provide a really dependable history and work of reference and, if it has any funds available, the Australian Department of Territories really should ensure its publication in printed form. 5 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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December, 1954 Editorial; Vital Land Settlement Policy at Stake in NG 9 Do You Remember? From PIM of 20 Years Ago .. 10 Fijians May Stay in Malaya “Quite a While’’ 10 Japs’ POW’s Will Receive Payment 10 Samoans Discuss Future Government 11 NG Reacts Unfavourably to Japs 12 Fiji Budgets for Tax Concessions 13 Editors’ Mailbag 14 Noise and Bluster from Indonesia 15 New Indian Commissioner for Fiji 15 Change in P-NG Administrative Policy 16 Tourists and Tuna For E.

Samoa 17 Sugar Price Falls Again .. 17 South Seas Hotel in Suva .. 19 New Secretary-General of SP Commission 19 Territories Talk-Talk .. ~ 20 Doubtful Future of BSIP .. 26 Goroka’s On-and-Off Hydro Scheme 29 New Capital for Fiji Manganese 31 News Notes from our Correspondents in P-NG .. .. 33 Makatea Still Needs Cook Is.

Labour 43 Honolulu-Tahiti Air Service 47 Travellers’ Impression of Indonesia 49 The Great Mangaian Experiment 54 Tariff Board’s Inquiry into Papuan Rubber 59 For Pacific Radio Amateurs 65 There is Money and Grief in the NG Crocodile Business 67 Caledonian Nickel Booms While Chrome Languishes 71 Stamps Commemorate Pacific Air Age 73 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 77; Notes Made by RWR in N.

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The Bank of New South Wales is pleased to announce the transfer of its Port Moresby Branch to new premises at the corner of Musgrave and Douglas Streets.

The new two-storied building, of colonial-type architectural design, provides a notable addition to the business centre of Port Moresby. The spacious banking chamber on the ground floor is fully equipped to meet the banking needs of Port Moresby residents and of travellers in the Territories. On the first floor, comfortable staff quarters provide the accommodation and amenities essential in a tropical climate.

While thus expressing its confidence in the future of Port Moresby, the “Wales” also looks back over its forty-four years of service to Papua and New Guinea, honouring the pioneers and proud of its long association with the people of the Territories. ...

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Editorial . . .

Vital Land Settlement

Policy At Stake In N. Guinea

A N important principle of land \ settlement is at stake in New Guinea. It can be summed up i this question: Should a landseker be allowed, as far as possible, ) make his own selection of land, jcality and crop: or should he sublit to the direction of officials in 11 these matters? The original ittlers in all great pioneering enterrises (Australia, New Zealand, merica, and Africa) had a free loice.

While Australian Territories Minter Hasluck, who sometimes seems i be unduly concerned about native ghts and UNO sensitiveness in retion to land settlement, was preicupied with land-use plans (1951- ), one of the outstanding District jmmissioners in New Guinea, Mr. n Downs, developed a notable rst e m of land settlement in istern Highlands. He was not in ly sense defying his Minister. He ,ppens to be a very energetic and actical young man, with plenty vision; he knew what his District eded; and, while awaiting Canrra’s wearisome policy directives, just naturally went ahead with ;h things as afforestation, road d bridge-building, training of tives, and encouragement of Euroans to establish plantations. [n the latter regard, Mr. Downs lowed the principles of comm'onise. When a man said that he nted land, Mr. Downs learned at he could of the man’s history d background—his practical owledge of tropical agriculture; i attitude towards natives; his lity to “stick it” through the difilt early years; and so forth. If passed this simple screening, he s encouraged to look around for uitable block—on the clear undertiding that he could not have land X the DC considered was necesy for future native needs; that could induce the natives to sell; X he must satisfy the DC that residence there, in close contact h the natives, would be beneficial that particular native comnity.

Within two years, the new ■opean settlement in Eastern hlands was a model for the )le Territory. Several small, inendent, European planters were iblished on lands of their own sction, producing crops nomina by themselves, and under conons which promoted a spirit of dwill and co-operation between opeans and natives EVERYONE —officials and nonofficials alike—praised the work done by Downs in this District.

But Minister Hasluck was not impressed. Over a year ago, he stamped hard upon Downs’s settlement activities, and issued a directive that all unregulated European settlement in the Dual Territory should cease forthwith.

That paralysis continued until last September. Then Minister Hasluck issued what he called his re-statement of lands policy, which apparently placed responsibility for land purchase, land assessment and land disposal completely and absolutely in the hands of a Lands Department that is without adequate staff, and of Land Boards which must dispose of lands by public tender.

The success of the Downs system of land settlement was either ignored, or condemned.

The PIM, in November, described that policy as narrow, rigid, unimaginative, idealistic and unrealistic. We urged the people of New Guinea to appeal directly to the Prime Minister of Australia, so as to escape the effects of the Hasluck dictatorship. After that attack was in print, but before the PIM was in circulation in P-NG, much of what we said was endorsed by non-official members of the Legislative Council, who were criticising the Administration’s failure to encourage European land settlement.

SINCE then, certain Departmental representations have been , made to us. We are assured that the new policy will be fi? mi ? ls^ in suc h a way that the best features of the Downs settlement system will be retained, while all settlement activities will be harmonised with an over-all policy encouraging private enterprise and co-ordinated with Australia’s obligations in relation to the natives. This is to be achieved by giving new status and authority to the District Commissioners. The Australian Government’s plans and hopes are set out in an important article on another page, entitled Change in PNG-Administrative System.”

So far, so good. This journal is not concerned with the tender feelings of Canberra czars, or the idealistic planning of high-ranking bureaucrats. What we are concerned with are the following facts: There is enough land in P-NG to take care of all native needs for many generations, and also to allow the settlement of sufficient Europeans to directly influence native agriculture, outlook and standards of living.

It is vital to the success of European settlement that prospective settlers he carefully chosen; and that they, for their part, have reasonable liberty in selecting their own land and location, and arranging their plantations as they wish.

The numerous inquiries for P-NG land now being made should be sympathetically received. Suitable men who know P-NG conditions, and who have been waiting a long time, should be given priority. Any attempt to subject this pioneering impulse to any Canberra-conceived system of “disposal by tenderand to direct the settlers to Departmentally selected areas (a system administered by officials who think far more of systems than of in- A Bill Gill cartoon. 9

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dividualistic suitability) must be resisted with all the resources at the command of the non-official population.

BUT if the District Corhmissioners, under their new status, can shape and control land settlement, and can combine the Downs principles of European settlement with the idealistic conceptions of Minister Hasluck and his departmental planners, some of the more alarming features of the Minister’s “policy” may be avoided.

But the outlook is not good. Only the DC’s can save the Dual Territory from a rigid Departmentalised system of land settlement. There are 15 Districts; and in at least 11 of those Districts the needs of land settlement call for the services of District Commissioners of vision and experience. Are there a dozen such men in sight?

We sincerely hope that, hand-inhand with Minister Hasluck’s new policy of making better use of the District Commissioners, there also will go a system of making more District Commissionerships available to the younger men of the field staffs. We see more hope in that direction than in any other section of Canberra’s weighty planning.

Jops' POW's Will Receive Payment JAPAN will pay £A5,625,000 to prisoners of 13 nations who suffered undue hardship in Japanese captivity.

This is in addition to money already allocated to prisoners who built the Burma railway.

International Red Cross will decide how much will be allocated to Australian POW.

When the payments have been made. Japan will have fully discharged her obligations under Article 16 of the Peace Treaty. Sir Norman Roberts, who negotiated on behalf of the 13 nations, said that he hoped it would “overcome illfeeling against Japan by ex-servicemen.”

Co-op. Officer for Cook Is.

AS a further result of the recent visit to the Cook Islands by Territories Minister Webb, a Registrar of Co-operatives has been appointed there. Such an appointment was “approved” nearly two years ago.

The appointee is Mr. J. L. Noakes, MBE, lately Commissioner of Cooperative Development and Registrar of Co-operative Societies in Sarawak, who has just retired from the Colonial Service. Mr. Noakes is said to be a comparatively young man and has had a distinguished and varied career in Colonial Service. He will take up his new appointment next April.

NZ Pacific Territories Get New Minister AS a result of the November general elections in New Zealand and a re-shuffle of Cabinet posts, Mr. Thomas MacDonald now becomes Minister of Island Territories, Minister of External Affairs, and Minister of Defence.

The latter portfolio, formerly held by a separate Minister, has been added to those of Territories and External Affairs.

Mr. T. Clifton Webb’s appointment as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has been confirmed.

He will leave shortly for his new post.

Mayor Corbett for Lautoka IN November municipal elections at Lautoka, Fiji, Mr. E. Corbett was elected mayor, Cr. Allan Harvey deputy mayor. Cr. Tulsi Ram Sharma, only other candidate, was defeated.

Mr. S. Hollander and Mr. M. R.

Nityanand were elected to the respective European and Indian vacancies on the town counccil.

They defeated Messrs. J. Hodgkinson and J. Prasad who also stood for election.

Mr. C. A. Adams, retiring mayor, did not seek re-election to the council.

Fijians To Stay

In Malaya?

THE Fiji Infantry Battalion v probably stay in Malaya figi ing terrorists for “quite a lo time.”

This is the opinion of Mr. Ms colm MacDonald, Commissior General for UK in SE Asia. K News Items Appear Page 5 thi Issue.

MacDonald has been visiting Ai tralia and New Zealand for disci sions with the Governments of th< countries.

The Fiji Battalion went to Mala in early 1952 for two years. Tl period was later extended by months. No official announceme has been made in Fiji about t future movements of the battalii Last year a number of wives a children of Fiji servicemen w< sent to Malaya to join them.

A large number of Fiji reside] are opposed to the Fijians servi in Malaya. They believe that t Fijians have a .job to do in th own country where they are grea outnumbered by the land-huni Indians. fl Mr. and Mrs. Alf Bailey 1 Rarotonga for Auckland on va( tion late November. Mr. Bailey head of the Lands Department.

Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

IT was still a Depression Christmas, back in 1934. There were no rich planters and traders, then, 20 years ago. But there were some rich gold-miners. In PIM of December, 1934, we gave news of a dozen mining companies in Papua and New Guinea and all were doing nicely. Gold is scarcely mentioned in connection with the Territory to-day.

Here are some other items from the December issue, 1934; Copra had risen to a c.i.f. London price of £B/15/- ner ton for South Seas sun-dried: and £9/12/6 for Rabaul hotair grade. It was the best price for 13 months. * * * “The struggle between Burns Philp and Co. and Norddcutscher Lloyd interests for the growing shipping trade of New Guinea had a dramatic finish. Burns Philp has purchased the two motor vessels, ‘Neptun’ and ‘Merkur’, with which the NDL proposed to establish a new service between Manila, New Guinea and Australia.” (“Merkur” went onto the Singapore run; “Neptun”—with an “a” added to the end of her name—to the Sydney- NG-Far East service. “Neptuna". filled with explosives, was bombed in the first Jap raid on Darwin in 1942. Ship and crew perished). * * * A correspondent wrote from Samarai, Papua: “ . a Japanese vessel withi any attempt at concealment, has visi the D’entrecastreaux Group, and addition to fraternising with the nath has swept the adjacent reefs of si and inforpied the inhabitants that tl will be back soon with a larger ves That an Englishman should live to foreigners so desnise the British flag s the Australian government as to utt« flout our laws in this manner makes < wonder if the supremacy of the wl races is not a thing of the past.” * * * Fiji was unique in managing to h: a Budget surplus of £17,718 for 1983and expected in 1934-35 to at le balance its Budget. We called 1 “Britain’s most prosperous colony”. * * * Average price of cocoa was £29 ton; coffee around £7O per ton; Rang< rice, £ll/10/- per ton; Australian r: £l5/10/- per ton.

Planters in Western Samoa who w producing about 1,200 tons of cocoa year and were finding it difficult to s felt that New Zealand should step and give “some kind of bonus for Same cocoa beans”. * * * Hard to believe, but PIM fashion wri wrote (and we published) this: “The decolletage, reaching to the waist, lo its terrifying moments when with it worn a brassiere of gold or silver lai The effect is ravishing in the extreme a simply shrieks of sophistication.” 10 DECEMBER. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Long Session indicated as: Samoans Discuss Method of Future Government The first 15 days of the Western Samoan Constitutional convention, which began in Apia on November 10, were taken ip with social functions, matters of procedure and a six-days’ lebate on the proposed transfer of the Public Service from NZ to lamoan control.

New Guinea Cocoa Beans into Chocolate rtson’s factory in Melbourne recently, e beans were from the 1,050 acre, y developed plantation which Macrtson’s have purchased in the Mark- Valley near Lae. New Guinea, for 000. small area of cocoa is planted and in ng, but a great deal of clearing and ing remains to be done. The comhas retained the services of Mr.

Noblett as manager. Mr. Noblett one of the vendors. i official inspection delegation ed American Samoa from the "arly in November. In the party i: the Hon. Mr. W. N. Aspinall, ipcrat from Colorado, a member tie House of Representatives in hington, DC; Dr. J. L. Taylor, mltant for the Office of Terri- 's; and Mr. Anthony Lausi. De- Commissioner from the same J, under the Department of the rior.

WESTERN Samoa, at present a Trust Territory administered by New Zealand, has been given the task of designing its own administration. A working committee was set up over a year ago to draft proposals on a Constitution for the utimalte independent state of Samoa The transfer of the Public Service is only one of numerous proposals which the present Convention is to consider. (See PIM, October).

The opening ceremony of the Convention was attended by many guests, including several observers attending on behalf of interested Governments and other bodies.

The Samoan delegates comprised the two paramount High Chiefs, Mata’afa and Tuimalealiifane, 41 Faipule with two other representatives from each of the Faipule districts of Western Samoa, the Samoan Members of the Legislative Assembly with the two Fautua (High Chiefs Tamasese and Malietoa), Samoan Judges and members of the Local Government Board, representatives of the Democratic party and four members of the Working Committee. The European delegation of 16 members included five members of the Legislative Assembly, seven delegates elected by European ballot, one representative each of the Apia Chamber of Commerce, the Planters’ Association and the Alesia Agricultural settlement, and one member of the Working Committee.

The High Commissioner of Western Samoa (Mr. G. R. Powles) delivered the opening address and the two Fautua (Hons. Malietea and Tamasese) were elected Joint Chairmen of the Convention. It was decided that when the subject of the future Head of State was presented for discussion, the Fautua, who were personally interested, should retire during the debate.

Later, two European and five Samoan delegates were elected to the Steering Committee which is to recommend the rules of procedure and order of business. The delegates were: Messrs. A. M. Gurau, H. W.

Moors, Leutele Te’l Sateel, Gaetelai Peseta, Toom’ata Tua, Tualaulelei Mauri and Va’ai Kelone.

Stprmy petrel of the early proceedings seems to have been a European delegate, the Hon. P. L. M.

Morgan. Mr. Morgan raised objections during the election of both the Chairman and the Steering * He was declare d out of order both times, and on the latter S! n refused to sit down until members unanimously supported the Ta £? aSes £ s ruling that he b e silent. Mi. Morgan subsequently left the Convention.

Recommendations submitted to the Convention by the Steering Committee on November 15 and 16 were adopted without alteration.

However an additional clause was adopted by which the Joint Chairmen could take part in discussions and express their own opinions.

First of the subjects to be discussed by delegates was the control of the Samoan Public Service.

Both the Working Committee and the Development Plan (White Paper) announced by the NZ Prime Minister in 1953 had recommended that the control of this service be transferred to the Samoan Government. Therefore, it had been generally assumed that this subject would be beyond controversy—particularly since dissension would virtually mean objection to the Samoan Government controlling its own Public Service.

A dissident group raised the question of the form of the future Samoan Government, however, and gave rise to a discussion which would last nearly six days. The High Commissioner was invited to attend and explain to delegates the various forms of Government which Samoa could adopt. Nearly every delegate rose to air his views and criticise details of the proposal. But by November 25, most had expressed general approval on behalf of their districts.

PAYE is Unpopular THE Suva Chamber of Commerce is almost unanimously against the proposed system of Pay-asyou-earn income taxation, said the president of the Chamber (Mr. W. G.

Johnson) in his 1953 annual report. The system placed the responsibility of collecting employees’

Income Tax on employers. Onlv two influential members of the Chamber supported the proposal.

IT Mr. J. K. Stone, who has been for nine years in Fiji, in the service of the Fiji Times, completed his engagement there on November 30, and proposes to return to journalism in New Zealand. Mr. Stone is a newspaper man of unusual ability, and while acting as sub-editor of the Suva newspaper, and occasionally as editor, he also was the Fiji representative of most of the world’s big news agencies and associations.

Thus, for nine years, the world has seen Fiji mostly through the eyes of JKS. Mr. Stone took a keen interest in sociological matters, especially the racial problem as between Fijians and Indians, and has written copiously on the subject.

Mr. Paul Hasluck, Australian Minister Territories, and Mr. E. T. Fulton reground), of Makurapau Plantation, [?] Britain, examine one of the processes [?]ing which New Guinea cocoa beans [?]e turned into chocolate at Mac- 11 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

Shell Poachers, grave-diggers or baseballers: — New Guinea Reacts Unfavourably to the Japanese Territory folk did not care whether they ever saw a Jap again—dead or alive, said Mr- George Whittaker, president of the Papua-New Guinea Branch of the RSSAILA recently.

HOWEVER, as part of the Anglo- American plans for protecting Western civilisation against Russo-Mongolian Communism, the South Pacific countries are being asked to resume friendly relations with Japan. Our former enemies— Germany, in the West, and Japan, in the East—are being lined up with us to resist the Red bloc.

Australia, reluctantly, has accepted a new trade treaty, under which the Japanese buy Australian wool and Australia buys a lot of Japan’s manufactured goods. But Australians have not forgotten ' Jap atrocities in New Guinea and Amboina and Burma and Borneo and, when it comes to social intercourse, the diplomats’ plans have run off the rails.

A team of smiling Jap baseballers arrived to play baseball in Australian cities. Some Australians snarled: most turned their backs; no one went to the baseball games; and the tour was cancelled and the team hurriedly shipped back to Japan.

Then, at end of November, it was officially announced that Australia had granted Japan permission to send to Papua-New Guinea, for two months, via Solomon Islands, a “Mission” of 19 persons, to collect the remains of war dead, hold religious ceremonies and erect small memorial stones, no bigger than one cubic metre, at five burial places.

Mr. G. K. Whittaker, MLC, of Lae, President of the RSL, expressed the views of P-NG ex-servicemen and others and said that they knew of only a few isolated Jap burialgrounds—not enough to justify such a visit or a war-time cemetery.

And they certainly did not want a Jap war memorial there, to further remind them of the Jap invasion and the atrocities which attended it. “The right place for a Jap war memorial is in Japan,” said Mr.

Whittaker —and most of us will agree with him. (See Comment further on.) Meanwhile, there has been liveliness on the Japanese fishing front.

The Japanese pay lip service to the Australian-New Guinea seafrontiers, beyond which they may not come; but with increasing frequency they are being caught taking shell or loading up with fish in New Guinea waters.

Advance With itchy Fingers’

WRITING after a South Pacific tour a few weeks ago, the American journalist, Robert C.

Ruark, described the way in which the Japanese have “resumed their itchy-fingered advance upon New Guinea and the other empty islands of the South Seas.”

Recent events in New Guinea suggest that, if there is not soon a clarification of the international position, and if some order and discipline are not imposed upon these Japanese sea-scavengers, there may be serious trouble in relation to New Guinea.

The Japanese appear to be trying to resume their reef-scraping activities where they ceased in 1940- 41. It will be remembered that the presence of shell-poachers in New Guinea and Solomons waters was constantly being reported in the ’Thirties —especially by the PIM — but that nothing much was done.

Australia then had little voice: whereas Japan was a World Power, and could get away with anything.

The position is different to-day.

An interesting feature of to-day’s developments is the part being taken by New Guinea civilians in capturing or chasing away the robbers.

The Japanese may not enter New Guinea territorial waters, or land on non-Japanese islands, without entering through a recognised port, in a proper way; and, if they do not observe the law, European civilians, as well as officials, may place them under arrest.

Arrested by Civilians ON November 4, seven Japanese, operating from a dory or sampan off the Fead Islands were detained by Mr. G. L. Cleveland, manager of the Fead Islands Estate, and subsequently taken to Rabaul.

There they were convicted, on November 19 and fined £lOO each, or eight months’ imprisonment, with confiscation of their vessel and the troc h u s shell found in their possession. All were charged under the Commonwealth Act with poaching in Territorial waters.

About this incident our Rabaul correspondent writes: Only a fortnight before young Ray Lacey (he is only 37) captured his Japs, Geoff Cleveland, manager of a plantation on Nuguria Island (in the Fead Group, just inside the Territorial boundara made prisoners of seven Japanese trocb fishermen. They were one group several, in dinghies and sampans, whi disembarked from a mother ship gather shell on a reef in full view of t plantation.

At Geoff’s approach, in a pinnace, t ship (later identified as the “Eh Maru”) hurriedly gathered in her boi —all except one sampan containing 1 hapless seven—and made for the op sea.

The seven, with all the speed th inboard motor could muster, attempl to get away from the pinnace. They w< easily overtaken, taken in tow, and pla< “Sakae Maru”.

Mr. Ray Lacey, who captured “Sat Maru" and the 36 Japanese on boa Both he and Cleveland said later th[?] they had acted on their own initiat after it became clear the Administrati in Rabaul would do nothing. Clevela said he had been advised by Rabaul return his seven Japs to their motl ship. He and Lacey acted as they did uphold European prestige. Photos by H. Meen. 12 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

I virtual custody on a small island bposite Nuguria. [Then followed radio contact with |*baul. ineffectual attempts by that [ntre to contact “HMAS Hawkesbury”, ie releasing of the Japs that night on le Administration’s advice, and the reading of them next morning by Hawkesbury” drifting three miles away «m the island group.

The next report of Japanese fishig operations came from the master f the vessel Himau, Captain B. C. rickham, who had been informed j natives of the Tasman Islands lame area) that a Japanese ship, o. 86,442, had anchored off the [ortlock Islands between October I and November 5. The natives irther advised that all reefs in the •ea had been stripped of shell.

The third incident is a remark- )le one. A Jap fishing vessel, Trying about £28,000 worth of tuna •reported to have been taken off le Queensland coast apparently it into Anir Island (one of the ;ad group, off the New Ireland ast) for rest and refreshment. The ew of 26 were mostly ashore, ashing their clothes and bathing, id eating coconuts and pineapples, hen they were arrested by Mr. aymond Ernest Lacey, manager of aramung Plantation (on Anir land, owned by Mrs. E. Carson, of sad Island Estates) and taken to ibaul.

Heavy Punishment

Magistrate J. R. Rigby, on Dember 1, fined the master of the ikae Maru a total of £1,650 (£5OO r ignoring port-of-entry laws, and 0 each in respect of 23 seamen horn he landed on Anir Island, id who are prohibited imigrants); and the 23 Jap seamen, ing prohibited immigrants, were ch sentenced to three months’ 101. The court allowed two onths for payment of the fines.

This particular Jap ship does not ipear to have been doing any irm beyond garden-looting— though clearly there without any ?al right—but its presence was rented, because Jap shell-poachers ive been doing a lot of damage in e Fead Islands, and the planters ere have been on the alert.

How Japs Were Arrested 'HIS is Mr. Lacey’s own story, contained in a report to the District Commissioner in Rabaul: Jn November 19, at noon, a local native ported that a strange ship was anchored Nanum (on Anir, three miles south of iramung Plantation). [ immediately went by native track vards Nanum, and took about 15 plantion natives with me. While walking >ng the track another local native on 6 track reported the ship and identified 6 crew as Japanese, and said they had me ashore. we approached the bay it was necesry to proceed inland to avoid being (Continued on Page 147)

Prosperous Fiji

Budgets For—

Tax Concessions And Encouragement Of

Overseas Capital

FINANCIAL announcements of considerable importance to Fiji were made at the Budget Session of the Legislative Council on November 26: An additional £lOO,OOO will be raised in • the next year by imposing a small export tax on certain products, including 8/- per ton on sugar.

If the export tax is agreed to by Council, the basic rate of income tax will be reduced from 1/3 to 1/-.

A minimum income tax payment of £4 is proposed; and, if this is agreed to, the Residential Tax of £2, now paid by all non-Fijian males, will be abolished.

The proposal for double taxation (taxation of Company profits after they have been distributed to shareholders) has been dropped.

Special measures are announced to encourage overseas capital to go to Fiji. The Governor pointed out that there now was a great advantage in Australian companies investing in Fiji—they could pay at either Australian or Fiji rates, and the Fiji rates now were definitely lower than Australian.

A Commerce and Industries Branch of the Secretariat is being set up to assist potential investors in new undertakings in the Colony.

Income taxation rates on the first £5,000 of Companies’ profits are to be reduced.

The Colony’s surplus this year, as a result of continued prosperity, will be between £200,000 and £300,000, instead of a deficit of £19,000, as originally budgeted.

The estimates of Customs tax for 1954 are being exceeded by at least £400,000 and income tax by some £lOO,OOO.

The anticipated surplus will go to the Development Fund, to assist in financing Fiji’s £8,000,000 Development Plan which will cover the period 1955-60.

The Government plans an expenditure of just over £5,000,000 in 1955, and some special measures are forecast to provide the necessary finance.

THE Vatukoula goldmines are passing through a phase of major development, following the discovery of rich gold at distances around 1,700 feet down, and considerable distances away from existing shafts. This will considerably prolong the goldfield’s life.

The quality standard of copra and bananas produced for export is to be raised. Cocoa planting on a big scale is being encouraged.

The Sugar Stabilisation Fund soon will reach £2,000,000; so the 35/- per ton deducted from sugar exported to Britain will be reduced to 25/-.

There now is less interest in the plan to send Fiji-Indian labourers to New Caledonia: but “the Governor has been approached privately about the possibility of supplying a thousand or more labourers to another Pacific Group.”

The Governor warmly commended the efforts being made by all sections—and especially the sentiments expressed by Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna on Cession Day at Levuka— to introduce harmonious relations between all races, so as to ensure peaceful and happy progress in the Colony of Fiji.

New Airport Site For Lae WORK is to begin on a new airport for Lae, New Guinea—“sometime after July, 1955.” It will be at Malahang, which is over towards the Busu River and about three miles from the present airport.

The plan for the new airport was approved in 1948 by the Commonwealth Government, but little has been heard of it since.

It will be a four-years project, ending with the removal of all the major buildings from the Lae airport to Malahang. The present Lae aerodrome will then be closed.

Officials are not happy with Lae aerodrome where planes have only one way of take-off —over the sea.

Still No Skymaster Service

It was closed to Skymasters in September this year because it had become slippery due to excessive rain.

It was re-opened by the Dept, of Civil Aviation in October, but Qantas —the only company using Skymasters—is still terminating its services with these aircraft at Port Moresby, and running a shuttle service to Lae with DC3’s.

A Qantas spokesman in Sydney says that it will be April or May, 1955, before their Skymasters use Lae again.

Deck cargo aboard Sinkiang when she cleared Sydney for New Guinea late November included a Grumman Seabee amphibian aircraft for use by Australian Petroleum Co. Ltd. in their oil prospecting operations. 13 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1954

The Editors' Mailbag

NZ Orange Market We were a little severe on growers of Australian oranges and the NZ importing authorities, thinks Mr.

F. H. E. King, of Wellington, NZ, referring to our September item, “Oranges from Half the World Away.”

Mr. King goes on to say that MV Matua makes a special trip to Melbourne each Spring to lift oranges for New Zealand and that they sell cheaper than local apples.

That is probably so—but one shipload of oranges is still a drop in the ocean of total Australian orange production. Local prices for Australian oranges have been high for several years—in fact there have been no gluts since certain people concerned with these pages got out of the orange-growing business at a stage when good quality Valencias were selling wholesale in Sydney for 4/- per case!

Is This a Rare Old Book?

Does anyone with an interest in South Pacific history know anything about a 2-volume book entitled Rovings in the Pacific , from 1837 to 1849, by ‘a Merchant long resident at Tahiti’? It was printed in London in 1851, by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.

Captain G. O. Gatehouse, a wellknown mariner in the Pacific, has loaned us a copy, which he found in a battered condition in a port in China, and had re-bound. He says he believes the book is the work of a Mr. E. Lucett, who went to live in Papeete between 1840 and 1850, in the days when the Pomares ruled. There is a great deal of interesting data about the then only partly-known islands of Polynesia and the Central Pacific; and a full description of events in Tahiti before and after the seizure by the French, and in Samoa before the European Powers settled in.

Another WRC Memory .. “Wally Maidment’s letter reminds me of my first meeting with the late Sir Walter Carpenter,” writes Captain James Duncan, formerly of Rabaul.

“In 1897, I went to Thursday Island to join the pearling fleet owned bv Clark, Munro and Outridge. At that time, Walter Carpenter worked in Burns Phllp’s store as shipping clerk; Bill Luff was in charge of the drapery; and Joe Mitchell was manager.

“A year or two later, Walter left Burns Philp to launch out for himself with a few luggers and a small store; the name over it was ‘J. B.

Carpenter and Son’ in large letters.

He and brother Bill served in the store.

“On one memorable occasion, I went in to pay an account and produced two invoices, both under £l.

Walter shouted, ‘Sign them both, Bill, and save stamps.’ They both laughed heartily, as they always did.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. has expanded a lot since those days.”

Tahiti and Americans Mr. Seymour Pond writes from the Explorers’ Club (10 West 72nd Street, New York) to ask if we can give him a clue as to why the French Government in Tahiti is unfriendly to American touristadventurers who wander in there. (He is referring to yachtsmen and wanderers with irresponsible feet but solid bank accounts —not hoboes and beachcombers).

“Many more Americans would like to visit Tahiti,” he says. “But when the news comes from various people that officials there are not so friendly as they might be, a large proportion of them change their itineraries and go instead to such places as Hawaii, or Virgin Islands or Cuba —where prices are low, the liquor good, and where the people seem really glad to have a restseeking painter, or writer, or plain tourist foreigner, to stay a while with them, “Why don’t these French like the Americans? We always are very happy to see French folk in the United States.”

Sorry—we do not know the answer. All we know is that Tahiti’s reputation for “making things tough for casual visitors” has turned away from Tahiti a great many dollars that otherwise would have found a pleasant resting place in one of the Pacific’s most charming archipelagoes.

Comparative Values In Auckland, having an old wound repaired, Captain J. D. Campbell, of Turoa, Rarotonga, writes interestingly about the training of young men for administrative work: “Here in NZ it is surprising to find that Cook Islands natives who could not get a living wage in the Administration there are holding positions of responsibility in trade and farming, and paid the same wage as their European opposite numbers.

“The other evening I was at Auckland Town Hall and had the pleasure of seeing Cl native girls receive awards in nursing, and one the special prize for outstanding work in the wards.

“I often wonder if the Australian School of Pacific Administration is a success in training men for NG and Papua, because there is not any doubt that unless trained men are sent into the Pacific, to hold the positions of responsibility, and s an example, it is only a matter ■ time before some of the Con munists or Fellow Travellyers get : and turn the natives to their m of thinking.”

Words According To Needs Through PIM, Top-Sergeai Robert T. Smith, formerly in Sol mons and New Guinea, and now Korea, and Professor Robert J. Ha now in Australia, entered into correspondence about Pidgin En; lish. Professor Hall was interest! in the way in which Gl’s us< Pidgin in Korea, and the Sergea; did his best to supply a list.

“I got about 80 words and phras he tells us. “But when looked over the list I sent him, I a not proud of it—most of the won either represent profanity, or th have something to do with sex— fact, half of my collection deals wii the latter subject. *1 guess our troops haver changed much. How was it y< used to describe them in Austral —‘Overpaid, over-sexed and ov here’?”

Well, Where Did They Originate?

Gratefully acknowledged, a lead from Bishop Museum, Honolulu, d scribing a new exhibit there bu: around the question of “Where D the Peoples of the Pacific Origii ate?” The exhibit is an immen mural map, representing a coi sensus of expert opinion concernii the migrations of prehistoric nu into the Pacific.

But the leaflet does not answ the question which all of us, qui naturally, ask: Whence came the: What were the chief sources of tl Pacific migrations? Does the ne map support the Southeast Asia i the Kon Tiki (South Americi theory?

Plenty for All!

I see that it is proposed to brir certain New Guinea natives, wt achieve the required educationi standard, into the P-NG publ service, “at the same pay and wort ing conditions as European! (writes a Queenslander).

Australia now gives P-NG aboi £6,000,000 per annum; and, Au£ tralia’s population is now aroun the 9 million mark. Why not mab round figures of it —£1 per hes from every man, woman and chil in Australia making £9 million pc annum to be given to Papua-Ne Guinea. The extra £3 million woul serve nicely to pay all the native at European rates. It would a come back into the trade store and enrich the Europeans an Chinese traders, who are quit 14 DECEMBER. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL?

[serving cases. Australia has tenty for all—why be stingy about Ithing like that!

Fifty years ago, the P & O Dmpany were under contract with |e Government of India to deliver |e English mail (via Brindisi) at bmbay a fortnight after leaving agland; and this was done with tch regularity that if they were i hour or two ahead of schedule ,ey got a pat on the back, and if i hour or two late they published lologies and explanations.

I am led to this recollection writes Mr. R. F. Vaughan, of indakan, North Borneo) by the ct that the PIM of March and ay arrived here together on June That is typical of surface mail liveries, which have become disacefully slow and unreliable. hen the Union Jack eant Something From a Pacific Islands pioneer io, although he served with the nnaught Rangers in England, •.land, the South African War, d India, is still an active and :xessful plantation manager: rhe pioneers I found here in the rly days were built in heroic »uld. They were more mighty ;h their hands than their pens— jy did things, and didn’t waste le talking about them, fo-day, we sit in comfortable airs, and do our pioneering with r tongues. We haven’t the intinal fortitude to hold on to, and fern, the lands conquered by our ebears. rhe result is that there now are ae so low as will do us homage, s have forgotten the days when foreign vessels passing a British rship lowered their topsails in pectful salute. (And woe betide if they didn’t!) nour of Being First f ack Thornton, itinerant Pacific ands writer, quarrels gently with s correspondent who challenged ornton’s claim that a certain ice Islander was the first to ilify in dentistry—she said that main man of Tarawa had done ital jobs long before Thornton’s ninee got busy with forceps and ffiornton says that AMP Teleke, ice Islander, is in sole charge of nafuti Hospital, where he perms all sorts of surgical operates, some almost major in iracter. "If some Ellice Islander a diploma in surgery at Guy’s, nld he be called the first Ellice mder to become a surgeon, or >uld the honour and the credit held by AMP Teleke?” asks ornton.

Political Diversion Sought by Screams at the Dutch

Noise And Bluster From Indonesia

INDONESIAN “belligerence” and “demands” in respect of Dutch New Guinea have occupied the front pages of most newspapers for a month —first, because the Indonesians appealed to the United Nations; and, second, because the Djakarta politicians are trying to divert the attention of the populace from their collapsing politico-economic structure, by getting the mobs to howl for the “annexation of New Guinea.”

All this has nothing new for PIM readers. During the past two years, we have reported regularly on— • The steady disintegration of the administrative and economic structure built in the East Indies by the Dutch in the 350 years before they were forced out by the United Nations. • The absurd claims of the Indonesian “government” to Western New Guinea, which is in no way related to Indonesia. • The creeping advance of the Communists in Indonesia where, within three years, the numbers of avowed Reds have grown from 50,000 to 500,000; and the growing power of the Reds within the “government” itself. (The Soekarno administration now is kept in office only by Red votes.) • The rapid integration of Dutch and Australian defences in New Guinea, where the two nations now openly are co-operating in the construction of airfields and the maintenance of air and naval forces.

It is most unlikely that the Indonesian forces —which are little more than a rabble —will deliberately attack the Dutch in New Guinea in an organised war, thus involving Australian forces; but both Dutch and Australian statesmen are concerned about conditions in Indonesia because the Asian Communists may presently try to advance through that confused country towards New Guinea, Australia and the South Pacific Islands.

The United Nations, as a whole, has not seriously considered Indonesia’s claim to Dutch New Guinea; but opportunity was taken in November by a number of the babbling little delegations there to raise their usual clamour against Dutch and British “colonialism”; which in turn gave irresponsible newspapers (which now are in the majority) a chance to publish misleading and alarmist headings.

The now desperate Indonesian “government” may at any time try to create a diversion by encouraging some filibustering expedition to attack the Dutch in New Guinea, and Australian New Guinea thereupon would experience some “liveliness.”

But that would call for little more than police action.

The real danger lies further north, in Southeast Asia, where the Mongolian Reds are now settling solidly into their latest acquisition, Northern Vietnam, or Tonking.

Story in Headlines TO show how the world’s press regards Indonesian developments, we quote typical headmgs (none in type under 1 inch in depth!) from newspapers in the 10 days up to December 7: ~A nn £ x New Guinea, Indonesian Mobs Urge.

Future of W. New Guinea Is Vital Question to Australia.

Why Australia Supports Dutch Claims.

Australia’s “No” To Indonesians Dutch Resist New Guinea Talks Dutch: We’ll Hit Hard to Hold New Guinea.

Dutch Fear Violence in Indonesia.

We Want No Nonsense About N Guinea.

Tension Rises in Indonesia—New Demand on West N. Guinea.

We Must Stay Firm Over Dutch N. Guinea.

Outburst by Indonesian—Threat to Seize N. Guinea.

Australia Has No Controversy with Indonesia.

And so on, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.

New Commissioner

FOR FIJI MR. DEVI DIYAL BHATIA has been appointed Commissioner for the Government of India in Fiji in succession to Dr. N. V.

Rajkumar, who has gone to Indochina as Deputy Secretary-General of the International Truce Supervisory Council.

Mr. Bhatia, aged 47, has held important public service posts in India. In 1947, after the partition of India, he was Under-Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs.

He is expected in Fiji in February.

Largest aircraft ever to land at Nadi Airport, Fiji, was a US Navy Globemaster, weighing over 150,000 lbs, which came south from Honolulu recently with spare parts for a Boeing C-97 aircraft, grounded there since it was damaged by fire in August. The Globemaster brought U tons of spares and tools. 15 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

New Status of DC's May Solve the Land- Settlement Difficulties

Change In P-Ng Administrative System

THE danger, described in plain terms in November PIM (page 21) that land settlement and development in Papua-New Guinea may be retarded and crippled by the Australian Minister’s insistence on a new, complicated method of dealing with available lands, may be avoided by a somewhat revolutionary change in administrative machinery, to be given effect to immediately.

District Commissioners are to be given a new status. In the final analysis, they will be responsible for land settlement and land use in their respective Districts.

Instead of land acquisition, land assessment and land settlement becoming bogged down in the overelaborate machinery of the Lands Department and associated Land Board, etc., the District Commissioners should now be able to keep Departmental officialdom on its toes, and see that the Australian Government’s vital policies in relation to land use and European settlement really are implemented.

The trouble now is that the Administration may find itself short of suitable District Commissioners. A shortage of qualified personnel for the Lands Department already is manifest. A similar lack of men for the higher jobs would be very embarrassing.

Fundamental Changes

IN the past, District Commissioners have been mostly glorified District Officers, tied to a considerable degree to their desks by routine duties, and making contact with other Departments mostly through their official head —namely, the Director of District Services and Native Affairs.

In the future, District Commissioners still will be called District Commissioners; but actually they will be sub-governors, freed from routine desk work and reporting directly to the Administrator through the Assistant Administrator.

The “Department of District Services,” as such, will be abolished, and the Department now will be known as the Department of Native Affairs. The Department of the Government Secretary will be known as the Department of Civil Affairs.

Officials of those Departments in the various Districts will in future handle administrative machinery much as they did under the Department of District Services, but all such matters will be classified as belonging to either Civil Affairs or Native Affairs.

The Civil Affairs Department now will be responsible for such matters as water and power and stores— hitherto the concern of the Treasury.

The activities of Posts and Telegraphs, hitherto in charge of the Treasury, now becomes the responsibility of a new Department of Posts and Telegraphs.

In future, within most of the 15 Administrative Districts, there will be, as hitherto, officials of the various Departments which are represented in the field, such as Civil Affairs, Native Affairs, Agriculture, Lands, Education, Posts & Telegraphs, etc. But instead of these various departmental officials being only loosely responsible through their respective District Officers to their Departmental heads, their work will be under the direct supervision of the District Commissioner, and the latter will have the authority necessary for co-ordination of their activities within the District.

Any comments or representations which the DC has to make regarding the work of these Departmental officials will be made directly to the Departmental heads, through the Assistant Administrator.

New Aspect Of Land Policy

THE need for such a change—that is, clarification of the duties and responsibilities of the District Commissioners as sub-governors and the direct representatives of the Administrator —has been urged in the past by critics. This reform, therefore is one of the most encouraging moves made in recent years by the Territories Department. Whatever high official is responsible for it deserves the thanks of the non-official population, should streamline administrati and the implementation of Canbei policy.

For example, this administrat: change gives a new shape to t Lands policy and Lands Depa; ment machinery announced in Se tember by the Australian Minisi for Territories, and roundly co demned in this journal in Novemb In his statement, the Minisi said that the Lands Departme and a series of Lands Boards, woi in future become responsible for t acquisition of lands and their alloc tion to new settlers: and it was i dicated that District Services woi have little responsibility in relati to lands. We said that this was retrograde step.

It is stated that under the n system of Administration each D trict Commissioner will have a c finite responsibility regarding 1 purchase of land from the nativ its proper classification, and the d posal of such lands to persons i terested. The DC in each case v be a member of the local Lar Board and will have an imports voice in the assessment of nat land needs, the class of settlemc favoured, and the conditions settlement. Obviously, that is as should be.

As was pointed out by a speal at the recent Legco meeting, t Territories do not want haphazs European settlement. What is want is the system of settlement so si cessfully put into operation Eastern Highlands in 1952-54 by D trict Commissioner lan Dow: under which projected land pi chases from the natives, and pr< pective European settlers, and t nature of their enterprise, were cai fully screened, to ensure that — (a) The alienation of the la from the natives would not harmful to future native econpmj (Continued on Page 145) Ordained at Madang, NG On September 26, E. A. Wakeham was ordained to the Anglican priesthood at Madang, New Guinea. Photo shows the candidate kneeling before the Rt.

Rev. G. D. Hand, the Bishop Co-adjutor of New Guinea. He is taking the Oath of Canonical Obedience to the Lord Bishop of New Guinea and the assent to the Doctrines of the Church of England. Photo: R. G. Krause. 16 DECEMBER, 1954 - PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

[?] Samoa Hopeful of

Tourists And Tuna

|NE of the greatest problems F facing the Government in jnerican Samoa at the present me is one common to many rritories in the Pacific—a short- >e of productive land and a ipidly increasing population.

The Governor of American Samoa, r, R. B. Lowe, expressed this linion in Sydney recently. Mr. and rs. Lowe were on holiday in Ausalia. They intend to visit New laland and then return to Pago igo before Christmas.

Mr. Lowe said that the population Eastern Samoa was increasing about 50 per cent, every 10 years, le present population is 12,000. In der to provide ways for those jple to make a living, the Governsnt is trying to introduce greater iustrialisation and more intensive j of available land.

Approximately 30 acres of cocoa re planted in the last year, he d. And planting was continuing, me coffee was also grown. 3 opulation pressure was relieved some extent by migration. In •1, when the US Navy moved out the Territory, about 900 Samoans t too. These mostly settled in waii, and in the following year iy were joined by many dependts. Despite the high cost of veiling, natives were leaving conntly. Few of them returned.

Tuna Future Bright

?he Pago Pago tuna industry, hough still in the experimental ge, showed every prospect of lire success, said Mr. Lowe. It had initely been proved that the fish re there in large quantities—for •t of the year, anyway. And the •anese had proved that they could caught. However, they were still certain as to the year-round dlablity of fish. ’he Van Camp cannery had, so , been unable to maintain acity production because supplies tuna had been irregular—often r s went by before a fishing boat ived with a full load. Additional Jzer space was badly needed at cannery, but this should be liable before long. Already an •plant and a little extra freezer ce had been provided.

Ir. Lowe said there had been no ivity at the cannery for about i months. When their contracts a Van Camp had expired in Sepiber, Japanese fishermen had reaed home. New vessels were exted in Samoa about the end of member. Several of these ships been severely damaged or k in typhoons in waters off an, but these would be replaced, bout 1,000 tons of tuna had been processed since the cannery began operations. In addition, 500 tons of frozen tuna had been shipped to the United States in March this year.

The Long Line Technique

The Van Camp organisation had not yet signed a long term lease with the United States Government, Mr. Lowe said. Their present lease expired at the end of 1955, but it was expected that they would then renew it on a long term basis. Under the present contract the company was obliged to instruct local Samoan fishermen in the long line technique—the only method which has proved commercially successful in the South Pacific. But that programme had yet to be implemented.

Tourist Industry

PROSPECTS With the introduction of two new Matson Line vessels, the commencement of air services by Pan American Airways and Samoan Airways, and the asset of Samoa’s own natural beauty, the Territory should, in the foreseeable future, benefit by a greatly increased tourist trade, said Mr. Lowe. Considerable interest in Pago Pago had already been aroused in the American public by such stories as Somerset Maughan’s “Rain,” and motion pictures like “Miss Sadie Thompson.”

Pan American Airways’ application to land at Pago Pago en route from Honolulu to Nadi, Fiji, had been approved. But the company was still faced with many difficulties and it was not known how long the service would take to develop. Samoan Airways were also nearly ready to commence operations. This company would operate a shuttle service between East and West Samoa, and would make planes available for charter for any distance within 1,700 miles.

The new Matson Line vessels would not operate in the Pacific before 1956, said Mr. Lowe. But at that time Samoa could expect a tremendous increase in tourist traffic.

Recently it had been announuced that a new $2,000,000 hotel would be built at Pago Pago. However, the Governor felt that it was unlikely that Samoan Airways would start to build this hotel until greater numbers of tourists began to visit the Territory. Pago Pago already had a small, but good, hotel which could cater for present demands.

Net profit of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. dropped by nearly 50 per cent, to $992,600 Canadian for the year to May, 1954. Shareholders were recently told that a steady decline could be expected in the company’s activities as more dredges worked out their reserves. No. 1 dredge would operate profitably until perhaps mid-1955. No. 2 dredge has now closed down.

Sugar Price Falls Again FOLLOWING negotiations between Commonwealth exporting countries and the British Ministry of Food, the 1955 price for raw sugar has been fixed at £4O/15/sterling per ton GIF London. This is a drop of 5/- per ton on the 1954 price.

Under the present Agreement, which has been extended to expire now in December, 1962, Fiji is permitted to supply the MOF with 125,000 tons of sugar annually Balance Of the Colony’s crop is sold on the free market. Free market price— usually the price received for Cuban sugar—has lately been about £lO per ton below the MOF price.

The 5/- drop in raw sugar is not expected to make any appreciable difference to the price paid for cane grown by Fiji-Indian farmers.

Growers expect the 1955 crop to exceed this year’s, and the returns to be correspondingly greater.

The Fiji Sugar Stabilisation Fund, which at the end of 1953 was £1,500,000, is expected to be about £1,750,000 at December 31, 1954.

U The Van Camp Sea Food Company sent Mr. Martin Quamma, of San Diego, California, to American Samoa to assume managerial duties in place of Mr. Don Doran, previously reported as going there. With him went Mr. William Stephans, who will assist in production problems when the new Japanese boats arrive. First to arrive, Kaiko Maru, was due November 25. She is a 300tons ship with a crew of 28 men.

Van Camp’s former manager at Pago, Mr. Paul Hedrick, with wife and daughter, were flown to Canton Island on November 15.

Governor Lowe. 17 1 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Learning About the Territory \ PART from learning a great deal about rubber, members of the Australian Tariff Board have learned something about other aspects of the Papua-New Guinea set up. For example, the labour laws which do not permit of continuity of work from native rubber tappers who return home after 18 months, surprised them in Melbourne. In Port Moresby they learned something of Canberra dictatorship.

MR. E. V. CRISP (in cross examination): . . . I have been six months trying to get a permit to import rice from Saigon.

I can land it here £24 a ton cheaper than I can get it from Australia but an ordinance passed in February prohibits us importing rice from any other source than Australia.

CHAIRMAN: You cannot blame Australia for than, can you?

CRISP. Yes.

CHAIRMAN: I want you to tell me how you relate that to Australia?

CRISP: It was an instruction from Canberra.

CHAIRMAN: Canberra can instruct the Legislative authority here to pass an Ordinance? . . . This is a local Ordinance, is it not?

CRISP: No, it was an instruction from Canberra.

CHAIRMAN; I must be very clear on this before I leave Port Moresby .

We still have to get back to the authority of the Ordinance. Can the Commonwealth Government come into this Territory and say, "You have to pass an Ordinance so-and-so?”

CRISP; I believe so.

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Building construction began piginally at the end of 1952. The nmdations and first storey, sufcient to accommodate the liquor ars, had been completed, and the quor bar had just come into operaon, when the unprecedented earthiiake of September 12, 1953, scurred. Much structural damage i buildings was reported.

As the plans for the South Seas otel had made no provision for irthquakes, construction ceased amediately, while the whole proct was reconsidered. Flans have en revised once or twice since.

It was announced in November, lat Messrs. N. Cole Ltd, of Aucknd, who have built some of NZ’s ost modern hotels, had completed isigns for building and furnishings, id that tenders for the completion the job would be called in Ausalia, New Zealand and Fiji early 1955.

THIS is to be a first-class hotel, . catering for the tourist trade.

It will have five floors, serviced two lifts. The public bar, lounge r, bottle department, hotel offices id three shops will be on the ound floor. A lounge and dining om on the first floor will acmodate 100 people at a time. This 11 be linked with a cocktail lounge r. 3ixty-six guests will be accommoted in 36 bedrooms on the third, irth and fifth floors. Each bedroom 11 have its own bathroom and Icony. The flat concrete roof will ord panoramic views of Suva and ; harbour.

Since September, 1953, the liquor ense of the old, and now tnolished Club Hotel has operated, der Mr. W. H. Hayward, on the >und floor of the South Seas 'tel. Formal application was made November for renewal of the snse; but hearing was adjourned iding a magisterial inspection— ! licensing authority has been iking some assurance as to when ; hotel is to be completed.

HE completion of the South Seas Hotel, on the western corner of Victoria Parade and Gordon ‘eet, and of the fine, new, tworey building to be erected in 1955, by the Barker Estate on the opposite corner, will emphasise the change that has taken place in Suva in recent years.

The old town, now looking somewhat shabby and discoloured, lies westward of the Triangle. But eastwards of the Triangle, and now extending along the north side of Victoria Parade and halfway towards the Government Buildings and the Grand Pacific Hotel, and looking out across the harbour, is an almost continuous line of modern, white, concrete buildings—mostly shops and offices.

BOP Expedition by London Zoo LONDON Zoo’s veteran collector, 77-year-old Mr. Wilfred Frost, has left London for New Guinea. He has been commissioned to capture, among other things, about 20 birds-of-paradise.

The Zoo, which at present has only two of the birds, intends to make Mr. Frost’s collection next year’s main attraction at Regent’s Park. A Zoo official said that if a representative collection were obtained, special quarters would be built for them, II Among the recent births in the Port Moresby Hospital was a son, David Stuart, to Mrs. Stuart Inder, wife of the ABC’s regional journalist for Papua-New Guinea. They already have a daughter.

Sec.-General of Sth Pacific Commiss’on NEW Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission, Dr.

R. C. Bedell, of Washington, is expected to take up his new duties m Noumea in March, 1955. His appointment, as announced in November PIM, is for a period of two years, with a likelihood of extension for another year.

The retiring Secretary-General, Sir Brian Freeston, KCMG, and Lady Freeston, left Noumea at the end of October and, in Sydney, joined a steamer for Europe. They disembarked in Lisbon and planned to reside for some little time with a married daughter there, before settling down in their country home in England. Sir Brian and Lady Freeston made many warm friends during their two years’ residence in Noumea, and they were entertained and farewelled at numerous functions prior to their departure.

Most of the people connected with the South Pacific Commission had openly expressed the hope that the post of Secretary-General would go to Mr. John Ryan, who is held in high esteem and who is Assistant Secretary-General. He has filled the senior job in an acting capacity on a number of occasions. But it seems to be accepted now as a rule that the position shall go in turn to a nominee of each of the six countries who maintain the Commission. Australia (Mr. Forsyth) and United Kingdom (Sir Brian Freestone) have each been represented in this way: and now it is the turn of the United States. (I A son, Peter James, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice B. Baker, of Rarotonga, on November 2. Mr.

Baker is Director of Agriculture in the Cooks.

Mr. R. C. Bedell. 19 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

Territories Talk-Talk

By Tolala Pacific Affairs Expert Passes Sir Frederic Egglestone passed to his well-earned rest at the age of 79 on November 12.

He was for many years a keen student of Pacific Affairs and was one of Billy Hughes’ right-hand men at the Versailles Treaty in 1919, when we managed to get the Mandate for New Guinea. Sir Frederic was chairman of a Royal Commission which sat in TNG back in the Thirties. I think it was one dealing with the merging of the two territories: the idea was not approved then.

First time Frederic Egglestone caught my eye was one Sunday morning at AIF headquarters at Tidworth, in England, towards the end of 1918, when, as a WOI, he was calling the roll of the Courts Martial Section for Church Parade. What he lacked in military bearing he more than made up for in grey matter. He served Australia well as its representative in China (1941-44) and in the USA (1944-46).

Thinking of AIF Headquarters at Tidworth reminds me that there were a few past and future Territorians on the staff in War I years, after evacuation from France: Staniforth-Smith, once Papua’s Administrator, with a red-tabbed GSO II; Pat Savage, pre-war TNG’s Superintendent of Stores was also a staff officer in “Q” branch; Steve Lonergan (now Government Secretary, P-NG) was in CR section; and Jimmy Tate, Exproboard Secretary for a time, was also on the staff, and a couple of other Exproboard officials were attached to “A” branch.

Lastly, there was Harry Darby, who was on the HQ Guard as a substantive private (and later as a Captain with the White Army in Russia). Harry, it will be remembered by old-timers, was in charge of native labour at Rabaul, and later made a pile on the goldfields and met a tragic death afterwards in India while returning from a world tour. “Masta Darby” was a household word amongst natives in Rabaul at one time.

The Territory’s First Gentleman Mr. E. A. James, MLC, did the right thing when he started a move for the stepping-up of P-NG’s Administrator in the Order of Precedence.

For some time now PIM has agitated for just such an advancement, but, true to the Aussie character, no one seems to regard ra and dignity as important.

German New Guinea had its G ernor; Papua had its Lieutena Governor; and now, the F Gentleman in the combined te] tories is relegated to the status an Administrator, and where t comes in the Order of Precede: is enough to give any ADC a hei ache.

Political jealousies seem to cl< the issue, but for international p poses the Territory’s Chief Execul should be a Governor, although, far as Canberra is concerned, h( little more than a link in the 1 partmental network. Modern cc munications may have something do with it, for it makes More little more than an outer sub of the national capital, and div< the administrative head of the n for initiative as was the case in days of Murray in Papua and H in German New Guinea.

Said Tom Griffiths, TNG’s I Administrator: “I will not tolei office-boy control.” And he left The Living Wage Old-time Public Servants of fc Papua and New Guinea, now li\ in retirement —and mostly on smell of an oily rag—must be a quiet smile to themselves ( present-day PSA claims of £23, a week for a man and wife, ] “cost of living adjustments.”

Sydney papers gave publicity one witness before the Concilia Commissioner, who complained visiting officials not offering him payment for their keep. Invarii the man on an outstation is < too glad to welcome and enter a visitor, who brings chit-chal the outside world, even if he I senior officer on an inspection, he waves away any suggestior payment.

During a period of the Ex; board regime in TNG, when plai tion inspectors visited a statioi was made compulsory for the to furnish a claim for the vi; and this claim was checked ' the travelling inspector’s diary, one inspector told me once: “ can’t live on a man for a we sometimes longer—eat his food drink his beer and then get 1 to Rabaul and write a report W. would get him the sack!”

Another system the Exprob had was to grant an extra li allowance to men living on pla: tions where it was difficult to ob fresh food or grow vegetables.

Ed. Note: With all respect to To! ideas of Territorial! hospitality, whii still magnificent, we think his com does not take sufficiently into consii tion the travel-bug that has b officialdom since the war.

This is partly explained by the dev ment of better air communications, fact that Australia is NG-conscious the Government has a passion for su by “experts” of various kinds.

On November 1, members of the Second Legislative Council of Papua and New Guinea were sworn in at the Red Cross Hall, Port Moresby. Seen in the photo (from left to right) are: The Assistant Administrator, Mr. R. Wilson, the Rev. D. E. Ure, Mr Don Barrett, Simogun and Mr. B. Fairfax-Ross.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 20 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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VINCENTS ;^VrTTcTNjX- N.B/D.31 (A) I The position is getting better as most of the centres now have hotels, but in the immediate post-war years the lives of some officials were made a hell by these “visiting firemen”. One official has told PIM how, over a period of some months, he and his wife had only two meals without guests. No family should be asked to put up with this sort of thing —even if the guests are invariably charming. If this man’s wife had not had the character of an angel she would have run away and left him. 3raves on Maty Island I see where ex-Coastwatcher H. McColl is enquiring about two graves on Maty Island (November ‘Editors’ Mail Bag”). Had he written £ Fred Archer, of Buka or Rabaul ibut at the moment in hospital in Brisbane) that gentlemen would 3robably have been able to give him :he desired information as to the On November 6, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wise (above) were married at the Roman Catholic Church, Port Moresby. The bride was formerly Miss Norma Robertson, of the Public Service Commissioner’s Office.

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Fred Archer was manager on Maty for some time and, besides being an observant gentleman, has a retentive memory.

Calling H. R. W.

A Sydney journalist rang me the other day asking about H. R.

Wahlen and spoke, with bated breath, of the old German castle erected by Wahlen at Maron in the Hermit Group where, he had been informed, Wahlen kept a South Sea seraglio, and could I enlighten him?

Time, Distance and the Unknown invariably give birth to legendary characters and it would seem HRW has developed into one, though I am quite sure that that very logical and practical gentleman would be the last to desire such a role.

Certainly the “Wahlenberg” home at Maron was the most ornate and finest building in the German colony, and probably in the South Seas. (PIM published photos of it a couple of years ago). It was an imposing two-storey structure, ideally situated in its elevated, park-like grounds, where deer grazed, overlooking the isles of the Hermit Group and the boundless Pacific.

But it was never claimed to be a “German castle.” As for the harem —well, that was another myth; although the lasses of Maty and Aua were recognised as being the belles of the Bismarck Archipelago.

I don’t think HRW spent very much time at Maron. When I met him first in 1912 he was No. 1 of the newly-formed HSAG, the firm that took over Queen Emma’s interests in the Colony. Isolated as Maron is, it was a port of call for the old NDL steamers plying between Sydney and Hongkong, and during the middle Twenties the BP liners called there, as well as at Maty and Aua, extending them on to Seleo Island, near Aitape, ana then on down the Madang coast. Sea transport was better in those days.

A Plea for Sectional Unity One seldom reads impassioned utterances from Administration officials in the Territory’s Legislative Council. But Mr. S.

Elliott-Smith, DC of Wewak, can take a bow for pointing out to fellow Councillors recently the need for unity amongst the non-indigenous population of the Territory. Said he: The deliberate nullification of the efforts of one section of the community by another, is stupidity in its worst form. It is dangerous.

It can only bring about distrust, hatred and eventually chaos.

The existing animosity between Administration, Missions and Commercial activities in P-NG is well known, and those three sections of the community have been back-biting for the last 40 years, to my knowledge, each endeavouring to consolidate his own position with the native at the expense of the other. And, added to this, the: have been the inter-section jealousies: Departmental: denon inational and the indiv i d u i jealousies amongst the plantei traders, miners and business house What a different picture cou have been painted had there bee co-ordinated action amongst all tl Europeans and Asians in their ei deavour (as Elliott-Smith says) achieve a better way of life.”

Jealousy of the other chap’s u fluence with the native people hi been one of the fundamental reasoi for this lack of unity. And now, wil progress in native education, th state of affairs is becoming appare] to the native himself as he enabled to read the written wor This should be realised by publicist who so often exercise little cautic when they spill that drop of ir which makes the thousands thinl If one native cannot read himsel there are now many who can ar who take a delight in passing c information of a contentious natur The Jap Poachers The several occasions on whic Jap poachers have been picked i in TNG recently, naturally tak pre-War residents back to tl times when Jap sampans were ing out the same tactics on terr torial reefs and denuding them ( the “chicken shell.” If I rememb< rightly, there was a fine of £5 fc each under-sized shell found in person’s possession, and that reguh tion probably still stands.

If it doesn’t, then it should.

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PERMISSIBLE areas to be held by ■ individual oil prospecting comanies were further reduced by ie Papua-New Guinea Legislative ouncil in November.

In May, the Legislative Council educed maximum areas that could e held under licence from 5,000 luare miles to 2,500 square miles; nd leases from 2,500 square miles ) 500 square miles.

The new legislation restricts the ?gregate licenced area to one half i the permit area on which it is ised; and a lease to one half of ie licenced area.

The legislation does not affect lyone at the moment—because ffy permits for exploration work ave so far been granted in the erntory. The procedure is this: first a permit area is granted, the purpose being to establish the existence of oil; the second step is granting a licence to carry out more detailed prospecting over a smaller area; and the final stage, if oil is discovered, is the granting of a lease Until a lease is granted, the oil remains the property of the Commonwealth,

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They are usually grammars, dictionaries, vernacular text books and similar linguistic works. But many manuscript histories, studies of local peoples, collections of folklore, family records and the like are also known to exist.

Many were destroyed in the last war and many also have been lost through shipwreck, accident or the ravages of climate and insects.

When located, the owner of such a manuscript is asked to loan it to the Commission for photocopying and immediate return—the Commission to pay all costs. Refusals have been rare. Occasionally the SPC has been requested to pass on the work, when it has been copied, to a library or scientific institute or library for permanent safekeeping.

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Every effort is being made to trace manuscripts, but it is certain that hundreds exist which will be lost unless action is taken to ensure their preservation. The South Pacific Commission would like to hear from anyone owning or knowing the whereabouts of such a work. They should contact Mr. H.

E. Maude, the Executive Officer for Social Development, SPC, Box 5254, GPO, Sydney. Full details of each manuscript are published in the.

Commission’s Quarterly Bulletin.

Salary Revision for Tongan Public Service THE salary structure of Tonga’s civil service for both expatriate and non-expatriate officers is at present being revised. A Salaries Commissioner, Mr. R. O. Ramage, CMG, arrived in Tonga on November 23 and is expected to remain for two or three months.

Miss Jean Webb, only daughter of wellnown Territorians Mr. and Mrs. B. T. [?]ebb, was married, on November 16, at [?]t. John’s on the Hill, Port Moresby, to Ir. Gerald Rissen. Mr. Rissen is with [?]e District Services. The couple will [?]ake their home in Lorengau.

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Sir Robert Stanley Goes to London With Plans and Estimates But—

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Still Doubtful

WHEN Sir Robert Stanley, CMG, British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, and the man with the toughest administrative job in the South Seas, passed through Sydney late November, on a quick trip to London, he firmly declined to tell radio or press reporters anything about his mission.

BUT it is not difficult to draw certain conclusions: London is being asked to take some decisions which will affect directly the future of the Sorrowful Solomons.

Sir Robert is an administrator of rare conscientiousness. His 3-years’ appointment expires in mid-1955, when he is due for retirement from the Colonial Service, after a career notable for sound, self-sacrificing work in all parts of the Empire, especially Africa. It would be consistent with his record and temperament if he tried, as his last big job, to introduce some plan which could at least provide the Solomons with an impulse towards development and self-supporting economy. rE Solomon Islands (14,600 square miles) comprise the second largest territory in the South Pacific —twice the size of Fiji or New Caledonia —and, being the geographical continuation of the Bismarck archipelago and Bougainville, they are capable of maintaina very large population. At present, only 100,000 sulky Melanesians live there (mostly on Malaita).

Prior to World War 11, the Australian planters’ success in growing coconuts in Solomons was comparable with the New Guinea achievement —despite the fact that the Australians in New Guinea got the advantage of all the German pioneer work prior to World War I, and the 1920-30 gold discoveries.

But, after 1940, BSI suffered a series of calamities. The Japanese invaded and, before they were thrown out, devastating battles had been fought over most of the settled parts.

New Guinea also was devastated; but, while the NG planters got compensation on a very generous scale, BSI got nothing at all.

BSI. like New Guinea, came under the blighting influence of aggressive Socialist administration between 1945 and 1950; but, while little permanent harm was done in NG, the effect of anti-private-enterprise laws in BSI wiped out the big trading firms—and they still are out— and drove away the only big mining company which had shown any readiness to exploit BSl’s mineral resources.

Australia has subsidised ng to the extent of several million pounds per annum, and has withheld any form of income taxation. Britain has given BSI only a Development Fund of some £500,000 (to be extended to a million, maybe) and a grant out of Japanese reparations of some £500,000; but, on the other hand, has imposed upon the few private planters remaining there a punishing rate of income taxation.

The oil companies in combination are spending millions in P-NG on oil search: timber concerns are engaged in developmental work; new industries like cocoa and coffee production are bounding ahead; and the Australian Dual Territory is bursting with money and bubbling with enterprise—were it not for Ministerial preoccupation with native rights and idealistic planning, new European settlement in P-NG would be phenomenal.

But in the Solomons, from 1945 to 1952, there was stagnation. Because of lack of official encouragement, lack of transport facilities, high income taxation, new private enterprise has stayed away. The handful of planters who returned to a heartbreaking task of rehabilitation have made little progress and, in some cases, have abandoned the archipelago. The only corporation which showed any enterprise or faith in the future was Levers Pacific Plantations Ltd., which did a fine job of rehabilitating its large plantation organisation, and has done considerable new planting.

IN 1952, the care of the Solomons, Gilbert and Ellice group and the British side of the New Hebrides was separated from the Governorship of Fiji, and made a separate Governorship; and this was the job to which Robert Stanley was promoted, after half a lifetime in secondary posts in Africa, Cyprus, Gilbraltar, and West Indies.

He went to Honiara in October, 1952, and was not seen outside the tropics again until he reached Sydney on November 25, 1954.

Governors do not talk; but one needs no second sight to feel sure that the representations which Sir Robert is going to make to the British Colonial Office are based on incontrovertible facts established by him since he arrived, and whic may thus be shown; • BSI cannot be developed an made self-supporting by Goverr ment enterprise alone, no mattt how generous the latter may be i providing transport and commun: cations, and technical aid for prc ducers. • BSI cannot be very generous i providing transport and commun: cation facilities, because BSI solely dependent upon the Unite Kingdom for all finance outside i own very limited revenues. To prc vide bigger and better Department! services, BSI must have considei ably bigger staffs. Additional pei sonnel cannot be sent into BSI ur less adequate housing and simile amenities are provided; the lath require money. e if BSI is to grow and becorr self-supporting, private enterprij must be tempted into the grea empty islands. Private enterprise not going in unless it has assu; ances of suitable land on a reasoi able tenure, and a Governmei policy of encouragement (which, < course, means at least the sarr freedom from taxation as is er joyed by New Guinea, on one sid and New Hebrides, on the other At present, BSI Government notorious for the way in which has imposed income taxation upc its dwindling handful of priva planters and traders. ® BSI has announced no polic of making suitable lands easi available for development by Eur< pean enterprise. So far as is know BSI still is preoccupied with tl post-war planners’ ideas of keepir all the available lands for the futu; welfare of unborn generations natives. (There are 100,000 nativ in the Solomons— mostly on Malar —and the Solomons, on Indonesia Sir Robert Stanley. 26 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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JIINCE 1952, Sir Robert Stanley J has not spared himself.

Travelling on comfortless small hips in all kinds of tropical ireather, he has been around his hree archipelagoes—Solomons, Gillert and Ellice and New Hebrides — ,gain and again; and he has got heir respective problems into focus.

There is no great headache in the I and E Colony: the 40,000 intellient natives there, crowded together n their 200 square miles of atolls, übsisting on a strictly coconut conomy, plus earnings from Ocean sland phosphate, can be left pretty rell to their own administration, upervised by a sprinkling of lolonial Office officials.

The New Hebrides Condominium ; an insoluble problem for the [CWP. Britain hangs on there, ithout adequate reason; and praccally all of any development that i taking place is due to French nterprise. Britain never has done nything worth noting to encourage uropeans to settle in New Hebrides -whatever British economy funcons there is Australian, the imbined result of the Burns Philp lipping and trading interests, and le Presbyterian Mission.

Sir Robert Stanley has made no .atement about the New Hebrides; nt it is easy to see that he can do othing to strengthen British inrests there without a directive id a new policy from the Colonial ffice; and there is no sign of that. i YEAR ago, the PIM gave pub- V. licity to a persistent report that the British side of the 3w Hebrides might be handed over France. That coincided with ie conclusion of Sir Robert ;anley’s first year of office.

It was safe to assume that a man his experience and discernment ust by then have asked himself ie question at which every internet observer in the South Pacific oner or later arrives: Why on rth does the United Kingdom mg on to the undeveloped and onomically useless Solomon lands and New Hebrides, when ie dominant and growing power in ie Southwest Pacific is Australia?

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Cables “Thornmotor,” Sydney. hold Solomons and share responsibility in the New Hebrides (where the Australian Government already owns the large areas of valuable land bequeathed to the Commonwealth by the late Sir James Burns 50 years ago).

Britain has neither money nor trained personnel for these archipelagoes. Australia, as now demonstrated in P-NG, has both.

Britain is quite willing to hand over Solomons and New Hebrides to Australia. France, in respect of New Hebrides, has no objection. The British economy in Solomons and New Hebrides is 90 per cent. Australian, already. But, whenever it is mooted —and the idea has twice been put up to the Colonial Office since 1945—Australia turns it down, flat.

So, if Australia does not want Britain’s share, perhaps France will tsikc it?

One cannot blame Canberra, overmuch. Why should Australia take over another Islands sink-hole for public money, so long as the Colonial Office is prepared—no matter how wearily—to keep the Union Jack flying in Honiara and Port Vila?

The fact that Solomons and New Hebrides together present to the covetous eyes of one thousand million underfed Asiatics a total of over 20,000 square miles of very desirable tropical land, supporting altogether only 150,000 Melanesians, means nothing to the Canberra bureaucrats who customarily deal with such matters by pigeonholing them away out of reach.

IT may be assumed that Sir Robert Stanley, once he saw that there was little prospect of Australian co-operation, left,G and E Colony and New Hebrides aside for the moment, and concentrated on the problem of what to do with BSI.

In his addresses to the BSI Advisory Council in February and August, 1954, there are plain indications of how his mind is working. He realises that, if the Solomons ever are to be anything other than a millstone for the collective neck of the British taxpayer, they must be developed and he knows what that means.

Incidentally, a perusal of those Advisory Council reports shows also what the experienced, non-official members think of the outlook. They have said, in plainest possible terms, that there is no future for private enterprise there unless much better port and shipping facilities are provided, settlement facilities made available, and the iniquitous income tax abolished.

Already, Sir Robert has made public some detailed plans for more housing for an increased administrative personnel; for better port facilities for Honiara; for training natives in agriculture: for providing more native teachers; for a new organisation to help new settlers both financially and technically: for producing better copra, and nevi staple crops like cocoa; for the purchase of suitable vessels for interisland services; for a closer examination of the islands’ minera resources.

All are approved, as far as thej go, by the small non-official European population of BSI; taut the planning is not going nearly fa: enough if BSI ever is to become anything more than the Cinderelh Territory of the Southwest Pacific A real developmental programme needs either huge subsidies or huge luck, like gold or oil.

One can guess the scope of the plans which Sir Robert carried ii his brief-case to London, and the nature of the representations whicl he will make to Ministers alread; very weary of the clamour of i wide-flung and restless Colonia Empire. We may be sure that i man of his industry and singlenes of purpose will put up a good casi for the Solomons. But we are no optimistic about the result.

The future of the Solomons lies like the future of New Guinea am the Bismarck Archipelago, wit] Australia: and the sooner that i recognised by London and Canberrs the better for the few score non official Europeans who have com mitted their future to the Sorrowfi] Archipelago—and the better for th security of the South Pacific.

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SI mid-October, Commonwealth Department of Works personnel :re withdrawn from the Hydro Elecc Project at Goroka, which has en under way for 2 years, and Mr. mes Wilton, an ex-miner who built i race, was given a job on another oject.

Reason: No funds for 1954-55.

Local reaction, both official and ivate, was prompt and loud. By e time the Legislative Council met Moresby on November 1, the Adnistration announced that it had und the money to continue the oject which will revolutionise >roka and release a lot of aircraft ace for items other than liquid Not so fast was the Commonalth Department of Works. It .s not till mid-November that Mr. ilton was allowed to get back, and if to emphasise the danger so rrowly avoided, three inches of in fell in the following week and has been raining ever since, rhe team building the power use had not been sighted late in ivember. Comworks officials say nberra has to approve the funds d they are not budging until Canrra does just that. Moresby is ent. At Goroka, Wilton can be led upon to keep the race safe rough the wet season; but Goroka sidents would like to know who is sponsible for these whimsical rersals of policy, and why a halffinished project is abandoned to the risk of total destruction by oncoming wet season rains? And, finally, why it is necessary to run to Canberra to get an OK for avoiding what obviously was a bungle. a D^ r , in g October, 72 St. John’s Ambulance Certificates were pre- -5c^ t ( L to s^^ ents of two Seventh- Mo * dventlst schools in Central New Guinea. The first ceremony was held at their Coral Sea ttSSn College, seven miles west of Goroka. District Commissioner S?.ri?nt 0 pr , esented . 52 certificates to s tudent s from places as far apart nnrl th O W f St f rn n lSlandS ’ East - West |£ d Central p apua, Wabag and Eena Kamantu and Chimbu Mrs C eland (wife of the Administrator) and Mrs. Downs were nre- 20n^turiIn^^ef C ° P resenta tion P (to 20 students) took place at the SDA 2O miles southeast of Kamantu.

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In Tahiti the beans are grade The first grade is known as whi label, the second as yellow lat and the third as green label. T beans are packed in 90 lb seal tins and generally, are marketed Papeete, chief town of Tahiti, 75 to 100 tins a time.

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On November 26, Mr. C. W. T. Johnson, formerly the British Agent and Consul in Tonga, arrived in Nukualofa for a brief visit. A reception was given him at the British Residency. Among those present were, left to right: Mrs. L. Protheroe, Mrs.

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Administrator Goes To

CANBERRA The Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, flew to Canberra from Port Moresby on November 19, for discussions with the Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasluck. Mr.

Hasluck had intended visiting the Territory, but this arrangement was made instead.

Tariff Board Departs

Members of the Commonwealth Tariff Board left Port Moresby for Australia on November 18 after 10 days in the Territory (see also page 59, this issue ).

There were no hard feelings, despite the fact that members were right on the ball with their questions on rubber.

The secretary of the Papuan Planters’ Association, Mr. E. A.

Tames, paid a tribute to their jourtesy with witnesses, and said lis members had found the board nost helpful.

On a brief trip to Wau-Bulolo, he Board members were involved n an accident between a Land ■lover in which they were being iriven by Morobe DC, Mr. H. Niall, md a timber truck. They received a ew scratches.

Chairman of the board, Mr.

McCarthy, said before leaving that heir report would be made early in he New Year to Federal Parlianent.

Missions Talk—But Not For

The Record

Possibly a lot of good work was lone in the Missions’ Conference fliich opened in Port Moresby midlovember, and was attended by repesentatives of 33 missions throughiut Papua-New Guinea—but it is lard to know.

All the main work of the confer nce was done at closed sessions— ublic or press not admitted. Conequently, all the public has heard f this much publicised conference are statements made by various Administration heads in addressing the conference during the week.

With the exception of the Administrator’s address, there has been very little of importance in any of this. In any case, since this is supposed to be a conference of missionaries it would be interesting to know what the missionaries think, not what the Administration thinks —we get plenty of that on most days of the week.

General opinion is that the missionaries have missed out on the chance of some publicity helpful to their cause.

The Administrator’s statement at the opening of the conference was on the vexed question of liquor for natives. Later in the week, Brigadier Cleland said a few more words to the conference, but this was at one of the closed sessions, of course, so what he said, and what the missionaries said to him, are not for the record. Again a pity.

Brigadier Cleland’s first statement was along the lines that prohibition for the natives was a bad plank on which to stand. In the long run, he said, it would be unwise, for native advancement in all important 33 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Compulsory Third Party motor insurance will be introduced in Papua-New Guinea on January 1, and all motorists will have to apply by January 30.

The annual rate for private cars will be £2, which is the cheapest in Australia. For most commercial vehicles it will be £4, but £2 for trucks owned by farmers or prospectors.

There are more than 4,050 motor vehicles registered in the Territory.

SCHOLARSHIPS More than 100 native children from all parts of the Territory sat at examinations on November 10 and 11. Results will decide who will win scholarships to Australian secondary schools next year.

Twenty will be selected for the second year of the scheme which was introduced to give natives a chance of a higher education in Australia.

Subjects were English, arithmetic, dictation and general knowledge, and impression was that the papers were a little harder than last year and better arranged.

One missionary pointed out after last year’s exam., that the question on dictation in the English paper had been put at the end of the paper, although it carried a high number of marks. Native psychology apparently encouraged the candidates to think along the lines that, “The Government put it last so it wants it answered last,” and many missed out in answering it, as they had insufficient time.

Native Language

DICTIONARY The Methodist Mission Press at East Cape, in Milne Bay, printed a school edition of a new English Dobuan dictionary in Novemberthe first dictionary for nearly i years when a dictionary combinin other languages was turned out.

The dictionary contains vocabulary of 2,500 words which we] compiled by the Methodist chairma in the Milne Bay District, ti Reverend R. Grant. Mr. Grai himself worked out what he cor sidered to be the minimum won required by the native, and it wj interesting to know that later 1 found access to a survey on minimum vocabulary which show€ DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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The plane was the Department )f Civil Aviation’s Anson, piloted )y DCA’s Acting Superintendent of Mr Navigation, Mr. Tom Drury.

The landing was made to check he airstrip for use by commercial lircraft.

Mr. Drury later said that the strip rould be open for aircraft up to ind including Ansons from Noember 15, but unless the strip was Migthened, the Ansons would not e able to take in a full payload.

The present strip is 2,400-feet mg and could easily be lengthened y another 1,000 feet. If this were one, DC3 aircraft could land and ike off.

Most of the island’s population arned out to see the Anson land, or the native children it was their rst sight of a land-plane close-up, Ithough they had seen them flyig overhead.

G Services Dutch Aircraft

The Qantas workshops at Lae will d the C of A on all KLM aircraft ised at Biak, in Dutch New •uinea.

The Qantas area manager for New uinea, Captain Orme Denny, an- Dunced this in Lae in November id said that the overhauls would ; on DC3’s and, later, on Beavers.

The first DC3 had almost cometed its overhaul by November 12 id was ready for delivery to the utch pilots by mid-November.

Eaching Natives To Look

AHEAD A research survey on improved ethods of handling and preservg native foodstuffs has been arted in P-NG. It is being conicted by the Food Technologist of e South Pacific Commission, Dr. . S. McKee.

Dr. McKee, who was formerly with e CSIRO Food Preservation [vision, began his survey in the istern Highlands in November. He 11 work in the Madang, Morobe id New Britain districts and on mpletion of his Territory tour 11 visit BSIP and other member rritories of the SPC.

Main object of the survey is to velop simple methods of preserv- ? and storing native foodstuffs, thout loss of nutrition value. A currence of gluts and shortages village food supplies could then eliminated.

Dr. McKee’s findings will be made ailable to areas throughout the -cific. He hopes to develop techlues which could be carried out co-operative societies.

Volcano Warnings

Eruptions are predictable, claims r. John Best, the Rabaul vul- The gentleman with the rifle is District Commissioner F A Bensted, who was photographed while firing the fiest shot to open the new Rifle Range at Madang, New Guinea, on November 7. Photo: R. G. Krause. 35 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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His recital of the unmistakable ns, ignored by the layman, which seeded both the 1937 eruption of itupi and Vulcan and the 1951 iption of Mount Lamington on ; Papuan mainland, lends weight his claim.

Xmas As Usual

rhe end of the watersiders’ strike Australia came in time to save haul from a black Christmas. >cks of tinned food, freezer meat, ;r and spirits had run seriously j. Christmas displays in stores re held up, waiting on goods to ■ive from the mainland. Hardre supplies were depleted. And in the ships were loaded, the fog despair lifted, and Christmas ks like being a real Christmas er all.

Hospitals Are Pending

Ir. August Chan protested, in Rabaul Town Advisory Council member meeting, against the iniquate facilities of the Asiatic spital and the dilapidated conon of the building. He offered to late £l,OOO towards the building a new Asiatic Hospital, and said t other Chinese businessmen in town would be prepared to give mcial help. b can, however, be safely asled that this outburst will proe no impetus to the holders of purse strings in Canberra. New ers’ quarters, large enough to ommodate the increased number staff that will be required to run proposed Euro-Asian Hospital, being built beside the present European Hospital on Namanula Hill. But the new hospital itself is still a will-o’-the-wisp dream.

Meanwhile, the proposed new Native Hospital to be erected at Nonga is still in the discussion stage while the old one holds together by the Grace of God and the combined Win for Rabaul Boxer The amateur [?]gilists, right, were [?]otographed during Boxing Tournaent at the Re- [?]rned Servicemen’s [?]ub, Rabaul, New [?]inea, on October They are Alan [?]chardson (black [?]nks) and Floren- [?]o Almario of [?]nila. Richardson in on a TKO in the cond round. Almario is one of three lipino sailors from e American Survey [?]ip, F.S. 216, who [?]k part in the [?]rnament.

Photo: C. H. Meen. 37 1 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Rubber Grafting

Nearly 3,000 rubber budwood grafts have been completed recently in the Sogeri District near Port Moresby by the Agricultural Department.

The budwood was imported from Malaya and Ceylon, and grafted on to rubber seedlings at Itikinumu Plantation owned by the British New Guinea Development Company.

This budwood includes stock from Prang Besar and Chemara Plantations in Malaya, with such proved types as the recently evolved T2O, NAB and LCB series of clones which are amongst the highest yielding selections. Many of these imported clones have proved capable of yielding between two and three times as much as the normal unselected rubber trees in Papua— Papuan average being about 380 lbs per acre annually.

The Department has received much assistance and co-operation from the BNGD Company, and the Itikinumu Plantation Manager, Mr. J. Grimmer, in enabling the grafts to be made on Itikinumu seedlings in the plantation nursery.

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All this should please members the Australian Tariff Board, W. during the recent inquiry, ask many questions about rubt grafting—a process recommended 38 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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F Conciliation Committee

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The Committee appointed by the Minister for Territories to enquire into the salaries, allowances and working hours of Territory Public Servants has completed its task, and expects to hand its report to the Minister by the end of December, The enquiry started on October 25, and was completed on November 25, after evidence had been taken from 107 witnesses, and informal discussions held with approximately another 100 persons during inspections of Administration hostels, single quarters, residences, offices, native hospitals and several outstations.

The Committee first took evidence from witnesses at Port Moresby, and then visited Tapini, an outstation in the Central District, spent two days at Lae, and while visiting [Joroka inspected an out-station at Daulo. The survey was then con- ;inued at Madang, Wewak, Kavieng, ■labaul and Kerevat. Evidence was ilso taken at Port Moresby from •esidents of Samarai, Kikori and )ther areas.

Witnesses included Public Servants, private citizens, and ■epresentatives of industry and )lantations.

Commenting from Rabaul, a lorrespondent says: “During the wo days the Commission sat here lot one planter or other employer of abour submitted evidence on either iving costs or the reasons for or gainst the five-days week; nor did me member of any business firm ome forward to put his case for m increase in salary. The average Ldministration salary is far higher ban that of a private employee: Jovernment officers enjoy shorter forking hours, more generous leave nd sick benefits, pay only nominal entals for homes—therefore it eems that those who failed to preent their case were those with the lost reason to do so.”

Bank Aids Co-Op. School

The Commonwealth Bank of Ausralia has made a grant of £3,500 ■om its Rural Credits Development imd to assist in establishing a Coperative Educational Centre at ort Moresby, This centre will train atives in the methods, practices nd business principles of Native ocieties. A further grant of £3,500 lay be made by the Bank next year, nd the balance of the cost of the ew Centre will be provided by the ative Co-operative Societies.

This year’s Bank grant will be sed to finance the purchase of land nd erection of two dormitory buildigs to accommodate twenty mdents each. Later two classrooms »r thirty pupils each will be erected, iso another dormitory, a mess hall nd kitchen. The total cost of the )mpleted Educational Centre will 5 approximately £11,500. prospective “studente Waiting llst of 1 uueui,b - When the Co-operative movement began in P-NG in 1949-50, the turnover the first year was £62,000; last hthouldTon Sow and tWS year it should top £600,000.

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Direct freights from the United jngdom to Fiji which have been ibject to a surcharge of 5/- per ►n by the British ship-owners, ;ased to be so surcharged from ugust 1. This surcharge was Iditional to the 5/- levied at the iva end on all incoming cargoes 1 cover added costs in handling nee the port suffered earthquake image.

Mr. Peter Coote, of Langu antation, Witu Is., was to marry iss Margaret Hamilton, of Sydney, St. Stephens Anglican Church, acquarie Street, Sydney, early in ‘cember.

If Mr. Henry Eekhoff, who has been in Lae ’ V 6W Gui ? ea ’ J onger than a nyone f ° rtm g h t in now up again em 6r ’ Ut 15 & • if Mr C Smith nf Ta m i cemiy announced tL engLement^ his eldest daughter! g to R iC ]\j ar w °K ly SC f n o°i Mr ‘ and Mrs - R. N. Hughes, of Sydney, Australia.

Amateur Players in Rabaul Enthusiastic andiences enjoyed three successive nights of Kenneth Horne’s comedy "Love in a Mist staged at the Returned Servicemen’s Club, Kabaul, New Guinea, in mid-October. The RSL cast was, from left to right: E. V. (Wally) Smythe, Jean McMillan, Ilsa Laube, John Milligan, Dorothy Monahan, and Frank Hodgman.

Photo by C. H. Meen. 41 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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A WELL-KNOWN Papeete business man, Mr. Gustave Spitz, who took a Tahiti boxing team to Apia, W. Samoa, in November, is planning to try his luck on the legendary Pinaki treasure, according to our Papeete correspondent.

Madame Spitz, a clairvoyant, recently received a “message” regarding the exact location of the treasure on the much-dug Tuamotu atoll.

A lady clairvoyant of Noumea seems also to have received similar “messages” and her services may be retained —together with some electronic detecting equipment to check over the ground indicated.

For years, an Australian named Howe trenched all over Pinaki — until, about 1921, after 20 years of lone digging, he was deported.

Early 1934, another rather wellequipped expedition headed by a Sydney man, named Sampson, chartered a Papeete schooner, and a few weeks later announced that they had located the 100t —gold images and jewels from Peruvian churches —deep-buried in cases.

They departed to purchase sand pumps and coffer-dam equipment, but they never returned. if Monsieur Thomas Diffre, Secretary-General in French Oceania since mid-1953, left Tahiti in December to return to France. The position of Secretary-General is an unpopular and difficult one, especially in the unsettled circumstances of present French Oceania politics.

M. Diffre was bitterly attacked by certain members of the Assembl during its November session.

H Capitaine Paul Bagarie, a populs senior gendarme of the Frenc Oceania Police, who had bee stationed in Papeete for the pa four years, departed on transfer : November. 42 DECEMBER. 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Makatea Still Needs Cooks Labour rHE latest Cook Islands report shows that 243 Cook Islanders employed on the French hosphate workings on Makatea at larch 31 —a fact that does not lacate the non-Maori critics of the ;heme.

Critics have always taken the view sat these men should be employed i developing their own Islands, and lat it is a disgrace that New Zeamd should provide cheap labour ir a French company. Others earlier riticised the living conditions proided at the island.

The situation has changed since le first Cook Islands labour gang ent to Makatea, and is now investing.

After the loss of Nauru and Ocean lands to the Japs in World War ;, Makatea remained the only ;arby source of high-grade phoslate for the farm lands of Ausalia and New Zealand. Phosphate as an essential part of the Allied ar effort, the output of foodstuffs ling directly proportional to its railability.

For a variety of reasons—one of lich was that the French Oceania ople did not want to work on the it and dusty Makatea job—there is a severe shortage of labour. New laland saw the solution in the )ok Islands. The idea was sugsted, and the people were keen go. There never has been any ggestion of compulsion. The pay is, and is, very substantially ;her than labourers receive in the icks. rhe Cook Islanders proved exllent workers, ashore in the “exiction” area, and in handling the sket-laden lighters and the ships’ nches. Loading at an open chorage, they can put 200 tons an ur into a ship, hour after hour, anything like reasonable sea and ell conditions. That figure is well excess of the discharge rate ing the best of gear alongside a w Zealand or Australian wharf. \t first the accommodation was t good, but it was better than my of the Islanders were used to home. Investigations were made d the conditions were improved, ey are now very good.

U first, wives went along with J men, but later this was stopped, stringent medical examination of recruits is made before departure d on return, at Rarotonga, jointly the Cook Islands medical author- ;s, and by the French phosphate npany’s medical officer. All are rayed before and after their term Makatea. jabourers receive only a portion ;heir money in cash on the island, e Administration sees that an itment is paid to dependants back home each month. The rations are such that each man can brine home a substantial quantity when he completes his term y Proof that conditions are very good according to Cook Islands standards is given by the fact that men want to return again and again, and there is always a waitiSg are 1 the and the Administration sees it al bringing wealth into the Territory The present Resident Commissioner has made an on-the-spot examination of Makatea conditions and has found no fault. me oniy doubtful change since the scheme commenced-and some think it an important one — is that, since shortly after the war, all except an insignificant part of Makatea’s quarter of a million tons of »nrmai . iaf2f?^H oUtput bas been going to New Zea ' c all£ V Wl j h Nauru and 6 o res °^ ed ’ and Christadded 1S C £ «« i supplies now for has no present need Makatea phosphate.

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If Mr. C. G. Francis, of Here Plantation, Guadalcanal, BSIP, has been appointed a member of the BSIP Copra Board.

One Indian youth was killed, four passengers were hurt, and thirteen others suffered injury when a bus carrying a party of 22 wedding guests from Ba to Suva crashed over a 72-ft bank near Korovou Tailevu, about thirty miles from Suva, on October 30. The driver of the vehicle has been arrested and charged with manslaughter.

Rabaul’s first traditional Chinese wedding for years was celebrated in the [?]uomintang Hall on October 29. The photo shows District Commissioner J. R. Foldi [?]rforming the ceremony when Janet Seeto Mary Chew, of Kokopo, married Ng Shui wong James, of Rabaul. After the ceremony, the couple bowed three times to [?]rtraits of Chiang Kai Shek and Sun Yat Sen, hanging on the wall behind Mr. [?]ldi, before leaving the room.

Photo by C. H. Meen. 45 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Cables: “BERBL”, Sydney. • Automatic ✓ Another Big Fish From New Hebrides AA For Fiji FIJI is to have an Automobile Association of its own. Previously it was an adjunct to the NZ body which, through a Fiji Branch Office, has undertaken limited sign-posting and patrolling of roads on Viti Levu.

Officers elected to the Fiji Association area; President: Mr. A. H.

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II Miss Terry Bignold, of Sydney, le by air for New Guinea on N< vember 27. She was to stay with h sister, Miss Jill Bignold, and h aunt, Miss V. I. Bignold at h father’s home in Port Moresby. M Justice E. B. Bignold is at prese: in Sydney on long-service leave.

An irresistible desire for sardines led eventually to this 220 lb marlin becoming: a subject for Mr. M. J. Green’s camera.

The fish struck at a large quantity of sardines enclosed in a small mesh net with several hooks inserted. He was hooked two miles off Vila, New Hebrides, and fought for about 1½ hours. Seen in the photo, from left to right, are: Monsieur R. Delaveuve, a native boy and Monsieur P. Bouvier. 46 DECEMBER, 1054 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Honolulu-Tahiti Air-Service To Commence April, 1955 rHE Airline service between Honolulu and Tahiti, for which louth Pacific Airlines was formed iver two years ago, will commence ext April.

This was announced by the Airine’s President, S. Van Burkleo, in arly November. The American Civil icronautics Administration proing-flight will leave Honolulu i mid-March, followed by a pressjght in late March. Thereafter a reekly round-trip will be made, rith a refuelling stop at Christmas sland.

The round-trip fare will be $550- 500 (£A246-£A26B) and 40 passeners will be carried in the Solent IK.III aircraft. Flight time, [onolulu-Papeete, should be about 2 hours.

Two experienced pilots have been ngaged. One, L. B. Scott, is a jrmer Pan American Airways tipper; and the other, James J. oss, a former test pilot for CAA i Los Angeles.

Principal shareholder is R. tanley Dollar Jr., hotel and ship- Ing magnate. The airline will fly le Dollar house-flag.

A long and detailed examination I the first Solent is taking place dw in Honolulu and will continue >r some months more—but in late bvember the other Solent was ill lying at Rose Bay, Sydney.

These Solents formerly belonged i Trans-Oceanic Airways, which ent into liquidation about the time outh Pacific Airlines was formed, aptain Brian Monkton was one : the founders of TOA, and he, ith Mr. Frederick Barnes, launched Duth Pacific Airlines.

No mention of Capt. Monkton is ade in the latest release of SPA ans from Honolulu.

Some experienced airline men dieve that Solents cannot be probably utilised on the long hops in- )lved in the SPA route —1,150 miles luth to Christmas and 1,250 miles om there to Papeete. TEAL »und them unsuitable for the ans-Tasman service. However, in lis case, with no competition, :onomic fares can be charged—the res quoted are over three times igher than similar trans-Tasman .res.

Other Projected Airlines

Though Samoa Airlines of Pago ago—with Honolulu capital—prected that it would be operating a inter-Samoa service and a serce through Rarotonga to Papeete ith Catalinas before the end 1954, there was no sign of early itivity late in November.

Earlier this year it was reported from Noumea that an air service would shortly commence between points in New Caledonia and also to Lifu, Loyalties. An Avro-Anson aircraft was purchased in Sydney, prepared, and painted with the ’company’s colours. Attractive uniforms were delivered. Then the Anson was replaced by a Lockheed-Lodestar A large amount of work was carried out on this aircraft by a Sydney aircraft firm—but the aircraft was still sitting in a Bankstown hangar late in November, Sir P. G. Taylor’s luxury charterflight 35-passenger Bermuda flyingboat, after delays, arrived at Sydney late November on its delivery-flight with a party of RAAF servicemen aboard, returning from Malta. The aircraft should be ready for Island charters and cruise flights by next April.

Fiji Hotel Bought By Indian Interests MAJOR W. Willoughby-Tottenham has sold his well-known Hot Springs Hotel at Nakama, Savusavu, Vanua Levu, Fiji, to the Indian-owned Naraian Construction Co. of Suva.

The sale involves not only the hotel but all the Major’s land interests at Nakama. He retains his coconut plantation and properties on Savasavu Bay. 47

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Traveller’s Impressions of Indonesia [I7HAT a responsibility rested on IT Dr. Evatt as Chairman of United Nations, which gave lese 80 millions of Indonesians heir independence!—thought I, as ur ship berthed in Sourabaya.

After two VlP’s had checked our assports and asked many personal uestions as to firearms, and “if ;ill in the army,” etc., passengers Ith endorsed visas were allowed to md at Djakarta. We were warned y our purser not to take cameras, ad even to leave our watches be- Lnd, and on no account to separate.

Cars took us 50 miles inland. The umidity was bad, and a mist arose om the rice -fields, as in other >untries, when the paddy fields are Doded. Bandits, we were warned, equented the roads; and of course, le fanatical Moslem showed up on icaslons.

On the way, some of the bourers pointed rifles in a cetious way, and their faces towed that we, as a nation, were )t in their favour.

Communism is not so rife as one )uld expect; but, considering how iterate the townfolk and peasants e. they could be easily aroused.

With horns blaring, we raced rough the town at 70 miles an hour; and it was useless trying to check our driver, who spoke no English—until the time for payment came! Petrol is cheap and with five passengers to a car, plus the driver, the cost was only 35 guilders —there being about 60 guilders to £1 Australian.

Rice, bananas and sugar-cane grow under irrigation—water coming by gravitation from the adjoining volcanic mountains—but a very low standard of living was seen.

Rubber and tin were the chief exports during the Korean war boom, but are now in a slump. Tea, although expensive in Australia, is cheap here. Bandits raid the tea plantations, being near the hills. An excellent brew of beer is sold, made with real hops.

We landed a representative of the Massey Harris Co. (American), trying to expand their business, as better farming is done by power. Poor little pony stallions with bad feet were pulling hooded sulky-like carts and, when saddled, were offered us to ride.

Humped-back working bullocks slowly dragged the same reedcovered two-wheel cart one sees in Colombo.

Chinamen were in great numbers at Sourabaya, but seemed to live in Chinatown. They are not apparently liked by the Indonesians.

Australia must watch the north of New Guinea and Papua. These areas are the only bits left of the old Dutch East Indies The papers have told what the Indonesians think.

An armed patrol was seen marching towards the bilk* in correct platoon formation, all armed with quick-firing small-bore rifles, their head dress camouflaged with green bush, etc. (Over) 49 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Notwithstanding the rice grown, much has to be imported, and we unloaded many tons of flour from the Burns Philp ship.

The Japs sank a tremendous number of ships during the war: masts and funnels show up in the shallow bay. They also left an overflow of prostitutes.

It is hard to pick out the halfbred Japs from the other communities.

The Japs, since “Peace”, secured a contract to salvage those ships for the iron, etc., but the Indonesians now will not let them start.

No really stable Government exists.

The Japs boast that they did not destroy any of the installations because in 25 years they will be back in Java! ; Several wives are allowed the Indonesians, who are 90 per cent Moslem, and these do most of the work, in addition to breeding well. ; I did not see any pigs. They are fconsidered unclean. But among these teeming millions sanitation is not a strong point. It is fortunate that clear, running water flows to Sourabaya from the mountains. rpHEY are first class thieves. We X were warned that even on the side of the ship, away from the wharf, these apes creep along in their felucca (or canoe) and, by throwing a line and hook through any open port-hole, pull out a towel or frock —anything is acceptable. If unable to hook any loot these nice people will throw in a lighted cigarette.

Weedy in stature, with legs like our abos, long-fingered and barefooted, they out-Bedouin the Bedouin as thieves. They are fed on rice, yet are able to pedal the tricycle rickshaw for hours —the transport mostly used by the poorer class of Indonesian. There is no thrill in it compared with the fii Zulu of Durban, who bucks a kicks to show off his strength in rickshaw.

The capital of Indonesia is simil to the town of Sourabaya. T population of Djakarta (the pi vious Batavia) at present is thi million. Java, of course, contai very many millions. 50 DECEMBER 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHS

NO SQUALL DROWN THIS EXECUTOR!

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HE WHEEL The man who chooses a private Executor is a reckless gambler. He is wagering that his friend will, for an indefinite number of years, prove immune to accidents, ill-health, financial reverses, and even old age. In short, one man is betting that another man can defy every unexpected change brought by time.

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Much damage was done by the faps, and a levy of 70 cents on ach bottle of beer purchased is nade to help rebuild the town (Mr. should make note of this!) A small episode showed the repect given the Britisher. A lady assenger, returning alone, and tooping to tie up her shoe, had her ottom pinched by one of the Kharf- labourers, and no one could ike any action.

We sneaked to our lavatories. But le native relieves himself into the »a, or against the wharf sheds, in all view of all, and the hundreds [ white-necked hawks do the leaning-up.

Only 12 tons per hour, compared ith 22 tons per hour loading rate t Sourabaya, showed the high cost f inefficiency. The harbour is full : shipping from China, Britain, ipan, India, USA. and (still) the etherlands.

As a final gesture, as we left Jakarta, the tug deliberately it emed broke the tow-rope twice, ur captain said he had never had ich a thing happen to him in a ng life at sea. Burns Philp would )t bring passenger ships in here - all, but for the idealistic alombo Plan. [?]. C. Corrie's Memory [?] Fate [?] Captain Keller )TTO Keller was killed in January or February, 1913, in the Solomons, on the coast of ilaita, between Foando and larrie,” Mr. H. C. Corrie (formerly the Solomons and now residing Sydney) told the PIM. Captain ug, writing from Germany, has m inquiring about the fate of ptain Keller.

Keller went there on a ship called i Sumali,” said Mr. Corrie. “He s the only one killed on that lasion, and I don’t know why. The tives similarly killed Jack Lay- :k, a brother of Dick Haycock, en he went in there on my ship a recruiting trip, a few years er.

When I went in there, I found F. M. mpbell there, with his police, and helped Campbell. Campbell s determined to get the murderer, i he took one of the chiefs and d him as hostage, until he got ■ guilty man. Then the murderer s taken to Tulagi, where he was 3d, found guilty and hanged.

Captain Keller had Henry Kuper i Jacobsen working for him when was killed. Jacobsen then claimed it he had an interest in Keller’s airs; Kuper said he had none, lobsen paid something and took :r Keller’s interest. Later, he re- ?d; and he was living on Dangar md, in the Hawkesbury River, ’th of Sydney, for a time. He used go regularly into Burns Philp’s, Sydney. He went in there, one month, and left to go home— and was never seen again. He may have been drowned in the Hawkesbury.”

Mr. Corrie retains his interest in Guadalcanal. The only BSI oldhand who now out-dates him is Mr Carl Younger. Mr. R. C. Symes" another pre-war resident of BSI is reported to have sold out his interests there.

Technical KO in Fourth!

OCTOBER PIM (p. 132) gave details of the third round in a small war that has developed in Papeete between the Government Tourist Bureau (or Syndicat d’lnitiative) and a private agency, World Travel Headquarters, whose head office is in Sydney.

Cause of friction was a sign erected by the private agency which seemed likely to cause confusion. It was first pulled down, then reerected when a Court order declared it within the law. Then the Syndicat dTnitiative issued literature which, to tourists arriving from overseas and unaware of the circumstances, could have been construed as a warning to avoid the private agency—specifically named in the literature.

Whether this literature caused a technical KO, or whether the fight has been called off by mutual consent is not known—but the offending sign came down again in November, apparently to stay. 51 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Handcrafts THERE is a demand for a variety of Cook Islands produce in New Zealand at the present time, reports Mr. J. C. Garlach, Agricultural Agronomist to New Zealand’s tropical territories, following displays of produce and handcrafts which he recently arranged at two winter shows. Based on inquiries at these shows at Hamilton and New Plymouth, there is a ready sale for ladies’ hats from Palmerston Island, belts, Mangaian hats, and kapok.

Though less keen, there is a market also for Manihiki hats, and a limited sale for Palmerston Island hat bands, fans, and door-mats.

In the primary produce section some interest was shown by visitors in the purchase of candle-nuts, and of pearl shell. The latter item has a ready and highly profitable United States market, and obviously only small quantities for sale as ornaments would be wanted in New Zealand at prices equal to or above the US price.

There was keen interest in mandarins, the export of which has been very limited for some years.

New HQ For US Trust Territory THE Administrative headquarters of the American Trust Territory of Micronesia, which has been located until now at Honolulu, is to° Guam th 6 process of transf erring This should be completed bv January when all branches of the Administration with the exception of Education will be functioning there. Education Department headquarters will be at Truk. [?]t the annual meeting of the City [?]cil on November 2, Councillor A. D. [?]s (above) was unanimously elected [?]or of Suva. He will hold office for 1954-55 term in succession to [?]cillor B. M. N. McFarlane. Mr. Leys New Zealander and is now a memof the Suva legal firm of Ellis, Munro, [?]ren and Leys. See November PIM.

Photo: Fiji Public Relations Office. 53

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Syme’s native representative are unquestionably cheaper than similar goods opposition traders offer, but whether this can be maintained as a permanent feature is more than debatable.

This is the point that causes opposers of the co-operative system to declare emphatically that it is not aiding Islanders to get them used to artificially low prices, and then—as inevitably happens with these schemes —discover that under the philanthropic methods employed, the business cannot stand the rude shocks of Island trading, such as hurricanes, deterioration, bad debts, maintenance, etc. Pilfering by natives staffs is another factor.

As an established Mangaian trader of 30 years’ experience, I see no future for the projects of Mr.

Syme. All that can be looked for is a temporary upset of trade, caused by the immense gap between what Mr. Syme can do, and what others can do. Natives will flock to a new store, because it is a new store! Then they drop away, and although prices of some things may be half those of the “robber baron” stores, old customers of these return to that fold where they have (allegedly) been so long fleeced.

I have never seen a co-operative succeed, or even endure long, even where directed by experienced old hands.

If Mr. and Mrs. John McAlpir who were married at South Cambe well Methodist Church, Melbourr on November 5, will live at Madar New Guinea, where Mr. McAlpi] is a Patrol Officer. The bride w formerly Miss Verne Richards, Melbourne. Best man, Mr. F. Marti is also a Patrol Officer in N( Guinea. 54 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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P.O. BOX 299, SUVA, FIJI A Pre-war Story About a Sydney Milk-Cart CHEY tell me that Jerry Pentland lives on the western side of the river in Goroka (NG Highmds) these days, and, is a Town buncillor held in high esteem. Why oes not someone write the story of erry’s life, before it is allowed to ide away among the incredible lings? Anyway, here is my con- •ibution to Stories of Jerry Pentmd.

When I returned to New Guinea fter the war I was placed in a ibin with a greying gentleman horn I took to be a missionary— i assumption due partly to the ict that BP’s always hitherto had it me in with missionaries and irtly because my cabin mate emed such a quiet, gentlemanly pe. I revised my ideas within the >ur, however, when my suspected issionary invited me to assist him dealing with a bottle of gin. I scovered he was none other than bat genial reprobate, Sepik ibbie.” We found that we had any mutual acquaintances. Jerry mtland came into this category, [now him?” Robbie said. “I’ll say do!” It went on from there.

Robbie told me that back in the tter days of early Bulolo and Edie eek, he and Jerry were holidayl in Sydney, and staying at her’s.

Very early one morning Robbie md himself at the Cross, waiting • a taxi wherein to return home, rry came along and they agreed share a taxi. rhere were no taxis forthcoming, en a milk-waggon, with two rses, came along, and the milk- ■n, with bottles, went down one the many lanes. terry said: “OK, Robbie, here we i! Hop up!” He took the ver’s seat and Robbie joined him. terry cracked the whip, and away y went. The lash was not spared ;il the horses were in full gallop h, as some old poet once said, )bble-chains and milk-cans a- ?ling to the tune.” Jerry stood cracked the whip, and kept iing, “Tally ho.” Windows opened I lights went on as they swung 3 Castlereagh Street, at Usher’s, erry said: “Well, goodnight, )bie,” and passed a tip to George th advice to “keep an eye on horses”) and went to bed. text thing, Robbie was aroused a loud knock on his door, and ry saying, “The Police are here, )bie. Open up.” erry came in with a constable I said: “Robbie, do you know thing about a milk-waggon and horses?” obbie said, “No.” erry said: “Now, Robbie, you w you do these sort of things, if you have, own up.”

Finally, Jerry turned to the constable and said: “I think he’s telling the truth, constable. There must have been some mistake.” The constable apologised and withdrew.

Only Jerry Pentland could hope to get away with a prank like that.

LH. f! Mr. A. M. MacLeod-S mi t h Financial Secretary of the Western Pacific High Commission, departed on leave from Honiara on November 8. Mr. C. A. Kirkman assumed duty as Acting Financial Secretary and Mr. R. Davies took over Mr. Kirkman’s previous duties as Senior Assistant Secretary.

Organ Music—Now White Ants WHITE ants are making a nuisance of themselves on Pitcairn Island, according to Pastor N. A. *ems, who arrived in Sydnev recently.

The Seventh Day Adventist missionary has just completed two years on the island with his wife and 17-years-old daughter.

Mr, Ferris said that the termites were introduced to the island in a church organ—a gift from a wellwisher in New Zealand. Now they were literally eating the islanders out of house and home, and there was nothing that could be done to stop their ravages.

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Travellers to Nauru and Ocean Is. assengers travelling by TEAL aircraft m Sydney to Auckland, there to cont with a phosphate freighter bound Nauru, in November, included: Mrs. ■don McFarlane returning to Ocean nd after vacation; Mr. and Mrs. Brian ns of Adelaide, to take up an appointit with BPC at Ocean Island; Mrs. btburn returning there after holiday; . Mr. Charles Adams, officer in charge of radio communications in the GEIC returning to Tarawa. A large number of Ocean and Nauru students, returning home for the Christmas vacation, also travelled by the same flight.

Colonel T. C. Campbell, Commander of the Fiji Military Forces, and Ratu Dr. J. A. R. Dovi, Deputy Secretary for Fijian Affairs, paid a brief flying visit to the Fiji Forces in Malaya in November. ? art ’ Potation manager m the Solomons in the immediate pre-war years, recently sold his store at Woolgoola NSW and has gone to live in North ?h c ee w la ? d - , Mr ; Hart purchased the Woolgoola store shortly after the war. J [?]oniara’s Lone Bank This photo by Mr.

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The Ladies Differ TWO British Solomon Islands housewives who passed through Australia recently gave newspaper reporters differing views on housekeeping difficulties in the Colony. But the fact that one lady was returning to the colony, and the other was leaving may have had something to do with this.

Mrs. P. N. Dalton, wife of the BSI Attorney-General, arrived in Sydney after 15 months’ holiday in England. She said that practically all food consumed by Europeans in the Solomons had to be imported— and at “ghastly” prices. They intended to start a garden when they returned, but their house was built on a hill and the soil was very shallow. There was no shortage of native servants, she said, but few had had any training and they did not like to work.

With the Malaita now providing a constant supply of fresh meat and vegetables, housekeeping in the Solomons has become much easier, said Mrs. P. Hughes, w T ife of a Honiara administrative officer, in Perth recently. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and their two sons left Honiara in mid-October.

Conditions had improved enormously lately, and life in the islands was pleasant and agreeable, Mrs.

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Shopping was easy because tl Chinese had established a big shoj ping centre, with all types of goo< which came mostly from Hongkon Mrs. Hughes said they were able grow some of their own vegetable particularly beans, tomatoes, pum] kin and marrow. 58 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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From Our Own Correspondent History of a kind was made in Port Moresby on November 11, when the Australian Tariff Board began hearing evidence from Papuan rubber planters. It was the first time that the Tariff Board had heard evidence outside Australia.

IHE Board heard evidence for seven hours and the next day flew to Kerema to inspect plantation. rhe case for the Association was t by the president, Mr. B. irfax-Ross who said the practical ;thod of assuring a market in istralia would be by the removal import tax.

Vlr. Pairfax-Ross said it seemed distinct advantage to Australia it rubber could be grown in its n Territory. The chairman, Mr. iCarthy replied that it would not much advantage if it would be heavy drain on Federal revenue keep it going.

During the hearing, Mr. McCarthy, re the impression that he was ; going to have anything put over a by the planters and was quick show that the Board would have be convinced that the industry lly needed assistance, t seemed that the planters were ittle surprised. he Manufacturers , Case n the Brisbane sitting of the ird, evidence was given on ialf of the rubber manufacturers Australia by Mr. R. H. Simkin, istant General Manager of flop in Australia. He represented flop Rubber (Australia) Ltd., )dyear Tyre and Rubber Co. Ltd., mpic Consolidated Industries ~ Hardie Rubber Co. Ltd., Cable kers (Australia) Ltd., North Ausian Rubber Mills and Apex ting Co. Together they repreted 95 per cent of the rubber sumed in Australia, i his submission on behalf of se companies he made these its.

As a bounty ceased to be paid a apuan rubber in October, 1933, it id be presumed that the industry then able to stand on its own and that duty collected sublently was merely a revenuelucing measure. In this connec- , the manufacturers believed - duty on all rubber, whatever source, was unwarranted and an ist impost on the rubber manuuring industry. They conled that all duty should be removed, in the interests of the Australian consumer. • Papuan growers had faded to nmke their industry economic and efficient; their case for remission of 2d was based on the period of adjustment following rubber stockpiling; there were prospects of better prices in immediate future; and the present price should, in any event, be profitable. • The present voluntary system of marketing could not continue indefinitely as it was unfair to manufacturers—and the 2d per pound remission of duty on Papuan rubber would be of benefit to the planters only so long as the manufacturers continued under the present system. • If the Board found that the Papuan industry should have assistance, assistance should be by an mdustria! bounty so that the cost would be borne by the community 59 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1854

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Although Mr. Simkin submitted hat the manufacturers were under i disadvantage because of the jresent method of selling by the tool and through the manufacturers’ roluntary agreement to pay the 10 >er cent, primage which, in effect, /as returned to the producers, the Chairman of the Board said that le had yet to be convinced that the nanufacturers were under any disidvantage whatever in buying >apuan rubber under the present ystem.

In regard to Mr. Simkin’s ptimism in regard to the future of übber, he asked if manufacturers /ould therefore be prepared to uarantee Papuan growers 16 per iound for their rubber for the next ive years. Mr. Simkin said they /ould not.

Board’s Surprise New Angles on Old Questions IN Port Moresby, the principal evidence was given by Mr. B Fairfax-Ross in his capacity as president of the Planters’ Assn, and as General Manager of the British New Guinea Development Co. He also took the brunt of the long and penetrating cross-examination by members of the Board.

Mr. Fairfax-Ross admitted that on present price of rubber, the Papuan industry was not in need of financial assistance. But he submitted that the 2d duty was unfair in that Australia did not levy an import tax on any other of the Territory’s products entering Australia; and that its remission was necessary for the long-term stability of the industry.

The Board made it plain that it had yet to be convinced that the rubber industry was worthy of fostering at all; or that it would not be better to cut losses at this stage; and, if assistance wen? warranted, why it should be to the specified amount of 2d. They would not agree that an Australian import tax was unfair just because the rubber was Papuan.

The Chairman of the Board said that the Board oelieved that duty on all rubber entering Australia should be removed—that the Board was critical of the Commonwealth, raising revenue on an essential raw material, and he thought that ultimately it would be removed. In which event the Papuan industry would have to find some other method of assistance, if that were found to be warranted.

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The anti-rhinoceros beetle campaign has continued and some progress has taken place in the establishment of a coconut nursery in the Palaus from which new plants will be distributed.

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'HERE is interesting, though puzzling, news from Joe Bourne, FOSAB, of peete, this month. Joe reports three v French Oceania stations. First re is Georges Henderson who has reed Roland. FOBAD, as meteorologist rn on lonely Rapa, and has set up FOBAK, active at present on 14 mc/s. (land is back in Papeete).

Iso on the air from Papeete is Andre •ayon, ex FBSA, active on 7/14 mc/s /phone, using NBFM, with the call JAB. Whether this means that Joe abandoned Hamdom, whether Andre sharing Joe’s station, or whether Joe , as we suspect, just made a mistake the call in his letter, we do not know the moment but will check for next le. he third new station is FOBAL, name 1 exact QTH not known yet, but he located either on Tubuai or Raivavae the Austral group south of Tahiti and ve 7/14 mc/s CW/phone. A photo of ie, if not all, of the FOS boys is comup soon. nother non-Ham Tahiti correspondent Is along a letter from W6WNH of ta Mesa, Cal., in which he reports t he and his wife are doing spares work on a yacht in which they plan sruise to Tahiti in two or three years b. There will undoubtedly be a Ham ion aboard. tan, VR2AS, sends the latest from The call VR2AA, formerly belonging Yally Clutterbuck of the RNZAF, now ZL, has been re-allocated to a new val—J. Gordon, RNZAF Station, thala Bay, near Suva.

September we mentioned the impendarrival of Bob Roberts, G2RO, a mial Adviser on Broadcasting. Well arrived, was allocated VR2RO, and up shop with his 15-watt rig from Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva, in Novemwlth a dipole on the roof. He was appear in Honiara around November ,s VR4RO for a couple of weeks, then irds mid-January he will become RO, on the air from Tarawa, also about two weeks. Leaving the Pacific VK he plans to liven the Cocos ian Ocean) air about February 20 for days, thence to Mauritius, due •uary 28, with the call VQBAY. iring his world-wide tour Bob has idy appeared with the RO suffix from districts 1-6; from VQBAY; ZCSRO; districts 1-7; VP2GRO; and lately RO. >n. VR2CY, has lately shifted from thala Bay across the hill to a Suva 1. He was formerly located right to Stan —so the QRM problem is itly eased for both, b, VR2CW, has now joined the Fiji (dcasting Commission technical staff, gets out well with a 35-watt phone -VR2CS, Keith Broadbridge, who reed to VK when FBC took over the broadcasting setup this year, was rted present at an Adelaide Ham ting in October. e were wrong in believing that Chas. ns, YR-l-A, had quit the Gilberts lanently. He returned to Tarawa late November after VK furlough. Chas. understands that Mr. Jones, his latest staff addition, though not a Ham previously, does plan to become a VR-1 soon. Chas. had an all-band YFO in his bag when he left Sydney and he indicated that more might be heard of him in future.

Palmyra’s KP6AK might have a neighbour in the New Year, as there is word from Honolulu that South Pacific Airlines have the firm intention to use nearby Christmas atoll (not ZC3) as a refuelling point on their Hawaii-Tahiti service, commencing March, 1955. That could mean Hams on the staff of a probable aeradio station. Christmas is another condominium like Canton, so, as the airline is American, we assume that any likely Hams will appear as KP6’s—not VR3’s.

Another rare Pacific call—FWBAß—is disappearing. Adrien’s early return to France will out Wallis Island off the Ham map.

Less interesting to the cardsters is a new one at Lord Howe—VK2ATA—using a little Type-A/Mk.3 rig on 3.5/7 mc/s CW/phone and getting out well. From Norfolk, Ray, VK9RH, sped to the mainland late August for an appendix operation, but is now reported fully recovered.

We are hoping to have the story of the December Tokelau expedition for next issue.

Photos of Island Hams, singly or in groups, are appreciated. fl Mr. W. A. Roberts, the Secretary of State’s Colonial Advisory Broadcasting Engineer, arrived in Honiara on November 22 to discuss broadcasting development in the Protectorate. Mr. Roberts will visit the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in December. 5 Mr - R- J. S. Hutchinson and family left England in mid- November returning to the GEIC from furlough. . Fiji is well served by radio phone installations in outlying islands and on local vessels, states the president of the Suva Chamber of Commerce (Mr. W. G. Johnson) in his 1953 Annual Report. The stations, which now number about 80, facilitate trade and are valuable in times of sickness or distress. Suva’s telephone system, however, is severely criticised. Mr. Johnson says it is doubtful whether the construction of Suva’s new and badly needed automatic exchange is progressing as rapidly as it should. 65 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1954

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Flying Saucer over Aitutaki? tl Dr. John Stirling Hogg has been appointed Senior Medical Officer, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and will leave the United Kingdom in January to take up the appointment.

II Dr. Helen Phillips, who recently spent four and a half years as medical officer in the Gilbert Islands, is now the first woman medical officer to schools in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Her field of operations covers the whole of this vast area and will involve long flights between one scl and the next. Dr. Phillips’ husb£ Captain Thomas Milner, is in c< mand of a vessel plying beta Darwin and Sydney. During wife’s stay in the Gilberts, he captain of a ship trading in islands.

The cheery optimist who sent this to PIM writes: “This is positively the first Flying Saucer to be spotted in the Islands.

This one was snapped as it sneaked over Aitutaki lagoon just after a TEAL aircraft had taken off for Tahiti. Mr. C.

Dixon, standing on the stern of the CAA launch in the foreground, appears quite unperturbed. TEAL launch in the distance.’’ Our friend assumes that even a pinhole camera cannot lie. 66 D E C E M B ;E R, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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Vhat is not generally known, is it some well-equipped and ap- •ently highly successful crocodile ►editions to New Guinea waters re lost hundreds, and even thousis, of pounds through ignorance the processing and marketing ects. ’here is a keen and rich market croc hides, but because they are valuable the buyers are naturally hly critical of the condition of produce. A man who is well sed in the handling of say, deer buffalo hides, needs to learn an irely new technique and be much •e painstaking with croc hides, I, what is equally important, he 5t make certain that the trials and facilities will be on id before he departs from civilion. or example, the only practical ' to ship croc hides is in solid, ded wooden cases, or in wooden cs —emphatically not in metal ;ainers and emphatically not in b alone. d naturally these containers will e to be taken to the out-back ting location, in. shocks or ;rwise. Also required there on spot will be a solid, flat-concrete tvooden-processing floor, and a -ventilated, rain-proof, curing se that is not too hot and not too draughty. To reduce heat, if iron roofed, the roof have to be covered with mat- , sacking, or vegetation. A lot acking will be required in packthe hides, for protective reasons, a very large quantity of fine i the coarse cattle-hide type) for curing. These are just ? of the props that will be reed before there is any possibility bitting the jack-pot that the bay papers talk so freely about, here holes and slight scratches ilemishes may not seriously rethe value of other hides, they J a considerable effect on croc s. Presumably every croc hunter vs that a bullet hole through part of the hide will cut its e greatly or even render it eless—but fewer know that dragging the dead croc up some stony river bank or across a snag may do just as much damage with? out actually holing the hide.

Not long ago, one successful hunter came south to Sydney with a large consignment of good hides He had diligently complied with ali the processing requirements. The hides had been carefully packed in stout cases and there was nothing left to do but hand over to the boss? m «^fcost T ? h i arffi?u s r .°4« had curled inwards to pierce a hide holes tte value™ Similarly, a croc left lying in the snn mav it musif h - d £/* lue halved, to nio^ aight f L om water i S thi n oJSSi,,? Ten hours killing and skinnW of time tn 18 a waste auirkhf nr™lLT re Hl an can be skinnino- v, Th £ n ’ after back h ?nfo S n!~ ld not be swamn hn? K the ri^ or the clean wasb *; d . on nroceed ““SiSSSSJSf- Cur A ng 5 Not muX^nppriPri^vLf' if tbe !aifcpropSrtio°n g ' and US6d in the c <£ re <* Generally speaking, salt water 67 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. v 1954

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s mmsm crocs are the most valuable. The hides of the older and larger fresh water crocs are usually affected with buttons” or nodules on the choice belly skins. These may not be leasfly seen, but they can be felt, (and they greatly reduce the value.

I They are possibly caused by gravel f penetrating the skin, and are not I usually present in crocs of less than [ 7 ft long.

A strict procedure for skinning [and processing is laid out; any Prospective hunter must make himi self thoroughly familiar with it At | least one Sydney firm dealing in ■ hides issues a typed brochure on the subject. The central back portion is, ol course, valueless, and incisions are made round this in a specified manner. Value is based on blemishes, shape, quality of curing and, finally, size. Payment is bv measurement across from “armpit” to ‘ armpit”—the widest part of the hide disregarding the leg portions.

The measurement is made with the skin unstretched but laid out perfectly flat. If the hide is insufficiently cured it will continue to shrink and this measurement may be substantially less in Sydney than it was in New Guinea or the Solomons.

As an indication of value, in November Prime quality hides, 18 inches and over, were worth 6/9d per inch, delivered and measured in store, Sydney. Hides 12-18 inches, 6/6d per inch; 10-12 inches, 3/6d per inch. Below 10 inches nn market. Above 29 inches the value is reduced to two-thirds. Flawless fresh water hides are quoted by fi rms at 1/- per inch below the above values, which, we emphasise, are for flawless Prime hides.

Two Sydney firms keenly interested in the crocodile hide market are Inter-Continental Exports Pty. Ltd., P.O. Box 5295 (corner of Erskine and Kent Streets), and Johnson & Sons Ptv Ltd., 203 Castlereagh Street-JPS J M r. T J. Dunleavy, editor of Western Samoa’s only newspaper, for the last three years, left Apia with his wife and family in November for 3 months vacation in New Zealand. In his absence, freelance writer Jack Thornton, of New Zealand is relieving editor.

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Prominently featured in the film are the Mission hospitals and Mission training schools. Here natives from isolated districts are trained as medical aids and missionaries.

Here, too, natives receive instruction in animal husbandry and modern agricultural methods.

The latter part of the film is devoted entirely to the recent consecration earlier this year of the Rev.

Alfred Hill as Bishop of Melanesia.

He is the ninth Bishop of Melanesia but the first to be consecrated on Melanesian soil. (See magazine section this issue).

The film is available to churches, schools and other bodies through the offices of the Australian Board of Missions. It is also for sale at £B5 in colour and £25 in black and white.

II Mr. K. Nicholson is expected to teturn to Tarawa in January after carrying out a study of the cooperative movement in India and Ceylon.

U Mr. R. R. McKellar, Chief Inspector of the Bank of New South Wales, arrived in Lac on December 5 to begin a goodwill tour of the Bank’s branches in Papua and New Guinea. He planned to visit Wau, Bulolo and Rabaul, then return to Port Moresby for the official opening of the new Bank premises on December 13. The visit is Mr.

McKellar’s first to the Territory. It is also the first visit by a senior Bank of NSW official since the Inspector for Queensland Division (Mr.

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Caledonian Nickel Booms While Chrome Languishes From Our Own Correspondent : NOUMEA, Nov. 11.

VTTCKEL and chrome mining, the JLI two industries which are the basis of New Caledonia’s i economy are at present in violent [ contrast to each other.

Nickel mining is booming and faces a bright future. But the chrome industry is reeling under the burden of high production costs and few foreign buyers. America, which used to take the greater proportion of NC’s chrome production is now out of the market.

Members of the local assembly the Conseil Generale, recently radioed the French Premier (M.

Mendes-France) protesting against French industrialists buying chrome from foreign sources—with apparently little result: it was officially announced shortly after that under a Franco-Russian economic treaty then being discussed, France would import large quantities of chrome from the Soviet.

The local Assembly considers that if the treaty is adopted, NC’s chrome industry will die. Dismissals occurred in October and the Colony s largest mine laid off a further 200 workers in November. viniL the u S l me time the Societe Nickel, which operates smelters in Noumea expects this year’s production to total 8,000 tons of pure metal At least 450,000 tons of ore *?e mined, and it is expected 1955 1S figure be exceeded in The smelters at Noumea are -quipped with three coke and three -lectnc furnaces. Continuous opera- -lon of the latter is conditional on ; he water level in the Yate dam— •lie of the only hydro-electric initallation in NC —about 50 miles rom Noumea. The Government is [t present considering enlarging the . A refining furnace, which animates all sulphur from the melters VaS recently at the are being exploited by he Nickel Co. About 1,600 persons re employed, and at least another ,000 will be employed as the rapid Kpansion at the smelters and the lines continues.

Japan, which secured large con- -ssions in the Colony before the ,r a , n( *. worked them extensively, en^er the nickel trade ith NC once again. Contracts have for the supply of K), 000 tons of 3to 4 per cent ore nou 1 be J refined in Japanese nelters ahd, as ferro nickel, will be "Ported to South America ermany apd Italy. . lcke l Co- has also interested itself in cobalt deposits. it has brought a specialist out from France, who is at present examining the deposits. A pilot plant, capabll of treating about 20 tons per dav has been erected for washing cobalt ore. A company, in which both French and Canadian capital has been invested, has been formed to concentrate and smelt the mineral.

I Mr -. E- J. H. Colchester-Wemyss, Superintendent of Police and Prisons, BSIP, has been appointed Commissioner of Police, Bahamas.

The appointment will take effect at the conclusion of his forthcoming leave. Mr Colchester-Wemyss will leave for UK next February. and r M^ s - Brassey. of Tipperary, Ireland, recently visited their former home at Dunk Island. mnnf£c UPlC f£ tWO and a half Ke via Vi l usl and and retUrned ® amoans and the president or the Samoan Seventh Day Adventist Mission (Pastor H. B Christian) visited Australia recently.

They were delegates to the Quadrennml Session of the SDA Church m Sydney. The Samoans, Pastor Tmi Inu and Miss Momoi Kuresa were on their first visit to a completely European community. Miss Kuresa is the matron of a training hospital for 200 nurses in Western Samoa. Pastor inu lives in American Samoa. 71

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Stamps Commemorate Pacific Air Age

By K. Norman

AS a means of distinguishing mail carried by air, “airmail” stamps have, for some years now, been issued by almost every stamp-issuing country in the world.

In British territories of the near Pacific area, a number of interesting stamps have appeared, some as specific “airmail” labels, others of a commemorative nature, with appropriate air designs.

The first airmail stamps produced in Australia appeared in May, 1929.

On that occasion a 3d. value carried a characteristic landscape view of mountains, a river, several drooping eucalypts, and a flock of sheep.

Overhead a DH de Havilland biplane, of the type then used on the weekly East-West Air Service operated by West Australian Airways, appeared in flight. The stamp was issued for use on aerial mail carried from Perth to Adelaide principally.

The aerial pioneering of the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (lost n 1935 on an England to Australia light) were recalled by the Comlonwealth with three stamps, issued n March, 1931.

Design for these was the two lemispheres, with the famous nonoplane, Southern Cross, in rhich “Smithy” made many of his emarkable flights, between the lobes, while the entire design was surmounted by the badge of the Royal Australian Air Force in w hich in 1930, Kingsford Smith was made an Honorary Air Commodore The work of well-known Australian artist Mr. Virgil Reilly, was included in the four stamps, struck by Australia in July, 1940, to mark Commonwealth participation i n World War 11.

This was an adaptation of a 1939 oil painting of a sailor, soldier airman and nurse. All figures ’were taken from real life, the airman being Squadron-Leader Arthur Norman Hick, who was killed in Britain in June, 1941, in an aircraft accident.

Three stamps were circulated in February, 1945, to commemorate the arrival in Australia of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, when the Duke became Governor-General of the Commonwealth. As well as portraying the Duke in military uniform, the Duchess was displayed in uniform as Commandant of the WAAF.

The 3i stamp issued by the Commonwealth in October, 1949, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the foundation in Berne, Switzerland, of the Universal Postal Union was interesting. It was designed by Mr. Daryl Lindsay, director of the Melbourne National Gallery featured an outback mounted post- Smnrt2?n 3 W* 6 ™ airliner—an — tvnifvfn? o f Vair m flight overhead Dortation g mS .° f mail portation, The stamp was voted overseas as “the best of the year/' mJ5 le of first of New Zealand’s airmail stamps made their appearance m November, 1931, being issued in connection with the AusSfa to Sr Sl Thl s hnstma . s Mail carried by air. The stamps of the issue showed a typical New Zealand lake, bLckld nl fl np OU fl ntam ra .nges. A small monoscene fIOW lnsignificantl y over the In February, 1934. the first official mail carried over the Tasman was by special Dominion stamps, the current 7d. airmail 73 ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1904

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This mail was flown by Captain C T. P. Ulm in “Faith in Australia” from New Zealand. Ulm was a close associate of Kingsford- Smith.

Another New Zealand series of three was printed in March, 1935.

The stamps were designed by Mr.

S J. Berry, of Wellington, whose designs have appeared on many subsequent Dominion stamps.

They showed a DH plane about to land on the Bell Block Air Terminal, New Plymouth, North Island. Another aeroplane and a mail truck appeared on the ground, with imposing Mount Egmont in the background. A Maori watched the scene from a palm tree in the near foreground.

Theme of the 4d. stamp of the January, 1940, series occasioned by the country’s 100th anniversary, was “Transport,” being represented by a modern airliner as centrepiece, surrounded by a bullock waggon, an ocean liner and an express tram.

Four well-known wartime aircraft appeared on the 3d. value of the “Peace” series, originated in New Zealand in April, 1946. A Lancaster bomber, a Spitfire fighter, a York Transport and an Empire nßoat, were typically featured iition to a centrepiece consisting of the badge of the RNZAF.

The stamp was a tribute to the Allied Air Forces participating in the Second World War.

Another small aircraft was featured on a 1/- stamp, issued in November, 1950. This machine was shown over an aerial view of Timaru, the port and agricultural centre of South Canterbury. Five stamps were issued at the time, marking the centenary of the Province of Canterbury.

In 1925, New Guinea produced stamps, ranging from hd. to £1 typifying a native village in the territory. In June, 1931, stamps intended for use on airmail comprised the 1925 series with a special overprint, showing a device of a biplane and the words, “Air Mail.” Postage on gold carried from the goldfields in the Morobe district to the coast caused the issue.

May, 1935, saw the mtroduction of two high value stamps in New Guinea—£2 and £5 denominations to pre-pay postage on gold bars despatched by air from the Bulolo Goldfields, in bricks of 47 lbs. weight. 74

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Early stamps of Papua, featuring the typical Lakatoi, were the basis on which the country’s first “air mail” stamps were patterned. A monoplane, with the words “Air Mail” inscribed on the wings, was overprinted on the “lakatoi” designs.

In September, 1938, the 50th anniversary of Papua as a British possession was celebrated by five “air” stamps. They were current for a year and displayed an aerial view of Port Moresby Harbour, with the s.s. Katoomba moored at the wharf, and a DHB6 plane overhead.

A year later five other “air” stamps followed a pictorial theme, two natives polling rafts, watching i modern airliner as it flew overlead, with a range of mountains jehind it.

In August, 1949, the Cook Island iroduced a set of pictorial labels, fhe sd. denomination carried a deign showing a Dakota mail-plane ibout to touch down at Rarotonga irfield.

British possessions and colonies, n the Pacific, in October, 1949, itilised a common design for the sth anniversary series of the Uniersal Postal Union. Two designs jferred to air transport. The lower alues showed an allegorical silouetted aeroplane, with a ship and •ain and the Greek “Hermes.”

High valued stamps depicted a odern airliner over the globes of ie 2 Hemispheres and a steamer slow.

The 2id. and sd. stamps from mga, issued in July, 1951, in comemoration of the 50th anniversary Tongan-British Friendship, dented miniature representations of roplanes in the top right-hand rners of the designs.

A. DC4 aeroplane figured on the 1 stamp included in the Norfolk and pictorial series of 1953. It -s shown on the Norfolk Island ■field, flanked by typical pine es, which landing field was built 1942 and 1943 by Australian and lencan engineers, fil packets and parcels addressed residents in P-NG must in future accompanied by a Customs deration indicating the contents 1 their value. This was recently lounced by the Australian Acting tonaster-General, Sir Philip Bride. Absence of the declarai, he said, increased the work -NG customs officials and caused W ln the delivery of postal cles. 75 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-D E C E M B E R . 1954

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Tropicalities

With A French Touch

ON the language difficulties in Noumea, during the South Pacific Commission session: Sir Ronald Garvey, Governor of Fiji, speaks fluent French; but even he found himself in a slight embarrassment.

He was praising the Noumea bus service, which is labelled “Transport de Commun,” Sir Ronald thought that the citizens of high degree might make greater use of this facility. His friends seemed surprised and amused. He learned afterwards that he had got mixed in his pronunciation of the letter “u”, in “commun”. This linotype cannot express the difference; but, as the Governor pronounced it, it meant lavatory instead of bus . . .

An American chatting to Noumean friends, thought he was discussing pneumatic tyres. After some slight jonfusion and distress, he discovered that he actually was discussing the jualities of nudes.

This occurred in a Noumea •estaurant: An Australian lady noticed that fie meat dish was called “canard”, [fiat, it appeared, was duck; but he lady, having poor knowledge of ’’rench, was sure it meant dog canaille).

Her gallant escort, to reassure her, ailed the waiter—a rather surly ellow, with a flat sort of English •renunciation.

“What is this?” asked Monsieur, minting to the dish.

Waiter: “Dock, m’sieu.”

He thought he was saying “duck”, fie lady was sure he still said dog”. They compromised on a heese salad.

Ew Guinea Women On The

AIR )ACK in Sydney from the 3 successful launching from 9PA Port Moresby, of New Guinea’s ew Women’s Session under local )mpere Joan Stevens, Ida Elizabeth mkins of the ABC was enthusiastic bout the wealth of material she >und in the Territory.

Much of the background material le collected and the recordings she iade there are to be featured in le ABC National Women’s Session • Australia. For example interews with Mrs. Flo Stewart of °tel Cecil in Lae, who has lived in ie Territory since 1906, and with iss Carter, who is in charge of the Library Service there, are to be incorporated in the mainland session. She intends to introduce New Guinea to Australian women listeners through the voices and lives of some of its most interesting women.

During her three weeks’ trip, to P-NG, Mrs. Jenkins, travelled more than 5,000 miles and made a point of meeting as many women as possible to ascertain first-hand their radio needs.—H. E. L. FRIDAY.

Snails A La Mode

MICRONESIAN Monthly has produced a recipe for preparing giant snails for the tablegiant snails being the nauseating pests introduced by the Japs to New Guinea and some of its islands and to certain parts of Micronesia.

Having introduced them, it is said that even the Japs refused to eat them. Here is the recipe—strictly for the adventurous: Place six dozen snails In a pall with salt and vinegar and stir them vigorously, then wash them under cold running water until the water is clear.

Let the snails boil in salted water for 30 minutes and drain them in a large collander. Pull the snails out of the shells, setting the shells aside for further use. and remove the green intestines.

Place the snails in a kettle with one large onion, sliced, one clove garlic, and X A cup cognac. Add sufficient cold water to cover and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Cover kettle tightly and cook over a gentle fire for four to five hours. Cream I*4 cups butter and add two cloves garlic, finely crushed, one tablespoon each finely chopped parsley and chives, and salt and pepper to taste. Into each shell place a small nugget of butter mixture.

Drain the cooked snails, put them into the prepared shells, and seal the opening with a thick coat of butter mixture.

Place the snails on a flat baking pan and set them in a moderate oven for six to seven minutes or until they are heated through and the butter is melted.

Having done all that, we suggest that you drink the cognac and throw the snails away.

Tidal Golf

HOW many Golf Clubs in the world advise players to check tide tables before teeing off; or recommend that they include a fishing rod among their clubs?

The new “Wake Island Low Tide Country Club’’ does. For its nine hole course is laid out on the lagoon’s tide fiats, which at high water are under three feet of sea and teem with fish. the , tide divots have been replaced and the “greens” seldom need rolling, although the cups—made of tile drain pipe—mav ne £h a httle cleaning.

The Low Tide Country Club was °int y • re “ nt 'y and residents are still intrigued with the sight ot whln W th'l m t g i >ver n .° thln B but water, when the tide is in.

It w as organised primarily for island residents-—PAA station personnel and Clipper crews laying over between flights, Civil Aeronautics Administration staff members, Standard Oil Company employees and US Coast Guardsmen.

But the course is open to air passengers, too. Membership, including green fees, is two dollars. g

Gooneys Have Jet Trouble

ONE way or another, the United States has a lot of trouble with its Bomb-and-Air Age in the Pacific First Marshall Islanders have been disturbed by US H-Bombs; now gooney-birds are proving to be hazards to jets using Midway atoll.

“They are leaving Midway to the Gooney Birds”, was the title to a Local Colour for Plane Passengers In the October PIM there was a description of Mr. John Harrington’s activities on Aitutaki, Cook Is., and the performance that goes on on Akaiaml when the TEAL flying-boats come in. Nancy Phelan, of Sydney, who took this photo, writes: “Here are two of the Aitutaki girls who go across to Akaiaml to look after the passengers. I was astonished to see the pareus disappear after the plane left, but I feel sure a lot of passengers went on to Tahiti with beautiful memories because of them.” 77

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story on this strategic North Pacific atoll, in PIM of June, 1950.

Well, they never did do that — plans were changed and, with the advent of the Korean war, Midway was again called into full use as a refuelling point on the United States-Far East air route.

The arrival of the Air Age never disturbed the gooneys, or Lysan Albatrosses, which have made the main islet their home for centuries —but it now appears that the gooneys are disturbing the Jet Age.

No less than ten jet aircraft have been smashed up on Midway this year through crashing into flights of gooneys as the aircraft took off or came in to land. Fortunately no lives have been lost.

But the US Navy, principal user of the atoll’s airstrips, has demanded that the US Fish and Wildlife Service remove its protected birds to the other unused islet.

Dr. Philip Dumont of F&WS left for the island in November to take action. He will first try destroying the nests and if that is not effective, measures will be taken to make nesting facilities more attractive on the unused islet. If the birds still refuse to shift camp voluntarily, they will be subjected to a highfrequency sound attack. The sound projected onto the colonies will be of a pitch that will not worry human ears, but it is likely to prove intolerable to the goonies.

The Pin-Up Girls Of The

LOYALTIES ACCORDING to a Sydney newspaper columnist (who quotes our friend Fred Dunn, of Noumea) Loyalty Islanders no longer call their women Marys, but Marilyns—after the beautiful Miss Monroe, of course.

You can believe the story if you like. But we bet Miss Monroe wouldn’t be flattered.

Cops And Smugglers

A FEW years ago Lautoka, Fiji, seemed to have been picked out as a good place in which to drop spare opium, as there were several ships then calling to take away the sugar.

The authorities were concerned and took every step to stop it, but despite the good efforts of the Customs Officers it still got in.

At last a very astute Inspector of Police, with a refutation for dealing with such matters, was sent from Suva.

He met with success and made several arrests and the time came when he fixed a day and hour when he was sure that he would make a great haul. Not wanting to be seen about at the appointed time, he asked my wife and self to have a game of golf as a camouflage.

We arrived at the Club house and while waiting to go on to the tee, two well-dressed fellows arrived.

One was carrying a golf bag with two clubs in it, and the other, two clubs. They asked us if we would mind if they went ahead as they were in a hurry.

Off they went but it was soon apparent that they were not golfers and they seemed to be playing with one ball. At last we set off and asked could we go through. They readily agreed and we kept looking back at them, as they wandered from one side of the fairway to the other. When we got to the fourth hole, we could not see them anywhere and we didn’t see them again.

Some months later the story floated back to the effect that the way to get opium into Lautoka was to be a golfer; these two young fellows were members of the crew of a sugar boat in port, had packed the opium into the golf bag and walked ashore while every officer was watching for the suspected gang to make a move to land the stun.

Little did these sailors know that they were so near to the great man who thought they were safely in the net- BIRK.

Sailor- Bishop Alfred, bishop of Melanesia, was consecrated at Honiara, Guadalcanal, on May 30, 1954, being the 9th Bishop of the Diocese, but the first to be consecrated in the Diocese itself.

Alfred Thomas Hill was born in Wolverhampton. England, in 1901. He early felt a calling to the work of the Church, but this was not approved by his father, who owned a large engineering firm.

After matriculation at school, Alfred Hill went to sea as an apprentice in Lamport & Holt’s of Liverpool, who ran large cargo and passenger ships down the coasts of North and South America. After a short but brilliant career of 12 years, during which time he obtained his Extra Master’s Certificate, he had risen to command several ships. He was still only 30.

During this time he had taken a deep interest in the people of the slam areas around the large seaports, and in the work of Missions to Seamen. In 1931, daring the depression, he resigned the command of the liner “Phidias” at New York, took passage to London, and insisted upon becoming a lay missionary in the Victoria Docks and Limehoase areas of London.

After four or five years of this work he met the Bishon of Melanesia, the Bt. Rev W. H. Baddeley, who was on a visit tc London, and was accepted for work ir Melanesia. It was intended that hi should become Master of the “Southen Cross”, but the position had been fillet when he reached the islands in 1936 He served instead in some of the larg( launches running supplies for the missioi stations in the Solomons and on Nev Britain.

In 1938 he took charge of the Mission’! large boys’ school of All Hallows, at Pawa on the island of Ugi in the Solomons At the same time Bishop Baddeley ordained him a priest of the Church o England, despite his lack of a Universit; degree in Theology or Divinity.

Father Hill made a great success of thi school, showing how the youthfu Melanesian character can be moulded b; religion, education and discipline. Th Pawa school became a byword for it high standard, and a showplace in th islands. In 1953 the MBE was awards to Father Hill in recognition of his edu cational work. In 1954 the Bishopric fel vacant, and his colleagues asked Fathe Hill to take charge of the Mission, bu he refused, until it was found impossibl to find any other suitable man for th large responsibility.

The Very Reverend Alfred Hill rt luctantly left his school, but has no’ entered into his greatly increased fiel of labour with his usual dynamic energ] wide experience, and an unquenchab] humour which could be called positive! mischievous if he were not My Lor Bishop of Melanesia.—BßETT HILDER.

A Book by Bernd Lohse A LARGE book, lavishly illustrate with photographs of excep tional quality, has been com piled by Mr. Bernd Lohse (of Gel lertstrasse 4, Munich, Germany] who toured the South Pacific Island a couple of years ago. The bool unhappily for us, is in Germanand, since 1914-1918, the Germa language has not been a MUST fc Britishers. Therefore we do m know how valuable Mr. Lohse writing may be; but the book, Aus tralien und Sudsee, is well wort having if only because of the beaut and cleverness of the scores of phc tographs. Reproduction is superbthe Germans still are world mastei in the graphic arts.

If Mr. R. R. McKellar, Chief Ir spector of the Bank of New Sout Wales, left Sydney on a tour of Ne Guinea and Papuan branches ear in December. He will be in Po Moresby for the opening of the ne bank premises. 78

December. 19 5 4 -Pacific Islands Monthl

Charley and Scotty

By Bill Gill

“T T says here,” said Charley, X glancing over the rim of his newspaper, “that there’s an artificial leg being auctioned to-day by the Railways, along with a swag of other items of unclaimed lost property.”

“It seems an odd thing to lose,” 1 answered, humouring him. “You’d think the owner would miss an item like that pretty quickly.”

“Maybe he wanted to lose it,” said Charley, darkly. “I’ve known of such 2 thing before.”

“But that costs a lot of money,” r protested. “Why didn’t he sell it, if he wanted to get rid of it?”

“There’s no end of expensive \hings that the owners would be jlad to get rid of, if they only could; Dives for instance—you can’t leave hem lying around in lost property offices, not that easy.

“After all, compared with that, netting rid of a wooden leg is hild’s play. Why, I once helped a nate of mine to pelt his artificial zg over a cliff, a brand new one 00, only once worn,” and he laid side his paper, hoisted his feet to he verandah rail and cleared his hroat.

Recognising the symptoms I reigned myself to the inevitable. “Tell ie,” I said. * * * J OU’ll remember Scotty Blair of L the Hero? said Charley. Most Island skippers were men who ad crawled up through the hawse, leaning they’d been ordinary seaien or AB’s before getting comtand. Well, Scotty had been a arine engineer. He’d crawled up trough the fiddley, in a manner o’ waking, but he proved just as tod on deck as in the stokehold.

The Hero was the Governor’s cht. The name troubled Scotty a fc, as he believed all boats should female and Hero didn’t sound so od to him, not being a student of reek Mythology.

However, he soon had his ship e show-piece of the Islands. You uld have eaten your meals off her owy decks—if you’d been game a Scotty didn’t catch you at it.

Proud as Punch, he was, of the w, and the title “Captain” didn’t >please him, either. It was adtted by all, including Scotty, that he was about the smartest skipper on the coast. * SHf “ Pride goeth ever before a fall! (continued Charley sententiously). It so happened that the fleet arrived in port one day, “showing the colours,” and Scotty had to take the Government House party out to the flagship on the courtesy call.

Never had he handled his ship better, laying her up-tide under the lee of the warship as sweetly as kissmy-hand. But, before his mooring lines were made fast, a young Midshipman from the foredeck leaned over the rail and hailed him.

“Below there!” cried this cockalorum “Are you the cox’n of that launch I want you to lay aft aways to the main companion.”

Coxn?” said Scotty, aghast, Launch? My heart, but here’s promotion! Come down here, you pimply-chinned prawn, and I’ll hammer you into the deck seams with a caulking tool.”

That’s what Scotty said—only he said it to himself. Aloud, he merely Shunted and aimed a savage kick at the hatch combing, shattering all the toes on his left foot, and staggered, limping grotesquely, below.

Well, you know how these things go. Scotty lost heart after that. He neglected his busted foot and, in the end, he had to come South and have his leg sliced off at the knee.

He came back to the Islands on a pair of crutches, and with his money all gone, so that he couldn’t afford a proper artificial leg, and he had to get a mate of his, a shipwright, to whittle him a peg leg from the transom of the old Merrie England.

Very down-hearted he was about the whole thing, and was well on the downgrade when he took the fancy of a passing tourist woman.

Scotty did his best to dissuade her kut, in spite of his almost frantic efforts, she consented to marry him.

As Scotty’s affairs were still pretty middling, his bride had little trouble in persuading him to go South with her and take a mechanic’s job with her father, who owned a fleet of buses in the outer suburbs. As he was a good man, and now reasonably happy, it wasn’t long before his father-in-law took him into partnership.

And that’s how things were the week before last when I managed to run him to earth. He was glad to see me, and insisted on my spending a few days at their place. We hadn’t met for quite a long time, and had lots of news to swap. He still had his peg leg and, as his legs (Continued on Page 92) Below there . . . . . she smelled his breath.

A thin glass tube of reviver. 79 acific islands monthlt-december. 1.54

From Notes Made in Viti Levu and New Caledonia By R. W.

ROBSON.

Ladies in Action!

I sat in the cabin of yachtsman Hepworth’s quaint Arthur Rogers, moored off the sea-wall of Noumea harbour, and chatted happily with his charming and vivacious crew of five young girls. Skipper and Mrs. Hepworth where ashore, somewhere.

Suddenly there was a wild shout which indicated in the vernacular that “You’re ashore”; and at the same moment the yacht bumped delicately against the sea-wall. The strong sou’easter had dragged her anchors.

All my mascu- 1i n e misgivings about a girl crew disappeared. T o see those ladies go into action was alone worth that seaside visit.

They took the steep companionway in one bound.

One and a half more leaps carried them to the mooring ropes. By the time I reached the deck everything was coming under control two girls pushing heftily, two pulling, another adjusting a side cable and no nattering.

The ladies did not even suspect that I was a cad, and sneaked this secret, unposed photograph. (Below).

Harold Gatty—and Some Food I never ate a more memorable dinner than that provided for me one evening in Suva by my old friend Harold Gatty—soup made from the strange coral creature, palolo; Chili pigeons from Gatty s Lau Island of Katafaga; some carefully treated Kawai yams; and all well washed down with suitable wines of a tender vintage.

Harold insists that he has solved the mystery of the palolo—he can calculate the day and hour when this spawning will take place, and he proved it in October by going out one early morning and gathering a boatload. Despite my vinous somnolence, I made a note as Harold talked, and one day I shall publish his theory that the palolo is not a worm, but a string of eggs—l suggest it could be called “sea caviare.”

I was attracted by Harold Gatty’s theory that the coconut industry is wrongly based and operated. Coconuts, he argues, should rank with grain and similar products as a basic foodstuff for human beings, and not be regarded merely as a source of vegetable oil. Thus they would have a much more important and valuable place in economic affairs.

The way in which the enterprising merchants of Hawaii have processed the Australian Macadamia nut in coconut oil, and dressed it glamorously for the market, and made of it a sweetmeat of growing popularity, has been noted with interest in Fiji. Fiji has both the soil and the climate for the Macadamia; but Fiji also has its full share of strong winds, and Macadamia is so lightly rooted that it cannot stand up to any breeze of more than 30 miles per hour. Fiji students say that the nut is of no use to Fiji agriculturalists.

Unusual Kind of Newspaper In Noumea I met one of those human dynamos which Mothei France occasionally produces. Hu name is Fourcade, and he seems tc have a finger in every successful enterprise around New Caledonia— nickel mining, building construction timber-getting—and publishing. H( now owns the France Austral; and as a visiting publisher, I was amazec to note that this evening newspapej is wholly hand-set—probably ttu only daily journal in the world nov set by hand, in a Roman script He employs a dozen local girls wh( have been trained as compositors and—so high is the ruling wage ii New Caledonia now—each girl geti in francs, per month, the equivalen of from £lOO to £l3O Australian.

The enterprising M. Fourcade re cently established in Noumea, at i cost of about £40,000 Australian, th< only process-engraving plant in th South Pacific. It therefore is sur prising that he has not installed ; couple of type-setting machines.

Another curiosity I noted in a] old-established firm in Noumea wa the old-fashioned press-copym; book, used for making a record o outwards correspondence —yo dampen the leaves, put your wntte: letter up against a dampened page and squeeze it under a stron screw-press. That system was uni versal practice 40 years ago, but i went out as the typewriter and th carbon sheet came in. My Frenc. friends claimed it is a safer an handier system than the carbo copy.

The crew of Arthur Rogers in the rigging—at top, June Cabena (Melbourne).

Centre, left, Marjorie Pannett (Dunedin, NZ); right, Alison Goodwin (Auckland, NZ). Lower. Diana Hepworth (UK), Elizabeth Worley (Auckland), Thelma Johnson (UK). 80 DECEMBER. 1954-PACIFIO ISLANDS MONTHLT

Contrasts in Noumea Already (November PIM) I have commented on the extraordinary change that is coming over the face of Noumea. For fifty years, it has been a shabby little coastal town, where all the more hideous architectural features of the early Australian colonial villages could be found. Now, it is being rapidly modernised—fine new blocks of stores and offices are going up everywhere in the main streets, and attractive bungalows in the suburbs.

Noumea is making remarkable progress—but there still are some mean and ugly buildings to be removed from its principal thoroughfares. These two photographs were taken from the same spot, just off ie town’s best area. At top is seen ie very attractive residence of the oyernor and High Commissioner, nich any South Pacific capital uld be proud of. The other picture a photograph of a kind of teneent, where the first-floor washing hung out over the street. This Hiding immediately adjoins Govnment House—there is only the dth of a narrow street between.

The group of children who happed to be marching past when is snapshot was secured show the nety of races in this community Europeans, Melanesians and latics, igoon Hotel Statistics show that Fiji is earn- ? a steadily increasing revenue from tourist traffic— especially from parties of simple folk organised in wealthy little New Zealand and sem on directed round-trips. There would larger and better tourist business if all Rippers had not to be squeezed through Suva’s hotel bottlS. neck. When there are beds in Suva for all who want them, Fiji’s incoml will go up by seven figures.

Meanwhile, a word of praise for Sir Hugh Ragg and associates, who have established the Korolevu Hotel —a delightful combination of native bungalows and modern European amenities, on a picturesque lagoon beach on the cool southwest coast providing a most welcome break in the long road-journey between Suva and Nadi This is just what the discriminating overseas vi sit o r s want.

After the overcrowded conditions and snarling service of the New Zealand and Australian hostelries it is very pleasant to relax in Korolevu, where management and staff seem really glad to greet and entertain one with excellent food and comfort.

After a week-end at Korolevu— or at the Philp establishment at Deuba—one forgives Fiji for the fact that, just when post-war traffic was increasing, two hotels were put out of action in Suva, and nothing built to replace them.

Socio-Economic Future of the Fijians There is growing evidence that leaders of the native Fijians are now awake to the dangers which threaten their race. They appreciate the thrusting economic power of the ever-increasing Fiji-born Indians, and they realise that the Fijians are not in a condition to meet that threat so long as the majority of them are subject to their age-old communal system, under which they know nothing of individual enterprise and are wholly guided and directed by their chiefs.

There is much to be commended in the communal systems of the Pacific Islanders: but none can claim that it can stand effectively against Westernised ways of living, based on individualism. The large community of Indians and the small community of Chinese in Fiji comprise hard-trading individuals who, (Continued on Page 129)

Island Antics

WITH AN

Auto Cycle

By W. H. Percival T F y™ u y e on a Pacific island, and X cannot afford a car or motor , cycle, you may be compelled to pedal several miles to from heat 6aCh day ’ m steamin g tropical If you are as lazy as I am thic cause you to think that life Wte tedwiu”; or that there must But a rinS le J Way to earn a living.

But dont despair, friend. I have a message. Buy an auto-cycle! 0V i. er years ago I —and fi ftld Ji^^otor— going cheap and fitted it to my push bike This amazing contrivance is placed above the rear wheel, and a roller that works °n the tyre drives you forward hL t S p s P eed of 20 mph. Think of the advantages, friend. No more slugging against head-winds no more perspiring under a tropic sun ~.£ asy t 0 °P €ra te—cheap to run. But briUiant ° n * The ldea is obvious ly en?iJi°p d 'tn S «„ We ha X e fitted the engme to our once humble push- Sfe “S are aU set to travel six 3™lcs to work along Rarotonga’s coastal road. It is Monday mornw!’ f nc ? wear a nic e white suit. no 6 o fe fi h^ p P y and confident, be- ,¥ onday is different. For the first time in our Island expenence we will arrive on time, cool and calm, and ready for work.

The engine is new, so we cruise at 15 mph, which is considerably faster, anyway, than our normal muscle propulsion. Almost immediately we begin a new, boredombanishing experience.

Amazing how many pot holes there are in this road. Ugh! Didn’t see that one. The combined weights of rider and engine crash down on the rear wheel. A truck, driven by an Island gentleman, hurtles towards us on the wrong side of the road. We avoid him by inches, and are then forced into the centre of the road to miss a straggling group of pedestrians. This takes us over yards of corrugations which nearly jolt our teeth loose before we finally get back to the comparatively smooth side of the road.

With increasing skill we dodge most of the larger rocks and stones, but occasionally a combination of circumstances forces us to hit one. The tyres are driven hard against the rims and the jolt travels up through our body.

Considerately, we reduce speed to pass through a village. The dogs, roused to frenzy by the sputter of the engine, rush out at us in belligerent packs. They race alongside, Part of the Korolevu establishment. 81 ISLANDS m <>NTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

snapping at our legs. We calmly wait our chance, then unleash a kick calculated to decapitate the nearest brute. Our shoe misses by a foot and the momentum of the kick throws us into a front wheel Sk Somehow we avoid disaster—and the screaming urchins who dash across our path, seemingly intent on suicide. Slightly shaken we grin feebly, and press on, regardless. Our target is now less than three miles boys from Public Works have been busy repairing the road s —God bless them. The bend ahead of us is several inches deep with grey basaltic chips which haye been beautifully banked up by the islands motor traffic. On the left-hand side of the road, and three feet below its surface, are acres of swampy taro fields. . nca The front wheel enters the loose gravel—and skids away from us. We yank the handle bars round and stamp our foot down on the road, bringing our machine upright again.

When we stop sweating we begin to smirk. That was smart work. We re getting pretty good.

The smirk vanishes as we see four or five sucking pigs right in front of us We jam over the throttle so that the engine is barely running and swing hard over to the left.

This manoeuvre is designed to scare the piglets away to the right. They all get the idea —except one—which rushes blindly into our front wheel.

There is a vivid impression of being airborne, and seeing taro plants and muddy black water rushing up to meet us. Then we are groping around in oozy blackness that smells, trying to find the light.

When we get the mud out of our eyes we note that we are well bedded down, and that our white suit is just a beautiful memory. It is moments like these that a philosophical frame of mind is a distinct advantage. After all, friend, we could have hit the road and scratched our nose.

The engine has stopped running and not more than half the fuel has spilled out, so we get back into the saddle. Perhaps our .laugh sounds a little forced—but m the Islands one needs such a rooust sense of humour.

Half a mile further, the grey clouds that have been hiding the hills for days, get tired of doing nothing—and open up onus. With in minutes it isn’t possible for us to pt any wetter and the road is well awash. Oh, well, we think.

Just another cloudburst. Nothing unusual in our Island paradise.

The motor falters, sputters, and cuts out dead. For a moment we are puzzled. Then we realise that the roller can’t grip the tyre that slips so easily when wet. Never mind, the noise was getting on our nerves.

Our legs jerk mechanically into the old pedalling routine Only a mile to go. Practically on the doorstep. An unpleasant hissing sound comes from the rear. Oh, no, it can’t be! But we know, of course, that it is. A flat—one mile from base—in a storm—without a repair kit or any spanners.

We make ourselves look. The flattest flat we’ve had for years. And four broken spokes besides —little souvenirs of those lovely little potholes that give character to Rarotongan roads.

Well, friend, things didn’t quite work out the way we planned. But the unkindest cut of all is yet to come. , We limp, somewhat discouraged— and very damp and dirty—into the place that gives us taro and corned beef. The Boss comes out to greet US “Dammit, man. Late again. Can’t you ever get here on time?”

We shrug—and smile a little wearily. Can’t blame the poor old bloke, really. His liver’s crook. And after all—it’s Monday morning. fl Mrs. Pusinelli, of the Gilberts, travelled to Australia on vacation in November.

"Beach Comber”

No visible means of support, was the charge— No visible means of support.

The police sergeant said we were vagrants at large, Wrote “penniless” in his report; The magistrate read it and gave us ten days For sleeping out under the stars.

Society sought to reform our wild ways By making us sleep behind bars.

No visible means of support, they all said — No visible means of support.

No job, no address, no money, no bed — Yet we were the richest in court: For we’d slept on a palm-frond beneath a ti-tree That shed leaves on our limbs from above, While Venus shone brightly in radiant glee, For she knew Lupe and I were in love.

Jack Thornton.

Pim Crossquiz No. 58

Solution on Page 95.

ACROSS 1. what was the name of Sir Francis Drake’s ship? 5. what is the female of swine? 7—Which US city is noted for the production of photographic materials? 8. What to an ox, is venison to a deer? 9. What is the second city of Argentina? 11 —what may a herd of cattle do in a panic? 14. what is the French word for sea? 15. —What is the term for gases characterised by their almost complete lack of chemical reactivity? 17. what is another name for alfalfa? 19. —who discovered the law of the pendulum? 20. What is the term for the people, as distinct from the clergy? 21—What was one of George Westinghouse’s most famous inventions?

DOWN 1. who was the famous Italian soldier and patriot of the last century? 2_What plants have no flowers, stalks, or leaves? 3.—What is the term for any secret quack remedy? 4. —where did the Allies land when Europe was invaded in 1944? 5. —what pigment is obtained from the cuttlefish? 6. What is a peruke? 10—What is the term for theft by a person legally on the premises? 12.—Which East Indian animal is noted for its extremely large eyes? 13—Which famous Russian dancer died in 1931? 14. —who was the wizard in the Arthurian legends? 16.—Which African lake was discovered by Livingstone? 18.—Which monarch had three violinists?

DECEMBER, 1954-FAC.F.C ISLANDS MONTHL

Caledonian Lakeland— A NEGLECTED ELDORADO ON the southeastern coast of New Caledonia—on the side of the great island opposite to Noumea—there is a magnificent, deep, landlocked harbour. The outer portion can be seen in the top photograph. The inlet comes in around the left of the hill seen in the centre of the picture, and ends up in a deep basin, which can just be seen in the lower left-hand corner—the man is looking out over it. This is called Carenage Bay.

It gets that name, because Captain James Cook, 170 years ago came right up into this inlet and careened his ship in the little cove seen in the top centre of the lower picture.

Carenage Bay is shown in greater detail in the lower photograph For years prior to World War II big ships came into this inlet, and moored close to the bank. Deposits of iron ore on the high plateau from which this picture was taken were worked with heavy machinery the ore was put straight into trucks; and the trucks were lowered along the old railway seen in the immediate foreground, and tipped directly into the vessels lying alongside the bank, beneath.

From this point, for nearly 100 mles, right across the island -owards Noumea, there is mostly )n j Pi a * n > the Plaine des Lacs, md that plain is simply a mass of »re carrying about 50 per cent iron, is well as chrome, nickel, cobalt md various other metals. Not only s there an incredible quantity of ms ore, which is in demand hroughout most of the world, but t can be worked and—as shown ase^ 8 — extraordinary Since World War 11, various big letal interests have looked over tus area of a hundred or more square miles of desolate and uninhabited metalliferous plain; but for reasons which appear to be mostly political, no development has taken place.

But there now is reported to be a livelier and increasing interest in development of this valuable bit of territory. Many French investors xt^ V i 6 , sou ght leases; the famous Nickel Company is investigating; Japan has lodged a plea that she may be permitted to resume her pre-war shipment of 10,000 tons per month of the precious ore and Australia, officially and unofficially, is wondering why the ships which carry Newcastle coal to the smelting works in Noumea should not carry New Caledonia ore back to the steelworks in Newcastle.

Meanwhile, tough old Australian, Edward Griffiths, is warily watching all movements on the Plaine des Lacs. He went into this country 40 years ago to cut kauri; has walked all over southeast New Caledonia; now holds extensive mining rights in all directions thereabouts; and is convinced that, as the demand for cobalt grows, the value of his hardheld leases will increase. The photograph shows Mr. Griffiths out in the middle of the Plaine des Lacs, * very s Pot where he first found these valuable ores, holding up two lumps of almost pure cobalt.

Three days after taking this photograph, in October, the plane m which I departed for Suva flew over this wilderness, and I saw how it gets its name. Rainwater can find no getaway through these farflung massess of iron ore, and so it accumulates in the depressions and remains there until it evaporates. There are scores of little ponds and lakes, heavily mineralised, all over this unlovely, but mineralogically precious "country.— RWR.

U Unhealthy conditions and climate in New Guinea have made medical aid one of the missionaries, primary jobs, said a pioneer missionary (Mr.

John Pearse) in Auckland recently.

The South Sea Evangelical Mission, of which Mr. Pearce is a member, has been working in the Solomons for nearly 50 years. They decided some years ago to transfer some of their attention to New Guinea, where thousands of isolated natives had never heard of Christianity.

There are now ten SSE missionaries, both men and women, working in the Territory.

Edward Griffiths.

Harbour system on the east coast of Plaine des Lacs. New Caledonia. 83 Flc ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

This Month’s New Reading:

Bright-Plumed Warriors Of The

Glamour-Lands

Reviews by

Judy Tudor

The air (of the Highlands) is like a well-cooled hock after soup, writes Colin Simpson in his third Adam —Adam in Plumes. 1T is the sort of thing one would like to have said oneself, forforgetting the human element for the moment—there, expressed in a sentence, is the essence of these New Guinea wonder-valleys above the 5,000-ft. mark.

The author, of course, does not forget the human element—so far as this volume is concerned, the plumed men and women of the Wahgi Valley. They are the important motif. The w T ide fertile valleys, the amethyst mountains and heady air, mere stage props for their entrances and exits. 9 ne can appreciate his point of view, if not entirely agree with it. * * * The narrative is divided into two parts—the Highlands as they were in the early 30’s; and as they are to-day, 20 years on.

In part one, in company with Mick and Dan Leahy, James Taylor and Kenneth Spinks (the young surveyor, who is rarely mentioned in connection with any of this enterprise) we discover- the vast system of valleys that lie westwards from Bena Bena and which, by their discovery, increased the size of New Guinea by one-third and the population by 400,000.

To me, this part of the story is the most interesting and the most significant. Theoretically, I suppose, a gem is no less a gem because it is undiscovered and heaven knows there has been no lack of people to bemoan the march of civilisation towards these Highlands. Nonetheless, the important thing, to us, must be the fact of discovery.

It falls to the lot of few men to come as they did upon a new and unknown land. And although the Leahys at least, were not there through altruism (they were seeking gold) each was capable of feeling the significance of the discovery away and apart from the fact that, where only a jumble of mountains was supposed to exist, they had proved that there were fertile valleys and many people.

This first part of the story supplies, too, a complete answer to the carping critics who have had tits of the screaming-meenies over the Telefomin affair since patrolofficers Harris and Szarka were killed there by natives a year ago.

The explorations of the Leahys and Taylor, and the following consolidation of their position, no less than the explorations and consolidations of a score of others, were against as great odds as Harris and Szarka were asked to face. Good fortune, as well as vigilance and experience, was a factor in their coming through unscathed.

The novelty of the white man soon wears off and after that he is fair game. When the first plane arrived at the first Wahgi airstrip the natives fell to the ground as one man, and Mick Leahy wrote in his diary; “The natives began to raise their heads for a better view . . . Then the pilot, lan Grabowski, one of the tallest men in New Guinea, climbed out of the cockpit, covered from head to foot in shining white. He was wearing a white flyingsuit and a white helmet, with large square-cut green goggles—even to us he looked like an artist’s conception of a man from Mars. The kanakas simply flattened to the ground and moaned and for some moments were afraid to look upon the giant from the skies, least the sight strike them dead.”

But, when the time came for Taylor and Spinks to return from the first Hagen patrol to Bena Bena the attitude of the natives hac changed completely and what Leahj had written on a previous occasion was recalled: On your first trip into new country they will probably be too much in awe of you to turn hostile. On youi second trip they will begin to size yoi up more closely, to lose their fear ol you, and to consider how desirable ar< all those steel axes and shiny bauble! in your packs. On your third trip—loo* out!

Throughout the long way back “turbulence was on the MiddU Wahgi air.” Men who previousl: had disarmed themselves and sa quietly in the presence of tin strange white men, stood boldly bows in their hands . . . “only wait ing their opportunity to attack am kill and plunder the cargo.”

Sometimes the armed native around the small party numberei thousands and for most of the 15' miles journey Taylor and Spink had to run this hostile gauntlel They reached base at Bena Ben at the end of August, 1933, safelj but not before a couple of Chimbu had joined their ancestors.

After the trail-breakers came th prospectors and the missionaries subsequently, the killing of Fathe Morscheuser and Brother Eugeni which caused the whole area to t closed to Europeans, with the ex ception of the Leahys and a fe' selected missionaries, for a doze years—until 1947.

The development of the area i the few years since then has bee rapid—as Simpson describes in tr second part of his book. * * * IF Part One presents the nativ« through the eyes of the fir Europeans to see them, the Part Two endeavours to present tr A black-and-white reproduction of one of the colour plates, captioned “Eve in Plumes”. This girl of the Wahgi Valley, wears Bird - of - Paradise plumes, black and red cockatoo feathers and trade rings in her head-dress. Pearl shell and a quill through her nose; more shell and tradebeads around her neck. 84

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The theory, evidently, is that sex is the pivot upon which all the rest of life revolves: and in order to understand these primitive people and lead them gently up the path of civilisation, one must be intimately acquainted as to how, when and why they satisfy their sexual appetites.

Without either agreeing or disagreeing with the theory, I nonetheless reflect with some misgivings on my own mis-spent youth, when for some years I was in constant contact with reasonably primitive man and for many weeks at a time, had only reasonably primitive man for company.

In those long evenings—the days were full enough—instead of reading the jam- tin labels and sewing pieces of lap-lap into useless curtains or writing a diary, should I not have spent them down in the house-boy with our 50 boys, inquiring scientifically into the sexual practices of the people who lived over the Torecelli mountains?

When Tulawai and I sizzled over the camp-oven trying to make palatable bread, our conversation like as not, concerned how best to sieve the weevils out of the flourand when Geko and I toiled in the gjSg 1 tbe manfczs, we probably talked of the thieving Palais who always pinched the paw-paws before they had a chance to ripen The result is that, until this day ?“ O JS about the sex-life of the Wapis than I do about the sex life of the man who now occunies the office next door. And for the same reason—that I didn’t consider it any of my business.

Po?Sra e r Ve b r iok Wh o e f n £*B«S arouse the interest of the average reader-and It is on this point Sit wUh Pi?* ° nly criti cism P of Adam with Plumes : in relation to thpsp people, it seems to give sex an un due emphasis. I'd like to bet I guinea to a gooseberry that the average European visiting the High! ands would see just a new and interesting people, with sex, like eatmg and sleeping, merely a part of their lives, not the dominating 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1954

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According to Mr. Moyes, Australian cricket has entered into a Period of decline—and he gives several reasons for this. For my P ar *» by what I can judge in the short time it takes me to walk to the radio and turn them off, I think that cricket commentators have declined even further. And I await with considerable interest a book on how to brighten this aspect of the sport. (In view of the results of the Test just concluded in Brisbane, I expect Mr. Moyes to make an addition to subsequent editions of the bookon the regeneration of Australian batsmen).

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But it is as he says, and in it he has written about anything that comes into his head, and enjoyed doing it—as far as he can ever enjoy writing a book.

For, like most of us, he finds writing a book or writing anything else, hard work. Most difficult of all is to sit down, pick up a pen— and begin; or roll the paper into the typewriter—and begin. So easy to follow with absorbed interest the antics of an insect that distracts our eye; to roll a smoke—or two or three—and let the wheels of the brain run free, and the paper remain blank.

He writes (eventually) of Sydney, and the pearling towns of the north-west, of Cape York Peninsula and Marble Bar and the Centre; of birds, insects, snakes and fish. Of men and women of all these places Of gold and pearls.

And in writing to please himself he will, as usual, please his large following of readers. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd. Australian price, 18/-.) ! Two Popular young residents of Lae, New Guinea, Messrs. Jimmy Bretag and Nev Dixon, left the remtory early in November to try heir luck in Fiji. Both worked with ;he Department of Works and both •epresented Lae at Rugby League luring last season.

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However, his wife, it seems, had certain social ambitions, she’d got him made a JP and was now aiming higher. This, Scotty claimed, was their one spot of disagreement. She had got a wig for him, and had ordered the latest model of artificial limb to replace the old peg.

In vain Scotty pointed out the advantages of the timber over the new-fangled aluminium limb. A dog, for instance, couldn’t hurt a peg much, or give it hydrophobia, whilst it could ruin a metal leg.

Then his wife could no longer have a potato-masher handy, or a poker for the fire in winter or, for the matter of that, an all-round handy tool for all manner of jobs.

But she was adamant. She said she could no longer bear to see the leg of his pants flip-flapping like a flag round a pole, and she hated the thump of the peg as they walked down the aisle of the church, (For she’d got him enrolled and he attended regularly once every six months or so.) The new leg arrived on the same day as I did, which was a Saturday.

He was so busy entertaining me, however, that he put it aside until next day, in spite of his wife’s entreaties to try it on. But when she smelled his breath (and mine), she thought it might be safer to leave the trial trip over for a day.

Next morning she had the leg unpacked before Scotty and I were in circulation. After a “planter’s breakfast” we got around to studying the contraption. It had screws and springs and levers, and was a real pretty affair altogether.

“Try it on now,” said Mrs. Blair.

“The congregation will never know 92 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL Charley and Scotty (Continued from Page 79)

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“What congregation?” says Scotty, In a stricken voice.

“It’s our wedding anniversary,” says Mrs. 8., firmly; and all his pleas, backed by my eloquence, could not move her. “Charley needn’t come,” says she, “unless he insists.”

Whatever the cost, I would never desert a mate in distress, so off the three of us went. Scotty sweated between the wig, the leg and his ill-humour. It was a fine, warm day and the doors were left open to catch the breeze. Soon the drone of the preacher’s voice and the blowflies had everyone feeling drowsy.

I hadn’t been long asleep when I was disturbed by some sort of commotion. Gazing around I noticed that the preacher, looking agitated, had stopped speaking and some young folks at the back were hiding wide grins behind their hands.

Then “Teuky, teuk, teuk, teuk,” sounded right behind me. It was a hen that had wandered in at the open doorway.

“Scotty,” I hissed, giving him a nudge in the ribs with my elbow.

“Wassup?” he cried, starting— and as he did so his new leg went crash against the pew in front. Back came the leg, then forward again like a pendulum—crash, back; crash, back; and so it swung.

“Stop!” came the agonised voice of Mrs. B. “Oh, Scotty, stop it!”

“I can’t,” cried Scotty, his face scarlet and streaming sweat. “It’s ?ot out of control,” and he used a ;ype of language seldom heard in such company.

By now the place was in an uproar and the sexton, or whatever hey call him, was bearing down on Scotty with a wild look in his eye. 3e didn’t notice the hen, and must lave kicked it inadvertently, for it oared, screaming and shedding eathers, straight up and landed air on Scotty’s head.

But only for a moment. Scotty lucked his head, throwing the hen, fine, fat Rhode Island Red, off her talance and away she soared once nore. But her claws had caught in Jcotty’s wig so that the rest of her light was hampered somewhat by he weight of it.

“Get me outa’ here,” cried Scotty.

Quick, before I lose my reason.”

So I grabbed him by one elbow, nd the sexton took the other, and e got him upright, but the runaway lechanism of the tin leg took harge from then on. Struggle as re might, there was no controlling and finally Scotty took a back imersault, upsetting the sexton and ie, and landed flat in the aisle with is leg flailing ten to the dozen and übbing a hole in the carpet.

It wasn’t until the sexton, a determined man with enormous feet jumped onr. the flying leg and squashed it flat, that some semblance of order was restored.

It was a bitter day for Mrs. Blair but Scotty himself recovered his composure after I’d got him home and applied some of my well-known remedy.

“I’m glad you were at hand in mv hour of travail,” says he. “if you hadn t been here it may be the leg would never have gone haywire and I d have had to wear it till my dvine day. I’ve grown fond of the old peg oyer the years. It’s hollow, you know, ’ he goes on, lowering his voice and glancing around mysteriously, and many a time, when Ive got a tough repair job to do under a bus, I can unscrew it and draw solace from the thin glass tube of reviver I always carry there ”

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Solution to Crossquiz From Page 82

How Alcohol Came

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Letter to the Editor.

IN his article on the Cook Islands (September PIM) Mr. Shortall said: "There is evidence that intoxicating: liquor was consumed in the Cook Islands prior to the arrival of Europeans”. I do not know whether he meant this to apply to Rarotonga. The history of Rarotonga since contact with Europeans has been more fully documented than that of any other island of the Cook Group; but, for the 19th century, most of this is embodied in the journals and reports of LMS missionaries and of the British Vice-Consuls and Residents.

First Europeans to reside in Rarotonga were British missionaries, in 1827. They found no intoxicating beverage in use, though they did suppress the drinking of kava in the belief that it was an intoxicant. This suppression was later deplored by Rev. James Chalmers (missionary in Rarotonga, 1867-1877), who considered it partly responsible for the adoption cf stronger beverages. (Special report by Chalmers to the LMS in London, November, 1890.) According to Revs. Charles Pitman and Aaron Bnzacott, alcoholic drink was first introduced into Rarotonga in the 1830’s, most probably in the form of rum brought ashore by the crew of an American whaler wrecked at the Island late in 1836 or early 1837. (Pitman to LMS, February 27 and March 20, 1837; Buzacott to LMS, September, 1845.) Prohibition was decreed by the chiefs of the government, and the liquor trade was outlawed; but owing to the fact that certain leading chiefs themselves enjoyed rum, attempts to enforce the laws were not very effective or consistent. (E.g., William Gill to LMS, June 16, 1845.) Throughout the 1840’s, the emigration of Rarotongans and the immigration of foreigners (excepting individuals connected with or approved by the LMS) were prohibited; but, while immigration was controlled successfully, emigration was not. Many Rarotongans stowed-away aboard whaling ships and travelled throughout the Pacific. Few ever returned home, but those who did had much to say of life and customs in the cosmopolitan areas which they visited. Among the foreign Ideas and practices introduced by such travellers was the art of brewing bush-beer brought to Rarotonga from Tahiti about 1850. (Pitman to LMS, July 23, 1851.) This fermented-fruit drink soon became popular throughout the island, and as is well known, it has retained its popularity. Therefore, as re- 95

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TROPICAL CONDITIONS. attention. gards Rarotonga, Mr. Shortall was quite right in saying that bush-beer has been in vogue for a long time, but Chalmers would seem to be more correct in his analysis of its origins.

I am, etc., R. P. GILSON.

Apia, 5/11/1954.

Half a Million Pacific Insects THE Bishop Museum, Honolulu, is conducting a research project on the entire insect fauna of Micronesia—the first time a project of this size has been attempted in Pacific entomology.

Field research for the project was undertaken for a period of six years from the end of 1945 by the Pacific Science Board. The Museum’s job now is to process over 400,000 specimens collected during that period, and distribute these to over 115 collaborating scientists in 12 countries.

Reports from the scientists will be collated at the Museum and later published. It is expected the project will be completed in 1957.

Finance for the research programme is being provided by the National Science Foundation of Washington, USA, which recently provided a grant of $30,000 —the second grant in two years.

Apart from their value to science, the findings of the project will help pest-control generally and thus safeguard the economy and public health of Island territories.

U Mrs. Elizabeth S. Williams, formerly with the American Red Cross service in the South West Pacific during World War 11, and wellknown in post-war days for her extensive travels in the area, writing from Philadelphia Hospital, Amabala City, Punjab, India —where she has been a voluntary worker at this Presbyterian Mission hospital for some time —says that she expects to again visit Fiji and Tahiti in 1956.

Students of the Central Medical School, Fiji, moved into their quarters at the new medical school at Tamavua in August. The school was officially opened by the Queen during the Royal Visit last December but it was then incomplete.

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To Lavani—With

CAMERAS SOMEONE has been talking, and mostly through his hat. With a London date-line, this re- ;ently appeared in the Melbourne 4 ge: “Australian explorers will soon set mt to open up the lost valley in tfew Guinea inhabited by a tribe till living in a stone age setting.

Vith them will go all the trappings if a modern expedition, film actor nd filming equipment.

The valley, already nick-named ►hangri La, is inhabited by a tribe ailed Lavani.

“The actor is Australian Peter 'inch , . . now hailed as Hollywood’s ew heart throb. He is going so hat the first meeting with the tribe lay be handled in a manner suitble for display later on the world’s inema screens.

“Accompanying the party are Mr. olin Simpson, Australian author, nd Australian Desmond Clancy, a istrict officer.

“Mr. C. G. Scrimgeour, an Aus- 'alian TV and film executive, gave lis synopsis of forthcoming action i the Daily Mail in London,”

We would now like the comments P-NG Director of District Serces, Mr. A. A. Roberts, who has ade no bones about the fact that hen a patrol goes into Lavani it ill consist of District Services pernnel, and no one else. [?]nd Calling Dr. Gunther:—

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PAPUA Age (which used to be a very sober newspaper) has printed, also, a very pitiful tale of the ils of indentured labour. It comes an interview with Father Paul phanel, of Yule Island, who was his way back to France. The Dd Father had helped on the ssion road that runs into the inior (PIM published something DUt this last year) ... but this id has opened the way to an r il traffic.” Says the Age: In Papua, coastal natives will not rk for planters. . . . Therefore the nters recruit mountain men, gmncent fellows who have never i a day of sickness, and have n used to a stable order of iety for countless generations.

They come to the plain, leaving ir women behind to turn sour 1 rail at the old men and children, only company they have. Many nen desert to other tribes, caustrouble there.

On the plains, the men get lana. They also soften with unustomed heat and food. They able away their earnings. Men hout women, they develop unural practices. their indentures—they return out money their health lost, to find their tribal organisation in mf™ Within two or three yea?s. they shed a tear J these magnificent Papuans—whoever they might be—we wonder why neglected the?e tJeoole'whm 1 h llas 4 peopl( i When he went hlvc pai ?g to «f e that the Highlanders on the other side were sufficiently proofed against disease befoie they went to work on the coast, The Age does not know it, but there are penalties for employers ie allow their Highlanders to catch malaria.

It is about time, anyway, that printing untruths of the nature conindictable offlnc^’ 6 WaS made att

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CJOMEWHAT belatedly, new and kj stringent regulations have lust come into force in Western campaign an antl " Rhinocer °s-beetle The beetle has. of course, been firmly established in Western Samoa for 45 years. The new regulations if enforced, will require the clearmg of land and plantations of weeds and destruction of infested trees, rubbish dumps, sawdust heaps, etc., and all possible breeding places. 97 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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But that was hot the end of the ■years-old vessel. The wreck was irchased “as is, where is” by a aptain Thayer, of San Francisco, r $1,350. Eleven months after irenees was beached at Mangareva aptain Thayer arrived to find the rgo still burning. Much of the ck was destroyed but the hull was mtact. On April 2, 1902, Captain Thayer brought his purchase safely into Papeete. There she was given a temporary new deck and other repairs sufficient to sail her to San Francisco, where she arrived in July of that year, still with 2,400 tons of damaged grain aboard. Major repairs were carried out and in April 1904, the barque began a new life as the Manga Reva, finally being torpedoed in the Straits of Dover in April, 1917.

And Still They Go:—As

William Willis and his cat arrived back in New York it was reported from Peru that, financially and technically backed by Thor Heyerdahl, of Kon-Tiki fame, three Peruvians, Julio Orjeda, Wilfredo Castro, and Juan Aguilar, were planning to follow the same oceancurrent-and-wind-dictated trail, but this time using a more primitive reed raft of the type used by the Indians of Lake Titicaca. Presumably they will not set out before next winter.

Nothing further has been heard of another prospective drifter John Gwyther, RNVFL FRGS, of Alton, England, since he an .*}° u . nced Plans in January last to drift in a twin-hulled canoe from Tahiti to New Zealand this year So far as we know, Mr. Gwyther has not shown up in Tahiti.

B^hdon St Cwnon itod iS n6WS of Dr> u°S n f Cwilong, presumably now inth? V a?hf P w gland i° . Vancouver ?? ess ama *- There sail her to^^i'iii^n 0 ? 11011 ?^ 111 commence a? !? f rom there world drift a nn fpund-the- WOTk “wS? 6 * 10 su ™y Princess manned by 99 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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The survey, which is said to have the firm backing of various scientific bodies, will be carried out in stages.

A magnetometer worth $20,000 is being supplied to the specially built and equipped Non Magnetic 111 by the National Research Council of ■Canada. Dr. Cwilong was formerly a senior lecturer at Victoria University College, Wellington, NZ.

ALL LIT UP;—The new Vuna Point Light, south-west Taveuni, went into test operation October 21, the occasion being celebrated at the nearby home of Mr. J. V. Tarte, of Waimaqere. The light was set in operation by Miss Talei Tarte in the presence of the Fiji Acting Mechanical Engineer, Mr. L. Whysall, the Roko Tui Cakaudrove, the District Officer, the Medical Officer, and other citizens who went out to the reef in PWD Launch No. 8.

Vuna Point Light has a height of 32 ft., has a visibility of 10.5 miles, and gives a single flash every 8 seconds. The position is 16.57.55 South, and 170.52.28 East. The test period, during which the light was likely to be extinguished at any time, was to end on November 5, after which it was to go into full operation.

TAHITI FISH FERRY;—Henri Nimau, of Papeete PWD Workshop, recently mentioned as building a steel live-fish freighter in his spare time, for the fish trade to Makatea, has now chartered and converted the 19-ton MV Nacirata as an interim measure. Owned by M. Yves Sanquer, of Raiatea, ,she was built in Papeete, in 1936, for the Raiatea- Tahaa service by M. Le Prado. A 3 2 -ton refrigerated chamber has now been installed. Nacirata brought her third fish cargo fro the Tuamotus to Papeete in N( vember. She will probably a 1 £ supply Makatea.

THEY ALL DO IT;—The we! established Islands practice of ove loading is engaged in as much 1 Governments as private ship owne: 100 DECEMBER, 19 5 4 -PACIFIC ISIA N D S MONTH

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LH.6.HPMb !The GEIC’s Colony Wholesale Society 126-ton auxiliary ketch Te Matapula arrived in Suva recently with over 50 deck passengers from Vaitupu. They had been taken aboard on orders from the vessel’s owners. This is twice the number permitted under her certificate. The year-old ketch was down for her first annual refit. The Vaitupu people were bound for the Ellice re-settlement island of Kioa, Fiji.

FIJI RNVR RETIRED LIST: So that Fiji Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officers may retain the honour of being commissioned, but will not be subject to service after retirement through age or medical reasons, the law has been amended in Fiji. Administration of the Naval Reserve Fund has also been transferred from Accountant-General of the Colony to the FRNVR Commanding Officer.

MORE GROPING: —Stanley Angwin, OTC’s modern telegraph cable vessel, well remembered for her work in Fiji waters following the 1953 earthquake and seismic wave, again called at Suva to load cable and departed on another deep-water job n mid-November. For the first time since it was laid in 1926, a fault had developed on the Suva-Fanning trans-Pacific span, 100 miles southwest of Fanning, in 3,000 fathoms.

At about the same time the reserve cable-ship Matai was recomnissioned in Wellington, NZ, to re- 3air a fault that had developed on ;he Auckland-Sydney span in comjaritively shallow water not far tom Auckland. Then, before reaming to her mothballs, Matai, vhich has accommodation for 45 )assengers and 180 tons of cargo, nade a relieving run out to the 2hathams while the regular vessel, iolmlea, was on survey.

PINEAPPLE RUN:—Though Tasaan Steamship’s vessels are reported aden with writs in Auckland, peraission was obtained from creditors, or Viti, under Government subsidy, o make a November run to Manaia, Cook Islands, for an estimated ,000 cases of pineapples, to be deivered to Lyttelton, NZ. The Govrnment is keen to encourage the langaian pineapple producers and tie Maui Pomare, on the regular ervice, could not pick up the cargo t the time it was ripening.

FISH—FOR JAP HOOKS ONLY: -While numerous Jap shell poaches were being reported from P-NG r aters in early November, another ap ship, the 296-ton Kasima Maru, opped in to Brisbane with engine rouble. Captain Osamu Kitakara f the vessel, expressed surprise, hile his motors were being righted, aat an Australian official tuna irvey in the Coral Sea had recently lown poor results. He had found ie Coral Sea teeming with tuna ad had taken 5 tons in a few days )0 miles E-N-E of Brisbane.

DANGEROUS WORK:— Lt.-Comlander Maurice Batterham, RAN, last in Rabaul in 1946 on a bomb disposal and under-water surve? of wrecks was back there again in November to deal with some more tnrnpdnps av-w-mf cn tu portlf denths w ! r n e . re « fathoms. WMle on that iob Lt Commander BatteSiam war-Ume The HDML FLYING CLOUD, on the Lord Howe-Sydney service. 101

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frog-man, observed a sunken 40-ft Jap barge in Keravia Bay in about 5 fathoms of water. It appeared korth salvaging.

BIG CARGO: —Believed to be the krgest peace-time cargo ever to be anded in Fiji, the British freighter 1 ustralind, on the direct service rom London, landed 8,823 tons in .12 working hours at Suva in Norember. Australind’s cargo, and a urther 7,500 tons discharged from Vaikawa, at Lautoka, combined to tiake a probable record import tontage for any peace-time month.

VIT I-I I FOR SALE:—The Fiji- Jovernment motor yacht Viti-II ras on offer by tender recently, ’his twin Gardner-powered 56-ft ridge-deck cruiser was formerly the loyal Flight, built by Lars Halvorjn Sons, Pty. Ltd. ydney, in 1938 i went to Fiji bout 6 years ago nder charter to h e Rank film nit engaged on reducing Blue Lapoon in the Yasawa’s. Royal Flight was used as a personnel boat (together with Mr. Hugh Frewen’s Viking Ahoy from Queensland) and was later purchased by the Fiji Government. Viking Ahoy was acquired by the Seventh Day Adventist Mission in a deal which involved the exchange of their Melanesian as part payment. Royal Flight has been used as the Governor’s recreation vessel and for the transport of Government officials, etc She has a cruising speed of about 8 knots.

SOLOMONS ADDITION:—Bjarne Halvorsen Ltd. recently delivered another attractive trawler-type vessel to an Islands client. Named Bauro, she is one of a series of similar craft. Several have been h + at C. -3™ Gumea and another may go there. Bauro, Viking Ahoy Snacttv^oftin/ 1 ' f With a hold ASL'TSA?

Campbell for use at their Solomons Plantations. She has a comfortable cabin ’ and accommodation six crew. She was commanded °" hCr de “ Very »y CasS The handsome 57 GAZELLE, men- [?]ned last month, [?]ich was recently livered by the C.

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Photo: “Brisbane legraph.” 103 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Max Stanton, who was master of Hannah when that 300-tonner, now owned in the Cooks, operated briefly to the Solomons in 1947-48. With him were three other European officers. Captain Stanton reported sighting a drifting mine off Townsville on the run north. An aerial search was later made for it.

ON THE BLOCK: Elsewhere we have reported that Tasman Steamship Co’s Viti, with permission of creditors, was making a pineapple run to the Cooks from Auckland. It is now reported that the insolvent ex-servicemen’s organisation is forced to sell the 750-ton refrigerated ex-corvette Madonna which was acquired in England only a few months ago. A price of £50,000 is sought.

JAP WRECKAGE:—As an aftermath of excitement that was caused in the New Caledonia-New Hebrides area by “mysterious” vessels in October, it was reported from Noumea on November 7 that wreckage bearing Japanese markings had come ashore at Hailou, east coast of New Caledonia.

It included 3 hatch covers 5 ft by 18 inches, a cabin window, a door about 4 ft high with several planks missing and a considerable amount of other broken timbers, some with deck fittings attached, all of which seemed to indicate that a Jap fishing boat had been wrecked in the area.

MI ENA ACCIDENT:—In February we reported that Captain J. R.

Richmond’s ketch Miena, originally from Tasmania but well known in New Zealand waters, was for sale in the Solomons.

She was in the news again on November 16. In use as a trochus vessel, she was operating 70 miles south-east of Mackay, Queenland, when a steel compressed-air bottle exploded while being pumped up.

Four crew members, all Europeans from Cairns, were injured by flying steel and were landed at Pine Islet where a launch took them on tc hospital at Mackay. There wen several other Cairns men in th( crew.

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Cables: “IVAN”, SYDNEY. aesian waters, made a round of New Zealand’s southern outliers in November, delivering a meteorologist to he Campbells, and landing scientific workers briefly on some of the other low rarely visited rocks. There has seen no recent word of the Auckand treasure-seeking expedition, ipparently held up in its plans to :o south to seek the General Grant iold hoard, as recently mentioned n PIM.

BROKEN SHAFT: Compagnie 'rancaise Nouvelles Hebrides’ 70-ton Loba was reported at Pentecost nth a broken shaft in mid-Noember. Aoba was built in Australia i 1945.

LORD HOWE CONNECTION: ince BP’s discontinued their sgular passenger connection with ord Howe about six months ago, lat island has seen only occasional alls by Savoie freighters on the ydney-Noumea run. To meet this tuation, Mr. G. M. Kirby, owner L- Pine Trees guest house, hich caters for about 60 mainland sitors at Lord Howe, purchased the tractive 72 ft x 15 ft HDML rudence II from a Brisbane owner i June, and put her into his own pdney-Noumea personal service te August.

Late November she was on her tird voyage. Mr. Kirby renamed ie vessel Flying Cloud (she was iginally Endure and was never put to the naval service for which she is intended.) Mr. Ces Harrison is in command 5 was formerly associated with r. Lew Graham, of Auckland, in e Alexander and Nukalau Pacific ntures.

Flying Cloud , powered by a pair 300-hp Atlas Hercules diesels, has cruising speed of about 10 knots, ie owner’s cargo is stowed wherever ace is available, there being no Id. Between her Sydney trips, is smart little vessel runs fishing rties around Lord Howe.

CJNDISCOURAGED; Though sir schooner Awatea foundered srtly after sailing for New Guinea October (see p. 102, Nov. PIM) opic Star Trading Co. has plenty life in it yet. Shareholder Capn Geeves (not Jeebes) reported •m Hollandia in November that Royal Suva Yacht Club-the club house, and some of the yachts which represent the most active club in the Islands. 105 LCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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AVIE MORE:— A year ago Oscar Yordman, of Tahiti, asked for details of a former three-masted barque, a painting of which recently came into his possession in Tahiti.

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QUIT SOLO- MONS:—In Sydney for some months past, and for sale is the GPV type 85-foot wooden Ruena, no longer required in Fairymead Sugar Co.’s Solomons service. Ruena is famous as the vessel in which many BSIP re- W -S r K od their P assa ges back home in Februar y> i 947f to rehabilitate their properties after the war. ■h<ii route from Sydney on that occasion, chief Engineer s. R Willis’ raft photographed at the end of the months’ drift, as the Samoan government vessel “Manua’tele” appreached it to take it in tow. (See Nov.

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PAPEETE IMPROVEMENTS: Port Captain Georges Bailly reports that Papeete Pass has recently been deepened and widened to a minimum 36 feet by 263 feet in a Public Works Department scheme to improve the port for large vessels. Further deepening will be carried out in 1955.

WOMBAT RENAMED;—In line with his usual custom, Captain E.

Savoie, of Noumea, has renamed his latest acquisition Sonora del Mar. The 273 tons ex-Womhat, still refitting in Melbourne, was to load in Sydney and arrive in Noumea about Christmas on her maiden French-flag voyage.

FIJI RESTRICTIONS:—ReguIations have now been gazetted in Fiji which forbid vessels, regardless of size, from clearing from any point on the Viti Levu coast from Nanukuloa to Naboutini without a Rhinoceros beetle clearance certificate. Village officials have been appointed to issue clearances at all villages on this sector. There is a penalty of £lOO for failure to comply.

LAURABADA REPRIEVED: Destined for scuttling after 30 years of honourable service as Papuan Administration yacht and latterly as headquarters of the Port Moresby Sea Scouts (PIM, July, p. 106), the 160-ton veteran has been reprieved.

A Port Moresby boat-builder who has purchased the vessel has made the surprising announcement that he will probably enter her in the 1957 Sydney-Hobart Race—after a complete refit.

GRIEF IN COOKS \—Rannah, Australian-built 300-tonner which Mr. D. C. Brown of Rarotonga acquired in August, 1953, for the Cooks inter-island trade, may have ended her days on Rarotonga reef.

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Mr. Brown planned to operate annah on the Cooks-NZ tomato nd pineapple trade, but she proved >o small for the long hauls in- )lved, and after two trips retained in the Group. She has nee been mainly engaged in irrying small cargoes of MOP shell •uth from Manihiki to Rarotonga, id in the Lower Group trade.

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Df the remaining four vessels, one t back with engine trouble, other is delayed at sea with ?ine trouble, one reported all well she heads for Samoa, and one s expected there November 15. sailed independently.

MUSEUM FOR WILLIS RAFT: >even Little Sisters which drifter lliam Willis presented to the )ple of American Samoa, will >bably be housed in a building to specially built. Governor Lowe i the Chiefs are conferring in ■ matter. The building may ;ome a general museum and •ary of Pacific material, n Sydney a legal battle developed November between rival news- )ers on publication rights of the llis book, which has already >eared in instalments in some er Australian papers. ’hree points of note are that raft passed 100 miles north of Marquesas, that Willis was ill a good part of the voyage, and t he regularly used his radio but y discovered late in the voyage t, through some misadjustment, lad not been emitting signals. He • ected this in time for his final isage. ack in New York, Willis was ted to the elite Adventurers’ b which acclaimed the voyage greatest single-handed effort :e Charles Lindberg’s Atlantic it.

EW LIFE:—A Japanese fishing el, wrecked on Kapingamarangi 1, Micronesia’s nearest neighbour 'Jew Guinea, has been refloated converted to the cargo and ienger trade, and is now owned operated to Ponape by the »ingamarangi people.

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SYDNEY AGENTS: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., 12 SPRING STREET. rreck occurred at 3 am. She was nsured for 21 million francs. No ives were lost.

Next to go was the auxiliary utter Rosita of 18 tons owned by M.

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Rosita, built in Papeete in 1946, 'as in the news some time ago when he failed to arrive at her destinaion: but later she turned up at nother island.

News of Cruising Yachts • "If the French authorities ever were difficult with yachtsmen in Tahiti that is not the case to-day,” said Mr. J. S.

Rockefeller, of New York, in November as he passed through Sydney. He formerly owned the 40-ft. ketch MAN- DALAY. "The villains I cannot emphasise it too strongly, and you can quote me on this are the American authorities in Pago Pago,” said Mr.

Rockefeller. "If ever a bunch of officials went out of their way to make it tough for yachtsmen, those are the boys, and I plan to raise what hell I can about it when I get back home.”

Mr. Rockefeller and former sailing companion. Anthony Richardson, who left the yacht in Tahiti months ago, boarded the Italian liner AUSTRALIA in Sydney late November, homeward bound for the States via Europe. The 40 ft. ketch ended its threeyear voyage from Greenwich, Conn., when sold to M.

Claude G i r a u d of Aore islet, near Santo, in October.

Owner Rockefeller came south per MALAITA, but crewman Bob Grant will journey back to Tahiti by first ship totake delivery of LE KORRIGAN in which he will continue cruising after the hurricane season. • Royal Suva Yacht Club, easily the most active and best equipped club south of the Line, held its end of season ball October 30. The Governor and Lady Garvey attended —Lady Garvey presenting’ the trophies for the season’s events.

Though the season has officially closed there is plenty of sailing activity throughout the year in Suva. Overseas yachtsheading for Fiji may obtain local information from the secretary, Mr. H. Smith. • Apia Sailing Club, long dormant, has come to life. A new committee was recently formed and a programme of racing is planned to commence in December. The secretary is now Mr. A. Philipp.

There are plans for establishing a club house. • LE KORRIGAN was brought to Tahiti some years ago by M. Charles Van Den Broek d’Obrenan. Retired French KONA of Honolulu —now at Auckland. 111 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1954

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Iter Commander Victor Clark, RN, Rtd., rived at Rarotonga November 11, sared again for Auckland via Island rts, but some days later was cast on B reef at Palmerston atoll when her ble parted while anchored there.

Soles were knocked in the hull but the Imerston people combined to render I and it is hoped that the yacht may refloated later. With Commander Clark Stanley Mathurin of the West Indies. » MANU MOANA is back in Auckland m her 4Vi months cruise to Tonga, moa and Fiji. (Aug., ’54). » RENEGADE, NZ, a. Noumea Nov. 2 m Norfolk. (Nov., ’54). North of Nork this yacht had the remarkable ex- ■ience of fouling set nets, presumably tanese. This yacht will probably remain Cairns, next port. » WAIMANA, NZ, a. Brisbane. This ht, owned by C. Williams, apparently not head for Fiji as earlier reported. :t., ’54). \ FLAMINGO, NZ, a. Noumea late Oct. m Solomons, homeward bound. This footer left Auckland December, ’53, ered Sydney-Hobart Race, thence up stwise to Gladstone, across to New inea and the Bismarcks. (Dec., ’53). , ANNA ELIZABETH, Dutch, a. Niue . 18 from Rarotonga, bound Noumea Tonga. , BOUNTY, NZ, a. Newcastle, NSW, ly Nov. (Sept., ’54).

KONA, US, should now be in Auck- 1, NZ, where she is likely to remain )ugh the summer. (Feb., ’54).

NEW SILVER GULL, Australian, d. sco late Oct. b. Caribbean via Lower and Panama. This Sydney 44 ft :h, owned by Harry and Oceana Scott, sed through the Islands several years bound Canada.

ARTHUR ROGERS, England, corned a 51fc months’ cruise to Tonga, , New Hebrides, New Caledonia and folk Island, arriving back in Auckland ember 22. Owners Tom and Diana worth may soon do a summer cruise id NZ, and will probably make another girl Island cruise next winter.

ANNA ELIZABETH, Dutch, a. Suva -November, from Niue via Hungia, ua, Komo and Kabara. To sail late ember for Vila. ►antas passengers to Noumea n Sydney in November included, Jacques Betfort returning home; s. O. Rothery visiting her son in, of Noumea staff; Mr.

M. Drummond, of the South :ific Commission’s Noumea office; , J. H. Henderson returning to imea; and Peter Robilliard, whose aer is attached to Vacuum Oil ’s Noumea staff, joining his ents for the school holidays. ’ravelling by Qantas aircraft in /ember were Georges Fung and •nard Leroux, who were returnhome to Santo, NH, on vacation m King’s School, Sydney.

II Lieutenant C. Prentice, Corps of Fiji Engineers, has been promoted to the rank of Captain, with effect from October 29.

II Mr. S. V. Patel, Indian Government Trade Commissioner in Australia, recently spent six days in Fiji on his way to Tahiti and Western Samoa.

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Japan, South Africa, Formosa and The Netherlands. 113 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Carter, of Port Moresby, have been giving a series of exhibitions of 3-D slides and coloured photography of Papua and New Guinea in Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra. They will leave Sydney towards the end of December by Taiyuan for Japan and Hongkong. [?]cAuliffemith Wedding Married at the abau1 Methodist hurch, on October , were Miss Frances [?]therine McAulifTe [?]d Mr. Gordon [?]thur Smith. Shown the wedding group [?]e (left to right): [?]st man, Mr. Alan illis; the bride and oom; Mr. John [?]tcher. who gave e bride away; and [?]idesmaid Miss [?]ne Taylor.

Photo: C. H. Meen. 115 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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News o f I s l an d s Boxing |JIIJIAN boxer Ilaitia Vakaduadua J 1 collected his second title late in November when he won the light-heavyweight championship of Fiji from Gabirieli Naborisi (Suva).

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The fight was won b a the SGCOnd roUnd ° f a scheduled 12round figh J- T s e defendi ? g cham : pion . was floored several times and received a severe battering during t he ™nmis When the bell went for tbe third he f aded to come out of hi s corner. Weights were- Naborisi, 12.5; Vakaduadua 123 Two Tahitian boxers, Chas Cowan and Santiao, were scheduled to leave Papeete on December 9 for Apia Western Samoa. They will accompanied by promoter Gustave Spitz and Mr. Oscar Nordman. Both boxers will fight in Samoa and then probably visit Tonga and Phi . J ' . A factory in the Netherlands has built a number of plastic canoes for the Police Authorities in Netherlands New Guinea. The canoes are provided with a sun-shelter.

Mrs. Barbara Halstead, of Fiji, fishing rom a small dinghy off Sigatoka early ne morning in October, hooked - and anded —an 8-ft marlin, after a 35-minute [?]attle. The fish was only two feet horter than the dinghy. Mrs. Halstead pas using a nylon line with a 45 lb reaking strain, and a No. 6 spinner at he time. The fish weighed 140 lb—not [?]ig for a marlin, but big for a 10-ft [?]inghy. Photograph shows Mrs. Halstead [?]nd the fish.

Photo: Fiji Public Relations Office. 117 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 19 6 4

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Blue Gillette Blades G mu Apia Billiards and Snooke Championships tf Mr. Fred Archer, well know: owner of Jame Plantation, Buki Passage, New Guinea, arrived u Brisbane at the end of Novembei and was operated on in the Mate Hospital there on December 7. H became ill early in November; re ceived treatment in Sohano am Rabaul hospitals; and then wa sent South for specialist treatment He is now doing well, but will spent the Xmas-New Year holidays ii bed.

Billiard and snooker championship were held by Apia Club (Western Samoa recently. Photos show, top to bottom Mr. P. Plowman, MLA, holding the cu he won as snooker champion. Mr. Dicl Betham, winner of handicap billiards Kalapu (holding trophy) and J. Hansel who won the Tennants Cup for billiard pairs.

Photos by R. F. Rankin 118 DECEMBER, 1054 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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The success of this amazing discovery, called VI-STIM, has been so great that it is now being distributed by all chemists here under a guarantee of complete satisfaction or money back.

In other words, VI-STIM must make you feel full of vigour and energy and from 10 to 20 years younger, or return the empty package and get your money back.

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When you chew P.K. on the beach your mouth is always moist and cool as the sun tans you. Enjoy refreshing Wrigley's P.K. every day. So healthful.

So breath - sweetening. So delicious. r\i P c * End of W. Samoa Golf Season A young Australian couple, Mr. id Mrs. Bruce Bond, who were arried in Sydney recently, will make their home in Papua. Mr.

Bond manages a rubber plantation at Sogeri, near Port Moresby.

If Miss Anne Balzer, of Sydney, and Mr. Brian Bennet, of New Guinea, recently announced their engagement. The couple plan to marry in July, 1955, and will live at the Gummansh River Station.

Apia Golf Club closed its season on November 6. A large crowd attended and the [?]gh Commissioner of Western Samoa (Mr. G. R. Powles), presented 52 trophies, [?]p photo shows men of the Club lining up for the long driving competition. From [?]t to right they are: The High Commissioner, Lester Cook, Lex Rapson, Johnnie alker, Ray Marsack, Bob Bugg, Ralph Stock, Barry Puklowski, Gordon Murray, [?]gus MacDonald, Norman Paul, Alex MacDonald, Kevin Peterson, Clarrie Peagram [?]d Lloyd Webber.

Lower photos are (left to right): Ray Marsack, winner of the senior champion- [?]p for the third consecutive year; Lester Cook receiving the Senior Wooden Spoon nated by Mr. Clarrie Peagram; and Moira MacDonald, local star of the movie Return to Paradise”, who was winner of the Ladies’ Senior Championship.

Photos: R. F. Rankin. 119 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— DECEMBER. 1954

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The New Zealand yacht Flamingo, on arrival in Noumea from Norfolk Island, late October, reported that she had fouled a long buoyed net, set on the open ocean well north of Norfolk. Some difficulty was experienced in getting clear of this obstruction. There was no vessel in attendance. A small vessel cruising through one of these set nets would probably foul her propellers completely.

A US Fish & Wildlife survey vessel some time ago passed close to a very long buoyed fishing line between Palmyra and Hawaii, which was assumed to be Japanese. No tending vessel was sighted.

It has been suggested that the present Jap fishing activity in Southern waters may be attributed partly to the effects of the H-bomb on their regular North Pacific grounds.

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VQO broadcasts music and news ery night, except Sunday, from pm to 7 pm local time. Shortage staff has prevented an extension broadcasting time. The station is »erated by Government officers luntarily, in addition to their fullne jobs. Mrs. W. Clark, whose isband (Pastor W. Clark) is an SEM missionary in Honiara, conicts a children’s session every lursday. A special request session r native listeners is held on Wedisdays.

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'Jew Golf Course Opened

Dn November 13, the Honiara Golf ub onened the first five holes of ; new course. A further four holes 11 be completed as soon as possible, id the Club plans eventually to tend it to 18 holes. It is hoped at a permanent Club House will provided. Meanwhile, a leaf elter will be erected. Captain of e Club is Mr. T. H. Manning, and e Secretary, Mr. C. Arnold.

)Od Rationing In Honiara

The recent Australian waterside >rkers’ strike which paralysed all istralian ports for 12 days, caused per capita ration system to be iposed in Honiara on November , Goods effected were rice, sugar, rned beef and ration biscuits. A evious measure had restricted pply of these essential rations >m stocks held in Customs sheds, stailers were prohibited from selll the commodities unless the stomer produced a permit.

“Southern Cross” Fund

GROWS Between £65,000 and £70,000 has w been raised by the Melanesian ission for the purchase of a new mthern Cross —the eighth vessel serve the Mission under that me. Southern Cross VII is still ng in Sydney Harbour, as yet un- Id. Estimated cost of the new ssel is at least £120,000. Contritions to the fund from NZ so far tal more than £35,000. The United ngdom has raised about £20,000 d the Diocese of Melanesia, £5,000.

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A linesman from the BSI Posts and Telegraphs Department visited Malaita in October and installed a new telephone system on the island.

The Auki Government Station, the Auki Post Office the District Commissioner the Auki Hospital, King George VI school, the Police and the Agncultural Department at Auki are now connected by phone.

Mr. J. A. Maisev Horticultural Officer of the Imperial War Graves Commission, visited in November to lav out warden nint« in the Suva m£tary Cemetery.^ 0 * The Commissioner has recently had a low, stone wall built round the military section of the cemetery and a shelter established for visitors 121 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Harry Moors, a well-known businessman in Apia, say that the exterior of this building has not been altered since R.L.S. lived there. R.S.L. died 60 years ago this month.

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No More Cheap Listening in Fiji IHEN the Fiji Broadcasting Com- ' mission took over the control of broadcasting in the Colony last ly it was announced that a defined assault would be made on licensed listeners, of which there re known to be many hundreds, rhis caused a temporary rush to t licences by the more timid als, but a great body of illegal teners was known still to remain. hasten the harvest of funds for 3 Commission’s coffers, all police Fiji have now been given thority to demand production of enses. A limited amnesty for ig-term evaders has been guaran- ;d. If they now reveal themselves ey will be charged for only two ars back, plus the amount still e for the current year (6/3 per larter). For those still holding t there is certain to be a fine. [?]sphate Digging on Anguar to Cease NGUAR, in the Western Caro- L lines, only important source of phosphate in the Pacific apart )m the Big Three —Nauru, Ocean, d Makatea—is ceasing production nost immediately, in order to pre- :ve the remaining agricultural ids for the use of the native inbitants.

After World War 11, the Japanese m which had been operating ere pre-war was allowed to return d operate on a royalty basis. The tire output has gone to Japan.

Anguar is now part of the US ust Territory of Micronesia.

Jf The Rev. Sau Faupula, a Minister of the Tongan Church who, for the last nine months has been travelling round Australia, visited Hobart, Tas., in November. He told Church congregations throughout Australia about the Tongan Church and the life and customs of the Tongan people. He has now returned to Tonga. 123 iCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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The playground, which includes swings, a sandpit, a slide runway, see-saws, volley-ball court and a dolls’ house, was built for childr< of “The Home Makers” —a grot of native women from Malaita, tl Western Solomons, Guadalcan and other districts, who meet regi larly and are helped by Europee women in Honiara to make bett homes.

Last year the children of Honiara were entertained at a special excursion on t[?] Tenaru Company’s railway. (See story opposite.) 124 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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'enaru Timbers Pty. Ltd. estab- ,ed themselves on Guadalcanal ee years ago with the object of •vesting forests in the Tenaru a.

'he company has progressed idly, and, in addition to the new 1, has constructed a light gauge way to haul logs from the forest, ginally, logs were taken out tractor-hauled trailers. These iile r s, although “caterpillar” :ked vehicles, could not manage swampy ground during the wet son. The railway, however, has ved thoroughly successful as an weather means of transport, bout two miles of track has been I. It passes through spectacular y\e forest and in places is flanked great banyan trees and dense ibing vines. The line crosses le bridges and a cutting has been de at “Bulldozer Hill.” Switches and sidings ensure efficient king of the single track line.

'wo petrol-driven locomotives are dto haul the log trains. At the 3st terminus, a 10 tons mobile ne loads the trucks. Another ne at the end of the line trans- ; the logs to motor trucks for two and a half miles haul to lavatu beach. The company has vided two “excursion cars” for tors to Tenavatu, affording them opportunity to visit the forest •kings. .n average of 40 logs a day are lied to the beachhead whence y are towed out to waiting ships, st of them are shipped to Aus- [ia, although some shipments r e been made to Japan. The logs mainly Mangifera—a timber hly suitable for plywood manuture, general joinery work and aiding. With the installation of planing machine at the new 1, floorings, weatherboards and ilarly dressed timber will all be duced. Timbers used will be 125 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Ir. T. Campbell, of the Australian IRO, has gone to Fiji in a relievcapacity as Senior Government tomologist, in the absence of Mr.

A. O’Connor, who is on furlough.

If Major C. V. Phillips has been appointed District Officer, Suva, on agreement for 3 years. He was formerly Development Officer, Fijian Affairs Board, and had earlier served in the District Commissioner’s Office, Suva. ff Mr. R. O. Hassell, at present Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bechuanaland, has been appointed to the same position in Fiji. He is 44.

At left, one of the new bungalows that have been built for European employees. Right, loading logs off Tenavatu. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Sister Paulita, from New York, sup vises, with another Sister, the smo running of the store at Fiji’s leper col[?] on Makogai. It has two counters customers—one for patients and the ot for staff. Cash has to be cleansed, a here is Sister Paulita with the co boiling kerosene stove. Paper money treated with formalin vapour.

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The Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald arvey, dealing with this subject -fore the Council of Chiefs last ay, was forthright and plainioken, and clearly made a deep ipression on the Chiefs. Led by r Lala Sukuna, the more en- ;htened of them now are studying lys and means of bringing about r-reaching socio-economic reforms the Fijians’ ways of life; but proess necessarily is cautious and )W.

“We cannot hurry this thing too uch, despite its urgency,” said Sir maid Garvey, in a chat with me.

Jut I think we are going along e right lines. We are, for exaple, appointing economic officers work among the Fijian comimities, and advise them on onomic problems—especially on ,ys and means to make more effecuse of their lands.”

One hears, also, of increasing imbers of Fijians who are residy in communities around the :ger towns, but working and liv- ? as individuals, after the manner Europeans and Indians.

It may work itself out, without e social disasters that so many us once feared. An encouraging stor is the spirit of goodwill and -operation that one finds insasingly among the educated Fijirn Indians. In private talks, I and just as much concern among ji-born Indians for the ultimate ;lfare of the Fijians, as I have and among Europeans. It is cerin that any genuine move in this section by the leading Indians will met more than half-way by high icialdom. r. Marie Stapes ; Introduced Certain logical thinkers—Sir Brian eeston, when Governor of Fiji d, more recently, some leading jians—have urgently appealed to b Indians of Fiji to try to get a tter communal balance into the lony by limiting their birth-rate, r years, the rate has been enomenally high.

Ihese appeals were published by s PIM: and, recently, I found an cresting reac t i o n—a personal ter to me from the famous Dr. me Stopes, herself. She says— d with some degree of reason— at her birth-control organisation s created to deal with just such man tragedies as are threatened Fiji, where the phenomenal tural increase in one race reatens the life and security of other. Dr. Stopes sends samples of literature which, she says, might be distributed among the Indian people in Fiji, just as is now being done in India itself.

Advocacy of birth-control brings one into conflict with other institutions, which think along other lines.

But one cannot escape the over-riding fact that unchecked fecundity has brought incalculable misery into our world and that a balanced world economy (without which world peace is impossible) apparently cannot be achieved without some form of control.

Exciting Report About A New Gadget Persons in the tropics have been interested in advertisements in American magazines advocating the use of a new type of electric-light globe which repels insects.

I was informed in Suva that some dwellers in Fiji have been using the gadget. The globe gives a kind of yellow light which, they say, not only does not attract nightflying insects, but actually repels them.

We do not know the distributors.

But thousands of people in the Islands, as well as in sub-tropical Australia, who now are obliged to shelter behind screens and spray after dusk, would like more details.

Does the thing repel that curse of all warm-country evenings— mosquitoes?

Capt. Ladd in New Enterprise CIAPTAIN FRED LADD, who has * been prominent in Fiji aviation since World War 11, first as pilot for the RNZAF on its Nausori-Nadi “Dominee” service, and later as chief pilot for Fiji Airways, has been appointed pilot-manager of a new New Zealand enterprise.

The company, New Zealand Tourist Air Travel Ltd., will operate, with flying-boats, a charter flight service between Auckland and other coastal and inland water landing points.

Air Hostesses from Fiji Two recent additions to TEAL’s staff of flight hostesses are left, Miss Diane Richings, and right, Miss Leslie Mayne.

Both from Suva, the girls are already flying to Tonga and on the Coral route.

Formerly from Sydney, Miss Richings worked in several business and trade organisations there before going to Fiji.

Miss Mayne returned to Suva six months ago after training as a nurse at Wellington, NZ.

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(See also Page 51) N “Calling Captain Keller,” many months ago, the PIM got more responses than it anticipated, he situation has become a little pkward.

Captain Haug, a well known “oldind” of New Guinea, originally rote from Germany to ask if anyle could tell him what became of iptain Otto Keller, who was well lown among the small ships of the 3w Guinea-Solomons area before brld War I. There have been a imber of replies—some (see page of this issue) insisting that Capin Keller was killed by natives in e Solomons nearly 40 years ago; hers saying that Captain Keller is alive and well in Rabaul in the wenties.

Later in this article, we print a ;ter from Mr. Leslie Gill, welltown planter, of Vella Lavella, lomon Islands, who knew Otto dler, and who says he was killed savages in the Solomons. In this, is supported by Mr. Carlton >unger (PIM, July last).

But now comes another letter >m Captain Haug. He says: “Capin Keller was alive in 1920, when was skipper of a small steamer which Captain and Mrs. Fehr were ssengers from Bougainville to (haul. Captain Fehr was one of b German planters who were ‘exjpriated’ and had to hand over his Dperty, Twi’, to the Board.”

Incidentally, Captain Haug asks ■ details of the Kuper family—and Gill says that Henry Kuper was sociated with the Captain Keller 10 was killed in the Solomons.

T knew Kuper in the Carteret ands,” says Captain Haug. “It a coincidence that a few days ago vas talking with my friend Hugo rnatzik, who was giving a lecture Darmstadt, and we discussed iper. Bernatzik was a guest of 3 Kupers on Owa Raha before Drld War I. I suppose the old in is dead; but maybe the boys 3 still there.” (He has been aded that the late Henry Kuper’s i is a well known and esteemed ;ident of the Solomons.) ■t now seems probable that there re two Captain Kellers—one, who s killed in the Solomons over 30 irs ago, and another who was in w Guinea some 20 years ago and to is reported to have died a Jap >W in Malaya in World War II.

Keller and Jack London Leslie Gill wrote under date gust 15: KNEW a trader and recruiter named Otto Keller in the British Solomons, but more than years ago—in fact, a year or two ■ore World War I. He was in rtnership with Harry Jacobsen and they were planting around Star Harbour, San Christoval, and were also trading and recruiting around Makira, Ulawa and Malaita.

I met Otto several times in Tulagi (I was recruiting then on Malaita and Santa Cruz), where we foregathered at the end of recruiting trips. Keller offered me a share in his partnership, but I was already committed to take up land on Vella Lavella, in the Western Solomons, so was unable to accept.

I understand that Henry Kuper, newly arrived, after a short sojourn in Gizo, came East and joined that outfit, instead of me.

I cannot exactly say whether Otto Keller was then alive (when Kuper arrived), because I had gone West and the news filtered through that Otto had been killed whilst recruiting at, I think, Fiu, a little north of Auki, Malaita. As I heard it, Otto was chopped with a native long-handled tomahawk in the recruiting boat at the beach, whilst surrounded by naked savages.

When I knew him, Otto Keller was probably about 25 to 30 years old. But there was no captainship of a “small trading schooner” in his life at that time—though he did own and run an Island schooner. He could have been Jack London’s “inevitable white man,” because he often referred to his meetings with Jack at Berande (Penduffryn) and around Gavutu.

On one occasion he said to London: “My word, Jack, you’ve an easy way of making money. All you do is to walk up and down the verandah and dictate to Charmian, and get paid a dollar a word for it.”

“That would be all right,” replied Jack, “if I were paid for every word I spoke. But it’s not as easy as that, as I often have to tear up a day’s work as not being good enough.

Editors or publishers do not pay big money for tripe. You have to keep U P to standard, otherwise you are sunk.

Jack London kindly agreed to read the manuscript of a book Otto had written. After reading it, Jack said to Otto: “You want a candid opinion, Otto?”

“Of course,” replied Otto.

London then went on: “Otto, it’s rotten. Marvellous material; enough for about ten good books. Why did you have to tell everything in one?

That long, tedious opening died with Dickens or Sir Walter Scott. No publisher would look at it, because no reader could stomach it. Then those slabs of descriptive matter thrown in at intervals by you for local colour an{3 information. Padding, just padding. You have to get your effects in a few words. Broad sweeps of the brush—not a lot of niggling small strokes. Come, I’ll show you. Take your first few pages —it can all be put in a short opening paragraph, such as this . .

Seizing a pen, London dashed off a few lines, passed the paper to Otto Keller, saying, “Get the idea, Otto. Try to set your stage something like that . . . briefly . . . make it snappy.”

Otto told me the result was a revelation to him. His turgid pages were on that slip of paper—glowing and transfigured—in a few vibrant, magic lines of Jack London’s.

II Popular resident Air Force Officer in Port Moresby, Flt.-Lt. C. Miles, left Papua for Australia on November 26, after three years Territory service. He will be replaced by Flt.- Lt. Drury, of Home Command headquarters—a brother of Mr. Tom Drury, Acting Superintendent of Air Navigation with DC A at Port Moresby. 131

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H Fifteen Australian women expei to leave by ship and plane early i the New Year to attend the 13-da 1 seventh conference of the Pai Pacific Women’s Association i Manila, in the Philippines, whic will begin on January 24. One < the women is Mrs. Doris Booth, < Wau. New Guinea—one of the Terr tory’s best known residents and member of the P-NG Legislate Council.

Samoan visitors who recently arrived in New Zealand on the TEAL Hibiscus Service included, left to right: Akitoa Atumanogo, Lekei Leomotu, and Supei Ranefale; O. Tomane, A. Vaevia, and P. Meredith.

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THEN, on October 9, the call of ] the Malaita at Santo, New Hebrides, coincided with the al Aero Club ball, I found the nmittee smarting under some ticism that had been published PIM, some months previously, t was reported that unauthorised fits had taken place at Vila, hout any supervision by the De- •tment. of Civil Aviation, as there no such authority in the New brides Condominium. In the first ce, there is no serviceable landstrip at Vila, and the only activs of the Club have taken place Santo. n the second place, although re is no Civil Aviation authority the New Hebrires, there is nothto prevent the necessary superon being extended from the Civil ation controls of New Caledonia Australia. The Qantas flying ts which run a weekly service to i and Santo from Sydney use Aviation Meteorological and io facilities in the New Hebrides, le their mooring buoys and ding facilities are supervised by itralian Civil Aviation, he Santo Club has its own landstrip on the property of M. n Wright, who is a patron and nber of the club himself. This p has been surveyed and >roved b y e Direction I’Aeronauti- Civile de ivelle Caleni e. The p measures 10 metres, i a grass face, and is refore more 11 ab 1 e for .t aircraft a the big iber strip at to, which is in servicei condition. field for ed landing :tice has i prepared M. Burgess, 3 u r u n d a, plans are hand for making of able strips other ids in the 0u p. The ; one has 1 made at sup, and a lond is med for t Sandwich, both these places g on the island of Malekula. he aera club has received ncial support from many of the local planters, who hope to see a network of services developed, both for commercial purposes and for emergencies, such as Flying Doctor services. The club has applied for recognition from the French Government, which usually gives support to aero clubs by the gift of a light plane. In the meantime the club has imported its own plane from Australia, a Tiger Moth with Gipsy Major engine, which sits proudly in its own little hangar beside the landing strip.

There are about 30 members in the club, of whom 14 have commenced their flying training. One of them, Raymond Delaveuve, has reached the solo stage. The maintenance of the plane and engine is in the hands of two engineers with aero qualifications, Messrs. Tunica y Casas and Witt.

The President of the Club, Auguste Francois Mallet, is also the flying instructor, and a pilot of long experience. His log book starts from 1933.

He graduated as an army pilot in 1934, and as a seaplane pilot in 1935.

He obtained his civil licences for both land and seaplanes in 1937 During the war he served in the French Resistance, and in Indochina for 5 years afterwards.

He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and Madaille Coloniale, and holds the rank of Lieutenant of Reserve in the Armee de I’Air. His civil licence was last renewed in June, 1954, and his flying hours total 3,685 hours.

In 1947, M. Mallet carried out a notable flight in a singleengined Noralpha, solo and without radio, from Paris to Saigon, a distanoe of 7,500 miles. Before he left Indo-Chma he was the manager of the Air Taxi Company, and received high commendation from the Provincial Prefecture for his pioneering work there. He has now settled at Santo, where he has opened a roadside cafe, called “Bar de I’Aviation.”

Among the enthusiastic members of the club is the Vice-President, M. Miguel Leroy, who is interested in the acquisition of a seaplane, probably a Cesna on floats, which would have the advantage of being able to land at the various anchorages in the Group, without the necessity of landing strips. There seems to be plenty of interest in the aims of the club by the planters of the Group, especially the French, and there is no reason why the club should not develop into a very useful service among the islands of the New Hebrides.— BRETT HILDER. (PlM’s story was not intended as criticism. When we commented, “What, no Dept, of Civil Aviation!” we were not suggesting that there should be; but that the Condominium was to be congratulated.

The item was published in Tropicalities, so was to be treated rather as a “good story” than as news.

Impossible now to track it to its source but it came from NZ and presumably was based on local gossip there. There was no need for members of Santo’s Aero Club to smart for five months. At any time since that tropicality appeared (July) we would have been happy to hear from any member of the Club and to print the facts).

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The Club s Moth, with M. LeRoy and M. Delaveuve and his son. 135 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. George T. Robins

Allowing a long illness, the death ;urred in Greenslopes Hospital, sbane, on November 14, of Mr.

Drge Theodore Robins, who was n at Mele, New Hebrides, but 3 had lived in New Guinea since 0. He was 41.

Ir. Robins had been connected ti Burns Philp and Co. for almost entire period of his NG reside. faring the war he served with AIF for three years in New inea, and after the end of hostils was with BP’s in Madang be- -5 going to Lae. For a time at t he was the Shell Company’s resentative and later took over s Stevedoring Department, e was the son of Mrs. E. P. (Pat) mes, wife of the retired Secrer of Lands in the Territory, who r resides in Brisbane. [r. Robins is survived by his ow, Kathleen, and two young >, William and Christopher.

Mr. Reuben Swann

!r. Reuben B. Swann, son of an Levuka family, died in New land recently, aged 55. He left in 1917 and was in business as ixation consultant in Auckland.

Swann is survived by his wife two daughters.

Mr. Michael Corrie

Mr. Michael Corrle, son of an old established Fiji family —he was born at Nasese—died at Lautoka recently, aged 47 years. He was for many years foreman-carpenter for Emperor Gold Mines Ltd. He leaves a wife and three adult children.

The Hon. Akau’Ola

The Hon. Akau’ola, until recently deputy-Premier of Tonga, died on November 10. He had resigned a short time previously because of illhealth.

During the first World War he served with the Red Cross. He commanded the Tongan Defence force during the last war and held the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. During the post-war years he was appointed to the Tongan Cabinet, first as Minister for Police and later as Minister of Lands.

His two eldest sons are at present students in Auckland, NZ.

MRS. W. J. RAGG Mrs. Mary Hazel Ragg, wife of Mr. W. J. Ragg, of Suva, died recently after a long illness. She was 54.

Mrs. Ragg arrived in Fiji from Australia 31 years ago. She is survived by her husband and a daughter, Kathleen, who is Mother Superior of a convent in NSW.

Mrs. Sakina Sahu Khan

Mrs. Sakina Sahu Khan, widow of the late Mr. Sahu Khan, Snr., died in Suva recently, in her 74th year.

She arrived in Fiji from the British West Indies as an infant.

She is survived by a large family, members of which are very well known. Her eldest son, Mr. A. R.

Sahu Khan, JP, has served twice on the Legislative Council; another son is Dr. A. H. Sahu Khan, of Lautoka, and another Dr. M. Y.

Sahu Khan, a dental surgeon in Suva. Others are prominent in business in the Colony. She leaves six sons, four daughters, 35 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Mrs /Irene F. Cox

Mrs. Irene F. Cox, who was born at Nukualofa, Tonga, and has been a resident of Fiji since the 1920’5, died in Suva recently aged 59.

Mrs. Cox was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. Campbell. Her husband died in Suva in 1946.

Mr. E. Eaves

Mr. Edward Eaves, who has been associated with Fiji since 1884, died in Suva recently, at 91. He was first employed by the late Mr. J. M 137 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Mr. Sidney Powell

Jr. Sidney Powell, born on nua Balavu, Fiji, 54 years ago, d in Suva recently. He was for ny years employed by Morris dstrom & Co., in Levuka, where a short period in the 1930’s he > Town Clerk. n 1949 Mr. Powell was appointed sountant to the Fiji Treasury, le is survived by his wife (nee :e Eastgate), a son in the Gilts, two brothers in New Zealand I another on Mago Island, Fiji.

Madame Marguerite

LE STRAT [adame Marguerite Le Strat died ;ntly in Papeete, her birthplace, d 72 years. [adame Le Strat belonged to the leer Raoulx family of Tahiti, her ler being head of the once large leete business house of Maison >ulex et Fils.

Mr. W. L. Davidson

r. W. L. Davidson, a well-known 'ister and solicitor in Fiji, died lenly at his home in Suva on ember 24. He was 54. Mr. idson was the son of the late and Mrs. J. W. Davidson and born in Suva. He is survived lis wife and two sons.

Tennis Champion . and Mrs. D. W. Hoodless, of i, Fiji—he was for many years cipal of the Central Medical >ol there—left Suva for London lid-November. They expect to fn to Suva about May next.

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NAMES From Leslie F. Gill, of BSI I HAVE not the pleasure of knowing Mr. Nixonwestwood (he must have come on the Lolorua scene after I had left there for the Solomons) but I, too, worked with Mr Guy Manning on clearing Lolorua before he was stricken with dysentery and had to leave for Port Moresby.

Quite a job of work was done at Lolorua, in double-quick time. In about 15 months, 1,000 acres of jungle were belted down and burnt off, and the rubber seedlings were about to go in when I left.

The estate was owned by a London concern, Pacific Papuan Products Limited, irreverently called by its ace recruiter, the irrespressible Les. Joubert, “Pox, Piles and Paralysis.”

Some very well-known New Guinea men were in that show, or had a hand in putting Lolorua on the map.

Arthur Jewell helped to found the Company. The brilliant, volatile Les. Joubert, trader, miner, recruiter, chased gold from the Gira, the Yodda, Mambare and Buna to the Lakekamu, and finished up by taking a fortune out of Koranga, the Bulolo, and Edie Creek fields.

Linked with the famous Pryke Bros., he is one of Papua’s immortals.

Dacey, son of that Labour NSW Minister of Public Works, after whom Daceyville (the Sydney suburb) was named, was there; as was also Tom Nevitt, son of a Queensland Labour MP. Tom became one of Papua’s most respected men—a business tycoon, and Member of the Legislative Council.

Guy Manning, son of NSW Judge Manning, was one of the Lolorua men also. He went to World War f? a b a ul, later was given charge of Native Affairs, and was killed in a car accident in NG.

Towering dynamically amongst those significant men—their peer, out so different—clamoured and worked 11 geri s h 1 y the human tor ’™ Harry < Ha rdy) Gofton, of The Towers—Australian bushman and famous roughrider, the first man to ride the outlaw “Bobs ” The Goftons have been Big Names in P-NG ever since.

All those men have written their names big across Papua and New Guinea for more than a generation.

Come to think of it, they and a few more like them, are New Guinea. In fact, they made New Guinea. They are its History.

Strange that that gallant company should all have been around Lolorua (Aroa in those days), within the short space of about 18 months of elapsed time.

II Mrs. Jocelyn Windsor, wife of Mr. Ken Windsor, purser-radio officer of Maui Pomare, returned to New Zealand late November after spending several months as an instructor of Girl Guides on several of the Cook Islands. Her services had been provided by Girl Guide Headquarters in New Zealand. the Vila nis Club’s al ball on ber 30, Mrs. a Jamieson [?]t) received e trophies. were the ampi on- [?] Ladies’ es, Ladies’ les, Mixed les, Handi- Ladies’ bles and icap Mixed les. Mrs. eson has been [?]g outstanding tennis in the New ides for some years now and is a ble member of the team which comwith Noumean players. Photo by Kuei. 139 ' 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Goroka Hydro-Electric Proji

The revised estimate of cost for S One of this scheme is £25,000 for Power House and Civil Engineering: W and £18,500 for electrical reticula These funds have been provided. So only a portion of the machinery arrived in the Territory, and is stored at Lae. Expenditure up September 30 totalled £21,400.

Rabaul Roads

In addition to the £25,000 allocated maintenance of township roads. £ has been provided in excess of the mated expenditure on Kamerere SI If it is found that more than this can be done, consideration will be { to providing additional funds in a su] mentary works programme. (This reply was given after a Me: had pointed out that most of the £2 allocation would be required for the i ing and sealing of Kamerere Street).

Reconstruction Of The Hui

Wharf At Rabaul

This project is being given high pri« Quotes for this work have been calle the Works Department, and as sooi these are received a decision will be t as to when the work can be startec

Los Negros-Lorengau Road

It has not been considered practii to date to provide funds to restore Los Negros and Lorengau Road, economics of restoring the road are under consideration.

Wharf And Cargo Shed

At Kavieng

Working drawings and estimates foi cargo shed and wharf approaches Kavieng should be ready in Decei and these projects will be included supplementary item in the current y works programme.

Kavieng Water Supply

It is not intended to utilise the cj ment area of the Copra Marketing B Shed and the new Customs shed for Kavieng water supply. It is consic more desirable to provide a reliable v supply to the town and through to wharf area than to spend a large on providing a tank at the wharf w would have to be large enough to tah least 200,000 gallons.

Brown River And Rigo Roa

It is expected that the Brown 1 road will be completed as far as Kanosia District in approximately tw three years. On the Port Moresbyroad no final decision has been t regarding the completion of constru pending a survey of the economics of ting this road through.

Three-Years Development

PROGRAMME This will be prepared in sufficient for it to be presented to the Fe; Cabinet Sub-Committee in April next A further question asked for an assur that the details of the programme v be made available to the Legist Council for consideration and debate fore it was finally approved. The an 140 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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District Office At Lae

Provision for a new District Office at ae will be considered in the forward tanning programme, and the date of s construction will depend on its comaritive priority in that programme.

Wau High School

The Director of Education said that as ir as he knew nothing of a definite ature within the current financial year ad been decided regarding the school.

Commencement Of Copra

ORDINANCE Asked when this Ordinance would come to effect, the Director of Agriculture kid his Department would like it to mmence early in the New Year, but this spended upon the availability of trained pra inspectors. Arrangements were ing made to provide for the training of pra inspectors, but this depended on iug able to get staff, and accommodam, for new officers.

New Post Office for Suva [TORK has commenced on a new T £150,000 post office for Suva, to be built on the site, and to the ar, of the present post office. Conruction will be in four stages so not to interfere with postal erations.

Since the war, the existing office is become increasingly incapable giving quick despatch to mails, le to lack of sorting and stowage ace.

Residents of Fiji’s capital are •ping that with the completion of e new office in several years’ time mail delivery service will also be stituted. [?]evelei Still Has £5,900 to Spend the Solomon Islander i who earlier this year won £6,000 in the NSW State lottery, has it the lottery bug.

He is a greaser in the Burns Philp ip Muliama. He buys a ticket in rdney at the end of each 28 days’ und trip.

Revelei has spent less than £lOO his original win; major purchases far being a gramaphone, £lO )rth of cowboy records, a suit of )thes and a petrol iron. He said cently he would take a two Dnths’ holiday when his contract th Burns Philp expires in nuary, 1955. During that time he )uld establish his father in a ide store on Guadalcanal, and en rejoin his ship—impatient, no übt, to reach Sydney and the ;tery office again. (He may even do better next time NSW is now running a super- 'tery with £30,000 for first prize, d tickets £l.) II Mr. G. Arthur, BA, who retired from the Fiji Department of Education last year, returned to the Colony recently to take up an appointment with another Government department. tl Major C. C. Jordan, RNZAC, has been appointed Chief of Staff of the Fiji Military Forces. For the past two years Major Jordan has been GSG2 at Northern Military District Headquarters, Auckland.

H Colonel Buscombe a trader on the Sepik River, New Guinea, recently visited Brisbane. He interested a newspaper columnist with tales of the crocodile hunting natives on the Sepik. Apparently some of the natives earn up to £5 a day. They are not running round in big cars yet, says the Colonel, but the time will come when they will. (Always providing, of course, there is ever anywhere on the Sepik to run them —which PIM doubts).

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Comprising 320 pages, with a special map of the two Territories, it contains all details of the administrative and commercial organisation in both Papua and New Guinea, plus a complete list of all European residents.

There is a description of each of the 15 Districts, with some local maps; a list of all Departmental officers, showing correct names, titles and positions; lists of all trading firms in each District; details of all communications—such as airfields, radiophone networks, timetables; lists of fees and taxes; the Customs tariff.

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High Cost Of

Grass-Huts

N a recent PIM paragraph it was [ stated that the present-day cost of a “little grass shack” was not aown—but it was thought that it ould be plenty.

A contributor to a recent Fiji gricultural Journal (Mr. B. E. V. arham) provides the answer, as ,r as Fiji is concerned, anyhow, pparently the cheapest, reasonably ibitable dwelling now being conructed for Fijian Government orkers costs between £350-£4O0 — lich, to the village Fijian, might st as well be £4,000.

It is a small (30’ x 16’) thatched ttage (bure) which incorporates ive r a 1 improvements to the aditional Fijian dwelling. Conructed and bolted on a dwarf wall concrete blocks, the wooden iored building has double walls of aited bamboo and roof of sago 1m thatch. A verandah eight feet de is provided, ther or half e length of the use. Doors are iced so as to v e access to leping quarters )m outside and >m the kitchen thout the need enter the : r a n d a h. The ter walls have :red paper beeen the two rers of bamboo reduce draught, d interior rtitions are of ■aped reeds. All i m b o o and itching material chemically ated to give o d protection linst destruc- -5 insects.

Construction of houses of this type 'an after the 1952 Fiji hurricane, en it became urgently necessary Government to provide accomdation for families whose homes 1 been destroyed. The Departnt of Agriculture produced a tch plan for a house which corned the best features of Fijian ise design with strength, ’ability and cheapness, while reeling domestic features demanded custom. The foundation and me were provided from hurricane ergency funds and the whole of bamboo work was done on a nmunity basis.

Vith concrete foundations, iden floors and shutter windows, building produced had small im to the title, “little grass ,ck.” But its stability ensures a isiderably longer life than the oily “indigenous” type of house, 1 should the thatched roof be loved in a hurricane it can be laced fairly quickly from readily available materials provided the framework is intact.

Mr. Parham makes the interesting observation that, before the war, £lO plus a few nails and some Yagona would cover the cost of a minimum bure —by minimum, meaning, of course, little but roof and walls and means of exit. Nonetheless, it can be seen that little grass shacks are not now so easily come by as in yester-year.

Pacific Broadcast Changes OUVA radio station VRH, after transmitting the weekly Public Relation Office and n a W i- Iet n te ™ V 5 pm ' and 9 lo p m on Wednesdays, has now reverted to the old ZJV practice of making the first broadcast at 6.15 p,m, on Wednesdays, and the repeat broadcast at 12.10 n.m. (noon) the following day. i 8 ;?™ ,°/ statl .° n ’ wvuv, now operates on 1120 kc/s dal,y except Saturday and Sunday, from 2000-2200 gmt. and 0700- 1000 gmt. with local news at osoo gmt This station is of very low power and can rarely be heard further afield than the Samoan area. „ Mr - Charles Adams, officer in charge of radio communications in the GEIC, said before returning to Tarawa from Sydney, late November, that it was probable that a regular broadcasting service would be established there in 1955. For a long * ime , pa ? 4 t i iere has . bee F., a balf - hour broadcas4 Of news in Gllbertese once per week, using l a transmitter which is normally employed in the communication service.

Prepared to Remain mHE High Commissioner for NZ J[ in Wes tern Samoa, Mr. G. R.

Powles, recently indicated at a public function that, should he be offered a further term in Samoa, he would accept it. Mr. Powles said that he and Mrs. Powles were fond 0 f Samoa and the Samoans, and have not tired of the country after nearly six years.

Long Cruise for Orion THE liner Orion will leave Sydney on February 22, 1955, on a 25day Pacific cruise—the longest cruise ever to be made by a big passenger liner from an Australian port.

Orion will visit Melbourne, Milford Sound (NZ South Island), Wellington, Auckland, Nukualofa, Vavau harbour, Suva, Noumea and back to Sydney. Overland tours between Wellington and Auckland will be arranged for those passengers wishing to travel through the North Island of New Zealand.

Both First and Tourist Class accommodation will be available and fares will range from Tourist £AB6 and First Class £AI46.

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Grass-hut —new Fiji style. 143 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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ROAD From Our Own Correspondent LAE, NG, Nov. 25.

THE hazardous road which win through the valleys and alo; mountain sides between W and Labu (at the mouth of t Markham River, near Lae, NG claimed another victim on Novemt 9, when a heavy, ten-wheel dies truck crashed over the side of t road, killing a young woman.

She was Mrs. Moya Paterson, newcomer to the Territory and bride of only four months. H husband is Mr. Desmond (24), a Cadet Agricultural Ofiic stationed at the Erap Livesto Station near Nadzab. Paterson w also a passenger in the truck b escaped, suffering from abrasions a: shock.

The truck belonged to Gold Pines Sawmilling Company, Bulo and was hauling 5,000 super f( of sawn timber to Lae when t accident occurred. The driver the truck, Robert Brian Stapletc suffered from shock and a dislocat shoulder.

Paterson had travelled with 1 wife to Zenag to spray cattle the farm of Mr. Michael Leahy a: accepted a ride on the lorry ba to Lae.

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M, Frederic Ahnne, Assistant A. ministrator, French Oceania, becon Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

M. Leo Langomazino has been appoint Chief of Municipal Works, Papeete.

On Leave Miss Kay Adams, of the Copra Marketing Board, Port Moresby, attended a farewell party in her honour on November 1. She was leaving for 3½ months’ leave in Australia.

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I (b) The establishment of a Euroean plantation in that place would enefit the native communities lereabouts; f(c) The incoming European had le character as well as the remrces to enable him to establish Lmself successfully, and assist the dministration in the important isk of Europeanising the natives id improving their standard of le.

Any other system would be disitrous. The introduction of new uropean settlers on a catch-asitch-can method (available lands tnply sold to the highest tenderer, id so forth), which appeared to be voured by the Minister in his anluncement of Lands policy in Sepmber, could be an embarrassment the District Commissioners, and not calculated to help the Adminiration in its policy regarding itives.

Under the new status given them, strict Commissioners must accept im the Administration and the apartment the responsibility not ly for new settlement, but also r the co-ordination of settlement d developmental activities with the lin planks of Native policy and z work of the Missions. [t is a matter for regret that rritories Minister Hasluck did not ike all this clear three months d, when he announced his Lands licy. It would have prevented a of serious misunderstanding both and out of the Dual Territory.

Eager New Settlers

NDER this revised administrative system, much greater emphasis now will be placed upon new tlement of available lands, by ;h Europeans and natives, t is believed that within a short le new areas will be made availe for European settlement in ugainville, Sangara district, dang district, and the north .st of New Britain eastwards of iasea. Machinery is to be set up assist Europeans in the developnt of the blocks which they will [Uire. n recent weeks, the PIM has rezed inquiries from young Eurons desirous of proceeding to the al Territory, with a view to inting private funds in lands for establishment of plantations, sy complained that, despite ent representations at various Dartments, they could obtain no lance as to how they should pro- 1. jfe recently referred this matter Mr. C. H. Lambert, Secretary of Australian Department of Terries. He has replied that in future h inquiries should be directed to Secretary of the Department Lands, Port Moresby. Inquirers uld ask for details of any lands liable for settlement and should ask that, in the event of land not being available in the Districts to which they want to go, their names may be added to a list of persons who want information of that character in the future.

Titles For Native Owners

THE Administration now is giving careful thought to a problem which naturally arises, following the encouragement given in recent years to natives to cultivate their lands in accordance with European practice. Many natives for example, have become producers of coconuts and cocoa.

Native land generally is held by tribal and family groups. It has been found that as a native agricultural economy develops there is a demand by the more intelligent and progressive natives that they shall have title, as individuals, to the lands which they cultivate. Thus there is arising a need for a new kind of native land policy under which land may be granted to individuals instead of to groups.

Both Department and Administration appear to have accepted the view that the quickest and best way to improve the standards of native life is to encourage the settlement of the right class of European among the native communities, when it has been found that all the available unused land is not required for future native agriculture.

The Department, however, believes that any substantial increase in European land settlement in New Guinea will create a labour problem; but it is hoped that this problem may be solved where there is a definite advance in the native communities towards European living standards. The natives, finding that they need certain goods and services as part of their improved standards of life, will go forth to labour in order to earn the money wherewith to buy such goods and services.

Education Problem Again

IN recent years, the PIM repeatedly has urged that the chief problem in New Guinea to-day is that of education. There can be no substantial advance in the native standards of life until a degree of literacy (including a working knowledge of simple English) is introduced to at least a large proportion of the native children in Papua and New Guinea.

We are informed that this is the official view of both Departments and Administration, and all necessary steps will be taken to implement such a policy. The Department, however, is under no delusion about the nature of the task. Because of the multiplicity of native languages in P-NG (there are at least 700) it is apparent that no real progress can be made in native 145 Changes in P-NG Administration System (Continued from Page 16) CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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Steps will be taken at an early date to solve this paramount problem of how to produce a large number of native teachers. As one high official expressed it, “that excellent training institution at Sogeri must be multiplied twenty times, and twenty times more, if we are going to really achieve something,”

But it is unlikely that the Education Department will attack this task by itself—it is proposed that the large Mission organisations in Papua-New Guinea will be encouraged by substantial subsidies to largely increase their machinery for the training of native teachers.

Conference In Canberra

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Cleland) conferred in Canberra with the Minister for Territories, the Secretary of the Department (Mr.

Lambert) and other high officials.

It is reported that the appointment of Mr. Rupert Wilson as assistant Administrator has marked an important point in the reorganisation of the administrative machinery of the dual Territory.

Mr. Wilson is working in harmony with the heads of Departments, and a spirit of co-operation and goodwill is marked and increasing.

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Hit to board the raft, and indicated the party washing in the river that y were to stop where they were. But y immediately dived into the sea. then instructed one of my natives to a shot into the air. When this was e the Japanese immediately returned the beach where they were lined up. igglers appeared over a distance of f to three-quarters of a mile. They Icated by signs that there were still *e persons on the ship, sent three boys to the ship to bring remaining Japanese to the shore, sn this was done they were marched Waramung Plantation, where I ensured to make contact with Rabaul vireless. (Other reports were that the ves complained that the Japs had ed their gardens, and had stolen a and a bicycle.) hen I first came upon the Japanese s of then were washing clothes in the p, about 30 yards from the sea; some i gathering food, pineapples and coco- . One man was carrying a bicycle. man was carrying a puppy. The res who were sent to the ship reported ence that pineapples and coconuts been consumed on the ship, te Japanese were requested to sit i outside the plantation residence, natives were placed around them.

Japanese were given water and a itity of barley was cooked for them, they did not eat it. len I first made contact with them, it a runner to a Japanese halfcaste, ael Asanume, whom I thought might ble to assist as an interpreter, about 6.30 p.m., the Japanese were into the copra store where they given spare blankets and new copra i. At about 7.30, Mr. Asanume ed, and the captain of the Japanese was called to my house. I told him ended to nroceed to Rabaul either in ship or in the small 5-ton pinnace i arrived at Waramung; about 7.45 e Japanese captain agreed to hand essei ("Sakae Maru”, No. 3) over to to take them to Rabaul. The ureter could converse with the lese but, when requested to convey tatement to them, he said he could »ut it into the Japanese language, receiving the captain’s agreement to over the ship the Japanese were i on the small pinnace and the nount Luluai of Anir Island made ible approximately 25 natives, and ired a few native plantation workers boats-crew experience, and we then eded by sea to the Japanese ship, re, all the Japanese were placed on top of the two hatches, and natives were stationed around them. The captain was requested to point out his engineers, and these two started the engine, with natives watching them.

I took the captain to the wheel house, weighed anchor, and set course for Rabaul at 10.30 p.m. It was indicated to the captain that he could go to sleep, and he was permitted to go to his bunk in the wheelhouse, where he slept until approximately 4 am. on November 20.

Permission was refused to prepare a meal until daylight, for security reasons. With exception of the engineers and captain, the Japanese spent the night on the forward hatches.

It was noted on Saturday that there was a very definite change of attitude on the part of the captain and crew, and they soon became reconciled to the fact that nothing could be done but obey orders. I arrived at Rabaul 1.00 p.m. on Saturday, November 20. I contacted the Chief of Police, who got in touch with the District Commissioner, and both came down to the ship The Sakae Maru, 235 tons, is said to be owned by Miyagi Ken Motoyoshi Gun Osima Maru.

The District Commissioner (Mr. Fold!) said afterwards that Mr. Lacey did not seem to be unduly perturbed, but his employer (Mrs. Carson) was very concerned about the stealing of shell. They say they frequently see these Japanese vessis in and around the waters of the Fead group. Mr. Lacey said in his opinion this was a bad thing for the native people, some of whom do not realise that the Japanese were defeated and surrendered in World War 11.

Fines May Be Too Small From Our Rabaul Correspondent NO thinking person believes the fines imposed on the Japs will be a deterrent. £7OO would not represent a good day’s pearling by the trochus fishers. The owner of Sakae Maru can afford £1,650 —on board, in refrigerated holds, is £28,000 worth of tuna and bonito.

When the latter fine is paid, the remainder of the terms of imprisonment to be served by the crew probably will be waived, and the ship will again be free.

The RSL has urged that coastwatchers be given an honorary naval or police rank, provided with firearms and with full authority to lesist these unwelcome visitors.

Technically American The sampan arrested by the Queensland Government launch Melbidir about the same time as the New Guinea incidents, was later released from Thursday Island without any charge being made against the vessel or its crew.

It is understood the sampan is technically an American vessel and the 30 crew members are from the American Trust Territory of Okinawa.

Legal officers could find no evidence of poaching or of unauthorised landings.

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THE South Pacific Post, Port Moresby, reports that a Government official, commenting on what Mr. Whittaker had to say in relation to the proposed visit to Papua-New Guinea of the Japanese war graves mission, remarked that 147 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954 NG Reacts Unfavourably to Japanese (Continued from Page 13)

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Hr. Whittaker’s opinions were angerous, ill-considered and botional.”

Maybe they are emotional —but tey are neither ill-considered nor irigerous. They honestly express le natural feeling of every man id woman in the Territories who perienced the Jap-imposed horrors 1941-44.

Maybe the Australian Government uld do no other than permit the panese Mission of 19 to go into •NG for two months, collect their ir dead, hold religious ceremonies id erect tiny memorials (one cubic gtre at each of five burialounds). Maybe it is vital to our ture security that Japan be lined i with the Western Powers to ret the growing thrust of the Monlian Reds. Probably it is more pedient to be courteous to the panese, than suffer invasion by iatic Communists.

But we cannot be expected soon forget the Tol massacre, the foul irder of those two mission women Buna, the cruelties and outrages rpetrated by Japs on our nursing ters and soldiers in Amboina, the iless horrors which our men had suffer in Burma and Borneo, the struction of hundreds of our best w Guinea civilians who were pped at Rabaul, the execution of ; young New Ireland coasttcher, Con Page—and innumerte other things. f the “Government official” himf has forgotten the disclosures at i Manus trials, only a few months ), the ex-servicemen have not. 3 ity the Japanese have not a ter sense of the fitness of things, i so stay away at least another iple of years. n any case, how is the visit of • 19 Japs going to be explained the natives?

RADIO NZ adio NZ made a seasonal change of uencies on November 12 and its Island rice is now heard on 6.08 mc/s in the netre band from 1700-1930 GMT in the nings, and from 0655 GMT to closen in the evenings. The day pronine from 1945-0640 GMT is on 11.78 s in the 25 metre band. It will be i that the morning programme now mences an hour earlier, nprovement of the service is dependent ti reports from listeners, who are ind to write to Radio NZ at PO Box !, Wellington. iaptain R. (Bertie) Hall, 77-year- New Guinea identity, has resd after 30 years as a skipper coastal vessels. He went to the •ritory as Acting Harbour Master Rabaul in 1919, and soon after- •ds stepped onto the bridge of first of the many 300-tonners commanded in NG waters. At outbreak of war with Japan he 3 short-term commander of a sel off the China coast. His unled ship was taken on the first ’ and he was interned for four rs in Japan.

Northbound to NG GETTING MORE BANANAS

Out Of Fiji

Study of NSW Methods Suggested UNDER the stimulus given by NZ Fruit Distributors Ltd. it seems likely that production of bananas in Fiji will be greatly increased.

The Co. has promised to take up to 750,000 cases of bananas from Fiji for the next five years. In 1953, shipments totalled 382,000 cases; the total for 1954 probably will be 365,000; and it is hoped to step this up to 750,000 by 1957.

The Co. has donated £4,000 to a Banana Development Fund, and the Fiji Government is liberally assisting the same project—it plans to increase the banana acreage, fairly soon, by 3,000 acres.

Mr. David P. Ragg, a former resident of Fiji, quoting the foregoing facts, comments: I believe the Fiji industry could learn a lot from the methods used by the Australian banana grower.

I have seen how the growers at Goff's Harbour secure spectacular results by their methods of intensive cultivation and irrigation: and these could be employed in Fiji with almost equal success, particularly in the drier areas round Sigatoka.

Good results might be gained by interchange of technical officers between the Departments of Agriculture of Fiji and NSW, who have had experience in banana culture, harvesting and marketing in their respective spheres. The Fijian official could learn Australian methods, and this could be put into good effect on his return, preferably v/ith the assistance of an Australian banana Australian Petroleum Co. recruits who travelled to Papua-New Guinea per Qantas in November included, upper, Mr.

N. Lord, Mr. L. S. Clift (a NG old-timer who returned again after three years absence), and Mr. E. Voigt; and, lower, Mr. B. P. Macky (formerly of CAA staff, Rabaul), and Mr. A. D. Chisholm of Melbourne.

Left; Mr. Alan Hogg, of BGD, who left Sydney early November. Right: Mr. E. W.

Hawkins, of PHD, returning to Lae after eight months’ leave In Europe. 149 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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SHIPMENTS Meanwhile, Fiji is not filling h banana quotas and a committee h been appointed in Fiji to look in the reasons for this and to sugge remedies.

Mr. W. J. Lahore, Suva Manage of the ANZ Bank, is chairma Other members are Mr. N.

Lamont, senior agricultural office Mr. R. Spowart, buyer’s represen ative, Watisoni Seru and Savenai Tavusavusa, growers’ representative and Buli Verata, Tevita Leilom representing Fijian Affairs Board The inquiry is being instituted i the result of concern on the pa of the New Zealand importers.

Fijian growers have repeated failed to fill the shipping space n served, while bananas from and Samoa have been refused spai in excess of their allocation (Sm is last loading port). The Ne Zealand importers must pay for tl reserved shipping space, wheth used or not.

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AUSTRALIA A Suva correspondent says thi Australian interests have offen Fl3B - per case for Fijian banana but that Fiji growers have spurnt the offer —they are satisfied wil the 19 - per case they get from tl New Zealand market.

Department of Commerce and Di partment of Agriculture in Sydn< ridiculed the idea that Fiji cou build up a trade in Australia i those prices. They said they kne of no move in Australia to impo Fiji bananas. After the cyclone i February, 1954, had severely dan aged NSW North Coast plantation some growers were getting £7 pi case for their bananas. But thi was just a flash in the pa Normally, Australia was adequate supplied with bananas from loc sources. (Bananas were bringir from 16 - to 40/- per case in tl Sydney market on December 7).

In any event, as the Fiji growe; cannot satisfy the NZ market, it unlikely that they can do very muc about sending bananas to Austral: —although a lot of people a] agreed that it would be a good thir for Fiji and for the Australia banana consumer if they could.

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COCOA: —London quotations of )vember 20 showed a slight imovement on a month earlier, ough there were substantial ictuations through the period. UK lyers closed a deal with British est African Marketing Boards on wember 19 for 8,000 tons of good rmented Gold Coast at £Stg.4oo r ton, January-March shipment, Other buyers paid from £4OO £412 for December-February ipments. Earlier that week Janry-March shipments had been oted at £Stg.3Bs, cif UK ports. In w York, quotations for Decemberirch shipments were steady at 94 cents per lb. on March 19. This about £Stg.397 per long ton. fhe US Department of Agricul- •e estimated the Brazil 1954-55 rvest at 350-370 million lbs as npared with last season’s 271 llion lbs. The main crop appears ;re from October to April.

Sarly December Sydney quoted Samoa cocoa at £Stg.3Bs, fob, ia, equal to about £A4BI 5 —a 3 of over £A6O in a month.

Jew Guinea cocoa in early Denber had jumped to £ASOS, ex arf, Sydney, for a late sale, though earlier it had been £A4BO.

The late price was a rise of £A6O over the month.

Accra early December was quoted at £AS3O, cif, Sydney, and the high NG price was attributed to urgent spot requirements by Australian buyers.

COFFEE:—As compared with London quotations of October 30 Kenya “A’ v -grade coffee had risen by £lO7 per ton to November 19 and was quoted at £Stg.67s, fob, Mombasa, prompt shipment. However, faq, Bukoba, native Robusta had varied little and was quoted at £Stg.37s. In London sales of about that date, British Cameroons Arabica brought £4OO, £528, and £540 for the small, medium, and bold grades respectively. Robusta brought £367 to £3BO. Gold Coast Robusta brought £355 and Uganda Robusta £413. These on-the-spot consignments naturally brought more than those offered for future deliveries from overseas.

In New York, Santos “Fours”— the grade on which prices are usually based, was, on November 19, up about \ cent per lb on October 30 quotations, on-the-spot consignments bringing 7U cents.

Colombian was quoted then at 77 cents. These prices are about £Stg.s4o and £Stg.62o per long ton respectively.

Sydney quoted P-NG Robusta early December at 7/- per lb for top grades, in store, Sydney—that is, about £A7BS per ton, or a 10-15 per cent rise on last firm quotation of two months ago.

COPRA:—In Papeete the Department of Economic Affairs announced a revision of copra prices on November 15. Prices now are: Tahiti grade, 9.03 francs per kilo; Tuamotu grade 9.50 francs per kilo, delivered in bulk at Papeete. These prices are equal to about £A63 8 - and £A6S 14 - respectively.

The free market London quotation for New Hebrides copra fell by 1,000 metropolitan francs per ton to 81,000 francs cif, Continental ports, for consignments actually afloat. This price is equivalent to about £AIO4. In the same period— October 30 to November 20—Philippines copra, December-January shipment, remained unchanged at SUSI9S, fob —about £AB7 10 0.

Straits copra declined slightly to about £Stg.7l 10 0-£72, cif, Continental ports, for December- January shipments. This is about £AB9 7 6-£9O.

Governor Lowe, of E. Samoa, in Sydney, in November, explained that 151

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RUBBER: —D uring the past inth rubber has reached its best ce since January, 1953. Top grade iched 29 cents a pound recently New York; London has been as ;h as 26id Stg. (For late quotans, see page 164). Factors remsible are believed to be the UK ’k strike which caused shortages, i a demand for natural rubber new tubeless tyres.

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Nukualofa News Notes BE new Telephone Exchange at Nukualofa, Tonga, preparations for eh began four years ago, was officially led by Tongan Premier, Prince Tungl, November 20. The opening ceremony marked the closing of the old exage after 30 years’ service, lie new switchboard has a capacity 180 lines, but can be extended to 960 s when required. The old switchboard a capacity of only 190 lines, instruction of the new exchange took e with the assistance, and under the ction, of the New Zealand Post Office, supplied the technical staff required the work and also made available from stock all of the cable and line trials required. Over 4M miles of srground cable were laid and all n aerial lines were reconstructed. iring October the Tongan Banana d exported to New Zealand 13,838 5 of bananas, 1,969 cases of pineapples 1,993 melons. In addition, a large tity of vegetables—including cabbages, t potatoes, sweet corn, carrots, itoes and lettuces—and 25 melons were ped to Pago Pago, American Samoa, shipments were from Nukualofa and >n. e Tongan Parliament is expected to onvened in January to deal with the Pies Revision Report now being pre- -1 by Salaries Commissioner R. O. age, who arrived in the Kingdom fovember 7.

'. T. F. Kennedy, the new Principal Tonga College, arrived with Mrs. ledy and their two children at lalofa on October 35. The college has without a Principal for four years.

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High School, NZ, has been appointed Director of Education of Tonga. He Is replacing Mr. G. A. Read who resigned recently. Mr. Whittington is expected to arrive, with his wife, on January 10, 1956.

Visitors to Tonga who arrived at Nukualofa by the “Matua” on November 24 included the Bishop of Polynesia, the Rt. Rev. L. S. Kemnthorne. He conducted the annual Confirmation Service at St.

Andrew’s Church and returned to Suva on November 30.

Travellers to New Caledonia Donations to Children's Xmas Treat in Sydney The New Guinea Women’s Club, Sydney, has received the following donations to help with the Children’s Christmas Party, which will be held on December 13:— November travellers to Noumea per Qantas included, left to right: Monsieur M. R. Miot, Commercial Counsellor, French Embassy in Canberra, paid his first official visit to New Caledonia; Mile. Yseult Song (centre) was farewelled by former New Caledonia residents Mile. Betty Reilly (left) and Mme. O. Charles; Mr. L. W.

Murrell, of W. H. Grove & Sons, Auckland, made one of his frequent business visits. 153 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1954

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Address I | ::::== I Sender’s Name I Sender’s Address New Lands Policy Resented In NG Highlands From a Special Correspondent COMPLAINTS by the Highland Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association (which has a reputation for restraint and moderation) have produced some action in relation to land settlement: but we here do not think it is the right kind of action.

Lands’ Secretary Maclnnis and a team of surveyors, agriculturalists and others have been in the Highlands conducting a drive, under the Hasluck plan of providing land for settlers. The Western Waghi Valley (Western Highlands) was the target of their operations, and reports from Minj indicate that several blocks have been purchased from the natives by the Administration. The intention is to offer these for application at an early date.

However, as many intending settlers have been virtually squatting in this particular area because the new policy prevented their applications from being dealt with, it is believed here that the real object of this sudden activity was to bring a token survey to this area, get the prospective settlers (some of whom have been waiting around for a year) out of the Administration’s hair, and save the Minister’s face.

To provide them with blocks with the Ministers’ approval, they had to be included in a relatively large “unit” scheme.

It is noted that persons already settled in the Highlands who wish to increase their small holdings, and new arrivals who have risked capital to come here and wait have been told that no further purchases of land to satisfy a particular person will be entertained.

If a man finds suitable land which the natives are prepared to sell to him, he is wasting his time. The new scheme is to offer all areas “for application” after first doing soil surveys and getting Minister Hasluck’s permission to purchase each separate block. The man who has waited for a particular block, may miss out altogether, and meanwhile the Administration has taken upon itself to tell would-be settlers what they will be able to grow. If a man wants to raise fowls on land that the Administration says is for coffee, then it seems he has no chance of getting the block.

The whole scheme may be suitable for large tracts of predictable country; but here in the Highlands, particularly the Eastern Highlands, we think it is the end of progress.

No one can afford to go on waiting for their lucky number to turn up.

Some who have staked everything they have on their hope of getting land will now have to take their chances with those who have not risked a penny.

There is no enthusiasm for t new plan amongst the lai conscious natives, either. They w to know who their white neighbo are going to be. The Hasluck sche deprives them of that right. 11 like a ticket in a lottery, and natives are not keen to sell—exc in the outlying areas. Meanwl District Services is supposed to f land for the Lands Department offer, instead of letting intend settlers help the Government to b them.

No one knows for certain \ is responsible for the new syster or why the old system was scrap —but Minister Hasluck gets blame. ‘’Worse than Eddie Wai they call him. At least what Ec had on his mind was never doubt; and on some subjects could be very sane. Minister Has! is regarded as quite unpredicta (See also articles in this issi] Effect on Land Policy of New Stc of District Commissioners in I Guinea, page 16; and Vital Set ment Policy at Stake in ?

Guinea, page 9.) Highland Farmers Tal To Mr. Wilson PORT MORESBY, Dec.

A DEPUTATION from the Hi land Farmers’ and Sett!

Association met the Assist Administrator, Mr. Rupert Will at Goroka, NG Eastern Highla: on December 2, and presented ! with a case for a three year plai the area. (Mr. Wilson is hand: the new three-year plan for Territory.) The association (whose presic is Mr. Jim Taylor), told Mr. Wi] that a road from the coast to Highlands was not an essentia] the next three years, but it was sential to gravel or seal the Hi land road within a 10 mile radiu the busier airstrips at Kianai Goroka, Minj and Hagen, and stall steel or concrete bridges.

The Goroka hydro-electric schi should also be developed along lines the Association had sugge* in a report to the Government £ retary earlier in the year (and acted upon).

The Assn, also has something say to Mr. Wilson on the quesl of land application bottlenecks Fiji Blamed for Mail Del[?] COMPLAINTS of slow delive of United States airmails Tahiti business men are bf echoed from American San where an inspection was made cently.

It is believed that most of delay in airmails to Eastern Sai occurs in Fiji. 154 DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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DC Sees Big Future for Upper Markham [esult of Overland Trip to Highlands LAE, Nov. 28. lISTORY was made in New Guinea in November when the orobe District Commissioner, Mr. . Niall, the Territory Director of iblic Health, Dr. John Gunther, id an Administration motor echanic, Mr. Bob Dudgeon, became e first people to drive in the one hide from Lae to the Highlands.

The trip has been made previously it it was necessary to change hides at the Umi River.

The recent trip was made in a w Jeep-ambulance which was too I to be air-freighted to Goroka.

Ihe party left Lae on a Wednesy and reached Goroka on the folving Friday. With a little assistce the ambulance negotiated the ni River, although at one stage 3 fast flowing water reached the hide's bonnet.

Commenting later, Mr. Mick Leahy, io pioneered the route by foot ire than 20 years ago, said that he ped it would lead to opening in a big way the thousands of h acres in the Markham and mu Valleys.

Uready cocoa, rice, dairying and ;f industries are being established the lower Markham areas, >und Erap, hundreds of acres of >und are being ploughed in readi- -5S for the next rice crop. )n his return to Lae, Mr, Niall d that he had promised farmers Erap that the bridge now being : across the Erap River would be npleted by the end of the year 1 that the road along the route had just driven would be connoted. As it extends along the ley, more and more rich farming d will be opened to settlers.

Jy the time this road links with ! Highlands road at Gusap, coffee i other industries will be well ablished in the Highlands and d freighting to Lae will be posie. iast year’s rice harvest from the ip area was sold locally—some the Administration and the rest traders—and it is only a matter time before enough rice can be wn to supply a big percentage of Territory’s heavy demand.

Ir. Niall said that although the at Erap is excellent for rice, saw, during his recent trip ough the Upper Markham, even ler rice-growing soil, and situated ween there and Erap are thouss of acres of land suitable for tie grazing.

Jr. Niall believes that with the ige across the Erap by the end the year and the big Markham er bridge nearing completion, the Morobe District will expand and that in a few years Lae will be the most prosperous town in the whole P-NG Territory.

And from the Highlands End GOROKA, Nov. 28 The beginnings of the operation were in some secrecy—but within hours it was over the air that the ambulance had left Lae for Goroka, and that District Commissioner lan Downs, at Goroka, had also departed about the same time, for the Markham.

As the wet season for the area commenced in September, the three gentlemen chiefly concerned were taking a risk which may account for the secrecy surrounding their intentions. There is also the possibility that the whole thing wou’d have been officially vetoed had it become generally known.

Having reached the Highlands access road base at Marawassa, the ambulance covered the remaining 90 miles to Goroka in leisurely fashior; stopping at hospitals and aid posts en route. The screaming shen shattered the nerves of the population between Kainantu and Goroka.

About 180 miles were recorded on the speed© when a high-spirited Reception Committee met the pioneers at Goroka. There was scarcely a mark on the all-white vehicle for which much credit is due to those concerned.

Before the event was concluded, many people predicted failure. If the vehicle (reputed to have cost £2,500) had been lost in the Umi River, the official reports would have made interesting reading. But as one old timer remarked: “When I heard that (adjective removed), Home Niall was in it, and that (two adjectives removed) Downs had gone down to the Umi River to meet it, there was no doubt in my mind that they would get the thing to the Highlands—even if the entire population had to carry it on their (adjective removed) heads.”

Hold Up in Cutch Project in Papua NO cutch has yet come out of the Papuan Gulf country although the project has been under way there for several years near Kikori.

Cutch is the extract of mangrove bark which is used for tanning. The New Guinea Borneo Mangrove Co. decided to utilise the vast areas of mangroves in the Gulf Country and to set up a factory at Aird Hill.

The company underestimated the difficulties in setting up such an industry in this area and the original estimate that cutch would be produced by mid-1953 was later changed to mid-1954. However at the end of 1954, the factory still had not gone into production.

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RABAUL THE Drug Houses of New Guinea Ltd. will open a pharmacy in Mango Ave, Rabaul, New Britain, in January. The Company has been formed with local capital.

Mr. John Scott, graduate chemist of Sydney University, who was in Port Moresby, Papua, a short time ago, left Sydney by air on December 9 to manage the new shop.

In addition to retailing the usual medical supplies and plantation requisites, and handling prescriptions, the company plans to manufacture in Rabaul a number of pharmaceutical and chemical lines.

Distribution will be throughout Papua and New Guinea, British Solomon Islands, and, later, Dutch New Guinea.

Among Rabaul residents interested in the new concern are Messrs. A. Gow and J. Koefod.

BP Buy Large Lae Motor Business THE largest motor service station and workshop in Lae, and probably on the New Guinea mainland —Lae Motors—was taken over by Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd. in December.

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Ihe scientist is Dr. W. J. A. Payne, 10 is in charge of the Governmt Agricultural Station at Sigaca, Fiji, and who appears to have hieved some interesting results in periments with cattle, rhe now famous twin-calves exriment has been completed, and nificant data made available, iring the last three years, in New' aland, certain sets of twin calves ve been selected. One of each set twins has been kept at Ruakara perimental station, in NZ; and i other maintained under exactly filar conditions at Sigatoka, in i.

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HERE are thousands of Cebu and part-Cebu cattle in Fijione may see them, in use for k. or beef, or for dragging the ■ar-farmer’s plough, in every lian village. They are an importpart of the Fiji-Indian economy, ’he Department of Agriculture re has been trying for years to move the breeds: and now it ims to have the best Cebu herd the Pacific. ’hese Cebu are the direct dendants of the Cebu animals imted by the CSR Company from :as, said Dr. Payne. They got Texas, long ago, from India via zil —an excellent type, completely ; from disease. “Their fame has ead,” said Dr. Payne, “and now cannot cope with the orders bereceived for these Cebu, for eding purposes—they are coming from all over the South Pacific mds. New Guinea wanted 28— we could not supply one—we are 7 trying to build up the herd.” ,s soon as Sydney’s next Royal >w is over, a number of the ious Santa Gertrudis bulls from King Ranch, in Texas, will be t from the Show to the Departit in Fiji, for distribution among cted cattle places, like the Hedun farm in Navua and the CSR s stations. he Santa Gertrudis type is beed to have qualities of special ;rest to people who are trying to iblish cattle-farming in the lical islands; and the experiits with the bulls in Fiji will be ;ched with interest by half-aen Administrations. It may be tembered that the owner of the Lg Ranch was in Suva a couple years ago, as the guest of Mr.

'old Gatty; and, after he had le a quick inspection of Viti u’s pastoral country, he exssed the view that the new Santa •trudis strain of cattle would be value in Fiji. 3 a result of observations and experiments at Sigatoka, the experts are inclined to believe t the dairy-farm routine of temate countries (milking at dawn I at dusk) should not be fol- Bd in the tropics, a temperate countries, the cattle erally rest and sleep during the tit, and graze during the dayit. But within the tropics, their iency is to graze and move about ing the cool hours of darkness, t remain in shelter, away from sun, during daylight. The quesi—upon which the experts are king—then arises as to whether vould not be more profitable to milk the cows at night-time, and leave them undisturbed during daylight hours.

The Department is giving much attention to Fiji’s pastures—thus dealing with problems which are of interest to New Guinea (where the problem of introducing fodder grasses is even more important than that of acclimatising cattle).

“Batiki blue-grass is becoming well established here,” said Dr. Payne.

“It is an excellent fodder. I understand it was first noticed in Batiki, in Fiji; and it since has been propagated and developed by the Department of Agriculture.”

FIJI citizens generally praise the work of their Department of Agriculture, “Harvey, as Director —now abroad —has done a fine job,” said a Suva man. “Parham, acting as Director, has been an extremely valuable man, and is esteemed wherever his work is known. Lament and Dr. Payne have done distinguished work, especially on livestock; and Whitehead has had such success on soil erosion that the farmers, and notably the Indians, now are co-operating with him on preventive measures. (And, in the contour ridges, one could see evidence of this from the road, all the way from Sigatoka to Nadi.) “O’Connor, the entomologist, has given splendid service in the war against the rhinoceros beetle. We have hopes that his method of putting BHC mixture into the crowns of the palms, and so poisoning the beetles, will achieve a measure of control.

“It is worth noting, incidentally, that Simmonds (the outstanding authority on the beetle) is inclined to think that some natural agency is at work in Viti Levu, limiting the spread of the pest. It may be a natural enemy not yet identified —some have suggested that the toad is destroying the larvae.”

Notes From Norfolk

THE first effort in the drive for funds for the 1956 Centenary Celebrations was made on November 17. Half the Island’s population attended a concert and Nigger Minstrel Show organised by Mr. Alec Carr. Items by schoolchildren delighted the audience but the star of the evening was Mr. Johnnie Quintal whose voice and personality bore more than a casual resemblance to A 1 Jolson.

Indictable Court cases are rare on Norfolk Island, but one occurred recently.

The procedure here calls for a jury of seven, with a unanimous decision by five members—two jurymen may dissent without affecting the decision. The election of a jury is also different. Thirty residents are called for duty from which the final seven are chosen. Objection to any juryman may be made but the reasons for the challenge must be given.

The traditional Thanksgiving Service at All Saints’ Church, Kingston, was well attended by residents and visitors. The Rev. K. Tutt conducted the service and the church was beautifully decorated by Islanders with flowers, fruit and vegetables. 161 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

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TENDERS FOR LAND.—Tenders are invited from persons eligible under Regulation 46 of the Treaty of Peace Regulations for the cash purchase of a block of land known as “Nawangai” formerly used as a Trading Station.

The land has an area of approximately nine acres and is situated south of North Cape on the North-East Coast of New Ireland, near Kavieng. Further particulars as to location may be obtained from the Inspector, Office of the Custodian of Expropriated Property, Rabaul.

Title: A freehold title has been restored under the New Guinea Land Titles Restoration Ordinance in the name of the Custodian of Expropriated Property.

Terms: The property will be sold, subject to the consent of the Administrator of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

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A tender shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope endorsed “Tender—Nawangai” and should reach the Custodian of Expropriated Property, Canberra, A.C.T., by 12 noon on February 1, 1955.

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Regulation 46 of the Treaty of Peace Regulations reads as follows: The Custodian shall not unless by direction of the Governor-General, sell any property to any purchaser other ’than to— (a) a person who is an Australian soldier or who is a natural-born British subject; (bi a company in which at least twothirds of the shares Issued by the company are held by persons who are natural-born British subjects and of which the Articles of Association contain a provision prohibiting the sale or transfer of shares in the company to persons who are not natural-born British subjects; (c) a company registered in any part of Her Majesty’s Dominions, in which at least two-thirds of the shares Issued by the company are held by persons who are natural-born British subjects and which is approved by the Attorney-General.”

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A Private, Progressive, Co-educational Boarding School will be opened in Gisborne, N.Z., on February 8, 1955. It will provide primary and secondary education for boys and girls from the age of six to eighteen in ideal surroundings. Inquiries should be addressed to; Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Rashbrooke, Kotinga Rd., Takaka, Nelson, New Zealand.

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B.E 161 [& R. Ltd. . 38 M.L, & F. 140 bun Co. . 33, 123 ta-Vite ... 70 iminium Ltd. 44 letco Pty. Ltd. 45 mstrong, Sp. 75 nott, Wm. . 152 paxadrene . . 38 pro 88 ioc. Tr. Jnls. 147 isian. Sales . 41 ker, W. Jno. . 53 nk of NSW 8, 63 tik of NZ . . 66 rling Pipes . 129 rnes Milling 125 ;hell, Gwyn . 1 ri, O. . . . 153 xland-Rae . 100 ndell-Spence 144 ). A.C. ... 4 lybon Bros. . 30 sckwoldt . 72, 95 ;den, W. S. 108 lekveldt. G. . 99 stol Myers . 121 tish Paints . 76 iadway Motors 1 inton & Co. 34 ige Pty. . . 96 iting, A. H. 103 . 51, 74, 85, 122 •roughs ... 86 Ibury Fry . 160 ne’s Studios 135 penter 109, 126, cov. iv ssified . . . 162 men’s Pty. . 39 gate 124, 133, 158 lins’ Books . 32 snial Meat . 134 per W’s’n. 40, 73 ke Bros. . . 65 al Seas Pty. 147 mmond Co. . 64 tex . . . . 57 r.M. . . 106, 163 ison Paints td 136 laid Ltd. . . 88 [glass, W. C. 89 ilop Rubber . 53 ig House of G ... 6, 148 Donald ... 66 rer, Wm. . . 33 Society . . 123 ank e & iiedecke . . 69 fate Rum . 115 dner Eng. . 100 rett, D. M. 164 rick Hotel . 3 son Battle . 108 >ey, W. & A. 120 espie Bros. . 92 espie, R. i, 57, I, 97. 112, 138 ette Ltd. . . 118 don’s Gin . 107 iham Books 50 mt & Co. . 29 H. (Suva) . 5 ve Ltd. . 34, 62 nilton, P. . 155 ■vey Trinder 31 vorsen, B. . 103 vorsen, Sons 101 t’s Agencies 87 vleys Ltd. 24, 25 laby Ltd. . . 93 & R. . . . 23 brooks Ltd. . 37 chison & Co. 149 feia Co. . . . 46 Industries . 55 Transport . 112 nson’s Wax 150 Kennedy, Capt. 104 Kerr Bros. . . 101 Kiwi Polish . . 70 Knox Grammar 149 Kopsen & Co. . 98 La Pastorale . . 27 Lillis & Co. . . 36 Maclntyre ... 62 Macßobertson . 146 Mendaco ... 95 Millers Ltd. . . 46 M. H. Ltd. 18. 47 Morgan Vernex 142 Mungo Scott . 127 Mcllrath’s . . 132 McNivens . . . 151 N. & R. . . 35, 105 Needham & Co. 49 Nestle’s .... 56 NG Aust. Line . iii Nile Products . 94 Nirex 142 Nixoderm ... 49 Noyes Bros. . . 48 NZNAC .... 2 Opportunity Wanted . . 157 P. I. Line . . . iv Papuan Prints . 73 Penfold, W. C. 141 Piccaninny Wax 128 Plant Services Ltd 130 Qantas . . . cov. ii Queen’s College 151 Qld. Insurance . 37 Qld. Milling 104 Quirk’s Co. . . 114 Ransomes Co. . 124 Refrig. Inst. Co. 96 Riette, A. ... 42 Riverstone Co. . 52 Rohu, Sil . . . 61 Sails & Covers 107 Seppelt & Son . 60 Seward Ltd. . 135 Shaw Savill . . iv Shell Co. . . . 67 Sleepmakers . . 61 Southwell Ltd. . 54 Spartan Co. 71, 92 Spruso Co. ... 22 S. Ltd. . . 11l Stapleton Pty. . 45 Stewarts-Lloyds 58 Sthn. Pac. Ins. 127 Sullivan Ltd. . . 87 Tait, W. S. . . 58 Taylor & Co. . 69 T. . . cov. iii Thornburgh . . 139 Thornycroft Co. 28 Tilley Lamps . 117 Tillock & Co. . 159 Tongan Photos 139 Tooheys Ltd. . 102 Tooth & Co. . 74 Turners Supply 120 Tusculum ... 50 Tyneside Eng. . 43 Typewriter Eff. 54 United Radio . 65 Uni. Graham . 68 Vacuum Oil Co. ii Valiant Rum . 116 Ventura . 115, 164 Vi-Stim .... 119 Vincent’s APC . 21 Wakefield Oils 113 Warnock ... 42 Westfield Meats 110 Westinghouse Rosebery . . 116 Wiles Mfg. Co. . 156 Wills Ltd. . . 90 Wright .... 99 Wrigley’s ... 119 Wunderlich Co. 59 Yorkshire Ins. . 91 163 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954

At Main Crushers, Ex- Ports ship Sydney Hot Air £ A75 0 0 £ A97 0 0 FMS .. £ A74 5 0 £ A97 0 0 Smokedried £ A71 10 0 £ A96 0 0 FIJI Aug.,1939 July 1 Dec Emperor . . b9/ll bl7/9 sl7/ Loloma . . . s25/6 D27/b24/ PAPUA-NEW GUINEA Bulolo . . . bl24/s60/s60/ Mandated All. b3/8 bl/s2/- N.G.G. Ltd. . bl/10 bi/ny 2 s2/4 Oil Search . s3/ll b32/s20/ Ent. of N.G. . s5/5 Oriomo Oil . b5/- S15/6 s9/6 Papuan Apin. b4/ll b7/2 s5/e Placer Dev. . b68/6 b260/s301 Sandy Creek . bl/5 s6d s9d Purchasers at Full Market Prices on Assay Value of

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Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 24/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 22/6 Fiji; 20/- Tonga; 140 Pac.

Francs; 3U52.23.) COPRA The official price paid by the British Ministry of Food for copra produced in British Territories in the South Pacific (Papua, New Guinea, Solomons, Gilbert and Ellice, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Cook Islands) for the year as from January 1, 1954, is approximately £7O Sterling per ton, f.0.b., chief Territories ports. Each Governmental authority, handling and shipping the copra, makes deductions from the £7O Stg., such charges being different in each Territory. The following are the prices now being paid, per ton:—

Papua And New Guinea

FIJI Pltn. . ~ £F7O 15 6 (60 pts. & over) FMS . .. £F7O 10 0 (45-57y 2 pts.) W. SAMOA:—After deductions producers receive approx. £AS7/12/-, £AS7/5/-, and £ A56/15/- per ton under the three gradings in use.

E. SAMOA; —Government pays $lOl (£A4S) per long ton, plus bonus at end of year if average proceeds higher.

SOLOMONS: —Hot Air: Honiara/Gizo £69/5/-, Yandina £69/10/-; Mixed FM £1 less; PM £2 less, respectively.

NEW HEBRIDES:—Dec. 2, 77,000 Pac. francs per long ton (approx. £ASS/4/-).

FR. OCEANIA:—Under periodic price adjustment of October producers receive 9.50 and 9.03 Pac. francs per kilo for the two gradings in use, delivered in bulk, Papeete. (£A67 —£A65/15/- per long ton.) COCOA.—lslands prices are usually based on rate for Accra cocoa (W.

Africa), quotation (from Colyer Watson, Ltd., Sydney) for which on December 2 was £530, c.i.f., Australian ports.

N.G.— £ A 505 approx, per ton Sydney.

Samoa.—Sydney agents on December ? quoted Samoan cocoa at £S3BS (£A4Bi approx.), f.o.b. per ton, first grade.

COFFEE P N.G. 7/- per lb Ist grade.

PEANUTS.—P.-N.G.: —Ready sale Sydney for Virginia Bunch, in shell, large, well cleaned, at 1/6 per lb.

RUBBER.—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore. Nov. 30: No. 1 RSS, spot, buyers 81.3 cents (28 3 /4d Aust.) per lb.; London, spot, buyers 23%d Stg., June delivery 23.6 d Stg.

VANILLA BEANS,—Sydney quotation by Victor Karp, Tulk & Co.: Tahiti. —White and Yellow label 86/-. Green 84/-, c.i.f.

RlCE;—Price adjusted May 1 each year.

P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed £B3 per ton, f.o.b. Other Pacific Islands £9O.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed betw Torres Strait producers and Otto Gen Co. (USA) for 1954: Sound grades, £A D, £ A 390; E, £ A 300; EE, £A225, f.o.b. Australian port. Manihiki: £/ TROCHUS SHELL.—Rising tende First Grade NG and N. Hebrides qui early Dec. £A345 per ton, ex w: Sydney, less rejects.

Green Snail Shell.—N.G., Ist G

£ A 245 per ton less rejects, ex-wb Sydney. N.H., £235, ditto, 8.5.1., Nl grade £AIBO-£A2OO.

London And U.S. Prices

Copra:—London, Nov. 20; Straits.

Cont. ports, per ton, Dec.-Jan. deli £Stg.72 ( £A9O approx.); N. Hebr afloat, 81,000 metrop. francs (£. approx.); Philippines, Dec.-Jan. dell $195 (£AB7/10/- approx.).

Cocoa:—London, Nov. 20: Accra/L £ Stg.4l2/10/- December delivery, c January delivery £ Stg.4lo/10/-, M, £ Stg.4o7/10/-; New York, Nov. 20: 47.94 cents, May delivery 47.45 cent Coffee:—London, Nov. 20: spot, rob; Br. Cameroons to £ Stg.3Bo, Gold C to £ 5tg.355, Uganda to £ Stg.4l3, K to £ Stg.6oo, Jamacia to £ 5tg.545, all ton in bond, London; early shipn Kenya “A”, £ 5tg.675, Bukoba ns f.a.q. £ 5tg.375, both f.0.b.; New Y spot, Columbian to 79 cents per lb, Sa “Pour” 7iy 2 cents.

Trochus: —London, Oct. 30: Singa early delivery, c.i.f., £ 5tg.465, S: Macassar £ Stg.3Bo, Mergui £Stg Padang £ Stg.3oo.

Greensnail: —Singapore, £ Stg.34o.

Islands Mining Sha[?]

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Se! £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £ 100 Lon B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Sa: B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Sai London, basis £lOO London: B. £100) S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji, £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth Bl

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kav 5 Madang), BANK OF NSW (branches Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Mac Samarai; agency; Wau) and ANZ Bi (Port Moresby) quote exchange Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £lOO.

BSI.—COMMONWEALTH BANK (br: at Honiara) quotes exchange rate tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific fr most valuable of the three franc gr in French Union, are used in New ( donia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Oce; FRENCH BANK (Comptoir NatJ D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney q 1 (nominally): 140 Pac. fr. to £ A 168 Pac. fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac.. to US $• Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA 9197.) Wholly set up ant printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty, Ltd., 20 Alberta Street, Sydney

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DECEMBER, 1954 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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General Merchants

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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.

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 Cr 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.

Agents For Australian, European

And American Manufacturers

Distributors Of Every Description

OF MERCHANDISE.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1954