PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly MAY, 1955 Vol. XXV. No. 10. ished 1930 [Registered at the G.P .0., Sydney for transmission by newspaper] Queen Victoria School at Matavatucou, the only all-Fijian secondary school, is among Fiji’s most up-to-date institutions. Some of the students, shown here, however, produced traditional make-up for the visit of Mr. Norman Comben and Sister Ormond Lloyd, from the liner “Orion”, during a cruise-call at Suva. —Fiji Public Relations Office Photo.

From Island Services to International Air Routes QANTAS Service is Super Service Australia’s Overseas Airline, with 35 years of experience, offers the finest in airline travel.

On the 68,000 miles of air routes flown by Qantas, fast, frequent services link over 50 ports of call ir the South-West Pacific with Australia.

Qantas Services radiate from Australia to Europe, U.S.A., Canada the Orierft and South Africa.

MANL STgjfcKAVIEWC * VVEWAK .V RABAUL li

Baiyer R Vmadang

mount/ 'SS .TALASEA WABAG BUKA BAY OROKA JNUS

Loewe Harbour

4 I KAINANTU

Lake Jv I Wabamun

KUTUBUX A RON A £FINSCHHAFEfS kIETA LAE BULOLO^ WAU BU IN KiKORI KEREMA

Vella Lavella

m LOUSIA OARU YULE

Port Moresby

YANDiNA ESA ALA HONIARA -'*&■ SAMARA I POR MORESBY

Esp!Ritu Santo

Q FIJI CAIRNS . s \ Tnoumea QANTAS NORFOLK ISLAND BRISBANE SYDNEY Both First-Class and money-saving Tourist travel are available to man; ports of call on Qantas Internationa network trunk routes.

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD., (Inc. in Q'land), in association with 8.0.A.C. and TEAL.

Australia'S Overseas Airline

P 22 PAcIFIr i G . . _ T „ ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

m mmi mm man i STOVES

Made In England

These two Coleman Stoves are of the one burner kerosene type and are available in both silent and roarer models. Their dimensions are height inches, diameter 8J inches, approximate weight 2| lb. Both models have the same outstanding features.

Model No. 532 E

Silent Type

1. Full-Size Fount with Filler Plug of wing type. 2. Air release on side of Filler Plug. 3. Heavy Brass pressure-tested Tanks. 4. Fount and Burner firmly soldered together. 5. European-type pump. 6. Grate and Grate Supports detachable to reduce shipping space.

J o 7. Spare parts interchangeable with similar European Stoves. Representatives for the Pacific Islands: Model No. 531 E

Roarer Type

54-a PITT STREET SYDNEY

Robert Gillespie Pul™

PEARCE & CO. LTD.

SUVA

Eor Fiji Islands

1 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1955

Simplex Marine Engines

Announcing New Electric Model 12 H.P. & The most modern marine engine built for tropical conditions. Full electric starter and generator. Enclosed flywheel. New Thrustmatic builtin reverse. New Rollerotor water pump. Heavy duty efficiency. Get details now of this fine new marine engine.

Also available in 3, 5 and 20 H.P. Simplex parts and service always available.

Morgan Fibreglass Boats

10’ x 4’ 3” For outboar d or rowing, this big 10 ft. fibreglass boat is ideal for fishing or pleasure.

Takes a weight of up to 7 cwt, and weighs only » , , . u , 110 lbs. Not anectea by borer, sun, shrinkage, wet or dry rot, wind or oil. Speed up to 10 M.P.H. Fibreglass is stronger than steel and lighter than aluminium.

BRITANNIA OUTBOARD MOTORS Made by Brockhouse, England these famous twin cylinder streamlined outboards are now available for immediate delivery Twin cylinder means no vibration, sweeter running and perfect quietness with under water exhaust. Always start and run sweetly and smoothly. Speeds up to 10 M.P.H. for boats up to 20 ft. Weight 48 lbs. Get details now r .

SHIPCHANDLERY Navigation Lamps C.Q.R. Anchors Koplastic Antifouling Nonskid Deck Paint Petrol Tanks Copper Roves Brass Screws Chain Swivels Prop Shafting Anchor Winches Aldis Lamps Rylard Varnish FW Engine Enamel Seamflex Putty Copper Tacks Brass Bolts Shackles Steel Blocks Bearings Port Lights Ash Oars Lagoline Hull Paint Minter Marine Glue Petrol Fittings Copper Rod Copper Sheet Thimbles Wood Blocks Steering Wheels Compasses Dulux Yacht White Copper Nails Steering Gear Brass Rod Wire Rope Turnbuckles Propellers

Parsons Marine Diesei

40 H.P.— 4 cylinder Made by Pi Southa ton, from famous new overhead v i diesel. A duty me d weight beaut: equipped ei suitable for mercial fishir pleasure b o Supplied witH , , . . J duction g( electric starter and generator and, if required water cooling. Stocks now available, also spare v Fully guaranteed. The cheapest 40 HP c available in the world. For boats to 45 ft there • finer power unit.

Renta Marine Engines

35 H.P, 84 H.P. 100 H.P. Petrol & Diesel These fine qi Swedish built cision engines available stock. Sup p; with or withou duction gears, electric starter generator, in ment panel, s m at i c therm , water control every modern marine feature. Penta engines are ki throughout the world as the highest quality mi units made. Adequate supplies of spare parts avai and every engine is fully guaranteed.

VORTEX BILGE PUMPS Fit in bottom of boat and with hand operation shifts 1 ton of wai 7 mins. All bronze throughout, efficient than most power pi Easily fitted. Price £l6/10 0.

Kopsen Motor Launch!

14’ to Opei 18’ to Cabin. C or Clin Powered with Simplex or Penta marine engines, for illustrated folder describing the various r boats and launches available.

ASK FOR NEW BOAT & ENGINE CATALOGUE OR SHIPCHANDLERY CATALOGUE W. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTC 376-382 Kent Street - Sydney. Cables—Kopsen, Sydn 2 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

iti Sailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships, 1954-55.

ORSOVA ORON8AY ORCADES ORON8AY 1955 1855 1955 1955 SYDNEY depart 3 June 15 July 7 Oct. 18 Nov.

AUCKLAND arr/dep 6 June 18 July 10 Oct. 21 Nov.

SUVA arr/dep 9 June 21 July 13 Oct. 24 Nov.

HONOLULU arr/dep 14 June 26 July 18 Oct. 29 Nov.

VANCOUVER arrive 20 June 1 Aug. 24 Oct. 5 Dec. depart 21 June 2 Aug. 25 Oct. 6 Dec.

SAN FRANCISCO arr 23 June* 4 Aug. 27 Oct. 8 Dec. depart 5 Aug. 28 Oct. 9 Dec.

HONOLULU arr/dep 8 Aug. 1 Nov. 13 Dec.

SUVA arr/dep 16 Aug. 8 Nov. 20 Dec.

AUCKLAND arr/dep — 18 Aug. 11 Nov. 23 Dec.

SYDNEY arrive — 22 Aug. 14 Nov. 26 Dec. * Thence to U.K. via Panama.

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: Agents for NEW GUINEA: STEAMSHIPS TRADING CO. LTD. COLYER WATSON (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

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

6 Bridge St., Sydney

Telephones: BU 1712 BU 6313 (Freight only) Cable Address: “YUILL”

Shipping Time-Tables sydney-Papua-N. Guinea V Bulolo, modern liner, sails about ■y six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbyiarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul larai-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney. ext sailing about June 14.

V Malekula sails from Sydney for tarai, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, dshafen, Madang, Lae, Samarai and rn to Sydney. Next sailing about B 17.

Btails from Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., ridge Street, Sydney.

V Sinkiang: Sydney, Brisbane, Port esby, and return.

V Fukien: Sydney, Port Moresby, Lae, bane, and Sydney/Melboume.

V Soochow and MV Shansi: Sydney, bane. Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, lang, Kavieng, Rabaul, Sydney, Melrne. sxt sailings: MV Fukien, late June; MV show, June 11; MV Sinkiang, June 3; 43hansi, June 10. le above dates are approximate, and [e to be altered by as much as two is. (tails from New Guinea Australia Line 8. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge Sydney.

Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga V Tofua maintains a service from dand to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, s, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return Auckland.

V Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva, Lautoka, Apia, Suva, Wellington, and return to Auckland. Each Autumn there is a temporary rearrangement of schedules while the respective vessels are on annual survey. Next sailings; MV Tofua: May 24, June 21.

MV Matua: June 18.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The regular passenger vessel “Maui Pomare’’ is out of commission indefinitely.

“Waitemata”, with very limited passenger accommodation, will call at Rarotonga north-bound for the US from NZ in late June. Other passenger arrangements are still pending.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories in Wellington, or to any office «f the Union SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Malaita makes a round trip at about 8-weeks intervals from Sydney to Norfolk Is.-New Hebrides ports-BSI ports- Bougainville-Rabaul-Samarai-Sydney.

Sailing from Sydney about June 10.

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

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messagerles Maritimes Line, coming from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route.

Details from Messagerles Maritimes.

Luxurious new liners Caledonlen and Australia-New Zealand-Canada-USA 3 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1955

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels "Thorsisle" and "Thorshall"

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.

POET VlLA—Cornptoirs Francais des LAE—Barns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

Nouvelles Hebrides. SYDNEY—BIrt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd.

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

< m sru'. / 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.

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

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

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

Cable address: Burnsouth.

Tahiti Etablissements Donalo Tahiti, Papeete Cable address : Donald Papeete. v/a Tahitien recently added to this service.

Sailing dates:— From Sydney;- Tahitien, May 24; Caledonien. August 23. Eridan, east-bound, leaves Noumea July 9, Papeete August 5.

From Papeete for Sydney; Caledonien, July 30; Tahitien, September 11.

MV Polynesien (Messageries Maritimes) maintains about monthly passenger sailings between Sydney and Noumea and the New Hebrides. She will make her last voyage from Sydney about June 14, and a new vessel, Polynesle, will enter the service late July or August.

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacific Ports-Sydney Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-passenger liner Southern Cross makes four roundthe-world voyages per year, sailing alternately west - bound and east - bo with regular calls at Suva and Pai Next voyage east-bound, calling November 1, Papeete November 5.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, Pacific Islands Transport H vessels Thorsisle and Thorshall n tain a regular service from P‘ Coast North American ports, with sa:, every 35-40 days to French Oce= Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia, Hebrides, and New Guinea. Some depend on cargoes offering. Next sa; Thorsisle —San Francisco June 22, Paj July 6, Nukualofa July 14, Apia Juk Suva July 22, Noumea July 28, Lae Ai 5, thence direct to San Francisco, art August 24.

Details from General Steamships poration Ltd., 432 California St..

Francisco, U.S.A., and Island Agents ad.).

U.S.-PAPEETE-PAGO PAGO-N.Z.- AUSTRALIA Matson-Oceanic Line of San Fram operates a regular passenger-cargo se; from Los Angeles. Southern terminal j vary with cargoes offering. Next sail Sonoma, north-bound, leaves Towfii May 21, Suva May 27, Papeete Jur due Los Angeles June 13. Alameda sc bound, leaves Papeete May 30, Pago : June 4, due Brisbane June 9.

SYDNEY-SUVA-HONOLULU- VANCOUVER Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of i (subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & operate a regular service twice yearly the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger v Lakemba along the above route. Act modation is entirely First Class, two-b cabins. Next sailings from Sy f scheduled late May and late Decemb* Details from American Trading & £ ping Co. Pty., Ltd., Sydney. 4 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

London - Suva

SES «\v vi* 7 CV V PANAMA V 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, FIJI

Make The Most Of Your Leave!

Dwn your OWN GAR!

Yes, for the full duration of your stay and we’ll buy if back when you leave! a

Select From Over 100 New And Used Cars!

Own your own car to come and go as you please, where you please, when you please.

Write and tell us the type of car you’d like and we’ll have a good new or used model lined up for your arrival. Practically all our used cars are covered by a mechanical guarantee and all by an N.RJVI.A. Certificate. We can save you £’s! A \ deposit is all we ask and we buy back even though the purchase price is not fully paid up. Tell us what you need we do the rest! It’s cheaper than a hire car and you can select the car of your choice not some high mileage “hack”.

Many hundreds of clients have been satisfied by our “Special Island Arrangement” —so write for particulars now to Sales Manager.

BROADWAY MOTORS (N.S.W.) Pty. Ltd. 184 200 BROADWAY, SYDNEY, N.S.W., AUSTRALIA. airways Time-Tables

Lans-Pacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

li Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths* , Thur., Sat. —Sydney - Nadi - Canton [■ Honolulu - San Francisco - Seattle irtland. ; Sat., Mon.—Return same route.

C 4 from Auckland connects, arriving Tues., Thur., Sat., departing Nadi Fri., Mon.

Y Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS , Thur.* and Sat.* Sydney-Nadl (Plji)nton Is. - Honolulu - San Francisco — th every Saturday service extending Vancouver.

SOUTHWARDS Fri., : Mon.* San Francisco nolulu-Canton Is.-Nadi (Fiji)-Sydney, ote: Crosses date-line enroute). i services Tuesday northbound and ssday southbound—are “Connoisseur” es; First class only. lL DC6 services between Auckland ladi connect at Nadi Tues. and Sat. yards; Wed. and Sun. southwards.

R Canadian Pacific Airlines

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

Every Sunday leave Vancouver by same route. (Note: Crosses date-line enroute). • Tourist Class Services are available on these planes at 20 per cent, les; normal fares

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 1 2 SvdnCV-NeW GllillCa ' Service by Qantas Empire Airways NORTHWARDS Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays. (Skymasters)* Depart: Arrive; Sydney, 8.00 pm Brisbane, 10.45 pm Brisbane, 11.45 pm Moresby, 6.35 am (Tues., Wed.,Sun.) Moresby, 7.55 am Lae, 9.10 am Connecting services north of Lae by D.C.3 to Bulolo and Wau on Wednesdays. • DC3 operating Moresby-Lae sector.

Thursdays (Skymaster) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 8 pm Brisbane, 10.45 pm Brisbane, 11.45 pm Townsville, 3.30 am (Friday) Townsville, 4.15 am Cairns, 5.25 am Cairns, 6.25 am Port Moresby. 9.15 am 5 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

There's so much to do

New Zealand

Imagine a holiday in this land of breathtaking beauty!

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

NAC \ : ,) k > h. ) ) Linking all principal New Zealand cities and extending to Norfolk Island. Offices and Agents throughout New Zealand, Australia and the South-West Pacific.

B • tIAL A N D national AIRW A T S CORPORATII

Depart: Arrive: Syd., Wed. 8.30 pm Brisbane, 11.50 pm Brls., 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, 12.15 pmf Sydney, 7.55 pm • Every second service night stops at

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

■l Eli l||| ‘ jj,, ■„ » l PTOfed mm m » » 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. ;. Moresby, 10.35 am Lae, 11.55 am SOUTHWARDS ■uesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. (Skymaster)* Depart; Arrive: 8.40 am Moresby, 10.00 am isby, 11.00 am Brisbane, 5.35 pm >ane, 7.00 pm Sydney, 9.00 pm )C3 operating Lae-Moresby sector.

Sundays.

Depart: Arrive: 5.45 am Moresby, 7.05 am sby, 8.30 am Cairns, 11.30 am is, 1.20 pm Townsville, 2.30 pm isville, 3.15 pm Brisbane, 7.00 pm lane, 8.00 pm Sydney, 10.45 pm meeting service by DCS from Wau es Lae 12.35 pm Saturday. €3 operating Lae-Moresby sector. 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas -HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) nate Wednesdays (June 1, etc.), rts Lae 10.30 am, calls at Madang d Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia 5 pm. Every alternate Thursday une 2, etc.), depart Hollandia at am, and, with calls at Wewak and idang, arrives Lae at 2.40 pm.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

ry Wednesday.

Lae, 10.45 am: Pinschhafen, Rabaul, ivieng, arr. Manus 5.45 pm. ns Saturdays (dep. 8 am), via ,vieng, Rabaul and Pinschhafen; arr. e, 2.55 pm.

MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) ule Is., Kerema, Kikori, L. Kutubu.— ery alternate Friday returning same y (June 3, etc.).

Port Moresby-Rabaul

(Catalina) Fue. (May 31, etc.) Port Moresbynarai-Esa’ala-Losuia-Moewe Harb lasea-Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul. Returnvia same ports (except Losuia and i’ala optional) alt. Thu. (June 2, .).

'Jew Britain-Bougainville

(Catalina) fed. —Rabaul - -Buka - Kieta - Buln me 1, etc.).

Ved. (same day) Buin-Kieta-Bukabaul. .AE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

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

Central Highlands

(DCS) lays—Lae (8.30 am) to Wabamunda, ling at any of: Nadzab, Kainantu, roka, Nondugl, Banz, Mlnj, Mt. ?en, Baiyer R., Wabag, Wabamunda. urn to Lae arriving 6 pm.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) any of: Nadzab, Goroka, Arena, inantu. Return to Lae, arrival deiding on stops made, s.—Lae (7.30 am) to Gusap, calling

Lae-Bulolo-Wau (Dcs)

Lae.—Mon. 7.30 am, Tues. 2 pm, . 10.30 am.

Wau. —Mon. 9 am, Tues. 3.30 pm, Wed. 1 pm. Bulolo is omitted on these flights which take 35 minutes, Wau-Lae.

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

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

New Guinea-New Britain

(DCS) Fridays—Depart Lae 12.55 pm, Pinschhafen 1.45 pm, arrive Rabaul 3.55 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.

Frl.; 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 Super-Cons, between Sydney and Amsterdam with a call at Biak, DNG, and Manila, Philippines.

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandla, Sorong, Merauke and Tanah Merah. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS (Three flights every four weeks) Monday (June 2, 20, 27), Lae (dep. 6 am) Pinschhafen Rabam Buka Vellalavella Yandina Honiara, BSI (arriving 5.28 pm).

Tuesday (June 3, 21, 28) Honiara (dep. 7 am) Yandina —Vellalavella Buka Rabaul Pinschhafen Lae (arriving 3.50 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

Constellation aircraft depart Saigon May 2 for Darwin - Brisbane - Noumea and return. Depart Noumea, May 5.

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

By Ansett Airways Pty., Ltd., “Flying-Boat Division”

Twice weekly services, operating mainly on Tuesday and Saturday, return same day. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters Alternate Thursdays (June 2, etc.) returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas with Sandringham Flying Boats—Weekly 7 I F I C ISLANDS, MONTHLY MAY. 1955

TODAY S

Best Values

OLIVER AUTHORIZE O o LIVER ★ You need to look no further than Oliver for the best value for your money in Farm Tractors and Machinery.

With Oliver, quality is in-built, to give you years of dependable honest performance—at prices that stand up favourably with ANY comparable model.

That’s why it’s just good value to buy OLIVER—“The Finest in Farm Machinery”.

HARVEST RICE 'S s == 3 WITH THE OLIVER MODEL 15 COMBINE The Oliver “Pad! Rice” Combine is specially designed to handle rice, even down and tangled crops. Write to your distributor for full details of the iver 15 Combine the first 6 ft. machine to strip and thresh your nee crop with full efficiency.

★ Versatile Oliver Oc3

Use your OC3 with an ‘lmp’

Dozer for earthmoving and clearing jobs, or the tractor itself on hillsides or in sandy or boggy going. Oliver is to-day’s best value in Crawlers—and in Farm Machinery.

Distributors: NEW GUINEA: New Guinea Company Ltd.. Rabaul, Lae. Mada] ivavieng, Port Moresby: Island Products Ltd.

BSI. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Solomon Islands) Pty., Ltd., Tulagi.

NEW CALEDONIA: de Rouvray & Co. (agents for W. R. Carpenter & C FRENCH OCEANIA: Etablissements Roy, Papeete, Tahiti.

Noumea to allow connection with N Suva service—see below. Table ' t Alternate Fridays (June 10 alternate Saturdays (June 4 etc" departs Noumea 2 pm, arriving’ 9.40 pm. 10. Sydney-Noumea-Su By Qantas with Sandringhaa Flying Boats—Fortnightly Depart: Arrive: Noumea, 11.25 am Suva, 5c _ A l }- FrL * (Night Sli Suva, 8.00 am Alt. Noumea 12 1 Sat.f : Alt. Fri. (June 3, etc.), tAI (June 4, etc.). (Service allows connection at N with Sydney-New Hebrides Servii above.) 11. Auckland-Norfoik By NZ National Airways, with 1 (Every Sunday) May 29, one flight; June 5, two 12. Auckland-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, wit) DC6 aircraft.

Mon., Thur., Fri.: Dep. Auckland 9. arr. Sydney 1.00 pm.

Wed., Sun.: Dept. Auckland 11 I arr Sydney 3.00 pm.

Tue., Sat.: Dep. Sydney IO.Ot arr. Auckland 5.15 pm.

Mon., Thur.. Fri.; Dep. Sydney 3.i arr. Auckland 10.15 pm. 13. Christchurch-Sydn Tasman Empire Airways, witi DC6 aircraft, Mon., Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5.0] arr. Sydney 8.40 pm.

Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 8.00 an Christchurch 3.10 pm. 14. Christchurch-Melboi Tasman Empire Airways, witi; DC6 aircraft.

Thurs.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 pir Melbourne 9.30 pm.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 7.00 am. arr. i church 3.00 pm. 15. New Zealand-Fij Tasman Empire Airways, witi; DC6 aircraft.

Tue., Sat.: Dep. Auckland 1.15 am Nandi 6.30 pm.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Nandi 11.00 am Auckland 4.25 pm. 16. Fiji-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, witi Solent aircraft.

Service normally fortnightly, with j flights during Winter tourist seaa required.

Departs Suva Friday 9 am, crosses? line, arrives Satapuala (W. S Thur. 2 pm, departs Fri. 2 am, t Aitutaki 7.30 am, departs 9.3( arrives Papeete 2 pm. Departs K Sun. 7.30 am, arrives Aitutaki I departs 1 pin, arrives Satapuahl pm. departs Mon 7 am, crosses? line, arrives Suva Tues., 9.55 an Leaves Suva May 31, etc., Papeete 3, etc. Overflying Satapuala wit) arranged time-table until late Jum 17. Fiji-Tonga Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Dep. Suva 6.30 am. Arr. Nukualofa 8 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

Why Write South for Your Books ?

We can supply all the latest “Bestsellers”. New books are continually being added to our shelves.

Textbooks, Medical and Technical books may be ordered through us.

Comprehensive selection of Children’s books. School Prizes and Library books are our speciality.

Write for a copy of our Catalogue now in preparation.

Remember Beadcl's for Books, the largest Booksellers of the most reasonably priced books in the Territory.

Beadels Bookshop

Box 107, Port Moresby, Papua in £aCf°“Ws S ' tUa,ed p ac ifj' c tu Lbarb o^ r,o oki' n g m *Saief P o%t"y E desi te ntiv* £*c the V.gned S ”e «day. °/- ° *<« Rec C " rre ncy ~fr, ,fr fl ese fv at j y) Per thr °m° ns &*of% ‘ ** ecf Su^'e^ffon r e SS ; n Dep. Nukualofa 9.50 am. Arr. iv a 4.55 pm. xt flights: June 16. August 11. 18. Micronesia rlllan services, based on Guam, using 2ied amphibious Grumman Albatrosses, ■egularly to Koror (Palau), Yap (West lines), Truk (Central Carolines), pe (E. Carolines), Majuro (Marshals) Saipan (Marianas). Details from B-Ocean Airlines, Guam, via Honolulu. ). Fiji Internal Airways -Nadi-Suva: Two flights dally except on., Wed. -Nadi: Tues,, Sun. (additional to the ove return flight). ■Suva; Mon.. Wed. -Nadi-Labasa-Suva: Fri. -Labasa-Suva; Daily except Sun. •Labasa-Nadi-Suva: Sat. s - Labasa - Savusavu - Taveuni iva: Mon., Wed. ■Savusavu-Suva: Mon., Wed., Fri. - Taveuni - Savusavu - Labasa - ,va: Tues., Thur.

I. French Oceania Inter- Island Service Regie Aerienne Interinsulalre (Catalina) weekly service to the Leeward oup. esday; Papeete-Raiatea-Bora Boraiatea-Papeete. 7 : Papeete-Huahine-Raiatea-Papeete. king agents in Papeete: Messageries iritimes. tf Miss Nancy Hunt, of Suva, left in the liner Southern Cross , on April 28, for the United Kingdom, where she will marry Major E. J.

Donaldson, of Castle Douglas, Galloway. Miss Hunt, who is a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

J. L. Hunt, early settlers on the Rewa, has been in the Fiji Government service for the last 14 years.

J t Messageries Maritimes vessels which have formerly come to Noumea from France via Indo China, will cease to call at the latter country in future. They will make their outward voyage via Suez and Australian ports, and their homeward voyage via Cape of Good Hope. The service via Panama will, of course, be unaffected. 9 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

for service we ve come long way • • V

Dbimus Appliances

AGENTS FOR; New Guinea Australia Line of the China Navigation Co. Ltd.

Lombard Insurance Company Ltd.

Union Assurance Society Ltd.

Ausf. T. & G. Mutual Life Society Ltd.

You've heard the saying "Great oaks from little acorns grow."

We've planted our acorns in many places—and how they're growing—thanks to you!

Thanks, too, to the thought at the heart of our business acorn: "CW stands for service." Let us be of service to you by selling your produce to the markets of the world.

COLYEB WATSON ( e 5SE*| LTD. rabaul

Madang • Kavieng • Lae • Goroka

Associated with: Sydney T" ITD ” COLYER WATSON & CO. LTD., V n«y. Melbourne, Bn,bone. Wellington, Aueklond. Chri.tchereh. sm

Cars Plymoutt

HUMBER and HILLMA

Rut 2 Tractor

a USHLBS USHER’S

Scotch Whisky

Whale Rope Crres Radios

10 may. 1955- P ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT

stributed in AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND and the \lowing PACIFIC ISLANDS: Lnstralian Territories: Papua.

Norfolk Is. Cocos Is. ust. Trustee Territories: New Guinea. Nauru. tlsh Protectorates: Solomon Is.

Tonga. iritlsh Crown Colonies: Fiji.

Gilbert & Ellice. ,Z. Territories: Cook Is, Niue. i. Trust Territory: W. Samoa. nch Territories: N. Caledonia.

French Oceania. flo-French Condominium: New Hebrides. . Territories: E. Samoa. Hawaii.

L Trust Territory: Micronesia larollne, Marshall & Mariana). tch Territory: W. New Guinea.

Editor and Publisher: R. W. ROBSON.

Assistant Editor: JUDY TUDOR.

Business Manager:

Selwyn Hughes

LEPHONES: General Business, torlal. Advertising, Subscriptions; MA 9197, MA 9198. 0.P.0. BOX 3408, SYDNEY. flstered Address for Telegrams, Jlograms, and Cables: “Pacpub,”

Sydney.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Australia and New lealand and Ausrallan, NZ, and Ur. •aclflc Islands £l4 0 v Caledonia, Tahiti . £l7 0 ewhere 3V 2 US Dollars £1 10 0

Representative In New

ZEALAND; D. Whitcombe, P.O. Box 5179, Auckland.

PRESENTATIVE IN LONDON, U.K.: T. Wallis. 13 Rood Lane. London.

E.C.3., England.

XBOURNE OFFICE: Newspaper House, 247 Collins St.—Tel.; Cent. 2053. iENTS: All main trading firms d stores in the Pacific Islands.

Pacific Islands Monthly Contents: No. 10 Vol. XXV May, 1955 Editorial: Islands Development and Visionary Ministers Especially Australian 13 Fijians to Return from Malaya 14 P-NG Public Service Goes to Arbitration 15 Western Samoa’s Income Tax 16 P-NG Oil Search Omati No. 1 Abandoned 17 BSPs Practical Steps to Encourage Mining Enterprise 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 Fiji’s Losing Fight Against Oryctes Rhinoceros .. .. 19 Extraordinary Population Growth in W. Samoa .. 20 Do You Remember—Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 20 P-NG Will Benefit As Australian Rice Millers “Come Into Line” 21 Couple Allege They Were “Chased Out Of Pago” .. 21 NG Land—*No Priority for Chinese 23 Leave Grants for Fiji’s Civil Service 24 Noumea Strike 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 26 P-NG Advisory Councils .. 31 News From Correspondents In P-NG 33 Asiatic Miners In NC .... 47 Hurricane Busters Fail .. .. 51 Mrs. R. L. Stevenson’s Diary 53 Education in Fiji 57 Jap Fishermen in New Hebrides 67 Fiji Police Commission .... 73 Rarotongan Cycling .. .. 75 MAGAZINE SECTION: Rupert Brook. Memories, 79; “Charley and the Tourist,” 81; This Month’s New Reading 83 Rarotonga’s Freezer 86 New Caledonia’s Cobalt .. 98 News of the Smallships .. 101 P-NG Plant Quarantine .. 115 Rehabilitation of Fijian Servicemen 119 Duva Fishing in Fiji 121 Fiji’s Cigarette Industry .. 123 Suva Wharf Congestion .. 126 New Caledonia’s Economy .. 127 Fiji Leprosy Hospital .. .. 132 OBITUARY; N. W. Towson, Dr. D. W. Hoodless, G. C.

Barratt, G. M. Hennings, Mrs. H. E. Waddingham, A. W. Broodbank, J. Barber, A. S. de Montalk, H.

Stuchbury, Moutairi Pe, N Zorab, J. Douglas, Fr. J.

Chesneau, Fr. J. Oger .. 133 Modernising NC Nickel Industry is Costly 141 Suva Wharf Labour Muddle Not Settled 142 Pidgin English Question .. 145 Inter-Samoan Sports .. .. 147 Notes for Radio Amateurs.. 149 Gauguin Painting Found .. 151 News of Islands Boxers .. .. 152 Western Samoa’s Boom .. .. 153 Apia Customs List 154 Jap Tuna Packers and US US Legislation 155 Tafuna Airport 157 French Oceania Slump .. 158 Commercial and Markets .. 160 A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (29 Alberta Street is 10 yards from the intersection of Goalbnrn Street and Wentworth Avenue.)

Limited Number Available DIAMOND T MODEL 972

Prime Mover Trucks

Immediate Delivery!

S Save £looo s on Initial Outlay!!

Fifoboughly Tested-Ready For Work!

#6x6 with Front Wheel Drive. # Winches and Turntables Available. ® Special Interest —Timber Haulers and I ransporters!

Complete Coupon or Telegram “AMERQUIP”, Brisbane, for full details . . .

American Heavy equipment FaM.,., aff&SiiK Brisbane.

Also: 0!d Botany Road, Mascot, Sydney.

☆ Spare Parts

IN STOCK

Post This Coupon T O-04!

American Heai

equipment compa PTY. LTD.

Please send me full details Diamond T Model 972 pr Mover Trucks, without obligat NAME ADDRESS P.I.M. 12 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Editorial ... isands Development and Visionary Ministers —Especially Australian [RESENT indications are that Mr. Paul Hasluck, Australian Minister for Territories, will be fled to the small list of politicianitators whose names are cursed hen remembered) by intelligent cific Islanders. On two counts few Guinea land settlement and NG public service organisation— ■. Hasluck has been much in the lelight lately, and the picture has t flattered him.

All the South Pacific territories, thout exception, have suffered der this kind of infliction. The rritories have either very limited jresentative government, or none all. Nominally, they are ruled »r by a Minister for Territories, Colonies, or Islands Depend- ;ies, or something. In nearly all ses, the system of Western inocracy supplies for those Mineral jobs either a Trades Hall litician, a well-meaning nonentity, -most dangerous of all —a type 10 knows it all in theory, and is ite sure he cannot possibly be ong.

Administration over tropical and 3-tropical countries, heavily pulated by people who have not b reached the stage of self-goviment, calls for special education, lining and practical experience, der and wiser nations recognise is, and place carefully selected »n in charge of such countries, re them a general direction on licy, and leave them alone.

No other system is possible, if ere are to be development, social ogress, human justice and a isonably contented population.

HJT not countries over-run by > Socialist politicians. Recent experiences in relation to Australia New Guinea, and Britain in the lomons, provide examples of what ppens when enthusiastic ideologs get loose on a helpless tropical untry.

The British Solomon Islands, onomically starving, have just id what appears to be a stroke luck. A young Australian ologist claims to have discovered goldfield which is at least inresting, and may prove to be ally rich. It is good enough to tract miners and investors. If they > establish a gold industry, the finderella” Territory” may prove be not only one of the most de- :able in the Southwest Pacific undamentally, it is as good as sw Guinea), but also of great ade value to Australia.

Yet that stage could have been reached eight years ago if a British Socialist Government had not insisted on placing crippling mining restrictions upon the late Mr. E. G.

Theodore, just when his wellendowed Fiji expedition was about to move into Guadalcanal. And who in the South Pacific will ever forget the Socialist Minister for Colonies (name forgotten) who visited Solomons, Fiji, etc., just before the Attlee Government was defeated!

THE history of the “Eddie” Ward regime in Papua and New Guinea should be emblazoned in Port Moresby and Rabaul, as a horrible warning for future generations.

Before the Wardist era, Canberra wisely had followed the old British system, and had left those Territories in the care of skilled Administrators. Economic and social progress—which was quite satisfactory —was due, not to Ministerial inspiration, but to the wise direction of men like Hubert Murray and Wisdom who, in turn, encouraged individual pioneering and private enterprise and who, in their turn, were greatly aided in the fields of education and medicine by the devoted work of Christian missionaries.

Into this Islands world, with fury and anathema, after the war, came the famous Australian Specialists, Dr. Evatt and Eddie Ward. They insisted that P-NG had become a region of native enslavement and capitalist exploitation. Their denunciation of the former regimes was typical Red propaganda.

Even while the war was on, they filled the Territories with “specialist” advisers, earnest Leftist planners suitably decorated with the red military tabs of the General Staff.

As soon as the war was over, they threw out the old native labour rules —“the era of native enslavement is over”; and so also apparently was the era of the private trader and the shipowner—all goods distribution and all shipping Bandoeng Banquet... 13 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

in future were to be State-owned and controlled.

This astonishing regime did not last long. It virtually ended when Minister Ward had to spend many months of his time convincing an Australian judicial body that he was not implicated in the New Guinea timber lease case (a Qld. firm paid out some £50,000 and imagined they were buying a timber lease from certain persons, some of whom were associated with Mr.

Ward). Territories old hands remember, of course, that Minister Ward was “completely exonerated,” while the notorious Communist, Jock Garden (who had been Minister Ward’s intimate personal and political associate up until that time) was sent to gaol; and no one ever found out what became of the £50,000.

But the Wardist regime would have collapsed under its own absurdities, even if there had been no Timber Lease scandal to disrupt the Socialist planning.

QINCE the Wardist era, P-NG has been nominally under a non- Socialist Administration. In many respects, P-NG dwellers have found it hard to distinguish the difference. They still are very much under the Planners, both Ministerial and Bureaucratic.

The system, pre-war, was to leave the Territories very much to their own devices, under responsible Administrators, and to expect them to be somewhere near self-supporting.

Since then, under Socialist Ward and reputedly non-Socialist Hasluck, Australia has provided annually really enormous subsidies—so that the Territories literally have almost anything In the way of administrative ipachinery and industrial encouragement that money can buy.

But the Australian Minister, in return. insists that P-NG shall be his administrative plaything and hobbyhorse.

With so much money available, from subsidies, high produce prices, gold and oil search, P-NG has a reafiy remarkable opportunity of establishing an economic structure that will be a credit to Australia— and will provide Australia with an Islands bulwark, to serve the double purpose of defending Australia’s northern shores, and discouraging either peacetime or wartime encroachment by Asia’s countless hungry millions.

BUT, to achieve so desirable a thing, two factors are essential.

One is settlement in New Guinea of a much larger bodv of carefully selected Europeans, and ff? ot ? er and bal P. Private enterprise by the administrative corps. Mr Hasluck seems likely to defeat both 5 those aims, because he will not keep his restless Ministerial nose out of Territories affairs which his trained officials understand much better than he.

He is directly responsible for introducing an idealistic, overelaborate, over-officialised system of land settlement that, if it does not defeat the pioneering impulse of the hundreds of young men who have been seeking land there in the last five years, surely will discourage and partially stifle it.

And (rightly or wrongly), he is blamed for creating, between Canberra and the Territories’ public service, a relationship which is deplorable in itself, and must eventually do much general harm to the Territories. In the present Administrator, Departmental heads and public service generally in P-NG Australia probably has as good a line of officials as may be found in any similar country in the worldkeen, efficient, loyal and with plenty of initiative.

But, as in the Wardist regime— and under all similar Socialist regimes—Canberra will not let them alone to take the responsibility and do the job. Mr. Hasluck may be nominally a Tory; but his record U P date (pre-political and postpolitical) suggests that he is mostly a Socialist planner, incapable of leaving the trained practical men alone in the jobs for which they have planned.

There has been a strong move lately m Australia to ask the Prime Minister for a far-reaching inquiry into the relationship between the Canberra Minister and Department and the Administration and public service in P-NG. We suggested something of the kind six months ago. For the sake of Papua-New Guinea, it should not be indefinitely delayed. Mr. Hasluck is a man of ability, culture and charm.

But, when Cabinet-making, Mr.

Menzies cast him in the wrong role P-NG Council to Meet On June 27 THE Legislative Council of Papua- New Guinea will open its next meeting at 2 p.m. on Monday, June 27. t Although efforts are made at Suva wharf to stack cargo separately for each consignee, it often happens because of congestion, that bulk-stacking is unavoidable.

The New Zealand Fruit Merchants’ and Auctioneers’ Federation has complained to the Suva Chamber of Commerce of deterioration of fruit resulting. The chairman of the Chamber (Mr. W. G. Johnson) has pointed out that until the new shed is completed no appreciable improvement could be expected, but the Climber would do what it could to have the clearing of fruit and vegetables expedited.

Fijians Out of Malaya Early Next Year NO further extension of the t of service for Fijian troop* w S- he ma de, and Ist Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regim nfHjvJ Urn t 0 Fljl in th e first of next year. m,T^cf Ca ? for Fi J ians t 0 fi ght c: munist terrorists in Malaya S ade ocn ° ct °ber, 1951, and n than 850 soldiers sailed from IE on JaniiMy 8, 1952. By the em many of these men had U re P} ace d by new recruits. 0 or tgt na l term was two ye but, presumably in view of the*« standing success of the Fijians BHfith t 0 to J our y ear s, and British Command in Malaya ir S? s f n ret of the fact that it wo to employ as many Fijians feasible f ° r ES long a term as however, and to some m Australia and New 2 mnd, there has been persist criticism of the whole scheme' PIM la p 82 S ) P ° nSlble quarters (A Further TEAL Modificatio[?] —and Profits in ay was announ that all DC6 aircraft—TE and ANA are the only fii operating them in South Pac area—are to undergo “reskinnine the centre-section bottom of ou plane joints, and strengtheningspar caps”. The work will expensive. . This follows other TEAL trou in the grounding of Mark Solents in February, and closing of Western Samoa airn due to radio equipment trouble April.

TEAL’s Coral Route will not affected this time—the DC6’s are the Tasman run, and the work v not be put in hand until mid-19 when, presumably, the aircraft v have reached an age at which t modifications are consider . necessary by the makers.

Meanwhile TEAL has announo a profit of £60,000 on 1954-55 opei tions. There had been a loss £168,250 in the previous year. F placement of the slow Solents the DC6’s has been responsible this year’s profit.

TEAL’s Sydney Office said that,, the best of its knowledge, the pro figure published was an overfigure. including the Coral Rou operations. It is considered tH the Coral Route alone would pro ably have shown a loss. 14 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

[?]A WAR [?]H MINISTER P-NG Wages Claims For Arbilration HE morale of the Papua and New Guinea Public Service had er been lower than at present, 1 Mr. R. B. Brennan, in his sidential report to the annual •ting of the Public Service Aslation in Port Moresby on April 'he Association lays most of the me for this state of affairs at door of Mr. Hasluck, Minister Territories. )n April 20, Mr. Brennan flew Sydney to consult a leading QC the Association’s case, which expected to come before the titration Court shortly, ast year the Association accepted Hasluck’s offer of conciliation ;n the PSA presented a log of ms for increased cost of living iwances, a five-days’ week, etc. he PSA considers that the Minr rejected every important point de during the Conciliation inry thus treating both the Comsioner and P-NG public servants h contempt. 7hen Canberra decisiims on the airy were made public early in iruary, ‘ the PSA’s reaction was nediate; it announced that it ild take its salaries case to the titration Court. a his annual report, Mr. Brennan i that the PSA’s relations with Government were now much •se than before Conciliation was epted last year, when things ■e low indeed. It doubted if one :er to-day would willingly accept iciliation while the Minister “held present authority.” he report also revealed that the relation had written to the Prime lister, Mr. Menizes, asking him intervene to see that an Arbiter mutually acceptable to both Government and the Association > appointed to handle the Asso- :ion’s arbitration case, which, it 1, would soon be launched ough the court at Port Moresby, he letter to Mr. Menzies outid the Association’s problems and i said bluntly that it was not isfied that Mr. Hasluck would ike an appointment of an itrator “who would meet the :essary requirements of impartiy.” t quoted to the Prime Minister al advice it had had, which rned that the Territory was in different position so far as an litrator was concerned because se were appointed by the Govment and might be tempted to ke a decision favourable to the vernment. [he general meeting passed a motion supporting the PSA Council in its action over arbitration. It re-elected Mr. Brennan as president.

Claim Before Court The Papua-New Guinea PSA on May 3 submitted a claim before the Territory Arbitration Court in Port Moresby for increased salaries, the introduction of a quarterly cost of living adjustment and a five-days week.

Since no Arbitration Court is permanently in the Territory, the claim was lodged with the Registrar of the Supreme Court, who later served copies on the Administrator. Brigadier Cleland, and the Public Service Commissioner, Mr. T.

Huxley.

They have ’2B days In which to reply, but it is likely that this period will be extended because of ihe absence of the Administrator on a tour of New Britain and Bougainville.

These are the main points of the PSA’s claim:— e Annual salary increase for adult males of £193; a 75 per cent, increase of this figure for adult females; a varied scale of increases for juniors; together with increases on living costs since last December (to be paid in addition on top of all salary increases). • Cost of living adjustments to be made to salaries every three months. • An increase in the education allowance to £2OO. • A Territorial allowance, at the present figure. • A five-days week in Port Moresby, Kabaul and Lae, providing that essential services can be maintained.

All the salary increases are to be retrospective to December 2, 1954.

WPHC Appointment— Sir R. Stanley's Successor Announced THE appointment of Mr. John Gutch, CMG, QBE, as High Commissioner, Western Pacific High Commission, in succession to Sir Robert Stanley, KBE, CMG, who will leave Honiara, BSIP, shortly on pre-retirement leave, has been announced.

Mr. Gutch was until recently Chief Secretary, British Guiana, and is at present carrying out a special assignment in that Territory.

He began his Colonial Service career as an Administrative Officer in the Gold Coast in 1928, and had served in Palestine and Cyrenaica before being appointed to British Guiana in 1950.

Sir Robert Stanley was the first High Commissioner to be appointed to the Western Pacific territories after they were severed from the jurisdiction of the Governor of Fiji.

Formerly the Governor of Fiji was also HCWC.

Sir Robert took up his position in Honiara, BSIP, at the end of 1952.

The High Commission territories include the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and the British share in the New Hebrides Condominium, as well as BSIP.

New Pacific Service The Shaw Savill liner “Southern Cross’’ docking at Suva on her maiden voyage to the South Pacific. Her thousand passengers enjoyed a day of brilliant sunshine at Fiji’s capital city. —Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office. 15 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

City Interest In BP’s New 1-for-3 Share Issue BURNS Philp and Co. will raise its paid capital to £4,000,000 with a new proposed issue of 1,000,000 £1 shares at par, at the ratio of one-to-three held on July 29.

The announcement has caused some speculation in Sydney as to the big company’s intentions.

The purpose of the issue was not disclosed when the announcement was made, and while some have accepted it as an indication of the company’s intention to expand, others, more conservatively, believe that the extra capital is required to replace some of the company’s existing shipping fleet.

It is pointed out that Burns Philp has had to meet tougher shipping problems than other Australian ship-owners as it has to compete on services where rival companies have the advantage of foreign registry as against BP’s Australian registry and the conditions that that imposes. In addition, the company no longer receives the subsidy it received pre-war for services to the islands.

In re P° rt to shareholders in 1954, Mr. James Burns said that it would cost about £A1,250,000 to replace the aged Merkur on the Singapore run and that he was anything but happy about the prospect.”

Shipping is still very much interwoven with BP business, in spite of the company’s policy of investing in country retail businesses m Australia, and in the 1941 purchase of the big Imperial Arcade (including the Arcadia Hotel) property in Sydney. Little has been done with the latter property (it cost BPs £600,000) and there is speculation as whether it will be resold or whether a superstore will be erected there.

Western Samoan Mla’S

To Visit New Zealand

FIVE members of the Western Samoan Legislative Assembly have been invited by the New Zealand Government to visit Wellington in September to watch the Dominion Parliament in session, reports an Apia correspondent. de } egatior l win also inspect land development schemes.

It is hoped that in the future a Parliamentary delegation from Samoa gt ° n Wlll Visit Western C-Gull’s Owner Comes to Anchor pAPUA’S would-be cray-fish fisher, J Evan Toyer, 56, who has been of occasional interest to residents of Papua since May, 1953, was sentenced to two years gaol on April 19. in Sydney.

Toyer, who faced seven charges of false pretences, had according to the police, obtained £37,000 from the public by false representations about his various enterprises.

Toyer first interested Papua in 1935 when, with a blast of newspaper publicity, he and several associates, with their wives and children, left Sydney in a boat called the C-Gull with the purpose of founding a colony somewhere in the Gulf of Papua and engaging in the lucrative business of catching crayfish and exporting their tails to the United States.

This expedition never got further than North Queensland, where it bogged down and where the members of the party dispersed. Nothing more was heard of Toyer for some time, then on an even greater blast of newspaper publicity and with a ship named Cygnet, the enterprise was on again. Sydney Truth and Mirror then became interested in Mr. Toyer, and what they had to say about his proposed activities was not flattering.

In passing sentence on Toyer, the Judge said that he had baited his hooks cunningly and had appealed to people’s sense of adventure by advertising luxury fishing cruises along the Barrier Reef, lobster fishing off Northern Australia, and cattle raising in New Guinea was a bankrupt but had put eve thing into his wife’s name. A* refutt °f his cunning, people 1 sold their businesses or gathered gether their life’s savings to im m his enterprises, . \J: o Z e J™r Was ,- R former member in 1932 W POhC6 f ° rCO, but resigl Sir G. Taylor Prepare: For First Air Cruise Early in May, Captain Gordon Taylor’s Frigate B Bermuda flying-boat was ceiving its final grooming ™ paratory to departure on the fi free-lancing air cruise to the Pac; (F 9 r details see Aj PIM ) Captain Taylor reported t! a satisfactory pay-load was booU for take-off on May 11 Frigate Bird 111 is very comfo ably fitted out and contains surprisingly roomy lounge-bar. crew of six will be carried its Pacific wanderings.

Captain Taylor said that t second cruise would include Papet and possibly a call at the Tu motus. Negotiations were procee French authoritii The full itinerary would be a nounced in good time. Many oth hard-to-reach and interesting po: of call were planned in lai cruises.

No doubt tourists with limit time, a liking for comfort, and ; interest in off-the-track as well on-the-track places, will show coi siderable interest in Frigate Bi 111 as her operations become betfi known. Personally conducted tou by famous pilots are a rare item tourist fare.

Income Tax Plan Debated I[?]

Western Samoa’S Assembly

(From Our Own Correspondent) WESTERN SAMOA’S Income Tax Bill, introduced in the Legislative Assembly in April, is similar to the New Zealand income tax legislation.

It was proposed (if the bill is passed) to establish a separate Inland Revenue Department under a Commissioner with wide discretionary powers.

Under the proposals income tax for married men starts at an income level of £5OO, on which the tax would be £5/8/- (but only £l/5/for a married man with one child).

A married man without children and an income of £2,000 would pay £lB6/13 /-. With one child, the tax would be £173/3/-, and with two children (income £6OO to £2,000) it would range from £2/12/- to £l6O/2/-. There would be corresnonding reductions for addition! children.

The income figures quoted a. taken after deductions for, say, lii insurance and superannuation pa T ments have been made.

Individual income tax rates a. computed at 1/- for every £ of tai able income, increased by O.Old ft every £ of taxable income, with maximum of 8/- in the £.

Exemptions allowed are: Personu £200; wife, additional £2o* additional £75 for each child to maximum of six.

Taxation on companies’ net pro fits provides for rates on the sam basis as for individual taxpayers.

Thus on net profit of £5OO the tat will be £35/8/4; on £l,OOO, £9l/13/4 £2,000, £266/13/4, and so on tt £BO,OOO, on which the tax would fc; £32,000. 16 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

G Oil Search

[?]ati No. 1 Abandoned was announced in mid-April by Lustralasian Petroleum Co. Pty. ,td., that Omati No. 1 had been idoned. This is the hole that two years ago sent Oil Search es soaring when a drill became k at 13,743 feet after there had i signs of intense gas pressure, took well over a year to free drill and since then the hole been deepened to 14,352, deeper I which the company says it is ationally impossible to go. gh hopes were entertained — icularly by oil shares speculators at the gas pressure at Omati 1 meant something. Oil Search es (Oil Search has a minority mg in APC) rose to 32/- in , 1954, when their nominal ation for years had been around or three shillings. Their present ation is around 8/-.

Drk is proceeding on deepening ti No. 2, which had reached a h of 9,731 feet in mid-May. it mid-April a new hole commenced at Aramia, about dies west of Omati.

Suva Junior Boxer’s Trophy Gold Ridge Discoveries BSI Govt’s Practical Steps to Encourage New Mining Enterprise Since the British Solomon Island Protectorate Government's cautious April 2 statement on gold discoveries at Gold Ridge, Guadalcanal, there have been further important and encouraging developments.

PERHAPS the most encouraging of these was an announcement on April 28, dealing with far-reaching changes to the Protectorate’s Mining Laws. If important gold lodes have been discovered at Gold Ridge, Guadalcanal, and there is increasing evidence that this is the case, considerable overseas finance will be required to exploit the field.

That finance would almost certainly not have been readily forthcoming as the Mining laws stood on April 2.

Big Business has not forgotten the Theodore experiences of immediate post-war years. The Government, on the basis of its April 28 announcement, seems to be demonstrating in a practical way—the only way that counts —that it does not intend to perpetuate the errors of the past. The statement reads as follows: In order to encourage prospecting and mining in the Protectorate the Secretary of State for the Colonies has agreed to various amendments to the Mining Regulation. The changes which have been agreed on are as follows: (i) The two sections of the Regulation, which at present emoower the Mining Board to require applicants for prospecting licenses and mining leases to show proof that they have sufficient financial resources at their disposal to carry out their proposed operations, are to be repealed. (ii) The Regulation is to be amended so as to ensure that a prospector who discovers minerals will have a secure title to his discovery, provided that clearly specified working conditions are fulfilled. (Hi) The Mining (Radio Active Minerals) Rules, 1948, are to be repealed and replaced by a provision requiring only that discoveries of radio-active substances be reported to the Government and an export license obtained.

In addition to these amendments immediate consideration is to be given to the abolition of the present royalty scales and their replacement by lower scales.

Legislation to give effect to these various amendments is to be enacted in the immediate future.

The part of it that will interest mining companies considering investment in the area is the announcement that the existing high royalty rates will be reduced. It remains to be seen by how much, but it is considered probable that they will be on a sliding scale similar to that which has been found acceptable to mining companies in the African Colonies. But there is still the question of taxation of profits, the non-existence of which makes mining in New Guinea attractive.

The other changes embodied in the announcement are of great interest to prospectors and should have the effect of creating an interest which has been lacking in the Solomons for years past. Under the 1940 Mining Regulation a prospector, usually a man with more hope than funds, was liable to lose his claim, if he could not show the Mining Board that he had the funds to work it. That provision is abolished.

Mr. J. C. Grover, Senior Geologist and head of the BSIP Geological (Continued on Page 138) [?]judged the most scientific junior boxer at a Suva tournament, Rob Wright, Jnr., the Charman Trophy, cup and medal. The award was presented by the Acting Dr of Fiji, Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart (left). Also in the central group are the ent of the Fiji Amateur Boxing Association (Mr. H. M. Scott) and Corporal H. an, Physical Training Instructor at the RNZAF station at Laucala Bay, organiser [?]fferee at the tournament. Corporal Charman conducts boxing classes for Euro- Fijian, Indian and Chinese boys at Suva—a development which was the subject [?]ecent letter of commendation from the Duke of Edinburgh.

Photo; Public Relations Office, Suva. 17 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1955

The Editors Mailbag

Te Hongi: Maoris Do Not Rub Noses There is a common belief among Europeans that the traditional NZ Maori form of greeting (Te Hongi) includes the rubbing of noses. The familiar error occurred in a PIM reference not long ago, and Mr, Edwin Gold, a Cook .slands correspondent, thoughtfully comments; “May Heaven forgive all of you!”

Maoris have never “rubbed noses,” he writes. The traditional NZ—as distinct from ' Cook Islands—hongi consists of placing the forehead against the forehead of the person greeted and closing the eyes while a traditional phrase is spoken. At the same time hands may be clasped, though this is sometimes omitted. There is absolutely no rubbing of noses.

Europeans held in Maori regard are eligible for the salute.

Curiously enough, the Cook Islanders, who are of the present stock of Maoridom, have no such custom. They employ the “English kiss,’’ but the name they give it is simply “hongi” without the “h.”

“It is the brow that counts in the NZ Maori greeting and the nose has only a walking-on part,” says Mr. Gold. “The noses touch, of course, but if the observers quoted had been really observant, Guide Rangi would not have been accused of Tubbing noses’ with a Samoan.”

When RLS Was In Samoa, 70 Years Ago The title to the land in which rests the tomb of Robert Louis Stevenson on Mount Vaea, outside Apia, Western Samoa, apparently belonged to Mrs. Isobel Field stepdaughter of RLS. • pj eld , die d a short while ago, m California, in her ninptip«? ielavpd ° f her estate was delayed because her will was contested by her two sons, Lou and Allan, who insisted that she had thpm hv n^ Uly mfluence d against them by her nurse.

Mrs. Else Noble Caldwell in a note from Los Angeles, says the adds o ‘‘ptfiT discontinued, and thP mil? 11 u e SIX mon ths before ca il be and I VaSn then the title to the Mount Vaea tomb site will be given to rests S with ar }h Go Xornment. This Strong™ th thB Wldow of Aust in be— h lSt ° ry H Jcientists nf ?H» bl 1 / ea ?. the erased words of the private diary of Mrs. RLS (formerly Mrs. Osbourne, and a good deal older than- RLS)‘. Diary reveals nothing scandalous; but it is clear that the family at Vailima fought nastily over petty things— just like any other family.

An American screen-writer, preparing “Long John Silver” (an RLS character) for production, asked a very old Sydney tailoring firm for certain costumes. The firm said sniffily that it would not deal with the order “until Mr. Stevenson’s bill with us is settled”. The film Company paid the 75-years-old debt immediately. (The ghost of RLS may be comforted by the fact that the Sydney firm now will have to pay heavy income tax upon it).

The Chinese and the South Pacific Some rather startling things were said at a private meeting of the Royal Empire Society, in London, addressed by Mr. Clement Attlee after the British Socialist leader had visited China and Australia.

The press was not present. Our information comes from an old friend who was there, and who gives us a summary of proceedings Whatever Mr. Attlee thinks of "Keeping it off the record”, South Pacific people are entitled to know these things.

Asked whether the Chinese and Japanese people had expansionist aims directed southwards, Mr.

Attlee said he was afraid they had —and he thought the apprehension felt in Australia and NZ on score was justified.

Mr. Attlee also said thatl present Chinese Government; very strong in its insistence the 12.000,000 Chinese who If non -Chinese countries in around the Pacific are Clr nationals first, and citizens oi other countries afterwards.

These Pen-Friend Seeker We get a little weary of th but here is another one. M: Udit Salhanti, who gives address as C o Morris Heds Ltd.. Suva. Fiji, says he is ‘ lonesome”; is 25; has dark, hair and a fair complexion "interested in everything”, inch.

Islands stamps; and seeks pen of his own age in any country., rashly promises to person answer any letter received.

This Demand for NG Plywoods A former ANGAU Jap-hu now engaged in buildingjoinery in Auckland, has trying to arrange shipments, 3 Lae to Auckland, of the Commonwealth-New Guinea " bers Ltd (Bulolo) plywood, writes bitterly because, althougl claims to have opened up channel of trade, he finally informed officially that som* else had been given the sole ag( in NZ for Bulolo plywood, anc could order through that firm, has returned to his original sou for plywood.

Understandable. Also uni standable that the Bulolo cone supplying a world market, wants; Port Moresby Residents at Dawn Servi[?] A photogrph taken at dawn on the moring of April 25 (Anzac Day) during service at Bomana War Cemetery, near Port Moresby, Papua. -Photo by D.H[?] 18 M A Y 1955 PACIFIC I S L A N D S M O N T H L

ent in each country, and not a : of individual accounts. 1C Rebroadcasts in Samoa Che Director of Broadcasting in istern Samoa, Mr. S. D. M. Smith, 5 made a spirited reply to the respondent in these columns 0 asked, in February, why there j been no re-broadcast of the een’s Xmas message.

Hr. Smith says: 1 should like to point out that i statements quoted by your corpondent, from what is claimed be an official source, are highly They were not made me nor so far as I can ascertain, any other Government official, h regard to broadcasting.

Had your correspondent woached the Broadcasting Detment he would have found that s often quite impossible for the il broadcasting service to pick up h clarity overseas broadcasts mating from the BBC, either ;ctly or indirectly, and that there lid be little point in rebroadting an indifferently received ssage from Her Majesty to our noan listeners. [ should like to add that very ensive news broadcasts in the noan language have been made recent months concerning the .vities of the Royal Family, tilarly, with favourable recepi conditions, numerous rebroad- ;s have been made, as was the ; with the Coronation and the r al Tour.” i other words, Mr. Smith says re was too much radio internee at Christmas for the en’s broadcast to be picked up. [?]nk Interest in Suva Hotel Site?

JMOURS have been current in Suva, Fiji, that the Australia and New Zealand Bank Ltd. is rested in acquiring the site of donald’s Hotel, in Victoria ide. The old Hotel (it was inally brought across to Suva i Levuka in the 80’s) was dam- -1 in the Suva hurricane of 1952, and was subsequently (plished. Since then, this ugly in Victoria Parade has remained uestion mark in Fiji business es. The property was acquired Jurns Philp and Co. in the 1930’5, s a very desirable site, ,in the re of Suva business activity. the ANZ Bank does acquire it, robably will mean further modsation of Victoria Parade, which undergone a face-lift in the last years.

Fiji is Losing Fight Against Oryctes Rhinoceros Although eradication measures were introduced as soon as the Rhinoceros beetle pest was discovered in Fiji early in 1953, the Board set up to deal with its control now says that it appears to be fighting a losing battle.

IN a report recently issued in Suva, by the Cocount Pests and Diseases Board, it is stated that more grubs and beetles are now being found in Viti Levu than at the start of the campaign. Nor has the beetle been contained within the Suva area where it was originally discovered but has spread westwards to Serua and north from Rewa along the Tailevu coast.

Recently it has been discovered in the Ra district.

Should the infected area spread much further, the Board doubts whether it will have the resources to carry on work at present intensity.

Private opinion expressed in knowledgable circles in Fiji is that it is almost inevitable that, sooner or later, the pest will find its way to some of the other copra-growing areas of Fiji—and this is where the tragedy will really start.

Viti Levu, where as far as is known the beetle is confined at present, produces virtually no copra. There is a “beetle check” on inter-island shipping, but it is by no means so thorough that the pest could not slip through. In order to be 100 per cent effective, the search would have to be 100 per cent thorough, plus possibly, fumigating each time a ship left Viti Levu for one of the outer islands.

The requirement that ships from beetle-infested countries should stand off in the stream at Suva between sunset and sunrise is also regarded, unofficially, as equivalent to shutting the stable after the horse has escaped. What matter if an odd beetle lands at Suva now, it is asked. The pest is already established.

Biological control of a type not yet discovered is the best hope for eradication of the beetle. Zanzibar wasps, introduced into Western Samoa and New Guinea, have been of negligible assistance.

In the meantime, the Board in Fiji is unanimous that the present campaign in Viti Levu should be continued. The Board has 200 field workers on its pay-roll, who are paid from a tax levied on Qopraproducers.

Experts are of the opinion that there is some natural check to the pest in its Asian homeland, and that for this reason the large “continental” islands such as New Britain where it has been established since the war, in some way do not suffer the actual damage from the beetle that has been suffered in some of the oceanic type islands in Micronesia where devasatation has at times been almost complete.

This obviously is the great risk in Fiji: The Board has reported that where the beetle is already established in Viti Levu the damage has been small; but it may be a far different story if it were introduced to some of the Lau islands which have a vastly different climate and geological make-up.

From the moment the beetle was discovered in Fiji, neither effort nor money has been spared in the fight against it. In New Britain and New Ireland, neither planters nor the Administration have done anything more than introduce a hundred or so African wasps— whose efficacy was discredited years ago in Western Samoa. Yet there appears to have been no falling off of copra production in New Britain —the heart of the copra producing area of the P-NG Territory.

In spite of its efforts Fiji appears to have done no better than New Guinea, which has done nothing.

The unknown factor is, of course, what beetle infection of Fiji’s outer islands might mean. And while It can be contained in Viti Levu, where it can do little economic damage, all efforts to keep Rhinoceros beetles from the rest of Fiji are worthwhile.

Four Skymasters

On P-Ng Service

QANTAS announced in Port Moresby on April 27 that New Guinea would have four Skymasters a week operating from Australia in May.

An extra Skymaster will arrive from Sydney every Tuesday from May 10, thus giving a Skymaster service to the Territory on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. ‘ Miss Susana Thompson, an attractive par t-Samoan graduate nurse, travelled to Suva in April to commence a two-year pharmacy course at the Central Medical School. She is the first Eastern Samoan girl—or Western Samoa girl—to take this course. 19 C I F I C ISLANDS M O N T H L Y M A Y . 1955

Production Must

KEEP PACE Extraordinary Population Growth in W. Samoa WESTERN Samoa’s population is increasing at a faster rate than the population of any other country in the Pacific. Its rate of increase is higher than that of Japan, or India.

These facts and an urgent warning that Western Samoa’s production must keep pace with its rapidly increasing population were stressed in the High Commissioner’s address at the opening of the Budget Session of the Legislative Assembly recently.

Mr. Powles said that Western Samoa’s population is increasing at present at the rate of 3.3 per cent per annum, as compared with Fiji’s 2.6 per cent, New Zealand’s 1.9 per cent, Japan’s 1.7 per cent, or India’s 1.26 per cent.

He said that Mr. V. D. Stace, in his recent economic survey of Western Samoa for the South Pacific Commission, had found that the territory was sufficiently rich in natural resources to support a substantially greater population than at present. But Mr. Stace had also found that these natural resources were not at present being adequately developed, but that it was well within the capacity of the Samoan people to improve this situation.

Mr. Powles noted that an officer of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research after a recent inspection of Samoan cocoa plantations in Savaii, had reported that with even elementary attention being given to proper weeding, pruning, and care of trees, production from the existing trees could easily be doubled within one or two years. An extensive programme of agricultural education and inspection was necessary, to learn* 3 * 6 are and anxious Mr Powles said there was unmistakable and challenging evidence that the quality of Western Samoa copra and cocoa had deteriorated markedly in recent years. Guaranteed prices or hiffh prices had had this effect. Action has already been taken by the Copra Board to see that this situation is rectified. Action will also be necessary to restore the good name formerly held by Samoan cocoa on the world market.

Only by increasing export production, Mr. Powles said is P it possible to maintain or improve hvmg standards in the Territory.

The introduction of compulsory education and expansion of health services will depend on export expansion.

Funds sought by the various Government Departments for the current year had been substantially pruned, and a large sum would be withdrawn from the General Reserve for capital expenditure in the Territory. This had not been necessary last year. It is proposed to invest the General Reserve account each year in future in capital development locally.

Two important Bills dealing respectively with Taxation and Customs Tariffs, embodying the results of very close expert study, were to be submitted to the Assembly. Their passage would place Government revenue on a sounder basis and would be more equitable to both producer and taxpayer.

The resolutions of the recent Constitutional Convention are being considered by the Zealand Government, Mr. Pg said, and a reply will be subnu m due course. In spite of cei disagreements, the political si tion following the convention been calm, confident, and relaxe ■. - t ’T D West became the first Golf Club member to hole-in-oni the Lae course when, in a s« game on April 3, he sank his V wood shot on the 211 yards green. The first hole-in-one at was recorded by Associate ga Mrs. Richard Moore (formerly ScottL who holed out on the si green about 18 months ago.

Bth is not the shortest hole on course, the 2nd being only 130 ya The Lae course is being exter and a new clubhouse built.

Do You Remember?

From PIM of 20 Years ago.

IN May, 1955, the South Pacific world was getting ready to welcome a lot of rich uncles from Fiji—in other words. Fiji gold mining was booming and the troubles of the Pacific copra planter—slightly easier, but only slightly, after the years of Depression—were temporarily out of the lime-light.

Here are some other extracts from that issue of 20 years ago: P»M editorial, for that month stated (in part): ‘ ,nr he Germans are the masters of propaganda. Germany is seeking to convert British opinion to the idea of returning to Germany the Colonies which Germany lost in 1914. Germany wants New Guinea because of the rich goldfields there.” * * * “The new goldfields road from Wau (NG) to Edie Creek is open. The first motor traffic used it on Anzac Day. New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., now has its headquarters at Edie Creek and it is rapidly becoming an important centre.” % S?C “Equipment to establish a broadcasting station at Port Moresby—the first in the South Pacific Islands—was despatched to Papua by Amalgamated Wireless. Ltd., recently. The new station, to be known as 4PM, will be operated by AWA It was announced also, but not confirmed officially that plans are afoot by the same enterprising company to establish a broadcasting station at Suva, Fiji.” * * * We reported a boom in Fiji gold mining shares—or in PlM’s own words, “Australian stock exchange speculators are still going crazy over Fiji gold shares.” Loloma shares paid up to only 3 - were being sought at 45/-. * * * The Privy Council of the UK dismissed the appeal of Mr. O. F. Nelson, against the verdict given in New Zealand in June. 1934, upholding his sentence of 10 years banishment from Western Samoa. * * * The old BP steamer Mataram—on which most residents of the SW Pacific had suffered at one time or other (and) joyed themselves equally at others)parted from Newcastle, NSW, on her voyage to the shipbreakers in Japan, had been built in 1909 and we desc: her as “once the pride of the BP fll * * * Hordern Brothers of Sydney adver checked gingham at llHd per t “printed chiffon voile” at I/lIV2 printed haircord for llt^d. * * * On the other hand, the price of o had risen by about 15/- in the pre’ month, to £l2 Stg., although its fu was still regarded as “uncertain”. A which PIM printed showing total v production, proved that production doubled since 1914. However, we st; copra was not greatly over-produced with a little organisation planters 0 be put in a better position than they v * * * The death sentence was passed a formed New Guinea nolice-boy, Sipei, the murder of ADO Edward 0 McDonald at Ambunti, Senik River.

Sepei, in evidence, admitted that he planned McDonald’s murder and his suicide and claimed that he had made to suffer a series of indignities McDonald. * * * We reported that “clashing current in the New Hebrides were having s odd effects and quoted steamship t as one instance. The fare on a D< steamer which called at Port More Kabaul, New Hebrides and New Caledot ports (in that order) before reacr Sydney, was £1 more from Vila to Sy« than from Kabaul to Sydney, altho the passenger from Rabaul was on ship for six days longer than the passenger. * * * “Suva, the busy capital of Fiji, hi lose the right to be called a city Atlhough residents have protested.

Government proposes to abolish the Ml cipal Council and Suva is to be offici; described as a “township”. (Our re* was taken from something which appes: in the “Sydney Morning Herald”, although the facts may have been con there was more in the Government’s j than upholding the civic dignity of Sui 20 may, 1955 P ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Government and the Rice Millers— NG Consumers IT ill Benefit As Australia “Comes Into Line"

Although the Papua-New Guinea Administration announced j mid-April that it would remove the embargo on rice importabn from countries other than Australia, the spokesman for the ustralian Rice Mill Owners’ Association, told PIM on May 5, hat the embargo is to be imposed again shortly. [?] ERNOR SUED [?]ased Out of [?]go Pago, [?]uple Allege XEGING that they and their family had been chased out of ) Pago, Robert L. Ketner and wife. Arlene, claimed 100,000 irs in damages from the Governor Eastern Samoa (Mr. Richard B. :e) in a suit filed at Honolulu on ch 12. le suit alleged that the ners had been living peaceably lastern Samoa for seven months, nning in October, 1953, but that Governor had “commenced a •se of conduct calculated to iss them and to interfere with r civil rights”. was alleged that the Governor referred to them “in terms of m and ridicule”, such as “South drifters” and “a person whose ence is no longer desired in Territory (meaning American toa) ”. le suit further alleged that Mr. aer had left “under threat of station, under escort of an ed guard and against his conitional rights”. His wife and 3 remained, as Mrs. Ketner was )usly ill from the treatment she received, the complaint stated, later joined her husband, ae Ketners claimed that the ernor had prevented their return alleged that his actions “were tout lawful justification and *essive”. r. Ketner, a former school her at Denver, Colorado, went Washington last year to protest .nst his removal, but the US irior Dept. supported the ernor, who was reported to have Ted Ketner to leave American ma on the grounds that he was ag to take business away from Samoans. Mr. Ketner said, ever, that he was trying to help Samoans earn a better living teaching them handicrafts.

IN their announcement on April 15. the P-NG Administration left itself a loop-hole of escape—the embargo was not to be lifted until June 1.

In the meantime, mill-owners had met representatives of the Department of Territories in Canberra, and offered to export rice from Australia for an f.o.b. Sydney price of £65 per ton—£lB less than the price charged before the P-NG Administration (through the Director of Health, Dr. Gunther) made it plain that “the P-NG consumer cannot be expected to subsidise the Australian rice industry any longer.”

In consideration of the drop of £lB in the Australian f.o.b. price, the embargo on foreign rice is to be imposed again. That, at least, is what the Rice Millers’ representative has intimated to PIM.

Eastern rice is still about £7 under the Australian price—but no doubt most people will be happy to accept the Australian compromise.

Rice to certain specifications is required under the P-NG Native Labour Regulations and this could be a complicating factor in importing from Eastern countries.

Government methods have succeeded this time in getting the price of rice down to reasonable limits — and doubtless consumers will rejoice. Nonetheless, these embargoes that can be put on, taken off, and reimposed, reflect oddly on Canberra dictatorship, and we are reminded of an incident that occurred in Port Moresby during the sitting there last year of the Tariff Board Inquiry into rubber.

Mr. E. V. Crisp, in giving evidence at that time, remarked that he was prohibited from buying rice from anywhere but Australia although he could obtain it for £24 per ton less from the East.

The Chairman of the inquiry was hard to convince that this was a matter of Australian Government decree —that to use his own words, “the Commonwealth Government could come into this Territory and say, ‘You have to pass an ordinance about so-and-so.’ ”

Mr. Crisp had to assure him that to the best of his belief that that was so.

Bastille (2 weeks) Day As Usual in Papeete FOLLOWING a meeting of Government and municipal officials in Papeete in May, it was announced that the July 14 Bastille Day celebration will be held as usual this year.

Earlier, the Government had considered limiting the duration of the festivities, which normally run to ten days or a fortnight, on the grounds that it was too time-consuming and financially debilitating to the community.

The Mayor and business interests however were in favour of the full programme of songs, dances, competitions, etc., as many overseas visitors already booked into Papeete by sea and air would be cheated by alterations at that stage.

Samoan Church Delegates Two pastors of the Samoan Church (London Missionary Society) left Noumea by plane on April 28 with New Caledonia’s delegation to attend celebrations commemorating the 110th anniversary of the arrival of the first Christian missionaries (four Samoans) in the New Hebrides.

During their five days’ stay at Noumea, the Samoan visitors were welcomed by New Caledonia’s Protestants. (The Samoan Church is the mother-church of the native Protestants, who are particularly strong in the Loyalty Islands). The two pastors were received by leading authorities at Noumea, including the Secretary-General of the South Pacific Commission (Dr. Ralph Bedell). In the picture they are seen with Captain Crabbe aboard the destroyer HMAS Anzac, which was at Noumea from April 24 to May 1.

On the left is Hon. Gateleal Peseta Sie, MLC, and Pastor Tupe. 21 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

MORRIS HEDSTROM Li mi tec General Merchants, Importers and Exporters, Shipowners, Plantation Owners, Commission and Insurance Agents

Head Offic

SUVA, FIJ Established! 1868

Service In The South Pacific

TERRITORIES 'J'HROUGH our Large Establishments in Suva and our Nume ous Branches, we distribute a wide and comprehensr range of General Merchandise and provide almost every kin of service. Our departments and associated businesses includ< DRAPERY

Motor Sales

And Service

TOBACCO

Timber And Hardware

Building Electrical

Grocery Liquors

Confectionery Drugs

Branches Throughout Fiji, Samoa and Tongc Fhere is a Branch or Agent of Morris Hedstrom Limited in every Town in the Thre Territories. We ore Sole Agents in these Territories for Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

International Harvester Export Co.

Matson Navigation Company.

Max Factor and Co. Inc.

Pacific Islands Transport Line.

Ransomes, Sims £r Jefferies Ltd.

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty . Ltd.

B. A. Hjorth £r Co. (Primus Products). Yorkshire Copper Works Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom Limited are LLOYD’S AGENTS in Fiji and Samoa.

British Drug Houses Ltd.

"Chula" Copra Dryers.

Electrolux Ltd.

Ford Motor Co.

General Electric Co. Ltd.

Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co.

IN AUSTRALIA: Morris Hedstrom Limited, (Incorporated In Fiji.) Asbestos House, 65 York Street, SYDNEY IN GREAT BRITAIN: Morris Hedstrom Limited, Barclay's Bank Buildings, 73 Cheapside, LONDON, E.C.2 22 may, 1 9 5 5 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Land Applications

[?]o Priority For Chinese ,\ND in Papua-New Guinea was | being made available prossively throughout the Territory, [no land would be allocated on J basis of limiting applicants to Ividuals of certain racial groups.

'his statement was made by the ector of Lands. Surveys and les (Mr. D. E. Macinnes) as a pel to “questions raised in certain risory Councils, particularly in ird to land for Chinese.” he New Britain Advisory Counat a meeting on January 20, hissed the question, ivo years earlier, leaders of the nese community, at a Rabaul sting convened by the then Dist Commissioner (Mr. J. K.

Jarthy), had agreed that pro- Dn must be made for the grow- Chinese population to expand ;o the land, and it was mentioned that time that the Warangoi ley was “No. 1 on the priority for the Chinese.” t the meeting on January 20. rever, the present New Britain trict Commissioner (Mr. J. R li) said that he knew of no son why land should be set le for the Chinese, e added; “The land, when avail- ;, will be thrown open for lication, not for tender. The nese can apply for it the same anybody else.” i February, PIM commented t there was no reason why the nese should be singled out to e a land-settlement scheme of r own, adding; “There is eerily no reason why the rich rangoi area should be ‘on the •rity list for the Chinese.’ ” was pointed out that the rangoi was merely a place-noi to every Tolai native until the few years, and “wild horses ;d not have dragged these people i it.” No one cared much about Warangoi until a Rabaul timber l built a road into it about 1950 then applied to grow cocoa re timber had been felled. Soon rwards, the local branch of the j asked for some of the land soldier-settlement. some of this land is probably essary for the resettlement of increasing Tolais,” said a PIM orial note, “and most thinking pie will concede this without ing nonsensical business of ve ‘claims’ pushed down their >ats. But there should also be >le for other settlement —and if ■e is any priority for the latter, hould surely go to the two insts which have been plugging away at the Warangoi land question for the last four years, namely, the people who roaded it and opened it, and the RSL. Certainly not the Chinese, who, as far as we know. have no particular claim to this rich area, and who should therefore take their chance with othei latecomers.”

I»*R. MACINNES’S statement is ItX as follows: “Land is being made available progressively throughout the Territory, and with certain limited restrictions, applications are open to consideration of race or blood.

“The limited restrictions are all members of the public without mainly those applying to missions and persons already holding fully improved plantations who wish to »ln g he area h s oldmgS " “ ,Ulr ” B from time to time in the Government Gazette, and. as stated. applications are open to the general public “No land will be allocated on the basis of limiting applicants to individuals of certain racial groups.”

Latest PIM advice from Rabaul is to the effect that the Administration has discovered that 26 natives have a “claim” to Warangoi land.

They live in a village a considerable distance from where the present road enters the valley.

Whiffle Travel Service Opens New Offices miTES Travel Service, energetic W and fast _g row i ng off-shoot of whites Aviation (well-known aerial photographers and publishers “ w N £ffice?ta*njl’ and*totrXto complete a chain of sales and service branches in the South Pacific, whites Travel commenced in Auckland in 1945 and later expanded to Christchurch and Wellington. This further expansion a u o ws the organisation to provide all forms 0 f travel service for the Sout h Pacific and the world, „ , man a e e r of White’s Sydney manag w Buildm®?l49 Bayswato Road, if Douglas The Lautoka (Fiji, office is situated in the new A & NZ Bank Building, and is managed by Betty Harvey, well known in Fiji (where she has been running Fiji Airways office in Labasa for the past year or so).

Actively associated with Mr. E. A.

Robinson (managing director of Whites) is Mr. David P. Ragg, lately retired general manager of Northern Hotels Limited, Fiji, and now permanently resident in Sydney as an Australian director of Whites Travel Service.

Calling Dr. Lambert . . .

Photographer R. F. Rankin of Apia, Western Samoa, who sent us this photo was scathing in the caption he sent with it. “Scenic abomination” he this view of a Western Samoan sea-shore, and went on to say, “Samoan seaside toilets are a blot on the word’s most beautiful scenery. They foul the waters of every good beach in the Territory, and it is high time something less ‘picturesque’ was devised.”

This type of latrine was devised by the American doctor, S. M. Lambert, who undertook an anti-hookworm campaign in the Pacific in the 20’s. This sort of thing is by no means confined to Samoa—Fiji, Papua, New Guinea and other islands have the same type of Lambert “convenience”. However, in Samoa they seem to be more prevalent, the Samoans seem to have a talent for putting them in the most conspicuous places, and they certainly are in a greater state of disrepair there than anywhere else. 23 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY 1955

p/*uae up on <pusO Hail l

Spruso Liquid, Spruso Liquidsheen, And Spruso

CRYSTALLISED SHEEN.

SPRUSO is the best selling Hairdressing in Australia <3PRiT<2n TRADER S: write for samples.

EUSO COMPANY, Redfern, New South Wales, Australia.

Leave Grants For

Fiji’S Civil

Servants Debated

(From Our Own Correspondent) servants’ overseas leave u —for many years a sore point with non-civil-service taxpayers in Fiji—should be brought into line with general commercial practice in the Colony, suggests a sub-committee of the Suva Chamber of Commerce.

The sub-committee’s report takes the form of a letter addressed to the Government committee appointed to deal with the contentious question. It has not yet been released in full by the Chamber of Commerce because the Government committee is still discussing the matter.

At the April meeting of the Chamber the need for greater continuity of service and more economical leave conditions was stressed. 2 When asking for the 1954 leave figures, the sub-committee had “got a bad year,” said Mr. S. Tetzner.

Gf 714 officers eligible for overseas leave, only 150 had taken it.

At a cost of £732 each, 40 went to Britain; 27 to Australia (£202 each); 78 to New Zealand (£63 each); and five to other places (£582 each) Included in the NZ group were eight officers restricted to a £25 grant THE president (Mr. W. G. Johnson) referred to civil servants’ privileges, such as pension rights free of taxation on the money saved for the pensioners, passage grants and houses at cheap rentals. It would not be any hardship for civil servants to take overseas leave every four years, he said.

Mr. E. J. Gough said that the three-year term was part of the suggested plan to bring civil service conditions more into line with commercial practice.

“But commercial men have to Jve longer,” replied Mr. Joh Civil servants can retire on pe( at 50 and take another job should survive to be 100!”

Competition with other coL for qualified men was an argui always put up when incrr salaries or better conditions fo< civil service were asked for,, Johnson continued, adding that should look more to New Zes and Australia for recruits.

False Phone Call To PIM Editor Incorrect Statement About A Trading Company ON May 2, we received a letter from a firm of solicitors, with a request that we publish the following in the Pacific Islands Monthly. It now is published accordingly: MACKAY PACIFIC TRADING CO.

In our issue of April, 1955, appeared the following statement: “It was stated in March PIM that Mackay Pacific Trading Company had been reorganised without the inclusion of Mr. C. W.

Mansell, and would carry on.

However, subsequently some difficulties developed, and Mackay Pacific Trading Co. was, later in March, put into liquidation.

Another company planned to engage in trading in the Pacific Islands is in process of formation and registration.”

This statement was based on wrong information, and it was quite incorrect to state that some difficulties developed, and Mackay Pacific Trading Co. was late in March put into liquidation, andl another company planned to en in the Pacific Islands is in pr of formation and registry Mackay Pacific Limited is and been in active business, ano action whatever has been tJ towards its liquidation or is templated nor is the compani difficulties.

We sincerely regret the error any inconvenience or embar ment it has caused to Mai Pacific Limited.

Editorial Footnote THE April paragraph was wr by the editor of the PIM the following circumstances, About the end of March, or * April, someone telephoned the editor, and said he was Mr. Kn (Chairman of Directors of Mac Pacific Ltd—usually called Max.

Pacific Trading Company).

The Editor had already discm this Company’s affairs with Knight on two occasions, and k that some reorganisation was g\ on. He had no reason to d<l that the person who addressed was Mr. Knight.

The person gave the editor n ous details about what he c<n the pending reorganisation of Company, and asked that they, published. The editor made a i of the conversation.

Later, on looking over the rv he decided that the publication most of the details could embarrassing to the persons o cerned so he decided to publish o the item that appeared to cono the public— namely, that the was being put into liquidation m a view to reconstruction.

The solicitors’ communication received with amazement—which j creased when we were later formed by Mr. Knight himself ft he had not telephoned the P 2 editor in late March, or given h any information at all.

We cannot imagine why we u\ supplied with this entirely ft statement —we now know ti Mackay Pacific Limited are functw ing normally under a Board Directors of which Mr. Knightt chairman—and we consequently he. made arrangements, not only publish this in the May issue PIM, but also to print this as. circular in advance, for widest pc sible distribution before the issue of PIM is printed. 24 may. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

m / m m S % m m M make easier; Ease the strain on jangled nerves ! Relieve headache and pain quickly and safely!

Vincent's a.p.c will replace that tired, headachy and depressed feeling with a feeling of fresh, revitalised exhilaration! Vincent’s a.p.c will make you feel better and brighter in a few minutes!

Take Vincent’S A.P.C With Confidence

For Headache, Nervous Depression

VINCE N.8D.10 rrnismi K.E S A VINCENTS

Safest & Best!

[?]Umea Surprise

[?]ickel Workers On Strike , From Our Own Correspondent tOVIDING startling news for those who believed that an organised strike in New Kionia was impossible, 1,000 :el-smelter workers at Noumea 400 mining workers at Thio ned tools on April 16. iropsans, Islanders, Indolese and Javanese were all repnted among the strikers, who red that the employing comy had persistently shelved conration of claims for wage, inses. ie union leaders, according to mea reports, had been auised by the men to maintain a : strike if necessary, but the -up ended on the day it ted, and negotiations for a com- ; new working contract will t in May. ’eminent members of the power- Nickel Company directorate will e to Noumea from Paris for the >tiations. The workers agreed his delay, but declared their inion of holding firmly to their ns. lere is a general belief that the :e must have had repercussions s aris. It has long been alleged the company took advantage ;he former lack of unity and nisation among the workers, few people thought that the al groups involved were ever y to arrive at the point of colve action. ost people who have visited the Iters and seen the conditions in :h work is done agree that a itic overhaul is long overdue. It ife to say that any attempt to ose similar conditions in, say, tralia or New Zealand, would luce an emphatic reaction.

FIJI'S IMPORTS UP,

Exports Down

CREASED imports and decreased exports gave Fiji an adverse trade balance of 1,816 in 1954. nports totalled £11,642,801, an ease of £1,094,174 (9.64 per cent.) : the 1953 figure, xports totalled £11,239,985, a deise of £1,940,713 (6.79 per cent.), he drop in export values, aciing to a Government stateit, was due mainly to smaller orts of raw sugar. The quanwas lower by 40,943 tons, led at £2,211,836, usar exported in 1954 totalled 927 tons, worth £5,494,294. he value of all agricultural exts in 1954 was £8,600,332, which ; £2,166,710 lower than in 1953. 25 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 196 6

fhe Best - Selling Novels...

Good Morning, Miss Dove.—

this F novP^ S t>?V‘ X ii Pattoi V So BTeat has been the demand for this noie. the impression was made in the month T°tuU g 5tS T b } iC l ti0 *- “ The heroine is preSnted i AlJ d she becomes so actual that it is as though d cnce been privileged to sit in her classroom Morninc hance of becoming a minor classic, Good (x?™ v J USI „ aboUt flawless anb completely g J *. New lork Herald Tribune). Book Society ?po° ”d" Hnd Eook -» f - t »c-Momh Club’s Choice Tw A GHOST AT NOON.

Xel'Ta youT g ‘ a s 'crS wr C .?. tral c £ aracter °' Ut«t ™ h t ap S desperate SSrte to ZT. 'T S ‘ des P lses h ‘“ In h” himself to the verge of F mari he drives created memorable charartefs and The f S ‘ . Moravia has relationship holds the SdS’. f d . he tension in their jpost lid.) thC readerp interest to the end. 15/6

Soldier Of Fortune.—

iu e ThlS new novel by the author of The IT Hnvr t e ; M,gh yl5 Bet in post-war Hong-Kong. where Jl Prom .SBarch *<” her husband, who has disappeai ftorv or L bog i nnmg Ernest Gann has written a memora . of adventure and suspense. Recommended by the B* Society. 15/6 (post 9d.i. J

Sara Dane.—

hy Catherine Gaskin. In 1792 Sara Dane came to Austrs on * convict ship. The story traces her rise from the rs Npvv °So, IC t : h \°xr ? position Of eminence among the settlers Mew South "Wales. The character of this remarkable worn is skilfully drawn, and the author recreates faithfully i background of early Australia. 16'- (post lld.i.

The Female City.—

by Paul I. Wellman. In the sixth century Constantinor half pagan and half Christian, dominated the civilised woi From the most infamous quarter of this city. Theodora beautiful cortesan, plotted and schemed her way to becoi m ;‘^ eS^ Cf the Roman emperor, Justinian, and finally empr. of the Roman world. 18/9 (post 1/3).

W ut ( in for these, and for all the books you want to .

ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD. 89-95 CASTLEREAGH ST. SYDNEY. 66-68 ELIZABETH ST. MELBOURNE, C.I.

Territories Talk-Talk

By Tolala The Forgotten Bainings I see that Mr. John Stokie has a chip on his shoulder—and possibly quite justifiably concerning the lack of Government amenities in the Bainings area in New Britain.

He says that there were more facilities during the Ward-Murray regime than there are to-day.

The poor old Bainings have always been like an unwanted child as far as the Administration was concerned; too near Rabaul for a separate establishment, and too far for adequate supervision with a depleted staff. And yet it is one of the most prosperous areas in the Territory, with its closer settlement scheme which, when started by the Germans in the early 1900’s, was classed as a “peasant farming area!”

Over thirty years ago I remember a patrol station being established there near Nambung, and old-timer Bill Edwards (of PIR fame) was in charge.

Consistency in Standards It would seem that the muchvaunted higher living standards and amenities for the P-NG indigenes as planned by the Administration.’ are receiving a bit of a set-back, if one can put any credence in the reports from “Up Yonder,” regarding members of the PIR and itinerant native students.

Provision for the accommodation of both these sections of the P-NG natives seemed to have slipped a cog, which only goes to show that when theories are put into practice there is always the possibility of a slip in the machinery.

“PIR Treated like Pigs,” says one heading in the Moresby SP Post . and previously there was a strafe over native students en route from Australia not having appropriate accommodation to their newlyacquired status. All of which, presuming reports to be correct, show a lack of co-ordination within the Administration framework.

An Appropriate Title?

Port Moresby has a Scientific Society and from what I hear is not idle in adding a bit of culture to the general social and educational life of that capital.

There were a few raised eyebrows, however, last month when ii was announced that a talk would be given at the Society’s meeting entitled, “Termites of the Port Moresby Region.”

Happily, it turned out to be o all right. The speaker did not i to any white-anting by the hui species.

“Granny" on Pidgin Column 8 in the SMH, as n turned in previous issues, shows an interest in Pidgin and a;, recently whether the idea of phonetic spelling adopted by Pii experts was to “make it look un-English as possible?”

Professor Hall replies to question in the affirmative, add ‘‘lf an accurate system of spell for Pidgin also helps to make language seem more distant fl English, that’s just so much grai I still maintain that spelling plain English would mean a she cut for the ultimate introduce of English when (and if) it repls Pidgin.

Kandy for Mrs. Jack Murray The wife of PMG’s ex-Admii trator, J. K. Murray, departed 1 month for Colombo, where she been appointed First Principal the Ceylon Agricultural College Women (as reported in April PII A few weeks before this announ ment the Sydney Bulletin rar long eulogistic article on “Mur On New Guinea” in a March isi (though it called him John wH 26 may, 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L T

FAST is the word for it! lnstant heating CALROD* element glows RED-HOT!

Cooks Fast!

-Hutpaint

Junior Range

There is ample room for two pots on the big Calrod* element and with a roomy oven complete with baking dish and grid, Junior can do anything his big brothers can do . . . boil, grill and bake ... to perfection . . . first class meals at the flick of a switch . . . backed by the traditional quality of A.G.E.

PRICE . . . £3l/5/0 Capital city prices, packing extra AUSTRALIAN

General Electric

Proprietary Limited

Any Australian Capital city * Regd. Trade Mark. [name is Jack) and quoted him Baying: Australia must attempt to dejp such a dependent area as New [nea. There are some people who pose to develop it in such a way t when it is developed its best icultural lands will no longer me to the New Guinea people, lope that in fifty years’ time native people will still own their i country and will be running it I, perhaps still under our guide.” me thing is pretty certain—if we i’t develop it without more dethen it won’t be “under our iance.” live Priests and Handcrafts I there were a palm presented the best Publicity Officers each k, I would certainly award it to PO of the RC Mission about middle of last month for letting world know about the arrival Sydney of “Papuan Priests” for centenary of the Sacred Heart isionary Society at Kensington, Iney, and for the display of ive carvings, handcrafts and it-have-you at David Jones lery. tuly, the craftsmanship was, for most part from the Papuan side, the priests (Fathers •man Paivu and George Bata) both from Rabaul, so let credit given where credit is due. I met eral of these students for the jsthood while I was at Ramale, Dre the Aussies relieved us from Japs in ’45, and was astonished, no less gratified, at the knowre of these educated New Britains well as a couple from Bougain- ; shows what can be done with ive material—providing there is inner urge to attain knowledge.

Correction List to keep the record straight, svant to correct a bit which teared in my last month’s “Talkk” about the female sun- ■shipper who came out to join fiance. She didn’t die oh Dakon Island as I described, but jr a short sojourn there deted for the flesh-pots of Rabaul, ;re she lived with a Government hal and his wife and eventually imed to the Fatherland where, all I know, she may still be e and hearty if she was lucky ugh to escape two wars. . . So ry. nting in the Breeze lention by an old-timer “Up ider,” who patriotically flies the Lon Jack at the masthead on his ntation, that this old-established tom is falling into disuse, and is n questioned by some as to the son for such a display of British rit, recalls the old German days.

Then every tin-pot trading station flew the red, white and black colours of Germany and meticulously dipped to every water-craft in passing. It was a friendly custom, and no one enjoyed it more than the “boy” whose job it was to ' look out 'long pilag ” A vessel’s approach was well and truly heralded by everyone giving the old-time “Sailo-o-o!

On one occasion, when I was staying with the German Kiap at Kieta (in pre-War I days), a British schooner came into the harbour, passing the Residency with its German colours flying from the tall, white flag-pole. The schooner courteously dipped its Red Ensign but the Kiap’s flag-boy must have been having a snooze-off somewhere.

There was no acknowledgment of the dip. Within seconds, and before the schooner had anchored, policeboys reported the fact to the Kiap of “No down ’im pilag” and when the Aussies arrived to pay their duty call on the Kiap, they were invited to witness the offending “flag boy” receiving ten across the posterior, and no amount of pleading on behalf of the visitors prevented the punishment being meted out..

Whether the flying of the German colours so generally was due to the fact that the flag could be made by stitching together lengths of red. white and black trade calico (always on hand at every station) had anything to do with it, I do not know.

Certainly in these days of high prices the cost of the Union Jack floating in the breeze every day would run into a few quid.

Forgotten Men The shouting and the tumult of Anzac Day is just dying as I write, and there is the usual aftermath of criticism in letters to the Editors of the Daily Press. One scribe expresses a thought which has often occurred to me. He refers to the members of the AN & MEF who preceded the Anzacs by seven months on entering War I, and won a victory by acquiring NG, and not a defeat as Gallipoli proved to be.

For some reason Australia’s conquest of German NG has always taken a back-seat when actually it was one of Australia’s outstanding naval and military performances, and the epic action of young Eric Pockley should have won him a VC in a more publicised incident.

The Bitapaka memorial, erected in memory of those who fell in the advance from Kabakaul, should be rated as one of Australia’s First Memorials—if not THE first. The idea of this memorial came originally from the agitation launched by the NG Automobile Club and supported by Administrator Tom Griffiths, in 1934.

Something should be done—perhaps by the P-NG Historical Society —to put this memorial on the map and to bring into proper perspective 27 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

No Boiling, No Hand JUST THE s No Toiling, Wringing !

BRIGHTEST WHITEST CLOTHES All parts completely enclosed for safety . . . Soap and acidproof baked enamel . . Rustproof inside and out Aluminium tub and aquavene cannot chip, buckle or break • All parts fully insulated Power wringer with mated rubber rollers for gentler, more thorough squeezing action . . . Hands and fabrics fully protected by safety release bar.

ELECTRIC WASHING Wringmastet MACHINES Finished in soap-resistant baked enamel . , . smooth contours eliminate dust collection . . . Trays and httmgs rustproof and stainjess . . . can be regulated to any degree of pressure.

Representatives for Pacific Islands

Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd

540 PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

SoMp** Kabakaui * “ Anzac created Australia nation as speakers are always ing us on Anzac Day—them landing at Kabakaui created traha a protector of the peopll NG. A task it has consclentii F^£ rio f °ut—despite adverse c jsm from both the League Nations and the present UNO..

Grabbing Land It is a strange thing that i oS any Australians—pre;fn bl hi^ n^ Um ~ who hold their hr n high terror at the suggestia development in P-NG. To them t always be the bogey of ploitation ’ just around the co< and p the fiend ‘‘Colonialist™ shape every time a private en countries. m “ ed inSines Government department surround their land polfcS wttl P6 u ai l ci re vations of which the Departmen Territories is now suffering.

The Department will not spf pretends it does not see—that the /nH ,?r ro ? aganda ’ launchec eSt K ri } interest s ini attempt to sabotage the work the present Administration. man ’ writln g recently t ? yd^ y Paper asks: “After all, w did the goldmining exploiters of fiSicv. 1 5 Ve ! behlnd them when t finished cleaning up*? Whaf a did the wealth they P took™t dl the country?”

Thf answer obviously is: It put! a sel K f r su PPorting finar: basis and enabled thousands tcc spent on native health, welfare educatwn without calling .on Australian tax-payer to pay bd i’ which is not the case at present time.

Clothes and the Man In the ABC news of May 2 cs mention of the “dress ref or adopted by the white male in P-I and some rather caustic critic; from Administrator Cleland * Councillor Whittaker on the ores vogue of men wearing only a n —and not even sh«j Natives are dressed better,” s Administrator Cleland. “and hj more dignity.”

I know of no other trcn country where the white man 6 cards so much clothing In pubj as well as self-respect and resp: fo .rhis ° wn ra ce—and gets aw with it. True, Aussies are the mr tolerant people in the world (as that is not an original saying* • was made by Judge Phillips' Rabaul many years ago) buttolerr ? I ?f.,. their fellow-countrymen * hibitmg themselves in pub II garbed only in a pair of shorts? carrying such an attribute a far in a native country. Here may, 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Mb Son 3 Don’t let coughing, sneezing, wheezing attacks of Asthma and Bronchitis poison your system, sap your energy, ruin your health and weaken your heart.

Mendaco. a famous new American scientific medicine, starts Immediately to circulate through the blood, quickly curbing the attacks. The very first day the thick phlegm is dissolved, thus giving free easy breathing and letting you sleep the night through in peace and comfort. Get Mendaco from your chemist or store to-day under guarantee to stop your Asthma coughing and to give vou free easy breathing the first day or money back.

Btralia it is bad enough where the hr is common (more’s the pity), jedally amongst hard-muscled, irv-chested he-men, who allow »ir flair for exhibitionism to run t; but in P-NG—no, it’s really not Q 6. or shouldn’t be. rhis semi-nudism commenced ■iously with the arrival of the iops in War 11. in Rabaul, at y rate. ’Twas a common enough ht to see a ; party of soldiers en- ;ed on digging gun-emplacements what-have-you in the Rabaul eets clad only in shorts and Dts, proud of the sun-tan they d acquired. It was frowned on locals. But there was a war ! ; don’t remember shorts ever ber worn in TNG. to any, extent icept for tennis perhaps) until ; mid thirties. :In the German ys no white man would venture t on the street unless he was aring an immaoulate white coat, ;h patrol collar, usually and often ;h only a singlet underneath, aring a topee and invariably Tying a walking stick, rhe dandies of the day-—Steve liteman was one favoured sore suits. Even I ssies carried oh this natty mode Rabaul, and Jerry Hogan—TNG’s own Law Officer, lost in the mtevideo Maru —insisted on •torial splendour in his office and Maunsell Turner, Phil Woodhill d Ivan Shoobridge, always went ■coated, be-t ope e d and beaked.

Vmongst Rabaul bachelors’ washes (most often hailing from itupi and Nodup) there was ke.en airy for each to turn his master ; in the best starched white drill ts. A contest, naturally, engaged by the masters. (I spppose is a lost art these days), rhe pendulum ha s certainly ung the full distance now. A iple who have no pride in dress i have little pride in anything all. That must, reflect, eventuy, to a country’s disadvantage. >rd Gowrie Passes 1 rurn down an empty glass for very gallant gentleman.

Lprd Gowrie, VC, and one-time stralia’s G-G, has gone to a wellrned rest. He made many friends TNG when he Visited Rabaul ,er the 1937 Eruption, and acted a welcome stimulant to a somelat jaded populace suffering from rves and volcanic ash-dust. He s more approachable than many reaucrats from Canberra who have ited the Territory. In his party ring that tour was a reporter for 5 “SMH," David McNicoll, the Adnistrator’s son, who is now itor-in-chief of the Svdnev '“'Teleaph.” ts and Pieces Henry Annesley (“Joe”i Voysey, e-time of Papua and later of Buka, has passed away and was cremated at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium on May 4. A good cove. . . . Bill Middleton, of Karkar Island and Bathurst, left in Bulolo this month—Spends Aussie winter in NG and then comes back to his Bathurst station in Aussie summer.

It’s forty-five years since he first went to Papua, then was an Inspector for Exproboard for some years before taking up Karkar plantations. . . . Diana Coote, daughter of the late Phil (who was manager of BP, in Rabaul, when the kite went up), and Mrs. Rhoda Coote, of the North Coast, out of Rabaul, is engaged to Henry Martell, of Devon, England. Diana is over in England at present.

Rarotonga’S Field Day

Created Wide Interest

THAT Rarotonga is surprisingly well equipped with modern agricultural machinery was one of the object lessons learned by the 400 adults and 600 school-children who attended the agricultural show and field day on February 23 (picture in April PIM).

Livestock judged ranged from pigs and poultry to goats and horses, and the judging of the tropical fruit and vegetable classes was followed by a banana-planting demonstration.

Tomato-growers were shown how to protect seeds against disease, and since the field day many growers have had tomato seeds treated.

A 500-gallon sprayer was used to demonstate correct fruit-t r e e spraying, and there were other demonstrations of how to pick citrus fruit, how to clean and manure a plot, and how to prune trees and remove dead wood.

Discers, ploughs and other Agriculture Dept, equipment are available at moderate charges to Rarotongan growers who come under the Administration’s citrus replanting scheme, and expert advice is freely given.

Rarotonga’s next field day is scheduled for December. t Auckland Suburbs Rugby Club’s senior team will play five matches in Fiji at the end of the present season, states a New Zealand report. The team exnects to leave Auckland on September 10 and to return on September 25. Members of the club are now working to raise the £NZ 1,000 needed for plane fares, but expenses in Fiji will be met by the Fiji Rugbv Union. The team’s opponents will probably be mainlv Fi’ian plavers who have had experience against European teams, teams.

IMPROVING CONNECTIONS Another Ship for Trans-Pacific Trade Trans-pacific shipping connections, which are gradually improving, have received another boost with the announcement by General Steamship Corporation of San Francisco and the Pacific Islands Transport Line; that an additional carg o-a n d-passenger vessel will take up the running in parallel with their vessel Thorsisle.

The newcomer is the Thorshall, a sister ship to Thorsisle, with a deadweight tonnage of 6,265 tons, and a service speed of 15 knots. She will enter the service to Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, New Guinea—and wherever else along the route that cargoes are offering—about July.

Together the two vessels will in future maintain 35-40 day sailings.

From 1938 to the outbreak of war, this Line operated the Velox and Thor I. Then Velox was withdrawn, leaving Thor I as about the only vessel to maintain a regular Pacific Coast-Islands civilian service right through the war —and Papeete’s only regular passenger connection with the outside world for a long time.

Thor I was withdrawn and replaced by Thorsisle in 1952, and the service has been extended westward to New Guinea in recent years— Noumea was formerly the western terminus. 29 ACIFIC I S L A N'D S MONTHLY-MAY, 1955

QUEENSLAND INSURANCE CO. LTD. (Incorporated 1886 In Australia) Assets Exceed £9,000,000 Head Office: dJP :ENSLAND insurance BUILDING, 80-82 PITT STREET SYDNEY.

Specialists in South Sea Fire.

Marine & Accident Insurances Apply to:— FlJl.—Branch Office: J. p. Drury, Manager.

Burns Phllp (South Sea) Co. Ltd.

VlLA.—Burns Philp (N.H.) Ltd Comptolrs Francais Des Nouveiles Hebrides. & w - John ston.

N T>rriS?v lNE f A '^ Manager of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, R. D. Kennedy.

Port Moresby—Samarai—I Ap

-m l disg-kav,enoLSi Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

PAGO PAGO Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd G H. C. Reid & Co

Other South Sea Islands

Burns Philp (South Sea) Co Ltd Also t ° any of the Company's Offices m Australia or N.zf Banana Black Market In New Zealand NEW Zealand’s insatiable capacity for stowing away Island bananas is illustrated by a housewife’s complaint to the Price Tribunal at Auckland.

The complainant declared, and it was easily proved, that up to l/4d per lb was being charged by retailers at country towns not far from Auckland. The fixed maximum legal price is 9h d per lb in Auckland and lOd for the area concerned in the complaint, though in practice 1/- is frequently charged.

The under-the-counter, favouredcustomer rule still applies in more distant country areas. t Believed to have been used by Bully Hayes as a ship’s watchlantern, a brass lantern of the type used by the London police in the xnid-19th century has been presented to the Fiji Museum by Mr.

L. M. Nutt, a well-known collector of New Plymouth, NZ. The lantern was found ten years ago in a house at Mangaia, Cook Islands, and the museum authorities at Suva have stated that its association with Bully Hayes is well attested.

Citrus On Top

Question of CI Priorities WHY citrus? asks a European Cook Islander (non-Administration) of long standing, who, in a personal letter, puts some interesting questions about Cl economy.

“I have asked a round dozen people: How much is citrus worth to the Cooks per ton?’ ” he writes. a “ Gu^ sses range from £3O to £6O.

Actually, worked out on averages, it is about £l4/12/6. l As I see the problem here, we ai is- e asm S our economy on a crop which needs shipping with very little latitude in time; two weeks is fatal, the fruit is over-ripe The crop is worth only £l4/2/6 and the rat e to market is about *®/10/- a ton, or roughly 40 per cent, of the value of the fruit.

F®r2o years the howl has gone up: There are no ships. We need more ships. Ships are the key to the economy of the Cooks’, etc.

Actually, there are plenty of ships of all nations steaming by but we cannot afford to pay more than 40 per cent, of the value of the crop for freight.

But suppose that our economy we re based on coffee worth, say, £350 a ton or on copra worth, say, £7O a ton, then 40 per cent, of its value would have brought th e Queen Mary down here looking for business. s “This, of course, is reducing the problem to an absurdity, but nevertheless it seems to me that our problem here needs facing more realistically.

Why not base our economy on produce bringing high returns?

Then there would be no shipping bottleneck— and none of the headaches associated with perishable special refrigerated vessels, Admittedly the £5/10/- freight rate would be profitable if a very large volume of fruit were offering but I wonder whether oranges and the struggle in building up the cr 9,P’ are the only answer?

Pearl shell last year, for exwhSl®’ r f etu ™ ed more than the whole of the agricultural programme—from one little atoll.’’

THE writer says that nothing in the way of MOP shell culture research h as ever been done on behalf of the industry in the Cooks.

Hw re u ls mor ? than a possibility cvSv u £ wise exploitation, the shell will be killed out—as has happened in 15 atolls of the Tuamotu. French Oceania. ~ Th c current economic survey of f c ?9j: s and a move to trans- SfiS.ni?£? P Sh 9 n f L om Mani hiki to Pukapuka are two hopeful signs.

Money Trouble

HOLDS UP New Caledonia Oil Sea[?] THOUGH indications of oil h been found in test bores Gouraou, New Caledonia, furl work was to be halted at the , of April pending additional final f fnn 9 0r £ s had been taken down 1,100 feet, with the last cores sh« mg signs of oil.

Mr. Pomeyrelle, geologist charge of operations, flew back bj L Alr France in April to port to the amalgamated compar interested in the operations. A ( cisipn was expected late in Ai as to whether work would be c tmued. the same time the Goven of New Caledonia. M. Hoffhc ln Paris, was pressing for continuation of the project Gouraou is about half-way ale the north-east coast. Earlier otl traces were reported in test co nea f Koumac in the extre; north-west. (See PIM, Februa P. 15). (There seems to be singular lack enthusiasm about New Caledoni signs of oil.” Similar announc ments in Australia have sent sha] skyrocketing. And shares have sb rocketed at times over Papuan dri mgs 10 times as deep as those found’ h at re f X SiBnS ° f °' lhaVe be Sydney Strike Disappoint[?] New Caledonia BECAUSE of a waterfront stri in Sydney, the Messagerl Mantimes liner Caledonien, ♦ her April voyage, remained on two days in Sydney, not waiting P. lc s U P a cargo which was to ii elude seed potatoes and quantitii of vegetables required in Noumea Many New Caledonia people mal tlae r^ nd tri P to Sydney we: bitterly disappointed with the very brief stay.

Mr. R. Fearless is New Tokelau Officer THE New Zealand Governmer announced in March that it hs appointed Mr. R, Pearless, Bi> as Tokelau Officer.

Mr. Pearless graduated fr o r Otago University in 1949. He too; postgraduate study in Colonial Ad ministration and Tropical Forestr and Agriculture at Oxford, and wa an administrative officer in Nigeria lo 50-1954. He will be stationed a; Apia but will spend part of hi time at the three Tokelau atoll of Fawaofu, Nukunono, and Atafu'i several hundred miles north of Apis 30 MAY, 10 5 5 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY)

e first really portable lightweight, noiseless projector 16 m.m. sound THE 020 o o 99 D iQ

Cinevox Premier

Gives big projector quality with small projector convenience.

Newly designed in smart easy-to-operate style.

Packs into one case, weight only 36 lbs.

Maximum brilliance and clarity in the screen image are made possible through the high quality f/2 coated lens and 750 watt light source.

Exceptional fidelity of sound reproduction.

Noiseless, smooth and dependable operation— thanks to nylon gear transmission.

Amazingly simple film threading.

Operates direct from 240 V A.C. supply. No oiling required.

Price: £lBO/15/0 (exclusive of Sales Tax) Plus Freight and Packing The Cinevox Premier will he distributed by all

Kodak Dealers Throughout The Islands

Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd., Sydney

[?]Visory Councils

[?]Ard Elections

[?]Ssible At

[?]Rt Moresby

(From Our Own Correspondent) tE Administrator of Papua-New Guinea (Brigadier D M.

Cleland) told the Port Moresby n Advisory Council on April 26 , if ward members wanted the t of being elected, he would be ng to arrange for ward elecs immediately. •igadier Cleland said he was e willing to extend the work functions of the Council as it a stepping-stone to local govnent. re Administrator had been ini to address the Council as a It of members’ complaints about r treatment by the Adminision, especially when the council upted to get some facts on electy expenditure. ime members told the Admintor at the April meeting that thought little or nothing had i achieved by the Council in the 12 months, and some of them dered whether they were not ing their time. le Administration had given them little co-operation and had even treated them with contempt, they said.

BRIGADIER Cleland replied that Council members could advise on any matter where a decision had not been made on a top level.

That did not mean that they could not discuss matters freely and criticise, he said, after a member had indicated that he wasn’t happy with the suggestion of a “gag” on members, but at the same time it did not mean that members would get every document they asked for.

The Administrator, after all. had to retain the decision on some matters, and had to reserve the right not to take advice if he considered he was in a better position to make the decision.

Brigadier Cleland told the Council that ward members did not represent the people in the wards from which they were appointed, because they had not been elected by those people—they had been appointed by him.

But if they wanted the right of being elected, he would be willing to arrange ward elections immediately.

He said he was quite willing to extend the work and functions of the Council, as it was a stepping stone to local Government.

THE Administrator told Mr. James that he would have within 48 hours the electricity trading accounts (which Mr. James had asked for in the Legislative Council in March).

He added that if Council members could show that there was an inequitable distribution of electricity charges affecting the small consumer he was quite willing to consider the matter.

The Council later received notice of a motion for the next meeting “that ward elections be held in Port Moresby.’’

Another point of importance to other TAC’s: The Administrator said in answer to a question from Mrs. T. Weston that there was no reason why Councils could not have replies from the Government for every letter the Council wrote. (Port Moresby residents have not shown any desire that the local TAG should take on the functions of local government, if a Town Council were set up after the manner of Australian Town, Municipal or Shire Councils, it would have to levy rates and taxes (from which Moresby residents are at present mercifully free) and manage its own financial affairs). v The Polynesian Association of Sydney provided a special evening’s entertainment for personnel of HMNZS Pukaki, which called en route to Far East waters in May.

RNZN personnel include a large percentage of Maoris and some Islanders. 31 ICIFIC ISLANDS’ MONTHLY MAY, 1955

NSED \ If it’s Nestle’s it’s good . . . very good!

Yes, always ask for—and make sure you get Nestle’s products. Remember, Nestle’s are makers of foods world-famous for taste . . . purity . . . and goodness.

MESTL * •lUltlltE P L Re thick : NESTLE'S SWEETENED

Condensed Milk

Always pure, always safe . . . the essential household milk.

I * * OT less Nfs?.V Ce *tom of Mtae (*U Sr Jj Foo ° SP££!A' limited:^

Nestle'S Cream

Costs so little . . . tastes so nice ... on all your sweets and cereals. dea IL yAPOPATC IDEAL MILK Fresh milk concentratec —ideal wherever milk i; required, with cereali for ice cream and all your cooking.

Sunshine Powdered Milk

Rich country milk with only the moisture extracted—a tin in your pantry means a constant supply of fresh milk. unshi M ■ y h FU EA M vy Hi ED

You Can Always

Depend On Nestle'2

MAY, 1 0 5 5 —PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

ro\fl\afl s 'H 1 F\T* e ub^ £ DO W. J. BUSH Cr C (AUST.) PTY 59 Wentworth Avenue, Sydney Also at Melbourne. Brisbane Adelaide, Perth.

LTD.

Lemonade reaming Soda Kola Raspberry For lAJorfd ddamecl (cs^uaiihj ESSENCES COLOURS

Essential Oils

CHEMICALS Orange Lime Sarsaparilla Vanilla der direct, or from Distributing Agents for the South Pacific: — AMETCO (AUST.) PTY. LTD., 2-12 Carrington Street, Sydney. [?]rrent News Items From Our Correspondents In Papua-New Guinea

Administrator’S Tour

’he Administrator (Brigadier D.

Cleland) will begin a tour of Rabaul area and Bougainville May 11. He will spend a week Rabaul, from May 11 to May 18, I then will fly to Buifi, where will board the Laurabada 11, if s ready after refit.

'he tour of all sections of Bounville will last until June 1. ;re are many parts of the island ich the Administrator has not visited. trigadier Cleland originally hided to visit New Ireland, but whole tour would take too ?. New Ireland will be visited arately, probably about July.

Port Moresby Busy

brt Moresby has a busy series events ahead of it in the next months.

LCtivity will begin on May 14, m the Aero Club of Papua ?es Papua’s first aero carnival Port Moresby. It will include obatic displays, forced landings, I parachute jumps (if permisi can be granted). Aircraft will ive from all parts of the Terri- -7 for the pageant and the RAAF has been invited to send aircraft from Australia.

Queen’s Birthday holiday in June will see a race meeting at Boroko, on a special track with only a straight—six furlongs. There will be a race for women jockeys.

About eight horses are expected to be entered for each of the six races.

There will be native dances, canoe races and conducted tours at the end of June when Port Moresby will be visited by the luxury liners Himalaya and Oronsay, on Pacific cruise from Sydney. They will also call at Noumea.

About 1,200 passengers in each liner will receive a colourful welcome after the style of the successful Orion visit to Port Moresby last year.

Food Poisoning

There was a tragedy at Wau in April when four natives, including a woman, died after eating a dead cassowary which they had found in the bush.

Six more were admitted to hospital at Wau in a critical condition, and slowly improved.

One of the victims died outside the hospital and the other three 33 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1955

For Your "PIMs A folder in which you can bind 12 copies of "Pacific Islands Monthly"

Requests for such a magazine holder have been numerous and long standing, but hitherto production facilities for a worthwhile job were not available. We wanted a folder which would open out flat, make insertion easy, be durable and look £o° d - Now we have it—similar to the illustration alongside. The binder has a dark green plastic-cloth cover, with Pacific Islands Monthly” in gold letters on the back.

Price 15/6, post free Send your order and remittance to Pacific Islands Monthly, Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W. m i i i

Compact Light Weight

Marine Engines

This engine embodies a the latest refinements Mirror handed pairs avail able. t For utmost reliability and economy a twinscrew Stuart installation i s unrivalled. Excellent spar e s and service facilities available.

The ideal engine for Islands use. 100 sri74 C l?- t M Co “ plete ~ The new 9-11 STUART Marine Diesel Engine.

Full Specifications available—Enquiries to: T W 1 HORN YCROFT (Aust.) Telephone: FF4224. Cables e Thornmoto ' r> ., Sydney- RZ6 125 H.P. MARINE DIESEL ENGINE Pty. Ltd. Box 2622, G.P.0., Sydney died shortly after being admitted.

Early medical investigation pointed to food poisoning being the cause of death. Normally, cassowary makes satisfactory eating.

Telephone Expansion

Recent improvements to Papua- New Guinea telephone services, enabling telephone subscribers to talk to outstations in the two main zone areas of Port Moresby and Rabaul, were the subject of further extensions in late April, The Posts and Telegraphs Department announced that the new system had been extended to Samarai and Wewak and that it would be extended to Lae and Madang two weeks later.

It was also made possible for people in the town area of Madang to speak to Port Moresby people without having to come to the telegraph office to take the call. This did not mean, however* that Madang people had a direct telephone link to Australia, like other centres, including Kavieng (the latest town to get the service).

Reception between Madang and Port Moresby is rather poor and a link with Australia is unlikely until a new transmitting station is built at Madang.

Madang has been asking for an Australian service for a long time and asked again at the March Advisory Council meeting, a few days before the Administration announcement.

Helicopter Crash

One of the Territory’s four helicopters was damaged in a crash in the Moorehead River area of Western Papua in April, while it was on oil survey work.

A bearing failed in the tail rotor, and the helicopter turned over when only a few feet from ground, smashing the main r blade, among other things.

Pilot was Frank Shannahar DCA official from Melbourne, • is in Papua getting flying perience with helicopters. I year for a time he was aci 34 may, 1955 P CIF I C ISLANDS MONTOL

The Perfect Starch

For Tropical Conditions

Coral Starch does not stick to the iron.

Coral Starched clothes keep their crispness all day long even in the most humid weather.

Coral never lumps or spots—won’t streak even dark colours.

Coral starch saves 15 minutes work in every ironing hour.

V 4 'c e

Coral' Starch

Manufacturers: — CORAL MANUFACTURING PTY. LTD. 26 Clarence Street. Sydney. BX 3508. irector of the Department of Civil viation in Papua-New Guinea.

High-Yielding Rubber

Plants In P-Ng

Twenty-two clones of imported gh-yielding rubber are established , the Papua-New Guinea Admintration’s Bisianumu rubber breedg station in the Sogeri district.

This range covers virtually all e first-rate clones available to 'erseas rubber-growers and inudes four from the famous 500 ries of the Malayan Rubber Rearch Institute.

Preliminary tests indicate that tien the imported stock reaches aturity it will yield up to the st Malayan results as in general e soil of rubber-growing areas in ipua is richer than that of the bber regions in Malaya.

Mr. F. C. Henderson, head of the ant Industry Division of the jriculture Department, has said at it will be six or seven years fore the imported clones start oducing seed, but it may be pos- )le to distribute budwood from e improved varieties earlier.

Aero Club Field Day

The Aero Club of Papua had its st field day on April 17.

The club moved its entire acuities from Jacksons Airport at rt Moresby to the emergency iding ground at Fisherman’s and (three aircraft and a inch were needed to do it) and ent the day flying almost from wn to dusk, Some people in the Boroko area Port Moresby thought there ould be more field days—the ise of low flying Tiger Moths is coming a nuisance during weekds.

Goroka Bank Branch

rhe Bank of New South Wales s converted its agency at Goroka, w Guinea, to a full branch. 3oroka, 5,500 feet above sea el, is developing as a holiday re- •t for people in Papua and New linea as well as a coffee and ?etable-growing area.

Native Liquor Bill

3 roposed amendments to the tive Liquor Bill, the debate on ich was adjourned in March, will one of the most important itters to be discussed when the gislative Council meets at Port >resby on June 27.

Influenza Epidemic

During April, a fairly widespread demic of influenza was reported the Territory, It affected many tives and some Europeans, fhe ’flu made serious inroads into ; labour force in some areas, but was not the lethal type that has uck on some other occasions, rticularly in 1953, when the Territory was practically quarantined.

Visits to some Island groups, notably Mortlock and Tasman, have been banned.

Housing Schemes

In April, the Territory Housing Commissioner, Mr. H. Reeve, was examining the effects of a recent announcement by the Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasluck, which varied the housing schemes in New Guinea and the Northern Territory. He expected to make an announcement shortly.

It was a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand was doing, as usual. The Minister made his announcement in Australia to anybody who wanted to hear it, but nobody thought of officially notifying New Guinea about the details.

The Administration first saw it in the press and it was a week before it got confirmation from Australia.

The Canberra announcement stated: “The Minister for Territories, Mr.

Hasluck, announced to-day (April 6), that the Government had approved of amendments to the housing loan schemes operating in the Northern Territory and the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

“The most important amendments are: “(1) The upper limit of advances is raised from £2,000 to £2,750. (Continued on Page 38) 35 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

anchor COHOE* s** 5 ** lib. nett lit*, ie£ia The Famous "ANCHOR MILK" Family includes . . . ® ANCHOR UNSWEETENED (evaporated)

Condensed Milk

• Anchor Full Cream Milk Powder

• Anchor Skim Milk Powder

• Anchor Pat Butter

• Anchor Cheddar Cheese

Also ACORN BUTTER (in tins) and SNOWFLAKE

Unsweetened Condensed Milk

r SOLE DISTRIBUTORS: AMALGAMATED DAIRIES LTD., AUCKLAND, N.Z.j. 36 MAY - 1955 PACIFIC ISL AN DS MONTHLY

LIGHTING SOUTHERN CROSS 1 KW. to 14 KW. Electric Generating Sets, with or without Diesel Engines.

Special Reduced Prices

On Application

PUMPING SOUTHERN CROSS Ball Bearing Centrifugal Pumps —15% off List. Full range of sizes.

Send details of your job for quotation.

Southern Cross Engine & Windmill Co. Pty., Ltd. 22 Young Street, Sydney I / just right!.. made by \om W"\ . iitmmmnn- > . «f',4» A|- <<p In the heart of Northamptonshire, more than 1400 John White craftsmen are now producing millions of pairs a year just right in style, comfort and value-for-money.

TRADE ENQUIRIES from bulk-buyers for wholesale quantities can be addressed either to John White Footwear Ltd., Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England or their Agents for the Pacific Islands Messrs. E. Whiteaway & Co., 4/7 Chiswell Street, London, E.C.1., England.

'JU JT irW/*SW'Af wm with This smart Oxford style storm-welt is particularly popular i

Made In England

WEDDING AT RALUANA: The wedding Miss Bernice Williams and Mr. Brig lph took place at the Raluana Methodist Mission, New Britain, on April 2. In this picture are, left to right, the bride and bridegroom, Mr. Arthur Brown (bestman).

Mrs. Molly Valentine (matron of honour), Mr. John North, who gave the bride away, and Mrs. N. Lee, mother of the bride.

Photo: C. H. Meen.

J -1 *STEWARTS and LLOYDS (AUSTRALIA) PTY. LTD. i Manufacturers for 40 years of tough, reliable "S. & L." PIPES and FIT- TINGS specially made for GAS.

WATER, STEAM and other purposes.

Distributors, also, of GALVANISED IRON, plain or corrugated. NUTS S. ELECTRODES and ALL EQUIPMENT. and BOLI WELDING This Thin Blade means Business!

Get Your Order in Promptly for

Hytest And Fern Tomahawks!

The thinner the blades, the keener the cutting edges —that's why these Forged Steel Tomahawks are in big demand! Three-Quarter Axes—2f lbs. heads and 28inch handles—branded Fern and Hytest are other quick-moving lines. Order now from your Island merchant!

HYTEST AXE & TOOL PTY. LTD.

Collins Street, Alexandria, N.S.W., Australia “(2) The interest rate is reduced from 5 per cent, to 4i per cent.

“(3) The repayment period is extended to a maximum of 45 years.

“In the Northern Territory, approval has also been given to a scheme to enable tenants of Government-owned houses to purchase such houses along lines similar to those applying to tenants of houses under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreements.”

Lands Department

The Secretary for Lands, Mr. D.

Macinnis, is to become Director as a result of a departmental reorganisation.

Under the new system, officers have been appointed to take charge of three separate divisions under Mr. Macinnis. Mr. L. C. Anthony* has been appointed chief of the Lands Division; Mr. T. V. Webb, chief of Surveys Division, and Mr.

A. J. Legg, chief of the Mines Division.

Native Development

The Apostolic Delegate, Arch-' bishop Carboni, had some important things to say about native development after completing a visit to Papua-New Guinea and the British Solomons in April. The trip took him 40 days.

One of his main points was that native progress could come much more quickly than many people at present believed possible. He said early development was always a little slow, but he believed there was a surprising movement on the way, and development would then take place much faster.

Native development, he said, was not only a matter of direct education. In nearly every section ofl Territory the native people surrounded by the products; civilisation—aircraft, radios, m cars, cinemas—and it was impostor them to-day to avoid the th of civilisation. 38 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLJ {Continued from Page 35)

Rebuilt Exchange

MOTOR ENGINES.

MOTOR ENGINES.

MOTOR ENGINES.

Why Pay More when you can Buy at Our Prices.

Completely Reconditioned Short

MOTORS to suit all makes of CARS and TRUCKS with a 90-day GUARANTEE.

IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Anywhere in tne Pacific.

DON’T BE HELD UP: Let us deliver our motor for fitting, before returning your old motor to us.

ONLY the best materials and workmanship are used.

PETROL Austin 4-lltre Austin A7O Austin A4O Austin 10 h.p Austin 8 h.p Armstrong-Siddeley . ..

Bedford 27 h.p Bedford 10-12 h.p.

Chrysler Chevrolet Commer 4 cyl Commer 15 h.p Commer 6 cyl Consul De Soto Dodge Fargo Ford A Ford V 8 C.M.C. all models Holden Hillman Humber Hawk Hudson all models .

International Mercury Morris 8/40 Morris 12/4 Morris Oxford Morris L.C. P.V Oldsmoblle Plymouth Prefect and Anglia Peugeot 203 Renault 12 h.p Renault 760 Standard 8-10-12 h.p. ..

Studebaker Vanguard Vauxhall 14 h.p Vauxhall 10-12 h.p. ..

Velox White WA2O Willys Jeep £75 £55 £45 £45 £45 £55 £65 £45 £7O £65 £45 £6O £75 £55 £7O £7O £7O £35 £7O £65 £5O £45 £6O £75 £75 £7O £45 £5O £55 £55 £75 £7O £45 £45 £45 £45 £45 £75 £55 £55 £45 £55 £l3O £45 £45 DIESELS Atkinson £ 165 Dodge £ 165 Morris Saurer £l3O Perkins P 6 diesel £ 165 Sceddon £ 165 Cable or write today to:

Automobile Engine Reconditioners

PTY. LTD.

Cnr. Melbourne and Parramatta Rds., CONCORD, SYDNEY. Phone: UJ 1792.

The largest engine reconditioning service in the Commonwealth.

We are cash buyers of all types of motor any condition.

Books To Read

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC (Ida Leeson). :s basic work essaying to list and classify existing bibliographies of this literature for se enquiring into aspects of Pacific Affairs. 15/-. Postage 7d.

HE BLOODS OF BOTANY BAY (Dr. George Mackaness). 1953 —Book of Australian torical Tales. 16/-. Postage 7. ,ES OF THE SUN (Charles Barrett). We go with him to little known islands .ring experiences strange and unusual. Ulus. 22/6. Postage 9d.

I VOSAVOSA VAKAVITI E SO (Anare K. Rawalui). A collection of Fijian Idioms. , Postage sd.

INTS OF HAWAII NATIONAL PARK (Otto Degener). Illustrative of Plants and itoms of the South Seas. £l/4/6. Postage 1/3 EE LISTS of Australiana and Pacific items, new and secondhand. Thousands of ks in stock. Also Microscopes from £2 to £l5O. Surveying Instruments, Binoculars, gnifiers, etc. List on application. Write for our lists of PENGUIN TITLES, Biophy, Crime, Fiction, Plays, Travel, World Affairs, etc., also famous KING PENGUIN ies.

H. SEWARD PTY. LTD., 457 Bourke St., Melbourne, Australia. MU 6129 They had learned to produce pra at good prices, and had even tapped their canoes with outboard >tors. Already they were working le by side with the Europeans.

Archbishop Carboni described the >vernment’s land policy as wise d prudent. He said it showed conm for native land, yet promoted lite settlement as well, in a way at could be of help to the natives.

Welcome Rain At Wau

Wau, at Easter, broke an uniial dry spell which had been •iously threatening crops in the ;a. March was the driest month record, with the rainfall seven •hes below the average, and witht rain new crops were threatened fore they had even been planted.

Wewak-Maprik Road

K new road link has been opened the Sepik—a stretch of 100 miles >m Wewak to Maprik, inland im the north coast, rhe road was travelled by two ndrovers before Easter in a trip ung four days’ travelling time, ader of the party was the Disct Commissioner, Mr. J. P. White, rhe road is native-built, under ministration guidance, and extends over the Prince Alexander Ranges, along the Sepik grasslands and to the foothills of the Torncellis.

The trip was the longest undertaken by vehicles in the Sepik. (In 19 3 6 w hen we walked this route we thoug ht (in the foothill CO untry) that one day there could easily a mo tor-road there, in the game way as people now think of the possibility of a trip to the moon. - s harc i t e n from the above despatch just where the road goes, But four days by jeep is by no means record breaking. We walked it in five, and spent considerable time cajoling reluctant carriers, at that. The greatest reading difficulty would lie right behind Wewak through the mountains to the foothill country, after which, if the road follows the route we took, it “ 14 UP ° n ““ SepiK grass country. jil armv RATION TESTED

Army Kai J- Ujn

Eruopean members of the Pacific Islands Regiment are to help test a new Australian Army ration.

The ration, for one man for 24 hours, was recently given initial tests at the Army’s Canungra jungle training camp in Queensland, and will now be passed on to the PIR in New Guinea for further tests under field conditions in rugged country.

Brown River Bridge

Tenders are being considered at Port Moresby for the erection across Malaita Travellers Leaving Sydney Island-bound per “Malaita” from Sydney in April were, left: Mrs. .J. S. Vincent, h Jon and Deborah, who left to join her husband who is with the Department Agriculture, Honiara. Right: Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jones bound for Kieta on a it to their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. W T . Kimmorley of District vices. 39 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Australia’s Famous STECO, Australia’s most reliable name in transport equipment builds a range of units ideal for island operation. From rugged 6 yard all steel tipper-bodies equipped with the famous STECO seven ton smooth-fast hoist, to versatile 3 ton four wheelers and handy 2 ton twowheel tipper trailers.

The Famous Fowler Seven Ton Hoist has SIMPLE FAST—S M O O T H action.

Maintenance is low, spares are always available.

Seven Ton Hoist

ST T< st

Steco 4 Wheel

JUNIOR t tray in solid hardwood, with coaming or flush deck as required. Heavy duty springs, high tensile steel axles fitted with four 7.50 by 16 six ply tyres. Rope rail, number plate bracket, stake pockets and tai light are standard.

Tough as they come, handles twoton loads with ease. Overall size 9_ x 7', solid hardwood throughout, hinged dropside back board, and removable sides. Heavy duty axle fitted with taper roller bearings. 6 ply 16 x 7.50 tyres. Drawbar coupling adjustable for height.

Handy 2 Wheel Tipper

40 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

mM.

Specialising in Pacific Island Insurances.

Fire—Motor Vehicle—Marine

—HULLS AND CARGO- EMPLOYER’S LIABILITY.

BONDS —in accordance with Administration Ordinances —COPRA insured from drier to buyer—and all other classes arranged at lowest current rates.

Established Agencies throughout the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

RABAUL, T.N.G, Managing Agents: New Guinea Co..

Ltd.

Island Representative; G. D. A. Kent, Rabaul Branch.

Suva, Fiji

Colony of Fiji Branch Office; W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji), Ltd .

Bldg., Suva.

Branch Manager: R. W. Connolly Southern Pacific Insurance Co., Ltd.

Head Office; 60 Hunter St., Sydney. ■497

The Masse Tiger Battery

has always Seen -full of punch ~ — II NOW ITS TERRiFIC* ‘Masse BATTERIES \ WITH PERMASS€P ~f/Ae T/GERS FOR WO RAC " «ar.. -c. ■J2 Distributors for Pacific Islands ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD. 54A PITT STREET, SYDNEY. Tel.: BU 2221 MB6 5 Brown River of what will be ! largest bridge in Papua, t will be of steel, with a single in 170 feet long. It is expected • bridge will be across the river the next 18 months.

'he Brown River road has so far in extended to the river, and aring and survey work is now ng ahead on the other side. »bably no real progress on the d will be made until the bridge s across, unless the machinery rts working from the Kanosia \

Big Timber Shipment

>n her latest visit to Lae the )chovo discharged 10,100 dozen ties of beer and then uplifted of the largest shipments of sawn ber to leave the port of Lae. * consignment consisted of 400 s of sawn timber and 200 tons log timber for Sydney. he sawn timber included batf flitches and egg-packing case ts and the log shipment consd of 90 logs. efore arriving at Lae the vessel uplifted a cargo of coffee beans, ra and peanuts and was ex- ;ed to take on consignments of Der from Pert Moresby. Also uded in her outbound cargo was tons of sawn timber for Port •esby and nearly 200 tons of sral cargo for Sydney and Port esby.

Boana Crash

Dragon-type aircraft crashed on landing at Boana Airstrip on April 22.

The aircraft was owned by Territory Airlines, operating from Goroka.

The pilot, Mr. Tony Chadim, escaped injury but the aircraft was severely damaged. No passengers were on board at the time.

Boana Airstrip is only 20 minutes’ flying from Lae and is well known as a Lutheran Mission station.

Wedding At Lae

Master of the Administration vessel Morobe, Mr. Geoff. Hall, was married in April to Sister Molly Johnson, of the Lae European Hospital.

The ceremony took place at St.

Mary’s Catholic Church and the Rev. Father Geo. Bernarding officiated. Mr. Hall is very widely known along the New Guinea coast.

Development Plan

The Acting District Commissioner, Mr. Les Williams, said at Lae that the Administration was very happy with the progress of the native economic development plan which had been instituted in the Morobe District eight months ago.

The system was evolved to improve the economic standard of natives in this area and the Department was encouraging the planting of coconuts on the coast, and, in the mountain areas, coffee.

“We have also been encouraging the natives to clean up old coconut groves, thereby making them productive again as soon as possible,” he said.

Mr. Williams said that on the south coast of the Huon Gulf 10,000

PLAIN AND

Self Raising

FLOUR, ESTABLISHED 1868 Agents for Fiji, Tonga and Samoa: C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD.. Suva. Fiji W. H. GROVE & SONS LTD.

Established 1896.

Island Merchants 16-18 FANSHAWEST., AUCKLAND.

Telegraphic and Cable Address: “Grove,” Auckland. P.O. Box 490, Auckland, New Zealand.

Entrust your requirements to the firm with more than 55 years practical experience in the Island trade.

Representing English Manufacturers

THROUGHOUT FIJI, SAMOA, TONGA, NEW HEBRIDES, NEW CALEDONIA, SOLOMON ISLANDS. SOCIETY ISLANDS, COOK ISLANDS, NIUE, PAPUA, NEW GUINEA, ETC.

SHIPPERS OF ALL CLASSES OF NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURES AND PRODUCTS SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THE ISLAND TRADE

We Handle All Kinds Of Island Produce

IN FIJI as : W. H. GROVE & SONS (FIJI) LIMITED.

Office and Sample Room: Bank of New South Wales Chambers, Suva, Fiji. young palms had been planted and old village groves had already been cleared.

Six villages in this area are already producing copra from their erstwhile unproductive groves on the east coast of the Huon Gulf and Bukaua natives have planted approximately 20,000 palms, besides clearing the old plantations. Already 12 villages in this area are producing copra.

“All these plantings have been encouraged and assisted by an official of the Department of District Services and Native Affairs, and it is hoped that a regular system of yearly planting will be continued.

I am sure that the natives have been convinced that they can obtain future security by planting their own groves,” said Mr. Williams.

“In the mountain areas a similar system has been implemented but in this case the plantings have been coffee. At least 100 acres of coffee have been planted in the Lae subdistrict alone. The coffee-planting shows every sign of success and the industrious mountain people have adopted the system with enthusiasm.

“An officer of our Department has been visiting the areas for several months to guide and assist the natives. One village at Busama claimed that it can produce at least one ton of copra a month, and it is not without the bounds of possibility for each of the old village groves to equal this figure when the improvements have been effected.”

Later in the month Mr. Williams said that the planting of 25,000 palms in the Kaiapit area had been completed and that this work had been done in a little over two months.

Wau-Lae Road Again

The notorious Wau-Lae Road nearly claimed another victim when a Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. employee had a narrow escape from death when the truck he was driving skidded and plunged over embankment.

The driver, Keith Bloom, told Lae police that when he applied brakes only the off side front w] operated and the truck skidded The accident occurred on “ Bends” about 27 miles from : Extensive damage was done to truck and another truck anc heavy crane vere used to rec< the vehicle.

The truck was carrying gen cargo from Lae to Bulolo anc 42 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL.

Going places?

Your trip will be much happier if you know that every detail yourself. Much time and trouble can be saved by letting the Bank of New South Wales Travel Department assist you.

What the “Wales” Travel Department offers you Whether your journey is in Australia or overseas, the “Wales” will gladly plan itineraries, make transport bookings and hotel reservations, arrange travel finance, and, for trips overseas, advise on passport, visa, and taxation clearance procedure.

Travel finance The modern way to carry money safely is by Bank of New South Wales Travellers’ Cheques, which are readily accepted by all banks and by principal tourist bureaux, transport offices, hotels, restaurants, and stores.

FIRST AND LARGEST TRADING BANK OPERATING IN AUSTRALIA,

New Zealand, Fiji, Papua And New Guinea

has been settled in advance but there is no need to do it These services are available through "\ all branches of t -£,y BANK OF

New South Wales

(INCOBPOBATED IN NEW SOUTH WALES WITH LIMITED LIABILITY) A 54470 led by the Bulolo Gold Dredging

Imported Livestock

he manager of the Erap Agrijural Station, Mr. W. Robertson, i that one of the finest shipats of cattle ever to come to New inea had been landed by the iern. recently. ~ For quality and condition these the best we have seen,” he said. » consignment consisted of 9o fers and 20 yearling bulls for the jartment of Agriculture at Erap, Romney Marsh sheep for Mennya and 60 weaner boars for jondetta. The sheep and the rs were later flown in to these ;ricts by DC3 charters, me of the bulls slipped and fell ween a truck and the loading ip during the discharging from vessel and was badly injured. > animal broke away and defied attempts to capture him. He was *r found dead in a drain half a e from the wharf. [r Robertson estimated that the I was worth approximately £l5O.

New Football Season

he 1955 Rugby League season away to a good start this month I the three matches so far played r e assured enthusiasts that Lae witness one of its best football sons. .Ithough only three teams, St. ry’s, Comworks and Qantas, are ing part, the strength is evenly ;ributed and each of the matches attracted good crowds.

Unfortunately, the game between nworks and Qantas was stopped ;n a Qantas player, Frank Deck, broke his leg and could not removed from the playing field, this match two other players 'ered broken bones and another per was removed to hospital due illness. he only other setback the League suffered so far is that a new imittee had to be elected followa no-confidence motion in the jinal organisation.

Ir. L. W. (Pat) Henry has been ;ted as the new president.

'he annual match between Papua 1 New Guinea will be played at ; on the Queen’s Birthday week- [, June 12.

Anzac Day Services

’or the first time, returned ricemen and Lae citizens observed zac Day this year with a dawn idee at the Lae War Cemetery.

L officials were very satisfied with attendance of more than 250 iple. ’he usual 11 am service attracted athering of over 2,500 people, inding natives. Members of the ting American survey ships took t in the service and laid wreaths the Cross of Sacrifice. )uring his address at the dawn vice the Acting District Comssioner, Mr. L. Williams, told the gathering that Anzac Day was “not only a day to honour our war dead but a good opportunity to ask ourselves if we were worthy of the sacrifice they made for us.”

Newly-elected State president of the RSL, Mr. Bob Buying, said at m l . se {’ vl 9 e °to of to the world the fighting Qualities oi the Australian and New Zealand Perfect weather prevailed throughout the day and the Lae cemetery was at its beautiful best for the occasion.

After the service, ex-servicemen gathered at the RSL for a luncheon, mo re than 200 attending, A significant development in the Anzac Day memorial services in p a p Ua -New Guinea was noted this whpn manv more centres held & Thefirsfume In the past, most centres have 43 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

■-*'l ■ ■ I I MS m mm mi V \ M * too »*** T h pleasant refreshing al 44 may, 1 9 5 5 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Plan ters !Tra ders !Manufacturers Low-Priced Permanent Fire Proof

Prefabricated Steel Buildings

Complete and ready to erect GENERAL PURPOSE OR STORAGE BUILDINGS PACKING SHEDS COPRA SHEDS FACTORIES From 20 ft. to 100 ft. in span, by any length; Eaves Heights from 10 ft. to 20 ft.

We will supply Frame only, and Frame and Roof sheeted only, or completely sheeted in Galvanised Corrugated Iron, or other specified material.

Immediate Delivery

Specially designed for Pacific conditions. Can be quickly erected by unskilled labour.

Easy to transport. Fire Proof and permanent.

For Further Details Write or Cable AUSTRALASIAN SALES CORPORATION LTD.

P.O. BOX 499, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND.

Cable Address: “AUSALES, Auckland” itpnfpd themselves with midservices with snorts in the prnoon However populations mwing and 6 apparently many ee g s niw g thtak toil the dawn dee "s well worth it-and eerfily it can be very moving in the ier°the SS?* fighting, ‘or was very far from it. one of the bie centres held lawn^service for th“ flrat ’ tone.

Marges™ service, however, was. isual at Bomana War Cemetery, •t Moresby where there was a 3rd crowd this year. ipsnito the crowd and the ence of the Admtaistrato? ieadier Cleland) at the Bomana nee for the first time, this year seemed to lack some of the mnitv of past years ’ ‘ t Manus, a company of native )ps with the Pacific Islands ? ll }!iJf’pnin?,r W » e t re a rnmhlnld e 4ermarc h , . ‘ . .. „„ . prtl TTicVi t Goroka, in the Eastern Highis, the District Commissioner, lan Downs, said at a morning rice that in the event of another we must not again permit panic the forced removal from the utry of those who wished to reto, for that had been an act ch had done more damage to loyalty of the native people than any other act since.

Kieta, in Bougainville, held its Anzac service at the newly-erected memorial to Baros, a loyal native who was executed by the Japanese for refusing to give away the position of an Australian coastwatcher.

Blood Transfusions

The Director of the Queensland Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Dr. Eric Shaw, arrived at Port Moresby in late April for a fortnight’s tour aimed at expanding the Territory’s blood transfusion services.

He said when he arrived that the big problem, as always, was to And the donors, and the problem was even a bigger one in the Territory because of the number of natives who were not educated to the meaning of blood transfusion. & CHILDREN’S COURTS.

The Administrator, Brigadier Cleland, in April, spoke of H? e J} eec l for Childrens Courts in the Territory.

He sa^( j th e time had arrived for SO me kind of system to be set up. police could not take European children before special magistrates, but had access only to the normal criminal courts, which often were unsuitable.

At Port Moresby, about the time of the Administrator’s comments, five young schoolboys, three Europeans and two half-castes, were arrested for having broken into an Army magazine and stolen about 2,000 rounds of ammunition. They were released after a severe repnmand.

Okinawa Seaman Fined

Naval authorities arrested an Okinawa seaman near the Hermit Islands, west of Manus on April 23, and took him to Lombrum.

The arrest was made after the Navy had sighted a fishing vessel near the Hermits, and had allegedly found 18 fishermen fishing along a reef.

The fisherman was fined £2O under the Pearl Fisheries Act, or in default, 2 months’ gaol. (Okinawa is under US control—therefore the vessel is technically not Japanese, as nriinnallv renortedl originally reported).

Medical Services

An estimated 2,000.000 natives received medical attention at Administration aid posts throughout Papua-New Guinea last year, according to Health Department figures.

In addition about 98,000 natives wptp hnsnital in-natients and about “Se 97 '°°° we ™ out P^fnts.

Three thousand Europeans weie admitted to hospital, and 2I,UUU re- 45 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1955

Beautiful Brass needs the Quality Polish Like captured sunlight through your home, polished gleaming brassware adds friendly lustre to' every room. A rub or two with Brasso keeps brass and copperware merry and bright.

BRASSO

Liquid Metal Polish

m m

Steamships Trading Company Ltd

Port Moresby And Samarai Papua

Wholesole & Retail Merchants, Shipowners, Planters, Sawmillers, Engineers, Slip Proprietor Shipping, Customs and Insurance Agents.

MANAGING AGENTS for: SAWMILLERS & TRADERS LTD.

COCOALANDS LTD.

ACME BAKERY COMPANY.

MARIBOI RUBBER LTD.

RUBBERLANDS LTD.

KEREMA RUBBER PLANTATIONS LTD.

AGENCIES:

New Guinea Australia Line Of The

NAVIGATION CO. LTD.

ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINE.

KOKE BAGU PTY., LTD.

LOLORUA RUBBER ESTATES LTD.

Harvey Trinder (N.S.W.) Pty

surances effected at Lloyd’s.) LTD. (Ii DISTRIBUTORS fn??/r N<^"HOLLAND PTY „ LTD.

Earth Moving and Logging Equipment.

EXPORT CORPORATION.

HILLMAN MOTOR CARS.

IN PAPUA for:

International Harvester Co. Of Aust. Ltt

International Trucks, McCormick-Deering Farming Machinery, Defender Refrigerators.

SYDNEY AGENTS: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., 12 SPRING STREET. ceived out-patient treatment.

Highlands Survey

Professor Elkin, Professor of Anthropology at Sydney University, arrived in the Territory on April 27 to arrange the details for a scientific survey in the Highlands.

Later he went to Wabag to find a suitable site and arrange for the reception of a small team which will follow him in a few weeks.

The team will make a study of physical anthropology and certain aspects of medical science, and phases of the work are likely to take two years.

Professor Elkin will not take part in the actual work in the Territory.

Senior Forestry Officer

Mr. D. B. Dun, formerly of the New South Wales Forestry Commission, arrived at Bulolo on May 2 to take over the duties of Senior Forestry Officer for the New Guinea Mainland. He had already spent a short time at Port Moresby gathering general information on Territory forestry matters.

A Regional Forestry Officer. Mr.

A. C. Richardson, has been stationed at Rabaul in charge of forestry matters in the New Guinea Islands since February, 1954, and will return to this posting early in June on completion of his recreation leave.

Later it is intended to appoint a Regional Forestry Officer for Papua.

Archives Officer

Mr. H. J. Gibbney, a Commonwealth Archives Officer, will visit Wau, Bulolo, Lae, and Rabaul shortly to advise on the classification of official records, and gather historical material.

He has been working on a similar assignment at Port Moresby and has already found some valuable historical records which will go into the collection of Papua and K Guinea material assembled by Commonwealth National Library l From old Administration files Gibbney has obtained a record] land transactions back in 1882, eluding the official register of p: perty claims established before annexation of Papua.

He has also conferred with Rev. D. e. Ure, of the Lone 46 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

lamps burn brighter longer! ★ 100% BRITISH. ★ SOLID BRASS CONTAINER. ★ HIGHLY-POLISHED PLATED FINISH. ★ BURNS 12 HOURS ON |i PINTS OF KEROSENE. ★ 300 BRILLIANT CANDLEPOWER. ★ FEW SPARES NEEDED.

If you have any difficulty in obtaining TILLEY Products, please contact your nearest representative for further information.

REPRESENTATIVES FIJI: Mr. K. WITHERINGTON, 2 Burns Philp Buildings. SUVA AUSTRALIA & NEW GUINEA: T. H. BENTLEY Pty. LTD. 123-125 William St., MELBOURNE. C.I [issionary Society at Port Moresby, yarding the original copy of the ill of the Rev. James Chalmers, ho was killed in 1901 by natives [ Coaribi Island, near Kikori. The ill at present is retained in the irly records of the London issionary Society at Port Moresby, id discussions are now in progress garding the possibility of the jcument being placed in the safe jeping of either the Commonwealth ational Library or the Mitchell ibrary. , Other material found by Mr. ibbney includes a number of ntern slides and a copy of a lecture written in 1904 by the late r. A. C. English, based on his ex- •riences as an Administration fficer in the Rigo District.

During his visit to the New uinea area, Mr. Gibbney will meet me of the pioneers of the Morobe id New Britain Districts, and, aere possible, arrange for historical aterial held by them to be sent the Commonwealth National brary.

Ey Industry

Fewer Asiatic Miners in NC From Our Noumea Correspondent INCE 1946 the number of mining I workers in New Caledonia has almost doubled, and at the me time the proportion of Javan e and Indo-Chinese workers has eatly decreased.

At the end of 1954 the number of irsons employed in the industry *s 2,461, comprising 1,584 Euroans, 356 indigenous workers, 221 tvanese and 300 Indo-Chinese.

In the last eight years some jiatics (mostly Javanese) have en repatriated and Indo-Chinese ive been released from labour ntracts.

This liberation has permitted the ido-Chinese, like the Indians in ji many years ago, to enter other ades or to become shopkeepers id traders.

Mechanisation has played an im- ►rtant part in bringing about langes in mining personnel. This jplies both to the extraction of e ore (in the case of nickel it is I open-cut), and to transport and mdling.

In 1954 about 200 Italians were reitriated, this accounting largely r a drop in the total number of arkers compared with the previous iar’s total.

VF the 350,000,000 francs paid in f wages in 1954, about 270,000,000 went to Europeans, 33,000,000 native workers and about ,000,000 to the Javanese and Indoainese combined.

Carrying contractors transporting •e from certain mines to ports received francs (35,000,000 in 1953).

Decreased chrome exports cost about 580 workers their jobs, but most of them were absorbed by the nickel side of the industry.

European workers at the Noumea nickel smelters increased from 565 in 1953 to 759 in 1954. This was due to the installation of another furnace at the smelters.

The smelters consumed 400,000 tons of ore (350,000 in 1953), and refined nickel production rose by 22 per cent, to 8,500 tons (7,000 in 1953) .

In 1954 the smelters imported 172,000 tons of coal and 74,000 tons of coke. This meant a fuel bill of 258,000,000 Pacific francs.

Provisional Promotion of Patrol Otticers * T .. - PROVISIONAL promotions of 1 seven Patrol Officers to Assistant District Officers, in Papua- New Guinea, were gazetted in April as follows: D. A. M. Young-Whitford, J. C.

Williams, B. K. Leen, F. G. Driver, D. J. Parish, R. W. H. Born* D. P.

Sheekey.

Qualifications for the post of ADO are either successful completion of the Long Course at the Australian School of Pacific Administration or the passing of Public Service Examination No. 1 for eligibility for promotion as ADO. 47 'ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

M i Good '^2. behaviour t o on bad V" 0 O roads m You and every prospective Volkswagen buyer ought to have this convincing experience: driving the indefatigable Volkswagen over such extremely bumpy wooden tracks.

This demonstration proves the effectiveness of the shockabsorbing independent torsion bar suspension of the four wheels, it proves the sturdiness of the distortion- P resisting electrically spot-welded all-steel body chassis of the Volkswagen.

Air-cooled 4-cylinder, 4-cycle O.H.V. Boxer t engine. Capacity: 72.740 cu. in. H.P., 14. Miles gallon (Imperial), 38. The famous VW-engine foi one single unit with the gear-box, the differential, j the rear axle!

Good Roads Or Bad Ones—

The Volkswagen Masters Them All

For further information please contact one of our branches.

Vw Sole Importers

WM. BRECKWOLOT & CO.

P.O. Box 22, Rabaul, New Guinea.

P.O. Box 47, Apia, Western Samoa.

P.O. Box 42, Honiara, British Solomon Islan 48 MAY, 1855 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

% Give yourself a champion's chance with DUNLOP

Sporting Equipment

f 00 97 7 8 [?]aria Syndicate Claim — H. R. Wahlen and UNO is worth noting that within a few days (on June 4, to be exact) Mr. Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen, of mburg, Germany—a notable man New Guinea in the two decades ore the outbreak of World War will be 82 years of age. n a note written in April to the [tor of the PIM, Mr. Wahlen says it he and other members of the ,ria Syndicate will not accept the ision of the Titles Commissioner Papua and New Guinea, that the ,ria Syndicate has no legal claim r certain concessions granted to in the Morobe District of New inea by the former Islands Govment.

Ir. Wahlen says that if no other rse is open, the Syndicate now . take the matter to the Interional Court at The Hague; and, his Court should not be compet to deal with this matter, it will taken to UNO at Lake Success.

Mining Ordinance No. 19 of 1922 f be good enough in Russia,” tes Mr. Wahlen, “but it is not d enough for the Western Id.” Apparently, he argues that ;ain concessions given prior to 1 may not be over-ridden by the I Ordinance. 11 Mr. W. J. Ragg retired in April after 40 years’ service in Fiji as a telegraphist. After visiting Australia to see his daughter, Mother Ragg, of the Sacred Heart Convent, Burradoo, he will go to the United Kingdom before returning to Fiji.

Baha’i Religious Group in CI Mrs. Edith Danielson, an American, who went to Rarotonga a couple of years ago to establish the Baha’i World Faith movement in the Cook Islands, is seen here with a group of her followers.

Photo: Ronald Powell. 49 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1955

Perfectly balanced

Baker’S Flour

specially milled for Pacific Islands requirements in our own FLOUR MILLS. Combined capacity of over 3 million bushels of BUNGE (AUSTRALIA) PTY. ( 45 Market Street.

U'VIIWk. LTD. SYDNEY.

Cable Address: “Bnngeco, Sydney."

Giflkpm ffii Smite Buying Agents for all Pacific Territories and Authorised Agents for

"Agco" Supaluvres • "Pope" Products

Black & White Scotch Whisky • Masse Batteries

• "Coleman" Lanterns And Stoves

• "Lotus Land" Inner Spring Mattresses

Island Produce Sold on Commission

Robert Gillespie Pty. Limited

Cables; ROBERGILL 54a Pitt Street, Sydney G.P.O. Box 701

No Itinerant Barbers In

Suva City Area

ITINERANT Indian barbers, who ply their trade squatting at the roadside, are on the way out at Suva, Fiji.

When the City Council was discussing the registration of hairdressing shops, an Indian councillor, Mr. P. K. Bhindi, asked somewhat surprisingly: “What about the Governor?”

He said that although the Governor had his hair cut at home, Government House was not a registered barber’s shop.

The Chief Health Officer replied that although itinerant hairdressers would be abolished in the city, discretion would be shown in regard to sick, elderly or other persons who wanted to have their hair cut at home.

P-NG Europeans Asked To Face Facts BREADTH of vision was essential to the development of Papua- New Guinea, said the Assistant Administrator (Mr. R. W. Wilson), when opening the conference of District Commissioners at Port Moresby on March 14.

Development plans, he said, must take into consideration the needs of the native population. It was unreasonable to devote too large a proportion of Territory resources to the provision of services and amenities for the European population.

By their presence in the Territory Europeans had accepted a career or a way of life involving some pioneering, and it could not be expected that living standards would be equivalent to those prevailing in the larger towns and cities of Ai tralia. t Fiji’s motor vehicles increased 1,684 to a total of 6,621 in 1954. 1 1,061 new vehicles licensed co prised 530 cars, station-waggons a pickups, 331 heavy and light lorr and 200 tractors. 50 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

For Quality and Flavour be sure it’s *3 K MEATS Famous in the Pacific for over 50 years PUAKATORO

Apinga Tikai

R&W HELLABY LTD.

AUCKLAND

New Zealand

Pisupo Lololo

TELE B U LAMA K A U

Vi Na Ka Sara

Hurricane-Busters” Fail to Get Results [URRICANE areas in the South Pacific cannot yet be aided by ence some weather experts lieve that even an H-Bomb would ve little dissipating effect on a 11-developed hurricane.

For several years intensive reirch has been going on in the lited States to see whether the rricanes which form in the ribbean or Atlantic each summer d sweep inland doing enormous mage, cannot be broken up in fir early stages. fhis hope came with the discovery it certain types of cloud could made to precipitate their rain jr drought-stricken areas by ding them from an aircraft (or means of rockets or projectiles m the ground) with dry ice, rer iodide, or certain other jmicals. Australian meteorologists m to have concentrated on initigating the drought-breaking isibilities of this technique, cently, Australian and American mtists carried out joint tests in waii. n the United States, the New rk University and the Office of val Research recently completed ong series of “hurricane busting” »eriments, which were interesting ut completely unsuccessful, is of dry ice and silver iodide :e dropped from aircraft, and Dke generators at points along East Coast belched iodideen smoke into the air at over a nine months period see if approaching storms could modified or their direction of vement changed. Conclusion at i of tests: “No evidence of any ?e-scale meteorological effects i to seeding”. lut if the Big Boys cannot be ten, there are many farmers who convinced that the Little Boys rdinary thunderstorms—can. 111 through last summer, fruit tners near the NSW-Queensland der bombarded—successfully they —the destructive thunderstorms t approached their area. The ipons of attack were silveride loaded rockets imported from nee, where the method is very iular. The effect is to cause thunder-head to dissipate into a, or deposit its hail, before iving directly over the orchards, ess enthusiastic about these 'm-busting activities are the )ts flying the Sydney-Brisbane te who protested strongly hast danger to aircraft from rockets.

Fiii-InHian Education SmATTisro that mnnn Indian T ATING that 10,000 Indian children of primary school age ar . e not receiving school- Harl Charan, presiding at the 25th annual conference of the Fiji Teachers’ Union, urged the Education Dept, to provide more facilities. He said there was also a need for trained teachers for higher institutions.

The Deputy Director of Education (Mr. M. McGrath), who opened the conference, stressed the need for good relations among the teachers, the community and the department. 1 Ml N K Natal y> well known as a storekeeper near Nadi Airport, Fi Jb was found drowned in the Nadi River Qn March 16 days earlier he had failed to return home after attending a ceremony at the shri Vive kananda School, t Plans to bring a French military soccer team to New Caledonia and French Oceania are held up by the question of expense. The bill (at least £A7,000) would have to be met by the two colonies, and it has been suggested that a series of matches in Australia might help to pay for the tour. There would be at least 20 men in the team, and this would mean a special plane between Noumea and Tahiti. 51 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

• • m » -I 4t\ w j. for that underwater job or underwater pleasure...

Divers everywhere acclaim ‘PORPOISE’ breathing equipment “SAFEST OF ALL

(Compressed Air)

Diving Equipment

SINGLE BOTTLE UNIT CAI. (on illustration) specially designed for the professional diver and underwater sportsman, This versatile, entirely automatic unit has many “exclusive” safety features for complete operating comfort to great depths. 2 BOTTLE UNIT CA2—for longer periods underwater —exclusive canvas jacket with inbuilt bouyancy . . large detachable pocket for tools etc.—quick release safety clips —designed for comfort and free movement underwater!

HOOKAH UNlT—“Boat-to-diver” breathing apparatus. Rapidly proving its value in the pearl and trochus shell industries. Comprised the “Porpoise Demand Valve” light weight harness and outside diam. hose. Up to eight divers can be attached to a varying range of compressors with this equipment.

HIGH PRESSURE COMPRESSOR —2 models water lubricated to prevent contamination of air, delivers pure air up to 3000 P.S.I. We design to your requirements.

Yes! from all parts of the world, letters come daily— praising the simple efficiency and safety features of “Porpoise” equipment. Little wonder years of concentrated research and testing under extreme conditions were needed to produce this “Safest of all” underwater breathing equipment.

“Worth its weight in gold”for underwater recovery, general underwater repairs, and investigations.

Chosen by discerning underwater sportsmen for its simple efficiency and safety.

Used exclusively by skin divers in their record dive to 200'in Sydney Harbour, March 1954.

Used by Australian Government departments and armed services.

Attractively priced to suit all.

C&3 POST

Inis Coupon

i Sole Distributors;

R. Wallace Mitchell

305 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

PTY LTD 7 W.M.I

R. Wallace Mitchell

305 Collins Street, Melbourne Dear Sir, Please forward without obligation illustrated brochure describing equipment as ticked below.

Single Bottle Unit CAI Q Two Bottle Unit CA2 Q] . Air Compressor .. . Q Hookah Unit NAME ADDRESS 52 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Place Your Orders with

Pacific Consolidated

BUYERS 154 Castlereagh St., Sydney. 3 Stars, 3 Cameras, One World-FamousJiml 2.8 C -r?

O «oUelfie< 3.5 155 © 0

Franke & Heidecke

V Own a join those who know best

Braunschweig Germany

[?]Rs. Stevenson'S Diary

[?]Us Research

[?]ROBES

[?]Ailima Life

ITERARY detective work in i California has uncovered passages which Mrs. Robert Louis evenson—or possibly her daughter deliberately and carefully scored t of a diary kept at Vailima, moa, in the 1890’s.

Vlost students of the Stevenson »ry know there were occasional nily rumpuses in the Vailima set- . It would have been astonishing they had not occurred at times, isidering that Stevenson’s wife le former Mrs. Fanny Van de ift Osbourne, ten years older in RLS), her two children, jyd and Isobel Osbourne, and wenson’s mother, Mrs. Margaret hour Stevenson, all had minds their own and widely-varied nperaments.

U Vailima, Fanny kept a diary l 200-page bound notebook rering the years 1890-93—which • daughter (Mrs. Isobel Field L o died in 1953, presented to the ite of California.

The diarist confided her feelings t o the journal, but later she, or some relation, had misgivings and painstakingly scratched out the touchy passages, VTOW radiation photography, JLI plus handwriting analysis and deciphering by an expert, have uncovered the carefully concealed lines. (Continued' on Page -54) Stevenson Group at Vailima Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, whose diary has been subjected to “literary detective work”, is on the left, with RLS, Mrs. Strong (Mrs. Stevenson’s daughter) and Stevenson’s mother. 53 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

TURNERS & GROWERS LTD.

Auctioneers Fruit & Produce Merchants

Auckland New Zealand

We Specialise In The Export To The Tropics

OF NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE, POTATOES, ONIONS.

Apples And Fruits In Season

All Inquiries to our Export Organisation: Turners Supply Company Limited Box 1370, Cables: Auckland, N.Z. “Tusco,” Auckland Are Textbooks Your Problem?

From Our Unrivalled Stocks, We Can Supply

Your Every Need—From The First Steps In

Reading To The Most Advanced Theoretical

AND PRACTICAL TEXTBOOKS IN ALL FIELDS.

Write To-Day For Your Requirements—Mail Orders

Receive Our Special Attention

GRAMME BOOK COMPANY PTY. LTD. 39- 4 9 MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY A New York Times report states that the passages “all deal with family frictions that were far from scandalous but nonetheless revealing”.

One of the references which Mrs.

Stevenson, or perhaps her daughter, considered too personal for posterity concerned a minor skirmish between the British-born RLS and his American-born stepson. It read: “The moment that grace was said, and before dinner had commenced, Louis declared a toast in the voice of one doubtful of being obeyed. . .

It was (to) ‘Her blessed Majesty the Queen.’

“Then in an aggressive manner he turned to Lloyd, saying, ‘You can drink to the President afterwards if you like.’ I’m writing this down hoping that Louis may see it and realise how foolish and childish and in bad taste the whole thing is. . . need to say that Lloyd smiled and did not offer any but a social toast. . .”

ANOTHER section dealt with mother-in-law friction: “There is a big row on hand concerning—prayer! It seems that Lafaele (a Samoan servant) had to be with the wounded horse at prayer timq, and Joe (Joe Strong, Isobel’s first husband) having scalded his right hand very badly, took Austin (son of Joe and Isobel) away to help him with the fowls. All this work MUST be done before the sun gets too hot, and it could not be helped. Unfortunately, Belle (Isobel) was caught prowling like a cat, with no ostensible —and I fear no real — business on hand, and there was an explosion. Mrs. S. (Stevenson’s mother) considers that she has received a personal insult from them all, and when Austin came to her for his lessons he was sent flying.

“A fight about prayers is really enough to bring a cynical smile to the lips of a Bishop. Mrs. S. sn she will not be left to pray only w« the servants. I am afraid that c tinction is not made in otl quarters. She dislikes the life hi which we find so enchanting anc disappointed and soured that she not able to persuade ua to thn it all up and go to the colonies (Continued on Page 55) 54 M A / , 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Uniform With International Standard

"Delana" Marjarine

An Island Product for Everyone!

MADE BY

Island Industries Limited

) Delano has a Delightful ( ) Dairy Product Flavour f ) and is Really Economical. ( < "DELANA" IS SOLD IN > < i |b. Pats—l lb. Waxed > ) Punnets, which keep in / 1 beautiful condition in hot ( ) weather, and also 1 lb. ( ) tins. ( •

Export Enquiries Welcomed

Island Industries Limited

P.O. BOX 299, SUVA, FIJI “We have given the colonies a ,ir trial and they mean death to ouis (who had tuberculosis), hereas this is life and reasonable faith.”

N the light of the lines which RLS wrote about Fanny (“Teacher, tender comrade, wife”) and lich are carved, with the Requiem, i their joint tomb on Mount Vaea, ove Vailima, Fanny’s notes about ir husband’s opinion of her are lightful: “Louis says that I have the soul a peasant—not so much that I re working in the earth and with e earth, but because I like to ow that it is my own earth that am delving in. Had I the soul an artist the stupidity of ssessions would have no power ;r me.

He may be right. I would as soon nk of renting a child to love as piece of land. When I plant seed or a root, I plant a bit of r heart with it and do not feel it I have finished when I have d my exercise and amusement, t I do not feel so far removed m God when the tender leaves b forth and I know that in a nner I am a creator.”

T this distance there seems to . be little reason why Fanny or anybody else should have been tated about the scored-out isages. There may, however, be mild question about the good te (or lack of it) in publicly diserring passages which the diarist self, as likely as not, wished to y.

Citizen Prominent In e-Told Story of First Round-the-World Flight NE of Fiji’s leading citizens was prominent in Sydney’s Daily Mirror, on March 25, when, in generously-illustrated “feature” icle, a special writer re-told the y of ho'w American Wiley Post ot) and Australian Harold Gatty vigator) in 1931, became the first i to fly right around the earth, [arold Gatty, 25 years older, but less adventurous, is now the active d of Fiji Airways Ltd., which vides the archipelago with its ;rnal air services.

ILEY POST, radio operator, circus parachutist, and oilfield mechanic, lost the sight of his eye in 1926 in an accident. With 1,800 dollars compensation, he ght a “ramshackle crate” and, lough he now had only one eye, became an expert airman, i 1930, Post acquired a Lockheed a plane which he called Winnie ?; planned the circumnavigation the globe; and accepted the eager offer of his young friend Gatty (then running an air navigation school in Los Angeles) to go with him.

They took off eastwards from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, to the cheers of 100,000 people. They came out of the west and alighted at Cleveland, New York, exactly 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes later. “All America hailed the feat with delirious acclaim.” They had earned a permanent place in aviation’s hall of fame.

Gatty went on to a distinguished career in civil and wartime aviation; but Post lost his life four years later. He flew r solo around the world; made the then altitude record of 49,000 feet in 1934; and attacked the trans-continental record; and then went off with famous writer Will Rogers on a world tour in a seaplane. They crashed into a lake in Alaska, and both were drowned. t March was a good month for the fishermen of Pukapuka. Two large sailfish were caught in addition to several huge tuna, and schools of a type of mackerel, known as koperu, were caught by the thousand daily, while the light lasted. Koama (red mullet), spawned around the island in millions, and were caught with both nets and lines and hooks. It is reported that the hook and line fishers took an average of somewhere between 300 and 400 koama a trip.

ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1955

&a> Imperial %' «* fa* SUfiwin 11 CANNED .SB?

MEATS Order NOW from your Nearest Supplier HOT PACKS 16-oz. Braised Beef Steak Stew. 16-oz. Steak and Kidney Pudding. 16-oz. Steak and Tomato. 16-oz. Irish Stew. 16-oz. Beef Steak Pudding. 12-oz. Steak and Onions.

TOMATO PRODUCTS 8-oz. Tomato Soup. 16-oz. Tomato Soup. 28-oz. Peeled Tomatoes.

Canned Fruits

16-oz. Grapes. 30-oz. Peaches. 30-oz. Pears. 30-oz. Apricots. 16-oz. Raspberries. 30-oz. Raspberries. 16-oz. Loganberries. 30-oz. Loganberries. 16-oz. Gooseberries. 30-oz. Gooseberries. 16-oz. Cherries. 16-oz. Fruit Cocktail.

Cold Meats

12-oz. Trim (Pork and Beef). 12-oz. Meatreat. 12-oz. Hampe. 12-oz. Camp Pie. 12-oz. Corned Beef W/C. 12-oz. Taper Corned Beef. 6-lb. Taper Corned Beef W/C. 6-lb. Taper Corned Beef. 12-oz. Taper Corned Beef W/C.

SAUSAGES 16-oz. Beef Sausages. 16-oz. Oxford Sausages. 16-oz. Cambridge Sausages. 16-oz. Pork Sausages. 10-oz. Vienna Sausages. 16-oz. Vienna Sausages. 4-oz. Vienna Sausages.

TONGUES 12-oz. Sheep Tongues. 12-oz. Lamb Tongues. 12-oz. Calves’ Tongues. 12-oz. Lunch Tongues. 2-lb. Ox Tongues.

Condensed Milk

14-oz. Sweetened Condensed Milk. 12-oz. Unsweetened Evaporated Milk. 12-oz. Chocream. 8-oz. Reduced Cream.

AGENCIES

Canned Fish

12-oz. Flair Fish Cutlets. 16-oz. Tins Dripping. 37-lb. Tins Dripping.

MARGARINE 56-lb. boxes Cake Margarine. 56-lb. boxes Pastry Margarine.

"RIVERMEDE"

BUTTER 56-lb. boxes Bulk Butter. 16-oz. pats Butter.

Va-lb. pats Butter. 12-oz. tins Butter. 16-oz. tins Butter.

Canned Jams

12-oz. & 24-oz. Pig. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Plum. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Raspberry. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Quince. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Marmalade. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Apricot. 12-oz. & 24-oz. Peach.

Pineapple.

OF TASMANIA PTY. LTD., Tasmania. (“Flair” Canned Fish).

PRODUCTS PTY. LTD., Victoria. (“Gartside” Canned Vegetables).

TONGALA MILK COMPANY, Victoria. (“Jersey Cow” and “Mont Blanc”

Condensed Milk) PORT HUON FRUITGROWERS’ CO-OP. ASSOCIATION LTD., Tasmania. (“Huoncry” Canned Fruits and Jams). MAIZE PRODUCTS LTD., N-S.W. (“Kream” Cornflour. “Acme” Starch. “Cameo” Custard Powder). PEEK FREAN (AUST.) PTY. LTD., (Biscuit Manufacturers).

RIVERSTONE MEAT CO. PTY. LTD.

5-7 O'Connell Street, Sydney

Is? s 56 MAY, 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

VETERINARY INSTRUMENTS For Sheep and Cattle can be Supplied Immediately EARMARKERS.

SPEYING INSTRUMENTS.

Bullrings. Firebrands

EMASCULATORS.

W. Jno. Baker

PTY. LTD. 3 Hunter St., Sydney, N.S.W.

For All Overseas Requirements fit Manufacturer's Pricey W. S. TAIT & CO. PTY. LTD. 8 Spring Street, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Established in 1890.

Associated with: W. S. TAIT (Hongkong) Co.

OUR HONG KONG COMPANY SUPPLIES ALL TYPES OF TRADE GOODS.

OUR EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVES IN JAPAN SPECIALISE IN TEXTILES AND ALL PACIFIC ISLAND REQUIREMENTS.

AGENCIES: Direct and Regular Contact is Maintained with Manufacturers Throughout the World [?]econdary Education in Fiji May Involve Big Questions From Our Suva Correspondent.

Post-primary education—a controversial subject in Fiji—was the principal topic in the opening address by the Acting Governor (Mr. A. F.

R. Stoddart) at the April sitting of the Legislative Council.

IR. STODDART described the five-year plan proposed by the Director of Education (Mr. W. . Lewis-Jones) in a new Education ‘port as well conceived, well lanced and practical.

The report, recently published, being examined by the Board of lucation and will be submitted to e Secretary of State for the ilonies before definite proposals 5 laid before the Executive and gislative Councils in Fiji.

Pointing out that emphasis during “ last ten years has been laid on imary school development, the )ort states that the planned yelopment of post-primary educan has not kept pace. :t states that the first need is for balanced series of post-primary urs e s embracing academic, idem, technical and agricultural ication to provide for a reason- !e proportion of those who nplete satisfactorily the primary tool course. rhe Director proposes a secondary school entrance examination, on the results of which a selection would be made for entry to the postprimary schools.

From the secondary schools students would go to teacher training colleges or such institutions as the Central Medical School, Nurses’

Training School, Koronivia Farm Institute and Government Stenographers’ School, or they might go into industry, or overseas for university or other advanced training.

The establishment of a series of trade schools and the extension of evening classes is proposed.

A new Fiji Technical College is to be established at Suva, and a system of day-release apprenticeship is to be encouraged, employers allowing apprentices time off work to enable them to attend trade school classes. r[E report is comprehensive, but people who are perturbed about Fiji’s apparent inability to widen its range of production may ask how it will be applied to practical issues.

The process of baking or halfbaking Fijian and Indian youth in a sort of educational oven is quickly accomplished. The process of placing them in the better jobs that education should hold out to them is not so quick, and the result may well be disapnointment, frustration and agitation.

Except for the fortuitous circumstances which brought the late Mr.

E. G. Theodore and a mining industry to Fiji, and the industrial expansion of Island Industries Ltd., there has been little primary 57 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

All over the world Smart people — START the day right with a Kiwi Shine From New York to Timbuctoo— From Birmingham to Hawaii— From London to Papua Smart people shine daily with Kiwi.

Kiwi puts a gleam on your - shoes that lasts all day.

“They’re well worn, but they’ve worn well, thanks to KIWI J 3156 pr„, w « » «« s I «' msr »w» » BMW >M

Pacific Isimvs

GILLESPIES Gillespie’s Anchor Flour is milled from selected high quality Aus* tralian wheals and is entoleted for purity. Its consistent high quality has made it the best-known, most asked-for brand of flour in the Islands. (Entoletion is a special new purify • ing process which reduces the risk of insect infestation).

NCHOR FLOUR GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD.. ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS. SYDNEY G. 1.97 or secondary development in Fiji during the last 20 years.

A pineapple factory was started at Lautoka but could not be maintained.

Increased labour demands are being made for a poor output. Increased export revenue is due largely to increased prices, not to increased production, and very few baskets are required to carry the primary production of the Colony.

The Education Plan provides for some increase in primary production, and some expansion of intermediate Fijian schools, but the main development will be in secondary education, and by providing more for technical and agricultural subjects, the plan is said to have a practical bias.

Part-Europeans particularly have a natural aptitude for mechanical work, and improvement in standards is necessary for future development, but many of them are now finding better prospects overseas.

Because of low efficiency, building costs are unnecessarily high.

Agriculture when applied to the Fijians is a vague term.

They have their traditional methods. Arable land is restricted and it is generally on river flats and in patches not large enough for mechanised agriculture.

Animal husbandry would be practical. There are areas of hill country where cattle could range provided that food plantations were fenced.

An educational plan, however good on paper, is controversial unless it is accompanied by a practical plan to show how agricultural students can be absorbed, and how industries can be developed by pi ducing from the soil material tl can be manufactured or processe It should also show how absorb the annual crop of Indi clerks upon whom much time spent in teaching Hindi to t detriment of the language w: 58 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

FIJI COPRA PRODUCERS. r GUARANTEED;— Accurate weights.

Immediate Account Sales Same day return of empty bags, if shipping opportunity available.

Every care in opening bags—special knives and supervision.

Help Yourselves and The Copra Industry by Consigning Your Copra to W. R. CARPENTER & CO. (Fiji) LTD.

Suva, Fiji

Buying Agents in Suva for the FIJI COPRA BOARD.

P.O. Box 299. Telephone 114 (4 lines) hich they will have to make their ay in business and professional e.

Fiji has a development plan on iper, but there is nothing concrete show how it is to create new inistries and increase production.

Part of the machinery is there, it there is no transmission gear to oduce results.

Fijian Actors Praised COMMENTING on the news that another Hollywood company had been looking for “local ent and South Pacific scenery”, ; Red Cross News and Views autoka, Fiji), added tartly: eople in Fiji hope that the new n venture may do more justice Fiji than His Majesty O’Keefe. . Fond hopes do not always lare with Hollywood ideas of »ney-making products.” subsequently, it was reported that our shots (tentatively titled arl of the Pacific) had been ned at Vomo, a little island west Lautoka, and that the RKO scial effects chief (Mr. Lee Zavitz) s enthusiastic.

Europeans taking part included n Pickering (doubling for Lance Her), Mrs. Nora McGowan mbling for Virginia Mayo), orge Welsh (doubling for Dennis Tgan), and Paddy Mullely, who yed Bully Hayes.

Ir. Zavitz warmly praised these yers, but he became almost ical over the Vomo and Vuda ians (nearly 100 in all) who took •t.

I’ve never experienced anything 5 it,” he said “You don’t have tell them anything twice, and y are natural actors. Why, dealwith Hollywood extras you have explain over and over again at they have to do. Here you it once, and you get results in : shot.” t Lae clubs and societies raised more than £1,600 in March for NSW flood relief. This represents more than £1 a head of the local European population. fl Lieut.-Commander G. R. Woods, VRD, has relinquished command of the Fiji Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and has been replaced temporarily by Lieut.-Commander S. R. Brown. [?] “Malaita”

Left: Mrs. R. J. lake, centre, was sen off by Miss K. aworth, left, and [?]iss J. Bruce, when [?]e left Sydney in [?]e “Malaita” to join [?]r husband at a [?]esbyterian Mission ation at Santo.

Right: Mrs. D. M. ray of the BSIP [?]ministration staff, iniara. farewelled her mother, Mrs.

E. Brown, right, [?]d Miss O. Rieve, when she returned [?]m vacation in Sydney. Miss Rieve was leave from Honiara. 59 C 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

a % /

Slumber Planned

Innirspring Ma Ttrfs

e s® /Hr VO

Hi Sw, Flexible, Pre-Built Which

V Cannot Sag Or Break Down With

O Attractive, Un/Form

© Spring Unit Nan Ufa Ctured In The Factor)

O look for the mmtß"

Representatives for Pacific Islands: — ROBERT GILLESPIE PTY. LTD. 54A PITT ST,, SYDNEY. G.P.O. BOX 7011. CABLES: “ROBERGBLL” 60 MAY, 195 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Foi those who prefer A Befifa Rum fSSS* RUM The AMPLION Lighting Plant

(Petrol Electric Generator)

will give you BETTER and BRIGHTER electric light Runs eight to ten hours on a gallon of petrol.

Will supply up to twelve forty watt lights.

Model 300, 12 volts, 300 watts (25 amps) D.C.

Model 400, 32 volts, 320 watts (10 amps) D.C.

Weight 60 lbs (Both Models) Price £B9'lo'o All plants are fitted with 4 cycle air-cooled engines, press-button starting, automatic cut-out, float-feed, ball bearings and petrol filters, etc. tff Manufactured By MODELS 300 and 400 Write for illustrated catalogue.

AMPLION (A'SIA) PTY. LTD. Sydney, Australia Cables Telegrams—AMPLlON, SYDNEY Brillant Family A photograph taken fter the Comlemoration ceremony t Adelaide Iniersity, South Aus- •alia, on March 30. hown are Dr. C. M. eland, formerly a tedical officer in ew Guinea; sons Ortis G. Deland, h o graduated in [edicine; Peter Dend, who graduated i Science; and their other, Mrs. Deland, A. Another De i n d son, Raymond, aduated from the me University some >ars ago and is now the Pennsylvania State University, USA. isidents of the Wewak District of New linea will remember the Deland boys as small youngsters learning their lessons there from their mother.

[?]Ook Islands

APPOINTMENTS From Our Own Correspondent.

In February, Mr. W. A. Allison, BA, ,s appointed Director of Education, >rotonga, after acting in that capacity ice Mr. H. Hickling’s return to New aland last year.

Vlr. Allison went to the C.I. in 1940 d was appointed Resident Agent and admaster at Atiu. In 1951 he became admaster of Avarua school, Rarotonga, which capacity he served until his ;ent promotion.

Hr. L. L. Bailey has been appointed from the Registrar-General’s Department in New Zealand to the Registrar’s Office at Rarotonga.

Mr. A. Russell, formerly employed as a senior clerk with the Army Department in New Zealand, will shortly arrive at Rarotonga to take over from Mr. Barrie Good, senior clerk in the Resident Commissioner’s Office, who will return to New Zealand. t Fire at the Tongan Government’s boys’ hostel in Auckland, on April 8, destroyed two rooms and badly damaged five others. 61 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

A. B. DONALD LTD.

Auckland, New Zealand

Island Traders And General

MERCHANTS P.O. Box 1509. Cables and Telegrams: “Kingdom,” Auckland.

SAMOA PlJl oc / si i BE To simplify EXPORT and

Import Trade

with the Islands— use B.N.Z. facilities With the Bank of New Zealand handling your transactions your interests arc fully protected and dozens of different contacts which would otherwise need individual attention can be profitably channelled through the B.N.Z. y Manager can explain the services to you fully, without obligation. You are invited to enquire at any B.N.Z. Branch, LAUTOKA - LABASA. NAD. and BA. (FIJI), and at STREET S t uvr ,AUS ° Rl, LAUCALA BAY- AIRPORT and MARKS Established throughout the Islands Northbound by "Malaita” f A Samoan, Pastor J. W. Soloi, has left Papua after six years of valuable missionary work there, especially at the Lawes Theological College for Papuans. He is doing some mission work in Australia before returning to Western Samoa.

IF Crown Prince Tungi, of Ton? visiting the United Kingdom, hi tea with the Queen and the Du of Edinburgh at Buckingham Pala on April 6.

Mr. S. C. Exam, and Mr. F. Hildebrand, well-known Santo settlers, returning home from business visits to Sydney.

Rev. Fr. A. T. Devlin, SM, returning to Dala Catholic Mission station, Malaita; and Brother Gregory and Brother Joseph, bound for Honiara. 62 MAY, 1855-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

/\Jeu Ipana (jme ondqet it! w \ * 14 ~ \W Fight decay the best-tastjng way with &P 2 i?

A mgg, WD-9 is an active anti-enzyme and destroys bacteria in the mouth.

A Product Of Bristol-Myers

Modern Planning at Nurses’ School niJI’S Central Nursing School at “ Tamavua, near Suva, where 213 girls—nearly all of them ’ijians—are taking a 31 years’ ourse, has one of the most modern itchens in the Colony.

Planned by the nutrition section f the South Pacific Health Service, nder Miss Susan Holmes, the kithen provides meals for staff nurses n duty at the Colonial War lemorial Hospital as well as for the jhool’s trainees, the food being ransported to the CWMH in jainless steel containers.

To cope with meals for 300 people irery day, the kitchen is equipped ith a large Steam oven, two giant ressure cookers and an electric ;ove.

The school was moved in January ’om old and cramped quarters at le CWMH to new buildings at amavua, a hill suburb which al- ;ady accommodated the tubercusis hospital and the new headlarters of the Central Medical ffiool.

[?]Oss Of A British

Memorial In Nukualofa

N May, 1898, Mr. R. Hanslip, of Nukualofa, Tonga, called a general meeting to consider the ist way of celebrating Queen ictoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Many ■oposals were made. Each proisal had to be voted on. The pro- >sal which fetched the most votes as “a hall to be built and to be lied Queen Victoria Memorial all.” A committee was elected — r. Rob. Hanslip (Chairman), 'thur Wright, manager of UAPP iecretary), and F. T. Goedicke (of e Club Hotel).

From the start the committee id lots of trouble. When we asked e Tongan Government for the ant of a section of land on which erect the hall, an old cemetery the Beach Road area was ofred. The committee, insulted, •ote to the Governor of Fiji who nt a strong letter to the Tongan Dvernment. The result was that r o other sections were offered — ie where the present Nukualofa ub is erected and one on the ain street, in the centre of the wn. This section the committee cepted.

In 1901 the hall was finished, •nsul Hamilton Hunter, CMG, ened it with a gilded key.

E left Tonga for Haapai in 1915, ter being a member of the comttee for 17 years. In 1942. while siding in Haapai, I was told that e Victoria Memorial Hall had en pulled down. I wrote to Consul Johnson, a good friend of mine, asking if this report was correct, and he told me that when he arrived in Nukualofa in 1942, and saw the filthy state in which the American soldiers had left the Hall, he gave orders to have the Hall pulled down. The lumber was sold to the Wesleyan Church and Mr. J.

Prothero (then manager of Morris Hedstrom) offered his kind service in seeing that a new hall was built, But 11 years have gone by and no new hall has been built. When are the loyal Britishers in Tonga going to again provide a memorial to the good and well-beloved Queen Victoria? I am only a naturalised Britisher (since 1884) but I bow my head in shame to see the way in which this Memorial has been treated.—F. T. Goedicke. 63 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Caterpillar

Leaders In Their Field”

Hastiwc DEimiiß

Stop Run-Off!

Precious rain seeps deep info the subsoil, is retained for future use, after you shatter the Hardpan with a REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.

' Tool Bar And Implements < {

4 ,1 M i 4 . I*a a I « Tiit.: • . j „ | j . > i TOPSOIL HARDPAN A Hardpan condition beneath a slope means serious erosion loss. Rainfall in excess of the soil’s waterholding capacity cannot be absorbed and runs down the slope causing sheet or gulley erosion. This is the first stage of losing valuable topsoil, the first leg on its trip to the sea. 1 i 1 *i i i , ■ alar, Run-off and erosion losses are reduced where no Hardpan prevents penetration. Rainfall, no longer blocked off from the subsoil and forced to flow down the slope, soaks in deep, is retained for future crop use. Sub-tillage utilizes a surface vegetative covering to aid in holding the soil in place.

'CAT' fools, hydraulically operated, bring vital, new deep tillage techniques to your finger tips!

Caterpillar brings you the new advances which are winning the approval of men-on-the-land in many parts of the world! Your efficient "Cat" Tool carrier adds easy hydraulic control of Implements to the sure-footed traction and Diesel economy of Caterpillar farm Tractors.

Since the tools are carried by the tractor, rough ground and ditches between fields are crossed with ease— transporting of tractor with Tools is also simplified.

Fingertip control of tools gives you raise, hold, lower and float positions— accurately, easily! HASTINGS PEERING can give you all details now of the No. 42 Tool Bar, for use with the D 2 and D 4 Tractors, and the No. 64 for use with the D 4 and D 6 Tractors. Contact us now!

HMmOhMG D 2 Tractor with No. 42 Tool Bar—Standard Chisels.

D 2 Tractor with No. 42 Tool Bar Spring Shank Cultivators.

D 4 Tractor with No. 6 4 Tool Bar—Subsoilers. 2 4in.

Hastings Deering

(New Guinea)

Pty. Limited

Milford Haven Rd., Lae

Konedobu, Port Moresby

Service and Parts 64 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLIf

Pacific Islands

Air Photographs

Norfolk Is., Lord Howe, Noumea, Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa. Apia, Aitutaki, Rarotonga, Papeete, Moorea, Kermadecs. Also Rabaul, Port Moresby, Lae.

Size 10 by 8 inches—7/6 (N.Z.) ea., plus 1/- pack & post. Enquiries invited for colour or larger sizes.

WHITES AVIATION LTD.

P.O. Box 2040, Auckland, New Zealand.

Coldstream Refrigerators i N.S.W. Representatives : Refrigerator Installation and Service Co, Pty. Ltd. 8 Bridge Road, Glebe, Sydney.

Cables and Telegrams “Colstrim,” Sydney.

Cuasds The Luiioms Health

ALL EQUIPMENT engineered specifically for TROPICAL CONDITIONS.

EAM mikLl V2I HAIIQiTI We specialise in the following: Ice Cream Cabinets for transportation, hardening and storing of Ice Cream. All types of food storage Cabinets and Refrigerated Glass Display Showcases, Milk Bars, Deep Freeze, Water Coolers and Domestic Refrigerators. Prefabricated Coolrooms and Freezing Rooms. -AH mechanical equipment available for electric (all voltage) or engine driven operation.

All enquiries through your Island Trader will receive our prompt attention.

'Chow-Seeto Wedding Athletics in N. Caledonia PARTICIPATION of New Caledonian athletes in the French Union Games and the Olympic Games is one of the objectives of the NC Deputy in the French Parliament (M. Lenormand). He intends to form a commission in the local assembly to deal with all sporting matters and to institute a system of sporting education. Only about three organised sports flourish at present —football, basketball and cycling.

Tennis and swimming do not figure much in the sporting calendar, but spearfishing is popular and annual championships are organise d.— Noumea Correspondent.

Miss Phoebe Seeto and Mr. Phillip Chow were married at the R a b a u 1 Methodist Church on April 2.

In this group are (left to right): Mr.

Loy Chee (bestman), the Rev. John Su, the bridegroom and bride, the Rev. F. K.

Lewis, who performed the ceremony, Miss Sally Leong (bridesmaid) and Marion Lee (flower-girl).

Photo: C. H. Meen. 65 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Warnock Bros. Limited AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Manufacturers of well known brands of Laundry Soap

Kia Ora” And “Natdru”

U 1 Obtainable from Auckland and Island Merchants H W s Ickferas/oafike %/ How refreshing to sit at ease with glass of sparkling coo! K.B. Lager . . . truly "lager as you like it" . . . truly the favourite of men and women everywhere!

Tooth's El Lage

Brewed And Bottled By Tooth & Co. Limited

Native Communal

Progress Near Rabaul

THE remarkable degree of local government undertaken by the village councils of the Rabaul area—referred to by PIM last November —impressed Mr. H. E.

Maude (South Pacific Commission’s Executive Officer for Social Development) when he was there in March.

“The Councils now in successful operation in Gazelle Peninsula,” he said, “are remarkable in two important respects; firstly by the degree of community participation, and by being concerned with a progressive programme of native economic development more especially, the development of cocoa, of which considerable areas have been planted under Council stimulus.

“The Councils themselves arrange for the purchase of the native cocoa crop, and operate their own fermentaries and other processing jpquipment.

“The main revenue of the Councils is obtained by a tax, fixed and collected by themselves. This enables them to provide schools, water supplies and numerous other community undertakings which, only a few years ago, would have seemed quite beyond them. t Brother Martin Ramjam, of Fiji, took his first vows as a Capuchin Friar at a NSW seminary in May.

II Mr. W. Schutz of Tarawa, wt recently qualified for a Secor Mate’s * certificate at a Sydnc navigation school, is now a dec officer aboard the Australian coash Belungra. 66 MAY, 195 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

s 5 , 3* (/low/ IS

The Time To

rmv |J Kidaoua fell pf 3 [ I UVINC »A T~ 1 XU PLAN No, 244 FREE Write to WUNDERLICH LIMITED, Box 474, G.P.0., Sydney, for FREE copy of HOME DESIGN BOOKLET. ] BUILD But to get down to bedrock cost, you must adopt timber frame construction with walls— exterior and interior— and ceilings of sturdy "DURABESTOS." A "DURABESTOS" Home is so suitable for Australian conditions and so attractive when painted In the delightful pastel shades popular to-day.

IURABESTOS”

/ Asbestos-Cement Building Sheets

Readily Available From Local

DISTRIBUTORS Japanese Will Catch Fish for New Hebrides Cannery The scheme to enlist Japanese fishing know-how in a tuna canning enterprise in Santo, New Hebrides, which is now under way, could be of considerable economic benefit to the Condominium, if successful.

A CERTAIN amount of antagonism to the scheme has been encountered —based, mostly, on anti-Japanese feeling and fear of Japanese competition. But, so far as we can judge, such fears are groundless. There never was a South Pacific fishing enterprise vorth the name until the Japanese ihowed that fish could be caught hr the Van Camp cannery in Pago Pago, American Samoa. And this n spite of expensive fishery surveys mdertaken by various Governnents.

PIM has always maintained that he smart thing for the South to do is to enlist Japanese skill in this art. And this is what he company now formed (D. J. lubbay & Co. (New Hebrides) Pty. fid.), proposes to do.

The following information is lased on an interview with Mr. D.

'. Gubbay, in Sydney, in April.

Mr. Gubbay had his interest first tirred by reports of the successful una fishing operations based on •ago Pago. Then, a year ago a apanese fishing vessel called in t Santo to land a sick seaman, yhile it remained in port. Mr. rubbay was able to obtain iteresting information from the apanese aboard.

He realised that Japanese skill ould be essential to the success f any local fishing project, at least i the early stages. If Japanese ere prepared to fish on contract )r a New Hebrides cannery—and was soon discovered that they ere—why not make use of their fills?

Japanese are already regularly shing the nearby waters legally ind sometimes inside the 3-mile mit, illegally) for their own mefit —and not all the anti-Jap ieling in the world will alter that.

Discussions on the subject were fid with the joint French-British esident Commissioners. They vestigated Mr. Gubbay’s proposals id gave the project their unlalified written approval. Mr. übbay thereupon went to Japan January, 1955, to discuss the an with the South Sea Trading which is a branch of the same ganisation which has operated the ipanese pearling fleet in the rafura Sea during the past two asons.

More recently the managing rector, a fisheries expert, and a fngeration expert of the Japanese mpany have visited the New to finalise plans.

The company now formed is a British-registered company. In addition to local capital, it has the backing of a loan from the United States Import-Export Bank under its Point Four Programme. The terms of this loan are that all the equipment must be purchased from Japan as an economic aid to that country. Cement and machinery will arrive in Santo from there about June. The freezer will be built by local labour. The exact site has not yet been decided.

An idea has developed in the New Hebrides that the company plans to enter other fields of business with Japan. Mr. Gubbay denies this. This impression gained ground through a fourth Japanese business man, not associated with the fishing industry, having arrived in the New Hebrides with the three Japanese experts mentioned above.

A satisfactory market, not only for tuna but for all other fish taken, is the primary factor which will decided the success or failure of the undertaking. Failure to find a market for the types of fish which ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

kW'"W\ >s s / kt X w **■ V J The continuous oil exploration activities of Australasian Petroleum Co. Pty. Ltd. carry them throughout the length and breadth of Papua, Weather conditions are at all times extreme and protection of men and equipment is vital. That is why they specify canvas goods, tents and covers, made from WARDEN proofed fabrics.

WARDEN lasts longer !

BRADFORD COTTON MILLS LTD. 414 Collins St., Melbourne, Vic.

Parramatta Rd., Camperdown, N.S.W. ■ be cause mm 15 w *tbrp Hoof nor proof ' oloo « F AJr include: is. ° z - 18.

OZ.

For Tropic Protection

specify WARDEN 68 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY?

THE YORKSHIRE INSURANCE CO. LTD. (Incorporated in England)

All Classes Of

INSURANCE Including Fire Accident Guarantee Motor Workers Marine Island Representatives: PORT MORESBY . . E. A. James RABAUL . Pearce & Co. (N.G.) Ltd.

LAE . New Guinea Industries Ltd.

MADANG R. Macgregor MANUS . . Edgell & Whlteley Ltd.

HONIARA, 8.5.1. P. . E. V. Lawson SUVA Williams & Gosling Ltd.

NOUMEA Y. Mortensen NORFOLK ISLAND . A. E. Martin a WM.

RABAUL, New Guinea.

P.O. Box 22.

BRECKWOLDT &

Cables: "Brewo"

SUVA, HONIARA, Fiji Islands. Brit. Solomon Is.

P.O. Box 369. P.O. Box 42. co ® APIA, Western Samoa.

P.O. Box 47 VOLKSWAGEN Cars—Pick-ups GRUNDIG Radios REPRESENTING Breckwoldt & Co., Hamburg, Germany.

Brewo-Italia 5.r.1., Milano, Italy.

Konishi & Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan.

India & East Asia Exp. Co. S.A., Antwerp.

Mercedes Benz

Cars and Trucks BAYER Medicines Olympia Typewriters—NSU Motor Cycles—Continental Tyres and Tubes—HMG Diesel Marine Engines—Taifun Bicycles—Rolleiflex and Rolleicord Cameras—Petromax Pressure Lamps—Feuerhand Hurricane Lanterns— “Two Lions” Butcher Knives—Becks’ Beer— BREWO Canned Fish Cigarettes—Provisions—Trade Beads—Cotton Piecegoods—Copra Sacks—Mosquito Nets and Blankets for native issue—BßEWO Brand Perlon Fishing T ines —BREWO Brand Briar Tobacco Pipes and a variety of other trade goods. it is not jfitable to can, is the main problem facing the Van Camp organisation in Pago Pago, where a great deal of fish is currently wasted instead of being turned to profit. Limited freezer holding {pace, there, even for tuna, during periods of very successful fishing, las meant that even the cannable ish has had to be wasted at times.

The Santo company is discussing in agreement with Van Camp.

Some of the Santo catch will go to *ago Pago for canning. Some will [O as freezer cargo to the States -possibly transported by a freezer r essel to Suva to connect with )rient Line vessels which are quipped to carry the fish. The reduce not wanted by the Amerian market will very probably go to kaly and France in the big Messageries Maritimes liners which have ample freezer and cooler space.

Some other produce will be dried and sent to Japan.

Greatest difference between the Pago Pago and Santo operations will be that the seven 100-tons fishing vessels will not be equipped with freezer machinery. They will carry ice and the fish will be brought in chilled, not frozen. Once fish has been frozen it must be canned, and is spoilt for the freshfish market.

About 3,000 tons of fish per annum must be handled to make operations payable. The Japanese are satisfied that this quantity can be delivered.

The Santo freezer-cooler will have a capacity of 2,000 tons, but only 700 tons of this space will be available for holding fish. The remainder will be for ice manufactiming and storage for the fishing boats - . Th ® idea will be to deliver a ifr to cl tde Pa g° p ago cannery keep up supplyto that “ PaClty “ (Continued on Page 70) Queen's Film at Noumea Many of Noumea’s leading citizens attended the screening of “The Queen in Australia” at the Rex cinema. Photograph shows the Australian Consul, Dr. Cumpston (on right), with the Acting Governor of New Caledonia (M.

Biros) and Mme.

Biros.

Photo: F. Dunn. 69 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - may. 1955

A Self Contained Sanitary System Approved by the N.S.W. Board of Health.

The Hygeia Dissolvenator

Established 1927.

No Water Supply Required The Sewage matter is chemically transformed Into a sterile solution which Is absorbed by the surrounding soil.

No Flies—No Germs—No

SMELLS—NO EMPTYING- AUTOMATIC.

Any handy man con install.

Correspondence Invited.

HYGEIA SANITARY CO. PTY. LTD. 26-30 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Phone: BU 2521 Cables: “Berbl,” Sydney "tke palatable vitamin supplement W alHhe !amilij fop le&Tb iW 4' pee daq pep pefsci\ Each average dose (two teaspoonfuls) contains : Vitamin A Vitamin B x Vitamin C Vitamin D 2000 International Units* 300 International Units 300 International Units 1000 International Units Combined with calcium and phosphorus in tasty chocolate-malt flavoured granules.

AKTA-VITE can betaken too* AKTAVITE

Trade Mark

Nutritive Food Tonic

Mixed .with hot or chilled milk to make a delicious drink.

Sprinkled on (not cooked with ) cereals, desserts, fruit dishes, junkets, etc.

Sprinkled on icecream.

As a sandwich filling Direct from the jar.

Ethical Division MELBOURNE /

Nicholas Proprietary Limited

Sydney Brisbane Adelaide Perth

A£7o As at Pago Pago, the Japanese company will deliver fish to the Santo freezer on a contract basis, at so much per ton, the rate varying with the kind of fish delivered.

The Japanese will find their own bait —about 60 tons of this bait fish will be imported, frozen, from Japan each year. Long-line methods will be used. The seven fishing vessels will be owned by the Santo company, not by the fishing contractors.

In the ships will be employed 137 Jap fishermen, and 18 Jap refrigeration men, 12 fish-curing specialists, and 4 Jap office staff will handle the paying, victualling, and all the business affairs associated with the administration of the Japanese staff, who will be under strict control and will be returned to Japan at the end of their seasonal contracts. The fishing season is mainly during the southern winter.

It is hoped that during the tuna off-season, local crayfish tails will be processed.

HERE are some points made by Mr. Gubbay: • Most of the fish sold will be paid for in dollars. • At present no refrigeration plant exists in the New Hebrides, and there will be ample space in the Santo freezer for the holding of meat and produce, local or imported. • There is at present no regular supply of fresh fish in the Group.

The Santo enterprise will provide large quantities of fish other than tuna, as a valuable food supply for plantation labour. • The company will pay wharfage charges to the Government • Further revenue will be gained for the Territory in 'the form ( export tax on the fish. • Revenue will also be derive from import duties on all tM materials brought in to operate tM industry. • The fishing company will re quire 1,200 tons of fuel oil for ii seven vessels and 700 tons for ii 70 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

SAy| TIME AND^ONEY s:, with “CHULA” Copra Dryers The range of ‘Chula ’ Copra Dryers includes models to suit any sized plantation, and the machines which operate continuously all weathers need virtually no maintenance. Labour costs are cut by at one ™ an can kee P four machines in full operation.

Only the highest grade copra is produced.

Write to us for full details of the range of ‘ Chula ’ Copra Dryers and other coconut processing machinery.

And if you grow rubber . . . ... we will be pleased to show you how the latest Huttenbach Rubber Machinery can help you to improve quality and increase output

Tyneside Foundry

& Engineering Co. Ltd

Patentees and Sole Manufacturers Established 1898 Elswick • Newcastle upon Tyne • England Cables: "Foundry , Newcastle-on-TyneCodes: ABC sth and 6th Editions M _ . Agents: Papua: The b.N.G. Trading Co Ltd Port Moresby New Guinea ßurns Philp(New Guinea) Ltd Rabaul. Lae Madang and Kavieng nji Samoa, Tonga: Morris Hedstrom, Ltd. Suva Fiji Solomon Islands: K. H Da.rymple Hay Esq. Honiara. shore facilities each year. Tanks will therefore have to be built and it is hoped that an oil company will be encouraged to establish a julk depot. In any case, whether >wned by an oil company or owned )y the fishing company, the acilities will be available to all r essels in the New Hebrides. (At (resent fuel oil which cost £l6 per on in Noumea costs £5O in Santo). • The fishing company will reuire 30 tons of water per day. At resent there are no fresh water upply facilities for shipping in the few Hebrides except at an out-ofie-way point. The water facilities hich the company will instal will e available to all. • The enterprise calls for an ectric power consumption of 700 illowatts. This guaranteed conimption might induce an electric )wer company to go into business ; Santo to supply all local requireents. Obviously the more power »nsumed, the cheaper it will be ir unit to the individual house- >lder. • There are no banking facili- ;s in the New Hebrides. Increased isiness in the area may induce a nk to open an Agency or Branch. • Although the Van Camp conict fleet was mainly fishing close Samoa in the early stages, it is w sending its vessels as far afield the New Hebrides. The Japanese ve reported some of their best tches of the valuable albacore >m that area. As the Japanese 3 paid only on results, it can taken for certain that they uld not have shown an interest the Santo scheme unless they re sure of getting good hauls •m nearby waters.

Young Samoan Gaoled For Manslaughter 28-year-old Samoan, Mile Repati Usu Salasa, charged with the murder of Papa Maiava Tuna.

Faleula, on February 19, has been nd guilty of manslaughter and tenced to four years’ imprisonnt. The murder was the result a long-standing land-feud been the families of the accused I the dead man.

Harbour Investigation in Western Samoa PORT Advisory Committee has been set up in Western Samoa to investigate the sibility of building a wharf for p-water vessels at Apia, or else- -re m Upolu. A New Zealand meer made a study of the blem in 1950 and then estimated t such a wharf could be built Matautu for about £350,000. or alternatively at Vaiusu Bay for £1 million. Since then the problem has become more pressing with the substantial increase in trade through the port of Apia, at present handled entirely by lighterage. ■ Suva’s one Europea n-owned cinema (Regal) and the Indianowned Century have been sold to Chinese and Indian interests respectively, states a Lautoka report, which adds that the cinemas at Ba and Lautoka, formerly owned and operated by Grants Theatres, have been acquired by the taxi firm of Sharan Bros.

II Mr. C. G. Marjason, of the Bank of New South Wales, and Mrs.

Marjason, sailed from Brisbane in the Bulolo in May, for a tour of Papua and New Guinea. Mi- Mar jason is the Chief Executive Officer for the bank in Queensland, and also for Island branches. However, due to the growth of business and increase in numbers of the branches and agencies in Papua and New Guinea, the bank has appointed a separate administrator, with the title of supervisor, to assume control of the bank’s Island business from June 1. The administrator’s duties will also incorporate management of the Port Moresbv branch of the bank. 71 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1955

BUY NILE PRODUCTS FROM YOUR

Sydney Agent

Kile Athletic And T Shirts

Available in all sizes (men and boys), in white, navy and a large rang* of bright, attractive colours.

Nile Sleeks & Trunks

Matculina comfort calls for the "freedom fit” of Nile sleeks and trunks.

Fashioned from the finest Egyptian yarns, Nile underwear withstands constant laundering . . . gives lasting satisfaction.

JSC

Ladies’ Briefs And Singlets

Nile offers a particularly fine range of ladies’ and children’s cotton and rayon cotton briefs, pantees and singlets.

Nile Handkerchiefs

Nile products include a beautifully varied range of ladies’ and men’s handkerchiefs, including printed jjandana in assorted designs and colours. f%y t i PURE E N S H 3uM>at%/i*aC 5H EET

Nile Sheets, Pillow Cases And Towels

Nile Distributors Pty. Ltd., 125 York Street, Sydney, N.S.W. BX 6041 72 MAY. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Our Hands Make Good Arms

S I L For your Fishing and Shooting Wants Consult Us.

Lithgow .22 Cal. Repeating Rifle .. £lB 19 6 I Post Lithgow .22 Cal. Single Shot .. .. £9 19 6 / Extra. (Prices Subject to Change Without Notice).

RO HU, 143 ELIZABETH STREET, SYDNEY.

SEAFOAM I DOMINION

Silver Spray

TOPIC (Gluten Rich) ' Flours MILLED FROM PRIME SELECTED QUEENSLAND WHEATS.

QUALITY ENSURED BY CAREFUL BLENDING AND TESTING IN OUR MODERN LABORATORY.

ENTOLETED FOR PURITY AND KEEPING QUALITY.

FLOUR, MEALS AND SHARPS IN ALL PACKS, INC. TINS AND DRUMS.

THE QUEENSLAND CO-OPERATIVE MILLING ASSOC. LTD., Sth. Brisbane.

Commission in Fiji

[?]Nvestigation Into

POLICE

[?]Ethods In Colony

UR JOHN VERITY, formerly I Chief Justice of Nigeria, has been appointed chairman of a immission of Inquiry into the ethods of investigation of crime by ,e Fiji Police Force.

The other members are Mr. A. A. mean, CMS, formerly Chief Comissioner of Police, Victoria, Ausalia, and Mr. R. N. Caldwell, HG, MC, formerly District Comissioner and Deputy Secretary for jian Affairs in Fiji.

The Commission was scheduled to irt its investigations in the middle April.

For some years members of the jal profession in Fiji have exessed dissatisfaction with the jthod sometimes employed in ting statements, claiming that netimes, through racial and iguage differences, questions are t properly understood, or answers ; taken down incorrectly.

Former police officers have also imed that statements were intied to be used as an easy way of ining evidence and that if cases re properly prepared, with full investigation, statements would not be necessary.

In a recent case at Ba a retrial was ordered on the grounds that statements were improperly taken, and much conflicting evidence on the point was given in court.

The Commission’s terms of reference are:To inquire into the method of investigation of crime by the Fiji Police Force, with particular reference to (a) taking of statements by police officers from persons suspected of, or charged with criminal offences, and (b) the investigation by the Fiji Police Force into the recent murder of Gopal Reddy.

The commission is also to make recommendations on the above matters, and in particular it is to make recommendations on the following:—(a) The advisability of the admission in evidence against accused persons of statements taken from them by police officers, and (b) on what safeguards, if any, in addition to the Judge’s Rules may be desirable as a condition of the admissibility of such statements. t Pastor Salerua, of the New Hebrides, has been touring Australia under the auspices of the Australian Presbyterian Board of Missions to tell congregations of the progress of the native Presbyterian Church in the Islands.

The New Hebrides Church, which came into existence in 1948, has 23 New Hebridean pastors as well as 35 Australian and 15 New Zealand missionaries. The educational side of mission work is stressed as there are no Government schools.

If Semesa Sikivou, a master at Queen Victoria School, has become the first Fijian to graduate Master of Arts in the University of New Zealand. Ratu K. K. T. Mara is an MA of Oxford University, and several Fijians have gained BA degrees in New Zealand and at Oxford. 73 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Hart’S Pacific Agencies

Island Merchants, Importers, Exporters P.O. Box 1416. 27 Queen Street, Auckland, C. 1., New Zealand.

Shippers of all First Class New Zealand Products for Island Traders and Merchants.

Trade enquiries invited. Original Invoices Supplied.

Current prices for Island Produce.

Cables “HARTSEAS, AUCKLAND.” * ozs NETT TONGUE^ 9 oe e If Bronte tin!

Lamb Tongues

Sheeps Tongues

BRAISED STEAK AND ONION;

Boiled And Roast Beef

Beef Steak Pudding

Mutton And Peas

Steak And Onions

Chili Con Carne

Curried Mutton

Curried Beef

Irish Stew

Corned Beef

available in 12 oz. and 16 oz cans. Also—in 12 oz., 16 oz, am 6 lb. packs.

Products of The Colonial Wholesale Meat Co, Pty. Ltd.

Canning Factory: State Abattoirs, Homebush, Sydm N.S.W., Australia.

Phone: UM 8436. Cables: Woolmill, Sydne Those “Mystery Ships” are Just Fishing According to an islands resident recently back from Japan, the “mysterious Japanese vessels” that are so frequently headlined in the press are not mysterious at all.

In the Marunouchi Building in Tokio, he says, is the Japan headquarters of the United States Tuna Research Foundation, whose object is to follow very closely the latest techniques in tuna fishing and make them available to American fishermen—and fishermen anywhere else in the world who care to avail themselves of the services offering.

On the chart in the Tuna Foundation’s office is marked the daily position of every licensed Japanese tuna boat as reported by radio. There is no mystery—but there is a great deal of fishing activity—and if anyone sights “mysterious” vessels and is really interested in knowing their identity, a reply-paid telegram to the Foundation will more than probably supply the answer —if they are Jap tuna boats.

There are some poachers, mainly from Okinawa, which the Foundation. or the Japanese Government, cannot keep track of from day to day, but a vast majority of vessels are working within the law and notifying their correct positions regularly.

Groups of vessels generally communicate by radio telephony or telegraph on frequencies not normally monitored by South Pacific coastal radio stations, so their presence in the area is not always known. But there is nothing mysterious about their communications—for anyone who can understand Japanese or the Japanese form of the Morse Code.

The vessels are there, in nnmbe just over the horizon, engaged the tough, routine job, of fishi for a homeland desperately shi of food. There is plenty of roa and fish, out there for anyone e; who cares to try his hand at it JPS. * Continuous heavy rains in Man were having a serious adverse effi on the Western Samoa cocoa cn with very little new-season coc coming forward. 74 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

, Tis the Spirit of the Hie lands! ncc 7 Scottish Cream 33 WHISKY

Bottled In Scotland

Available in two strengths to suit the individual palate of the discriminating consumer Obtainable at all leading Merchants, Stores, Clubs and Hotels SOLE DISTRIBUTORS FOR AUSTRALIA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS AUSTRALIAN, MERCANTILE, LAND & FINANCE CO. LTD. (Inc. in England 1863) 35A YORK STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

CABLES; “MERCHYORK SYDNEY” BOX 192 G.P.O. SYDNEY, N.S.W. § . f rattisl) nf tton) BLENDE D

‘°O2 Scotch Whiskies

, H “"Ercantile. Land And Financi <°

"Oriy. Melbourne » Brisbane (

D.n.Hery Co Ltd. Glasgow c O«ITtNT« Fluid OUNCf*

Rarotonga Cycle Race

2O Miles In Under

AN HOUR RAROTONGA’S annual bicycle \ race around the island’s twenty miles of rough coral road took lace on April 11, Easter Monday.

This race is an endurance test )th for riders and their machines. ; the road is in a poor state after ie recent rains, and the average lade temperature and humidity ?ures for this time of the year •e 78 degrees and 91 per cent, relatively.

The cycles used are heavy roadsters ith two-inch balloon tyres, which ake heavy going over the sandy itches, but are sturdy enough to and up to the punishment incted upon them by the course.

Under the ruling of the Raronga Sports Association, the cycles ay be stripped, but must retain e balloon tyres. Most of the riders' lining takes place on the roller cks of the Fruit Packing Sheds, ,th a little evening road work rown in.

Each of the six villages entered ree representatives, and there was ;o a separate Women’s Race of li les. 3n Race Day the riders were preied by a Police car which kept ? road clear of pedestrians and ndering livestock, and a breakwn truck and an ambulance folded the cyclists.

Vlanoa Heather won the Men’s ce in 56 minutes 6 seconds. This the second successive year that has won, and the fifth con- :utive year that the winner was member of the Heather family.

'Jga Carlson won the Women’s ce again this year for the fourth isecutive year. almost a Tragedy eakened by heavy rain in April, a ining wall, 30 ft. high, collapsed into onmea street, narrowly missing a passmotor-car in which were Mr. Harry cent, accounting officer of the South ific Commission, his wife and family, car only just cleared the wall, and roof was badly dented by a falling gment. Photo: F. Dunn. 75 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1965

Protect Your Properties

With The Fully Guaranteed Products Of

THE BRITISH PAINTS LTD.

Group Of Companies

for AH Exterior Painting Super Enameiised Colours Are guaranteed by British Paints to have five times the lustre life of ordinary paint in any climate.

And for Interior and Exterior Decoration is $ % SS CreaM LjuTcotoussJ

Velvet Flat Enamel

Also Available

Completely washable No primer or sealer Paint

"British" Brand

Roof & Structural

PAINTS To Protect All Types of Metalwork. fcWrsiS

British" Brand

Prepared Paints

For Lasting Protection of Your Home.

KOPLASTIK Marine Anti Fouling F o Wooden Vessels.

And a complete range of fully guaranteed paint products for all requirements.

You are cordially invited to write for FREE ADVICE on any paint problems.

We Seek To Appoint Reputable Houses As

AGENTS FOR OUR FULLY GUARANTEED PRO- DUCTS. YOUR ENQUIRY WILL BE WELCOME.

BRITISH PAINTS (AUST.) PTY. LTD.

GOW STREET, BANKSTOWN, SYDNEY, N.S.W. Telegrams: Britpaint, Sydney. 76 MAY, 1955- PAC I F ~ ISLANDS MONTHLIf

Magazine Sec Tion

Tropicalities :he white flesh of the pig [IT’HEREVER I went in Naitauba FT (Fiji) I was followed by hurricanes of giggles from the hiredelp. The kitchen girls’ hysteria Imost caused them to fall into the utter-churns; and the male workirce was quite put off its copra cutmg or scrub clearing.

“It’s your white legs,” said Liz. 7hite legs, forsooth! I’d have her now that back home I was couriered adequately sun-tanned. But othing would persuade her that I as other than lily-white—and she Iso made some other obscure retarks about Fijians and what they died “white pig.”

After this, I wore jeans for a mple of days, and a dress. But lorts were made for that part of le world—they don’t get wet round the edges or collect grass :eds. So back to the shorts. And lat day I saw a very fat Fijian oman, squatting in a water hole, ire from the waist up, doing the :mily washing.

“Bosoms don’t count,” said Liz, ho wears shorts herself. “Only gs”

Well —for heaven’s sake, since hen? Since a long time, evidently, ack before missionaries; although was informed by this authority i the subject, that Fijian misses ice, way back, wore something >out the size and with the general laracteristics of a pie-frill.

It must have been way back —be- .use not even the oldest illustrams in the oldest books show Fijian amen looking less dressed than a tiristmas tree. ’ Fiji’s most modern isses around Suva wear an dinary street frock, showing a >od 15 inches of leg—which is proess. But still more cling to the iropean dress, under which an ikle-length lava-lava is worn..

All of which leads me to the conasion that Fijians must have emaced the dictum of the missionaries th a great deal more enthusiasm an other Pacific islanders —most whom, while making some conssion to missionary modesty, at ast keep their legs.—JT.

Of Possible Importance

[THEN the front doorbell of a T Suva club rang persistently a member investigated.

An Indian youth asked for anaer member and was asked in turn the matter were urgent.

“Well, yes, sir,” was the reply. “I ink it might be important, beuse his house is on fire.”

Only one thing was wrong. The fire, a small outbreak that was quickly extinguished, was at somebody else’s house.

Westminster Chimes For

NUKUALOFA MORE than a century ago King George Tupou I modelled Tonga’s constitution on that of Great Britain. And now Queen Salote has gone a step further in the Tongan annexation of Westminster.

During her triumphal visit to the United "Kingdom in 1953, Queen Salote fell in love with the Westminster chimes —the notes of the great bells which herald the booming of Big Ben over the Houses of Parliament.

Seeking an echo for the Tongan capital, the Queen gave an order to a famous Derby firm for a oneton clock, costing £l,OOO, to be installed in the Royal Chapel at Nukualofa, only a few yards from the present palace. Her only specific instruction was that the clock should have Westminster chimes.

Work on the big three-faced clock was started last December and was completed in April, when the clock was ready for shipment.

All the exposed movements are rustproof as a precaution against Tonga’s tropical climate.

School Milk Question

EXCITEMENT over the muchpublicised supply of free milk to Cook Islands school children has died down, reports a correspondent.

The milk is powdered and usually mixed with cold water, and a proportion of the little beneficiaries never did like the stuff anyway.

In a land where breakfast is in the petit dejeuner class, and is often so petit as to be non-existent, the idea of a “free school breakfast” caused quite a commotion. But when it was realised that a paternal Government was to supply only a ration of milk, without so much as a Government roll or a Government biscuit to go with it, enthusiasm waned. (Continued Next Page) Well-Known Noumea Resident and Friend Placidly promenading through Noumea with her owner whenever a passenger ship is in port, this pet doe invariably attracts the attention of tourists. She is probably Noumea’s most photographed figure.

Photo: F. Dunn. 77 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Sabbath Complexities

BECAUSE the adherents of a certain mission are permitted to fish on Sundays, there has been leartburnmg in Mangaia, Cook islands, and recently there has ieen a suggestion that Sunday fishes by people whose sabbath falls m Saturday should be curbed by )fficial decree. y In Mangaia there is an idea almost a tradition) that although he sea may be terrifically rough >n week-days, it is usually as calm is a millpond on Sundays. Oddly mough there seems to be some bf IS Q° f a kil l d for the belief, and ffU Sunday fi |bermen’s hauls are iften very profitable.

When Saturday fishing gleans nothing and Sunday fishing produces (as happened recently) no fewer than 40 a’ai ithe Fijian tuna), there is bound to be some disgruntlement. Further, in the case quoted the successful fishermen did not feel called on to follow Polynesian custom by sharing the exceptional catch with their rivals of another denomination.

Roofless Prosperity

GAPING holes in thatched roofs are common in Mangaia, despite prosperous times due to pineapple revenue and the earnings of Makatea phosphate workers. (A portion of the wages earned at Makatea is paid to the men’s dependants at home).

As things are, nobody wants to accept “contract” jobs such as the rethatching of houses with coconut fronds or pandanus. Much of the money coming in is spent on food, clothing and the “makings” for various home-brews, and the condition of huts and houses is often poor.

In the Bad Old Days, when no pineapples were exported and when copra brought less than a farthing a pound and oranges about 1 - a hundred, a thatched roof could be kept in excellent order for perhaps £3 .

Now, such workers as will accept the work demand 10 - a day and “found,” and the cost of replacing a thatched roof is about £3O.

No hut is worth this outlay, and so the thatch is left as it is—with miserable consequences in a tropical downpour.

The Waterfall Ithat Wasn’T

ALTHOUGH impressively depicted on Western Samoa’s 3d postage stamps, the Aleisa Falls do not exist, according to a New Zealand Herald report.

The report quotes Mr. J. Thornton as saying that when he visited Aleisa, 13 miles inland from Apia, he found only “a trickle dropping less than 8 ft into a pool where local women sometimes do their washing.” He was told by Mr, P. G.

Westbrook, who has lived at Aleisa for many years, that there has never been a big waterfall there. The local Public Works Dept, confirmed this.

The stamp, one of Western Samoa’s effective series of pictorials was produced in New Zealand ano was first printed in 1952.

The pictured falls and their set-; ting have no resemblance to tht well-known Falefa Falls, 15 miles orj so east of Apia, and the original! remains something of a mystery.

‘‘Prudish Australia” And

New Caledonia

NEW CALEDONIA’S “culturall season” (of a kind) has beeni augmented by an invasion ofi Australian variety performers. Some? of them have gone down well withi local audiences, but the “clou” of: the season has undoubtedly been aj fan-dancer—what is broad-mindedly l termed in French a danseuse nue.

There was extremely brisk bet- ■ ting among the local boys as to< whether or not the lady wore any- ■ thing besides the fan she waved J about so enthusiastically. No de- ■ cision has been arrived at.

If a Noumea report is correct,, this dancer created a situation in j an outside centre that sounds like : a page from a Marcel Pagnol novel. .

It is said that she was billed to < appear on a Sunday, to the indigna- • tion of the local priest, but as every- • thing complied with the law the < ecclesiastical protest was in vain.

In New Caledonia, as in Con- • tinental Europe, theatres, cinemas« and bars are open on Sundays, so < there is nothing startling in the * f a n-d anc i n g idea. What was i startling was that “prudish Australia” should export fan-dancers to < inspire any kind of New Caledonia protest. —Noumea Correspondent.

Charles Buffett of NI CHARLES IVENS BUFFETT. Government Secretary of Norfolk Island, is the most distinguished son of the Pitcairn community there. He was born and educated at the island, and matriculated in 1938.

He became Registrar-Accountant just before the war, and in 1940 was in the Army Security branch before joining the RAAF as aircrew. After early training in Australia, he went to England to complete his training as a Wireless-Air Gunner.

He was then posted to 99 Squadron in Liberators, in which he served in India.

Burma and Siam until the end of the war.

In 1946 Charles began a four-years fulltime legal course at Sydney University.

In 1949 he graduated Ll.B., and was called to the bar of the Supreme Court in Sydney.

In 1952 he went to Norfolk Island as Government Secretary, and he also serves as Deputy Administrator.

Mr. Buffett is known to the islanders by his nickname of “Potts”, and, like most officials, he is thankful when he isn’t called anything worse. He is married and has a son. He has a promising future in the administrative service of the Australian territories.- BRETT HILDER.

The falls as depicted on the stamp.

Aleisa Falls, as they are.—Photo by Jack Thornton. 78 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Memories of Rupert Brooke

When England'S Young Apollo

Wrote Lyrics In South Seas

By Jack Thornton

RUPERT BROOKE, England’s most gifted lyric poet at the time of the outbreak of World War I, died at Skyros, near the Dardanelles, 40 years ago last nonth, on the eve of the Gallipoli campaign. Eighteen months earlier le had followed his Muse to the Pacific, where he captured the loveiness of the tropical islands in launting verses born in Tahiti and ilse where.

Brooke died at the age of 27. Even n his lifetime he was something if a legend—a young Englishman vhose athletic grace and physical >eauty, allied to his gift of song, produced inevitably the tag, “young ipollo.”

Although his name is linked trongly with Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, nd Hawaii, it seems that most of he dwindling number of people in he Islands who read his poetry totay dismiss his work as “too omantic.”

He may still have his disciples, but hey are certainly not in Samoa.

Vhen I first came here I discovered bat only two of the scores of Euroeans I met in Apia were familiar nth Rupert Brooke’s name—and ne of them is a German by birth.

This is astonishing in the light f the famous lines: know an Island Where the slow fragrant-breathing nights creep past, nd there ’twixt lowland and highland A deep fern-shrouded murmurous water glimmers; 'hen I’ll go back at last And find my friends, the flowercrowned laughing swimmers.

The poet’s work has very likely arried Samoa’s name farther afield uring this century than Stevenson s citings did in his lifetime; but [though Tusitala is a household ord throughout Samoa I have yet ) meet a Samoan with knowledge f the fact that Rupert Brooke once ;ayed here and loved Upolu best I all the islands he visited—and e had a deep love for them all, tcept Hawaii.

As my small offering to mark this nniversary which might otherwise ass unnoticed in print, I have remtly been reading about the life • the poet whose untimely death rought grief to many hearts, and have been fortunate in coming • know two people who met Rupert rooke.

I roughed out the draft of this rticle beneath a palm-tree by a goon at Vaiala, a village at which has been said—though it can never be proved—that the poet lived, and which he had in mind when he wrote from Fiji to Miss Asquith (afterwards Lady Violet Bonham- Carter) the oft-quoted description which fits the scene at Vaiala; You lie on a mat in a cool Samoan hut, and look out on the white sand under the high palms, and a gentle sea, and the black line of the reef a mile out, and moonlight over everything. .

Rupert Brooke was born at Rugby on August 3, 1887, the son of a schoolmaster, and Mary Ruth Cotterill, of Bath. He entered Rugby in 1901, and the following year won a scholarship. He wrote a great deal of poetry at Rugby, but considered only a small selection of it worth publishing in the 1905-08 section of his first book.

He entered Cambridge in 1906, when he met Sir Edward Marsh, who subsequently (1928) published the most sympathetic biography of the poet extant, and who died in England about two years ago. By the beginning of his second year at University, the young poet’s biographer could describe him as “one of the most interested and interesting people at Cambridge.”

Mrs. Cornford’s epigram about the poet is considered apt of this period; A young Apollo, golden-haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepared For the long littleness of life.

In May, 1913, the young poet sailed from Liverpool to New York in the Cedric. His letters to the Westminster Gazette recorded his travels in the United States and Canada, and in October he sailed from San Francisco to Hawaii.

At Honolulu he stayed a few days at Waikiki, the scene of a sonnet beginning: Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree. He also wrote a sonnet-sequence at Waikiki.

Of his impressions of Hawaii he wrote to his mother without his usual enthusiasm: “Honolulu is a dreadfully American place, just like any other city in the States or Canada.” And he found little to inspire him in the country nearby.

His next stop was Apia, and he stayed in Samoa about a month, living mainly in villages and travelling extensively in Upolu. Of Samoa he wrote to Edmund Gosse on arrival in Suva: "Oh, it’s horribly true, what you wrote, that one only finds in the South Seas what one brings there.

Perhaps I could have found Romance if I had brought it. Yet I do not think one could help but find less trouble than one brings. The idea of the South Seas as a place of passion and a Mohammedan’s paradise is but a sailor’s yarn. It is nothing near so disturbing. . .

“These dear, good people, with their laughter and friendliness and crowns of flowers —one feels that one must protect them. . . That’s I fancy, how the white man feels in these forgotten, and dissolving, pieces of heaven. And that is perhaps what Stevenson felt—l don’t know enough about him. His memory is sweet there, in Samoa, especially among the natives. The white men, mostly traders, who remain from his time, have—for such people— very warm recollections of his personality; but —with a touch of pathos—avow themselves unable to see any merit in his work. . .”

In a letter about Samoa to Sir Edward Marsh, written in the ship taking him to Fiji, Rupert Brooke wrote: “It’s all true about the South Seas! I get a little tired of it at moments, because I am just too old for Romance. But there it is; there it wonderfully is, heaven on earth, the ideal life, little work, dancing and singing and eating; naked people of incredible loveliness. perfect manners, and immense kindliness, a divine tropic climate, and intoxicating beauty of scenery.

“I wandered with an ‘interpreter’ —entirely genial and quite incapable of English—through Samoan villages.

The last few days I stopped in one, where a big marriage was going on.

“I lived in a Samoan house (the Rupert Brooke. 79 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

coolest in the world) with a man and his wife, nine children ranging from a proud beauty of 18 to a round object of 1 year, a dog, a eat, a proud hysterical hen, and a gaudy scarlet and green parrot who roved the roof and beams with a wicked eye, choosing a place whence to twice a day, with humorous precision, on my hat and clothes. . .

“Can’t you imagine how shattered and fragmentary a heart I’m bearing away to Fiji and Tahiti? And, oh dear! I’m afraid they’ll be just as bad. . . But if ever you miss me suddenly . . . you’ll know that I’ve got sick for the full moon on these little thatched roofs, and the palms against the morning, and the Samoan boys and girls diving thirty feet into a green sea or a deep mountain pool under a waterfall — and that I’ve gone back.”

One of the old identities in Samoa to-day is Mr. F. M. Jahnke, who lives on a plantation about twenty miles from Apia. He met Rupert Brooke at Mulifanua, 25 miles westward of Apia, in the house of a trader who had accommodation for boarders and travellers.

Mr. Jahnke recalls that the poet spoke fluent French (most of those present were German) and was very witty; he was an ardent conversationalist and seemed eager each evening to spend the whole night talking. Though well-built, Rupert Brooke was at that time leaner than most photographs show, and he was completely careless about dress —his trousers were held up with string.

I have not yet met anybody else in Samoa who remembers the poet’s visit.

Of Suva the poet wrote: “. . . a large English town, with two banks, several churches, dental surgeons, a large gaol, auctioneers, bookmakers, two newspapers, and all the other appurtenances of civilisation!” Fiji perplexed him.

In another letter he observed; ‘ Fiji’s not so attractive as Samoa, but more macabre. Across the bay are ranges of inky, sinister mountains, over which there are always clouds and darkness. . . The gloom and terror of those twisted mountains! And the extraordinary contrasts in the streets and the near country—for there are fifty thousand Hindis, indentured labour, here, emaciated and proud, in libertycoloured garments, mournful, stand- SfJ? Ut u^ ong t J hese gay > Pathetic, sturdy children the Fijians.” ms next stay was about three months m Tahiti. After the first month he wrote to Miss Nesbitt: I ve decided to stay another month, very good reasons: (1) ?" ou | h m °ney to get th ? t Ive found the most idea! place m the world to live and work in ” The “ideal place” was at Mataiea, cm the western side of Tahiti, opposite to Papeete.

In a house with “a widr verandah nIS-PH S?! g00 ?- he wrote or completed The Great Lover (one of his famous poems) and Retrospect Doubt exists as to whether his beautiful Tiare Tahiti was completed at Mataiea or Papeete.

While recuperating from coral poisoning he wrote to Sir Edward Marsh: “I really do feel a little anchorless. . . All I want in life is a cottage, and leisure to write supreme poems and plays. I can’t do it in this vagabondage.”

In his next letter he said: “The Game is Up, Eddie. If I’ve gained facts through knocking about with Conrad characters in Gauguin entourage, I’ve lost a dream or two.

I tried to be a poet. And because I’m a clever writer, and because I was forty times as sensitive as anybody else, I succeeded a little. . .

I am what I came out here to be.

Hard, quite hard. I have become merely a minor character in a Kipling story.”

Yet when the poet sailed from Tahiti he could still feel “sad at heart,” for the Islands had not made him as hard as he imagined himself to be when depressed by coral poisoning.

Six months later, within a few weeks of the poet’s return to England, Winston Churchill offered hii a commission in the Royal Nav' Division.

Catpain Hugh Frewen, who well known in Fiji (where he r* cently settled near Levuka) was ah an (Officer in the Royal Navr Division, and still has vivid recoi lections of Rupert Brooke. “He ws like a Greek god,” Captain Frewe told me recently. “No victim of tt First World War was so deep! lamented, owing to his great literal and personal qualities. He was ama of great fascination—a wonderfi scholar deeply versed in classics lore—and with a magnetic person ality that endeared him to a hoi of friends. Much of his poetry, wit: its love of luxuriant vegetation an running water, is reminiscent of th Canadian, Bliss Carmen.”

In February, 1915, after spendin part of his furlough at 10 Downin Street, the poet sailed with th Anson Battalion for the Aegean ani Gallipoli. Early in April Sir la.

Hamilton reviewed the Nava Division at Port Said and afterward reported: “I saw Rupert Brook lying down under a shelter, rathe (Continued on Page 84)

Pim Crossquiz No. 63

Solution on Page 84 ACROSS I.—Who is the chief scout of the world? 7.—What town was supplanted by Port Moresby as the capital of New Guinea’ 8. —What is the term for the organ from which the octopus discharges a cloudy solution when in danger? 9. —Who was the codiscoverer with Leverrier ©f the planet Neptune? 10. —What was the first vessel in the world to gain fame? 12.—What is the flag flown by a ship to indicate its nationality? 14. Which British captain, sent to the Indian Ocean to suppress piracy, became a pirate himself? 15. —What is the brightest of all the fixed stars? 17.—Who was Antonio in “The Merchant of Venice”? 19. —Which Roman statesman was surnamed “the Censor”? 20. —What is the name of the Pope who was the father of Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia?

DOWN I.—What is the surname of the composer of “White Christmas”? 2. —Who played the female lead In the academy award winning film ‘‘From Here to Eternity”? 3. —What does a sardine become when it grows up? 4. What name is given to the government member who ensures attendance of his party? 5 —ln what part of England did Words worth, Coleridge and Southey make theil homes? 8-—Which American general was popui larly known as “Stonewall”? 11.—What is the stone at the apex oft an arch called? 13.—What is the term for a judge’s; private chamber where cases are some-: times heard? 16.—What is the surname of the acton who played the judge in the Hardy” series? 18. —What name has been given to threes separate rivers in England?

Charlie and the Tourist

By Bill Gill

IHE small steamer Trepang groaned and creaked at her moorings, threatening to tear ,e spindly jetty up by its piles, as larley staggered up the gangway what was known euphemistically, the “boat deck.”

There was a light in Captain ilssen’s cabin, so Charley opened e door and greeted the occupant a bloodshot voice. “H’ya, you old ellback?” he croaked, with an inatiating leer which ill became his lather-beaten appearance.

Captain Ohlssen was reading in 5 bunk. He betrayed no annoyce at the rudeness of this in- •ruption but answered, in his mild ,y: “Well, Charley, you made it, ? I was afraid you were going miss us. I’m casting off in a aple of hours. Your bunk is in b big cabin aft of mine. There’s stranger in the starboard bunk, Lind for the Laughlins.” ‘The Laughlins?” echoed Charley, iring. “What’s he going there ■?” ‘To mind his own business no jbt,” said Captain Ohlssen, mly. “Good-night, Charley.” • * ♦ :t was still dark when Charley ung his legs out and, sitting on the edge of his bunk, gazed blearily around.

It was not the motion of the ship that had awakened him. He was accustomed to being pressed by her cockscrew roll, first to one side of his bunk and then to the other. It was nothing strange for him to have his head and his heels alternately if irregularly elevated, and to see his coat and other hanging objects sweep backwards and forwards through a forty-five-degree arc. Nor was his rest affected by the howl of the wind and the crash and jar of seas striking the ship’s hull.

Charley’s trouble was not from without, but from within. He was suffering from a parched area of incredible aridity, stretching from his jaws to his collarbone which, only a few hours ago, had merely been a gullet pleasantly titillated by the passage of more than a few gins.

He cautiously got to his feet and groped towards his swaying coat in the pocket of which, he knew, was the remedy for his trouble. He found this and applied it; then, with a shudder, he resumed his seat on the edge of his bunk.

Presently the sere rigidity of his throat relaxed, and he was able to take stock of his surroundings with greater tolerance. Peering obliquely through the porthole, he watched the dark sea, bearing innumerable smudges of ghostly whiteness, growing, fading, changing form and position.

Suddenly a higher line of foam loomed on the port bow, borne on a black ridge of water which moved menacingly towards the vessel. She put her bull nose down and bored into it. There was a crashing thud and, as her bows swung up into the sky, the whole ocean seemed to rise in foam above her, then crash down on her fo’c’sle and pour in tons down into her well-deck aft.

A quavering moan from the starboard bunk tore Charley’s attention from the lively seascape. He switched on the light and beheld a quivering mass of tousled blanket, from which a large head was thrust.

A pair of pale, myopic eyes gazed at him beseechingly through a film of tears. But its most startling feature was the complete absence of any vestige of hair: it resembled some monstrous turtle’s egg and was yet, somehow, familiar.

“Wh-what’s happened?” a tremulous voice demanded. “Are we sinking?”

“Why, no,” Charley answered reassuringly. “Bit of a joggle, that’s all.”

But his brows wrinkled in per- [?]atting like a flock of parakeets . . ."

“A dancing-hall in Ismailla . . .” 81 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

plexity. “Where have I seen that before?” he mused. Then, suddenly he remembered. “Kane, by thunder,” he shouted. “Kane—of all people!” ♦ * * IT had been in Melbourne, more than a year ago, on the eve of “The Cup.” Accommodation was as scarce as hen’s teeth, and Charley had perforce shared a room with two other visitors, a Dr.

Sweeny and an ex-public servant named Kane.

Sweeny had known Charley of old. “Like a book.” he said. “The sort of book that badly needs expurgation.” He had also known Kane for some years; so the three dined together, then settled down to an evening’s serious drinking and yarning.

Sweeny, with the Irish gift of the raconteur, described some lively (if apocryphal) experiences of the medical profession. Kane, whose sole adventure in life had been a trip to the Old Country in his youth, proceeded to describe in minute detail some Arab women he had seen in a dancing-hall in Ismailia, winding up by declaring that they were the finest women in the world.

“Rot!” said Charley brusquely.

“Back where I come from you’ll see the world’s best, without muslins or silks or even a veil to disguise their comeliness.”

“Indeed!” said Kane acidly. “And where is that, pray?”

“Why—" said Charley, and hesitated a moment to rack his brains, and then plunged for the most remote island within his ken. “Why, Abomat. in the Laughlin Group ”

And, warming to his subject he proceeded: “Those islands, which form an atoll, are well off the beaten track, but produce a fair crop of copra—” * “We’ll take the copra as read,” interrupted Kane, showing signs of deepening interest.

“You will, eh? All right! The Laughlins as you may know, suffer from a chronic shortage of males owing to the great number lost at sea whilst fishing, fish being the mam dish on the atoll and the sea being yeiy treacherous. There’s a current runs down through the lagoon which—”

“Quite, quite,” interrupted Kane sttoy” Y But ~ er ~ get on with the hardly call it a story,” protested Charley. “A descrintion would be more like.” aescil P tlon hn* A iLf r ight’ a description— but get on with it.”

The natives there are more Polynesian than Melanesian, light copper skins and, the young wimmen especially, beautifully mlde —!” o , n ’'’ cried Kane, giving his chair a hitch. gs “How can I go on if you keen on interrupting?” demanded Charley 5 faint ghmer of malice in his eye.

"If you want to hear about these lovelies keep your trap shut or I’ll shut mine.”

“Sorry, sorry,” apologised Kane, breaking into a gentle sweat. -Excuse me, but go ahead, please.”

“Well, one time I'm on Abomat looking for trade, when, at a sudden turn in the path, I behold such a bevy of beautiful girls as I’ve never seen before, and I’ve seen plenty!

They are swinging along with their six-inch ramies rustling—for that is all they’re wearing, laughing and chattering like a flock of parrakeets.”

“Ah—h!” sighed Kane, involuntarily. Then, feeling Charley’s cold eye on him, he closed his mouth resolutely. After an admonitorv frown Charley resumed: “I skirts along the side of the scrub till they come to a bit of a creek. Here they start flinging off their ramies.

Thinks I ”

“Never mind what you thought,” cried Kane. “Go on!”

“OK. Well, never have I seen girls so perfectly formed, and I was just speculating as to what I ought to do when they caught sight o’ me!

In the twinkling of an eye I was surrounded by ’em, some with arms round my neck, some round my legs and all kissing me like mad ”

“Well?” demanded the impatient Kane.

“With a desperate effort,” cried Charley, throwing his arms about dramatically as though struggling with an unseen foe, “I hove them off, and, scattering them right and left, I took to my heels—”

“A lie!” fairly screamed the excited Kane, jumping up and kicking over his chair. “It’s a foul, despicable lie! I refuse to believe a word you’ve said!” and he bounced out of the lounge, and upstairs.

When Charley awoke next day Kane had gone. ❖ % % SO here he was, after eighteen months, heading for the Laughlins! Charley chuckled sardonically as he eyed the unhappy traveller.

“They tell me you’re heading for the Laughlins,” he said, presently.

A hollow groan was the only reply.

Nor could he get anything further; so, abandoning the one-sided talk, Charley passed out to join Captain Ohlsson on the bridge. Soon they were in the lee of Normanby Island, with the seas flattened as if by magic.

Noon found them moored to the wharf of a Mission Station. Here they were joined at the lunch-table by the haggard and trembling Kane, who gulped thirstily at the unpalatable ship’s tea, but would have no other food.

“Why,” said Charley with mock concern, “whatever have you been up to? You look as if you’d swapped skins with a fella twice your girth and a foot taller—or is it a secoi( hand one you’ve picked up cheapc Ignoring these pleasantries, K;: fT? dr l ssed the Ca P tai n, asking w. the chances were of joining a soul bound ship from here. On bes assured that the Mission peer amid be relied on to look at him and see that he caught next steamer, Kane tottered towai the gangway. Then, turning Charley with the air of makins valedictory oration, he said: “You are to blame for all tl Here am I, an innocent tourist, veigled into spending a pile money, enduring mental misery a physical anguish on your lying ss; so. You shall pay dearly for tl I promise you!”

“Well, blow me down!” s< Charley, “I never suggested ai thing to bring you up here warned you against the dangers, the place, if you remember.”

“Pah!” said Kane, explosively, he started up the track to' i Mission.

But Charley hadn’t finished him yet. Leaning over the rail bawled after the retreating figuu “If you’d only waited until finished you’d have heard the reas for my enthusiastic reception Tl wimmen were sick and tired of ti everlasting fish diet—they want to EAT me!”

But the embittered figure had df appeared round a bend of the trau * S= * Presently Captain Ohlsson spolt “I’ve known the Laughlins for hsj a century,” said he, in his mild 11 flective voice, “and I never heaE of any cannibalism there in n time.”

“You haven’t?” said Charie "And no more have I. It’s fon years since I was there myself. BE then,” he added, whilst a cov simm distorted his craggy dial' “fon years ago the wimmen everywhe, reckoned I looked good enough eat.”

Scooter Problem Developsa at Noumea MOST of New Caledonia’s 1J motor-scooters are concentrate in Noumea, where almost evee make scoots through the streets the accompaniment of torrents abuse from motorists when tH scooters disregard the traffic rule No opening is too small to be ai tempted by scooters, and their progress is commonly punctuated K the screaming brakes of othu vehicles. r Mr. R. A. Emery, a Collector < Customs and Excise in Nigeria. 1m been appointed Controller Customs, Fiji, in succession to Mt A. R,. Smith. 82 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

This Month’s New Reading Reviews By Judy Tudor

Slo Place To Boil

THE BILLY r OU can’t camp in England,” friends told Gwen (“Blue Hills”) Meredith and husband, sworth Harrison. Nonetheless, adventurers packed a black )-can and a couple of sleeping 3 in with the evening gowns and suit of tails and (like another tralian) determined to “give it o.” i England, in spite of every ouragement they bought a tent, a station-wagon. But the first ; they camped was in South isington, and it came after an ant night out. During the ivities someone announced that eavy fog was descending on the hern part of London. It did not ster with these Australians —until it 2 am when they tried to back to South Kensington where r had parked the station-wagon y were living in Surrey). The -driver, by some extra sense, (aged to find the right street and parked wagon—but when the edith-Harrisons tried to drive iugh the cotton-wool, in what i believed to be the correct ction of Surrey, they quickly id it impossible. So, in full ling regalia, they did the ible thing, got out the sleeping- > and crawled in. ilk-men wakened them next ning. They staggered to the 'est street sign, and were pleased lote that they had managed to ;e their camping debut in land at a “good address”—on right side of the Park! lis is a fair sample of Inns and ?, a light-hearted account of the els of two Australians in search campine: spots, in search of ng (which never seemed to e) and in search of all those gs colonials seek in the Motheriey did occasionally manage to a campinsr spot—but, generally, is left with the impression that cannot camp in England. Not i any ease or degree of comfort, low. i amusing and informative book ill those who contemplate a tour Britain —pointed remarks bv edith-Harrison on the foibles of Britisher, plus good humour and t of information.

'ter the regulation Continental , the couple returned to Ausa by a somewhat unusual route the second part of the book is )ted to their adventures on the land route through Eastern )pe, down through Jugoslavia, see. Turkey, Beirut, Damascus Baghdad, and by ship down the ;ian Gulf to Karachi and ibay. They had expected to id some time in India, but at Bombay came the sudden longing for the smell of “hot sun on fallen gum leaves and dried out grass.”

They left, at a half-day’s notice for Sydney, and home. (Published by Angus and Robertson.

Ltd.. Sydney. Australian price. 18/9/

Goings-On At The

SCHLOSS THE author of The Regent’s Candlesticks is Elizabeth Kyle, and she has a long list of light novels to her credit. But she appears to have become tired of this one before she finished it.

The novel starts out with fair enough promise but the actions of the characters towards its end will stretch the credulity of the most amiable reader.

When Neil Ormond was billeted with the family of Count von Hegendorn near Hanover in 1946. he sub-consciously fell in love with teen-age Julie. Eight years later he returns to the Schloss Hegendorn, commissioned by his uncle to buy, if he can, the candlesticks which once belonged to George TV of England and Hanover, and 'which later found their way into the possession of the von Hegendoms.

When he returns to the Schloss.

Neil finds that Julie is no longer there and is told at first that she is dead. There follows a lot of backing and filling and general hanky-panky on the part of the wicked Count, and the Count’s equally wicked and politicallyambitious son; and a great deal of havering on the part of the old Countess.

Adding all these factors together, Neil’s suspicions are aroused and he sets out to solve the mystery of Julie, which he does about page 199. Whether the results justify the effort is a matter of individual opinion. There is a happy-everafter ending, (Published by Peter Davis. Ltd. Australian price, 13/3.1

Disillusionment In

FORMOSA THERE are two schools of thought concerning novels about China; either you like them; or you don’t. But even the most ardent admirer of the Chinese story (written by Westerners) must admit that all contain the same ingredients: grinding poverty, the poorness of the soil, the corruptness of all public life, the bestial cruelty of man to man, and man to woman, the rapaciousness of all soldiers; the ruthlessness of all War Lords: the slavish devotion to the family and the family gods.

To be sure, the hero is usually (God knows how) a gentle creature who keeps goldfinches or grasshoppers or writes poetry, but the> overall impression is one of gloom and depression and if you belong to the Don’t category the result of reading too much of this literature is a pain like indigestion across one’s solar plexus.

However, with these reservations.

A Pail of Oysters (by Vern Sneider, who also wrote Teahouse of the August Moon ) is important enough to be read even by those who suffer from literary indigestion of the Chinese variety. It has all the general ingredients of the Oriental dish (as outlined above), poverty, prostitution, plundering soldiery and the rest, plus another —it all takes place on the island of Formosa under the aegis of Chiang Kai Shek’s National government — or Chiang’s Nationalist “Save the Country” Army.

Life, as depicted, is not less grim than life on the Mainland, and to Li Liu who is one of the central characters, life could not be grimmer if the soldiers who steal their food and beat them up were from Red China instead of from Chiang Kai Shek’s National army.

Li Liu does not write poetry or keep goldfinches—he tends " his family’s oyster beds on Formosan tidal flats.

The scene soon moves to Taipei, however, when Li Liu sets out to recover the family god which the soldiers have looted from his father’s house. There, briefly, his life becomes entangled with Precious Jade, who has been sold into a brothel, and her brother, and an American who is in Formosa to write a series of articles for his paper.

The only thing one can conclude after reading this book is that it is bad to have been born a Formosan under the Nationalist regime (“The Japanese were good men. It took the swine to teach us that. And to think we once welcomed these . . .”). And a bad thing to be born Chinese anywhere in China.

The business of high global stategy does not concern this story of human beings. Probably no one but the very naive expects that moral right or wrong is any longer a basis upon which military alliances are made. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltd.

Australian price. 15/6. >

If You Are Having

A BABY AND now something a little more practical —The Parents’ Book —a Guide to Mothercraft, by Dr. Margaret Harper and Dr.

Kathleen Winning.

An experienced nursing Sister, whom we have consulted on this one, says: “An excellent book —as one might expect of anything which Dr. Winning has anything to do with. It is very up to date and treats the mother as an intelligent 83 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

off colour, poor boy. He had a touch of the sun the prevj day. It was nothing, and essenti he was looking in first-a physical condition.” That even the poet felt ill. He remained un m edical treatment until Aprii when he insisted on embarking w his battalion for the Dardanef On April 17, when the batta'j disembarked for assault training Skyros, Rupert Brooke seemed m\ well. Three days later he fell! again, and the following day stai in bed with severe headache s pams in the back. Next morning condition was much worse, andJ had a high temperature. Doct diagnosed blood-poisoning, and hi ot recovery was abandoned.

On April 23, the day of George and of Shakespeare, mod'J 5 n | lan S s “golden-phrased pa died aboard the French ship Diiguay-Trouin. He was bun at Skyros, the island where Thes.< was buried, and whence Achilles a Pyrrhus were called to Troy.

Winston Churchill wrote in 75 Times of April 26, 1915; “Rupc Brooke is dead. A telegram frc rhe A.dmiral at Lemnos tells us tM this life has closed at the mome when it seemed to have reached A voice had becor audible, a note had been strui more true, more thrilling, more al, to do justice to the nobility of a youth in arms engaged in this pr sent war, than any other—more al oo express their thoughts of se‘ surrender, and with a power to can comfort to those who watched the so intently from afar. The vof has been swiftly stilled. Only t.i echoes and the memory remain - lx they will linger.” person by telling her many things that most books of this type overlook. It briefly instructs a mother how to do the best for her baby from the moment she knows that pregnancy has occurred until the baby has become a toddler.

“The information given is based on the instruction that mothers should be given at Baby Health Centres in NSW—and can be highly recommened to all Islands mothers who are remote from these facilities.

The illustrations are excellent and should be exceedingly helpful to inexperienced mothers.”

So there we have it. We would like to add that there are chapters on prenatal preparation, bathing baby, natural and artificial feeding, weaning, feeding toddlers, care of the premature baby, caring for infants in hot weather —which should be of particular interest to mothers in the tropics—and much more.

Just for the record —Dr. Harper has been the author of earlier editions of the Parents’ Book. For this edition she has been joined bv Dr. Winning. Both these women have specialised in the care of mothers and babies and are honorary physicians at the Tresillian Mothercraft Homes in Sydney. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Australian price, 9/6.)

Regency Love

BACK with full quota of Regency bucks, dandies, Earls, Dukes, assorted noblemen, trembling females, pushing mamas and one high-spirited Lady-of-Rank (heroine), comes Georgette Heyer with Bath Tangle.

Miss Heyer’s Regency novels hold few surprises for her readers, but they are none the less satisfying fare for that. The strong, taciturn and aristocratic hero always wins tne high-spirited aristocratic lerome in the end; and there is much dashing about in post-chaises phaetons and curricles, if not on plain horses.

When Lord Spenborough died he left a young widow of about 20 i-anny; and a daughter of 26, the Lady Serena. Fanny was of the conventional type, and of “great sensibility.” Serena was a highspinted lass But my noble Lord fortnnp 6l^ fit t° tie up Serena’s ** f su . ch ., a wa y that she should get at it only with the K r ° val of the Marquis of Itothertwm whom she had, a short T„ b ' f The ladies take Ba t h > and although still m deep mourning, both become embrofled in affairs of the heart. ine Heyer writes excellent “° d a e ™ tbrillers as well as historical romances, but never mixes her * sit5 ity ‘ A top rankin S n a Re S e ncy setting with should te r goSd 0f characterisa M°n.

Heinemam - lw

How To Know Where

TO LOOK UNDER the auspices of the South Pacific Commission, Miss Ida Leeson has produced a Bibliography of Bibliographies of the South Pacific.

There is nothing much one can say about such a work, except state that it adequately covers the whole held of Pacific writing and lists every ' book, no matter what language in which it was written which contains a bibliography or’ list of source material.

With this volume the seeker after knowledge should be able to find information on any aspect of Pacific affairs.

Miss Leeson has done a great deal of research, and checking with government officials and librarians. (Published by Oxford University Press, 346 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Australian price, 15/-.)

Spring In The Jungle

Oh, they call me Jungle Liz, And I’m silly and I’m diz.

And I yearn for a perm of the hair.

My hair, it has gone straight, And I’ve bust my upper plate, And I haven’t got a single thing to wear.

In a mood such as this It’s always been my bliss To brood through a catalogue long.

I order what I lack— But when the things come back, In the words of the popular song: They’re either too short or too long, The “calico” weak or too strong, The pink is not quite to my taste— The waistline not quite to my waist.

They’re either too long or too small, Or else I’m too wide or too tall.

I don’t blame the store— May they have many more:— It’s just that I fear that I’ve not What this Catalogue woman has got.

Oh, my shoes they all flap, And my waists have a gap, And my nylons would make a girl grieve, I hate to remark What I wear after dark, Or the gaps that appear in my sleeve.

But the catalogues gleam With clothes like a dream, An< ten ° rder right through to P#£ e I wait then with joy Till my ship comes, ahoy!

I open my parcels and then: J S nc l t J? e y’ re to ° tight or too wide, I find that I can’t get inside.

The green nearly falls to my ankles— whats more I wrote “blue,”—and that rankles.

I’m thrilled with the dear little vest— But, it>s wrongly addressed!

I don t blame the store; It’s their best, I am sure— It’s just that I’ve not What the Catalogue’s got!

NOELLE MASON.

Solution to Crossquiz: from page 80 Rupert Brooke (Continued from Page 80)

URNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LTD.

TERRITORY OF

Papua And New Guinea

General Merchants, Shipping, Custom? and General A, €^7 KAVIEKIC^ COPRA / RABAU COPRA W COCOA MADANG a COPRA LAE COPRA JIMB6 BUIOLO /PLYWOOD OtJ GOLD/, w ✓COFFEE' peanuts

Pt.Moresby

Q RUBBER RICE COPR OKOPO COPRA Q m ents. ft E I B inches throughout Papua-New Guinea Head Office: Port Moresby SAMARAI TROCHUS cop RA Australian Agents: Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd.

ALL STATES.

San Francisco Agents: Burns-Philp Coy. San Francisco Inc., 510 Matson Building.

Associated Pacific Isl.

Companies: Burns Philp (South Sea) Co.

Ltd.

Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd.

London Agents: Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd.

London House, 35 Crutched Friars, E.C.3.

Agents for The Shell Company of Australia Ltd.

Representatives for: Queensland Insurance Co, Ltd.

Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd.

LLOYDS AGENTS

Distributors Of

TOR VEHICLES, TRACTORS, AND MACHINERY FOR: COPRA, RUBBER, COFFEE, RICE, COCOA, PEANUT PRODUCTION, SAWMILLING AND GENERAL FARMING.

s o*

Just One Brushing With

Colgate Dental Cream f CLEANS YOUR BREATH WHILE IT CLEANS % YOUR TEETH W and stops tooth decay BEST!

Every time you brush your teeth with Colgate Dental Cream, you can actually feel how smooth and clean they are. Your teeth are whiter .. . brighter . . . and you are assured of round-theclock protection against decay-causing enzymes.

Thats why Colgate Dental Cream is Australia’s largest— America's largest—the world’s largest selling dental cream.

Get the family enonomy size and save 1/5 MO6B

New Freezer

And Adequate Sausage[?] For Rarolon AT the March 15 opening of RaE tonga’s new Freezer (built Christchurch contractors, a', cost of £32,000), stocks were aim nil due to the event being in “hurricane season.” Ten days la the Waitemata brought 7 J . tons, meat and butter from New Z: land.

The Freezer consists of an tractive, well-lighted butcher’s shr manager’s office, and separate cc storage rooms for meat, fish, butt and vegetables. There is also an storage room and an ice-maki: plant, capable of producing 1,(, lbs. of ice in 16 hours.

There is space for 9 tons of me:: four tons of fish; and the but: room holds 5i tons at 35 degre Imported fresh vegetables, such potatoes, onions and peas, which not grow well in Rarotonga, will held in a chamber of almost t: tons capacity.

Even during the hurricane seasE Rarotongan residents, both Mai and European, will now ha adequate supplies of imported foe including at least 2,000 lbs. of cheeks and 1,000 lbs of sausag which are sold to Maori custom© each month—as well as ice.

One corner of the Freezer bloc is taken up by the liquor Bond ai Customs, and a centrally situatj engine room, complete with wor shop and storeroom, will serve boc the new Freezer and the Cool Stoc for fruit—when the Cool Store built at an estimated cost of £116,00 —WHP.

Yate River Dam The new Yate River dam in New Cal donia, planned to give a greatly increase electric power supply to Noumea and t[?] modernised nickel smelters, will be bui[?] a few yards above the old dam shown [?] this picture.

Photo: F. Dun[?] 86 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

BURNS PHILP (New Hebrides) LTD.

Registered Office: VILA, NEW HEBRIDES.

Branch Office at SANTO.

Exporters, Importers and General Merchants, Commission, Shipping and Customs Agents.

Representatives for BURNS PHILP TRUST CO. LTD., QUEENS- LAND INSURANCE CO. LTD., and LLOYD’S OF LONDON, Agents

For Societe Des Petroles Shell Des Iles Francaises

DU PACIFIQUE, and numerous overseas manufactures of all classes of merchandise.

Sydney Agents: BURNS. PHILP & CO., LTD., 7 Bridge St.

San Francisco Agents: BURNS-PHILP CO. OP SAN FRANCISCO INC. 215 Market St.

London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO., LTD., 35 Crutched Friars, E.C.3.

SOOTHE away

Tropic Troubles

here is no need to suffer many tropic health troubles and discomforts when kSPRO' tablets are here, ready to help you. 'ASPRO' is a most valuable medicine i the tropics because it has so many uses—for feverishness, the pangs of rheumatism, eat and humidity headaches, lassitude, nerve pains and nerviness, sleeplessness, colds nd 'flu, 'ASPRO' is equally effective. Take two 'ASPRO' tablets with our favourite drink to overcome heat enervation. nother feature which makes 'ASPRO' the desirable ethod of treating tropic troubles is its SOOTHING :tion. Irritability accompanies so many discomforts tat 'ASPRO,' In addition to giving swift relief, has soothing, calming effect. There are NO unpleasant fter-effects to disturb you.

Fwo Important Points

s A / 1\ m N v 1 2 The purity of 'ASPRO' conforms to the standards laid down by the British Pharmacopoeia—a guiding authority of the Medical Profession.

'ASPRO' tablets can be taken as often as necessary without FEAR of harm to heart or stomach.

AsprO

Rcc . Trade Mark

'ASPRO' IS SWIFT. CERTAIN and SAFE for—Headache, rheumatism, all nerve pains, irritability, neuritis, lumbago, earache, sciatica, toothache, sleeplessness, feverishness, sore throat, perioctic pains, colds and 'flu, "mornings after." Even a child can safely take 'ASPRO'—directions on every packet.

Inter-Samoa Group’S

First Meeting

HE Inter-Samoa Consultative Committee, formed as an instrument of closer liaison ween Western and Eastern noa, held its first meeting in rch. ’he American delegates were vernor Lowe, just back from a it to Washington, D.C., High ief Tuitele < President of the late), High Chief Selia (Speaker the House». and District vernors Lei’ato. Lefiti, and Letuli. b Samoan Affairs Officer (Mr. in Cool), a translator, and a [king Chief were also acnpanying the delegation.

'he Western Samoa delegates *e the High Commissioner 'Mr.

R. Powles), the two Fautua Dns. Tamasese and Malietoa), the n. H. W. Moors. Mr. Fa’alava’au lairman of the Fono of Faipule'. i the Hon. Leutele Te’o. The eting was to be held at Mulinu’u, ia. latters for discussion were the sible relaxation of inter-Samoa vel restrictions and other thods of improving co-operation ween the two Samoas.

Anti-Malaria War in Dutch New Guinea MORE than 200,000 people will benefit from the anti-malaria campaign organised by the Netherlands Govt, in New Guinea.

The campaign, to which the UN Children’s Fund has contributed £19,000. will start at Hollandia, where it will be organised by the Central Malaria Service in co-operation with the World Health Organisation.

The Netherlands Government has provided £llO,OOO for the first two years of the campaign, and UNICEF will fit out a new malaria laboratory to replace the entomological laboratory burned last December. v High tides and heavy swell at Malu’u, Malaita, BSIP, on April 21 desroyed the landing and damaged the wharf. 87 uinc i f, l a c s c x t n l y —i: ay. 1955

o f WSmm Bttr CORNED A9 ICCI ib vii . _ w SALISBURY" canned meats, SPECIALLY PACKED for the PACIFIC ISLANDS are the popular choice, ALWAYS.

Sausages & Tomato Sheep Tongues

Steak & Kidney Pudding Ox Tongues

Lamb & Green Peas Sandwich Pastes

MIDGET (Cocktail) SAUSAGES Also "WESTFIELD'

Corned Beef

Corned Mutton

MEATREAT

Corned Beef

Corned Beef With Cereal

Kegged Meats

Brand

Corned Mutton

Corned Mutton With Cereal

Dripping And Lard

Westfield Freezing Co. Ltd

Postal Address: Private Bag, C.P.0., Auckland, N.Z.

Cable Address: Filalora, Auckland. 88 M A Y • 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

We specialise in

Copying And Enlarging From Old

Photographs And Colouring In

NATURAL COLOURS.

Mall orders solicited.

Caine’S Studios, Suva

P.O. Box 8, Sava, Fiji. (Estb. 1904). ’Phone: 68.

I. H. BUNTING LTD.

Samarai Papua

Branches at: OHO BAY AND POPONDETTA.

SOLE AGENTS IN PAPUA/NEW GUINEA FOR:

Samarai Agents For;—

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd.

South British Insurance Co.

National Mutual Life Association Polarizers (U.K.), Ltd.—Polaroid Sun Glasses.* C.S.A. Industries, Eng.—Dual Freeze Refrigerators.

Webley & Scott, Ltd.—Shot Guns, Air Pistols, etc.

E. K. Cole, Ltd., London.—“Ekco” Radio Receivers.

“Getula.”—Nylon Monofilament Fish Lines.

Davison Paints, Ltd., N.S.W.—Paint for Tropical Conditions. • Trade mark patented In U.S.A., Great Britain, and other countries.

Regular Supplies Of Eastern Goods

Wholesale & Retail Merchants Importers Planters

First Chinese Woman in Fiji And Her Descendants Mrs. Mary Houng Lee, head of one of the best-known Chinese families in Fiji, rated her 99th birthday at Suva on April 2. Mrs. Houng Lee, who was the first ese woman to settle in Fiji, is the widow of Moi Ling, who established a successusiness at Levuka. Of their nine children, three sons and a daughter are living, his birthday picture Mrs. Houng Lee. wearing the traditional Mandarin black [?]t, is in the middle of the group. On her right is her 68-years-old son. Mr. George [?]g Lee (a redoubtable shark-fisherman in his spare time), with whom she lives. grandchildren and great-grandchildren now total 100.

Photo: Caines Studios. 89 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Etabussements Donald Tahiti

HEAD OFFICE QUAI DU COMMERCE PAPEETE.

Telegraphic Address: “DONALD, PAPEETE.”

General Merchants (Wholesale & Retail) & Shipowners Importers fir Exporters Branches Throughout the Marquesas Islands ASSOCIATE HOUSES: A. B. Donald. Ltd., Auckland, N.Z.; A. B. Donald, Ltd.

Rarotonga, Cook Is.; Dominion Fruit Co., Suva, Fiji.

Lloyd’s Agents.

Booking and Handling Agents for Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd.

Agents and Distributors for: FRANCE: Hennessy Cognacs: Marie Brizard & Roger Liqueurs; Charles Heidsieck Champagnes: Gruber Beer.

NEW ZEALAND: Vacuum Oil Co. ( N.Z.), Ltd., Petroleum Products.

SWEDEN: Hjorth & Co., Primus Stoves; Elektrolux Refrigerators & Motors.

GERMANY: Breckwoldt & Co., Hamburg; Beck’s Beer, Bremen.

U.S.A.: General Steamship Corp.; Radio Corp. of America; Brown <& Williamson. Ltd.; Cigarettes: Lucky* Strike, Wings; Champion Spark Plug Co.; Steelcote Paints & Lacquers;; Remington Rand Inc.

ENGLAND: Reckitt & Colman (Overseas), Ltd.; Hercules Bicycles; Thes Bank Line, Ltd.; The Shaw Savlll <te Albion Company, Ltd.

P Y RNS ’ PHILP & CO., LTD. San Francisco Agents: BURNS- F I?* LP p°- OF SAN FRANCISCO, INC. London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO , LTD. Agents in France: HARTH & CIE. PARIS; A. BICKART, MARSEILLES. ■ * Cs': ■ ental soap a tough soap with a gentle actio Yes. tough with dirt, but mighty gentle with dainty washables.

It's the all -purpose economical soap with husky dirt-chasing suds that give you the cleanest wash possible.

Costs less, too —check the price.

Pacific Islands Distributors: Mil COLYER WATSON PTY. LTD. 22 BRIDGE ST.

SYDNEY Belt-Tightening In Samoa Belt-tightening was expected in Western Samoa as a result of the Legislative Assembly’s April budget session.

Though revenue in the year just ended constituted a record, the credit balance and revenue expected in the current year will fall well short of expenditure requirements for the first time for many years.

Heavy capital expenditure and increasing demands for higher Government salaries are the main items. The solution may be to raise an internal loan and issue debentures under a guarantee from the Samoan and New Zealand Governments to utilise the fairly large amount of private capital lying idle and available for sound investment.

In any case, drastic cuts in expenditure seem unavoidable, and a large section of the community feels that expenditure on salaries for seconded Government officials from New Zealand is one item that could be reduced. Any claim for further increases in salaries at this time, following substantial increases in 1954. would seem to be unwarranted as the cost of living has not increased to any extent in the last year.

Among urgent building projects which will call for substantial funds are additional wharf sheds at Apia, and probable replacement of or extensive repairs to the wharf used by the coastal fleet. • Hoping to revive the popular j war bowling tournaments, the S Bowling Club is sending invitati; to Associations and clubs in I Zealand, Australia and Hawaii a tournament to be held from vember 12 to 19. 90 may 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

& m vs -* BRAND

W. C. Douglass Limited

Box 512 G.P.0.. Sydney, Australia [?]herlands New Guinea

[?]Donesian Claim

[?]LLED

[?]Tile, Emotional

DONESIA’S claim to Netherlands New Guinea was “so rly unreasonable, futile, inconlential and emotional” that there ht be an inclination to dismiss it i a shrug of the shoulders if it e not that artificially aroused iments in very young countries r easily run out of hand, and if onialism” were not such an :tive battlecry in some parts of world. he statement was made by the herlands Ambassador to Ausia (Mr. A. M. L. Winkelman) in course of an address to the ton Rotary Club. NSW, on April he Netherlands had consistently ited out that the Indonesian m was not based on law, history ethnology, said Mr. Winkelman. , r as based on nationalistic sentiit and political opportunism and being used by President tarno as a means to keep his “empire” together and to draw attention of his followers away i the terrific unsolved problems ndonesia.

Ve are more sad than angry the artificially-fanned agitation [ndonesia for the conquest of lerlands New Guinea”, the lassador continued. “It saddens 0 see political leaders, for whom have the highest regard, being ed to jump on the anti-colonial Iwaggon. We all know that colonialism they and we all 3se is as dead as a doornail”.

R. WINKELMAN said that the complex problem of Netherlands New Guinea presented rely different aspects to a iber of countries. )r the Netherlands the accent on the moral obligation of an dnistering Power towards a -self-governing territory; for )nesia on the desire for terriil aggrandisement; for Australia the vital need for strategic rity; for the United States on ope to offend neither a reliable tern ally nor a youne country 1 dangerous part of the world, for Communist China on a 2y to elminate Western influence outh-east Asia. f the territory itself, he said; i are not committed to make r Guinea into a modern, efficient, ily-developed democracy within next generation. . . . But we are :entrating our attention on the solution of the many difficulties encountered there and we feel that the inhabitants have full confidence in our leadership, because they are already beginning to see results.

We are determined to try to avoid mistakes made during the last 50 years in other areas in Africa and Asia”. t The Rev. Father J. Dubois, SM, well known at most Catholic Mission stations in Fiji through 25 years’ service in the area, recently celebrated the silver jubilee of his ordination. t The Netherlands Geographical Society is actively planning a scientific expedition to the Eastern part of the Central Mountains of Netherlands New Guinea. Government will help. In view of the inaccessibility of the area, plans and preparations will take some time. t TEAL announced late in March that its present three New Zealand Directors, Sir Leonard Isitt (chairman), Mr. T. A. Barrow, and Mr.

Norman Spencer, have been reappointed for a further three-years’ term. The decision was made at a Cabinet meeting in Wellington. 91 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Pure, Delicious Fruit Drinks at a fraction of usual cost R V-4 f I V. a. m / G 1 0 V* OlTi Imagine! One bottle of Tutti Frutti makes up into two large 26-oz. bottles of simply delicious, delightfully refreshing, fruit cordial. Try it—easy to use, economical as can be, wonderful Tutti Frutti -Another t mm PRANCE 3UCCe6S mm c/ms, Choose from 5 delicious flovou, mmm r\~\ 92 may, 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

The Pacific Islands Society (Founded 1987) Visitors from the Pacific Islands to Sydney, or persons interested in Islands affairs, are invited to communicate with the Honorary Secretary of the above Society which was formed to constitute a social and cultural centre for those interested in the Pacific Islands.

Regular meetings and social gatherings, with lectures, are held at the Feminist Club Rooms, 7th Floor, 77 King St., Sydney, on the fourth Thursday of each month, at 8 p.m.

Address for correspondence:— THE PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY, Box 2434, G.P.0., Sydney. (The President may be contacted by telephone at XJ 3205.) 307-309 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA.

G.P.O. Box 908. Cable Address: “BRUCECO,” Brisbane.

Importers - Exporters

Manufacturers' Representatives

Distributors for Leading Australian and Overseas Manufacturers.

Sole Agents: Papua-New Guinea and Solomon Islands for — Docke & Co., Bremen (Cardock Bush Knives, Hatchets, Axes, etc., including: All Trade Lines).

“Geo” Spanish Shot Guns.

Dominion Flour and Wheatmeal.

Sunnyside Canned Fruit.

Specialising in Piecegoods and Palm Brilliantine.

Ashby Bicycles.

Webster’s Biscuits.

“Columbia” Canned Fish.

Northgate Axe and Hammer Handles.

Inner Spring Mattresses, Pillows, etc.

Mosquito Nets for Native Issue.

TRADE ENQUIRIES INVITED—ALL TYPES OF MERCHANDISE SUPPLIED.

OVERSEAS INDENTS ARRANGED.

US Samoan Marines Fly Home on Leave HUGE RSD Marine Corps aircraft landed at Tafuna airstrip, Eastern Samoa, on March 1, i a detachment of 30 Samoan ■ines home on leave. It is inled that regular detachments be brought by air in future, t party was due April 1 and Id be Army, Navy and more ines. Many are veterans of the ean campaign. party of 14 other Samoans reled home for a brief visit aboard US Coast Guard cutter Plane- , which spent about a week in Pago Pago early April. The vessel was on a round of navigation lights and buoys in the area and carried a crew of 5 officers and 50 men. Sea passages to Pago Pago are scarce from Hawaii and the Samoans were given permission to travel as passengers aboard Planetree. tl Mr. Lewis Marion White, new US Vice-Consul at Noumea, went to New Caledonia from Bogota, Colombia, where he spent three years as Legation third secretary.

Before starting his consular career he was a commercial attache for four years. During the war he served in Algeria, India and China. ff M. Rene Hoffherr, Governor of New Caledonia, was due to return to Noumea from France in early May. He was to be accompanied by an official of the Ministry of Overseas France.

II The birth of a son to Mr, and Mrs. Robert Gilder-Dixon, Malacca, is reported from Malaya. Mrs.

Gilder-Dixon, who is the only daughter of Mr. H. O. Fletcher, Rabaul, NG, spent her early childhood at Manus and later went to school in Australia. She and her husband visited New Guinea on their way to Malaya last year.

Wedding At Rabaul The wedding of Miss Jeanie Seeto and Mr. Ronald Seeto was celebrated in traditional Chinese fashion at the Kuomintang Hall, Rabaul, on March 7. before the New Britain District Commissioner (Mr. J. R.

Foldi). Pictured are (left to right): Mr.

Seeto Chak Loon (bestman), the bridegroom and bride, and the bridesmaid, Miss Winnie Choi.

Photo: C. H. Meen. 93 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Stay at TUSCULUM in Sydney -- sss facilities in each.

TUSCULUM PRIVATE HOTEL, 3 Manning Street, Pott’s Poir ~ . Write or cable for reservations Managing Agents; T. Elliott and Co., 8 BayswSer Rd„ Kings Cross.

All the signs point to bigger sales of

Giibev’S Gin

this year / Yes, the Gilbey Zodiac for Wise Drinkers is making new customers for you through Metropolitan Daily newspapers in the most unusual advertising drive m years. Ask your Gilbey representative for full details and be sure you are ready with good stocks of Gilbey’s in the bar and ready to wrap in your Dottle Department.

Whatever your sign, don’t sell gin , sell GILBEY’S ARIES TAURUS 9 * libra SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS 1 * CANCER GEMINII CAPRICORN X Wv * VIRGO AQUARIUS LEO

Fundamental Problems

Of Indonesia

An experienced member of the South Pacific Commission recently spent a few days in Indonesia.

Here are his impressions, summarised in a private letter to the Editor of the PIM.

THE current administration in Indonesia seems to be walking a very difficult tight-rope, trying to placate Communists on the one hand by taking them into the 'Cabinet, and yet to maintain an essentially Nationalist Government, neutral as between both the West and the East.

This, with all the severe economic and political strains they are under, would be a mighty tough assignment for experienced diplomats.

I think it is still a toss-up as to whether they are going to get an economic base built fast enough to sustain them. There is no question about their ability to supply themselves with food; but an economy must be more than a subsistence one.

They are all intensely eager to learn. Everyone seems to be teaching everyone else. They have adopted English as the second official language; and, at the same time, they are establishing an Indonesian language as the number-one official ?u ec l lum ’ They have had to agree on that, and then start learning it as well, since there is no overall Indonesian language. Dutch has been the only general language in the past, and they have almost outlawed that. ..The East Indies question hot ii? 110 • • ° ne has fe that the issue of West New Gt is raised at times in Indones; take the people’s mind off more pressing domestic probe 94 may, 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

NELSON AND ROBERTSON PTY. LTD.

Established 1895.

P.O. Box 5316, G.P.0., Sydney.

Address: 12 SPRING STREET, SYDNEY

Islands Merchants, Importers

And Exporters

Merchandise purchased for Clients from any part of the World at best factory and wholesale prices.

Cocoa Beans, Coffee Beans, Trocas Shell and all Island produce sold on commission.

Representing throughout the Pacific Islands

General Merchandise

E. WHITEAWAY & CO., England.

KUNST & ALBERS, Germany.

AGIMER & COMPANY, Italy.

INCOVER COMPANY, Italy.

CALVERT & COMPANY, Sweden.

KANEMATSU & CO., Japan.

SKANDIA DIESEL ENGINES.

Archimedes Outboard

ENGINES.

Famous El Trust Shot

GUNS.

NANDR QUALITY PRODUCTS.

ASTER CANNED FISK.

For your New South Wales and Victorian Requirements: Communicate with our HEAD OFFICE. Cables: “Ivan”, Sydney, For your Queensland Requirements: Communicate with our Brisbane Office: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., Stanley Street, SOUTH BRISBANE. Cables: “Ivan”, Brisbane.

New Guinea Representatives: RABAUL HOTEL & TRADING CO. LTD. Park Street, RABAUL. Cables: “Ivan”, Rabaul.

[?]Na Wage Scales

[?]MPLICATE

[?]Using Problem

VA’S fast-growing housing problem is complicated by the fact that the average wage paid nskilled labour is about 50/- a c. lis means, according to a reprepared by a sub-committee lie Chamber of Commerce, that maximum economic rent for a urer is 12/6 a week, representing on £4OO capital expenditure. iven a floor area of 400 sq. ft as minimum accommodation for a ily of four, the minimum estisd cost of such a building is , excluding land, reading, fencand services. And the all-in nate for a single unit is £l,OOO. nee the Suva city area was exed to include almost the whole uva Peninsula, the situation has . complicated by the increased olition of slum premises (PIM, 1). The sub-committee’s rementions that more than 300 tional houses in the city are duled for demolition in the • future, and points out that housing scheme which provided 'ewer than 500 family units (at >st of at least £500,000) would ■ little or no effect on the lem. le report states: “The policy of entrating all labour in one pound is to be deprecated. It is desirable that men who work flier by day should be compelled ve in close proximity. Such a nunity would be very susceptto labour agitators.” le relationship between landand tenant should be separate l that between employer and loyee, and the mixing of various s in one compound is also very ?sirable, the report continues, lestions of education, sanitation recreation would have to be d, and effective adminstration d be difficult and costly. le sub-committee, of which Mr.

I. Marlow is chairman, claims if rents had to be subsidised subsidy would be likely to up- [he balance of wage scales be- ;n subsidised and unsubsidised ters, and adds that the Suva >ing problem is a matter of ic policy which can be handled by the Government or the city lorities. r. G. J. Horsfall, Judicial Commoner at Honiara, and Mrs. sfall, left Sydney late in March >pend several months vacation l relatives and friends in the :ed States.

Metal Markets Moving

In N. Caledonia

THERE are movements at last in the iron ore industry in New Caledonia (reports a correspondent). The Scciete le Nickel is putting in an installation at Frouy Bay which will ship something- like 10,000 tons per annum to Australia—probably by the end of 1955. The chrome market is firming again—it appears now to be only a matter of price. All the nickel that can be produced has been sold until 1957 —and the Japanese also will be taking the ore.

' The Sydney press recorded on April 14 that the first Papuan Roman Catholic priests to visit Australia had arrived by plane. But a correspondent points out that Father Herman Paivu and Father George Bata were preceded more than 20 years ago by a Mekeo man, Louis Vangeko who went to Madagascar and, on his way back to NG f f P rlest - s P ent some tlme ln Austiaiia. women’s hockey team is sched uled to leave Fiji on May 18 f or a seven weeks’ tour of New Zealand. Representatives from Lautoka, Levuka, Nausori and Suva took part in selection trial games at Suva during Easter. 95 Cine ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1955

because its VACUUM PA6KCD m L V* o % H 'e* p si ■ / •i ~ ■ SIREHO^ Fmi fv. ■„ V our Capstan fine cut Tobacco is always fresh in the new Vacuum Sealed Tin.

TO OPEN, TWIST A COIN. The patented sealed lid is easily opened by merely inserting a , coin and twisting. - _ /fo CAPSTAN

Hake Fine Cut & Navy Cut— Fragrant Virginia

TOBACCO 96 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

jkj C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd. 379 KENT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Fclegrams and Cables: “CHASULL,” Sydney. Telephone: BX 6381 (6 lines).

And at Melbourne, and Brisbane.

Associated Companies: C. SULLIVAN (Export) PTY. LTD., 66 Victoria St., London, S.W.I, England.

C. SULLIVAN (N.Z.) LTD., 22 Swanson St., Auckland, N.Z.

C. SULLIVAN (PACIFIC ISLANDS) LTD., Suva, Fiji.

C. SULLIVAN INC., 230 California Street, San Francisco, U.S.A.

Over 30 Years' Pacific Island Experience Expert Buying Service Original Invoices Furnished Overseas Indents Arranged BEST PRICES FOR COPRA, COCOA, SHELLS AND GENERAL ISLAND PRODUCE LAST! econdary School for Rarotonga From Our Own Correspondent FTER 27 years of discussions and deadlocks, Rarotonga’s first secondary school and chers’ Training College was aed and put into use on Monday, ruary 14, 1955. nly two blocks of the new ege, known as “Tereora,” are lally completed, but the four srooms they contain now acimodate 30 teacher-trainees and econdary school pupils who had riously been housed in the new nary school at Nikao. he “Tereora” buildings are of orted materials except for the s of concrete blocks manufacd locally. The blocks have been ;ed with cement plaster for ther proofing and smooth finish, the glass louvre windows proi ample light and air. ivo residences are in the course onstruction for the teachers and reora” will accommodate outer id pupils as well as Rarotons. tiose who merit it will be trained School Certificate standard; ;rs will be instructed in agricul- , trades and homecraft. It is jcted that the College, which take an estimated 7-10 years to complete, for a cost of £14,000, will provide the future Polynesian leaders of the Cook Islands. t An “Antipodes Information Bureau” has been set up at Kings Arms, Buckfastleigh. Devon, England, by Mr. S. P. P. Briant, who was in the Western Pacific Islands for some time and until 1954. His Bureau is supplying interested persons with data about Australia, New Zealand and all the South Pacific Islands.

“Malaita” Travellers in April Left to right: Mr. Jay Singh, of Levuka, Fiji, to join the PWD staff at Honiara.

The Rev. D. Hoey, Mrs. Hoey and Michael, returning to a Melanesian Mission station in the Solomons after leave.

Sister H. Webster, who was joining the Melanesian Mission staff at Maravovo. 97 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

MILLERS LTD* iiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii SUVA and LAUTOKA, FIJI.

Every Branch of Engineering and Buildt Construction Sawmillers and Timber Merchants; Shipwrights and Sailmakers; Joinery Furniture Manufacturers; Upholsterers; Plumbers; Electricians; Hard!

Merchants; Motor Dealers.

Agencies: Chevrolet, Bedford, Vauxhall, Nash Motors, Land Rovers and Rover 0 Firestone Tyres. Frigidaire Refrigerators. G.E.C. Radio Sets. Priest Excavators. British Australian Lead Manufacturers Pty. Ltd. Atlas Assun Co. Ltd. ~ | ' ' There Is no need to send to Australia or I Zealand for Repairs or Replacements. We 11 H II 11 I S*ve you a sound Quotation and guara First-Class Workmanship.

I m ON,

Imported From London, England

★ Because of the supee quality, drinks never tas thin with Gordon‘s Gii The secret of masten distilling, maint a i n es through the years, is tK reason why to-day, as evo Gordon’s Gin sta n ch supreme. 65S< Canadian Cobalt Move in NC From Our Noumea Correspondent COMMENTARY on a recent announcement that the Minister of Overseas France had decided to open countries of the French Empire to foreign capital has been given by M. Henri Lafleur, the mining magnate who represents New Caledonia in the French Parliament.

M. Lafleur said that he had been taken to task in certain quarters at Noumea for some manoeuvres in mining circles.

The facts, he said, were that the big Falconbridge concern in Canada had been negotiating with the Nickel Company over the exploitation of cobalt in New Caledonia.

However; there was no agreement, and Falconbridge had then turned to other interests, namely, his own.

About 2,000,000 dollars would be invested in NC, and half the cobalt produced would be reserved for French needs.

All negotiations had been carried out with the knowledge of the Minister of Overseas France.

The NC Mining Bureau, with nine qualified geologists- in its employ, is busily prospecting for cobalt, as well as for nickel and chrome. Indications are that the cobalt deposits are widespread.

MEANWHILE, living quarters and other buildings are going up at the Bay of Prony, site of the future iron ore workings. The control group (Nickel Co., H. Lafleur and Etts Ballande) expect to have the first shipments ready; fore the end of the year.

A ten-year contract provides the delivery in Australia of ra tons of iron ore every year.

The Bureau is also investiga coal possibilities. Many years? substantial quantities were mi but experts agreed that the coall much too young, it gave ins cient heat and too much cindf 98 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

Inquiries Are Invited

Concerning the Distribution and Sale of AH Types of Merchandise in the Pacific Islands ★

We Are Australian Agents For—

MILLERS LTD., Fiji. 8.5.1. P. GOVERNMENT TRADE SCHEME, Honiara G. tr E.I.C. WHOLESALE SOCIETY, Tarawa.

MAX HALECK, Pago Pago, American Samoa.

Original Invoices Supplied. Quotations on Request. ★

Morris Hedstrom Limited

(Incorporated in Fiji)

Island Merchants

Asbestos House, 65 York St., Sydney.

Box No. 2512, G.P.0., Sydney. Cable Address: “MORSTROM,” Sydney.

BANKERS: BANK OP NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY. et Season Cut Samoan Exports )COA beans (2,399 tons) headed Western Samoa’s exports in 1954, states the annual report he Agriculture Department, he total exported was 436 tons iw the average export of the five years, and less by 1,344 } than the 1953 record cocoa An extremely wet season high incidence of “black pod” ase accounted for the fall, reater in quantity, though not alue, was the copra crop, 13,644 i being exported—an increase of ) tons on the previous year, but ■t of the average of the last five ■s by 979 tons, and 4,517 tons w the record year of 1947. When considered that 11,017 tons were irted as long ago as 1912, it can seen that the industry is more ess static. Excessive rain was again blamed for the 1954 decline.

Though banana exports as given in cases appeared to be greatly above the quantity exported in 1953, the fact is that actually the quantity was about 5 tons less in 1940. A change was made to a smaller, more easily handled case containing about 75 lb of fruit, as compared with the former 95 lb.

The 1954 total was 285,737 cases.

The recent recovery in the banana industry is very substantial, however, and had 5,000 cases not been left behind late in December due to adverse weather when a vessel was loading, 1954 would have been an all-time record. Notable is the rapid development of the banana industry on Savaii island, which exported 5,063 cases and should have a much heavier crop ready this year.

The report gives acreage under cultivation in various crops: coconuts 45,000 acres; bananas 14.000 acres: cocoa 12,500 acres; taro 5,000 acres, and ta’amu (Alocasia macrohiza) 1,500 acres.

Cattle are estimated at 11,500 head, of which about 300 are milking cows. Approximately 700,- 000 lbs of locally produced beef was sold in the Territory, the average carcase weighing 346 lbs. About 40.000 gallons of milk was marketed.

The report also estimated that 7.000 tons of local fish was consumed, although no organised fishing industry exists in Western Samoa.

Moresby Residents on World Tour and Mrs. Gordon Carter of Port sby, in the course of a world tour, d Japan in February. Here they are [?]graphed beside the hot springs at [?] at a time when the rest of Japan experiencing snow storms. From [?] they visited Hong Kong, and in April arrived in England by ship, will spend a business-and-pleasure ay there and on the Continent before [?]ing to Papua. Wherever they have they have taken with them their car—by the time they return to the tory it will probably be the most lled car ever to carry a P-NG [?]er-plate. 99 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

HAWLEYS introduce the NEW

Victor “Vixen”

Twin Cylinder. Hobizohtally Opposed

arine diesel

Full Marine Unit With “Ok” Epicycli'

Type Forward & Reverse Gear Box Witi

2-1 REDUCTION (as illustrated below).

HDWI 16/19 h.p. 640 lbs. HDW2 18/25 h.p. 650 lbs. • LIGHT WEIGHT EFFICIENCY. • HEAVY DUTY RELIABILITY. i&l u <&r h Nil i t i 16

K, Gearbox With

2: I REDUCTION 5Q 3/ 8- Coventry VICTOR

Diesel Spares

Spare Parts for Diesels WDI, WD2, WD3, ADI, ADZ.

We have an extensive range of Diesel parts in stock. Write to-day and order the parts you need. Prompt and satisfactory attention to all your requirements is assured.

For full information on Coventry Victor engines, lighting plants, marine auxiliaries , etc., and free literature and expert , helpful advice , write or wire now to , . .

43 Bowen Street, Brisbane

HAWLEYS KTR LTD, Telegraphic; “Covlc” Brisbane 100 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!)

BJARNE HALVORSEN LIMITED Specialists in Island vessels.

All kinds of boat-building and repairing.

New and used boats and engines for sale.

Quotations and estimates free Australian Distributors for Gray Marine Engines and Spare Parts JOHN STREET, BERRY’S BAY, NORTH SYDNEY, N.S.W.

MERSEY SHIPYARDS

Devonport, Tasmania

Designers and Builders of all types of fishing, commercial and pleasure craft.

In wooden or steel construction. ★

Diesel Engineers

Ship Repairs A Specialty

★ Proprietors: ROZEMA BROS. (formerly of Holland) Telephone Dev. 1119 The Mersey Shipyards would like to introduce themselves to the readers of the Pacific Islands Monthly.

Although in operation only three years in Tasmania, in this short time the Proprietors the Rozema Brothers, both former Dutch tradesmen have earned for themselves a fine reputation for first quality workmanship.

They are able to design and build, in either wooden or steel construction any craft desired, be it dinghy, fishing-launch, pleasure, luxury, or racing yacht, fishing trawler or inter-island trading vessel. They are qualified to repair and install Diesel engines.

Present Orders Include three 45 ft. fishing trawlers and one 40 ft. steel work-boat for New Zealand and also one 40 ft. trading ketch for inter-island trade around Tasmania. Copies of plans of these vessels are readily available.

News Of The Small-Ships

[• HAPPENED IN MAY;—When th Pacific Airlines start their LOlulu-Papeete service this year, •e is likely to be renewed inst in Malden, Vostock, and t, which lie at points along the ct route south. So it is interestto recall that the 3-masted, 1 net-tons iron barque John ray (ex Loch Ryan ), bound from Francisco to Australia, crashed he reef at the north-east corner Vlalden in the early hours of ’ 22, 1918. The vessel, after a : period of idleness, had been missioned by the Australian ernment to meet wartime ship- ; needs, and was on her first id trip to the States when she her end at 41 years of age. ■om observations the previous ling, Captain George Vaughan estimated that Malden would ighted about 8 am. The wreck rred about 3.30 am, shortly after nset. Fortunately, weather conms were good and the 28 men ning the boats, made a safe ing at daybreak, to find the id inhabited by a Mr. Grice, of Melbourne firm of Grice, ner & Co., and 15 Cook Islandengaged in digging guano, me hours after landing, a fallspar detonated the explosives on ;, blowing the ship apart. Had that not happened it is possible that contact with the outside world could have been made by the radio transmitter and electric power plant which had just been installed 17 days earlier at ’Frisco —though no radio operator was carried.

As it was, Malden had not had a ship for a year, and was not expecting one for some months. No guano had been exported since 1914.

It was being stockpiled, and some 10,000 tons was at the loading point.

A few days after the wreck, a 4-masted barquentine passed close to Malden but did not respond to signals. Then, on June 9, the men woke to find the 500-ton 3-masted Honolulu schooner Annie Larsen parked on the reef within a stone’s throw of the remains of their own ship. Little damaged, but firm on the reef, she, too, became a writeoff, and from her trooped ashore Captain Verzon, his wife, two children, and nine seamen to join the band of castaways. Stores, and urgently-needed water, were salvaged from the schooner.

As there seemed little hope of early rescue, and as friction soon developed between the three groups at the island, Captain Vaughan and two of his men set out for Fanning in a boat from an earlier wreck, the Fram, reaching there safely 13 days later. Australia was advised of the situation by cable.

Those at Malden, doubtful of the success of that voyage, made other plans, and when no ship had arrived by July 27, the mate of John Murray, Mr. Chugg, set sail with two more seamen for Penrhyn in 101 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Blaxland - Chapman

Marine Engines • Wonder Launches • Pumping Units

• Engineering Products

: Wha t e v your requin merits in til field—you cs be SURE Blaxland R Sole PacL Distributors KERR BROS.

PTY.

LTD. 255 a GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.P Box 3838, G.P.O.

Cables: “Carefulness”, Sydney.

FOR SALE: Aux. Schooner 66 ft. x 15 ft. 6 in. x 8 ft. 6 in.

Built 1936 120 H.P.

Atlas Diesel Cruising speed 8 knots, top speed 12 knots.

Lighting plant: 32 V Moffat Virtue.

Ballast: 17 tons, 6 tons inside, 1 1 tons outside.

Further particulars apply agents.

MANLY BOATSHED. Bolingbroke Parade, Manly, N.S,W„ Australia.

Bui, ders of all small craft. Work dinghies specialty.

Planking 2" finish Kauri.

Decks 2" teak Sawn frames.

Copper sheathed Bottom Full suit sails.

Built by W. L. Holmes & Co.

Sydney.

Phone XJ 3473 one of the John Murray’s boats — arriving there 4i days later.

On August 7 the Howard Smith vessel Macedon, south-bound from ’Frisco, arrived off Malden. She had been on the point of sailing from ’Frisco when word came from Melbourne of the wrecks.

Macedon landed cargo for Grice, replacing that used by his unexpected visitors, and the vessel departed with the castaways aboard.

The Americans were landed at Suva to catch a northbound vessel for Honolulu.

Arriving at an Australian port, the John Murray men found Captain Vaughan on the wharf. He had caught a Cable Co schooner from Fanning to Honolulu, and a mailship south. But Mate Chugg had to wait some time at Penrhyn before a schooner finally arrived from Rarotonga.

Some time later, Grice and his Islanders abandoned Malden to the sea-birds when another schooner called from the Cooks.

Captain Vaughan was acquitted of responsibility by the Marine Court investigating the John Mm wreck. How Captain Verzon f;: is not known. But we do know tt before these two wrecks, Maj had claimed at least ten otli most of them while loading gu at the dangerous open roadsteae NAVUA COMING: — Navua, USS Co. fruit vessel of 2,000 • KOBO, latest of the popular Bjarne Halvorsen-built 56 ft. copra scows to go to the Islands from Sydney. KOBO joined the STC fleet at Port Moresby (see last month). 102 may. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Looking For A

Marine Engine?

Engines for every type of craft!

CHRYSLER •ROYAL’* "CROWN**

"Ace" Engines

SPARES: Complete range of spare parts available. >5 n u i VEDETTE’

NAVIGATOR’

MORRIS "Vedette"— 4 Cylinder 8/20 h.p.—petrol or kerosene.

"Navigator" 4 Cylinder 12/30 h.p.—petrol or kerosene.

Spare parts are available also for

American Sterling And Superior

DIESELS. • Large range of boat fittings.

LARS HALVORSEN SONS PTY. LTD.

BUILDING YARD: Watervlew St.. Ryde, N.S.W. Phone: WY 3248 BOAT SHED: Bobbin Head, JJ 2489 (Telegrams: "Halvorsens Sydney")

Builders Of Halvorsen Boats

LHI6.HPM idweight, was launched In Feb- ,ry at a Scottish shipyard.

JACK TO WORK:—The hurrile season ended and the vessels rhauled, Charlotte Donald has arned from Papeete and Inspire m Auckland to resume duties in Cooks inter-island trade. Inre, converted Bri’xham trawler, I her hatch enlarged!, a new and ?er motor installed, and her fts and propellers replaced at ;kland.

VHY FREIGHTS ARE HIGH: i they complain that the freight 5S to Lord Howe and Norfolk are essive?” said Captain Emile roie, of Noumea, to a PIM rep- 3ntative some time ago. “Monir, I tell you that those places terrible! First it is calm. Then, I! It is blowing a gale. Or there no wind but the swell is imsible. First we anchor here, then re, then we put to sea. Non, i, non, Monsieur. No rate is too h for those places!” laptain Savoie should know, for ; of his vessels was wrecked at d Howe last year, and another I a very narrow escape there. n March Maria del Mar, the roie flagship, was in trouble at :folk. The vessel was loading pty drums. Bad weather came and the master decided to put sea, but in the heavy swell the idlass carried away. Eventually cable had to be buoyed and iped. The vessel departed >ing to recover the anchor some er time.

In route to Noumea, Maria del r, for whom hurricanes appear have a penchant, received aner battering as a storm moved m into the Tasman.

'IRST SUB;—First submarine to [ at Pago Pago since the war, USS Tirus paid a brief visit in ril. ’ONGA KEEPS GUARD:—Nuilofa Radio is to be congratulated the first Islands station to estab- -1 a distress watch on the interional R/T distress frequency of 2 kc/s. Ship watch is now being intained from 1740 to 0940 GMT ly. holidays included. ydney, and the three New Zead coast stations, are the only Mate Henry Kahalioumi and chief engineer Louis Santos of the Hawaiian tug AHI mentioned in April PIM; and right, aboard the New Hebrides trader DEUTGAN on arrival at Sydney in March.

Left to right: Edmas the stewardess, Captain George O’Brien, owner Marcel Marinacce and Mme.

Marinacce, mate E.

Thortveit, and chief engineer A. Mayaud. 103 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Specialising In Supply

To Pacific Islands

B -* , &*iiA ;: \ incent Bros. Modern Factory i : A y Vinco Launches and Workboats Standard models (all types) or built to detail, any size 14 ft. to 24 ft.

Fitting any make or type of engine.

Inspection of work by your Sydney representative invited.

Literature with prices, illustrations and particulars by return airmail.

Work in progress on ten 18 ft. cabin launches for New Guinea; also local orders.

AT 16 ft. open type (coamed and decked) standard model. 18 ft. Sedan Cabin Standard Model.

Also manufacturing Vinco engines 'B port, 2 cycle petrol marine, inboard) 2f H.P., 4 H.P., 8-10 H.P. (twin).

VINCENT Bros. 947 Victoria Road, West Ryde, Sydney, Australia.

Cable:—Vinco Products.

Vinco 8-10 H.P. Twin Cylinder Model. 104 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Sails & Covers

LTD.

Box 415, Auckland, New Zealand Largest Sail Loft in Australasia.

We also stock all widths and weights of canvas.

Tarpaulins supplied at short notice. 11

Petter" Marine Diesel Engines

Twin Cylinder, Cold Starting, Vertical Water-Cooled, Totally Enclosed, Compression Ignition, 4-Stroke Cycle.

Range 5 H.P. to 46 H.P. Complete with REVERSE AND REDUCTION GEAR.

Specially designed for installation in SHIPS, LIFEBOATS, in SHORE FISHING BOATS, COMMERCIAL VESSELS and similar Craft.

Particular Attention Has Been Given Accessibility and Easy Starting.

To ALSO—

"Penguin" Super Petrol

Marine Engines

31 H.P. 4 H.P. 8 H.P.

We are Distributors of an Extensive Range of Petrol and Diesel Marine and Industrial Engines. «> Cameron & Sutherland Ltd RIVERSIDE AVE., MELBOURNE, 5.C.4. Phone MB 4451—7 lines. 8-10 Albion St., Sydney. 115 York St., Launceston. 173 Murray St., Hobart r South Pacific stations complywith international requirements lis respect. Other coast stations any one of a dozen unstandard uencies, suitable for local resments, but of little use to a yacht or other internationally equipped vessel in distress in their vicinity.

AS IS, WHERE IS:—Two vessels were offered for sale, “as is, where is” in April.

One was the Japanese tuna vessel Daikoko Maru No. 3 as she lies on Uwero Reef, east coast of Bougainville, in the hands of the New Guinea Receiver of Wrecks. She was abandoned by her crew when they were picked up by another Jap vessel after she went ashore some months ago.

The other was the standard Australian-built 300-tonner, Rannah, high and dry and not greatly [?]dalay”, ashore on the south coast of Santo March 11, but since salvaged.

Photo: R. Discombe. 105 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1955

SERVING ALL PARTS OF FIJI.

Carrying Passengers and Cargo S.S. "Al SOKULA"

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

ISLAND TRANSPORT LIMITED.

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

SUVA, FIJI.

Telephone: 114—6 lines. P.O. Box 299.

Gardner.

Ferrier & Dickinson

LIMITED SALES SERVICE AND

Spare Parts

170 PARRAMATTA ROAD, CAMPHRDOWN, SYDNEY.

CABLES: PHONES- “Ferreous, Sydney.” LA 3701 2 marine and stationary ENGINES 24 to 150 BHP LW & L 3 Series 2 i i Mi : 'v Many Sizes in Stock Others Early Delivery damaged, sitting on Rarotonga’s foreshore “about 45 yards inside reef” —offered by the insurance brokers. (See photo Feb., p. 113.) WANTS SMALLER SHIP: Master Mariner the Rt. Rev. A. F.

Hill, Bishop of Melanesia, considers that the Anglican Melanesian Mission would be better served by a smaller vessel than the Southern Cross VII, now retired and for sale in Sydney.

The Mission authorities in England had claimed the right of selecting the design in the past, because they had provided most of the funds, but this time New Zealand was providing the lion’s share and some Mission authorities there felt that they should have more say in the matter. The Bishop considers a vessel of 70 or 80 tons as suitable. Southern Cross VII is 298 tons gross.

Bishop Hill, bound for England, said he was also going to press that the vessel be built in Australia or New Zealand.

THE CAPTAIN SWORE:—When the 300-ton Italian-built wooden vessel Vasu, which was advertised in April for £NZ3O,OOO, arrived at Aitutaki with a cargo of aviation gasoline, flour, and sugar in mid- March, there was some soft swearing on the bridge as the hatches came off. A leaking drum of gasoline had contaminated 20 tons of the urgently-needed flour and 3 tons of sugar, which were towed out to sea in a barge and dumped soon after Vasu resumed her voyage to Niue and Suva. She was expected back in Auckland in late April. ,SMP KO: — Rcs Nareau, one of the GEIC Government’s little vessels which tramp from Christrm the Solomons, was expected at hna, NSW, late in April, ui command of Captain W. C Fau for her annual refit. Most of] Western Pacific High Comj sioners charges go to Ballinai major work, though some go to a when facilities are availt 106 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

S. W. DAVIDS & SONS Cleveland Foundry

Townsville, Nth. Queensland

• General Engineers • Founders

• Blacksmiths • Boilermakers

• Slip Proprietors

2 Patent Slips—l,2oo ton, 100 ton

• Boat Builders & Shipwrights

Box 417 Telephone: 4067, 4068.

Wynne S. Breden S

PHOENIX SHIPYARDS - NEWCASTLE, N.S.W.

Ocean-Going Aux Ketch. 25 ton gross. 60 HP. Diesel * Speed 8 h Knots. 770 cu. ft. in Hold. 350 cu. ft. in Aft. Cabin This and other types of vessels always under construction.

SHIPWRIGHTS, BOAT BUILDERS, MARINE ENGINEERS.

Builders of Island Vessels up to 150 tons gross. 40 ft. Workboats of 180 Bag Capacity and Other Commercial Craft. Complete and Beady for Sea. (“A Good Boat Is a Lasting Asset and not a Liability”) •eau should return to her wanings by late June. [OSQUITO FLEET:—Ten 20-ft an cabin launches are at present ig built in Sydney by Vincent s for delivery to Andrews & >erts Ltd., of Port Moresby, as t of their fleet of hire-launches, i launches are sturdily built and powered with Vincents “Vinco” p petrol motors. The first five be shipped north shortly, he same firm has already dered somewhat similar launches customers in the Solomons and OR SAMOA FLAG?:—The 300ner Vasily mentioned elsewhere, j change to Apia ownership if a reports eventuate. Mr. J. Paul Mr. A. MacDonald, of Western 10a, were in Suva recently lookthe vessel over as she sat on ipway there. It is believed that, purchased, she would be used nly on the Suva-Apia run, clearthe constant accumulation of a transhipment cargo which ves in Suva from overseas. 0 A NEW LlFE:—Fairymead ar Go’s well-known Solomons ler Ruena, a wartime-built den GPV, for sale at Sydney for ly months, has been purchased ;he Commonwealth Government. will shortly sail for the Anda- -1 Islands in the Indian Ocean, ing been presented to the aorities there as a gift medical •ol boat under the Colombo 3EKING SHELLS;—Mr. W. b. a war-time midget sub- •iner, and Mr. R. Bunting of larai have joined forces in fitout a trawler for shell diving 'ations in New Guinea waters, r. Tebb, a Londoner who has i working in New Guinea for ;ral years, took part in midget narine operations against the ntz in a Norwegian fiord during war. The attack was unsuccessand he and a companion were :ured. They saved their lives by ,ping. According to schedule i would have been shot as spies.

VALEETA:—This Noumea veswhich sunk at her moorings in Mary River, northern NSW, last istmas Day, was again in the s in April when her master, itain James S. Lynch, was fined ». aptain Lynch had failed to meet toms regulations when he led and sold ship’s equipment— adio transmitter and a diesel or—some time before the sink- O-OP. VESSEL: —Skippered by Ivan Champion, Chief Native d Commissioner in New Guinea, manned also by six Madang i, the 35-ton Brisbane-built isip was delivered to New Guinea April. The vessel has entered service of the Madang Native operative Society, one of the ly prosperous native co-operas now operating small vessels in i Guinea waters.

ACK AT WORK:—The wellknown 180-ton twin-screw Papeete passenger and cargo vessel Hiro, badly damaged by fire last September, has been repaired and was ready to resume service in April.

Much of her hull planking had to be replaced on one side.

FROM WHERE?:—A 27 ft white and grey painted wooden mast, complete with a cross-tree and masthoops for rigging of sail, was found on a beach at the extreme northeast of New Caledonia in April.

There was evidence that it had been in the water for a long time. Identity could not be discovered by the New Caledonia fleet.

NEW WHARF:—A new wharf has been completed at Abau, south coast of Papua. Built by District Services under the supervision of ADO F. G. Driver, the wharf is 54 ft long—l 6 ft longer than the old structure which it replaces—and has a low-water depth of 24 ft at the outer end. It will thus accommodate any of the New Guinea coastal fleet. In the construction 18 piles were driven to a depth of 14 ft.

SEEN A LAUNCH?:—The Tonga Copra Board was recently offering a reward of £3O to any person locating and being instrumental in the recovery of a small launch belonging to the board’s A’omu. The launch broke adrift from mooring buoys during a gale at Nukualofa on March 9. A’oniu went south to Auckland for refit in April. 107 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Unrivalled On The Seven Seas

NC3S NATIONAL INSTRUMENT Co. Pty. Ltd.

Announce Their Appointment As

Sole Australian Agents for the World-Famous

Elac-Echo Sounders

I\ow available for Immediate Delivery ELAC ECHOMETER

T Lac-Echograph

JUNIOR [LAC ECHOSCOPi Convincing proof of the capabilities of the Elac-Echograph Junior has been received from Fishermen already using this equipment in Australia, jfc Mr. Cyril Stephens, leading Gray-Fisherman of Port Welshpool, Victoria, reports outstanding results from the Echograph Junior installed in the “VALDA S.”— . . . Positive identification of all types of sea bottom . . . Reefs only three feet high clearly shown on chart . . . crayfish pots shot accurately and quickly . . . time only 15 minutes using the Echograph Junior, compared with 2 hours using old-fashioned hand line . .

™Ere Is An Elac Echo Sounder To Suit Your

BOAT AND TYPE OF FISHING. Contact the National Instrument Company in your State for further information.

Sole Australian Agents: NATIONAL INSTRUMENT CO. PTY. LTD.

Head Office and Works: Aerodrome, Essendon, Vic. Phone FX 1528 Sales Office: 390 Flinders Street, Melbourne. Phone MB 5281 , , , Branches at eai e. 0461 - Perth: ML 453 - Sydney: BO 229 - Brisbane: JU 1151 ECHOGRAPH SENIOR ECHOGRAPH JUNIOR ELAC EISCHLUPE 108 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LI

FOR SALE M. V. "ARDIE" 48ft Fishing Vessel, built 1947, separate forecastle, engine room, cabin. 40 H.P.

Southern Cross Diesel and Refrigeration Plant (6,000 lb.) capacity. Could be easily converted for use in Islands trading.

Price: Cairns £3,500, but will sell without refrigeration.

M.V. "POLLYANNA" 40ft. V-Bottom Cabin Cruiser, 40 H.P.

Southern Cross Diesel. This vessel is still in possession of original owner and has only been used as week-end pleasure boat.

As new.

Both vessels are in first class order and carry our recommendation.

Photographs and Further Information on Request

Cairns Shipbuilding Go

P.O. Box 577, CAIRNS, N.Q.

NOW ... A LIGHT , FAST 32' GENERAL

Service Launch

m ■ ; .

WW

Construction Co. Ltd

Aluminium Alloy Craft

Specially Designed For

Inter-Island Use

Careful thought to local conditions resulted in this new craft, perfectly suited to island and river use.

Length overall, 32 feet; Beam, Bft. 4ins. : Depth, 3ft. 4iins.; Draught loaded. 2ft. 3ins.; Shell plating, ; Engine , 4-cylinder Gardner ; Power, 43 h.p. at 12C0r.p.m.; Fuel capacity, 15 gallons: Lifting weight, 2 7 tons ; Speed, 10 knots. You can depend on Fairmile barges, tugs, landing craft, pontoons, fishing boats and other craft.

Initial Enquiries To

Head Office In Victoria

. mi m. Wi MARFLEET & WEIGHT LTD. * LOCKHART ST..; ABBOTSFORD N.», VICTORIA J 82721 and AT 250 PITT ST.. ISYDNEY, NS W .. . M 3472. m m m U :•:# IQUEL: —As a sequel to the loss ire of the launch Destiny at ang on January 30 (photo ;h PIM, p. 103), a European, C. le. operator of the vessel, has committed for trial on a ee of arson. The 38-ft crashwas owned by Mrs. E. Gilmore ie Madang Hotel. It was burnt le waterline and sank in 8 ft ater. ,SE CLOSED: Furnishings sundry equipment salvaged the ill-fated Philante 11, ted in the Loyalties in the Febj hurricane, were sold in tiea by the insurance brokers ig April. (Photo April PIM, L)

[Assis Always Wins:—

e is a tradition that Greek- Argentine-naturalised milire Aristotle Onassis always s out on top in his nautical les with international Drity. When his Panamatered whaling fleet was >ed, seized, and heavily fined illegedly venturing within 200 ; of the Peruvian coast some hs ago, it was Lloyds who paid nore than £1 million fine. w it appears that Lloyds, too, receive their money back, •et talks” between Lloyds, the sh Foreign Office, the US State rtment, and the Government gru, have been going on since ine was paid on December 13. ere has been very strong oppoi to Peru’s claim to 200-mile control of territorial waters. There has also been evidence that at least some of the vessels were well beyond that distance from shore at the time they were attacked. It appeared that the pressure might force Peru to review the Onassis case, if not the whole question of the 200-mile control.

Look Out For Rafts:—The

Pacific rafting season has opened again. By the time this appears the South Equatorial Current should be bearing the first one westward for Polynesia from the popular jumping off point, Callao, Peru.

Balsa wood has given way to reeds this season. Size and name still unknown. Skipper Wilfrido Castro and one other Peruvian are aboard.

Trials were completed March 30.

By next month it may be known whether this raft carries radio, and whether she has actually sailed. A faster voyage than the 1954 Willis effort is forecast, as the 1955 models are said to ride higher and blow more easily than the now obsolete balsa jobs.

At San Francisco, however, something more in keeping with the American way of life is favoured.

There H. Devere Baker, whose crew panicked and deserted ship on the high seas last July, quit Lehi No. 2 30 miles off Monterey on April 5, when they reported she was breaking up in heavy weather.

Meanwhile Lehi No. I has been reported as still drifting the sea lanes somewhere off the Pacific Coast.

Baker’s drift-plans have religious rather than scientific significance.

His first target is Hawaii—if the cash for his raft is forthcoming— thence westbound to Africa, maybe.

Baker rejects reeds and balsa for good sawn timber and double-bottoms, but favours austerity in the culinary department—sea water, plankton, and fish when they can be caught. His last crew was 109 :iFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Captain W. L. Kennedy

(Established 1831.)

Shipbrokers, Business & Real Estate

63 Pitt Street, Sydney. ’Phone: BU 3797. Cables: “CAPKEN » Sydney.

LISTING: TWIN DIESEL CARGO VESSEL-286 tons dwt., wooden construction sheathen wnT n c e o S nslderTlT(So odatlon 16 perSOns ' hydraulic winch - large hatch. Ownen MaHneTe S sel L '~l”6 > 00 C 0 argO ’ 68 X2 ° X 6 ft " machinery aft. 160 H.P ml S r?nl N dlele E l SSE £6^ Uit Carg0 ' 53 X 1 3“• X 5 ft ‘> sheathed ’ 66 H.P. Kelvir hold not yet combed 5 VuildVUn givt early wfth^Ga^dineT^LW sE a ;r P^^ Til pit, 4 cyl. Lycoming marine engine. £l,OOO. £l 5 250. WORKBOAT '~ 26 ft ’ X 9 sheathed ’ 6 cyl. Chrysler marine, 10 knots; NEW 18 FT. HALF CABIN LAUNCH—Morris Vedette marine. £630.

We shall be pleased to obtain independent Surveys of any craft we offer ami subsequently arrange delivery either on ship’s deck or sea as desired SKANDIA

Diesel Marine And Stationary Engines

Power Range 3 H P.—425 H.P.

Acclaimed by hundreds of satisfied owners.

Ideal for Island use.

Built to last.

FOR: * A V; Faithful Service. • Low fuel consumption Easy starting Sole Agents: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. 12 SPRING STREET, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.

LTD.

Cables: “IVAN”, SYDNEY. reared on red steaks. Belts were drawn to the last notch when the SOS went forth. Spirits, rather than Lehi, were sinking.

News of Cruising Yachts This month the news is largely one of marine disasters in the yachting world. • WINDJAMMER, as surmised in January PIM, was wrecked and looted at Easter Island last August 24. News of the disaster reached our Balboa correspondent in December and came to PIM just too late for April issue.

This internationally known 57 ft. centreboard cruiser, owned by American Peggy Poor and navigated by James L. Cox, with a British West Indian, Gordon Nicol- Sey as forward-hand, had cleared the Galapagos last July 29, reaching Easter Island after a very tough 26-day passage.

Her sails and gear were in poor condition, and further bad weather, which caused the yacht constantly to nut to sea from its poor anchorage during August, caused deterioration.

For a 10-day period Miss Poor had to be left ashore while the yacht circled the island awaiting an opportunity to pick her up. Radio contact could not be made from shore, though radio schedules had been arranged. It was assumed that the yacht may have foundered as it was out of sight of land.

Miss Poor therefore requested assistance from the US Navy and Air Force at Panama and an aircraft was about to leave there when the yacht hove in sight again. Anchor was again dropped on August 20, but Cox and Nicol-Sey were exhausted.

In the early hours of August 24 a sudden squall caused the anchor to drag and threw the yacht onto rocks. Salvage of equipment was begun but was hampered by bad weather. Then, when the we improved two days later a hord about 60 islanders thundered up on 1 back, leapt from their mounts and out to loot WINDJAMMER. Accordii a report published in Panama, “lai ness and anarchy reigned at I Island from August 25 until nothin 110 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LJ

Southern Cross

Diesel Marine

ENGINE new-12 months warranty

Special Offer!

PRICES: 20 H.P. £590 30 H.P. £725 40 H.P. £925 Aust. F. 0.8. Sydney Prices include 2:1 reduction gear Electric starting £lOO extra Southern Cross Engine Cr Windmill Co. Pty., Ltd. 22 Young Street, Sydney MUNGO SCOTT PTY. LTD.

Established 1894 AUSTRALIAN OC U 4 mm SYDNEY AUSTRALIA

Flour Millers

Summer Hill, New South Wales

Cable & Telegraphic Address: SUPERB, Sydney ed of the vessel itself, equipment, sions, and personal possessions The excuse given by the iry governor and other members of Chilean Navy at the island was that ntright rebellion would occur if any lining action were taken.’’ i castaways were taken to Chile by >ply vessel months later. Miss Poor itill there in December, but the other had signed on the freighter FRI- IG TRADER there to work their ges back to the US. »iDJAMMER was expected to show up ihiti this winter.

BOUNTY, Ken Furley’s home-built t. cutter from Auckland, added er page to her chequered career she limped under jury rig into Harbour, NSW, on April 13. [JNTY had cruised to Tonga, Fiji, few Hebrides, and New Caledonia in 14, coming to Australia late last She was dismasted at Tonga and when an earthquake and seismic struck Suva. This time, clearing Howe Island March 10 for Auckland, acht was in sight of New Zealand she was again dismasted in a squall 30 p.m. on March 18, while sailing f. There was chaos on board as acht almost turned turtle. mast—she was originally a wishictch but after the second dismasting ;onverted to a cutter—still fast to igging, was trailed for days as the drifted westward. Eventually it ut in pieces and worked aboard, a rig being fixed from the wreckage. was no hope of making New id and as the wind held in easterly ;rs the vessel slowly drifted towards ilia. sight of Norfolk, a storm struck, damage. When the cutter finally ;d Coff’s Harbour 33 days after the sting, skipper Furley and his crew > men and a girl were in poor shape. aboard in addition to Furley were 11 Hibert of NSW, Max Jenkins of nd Miss Joan Kilpatrick of NSW. ley said he would again try to sell icht—she had been for sale in Suva t all points west—otherwise he will her, after earning some more money. ,EDA, in which the Wilson family of md cruised through the eastern : to San Francisco in 1953, will be ibered by many along the route, acht, so far as is known, was still de there when in late April Mr. W. andy) Wilson lost his life as one ; crew of the well-known American SUOMI. The 50 ft. SUOMI, which lue to enter the Trans-Pacific Race winter, had sailed from Santa ra the previous night. She was ed and sunk with the loss of all 1 by the Swedish Trans-Atlantic ter PARRAMATTA which was bound instralia. PARRAMATTA recovered 'ody and put back to Los Angeles the vessel was held under writ ig a marine inquiry. Sandy Wilson, rnalist, had been working on teleprogrammes. Other members of S crew had earlier returned to New ad. The original intention was to sell LEDA in the United States if possible. • NORDLYS, 73 ft. American schooner which sailed to Tahiti last year, was in the news in San Francisco in February.

Crew member Daryl Broderick, a 23-yearold girl who had been employed by the wealthy owners to look after three children during the cruise, sued owner Walter S. Johnson, Jr., and his wife for $50,000 damages. Daryl claimed that at Clippertown Island she had been thrown onto coral when a dinghy overturned in the surf, leaving a “permanently disfiguring scar” on her left leg, with continuing coral poison and fever. Results of the legal action are not known. • ARIES, 93 ft. luxury yacht, should be heading for Tahiti from the Atlantic Coast of the States by now. But meanwhile American tobacco baron Richard J.

Reynolds, her owner, narrowly escaped with his life when his luxurious 55 ft. fishing cruiser SCARLET O’HARA caught fire, burnt out and sank five miles off Miami while returning from Nassau, Bahamas, Reynolds, his wife, and skipper Arthur Kyle reached shore in a dinghy.

It is understood that Mr. Reynolds will fly to Tahiti to join ARIES which will be delivered by her crew. Mr. Reynolds now owns a valuable property with wharf at Tahiti. • MANDALAY, sold by American James S. Rockefeller to Mr. Claude Giraud of Aore, New Hebrides, last November, has been in trouble. Mr. Giraud resold the 40 ft. ketch to Mr. Peter Morris of Santo who planned an extensive cruise in her, but in mid-March, during heavy weather the yacht was stranded on south Santo less than 34 hours after changing hands.

Though holed (see photo) the yacht has since been refloated by Mr. Reece Discombe, a New Zealand salvage expert, who 111 :iFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

-IK TheGSa ELECTROLUX I BUILT FOR EFFICIENCY Just What You’ve Wanted , . .

Built-in wall-to-wall Ice-making fir Frozen Storage Compartment clear across the top.

CAPACITY: 7.1 cu. ft.

SHELF AREA: 13 sq. ft. • Redesigned Interior gives easier access. • Removable rust - proof grid-type shelves. (» One-piece porcelain Interior lining glistening white and food-acid resistant. • Easy-release Ice trays. ® Exterior In gleaming oven - baked cream enamel. • Lower running cost with f new freezing unit designed for even greater efficiency. • Kerosene or electrically operated, It can be easily converted from one medium to another. • Preclslon-bullt freezing unit with no moving parts, trouble - free and guaranteed for five (5) years.

EARLY DELIVERY.

Ask your local Electrolux agent for further particulars now.

PAPUA:

Island Products

LTD., Port Moresby.

T.NG.: NEW GUINEA CO. LTD. ill • : , 1 * Model LT 701

Electrolux Is Always Silent

-Or write to the Distributors: W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD 16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY. 112 MAY. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Art Postcards Of Tonga

Per Dozen (Including a Tin-Can Mail Cover). Postage Paid: 6/- for one US Dollar).

TONGAN PHOTOS BUREAU, Nukualofa. Tonga

Ventura Trading Co. Pty. Ltd

26 BRIDGE STREET, SYDNEY.

Island Merchants

• Suppliers of "Goodyear" Tyres, Batteries and Automotive Products. ® Island Distributors for Armstrong- Siddeley Diesel Engines. Mercedes- Benz Diesel Marine Engines, We invite your inquiries for goods of all description—Prompt and careful attention given to all orders and inquiries.

CABLES:—"VENTURA/' SYDNEY. • All Classes of Merchandise Purchased at Lowest Wholesale Prices. t Original Invoices Supplied to Island Clients. • Island Produce Sold on Commission in the area at the time. MANDALAY not insured.

PRINCESS WYAMIA, earlier reported PRINCESS WAIMAI, was harbourd in Balboa in March. This was the t in which Polish Dr. Bohdon mg. former lecturer at Victoria Unity College, Wellington, NZ, was sailrom England to Honolulu on the first s of a big magnetic-survey project December PIM). Our Balboa corresent says the yacht arrived there a year ago with the crew in cial difficulties. After several weeks, r Cwilong and wife put to sea leaving crew ashore. They were eventually riated by the British Consul. Two 5 later PRINCESS WYAMIA. dismasted, sd back in port in tow of a tuna man. Up to March, 1955, the yacht itill held under writ pending payment 5,000 repatriation-of-crew fees and re charges.

ADIOS, 32 ft. American ketch which d through the Islands west - I. cleared Balboa for San Diego ebruary on the last leg of her ear round-the-world voyage. Thus •s Tom and Joyce Steel enter that company of yachtsmen who “made MOANA (ex LAITA), flying the h flag, cleared Balboa March 15 for stands on a circumnavigatory voyage. >6 footer from Saint Malo is manned crre Pasquier, Bernard Gorsky, Roger e, and Serge Arnoux. Gorsky is the r of three books on marine life, one iterranean Hunter”, having been translated into English. The cruise, which is running to a tight two-year schedule, allows for no undue tarrying in port. The voyage began last June and is being made under contract to secure underwater movie and still photos. • SEVEN SEAS, formerly named SCALDIS and reported by PIM under that name when she sailed from Holland in March, 1954, cleared Balboa March 14 bound Melbourne via the usual Island ports. Lone-hander Andre Boun Meester, of Scheveningen, 25, sold his engine in the Canary Islands when finances fell low. so he now depends on sail alone for harbour manoeuvres. Meester plans to settle in Australia and will seek work in a boat yard there. • JENCO, 49 footer from Skien. Norway, manned by Jens W. Jenssen, his wife, and two daughters aged 7 and SVz years, dropped the Balboa moorings on February 16 bound for Napier, NZ, where the family have friends and plan to settle. Jenssen is a plumber by trade, and the yacht is a solid fishing vessel. The voyage commenced last August and calls were planned at the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tahiti, the Cooks—the usual ports of call. • SUSAN, 22 ft. Auckland cutter, with Wally Walton and Bob Harvey aboard, reached Lord Howe in mid-April, seven days out of Whangaroa. Bound Sydney, owner Walton plans to take work at ports of call as he cruises the Australian coast —then perhaps head for the Islands.

SUSAN is already known at Norfolk Island where she sailed on a previous cruise. • MARCO POLO of Auckland, which has been on the Australian coast for some months, was to clear Sydney in April for New Guinea. From there the yacht will be headed east-bound for Panama—unless owner Tony Armitt and his crew tire of heading the 38 footer into the trades before than. (See August, 1954). • QUEST, a 36 ft. Colin Archer ketch, cleared Brisbane in March for the Solomons—plans unknown. Lone mariner Fred Fawcett Kay was described as a former radio script writer and Sydney big-game fisherman. • Law and order should enter the Pacific soon—in the form of four Palermo policemen who deserted the Force to sail round the world last August. Details of yacht and direction of circuit unknown as yet. • SOLVEIG. Hal vorsen-owned Sydney ocean racer, left there in mid-April aboard the Swedish ship PARRAKOOLA as deck cargo, bound for Los Angeles, where the yacht will be entered in the trans-Pacific Race to Honolulu this summer. • Bill Crealock, formerly of ARTHUR ROGERS, which he left at Papeete, re- 113 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 19 55

Barker College

HORNSBY, N.S.W.

Church of England Boarding School for Boys Primary and Secondary 30 acres—4 playing fields —tennis courts —swimming poo , Eighty boarders from age six in Junior School (separate bulidings same property) and one hundred and seventy in Senior School fro age twelve.

Early application desirable. Prospectus from W. S. LESLIE* M.A., Headniaste

Oil Purification

AND THE

Electrical Engineer

STREAM-LINE FILTERS are now generally recognised as being the most perfect, practical means of removing all traces of solid matter from liquids.

For insulating oils, where removal of moisture also is of the utmost importance, the Stream-Line Filter has another advantage m that the passages through it are so fine that me application of moderate heat and vacuum causes even the finest particles of moisture to be evaporated.

Complete elimination of these impurities from the oil maintains its highest possible dielectric strength.

The diagram shows the passage of dirty oil, drawn from Jpfnrn “? Ct A ’ the filterin g *nd the fnfiv h/ th K e slean5 lean °i throu 8 h K - This illustration is avafiaWe lbed “ the Stream ' Line Filter literature M The filters ensure: Total elimination of solid impur even the finest colloidal carbon: Complete dehydn including the removal of dissolved water; Absolute; aeration, including the removal of dissolved gases.

For further information concerning Stream-Line Filters, contact

Gibson Battle & Co. Limited

IN ASSOCIATION WITH HEAD, WRIGHTSON & CO. LIMITED. ENGLAND.

In Association With Head, Wrightson

535 KENT STREET, SYDNEY.

KEMP AND UNION STREETS, NEWCASTLE. 428 QUEEN STREET, BRISBANE.

LIMITED, ENGLAND.

Tele.: BM 6661 Tele.: MA 2600 Tele.; FA 2271 ported from New Port Beach, Cal., in February that he and a companion were sailing in an unnamed yacht for Honolulu, Guam, and the Palaus, and should reach Honolulu in mid-April. A few more crewmen were being sought at that stage.

If Mrs. L. M. White, wife of the new American Vice-C ons u 1 at Noumea, was formerly known as Dagmar Hasalova. She is a professor of Diction, studied at the Charles and Prague Universities and taught at the Conservatorium of Music at Bogota, Colombia. She holds the music diplomas of Kansas University and the Julliard School of Music. As a singer, Mrs White has given concerts at the Carnegie Hall, New York, and the Theatre Colon, Bogota, as well as many radio recitals.

H Reference to the long service given by the City Electrical Engineer, Mr. W. T. A. Nicholson, was made by the Mayor of Suva (Mr.

A. D. Leys) on the occasion of Mr.

Nicholson’s retirement. Mr. Nicholson joined the Council in 1921 and became Electrical Engineer in 1931.

For outstanding services in providing power and light to military camps during the war period, with an inadequate plant, he was awarded the MBE, He did excellent work after the 1952 hurricane and the 1953 earthquake. t Fijian Rugby Union players will be in Western Samoa in May and June. Twenty-two players, a manager and co-manager have been chosen. Men who have previously represented Fiji overseas were not eligible for the tour, which is part of the campaign to foster the Rugby Union game in Samoa. t Two pedigree boars, a Berk? and a Tamworth, have beenj ported by the Fiji Government Australia as replacement sire studs at the Sigatoka Experimi Station. A third stud, of 1 Whites, is at the Principal Agr tural Station, Koronivia. The , were established to make ped pigs available in Fiji. 114 MAY, 1955- PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

X o KEEP FRESHER! M. loth. Th.« shake Cashmere Bouquet Talcum all over th body. How fro»h it loavo* you. And cooil Divinely cool. - FEEL SMOOTHER! Pamper the sensitive toot i with extra Caihmere Bouquet Talcum. Its silken iheet el protection Inturt you against chafing STAY DAINTIER! It's an Inexpensive luxury to use Cashmere Bouquet Talcum lavlsnly and often. Giver four person the rragr ojee men /eve.

I' 1 I* Cashmere Bouquet Talcum with the fragrance men love

Cashmere Bouquet Cosmetics Incl3Di

PACE POWDER, POWDER BASE, LIPSTICK,

Rtubi, Cake Make-Up A Beauty Creams

ffi «>i«.

[?]Arefully-Vetted Plants

Enrich P-Ng Agriculture

Hundreds of plant introductions pass through the Plant Introduction id Quarantine Station at Loloki, near Port Moresby, every year, and the ation is playing an important part in the improvement and diversification Papua-New Guinea agricultural production through the importation of iw species of plants.

E following survey of the work is by Mr. G. P. Keleny, Plant Quarantine Officer of the Agriire, Stock and Fisheries Departt, Port Moresby: le Loloki Plant Introduction and rantine Station, established by Department of Agriculture, k and Fisheries in 1949, coms the two vital functions of a t importation centre and a hdog against the introduction isease from abroad, iportations fall into two jories—improved varieties of 5 already established in Papua New Guinea, and others new he Territory and of possible 5 for diversification of agriire. Such importations are icularly essential because of the icted range of crops under vation in the Territory, introducing improved varieties ;tablished crops, Territory prors can benefit from the results any years of work in countries e research on a particular plant reached an advanced stage, e importation and testing of varieties likewise aims at ihing Territory primary proton through greater diversity of nt. an example of what is being done at Loloki. the Station recently imported five of the ng lowland coffee varieties Java, which are the result of ly 40 years of intensive re- :h, and undoubtedly will be a valuable addition to the young e industry of Papua and New ea. e seeds were germinated and n under strict quarantine to d against the introduction of ses such as coffee rust which any countries severely restricts e culture. After quarantine ance, the seedlings were sent ;he Keravat Lowlands Agriiral Experimental Station near lul, where the varieties will be d under Territory conditions, nilar introduction work was in respect of Highland coffee years ago, when varieties of lea coffee were obtained from 73. and Uganda. When released quarantine at Loloki. these sent to the Highlands Agriiral Experimental Station at ra, where they are now under ese are two examples of the several hundred plant introductions which pass through the Loloki Station each year.

Officers in charge of plant introduction work have to keep themselves up to date on overseas research developments, and establish contacts through which sample consignments of plants or seeds can be obtained.

EXTENSIVE co-operation exists between the Administration and the CSIRO on the supply of plant material. In general, plants and seeds are supplied on an exchange basis, with overseas research workers readily co-operating and receiving seeds and plants in return for their consignments.

However, most sample shipments are small, and thus it is one of the functions of the Loloki Station to undertake multiplication of the original importations. Frequently this involves many years’ work before the varieties can be tested on any considerable scale.

Introduced plants are first grown under quarantine observation to ensure that no diseases or pests are imported with them, and then the seed or planting material is multiplied for testing by specialist officers in Territory districts where that particular species can be expected to grow best.

The quarantine area at Loloki includes an insect-proof shade house for raising seedlings of special importance, such as coffee, pepper and manila hemp, before they can be released for distribution.

HOWEVER, it is not always practicable to grow annuals, such as rice, grasses and pulse crops, in the shade house, so they are planted, for observation, in widely-spaced rows in an isolated part of the station.

The entire station can be regarded as an effective isolation area as it is in the dry zone typical of Port Moresby, with the surrounding savannah country acting as a “buffer zone”, and thus preventing any disease spreading from the station.

While most of the plant introductions have been in the form of small seed samples, the station has also been the clearing house' for large-scale importations, the outstanding examples being tea and kenaf seed.

In 1952, in order to hasten the development of the Garaina Experi- 115 :iFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEA) CO. 111).

Registered Office; SUVA, Fiji.

Code Address: “BURNSOUTH”

General Merchants And Shipowners

BRANCHES: Fif i Suva, Levuka.

Lautoka.

Labasa.

Samoa Ba.

Sigatoka.

Tavua.

Rotuma Island.

Norfolk Island.

Apia, Pago Pago.

Tonga:- Nukualofa.

Haapai.

Vavau.

Niue Island.

Agents for:— Queensland Insurance Co. Ltd. • Burns Philp Trust Co. Ltd • Shell Company (P. 1.) Ltd, ALSO AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES FOR: Engines Ardath Tobacco Co.

Associated British Oil (Exp.) Ltd.

Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.

Ferguson Tractors (Exp.) Ltd.

Hercules Cycle Cr Motor Co. Ltd.

A. J. Caley Cr Sons (Confectionery) .

Charles Hope Ltd.-Cold Flame Refrigerators.

Huntley & Palmers Ltd. (Biscuits) .

International Harvester Co.

Jantzen (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Joseph Lucas (Exp.) Ltd.

McAlpine Refrigeration Ltd.

McLeay Duff & Co. (Whisky).

S. Maw Son Cr Sons (Surgical Dressings).

Mullard (Overseas) Ltd. (Radios).

O'Cedar Ltd. (Oils Cr Mops).

Reckitt Cr Colman Ltd.

S.F. Appliances Ltd.

Slazengers (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Standard Motor Co.

Stewarts Cr Lloyds (Aust.) Pty.

Ltd.

Shipping, Customs and Forwarding Agents Shipping Agents for

The New Zealand Shipping Co

LTD. (Regular First Class, One Class and Tourist SL P f e mnin ViCeS fr ° m ZEALAND PORTS to UNITED KINGDOM, via PANAMA ) SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO. LTD. (Regular First Class, One Class and Tourist Class Passenger Services from NEW ZEALAND PORTS to the UNITED KINGDOM, via PANAMA; and Via AUSTRALIAN PORTS and SOUTH AFRICA.) PORT LINE LTD. (One Class Passenger Services from NEW ZE/

Land Ports To United Kingdom, Vi

PANAMA.)

Compagnie Des Messagerie

MARITIME S (Regular First Class and Tourist Class Passengt Services from FRENCH OCEANIA to MAE SEILLES, via PANAMA.)

Bank Line Limited

British India Steam Navigatio

CO. LTD.

Also INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION REPRESENTATIVES f QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD.

TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD.

British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines

Agents Throughout the World. 116 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LJ

for dazzling WHITENESS Reckitts Blue The sign of calitv Products. 1500 Watt 240-Volt A.C. on Diesel Set -K Economy ★ Efficiency ★ Simplicity This versatile 240 volt of 110 volt, 1 phase, 50 cycle A.C. Diesel Electric Set is designed to meet the consumer’s requirement in both domestic and industrial fields where continuous trouble free operation is called for. Will run 25, 60 watt lamps, vacuum cleaners, irons, movie projectors etc. and electric motors up to 1/3 H.P.

Price: £247/10/0 F.O.W. Sydney Remote stop fitted: £l5 extra 9 Hours running on 1 gallon diesel fuel.

BRAYBON BROS. Pty. Ltd. 27-33 WASHINGTON STREET, SYDNEY Cables: “Braybonian”, Sydney.

Trade Inquiries Invited.

Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturers and Contractors.

Contact us for a quotation ital Tea Plantation, the Adminition imported 1,500 ib of tea [ from Malaya. This was ited at Loloki to guard against oduction of the serious “blister tit" disease. lis disease is a fungus which survive only in the cool atmos- •e of high country, and growing seedlings under quarantine at coast effectively prevented any jduction to Papua and New lea. le seedlings were later taken to lina, and the result of this bulk jrtation has made the Territory pendent of any further outside lies of tea seed. In other words, ikely tea seed requirements, in future, will be obtainable from lina.

INAF is another crop successfully introduced into the Territory through the “cradle” i at Loloki, in which 90 lb of >rted seed were sown. This was so successful that, subsntly, the development of the Kenaf industry was centred an area close to the Loloki on. lother phase of the work done loloki is the maintenance of lanent multiplication plots of in plants to ensure a constant ly of seed. However, this has i limited to selected plants only, lis activity is restricted by the requirements of quarantine, the area of suitable land at the station and the capacity of the irrigation facilities, This y ear> special areas near Loloki have been planted with Crotalaria anagyroides, Centrosema pubescens and Pueroria phoseoloides to meet the widespread demand from private planters for seed. The first species is used as shade for cocoa and coffee crops, and the other two are legumes suitable for c J°P pinB ln copra and rubber plantations. < motttfr prnn nf immediate A"™ toTrimary pr^s is a thornless strain of Mimosa mvisa.

The Mimosa species, often called the “sensitive plant”, which is already well established in the Territory, is generally regarded as a weed, and has the disadvantage that it is thorny, which makes it unpopular as a cover crop on plantations, since native labourers do not like to work amongst it. On the other hand, it is an excellent soil improver, with a high mineral content.

A small supply of seed of the thornless variety was obtained from Holland, and this is now being multiplied at the station. It is thought that this strain may find an important place in Territory agriculture as a cover crop and 117 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Publications Of

Pacific Islands

INTEREST Pacific Islands Year Book. —Seventh Edition (1955-56) now being prepared. Publication about September, 1955. Price, 35/- (plus 1/3 posted) or $4.00 US.

Handbook of Papua and New Guinea. —Complete Compendium of Data relating to the Dual Territory. 320 pages. Includes Directory of all European residents, and of the leading Chinese residents; and full List of all Companies and Trading Firms, Price, 15/- (plus 1/- posted) or $2.00 US.

Hands Off Pidgin English!— A defence of the “Commercial Lingua Franca” of New Guinea, and a Plea for its Official Use and Control: by Professor Robert A. Hall, of Cornell University, USA. Describes the Character and Value of Pidgin. Price 15/- (plus 1/- posted) or $2.00 US.

Pacific Islands Monthly.—The well known News-Review of the South Pacific Islands, now in its 25th Year of Publication. “The most readable News-Magazine published South of the Line.” Per annum, 24/-; French Pacific Territories, 27/-; United States, 3i dollars.

Quotations in Australian Currency.

Any of the above Publications may be obtained through Established Booksellers and Islands Stores, or directly from

Pacific Publications

PTY. LTD.

Technipress House, 27-29 Alberta Street, SYDNEY.

Tel.: MA9197, 9198. • Ten yards from Intersection of Goulburn Street and Wentworth Avenue.) soil renovator with some additional value for plantation cattle.

Every year the Loloki Station imports about 100 different varieties of rice. The first crop is grown under quarantine at Loloki and the resulting seed goes to the Rice Breeding Station at Epo in the Mekeo area for testing and crossbreeding.

Since the station was established, many hundreds of rice varieties have been imported from all o the world, and used in the w of developing one suitable Territory conditions.

The Loloki Station is the TeE tory’s link with the agricultural search centres of the world, distribution centre for impoi plant material and a check agaj the introduction of plant discs and pests.

Samoan Film Star

Entertained In Sydney

Three legendary tales of Polynesia were presented at a recital at 3KY Radiotorium, Sydney, on April 1. The tales were “The koreropaki of and the Whale”, a Maori legend; A Samoan story of the origin of the coconut, “The eel Tuna who loved a girl”; and a Hawaiian tale, “The Calabash of the Winds”. Each legend was presented by a verse group as a spoken legend, while other members presented the dances and chants appropriate to each tale, in the authentic costumes.

The Lord Mayor’s Flood Relief Fund benefited by the money raised at the recital.

Many Islands people were in the audience; a newcomer to the group being Miss Orbell Chambers of Levuka. Also in the audience was the star of the film “Return to Paradise”, charming Moira Mac- Donald of Apia, who came with Mrs. Mary Croudace, of Apia and New York. During the evening these ladies delighted the audience by appearing on the stage to dance an impromptu “tauoluga”, the graceful dance of Samoa.

Another evening which the Samoan film star attended was held at the Woollahra home of the president, Leonard Moran. A large and representative gathering farewelled Moira and Mrs. Croudace prior to their departure for Samoa.

Present were; Mr.

Charles Por o i , of Papeete, Tahiti, son of the popular Mayor of Papeete; Mrs. Elsa Watson formerly of Apia, Samoa; Mrs.

Aggie Anderson of Apia; Mrs. Maureen White, daughter of well - known Apia identity, Mrs. Aggie Grey; Mr. and Mrs. Nen. Blood of Mount Hagen, New Guinea; Mrs. Anna Smith and her niece, Mrs. Ethel Aspinall, both former residents of Apia; Mr. Hugh Aspinall from Suva; Moses Evans of Levuka; and Mrs. Dulcie Grey of Honiara, BSI.

During the course of the evening many islands dances were presented, one very popular item being the Tahitian dance II Mr. G. G. Taylor, formerly the Commonwealth Bureau ant member of the Colonial Ol Fungicides and Insecticides C« mittee, has been in Fiji at the G ernment’s invitation to advise techniques of applying insecticii. fungicides and weedicides.

U Sister Beatrice Sheldon will turn to the Methodist leper staff at Normanby Is., Papua, in J after spending six months’ leave Australia. At Normanby, where has worked for three years, Sis Shelton superintends a staff Papuan nurses caring for 160 lepi done by Moira MacDonald as shown i the film. A Maori visitor, Jay Hamili from Rotorua, also entertained w; songs.

Photo shows the film star’s recepfr which was given Miss MacDonald of Ajj at the Mayfair Theatre, Sydney, in es April. “Return to Paradise’’ was shoi at the theatre. Mrs. Mary Croudaces shown right. 118 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHO

It costs no more, remember, to enjoy the best possible shave.

Blue Gillette Blades are not only the sharpest in the world they are the most economical Also available in packets or Dispensers of 10 Blades P. 3 [?]habilitation Question.

[?]Lans For Fijians

[?]Ome After

Alaya Service

LANS for rehabilitating Fijian ex-servicemen from Malaya, prepared by a Suva committee uprising Mr. H. M. Scott (chairn), Mr. A. D. Leys, Ratu Edward Kobau, Mr. R. M. Major, Ratu ce Vuidreketi and the Rehabilii Officer, were approved by the fislative Council in April.

'he proposals are that every fully discharged serviceman, redless of his future plans, shall given a set of agricultural hand Is, a mosquito net, blanket, two rs of shorts, two shirts and a of eating utensils, len who return to their villages I be exempted from communal ies for six months, and the Rehlitation Board may provide m with such implements as a ugh or with fishing gear or imnents of trade, and may provide ds for the repair or replacement fishing-boats. ervicemen who do not return to ir villages will be exempt in the r of discharge from the payment commutation rates (the tax imed on all Fijian men who live iy from their villages and are s unable to perform communal ies), and the Rehabilitation ird will help them to find emyment. he board may arrange vocalal training in trades or farmer may provide bursaries to lifted men for higher education, may arrange for selected applies to be given agricultural ining and helped to settle on land.

Lehabilitation has been a someit thorny subject ever since the for Fijian soldiers to fight Malaya was made in October, I. 1953 a Suva complaint, widely publicised in New Zealand, affirmed that, two years after decision to send Fijians to laya had been made, there was 1 no official statement of any eftual scheme of rehabilitation. .t that time men discharged on lical or other grounds before ipleting their three-year Army n were permitted to retain two rs of shorts, two shirts, two r els, a pair of boots and a kit- Men who completed the ee-year Army term were to re- /e in addition two civilian shirts 1 two sulus. This was described h fairly obvious justification as e extremity of parsimony.” he new proposals go further, ■ the critics are likely to find m unconstructively vague at imtant points. 119 H L T MAY, 1955

Cific Islands Mon

A Product Of The House Of Seppelt

H E T R E E H t U h nexce ua X J aint oya dine Seppelts the sherry P* of Australia peo are famous for their Extra Dry Solero 120 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

GROVE 88)IB(*6S W. H. GROVE & SONS LTD.

Established 1896 P.O. BOX 490, AUCKLAND.

NEW ZEALAND.

ISLAND MERCHANTS REPRESENTING ENGLISH MANUFACTURERS

Throughout The

Pacific Islands

In Fiji as: W. H. GROVE & SONS (FIJI) LTD.

Office and Sample Room Bank of New South Wales Chambers, Suva, Fiji.

The Fat Ladies Go Duva Fishing the Fijians of the Lau Islands, a pleasure excursion means an expedition for food. So, when et out to go around Naitauba in plantation launch, the half n Fijians on board were more •ested on what lay under the r, leaving me to look at the »ry. We chased a turtle; and t an hour bobbing about while dived down 20 to 30 feet jgh clear turquoise water to r up giant clams, or to spear jow-hued fish with long spears, t the expedition with the Fat es was designed for provisionpurposes, and to show me how ; fishing was carried out in arly all the Lauan ladies on luba qualify as Fat Ladies, and put a lot of thought into keep- ;hemselves that way: With every that passes some of them are ed in the flat-bottomed dinghy near the reef dangling at the of a fishing line —and with tordinary success. Some of the in ladies are good fisheren, too —but not even Naitauba seems to make an Indian a mder in the Fat Lady stakes. iva fishing is certainly more itic than line fishing—but the ts are more quickly achieved.

And it is a community effort and good fun. First requirement is a supply of duva —derris root, to you —which looks like a long srtick, an inch or so thick and several feet long. It is broken up in short lengths and pounded to a stringy pulp by bashing it with a piece of coral rock. Then a suitable portion of reef is located, a cork net is unrolled to form a circle, the pounded derris root is drawn back and forth in the encircled patch of water and after a few moments the excitement begins.

The fish do not float belly-upwards on the surface of the water Duva fishing at Naitauba. 121 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1955

AMETCO (D. M. KAMERLING , Manager.) 2-12 Carrington St., Sydney.

Telephone: BX 3695 (AUST.) PTY. LTD.

Cables: Ametco, Sydney Codes: ACME WE ARE

Manufacturers' Representatives

and sell only those lines for which we have the sole agency in the South Pacific, such as;

Flour/Sharps/Wheatmeal

CANNED FISH (Dutch, Sth. African) WALLACE’S SCOTCH WHISKY (Bottled in Scotland)

Lexington Cigarettes

Ceylon Tea

Danish Meats

ESSENCES

Essential Oils

CHEMICALS

Structural Steel

Castiron Pipes

Asbestos Cement Pipes

WIRENETTING

Fencing Wire

Galvanised Corrugated Iron

Corrugated Aluminum Sheets

ETC., ETC. ★ en Q u * r * es ' Preferably through your Buying Agents in Australia . about general merchandise, ui ing materials , technical and semi-technical articles will have our most careful and prompt attention. and the surface of the water. They make no attempt to escape and can be caught easily with the hands or a fish spear. After one portion of reef is fished out the party moves off to another section and the performance is repeated.

All this was interesting; but even more so were the Fat Ladies themselves. All of them are amphibious—but by no stretch of the imagination can they be called graceful swimmers. They propel themselves through the water with ease but they would win no prizes at the Olympics for style.

Being first of all modest, they go into the water fully dressed and they adopt the easiest method possible for getting their 16-stone apiece into the sea. Usually they simply sit on the side of the launch, put their heads down and topple in. No —they don’t hit the water like a tidal upheaval. The whole performance is more like the slow submergence of hippopotami.

And they adopt much the same procedure when they are catching the fish. First, under goes the head, then a very broad behind, covered with gaudy print, hovers, half awash, on the surface, then it too disappears leaving only a pair of bare heels to thresh the surface. Then the whole thing in reverse—heels disappear—bottom comes up—then Fat Lady’s torso and face, complete with diving goggles, said face working overtime while Fat Lady’s hands wave aloft in triumph yet another fish.

This will always be my memory of duva fishing.

The photograph shows some of the triumphant Fat Ladies. I got some very good movies of the whole duva process—but a bobbing dinghy is not the best place to take still photographs and the Fat Ladies are not presented here as well as they might be.—J.T. if Mr. and Mrs. John Watts, who were married in Sydney in April, will live at Penang, Fiji. Mrs. Watts was formerly Miss Beverley McKellar, only daughter of the Mr. W. E. McKellar, of Lindfl NSW, and of Mrs. H. S. McKe of Lindfield, NSW. Mrs. F. Ke of Fiji, was matron of honoui the wedding.

H Mr. Henri Bonneaud, Geni Manager of Establissements I lande, of Noumea, and a mem of the New Caledonia Conseil G eral, returned to Noumea late April after visiting Europe Japan M. Bonneaud was repo: to have arranged the sale of 35C tons of nickel ore to Japan w, in that country.

Basketbal Winners Champion bass ball team of Caledonia for se years, the dependents are l[?] to supply a siderable propo of the women’s r[?] sentative team tour Australiai men’s team will make the tour, itinerary incl[?] Sydney, Newca[?] Melbourne, Ade[?] and possibly Br[?] bane. There will eight girls In group of 20.

Photo: F. D 122 may, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

Doctors Prove Palmolive

Can Bring You

IN 14 DAYS The very first time you change from careless cleansing to the Palmolive Beauty Plan, you’ll actually see Palmolive begin to bring out beauty while it cleans your skin. And in 14 days or less, your sldn can be softer, smoother, vounger looking.

TO ™ ese complex, Provemenfs \

Not Just A Promise

Siit A Proved Beauty Plan

Here s all you do. Gently massage Palmolive’s extra-mild, pure lather onto your skin for just a minute twice a day. Then rinse and pat dry. / C? fosher, brig / COf nplexion I Loss oiliness C? Med softnes smoothness *0 '***' % Wen - blackheads

Regular - Bath Size

SUPERBATH Complexion c more radiant K2B USE PALMOLIVE . . . IT’S SO MILD-SO GENTLE . . . THAT’S WH PALMOLIVE IS BY FAR THE LARGEST SELLING TOILET SOAP IN AUSTRALIA

[?]Iji'S Cigaretie

[?]DUSTRY

[?]Aises Questions

|EMONSTRATING the policy of " “granting reasonable fiscal conisions to encourage new investment the Colony and so broaden the sis of the economy”, Fiji’s Legislae Council last month passed a Bill sating the machinery for collecting ;ise duties on specified goods manustured and consumed in the Colony. \t the moment the “specified ids” comprise cigarettes to be tde at a factory to be established Fiji by the British Tobacco Co. ustralia) Ltd. rhe excise duty is to be 3d for i, compared with the customs ty of 7sd on imported cigarettes, h 1954 Fiji’s imports of 17,791 of cigarettes and 12,409 lb of nufactured tobacco yielded about •0,000 in customs duty, and it has ;n unofficially estimated that an proximate equivalent in locally mufactured cigarettes would Id about £l5O 000 in excise duties.

Critics of the new scheme say it an annual revenue drop of ne £200,000 is too much to pay an industry that may be jected to employ only several sen persons. during the Legislative Council late, the Acting Financial sretary (Mr. R. M. Major) said i Government realised that the erests of importers might be naged for a time, and that the vernment revenues would suffer, : it was hoped that these results uld be only temporary.

Ar. Major said that two urances had been given during i negotiations—first, that the npany would direct its energies .sards extending the Colony’s rket for cigarettes: and ondly, that it would take active ps to develop Fiji’s tobacco :ustry.

Xitside the Council, discussion > centred mainly on the :gestion that, until the return m excise duties equals the toms duties imposed on imported arettes, the industry will be bsidised” to the extent of the 5 in customs duty, t has been claimed that, allowing the higher cost of local manuture, it should be possible— ause of the favourable excise e —to produce cigarettes at about a packet retail, compared with h for imported cigarettes. (Duty imported manufactured tobacco 5/6 on a 2 oz tin, which is retailed about 4/5). dl this, the critics maintain, ans that the local lower-priced arettes will probably push 123 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1955

Build oofs that last a lifetime with Rogerstone Aluminium Alloy Building Sheet FirsfjCQsf is last cost when you roof or build garages, sheds and other outbuildings with these light, strong Moral Alloy Building Sheets. They are weather-proof right through. Unpainted. uncared for, these versatile corrugated sheets will look after themselves for a lifetime. Rogerstone building sheets are exceptionally easy to assemble and are punched ready lor bolting. The sheets will span up to 10 ft. without extra support.

Construction is simple and fast.

Rcgersfone building sheet is produced in two standard widths and a range ot leng.ns. The standard lengths of joining and trimming sections are also given below:— Commodity FuSI-width sheet (30 ins.) Hsfff-wi:Hh sheet (15 ins.) Standard angle ..

Corner piece Roof end section Rafter angle Ridge capping Ridge angle Lengths 8, 9. 10. 11. 12 8. 9. 10. 11. 12 12 10 12 12 8 8 mmmm mm hi D . . . „. . , (Incorporated in Canada) Principal British Commonwealth Distributor of Aluminium Ocean House. 34 Martin Place, Sydney. N.S.W.

An ALUMINIUM LIMITED Company 9 SALES AGENTS: Jteto3. l »iS2dl!* DSOM - McCABE * co - LTD - Suva V Fi®i tern Sam ° a 3nd Ton 9 a: MORRIS HEDSTROM LIMITED, Cook Islands: A. B. DONALD LTD.. Rarotonga, Cook Isl French Oceania: ETABLISSEMENTS DONALD TAHITI. Pap Tahiti.

New Caledonia and New Hei. Jes: AGENCE ALMA. Noi New Caledonia.

LONDON Territory of Papua—New Guinea—BUßNS PHILP (NEW GUINEA) LIMITED. Port Moresby.

MONTREAL CALCUTTA SYDNEY KAR A C 124 MAY. 1 9 S fi . PA r I P T r t C I A M n G m n v t n

With 3-Speed

GEARBOX Hydraulic lift and linkage (optional).

A complete range of implements both mounted and trailed is available. \ c v o c 0 a* H o * TIPS Easy and economical to operate and built to give years of trouble-free service, the MG 6 is the most versatile tractor of its type. Write for full details NOW!

Agents:—MOßßlS HEDSTROM LTD., Suva, Lautoka, Ba.

Made by RANSOMES SIMS & JEFFERIES LTD., IPSWICH, ENGLAND. [?]rewell Party for Popular Banker [?]s Cigarette Factory (Continued from Page 123) rted cigarettes and tobacco st out of the picture, and they whether a “concealed subsidy”, le form of possibly £1,000,000 from the Colony’s revenue over e-year period, is not too high ice to pay for the new local ette industry.

Editorial Note

i’s revenue loss reminds us of w Hebrides resident who some ago decided that it would be od idea to manufacture soap ly, with coconut oil as a base. necessary machinery was rted from France and a good of soap was turned out. wever, Australasian soap manurers were not happy about the industry and soon proved that could undersell the homen article. The manufacturer asked the Government for sort of protection. But the rnment was unenthusiastic— lected duty from imported soap lid not want to do anything to urage its importation not s it could devise some way of g the local industry to make ir lost revenue. The result has that the manufacturer, who ed himself as a pioneer of New idean industry, has now gone if business. ere is a great deal to be said ind against the establishment cigarette factory in Fiji. The rnment merely has to make up lind whether it wants a new industry more than it needs revenue.

The Papua-New Guinea Administration faced the same problem when it permitted the establishment of a brewery at Fort Moresby —and decided for the brewery, The brewery does not employ many, either—but a great many of the shareholders are local P-NG residents and the profits it makes circulate in that country. r Mr. Dudley McCarthy, MBE, Administrative Officer in charge of the Welfare and Social Advancement Branch of the Australian Department of Territories, represen t e d Australia at the Suva ference on the South Pacific Commission proposals for the setting up of a central vocational training institution for the South Pacific. [?]arewell party was given by Mr. F. [?], managing director of the Narain ruction Co., Suva, for Mr. J. Lahore, ger of the Australia and New [?]d Bank, Ltd., before Mr. Lahore’s ture to take up the position of manager of the Brisbane branch. Mr.

Narain is seated in the middle with Mr.

Lahore on his right, and Mr. Gordon Roberts, the bank’s new manager, on his left. Immediately behind Mr. Lahore is Ratu Dr. J. A. R. Dovi and on his left, Lieutenant-Colonel Ratu E. Cakobau, MC.

On the left in the front row are Mr. J.

Amputch (Labour Office), and Mr. L. G.

Usher (Public Relations Officer).

Photo: Caines Studio. 125 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY— MAY, 1955

0# W 0K W*“ and male perfeef copies too • Completely Portable. • Thoroughly R e liable. • So simple even a Junior can operate 1 V# Complete with Supplies immediate use.

Typewriter unnecessary . wHHnI St S n S ls for Handwriting and Tracing.

Delivery from Stock, clubs f ° r Schools and Sports for The Flat Bed Duplicator embodies the simp method of production from the Stencil Process Circulars, Maps, Club Notices, etc.

No Service upkeep costs necessary.

New Silk Diaphragm and Tropical Inking Rollers stock for replacement when necessary.

Plastic Stencils Duplicator Inks and Duplies Paper available for ALL types of Duplicaf Mention make of machine when ordering.

ELLAMS DUPLICATOR CO. (Sydney) PTY. LTD. 52 Margaret St., Sydney. Tel.: BX 1998. £2 fWMB

Wharf Congestion

AT SUVA

Not Yet Solved

EVEN with the erection of two additional wharf sheds, cargo congestion at Suva has not yet been overtaken.

Another large shed is nearing completion but in the opinion of members of the Suva Chamber of Commerce the increasing imports will soon catch up with the additional space.

The Government delayed too long in not erecting additional sheds when it became obvious that the wharf facilities could not cater for increasing imports. Importers have contributed to the confusion by not removing cargo as quickly as they might have done, due to lack of storage space in their own warehouses, and in some cases to unwillingness to take up their bank drafts.

Fresh cargoes have arrived and have been bulked-stacked on top of goods from previous vessels, the result being that it has taken weeks for those importers who really wanted prompt delivery to sort out their own goods.

Efforts are now being made to stack goods in separate heaps for the larger importers, but it has not always been possible to avoid bulk stacking for the larger number of smaller importers. On many occasions no facilities are available when ships arrive simultaneously. fl Mr. Devi Dayl Bhatia, the fourth Commissioner for the Government of India in Fiji, was welcomed by the Indian community at Lautoka on March 14, the gathering being presided over by Mr. B. D. Lakshman. Mr. Bhatia spoke on In problems and achievements independence. Later the Cora sioner was entertained at aften tea at the Lautoka Hotel, whe:i met prominent citizens of all i H Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, who; to have left Fiji on April i: London to study Parliamei procedure before he assumes as Speaker of the Fiji Legisl Council, had to postpone his parture for health reasons.

Chronic congestion of cargo storage space at the Suva wharves produces ovei like this. The situation is complicated by the fact that the whole wharf area, wr by the 1952 hurricane and further weakened by the 1953 earthquake, is to be [?] towards Walu Bay, eventually.

Photo: Sti[?] 126 may, 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT'

I|TV* A homely.dignified atmosphereHai Sydney's most exclusive social rendezvous in the heart of King's Cross and only 4 minutes from the _ City. Every conceivable hotel service is at your call.

Tariff: 31/6 per person B. and B. Other meals h la carte.

AN brands wines, ales and spirits available In the heart of King's Cross Sydney.

Cables: HAMPCOR. Telephone: FA 7081.

WILLIAM FARRER PTY. LTD. (formerly Jacketts Pty. Ltd.) Flour Millers 1 BERESFORD RD„ STRATHFIELD, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “Butterfly”

Lm finest inj tREe SHARPS ‘FIG TREE” BRAND.

MUST ‘IBEX” BRAND.

Fiji Representatives: OCEANIA AGENCIES CO., P.O. Box 284, Suva,

Ew Caledonia’S Economy

Is Sound, Says Governor

(From Our Own Correspondent) The Governor of New Caledonia (M. Rene Hoffherr), speaking at >aris on the island’s economic situation, said that the main problem was to >roduce hydroelectricity at a low cost.

M. Hoffherr added that despite difficulties the economic situation in »Jew Caledonia was sound.

EAP electricity, the Governor said, would relieve the nickel industry of the heavy burden importing fuel for smelting.

I and coke imports now cost it 1,700,000,000 francs a year, le harnessing of the Yate River iroduce 350,000,000 kilowatts a has been the subject of conations between the Governor officials of the French Ministry >verseas Territories. , Hoffherr has pointed out that economy of the island is based mineral production. Chrome, ganese, cobalt and copper can reduced as well as nickel, itential requirements of electrimergy are huge, and a thorough :h for alternative sources of ir, including locally produced will be made. i date the search for oil has uced only “indications”, but 3 indications are encouraging, il were discovered in a usable ly, it would permit the low es of nickel ore to be smelted important point at a time i New* Caledonia has been jelled to adopt a policy of omy with her ore reserves.

ALING with the population question, M. Hoffherr pointed out that New Caledonia, with three inhabitants to the square letre, is close to a heavily fated zone which includes n (220 to the square kilometre) the Philippines (170). >st of the population is concend in the towns and villages. >re and more of the indigenous le are being drawn to the n centres and to work in the is, with a consequent neglect ?riculture.

Hoffherr suggested that, after .reful stocktaking of the land able, agricultural workers, ;rably from Prance, should 3 in the island. (The land itory is now being made). :hough an annual deficit was ic time the usual thing in New lonia, in 1954 there was a arable balance o f 800.000,000 ch francs (not NC francs), oerity was illustrated by iantial building activity comng houses, workers’ quarters factories. cial and political conditions peaceful, and the isolation he island protected the nonpean population from disturboutside influences.

SPEAKING of air communications, which at present consist only of the direct Air France link and the weekly Australian service between Noumea and Sydney, M.

Hoffherr suggested that New Caledonia should not only be connected more frequently with Prance, but that air services should link Noumea with French Oceania and with New Zealand.

Meanwhile, some observers in New Caledonia have been ruffled by two members of the French Parliament who visited the Colony last year.

Although their stay was brief (one 16 days and the other nine days), the two Senators have presented a report of 104 well-filled pages to Parliament, covering geography, politics, economics, social, financial and mining matters, 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 195 5

Morgan Yernex Cie

PAPEETE, E.F.O.

Commission Import Export REPRESENTANT ET AGENTS EXCLUSIFS POUR LES E.F.O, de NIREX PTY. LTD., Australie— WAßßEN COY., US A —HAAS BROS, US A— THE ENFIELD CYCLES CO., England —JOHN McINTOSH & SONS, England CARLSBERG BRYGGERIERNE, Denmark— PEß LUSTUCRU, France— lTßACO, Suisse Beurre "Woratah"

Fetrole "Ampol"

Savon "Waratah"

Margarine "Meadow-Lea"

Confiserie Mclntosh, chocolat "Caley"

Refrigerateurs "Quicfrez"

Motocyclettes "Royal Enfield"

Bombes Insecticides "Eston"

MONTRES: “Itra,” “Sicura,” “1 Conserve "Trupak"

Biere Carlsberg Pates aux oeufs frais Old Bell's Scotch Whisky It.

SHIP THE GOODS

A"Nirex" Invoice Covering Your Orders Is Your

Guarantee That Only The Best Quality Has

Been Shipped At The Fairest Price. A "Nirex"

Invoice You Can Accept With Confidence

NIREX PTY. LTD. 545 GEORGE ST.,

Cables: “Nirex, Sydney”

SYDNEY ’Phones: MA1679, M 3059 128 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

liuuid Discovery Gestures Youth in24Hours Sufferers from loss of rigour, nervousness, weak body, impure blood, falling memory, and who are old and worn-out before their time will be delighted to learn of a new gland discovery by an American doctor.

This new discovery makes It possible to quickly and easily restore vigour to your glands and body, to build rich, pure blood, to strengthen your mind and memory and feel like a new man In only 8 days. In fact, this discovery, which is a home medicine In pleasant, easyto-take tablet form, does away with gland operations and begins to build new vigour and energy In 24 hours, yet it is absolutely harmless In action.

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.

VI-STIM costs little, and the Vi-Stim'F”“' Restores Manhood and Vitality jluding a study of the Nickel mpany, its present and future iivities and its influence on the bs of the people. rhe report claims that New ledonia’s isolation has reduced (influence of France and has prosed “a sense of subordination to stralia”. It implies that the local sembly’s powers are excessive and fgests that the Governor should ve the right to veto any decisions ; acceptable to Metropolitan Unce.

' is pointed out that New Caledonia’s financial structure is based on a system of indirect ation, levied on imports and »orts, which reduces incentive to duce and export. It is claimed ,t this is quite in harmony with interests of the big importers, 0 are represented in the local embly.

'he Nickel Company is criticised the grounds that its policy is it very prudent”. It is charged h not having created sufficient jrves 'Whether of ore or of aey is not stated), and with ing to modernise its smelters 1 organise prospecting with com- ;e efficiency. atu Edward Cakobau, Ratu >rge Cakobau and Ratu Penaia lilau have been appointed Fijian nomic Development Officers, ly will be concerned with mising the production and crops from Fijian 3s. hree heads of Government artments in Fiji are on prerement leave. They are Messrs.

W. Plucknett (Government •ekeeper), R. V. Cole (Director Lands, Mines and Surveys) and E. Donovan (Accountantleral).

Ni Sa Moce

Gustav Mara Hennings THE whole of Fiji’s modern history was encompassed by the life of Gustav Mara Hennings, who died at his plantation home, Naitauba Island. Lau, on April 17.

He was born before Cession, in 1868: was a child of six when Cakobau gave Fiji into the keeping of Victoria: and by birth and intellect, and by the long years of his life, was a repository for Fiji’s traditions and the story of European penetration of the Colony.

Unfortunately, as in the case of other pioneers, much of this history —or many of the small facets that turn history from a dry record to a human document —has gone unrecorded and will likely be lost.

Throughout Fiji, he was known simply as Gus. By his daughters, by the young man who lived in his house, by most of the older residents of Fiji. Perhaps there is a Fijian reason for this; but, if so, I do not know it. The Pacific does not lack for men who are known by a Christian name. Mostly they are the sort of men whom one regards with tolerant affection. Tolerant affection is not a phrase that could be applied to Gustav Hennings in any circumstances; he was, always, the grand seigneur. His greatest condemnation of anyone was that he was “not a gentleman.”

He was born in Lakeba in December, 1868. His father was Mr.

William Hennings, one of four brothers who went from Germany, via Australia, to settle in Fiji about 1860. His mother was Adi Mere, a Lauan lady of high rank, daughter of Ratu Mara and a niece of Ratu Cakobau. William Hennings and his brothers established the cotton industry in Fiji and, at one time, their firm was one of the most important in the group Scarcely an island exists in northern Lau which has not belonged to or has been connected with the Hennings family at one time.

After the slump in cotton in the 70’s, the brothers dissolved partnership and William Hennings went Naitauba Island from the ridge behind the homestead.

The late Mr. G. M. Hennings. 129 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1965

Features that make better home baking I in the tropics certain , •1./' r harys i mm mm

Always Fresh

Cakes Keep Longer

Airtight Container

Constant Tull Strength

/o give your cakes and pastries extra freshness and lightness you must be confident that the ingredients you use are fresh.

Ihat s why you can be sure of first-rate results with Aunt Mary s Cream of Tartar Baking Powder. It never deteriorates and is always dependable. You also cook with the added advantage of adding the rising agent when you do your mixing that is the right time—the best time for sure results. (lunl ttlaU/l Cream of Tartar

Baking Powder

Always Ask For Aunt Mary'S

to Levuka and began business a copra merchant. The finani troubles of London and Hamh firms caused him to retire fi business in 1889 and thereafterlived at Katafaga, in the North Lau group. He died in 1913 s was buried on a small family islj. off Lomaloma.

Adi Mere lived many years mj the last of them with her son Naitauba. From her daughterlaw she extracted a promise tl when she died, she should be tal across the 40 miles of sea that s arated Naitauba from Lomalc and buried alongside her hush on the small island. How t promise was eventually fulfilledl a romantic story in itself.

The regal dignity of Adi Men The Old Lady, they call her—is s spoken of with pride and held a precept by the Hennings farrr A BOUT the time that Cakol ceded Fi.ii to Queen Victa Gustav Mara Hennings T sent to Sydney to school. He mained there about six years, turned home for a year and i then sent to Dresden, in Germaf to finish his education.

In 1887 he returned to Fiji was soon back in Germany, whi he worked in a bank for th years. He returned permanently Fiji in 1892, and in 1902 was ms ager of Henry Marks and C branch at Lomaloma. In the m few years he planned up Nabav: on the island of Vanua Balavu. few years before the First Wc War he returned again to G many.

Naitauba, which to-day has indigenous natives living there, one time supported several nati villages. The story is told by i family that they were sent away their chief for some misdemeanor long before the Hennings were e; connected with the island.

According to some history boc the natives were transferred ell where by Ma’afu at a time when wished to encourage Europe settlement for the purpose of cott growing.

It is not generally known tM Naitauba was once owned by 1 Mr. Joseph Chamberlain who lai became a Cabinet Minister in Brits, In the course o J a world tour passed through the infant Colo and instructed an agent to buy hr an island in the group. The islai Naitauba. was duly bought, T Chamberlain had gone on way—to acquire other possessions? other parts of the Empire and ner to see his Fiji purchase. So.( coffee that still grows in Naitaub: interior basin, and other plan were sent there from othj Chamberlain acquisitions in Afrii During the cotton boom, this cn was grown on Naitauba but latf coconuts were planted. The islaf 130 MAY, 1955. — PACIFIC ISLANDS MO NTH II

fin mrx i

Sweet Gherkins

Gherkin Spread

Olives, Capers

Cocktail Onions

White and coloured.

Sweet Mustard Pickle

' O

In Any Language

Stands For Quality And Economy

; first leased by Mr. Chris mings. brother of William, and >r purchased by him from imberlain’s agent. At Mr. Chris mings’ death, the property went his nephew, Gas, and it was le Mr. Gus Hennings was in ■many settling Chris Hennings’ ghter in school there, that he Elizabeth Vogel, who shortly beie his bride. They returned to in 1912. [rs. Hennings often tells how, iming of Fiji as a land of lushdripping tropical fruit, she red at Nabavatu at the end of of the worst droughts in the ory of the Lau Group. Scarcely jreen thing remained on the itation, and she waited months aste her first tropical fruit. ; that time, and until after the t War, the Hennings spent only ew months of each year at auba. The heat during the hot on was considered too great, huge mango trees that now shadow and bring coolness to homestead were either not then ted or only small saplings, is has always been a lover of s and there were few years in life when he had not owned a eful vessel of some kind. Right he end, he subscribed to ship yachting magazines and pored drawings and photographs with enthusiasm of a youngster, man of culture, of wide vision brilliant wit, he was also a ,n chief. Sometimes, all Fijian Amongst the numerous ites to-him that we received :one wrote that he was “a king lis own island.” Perhaps this so—but he was a king always 5 conscious of his obligations of his privileges. The Fijian iy system works both ways and nfluence with his Lauan people, his solicitude for them, were lly great. rhaps more than anything else, ras a great cosmopolitan. He I to talk of his student days ■ermany, long before the First d War and thought at one time •ining the German Navy, until as discovered that his British mality. disqualified him. To brought up in a period when i are inevitably international lies” and “baddies,” to hear of rid back before rabid nationalbook control, is shattering. But agine that the world of young av Mara Hennings was very i more “One World” than that i his grandson faces —in spits le efforts of legions of wellling present-day propagandists. . Hennings is survived by his v and three daughters— beth, who is at present living aitauba; Sophie (Mrs. C. M. ington-Richards) of London; Mara (Mrs. R. J. Miller) of ;a Wagga, NSW; and by his it grandson, Donald Gustav r life held full measure of joy, w, tragedy, disaster, fulfilment, happiness; it was lived at a period that, in human affairs, has had no equal; few lives have been as interesting.—JT.

Caledonian Iron Ore for Australia Soon FOLLOWING the recent agreement between Broken Hill Pty., Ltd. of Australia, and Societe le Nickel and Establissements Ballande of New Caledonia, concerning the export of iron ore from that French Territory to Australia, preparatory work has now started in the Plaine des Lacs- Bay of Prony area.

Access roads to the mining area are being built, and a mechanical conveyor-belt system for the loading of ships is being established.

The workings will be open-cut. and the first shipments should be made before the end of 1955.

If Mr. Sholto Norton, of the Government rubber plantation at Kokoda.

NG, and Mrs. Norton, have been on holiday in Brisbane. Unfortunately, reported a Brisbane correspondent in April, Mr. Norton was undergoing “some heroic treatment” at the hands of an exodontist.

High Cost of Working Walpole PIM recently reported that there were plans afoot to recommence shipment of guano from Walpole Island, part of the New Caledonia administrative territory, 150 miles east of Noumea.

A New Caledonia business man who was in Sydney in May, said that the remaining supplies on the Island would not seem to warrant the erection of any expensive equipment to facilitate the loading of ships. However, as Mr. Angelo Biga, a well-established mining man of Koumac, was said to be behind the project, it could be assumed that the difficulties of shipping from an open anchorage had been fully considered.

There are between 5,000 and 6,000 tons of guano dug and ready for shipment on Walpole—a legacy of past operations. About 10,000 tons per year were exported from 1923 to close-down in 1929, nearly all of it going to New Zealand. Consumers there now use Seychelles guano from the Indian Ocean. t Number of Credit Unions in Fiji at end of March was 87; membership was 10,901; assets £31,859. 131 IPIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1955

Brushing after meals is best. If you can't ONLY KOLYNOS guarantees round-the-clock' protection from both decay™* bad breath BECAUSE only Kolynos contains the priceless new cleaner and decay-fighter S-15 Do you, like most busy people, find it impossible to brush your teeth after every meal? Then by all means use Kolynos!

Kolynos Tooth Paste is the only toothpaste that contains science’s newest cleaner and best decay fighter - the fabulous "S-15”. Just ONE brushing with Kolynos in the morning destroys germs that cause tooth decay and bad breath.

It promptly removes the enzymes that produce acid-causing cavities. Kolynos sets up a most healthy, protective condition in your mouth that lasts round-the-clock”. It gives you better and longer defence against decay and bad breath than any other toothpaste.

The exclusive Kolynos foaming action gets into crevices and grooves no other toothpaste can.

Cleans even dull, dingy teeth to a sparkling new whiteness.

V •''■S' Sff

Kolynos Tastes Best

Kiddies love the delightful taste. So easy to get them to brush with Kolynos. 10 9 ONE JUST BRUSHING guarantees 5 POSITIVE ROUND THE CLOCK PROTECTION Decay from ano Breath Big Sums Spent On Fiji Leprosy Hospital Expenditure on the f i j i Leprosy Hospital at Makogai rose from £F51,000 in 1949 to £69,000 in 1952 and dropped slightly to £64,000 in 1953.

Of the 634 patients three are Europeans, 139 are Fijians, 193 are Indians, and the balance comprises Gilbert and Ellice Islanders, Samoans, Tongans, Cook Islanders and others. Some of the patients are from territories outside the British Commonwealth.

These facts were given in the House of Commons on March 30, when the Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (Mr. H. L. Hopkinson) replied to questions.

Mr. L. W. Teeling (Conservative) asked whether it would not be possible, despite the good organisation at Makogai, to take patients ‘‘back into Fiji and to Suva” in order to eliminate the patients’ sense of isolation.

Mr. Hopkinson replied: “I j certainly bear that suggestion mind and will refer it to the 0 ernor of Fiji.”

Mr. J. Dugdale, a former Mint of State in the Labour Governm said: “As one of the few mem who have been to this settlern may I add my tribute to any may be paid by the Rt. Hon. gei man to the excellent way in w, it is run?”

The Minister added: “I. sh like to mention that we have generous help in the hospital 1 the New Zealand Leper Tt Board and others,” 132 MAY. 19 5 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Stop Kidney Poisoningloday If you suffer from Rheumatism, Sleepless Nights, Leg Pains, Backache, Lumbago. Nervousness, Headaches and Colds.

Dizziness. Circles under Eyes, Swollen Ankles, Loss of Appetite or Energy, you should know that your system Is being poisoned because germs are impairing the vital process of your kidneys.

Ordinary medicines can’t help much, because you must kill the germs which cause these troubles, and blood can't be pure till kidneys function normally.

Stop troubles by attacking cause with Cystex—the new scientific discovery which starts benefit In 2 hours. Cystex must prove entirely satisfactory and be exactly the medicine you need or money back is guaranteed. Get Cystex from your chemist or store today Allen Taylor & Co. Ltd.

COMMERCIAL ROAD, ROZELLE, SYDNEY.

Sawmillers and Wholesale Suppliers of Hardwoods for Constructional Purposes GIRDERS . . . PILES . . . POLES . . . SLEEPERS, Etc.

Exporting to the Pacific Islands Since 1893.

Deaths Of Islands People

MR. N. W. TOWSON Hr. N. W. Towson, who was born Levuka, Fiji, in 1873, died at libalabala estate on April 13. i son of Mr. G. R. B. Towson, Somerset, England, who had veiled to Fiji in 1867 and settled Navua to grow cotton, Mr. Nat !?son was educated at Levuka. worked for a time at Labasa and n took over the Waibalabala ite at Savusavu.

Ir. Towson is survived by a er, Mrs. E. R. Hawksley, of Suva, » sons Nat of Sydney and >rge of Nasinu —and a daughter, sell (Mrs. R. McGowan, of li balab a 1 a ) . Mrs. Towson, nerly Miss Emily Harman of nsavu, died in 1943.

Dr. D. W. Hoodless

•r. D. W. Hoodless, widely known i former principal of the Central lical School, Suva, died at abridge, England, on April 15. had gone to England to visit father, and was in good health m he left Fiji. r. Hoodless arrived in the my as a teacher in 1912. He was ointed headmaster of the Lau vincial School in 1915, and in t became Acting Director of cation. i 1930 he was appointed Tutor ;he Medical School and in 1935 irned to England to take his *ee as a medical practitioner, k in Fiji, he was principal of Central Medical School until retirement a few years ago. fter his retirement he worked relief doctor in the Gilbert and e Islands and elsewhere.

Hoodless was a strong orter of the Fiji Philatelic ?ty. He played bowls frequently was one of the popular type of srs who seek pleasure and lanionship on the green rather trophies.

His ready wit and kindly nature brought him many friends, including the host of Fijian and other medical students whom he taught for so many years.

MR. G. C. BARRATT Mi\ George Chapman Barratt, who died suddenly at Levuka on April 11, was an acknowledged leader of the part-European community in Fiji and was regarded with the highest respect by people of all races. His funeral at Suva was one of the largest for many years.

His father, an Englishman, was part-owner with Captain D. Robbie of a tea plantation at Wainunu, in Vanua Levu, and his mother was before her marriage Miss Ruth Watkins, a member of one of the oldest Levuka families.

Young George Barratt for many years combined shipping and plantation interests. After managing several plantations, he acquired Naqere at Savusavu East and from time to time owned a series of small trading vessels.

In 1933 he moved to Suva and opened a shipping office in Pier Street. Characteristically, he described his business as “crumbs from the rich men’s tables.’’

There was an odd superstition that for some reason or other, George Barratt was not intended to own more than two ships: whenever he acquired a third vessel disaster overtook one of the trio. However that may be, when Mr. Barratt went into partnership with Mr.

Baker, who built the Fijian Princess (still trading today >. he took the precaution of selling the Ono-i-Lau before the Fijian Princess entered the water.

At the time of his death at the age of 66 he owned the Fijian Princess and the recently-acquired Kadavulevu.

He is suvived by his wife, a son (Mr. George Barratt, of Diloi, Vanua Levu), and four daughters (Mesdames J. Bowerman, D. Low.

F. Barrack and E Marlow). There are 17 grandchildren.

Mr. Gustav Mara Hennings

A report of the death of Mr.

Gustav Mara Hennings appears on page 129, this issue.

Mrs. H. E. Waddingham

Mrs. Henrietta E. Waddingham, widow of the late Mr. Frank Waddingham. died at Lautoka, Fiji, on April 5 after a long illness. For many years she was one of Nadi’s Mr. G. C. Barratt.

Dr. D. W. Hoodless. 133 : 1 F I C ISLANDS M O N T H L Y -MAY. 1955

Dampness And Humidity Can

Ruin Your Floors!

Sii!

By Appointment Suppliers of Wax Polishes to His Late Majesty King George VL . . . and there are no other wax polishes in the world that can beautify and protect lino and floors as thoroughly as Johnson’s.

REMEMBER! Johnson’s Wax contains a greater percentage of genuine Brazilian Carnauba Wax, yet the cost per oz. is cheaper than most other wax polishes sold.

JOHNSONS WAX -It c O«, T «*TS 1 POUND Johnson* JOHNSON ‘•'-I. .w "

WAX, Johnson's uhp° IIII’; ..ao«a &TtWa*ls iS'-sSirsv!

ALL PRODUCTS OF S, C. JOHNSON & SON PTY. LTD.

Established 1886 WORLD’S LARGEST AND ONLY WORLD-WIDE MAKERS OF WAX POLISHE

There Must Be A Reason!

Island Distributors ex Sydney Bums, Philp & Co. Ltd.

W. R. Carpenter & Co, Ltd.

Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd.

Fiji Trading Co. Pty. Ltd.

Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd.

International Trading Co.

Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd.

J. C. Merrillees Pty. Ltd.

Nirex Pty. Ltd.

Morris, Hedstrom (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd.

Maurice Pelletier Pty. Ltd.

P. E. Scrivener & Co. Ltd.

C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd.

W. S. Tait & Co. Pty. Ltd.

Tallerman & Co. most respected residents. She 74 years of age.

Born at Levuka, Mrs. Waddf ham was formerly Miss Pii.

She was married at Ba close to< end of the last century. At N Mr. Waddingham was one of last large-scale European plan in the sugarcane industry.

Mr. A. W. Broodbank

The death of Mr. Arthur Edw Broodbank, formerly of Sams occurred at Brisbane on April Mr. Broodbank went to Sami from North Queensland as a buil Subsequently, however, he becii first a butcher and then a bake He is survived by his wife; member of the well-known Eve family of Eastern Papua), two s and two daughters, all i children being married. Anol son, Ron, was lost on air operat:; over Germany in the war.

Many former Samarai pen living at Brisbane attended funeral.

Mr. John Barber

At the age of 80 years, Mr. Jl Barber, a former Fiji resident, c at Whangarei, New Zealand, April 16.

Mr. Barber arrived in Fiji. 1899 and took up farming in Rewa district, also engaging in shipping of bananas. He left last year.

Mr. Barber was a keen suppo< of the old Rewa Football Club was also a prominent member of Rewa Bowling Club. Only a months before his death he a money to be used at the Suva Rewa Bowling Clubs to celebi his 80th birthday.

He is survived by Mrs. Bar and their son Robert, who dispo of his farm at Tailevu to accompc his parents to New Zealand, MR. A. S. de MONTALK News was received at Suva April 17 of the death of Mr..

S. de Montalk, headmaster of Suva Boys’ Grammar School ff 1933 to 1937.

Mr. de Montalk was a sucess headmaster and under his guidaf the school made good progress, a popular headmaster he remembered by many of his pupils in Fiji and overseas.

He died while on his way to tl part in the Gallipoli land commemoration. He was signaller, and one of the firstd land on the beach at Anzac C»; He was in his 65th year.

Mr. H. Stuchbury

A former Fiji veterinary surge Mr. H. Stuchbury, was recen hacked to death by natives Dar-es-Salaan.

Mr. Stuchbury was in the Gov© 134 MAY, 1 9 5 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH]

SHELL with I.C.A. and any other petrol Between well M55427H WITH m AUSTRALIA* AATtMT »0 /52f157 There’s a “power of difference” because SHELL is specially refined to give ideal engine performance in this country. Road tests have proved SHELL to be superior in anti-knock value to any imported motor spirit.

The most Powerful Petrol you can buy!

The Shell Co. cf Aust. Ltd. (Inc. in Gt. Britain) at service in Fiji, and was trans- •ed to Nyasaland some ten years He retired and went to •-es-Salaam recently. No further ticulars are available except that was said to have been killed by jai tribesmen. [r. Stuchbury was highly thought by stock owners, not only for skill, but also for his readiness ittend any call.

Mr. Mautairi Pe

tie death occurred from advanced recently at Mangaia, Cl, of Mr. itairi Pe, a pioneer Pomare lallist and pensioned former her. autairi was one of the longice men of the Education Dept., mencing over thirty years ago , prize scholar. He received his rd of the then newly-instituted lare Medal from that renowned ri statesman’s own hands, le late Mautairi possessed, ng other accomplishments, marked artistic powers, and for a time worked in soft con- ; on designs and inscriptions for uments, in the European ition of moulded doves, etc. sketches, the best of which were ; during a prolonged stay at the itonga Sanatorium where it been hoped to cure his conm, reveal a latent talent that greater encouragement, might taken the artist very far.

Mr. Nadjarian Zorab

’. Nadjarian Zorab, a Papeete naker, died there from a heart ;k on Anril 1. rn in Turkey, but a French ;n with 15 years of military serin Indo-China, France and ti, Mr. Zorab was only 40 years >e. He is survived by his wife, tive of Lebanon, and one son.

Mr. Jack Douglas

. Jack Douglas, one of the com- :ively few surviving members of New Zealand Expeditionary i of 1914, died at Apia Govent Hospital on April 16. m at Manchester, England, in Mr. Douglas served in the 1 Navy and after leaving the ce went to New Zealand, where ngaged in farming.

August, 1914, he volunteered he Samoan Occupation Force, after demobilisation stayed in •a. • many years he was a Burns trader in Savai’i.

FR. J. CHESNEAU AND REV.

FR. J. OGER i death occurred recently of veteran Catholic missionaries *ench Oceania.

April 20, Father Joseph leau died after 51 years of serhaving arrived from France in and remained in the Colony t for a brief return home on m business in 1920. Father leau founded the Catholic )n at Huahine in 1907, transg shortly afterwards to Raiatea, where he was stationed until 1940. He was then sent to Papeete to form a Minor Seminary for the training of native priests, became editor of a Catholic journal, and Provincial of the French Oceania Province of his mission, the Congregation of the Holy Cross, retiring in 1952, due to ill-health. Last August he celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination.

The other veteran priest was Father Julien Oger, born in France in 1881, and attached to the French Oceania Province for 46 years. During that time he had been in charge of many parishes, including the Tuamotus and Mangareva. He returned home once on vacation. He celebrated his golden jubilee only a month before his death in April.

High Costs in N.C.

A NOUMEA builder, presenting figures to justify the very high cost of building in New' Caledonia, showed the enormous rise in costs that has taken place there since 1939.

In 1939, according to these figures, labour and materials were only a tenth of to-day’s prices. Labourers then reecived 25 francs per day.

To-day they receive 300 francs (£A2 2/6). A tradesman earns double that—and the builder implied that the amount of work done per day was less to-day.

Output of dry rubber from Koitaki Para rubber plantations for April was 52,714 lb 135 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

notts Biscuits There is no Substitute for Quality The following varieties are now available for export in No. 8 size soldered tins (8 tins crated, 3 ft. 6 in. cu.) and i-lb. waxed packets in Cartons of permissible shipping weight (1 ft. 3 in. cu.).

No. 8 tins VARIETY: Adora Cream Wafer Afternoon Tea Amelia Crunch Arno Shortbread Butter Oat Cake Cherry Ripe Cocoanut Creamy Chocolate Custard Cream Delta Cream Ginger Nut Golden Grain Jatz Cracker Lacto Malted Milk Milk Arrowroot Milk Coffee Nice Orange Slice Orange Tea Osborne Princess Raspberry Fruit Cream Sao (Carton 1 ft. 5 in. cu.).

Scotch Finger Shredded Wheatmeal Spicy Fruit Roll Tea Cake Thin Captain o Not available in No. 8 tins, x Not available in packets.

Cabin Biscuits

(As Supplied to the Royal Australian Navy) Single Tins. Approximately 35 lb. net weight per tin of I.C. plate 13i in. x 13 h in. x 16 in.

Hermetically sealed with tagger top. Slip on lid spot-soldered.

Packed in cartons made of No. 2 board silicate gum sealed for permissible shipping uncrated, to hold one tin. Size of carton approximately 14 in. x 14 in. x 16h in., = 1 ft. 11 in. cu. (21 equal one shipping ton).

WILLIAM ARNOTT PTY., HOMEBUSH, N.S.W.

LIMITED 136 MAY, 1 9 5 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

YOUR NEXT LEAVE Modern up to the minute homes between Dee Why and Palm Beach available to Island Residents for Holidays.

Write for information to:— J. T. STAPLETON PTY. LTD., ESTATE AGENTS . 133 PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

BU 3420, BL 1737. or any of the Branch Offices located at Dee Why, Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Avalon or Palm Beach. stable Tongan Catch

Chnicality Rules

Out Fishing Record

HEN Mrs. Frank Hayford, an American visitor to Fiji, caught a 336 lb silver marlin a 24-thread dacron line off aya Island in early April, it 3d as though a world record it be in the offing. it when the fish was brought gside the boat and was gaffed, ood on its tail and then made round the launch. To avoid age to the boat, one of the aboard lifted the line. And international rules governing •d claims require that until the part of the trace passes into aoat no one but the fisherman touch the line or any part of fishing gear.

“s. Hayford’s husband accounted l 334 lb silver marlin.

Nznac Expects Profit

On Year’S Working

NEW Zealand National Airways Corporation, the Governmentowned organisation operating the Auckland-Norfolk Island link as well as most of New Zealand’s internal air services, expected to show a small profit in its operations for the year ended on March 31.

Revenue was up by £270,000. Airport dues, which came into force on April 1, 1954, would cost the Corporation about £lOO,OOO, but against that was an increase in fares since January 1, 1955.

There were premature rumours at Auckland some months ago that TEAL would take over the Norfolk service immediately, but that has not eventuated, though it is still predicted to take place. The change-over may have been delayed by TEAL’S more pressing problems on the Coral Route.

And One From Fiji Fijian Seamen Have Suva Social Centre ANOTHER step in meeting Suva’s lack of social facilities for a large part of the population has been taken by the Fiji Seamen’s Union, a predominantly Fijian organisation, which on April 9 opened its own social centre.

Named Reay Hall in honour of a former Commissioner of Labour (Mr. C. S. Reay), the building was formally opened by the District Commissioner. Southern ( Ratu Edward Cakobau), who deputised for Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna. Ratu Sir Lala was prevented by illness from attending.

The union president (Captain J.

Mullins) welcomed the guests and Mrs. Mullins presented the key with which Ratu Edward opened the building.

The large hall, which has full kitchen and other facilities, will be a badly-needed gathering-place and recreation centre for local seamen at Suva.

The opening was marked by full traditional Fijian ceremonies. f Mr. Justice C. F. C. Macaskie, CMG, has been appointed to act as Judicial Commissioner British Solomon Islands Protectorate during the absence on leave of Mr.

G. J. Horsfall. He arrived in Honiara on May 2 to remain for one week and will then go on to Vila, New Hebrides, to act as British Judge on the Joint Court, and Legal Adviser to the British Resident Commissioner. New Hebrides. He joined the North Borneo Civil Service in 1910. retired in 1945, and has been living in Queensland. light by Mosese Vea near Navutoka, atapu, on March 25, this swordfish 8 ft. 1 in. long and weighed 147 lb. catch was made from the Government [?]h with the Commissioner of Public [?]s (Mr. K. G. Young) in charge.

Photo: August Hettig.

Most people maintain that this fish, 11 ft. 6 in. long, caught near Wakaya Island, Fiji, last December, is a striped marlin, but others say that it is a sailfish. The catch mas made by Captain Anderson and Chief Engineer E. Wendt, of the "Yanawai”, with a line owned by Mr. Langi Rodan (holding the fin in the picture). 137 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 19 5 5

No More Tugging At Levers

With The New

§ Q 7 fully patented

• You Simply

Wind To Open

• WIND TO

Firmly Close

TCie GEARBOX drive— that Is the secret of this newest, most outstanding Louvre window.

A simple handle—unique to the Agco Supaluvre—enables you to easily and quickly wind your louvres to any desired opening or to draught-proof closure.

Why You Should Fit Agco Supaluvres

In Your Home!

• To control air —the amount of fresh air cau be controlled to a nicety. Moreover, end this is most important, you can cause that air to be deflected upwards toward the ceiling so that direct draught it eliminated.

LOOK AT THESE NEW FEATURES —EXCLUSIVE TO AGCO. •if Cream Baked Enamel finish. if Gearbox drive— so easy to open and dose. if Absolutely rattleproof and weatherproof. if Improved glass holders. • For safety —Even when fully open there is only a 5" aperture too small to enable a prowler to crawl in; too small for children to fall out. • interference with Curtains or Blinds —Because Agco Supaluvre blades are swung from their edges, blinds and curtains—and fly screens, too —can be fitted without unsighMy boxing out or other makeshift. • Ease of Fitting —Any handy man can fit Agco Supaluvres. Full instructions are given with every set supplied— labour charges are eliminated.

Sole Agents Southwest Pacific:

Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd

540 Riff Street, Sydney. Cables: "Robergill."

Local Distributors for Fiji: FIJI BUILDERS LTD., G.P.0., Box No. 3, Suva.

Survey, still in Sydney on leavr May, made this comment: “The Mining Regulations are ; based on fair and just princij A prospector now has protect giving him indefeasible rights to coveries he may make in areas cc to prospecting, provided that; conforms to specified working o ditions, and does not sit on property and do nothing, thus \ venting others from doing so( thing.”

“In return,” said Mr. Grover, • Government has the right to i royalties and taxes as well as see that capital (the property) labour are not unduly idle. TH principles are in the interests of country and the individual.”

Mr. Grover said that the should now be clear for an crease in prospecting intere There are thousands of square rrn of mountainous hinterland qj unexplored by Europeans. Min companies may find this hard believe, said Mr. Grover, but it mains a fact that the search gold in the Solomons has been c fined so far to a relatively sn area, and there has never been . search for base metals.

Radio active minerals are i placed almost on the same basis other minerals, except that fii must be reported and export licen applied for. The latter measure merely to control the destination exports of such strategically va able minerals.

Mr. Grover emphasises, that the Solomons field is no pi for loafers. Prospectors must tough physically and stable me ally. Exploration involves dang ous and exacting work in the rr valleys. Because of the de: jungle and depth of soil on ridges one cannot see rock outen there. Men who long for the brit lights after a week or two in bush are not likely to succeed cause much depends on the hurr factor.

Mr. Grover said many mislead statements, by men lackingqualifications or the data to be their statements, had been made the Solomons in the past.

Work On Lodes

ENCOURAGING* COMMENTING on the ean Government statement of Gold Ridge discovery, Grover said that the April 2 : nouncement was fully supported! work which had been continue since then on two of the three loc mentioned. The third lode will J developed when equipment arri' for removal of the overburden. Ho: ever, it is now possible to say t!d development has shown all thi lodes to contain free gold. Therelittle doubt that the discoveries 138 BSI Encourages New Mining Enterprise (Continued from Page 17) MAY, 1 955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH]

Why Can Zebu Cattle Stand More Heat?

Why is it that certain strains of cattle will grow fat and flourish under extreme tropical conditions while other strains are relatively useless?

This question is fully dealt with and answered by a competent agricultural scientist in the

"Better Farming

DIGEST" now available to you by writing The Sydney & Melbourne Publishing Co., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

The Digest contains about 30 fascinating and informative articles on a wide variety of subjects, all compiled by scientific experts, and all with a universal appeal r,o readers interested in the rapid advances of science in the agricultural and pastoral fields.

You can have a FREE SAMPLE COPY of the June issue by writing immediately to the Publishers, but vou should not delay as supplies of the free sample copies are strictly limited.

A Block Of Fresh Milk?

Did you know that in the USA today milk is being frozen into solid blocks and consumed weeks later almost as fresh as the day of milking? This intriguing article, along with many others of great educational value to everybody, is available to you for reading, free of all cost, in your sample copy of “Better Farming Digest” Don’t miss out on your free copy.

Power Farming In

Australia & New

ZEALAND Have you a technical problem connected with tractors, engines, pumping, welldigging, irrigation, machine cultivation, logging and timber-milling, carburetion, wiring, ignition, generators, use of pulleys, fencing, application of power and so forth? Drop a line to the Technical Editor of POWER FARMING and an answer will be forthcoming by return mail.

If your problem is urgent you will receive an ailmail reply.

This is a FREE SERVICE, made available to the readers of “Power Farming in Aust. & N.Z.”

A free sample copy of “Power Farming” will, also be sent to you on request.

Subscription Rates to “Power Farming” are- British Pacific Islands £l/10/-; Overseas. £1 /lii/-, for 12 monthly issues, post free. Address: Box 1813, G.P.0., Sydney. importance: the twenty years’ •ch for the 1 mother lodes is sucifully concluded. It remains now develop and prove the area a e. he lodes are being opened up by isuna Syndicate which has the its to the area, but sampling, ,ys and statements to the public being handled by the BSIP eminent —additional proof that , administration now greatly dei to attract bona fide gold mininterests to the Protectorate. ;spite every indication that this d be a gold discovery of some Drtance, Australian mining in- -3t has not been aroused to the en t that one might have jined. At the beginning of May, ever, several companies were zing definite interest and were Iting the results of assays. More iral interest will probably be m when the statement of April ercolates through, le pre-war history of mining in ? —when many tried but none sed in finding the scarce lodes be Guadalcanal gold—plus the ilists’ best efforts to discourage mining after the war, is not y to be forgotten overnight. >ne are the gold-boom days of r ears ago when rumours were dent to float companies and i areas of Fiji and New Guinea pegged on nothing more enaging than wishful-thinking of the old prospectors of predays are now raising beef b or growing coffee or cabbages. companies have r interests —oil, coal mining, er or other metals.

Nonetheless, if Gold Ridge proves to be the rich find that BSIP is waiting for, doubtless the means and the capital will be forthcoming to develop it.

An important goldfield could turn the Cinderella protectorate into a going concern for the first time in its history and this, as in other undeveloped countries, would have a profound effect.

Australian enterprise and capital would likely be very much involved; Australia would be the logical supply point for most of the goods and equipment needed there, which would bring the Protectorate even more into the Australian orbit than at present. Political changes could follow economic changes.

There would certainly be an effect on the whole labour supply position in BSIP, which, since the war, has never been good. It has been suggested that mechanisation will obviate the necessity for much labour —but mechanisation of Fiji and New Guinea mines has not entirely prevented a drain on native labour resources in those countries.

It has been suggested, also, that there is no reason why labour should not be imported from other Pacific Islands —New Guinea, for example. However, it is unlikely that P-NG, which is itself up against a labour shortage problem which is expected to grow worse in coming years, is likely to countenance that.

However, that problem is still in the future. In the coming months results of tests of the Gold Ridge lodes will be watched by everyone who has the welfare of the BSIP at heart.

Cricket Trophy for Moresby Team Ir. Les Michel, president of the Port Moresby Cricket Association, presents Mr.

Smart, captain of the Port Moresby team, with the winner’s Cup at the Port sby Cricket Association’s dinner which was held at the Moresby Hotel at the usion of the match Port Moresby v. Cairns during Easter. —Photo by Papuan Prints. 139 • F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY 1955

KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

4 O'Connell Street, Sydney

P.O. Box 3838. G.P.0., Sydney. fanci dSeffmq and dduyinff sdgents Cable Address: “CAREFULNESS”. since 1895 Sole Pacific Islands Distributors for: —

Clyde Batteries

for Your Car, Truck, Tractor, Home and Cycle.

The Most Reliable Battery Made In Australia Today

Clyde for LIFE Big-Scale Thefts From Apia PWD (From Our Own Correspondent) 'VIEWS of alleged large-scale li thefts of timber and other building materials from the Public Works Department caused a big sensation along the Apia waterfront in late April.

The police had by then recovered well over £l,OOO worth of timber and corrugated iron taken from the PWD timber-yard at Vaimea.

Truckloads of allegedly stolen material are being traced, and the indications are that material has gone to many places in Upolu and even to Savai’i.

It seems possible that the total value of material involved may run into tens of thousands of pounds.

The police will also investigate possible charges of receiving stolen goods.

New Hospitals at Tonga ANEW TB ward was officially opened at the Vailo Hospital, Tongatabu, on March 22 by HRH Princess Mata’aho.

In April, Queen Salote officially opened the new Ngu Hospital at Vavau.

Archbishop Carboni

Visits Solomon

(From Our Own Correspondent) Archbishop carboni, u Apostolic Delegate for Austral New Zealand and Ocean arrived at Honiara by plane April 4, accompanied by Monsigr Dadaglio.

On April 5, he left for Mala with Bishop J. M. Aubin (Rom Catholic Bishop of the Sot Solomons) and visited missE stations at Buma, Tarapaii Rohinari and Rokera, returning’

Honiara on April 11 via the MissE Station at Visale, in Guadalcanu At Honiara the Archbishop cc mented on the value of the operation between the Governmi and the missions, through whr excellent results had been obtain Archbishop Carboni’s visit to Catholic mission stations in Solomons was made in a sup: visory capacity.

Versace-Frith Wedding McLaughlin- Poile Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Denis McLaughlin after their wedding at the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Port Moresby, on April 11.

The bride was formerly Miss Barbara Poile of the Department of Administration. Miss Barbara Hennings, shown right, was bridesmaid.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Versace leaving Church of Our Lady of the Rosary. I Moresby, after their wedding on April The bride was formerly Miss Ann F[?] daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. F[?] of Madang. Mr. Versace is with the C monwealth Bank, Port Moresby. —Photo by Papuan Pri[?] 140 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

ilf** R 4 mm m aw« -I. a CCA S* tIH pov w ftOO^ & H\^* 1 IAHO iCCANIHNf

Prepared Wax

Floor Polish

For Lino, Floors, Furniture, Leather E Motor Cars

" Twice the shine in half the time"

Piccaninny imparts a glow of youth and Beauty to floor surfaces that might otherwise soon begin to show their age. There is nothing more perfect for linoleum or natural wood floors.

Piccaninny's tough wax skin protects surfaces from tropical moisture, wear and tear —saves you hours of work and gives Twice the Shine in Half the Time!

Piccaninny Brown Stain

For Jarrah, Cedar, Stained Floors and woodwork.

Dries quickly to a natural sparkling lustre.

Manufactured by PICCANINNY MANUFACTURING Co. 254 Pittwater Road, Manly, N.S.W., Australia.

Nickel Industry.

Modernisation Is

COSTLY {From Our Own Correspondent) ODERNISATION of the New [ Caledonia Nickel Co.’s smelters is discussed in a report reed by the company at Noumea, melting is done by means of > —either coke produced from im- ;ed coal costing about £6 a ton, mported coke costing more than ble that sum. he report raps Australia on the ckles with the comment: “The of coal has grave inconveni- »s inasmuch as most of it comes a ai country where social cons are frequent and have in the ; produced serious irregularities lelivery which once resulted in jssation of smelting activity at mea.” aother objection to coal is that cost price of smelted nickel at mea is at least 50 p.c. dearer i the price it brings on the Id market. Consequently, France r ides a subsidy of about 100,000 French francs (about 250,000). mother source states, rather y, that the company’s reserves more than five times the size ts capital). le Noumea system of smelting refining nickel ore is old- .ioned and uneconomic. Even ast yeal*s record output probably be exceeded this year.

RST stage in the proposed new system is the new River Yate dam to impound at least )00,000 cub. metres of water and luce at least 340,000,000 KWH a (The present dam furnishes an irregular 60,000,000 KWH). le present hydro-electric station ses four turbo-alternators, but use of the small dam-capacity • cannot all be used throughout year. ;n p.c. of the current produced he new scheme will be reserved Noumea, leaving 300,000,000 H for the nickel smelters, le new dam will be financed exploited by a mixed group.

Nickel Co. will contribute the e of the existing installations r ate, and the rest will be conited by the French Government. estimated cost is nearly *,000,000.

ECTRICAL equipment is to be installed at the Point Doniambo smelters, Noumea, permitting production of 10,000 tons of rel nickel annually. The instaln of four main furnaces, rated 0,000 kws, is contemplated, toer with subsidiary furnaces, st of the changes at the smeltvill be about £A4,500,000. le programme will be spread a five-year period. 141 :iFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1955

For Electricians

Coyne’s Famous Books on Electrical Radio & Television Published by the Coyne Technical School. Chicago. U.S.A.

Write us for descriptive lists of each book giving contents of each chapter in them.

Exclusive representatives for Australian and New Zealand.

Associated Trade

JOURNALS CO. PTY. LTD.

N.Z.L. House, 4 2 Bridge St., Sydney, N.S.W.

A "Hardie B Spear" Refrigerator Will

Add Elegance To Your Kitchen

MODEL 225 “Hardie & Spear” refrigerators are known for their trouble free running even under the most trying conditions.

They are well known for their elegant appearance too.

Available In Three

SIZES (Kerosene or Electric) You will be proud to have a “Hardie & Spear” refrigerator in your kitchen.

Write for full particulars to the Sole Pacific Agents: KERR BROS. PTY. LTD.

Box 3838, G.P.0., Sydney.

District Dispensary tl Mr. J. S. L. Bell, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Labasa, Fiji, has returned from leave in NZ.

Von Luckner Seeking

Help From Fiji

NOW aged 80, Count Felix von Luckner has forgotten many of the details of his stay in Fiji after the wrecking of the Seeadler, at Wakaya, in World War I.

He has asked for help, because he wants to include a section on Fiji in his memoirs, which he hopes to have published this year.

Mr. Oscar Wright, a well-known Fiji man, has reported meeting the count at Majorca, adding that von Luckner’s skill in tearing large books (such as city telephone directories) in halves has not diminished.

At Majorca, the count occasioned some consternation to his hostess by calmly dismembering a thick, handsomely-bound copy of the Arabian Nights. He recorded the feat in one-half of the book, added his signature, and explained that the inscription would make the book more valuable.

Suva Wharf Labor

MUDDLE

Not Yet Settled

(Prom Our Own Correspondent) SOMETHING seems to have c: unstuck in the new system wharf-1 abo u r certificates? regularise the employment situai on the Suva waterfront.

The idea was to end a more less haphazard scheme, under wh for example, youths in trouble y the law could use wharf empc ment as an alibi of sorts to cc their presence in Suva.

Many Fijian youths before courts on theft or other chaj have said that they worked at wharves whereas the truth that they might, have worked week in four, or less.

Through the District Comn sioner’s office, the Government issued certificates to casual wl workers. Unfortunately, II certificates were handed out toe and sundry.

While youths in regular empi ment elsewhere, but who occasional wharf work at night at week-ends, have been gi tickets, many men who live sac by wharf work are without the This unjust situation could h been avoided if the waterside un had been permitted to check applicants, or if permanent whs workers had been given their tic! first.

IT has been suggested to the G eminent that two classes certificates should be issued— “A” certificate for regular worH and a “B” ticket for casual lab« A wharf labour executive has s that on a recent Tofua call tW was insufficient labour for daytd requirements—an indication tt many casuals are employed ei where during the day.

It must be generally conce? that, in order to build up a fo of more or less permanent labo A class men should have preferee for week-end overtime.

Six hundred men are required a London ship and 400 for an Ay tralian cargo-ship, and it is ell that there is plenty of room casuals and village-gangs.

If only those who are fully • titled to hold tickets received the, the system would provide a us© check on youths who follow drift to Suva at the cost of a i days’ work at the wharves oc when necessity drives. t The Apia Turf Club’s Eas Monday meeting drew only a sm attendance despite perfect weatll The main event, the Easter Hanr cap, was won by an outsider, I L. G. Fruean’s Bright Jewel, ones six imported horses in the rs A pleasing feature in W. Samoan affairs, is the increasing number of public ventures such as roads, waterworks, clinics and schools being built by the initiative of the villagers themselves.

Pictured here is chief carpenter Gus Betham, and the new dispensary he is building for the Leulumoega district.

The estimated cost of £3,OOO is shared equally by the district and the Government. Leulumoega district has already collected a considerable sum towards building a new hospital to go with the dispensary.

Photo: R. F. Rankin. 142 MAY. 1955 - PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

Send Your Grocery Orders To

"McILRATHS" of SYDNEY and always be assured of worthwhile savings “Edgell’s” Genuine CHICKEN SOUP, 16 oz. ( 17/6 doz.; Cartons 4 doz.

“Edgell’s” SCOTCH BROTH. 16 oz., 14 - doz.; Cartons 4 doz.

Choice Canned CARROTS, 16 oz.. 7/doz.; 30 oz “Edgell’s” Fancy GREEN PEAS, 16 oz., 24 6 doz.; Cartons 4 doz. ..

“Edgell’s” GREEN BEANS, 16 oz.. 26/6 doz.; Cartons 4 doz Choice PEELED TOMATOES, 16 oz.. 14/6 doz.; 28 oz Choice Canned Sliced QUINCES, 30 oz., 16 6 doz.; Cartons 2 doz Choice Clingstone PEACHES, 30 oz., 35/- doz.; Cartons 2 doz Choice Canned PEARS. 30 oz., 37 6 doz.; Cartons 2 doz Choice Canned APRICOT HALVES, 30 oz., 33/- doz.; Cartons 2 doz.

“Kia-ora” Assorted CORDIALS, 26 oz., Orange, Lemon, 50-50, Fruit Cup, Raspberry, Pineapple .. 16 6 doz. 12/6 doz. 11/6 doz. 23/6 doz. 25/- doz. 29/6 doz. 15/6 doz. 33/6 doz. 36 - doz. 31 6 doz. 39/- doz.

“Nestles” PURE CREAM, 4 oz. tins . .

“Carnation” Unsweetened EVAPORA- TED MILK, 6 oz., 11 - doz.: 14'. oz.

“Mcllrath's” Rosa JELLY CRYS- TALS, a pint pkts.). All Flavours . .

“Mcllrath’s” Pure Cream Tartar

Self Raising Flour, 2 Lb

Cartons 18 6 doz.: 25 lb bags, 17 6 bag, 25 lb. tins English SARDINES, (with keys) Vs . .

“Arnott’s” A s s o rt e d CREAM BISCUITS. Now available in Soldered Tins. (An assortment of Cherry Ripe, Creamy Chocolate, Custard Cream, Delta Cream, Monte Carlo, Orange Slice & Raspberry Fruit Creams, approx. 1 lb. of each variety to each tin) 7 lb. tins Tins Extra Tasmanian GOOSEBERRY CON- SERVE, 24 oz. tins, 25/6 doz.; Cases 3 doz 9 - doz. 21 - doz. 10 - doz. 25 - tin. 15 6 doz. 3/- lb. 5 - ea. 24 - doz.

A full range of general groceries and provisions available at lowest rates together with a full range of leading brands V Australian Wines from 49 per bottle. Also leading brands of Scotch Whisky, Rum. Gin Brandy Liaueufs Tooheys Export Pilsener and Flag Ale at competitive in Bond Prices All prices F. 0.8. Sydney and Subject to Stocks and Market fluctuations. No additional charge for ordinary cases McILRATH S PTY. LTD. 202 Pitt St., Sydney, Australia Cable Address “Rotunda”, Sydney.

Continental Holiday ;w Guinea Development Cortlon has been formed at Rotterwlth nominal capital of ,000. It will trade in industrial, cultural and commercial pro- 3.

Papuan Apinaipi Permit The Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Co. has been granted a permit to prospect for oil in an area covering 8,600 square miles of Papua. The area includes the Jokea Apinaipi Dome area held by the company from 1936 to 1952, and is bounded by a line drawn from the Papuan southern coast at the 145th parallel of longitude, north to the Papua-NG border, then along the border to the 147th parellel and south to the coast.

The company has also applied for a prospecting permit of 970 square miles to seaward of the above area. The coastline involved extends from about 20 miles north-west of Port Moresby to roughly the head of the Gulf.

Asked w’hether active prospecting measures were planned for these off-shore waters in the near future, the company had no comment to make in Sydney late in April.

Fairymead Sugar Co. Profit Fairymead Sugar Co., in its report for the calendar year 1954, just issued, announces a substantial increase in profits, including “excellent profits earned by the Islands section”.

The company has its main interests in Queensland (all sugar), but also operates coconut plantations in the Solomons.

Profit for 1954 was £185.018, as compared with £137,618 in 1653 and £89,42S in 1952. The 1954 profit was shown after providing £53,492 for depreciation. £15,062 more than in the previous year, A 12 per cent, dividend and a further 2 per cent, bonus was paid.

Japs Seeking Nickel

From New Caledonia

From Our Noumea Correspondent A FOUR-MAN Japanese mission at Noumea in April was commonly believed to be looking for nickel ore.

A member of the mission said that Japan needed a substantial supply for her smelters.

At the same time a Japanese ship was at a northern New Caledonia port loading 7,000 tons of ore.

There should be no difficulty in supplying Japanese needs, although under the new mining law no ore richer than 3 p.c. may be sold for export.

' Mr. Allan Roberts. Director of District Services in Papua-New Guinea, went on recreation leave on May 4. During his absence the post has been taken by Mr. J. K McCarthy, an assistant Director and former DC for New Britain and Mrs. W. E. Wyatt, Sr., left Moresby by air recently en route [?]e UK and the Continent. In Novemhey will visit Hongkong: on their way to Papua. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

NEW / I I t 9 $ Mobiloil Double Protection for Your Engine Mobiloil '"ps/ce i

Twice The Cleaning Action!

• Double-strength cleaning agent keeps valves, rings and pistons far freer of harmful deposits and varnish than formerly possible. • New engines operate longer at top power old engines take on new life! • YOU get smoother engine performance - more power - improved mileage.

Twice The Protection Against Wear!

• Increased ability to cut friction -by reaching and protecting tightfitting engine parts more quickly and completely than ever before. • New additives in Mobiloil effectively reduces corrosive wear in stop-and-go driving. • YOU add years to engine life - reduce overhauls and repairs assure top economy!

Why accept anything less? 144 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Schools For Island Children

Thornburgh College FOR BOYS ’Phone: Charters Towers, 164. P.O. Box 143.

Blackheath College FOR GIRLS ’Phone: Charters Towers. 110. P.O. Box ‘J2H.

Enrolments being received for 1956.

Kindergarten to University Courses available; Academic, Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Science.

Music and Art of Speech.

Excellent Sporting Facilities, Including Swimming Pool.

Prospectus and full information from the Principal, REV. C. D. ALCORN, 8.A., 8.D., or Secretary,

Presbyterian And Methodist Schools

ASSOCIATION City Mutual Building, 309 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland. [?]er to the Editor: The Place of Pidgin in NG Education CFERENCE is made to an article which appeared on page 18 of the March, 1955, fic Islands Monthly, under the ling, “Official Move To Use [in”. )ur attention is drawn to a her of inaccurate and misleadstatements which are likely to rise to a grave misinterpretaof the intention of the Educa- Advisory Board and the mittee on Languages referred n the article, and do a grave stice to the members of the d and Committee, who are all msible and experienced people. agraph 3 of the article which reads, Advisory Committee on Languages, nted by the Education Advisory I . .” should read, “The Committee languages, appointed by the Adtrator on the recommendation of the ition Advisory Board . agraph 6 incorrectly states, “The mendation of the Committee includes ollowing: jin English should be taught in all is in the Dual Territory where lish is not known. For this purpose jin English must be adopted officially, ,ts abolition is impractical.” actual recommendations of the littee on Languages were embodied ie following Resolution of the inal meetypg held at Port Moresby on ary 14, 1955: Fhat this Committee supports the ecommendation made in the paper m Pidgin prepared by the Departnent of Education and strongly ecommends the official recognition of Mdgin; and hat a standard orthography for ’idgin based on the revised Schebesta Mctionary be adopted and that a egional form of Pidgin be selected ,nd adopted as the standard form or the Territory.” support and extension of the recomitions of the Committee on ages, the Education Advisory Board, third meeting held at Port Moresby bruary 81, 1955, adopted the followesolution:— at the Board recognises that Pidgin es a useful purpose as a lingua ca and a means of disseminating rmation in areas in which English 5 yet little known and no vernacular iia franca is available. Its spread been largely spontaneous, and its ition, even if desirable, would be e impracticable. recommend that a linguistically d orthography for Pidgin should be ially adopted by the Administration that a standard grammar and onary, using this orthography, ild be published. consider that the use of Pidgin as edium of instruction in schools may ibly be sanctioned in locations in h it is in general use either as a titute-vernacular or as a lingua ca; and to this end we recommend primers, readers and textbooks be ared and printed in the officially (ted orthography, consider it undesirable that Pidgin should be taught as a second language in schools located in areas in which it is not in general use.

“We emphasise that we regard the teaching of English as an educational objective of the highest importance. Literacy either in a vernacular or in Pidgin should be regarded as a preliminary to, and not as a substitute for, literacy in English.”

In neither the Resolution of the Committee on Languages nor the Resolution of the Education Advisory Board, is there any sugegstion that “Pidgin English should be taught in all areas in the Dual Territory where English is not known” as categorically stated in the Pacific Islands Monthly article.

There is no reference in the Pacific Islands Monthly article to that section of the Education Advisory Board’s Resolution which states that “it is considered undesirable that Pidgin should be taught as a second language in schools located in areas in which it is not in general use.”

The source of the information on which the Pacific Islands Monthly article appears to be based was certainly not an official one; but it is clear that, whatever the source, the actual material as published in the PIM represents what I regard as a gross misrepresentation of the true position.

As the PIM itself has frequently pointed out, the language problem in Papua and New Guinea is one of a particularly complex nature and necessarily has very important bearing upon Native education: it is a problem to which a number o f specially-qualified and experienced persons in the Territory (including the members of the special Advisory Committee on Languages and those of the Education Advisory Board) are giving close and expert consideration.

Such mis-statement of the nosition as that represented by the PIM article referred to, does nothing to help towards a solution of the problem, but merely accentuates it.

I am, etc, W. C. GROVES, Director of Education Port Moresby, April 26, 1955

Editorial Note

We are pleased to print Mr.

Groves’ letter which sets PIM right on a number of official points. We evidently confused the Advisory Committee on Languages (which met on February 14) and the Education Advisory Board (which met on February 21). It was the Education Advisory Board (not the Committee on Languages) which resolved that “The Board recognises that Pidgin serves a useful purpose as a lingua franca and a means of disseminating information in areas in which English is as yet little known and no vernacular lingua franca is available. . . .” And, in an excess of editorial zeal, the whole of the above which is printed in italics was compressed into “not known.”

However, the fact remains that both the Committee on Languages and the Education Advisory Board are prepared to grant that Pidgin has a useful place in New Guinea society and should not. as some other expert bodies have urged, be scrapped overnight as a “slave language” or for some other peculiar reason. And that was the point PIM was trying to make.

The marriage of Miss Tepaiti, of Rurutu. Cook Is., to Mr. Karl Karlsen, of Norway, took place in the Avarua LMS church in Rarotonga on February 12. 145 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Insurance Policies Made to Order by

Harvey Trinder

Marine And Aviation

Marine Insurance on Vessels and Cargo—Travellers’ Baggage—lnsurance on Goods in Transit on Land —General Insurance for Airlines and Private Planes—Travel Policies for Operators and Individual passengers.

Loss Of Profits

Insurance against Loss of Profits when business closed through fire damage with payment of Rent, Taxes and retention of Trained Staff. m O ci* s a '4m w

Personal Accident And

All Sickness

Insurance against General Accident and AH Sickness—Hand disablement— Loss of Limb or Eye—Specific diseases—Aerial accident—Specified payments during illness or on death.

SiLUo INC L°nt

Public Risk—Motor

VEHICLES Public Liability Insurance for Builders, Departmental Stores Sports Grounds, etc. Comprehensive Motor Vehicle Policies for Commercial and Private Owners—Generous Rebates for no-claim periods.

Harvey Trinder (N.G.)

LIMITED Insurance Brokers

Port Road, Port Moresby

Box 104 P.O. Port Moresby Agents: PORT MORESBY & SAMARAI . Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.

A - Scott. RABAUL A. Hopper.

WAU F - Leydin. BULOLO A. Carter.

HONIARA, 8.5.1. P E. V. Lawson.

Insurances effected at Lloyds of London

Economic Conditions In

Small Cook Island

Letter to the Editor A LETTER from Mr. Edwin Gl of Mangaia, appeared under heading, “Great Mangaian penment,” in December PIM. Sli ping delays have made it impossi to reply earlier. He referred! a few minor economic improveme I am trying to introduce into Island badly in need of major o] Mr. Gold writes: “I have ns seen a co-operative store succt or even endure long, even w; directed by experienced old ham As he admits to residence ir 12,000-acre island for 30 years, opportunities for seeing anyth have been perhaps a little stricted. I personally have si native-run co-operatives functii ing at least enduringly in Brit Honduras, the Gold Coast, Cl Tanganyika and the Sudan.

Perhaps he has overlooked fact that economic co-operation no new thing to the people Mangaia. The eight Aronga p or boat companies, in the Isk handle all inward and outw cargo on strictly co-operative lii They were functioning long bef Mr. Gold arrived in Mangaia. E the Mangaians been given : leadership or encouragement earlier Administrations, they wo certainly have established a operative store for themselves Some time ago Mr. Gold nu the statement (published in PE that there are no worms Mangaia. He also said that Mi gaian pineapples are unsuitable canning. Nevertheless, millions i worms continue to flourish, s pineapples have now been cam to the satisfaction of a large N Zealand catering firm.

One of the local governors cently urged the people to operate with my efforts to build a direct copra trade with P Zealand—advice based on my s; cess last year in exporting co< direct (and profitably) to I There are now five copra kilns; Mangaia; a year ago there v none—the unfortunate people struggling to sun-dry their coprai an utterly unsuitable climate.

I am, etc.,

Ronald Syme

Mangaia, Cl. (This correspondence is n ■ closed.—Ed.) if Dorothy E. Yorks, better knoo as “Yorkie,” has taken over catering arrangements of the Club, Port Moresby, and will pc vide dinners, lunches, morning as afternoon teas for members. S has been with the Department ; Civil Aviation in the Territory the past five years; this is her fifl venture into business on her oc behalf. 146 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

Cordon Vale

Day-Old Clucks

From Blood Tested Stock.

Rhode Is. Reds Australorps White Leghorns

Boxes of 50: Pallets, £7/15/-; Mixed (Pullets and Cockerels), £4/5/-* Cockerels, £3, Air freight extra.

Hatchings are arranged for Island plane departures to ensure shortest time from Incubator to Customer. All consignments accompanied by Govt. Health Certificate.

For further particulars and special prices for larger orders, write or cable:

Gordon Vale Stud Farm & Hatchery

Epping Road, North Ryde, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.

Phone: Ryde 30. BANKERS.—Commonwealth Trading Bank of Aust., E; Inter-Samoa Sports Tournament at Pago Pago

La Sports Teams

Play At Pago Pago

Prom Our Own Correspondent ESTERN SAMOA invaded Eastern Samoa (April 8-11) for a sports tournament coming tennis, cricket, softball and :etball «iatches at Pago Pago, le visitors, who won at cricket lost the other three matches, were whelmed with hospitality and onstrations of cordial goodwill he American portion of Samoa. the cricket match Western ed 111 to Eastern’s 71. ituila (Eastern) won the basket- -21-17 after a closely-contested le with the players from Apia, se captain (S. O. Percival) and Drichton performed very well. match drew nearly 1,000 tators. le softball match was also hotly ested, Eastern winning 10-7. the tennis singles A. M. Macrrle (Tutuila) beat O. Crichton a) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. >ia’s unbeaten singles champion L. Yandail (Tutuila) 6-2, 6-3.

Scanlan and Smith Ho Ching uila) beat R. Rankin and R. ey (Apia) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Smith and G. Ilalaole uila) beat L. Purcell and J. e (Apia) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. tuila thus won the Ernest Reid orial Trophy after a wait of jars. the women’s doubles Mrs. L. :on and Miss V. Macdonald a) beat Misses J. Uhrle and L. son 6-0, 6-4 and Mrs. L. Rapand Miss K. Monaghan (Apia) Miss M. Tuiasosopo and Mrs. oyt 6-2, 6-3. e Apia team won the O. F. m trophy for women players.

Owner’s Ashes Scattered Over Property From Our Own Correspondent. r[E ashes of Mr. Harold Markham, who died last year in Australia, have been brought to the Solomons and scattered over his old property at Segi.

Mr. Markham directed in his will that this should be done, and his daughter entrusted the ashes to Mr.

R. C. Symes, who carried out Mr Markham’s wishes on April 26.

Mr. Symes, who now lives at Rabaul, came to the BSIP to inspect his properties.

R. C. Symes and Co., Ltd., have purchased all W. R. Carpenter & Co.’s interests in the BSIP including all plantations and the old Carpenter installations at Tulgi.

Mr. Symes said that cocoa plantations at Ysabel are coming into bearing. t In the Supreme Court at Madang, NG, on May 5, Clem Dowie was found not guilty of having set fire to MV Destiny at Madang on January 30. [?]nnis teams from Apia, as well as [?]et, softball and basketball players, to Pago Pago for an inter-Samoan ts tournament in April. [?]e Apia women’s tennis team won the Nelson Trophy for doubles. In the picture above, right, are (l. to r.): Misses V. Macdonald and K. Monaghan (Apia), Mrs. K. Hoyt, Miss M. Tuiasosopo (Pago Pago), Mrs. L. Rapson (Apia), Mrs. J.

Uhrle (Pago Pago), Mrs. L. Tarlton (Apia) and Mrs. L. Johnson (Pago Pago).

Pago Pago men won the Reid Memorial Trophy. In the picture (left), are O.

Crichton (Apia), Smith Ho Ching, A.

MacQuarrie, L. Yandail, G. Ilalaole and T. Smith (Pago Pago), R. Railley, R.

Banks, R. Rankin and J. Bryce (Apia).

Photos: Pan American Prints. 147 :iFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

The Ultimate in Radio Communication Recent development has enabled us to offerthis wonder of the radio age. A compact, crystal locked transceiver, which has features not available in other types of receivers and also incorporates facilities for the remote operation of the transceiver, thus permitting the unit to be installed in a safe and dry location.

SHIP TO SHIP SHIP m TO SHORE m

Crammonds Ctr 12-£Llo

(ex. fac. Brisbane) Vessels now equipped with this transceiver have communicated with other fishing boats over 600 miles. The broadcast band is provided and the two working frequencies used by fishing boats are crystal controlled and therefore do not require tuning. Press to talk switch in microphone automatically changes from receive to transmit when pressed. Operation is from 12 Volt D.C. All steel cadmium plated enamelled cabinet to prevent harm from salt spray. Lould speaker in cadmium plated enamel box for bulk head mounting.

Here is the New Model CTR 8 m m ★ Easy Terms Range is now more than 500 miles. Ideal for bushfire control and other services where a set is necessary that can stand up to the worst conditions. Operation from a 12 Volt battery. Can be supplied with 1 to 4 fixed frequencies for transmitting.

Your Enquiry

WELCOMED

Guaranteed 12 Months

CRAM MON MANUFACTURING CO. PTY. LTD. 103 Wickham St., Valley, Queensland.» • 148 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

ATTENTION All Musical and Radio Dealers . . .

COOKE BROS. (Q’LAND PTT. LTD.) (Completely owned and controlled by Queensland Interests) Est. 25 Years.

Suppliers To The

Trade Only

Capitol Records—Peter Pan Radios —Hohner Accordions—Borslnl Plano Accordions—Social Piano Accordions—Cookslea Portable Gramophones—Cookslea Mandolin Banjos —Violins—AßC Sapphire Needles— Songster Gramo and Pick Up— Nylon Radiogram Needles. Hawaiian and Hill Billy Guitars. A complete range of instrument strings and all accessories.

COOKE BROS. (Q’LD.) PTY., LTD. 454 George St., Brisbane. fmumer- an </ Quaii/ij Hmi FEATURES: tless finger-tip control—full range ty 10 to 60,000 cps + or »/ 2 db sh button record equalisation— set plug-in matching to any pick- - built in pre-amp automatic it correction-independent filter filter slope controls—ls watts outthroughout 20 to 20,000 cps—less 0.1% total distortion.

The new Acoustical Quad II is truly an instrument designed for the home. Its beautiful styling is unparalleled in the high-fidelity industry. It’s specifications are second to none and were deliberately obtained with up to 20 pc valve mismatch, to be certain that the Quad II will always exceed its published specifications. It is the most distinguished audio achievement of recent years combining Highest Engineering Standards with a New Concept of Styling for the home.

Units Fully Tropicalised

UNITED RADIO DISTRIBUTORS PTY.

Radio-Electric Wholesalers 175 PHILLIP STREET, SYDNEY.

LTD.

Cables: “EEPS”, Sydney.

For Pacific Radio Amateurs

CONDUCTED BY EX ZK-1-AC/VR-2-AK.

IHE ionispheric experts now api pear to be agreed that radio conditions on the high freency bands are definitely through “ doldrums of the present sun- -5t cycle and that conditions ght even improve fairly rapidly. that happens there will no übt be a considerable revival of ;ivity by Hams at present in ni or even total retirement.

Cven now Hamming seems to be jspering in New Guinea, where a vision of the Australia Amateur dio Institute has recently been med and a keen Sunday roundtie 40-metre net is in operation 7080 kc/s. i summary of VK9DB’s April iort to “Amateur Radio’’ on the lation in that area will be of erest elsewhere in the Islands ere “AR” does not circulate. l very keen VHF man, 9DB rets that 50 mc/s conditions re have been poor except on e occasions, such as early in the r when ten ZLl’s and 2’s were •ked one afternoon. Since then 3 has raised his 4 el. W.S. beam n 20ft to a handsome 50ft — still fails to hook VR2CG. the : addict. A 16 el. 2 metre beam is about to go up on the I,oooft Burn’s Peak near Port Moresby in the hope of making some VK2 contacts on that band. VK9DB says that the Civil Aviation transmitter at this site works aircraft consistently up to 200 miles on 118 mc/s using only a ground-plane antenna and comparatively low power.

Summarising VK9DB’s report on general activity and inactivity we find about the following situation in New Guinea: Now on leave: 9DB, 9HI, 9YT; off the air, 9AB, 9MT: just arrived Doug 90Q; rarely on, 9DS, 9GV, 9HO, 9KT, 9RC, 9RG, 9RM, 9SP, 9WG; active on various bands. 9AU, 9BS, 9BW, 9CR, 9CS, 9DT, 9EB, 9FN, 9FP, 9GB. 9WP, 9ZAL. This display of activity of course far overshadows that of any other Island territory with the exception of Hawaii. As conditions improve the New Guinea air is likely to show some congestion— especially in the Port Moresby area.

Allan-VR2AP sends an interesting report on late developments in Fiji. Suva has formed a Radio Club, with Stan-VR2AS as President and Laurie-VR2CT as Sec.-Treasurer.

Now in Fiji, on the Cable & Wireless staff, is Mr. A. Boa, ex ZDBB, not yet with a VR2 call, but he’s a likely starter.

Les Hammett, ex VP6LH, is now very active on 20 m. as VR2AM — a reallocated call. Allan says that the P & T Dept, have decided to reissue calls which have been defunct for some years, so do not be 149 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

c V" o^2 THIS PAINT LASTS!

Quick and easy to apply, Pammastic is lastingly beautiful and specially resistant to humidity BLUNDELL

Plastic Emulsion Coating

For the preservation and decoration of exterior and interior surfaces Pammastic is self-sealing and needs no primer or undercoat. One coat is enough on some surfaces and two coats will give a dense cover on any surface. You can apply it with a 4 or 6-inch brush, spray or roller. All this adds up to the easiest painting you have ever experienced.

Pammastic is long lasting, too. It dries to a hard, impervious surtace that is almost indestructible. You can use it outside or inside. It is right for plaster, fibrous plaster, bricks, cement rendering, wallboards, and wallpaper.

Obtainable from your local storekeeper, or write for details and colour cards to

Kerr Bros. Pty. Ltd

255 a George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

BLUNDELL PAMM4STTC the true paint miracle of our time surprised if you hear some loi< silent ones again.

Trevor-VR2CZ, ex VK2ATT, , another active 20 m. man nov also on C & W staff, as is All Winsbury, ex VQ4CD, who, afi considering a come-back for a lo time, recently got married inste. (wedding photo March PIM, p. g Eric Armstrong, ex VR2AT, back in Fiji as Assist. Sigs. Offio RNZAF, Lauthala Bay—so he, tf may provide another VR2 sig. long.

Allan says in closing, “I notice; the latest PIM that you have mo or less pointed the bone at Rather than let the page lapse, t above are a few items to keep t pot boiling.” Enough said.

Due to the difficulty of obtaini contributions to this column it v appear in future on a QuarteE basis, unless, through receipt of no < and photos Island Hams indies that they wish it to continue.

P.S. Salaries Rise in Tong[?] Recommendations made the Ramage Report on Pub Service salaries were accept! by the Tonga Legislative Assemli in March. As a result, a new sala scale will be applied retrospective to July, 1954. The estimat additional cost to the Tonga bud?J will be £21,000 per annum.

It will be recalled that Mr. R.

Ramage, CMG, Salaries Revisi; Commissioner, visited Fiji, Tom the Gilberts, and the Solomons LI year from London to report on CL Service salaries in these territorie On Overseas Leave At left, Miss Pru Delaney of the Dep[?] ment of Treasury, Port Moresby, who the Territory in March for Australia route for England. Before she left announced her engagement to Mr.

Dixon, also of the Treasury, Port Moress On the right is Mrs. H. Towers, who at present on leave in Australia. —Photo by Papuan Pri[?] 150 May, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

• GENERATORS

At Incomparable Prices —

McCLAREN RICARDO diesel engine direct coupled to ” brush 69 K.V.A. 1,000 R.P.M. 415-240 volt A.C. alternator, complete switchboard, auto voltage regulator vernier control mounted on common baseplate. As new —only £1,400.

V Petrol electric generator 11 K.V.A. 415-240 volts A.C. n* Complete with switchboard, A.VR. perfect condition £l5O.

Prices Include F.0.R., F. 0.8. Sydney.

For all electrical enquiries contact BARTHOLOMEW & Sons Pty. Ltd. 237-241 Sussex Street, Sydney. cigarettes SMUGGLED

Into Noumea

New Caledonia and French Oceania the cigarette business s a Government monopoly, and y packet is stamped. So, when ;amped packets of American rettes began to appear on the mea market recently, it was r evident to all, including the toms Department, that someg was amiss. i a result of action taken a s quantity of American cigtes of a wide variety of brands seized from distributors. The rettes had been smuggled ashore l the liners Caledonien, itien, and a British freighter in at about that time. [?]avidson-Amey Wedding Another Ironical Note For Paul Gauguin MORE than 60 years ago, Paul Gauguin watched a bronze skinned Tahitian chopping wood on a beach. Nearby a woman was arranging fishing-nets in a canoe, and beyond stretched the lagoon and a line of foam-smothered reef.

Gauguin (1848-1903), the respectable bourgeois bank clerk who had abandoned his rigidly conventional life in Paris to become a penniless painter, first in Brittany and then in Tahiti, transferred the scene to canvas.

Like most of his work, the painting was decorative post-impressionism, with bold colouring and contours, and the scene was one that he recorded several times.

Back in France, in 1895, Gauguin put the painting up for sale. It brought so little that the indignant artist bought it back.

It went to a dealer when he returned to the South Seas, and when he died, destitute, in the Marquesas eight years later it had disappeared.

Gauguin dead is Gauguin appreciated, and in 1954 there was considerable excitement when his Man With An Axe was discovered to be in the possession of a French family who had bought it 57 years ago.

To-day, owned by an American vacuum-cleaner manufacturer, Mr Alex Lewyt, it is valued at 1,500 times the sum first paid for it in 1895. And that works out at about £75.000 (Australian). tl Mr. D. S. Marshall, anthropologist and student of Polynesian languages, has recently been carrying out research in Tahiti and the Cook Islands. He is an associate of Harvard University and is attached to the Peabody Museum at Salem, Massachusetts.

In addition to his other studies, he is making a comparative study of 60 Polynesian dialects. In one of his lectures given at Rarotonga he demonstrated how the great Polynesian migrations can be traced, and how the Polynesians’ length of residence in the Pacific Islands can be determined, by the study of their dialects.

Africa Visits Samoa [?]d Mrs. R. J. Davidson leaving Ela tant Church, Port Moresby, after redding on April 9. The bride was [?]ly Miss Rita Amey. Mr. and Mrs. [?]on are both employed by the Deent of Works, Port Moresby.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

Mr. Sam Hill (right) on an educational tour from Liberia, is seen with chiefinspector Maiava, of Western Samoa, during an inspection of a village school.

Mr. Hill was impressed by many aspects of the education system in Samoa, especially the broadcasts to schools. —Photo by R. F. Rankin. 151 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

/ef tjowi Home, 4 lift, Protect its attractive exterior against nature's destructive forces with Borthwicks "AB" paint, specially fortified for tropical weather resistance.

You'll find lasting satisfaction in its color permanency and mellow, even weathering.

BORTHWICKS HIGH 0 SI GRADE n m i

Reinforced House Paint Conditioned For The Tropics

Morris Hedstrom (Aust.) Pty. Ltd. Agents for

Borthwicks Pty. Co., Sydney

Suppliers to Defence Specifications.

Island Boxers Are

Still Moving

To Fresh Fields

ISLAND boxers are still on the move in New Zealand and Australia, and even further afield.

Kitione Lave left Sydney by plane for London on April 23. London has long been one of his main objectives, and Kitione was jubilant when he encountered a PIM representative in a Sydney street the day before his departure.

Auckland newspapers have been giving substantial publicity to the arrival of Fijian Laitia Vakaduadua, a light-heavyweight described as possibly the best prospect from the Islands since Tongan Johnny Halafihi arrived in 1953.

Laitia, who has an excellent record in Fiji, is 25 years old, 5 ft 10 in. in height, weighs about 12 st. 6 lb and has a reach of 71 inches.

His only recorded loss in Fiji was a points decision scored in an exhibition bout by Kitione Lave —to whom Laitia conceded 16 lb.

He won the Fijian championship belt last year with a second-round t.k.o. over the holder, G. Boris!. and earlier won the South Seas light-heavyweight belt with a second-round t.k.o. over Tom Hini, confirming the decision in a return bout with a first-round t.k.o.

Laitia (he will fight in Auckland as H. Laitia) has an Indian manager named Mohammed Abdul Hamid.

Another arrival at Auckland is Tongan Feleti Kaho, an 18-yearsold heavyweight who is a cousin of Johnny Halafihi and has an unbeaten record in nearly a dozen fights. He is looked after by Mr.

Percy Harris, Halafihi’s manager.

An Auckland report states that Halafihi, who suffered an unexpected defeat by the Australian Bruce Farthing at Stratford in March, is in fine heart. The first man he wants to meet on his return to the ring is Farthing.

Two Samoans, Sefo Lepou and Asesala Mosese, are looking for contests in Auckland.

Tonkinese Exodus

Comes To End

THE big exodus of Tonkinese from New Caledonia to Haiphong and Hanoi has ended, and Qantas will not accept further bookings for a service that was probably quite lucrative for the Australian airline and for Air France.

Occupation of Haipong by the Communist Vietminh means that there is no longer an aerial gateway to the Vietminh area of Indochina. (Noumea Correspondent).

Ryan-Molloney Wedding THE wedding of Sister Collet; Molloney and Mr. Owen Rys was celebrated at St. Mary’s Chura Lae, by the Rev. Father Remaning on March 4. Sister Mollone formerly stationed at the Lae Eurr pean Hospital, is the daughter of M and Mrs. Peter Molloney, of Ashgrov Brisbane. Mr. Ryan, an aircraE engineer who served with the RAAi is the youngest son of Mr. an Mrs. George Ryan, of Bibbenlukl NSW. One hundred guests attend®, the wedding reception at the Mai dated Airlines mess. t The Coral Sea Battle should \ remembered in Papua-New Guinej with an annual service, as it is ; Australia, says Mr. W. Watkins, prr sident of the Port Moresby RSL..

Islands Appointm[?] Mr. W. E. Ro[?] son, of Melbo[?] who has been pointed recently area represent[?] in Rabanl, TNG, the Vacuum Company Pty., Lt 152 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

Where There’s a Will There’s an Executor HANDS

That Never L

THE WHEEL LEA VE n Both the preparation and execution of a Will demand special knowledge. That is why your Solicitor is the right man to draw up your Will. However, the future administration of your Estate deserves similar care too. Your affairs and your family’s financial security must not be controlled by anyone who is inexperienced or incapable.

“Hands That Never Leave The Wheel” explains why your Executor should be Burns Fhilp Trust Company Limited. This 20-page booklet gives you all the essential information about the responsibilities of an Executor. It also set out the duties of a Trustee and Attorney. Ask for a complimentary copy at any branch of Burns Philp (South Sea> Company, Burns ‘Philp (New Guinea) Limited, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Limited, or write to the Trust Company’s nearest office.

DIRECTORS: James Burns Joseph Mitchell P.T.W. Black Eric Priestley Lee MANAGER: L. S. Parker.

SECRETARY: E. R. Overton, F.A.S.A.

Burns Philp Trust

Company Limited

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

Telegraphic Address: “BURNSTRUST”. Box 543, G.P.O.

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

Ocoa-Copra Economy

Boom Period in Western Samoa I7ESTERN SAMOA’S finances j were extremely sound at the end of 1954, according to the itement submitted by the Acting tiancial Secretary (Mr. A. J. il) at the Budget session of the gislative Assembly.

Drdinary revenue in 1954 totalled 128,870, an increase of £199,750 »r the 1953 figure. Import duties, iluding Port and Customs Service x. were up by £lll,OOO.

Expenditure was £1,212,000, an in- :ase of £136,000. At the end of ; year there was still £97,470 in i Capital Development Fund and ! General Reserve of £500,000, inited in NZ Government securities s intact.

Capital development expenditure lildings, plant, machinery, ucles, roads and bridges, water >plies, hydro-electric works, etc.) ailed £253,970 (£20,000 more than 1953).

Recurrent expenditure increased £116,000 to £842,100. )f the total capital development enditure, £170,400 came from inary revenue surplus, £54,500 n NZ Reparations Estates profit nts and £29,070 from the Capital relopment Fund.

EALINfi with the Territory’s trade in 1954, the statement referred to the continuing high :es for cocoa and copra and to steady increase in banana exts to New Zealand, i 1954, cocoa exports of 2,400 s sold for £938,000, compared i 3,743 tons for £931,000 in 1953. opra exported totalled 13,664 5 (£954,000) compared with 85 tons (£733,000) in 1953. he total value of exports intsed by £273,000 to £2,212,000. nports increased by £398,000 to 10,500. he favourable trade balance was ',OOO, compared with £626,000 in r. A. Schaafhausen, one of the st and best-known residents of a, celebrated his 80th birthday April 23. Mr. Schaafhausen has i in Western Samoa for over 55 ’S and has been in the service •oth the German and New Zeal Governments. He was in "ge of the Public Works Depart- ■t for many years. He retired a years ago. iss V. Bignold, Fort Moresby, been in Sydney on a three iths’ visit. Her niece, Miss Jill lold, returned to Port Moresby April 16.

Few Amendments to W. Samoa Estimates From Our Own Correspondent THE Legislative Assembly of Western Samoa, has passed the Estimates of receipts and expenditure for the calendar year 1955, with only slight amendments.

Estimated receipts are £1,108,200, and amounts brought in from reserves (£97,470 from Development Fund, £93,180 from General Fund and £94,650 from grants from NZRE profits), total £285,300, making total revenue £1,393,500.

Payments are estimated at the same figure, so the Estimates balance.

Of the payments of £1,393,500.

Public Works expenditure amounts to £512,400. The Health Department is to spend £228,700 and the Education Department £218,200.

The Customs Tariff Amendment Bill caused long debates and a motion to reduce the import duty on rice and tinned fish below the rates proposed in the Bill was carried. The new rates will be an allover rate of 15 p.c. on rice and 15 pc. on tinned fish of British origin, and 25 p.c. on imports of foreign origin. 153 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1955

Illustrated: H 202 Men’s Tan Cossack.

Si Available From Stock

Harry J. Young

PTV. LTD.

HENTY HOUSE, 379 KENT STREET, SYDNEY Box 3661, G.P.O. Telephone: BX 6487 Export Representatives For BAXTER & CO. LTD.

Makers of the famous and long standing

Baxter Brand Men'S

Welts, Pumps And

Heavy Boots

Proposed New

CUSTOMS

List At Apia

From Our Own Correspondent NEW Customs tariffs for Western Samoa which, at the time of writing, were still to be approved by the Legislative Assembly, provide for retention of the existing export duty, fixing the rates at 10 p.c. on copra f.o.b. value, 10 p.c. on cocoa, increased by .01 per cent, for each £ per ton in excess of £200; 10 p.c. on coffee; 5 p.c. on rubber, 6d a case of fresh bananas, id per lb of dried bananas, and 5 p.c. on desiccated coconut.

Import duty rates will be charged in the new tariff in a single rate instead of with a surcharge and Port and Service Tax as at present.

The computation of duty and the addition of 10 p.c. to the current domestic or f.o.b. value will be continued.

Under the continuing preferential tariff, goods of British origin will be charged 25 p.c. and goods of foreign origin 36 p.c., with the fol- 'owing exceptions: Increases —matches to 4/- gross British, 5 - foreign. Spices, caviare, nuts, etc., hops, silk or artificial silk wearing apparel, gloves, hats and millinery, ribbons and lace, silk and rayon piece goods, rubber tyres for motor vehicles, cigarette papers, cameras, playing cards, clocks and watches, fancy goods, gramophones, jewellery, musical instruments, perfumery and toilet preparations, toys, marine engines, firearms and cartridges, motorcycles and motor vehicles apart from motor trucks, buses and vans, fireworks and a number of other luxury lines are to pay 13i pc. (British) or 45 p.c. (foreign) import duty.

Reductions: Flour, tinned meats, tinned and preserved milk, sugar, and salt pay 15 p.c, irrespective of ovigin of goods.

Heavy increases are proposed for cigarettes (54/- a 1,000 British, 72/foreign if exceeding 2J lb per 1,000, and 45/- and 60/- respectively if weighing less than 21 lb per 1,000); cigars 20/- and 26/- per lb; snuff 20/- and 26/- per lb, and tobacco 10/- and 13/- per lb.

Ale and beer are to carry a duty of 3/- and 4/- per liquid gallon or six reputed quart bottles, spirits 60 - and 75/- per gallon.

Lumber will be increased to 10/and 13/4 per 100 superficial ft for dressed and 7/6 and 10/- for rough. t Observance of Fiji’s historic Cession Day (October 10, 1874), nowadays much more carefully marked than in former years, has been extended by a secondary schools’ essay competition. Writl of the ten best essays on t significance of Cession to Fiji v be given free return passages Levuka, where the Deed of Cess;? was signed. If a winner lives the Levuka district, the prize y be a return passage to Suva.

Freehold Estate Offer[?]

In Bougainville

r-E Hakau Company of Bougas ville, TNG, will invite tenco shortly for Hakau Estate, nr Teop Harbour. This was a go cocoa-coffee property before war but has not been worked si:i the war ended.

Tenders were called in OctoH 1949, for this same property, apparently results were not sat factory at that time.

Hakau Estate was described tH as of 645 acres of freehold, of whf 270 were planted—l3o with Robut coffee and the remainder cocoa. The estate was said to overgrown with secondary groy in 1949—and must be even mi over-grown now. It is stated, ho ever, that there is a considerat amount of cocoa still growing.

Land and situation are excelLJ and it is described as an all-weatl; anchorage. Principal shareholders the Hakau Company are Messrs?

Joyes, Drummond Thomson s F. P. Archer. 154 MAY. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

G. BREEKVELDT Qualified Naval Architect Designs for sail and power in wooden and steel construction o Representative for shipyards fci in Europe. Let 3 0 us quote on your g new project. o G) £ Dredges ® C.P.O. Box 2642 Auckland, N.Z.

Go Cannery Output

S[?] Meets Competition [?]om Jap. Tuna Packers AN Camp Sea Foods, who operate the tuna cannery in jo Pago, recently asked a US iff Commission for substantial reases in duty on foreign tuna sring the United States. The ipany stated in evidence that boats fished only 56 per cent of t country’s tuna needs. leanwhile, the Van Camp tuna nery at Pago Pago, Eastern noa, is to be modernised and its cessing capacity increased, he Government’s vessel Manu’a ? took a party of seven American micians from Canton Island, :re they had arrived by air, to 0 Pago in April. rincipal technical difficulty is limited reserve fish-holding acity of the factory—about 200 3. This means that tuna ictimes have to be wasted if e hauls are brought in by the boats. The cannery cannot 3 pace with the fishing, and all ling room is fully taxed, arly in April the cannery had 30 cases of canned fish on hand iting shipment. Thorsisle was ly to make a special call to lift produce for the States on her r voyage north. uring peak operation the aery is now employing 250 loans.

Lood Of Japanese Tuna

: the recent US Tariff Common hearings, Van Camp asked an increase in duty on tuna in Tom the present 45 per cent to >er cent; and for tuna in brine 1 12h per cent to 54 per cent. r as pointed out that as a result competition from overseas ces, Japan especially, American s had fished only 56 per cent ae country’s tuna needs in 1954, :ompared with 91 per cent in panese exporters had supplied )er cent of America’s needs in compared with 1.3 per cent.

L 948. pan’s present tuna plans inte that she will be able to 'uce 23 million cans for export .958. This is more than twice present world consumption. 3 canneries, which paid the rman $330 and $290 per ton 954 for yellowfin and shipjack actively, are seeking a reduction ;30 or more per ton for the mt season. e Japanese fishing vessel yu-Maru, No. 510-127, arrived ’ago Pago on April 21 to join other fishing fleet there supplying Van Camp Sea Food Company with tuna for canning.

The ship has a registered tonnage of 156, is 108 feet in length, 22 in width with a draft of 10 feet. She carries a crew of 28.

The Sassyu Maru left Shimizu, Japan, on March 10 and fished enough in Samoan waters to bring in 48 tons as her initial offering to the cannery.

Vila Rsl Protests

Against Japs

OBJECTING to the admission to the New Hebrides of “Japanese industrialists who intend to set up a fishing industry”, the Vila Returned Soldiers’ League has protested to the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Sir Robert Stanley). (See page 67 this issue).

The protest was made in April, when Sir Robert, with Lady Stanley and their daughter, were touring the New Hebrides Group in the vessel Nareau. £loo-per-Head Cattle For Native Rations HTHERE are a few worried men among Agricultural Department staff in Papua-New Guinea as a result of investigations into the department’s cattle activities.

The Inquiries have reportedly been , proceeding for several months—since the Commonwealth Auditor-General had something to say about expenses and accounts— and also since some of the settlers became a little more vocal on the subject of cattle.

Criticism has been strong that the standard of cattle being imported the country by the Administration is poor, and that officials in the Territory or the officials in Australia responsible for selecting the cattle should get a caning.

At least one Highland agricultural “station” has killed off, for native rations, cattle that was brought into the Territory at great expense a few years ago, and from which nothing has been bred!

General feeling is that the whole cattle policy is a mess, and that nothing of any value has been done since the war, despite the frequent ballyhoo about progress and the “building up of stocks”.

Maybe the present investigations will clear that up, although the old hands frankly hold out little hope that anything concrete will be achieved, apart from the pruning of expenses.

They say what is needed is more expenses—properly spent!

Pacific Islands Society

THE April meeting of the Pacific Islands Society in Sydney was one of the largest gatherings on record.

Mr. John C. Grover, BE (Mining & Metallurgy), FGS, ERGS, guest speaker, gave an interesting and topical address on the history of the search for gold in the Solomon Islands, extending back to the Spanish discoverers.

Mr. Grover, who is in charge of the Geological Survey in that British Protectorate, has carried out extensive research in the subject and has brought to light some little-known facts.

He illustrated his talk with clear and beautiful aerial colour photos of the Solomons, and of ground operations in connection with the recent discovery of the Gold Ridge lodes.

A concise history of gold mining in the Solomons, written by Mr. Grover, will shortly be published.

BGD Production Quarterly production figures released by Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., show that for the quarter ended February 28, poorer returns were obtained than for the corresponding period last year.

A little over 15,000 ounces of gold were recovered from 3,407,000 yards of material dredged—the 1954 figured being 18,973 ounces and 4,442,330 yards, respectively.

Ngg Production

The following figures have been taken from New Guinea Goldfields operating report for March; Golden Ridge Mill, 1,212 oz fine gold recovered; 1,458 oz silver, Golden Ridges Alluvials, 101 oz gold, Maranga Alluvials, 704 oz gold. Tributes, 112 oz gold. Timber, 260,109 super-feet. 155 :, FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

Everyone needs an one of your Have you ii s kitchen Ml Every for before one emergencies mm. !> v# . Fishermen, campers need one Ah! that s what it was. l Ml immilM'inMM I'M uu Change baby’s nappy without fuss.

No terror of spiders or mice >•«« »£T*tt> But make sure you ask for “Eveready” brand flashlights and batteries the one brand that has proved absolutely reliable under tropical conditions . . . *1 EVEREADY BRAND FLASHLIGHTS & BATTERIES .. ' Eveready”, ’ Nine Lives” and __ af c thecat Symbol are registered trade-marks "kl Ik| r ■\a r o - ®f (Australia) Pty Ltd.. Rosebery. N.S.W. NI W t LIVES ▼4ADC-MAKK

News From The

COOKS STRONG northerlies and bad weatf in March caused some damage . crops, especially at Aitutaki and Rx tonga. The work of the Air Departmeie calibration aircraft, engaged in check! the radio navigational facilities along Coral Route, was also interrupted.

However, in one brief spell of clear 1 weather the meteorological department up a new Rarotonga record by maintain! observations of one of the daily pc balloons up to a height of 74,000 feet.. * * * Huge hauls of tuna and koperu, j two large sailfish, were included inr most prolific catch of fish during Mat at Pukapuka. * * # The old post office, believed to possibly 100 years old. was demolished!

Aitutaki recently, to give way for new administrative building. Oldtim affirm that there is a cache of coins unr a corner stone, but to date they have been found.

The new hospital building on this ishl should be ready for use by June. WitL new adminisrative building, dental cliii and doctor’s residence in the towns!; Arutunga’s appearance will be somewi smarter than in the past. * * * Following the announcement from M Zealand that all bananas that can be pj duced will be purchased there are sii that many land owners will enter t) export market. * * * Inter-island radio telegraph rates n by a penny to 4d per word on Aprili * * * The new freezer is doing brisk business Rarotonga, with prices of goods (impon from New Zealand) at a reasonable les for example: sausages 3/3 per lb, M roasts 3/-. pork legs 3/-, lamb shoull chops 3/9, mutton legs 3/3, apples I butter 3/7. * * * A full loading of departing passeng was booked for the special May visit) “Matua”. The Resident Commissioner, : Nevill, with Mrs. Nevill, was returning*; the vessel after leave. Mr. Nevlll’s appointment for another 3-year term ! been confirmed.

Also expected per “Matua” were F! fessor H. Belshaw and Mr. V. D. Stf to carry out an economic survey of Lower Group Islands. They will ret’) to New Zealand per TEAL aircraft fn Aitutaki early June. * * * The chief medical officer, Dr. Romsi left per TEAL aircraft in mid-April I discuss details of the coming radiologic TB survey of the Cooks population to the Health Department in New Zealas Dr. Romans was to study the methri being employed in Fiji, and was also c visit Cook Islands medical students the Central Medical School. * * * At Rakahanga, the people, in a commum effort, recently erected a thatch-rooo verandah completely round the new schm 156 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

PIMPLES imiai Don’t let ugly, disfiguring Pimples, Ecremz, Acne, Ringworm. Psoriasis, Blackheads or Itching, Cracking, Peeling, Burning Skin Troubles make life miserable and spoil your fun.

Don't be embarrassed and feel inferior because of a bad skin.

Now every chemist has a new American Hospital Discovery called Nizoderm that stops the Itch In 7 minutes, kills germs and fungus and in 24 hours begins to heal the skin clear, soft and smooth. No matter how long you have suffered or what you have tried, get Nizoderm from your chemist to-day under positive guarantee to heal your skin satisfactorily or money back.

[?]Ales, Gannets

D AURORAS Du Can Help Science CREE different organisations have recently requested information from people in the ids.

The first concerns whales, r. W. H. Dawbin, Victoria Uniity College, PO Box 196, Wellm, studying the movements of les, would like reports on whale tings. The important details date and number of whales in each group, and, if possible, kind of whale. Anyone can tify the barrel-headed, bluntd sperm whale, but the others not so easy. If a whale is ided in your area, check to see her it carries any darts that have been fired into it—and details stamped on the dart.

The Director, Dominion ium, Buckland Street, Welling- NZ, would like reports of gansighted in the Islands, ere are several gannet rookeries i the New Zealand coast, where young are hatched, but their history is something of a Bry. So chicks are being ringed an aluminium band marked i Dominion Museum.” i bird with a band comes your remove the band, flatten it and it to a small piece of cardi, and post to the above address, her with details of locality, ler the bird was dead, etc. — if at all possible, a photo of ird so thaf it can be identified species. Expenses will be red. •rofessor Sydney Chapman, Society, London, is more ined in contacting old-timers clear memories and poor nations. He is studying as —Southern Lights, ire is an unconfirmed report such a phenomena was seen ngatabu in May. 1921. if such he case it is of considerable ific interest and the same also have been seen in the Cooks. uld anyone possess old letters or lentary evidence to support imour, or can, after 34 years, emember (a) the colour and (b) about how high and in direction the lights rose in sy, (c) about how much of rizon the lights extended along, i) whether the lights changed form during the time they invisible, they should tell the sor all about it and earn his r gratitude. ;e him care The Secretary, to overnment, Nukualofa. Tonga.

Queen has approved the use name for six mobile clinics t for Papua-New Guinea h the Coronation Trust

Biscuit Factory Is

Punned For Bsip

(From Our Own Correspondent) TWO applications have been received, under the Protected Industries Regulation, 1955, for a licence to prepare and manufacture hard or plain biscuits in the BSIP.

The applicants are Mr. K. H.

Dalrymple Hay and Kwan How Yuan Pty. Ltd., both of Honiara.

By the provisions of the Regulation, objections to the establishment of any protected industry may be lodged within a certain time after notice of application has been given, and any objections received are considered by the High Commissioner before a licence is granted. The closing date for the lodging of objections to these applications was May 14.

Fiji Women’S Hockey

Team For Nz

AFTER raising funds for a seven weeks’ tour in New Zealand, the women’s hockey organisation in Fiji plans to send 15 players and a manager on May 18.

With an average age of 23, the team has been selected as follows; Mrs. S. Raddock, Suva (captain) ; Mrs. A. Smith, Levuka (vicecaptain) ; N. Sorby, Nausori; Mrs.

M. Beddoes, Suva; Mrs. J. Wilder, Suva; L. McGoon, Lautoka; L.

Spitz, Suva; L. Stockwell, Suva; P.

Wiliams, Levuka; Mrs. B. Apted, Suva; M. Watson, Suva; Mrs. M.

Thomas, Lautoka; T. Work, Suva; A. Bower, Levuka; J. McKenzie, Suva; Mrs. M. Fenn, Suva (manager).

The first part of the itinerary will comprise matches against country teams in Auckland Province.

First Fijian Secretary Of Legislative Council CHANGING times in Fiji, exemplified by the appointment of a Fijian leader (Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna) as the first Speaker of the Legislative Council, are illustrated at a lower level by the appearance, for the first time in Legislative Council history, of a Fijian as Clerk.

He is Jonate Mavoa, a Secretariat officer who, at the time of the April session, was acting as a Section Secretary.

At the end of the session, a European member, Mr. W. G. Johnson, expressed the pleasure of members at the dignity and efficiency with which the Clerk of the Council had carried out his duties.

Big Aircraft Using Tafuna Airport LARGE aircraft are using Eastern Samoa’s Tafuna Airfield, a few miles along the south coast of Tutuila from Pago Pago, although it will require a considerable amount of money to be spent on it before Pan American Airways can divert their South Pacific service from Canton to Samoa.

Last month we reported that the US Navy had instituted a plan to fly Samoan servicemen home from Hawaii on leave. The first party arrived in an RSD, one of the largest aircraft flying to-day, and departed again without fuss.

The US Government has completed arrangements for a May charter flight of Government personnel into Samoa, with others returning home, by Pan American Airways aircraft. The incoming staff were to arrive on May 20 by a routine south-bound flight which would continue on to Fiji, and another north-bound aircraft was to divert from Fiji on May 22 to pick up the outgoing personnel.

The arrangement saved the US Government a considerable sum of money, as normally staff must travel south to Fiji, then east to Western Samoa by TEAL aircraft, and complete the last stage to Pago Pago by small inter-island vessels. Expensive stop-overs awaiting connections are involved, as well as the time factor.

These charter flights were along the route that Pan American plans to use when Tafuna has been brought up to the internationally accepted standards. 157 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY 1955

Classified Advertisements Per line, 2/-; Minimum, 6 lines.

FOR SALE

Electric Generating Sets.—New 9

K.V.A. English “Meadows” 240 volt single phase or 415 volt 3 phase, 50 cycles, driven by 18 H.P. petrol engine, radiator cooled to suit tropical conditions. Complete with switch board and voltage regulator.

Two only, balance of stock —special price to clear £350 each, F. 0.8., Sydney. Available for test before shipment. Hardman & Hall, 161 Mlssenden Road, Newtown, Sydney.

RUBBER ESTATE, best offer, 1,000 acres, situated at loma, Papua; approximately 300 acres under rubber; homestead; complete equipment to produce first-grade rubber. Further particulars from G.

Chester, loma Rubber Estates, Northern Division Papua, or Morton B. Cohen, Liquidator, Public Accountant, 14 Martin Place, Sydney.

PENFRIENDS DON’T BE LONELY.—Men and women All over Australia are finding happiness through my Friendship & Matrimonial Correspondence Club. Someone wants to be YOUR friend. Select and confidential.

Write TO-DAY. No obligation. Locker P, Dorothy Pope Friendship Club regd.), Box 182, Haymarket P. 0., Sydney, N.S W. tELP yourself and another lonely person to a full life. Be introduced the modern way by correspondence. Members 1 ’ Australia and overseas. All ages (from 18 on), faiths, nationalities and walks of Hfe; cities and country. State age, sex. languages, etc., and write for free information brochure to be sent to you, in plain sealed envelope, to; Milton’s Friendship Club (Regd.). Dept. 5, G.P.0.. Sydney.

Strictly confidential—No obligation—New Australians welcome.

Wanted To Purchase

GUEST HOUSE or similar.—Middle - age English couple, seeking semi-retiremen within next 12 months, desire purchas Guest House, or any proposition givin small income with easy life; sub-tropics Norfolk Island or similar climate. ILM.G. 15JSe? St.. Herne Bay, Kent, England

Position Wanted

NEW ZEALANDER. 35, 3 yrs. Mass.

College, N.Z. Management experience many types temperate and tropical agr culture. Interested in permanent positio management or under-management. W go anywhere. Airmail replies to: 62S C/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney.

Land For Sale I

FREEHOLD LAND, 1 acre, main road (King’s Road)’ town area, Ba, Viti Levu, Fiji. Cash or terms. All enquiries gladly answered.

Address enquiries to: Deo Narayan, Storekeeper Navure, P.O. Lawaqa, Nadroga, Colo West, Fiji Trade Slump in Fren Oceania FRENCH Oceania, dependent free-market pricefe for its cop is feeling the present slump] that commodity, according to: Papeete correspondent.

Vanilla and coffee have ; dropped in recent months, only the MOP shell market: maintaining a prosperous conditJ though Takaroa lagoon, opeE this season for diving, was ag closed due to a low percentage large shells.

Mangareva, Takapoto, at Hikueru, however, are taking hauls and the price offered divers on the beach in April wan francs per kilo —equivalent to ati £A435 per long ton, with the Pap» f.o.b. price for packed shell, re for export, naturally considers higher.

Samoan Cocoa Market Dr# From Our Own Correspondent APRIL cocoa rates in West!

Samoa were down to £260 a f.o.b. Apia, compared with 1954 peak of more than £5OO.

There is little cocoa in the A stores, and although small quai. ties are still being picked, there be no real crop before Octobe if the weather is good.

Burns Philp (S.S.) Profii £113,000 Net BURNS PHILP (South Seas) Ltd., made £113,137 net pn for the year ended Profit for the previous year £100,923.

Steady 10 per cent. dividE absorbs £75,000.

Gross profit was £530,836, agai £455,398.

New “Triaster” Will Hat “Luxury Accommodation!

OF interest to people in Ock Nauru, and the GEIC genera is news that the Triaster launched in the British shipjc of Harland and Woolf in April, i that the vessel will have “lux? accommodation” for passengers.

Triaster replaces a vessel of same name sunk in the Gern attack on shipping lying off Nas Island in December, 1940. sinking five vessels and destro;: the loading facilities, the three II raiders went to Emirau IslsJ near New Ireland, and landed survivors of these and other ves —496 persons in all.

BOOKS ANY NEW BOOK (English), which is In print now, posted to you in a few days.

I also find rare and out-of-print books to order. Large Pacific clientele. Banking accounts at Sydney and Wellington. Write Philip R. Boulton, Bookseller, Westbury, Wilts, England.

HANDBOOK OF PAPUA & NG, 1954. 320 pp and maps; contains all details about the administrative and commercial organisation in the two territories; includes directory of all European residents and business firms and of the leading Chinese residents. Price: 15/- (plus 1/posted). HANDS OFF PIDGIN ENGLISH! by Professor R. A. Hall, Jnr., of Cornell University, USA.—A defence of the “lingua franca” of Melanesia and a plea for its official use and control. Price: 15/- (plus 1/- posted). Copies from Islands Stores and Booksellers or direct from Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd.. 29 Alberta St., Sydney.

Drive Yourself Cars

SYDNEY VISITORS Drive yourself service.

All new Renaults, rates 6d per mile with free N.R.M.A. road service, free insurance, and free oil. This is the lowest rate In Sydney. Telegraph or Cable “Berkiladd”

Sydney. Ira L. & A. C. Berk Pty. Ltd., 72 William Street. ’Phone; M 4702.

IN SYDNEY.—Drive yourself—all Holdens; cheapest rates, N.R.M.A. road service.

Make the most of your leave. Sydney Hate Wentworth) Drive Yourself, 77 Wentworth Ave., or 196 Elizabeth St., City.

MA 9204 (after hours, FM3113).

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.—At your service in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty.

Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward St., Brisbane, Queensland. Phone; FA 1091.

Enquiries invited. ’ " « ACCOMMODATION FLAT AT MANLY, Sydney, Aust.—s min. surf, ferry, pool, shops, overlooks Manly, Ocean. Heads. LUXURY furn., w./w. carpets, refrig., hot water, ’phone, garden & lawns. Accommodation: Dbl. 8., 2 5.8.; Day B. IMPORTANT: Due to difficulty experienced in arranging date of arrival with vacant accommodation. I am inviting applications and ALTERNATIVE DATES.

Please state period required for. Reply to “Manly Holiday”, G.P.O. Box 417, Sydney.

NORFOLK ISLAND, “Burnt Pine” Real Estate Agency. Cable Address: “Adage, Norfolk Island”. Properties for sale in peaceful surroundings and beautiful climate of Norfolk Island. All enquiries promptly attended to.

STAY AT CRAIGNATHAN Private Hotel 2 HAYES ST., NEUTRAL BAY.

Right on Sydney Harbour. 15 mins, ferry to City. Bed and Breakfast, or Business Board.

Islands Visitors Welcome. 158 MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

/ n / -ITS ANOTHER.

Rotary Hoe

dhtqmd > A \V V HK toy* P *lC£ o / ONL.yr tqg'Mo Priced to suit your pocket, the ‘‘Little Digger” really gets to grips with your hoeing. Around the homestead, on market gardens and suburban vegetable plots, this remarkable little hoe mechanises digging at a price you can afford.

It weighs only 103 lbs., hoes 10" or 17" wide, and can he quickly converted, with attachments, for furrowing and lawnmowing!

Vertically adjustable handlebars and centrally mounted controls, make it easy to handle. Long-life features include: reliable JAP four-stroke governed engine, oilbath air cleaner, Z T 7 I worm-type transmission, sound Have a tryouf on your own ■ i-i. i . ’

" English engineering. land! See your local agenf or contact: I Contact: DANGAR GEDYE & MALLOCH LTD. 10-14 YOUNG STREET, CIRCULAR QUAY, SYDNEY.

P.O. BOX 509. RADIOGRAMS: “DANGARS”, SYDNEY.

Local Agents:— RABAUL: R. Gillespie iN.G.t Ltd. LAE; Century Motors. PORT MORESBY: Pacific Motors. SAMARAI: A. H. Bunting Ltd. RABAUL; F. L. Kwock Cheong.

MADANG: Madang Slipways Ltd. KAVIENG: W. J. Meehan GOROKA J H Ellis ndex to Advertisers J.E 27 S R. Ltd. . . 26 [.L. & F, . . 75 a-Vite ... 70 minium Ltd. 124 alg. Dairies 36 erican Equip. 12 etco Pty. Ltd. 122 plion Ltd. . . 61 ott, Wm. . 136 ro 87 >c. Tr. Jnls. 142 sian. Sales . 45 5. Recondl- Dners .... 39 er, W. Jno. 57 k of NSW . 43 k of NZ . .62 ser College 114 tholemew.

W 151 lei’s Bookop .... 9 lell, Gwyn . 5 ;land-Rae . 102 dell-Spence 150 hwicks . . 152 Iford Mills . 68 iso .... 46 bon Bros. . 117 kwoldt . 48, 69 en, W. S. . 107 kveldt, G. 155 ;ol Myers . 63 sh Paints . 76 dway Motors 5 iton & Co. . 42 ?e Pty. . . 50 ;ing, A. H. . 89 85, 87, 116, 151 , W. J. . . 33 e’s Studios 89 is Ship. Co. 109 eron & therland . 105 snter . 59, 112 lifted . * . 158 ite 86. 115, 123 an’s Musd 33 lial Meat . 74 ;r W’s’n. 10, 90 e Bros. . . 149 [ Co. ... 35 imond Co. 148 !X .... 133 Is, S. W. . 107 159 Id Ltd. . . 62 lass, W. C. 91 ap Rubber 49 is Pty. . . 126 onald ... 90 ;ady ... 156 t, Wm. . 127 ;r Ltd. . . 40 nk e & decke ... 53 te Rum . . 61 tier Eng. . 106 ;tt, D. & M. 160 ck Hotel . 7 n Battle 114 y, W. & A. 94 Die Bros. . 58 Die, R. 1, 28, 50, 60, 138 te Ltd. . 119 )n Vale . 147 )n’s Gin . 98 im Books . 54 [. (Suva) . 9 s Ltd. 42, 121 rsen, B. . 101 rsen, Sons 103 ton Court 127 e & Spear 142 y Trinder 146 > Agencies 74 igs Diesels 64 Hawleys Ltd. . 100 Hellaby Ltd. . . 51 Holbrooks Ltd. 131 Hygeia Co . . 70 Hytest Co. . . 38 Is. Industries . 55 Is. Transport . 106 Johnson’s Wax 134 Kennedy, Capt. 110 Kerr Bros. . . 143 Kiwi Polish . . 58 Kodak .... 31 Kolynos . . . 132 Kopsen & Co. . 2 Lillis & Co. . . 92 Manly Boatshed .... 102 Marfleet & Weight ... 109 Mendaco ... 29 Millers Ltd. . . 98 Mitchell, R.

Wallace ... 52 M. H. Ltd. . 22. 99 Morgan Vernex 123 Mungo Scott . 11l Mcllrath’s ... 143 National Instrument Co. . . 108 N. & R. . . 95. 110 Needham & Co. 93 Nestle’s .... 32 NG Aust. Line . 3 Nile Products . 72 Nirex .... 128 Nixoderm . . . 157 NZNAC .... 6 Pacific Consolidated ... 53 P. I. Line ... 4 Papuan Prints . 97 Piccaninny Wax 141 Qld. Insurance . 30 Qld. Milling . . 73 Ransomes Co. . 125 Reckitt’s Blue . 117 Refrig. Inst. Co. 65 Riverstone Co. 56 Rohu, Sil . . . 73 Rozema Bros. . 101 Sails & Covers 105 Seppelt & Son 120 Seward Ltd. . . 39 Shaw Savill . . 4 Shell Co. . . . 135 Southern Cross . . 37, 111 Spruso Co. ... 24 S.T.C. Ltd. . . 46 Stapleton Pty. 137 Stewarts-Lloyds 38 Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 41 Sullivan Ltd. . 97 Tait, W. S. . . 57 Taylor & Co. . 133 Thornburgh . . 145 Thornycroft Co. 34 Tilley Lamps . 47 Tillock & Co. . 130 Tongan Photos 113 Tooheys Ltd. . 44 Tooth & Co. . . 66 Turners Supply 54 Tusculum ... 94 Tyneside Eng. . 71 United Radio . 149 Vacuum Oil Co. 144 Ventura . 113, 160 Vi-Stim .... 129 Vincent’s APC . 25 Warnock ... 66 Westfield Meats 88 White, John . . 37 Wills Ltd. ... 96 Wunderlich Co. 67 Yorkshire Ins. . 69 Young, H, . . 154 ’ I F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1955

\ FIJI Aug.,1939 July, '54 Maf Emperor . . b9/ll bl7/9 sl4J Loloma . . .

S25/6 b27/s24J PAPUA-NEW GUINEA Bulolo . . . bl24/s60/b48f N.G.G. Ltd. . bl/10 bi/ny 2 si/!' Oil Search .

S3/11 b32/s8/:' Ent. of N.G. . s2/:' Oriomo OH . b5/- 815/6 b3/\ Papuan Apin. b4/ll b7/2 s3/(' Placer Dev. . b68/6 b260/s30« Sandy Creek . bl/5 s6d s9di Purchasers at Full Market Prices on Assay Value of

Gold, Silver

and PLATINUM Also Platinum Group Metals Some of Our Services: ASSAYERS & ANALYSTS.—Assays of Bullion, Ores, etc. Analyses of Metals, Minerals, Alloys, etc.

Scientific And Industrial

METALLURGISTS.—Our range of precious metal manufactures covers all industries —Gold and Silversmiths Electrical Trades, Dental Profession, Glass Silverers, Electro- Platers, etc., etc.

REFlNERS.—Purchasers and Refiners of Bullion, Scrap, Mining By-Products, and Trade Residues of every description carrying Precious Metals.

Garrett, Davidson &

MATTHEY PTY., LTD., 824 George St., Sydney. Works: Surry Hills & Chippendale, N.S.W.

Official Assayers to Bank of N.S.W.

Gazetted Agents of Commonwealth Bank, under the Gold Regulations of the National Security Act.

Consign Your Shell To VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD.

26 Bridge Street, Sydney

We can offer highest prices for all types of Shell and Island Produce, and invite your inquiry.

Cables: “VENTURA,” Sydney.

Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 24/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 22/6 Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 140 Pac. Francs; $U52.28.) COPRA Price negotiated between British Ministry of Food and British South Pacific Territories for 1955 is £ Stg.6s, FOB main ports—a reduction of 7.14% on the 1954 price. Stabilisation funds and other charges reduce the actual prices to producers to those given below, per ton: PAPUA - NEW GUINEA;—Hot Air £69/15/-; FM (Sun) £69; Smoked £ 66/15/-.

FlJl:—Plantation £F63/5/6; FM £F63; moister grades to £FS9/15/- minimum.

W. SAMOA:—£S42/6/-, £S4I/18/-, and £S4I/12/- tor the three gradings in use.

E. SAMOA:—Adjusted with free-market fluctuations. Currently $89.60 (£A4O approx.) per long ton. Periodic bonus if average proceeds exceed Government buying price.

SOLOMONS; —Honiara / Gizo: Hot Air £A67/10/-; Mixed HA/FM £A6I/10/-; FM £ A57/10/-; Yandina: 5/- higher.

NEW HEBRIDES:—May 1: Merchants paying 6,950 Pac. francs (£A49/15/-).

FRENCH OCEANIA:—Latest quotation 6.25 Pac. francs per kilo (£A4S/6/aprox., per long ton) delivered in bulk, Papeete.

TONGA;—£AS9 and £AS3 per ton for the two gradings in use.

COOK IS.:—Growers receive £ Stg.37/3/to £Stg.3o/6/- depending on quality and freight rates from particular Island to Rarotonga.

COCOA: —Islands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which, on May 5, was £ Stg.29o f.o.b.

P.-N.G.: £A3SO, delivered Sydney.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: Little business; off season.

PEANUTS:—P.-N.G.: Market only for Virginia Bunch, in shell, large, well cleaned, 1 4 per lb. delivered Sydney RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore, which quoted May 5, No. 1 RSS, spot 89V2 cents (31.6 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, quoted May 6: Tahiti —White and Yellow label 64/- lb., Green label 63/-, c.i.f.

RICE (Australiail): —Price adjusted May 1 each year. P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed £65 per ton, f.o.b. (See elsewhere this issue).

PEARL SHELL. —Prices fixed between Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for 1955: Sound grades, £A73B; D, £ A 390; E, £A3OO; EE, £A225, all f.o.b. Australian port. Manihiki; Offers of £ A4OO, c.i.f. Auckland. No actual ness quoted.

TROCHUS:—May 6, in store Sys subject to rejects; P.-N.G. to £440.

GREEN SNAIL:—P.-N.G., in Sydney, to £320, subject to reject!

London And U.S. Prices

Copra;—London. May 6; Straits, £Stg.6s/10/- ( £ AB2/5/-). N. Heb:< afloat (April 16), 69,500 Metro, francs long ton (£ ABB/7/-). Philippines, t (May 6), $lBl (£ABO/15/-).

Cocoa:—London, April 16: Gold O May-July delivery, c.i.f. U.K., £Sfr per long ton; New York, April 15, fut) May 36.49 cents. July 36.85 cents, 36.90 cents, per lb.

Coffee: —London, April 16; Uganda rn robusta, unwashed, f.a.q., prompt del £Stg.2s7, May-June £Stg.247, June £Stg.237, July-August £Stg.23s per ton, f.o.b. Mombasa; New York, Apri' Colombian, spot, 62 Vz cents, S< “Fours” 58 cents, per lb. Futures: 55.85 cents, July 50.80 cents, Septe 46.85 cents.

Trochus:—London. April 16: Singae early delivery, £Stg.49s; Singsy Macassar, £Stg.4lo c.i.f.

Greensnail: —Last quotation, Dec..

Singapore £Stg.34o. Since increased!

Rubber:—London, May 6: Spot, be 26 J / 2 d Stg.; July-September 26y4d Stgs

Islands Mining Shai

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia om basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Ses £AII3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO 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 Sax B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Sax London, basis £lOO London: B. £lOO9 S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £IOOC B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji, £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth B 8

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kaw Madang), BANK OF NSW (branchesa Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Maoj Samarai; agency: Wau) and ANZ Ba (Port Moresby) quote exchange Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- per £lOO.

Bsi.—Commonwealth Bank (Bn

at Honiara) quotes exchange rate tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific in most valuable of the three franc gi' in French Union, are used in New 1 donia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Oces FRENCH BANK (Comptoir Natt fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $.

D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney qm Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.: 180 * Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA 9197.; Wholly set up am printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty, Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

On The Luxury Level-Fiji—Auckland

SERVICE

• Twice Weekly Service

• Pressurized Dc-6 Airliners

• Choice Of Luxury First-Class

Or Economy Tourist Service

To U.S.A. And Canada

SAMOA TAHITI %/ FI "

TONGA / ;M TUTAKI SYDNEY # * MELBOURNE AUCKLAND TEAL Hibiscus Service Other TEAL Services • •• • • Connecting Routes WELLINGTON CHRISTCHURCH It costs no more to enjoy the extra comfort and convenience of TEAL pressurized DC-6 airliners on the Hibiscus service between Fiji and Auckland. luxury’ first-class accommodation with superb TEAL cuisine and wine service or economical, comfortable, Tourist accommodation.

Twice weekly return service. Choice of Arrive refreshed after a mere 5-hours over-the-weather flight in pressurized DC-6 comfort.

A Ps9a S' & 3 Trans-Tasman air routes, the Hibiscus Service (Fiji-Auckland) and the Coral Route to Tahiti.

TASMAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LIMITED in association with Qantas and 8.0.A.C.

Reservations, Inquiries ; Leading Travel

Agents Everywhere And Teal Offices At

Suva, Auckland, Wellington And

CHRISTCHURCH.

MAY, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY -

> t ml ft

General Merchants

' " ..^lllii^ m PBP^.'% Capital . £1,000,000 ESTABLISHED 1914

General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER FORTY 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., vV. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng. Port Moresby. Ltd., Suva.

J Agents For Australian, European

) AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

\ Distributors Of Every Description

( OF MERCHANDISE.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 195 5