PACIFIC ISLANDS MMonthly -JUNE, 1955 Vol. XXV. NO. 11. ished 1930 [Registered at Sydney for n ans ns a newspaper ] A MEKEO MAY LOOK AT AN ARCHBISHOP:—And this one seems to be thinking that an Archbishop is a much more splendid sight than any Mekeo, even though the latter is wearing his best dogs’ teeth, shells and flowers. The Archbishop, of course, is Australasian Apostolic Delegate, His Excellency, the Most Rev. R.

Carboni, who visited the Mekeo district and other parts of Papua and New Guinea a few months ago. —Photo by J. Delabarre.

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 the South-West Pacific with Australia.

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

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

Australia'S Overseas Airline

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Coleman No. 1 "Premiers

has cream sprayed tank . . . porcelain enamelled flue . . . brass window frame . . . large central airdraught ... a tank capacity of 3 pints and an easily regulated blue flame. Height 13f in., diameter 9 in., weight 5J lb.

Coleman No. 2 "Statesman"

has cream sprayed tank . . . aluminium sprayed flue . . . central air-draught burner with side lighting hole . . . easily regulated blue flame and a tank capacity of 2i pints. Height 12 in., 3i lb. diameter 8 in., weight Representatives for Pacific Islands 54a PITT STREET SYDNEY

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Simplex Marine Engines

Simplex 5 HP. with built-in reverse gear.

New models in 5 and 10 h.p. 4-cycle now fitted with bmlt-m Thrustmatic Reverse Gear and several other modern 1955 features. The 12 h.p. 2-cylinder engine as illustrated can now also be supplied with electric starter and generator and with enclosed flywheel.

There are no finer engines made in the world for boats up to 26 ft. than the heavy-duty Simplex range. Simplex engines are made in four models 3 h.p., 5 h.p., 12 h.p. and 20 h.p. Thousands of Simplex engines have been installed throughout the Pacific area in the past 10 years, and they have been proved to be the most trouble-free, efficient performers of any marine engines. Not affected by extreme climatic conditions, and provide solid rugged daily use.

Simplex 12 H.P. with reve electric starter and go rator.

Kopsen Motor Launches

14 ft. Open 18 ft. Cabin 20 ft. Cabin 22 ft. Cabin Available with carvel or clinker planking, powered with Simplex marine engines or with the larger Penta marine engines. Kopsen launches are built to standardised marine architects’ plans with first quality timber and copper fastenings. Built for work or pleasure.

Penta Marine Engines

35 H.P., 84 H.P., 100 H.P. Petrol and Diesel These fine quality Swedish-built precision engines now available from stock. Supplied with or without reduction gears, with electric starter and generator, instrument panel, automatic thermostat water control and every modern marine feature. Penta engines are known throughout the world as the highest quality marine units made. Adequate supplies of spare parts available and every engine is fully guaranteed.

Kopsen Propellers

Kopsen bronze propellers, 2 or 3 blade, all sizes from 6” to 36”, Perfectly balanced and machined.

Bore tapered and keywayed if required. We will be glad to advise on size and type required for any engine.

Britannia Outboard Motor

Twin Cylinder Britannia and Swordfish oc board motors are fine modJ powerful units for use boats up to 20’ long. Mi by Brockhouse, England, s guaranteed to be the fin lightweight twin-cylinder oc boards made. Perfect balanu running, easy starting s quiet. Britannia is the fe value outboard motor on market.

C.Q.R. Plow Anchors

ALL SIZES 13 lb. to 170< 3 times the holding power or l/3rd the weight, stock to foul, easily handled. Dig in quickly. TL stronger the blow the harder they hold. Stow w on deck or hatch. British C.Q.R. are famous throug out the world as the lightest and finest hold:! anchor designed. Ask for special leaflet.

SHIPCHANDLERY Navigation Lamps C.Q.R. Anchors Koplastic Antifoul- Ing.

Nonskid Deck Paint Petrol Tanks Copper Roves Brass Screws Chain Swivels Prop Shafting Anchor Winches Aldis Lamps Ryland Varnish FW Engine Enamel Seamflex Putty Copper Tacks Steel Blocks Shackles Steel Bolts 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 WM Copper Nails Steering Gear Brass Rod Wire Rope Turnbuckles Propellers ASK FOR NEW BOAT & ENGINE CATALOGUE OR SHIPCHANDLERY CATALOGUE W. KOPSEN & CO. PTY. LTI> 376-382 Kent Street, Sydney. Cables—Kopsen, Sydn© 2 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY!

Sailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships , 1954-55.

ORONSAY ORCADES ORONSAY ORSOVA ORION 1955 1955 1955 1956 1956 SYDNEY depart 15 July 7 Oct. 18 Nov. 27 Jan. 2 Apr.

AUCKLAND arr/dep 18 July 10 Oct. 21 Nov. 30 Jan. 6 Apr.

SUVA arr/dep 21 July 13 Oct. 24 Nov. 2 Feb. 10 Apr.

HONOLULU arr/dep 26 July 18 Oct. 29 Nov. 7 Feb. 16 Apr.

VANCOUVER arrive 1 Aug. 24 Oct. 5 Dec. 13 Feb. 23 Apr. depart 2 Aug. 25 Oct. 6 Dec. 14 Feb. 24 Apr.

SAN FRANCISCO arr 4 Aug. 27 Oct. 8 Dec. 16 Feb. 27 Apr. depart 5 Aug. 28 Oct. 9 Dec. 17 Feb. 28 Apr.

HONOLULU arr/dep 9 Aug. 1 Nov. 13 Dec. 21 Feb. 3 May SUVA arr/dep 16 Aug. 8 Nov. 20 Dec. 28 Feb. 11 May AUCKLAND arr/dep 19 Aug. 11 Nov. 23 Dec. 2 Mar. 14 May SYDNEY arrive 22 Aug. 14 Nov. 26 Dec. 5 Mar. 18 May New Guinea Australia Line Regular Service from MELBOURNE, SYDNEY AND BRISBANE TO PORT MORESBY,

Samarai, 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” [?]ipping Time-Tables [ sailings are approximate and may vary by as much as two weeks. sydney-Papua-N. Guinea V Bulolo, modern liner, sails about y six weeks; Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbyarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul arai-Moresby-Brlsbane-Sydney. sxt sailings June 17 and late July.

V Malekula sails from Sydney for arai, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, ishafen, Madang. Lae, Samarai and rn to Sydney. Next sailings June 21 mid-August. tails from Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., ridge Street, Sydney. 7 Sinkiang: Sydney - Brisbane - Lae ang - Kavieng - Rabaul - Nauru jkong, withdrawing from this service, ng July 16. ] Fukien: Sydney - Brisbane - Port ;sby - Rabaul - Lae - Brisbane iourne. Sailing July 2. 1 Soochow; Sydney - Brisbane - Port ssby-Samarai-Sydney. Sailing June 28 July 26.

J Shansi: Sydney - Brisbane - Port isby - Samarai - Sydney. Sailing late tails from New Guinea Australia Line 3. Yuill & Co., Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge Sydney. nthbound only: r Delos; Rabaul, Aug. 5; Lae, Aug. 8; »ane, Sydney, Melbourne, r Arcs; Lae, Aug. 24; Rabaul, Aug. 27; »ane, Sydney, Melbourne, r Citos: Madang, Sept. 21; Lae, Sept. 23; Rabaul, Sept. 26; Honiara, Sept. 29; Vanikoro, Oct. 5; Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty., Ltd., 63 Pitt St., Sydney.

N. Zealand-Fiji-Samoa-Tonga MV Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland.

MV 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: June 21, July 19, August 16.

MV Matua: June 18, late August.

Details from all offices of Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The regular passenger vessel “Maul Pomare” is out of commission indefinitely.

The 700-ton freighter “Viti” is meanwhile operating a cargo service from Auckland and occasional limited passenger facilities are available on trans-Pacific freighters.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Territories in Wellington, or to any office af 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- Bougalnville-Rabaul-Samaral-Sydney.

Next sailings June 14 and mid-August.

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

Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA 3 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 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.

PORT VlLA—Comptoirs Francals des LAE—Burns 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 S. S.

Tourist Class Liner

Southern Cross

»*»<■*> I % / / The one class tourist liner “Southern Cross”, on her second voyage round the world, calls at Suva (November 1, 1955) and Papeete (November 5, 1955), en route to England via Panama, Curacao and Trinidad; thereafter two eastbound and two westbound voyages each year form this vessels 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: A A FIJI Any Branch or Agency oh Burns Philp (South Sea)( Co. Ltd., Head Office: Suva.

Cable address: Burnsouth.

Tahiti Etablissements Donald J Tahiti, Papeete Cable address : Donald Papeete.

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

From Sydney; Tahitien. October 4, Caledonien, August 23. Eridan, east-bound, leaves Noumea July 9, Papeete August 5.

Prom Papeete for Sydney: Caledonien, July 24; Tahitien, September 4.

MV Polynesia (Messageries Maritimesi maintains about monthly passenger sailings between Sydney and Noumea and the New Hebrides.

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 - bou with regular calls at Suva and Papei Next voyage east-bound, calling S November 1, Papeete November 5.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, es Pacific Islands Transport Li. vessels Thorsisle and Thorshall mr tain a regular service from Pa* Coast North American ports, with sail! every 35-40 days to French Oceas Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia, ; Hebrides, and New Guinea. Some pc depend on cargoes oSering. Next sail!

Thorsisle—San Francisco June 28, Pape July 12, Nukualofa July 20, Apia July\ Suva July 29, Noumea Aug. 3, Lae Auu 10, thence direct to San Francisco, an ing August 30.

Details from General Steamships 0 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 Frano operates a regular passenger-cargo sen from Los Angeles. Southern terminal pc vary with cargoes offering. Next sailiii Alemeda: North-bound, leaves Bristd July 21 calling Pago Pago; Sonoc South-bound, leaves Pago Pago July Suva July 30, for Sydney; Ventura: Sou bound, leaves Papeete July 28, for Au land.

SYDNEY-SUVA-HONOLULU- VANCOUVER Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of £S (subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & ♦ operate a regular service twice yearly v the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger ve Lakemba along the above route, Accc modation is entirely First Class, two-bfii cabins. Next sailings from Sycb late December, 1955. and late April, li Details from American Trading & SU ping Co. Pty., Ltd., Sydney. 4 J TT N E , 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLK

London - Suva

'O\RE CT S£^ «\V VU 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

Australia-West Pacific Line

Regular Monthly Sailings

Trading Northbound from ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE, SYDNEY and BRISBANE to SANDAKAN, MANILA HONG KONG and main JAPANESE PORTS.

Southbound from JAPAN, HONG KONG and MANILA to MADANG, LAE, RABAUL, HONIARA VANIKORO thence main AUSTRALIAN PORTS. ■* Cargo Service, with Luxurious Passenger Accommodation, by Fast New Motor Vessels specially built for the Far Eastern Trade. *

Aros-Citos-Delos

M.V. DELOS—A.W.P. Line's new motorship for Australian-Far East trade. * General and Refrigerated Cargo Space; also Special Mechanical Ventilation for Fruit, Vegetables, etc., in ’tween decks.

Managing Agents In Australia: Wilh. Wilhelmsen

at Melbourne: 51 William St. 'Phone: MU 5906.

AGENCY PTY. LTD., 63 Pitt St., Sydney.

'Phone: BU 6301.

Branch Office AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs, Bright & Co.

ISLAND AGENTS: Madang, Mr. A. Strachan; Lae, Mr. R. Tebb; Rabaul, Town Transport Ltd.; FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan.

Honiara, Government Trade Scheme. [?]rways Time-Tables

Rans-Pacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

th Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths* i., Thur.. Sat.—Sydney - Nadi - Canton 5. - Honolulu - San Francisco - Seattle - 'ortland. .. Sat., Mon.—Return same route. 3C4 from Auckland connects, arriving [ Tues., Thur., Sat., departing Nadi ~ Fri., Mon.

5Y Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS [., Thur.* and Sat.* Sydney-Nadi (Piji)anton Is. - Honolulu - San Francisco— ith every Saturday service extending i Vancouver.

SOUTHWARDS , Fri.,* Sun.* San Francisco onolulu-Canton Is.-Nadi (Fiji)-Sydney.

Yote: Crosses date-line enroute). o services Tuesday northbound and lesday southbound—are “Connoisseur” ces: First class only.

AL DC6 services between Auckland Nadi connect at Nadi Tues. and Sat. iwards; Wed. and Sun. southwards.

Y Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft)* y Wednesday—Sydney-Auckland-Nadi 'iji) -Honolulu-Vancouver-Amsterdam. f Sunday leave Vancouver by same ute. (Note; Crosses date-line enute). ourist Class Services are available on these planes at 20 per cent, lesf normal fares.

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways (Skymasters)* NORTHWARDS Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays.

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, 0.10 am Connecting services north of Lae by D.C.3 to Bulolo and Wau on Wednesdays. • DCS operating Moresby-Lae sector.

Thursdays 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 Port Moresby, 10.35 am Lae, 11.55 am 5 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - JUNE. 1955

New Zealand .. . JMtf tour Sn a suitcase A holiday in New Zealand is an adventure in superlatives, with all the scenic wonders of the world encompassed in two small islands.

Thermal regions . . . towering alps .. . snow sports .. , big game fishing . . . fighting trout in stream and lake . .. beauty of forest and fiordland . . . all this in a genial, temperate climate, fever-free and without noxious insect pests.

And each scenic splendour just a few hours away .. . when you fly with N.A.C. links all principal New Zealand cities and tourist resorts, and has offices and agents throughout New Zealand, Australia and the South-West Pacific. 1 sL \

New Zealand National

Airways Corporation

6 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHK

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

1 .‘'life H * liii fti.i ■u. i I 7* 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.

SOUTHWARDS Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Depart: Arrive: , 5.45 am Moresby, 7.05 am 'esby, 8.30 am Brisbane, 3.05 pm ibane, 4.30 pm Sydney, 7.15 pm Fridays.

Depart: Arrive: , 8.40 am Moresby, 10.00 am esby, 11.00 am Brisbane, 5.35 pm bane, 7.00 pm Sydney, 9.00 pm DC3 operating Lae-Moresby sector.

Sundays.

Depart: Arrive: 5.45 am Moresby, 7.05 am esby, 8.30 am Cairns, 11.30 am ns, 1.20 pm Townsville, 2.30 pm nsville, 3.15 pm Brisbane, 7.00 pm bane, 8.00 pm Sydney, 10.45 pm mnecting service by DC3 from Wau ires Lae 12.35 pm Saturday.

DCS operating Lae-Moresby sector. 3. N. Guinea Internal Services Operated by Qantas —HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) mate Wednesdays (June 29, etc.), irts Lae 10.30 am, calls at Madang nd Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia .0 pm. Every alternate Thursday June 16, etc.), depart Hollandia at am, and, with calls at Wewak and ladang, arrives Lae at 2.40 pm.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

ery Wednesday.

Lae, 10.45 am: Finschhafen, Rabaul, avieng, arr. Manus 5.45 pm. rns Saturdays (dep. 8 am), via avieng, Rabaul and Finschhafen; arr. ae, 2.55 pm.

MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) STule Is., Kerema, Kikori, L. Kutubu.— very alternate Friday returning same ay (June 3, etc.).

Port Moresby-Rabaul

(Catalina) Tue. (June 28, etc.) Port Moresby imarai-Esa’ala-Losuia-Moewe Harb alasea-Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul. Returng via same ports (except Losuia and sa’ala optional) alt. Thu. (June 30, ;c.).

New Britain-Bougainville

(Catalina) Wed. —Rabaul - -Buka - Kieta - Buin (une 29, etc.).

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

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

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

Central Highlands

(DCS) rdays—Lae (8.30 am) to Wabamunda, .lllng at. any of; Nadzab, Kainantu, oroka, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. agen, Salyer R., Wabag, Wabamunda. stum to Lae arriving 6 pm.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) tys.—Lae (7.30 ami to Kainantu, callg at any of: Nadzab. Kaiapit, Gusap, oroka, Arona. Arrival back at Lae ipends on stops made, lys.—Lae (7.30 am) to Gusap, calling

Lae-Bulolo-Wau (Dcs)

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

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

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

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

New Guinea-New Britain

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

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

Sundays—Depart Lae 12 noon, Finschhafen 1 pm, Rabaul 3.10 pm, arrive Lae 12.50 pm.

Services By Mandated Airlines

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

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

Depart Lae 7.30 am for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

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

Fri.: Depart Lae at 7 am for Madang.

Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul remaining overnight.

Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 7 am for Kavieng Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lad. 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 (July 4, 11 25 , Lae (dep. 6 am) Finschhafen Rabaul Buka Vellalavella Yandlna Honiara, BSI (arriving 8.28 pm).

Tuesday (July 5, 12. 26), Honiara (dep. 7 am) Yandlna —Vellalavella Buka Rabaul Finschhafen Lae (arriving 3.50 pm). 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Air France, Monthly.

Constellation aircraft depart Saigon July 4 for Darwin - Brisbane - Noumea and return. Depart Noumea, July 7.

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

By Ansett Airways Pty., Ltd., (With Sandringham Flying-boats) Return flight each Tuesday and Saturday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters Alternate Thursdays (June 30. etc.) returning same day. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas with Skymasters (Fortnightly) Flying-boats were replaced by Skymasters in June. Service now terminates at Tontouta (N. Caledonia) until Vila- Santo airfields ready later in year.

Depart; Arrive: Sydney, alt. Wed. Tontouta, alt. Thur. (July 5, etc.) (July 6, etc.) 7 11.30 pm. am.

Tontouta, alt. Thur. Sydney, alt. Thur. (July 6, etc.) 9.30 (July 6, etc.) 3.20 am. pm. 10. Sydney-N. Caledonia-Fiji By Qantas with Skymaster. (Monthly) (July 1, 29, etc.) Sydney, Fri., 11.30 Arrive: pm. Tontouta, Sat., 7 Tontouta, Sat 8 am. am.

Nadi, Sun., 9.45 am. Nadi, Sat., 1.30 pm Tontouta, Sun, 2.15 Tontouta, 1.15 pm. pm- Sydney, Sun., 8.05 Depart: pm. * Alt. Fri. (June 3, etc.), t Alt. Sat. (June 4, etc.). 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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If^BOM BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION WITH QANTAS, TEAL AND S.A.A, 11. Auckland-Norfolk I By NZ National Airways, with DC (Every Sunday) June 26, one flight; July 3, flights, etc. 12. Auckland-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Mon., Thur.; Dep. Auckland 9.15 arr. Sydney 1.00 pm.

Wed., Sun.; Dept. Auckland 11.15 arr Sydney 3.00 pm.

Tue., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 10.00 arr. Auckland 5.15 pm.

Mon., Thur.: Dep. Sydney 3.00 arr. Auckland 10.15 pm. 13. Christchurch-Sydne; Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Mon., Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 arr. Sydney 8.40 pm.

Mon., Thurs.; Dep. Sydney 8.00 am, Christchurch 3.10 pm. 14. Christchurch-Melbou: Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

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

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 7.00 am, arr. Ch church 3.00 pm. 15. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, with 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 Airwayl, with Solent aircraft.

Service normally fortnightly, with e flights during Winter tourist season required.

Departs Suva Friday 9 am, crosses o line, arrives Satapuala (W. San Thur. 2 pm, departs Fri. 2 am, arr Aitutaki 7.30 am, departs 9.30 arrives Papeete 2 pm. Departs Pan Sun. 7.30 am, arrives Aitutaki 11 departs 1 pm, arrives Satapuala pm, departs Mon 7 am, crosses cb line, arrives Suva Tues., 9.55 am..

Leaves Suva June 24 and weekly to . 5, Papeete July 27 and weekly to 8. Overflying Satapuala with arranged time-table until July 1. , 17. Fiji-Tonga Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

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Pacific Islands Monthly No. 11 Vol. XXV June, 1955 Contents: Editorial; 500 Million Chinese Are Pressing Southwards . 13 Sir John Nicoll’s Job at Singapore 15 Fijians are Wasted in Malayan Jungles 16 NG Timber Exports Need GATT Waiver 17 Editors’ Mailbag 18 No Air Services to NH .... 19 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 20 New Caledonia’s Airline .. 21 Burns Philp Looks to the Future 23 Persecution of Dutch in Indonesia 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 27 Suva Shops Bulge in Import Boom 33 Tributes to Fijians in Malaya 35 Ex-Jap Property in New Caledonia Discussed .. .. 37 Another Fijian Decorated .. 38 Population Query in Lau .. 39 Queen Salote Opens Vavau Hospital 43 Australian Control “Not Wanted in New Hebrides’’ 46 SPC’s Visual Aid Scheme .. 50 Tongan Oil-mill in Canada? 54 Indian Education in Fiji .. 55 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 57; The Mystery of the Little White Bag, 59; Vanikoro Timber Trade Pioneers, 60; Apia Radio Chief Retires, 62; Book Reviews 63 Hunting the Rhino In Samoa 67 Tardy Cook Is. Mails .. .. 69 Jap-manned Fishery in New Hebrides Opposed 70 News of the Smallships .. 73 Hitch in Fiji’s Road Plans .. 95 Tonga 90 Years Ago 99 Suva Taxi Question 102 No Appeal from Cook Islands Sentences 103 Fiji’s Indian Repatriates .. 106 Early Polynesian Navigation 109 Britain Aids Fiji’s Development 114 NZ Bears Coral Route Loss 115 Fijian Banana Area Extended 119 Yaws Campaign in Fiji .. ~ 121 New Caledonia’s Boom .. .. 122 Notes from Western Samoa 123 News from Cook Islands .. 124 Bourail Cemetery Dedicated 126 French Finance for NC Project 127 Complaints about Suva Prices 129 NC’s Repatriation Problem 130 Cash Deposits at Suva Hospital 131 News from Correspondents in P-NG 133 Opening up NG’s Sepik Area 141 Pacific Crop Prices Reviewed 142 Copra Industry’s Future .. 149 Notes for Radio Amateurs .. 151 Earthquakes at Guadalcanal 156 OBITUARY: S. Hollander, Mrs. C. J. Beddows, J. T.

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Editorial ... 50 Million Chinese Are Pressing Southwards A DESPATCH FROM R. W. ROBSON tNGAPORE, May 30.—Here, where only a few days ago Communistled mobs of Malayans and tinese students were savagely at- ;king the city’s police and British »ops directed by the Governor (Sir bn Nicoll, lately Colonial Secre- ■y in Fiji), I have just read that jarty of selected Parliamentarians being sent by the Australian mmonwealth Government to see ■' themselves what really is hapling in and around Southeast ia. fhat sort of announcement irally makes one sick. It indicates it, even yet, Australia cannot bere that the roof of her precious ise, resting on Indonesia, is in iger—is actually smouldering.

Joscow-directed Communists have ir-run all Eastern Asia; their inmce is dominant now in Indoina and Indonesia; they have inrated deeply in Malaya, Burma 1 Siam; and yet Australia (the iural protector of all the South bfic Islands) thinks she has time i opportunity to build a Welfare te around a 40-hours’ week, ntless State lotteries, whimsical ocations of major industries by tist union leaders, and indiffere to world affairs! /hat is the use of sending Parliaitarians to this area, already vulsed by pro-Red and antiopean developments which are ling steadily in strength and erness? What is to be achieved providing Australian politicians inety per cent, of whom are inable of intelligent observation, way—with a glorified picnic in Far East? too much has been lost, already. The coming of this thing was seen clearly back in 1945-50 period, when Russia iched her great plan of crippling Western Powers by “Communis- Asia and Africa and turning n against the Europeans. An est over-all survey to-day will /ince anyone that the Red plan been working perfectly for ■s. have just come from Indonesia, re, I experienced for myself the •ed of the official, semi-educated inese for all Europeans, and cially the Dutch, be condition of the Dutch is r tragedy. In 350 years’ occupa- ■» they transformed the East es from a haphazard collection nsignificant communities, ruled :ountless petty tyrants, into the nshing, well-fed, well-ordered nre of the Netherlands Indies.

When the Japanese invasion came, there were there some 50,000 Dutch, 200,000 Du t c h-Indonesians, and Dutch investments worth many hundreds of millions of pounds.

United States and Britain, after the war, deserted the Dutch, and allowed a Jap-inspired gang of Javanese politicians to seize administrative control of the whole region (population at least 80 millions).

They call it “the Republic of Indonesia.” And you should see it now!

THE real rulers of the country are the 2 i million Chinese merchants, traders, artisans, ship-owners. They do not appear in politics—but they unquestionably direct the Communist Party (20,000, officially, and growing), and the Reds quietly control the so-called Government.

Recently, the Indonesian Government became quite aggressive and insisted (atfer friendly parleys with the Reds in Peking!) that the Chinese within six months choose between Indonesia and China (Communist China) citizenship. The Indones i a n Chinese are not perturbed —they know how to get over that one.

Meanwhile the Indonesian officials are displaying in every possible way their hatred of the Dutch, and their uncompromising determination to drive out not only the full-blooded Dutch, but also the Dutch-Indonesians. There are at least 200,000 of them the products of mixed marriages which have been taking place for some 300 years. These folk always have enjoyed Dutch status and the choice forced upon them by the relentless officials —lndonesian or Dutch citizenship —is cruel. If they choose Dutch, they will surely be driven out. If they go Indonesian, they are subjected to all sorts of humiliations and civic injustice.

The Dutch, and the Dutch- Indonesians who are retaining their status, are leaving the country in a steady stream, abandoning most of their possessions. As they move out of their old-established homes and businesses, the Chinese and the Indonesians move in.

At first, I was puzzled by the extraordinary black-market demand for Western money—especially Australian and English notes. If you can smuggle notes past the port officials—you are searched with disconcerting and disrespectful thoroughness—you can get, in the debased rupiahs, four or five times the official rate of exchange. That is because the outgoing Dutch are prepared to do almost anything to retain some fragment of their personal wealth, which they can carry out in carefully concealed Western money.

The rupiah is practically valueless outside Indonesia Nothing gives these Indonesian officials greater pleasure than to witness the departure of the Dutchmen beggared and humiliated.

TRAVELLERS are urgently warned against wandering around in Indonesia without protection THE DOC. (who has objected to Australian troops going to Malaya): “No, no—do nothing until they actually land, and don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!” 13 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1555

and care. A European man away by himself is subjected to sudden attack by hooligan gangs and will lose his hat or wristlet watch.

Women are similarly attacked, and their handbags are stolen, A woman with whom I travelled described how, a little while ago. when she was walking in the streets of a port with a European man one Sunday morning, she was suddenly attacked from behind by an Indonesian youth. He kicked her savagely on the ankles and immediately fled—while a nearby Indonesian policeman looked on, and evidently thought the incident very funny.

Although the officials are influenced so much by the Europeanhating politicians, and the hoodlum News items on page 9, also, this issue gangs are steadily increasing in numbers, the overwhelming mass of Indonesians are as they always were —simple, kindly, and generally industrious folk, mostly illiterate, and very poor. Generally, they show no hostility to Europeans.

It obviously is an ideal set-up for the Communists. A general election —the first in history—is coming along late in 1955 or early 1956. The masses, illiterate and credulous, will do as they are told. There are three main sections seeking power—the Leftist Javanese politicians (Nationalist), the official Moslem parties (the great majority of Indonesians are Mohommedans), and the Communists. The only real anti-Red influence in the country is the Moslems but I doubt whether they can hold back the Red tide for long, while China remains Red.

Openly, the Chinese take no part in politics. But the streets are plastered with Communist and Masjumi (Moslem) signs.

THE Chinese commercial stake in this and other Southeast Asia countries is so great that one naturally supposes the Chinese influence will be basically anti-Red.

But that introduces another and vital consideration—perhaps the dominant one, so far as this whole Southeast Asia region is concerned.

Where are the Chinese going?

What are they going to do? Are they going to be used indefinitely as an instrument in the Muscovite campaign against Western civilisation? Or is there somewhere a group of Chinese leaders with a plan of their own?

No one knows the answers. But on those answers depends the future shape of life in all the South Pacific countries.

There are four great masses of humanity in South and East Asia— Chinese, Japanese, Indonesians and Indians. The 350 million Indians, and the 80 million Indonesians (it is a little startling to realise that there are nearly as many Indonesians as Japanese) are not nationally aggressive and, while officially anti-Communist, actually now are very susceptible to Red penetration. The Japanese, while non-Communist, are aggressive and, when they recover freedom and military strength, they again will be a menace to their Pacific neighbours.

We know what to expect of those three sections.

But what of the 550 million Chinese —all of them now, except some 12 or 15 millions, under the direct control of the Moscow-Peking Axis? That is the outstanding enigma of the East to-day; and the fact that it exists, unanswered, must shape the political and economic life of all the communities of the South Pacific.

In other words, if we are to survive, our main concern must be defence —by arms—against Asia.

BEHIND the scenes, the Chinese run Indonesia. Gangs of Chinese bandits in the jungles, influenced by the Reds in Peking, keep 8,000 British and 25,000 Malayan troops on the alert here in Malaya. Here in Singapore I am surrounded by a million Chinese.

Chinese hold a very large share of the commerce and finance of Malaya, Burma, Indo-China, British Borneo and Philippines. As we know, there are influential Chinese communities in New Guinea, Fiji and Tahiti.

By character and temperament, the Chinese are not aggressive. As military fighters, there is no strength in them except the strength of the endless mass. But their patience, their tenacity, their thrift and industry, and their fecundity, are terrifying. Now that they are being driven as a nation by their Communist overlords into some form of mechanical orderliness, is there anything to stop them?

If we are going to halt the i vance of the Moscow-directed H agents and provocateurs into South Pacific, we must either hi the Chinese, or halt the advance Communism among the Chinese,, whose backs it rides. How are going to do that, so long as Chi remains in close union with Russ the picnic party of d' berra politicians, now reported toe headim? this way, will provide with tho answer.

Letter to the Editor Fishing on (Either) Sabbat rpHE fishing story from the C: J. Islands appearing on page of your May issue is a paths, advertisement, to the detriment] a professed group of Christii keeping Sunday; revealing, ass does, their superstition s jealousy, and also the pes prejudiced mind of the one v publicised it.

Probably there is no oti Christian body that suffers st inconvenience and denies its; participation in so many eve offering pleasure and profit as Seventh-day Adventist membe because they observe the Sabb.< strictly from sunset Friday to si set Saturday, while the world g merrily on. But they spend time praising God for His blesshr not watching other people s envying them the material vantages they have gained on t: day.

I am, etc., “FISHO [?] Sydney, May 27, 1955.

Pim'S Colour Photo Competition

OVER 200 entries were received for our Quarter-Century colour photo competition, and as a great majority of them were of high quality the task of the judges was unenviable.

As our primary purpose in running the competition was to obtain photos that we could reproduce for our Quarter-Century issue, our block-maker had to have the casting vote. For this reason, some of the transparencies that we were inclined to yearn over had to be put aside as it was considered that their delicate colouring would lose too much in reproduction.

We therefore now announce that the awards are as follows: FIRST PRIZE AWARD OF £25: Colour transparency submitted by Dr. K. W. Todd, c/o Department of Health, Port Moresby, Papua. Subject: Mt. Hagen huntsman.

AWARDS OF £5: These will be made to the following: R. H. T. Newick, Apia, Westo Samoa. Subject: A study of Sam©. fales and blue sea.

The Rev. Fr. Michael E. Bodn Goroka, via Lae, New Guinea. Si< ject: A Wahgi Valley Tul-tul.

F. E. Dunn, Noumea, New Ca donia. Subject: Study of a Fiji girl.

Mrs. B. Haydon, Lae, New Guin Subject: Haus Tambaran, at Mapc Mrs. R. F. Williams, c/o Rae Station 2GN, Goulburn, NSW. Sr< ject: Storm over the reef.

All the above entries will be ui in full colour in the Quart Century issue, July, 1955. One v be used as the cover photo in tic issue; the others to illustrate cd tain articles.

A special article about the cod petition and some of the entries y appear in the Quarter-Century issi Un-used transparencies are now: process of being returned, by surfl mail, to their owners. 14 JUNE. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

[?] ohn Nicoll's Unhappy Job in Singapore SINGAPORE, June, 2. pODAY, Sir John Nicoll, KCMG, t ended his term as Governor of ngapore, and retired from the ritish Colonial Service. Fiji’s former olonial Secretary came here after short spell in Hong Kong. He is been unable to make much ipression upon this restless and ghly-coloured political scene.

Actually, there was not much tat Sir John could do. The scene ready was set under the direction British political philanderers, aey, in turn, had been guided by igh Commissioner Malcolm acDonald, son of former Socialist ■ime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, id probably the most calamitous itisher ever pushed into a high sition in this part of the world.

The oldest and shrewdest servers here blame MacDonald r the recognition of Red China, e surrender of Northern Vietnam, d the untimely granting of virtual f-government to this Malayan 3a.

Sir John Nicoll simply was handed Constitution for Singapore and d to implement it. He must have ted the task—but he carried it t, dutifully. fhe new Singapore Government ne into office only a few weeks ). It is headed by a loquacious Baghdad Jew named David Marshall, who made the headlines by swaggering into formal functions wearing a bush jacket. There have been signs of clashes between Governor and Premier; but when Sir John was asked about it he only said: “Mr. Marshall is notable for making speeches, which is something I seek to avoid.”

The Assembly, asked to thank the Governor for his speech, debated the point as to whether Singapore should have a Governor at all.

Singapore was literally rocked by riots in mid-May, when bus-drivers went on strike, and were joined by a couple of thousand screaming hooligans out of the Chinese universities here. These so-called students are SO per cent. Communists, and very ardent haters of the British. What started as an industrial row became a bitter racial demonstration; and, had the police not stood firm in the critical hours, there surely would have been massacre and much looting.

Sir John was praised for his handling of the situation. But, a week later, they were criticising him because the Chinese school hooligans were not disciplined in any way for their outbreak.

New men are coming to both the Governorship and the High Commissionership. But many keen observers *eel that the situation is beyond help—that Singapore will be with Indo-China and Indonesia under Red and/or National anti- European domination within five years.- RWR.

Pilgrimage from Tahiti to France Badly Needed , Says RC Tuna Fishery of Value to Hebrides I>EFORE Brigadier H. Flax- ** man, British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides, returned to Vila in May, he had something to say about the proposed Japanese tuna industry in Santo.

Brigadier Flaxman had spent a period in a Sydney hospital. When he became ill a couple of months ago, he was flown to Suva by a RNZAF flying-boat, and later went on to Sydney by regular airline.

He said that he felt that PIM was sometimes unduly gloomy in its presentation of the situation as it exists for the British half of the Condominium. What may have been true yesterday was not always true today.

On the question of Australian Commonwealth-owned land, he had some hopeful comment. If there had been suggestions that there was deliberate obstruction to the sitting of tha Joint Court they were incorrect. It was true that when the French judge had been available, the British judge had not, and vice versa, but this situation was purely coincidental.

There had been great difficulty in obtaining the services of a British judge. However, title settlement work should now proceed as arrangements had been made for the services of a British judge.

Speaking of the planned tuna fiishing industry to be based on Santo, the Resident Commissioner said that the New Hebrides badly needed diversification of Industries.

This could be one valuable contribution to that objective.

He did not think that there was much opposition to the employment of Japanese under contract in this industry. It had been proved that the industry could not be otherwise based at the present time. Any suggestions that the fishing company might be allowed to carry on other trade with Japan were based on wrong information. (See Letter to the Editor, page 70, this issue).

New Commissioner

APPOINTED Due to ill health, Brigadier Flaxman is expected to leave the Hebrides on retirement in June.

He will be succeeded as British Resident Commissioner by Mr. J.

S. Rennie, OBE, lately stationed at Mauritius.

Mr. Rennie was expected in Sydney from Mauritius in the latter part of June.

M. and Mme. Frainc ois Vernaudon, descendants of early French settlers in Tahiti, left on 6 for a holiday visit to France in the "Caledonien". One of their daughters, Marie, is Milton Nordman, daughter-in-law of Mr. Oscar Nordman. 15 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

Too Little, And Probably Too Late —

Fiji’s Good Men Are Wasted in the Malayan Jungle By R. W. ROBSON, from Singapore The task upon which the Fiji Battalion is engaged here calls for great “intestinal fortitude”—in both a physical and moral sense—but the thing which really breaks the hearts of officers and men is not a jungle condition. It is political and Chinese.

TipHE Battalion is patrolling a large JL section of Northern Johore. By tenacity, superb junglecraft and a capacity for being always on the job, these Fijians are the masters of the CT’s (Communist Terrorists).

Like tigers, they “Hunt and Kill” (that is the name of their Regimental news-sheet); and their record of kills surpasses that of all the other 21 battalions out here in the jungle.

The CT’s give the Fiji boys a very vide berth. While the Fijians hunt and kill, the Terrorists shoot and run—and even the Battalion dogs (every Company out in the jungle has a big Alsatian, trained to track town any CT whose path they cross) have difficulty in catching up with them.

Given a fair chance, the Fiji Battalion (and most of the other Battalions who are doing such fine work in this rubber-enclosed hellhole) would clean up this situation in a matter of weeks. But the soldiers, despite their, high spirit, efficiency and courage, are consistently held back by the politicians and defeated by the resident Chinese.

This country is inhabited by four classes—the Malays, who are the aborigines, and do not count for much; the Indians, who are numerous and prominent but not dominant; the Chinese, who are by far the more numerous, and who are coming in; and the Europeans, who are the smallest community, and are going out.

The Chinese overwhelmingly are tiie financiers and the traders and the artisans—in fact, one may as well forget that this is Malaya and Singapore, a British country, and accept it as a lively bit of China, being graciously administered by the British for the great benefit of the Chinese.

Britain is spending millions of pounds per annum in maintaining this army in Malaya—several of Britain s famous old regiments are represented here. One has to be out on the roads of Malaya, and see Hie endless camps and the vast military equipment and the ceaseless movements of convoys carrving supplies, to realise how much the Ska£ ancfscf forth* 61 and tin and On an intelligent guess, I should think that 10,000 British and 20,000 native troops are being maintained here to police the country against possibly 5,000 jungle-hidden Chinese Communists, fairly well organised and equipped.

MALAYA is charted like an oldestablished battlefield. The scene of every contact and every ambush is shown; the location of every defence point, and of every suspected CT camp.

Every highway is cut into sections by road-blocks, where police check every vehicle, to see that no food or equipment gets through to the will-o’-the-wisp CT’s. Every village is enclosed in barbed wire, and watched by home guards. There is a 7 pm curfew, and a quick bullet for the person who moves along the roads thereafter without authority.

But still the CT’s operate, and get supplies, and make sharp, murderous attacks on isolated plantations, and ambush the passing troops from cunningly-placed posts. And, beyond any doubt, the agency which keeps the CT’s well supplied with food and information, is the Chinese civil population.

AS in the rest of this be-devilled world, where community snarls at community, the Chinese in Malaya sit quietly between the contending factions, eyes cast down and fingers busy, taking no part in politics. Outwardly, they are placid, and self-effacing and completely non-partisan. Actually, they provide both the means and the channels through which the CT’s get most of their supplies and all their information.

“Look at those bastards,” said a high military officer, with whom I was driving through a Chinese town in Malaya. In the back of a small bus, immediately ahead, were a number of young Chinese, and they were showing the liveliest interest in our car and escort. “Within an hour, the local headquarters of the CT’s will know that we have passed this way, and our apparent destination. We know it goes on, but we can: do little to stop it.”

The Chinese in Singapore and Malaya get a very large slice of the actual millions that are being spent on this military policing systen The policing of the country als benefits the Chinese more than an other section, because so much o (Continued on Page 155) Island-bound in Ma Travellers from Sydney to the New Hebrid[?] in May included Mr M. O'Connor, Inspect[?] for Burns Philo & Co , and Mrs. L. Bairstow who travelled by Qantas to Vila. Mr. Bairsto[?] is attached to BP's Vila staff.

Mrs. Oscar Newman, now resident in Sydney's farewelled her husband when he returned [?] Tisman Plantation, New Hebrides, by [?] last Qantas flyinq-boat flight.

Mrs. W. Tansey, travelling in the "Soochow to visit Mr. and Mrs. Colin Sefton, of Koital[?] Rubber Plantation, Papua, was farewelled [?] Sydney by friends Jillian Robertson, Kerr- Daley, and Michelle Gilkes.

Mr. and Mrs. W J. T. Mead, of Souti Australia, went north in "Soochow" to vis[?] their daughter, who is school-teaching at Po[?] Moresby, and their son, who is in the Ag[?] culture Department at Sohana, Buka Passage 16 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

ATT Again G Timber Exports Need Another Waiver IHE Australian Tariff Board has recommended to the Commonwealth Government that • Provision be made in the [ariff for the admission of timber )ther than plywood, originating n and exported from the Terriory of Papua and New Guinea, ree of duty; and • That a total quantity, in any ne financial year, of 12,000,000 q. feet of plywood originating in nd exported from the Territory f Papua and New Guinea, be dmitted under By-law free of uty. he Commonwealth Government, May 27, made provision for the md recommendation (relating to wood) to come into effect imiiately. he implementation of the recomidation relating to timber appears )e another matter —according to official statement “the conning parties of GATT will be reached to obtain an extension the existing waiver concerning orts from Papua and New nea.”

'esumably there is some reason her than the fact that the Comiwealth Government has a 51 cent, interest in the only factory lucing plywood in the Terri- —why ply can be admitted at •i while timber must await the sing of GATT. will be remembered that the aan rubber planters’ case for reion of 2d per pound duty had et the permission of GATT bethe claim could be considered the Australian Tariff Board. ’T—on the grounds that the itory was an undeveloped try and its industries needed aragement—produced the neceswaiver on that occasion. Posit is this waiver that now needs msion.” 1953-54, over li million superof timber from P-NG entered ralia —and presumably paid . Over a quarter of it was in orm of battery separators and iase parts.

The Rubber Inquiry

THING has been heard of any ecommendations made in region to the rubber inquiry.

Tariff Board finished its sitin Papua in November, 1954, and as expected that its report 1 be made to Parliament early year. However, nothing has up in the Commonwealth ament during the current n, and as this is now nearing nd, probably nothing will be heard of rubber until towards the end of 1955.

The ridiculous thing about this inquiry is that the whole rubber market situation has changed while the various deliberations have gone on—and could completely change again before Federal Parliament makes its decision.

At the time the planters first asked for remission of the duty, the Papuan industry was in a bad way.

Months went by while the blessing of GATT was solicited. By the time the matter came before the Tariff Board in Melbourne, in September, 1954, there was a slight improvement in the industry’s prospects although many plantations were producing at a loss. By the time the inquiry ended, the price had risen sufficiently to make the industry profitable again and at the present time rubber prices give an adequate margin of profit.

However, next month or next year, the reverse could be the case— such have been the vagaries of the post-war rubber market. From a strategic point of view, a wellestablished rubber industry in Papua seems to have everything to recommend it. But members of the Tariff Board made it clear during their sittings—or appeared to —that they were not unduly interested in this aspect of the case. t By killing two jungle-terrorists in Malaya on May 10—the day on which it was announced that the Fijian troops would return home in early 1956 —the Fijians brought their tally to 181 killed.

Western Samoa Delays New Taxation Plan WESTERN Samoa’s new income tax system has been held up until August as a result of a Legislative Assembly motion deferring consideration of the rates of taxation until the next session.

When moving the motion, Mr. A.

M. Gurau said that the taxpayers needed more time to study the proposed rates.

The Attorney-General (Mr. W.

E. Wilson) said that the fixing of the rates was the sole prerogative of the Assembly, and the acting Financial Secretary (Mr. A. J.

Neill) agreed that the views of businessmen should be respected.

They he added, “would pay 90 per cent, of the taxation under this Ordinance”.

The Assembly passed the 159 clauses of the Taxation Bill without amendment, but both the schedule of rates and the schedule of depreciation allowance have been deferred.

Those Top-Secret

BUTTERFLIES S-S-SH!

MINISTERIAL and Government Department passion for making State secrets of the trivial is something that less bemused citizens still find hard to swallow. (Time was, believe it or not, when every Minister and Department did NOT have a press-officer).

In mid-May there came to us from Canberra a document marked “Not for publication or broadcast before 6.30 pm, Friday, May 20.”

Attached thereto was a slip which read: “With the Compliments of the Minister for Territories,” and on this slip, in handwriting, was the following: “Please note date of release.”

The document said (in part) : The Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasiuck, said to-day that the Commonwealth Government had accepted, as a gift from Sir Edward Hallstrom, a comprehensive and valuable collection of New Guinea butterflies and moths.

The collection, which is mounted in about 200 glass topped cases, has been built up by Sir Edward over several years and contains a very wide variety of specimens collected throughout New Guinea and its islands .

Mr. Hasiuck said that by arrangement with the Executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the collection will be housed and cared for in the Division of Entomology in Canberra, where it will be available to research workers specialising on Australian and New Guinea fauna. It may eventually be transferred to a museum of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

Readers may remember that in PIM of January this year, we published a long article about Sir Edward’s butterfly collection and the fact that he was presenting it to the Commonwealth Government and that it would probably be transferred to the P-NG Museum—when and if the Territory ever had one.

So—Why the mystery?

Brown Rice is Better Than White SINCE May 16 it has been illegal for Papua-New Guinea employers of native labour to issue white rice or baked pearled wheat as rations unless these products contain the Vitamin B complex of brown rice.

If vitamin-enriched white rice or baked pearled wheat is used the issue of yeast preparations or food yeast is not necessary and, m any case, the vitamin-enriched products are merely alternatives to brown rice.

II Fiji’s new Education Plan (May PIM) will be discussed with the Colonial Office by the Director of Education (Mr. W. W. Lewis- Jones). who has gone to England on vacation leave. 17 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

The Editors' Mailbag

A Good Word For Ml Administrator Conditions here are really in a bad way (writes an old resident or Norfolk Island). Tourist business slumped badly after the fares between New Zealand and NI were raised—only seven in February—a few more coming along now. We are hoping that something may come of the Anderson Whaling Co. plan—even if it is not on the large scale at first proposed.

Many here are blaming the Administrator for our troubles; but he is only carrying out orders from Canberra, and he is a good man, with high ideals and a genuine desire to improve conditions here.

Both the Administrator and Mrs.

Norman are kind and thoughtful to the old people and the sick—being old myself, this appeals to me. I want you to know that there are still some people here who do not condemn.

"Solly's" Pitchblende An old resident of New Britain, and a former neighbour of Otto Soltwedel in the goldfields days, writes that he is sure that “Solty” knew of metalliferous formations in New Guinea that indicated the presence of uranium; and he believes that “Solty” may have told the Waria Syndicate about it when he was refused permission by the Australian Minister Calwell to return to New Guinea.

“I think Soltwedel’s belief in a deposit of pitchblende was quite genuine,” writes our correspondent.

“I knew him over many years and he was strictly truthful and reliable.” (Otto Soldwedel, as a German national, was interned in Australia during World War 11. Although he had been absent from Germany for over 30 years, and although quite a number of British people pleaded that he be allowed to return to the only country he knew, New Guinea, the Australian Socialist Minister Calwell insisted on his deportation, about 1947. He died a couple of years later in Germany, almost friendless and desperately poor.) Socialism and Sawmills “The Hasluck-Cleland regime insists that it is all for private enterprise in New Guinea and is strictly non-socialistic,” writes an old Territories resident.

“How then do the gentlemen explain the activities of Forests Director McAdam, whose Department is busily transferring the Yalu sawmill from the Markham Valley to Lae and making preparations for the establishment in Lae of a large timber-mill, to produce 18,000 super feet per day?

“There are large and important forests extending from what are called ‘The Bends’ back towards the Markham Bridge. These could form the basis of a good and sound milling business by private enterprise.

But no! Mr. McAdam has announced that this is to be a Territorial Forest Reserve —not for the people, but for his Department, which intends to cut this timber for the supply of its new mill in Lae.

“Why could not private enterprise be encouraged to go in and handle this industry on a sound commercial and competitive basis? What justification is there for allowing the Forests Department, endowed with endless public money, to come in and run this industry in the Departmental way, and in competition with the private timber mills in the Territory?

“So far as New Guinea is concerned we might just as well be back under the Chifley - Eddie Ward Socialists.”

Officialdom and the Pensioners Two former P-NG public servants, now living in Queensland on a not very adequate pension, direct attention to an injustice and a manifest absurdity.

Before the ED-Wardian era in N.

Guinea, retired men could get their monthly pensions paid into any bank account which they nominated. But this convenient system apparently was too much trouble for some overworked clerk somewhere, and the Minister gave orders that, henceforth, all pensions should be sent to the individual addresses.

Ever since then the pensioners, instead of knowing that their income was regularly arriving at their bank, have had to await the arrival of the postman, and then endorse and themselves send on the cheque to the bank before they can draw upon it. Mails are always subject to delays, and cheques sometimes go missing. There can be no reason why officialdom should not send cheques to the bank, and accept the bank’s formal receipt as proof it reached the pensioner’s account.

Instead of writing letters of protest to helpless newspapers, the pensioners should nag away at high offiicialdom until the necessary reform is made.

Late A. H. Symons, RM The father of Mrs. Washington, of Port Moresby, referred to in your recent issue, was not “Mr. Simon,” but the well-known Mr. A. H.

Symons, who joined Sir William MacGregor’s Papuan service, from HMS Bacchante, early in thi. century, and rose to the rank of Resident Magistrate. He was a tall fine-looking man and a mos efficient officer, and he had nr illusions about Brown Brother. HE treated the natives firmly but justU and kindly; and he still is res membered on Murua and S< Aignans Islands, where he gave gooc service. He and Gus Nelson greeter me and helped me when I landed ox Marua from SS Moresby in 1909 - J. W. HARRISON.

Red Shell Money Of the Solomons Another reader has something t say about the shell-money of tit Solomons —a subject upon which M 1 L. Poole wrote in February PIM.

“For six years,” he writes, “I hav lived in the Small Malaita Passage Just in front of my house is th place where about 80 per cent, o the red shell is dived for in th Solomons. A little was found a San Christoval, but no diving done there any more, and th natives there don’t know now hoc to make the money.

“A little is found in the Floric Group also, but the bulk of it com* from this Passage. The shells ai, not collected at low-tide from th edges of shallows, as Mr. Poole sa:. —The people here dive for the she which grows on to the coral. Th* have special oval stones, 6 in. 10in., to cut them from the cors And only those people here wH possess the reefs know how to o this. It is an art.

“According to them, they start*, diving for the shell thirteen generr tions ago. The shells are sold the few Islands people in tl Langa Langa Lagoon, who make tl shells into money. This is doi« by the women, not by the men. Tl' men manage the business side it and thread the money on tl: strings.. A fathom of this red she/ money is worth £1; even before tic war, 10/- was the value of a father of white money, which is of ii ferior quality. Four strings of o:x fathom are generally worked irn one unit, but there are other un:i as well.

“The revival of the native custor —one of the Marching Rule idea that still prevail—stiumlated divii for the money shell. At pres© they are building special canoes 11 diving, and special store-houses ft the shell which awaits transport Langa Langa. The shell-money 1 mainly used for ceremonial buyii —for wives and pigs, though otli items such as canoes and food a sometimes bought with it also.”.

Did They Swim or Walk?

In March PIM we were foolil enough to make comments on i crocodile which a missionary hri seen up above Rouna Falls in Paprc 18 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

i did they get there, we asked, in or walk? ’e have since been taken to task ;wo old Territorians. A former rict Officer from New Guinea, is now with the Trusteeship sion of UNO, says that on his visit to Telefomin, Sepik Dis- , in 1934, he noticed the skull i crocodile which hung on a ie-front together with the is of generations of pigs. He on: 'he proud owner told us that ather had caught it in the river by. I was apparently the second e man to see it. The first, i the description given me and time which had elapsed, must been Thurnwald, towards the of 1914. This must have been ig the weeks that Commander balage in HMAS Nusa was ;hing for him in the vicinity le Yellow River, wonder what took the crocodile le Sepik rapids to make a home 500 feet?” . Sydney H. Chance, former RM apua, is the second Territorian something to say about crocoand their habits. He says they always been up above Rouna ; and that they are likewise bove Beaver Falls, at a greater nee from the sea and at a ;er altitude. His theory is that neither walked nor swam—that have always been there, relics past age when there were more les than there are now. aconess Vilma Jean Sinclair, had recently returned from on work in the New Hebrides had her first bridesmaid, pness Joyce Trudinger), was ied at Kew Presbyterian ch, Melbourne, on April 16 to Rev. Richard McDonald rd, of Ouyen Presbyterian ch, Murrayville. [?]ravellers to Moresby and Santo Second Thoughts

Png Rice Embargo

Is On Again

AS forecast in May PIM, the Papua and New Guinea Administration (or probably, more correctly, the Australian Government) has had second thoughts on lifting the embargo on importation of Asiatic rice.

The Administration gave itself a loop-hole when in April it lifted the embargo which had been in force since the end of the war and which prohibited the imporation into PNG of other than Australian rice: the regulation did not come into effect until June 1.

Between April and June, the rice millers of Australia decided to come to heel and reduced the f.o.b.

Sydney price by £lB per ton, which is going to save PNG rice consumers something like £200,000 per year. In return for this concession, Australian rice will continue to have a monopoly in the Territory.

Probably the fairest way all round would be a completely open market with Australian rice standing on its own merits, but for the time being, no doubt Territory consumers are well enough satisfied.

Australia supplies a brown rice which conforms to Native Labour Regulations specifications and there should be continuity of supply— apart from wharf and shipping strikes, of course. None of which —according to the PNG administration view, anyway—can be guaranteed with Eastern rice.

Price for Australian rice will be negotiated each year.

Nonetheless, consumers who in the past have had to dance to the tune called by the Australian industry, are permitted to regard the volte face of recent months with a cynical and jaundiced eye.

Land Planes

TAKE OVER No Air Services To Hebrides AFTER June 1, the New Hebrides will be without air connections to Australia. Qantas will cease operating flying-boats on their South Pacific air service and will convert to Skymaster land planes for services between Sydney and New Caledonia, and the branch-line service to Fiji.

The Fiji branch-line will now terminate at Nadi, of course, which means that Suva is without a direct connection with Australia. This will provide extra work for Fiji Airways, which is already carrying capacity traffic.

Vila and Santo, New Hebrides, will be left out of the service until such time as reconditioning work on war-time strips is completed.

This may take “from three to six months.”

It was originally expected that these strips would be ready for use early June. No one in Sydney will, or can. say what has caused the delay, but the belief in the New Hebrides and Noumea is that the French side of the New Hebrides Condominium is responsible, and that it is the direct result of failure of the authorities who are responsible for Colonial aviation matters in France, to make the necessary funds available.

Skymaster flights from Sydney to Noumea will now have a frequency of three every four weeks (instead of once per week as formerly). The branch service from Noumea to Fiji will now be only once every four weeks, instead of fortnightly.

Flight schedules commencing June 8 are: flights to Noumea (Tontouta) every alternate Wednesday; plus a flight to Fiji every fourth Friday, commencing June 17. 11 M. and Mme. Van den Broek d’Obrenan recently returned to Papeete after visiting Europe.

Formerly President of the Tourist Bureau. M. Van den Broek d’Obrenan has returned with many ideas for increasing tourist traffic to French Oceania These include establishment of a Casino, making Papeete a Free Port for Customs purposes, and the building of more hotels. [?]ay travellers from Sydney included: Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Fienberg, who returned to Port [?]y in the "Soochow" after furlough in Australia. Mr. Fienberg is senior Native Authorities in New Guinea. Mr. and Mrs Donald Gubba y returned to Santo by Qantas after a business to Sydney. 19 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

OFF AGAIN ON AGAIN 120 Japs to Rescue of NT Pearling TN early June it was announced * that 120 Japanese pearl-divers were leaving Tokio by air for Darwin to work for Australian master-pearlers.

This—temporarily, anyhow— puts an end to the Great Jap Pearling Fuss that has convulsed certain elements in Australian society for several months.

Since pearling recommenced in North Australian waters after the war, master pearlers have tried one expedient after another to replace the Japanese divers who carried the industry before World War 11. The only result was that the Australian industry faded away almost to the point of non-existence, although for the past three seasons, American-financed Japanese pearling fleets have reaped a rich harvest from the same seas.

This year, after years of argument, the Commonwealth Government issued permits for about 100 hand-picked Japanese to be employed on Australian luggers operating out of Darwin.

There followed the usual howls from outraged but unrealistic Australian citizens—ex-servicemen, trade-unionists and politicians, none of whom have the slightest knowledge of or interest in the pearling industry, as an industry.

Their opinion, stripped of the tub-thumping and heroics, was that Australia would be better off without a pearling industry if having one meant employing Japs.

The Authorities countered by announcing that they would be allowed in only under the “strictest safeguards”—i.e., they would be photographed from several angles, finger-printed, carefully segregated from the rest of the community and generally treated like dangerous criminals. Once they had served P ur P° se and produced the shell they would be returned to Japan in short order.

That was several months ago.

In mid-May, when the Japs should have been on the job a month, it was suddenly discovered down South (no doubt it had been causing consternation up North for a lot longer that that) that no Japs Pad accepted Australia’s gracious invitation—in fact, the Japanese Government announced that it would not issue the necessary exit permits if the divers did offer.

Complete and utter consternation.

The hide of them, said the Australian public. Here we p ermit these people to come in to get pearl shell for us and they have the colossal effrontery to refuse.

Canberra politicians said that if they couldn’t get divers from Japan, then they should immediately get them from Okinawa, which is under American administration.

There must have been some swift work behind the scenes in recent weeks—on June 4 it was announced from Canberra that 120 divers were on their way. Terms of their entry were not mentioned—except that they would work for a term of three years and will earn from £l,OOO to £l,BOO per season.

Presumably Australia intends to < on with the photographing a finger-printing.

We may assume that not a Jap likes to be treated like arch-criminal and that the o:< reason these 120 are prepared swallow that treatment is money involved. If they can tj. £3,000 back to Japan at the e of three years, that will be coc parative wealth. We cam imagine any other reason why tl are coming. It would be mv smarter from Japan’s point of w if they, in effect, told Australia, go jump in the sea over its a shell beds. The Japs would h: have to wait only another year 1 so and the pearl-fishing in Arafura Sea would be a Japan monopoly.

Do You Remember Frotn PIM of 20 Years ago.

GOLD was still an overwhelming preoccupation in June, 1935, and PIM published nearly nine columns of detailed reports from New Guinea and Fiji as well as general reviews. Advertisements for mining plant, machinery, and for correspondence courses in metallurgy, prospecting and assaying, abounded.

Here are other extracts from that issue of 20 years ago: PIM editorial complained that while the New Guinea gold industry was expanding, the remainder of the territory was in “a condition of virtual stagnation”. It added: “The Department of Agriculture appears to have done what it could to encourage planters to cultivate crops as an alternative to coconuts, such as cocoa, coffee, kapok, etc., but the Administration generally has sat with folded hands and thanked God for the gold industry”. * * * Fiji was reported to be still in the throes of gold fever, and the Colony was “being overrun” by all sorts and conditions of people from all parts of the world, all of them obsessed with the idea of getting in early. In the Tavua district, along the river valleys across Viti Levu, and even in the neighbourhood of Suva, prospectors were at work. PIM commented tartly: “The cold fact of the matter, however, is that to date only one mine has been proved—Mr. Theodore’s Emperor Mine at Tavua”. Mr. Theodore, it was noted, was at Tavua, “working hard but giving very little indication of his plans”. * • * First unit of the British Commonwealth and Empire to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary on May 6, 1935, was the Kingdom of Tonga.

The then British Agent and Consul at Nukualofa (Mr. J. S. Neill) pointed out this was because of Tonga’s geographical situation and the method of calculating local time. Queen Salote and her Consort (the late Prince Tungi) led the colourful celebrations. * * S “A parasite insect which destroys lantana will shortly be introduced to A tralia from Fiji, and a CSIRO entomoloi will visit Fiji immediately to obi specimens of this bug,” it was annoum (Despite this enthusiasm, lantana is : an expensive, noxious weed in Fiji). * * * There was commotion and specula* because, on May 13, the United Sts had formally annexed Swain’s Isll (Olosenga), an atoll about 300 miles no of the Samoan Group. Swain’s Isll had always been regarded as part of New Zealand-administered Tokelau Gro There were vague reports that the as was to play some part in American defe plans in the Pacific. “It is even saj added PIM, “that the famous lags (freshwater) is to become a landing-ph for a line of American trans-Pacific s planes”. (No big developments ensued). * * * Treasure-hunters from England who been making investigations in the Tuam Archipelago (and rousing feverish spc lation on the Papeete waterfront in process) were reported to be optimh They had returned to Tahiti and then dispersed to endeavour to raise m capital for the project. There was t in Tahiti about “five tons of goll bullion” buried beneath 18 ft. of sand water somewhere in the Tuamotus. far as is known, it all remaii theoretical). * « • PIM correspondents were engaged ill wordy and embittered battle over still-disputed subject of corporal pum ment in New Guinea, and questions w being asked in the Australian Press alf the working of the judicial system thr With reference to complaints of treatment of natives by Europeans, Minister in Charge of Territories (Sin Pearce) had said: “The Administration particularly zealous in dealing with welfare of natives, and takes appropn action in any case of alleged ill-tr* ment”. He said that, with one except! persons charged during the previous i years with ill-treatment of natives in I Guinea had not been employed by Administration. 20 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHH

[?]ternal Air Service for New Caledonia fEW Caledonia should shortly I have its own internal air service known briefly as TRANSPAC, d at much greater length and icially, as Societe Caledonienne Transports Ariens.

Sarly last year we reported that ire were moves afoot in New ledonia for the formation of a al air service. Mr. Sylvestre ;onte, a mine owner and planter, s reported as taking the lead in project. m Avro Anson aircraft was ’chased in Sydney and prepared. ,er it was sold or put aside and jockheed Lodestar was prepared I even painted with the comty’s colours. Uniforms were chased for the aircrew. But Lodestar continued to sit in a iney hangar. ow another company, headed Monsieur H. Martinet, a well wn Noumea pharmacist, has n formed. This organisation will e a Government subsidy, and Government will carry out mditioning work on war-time trips round New Caledonia for use of the company’s aircraft, ital, which has been contributed Monsieur H. Martinet, is stered as two million francs 14,000). reconditioned de Havilland ide aircraft has been purchased i Aero Services Ltd. of Croydon, land, and will arrive in July, ther in about six months time.

French pilot, Monsieur J. A. irgue, will arrive in Noumea tly. He will also be technical :tor of the company. Monsieur touillaud is named as engineer.

H. Coursin, attached to a mea legal firm, will be opera- -3 manager. ans are to operate regular ices from Magenta airfield, mea, to points round New donia and to Lifu Island in Loyalties, where the people pred an airstrip in anticipation of service early last year.

MILLIONS WASTED, HE SAYS Public Servant Speaks On the Record A PUBLIC servant of Papua and New Guinea, Mr. J. W. Miller, who did that most un-public-servantlike thing—spent his leave crusading for an inquiry into alleged Territory bungling received a flattering amount of notice from the Southern press.

Whether the matter goes any further than that remains to be seen; present indications are that it is unlikely.

Mr. Miller, who is chief hospital engineer in the Territory, alleges that millions are being wasted in P-NG in inefficient administration.

He spent some time in Canberra during his leave, interviewing private members on both sides of the House.

Some Govt, members are said to have felt that a thorough inquiry was necessary—but this was before Mr. Menzies’ outburst to his back-benchers in late May and his threat to resign if all Liberals did not fall into line. As the current session of Federal Parliament closes, indications are that there is a falling into line in order to avoid the sort of split that has discredited the Opposition party in recent months.

When the Minister for Territories, Mr. Hasluck, was asked a question in the House about Mr. Miller’s charges of inefficiency in P-NG, the Minister replied that he had no official information on the subject and that any criticism by a public servant should be made through departmental channels.

Even from Mr. Hasluck we might have expected a more intelligent answer than that. For all we know to the contrary, Mr. Miller may have tried to get a hearing through the approved channels; if he did not, then dozens of others have —and achieved nothing.

Mr. Hasluck may live in a lofty Ivory Tower —and there certainly are plenty of signs that he does— but it seems impossible that he has not yet grasped the fact that his administration in Papua and New Guinea is immensely unpopular with a large section of the community.

It may be said of course, that all administrations are unpopular and that in spite of the alleged bungling, Papua-New Guinea remains the most up-and-coming territory in the South Pacific. Perfectly true, of course—but neither is a reason why well-authenticated complaints should invariably he shuffled off with political platitudes.

Mr. Miller is not the only public servant who has had these things to say. But he is the only one who has—in the language of the day— stuck his neck out and said them “on” the record, instead of “off.”

Visit of Tolala to Papua-New Guinea MR. GORDON THOMAS—known to PIM readers as Tolala, writer of the monthly Talk- Talk feature—with Mrs. Thomas, will leave Sydney in mid-June in MV Bulolo to visit Papua and New Guinea.

Both are looking forward keenly to seeing what the post-war has done to the Territory, and to renewing old friendships.

Mr. Thomas first went to New Guinea in 1911 when that Territory was under German administration. He had various interests in New Guinea over the years and from 1925 to 1942, with one break of several years, was editor of the Rabaul Times. When the Japs invaded New Britain in 1942, Mr.

Thomas became a prisoner.

But when the civilian prisoners were sent away from Rabaul in June, 1942, on the ill-fated Montevideo Maru, Mr. Thomas, for some reason known only to the Japanese, was retained in Rabaul with half a dozen others to work in the freezer. He thus survived the war when hundreds of his friends were lost.

When Rabaul was relieved after the surrender of Japan, Mr. Thomas returned to Australia, where he has lived (at Campbelltown, NSW) ever since.

Mrs. Thomas was evacuated with other women residents of New’

Guinea in late 1941.

Nautical Quartet W. Tebb (upper left), a wartime frognow in shell-diving partnership with Mr. [?]unting, has returned to Samarai in the how” after purchasing equipment in [?] [?]ain R. N. Beim (upper right), head of [?]lebrides Trading and Shipping Co., owners [?]ila Star”, returning to Santo by Qantas a business visit to Sydney. [?]er: Mr. E. Thortveit, skipper of the Hebrides trader "Deutgan”, now refitting [?]dney, has returned to Santo. His place [?]een taken by Mr. A. Lendel (right), well in south-west Pacific waters as partof the trochus-fisher "Tamara” now rein Sydney. 21 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1955

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[E address to stockholders on May 26, at the annual general meeting of Burns Philp and ipany, by the chairman, Mr. es Burns, held more than its il interest this year as it gives ninating sidelights on the con- , of big and diversified business he difficult post-war period. though this company shuns icity and counters its post-war ilems without comment of any , some of Mr. Burns’ comments ;his instance were straight to point. le report clears up a matter caused considerable speculain Australian financial circles ,pril—that is, the use to which £1,000,000 new capital is to be and gives the intelligent rver pause to reflect once again the utter stupidity of the nial Office in its handling of Pacific Islands affairs in the •war period. me extracts from Mr. Burns’s rt follow: fDITIONS during the past year may »e considered satisfactory, especially tail trade and also in our Island itions. chain stores, mostly in Queensland »ur country stores in NSW, showed sed turnover but all have had in- ;d expenses. While sales increase higher expenses are covered. How- It is only by good management, careipervision and constant expenditure jperties to keep them up to date and tive that we can hope to secure our of the . . money which is availn the hands of the community for ing. Building and modernisation diture in the next two years is ited at £600,000. t of our subsidiary companies are well . . Some BP branches in ilia and NZ are doing well; some )t. Wholesale trade, with high costs )w margins of profit, is keenly conveys, Ltd are at present buildnew store in The Valley, Brisbane; will have two basements and car modation for shoppers . . . We are tamoured with New Zealand, because very high rate of company taxation plantations, of which we own about 1 manage six others, have done well to the high price of copra e are now in a position to go ahead uller development.

Our greatest problem since the las been in regard to the Solomon s. While we received compensation for war damage in Papua and New Guinea, nothing was paid in the Solomons although the British Government paid compensation in Malaya and Burma. Our losses in the Solomons amounted to £250,000 and we have been unable to see our way clear to start there again.

Under Government “scorched earth” policy we were instructed to destroy most of our buildings and stores, and our plantations were mostly totally destroyed, many being cleared for aerodromes. The native labour position is now difficult and export and other taxes make it unattractive to start again.

The export tax on copra must discourage planters even though it is only 10 per cent. ... In Fanning and Washington Islands, where the tax is 25 per cent., we can pay the tax while we make a profit, but if the price of copra should fall, this heavy export tax will be an unfair one.

Many years ago we bought Fanning and Washington from an English company that was practically insolvent. As soon as we did, all sorts of taxes were Introduced.

At present we can afford to pay import tax, export tax and company taxes . . but we are not going to risk any more money in these outlying islands as they are too far away.

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Therefore, we have the same lack of inclination to go back to the Islands under the Colonial Office as we had to go back to the Marshalls when the Germans forced us out of that trade.

As a matter of fact, Papua-New Guinea offers far more Inducement, and certainly appears to be a country with a future.

Burns Philp (New Guinea), Ltd., has been doing very well, but we find that most of the profit we make is absorbed in expansion and expenses.

Burns Philp (South Sea), Ltd., has also done well . . . There also, we want new stores, new garages, workshops and staff houses. We have lately bought a small vessel to supplement the “Yanawai” in the Fiji Islands trade. This will release a smaller vessel from Fiji for employment by Burns Philp (New Hebrides), Ltd.

This latter company has not done so well and has made a smaller profit than usual Perhaps some day the English control will be transferred to Australia.

These islands are particularly fertile and in my opinion if cultivated with sufficient labour, might be found nearly as rich as Java.

Shipping is only a side line in our business Ships now cost a lot of money and are wasting assets. We are not making enough from the voyages accounts of our Islands vessels running under Australian conditions to provide replacements of ships as they grow old.

However, the position is not so bad in the Singapore trade and we will probably have to build a new ship to replace “Merkur”, which has been sold. A duplicate of “Braeside” will cost between £IH and £IV2 million.

We are issuing 1,000,000 new shares at par and hope to continue to pay 10 per cent, on this increased capital which is required for buying and building new ships to replace old and worn out tonnage, for building new stores and housing for staff, and for development generally.

II Monsieur Yves Nicolas Casimir Gayon has been officially appointed Secretary General of French Oceania. He has been Acting Secretary-General since the transfer of M. Diffre to another position overseas some months ago.

BSIP Development Plans Going Ahe[?] THE British Solomon Islands H tectorate has been allocs £A287,500 from UK Colon Development and Welfare fui according to an announcement; the High Commissioner for Western Pacific (Sir Rolf Stanley) on May 5.

Like Fiji and other territon the BSIP has not been given al asked for, but, said Sir Robert, th will be a substantial sum to finat the development programme.

The total available is expected be more than £1,000,000, indue the new C. and D. allocation, fui from the sale of Japanese ass the unspent balance of the C. i D. 1945 allocation, and certain serve funds.

The High Commissioner said t) the draft development program discussed by the Advisory Cou:j last October had been re-examin Funds would be sufficient to< ahead with nearly all the proje: subject to approval by the Secret) of State for the Colonies.

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IN RICE Dutch Plans for N[?] Territory A RICE-GROWING project oi large scale has been laund in Dutch New Guinea, Koembe.

Construction has been started! an 8-mile road in from the co< A cargo of 500 tons of machine narrow-gauge railway equipmt etc., was recently landed for job.

About £AS million is being sp on the project and the first n from a 1,000-acre “pilot are should be harvested by the end 1955. The area has had to be p tected by low dykes from exo flooding from mountain strea and frpm the sea.

In view of the labour shorts extensive mechanisation is planL for the industry, which, it is hop will make Dutch New Guinea co pletely independent of outside i requirements.

At present DNG rice is impon from Thailand. t Indonesian troops have lam at New Guinea beaches on occasions, but these infiltrate have been quickly mopped up the Netherlands authorities. Offic: at The Hague have described “sheer propaganda” reports t!

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I May 4, at my office in Sydney, I was informed that the Netherlands Government had engaged tis-Bennett, Britain’s famous en’s Counsel, to defend in mesia 35 Dutchmen thrown prison by the Indonesian “Govment” on vague charges irently connected with espionme were held merely because were regarded as witnesses for prosecution. At least 32 had held in gaol for a year without Some had been tortured. One gone mad. ery step taken by the Nether- > to induce the Indonesians to ; these people to a fair trial been defeated. The defence in the hands of Mr. H. A. lan, a Dutch Indonesian lawyer iblemished reputation. He had ed very hard on the case; but ever he seemed to be making ess the Indonesians blocked by introducing trumped-up :es against him. An agent cateur tried to trap him into ting a bribe. He finally add his helplessness and then Jague engaged Curtis-Bennett. [ was on the point of departure idonesia I put these details in ag, for personal investigation le spot. Frankly, I found it lible that such things should n so near the freedom-loving Pacific. in Jakarta on May 20 and There had been a sensanal development only a few before. It had become plain the Indonesian Government urious at the engagement of -Bennett: and that Indonesian Is—u 11 er 1 y unscrupulous letermined to get Mr. Bouman If into gaol.

Jr. Bouman booked a passage edan, in Sumatra, by a KPM n another name; the ship, en :o Medan, made her usual call gapore; and at Singapore Mr. in very wisely took plane for d. The first that the ‘Sian Government knew of it i announcement over Holland Soekarno gang took it badly. news “broke” while I was y in Jakarta. The newspapers ed it while I was there; and, ime day, the officials “pulled ■s. Bouman and the manager 1F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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I learned the story behind the prosecution of Mr. Jungschlaeger, the principal man of the 35 Dutchmen being held in prison, arid the head of the great KPM organisation here.

He was a naval reservist and a very clever man. When he was called back to the Dutch Navy in World War 11, he was sent to the Intelligence Section and, later, he was given a course of special instruction in America. After the war, when the Dutch be, an to return to the Netherlands Indies, Mr. Jungschlaeger was given important duties there; but when, in 1950, the Netherlands Government accepted the unnalatable fact that the Indonesian “Government” was in charge of the country, Mr.

Jungschlaeger gave up all Navy duty, and returned to his KPM job.

AS everyone knows, the Indonesian “government” is a tragic joke, and there are large areas under rebel administration. The Dutch, naturally, are sympathetic to some of these rebel movements: and it would appear that most of the men now in prison are charged that in some wav they have been helping the rebels and intriguing against the “State”.

Jakarta officialdom says that that is Jungschlaeger’s sin—that he assisted the rebels in getting supplies. This is denied: but the important point is that the Indonesians have not allowed the Dutchmen to make any answer] the charges—they are siii imprisoned without trial, bashed whenever the officials feE the moed.

This is a Police State, ini most approved Communist or fashion. One cannot move wit official surveillance, arrogr given. Petty corruption is em —I have collected many exam You may not enter the cou without manv absurd formal! you are forced to submit to enc form-signing and ticket-giving; are beset constantly by thieves beggars—l would not have bel! it, had I not experienced it hit the hated Europeans speak with great caution —they are al in danger of being denounced! ill-treated —and their private le are frequently opened in a cun fashion and scrutinised.

Friends took me down toe ship at midnight. In the port our car was stopped. A sH soldier in full jungle battleheld a rifle pointed at my shrir bosom while a compatriot exair my papers; and my friends similarly handled. To them, it. the normal orocedure of the H State of Indonesia. t The Suva City Council’s proc £4,000 loan for the reticulatio electric power in the Lami has been approved by the Got ment. This brings the tot:; loans raised by the Councii electrical services to more £200,000.

New BP Ship for Hebrides-Solomon Burns Philp's new motor-vessel, "Tulagi", which completed her delivery voyage to Sydney (en route, she called at Port Moresby) at the end of May. She has a total deadweight of 2,360 tons and is of modern design. Builders were Grangemouth Dockyard Co., Ltd., of Scotland.

On completion of an immediate recruiting voyage to the Line Islands, she will be placed on the Sydney-Norfolk Island-Vila-Santo - Solomons-Sydney run. She will not call at Bougainville ports, etc., as has been done by "Maiaita". Those ports will be included in a rearranged plan for the other BP vessels.

"Tulagi" at present carries an Asiatic crew signed on 12-months' Articles. What crew she will carry at the end of the present agreement will be discussed later, but it is un[?] that negotiations between BP a[?] maritime unions have resulted in the co[?] setting aside plans to carry non-Au[?] crews in those vessels at present Australian crews.

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By Tolala cenic Abominations The type of tropical toilets otting the Western Samoan sealore, as depicted in the photograph i Mav FIM (p. 23), first caught iy eye as the BP boat made up to le wharf at Samarai, Papua, and jurists, hanging over the rail to Imire this beauty spot (The Pearl : the Pacific, I think it was called iem. asked: “But what are all lose funny little house over le water?” This was some years ;fore Doc Lambert (God rest his iuli launched his anti-hookworm impaign in TNG.

My own opinion, as a layman, as that this particular type of trine was of doubtful hygienic due in areas where rice was ashed not far distant, and bathing rried out in blissful disregard of e proximity of the local sanitary rvice.

However, they invariably proved iod fishing grounds. nother Inquiry Demanded It’s hard to say who started this pular idea of “demanding iniries” into This, That and the her Thing. Could have been udleigh-Ruxton & Co.

Anyway, if anyone has a chip on > shoulder it seems to be the esent routine to want an “official 3uiry.” The promoter receives a :tain amount of press publicity : a while and then it fades away.

A certain J. W. H. Miller, “chief spital engineer in the Territory” hatever that may mean) broke ;o print last month demanding public inquiry into various itters affecting the Territory’s blic Service. He reckoned such inquiry could save the Australian cpayer millions of £’s a year and ease 50,000 Public Servants, lat the Public Servants would do en released from whatever they re to be released from is not ted.

Jut if Mr. Miller’s statements are rect (and I have no reason to ‘Stion them), it would appear it conditions, especially in the nworks Dept., are anything but at they should be.

Jut then, who does expect -eminent concerns to be run on nomic lines these days? That )e was given away years ago. ;n the Auditor-General has sed some critical remarks about le of the Territory’s Departuts. lany of Mr. Miller’s complaints r e not been unknown to ritorians for years and if this tleman is instrumental in omplishing what he says he then he will have rendered d service.

But if tall poppies in Australia flourish unchecked how can one exnect to eradicate them in PNG?

No Land Shortage?

If one can judge from Minister Hasluck’s statements in the House, replying to Members of his own party on the availability of land for white settlers in P’NG, all should be well.

On May 18. he said grazing and farming land could be bought through the Department of Lands in Moresby; also that the supply exceeded the demand.

This sounds too good to be true, and one cannot but wonder where and what it is. In this scientific Popular Missionary Retires The Rev. Frank G. Lewis recently retired from the Chairmanship of the Methodist Overseas Mission in Rabaul, New Guinea. Mr. Lewis served in Western Samoa before arriving in Rabaul in 1932. In 1933 he became Chairman of the Mission and watched its interests until 1939 when he went back to Australia. Mr.

Lewis returned to Rabaul in 1950, During his last term, he has been instrumental in having many of the Mission land titles restored, many new Mission houses built and a new printing press installed. He has been a Mission member of P-NG Legislative Council. Mr. Lewis is succeeded by the Rev. F. Lutton, who went to the Territory in 1949 from the Central Methodist Mission in Brisbane. —Photo by C. H. Meen. 27 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Dst apparent friction at the snt moment appears to be erning customs work and its idiary minutiae; Land and the n getting any, and Housing, its nee and high cost when tually acquired. would almost seem that since ;al reports, levelled at some of PNG government departments ecent months, authority’s ren—in order to placate audit als and ensure that every rtmental officer is like Caesar’s —has been one of hamging these officers to such an it that realistic procedure and non logic in dealing with a ly-patient public have been ficed for veritable police state itions. ne of the tactics adopted by mment office staffs are liscent of a Sydney Trammies’ lation Strike.

Clash of Cultures Another example of bad publicity fer PNG appeared in the Sydney Press last month. The heading “Whites’ Cruelty” drew attention t(p an address given by Anthropologist Murray Groves to the Moresby Scientific Society, dealing with his experiences after living for seven months in a village not far distant along the coast west of Moresby.

The Sydney Press emphasised his remarks of native complaints of rough treatment” they received from Europeans while working in Moresby. They were harshly spoken to, rudely brushed aside in stores and shops and “European overseers handled them inconsiderately.”

Such statements may be quite apropos for local consumption in Moresby, though I doubt very much whether they would succeed in improving the manners of those referred to. But certainly no good purpose can be obtained by publicising such remarks in Australia, where the public’s knowledge of PNG conditions is so limited and cock-eyed that certain sections will only too readily make political capital and interpret such behaviour P-N-G Air Pageant Papua - New Guinea had its first Air Pageant on May 14, when eight aircraft took part in a demonstration of aerobatics, formation flying and fire-fighting at Port Moresby. On the extreme right of this photograph is Mr.

Justice R. I. Gore, who, with 2,000 other European residents of the Territory (some having come in chartered aircraft from other parts of the Territory), watched the fly-past. —Photo by Papuan Prints.

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I should think no one will reE such publicity more than Muj Groves himself, for his backgra should give him a keen insE into the value of good and publicity, having been conne« with the Territory since a cl (His father is Bill Groves, H Director of Education).

No one can deny that there some harsh-spoken, rude-manntj Europeans, usually new-chums, quite sure of themselves and either curse or caress a native..

The solution appears to be rr careful screening of those entef the Territory and then prr tuition in handling native ployees. It is not everyone whr a suitable resident in a b( country.

Camilla Wedgwood Goes to Rest I was sorry to hear of I Camilla Wedgwood’s death month, for she certainly filler niche in New Guinea’s modern. and exercised an influence over* future directors of native destii in PNG.

I met her first in the be Thirties when she came to TNO do some practical field-work; apart from the theory of ant'; pology she had been studying; some time at universities.

The blue blood in her own v (she was a daughter of Bs Wedgwood) opened many a so door for her, but that di register with Camilla. She alv remained the keen student s first hand data, although perl a trifle biased by governm policy after War 11.

I remember debating “What s We Do With New Guinea” withr over the ABC at one time. I good to know that her name be perpetuated in a schooll Goroka.

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If so, then there are plenty who will take a dim view of such a step, and not the least of these will be the natives themselves —when, and if. they come to realise it. Certainly. ethnographically the term is correct as applied to many of the NG natives, but not all.

I hope it’s a journalese and not an officialese appellation.

Digging up Old Ashes External Affairs Minister Casey fobbed off an attempt last month n the House by Mr. Howse to have :he papers regarding Manus and [ISA’s attempt to use the base luring the Chifley regime. Said 2asey: “I do not consider it good practice to revive old controversies, aarticularly those concerning mother country. The melancholy >tory of Manus Island is pretty veil known to Members and the mblic generally.”

The Minister’s remarks remind me of the Chifley stand to stifle nquiries into the Fall of Rabaul ncident. J.B. then “would not ■ake up old ashes” and refused to sxDlain Australia’s part in allowing labaul, its garrison and residents o be so “expendable.”

It is only by knowing the facts >f previous blunders that we may lope to avoid tragic repetitions. If iur present-day strategists are jappy about the present position hat is more than I am. )ld T-NG Links Pass On I was saddened last month by the assing to their rest of two wellnown old Territorians. On May,'7, t Cronulla, Reg. Lander died sudenly from a heart ailment and on lay 17 Mrs. Gladys Clark also passed away in Sydney as the result of heart trouble.

Reg. came to T-NG for the Exproboard in the early Twenties, after having been away with the AIF.

Longan, Matty Island and Witu plantations all came under his care for a while. He was with BP at Kiep when the Japs came in and just managed to get away. After War II he managed estates on New Ireland and down Buka way. A good cove who knew his job.

Mrs. Clark was the widow of R.L. (Nobby) Clark, MLC, and many years president of the TNG RSL in Rabaul. She joined Nobby in Rabaul in 1921 when he was in charge of the Exproboard Workshops. She was a popular hostess and took a very active part in Rabaul’s life up to the time of the Jap occupation.

Son John and daughter Margot are in Sydney while another son, Bob, is in England. She will be sadly missed by many old NG friends in Sydney.

Remembering The Coastwatchers A news item given out to Australians at the end of May over the ABC told of the unveiling of an obelisk in Buka-Bougainville in memory of the Coastwatchers.

Administrator Cleland performed the job and the well-worthy Paul Mason was present amongst others.

The ceremony must have brought back some vivid memories of the war years to Paul, who was one of the outstanding Watchers in Bougainville and a big cog in the wheel which won the Coral Sea battle.

The point to note, however, is that no mention whatsoever was made in Sydney newspapers of an event more deserving of publicity than many another incident which was headlined.

Neither Australia nor P-NG wants to forget the great work carried out by those Coastwatchers.

For, the way things are shaping, and as sure as God made little apples, such a body of brave men Comets Win Rabaul Basketball Premiership Bates-Obelt Wedding Comets and CYO teams fought out the Rabaul basketball premiership this year. This photoaph was taken after the grand final when Comets had a spectacular 20-10 victory over CYO, the most exciting game of the season. Standing at each end are basketball officials (left lo ght) E. Anderson,, R. Nicholson, and B. Lawes. —Photo by C. H. Meen.

A photograph taken after the marriage, on April 16, at the Rabaul Church of England of Mr. Stewart Thomas Edwin Bates to Miss Carolina Huwalthera Van Heemstede Obelt. —Photo by C. H. Meen. 31 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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The arrival in Sydney of Bob Hope or Marilyn Monroe could scarcely have occupied more space.

It was all because a Buka “hehin” arrived in Sydney with her Master and Missus, the Mackenzies, who own Tulaen plantation on Buka Island.

A point missed by the Sydney journalists is that Lalin, the handmaiden in question, is the daughter of old Gallus, the “kukurai” (chief) of Petats Island, which lies just across the channel from Tulaen.

What a heading missed! “Princess of Petats in Nylon Panties.”

Bits and Pieces Dr. Norman Fisher, wife and son William returned last month from a year’s stay in Bolivia (South America) where the Dr. spent a special leave from his job as Chief Geologist with the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources advising the Bolivian Government on mineral development. He was No. 1 Geologist and Vulcanologist of T-NG, 1934-46. . . . Administrator Cleland’s son Robert, marries Miss Julie Kessel, of WA, this month at Moresby. t Complaints continue about tb quality of Western Samoa’s copi and cocoa exports.

Wearne-Harslett Wedding A wedding of interest to New Guinea re [?] dents took place recently at St. James Churo Sydney. The bridegroom was ADO Geo [?] Wearne, formerly of the Sepik District; t[?] bride was Sister Joan Harslett, lately of PHI elder daughter of the late Mr. C. Harslett, Wau, and Mrs. Harslett, of Sydney, and sist of Mr. Ken Harslett, of Wewak. The cou [?] will return to Sohano after a honeymoon Australia. 32 JUNE, 1055 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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SING IMPORTS, PETITION NEW SHOPS rom Our Own Correspondent S import boom (May PIM, age 25), is reflected in bulging tocks of textiles and other in the Indian and Chinese as well as in the larger .shments.

May the Port Alma brought tons of cargo from Britain, vo London ships in June will I another 17,000 tons, e was when one or two big indented for the smaller shops 1 to them wholesale, but torany Indian indentors have d the business. Competition : retailers is keen, and there ays a desire to have in stock yer the tailor next door may ing. ;he urban areas particularly, st-war development of an upe dress-consciousness among Fijian women has broadened ;mand for materials of good r, and among Indian women stliness of a sari is often re- -1 as an indication of a husfinancial status. Both Fijian rdian women nowadays have e to what is best in both ials and Western “accesther reflection of the boom be noted in the surprising it of commercial building now way at Suva. three-storey shopping blocks mailer buildings are in the s of transforming parts of ggledy-piggledy maze of small >e and Indian shops in the alou Creek area of central illy significant, perhaps, is the Bank of New Zealand ig at the Triangle has been erably enlarged, hort, Suva people with money to be ready to build everyexcept hotels, with the st enthusiasm. There is ig to indicate any plan to retire hurricane-demolished raid’s; and the whittled-down Seas Hotel, on the site of the lub, still marks time in a -completed state. it is believed to be the largest ash ever taken at Pukapuka recently hooked by Tutu i, late of Rarotonga. The which weighed 400 lbs and n overall measurement of ten ;ook the fishermen miles out the reef and almost swamped canoe. The large fish was ards divided among the ers. t A marked improvement in the delivery of airmail parcels at Suva has been effected as a result of representations by the Suva Chamber of Commerce. Parcels will now be delivered at the Post Office, thus avoiding a trip to the Bond with clearance orders.

Another improvement suggested by the Chamber is being investigated.

It is that surface mails from England to Fiji be routed through Canada to connect with the Orient liners.

Tonga's Dollar Hunt May be Costly rpONGA has recently imported X American tractors and agricultural machinery, but as the Kingdom cannot contribute anything to the sterling area dollarpool, there is doubtless opposition to any liberal allocation of dollars.

The sale of copra to the United States, as Prince Tungi is reported to have proposed while he was in America, would presumably be subject to the approval of the British Ministry of Food, which has long bought all copra exports.

At the current exchange rate and world price of copra, it seems that Tonga would pay dearly for dollars by selling copra well below the British Ministry’s contract price. (Further report on page 54) 33 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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The Debutantes' Ball was held at Xavier Hall, Rabaul, by the New Britain Women's Club on Mav 13. Three European and four Chines[?] girls were presented to the Administrator (Brigadier D. M. Cleland) and Mrs. Cleland, who were visiting New Britain.

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None the less, it may be asked whether the Government reference to the need for all available Fijian manpower for economic and agricultural development in Fiji is any more urgent now than it was in 1951. If so, why?

After all, the basis of all responsible criticism of the Fijians-for- Malaya plan has been that it constituted a patently unfair call on the loyalty of an indigenous race outnumbered in its homeland.

HIGH tributes to Fijian achievements in Malaya were paid in May by the Press in New Zealand, but little notice of the coming withdrawal was taken in Australia.

The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, commented editorially that the Battalion had been maintained at the price of sapping the strength of the Fijian community at home, and suggested that this was the main reason for the return of the troops next year.

At the same time, referring to the rate of Indian expansion in Fiji, the Herald said that it had been emphasised that unless the Indians take steps to curb their exceptional birthrate, the resources of the Colony will be overtaxed, the standards of living will decline, and racial friction will develop. 35 2 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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These, he suggests, should go back into native reserves. (3) Properties near country villages could be made available, under easy terms and subject to control by the agricultural organisations, to young married Europeans in those villages. (4) Families whose Japanese fathers were interned, but who are themselves French subjects, lost their rights in sequestrated properties if the land was held in the name of the Japanese father. M.

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Meanwhile, two inspectors from the Ministry of Finance have been investigating all cases of sequestration of Japanese property. —Noumea Correspondent. t Norfolk Islanders’ petition to the Queen, which did not get past Canberra, “brought to light the interesting and somewhat disturbing fact that Australian citizens are no longer able to appeal direct to their Sovereign,” comments a Sydney Bulletin contributor. The Governor- General told the petitioners that under the Australian Constitution he was empowered to deal with such petitions himself. Accordingly, he had handed it over to his Ministers and was “not pleased to forward the petition to Her Majesty.” t When the Dutch immigrant liner Zuiderkruis, bound for New Zealand with 1,000 passengers, called at Papeete in May, the vessel was placed in quarantine to the bitter disappointment of all aboard. There were three cases of measles aboard. 37 A C 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Lance-Coporal Kobiti carried both the dead company commander and the unconscious second-incommand from the overturned and blazing jeep in which they had been travelling when the terrorists attacked at a strong roadblock.

Always under heavy enemy fire, he then carried his bren-gun up a bank and returned the fire until his ammunition was expended.

Five terrorists advanced, but Kobiti, after dismantling the gun, hurled the barrel at the leading Communists, who opened fire on him but dared advance no further.

Meanwhile, another 12 Communists had captured the jeepdriver, who had also exhausted his ammunition.

At this point police reinforcements arrived. After a brisk exchange of fire, during which the Fijian driver escaped from his captors, the terrorists were driven off.

The citation refers to Kobiti’s “devotion and undaunted heroism, under heavy fire and in the face of overwhelming odds”, and adds: “His dogged courage is gallantry unsurpassed in the warrior traditions of the Fijian people and the proud history of the Fiji Infantry Regiment”. t Two well-known French Oce families were recently united v Mile. Yvonne Sommers, daughte Mr. and Mme. Henri Sommers Raiatea, was married in Apri Monseur Alfred Lanteires, sor Mr. and Mme. Etienne Lante of Tahiti. The wedding took p in Papeete Catholic Cathedral. 38 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Fijians in Lau [?]se New [?]igration Query From Our Own Correspondent SILE controversy over the Indian population increase in Fiji has been going on for 3, a smaller problem has been ing in the Lau Group, which, 11 intents and purposes, is alln. ne Lauan islands are subject to sional droughts, with accoming serious water-supply diffi- *s, but what is more important lat several of the islands are sufficiently fertile to provide ■crops for increasing popula- . Furthermore, the sea is not ys a reliable provider, hough island-dwellers the 1 over are usually reluctant to their family lands, the situain some parts of Lau has led the point where migration, especially of the younger e, seems inevitable. this stage it may well be ered whether the Fiji Governdid a wise thing when it perd the displaced and well-to-do bans of Ocean Island to re the rich freehold island of latever the claims of the bans to a new home—and iy is likely to question the Lty of the claims —it is unnate that an island which I have been the logical solute any Lauan overflow question d have been pushed right ie the Fijian orbit. iere are people who allege that Janabans will never make full f Rabi as long as their Ocean i phosphate royalties come in), mwhile, there has been talk Lauan migration to Viti Levu. b road from Sawani, 14 miles Suva, to Serea, near lawa, is completed, it would land for Fijian settlement. ; more conservative of the is, while seeing this as a )le solution, are not enthusias- They claim, with some cation, that it would probably to another “drift to Suva”, ; there is already a consider- Lauan colony, 1-known Rarotonga business md politician, William Watson, ipanied by his wife and two tive daughters, recently spent time with friends in Tahiti i joining the liner Caledonien lurope, in continuation of a iy trip round the world.

New Dutch NG Air Company Formed ANEW aviation organisation, jointly owned and operated by the Dutch New Guinea Government and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, will take over Dutch New Guinea internal air communications on July 1.

The company will take over KLM’s three DOS’s and the Government’s two De Havilland Beavers, and will operate the service which at present links seven towns and a number of outposts. t Flag-raising Day and the Queen’s Birthday were celebrated at Apia on June 1 and 2.

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The lectures will be given each Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2 pm commencing June 6 and ending August 5. 39 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Mr. Morgan, according to a Wellington report, had not then had an opportunity to address Parliament, and his funds had run out.

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Among the posts he held in the administration were chief clerk in the Treasury Department, chief clerk in the Public Works Department and secretary of the Board of Trade.

He is now one of the 17 elected European and Samoan members of the 25-member Legislative Assembly. fl Dr. Donald Marshall, American ethnologist, has recently been engaged in research work in the Cook Islands.

Nautical Occasion at Papeete The graceful Chilean naval training schooner "Esmeralda", on her maiden cruise to the Pacific Islands, met the Shaw Savill liner "Southern Cross" on her maiden round-the-world voyage. Also present, extreme right, Pacific Islands Transport Line's well-known "Thorsisle".

From Papeete "Esmeralda" sailed to Apia, Guam and Yokohama, "Southern Cross" to Suva, Wellington and Sydney. —Photo by M. B. Du Pont. 41 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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HMr. and Mrs. Oscar Newman the New Hebrides have sold t) Tisman Plantation to Compt Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides have purchased a home at Mii Cove, Sydney. However, Mr. N man will continue to manage plantation for a further two ye on behalf of the purchasers.

Mr. Peter Tali Coleman, aged 36, was appointed Attorney-General of Eastern (American) Samoa by Governor R. B. Lowe on May 5.

Mr. Coleman, son of a chief petty-officer in the US Navy and his Samoan wife, was born at Pago Pago. He was educated in Samoa and Hawaii, and joined the US army shortly before America entered World War II. He served in the Solomons and ended the war as a captain.

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In 1952, he was appointed Public Defender in Eastern Samoa, and his appointment as Attorney-General has been popular. —Photo by Pan American Prints. 42 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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In the afternoon a feast for which 500 pola (7 ft stretchers piled with food) had been prepared, was held at the Neiafu malae, and guests were entertained by gailycostumed dance-parties from the major Vavau villages. t Outlining the traditions and customs of the North Australian Aborigines, a book in Fijian Kuhou ni Buka (“Smoke of the Fire”), has been published by the Methodist Mission Press, Suva. The author, the Rev. Meli Tukai, worked in North Australia from 1937 to 1948.

Suva Office for White's Travel FROM July 1, there will be an office of White’s Travel Service in Suva. (See May PIM, page 23).

Mr. Robert Parkes will manage the office, which is on the ground floor of the new section of the Fiji Trading Co.’s building, opposite the Town Hall and conveniently located near the Tourist and Travel Bureau.

Mr. Parkes has recently been with Pearce and Co., and before that managed the Suva office of Qantas’ agents. en Salote gives Nurse Ana Pale her final [?]tion certificate during the graduation [?]ny at Vaiola Hospital, Nukualofa, on 7. In the background is Prince ehake. The matron of the hospital. Miss exted, was in charge of the ceremonies. —Photo by Hettig. 43 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Strong opposition by British and French alike would meet any move to replace the New Hebrides Condominium by an Australian administration, writes a Britisher, with a lifetime of experience in the Group, in a letter to the editor. He says : DOES PIM advance the possibility that an Australian Government interest in the New Hebrides would resolve all difficulties?

As a reader of PIM and its exposures of Australia’s mishandling of its own Territories, I am certain that it will not be only the French here who will oppose Australian interference!

We know that the British Government would like to be disburdened of its financial drain here, but we do not think that it will hand its burden to a country with little political stability—Manus and the eviction of US interests, the Indonesian bungling and Australia’s contribution to the eviction of the Dutch there by a vocal Australian minority, etc.

No; the New Hebrides will want no part of a Government that has had countless opportunities of asserting its influence wisely, but H never done so.

PIM relates at length the effoc of 40 years ago by Australian : terests in these Islands. Those e periences do not apply in to-daE 46 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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PlM’s attack on the French polial background has no basis now, r any constructive effect. The ings to consider are the facts, stralia, long the largest supplier goods to the New Hebrides, and jrefore reaping most of that Teriry’s earnings, has done nothing ■ this Group. France purchases r products: Australia takes only ; profits.

Australia’s economic interests are t the kind that PIM says they ;. Try selling New Hebrides copra Australia: or interesting Austran capital in the Islands! jet Australia demonstrate her inest in a practical way—by setg up a development loan agency re. And do not confuse the issue showing that torrents of Auslian capital have already flown 0 the New Hebrides in the past, comparison of French and Auslian investments in boom year 1 depression would show that mce has contributed the larger ire. Let Australia give us a ;kle back of the torrent she has i from us, British and French. do not agree with your April respondent in all respects. He aks of the “extensive plantais” —but how many are new? ere has been virtually no plantof coconuts since 1939, and cents are our mainstay.

Ie says that the need for Auslia to maintain a solicitor to :le land titles “really has passed” duch implies that the Australian d titles are settled and the land low available to interested pursers. Well, we have yet to see r signboards on these lands intiting that Britishers may buy m! Conversely, since January his year all French Government d has been for sale —even to British “aliens”. s that correspondent says, the mr situation is not as portrayed PIM. In fact, the labour shortage eased to such an extent that in ie cases the problem is nonitent. Where a problem does ;t it can be traced to lack of jperation between traders and itation owners, plus the results the war-boom prices on the ives. If reasonable conditions provided there is plenty of »ur forthcoming. be real disease in the economic of the New Hebrides is the pe of capital. The big deals todo not concern new ventures, 7 are merely the settling of old ;. The fact now obvious is that increase in native copra is ctly proportional to the decrease European production. lis is a factor worth watching.

French are watching it. To ive another depression we must diversify and modernise. Capital is needed. Some of the methods used are completely archaic and utterly wasteful of labour. Mechanisation is called for.

Capital flight from the New Hebrides to Australia and elsewhere is shameful. Before we are forced to surrender some of it for local use, let’s put our heads together and work to use it. There is no time for name-calling. We owe it to these Islands and to ourselves.

Let’s not wait for claims such as West Irian from others who are prepared to develop the Group. Let the local motto become “Work”, instead of “En Principe” as it was before the recent Honiara Conference. t Inter-Island Rugby contests for Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa for a South Pacific shield were suggested by the president of the Samoan Rugby Union (Mr. E. Paul) during a visit to Fiji in May. A Fijian team arrived at Apia on May 25 and will return to Fiji on June 25. t Litchi nuts, grown extensively in China and India, have been introduced into several other tropical and sub-tropical countries. The NSW Agriculture Dept, is now experimenting with varieties of trees from the University of Hawaii. The nuts are popular whether fresh or dried. The flesh tastes like muscatel grapes.

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Opinion now seems to be that with the tailure of this latest drive in Washington for Hawaii Statehood —a struggle which has been going on since 1902—there is little possibility of the object now being achieved for many years to come —“if ever”.

Witnessing Flag and School Day at Tutuila, American Samoa, on April 15 were, left to t, Mr. T. R. Smith, Acting High Commissioner of Western Samoa in the absence of Mr. G. R. les, and Mrs. Smith, with Governor Richard Barrett Lowe, of American Samoa, and Mrs. [?]e. Mrs. Smith is the former Sylvia Masterman, authoress of the book "Origins of Inter- [?]nal Rivalry in Samoa". —Pan American Prints. 49 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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The picture story that will be understood and absorbed by the people of Samoa might fall very flat in Manus, and the methods of meeting a problem which the picture story wishes to convey might have to be very different.

Subjects selected for experiment by the Visual Aids Officer of SPC in Sydney have so far been under the following heads: coconut cultivation, soil erosion and conservation, mosquito-borne diseases, and general village health and hygiene.

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If they are merely educational they are unlikely to hold the attention of the people, and their lesson would probably not readily be absorbed.

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Even without captions the story could be understood by most people.

Captions are, of course, a problem.

The language problem prevents standardisation for use throughout the South Pacific. So captions may be added locally to posters.

In the case of movie films, there has been a technical development of great importance to a project of this nature during the past couple of years. With the development and popularisation of the magnetic tape recorder there has also come a system of adding a magnetic strip along the margin of the now popular At left; This is part of a series of coloured scenes from a film strip on child care and hygiene. 51 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH I. Y JUNE, 1955

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Cable Address: “AITSALES, Auckland” lillimetre film. This means that jommentary may be dubbed [ly, in any desired language, to lund film, if the equipment is land. A person understanding ish and the local language can nge a local-language script to ;he scenes of the film. Later commentary may be “wiped” i the sound track of the film (as sound may be wiped from reer tape or wire) and one in her language substituted. This ns that even the smallest uage-minorities may now be hed by means of sound films tieir own language. It is a depment of considerable signific- ; in the educational field in the ids, where so many languages involved. iptions to posters, where called will still have to be added in local languages to the standard ares, where only a minority of ons speak English or French. le Visual Aids section emsises that the work is still very h in the experimental stage, h will depend on local advice comment on the effectiveness naterial already issued. 3 C has now issued a Film and istrip Catalogue listing material lable from the SPC library (3/per copy from Visual Aids jer, PO Box 5254, Sydney). Also lable is a manual (2/6 Stg.) on to make film strips, intended as an aid to local educational authorities. No great technical skill is called for in this direction and the local production, perhaps more applicable and better understood by the local people, is often the most effective. The Commission’s own film strips, complete with printed commentary in English, are available at 30/- Australian currency.

SPC is also building up a library of native songs, musical dances, ceremonies, important speeches, etc., in co-operation with Island radio stations. Copies will be made on disc or tape as required and will be sold at cost to radio stations in other areas of the Islands where they will promote better inter- Pacific understanding. Copies will also be sold to outsiders. No catalogue has been issued as yet, but the availability of such recordings should be of great interest.

In May, Mrs. Nancy Phelan, SPC Visual Aids Officer, left Sydney for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in continuation of her research into the local problems of visual and aural education in the South Pacific. t A processional service was held at the Vavau Roman Catholic Church, Tonga, in honour of St. Peter Chanel, famous French priest canonised last year. Of special interest to Polynesian congregations, St. Peter Chanel performed his life work at lonely Futuna Island.

Hold-up at Nukualofa Post Office Criticised WHEN overseas ships or planes come in, the Nukualofa Post Office is closed to the public until the incoming and outgoing mails are sorted, writes “Busy Businessman”, an aggrieved correspondent in Tonga.

He continues: “No advance notification is given to the public, and people have no option but to wait a matter of hours until somebody decides to resume business at the Post Office.

“There may be a shortage of staff, but surely a few extra hands could be employed on ship and plane days to help sort the mails, thus allowing the regular staff to attend to stamp sales, customs business and so on.

“The present lock-out system is extremely inconvenient for business people and for those who come to town from the country.” t Fijian copra-producers had a balance of £486,238 in the Fijian Development Fund on March 31, and on July 31 the balance was £403,808. Levy collections (£lO for each ton of Fijian-produced copra sold) from August 1, 1954, to March 31, 1955, totalled £113,422 and withdrawals £30,992. 53 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Prince Tungi Now Considers An Oil-Mill r[E Tongan Government is considering building a copraprocessing factory at Hamilton, Ontario—according to a Toronto press report on May 10.

At that time the Prime Minister of Tonga (Prince Tungi) was visiting Toronto, where he had talks with the Canadian Minister of Planning (Mr. K. Warrender) and with planning and development officials.

Prince Tungi also visited a vegetable oil extraction plant at Hamilton.

Canadian officials said that the Prince’s visit might be a step towards a two-way trade agreement.

Earlier, while in England, Prince Tungi discussed the question of a set of coins to supplement Tonga’s Treasury notes and to replace the Australian coins now in use.

After vifjitmg the Royal Mint, he said. When the new coins have been minted, the Australian coins now in currency will be called in and a date set for the coming into currency of the new Tongan coins. nHntina Per f tS on the mintin g and printing of currency in the Crown i g S n L fo ' Overseas Governments and Administrations are offering their help. . . I believe that Tonga I^ol- 2 CqulSl^Sn of its own coins, will gain an added assurance of its own independence.”

Speaking in English and Pri uce Tungi reviewed his visit to the Netherlands and England in a BBC broadcast from London on April 12.

During his stay in Holland, from March 17 to April 5, he was reci; * a ?o d ii ence by Queen Juliana j was taken on a tour of the coum industries by the Prime Minist© 6 he was granteo audience by Queen Elizabeth Buckingham Palace, when Pr Tungi presented to the Queen the Duke of Edinburgh the spec bound copies of the official res of the Royal visit to Tonga ?f travelled homes way of Canada, the United StJ Panama, Tahiti and Fiji. 54 JUNE. 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLIf

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[?]va Display [?] “White [?]llar” Theme From Our Own Correspondent) placards carried in a procession of 3,000 Indian children in Suva on May 10 gave an accurate cation, it is clear that whiteir jobs are the basic aim of an education in Fiji, le children marched through city to Albert Park, where the or (Mr. A. D. Leys) opened the bration of the 25th anniversary the Fiji Teachers’ Union, an an organisation distinct from Fijian Native Teachers’ Associaacards referred to “whiteir jobs” and “shirt-sleeve jobs”, to the desirability of “inter al education” in the European mmar Schools. nbition is laudable, but it is lly wise or fair to youth to hold promises that cannot be fulfilled , country like Fiji, tiousands of bright-f ac ed dren marched in a procession ; took half an hour to pass. But futile placards did not explain ,t they were marching to. i a country with four major nary industries and very few ndary industries, and with a r high Asiatic birthrate, lower ig standards seem to be itable, both for those with ite collars” and those without n. here is a limit to the intake of ks in or out of the Government ice, and there is a limit to the ;nt to which the people of Fiji take in one another’s washing. [?]US Consul Visits Pacific )r. R. G. Neubarth, who has n for three and a half years at Government Hospital, Pago jo, American Samoa, spent a rt holiday at Bondi, Sydney, in y, before leaving by the Orsova ly in June for USA. He and his e will settle down in Chicago, nois.

Consul for the [?] h Pacific, Mr.

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Photo: A. Hettig, Nukualofa. 55 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1955

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tropicalities

I/Lonte Carlo Schemes In

South Seas

>EAS of creating a new Monte Carlo in the South Pacific have haunted various people for ny years.

Jearly half a century ago, rmans thought up something of i sort for Apia—the bare idea aid probably have caused isequent New Zealand Administers to faint away with horror nd got as far as toying with the ion of some kind of aerial tramy from ships to shore to cut the ding process short for feverishly jatient gamblers, lore recently, there has been a [lean vision of a new Monte do at (of all places) Easter ind. That was when there med to be a possibility that the nd might become an airport j. in a new transpacific line, ibtless commercial minds in lie pictured hordes of Americans, h dollar-bulging pockets, streamdown from Honolulu to get nd their dollars. And Ecuador has I ideas about the Galapagos, lost of the schemes seem likely remain schemes, like the bright a of trying to turn Suva into tether Honolulu”—a suggestion t can be permanently guaranteed infuriate all the people in Fiji d are firmly sceptical of some of extravagant claims made on talf of unbridled tourism, lore “Monte Carlo” talk has ae at times from New Caledonia, I in May it was reported in Iney that the construction of a -room hotel and gambling Lno at Noumea may be started 5 year. lehind the Noumea scheme is Henri La Fleur, mining magnate I representative of New Caleiia in the French Senate.

I. La Fleur will be the biggest ikholder in a Franco-Australian ipany financing the business.

Iney tourist interests believe t the Monte Carlo idea may ourage hundreds of Australians ?o to Noumea.

3Gmic Strip Grievance

3E pot, it is said, once accused the kettle of being sooty. A parallel situation occurred in y, when a Sydney columnist ated a mildly scornful finger at English comic strip, his strip, referring to some sort goings-on at Sydney, talked ut taking a ferry from Circular ly to Farm Cove, where, it recklessly added, there was a surfbathing pavilion. All very nonsensical to Sydney people, of course.

But at the same time a Sydney comic strip was blithely guying Fiji in a precisely similar strain of absurdity. There was, for instance, a jibe at Suva’s All Nations Street which might possibly have been screamingly funny 40 years ago— and it must be nearly 40 years since there was an All Nations Street at Suva.

Then there was a merry quip about the displacing of the Fijians by the Indians and it was clearly implied that, in Suva at least, the Fijians are now extinct. All good, clean fun—as long as it does not get to Fiji, where even Fijian tolerance sometimes becomes a little strained.

And there was an excruciating effort suggesting that tourists mistake a Fijian Rugby practice for a murderous brawl and rush for a policeman (Indian), plus something silly about the fire-walking rite.

One way and another, there is no room left for Sydney complaints about London misconceptions regarding Farm Cove.

Civil Servants Again

HAVING achieved city status, Suva has also arrived at the dignity of occasional massive traffic jams.

And when, soon after 4 on a May afternoon, a hold-up blocked all traffic between the Triangle and the Burns Philp Corner, with a sideline jam in Pier Street, irate drivers alleged that all the trouble must have been caused by a surge of homeward or clubward-bound civil servants driving out of the Post Office - Customs - Telephone Exchange cul-de-sac.

Pedestrian bystanders suggested that (a) civil servants should be kept at work longer; (b) if the Government had not formerly given civil servants advances at low interest rates to buy cars there would be fewer traffic snarls at 4 pm, and (c) if the traffic policemen were not civil servants too, this sort of thing wouldn’t happen.

Dream Or Instinct?

WHEN a 24-years-old Rarotongan, employed as a tram conductor in New Zealand, dreamed that his elder brother wanted to see him urgently, he straightway caught the night express for the 425 miles’ journey from Wellington to Auckland.

He thought of breaking the journey to visit a sister at Te Awamutu, but the urgency of the dream had made so deep an impression that he completed the journey without stopping.

The brother (aged 26) appeared to be well, and on Saturday, April 16, the young men went together to the Auckland Domain, where the elder brother was to play in a Rugby football match.

During the match Opura Samuel staggered out of a scrum and fell.

When the ambulance arrived, he was dead.

“Amazing story” was the inevitable newspaper description, but few people who know anything of the strength and certainty of Islanders’ instincts in such matters will see anything unbelievable in the case.

Certainly the tale of Opura and Poreti Samuel would be accepted as a matter of fact by Polynesians, Fijians and others throughout the Royal Visit Books for Queen and Duke WHEN Prince Tungi, Premier of Tonga, was received in audience by Queen Elizabeth on April 6, he presented, on behalf of Queen Salote, specially-bound copies of the official record of the Royal visit to Tonga to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Prepared in London at the request of the Tongan Government, the books had been sent to Tonga to be autographed by Queen Salote and returned to London by plane.

Queen Elizabeth’s book is bound in fine blue morocco, with decorative work hand-tooled in gold and the Queen’s title inscribed on the cover.

The Duke’s book is similar, but is bound in green morocco.

The photograph (above) of one of the books is by Hettig. 57 kCIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

Pacific Islands. And even today, few Maoris in New Zealand would regard it as extraordinary.

The Disappearing “Native”

GRADUALLY the term “native”, as applied to indigenous non- Europeans in their own countries is being weeded out in Polynesia and Fiji.

Dislike of the word can be traced directly to its misuse by many Europeans, Americans and, nowadays, by those Asiatics who feel impelled to say whatever they believe, rightly or wrongly, Europeans say. - J* 1 ? . implication of perpetual inferiority that had become attached to the word “native” led to a good deal of Maori resentment in New Zealand many years ago, the feeling became so strong that the Government instituted a sort of heresy hunt to extirpate • offen sive epithet. “Native Affairs” became “Maori Affairs”

“Native Land Courts” became “Maori Land Courts”, and so on.

The New Zealand official attitude to “native” was promptly reflected in Western Samoa, where the Samoans did not like it anyway.

When the Central Medical School at Suva was turning out Native Medical Practitioners, the Samoans blandly spoke of their own graduates as Samoan Medical Practitioners. (This incidentally, followed the lead of Indian Medical Practitioners in Fiji).

SMP was firmly adhered to after the school had produced the new term “Assistant Medical Practitioners”, and by that time, of course, TMP was current usage in Tonga.

Perhaps because, in the words of a former Governor of Fiji, the indigenous Fijians suffer from neither inferiority nor superiority complexes, it is only recently that educated Fijians have begun to note how and when the term “native” is applied. They themselves use it correctly in the sense of taukei, the People of the Land, but some aliens in Fiji with ideas of their own importance—usually Americans, Australians or New Zealanders—persist in abusing the word. Years ago Native Affl became Fijian Affairs in governmental set-up, and soonef later this trend will became gem. .oy that time there will probi* be a campaign to weed “natl out of Melanesia and New Gui. —an idea which suggests profoc mental stress among newspa headline-writers in Australia.

Learning About The

Inscrutable Ea

WHEN the editor of PIM Sydney some weeks ago by s for Malaya, etc., one of Chinese crew carried his lugg aboard the ship.

At the end of the process, editor handed over the necess few shillings that is usually regarr as indispensable in this sort of bT ness.

To his amazement the searr slipped the money back into Robsonian jacket pocket, seized Robsonian hand, and shook Which left our editor somew) shaken and wondering if this wa: manifestation of a new concept: brotherly love in the East—or j contempt for Australian curreno (Continued on page 61) New Hebrides Merchant

Pim Crossquiz No. 64

Solution i page 611 ACROSS I.—Which British decoration for valour was originally cast from bronze cannon used in the Crimean War? 7. —What is the ecclesiastical capital of England? 8. —What did Pinocchio do that made his nose grow longer? 9. —What is the largest living quadruped? 10. —Who was the headmaster of "Tom Brown's Schooldays"? 12. —Who is England's biggest film magnate? 13. —What was Al Jolson's real first name? 14. —What is the throat of a fowl called? 16. —Which famous French satirist wrote "Gargantua" and "Pantagruel"? 17. —What is the name of the planet which is surrounded by a series of rings? 21. —What was the name given to native soldiers in the British army in India? 22. —What was the name of the King of Spain at the time of the defeat of the Spanish Armada?

DOWN 1. —Who won the American national tennis title in 1954? 2. —What aircraft first completed the non-stop double crossing of the Atlantic? 3. —What is the familiar term for the degree of the projection of roofs? 4. —To what aboriginal tribe does Albert Namatjira belong? 5. —Who is most likely to be the spearhead of Australia's fast bowling attack in the coming Tests? 6. —What is the surname of the autho of "Black Beauty"? 11.—What famous sporting trophy was competed for in 1900? 15. —What is the term for all the bird in a certain region? 18. —What type of monkey does not hr a tail? 19. —What organisation is the successorthe League of Nations? 20. —What is the chemical symbol chlorine?

FUNG KWAN CHEE is probably the wealthiest and certainly the most popular Chinese in the New Hebrides. He was born in Hongkong on May 17, 1901, and went to Vila in 1928.

After working in a store he became the storekeeper for "Tibby" Hagen at Epi before starting his own business. He revisited Hongkong in 1934 and brought back a wife, Wu Lee Young, who has provided him with 13 children (seven boys and six girls) as well as helping him in the business.

Fung opened a store at Santo in 1950, and has since opened a second and larger store as his headquarters, while his wife manages the Vila branch.

The children all go to Hongkong for a Chinese education, and the boys are to get an English education as well. The eldest, George, is now at Knox Grammar School, Sydney, where each will be sent in turn, so that Fung will have plenty of potential branch managers for the family business in the years to come.—BRETT HILDER. 58 JUNE. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

[?] E Mystery Of The Little White Bag

Hss Mackie McCown has been le from the United States on an »nded holiday. She is the ghter of Mr. A. G. McCown, of edanu, Levuka, Fiji; is a double and a double BSc, and specialises 'blue-babies.” But, with all this wledge, she was recently unable ave the lives of three motherless ens. And this story is the contence of that fact.

IE kittens lost their mother when they were a few days old and although Mackie did her with an eye-dropper and cow’s :, it did little good and finally decided that there was only one ig to do; She got one of the 30 bags that her father uses to i his pearl buttons, put the 3ns in it, tied it tight and took at to the reef and sank it, puta piece of coral on the top. lat should have been that, but metime during the next few 3 the piece of coral was dised from the bag, and the bag in to drift. drifted until it was three miles y, off the village of Nukutocia here, as is their wont, some of ladies of the village were out r the reef fishing. One lady, ewhat removed from the rest, d the bag floating by, and, saynothing to anyone, grabbed it kly and shoved it down south veen the ample folds of dress bosom. ut it rested there only momenty. Being a Fijian she maybe had sr before heard of “tainted ley”—but judging by its smell e certainly appeared to be someig wrong with this lot. ut came the bag for closer ex- [nation, and this time the er ladies were > o gathering and expectly. The bag i prodded ?erly and rors! Yes, untakably, by its there was outline of an aryo head, h lady, clear her own connce, glanced reptitiously at neighbour I spared a ried thought her neighr’s daughter, o could be rensible for this ig? Neither by is nor sympis had any picions been used. Yet, re, undoubtedwas someng.

Whatever it was, or whose ever it was, it was now a community matter and without investigating further, and keeping the bag at decent length, the ladies returned to the shore and erupted into the village.

Out came the superannuated grandmothers, and the grandpapas, the toddlers, the gentlemen of the village and finally the Turaga-ni-koro (headman of the village, to you) to hold solemn conclave.

The bag was examined —but not too closely. Prodded a little and the pronouncement made. Yes, certainly, there appeared to be a head. The bag was hung on the low branch of a tree. But what to do?

It was a period of some argument, wild speculation but no accusations, you understand. But it showed, did it not, just how far one might trust one’s neighbour? Or one’s neighbour’s daughter?

Finally, the turaga-ni-koro decided that this was Too Big for his jurisdiction. Clearly, it was a matter for Government, the nearest seat of which was Levuka.

He changed into his Sunday shirt and his Sunday sulu, got out his bicycle and with a last admonition that no one must touch the bag, pedalled furiously off, the weight of decision sitting heavily on his brow.

The village settled down to wait in an atmosphere of uneasy quiet.

The headman evidently had a busy few hours in Levuka explaining the whole horrible business of the mysterious little white calico bag. But he finally returned, perspiring, to the village, and, in his wake, a member of Her Majesty’s police; the authority of the Medical Department in the person of the local Assistant Medical Practitioner: and the Sister-in- Charge of the Levuka Hospital.

While the whole village sat around in respectful but alert silence, the headman led the official trio to the tree upon which hung the now drying and very odorous calico bag.

History does not record who cut down the bag, untied the binding and emptied out the remains of the three putrefying infant kittens. But the foul deed was done by someone, while the whole village and officialdom looked on at first with stupefaction, then variously, with anger, embarrassment and hilarity as the assemblage broke into vociferous exclamation.

All except the ladies. They eyed one another and nodded with slow approval while over the broad, brown countenance of each spread a smirk of the purest virtue.

Where Prayer is Better Than Science r[E very useful annual “run” of fish fry in the local Blue Lagoon has not been annual for a number of years. The lagoon was no bluer than the disappointed villagers to whom the spawning, often continued for weeks or months, represented savings on tinned meats, etc.

When the “run” fails, the current pastor is usually blamed for not being energetic enough in prayer.

This year, the sardine-like tiny fish have arrived hatched-out somewhere off the coast. To date, the run has not been equal to that of many past years, but it is visible, and the Church’s prestige is safe.

The coincidence of the Boys’

Brigade Silver Band having reached something like concert stage, if not quite versatility, is also associated with the return to Mangaia of “ika-tauira”.

Baskets of gleaming fry are carried inland, and either boiled in sea-water and coconut “milk”, in their millions, or wrapped in big fern-leaves for baking in the ground-oven. The baking process is generally repeated several times, and although it dries up the delicacy, the tiny pinlike bones are rendered soft and edible like the rest.— E. GOLD. t Livestock production in tropical conditions will be the subject of a conference at Brisbane from August 22 to August 26. With Australia as host, between 30 and 40 animal industry experts from 16 Far Eastern countries will meet under the auspices of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation.

"Pedalled furiously off . . ." 59 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

Adventure Story About Vanlkoro

Timber Trade Pioneers

The pioneering of the timber industry at Vanikoro, BSIP bv San Cristoyal Estates Ltd. 1923-24, had strong elements of adventure and drama writes Mr. Frederick Ashby, one of the pioneers, who now lives at Nadanvatu, Fiji).

IN 1923, the company bought the topsail schooner Houtu in NZ, and the writer, whose job was to buy milling and logging machinery and provisions for Vanikoro, was at Auckland to load the gear and then to sail with it to the Solomons.

The company engaged 11 firstclass kauri bushmen from North Auckland and sent them ahead via Sydney to Tulagi, the then BSIP capital.

After delays, I got the gear aboard only to find myself shut out. as one schooner had no passenger licence. Captain Broadhouse (since deceased) overcame this and other red tape by signing me on as purser at 1/- a month. The Houtu, 1 think, must have been the only topsail schooner (crew of five) ever to carry a purser.

With two semi-diesel Scandia engines, the Houtu was scheduled to sail to Tulagi in nine days. We had a Navy man as engineer—but he jlew the heads off both engines before we were 300 miles from Auckland.

Having no tropical experience, we .eft Auckland at the start of the hurricane season, and it seemed that we met every adverse wind that ,^ ow - The schooner, being nat-bottomed, rolled with the best s ? lls were ri PPed to shreds off Walpole Island. The scheduled nine days voyage lasted for six weeks, H™^ e , ?r , n J ed a , l Tula « i to And the Hou J, u 'jsted as lost with all hands. f -My brother and the other men from NZ had been helping Mr A/ra B i n^ n t0 u recruit labour g from Malaita. About 75 men had been engaged, SCE paying £2O a head.

Overloaded when she left Auckland, the Houtu now carried -. m uaddition 75 boys, plus 11 hefty bushmen, for the 500 miles from Tulagi to Vanikoro. An 18-ft launch was towed. The weather was fairly good and we reached Vanikoro in a week.

At one stage there was a minor not among the Malaita contingent apparently because of an earlier feud with Svensen during recruiting in Malaita. . In early January, 1924, we landed m a lovely bay, about five miles from the present Vanikoro settlement, and found only a handful of diseased people who were dying out rapidly. At that time few people were interested in the Solomons, and 1 doubt if there were more than 30 Europeans, scattered between Rabaul and the New Hebrides.

The company’s plan was to land us at Vanikoro with a few weeks’ provisions. The schooner was to return to Tulagi for a full load of stores.

All went well ashore and, thanks to the experienced bushmen, we soon had all the logging and milling machinery installed. Then the Houtu sailed for Tulagi; and for six months there was complete silence.

The story goes that when the Houtu was about to load at Tulagi a mysterious fire broke out. The schooner was gutted and sank in the harbour.

The company then chartered the bi g schooner Mascot (Captain Buckley). She sailed for Vanikoro m February (still the hurricane season), struck a reef near Utapua Island, within 70 miles of Vanikoro, and sank with all our stores. Captain and crew got ashore in the small ships boat; and thus they and we were marooned within 70 miles of one another.

AT Vanikoro nearly all of us, Europeans and Islanders, suffered from malaria. However, we managed to erect a village of precut timber (brought from NZ) and had about 600,000 ft of kauri logs m the lagoon for shipment. Our doctor (Dr. Mitchell, aged about 75) was responsible for saving all our lives, although two of our men died after returning to NZ.

One day a small boat containing four men was sighted coming up the bay. It was the Mascot’s boat, and the men had braved the 70 miles to seek food—from us, of all people.

We then held a general conference.

With our party from NZ were two Maoris, whose bravery will live i my memory long after I have foi gotten the fools who still some times allege that the Polynesiai has no courage.” At the confer ence these two men volunteered tt take the 18-ft launch, with all th petrol it would hold, and attemn to reach Tulagi.

The tiny craft, with no more thaj 18-m. freeboard and a 5-hp Anden son motor, had been built at Christ) church, NZ, many years ago. Tlr magneto fired when the mood seize; With no sextant and no compass; the Maoris set out on the 500 mile: (m one direction or another) t-c Tulagi. They had a full load oc petrol and water, but only a scant; supply of food.

Those men reached Tulagi in 1 days. They told me later that at night they steered by the stars.

When the news reached the heao. office (then at Melbourne), thu company chartered the small cuttc; Niue, operated by one of the Austin brothers, who ran a plantation somewhere in the Solomons. Ttw Niue picked up our fever-stricken gang at Vanikoro, and the New Zealanders later went home bv way of Sydney.

BEFORE ending this story, I musi< add that at Vanikoro we were' visited by a Jap pearler with s small lugger and half a dozen diverse Now history relates that Ls Perouse lost his ships among the reefs at Vanikoro in 1788 (in recent] years somebody found a big anchor( in the lagoon), and it is also said) that La Perouse carried a large; store of gold and Spanish coins. which he deposited at the island.

Among the kauri we found a clean, space of about ten acres, which wo were led to believe was cleared byj the Frenchmen when they built as boat to escape from Vanikoro.

I find it hard to believe that they; Mr. F. Ashby with Fijians at Nadarivatu, Fiji. This picture was taken 23 years after the first Vanikoro venture.

Landing the mill boiler from t [?] "Houtu” at Vanikoro in 1923. Jimm boss boy from Malaita, was a ”pr [?] fessional headhunter”. 60 JUNE, 195 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

manager, one Charles Matthies, who had landed there many years before. He was one of two sailors from a German survey vessel. The natives had playfully killed the other man, but had made Charlie Matthies their chief.

Charlie was a very colourful character. He worked the copra by casual gangs, one week from this end and the other from that end.

The natives, particularly the girls, are noted for their comeliness and have a touch of the Micronesian in their make-up. It was at Aua that I observed cases of Polyandry, not so common in the world. Several of the women had two husbands and lived alternately with them. The husbands were not necessarily brothers, which is the fraternal polyandry of parts of Asia.

Charlie Matthies was allowed to stay on at Aua, and he still was there in 1942, when the Japs attacked. It is thought that he was killed by the Japs.

Four of his 12 children were brought to Brisbane by the Americans. One (Emma) now about 32, is working in South Brisbane, and Rosie (23) is a housemaid in the home of a high Roman Catholic personage.

Rosie informed me they do not like Brisbane and would love to go back to their Paradise-like island— which I think is where Dr. S. M.

Lambert got the title of his book on the Pacific Yankee Doctor In Paradise. Rosie, with her black hair in plaits, is far better-looking than the Abo half-castes one sees in this northern capital. Quite an interesting link!

The attached photograph of two Aua girls, dressed for the dance, was given to me by Mr. Matthies over 30 years ago.

You Won’T Need To Take

Your Change In Smokes

ONE of Prince Tungi’s missions during his visit to London in April was to make arrangements for the minting of Tonga’s own coins.

This will mean (as reported in this issue) that the current Australian coins will be withdrawn from Tonga’s currency.

A Nukualofa correspondent expresses the hope that the new coinage, while emphasising the Kingdom’s independence, will also end the chronic shortages of change in Tonga’s shops.

Often, he writes, matches, sweets and cigarettes are handed over the counters instead of coins. The system is certainly good business for the traders, but not so good for the customers. ft bullion behind: but Eto, the ip, had a map which he afterwards id showed where the gold was iried. Anyway, he had his divers :cavating near the place where, I dieve, the present settlement is tuated. Certainly they dug up a rge silver coin like a Spanish >ubloon. It was much pitted, but it Lused a little gold rush among However, I think it unlikely that e wily Jap would have shown it us unless he had exhausted every issible avenue that might have led wealth.

A final note: When we landed at mikoro there was only one welllilt islander among the scrawny id largely diseased handful of inibitants. He proudly possessed an d 577 carbine rifle with seven idls and with it he dominated the hole island and held the tribe lumbering about 110) in subjecm.

When we landed we were accommied by a BSI official, Mr. Wilson, ho promptly arrested the aonarch” and confiscated the rifle, le ex-ruler later spent 18 months the Tulagi calaboose.

Soon after our departure, San ristoval Estates Ltd. sold out to mikoro Timber Co. Ltd., and I be- ;ve the timber is still being Drked by the latter firm. The outle world, however, heard little of mikoro and/or Tulagi itself until e Jap bombs began to fall in 1942.

The Rev. John Havea, a Tongan ethodist minister, arrived in Ausalia in late April on his way to Dnga from New Jersey, where he lined his Bachelor of Divinity ;grees with honours at Drew niversity. Mr. Havea, who is the lungest brother of Paul Havea, a Dngan missionary in the Solomons r 30 years, will be a tutor at apou Methodist College.

S olution to Crossquiz from page 58 Tropicalities

Link With North-West

Islands Of Ng

WITH reference to your note on H. R. Wahlen’s once-famous home on Maron islet, I have just found here in Brisbane an interesting link with those Northwest Islands (writes “Ganasi,” from Queensland).

In 1920, I went to Manus ana thence to all the Islands beyond Maron, to take over the H. R.

Wahlen properties for what was to be the Expro Board. Later, most of the Germans there were rounded up and sent home to Germany.

At the Aua Islands I met the t At the first graduation ceremony of the new Central Nursing School at Tamavua, Suva, the graduation classes included 28 candidates who had completed three years’ training in general nursing and midwifery, 12 with two years’ training in tuberculosis nursing and two male nurses. Another 22 nurses graduated from the Lautoka Hospital Training School. Nearly all the nurses are Fijian girls.

U Mr. E. K Laws, Commissioner of Police, Fiji, left for England on leave in May. The Deputy Commissioner (Mr. R. O. Hassall) is acting as Commissioner and Mr.

H. W. Halstead is acting as Deputy Commissioner.

Aua dancing girls. 61 —Continued from page 58 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

Desmond Fahey

Retirement of Popular Radio Man By Jack Thornton WELL-KNOWN in the Cook Islands and Western Samoa, genial Mr. D. (“Des”) Fahey, Superintendent of the Telecommunication Radio Station at Apia retired in March after 24 years’ service in the islands with New Zealand’s Post & Telegraph Department, and sailed with his wife on the Matua to New Zealand, where the couple plan to settle in Dannevirke.

Mr. Fahey joined the P. & T.

Dept, as a messenger boy in 1922 and was seconded in 1931 to the Cook Is. as a radio operator. His • inol rom Wellington joined him in 1938.

During his service in the Cook Is. Fahey visited all of the Southern Cooks on numerous occasions, and in 1940 installed the radio station on Palmerston Island.

An amusing sidelight concerning the erection of a radio station at Palmerston Is. was related to me by Mr. Fahey in Apia recently “When we were digging ‘ the foundations for a concrete water tank we came across successive layers of square gin bottles—each h P ve been cove red by sand driven by storms,” said Mr. original th ? original william Marsters must have been responsible for depositing the cache of dead marines. He found a headstone for Marsters’ grave lying in a building at er , s^on s - had it erected at the head of the grave.

Another William Marsters (now dead—the second son of the original settler) performed the official opening of the new radio station, but as it was a cold day and he was an old man, he insisted on entering building to cut the ribbon across the doorway from his vantage point inside, instead of performing the opening ceremony in the conventional manner.

In 1946, shortly after his arrival in Apia from Rarotonga, Mr. Fahey as Superintendent of the Telecommunication Radio Station, inaugrated a broadcasting service in his spare time, in collaboration with the late Colonel Voelcker, the then Administrator of Western Samoa.

This broadcasting service operated for a year without any official financial support, giving programmes every week-day evening from a room in the radio station.

The announcers were volunteers from the radio station staff.

The Administrator was very keen on introducing broadcasting on a wider scale to the territory and after a demonstration had been arranged in the presence of the Fono of Faipule, the New Zealand Broadcasting Service supported and assisted the establishment of Apia’s present broadcasting station, 2AP.

When 2AP was officially opened in January, 1948, 147 villages had been issued with receivers; the number increased to 260 within 18 months, and there are now well over 1,000 privately-owned receivers ir Western Samoa and the Tokelat I fands. Fahey and his staff installed all the Government receivers, and servicing them regularh has proved a big job.

A wide circle of friends in th< Islands will regret the Faheyss departure. Mr. Fahey is reporteo to have an eye on the proposeo 1956 Antarctic Expedition.

Small Beginnings of Popular Bands THE band of the Fiji Infantry Regiment and the Regimental!

Depot Band (the latter filled theE bill when the FIR Band went toe Malaya with the Ist Battalion) originated in World War I as the band! of the Fiji Defence Force.

To-day, when the bandsmen’s scarlet tunics and white sulus are an integral part of almost every spectacular occasion in Fiji, it is amusing to recall that 40 years ago there were doubts about whether Fijian soldiers could cope with brass-band instruments. Although there had been a band at the time of Cession in 1874, the doubts persisted until the diminutive figure of Arthur Levy arrived at Suva from Ba and energetically pushed the idea.

The military heads were sympathetic but doubtful, and the then Governor was likewise sympathetic, but firmly knocked back any idea of financial help out of the public purse, Arthur Levy, disappointed but undaunted, set himself to collect a fund. The firm of Brown and Joske (now W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji) Limited) promptly came to light with £2OO and a promise of more if it were needed. Smaller sums came in, and the band project was effectually launched. The Cession period band instruments were resurrected and were made more or less playable for the time being.

At that time there were 21 platoons, totalling 150 men, training for home defence. They were handpicked Fijians, and Levy managed to get 30 of them for his band.

He was gazetted as Bandmaster with the rank of sergeant, being promoted later to 2/lieut.

The new band found its feet in an astonishingly short time, and on the first Sunday on which it played the troops to church almost the whole of Suva turned out to cheer.

But perhaps Levy’s crowning effort (the writer was there) came when, after a deceased sergeant-major had been given a military funeral, he marched his band back to headquarters to the irreverent strains of If You Want to Find the Sergeant- Major, We Know Where He Is.— BIRK.

AT LEFT: William Marster, the second son of the original sttler on Palmerston Is., then himself an old man, performs the opening ceremony from inside the radio station.

And right, Mr. Fahey. 62 JUNE, 1 9 5 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

This Month’S New Reading

Book Reviews bp JUDY TUDOR

Exit The Cow Cocky

rHERE is as much difference between an aboriginal diggingstick and a bull-dozer, as there s between the On Our Selection armers of Steele Rudd, and the nechanised farmers of E. O.

Schlunke.

Both wrote about the Australian ural scene—Schlunke, about 60 rears after Rudd. Rudd’s Dad and Dave characters, although tr u e mough of their time, are the basis >f the caricatures of Australian jountrymen even to-day, although hey now are about as far from the ruth as Schlunke is removed from Rudd in period of time.

All except one of the stories in he present volume, The Man in the iilo, have appeared in the Bulletin md the author’s work is well known ,o readers of that journal.

Schlunke’s style cannot be faulted md is peculiarly suited to his subect. He has a sly humour, his jeople and scenes are authentic and le is devoid of sentimentality. Pity le cannot be made required readng for the 60 per cent, of Australians who live in the city and vhose notions of the country are ;till based on the Dad-Dave-andtfabel theme of last century.

Schlunke is several generations removed from German pioneering stock. Many of his characters, like aimself, bear Teutonic names. Many )f the stories are set at the time )f the last war and some concern ;he Italian prisoners-of-war who vere employed on farms to the arofit, exasperation and sometimes imusement of their employers.

Schlunke himself is a farmer, rhat is how he makes a living.

Short-story writing he probably regards as a hobby because, unfortunately, there is no livilihood in it n Australia. Volumes of short stories are, of course, notoriously unpopular with buyers of books.A thousand pities in this case because the stories are of great merit. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd.

Australian price, 16/-.)

Seven For Seven

IS QUITS BECAUSE this book so easily could have had a happy-everafter ending, the author kills the heroine off in the beginning, apparently in order to prevent himself from falling for the temptation of that sentimental solicism; the story is thereafter told in retrospect.

Nonetheless, fans will find Nevil Shute’s Requiem for a Wren up to required standard, while, perhaps, remarking that the maestro does saem to be putting the emphasis on the psychologically odd, as time goes on. People who enjoyed such Shute stories as No Highway, are somewhat disappointed in this trend, although, judging by sales of his books, most are prepared to take As one can guess from the title, this story concerns a member of the women’s auxiliary of the Royal Navy, during World War 11. It tells how a brisk young woman of the outdoor type—more at home covered with grease from dismantled guns than in the drawing-room—-can become something near to a mental case (and she finally did take her own life) when ridden by an obsession.

Janet Prentice was a “natural” shot—and a whole series of circumstances which Shute makes sound logical, puts Janet in the position of shooting down a German plane. Unfortunately, the Junkers was carrying seven Central Europeans who could have flown the Junkers to England to surrender. No one ever was to know that for certain, because they were all killed in the crash, but the possibility preyed on Janet’s mind and she felt that expiation was called for. When six of her nearest and dearest (“including the dogs”) were taken she, in the mentally disturbed state in which she then was, imagined that this was the consequence of her mistake. Finally, in order to save a possible seventh victim and put “paid” to the whole account, Janet swallows Aunt Ellen’s knock-out pills.

It is an interesting psychological study of a girl in a not-quitenormal state of mind which was induced by shock, fatigue and the strain of prolonged war service.

One of Janet’s first victims in expiation was Bill, the Australian whom she was to marry. The story opens in Victoria on the station property of Bill’s father, and the whole narrative is told by Bill’s brother, who was himself a RAF hero during the war.

For European readers there is therefore fascinating glimpses of the life of an Australian wool-baron, and for Antipodean readers, a more than sufficient account of what preparation for D-Day was like. The whole plan of the book is ingeniously contrived —there is certainly nothing wrong with Mr. Shute in that department. And if the effort in the last few paragraphs to get some sort of fulfilment into what has been full-scale frustration, still leaves you with an unsatisfied feeling, you can reflect —as the author no doubt intended you to do—that life is largely a mad muddle of wasted lives, anyhow. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltd.

Australian price, 13/6.)

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REPUBLIC IF you like a straightforward, rollicking story of people who get more satisfaction out of life than dissatisfaction, you will not do better than A Fair Wind Home, by Ruth Moore.

Miss Moore, who is a successful American writer, has in this book made her first venture into the field of the historical novel—because, she says, she wanted to reaffirm faith — her own as much as any—in our own times.

We can see what she means. Fair Wind Home is set in the 18th century, when the North American continent was still settled —and sparsely—only around the edges; where men could still get the sort of freedom they wanted by moving further out—or in this case, further north along the Atlantic coast of what is now the United States.

However, Miss Moore makes her characters very human, and understandable by 20th century standards.

Because these people lived three centuries ago, she does not make the mistake of attributing to them different emotions or reactions to those of people living in our present age.

And if the writing of the book afforded the author relief, it is likely to perform the same service for readers who have had a surfeit of modern American novels of the syncopated age.

The period about which Miss Moore currently writes was an uncomplicated one, when men (and some women) solved their own problems or they remained unsolved; a period when deeds had not yet been superseded by talk. It tells of three men of peace who were prepared to fight to live how they wished; and of the hilarious kingdom founded by old man Cantril on the Crookshank River.

Old Cantril had a vision—and nine grown sons whom he managed without any trouble. When the grown sons began to show symptoms caused by the lack of women in this Eden, Cantril solved the problem in the easiest way possible: for a few trinkets he bought nine Indian maids from the local tribe whom he had already dispossessed of the river land.

Cantril could handle his sons; and he could also handle the Indians. He imagined therefore that he could handle the progeny of same—but in this he could not have been more mistaken. The grandchildren inherited none of their fathers’ docility and all of old Cantril’s fire and devil.

The boys were “wilder than hawks” and spent the major portion of the time with their Indian kinsmen. The girls stayed home —but when opportunity occurred were no better than they could be.

Lemuel Cantril —otherwise Smokepole—eldest grandson of both old 63 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

Cantril and of Smoking Stick, the chief who had provided the nine brides for the nine brothers, plays a stormy and important part in the final denouement.

A thoroughly enjoyable story of action and humour that could be colonial pioneering almost anywhere —but all the more enjoyable because it reminds us of an apt to be forgotten fact —that the great and over-sophisticated United States had much the same beginnings as we did ourselves. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltd.

Australian price, 18/9.)

Tonga, Ad Lib

THE occasion when Queen Salote of Tonga drove in an open carriage in the Coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth 11, must have been one of the most profitable literary incidents of history.

Following it, millions of words have been spilled about Queen Salote, her Kingdom, and her family.

Before the Coronation, very few people in England had ever heard of her, and although she quite frequently had visited New Zealand and Australia, her comings and going had excited no comment at all.

For Queen Salote was a shy, retiring woman, especially in European company, and no doubt still is. The change was wrought in the public, and its interest in Tonga and its Queen has never flagged since. Or believe Publishers appear to Latest offering is Friendly Queen, by Hector Macquarrie. Mr Macquarrie has written several 9ther books. His second last offering being Vouza —and that during the war following a lot of publicity which Vouza, the Solomon Islands pohce-boy had deservedly received very brave conduct during the Solomons campaign. Macquarrie had, for a brief time, been a District Officer in the Solomons and Vouza had been one of his PBs That book was a great deal more about Macquarrie than Vouza. however.

Macquarrie, although born in New Zealand, has lived for a long time now in England and one somehow feels that that is more his spiritual home than the raw colonies.

Auci it seems that he is a writer who waits for the moment, rather than one who goes out and grasps time by the forelock. Although at one time he was ADC to a Fiji Governor (who also, of course, has oversight of Tonga) he probably has had very little contact with Queen Salote or her Kingdom, at all. But what he has done is to delve deeply into Tongan history and—if one can bring oneself to forgive the sprightly interpolations about the doings of the District Officer (Mr Macquarrie himself, in thin disguise) —this is worth the price admission. It saves a great deal . personal research through CooH journals and Mariner’s Account t the Tonga Islands. The backgroun and history of the influence of tM Wesleyan Church is also fully dea In fact, the history of Tons makes up by far the larger portic of .p9 ok i the Friendly Quee part of it is simply the selling poin as it were, for people who still hav an unsatisfied appetite for detail ° f , th ? . P resent royal set-up * Nukualofa. y vo?! 01, his reason it is of far moi real value to those interested in th lt; were just anothe Queen . book. Apart from tlu spnghtly interpolations aforesait Mi. Macquarrie is a competen enough craftsman, and his potte history of Tonga, ancient a n modern, will be easily assimilate: by the most delicate digestions. (Published by William Heinemann, Lto Australian price, 22/6.)

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IN June, 1836, Captain Williarr Rhodes, who was to become i ——py le ahmg merchant of Wellington NZ, before he died, and was j pioneer of a well-k no w n N 2 pastoralist family, put to sea in thu {Continued on page 101) Fiji Women's Hockey Team on New Zealand Tour The Fiji women's hockey team, now touring New Zealand, beat Rodney, 3-1, in the first match, played at Warkworth, Auckland, The members in this photograph are: Back row-J. Wilder, T Work, J. Mckenzie, N. Sorby, M. Thomas, L. McGoon, L. Spitz, P. Williams, L.

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Surveys are now being made of Vanua Levu and Taveuni.

The Fiji Agriculture Department will try to group .some of Vlti Levu’s soil-types into categories of soils which can best be used for the same purpose, such as forestry or the growing of specific crops.

The problem then will be to discover what the soils in the various categories need in fertilisers and management to produce good crops and to maintain their fertility indefinitely.

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Mr. Cumber reports that preiling weather conditions have an iportant effect on the habits of e beetles. In periods of heavy in, of say 3 to 4 inches in three ys, the majority leave the ground eeding places and take to the ,1m tops, and do not return until e weather becomes dry. Failure find beetles in the ground traps an almost certain sign that they e at their destructive work in the Ims. There are indications that the general movement of beetles from palm to breeding place may also follow a cycle not associated with the weather. There are also signs that the beetles select their breeding grounds according to the lie of the land. Much research is going on in this direction in Samoa.

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OMMONSENSE [?] OULD HELP IN— [?]peeding Cook Is. Mails L MANGAIA, Cook Islands, correspondent reports an extraordinary situation that exists lere in regard to mails.

Usually any vessels calling at that land from overseas touch at arotonga before departing from te Group. But recently a vessel ading pineapples sailed directly to ew Zealand from Mangaia. Local isidents figured that mail for arotonga would reach there, via ew Zealand, quicker than by any her expected direct link between ie two islands.

But the Post Office would not :cept mail via New Zealand. The ooks have their own postage amps. Officialdom said that such ail would have to bear NZ stamps t the trip back from New Zeand to Rarotonga. No NZ stamps ere available. The residents were •epared to double-stamp their mail ith Cook Islands stamps so that ie Treasury would not lose out i the deal. But no, the Regula- Dns did not provide for any un- >ual arrangement like that. So ie mail remained in Mangaia vaiting a direct boat.

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New Indian Official Post Filled in Fiji THE scope of activity of the office of the Commissioner for the Government of India in Fiji was recently extended by the creation of the post of Cultural and Information Assistant.

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B. S. Saigal, who, with his wife and two children, arrived at Suva from Delhi in April.

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Santa Gertrudis Bulls Now in Fiji FOUR Santa Gertrudis bulls, the first to be exported from Australia, are now in Fiji, where the Agriculture Department plans to mate them with British breeds and crossbred animals.

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The Texas Santa Gertrudis breed is a stabilised Zebu-Shorthorn cross which is recognised as a hardy breed and is particularly heat-tolerant. A quick grower, it should produce heavier and earlier maturing beef animals in Fiji.

The four bulls are the first progeny of a consignment sent to Australia from the King Ranch, Texas, in 1952. 69 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Anti-Japanese

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Fish-Cannery Proposal Roundly Condemned Letter to the Editor (The fallowing letter has been received from Mr. T. M. Smith, secretary of the newly-formed Santo British Assn, to Oppose Japanese Entry. A long article in May PIM gave the other side of the proposal to set up a Japanese-manned fishery and cannery in the New Hebrides. Mr. Smith’s letter is therefore published without comment. What the British Resident Commissioner has to say on the same subject is published elsewhere in this issue). r[E imminent arrival of 200 Japanese and seven Japanese ships to be based on Espiritu Santo, and to fish in New Hebridean waters has caused considerable alarm to residents and an association has been formed to oppose their entry, . Jhe first intimation that it was intended to import the honourable gentlemen to this place was when an advance guard stepped ashore from the plane and immediately began to photograph everything in sight thus revealing their identity as plainly as if they had flown the Rising Sun from their hatbands.

Had they stepped ashore here ten years ago they would have done so from landing barges, backed by a few thousand of their comrades armed with machine-guns instead of cameras—in fact it was only that the American Forces were enabled to build a powerful base here that prevented the Japanese from coming further south than tfr Solomons.

However apparently “politics; expediency” has made these peopl( our “friends” for the moment which is not to say that they will no be our enemies again to-morrow. Bo they are not the type of “friends which one invites into the boson of the family. Even “politics expediency” cannot make thi 70 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Of course, it can be said that the apanese will be strictly controlled nd will be confined to certain areas rhile ashore, as is being done in lorthern Australia with the apanese pearl-divers. The answer d this is: How can seven widely cattered fishing vessels be condolled with only one Government essel capable of extended cruising i the whole of the New Hebrides?

And how can 200 Japanese be ontrolled ashore when there are ot enough police to control runken natives at the present time nd when the Japs’ barracks mich have already been built— re in the centre of the most hickly populated area in Santo?

It must be realised that these apanese vessels are manned solely v Japanese; there are no Europeans in charge of the vessels t sea.

Policing Japanese ships has never een an easy job, and even for ountries like Australia, with a favy at her disposal, the Japs have Iways been a headache.

Ostensibly the Company, which as been formed with the Japanese shing vessels as its main asset, is British one and the Japanese will nly be working for the Company, ocal residents would like to knov mo holds the majority of the hares.

It has been learned from Governlent sources, that the intention to jrm this Company was revealed d the Government about one year go when an application was made y the parties concerned.

However, the whole business was ept a strict secret until February. 955. when the advance guard rrived in Santo and discreet nquiries were made around the awn as to whether certain people 'ould like to order cheap goods rom Japan or help with the etting-up of the business by upplying land. It is not known et whether these enquiries met nth success but, no doubt, time ill tell.

This article is written and backed y over 90 per cent of the Britishers i Santo who, on learning of the upending arrival of Japanese to ve and work in and around Santo, nmediately formed an Association nd elected a Committee to oppose apanese entry.

A Petition was prepared immeditely and presented personally to le High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Robert Itanley, by a deputation from the association. But it received no ssurance that anything would be [one to prevent the entry of apanese, and there is no doubt that they will arrive and settle in, as planned.

The Japanese have got their base in the Pacific after all, just as though they had won the war, and from now on it will be look out, Pacific islands, here come the Japs.

New Guinea, Solomons, Fiji and the rest should note that there are seven Jap ships roaming around as free as the air.

I am, etc., T. M. SMITH, Secretary, Santo British Assn, to Oppose Japanese Entry.

Santo, NH, May 12, 1955.

IT Fatafehi Mataele, the first Tongan girl to qualify as a registered Sister of the New Zealand Nursing Division, returned to Tonga in May. She has been appointed Child Welfare Sister in the Medical Department, and will represent Tonga at a nursing seminar to be held at Suva from July 4 to July 28 under the auspices of the World Health Organisation. r The Monastelio Social Club of Vavau entertained Prince Tu’ipelehake and Princess Melenaite during their visit to Vavau in April at a social and dance held in their honour at the newly opened Lei Fahina ’o Pilolevu hall, Neiafu. 71 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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IT HAPPENED IN JUNE:— Forty rears ago this month the Pacific Jable Board’s graceful 110-ft luxiliary schooner Strathcona was ost on her maiden voyage from Auckland via Suva to Fanning sland, where she was to be tationed to maintain contact with lonolulu. Thanks to the co-operaion of Mr. Ronald Carter and his Little Ships,” to Mr. W. Craig, preent Auckland cable station manger, and other sources, we have he following details and attached hotographs.

Probably the finest and fastest essel of her type to leave a New lealand shipyard, Strathcona was esigned and built by the late !harles Bailey. She showed wonerful sailing performance on trials nd was the admiration of Auckland rhen she cleared that port soon fter noon on Friday, June 4, 1915, nder command of the late Capain W. (“Cocky”) Robertson, with Ir. H. C. Gilding as Mate; Mr. E. rladwell, Engineer; Mr. J. Lilburn, loatswain-Carpenter, and a crew of ine others, two of whom were on >an from the cable ship Iris, then hng at Auckland.

Concern was expressed in the .uckland papers on July 8 when tratcona had failed to arrive at uva, and the Iris, provisioned for a two months’ voyage, sailed in search of her. Then, on July 16, the Cable Board received a message from Suva telling of Strathcona’s fate, radioed from the Iris as she stood off the scene of the wreck on the North Minera Reef, an atollin-the-making, 360 miles SSE of Suva.

Strathcona was surging along at 11 knots in a fresh south-easter when she crashed on the reef with terrific force just before 8 bells on the evening of June 10, six days out of Auckland. Considerable bottomdamage was done and the schooner was driven high on the reef.

Fortunately for her crew, the weather was fine, and the sea was moderate for the next 35 days of their extraordinary existence on the reef. A launch and boat were got away, and as it was probable that the wreck would soon break up if rough weather developed, all haste was made in building a big raft from spars and available material, because at each high tide the entire 3 1 -mile-diameter reef was submerged.

With the raft completed and moored near the inner lagoon margin of the reef, life was more bearable than in the crowded boats.

After 16 days the Captain, Mate, Cook and two AB’s set out in the launch for Ono-i-Lau, nearest inhabited island, 170 miles to the north. Most of Strathcona’s fresh water was lost through pipes breaking when the wreck occurred, and the men now remaining on the raft suffered considerably until the situation was eased by rain squalls.

The Captain’s launch arrived safely at Ono-i-Lau, but a cutter was not available until some days later, and the Iris arrived at the scene of the wreck shortly before the Fiji vessel. Thus all were saved.

Strathcona, uninsured, had cost £lO,OOO. The wreck was sold “as is, where is” to the late well-known Captain Ross, then owner-skipper of the Islands trader and one-time mission ship Ysabel. He stripped her of all useful gear and presented the remains to a Captain Crawford, but nothing could be done about salvage, and there she ended her short days, though remains were said still to exist up to World War 11.

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It is believed that Captain Robertson was lost in another vessel on the New Zealand coast some years later.

BEHIND SCHEDULE:—Australian radio stations early in May were reporting that concern was felt for the safety of RCS Nareau, several days overdue at Brisbane.

Nareau, one of the Western Pacific High Commissioner’s busy fleet of tiny craft which trudge on official duties from the Solomons as far east as Christmas, was heading for Ballina, NSW, for survey, and was to “enter” at Brisbane. She duly arrived, having been delayed by head weather.

THE MATE ALSO SWORE: Last month we mentioned a mishap at Aitutaki when a drum of aviation gas burst and spoilt an entire consignment of sorely-needed flour and sugar aboard Vasu.

Back at Suva, via Niue, there was trouble of a more personal nature when a crew member assaulted the Mate, who suffered a severe scalp wound as his head struck a deck fitting as he fell. Sent off to hospital, his place was taken by Mr.

"Dutchy” Low, well-known Suva seaman attached to the shore staff of Williams & Gosling Ltd.

Vasu, still for sale, cleared with another oil cargo for Nukualofa and Vavau.

DON’T LOOK NOW:—When the skipper of the Burns Philp 128-ton auxiliary ketch Macuata came upon m trouble last January, he became S Q e t n vf° S f ed i n J rendering assistance that he landed his own vessel up a talfne e ° ther ' This was the nnomg of a recent Fiji Marin« arirvu^ptar lllB mg ott Poum, Northern New Caledonia. where she was loading s cargo of nickel ore recently, nar- 74 JUNE, 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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LHI6.HPM owly escaped disaster when she rounded at a point where the chart aimed 4J fathoms of water. The sssel was drawing 21i ft. The ship as able to get off apparently unamaged and sailed for Japan.

Later, a French naval vessel found lat there was only 3 fathoms of ater at the spot.

REEF-THUMPING CONTINUED: -As fast as new vessels are lunched at Papeete other units of ie French Oceania fleet end their ays on the atoll reefs of the 'uamotu. Two more have recently )ined the stream.

First to go was Manu Rairoa, 46m auxiliary cutter owned by [essrs. Terii Foster and Rene anquer. Built at Rairoa in 1951, le struck the north end of Tikehau toll at 1 am on January 27.

All hands reached shore and were ack at Papeete in good time to elcome home the men of Lorraine, hich was parked firmly on Arutua toll on the evening of March 19. •his twin screw vessel of 35 tons ormally maintains Government ammunications in the Marquesas.

Skippered for many years by rell-known Captain Doom, the ommand was recently taken over y Captain Arthur Gooding. Again 11 hands and passengers were saved nd brought back to Papeete aboard tie Government schooner Tamara.

There was a prospect of salvage : the weather held good, but whether it was successfully carried ut is not yet known.

AWAHOU MEMORY:—There was reminder of the mysterious loss nth all hands of the Awahou in leptember, 1952, in notice a a Fiji newspaper. The Public trustee, settling claims for com- >ensation for loss of life in the tisaster, sought next-of-kin of seanan Pat Garnett, boatswain Tui Above; Pacific Cable Board's schooner “Strathcona” as she lay on North Minerva Reef in June, 1915. Survivors lived for 35 days on the raft shown on the left.

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FOR SEPIK: — Henrietta, 60 ft former steam tug, remodelled and with 40-hp diesel, cleared Sydney mid-May on delivery to Enterprise of New Guinea Oil Co. for use on the Sepik. Captain Krogset was in command.

FRNVR PARADES:—The Fiji Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve unit, re-established some time ago, held its first parade in May. The senior officer, Lieutenant-Commander G. R Woods, VRD, has been granted six months’ leave and his second in command, Lieutenant- Commander S. B. Brown, formerly of Gilbert and Ellice vessels, has been promoted temporarily to the command. Lieutenant-Commander P. Burns is temporary Executive Officer. There are two petty officers and 12 seamen, most with previous naval experience. The unit will do sea training aboard HMNZS Hawea for two weeks in August. It may be some time before an SDML is attached to the unit.

THOSE LST’s;— Last September we reported that the LST’s Lae and Labuan, owned by British Ministry of Supply, operated by the RAN, and idle in Sydney for a long time, were for sale. Later is was reported that one was being purchased by Kenline Ltd., of New Zealand, for operation as a vehicular and passenger ferry across Cook Strait.

In May, Kenline, which never took over the vessel, was declared bankrupt and their freighter Ken Upper: Societe Polynesienne de Navition (Ah Yune) vessel “Vaininiore” rently launched from the yard of Adrien [?] Prado, Papeete. She is a sister ship to “Vaitaporo”, launched last year.

Lower: The American (formerly French) yacht "Kerrigan”, which Bob Grant bought at Papeete some time ago, and Is now sailing to the New Hebrides. 77 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Florence Robinson; —T H E

95-ton Florence Robinson „ put up for sale under writ at Papeete last year, was sold some time ago, according to advice received in May.

Built of teak, at Katys, Ceylon, in 1928, this attractive schooner was taken to Tahiti by well-known American yachtsman William A.

Robinson and was later sold there.

She is powered with a 120-hp Union and a 75-hp Atlas diesel and has a hold capacity of 152 cubic metres.

She has now been repurchased by the late owners and other interests for one million francs (£A7,000).

The hull was said to be in excellent condition. The sale was by courtorder to settle debts.

SKIPPER WANTED:— Tonga Copra Board’s 80-ton auxiliary ketch A’oniu was seeking a master with a FT ticket in May. Captain James G. McCormick, who joined the vessel at Auckland in late 1952, paid off after bringing her south for refit, and when the ketch returned to the Group late April she was commanded by the mate, David Fifita.

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Box 3838, G.P.O. trpnt ns the sieht oresented bj ip 3 040-t€ii Chilean Navy 4- ?sSr Venn"? itrance harb ° Ur itrance on April Under command of Capitan de regata Victor Wilson Amenabar, ie 3-years-old steel auxiliary essel was out on a training cruise hich was later to include Apia, ruam, and Yokohama. The big jhooner spent 5 days at Papeete hile her company was treated to round of entertainments in eeping with Tahitian tradition. i v, a a Esmeralda was launched from a panish yard as the Don Juan de ustria in 1952, intended as a unit : the Spanish Navy. However, she as transferred to Chile and reamed in May, 1953. She is iwered with a 1.400 hp diesel hich drives her at 12 knots withit sail. Her normal complement 271 men with accommodation fnr an’ naval cadets. It is robable that she will in future iake regular Pacific training •uises.

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POLYNESIE & POLYNESIEN: Polynesien (ex Mygreta, ex Yung Ping) will make her last voyage for Compagnie Messageries Mantimes on the Vila-Noumea-Sydney service in June. The running will then be taken over by the handsome new 5,500 ton Polynesie. The new ship has accommodation for 36 passengers—l 2 first class—and wil j carry about 2,000 tons of cargo, ghe will ha ve a serv i ce speed of 14 knots Built by Dubigeon of Na ntes, she measures 319 ft overalj b y 45 ft 8 ins. beam, by 16 ft 7 in loaded draft. She is a singlescrew diesel ship, with an engine power of 3,600 hp and a cruising range of 5,000 miles. She has three cargo hatches. She was expected to leave France for Noumea in command of Captain lorquai.

Polynesien has been sold to Compagnie Messageries Maritimes’ handsome new 5,500 ton packet-boat “Polynesie [?]ich will shortly enter the Sydney-Noumea-Vila service. 79 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1935

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IN WAKE OF PHILANTE:— Mr.

Nikita Astafieff, who received a great deal of publicity last year when he arrived at Wellington aboard the yacht Naitamha as the result of his lone stay at Palmyra Island, passed through Sydney bound for Rome aboard the liner Orion in May. Mr. Astafieff had landed at Palmyra from the converted Fairmile Philante II which he helped cruise out from England.

Owned by two New Zealanders, Messrs. Rusden and Baker, of Auckland, Philante II later caused interest as she headed west from Tahiti to Noumea, where she was finally sold—and recently wrecked.

Mr. Astafieff said that Messrs.

Rusden and Baker may join forces with him in another boating venture next year. He will seek a vessel of the pleasure-cumtrading type when he arrives back in European waters. He returned to Honolulu from Palmyra aboard the schooner Commonwealth. This craft was the mother-ship for the Kahler-Dahl tuna-fishing organisation of Seattle, who tried their luck in the area but were not very successful.

Mr. Astafieff said that he was in regular radio telephone contact with Honolulu during his lone stay at the atoll, 49 of whose 52 islets are owned by Leslie Fullard-Leo, Hollywood actor with the stage name of Leslie Vincent. Since his departure, Mr. Otto Hornung, of Honolulu, who had been forced by illness to leave Palmyra, has again returned as caretaker for the Fullard-Leo interests.

Vega Tries Again: —N O W

named Te Vega and completely reconditioned, the 134 ft steel twomasted schooner made a magnificent sight as she recently sailed on trails preparatory to starting a regular luxury yacht cruise service to Tahiti, via other islands, from Honolulu.

A Los Angeles newspaper advertisement schedules four round trips a year, with the first beginning from Newport Beach Harbour on June 10.

The run to Papeete via ports was to take 32 days, the departure date obviously being designed to allow an arrival in time for the annual Bastille Day Celebrations.

The schooner will be based at Honolulu. Owners are registered as Darr Lines. The topsail schooner, with gaff rig on fore and mam, has luxury accommodation for 12 passengers, and will carry the very large crew of 17.

It is not known what flag the schooner is sailing under, though the Liberian flag was mentioned as a possibility earlier.

It will be recalled that the schooner was dismasted shortly after sailing from Papeete fori Honolulu in December, 1951, on the inaugural vpyage of a planned regular service. She was then! owned by a company registered inr Papeete and headed by American! 80 JUNE, 1966 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD. 89-95 CASTLEREAGH ST. SYBNEY. 86-68 ELIZABETH ST. MELBOURNE, C.I. ornelius Crane. Mr. Crane sold ega (which had apparently then een renamed Te Rame ) to Mr. mar Darr about August 1954, and le was taken to the United States nder jury rig for re-rigging, ending settlement of insurance aims the schooner had lain idle t Papeete for 21 years. Her arrival t Papeete in July will create great iterest and all will wish the mture well.

WHAT COOKS?:—AIso seen in Los Angeles newspaper advertisetent recently was an announceent by a travel agency that an ganisation known as the Harvey ne would begin operating a luxury issenger yacht service to Papeete, la Honolulu and Acapulco Hexico). Four trips a year are heduled, with the first sailing om the West Coast on August 1. 0 details of the vessel are given.

TO CARRY BRlCKS!:—Captain maru, well known Papeete skipper, ho last year took a holiday by avigating the big American yacht amona round French Oceania for vner William A. Pomeroy, left apeete by May TEAL flight bound ir San Francisco. There he will ike command of Ramona again ir the Los Angeles-Honolulu ranspacific Race.

KEEL DOWN:—While French ceania skippers pile local vessels 1 reefs, the builders are kept busy splacing them. Latest keel to be id at Papeete is that of a schooner to be named Cap des Palmes, being built by Mr. Teata Pautu for Mr.

James Salmon. Measuring 80 ft waterline by 18 ft, with a draft of 8 ft and powered by twin Perkins diesels, this vessel will be used in the Tuamotu copra and shell trade.

The name is after the vessel Cap des Palmes (believed to be an armed merchant cruiser) in which Mr. Salmon served for five years of World War 11. Mr. Salmon is a member of one of Tahiti’s oldest seafaring families. His gransfather, Narii Salmon, was lost in the schooner Eimeo in the 1906 hurricane.

NOT YET:—Some time ago we reported that there were rumours afoot that the liner Homeric, formerly Mariposa, now in the transatlantic service, might make a winter Pacific cruise. Mr. Mario F. Vespa, New York, spokesman for Home Lines, Inc., now writes to say that present plans do not include such a voyage.

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Kemp and Union Sts., Newcastle. Tel. MA 2600. freighter Waikawa radioed Nukualofa on May 15, that she had been signalled by six men and a woman at a small islet 40 miles from Nukualofa. They had been shipwrecked 13 days earlier when their small inter-island cutter went ashore. No details were then available, but a vessel was despatched from Nukualofa to rescue the castaways.

Services Rendered:—

Captain W. Whitefield, one of the Union Steam Ship Co.’s best-known masters, lately in command of Tofua, was reported to be retiring late in May after 47 years’ service.

In World War I he served in the NZ hospital ship Maheno, and in World War II he commanded Aorangi during her naval service, first as a depot ship in the Solent, and later as mother ship to a flotilla of 12 submarines in the Pacific, and in other service.

Captain Whitefield and Aorangi were present at the Jap surrender of Hong Kong. He was also master of Monowai at the D-Day Normandy landings, the only Australian-NZ vessel present. Captain Whitefield is very well known in Polyesian ports. He retires to take up sheep farming in South Australia.

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USSCo’s 30-years-old Waipahi at various times active in the Islands fruits trade to NZ, has been sold to Typaldos Brothers, of Greece, after a long 101 l in Wellington’s Rotten Row. The vessel was drydocked in May and was preparing to sail for a new life in the Mediterranean trade, where a number of other Union Co. veterans have finished their days. Two others, Kiwitea and Kartigi, retired coastal colliers, have been sold to Grosvenor Shipping Co., London and will soon depart.

MAROKAU JUNCTION!;—When 2nd Officer M. Campbell of thi freighter Pioneer Gulf and ai officer of Britisher Enterprise tossed current-checking bottle overboard in September, 1951, ann February, 1953, respectively, littll 86 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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The ships had been out on that •oad stretch of water between the uamotu and Panama. The bottles ime ashore on the south-west >rder of the outer reef of Marokau ;011. The first one had drifted )Out 1,540 miles; the second about 300 miles, from a point ESE pf ie first vessel. Actual ship jsitions were 10 deg. 37 S, 116 ;g. 52 W, and 12 deg. 30 S, 108 deg.

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SPSS'S the story of the activities Of German sea raiders in the Pacific and elsewhere during World War II has just been published—“ The Secret Raiders”, by David Woodward It is an unembellished, factual account of the movements and activities of each of the nine raiders. Read in conjunction with the New Zealand War History pamphlet on the same subject, it gives an extraordinarily interesting picture of what went on. All seafaring men will read it with interest.

News of Cruising Yachts • AUCKLAND - SUVA YACHT RACE: The Royal Akarana Yacht Club, sponsor of the existing Tasman Yacht Race, is organising a Sydney-Suva biennial yacht race to alternate with the Tasman event.

There appears to be keen interest in such an event amongst Auckland yachtsmen and the first race is planned for May, At Top: The Chilean Navy training [?]essel “Esmeralda” at Papeete in April.

Middle: Aucklanders Bob Harvey and Vally Walton (owner) who navigated the 2 ft. “Susan” across the Tasman in April- [?]ay to claim the record of smallest ever [?]o do so. They will be seen in the Islands ater.

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16 Entrants will require a minimum terline length of 34 ft. Handicapping 11 be in accordance with Royal Ocean cing Club rules. Twelve Auckland cht-owners have already signified their erest.

I SUSAN, 33 ft. Auckland cutter ,nned by Wally Walton and Bob Harvey, iched Sydney in mid-May. thus setting a new record for shortest waterline gth to make the passage. After a lie in Sydney SUSAN will head for rrier Reef waters, and. perhaps next iter, eastwards for the Islands. Walton ik SUSAN from Auckland to Norfolk i back a year or two ago. i TE ATA. manned by Lloyd Taylor i Peter Southey, cleared Auckland ril 30, bound for Suva and other Island rts. The 35-footer called at Whangarei i was due in Fiji waters late May.

I WAIMANA, 36-footer which left ckland last September, and has been ng at Lord Howe Island since crew 7 mber Norman Ziska was killed there in a untaineering accident in mid-January, on the move again. Mr. Cec. Harrison, Auckland, joined the yacht and she led May 34 for Noumea, arriving there days later. WAIMANA is heading for w Guinea waters. Incidentally, news m Lord Howe indicates that any yachts- ,n handy with a paint brush can very idily earn a little money ashore there. » ARTHUR ROGERS, lying at Auckid, was recently advertising for another »up of expfense-sharing adventurers to lise the Islands this winter.

Pom and Diana Hepworth took the ixham trawler out from Auckland last ir, it will be recalled, with an all-girl w on a most successful cruise in the •stern Pacific. The yacht has been ed with a hatch since then, so she i handle any stray cargoes that offer. • WHITE SQUALL, one of the little fleet of Auckland yachts which cruised Polynesia in the winter-spring of 1953, was expected to head for the United States soon. The Norgroves are reported to have been granted an entry permit as permanent residents there. • GHOST, another of the 1953 fleet, is also preparing to cruise through Polynesia and on to Canada, probably this winter. In 1953 Ken Brown and companions went as far afield as Honolulu before heading back home. • KYLIE, steel 39 ft. home-built Sydney ketch which sailed in January, arrived home from Auckland in May. Ownerskipper Harry Fink had planned to cruise to Tahiti, but his two-man crew set their eyes on jobs at Auckland. Another crew could not be found to suit, so KYLIE came home, and the crew were returning to Auckland again from Sydney. Owner Fink says he will sail with a new crew next winter. • MARCO POLO, Auckland yacht heading round the world west-bound, arrived Thursday Island May 10. With owner Tony Armit are Brian Lowe and Mick Earl. Winter, 1956, may see them back in Polynesia, via Panama. • WANDERER 111, in which Eric and Susan Hiscock of England cruised through the Pacific in 1953-54, was expected at Falmouth early July. The 30 ft. sloop cleared Cape Town for St. Helena late April. The cruise began in July, 1953, and its story has been told by writer Hiscock in yachting magazines. • STORMALONG, a 36 ft. yacht manned by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Moore, was to clear an English port late May for the Pacific via the Straits of Magellan. The couple had just been married and the cruise is a honeymoon voyage. • ANNA ELIZABETH, Dutch yacht, still lies at Acre, New Hebrides, while owner Ernst Lamberty cruises those islands as skipper of the plantation vessel ZOE.

He recently had the job of transporting two French businessmen on a charter trip from Santo to south Malekula. • MANDALAY, cast up on south Santo, New Hebrides, as recently reported, is now up on the hard awaiting very extensive and expensive repairs. This yacht was sold by American Rockefeller, who cruised her through the Islands last year, to M. Claude Giraud, of Aore Island, who in turn exchanged her for the trading schooner BIKO, which her present owner, Mr. Peter Morris, owned. • ATOM, manned by lone-hander Jean Gau (male) of New York, which arrived at Papeete June 10, 1954, sailed again March 31 for Pago Pago and points westward, in continuation of his circum- 89 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Over 30 Years' Pacific Island Experience Expert Buying Service Original Invoices Furnished Overseas Indents Arranged best PRICES for copra, cocoa, shells and general island produce. navigatory voyage. • LA PALOMA, another Auckland yacht, was due to sail from there late May for Canada and eventually England. With skipper-owner W. Wilson, is J. Forsyth, both Americans, and one other New Zealander. Wilson purchased the yacht at Auckland and planned to call first at Rarotonga, thence Tahiti and Honolulu. Both Americans are experienced yachtsmen, Mr. Forsyth having raced in the Australian yacht NIMBUS in the Sydney-Hobart Race in 1952, and in FARIE in the Melbourne- Hobart Race In 1951. The yacht is equipped with radio transmitter. Some oceanographic research is planned during the voyage. • JENCO of Norway, which left Oslo last September and Balboa on February 16, arrived at Papeete May 12. This 49 ft. ketch, bound for Napier, NZ, was built In 1953. Owner Jens Jenssen says he hopes to sell her on arrival, having built her as a means of delivering his family to New Zealand. • TRANSPACIFIC RACE: According to advice received by our Tahiti correspondent. the July Los Angeles-Honolulu race entries now number 37. No doubt some will fall out before start, but it promises to be a big field, and a number are expected to come on to Papeete later.

Nothing has been heard of the Los Angeles-Papeete Race, which was to follow the trans-Pacific event. If the event is to weak PIaCC th 6 publicity is extraordinarily • GEMINI of Portland, Oregon, with radio-amateur Jack Wheeler and his wife Leah, is back at the home port after spending some months in the Hawaiian Islands. This yacht caused much interest with overseas radio “Hams” during her 1953 sojourn in French Oceania waters. • MOONRAKER, English 29 ft. cutter with Peter and Anne Pye, was to clear Cristobal late March, homeward bound from the Pacific again. • WINDJAMMER’S owner, Peggy Poor, back from her shipwreck at Easter Island, expected to reach Los Angeles in mid- March aboard a freighter. She appeared to be implementing certain legal proceedings m regard to the looting of the stranded vessel at Easter Island. • QUEEN CHARLOTTE, 46 ft. staysail schooner of Auckland, formerly owned by the late Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, veten xew Zealand yachtsman, left Aucklai coastwise on March 16, said to be headii for the Islands. The yacht was offer, tor sale on Mr. Wilkinson’s death ai vear aCqUired by her Present owners la • WAKAYA. another Auckland yaa wh,ch is well known in Tonga waters ai elsewhere in Polynesia from past cruis* may sail again this winter, for sale wher 90 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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I LANDFALL 11, Dr. and Mrs. Holnb’s handsome 50-footer from the US, t Sydney reportedly for Barrier Reef ters some time ago, in continuation of • cruise. The yacht arrived at Sydney m Auckland on February 20.

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EPERS at Ducos and in the 4 Loyalty Islands are not overlooked by the New Zealand jpers’ Trust Board, and the nerous gifts from the Dominion tve been received with gratitude New Caledonia.

Recently Ducos has received a ishing-machine and a booknding machine from NZ, and a efabricated hall (32 ft by 20 ft) ,11 arrive shortly. The hall, to be led for native handicrafts, is to i named after Sister Othilde, a irsing sister who contracted prosy at Ducos.

At the same time, substantial Z gifts have gone to the smaller prosy station in the Loyalties.

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Road-Fitness Tests Twice Yearly in Tonga i LL motor vehicles in Tonga k. must now be presented for roadfitness examination every June id December. The Legislative ssembly, at its last session nended the Motor Traffic Act to ctend the requirement which irmerly applied only to commercial assenger vehicles.

The Council amended the Order i Public Places Act to make it ear that for the purposes of the ct the Sabbath day is the period om midnight on Saturday to ddnight on Sunday.

Other legislation increased pound ies, which had not been altered nee 1918, and amended the Royal ruards Act to enable pay and llowances to be fixed from time to me by the Privy Council. [?] G Trout Experiment Scores Major Success PHOUSANDS of healthy rainbow trout are breeding in streams of Papua and New Guinea as le result of the establishment of hatchery at Lake Bergestrand. ,137 ft above sea level and with a water temperature of 64 deg. Fahr.

Five years ago Sir Edward Hallstrom, the Sydney philanthropist, demonstrated, with a consignment of rainbow fingerhngs flown from Sydney, that trout could live in New Guinea rivers; and about two years ago the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. had 10,000 rainbow ova flown from New Zealand.

Nearly 90 p.c. of the eggs in the first hatching reached maturity, and when the fingerlings were three weeks old they were transferred to the Baiune River, near Lake Bergestrand.

The company is jealously guarding the Baiune from any influx of enthusiastic fishermen. For obvious reasons, it wants to protect the breeding-grounds. ■ v Tourist trips up the Rewa and wainibuka Rivers, Viti Levu, in 25knot flat-bottomed river canoes, are p i anne d at Suva. Travellers w in sail through the heart of the banana country and past many Fijian villages bordering the river banks. The Nasamu Falls (200 ft. in three drops) are visited. The outing starts by car from Suva to the Baulevu Landing, then an hour by canoe to the falls, an hour for swimming and about half an hour downstream to the Landing. 91 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE. 1955

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Vickery, a Melbourne research *mist, took test samples from a ge number of shipments of osphate rock from both islands, check whether they contained the called trace elements. He found it Ocean Island samples conned constant amounts, and that uru phosphate contained none all. Soil researchers have long own that minute traces of ladium, molybdenum, zinc, >per, and manganese have an portant effect on land pro- 3tivity. Lands deficient in lybdenum have been able to ry from twice to ten times as ny sheep per acre by the olication of an ounce of lybdenum to the acre. >cean Island phosphate could irefore have a most beneficial “ct on such soils —though if the I already contains the necessary trace elements Nauru phosphate would be satisfactory for such areas. , , Alternatively, shipments o f Nauru phosphate may have the missing elements added during the processing into super-phosphate, the form in which it is applied to the land. The deficiency is probably not important therefore, but why it should exist when the two islands are of similar formation, have similar climates, and lie comparatively close together geographically. is a poser that scientists have not yet solved.

Credit Union Training JOANI NAISARA, a 26-years-old Fijian who has been working with Father M. Ganey on the formation of credit unions in Fiji, has gone to the United States to spend three months as the guest of the Credit Union National Association. , , The trip was made possible by a gift of 1,000 dollars from the association, supplemented by a £3OO grant by the Fiji Government.

Earlier, Joani Naisara spent four years in New Zealand, two of them at the Auckland Teachers’ Training College. He has completed most of the subjects required for the NZ University’s BA degree.

BSI Civil Servants From Our Own Correspondent OFFICERS elected at the annual meeting of the British Solomon Islands Civil Service Association on April 12 were; President, Mr. S. L. Chamberlain; secretary. Mr. G. G. Oakes; treasurer. Mr. J. Tamana; council members, Branch A, Mrs. T. Miller, Messrs. J. B. Coleman, F. Macindoe and B. Twomey; Branch B, Messrs.

A. Daga, S. Dakei, V. Kolopetsi and W. Maelaua. t Arbor Day, for several years a sort of secular movable feast in Fiji, has been officially anchored to the last Friday in February. 93 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Full reciprocal arrangements have been made with the Automobile Association of Great Britain and with leading associations and clubs in Australia and New Zealand.

The patrol reported in April that since the beginning of the year the association has serviced 447 road signs, has erected 72 new signs and has replaced 213 damaged signs, all in Viti Levu.

Special insurance facilities, in- < eluding a substantial discount over i the 10/6 available to members, have** been arranged with an ihsurance company. The 10/6 or 5 p.c. on the net premium—whichever is the lesser amount—previously available to members of the Automobile As- J sociation (Auckland) has been ex-1 tended to members of the Fiji as-1 sociation by the companies com-1 prising the South Sea Islands Fire I Tariff Association.

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President, Mr. A. H. Marlow; vicepresident and secretary, Mr S A Tetzner; councillors, Messrs. Hanif Akbar, C D. Bradford, E. J. Gough, f- H - Mcllwai n: accountants and treasurers, Messrs. Lawlor and : Progress on the world TB battle | ron t will be surveyed at the tourth Commonwealth Health and Tuberculosis Conference, to be opened in London on June 21 by the British Minister of Health Suiprisingly, though many foreiii countries will send representatiw to watch proceedings, the orr Pacific territory listed to be repn sented is the British Solomt.

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IMI3C-55 [?]itch in Fiji’s Reading Plans FIJI’S much boosted Development Plan does not seem to be developing according to plan.

Strong rumours are current t*at iorities may have to be revised ring to shortage of money for imediate use.

Said to be under reconsideration the Sawani-Vunidawa Road, ittle-breeders and those interested the banana trade have long urged e construction of this road.

Branching from the Princes jad about ten miles from Suva, it mid open grazing and banana For many years a rough cattle ick has been used to bring cattle Suva by a shorter route.

Some work has already been done l the new road, but recently work is stopped.

The road round Viti Levu for the eater part runs along the coast. iort feeder roads inland would ten a great deal of country.

It has also been suggested that ort roads inland from the Wainiika and Waidina Rivers would imulate Fijian banana production, iking river and road transportam to Suva.

Even with Tongan and Samoan ports, New Zealand cannot get Lough bananas, and the Union ;eam Ship Co. has offered the ipping if Fiji can supply the fruit.

This industry has the virtue of inging in regular cash payments, could be Fiji’s equivalent to the itter industry, which in New Zeand has built cities.

Perhaps the co-operative societies id the credit unions, which appear have taken hold of the Fijian lagination, may supply the cash centive.

“Bring the womenfolk forward,” id an old-timer wise in the ways women, “Get them to hanker ter new clothes and better houses,” ; said. “Then the poor devils (the enfolk) will have to get the oney.”

Old Buildings to go in Guadalcanal From Our Own Correspondent "TENDERS have been invited for L the purchase of three buildings at the old Government Station ; Aola, Guadalcanal, BSIP.

The successful tenderer will be :quired to demolish and remove le buildings within one month of etification of acceptance of tender.

Aola Station was closed soon after le war, and the District Comissioner’s house, Assistant Medical ractitioner’s house and dispensary iilding are now being disposed of.

Tenders closed at Honiara on [ay 18.

New Caledonia Affected By New Law in Pans , .

ANEW finance law passed by the French Parliament has caused comment at Noumea.

The law as at first proposed stipulated that any primary material indispensable to France and produced by a colony which benefits from a subvention, cannot be touched by any new export tax or local tax without the approval of the Minister of Finance.

This was later modified by the qualification “all primary materials having undergone transformation.”

This, it seems, provides protection f o r the products of the Nickel Company in New Caledonia which are exported to France Local legislators regard the new provision as an infringement of their legislative rights. 95 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Fhe proposals arose from Mr.

A. Derrick’s survey for the South .cific Commission, which was [lowed by a scheme prepared by ■. F. J. Harlow, an Assistant lucational Adviser to the Sectary of State for the Colonies, for bmission to the Commission. \t the inter-governmental con- *ence Australia was represented Mr. D. McCarthy, Administrae Officer in charge of the elfare and Social Advancement anch of the Territories Departmt.

Fhe New Zealand delegates were sssrs. F. R. J. Davies, Islands iucation Officer, and H. A. vestom, an Assistant Secretary the Administration of Western moa.

Fhe United States was repreited by Mr. J. R. Ludington, of 3 Health, Education and Welfare Department, and Fiji’s delegates were Messrs. R. M. Major (Acting Financial Secretary), W. W. Lewis- Jones 'Director of Education) and A. H Chadwick (Supervisor of Technical Services).

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From Our Own Correspondent TRAFFIC accidents are increasing in Western Samoa.

Just before Easter, two fatal accidents occurred.

In one case a ten-years-old boy was struck by a lorry at Tanugauanono and was killed instantly.

Another Samoan boy, riding at the back of a truck carrying bananas to Apia wharf, was killed when he fell from the truck, the driver being unaware of the accident.

A third accident with fatal results occurred near the west coast village of Lefatu when a motor-bus, travelling on the main beach road came into collision with a cyclist who had a passenger riding on the carrier of the bicycle. The passenger was killed and the cyclist was injured.

It is not always the driver of a motor vehicle who is at fault. In many cases pedestrians and cyclists —and particularly children—lack road sense and obstruct the path of motor vehicles.

Experimental Farm for Nauru TO foster greater agricultural activity for the production of food, and to provide occupation for the people of the Island who live in comparative idleness (thanks to substantial incomes from the exploitation of the phosphate deposits) an experimental farm is to be established at Nauru.

This was announced by Canberra at the end of April. There is only about 300 acres of land in Nauru suitable for coconuts, and about the same area that could be employed in other cropping activities.

The experimental farm will serve also to train young men to fit into some other Island environment when the time eventually comes for evacuation of the population when the phosphate supplies are exhausted. The Australian Government is continuing the search for a suitable future home for the people. 97 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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(From Our Own Correspondent) VIEW Caledonia’s big Yate River dam project (May, PIM) will ' be financed by the French Government’s colonial development organisation (FIDES), said the Governor (M. Rene Hoffherr) when he returned to Noumea from Paris in May.

The Yate hydroelectricity scheme is linked with the modernisation of the nickel smelters at Noumea and one of the top Public Works engineers in France will visit the Colony this year to settle the final details.

M. Hoffherr also said that Air France will soon send two planes a month from Paris to Noumea, thus doubling the present service.

Flood of Overseas Cargo at Apia Wharf Prom Our Own Correspondent WITH about 3,400 tons of cargo from England, Europe, Aus- . tralla and Fiji, the Wairuna arrived at Apia early in April almost at the same time as the Tofua with another 600 tons.

Apia s limited wharf shed accommodation was all but bursting at the seams, and efficient cargosorting was impossible.

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Fhe date is October 27, 1866. HMS k had anchored off Nukualofa.

Fhe Consul, Captain Jones, VC, me on board and was saluted. At If-past ten, O— S— and I landed shoot ducks. King George was -ay at Lifuka, but Mr. Moss, who s got spliced, did the honours m 3 absence of his Chief.

Since we were here in the Curacao, al by jury has been instituted, d severity of some of the laws ainst immorality have been reced, adultery alone being now nal.

By Moss’s advice, we walked along e beach to Mafoga, a village about nile distant, where Father Lamage, the Roman Catholic Mission, proied us with a couple of native ides and a canoe. Twenty mutes’ walk through the bush DUght us to the edge of the ?oon.

I bagged seven ducks and five tier marsh and water birds. Moreer, two more wounded ducks made od their escape. Not such bad ort, considering that it was nearly pm before we began shooting, (wards dusk we saw many flying xes. The lagoon is full of fish, rich rose on every side of us— me of them three or four feet ig.

On inquiry for Charley Maafu, the mgan Adonis, whose acquaintance * made in the Curacao, we found at he is stopping with his father, aafu Senior, at Vanua Balavu, the mgan Colony in Fiji. We heard '0 little stories of this gay young ntleman.

A plot had been discovered to ke his father’s life; but the old def, with singular moderation, ared the lives of the conspirators, id sentenced them only to banishent to different islands, for which irpose he embarked them all on s schooner.

Just before weighing, the old mtleman went on shore for someiing; and the son improved the ;casion by informing the plotters lat, though his father’s leniency ad spared their lives, they were it going to get off quite so cheap 5 they expected. He forthwith reduced a “cat” and gave them a sound flogging all round.

On another occasion, having been convicted of a breach of the Seventh Commandment, this lad was sentenced to hard labour on the road, of which he was bound to complete a certain portion daily. By eventide his task was always done —until its very regularity awakened suspicion and, a watch having been set, he was discovered sitting coolly smoking his pipe in the shade of a tree, while a score or so of his lady-loves, past and present, were hard at work doing his allotted task on the road all their common jealousies having been overpowered by their sympathy for the object of their affections.

If Mr. Charlie Lawrie of Rabaul, New Guinea, left Sydney on Orion in mid-May for an extended holiday in the United Kingdom.

New Caledonia Oil Hunt May Be Ended (From Our Own Correspondent) WHETHER or not the search for oil in New Caledonia has been abandoned could not be ascertained at Noumea in May.

The geologist in charge of the oil-seeking unit (M. Pomeyrol) has returned to Paris.

The gear at Gouraou has been dismantled and will probably be put to other drilling work —but not oil-seeking.

U Mr. Harry Owens, American band leader and song-writer, spent four days in Fiji in May making films for television. He was on his way back to the United States from Tahiti. 99 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Almost 120 years later, The Whalg Journal of Captain W. B. lodes has been published, though most of it will be of inrest to seafarers more than tiers—it consists largely of entries :e, “Steady easterly breeze. Latide 28 deg., etc.”—some of his servations about the Islands are >rth noting.

Particularly are his observations out “Vavaoo,” Tonga, interesting len read at the same time as iendly Queen, which records ’airs in Tonga at a much earlier tie, before the Tongans had beme so unco guid.

Says the captain, of Vavau. . . It now in a state approaching civilition. . . I have been paid a visit the Harbour Master, bringing th him a printed Harbour Regulars intimating that His Majesty ng George requires to be paid 21 liars for anchorage and pilotage fore the vessel would be allowed communicate with the shore. . . vo Wesleyan missionaries with eir families are located here and is astonishing to what a state of scipline they have reduced the tives. ‘Old and young spend the prinial part of their time in the lools learning to read the scripres and in religious exercises, ley are compelled by law to assume an outward sanctity, and to spend a greater part of the day in devotion, and in no part of the world is the Sabbath kept with such strictness. The natives are entirely prohibited the use of spirits or tobacco; the Government is absolute and the least appearance of outward wickedness. . . is severely punished by flogging. . . King George has lately returned from an expedition to Tongatabu. It appears that there is a party on that island who will not put themselves under the yoke of the missionaries. They are called the Devil’s Party. His Majesty is determined that if they will not be converted to the Wesleyan religion, to exterminate them.”

He describes also what was probably the first European attempt to settle on Sunday Island (Kermadecs). A settler named James Read with his Maori wife, three children and two other Maori youths had settled there and planned to grow vegetables to supply visiting whalers.

Six deserters from other whalers were also making Sunday Is. their temporary headquarters. (Published by Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd. New Zealand price, 18/6.) U AMP Aseri Manualevu, stationed at the Fiji goldfields, was one of the guests at the Sydney Pacific Islands Society’s May meeting. He had arrived early in May to begin a 6-months course in Industrial Health, with emphasis on modern methods of TB treatment. He will be joined in August by his wife and family.

II M. Marcel Isy-Schwart, famous exponent of underwater fishing, lectured to a packed audience at the Suva Town Hall on May 17.

Besides Fiji, M. Isy-Schwart has been making films in Tonga, Samoa and Niue. He will visit New Caledonia and Tahiti before returning to France, where he will edit his films. After a lecture tour in Europe, he will probably return to the South Seas. 101 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955 iis Month's New Reading (Continued from page 64)

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They claim that 380 vehicles licensed to ply for hire means that there is a taxi for every six persons living within the city boundaries, and point out that the taxis are competing for business in a community which possesses many private cars.

A large taxi fleet is something of a Suva tradition, and the operators did well enough in the days when the Canadian-Australasian and Matson liners called regularly, and when big touristcruising ships were frequent visitors.

Revenue was good, and the drivers collected substantial sterling-anddollar tips.

Furthermore, the permanent population, encouraged by a climate which provides terrific downpours at a moment’s notice, was taximinded until fares started to rise m accordance with the cost of living.

But the taxi proprietors’ main source of grievance is the independent driver who, they say, cuts prices at night, when the buses are not running. They also claim that the improved organisation of bus services has cut into taxi revenue, particularly in places where taxis once had a transport monopoly. !f The Rev. L. D. Fullerton, w Mrs. Fullerton and their child* returned to Fiji early in Jt after six months’ furlough Australia. While carrying Methodist Church deputation w 1 in New South Wales and Quee: land, Mr. Fullerton was frequer called on to lecture on Fiji. 102 JUNE. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY'

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SOPLE living in the Cook Islands apparently have no right of appeal against Court tences imposed in the Cook nds. [r. Justice Finlay, in a written gment quoted in the New land Herald, Auckland, on May says: rhere seems to be no right of eal against a sentence, as ti, imposed in the Cook Islands; t is a position to which the mtion of the Legislature might I be drawn.” ndge Finlay gives his reasons quashing, last December, the viction of two 20-years-old iters, Pare Rau Tini, and ama Nicholls. ini had been sentenced by the ik High Court to five years’ hard )ur on a charge of rape; Nicholls one year’s gaol for alleged ecent assault of the same girl, he judgment states: “It is :cult to imagine a case where yarning against the acceptance uncorroborated testimony was 'e needed than in this case, nor in which the evidence gestive of consent should have n pointed out to the jury with ihasis. [n any event, a conviction can rcely be said to be satisfactorily nded on the evidence of a girl ) did not call for help; who, in ,e of injuries, did not complain il specifically challenged, and d then untruly alleged criminous 3 against two men, one at least whom was not guilty of any ninal action if the girl’s own sequent sworn testimony is epted.”

'he judgment states that the y conclusion that could be ched about the finding of the was that it was, in the :umstances, unsatisfactory.

The disquiet engendered by its ;atisfactory character is :mented by the fact that the le assessors in the same trial victed a man (Nicholls) of an ;nce of which the evidence ved him not guilty,” the judgment tinues, adding the “inappropriate I unnecessary” idea of “accom- :e’s evidence” may well have re- ;ed in confusion in the assessors’ ids. udge Finlay points out that no fence of such length as that five years on Tini would be Dosed in New Zealand in such mmstances. If it were, it would ; be sustained on appeal. ’’astor Salerua returned to igoa Presbyterian Mission tion, New Hebrides, in May.

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Experimental reafforestation in the Drasa area of Viti Levu indicates that degraded soil in one of Fiji’s dry regions may be rehabilitated.

Plantings of nokonoko (casuarma or ironwood) and eucalyptus citriodora have been successful in extremely poor soil in open, badlymutilated nokonoko forest.

Forestry Department officers believe that, with proper management and protection, stands of trees suitable for fuel, housebuilding poles, pitprops and even hardwood timber can be raised.

Meanwhile, at Nadarivatu, high in the rainy mountain country, introduced trees are flourishing. Pines in “pure plantation” in open fernland and Cyprus and mahogany underplanted in exploited forest are growing fast.

If The Rev. C. F. Gribble, general secretary of the Methodist Overseas Missions in Australia, left Sydney on May 26 for a six weeks’ visit to Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

U Mr. John Cruikshank, only son of Dr. J. M. Cruikshank, Director of Medical Services, Fiji, and Mrs.

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The drop was made successfully at 11 am, though the low-flying fourengined land plane is reported to have somewhat frightened the villagers.

Amongst travellers who sailed on "Bulolo" from Sydney in May were: Mr. E. C. Smith, [?]ager for E. E. Kriewaldt & Co. in Port Moresby, who was farewelled in Sydney by Miss Wareham when he returned from a business trip. And (right); Miss Pat Ashton-Stamp, [?]d for Port Moresby, who was seen off by Mr. Bob Lee. 105 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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This system, which includes the provision of meals and accommodation for the short stay at Sydney before the ship leaves, has been adopted because there are now no direct ships between India and Fiji.

The last Calcutta-Suva ship sailed in 1951, and there seems to be little chance of a resumption of the service.

Since 1951, the Fiji Government has been making cash grants of £6O, leaving the repatriate to find his own way to India, but for unspecified reasons the cash grant system has been stopped.

The first travellers under the new system will leave Nadi on July 6 and other groups will follow at regular intervals.

Those entitled to free passages to India are (1) Indians who went to Fiji under the indenture system; (2) children of those who arrived on or before May 31, 1906; (3) Fijiborn children, under the age of 12, i9o6 hose who arrived after Ma y 31, T^|r 7 r 7 indei i ture astern originated m 1877 and was ended in 1916.

More than 63,000 Indians were introduced as indentured labourers, and by 1923 nearly 25,000 had been repatriated.

At the end of 1954 the Indian population of Fiji was estimated at 160,000. (Probably the “unspecified reason’ 1 why the £6O grants have been stopped is that no repatriate has been abie to get from Fiji to India via Sydney, for £6o—“tourist” class or any other). 106 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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To finance the trip, each boy begged, borrowed or earned £NZIOO, of which £BB/18/- went to expenses.

The travellers acquired “bula” shirts, which one of the two masters accompanying the party described as “like beach shirts, only more hideous.”

Most of the “bula” shirt material sold in Fiji comes from Japan. It ranges from designs that are both clever and effective, through varying degrees of American-inspired vulgarity, to efforts like an explosion in a paint shop.

Cinema-Dancehall Opened With Religious Service V AVAILS new cinema and dancehall, the Lei Fahina ’o Pilolevu, was opened on April 11 with a religious service conducted by the Rev. K. D. Grove, Chairman of the Vavau Wesleyan Church.

The building is owned by a local merchant, Mr. Paul Schaunkel.

Mr. Grove expressed the hope that only “clean” films would be screened and that the drinking of kava papalangi (alcoholic liquor) would never take place at any dance held at the new hall.

The Royal Family was represented at the opening by the young princes, Taufa’ahau and ’Qluvalu, attended by Queen Salote’s Aide, the Hon. Vaea. t Because triplets are a rarity among Fijians and the appearance of a set invariably creates interest throughout the Colony, Savusavu’s trio continue to be the subject of official bulletins. By May 25 cash gifts totalled £9O, including the Governor’s Bounty. A savings bank trust account totalled £5O, and an all-Fijian collection was being made to add to it. The triplets stow away six tins of baby food (a somewhat expensive item in Fiji) every week, and Mr. R. B.

Carpenter, chairman of directors of W. R. Carpenter, Ltd., has donated five cases of the food.

North-bound per May "Bulolo" from Sydney were (top to bottom): Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Foley and Philip who returned to Rabaul where Mr. Foley has a [?]otor garage business.

Brother Broughton, Brother Dwyer, and Brother Watkins who were bound for Aitape Catholic Mission station.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Champion who returned to [?]ort Moresby after furlough in Australia. Mr.

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The Polynesian Navigators Followed a Unique Plan About 1,000 BC the present inhabitants of Polynesia and Micronesia left the islands of south-east Asia, perhaps under pressure from other tribal groups, and struck out for new homes in the broad expanse of the south-west Pacific. j E are reasonably certain that ' south-east Asia was the point of departure rather than the lericas, as some recent theories /e stated, for all the Oceanic >ple have the traditions of their fient home in the west which s known as Hawaiki, The words Hawaii and Savaii imoa), as well as the names for ny other Polynesian islands, are ived from Hawaiki.

Jthough the Polynesians grew no j, they tell of another legendary im e, “Great-Atea-covered-with- Rise is a principal crop in th-east Asia. There are cultural i linguistic parallels between the ynesians and the Indonesians, leed, the evidence is impressive, ’he important thing to be conered here, however, is not the ?in of the Micronesians and ynesians, but rather the almost believable feat they accomplished reaching islands in all parts of south-west Pacific.

THE progenitors of the modern Polynesians and Micronesians left their homeland in great sea canoes with built-up, adze-hewn, plank sides.

Some of the canoes were singlehulled craft with outriggers while others were double-hulled craft with deckhouses built on the spars connecting the two hulls.

The pandanus mat sails were supplemented by crews of paddlers often numbering as many as one hundred men. Specialists baled, trimmed sails, served as coxswains, and navigated.

The vessels were capable of unusual speed and were thoroughly seaworthy when handled by expert seamen, as these people undoubtedly were. As testimony of the excellence of these sailing vessels one has only to point to the voyage of de Bisschop. In 1935, this French amateur sailor built a vessel of native design and sailed her, with a crew of one, from Polynesia to France by way of the Cape of Good Hope.

Some of the canoes of the early migrants reached Samoa, the Societies, and the Cooks, and these islands are believed to have been swarming-points for further colonisation expeditions.

Other groups of these extraordinary mariners explored the Micronesian islands of the Marshalls, Carolines, Gilberts, and others, establishing settlements as they went.

A MERE glance at any map of the Pacific brings a feeling of awe for the exploits of these bronzed Lowell Don Holmes, writer of the accompanying article, completed a year’s anthropological research in Eastern Samoa late in 1954. His research was sponsored by the University of Hawaii. Mr.

Holmes, who is 29 years of age, is a Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology at present associated with North Western University, Evanston, Illinois.

His article on the South Seas science of navigation, dealing with Polynesia and Micronesia, will be published in three parts, of which this is the first.

Vikings. There are 2,700 reef-infested miles from the Societies to Hawaii; 2,500 from the Societies to 109 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Such voyages required a considerable degree of accuracy in navigation, for an error of a few degrees in a compass course can cause one to miss a tiny Pacific island by hundreds of miles in a voyage of 2,000 miles or over.

Yet these early ships carried neither compass, nor sextant, nautical almanac nor chronometer.

The early methods of Polynesian and Micronesian navigation stand as the most fascinating and aweinspiring phenomenon in the annals of seamanship.

The most common method of navigation in Polynesia consisted of laying a direct course to a given destination by keeping the bow of the vessel pointed toward a star near the horizon which lay in the direction of the desired destination.

However, the poetic references to the native navigators steering by the stars often gives an erroneous picture, for anyone who is at all acquainted with the movements of the stars would quickly realise that due to the earth’s rotation, such a method would keep one sailing in circles.

INSTEAD of taking one star and following it, they viewed the stars as moving bands of light, which passed over the destination they were interested in.

The navigators can identify all the stars that are in the band and steer by each star in turn before it rises too high or sets on the horizon.

The Hawaiian scholar, Kepelino, characterised the stars used in navigation as “those which are suspended in turn over each island.”

The navigator proceeding north may use the same principle of these bands of light.

The Polynesians discoverec through long observation that anj star that passes directly over anj island must a'so pass over othei points of the same latitude. Thus; 110 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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FOUNTAIN FOUNTAIN i4l'uiA t T,\'i i t n he prevailing wind made it imsible to sail directly to an island, y would sail north until a certain • was directly overhead and then due east or west, depending on position of the desired destinai. a one way, the native method aying a course to a given destinai was superior to that used by navigators to-day. Using stars beacons toward which to steer ;s the shortest distance possible ween two points. In other words, fives a great circle course which using a compass, may accomh only by altering our compass rse at given intervals.

'he natives of Polynesia conned the heavens as the inside of oconut shell or pot which rotated iut them. The stars were seen rise in the east of this dome and in the west, and they noticed t these stars always appeared in same relationship to one another, 'heir observation was so thorough it they realised that the stars >eared four minutes earlier each ht, and in the course of a year ,t the stars rise at exactly the le time as they did on the same j a year before. Astronomical >wledge even included the realisaa that star time gained one day sun time every year.

HE natives of Micronesia were also not lacking in ability as astronomers and navigators, n the Gilbert Islands, the court of the universe is somewhat ferent from that of Polynesia. the Micronesian navigator, the iverse is conceived as a great roof Dported by imaginary rafters, •ee on the east slope and three the west. rhe apex of the middle pair is iposed to be the point where the r Rigel crosses the Gilbert iridian. The apex of the northern ir is where Pleiades crosses the iridian, and the southern apex is .ere Antares crosses. The ridge le of the house represents the ridian and the lower edge of the )f represents the horizon. The )f is truly thatched with ever- >ving stars. rhe stars did more than act as aeons toward which to steer, teir points of rising and setting the horizon gave the navigator the Carolines of Micronesia a npass (so Professor Goodenough s pointed out in a recent article the Scientific Monthly).

This compass has 32 points with nr cardinal points derived from e North Star, the Southern Cross an upright position, the rising Altair, and the setting of Altair; e declination of Altair correonds approximately with the htude of the Carolines.

The positions of rise and set of her stars such as Cassiopeiae, ;ga, Pleiades, Antares, etc., give e other points of the compass, iring the day, the navigator would orient himself by the direction of the ore vailing wind blowing at that nartFcular Ume of the yelr. The Savigators of the Society Islands had a similar compass based on the same method, but theirs contained only sixteen points. During the day, the Society Island navigators utilised the knowledge of the sun’s position in relation to their destmation at a given hour. This use of the sun’s position has not been reported for Micronesia. rno return again to the use of 1 stale S dtoa^S S were“tely associated with the islands they passed over. The stars, therefore, were given the name of that par~ ticular island. For example, the native navigator at any time of the night could point out all the Tongareva stars or all the Rapa stars.

It is difficult to visualise exactly how the sailing directions to a newly discovered island were determined, but since discovery was usually made by sailing in a direct line, rather than wandering about, it is seen to be quite possible to return to the same spot once again by following definite stars. (To be continued) 111 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Ginger Experiment Ends in Disaster HERE may be a warning for territories like Fiji and the Cook Islands, which have given le consideration to developing ger as a small alternative crop, a recent agricultural report from eensland. iast year the Buderim Ginger ewers’ Co-operative Assn., Ltd., jorted 25 tons of seed ginger at ost of £2,000 from North China, is ginger would have placed the gensland industry on a comitive basis with the best overseas )orted processed ginger. ■he ginger was inspected by the jartment of Agriculture and, with exception of a small quantity, ; found in good condition, [owever, almost the entire ntity developed a virulent virus ;ase that spread through the soil [ could be carried on boots from plantation to another, i May, a warning was issued to wers that unless all the affected ps were immediately uprooted [ burnt the whole area might jme infected and the existing itings of local ginger wiped out. .efuting carelessness by the rantine authorities, a departital spokesman said the variety finger imported from China did suit local conditions because of susceptibility to disease. t A fete was held at the Catholic School, near Rove, Honiara, BSIP, on April 30, to raise funds for equipment and improvements to the school, the building of which was recently completed. The fete was attended by almost every European resident at Honiara, and by a large crowd of Solomon Islanders. Stalls were quickly cleared, and £4OO was raised during the afternoon. t When the Maritime Security Commission at Noumea recently fixed the maximum number of passengers carried in inter-island vessels, the Rosalie’s quota was set at 21. Rosalie is a sister-ship of Monique, which was lost two years ago with 120 on board.

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The unspent portion of the original million will still be available.

The Financial Secretary (Mr. H.

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The Government had tried to persuade the United Kingdom that £2,300,000 of Colonial Development and Welfare funds could usefully be spent in Fiji in 1955-60, but it had been warned that the amount available for the whole Colonial Empire was limited, and Fiji was unlikely to get the full amount asked for, however worthy the schemes proposed. t Between 30 and 40 American garden-lovers will arrive in Fiji on October 16 to make a short tour of Viti Levu before travelling to New Zealand and Australia. T party will be led by Mr. Norv Gillespie, well known in the Unit States as a radio, television a newspaper gardening expert. t Within a fortnight in April t: ships, Beaverhank and Nesshank, Apia loaded more than 4,000 tc of copra and several hundred tc of cocoa beans for the Briti market. As a result the Apia she were clear of copra for the fi; time for several years. 114 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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BANKERS: BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY. [?] w Zealand Bears All Coral-Route Loss ICENTLY PIM noted that although the Australian and New Zealand Governments tly own TEAL there appeared >e doubt as to whether they tly shared all expenses of the il Route Service from Fiji to iti.

CAL confirms that the whole of that route is borne by New and, as the route is at present •ofitable and the service proi for Samoa and the Cook ids is considered essential, esumably, the extension to ;ete helps to make the route of a loss than would be the if it were terminated at taki, or at Rarotonga with land es. But whatever saving the ti extension may provide, 3 is still plenty of loss, but j it was in the last financial on the Coral Route is far from clear. New Zealand ipapers in May quoted the ster of Civil Aviation as saying the Coral Route loss in the three months of the financial was £Stg.3o,ooo. No figure was i for the whole year. ie routes served by land planes ckland-Nadi, and the translan routes —showed a profit of 00 for only nine months, jmably the other three months ed a loss, because the overall t for the year was given as t £Stg.6o,ooo. 1 that basis it appears that New md made £Stg.3o,ooo—half to country—on the land plane ?s, and lost it all again, plus arently a lot more, on the 1 Route sector which is her nse alone. therefore appears that although Coral Route can be regarded Ttant strategically, from any • point of view it is an expensive ry to the New Zealand taxr, and the sooner land planes ice the flying boats, the better everyone’s pocket—distasteful ie idea may be for Suva and ete, which are without air- 3. r Australia, TEAL has a much ; satisfactory aspect. From a of £5tg.168,250, half of which ralia stood, in the financial 1953-54, the situation changed profit of £Stg.3o,ooo for Ausa in 1954-55. •wever, if Coral Route finances be faulted, Coral Route mger safety records cannot.

L has just celebrated its 15th iday with a record free from »r accident. Since 1940, over 00 passengers have been safely ed over 14,353,153 miles of itional routes. About 5i million ds of mail and 5 million pounds argo have been carried, and total route mileage extended 1,342 miles to 9,487 miles.

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Morris Hedstrom Dividend The directors of Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., Suva, have recommended to the shareholders the payment at June 30 of a final dividend on the ordinary shares of the company of 6$ per cent, for the year ended on March 31.

U Judge A. McCarthy, who retired as Chief Judge in the Cook Islands last year, is now busy shipping copra from his property on Mauke Island. t The Bank of New South Wales has announced the establishment of the Boroko Agency of its Port Moresby branch. Boroko is about four miles from Port Moresby and has a European population of about 1,250. The agency is the 10th office of the bank in Papua-New Guinea. 115 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturers and Contractors Contact us for a Quotation Apia Police Recover PWD Materials If The Rev. Father Jolivel and Brother Gautier, well known members of the Gilbert Islands Catholic Mission staff, were due in Sydney in June en route to France on furlough.

If Mr. Don Henderson, who has been in charge of the meteorological office at Lauthala Bay, Fiji, for some years, has been transferred back to New Zealand on completion of his term.

Large-scale thefts of Public Works building materials in Western Samoa have been uncovered by Apia police investigations. Pictured here is some of the recovered property being stored at the Police Station. Indications are that thefts have been going on for a considerable time. —Photo by R. F. Rankin. 117 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Air-Travellers for South-West Pacific Mr. P. Matthews is acting as Public Relations Officer, Fiji, during the absence on six months’ leave of Mr. L. G. Usher. Mr. Usher will spend part of his leave as press liaison officer in the Orient liners Orsova and Orcades on their pioneering voyages between Sydney and London via North American ports and Panama. t The Bank of Indo-China, whose Noumea branch has a monopoly of banking business in New Caledonia, intends to open a branch in the New Hebrides. Accounts published in Pans show that in 1954 the bank had a profit of nearly 730,000,000 Metropolitan francs (about £A876,000), compared with 640,000 000 francs in 1953. t A resident of the Marques writing from Taha Uka, Hiva Island, reports considerable devele mental work being undertak there by the Public Works Depai ment of French Oceania, schooner wharf is now in operatt and access roads to the main coh areas are nearing completion.

Outward bound from Sydney to the Islands in May, by Qantas, were (left ot right): The Rev. and Mrs. P. Grant and Ian who returene[?] to the Apostolic Church Mission at Oha Island, New Hebrides, after leave in Australia. Mr Andre Mouledous, well-known Noumea mercha[?] who returned there from a business visit to Sydney. Mr. Maurice Lepas who returned to Noumea after vacation in Sydney, was farewelled [?] Miss V. de Villiers; Mr. Lepas is proprietor of a leading tailoring business, "Tailleur de Paris", in Noumea. 118 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Viti Levu, Tailevu Fijians ; planted nearly 400 acres, asiri about 350 acres and ern Ra nearly 200. Winter iting is under way in the Serualosi region. is estimated that Fijian banana itations, including old, weedy s, produce about 70 cases of : to the acre annually. New itings will probably produce )le this figure. le Agriculture Department is nding its fertiliser-demonstrapolicy in the main banana s. The report states that m growers are awake to the ibility that with the aid of lisers, production on abandoned ma lands may be resumed ; to villages instead of having inually to seek fresh but cessible areas.

[?]W Duty On Spirits

Creates Apia Debate

From Our Own Correspondent) ICAUSE reduced customs duties on imported rice and tinned fish would involve a loss of •oximately £12,000, the Hon. H.

Moors proposed in the Western oan Legislative Assembly that duty on beer and spirits be sased. hen Mr. Moors’ motion came an amendment by the Hon. G.

Betham saved exempted beer ale from increased duty, but proposed increase on spirits carried. iring the debate both the ctor of Health (Dr, Lonie) and Moors referred to liquor as son” and declared that they ; strong teetotallers, itside the Assembly there has i criticism on the grounds that increased duty on spirits was acted by two members who are members of the Liquor Board, ;h fixes the liquor allowances individual applicants, has been alleged that by deing themselves to be teetotallers e members have admitted a ee of prejudice in the question.

New Caledonia's Place in SEATO is Made Clear FRANCE regards New Caledonia as part of the SEATO defence organisation because it is in the area covered by the SEATO treaty, but this noint was not formally considered at either the Manila or Bangkok conferences.

No question has arisen regarding the stationing of non-French forces in th° island.

The internal affairs of New Caledonia concern France alone and will be discussed in conference with other SEATO members only if the French Government so desires.

These points were made by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs when replying to questions asked in the Chamber of Deputies by New Caledonia’s representative, M.

Maurice Lenormand. Noumea Correspondent. 119 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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of New Guinea THE Phantom Stockman was the first Chips Rafferty film. It t 1 financed by debentures in the same way as is now planned for new features, and debenture holders received their capital back, pc 27i%, in ten months.

Chips Rafferty’s latest film, “King' of the Coral Seas,” is now meet:, with enormous success abroad, as well as in Australia, and holder® debentures with which its production was financed have alres received the return of their capital investment and can now lo forward to a return FAR IN EXCESS of the 27|% paid to debenture holders of the Phantom Stockman.

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Chips Rafferty is about to commence production on an exciting story of New (iuinea, tentatively called “Walk into Paradise.”

So highly is this film regarded that Paul Decharme, the only Continental producer ever to have won two Continental awards, has arrived in Australia to collaborate in making a French version of the picture.

The agreement concluded means large financial backmg, additional markets, and larger audiences by the addition of French-speaking communities.

Already the Chips Rafferty films have met enthusiastic acceptance in many countries. As an example of this, it is significant that “King of the Coral Seas” opens this month at the Ritz Theatre, London. It is being distributed by British Pathe.

The outstanding success enjoyed by the first two feature Films has opened up a selling organisation tor all future productions, and debenture holders can be confident that their money is being put in an enterprise which has already proved itself SUCCESS- FUL and very PROFITABLE.

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APPLICATION AND PROSPECTUS: Application Forms a; Prospectus may be obtained ONLY at the registered office, A Floor, Scot Chambers, Hosting Place, Svdney, either by MA/ ’PHONE (BW 3540, BW 6652), or PERSONAL APPLICATION Applications must be made on the form of application accoi: panying the Prospectus and must be lodged at the register office of the Company, 4th Floor, Scot Chambers, Hosting Pla; Sydney, not later than the 6th day of July, 1955. Each applicatfa must be accompanied by a remittance of not less than £5O. TI issue opened on Tuesday, the 7th day of February, 1955, will close at 5 p.m. on the 6th day of July, 1955. 120 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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WHO Finds Yaws in Fiji LTHOUGH many people be- L lieved that yaws in Fiji j} a d become only a minor health worry ice the era of the late Dr. S. M. mbert, a Medical Department itement in May indicates other- An anti-yaws campaign is now ider way with the aid of the orld Health Organisation and the lited Nations Children’s Fund. [n May it was announced that 'o of the five treatment teams lich will tour Fiji to give penilin injections, had completed their lining. , , , At the same time it was stated at “it is estimated that from 15 to 20 p.c. of the Fijians are still ffering from yaws”—an estimate sed on “reports submitted gularly by Assistant Medical actitioners, Health Sisters and irses over the years.”

Blood tests have already been rried out with several thousand ople in Cakaudrove and it is exited that the entire Fijian popution will be examined during the ;xt 12 months.

A similar yaws control project in estem Samoa, with assistance om the WHO and UNICEF, is heduled to begin in June. [?]istoric Papers Found at Daru 7ALUABLE documents relating r to the massacre of the Rev.

James Chalmers, the Rev. liver Tomkins, and a number of ission students at Goaribari iland in 1901 have been found at aru.

It is understood that the papers ere lost during the Second World J ar, and were subsequently found y a Native Clerk, whose father irefully preserved them.

Recently this man handed them ) the Rev. L. Allen, of the London lissionary Society, who passed the apers to the District Commissioner t Daru, Mr. F. A. Champion. They re now at Port Moresby awaiting espatch to the archives of the lommonwealth National Library t C&nbGrrs, The papers include the original eport of a statement made to the lesident Magistrate, Mr. C. G.

Murray, at Daru shortly after the nurders by one of the natives rrested for complicity in the rime. . . .

There is also part of the original ;orrespondence between Queensland ifficials at Thursday Island and the Daru Magistrate regarding the lespatch of 16 officers and men of he Royal Australian Artillery rom Thursday Island to help the British New Guinea authorities in the arrest of the murderers.

Some of the documents were written on board the Lieutenant- Governor’s yacht Merrie England while this craft was in the Gulf of Papua during the Lieutenant- Governor’s investigation of the tragedy. The file includes a report written on Government House notepaper bearing the United Kingdom crest, and the words, "Government House, British New Guinea.”

AMr A. S. Newman, the new Government Storekeeper, Fiji, is expected to arrive from Nigeria in July.

An Easy Way to Peel and Core Pineapples Throughout the Islands, small Co-operative Societies are springing up. In New Guinea they have already become Big Business with very considerable capital. All of them are on the look-out for possible small industries. In the Cook Islands, where a Co-operative Officer has just been appointed, there seem to be possibilities in a small pineapple pulping and canning industry based on Mangaia and some other islands.

Mr. Ronald Syme, who has lately been at Mangaia exploring these possibilities, found that one of his biggest problems was to locate a reasonably inexpensive machine for peeling and coring pineapples.

Most machines are much too expensive and elaborate for the small producer.

Mr. Syme finally contacted an engineer in England and explained his problem. The result was the machine shown herewith.

So successful has it proved that the engineer has now patented the device. Pineapples are peeled and cored in a single downstroke of the handle—lo per minute is easy going, and a good man might process twice that number.

Hand peeling takes U minutes per pineapple, plus more time for removing the core. The machine is adjustable by the replacement of various sired cylindrical cutters from 31 in. down to in. It is not a thing for children to play with, but it is a highly efficient machine for the small cannery, and anyone seeking such a machine should contact the engineer: Roy Holmes, Esq., C/o Gee, Walker & Slater, Ltd , Severn Works, Mansfield Road, Derby, England. 121 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Owned by Mr. K. H. Dalrymple Hay, the new theatre is probably the best-appointed in the Western Pacific.

First-night proceeds were given to the fund being raised to build a Honiara memorial to those killed in the Solomons during the Pacific War. f Fiji’s largest shipment of trocas and pearlshell products to date was loaded by the liner Orion in May.

The consignment, totalling 141 tons, included 5,500,000 buttons and button blanks manufactured at Levuka.

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(From Our Own Correspondent) ■ VTEW Caledonia’s current bon >ll was the keynote of the specs tt «, by the Governor (M. Re Hoffherr) at the opening of tt May session of the Conseil Gene:; at Noumea.

The Governor pointed out th the population was increasing ♦ Noumea alone there were 1 European births and only 194 deatt m 1954), that external trade w increasing, that the 1954 buildii figures (139 buildings valued 130,000 000 francs, or about £A75(i 00O) constituted a record, and tlr motor vehicles had increased fro 1,140 in 1940 to 5,828 in early 19K The budget, with a surplus some 50.000,000 francs, reflected t; Colony’s prosperity.

However, M. Hoffherr stressu that this prosperity was bas« almost entirely on the mining ii dustry. And the mining indusfed meant the production of nick© although there were some signs an improvement in the chrom market and clear promise in tf export of iron ore and cobalt.

M. Hoffherr said that N© Caledonia’s trade deficit with Am tralia, which was aggravated by similar deficit between Prance an Australia, would, it was hoped, 1 reduced by exports of iron ore i Australia. t P(pur Suva Grammar Schoc pupils won commendation in til 1954 essay competitions of tit Royal Empire Society, Londoic They were Laura Harman, Jan Lament, Roderick Ewins and Peali Cayzer.

Passenqers who left Sydeny in the "Bulolo" in May included the following: Mr. Roger Middleton and Mrs. A. V. Middleton who returne home to Kar Kar Island. Mrs J. H. Yoeman, who returned to Wewak, where her husband is District Officer. Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Trac[?] who were bound for Port Moresby, where Mr. Tracy is attched to Goverment Secretary's Department. 122 JUNE. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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W. SAMOA EST price offered for Samoan cocoa early May was £Stg.26s a ton, f.o.b. Apia for grade, but little cocoa was coming in from plantations and stocks then were low in * * * Ie Chilean naval training vessel "Es- -31 da", arriving at Apia via Easter Island Papeete, was the centre of interest early when the sailing craft spent three days lort. Officers were entertained at a cocktail y at Vailima and by the Apia Club, and rge number of local people were entertained ird by Capitan de Fregata Victor Wilson, last visited Apia as a midshipman in the jan training vessel "Baquedano" in 1931. * * * mending duty rates on imports, as approved he last session of the Legislative Assembly, e into force on May 4. There is public cism of the new high rates on liquor. * * * blowing an entertainment and dance at the na Cabaret, Apia, during May, a number jeopie were admitted to hospital suffering i food poisoning, and a Samoan died on following day. iuse of the sickness was advised too late the medical authorities to carry out an nination of the food, but it is believed crab or crayfish was responsible. * * * afa Pass Road, linking the north and h coasts of Upolu, reached an important e of construction on April 30 when gangs i north and south linked up near the ni River Falls. The event was celebrated a simple ceremony in which local Samoan PWD officials took part. * * * te session of the Legislative Assembly which in on March 29, ended on May 1 on comon of some of the most important business dealt with by the Assembly, overnment Estimates were approved for > with only slight modification. ie Income Tax Ordinance was approved in ciple but the actual rates have been left ibeyance for the August session, ie Customs Order Amendment Bill, comely revising the tariff but maintaining ish Preference, was presented and approved r some modification to suggested rates, dally a reduction of duty on certain staple s, including rice and tinned fish. Tax on or was increased on a motion introduced fhe Hon. H. W. Moors, n a morion by the Hon. A. M. Gurau, and •oved by 16 votes to 3, the elected memvoting en bloc, a commission of inquiry investigate the organisatiion and activities the Public Works Department and particur the circumstances surrounding the alleged t and loss of stores and the misuse of cles. An amendment by the Acting ncial Secretary that a Treasury investigation made was rejected, and a three-man common will in due course be appointed, he Assembly passed a motion by the Hon. iga calling for stricter traffic control followrecent fatal accidents involving children, he Hon. Tamasese's motion that the Governt negotiate with the Union Steam Ship Co. ivoid Sunday cargo handlings with "Tofua"

"Matua" was also passed unanimously.

Radio New Zealand Changes Radio New Zealand made seasonal changes to its transmissions in mid-May, and is now transmitting to the Islands as follows: 1700- 1730 GMT, 6 02 mc/s (49 metre band); 2045- 0600 GMT, 11 78 mc/s (25 metre band); 0615 to close-down, 6.08 mc/s (49 metre band). New Zealand and Islands news at 0033 GMT, 0830 GMT, and 1030 GMT. Special Newsletter for the islands at 0730 GMT Thursdays. t The general secretary of the French civil aviation control organisation (M. Lemaire) is to make a survey of New Caledonia’s external air communications and of the state of Tontouta airport. 123 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 195 5

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ISLANDS 'T'HE "Matua", on her special May n voyage to Rarotonga and Manii "stand-in” for the invalided "Maui po uplifted 18,820 cases of oranges, 1,41 i of other citrus, 301 cases of tomatoc cases of bananas, and a quantity of pears and coconuts.

The bananas, all but 18 cases from M were the first signs of a revival of that i following the recent guarantee by til Zealand importing organisation that iti accept every case that the Cooks care duce and take the responsibility of shipping space for them.

The "Matua" also had over 70 pa<i aboard when she sailed for Auckland. Tf the largest number of passengers to i from the Group by a ship for many ye * * * The Cook Islands, from Rarotonga tc hiki, experienced a slight earthquake t 14. The shake was sufficiently strn Manihiki to swing lights and cause f in the concrete floor of one building. * * * There is a movement afoot at Rarotd establish a War Memorial Museum. AS meeting on May 15, attended by cs persons in spite of very bad weathen an interesting talk by Dr. Don Marse the Peabody Museum, Salem, USA, inn he discussed various aspects of the ment of a museum. Dr. Peabody is at carrying out research work in the Cou Other speakers included the Residem missioner, Mr. Nevill, Dr. Romans, Chiefs Morgan, Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki, a Tetupu Ariki. It was decided to go int and a small committee was formed, mendations made by this committee i referred to the Legislative Council.

The idea of establishing a museum h<r mooted for a good many years. Mes much historical material is becoming di l or lost. * * * An air connection between Rarotonir the outside world was provided in the. part of May when a New Zealanoi Aviation Authority aircraft made a quarterly visit to check radio navigations A shuttle flight was made to Aitutaki nect with the TEAL flying-boat, maill; carried by the DC3. * * * Despite the absence from the run "Maui Pomare", Rarotonga has had a shipping recently. During May, in addiil the call of the "Matua", largest pas vessel to call for many a day, the small I and the trans-Pacific freighter "Waitematrt brought cargo and loaded produce fo< Zealand. * * * Mr. Percy Henderson of the Educatiii partment returned to Rarotonga in May > the Civil Aviation Authority aircraft afteia a year of travel in India, Egypt and els on a UNESCO fellowship grant. * * * The Economic Survey Mission from Zealand has continued its work in Rais during May. The public has been givenn opportunity to express its ideas and matters with members of the three-man ft 124 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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A. K. Jones, formerly of rn Australia, had arrived at Moresby on April 28 to work the Health Department as a • of artificial limbs.

Jones was previously engaged ailar work at Perth—including making of artifical limbs for *ines. J cial willow will be imported Australia and elsewhere for the but Mr. Jones believes that P-NG timbers may be suitable •tificial limbs.

Director of Health (Dr. J. T. ler) has said that, because of Llties arising in a tropical te, it was unlikely that allartificial limbs would be made i factory. Instead, limbs made tit wood, plastic, and specially- ;d leather would be made for tation patients. 3 presume that these artificial are for natives. There are 3ly likely to be sufficient Euroi in the Territory requiring to warrant a factory).

G. L. Snow, representative for . Donald & Co. at Mangaia d, has made a good recovery resumed duties after his recent is illness. 125 ; I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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From Our Own Correspondent THE close ties linking the British Commonwealth and the French Union were symbolised on May 8, when New Zealand and New Caledonia jointly paid homage to the Dominion’s war dead at the opening of the NZ cemetery at Bourail.

In January, 1942, a few weeks after the Japanese had started the Pacific War at Pearl Harbour, the NZ 3rd Division came into being in Fiji.

It consisted of the Bth Brigade, which had gone to Fiji early in the war, reinforced by the 14th Brigade. Major-General (now Sir Harold) Barrowclough was in command.

In November, 1942, this force was transferred to New Caledonia.

In addition, units of the Royal NZ Air Force and ships of the NZ Navy were prominent in the Pacific War.

In August, 1943, the 3rd Division went to Guadalcanal and fought at Vella Lavella, Nissan and elsewhere.

The division returned to NZ in 1944.

Three hundred NZ servicemen are buried at Bourail, and the formal opening of the beautiful cemetery coincided with both the anniversary of V-E Day in 1945 and the French national day which honours Joan of Arc.

SIR Harold Barrowclough, now Chief Justice of NZ, led the Dominion’s delegation. M. Jean Meadmore represented the French Legation at Wellington.

On May 7, Sir Harold laid a wreath at the Monument aux Morts, Noumea, as a tribute from the NZ Government and people to France’s war dead.

Eleven relatives of serviceme buried or commemorated at Boura flew to New Caledonia by way ( Fiji for the simple but ceremony. It was attended also t people from all over New Caledoni; General Barrowclough spoke ( New Caledonia's loyalty to Fightin France and to the Allied cause at difficult period in France’s histor; and thanked the Colony for provid ing at Bourail a lasting resting place for fallen New Zealanders.

M. Rene Hoffherr, Governor < New Caledonia and High Commk sioner for France in the Pacifr paid an eloquent tribute to Ne’

Zealand’s fighting forces.

Bourail Cross of Sacrifi[?] Dedication of [?] New Zealand [?] cemetery at Bour [?] New Caledonia on [?] 8, was marked by impressive ceremony which both counter were strongly rep [?] sented. Focal point the ceremony was [?] Cross of Sacrifice, [?] here shortly before [?] unveiling. —Photo by F.

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r FICIAL engagements after the dedication of the New Zealand war cemetery at Bourail, New 3donia, were cancelled at Noumea the evening of May 8 after a i smash on the Bourail-Noumea 1 had caused the death of Mr.

T. Spencer, a New Zealand radio mentator. r. Spencer, who was aged 44, served in New Caledonia durthe war. r ith him in the jeep after the rail ceremony was Mr. J. H. jr, a radio technician, who sufd severe head injuries, r. Spencer’s body was taken to r Zealand for burial at Wellon.

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New French Company Backs NC Project SOCIETE Neo Caledonienne d’Energie is the name of the new company formed at Paris to finance the construction of New Caledonia’s big Yate River hydroelectric project.

The Paris plans, which will be submitted to the Assembly at Noumea, provide for a dam 55 metres high, giving a capacity of 300 cubic metres of water. New turbines and alternators to be installed in the existing powerhouse will permit a production of more than 320,000,000 kilowatts per annum.

The Nickel Co. will buy 90 per cent, of this energy for the production of 10,000 tons of smelted nickel per annum. The remainder will be available for public consumption.

The new Yate installation will cost about £A10,000,000. Behind the company will be the French Government (through FIDES, the organisation for developing the French Empire), the New Caledonian Government and the Nickel Co. The Colony will have about 19 per cent, interest in the company, the Nickel Co. a little less, and the French Government will hold the remainder.

New Caledonia’s contribution of £A828,000 will be advanced by the French Government as a loan to the Administration for ten years at nominal interest of 2 per cent.

In return the local Administration is to be asked to stabilise its fiscal policy towards the Energy Co. and the Nickel Co. to help them to plan ahead for a joint effort to bring the cost price of refined nickel down to a level where it can compete on the world market without the aid of a huge subsidy as at present.

Work on the Yate dam is expected to start at the end of this year.

About 500 local workers will be required, and about 200 specialised workers will be imported, probably from France. —Noumea Correspondent. t The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Sir Robert Stanley, KBE, CMG) attended the Dawn Service at Honiara on Anzac Day.

The Anzac Dinner this year was held on April 26, as the arrival of the Qantas plane on April 25 made it impossible for the Hotel Mendana to cater for a large dinner party on that day. About 40 ex-servicemen and women were present at the dinner. Guests of honour were the High Commissioner and the Chief Secretary, Western Pacific Commission (Mr. R. J. Minnitt).

The dinner was followed by a dance at the Hotel Mendana. (I Ratu Edward Cakobau, OBE, MC, who has been appointed a Fijian Economic Development Officer, has also become Roko Tui Tailevu in succession to Joeli K.

Ravai, who is retiring because of ill-health. Ratu Edward’s successor as District Commissioner Southern will be Mr. C. C. Legge. [?]w Zealand's delegation to the Bourail [?]tery dedication was led by Major-General Harold Barrowclough, seen here at Noumea M. Rene Hoffherr, Governor of New Cale- [?] and High Commissioner for France in the [?]ic. —Photo by Information Service, Noumea. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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"his deadlock on the domestic nt is a direct result of too-high ces for essential foodstuffs, lopes of cheaper local produce a sequel to the opening of the dern, well-conducted Municipal ,rket have vanished. The minim stall rental is only 1/-, and llholders have few, if any, of the jrhead costs met by shopkeepers, t market prices are as high as )se in the shops, and sometimes [her. rhere is a strong public belief it stallholders, when there is a it of local produce, prefer to let ? surplus rot rather than reduce i price-level.

Bitter public complaints appartly fall on deaf official ears. When ice controls were removed in jO, the Government undertook to mpose them if evidence of ploitation of the public should iterialise.

When most lines of imported Dds are priced beyond the reach the bulk of the low-wage population, it seems that the only possible answer is for the Government to fix reasonable prices for both producer and consumer of local foodstuffs, giving both a share of the excess profits now made by middlemen. t Port Moresby hills are gradually becoming covered with trees, but the fire danger in the dry season is a constant threat to the trees, said the Administrator (Brigadier D. M. Cleland) when he presented the trophies won at the annual Port Moresby Flower Show. Urging public support for the Administration’s fire-prevention campaign, he said; “The more we reduce grass fires, the sooner the hills will be properly covered”.

Loyal Service medals were presented to eight New Britain men by the District Commissioner (Mr. J. R. Foldi) on May 7. The ceremony [?] k place outside the Rabaul Native Village Council office. Photo by C. H. Meen. 129 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Prom Our Own Correspondent TF sufficient Indo-Chinese do not J- decide to go home before the winding-up of the repatriation scheme, the New Caledonia Administration will face a big problem.

There have even been suggestions of some sort of enforced repatriation, and the question has been referred to Paris.

Repatriation paid for by the Colony will come to an end with the sailing of the Norwegian ship Skaubryn, under charter to Messageries Maritimes, from Noumea with Indo-Chinese and Javanese repatriates.

Repatriation to their homelands is one of the terms of the indenture system by which these people came to New Caledonia.

About 600 Javanese have notified their intention of going home, and this will almost write off the Javanese community, which once numbered many thousands.

But very few Indo-Chinese have done anything about it, possibly because of a fear that repatriation will not be possible to areas which have been passed over to the Vietmmh. The Administration has explained, however, that under the terms signed at Geneva, repatriation is covered.

Meanwhile, the commission which came from Indo-China to investigate the possibilities of establishing Eurasian refugees in New Caledonia did not get far. It extracted a promise that some ten families would be admitted—but only on condition that they are agricultural labourers.

Even this is meeting with strong local opposition, and it is reported that agriculturists are rare among the Eurasians.

The question of repatriating the Vietnamese came before the May session of the New Caledonian Assembly.

Members were told that the cost of the Skaubryn’s voyage to Indonesia will be 5,000,000 francs (£A30,000) and to Indo-China 7,- 000,000 francs.

The delicate problem of enforced repatriation has been referred to Paris for a decision.

Tuna Fishery Possibilities

The refugee question was mentioned in the course of a recent Sydney press interview by Maurice Lenormand, a Deputvv the French National Assembly Vice-President of the New Ct donia Legislative Council, who ■ on his way back to Noumea ft; 18-HS.

Speaking of labour problems Lenormand said that although K Caledonia was ready and will! to offer contracts to displae persons of Indo-China who I been driven from their homes s the north, the political situatf there was proving such that firm and satisfactory arrangem© could be reached.

However, arrangements had 1 been concluded for a small numr oi part-European families fn that area to come on contracts, s probably more would follow.

M. Lenormand said that althov< a programme of economic expansa was under way in New Caledon* especially in the exploitation minerals, the labour problem y gradually becoming less acute m the fairly rapid natural population.

He could not say whether possibility of Fiji Indians as? labour source was still a live iss but he implied that first preferer would be towards French Uni labour sources.

M. Lenormand confirmed tl; there are moves afoot for 1 establishment of a tuna-hshii industry based at Noumea.

“More than one company” wok be involved in the industry, believed, and, if current negoti tions were satisfactory, the fishii would be done by Japanese contract.

M. Lenormand could not s whether American interests wr, involved, but he admitted that ttt was possible, in view of the vr to Noumea by a representative an American canning compas last year.

He believed that there might developments in the tuna indush in time for the next fishing seaso< in early 1956.

Further work on the favourah indications of oil in New Caledon still awaited the approval of finara from Prance, he said.

M. Lenormand spoke highly the present Governor of Nit Caledonia (M. Rene Hoffherr) wit he said, was a man very w qualified for the post and keen interested in local problems. t By bagging a 104 lb voriwuci j type of parrot fish) at Lakeba. hs\.

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The CSR Co., which is Australia’s oldest industrial company, has also been responsible for the building up of the sugar industry of Fiji.

The final dividend makes a basic total of 91 per cent, for the year, an increase from 9 per cent., the rate ruling since 1948. Including the bonus, the year’s distribution is 12 per cent.

In the last seven years capital has risen from £11,700,000 to £14,040,000.

The 9 1 per cent, dividend will amount to £1,338,800, and with the bonus the year’s distribution will be £1,684,800.

Net profit for 1953-54 was £1,417,943, equal to 10.1 on capital.

Sydney press comment was: “The increase in the basic half-yearly dividend must be interpreted as a move to a 10 per cent, annual rate.

From a company of CSR’s calibre it can hardly be doubted that the move is backed by substantial reasons”. t Tonga’s first death sentence for 30 years was passed in May on Kelekolio Kaihea, of Nukuhetulu, who had been found guilty of the murder of another young man of the same village, Sosefo Monu, on January 8.

HMr. Ambikanand, principal of the Samabula Government School, Suva, has been elected president of the Fiji Teachers’ Union in succession to Mr. Hari Charan, who retired after holding the post for 17 years. 131 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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-V hoc hppn rnmnleted in the ,mlge t 0 Se uSd asThfmaJor m for a colour film, “Walk Paradise,” and shooting was ;ed to start in early June. them International Films is 1 the film, two of the directors Australians, Chips Rafferty jee Robinson, who have comon other films. ilk Into Paradise” has Conal players to support Chips, will be released in Europe aneously with the Australian 5. n reports, the story is almost lourful as the film’s name— is a patrol officer who fights > and cannibals and gets d up with a woman doctor in ingle.

Jestion Of Advisory

COUNCILS re was another phase in what ow become a battle between the Port Moresby Town Advisory Council and the Administration when the council, in late May, discussed again the matter of representation of the public.

The council passed a resolution saying it was its desire that all council members except official members be elected by the public, and that the official members be retained as advisers, This resolution was the result of a lengthy discussion on a motion by Mr. S. Fox (one of the members noted for adopting an independent approach) that all ward members be elected.

Mr. Fox submitted notice of the motion at the previous meeting after the Administrator, Brigadier Cleland. had caused a few raised eyebrows by telling members they did not represent anybody because they were nominated and not elected.

Most members said they felt they had better be elected, or that somebody had better be elected, if this meant that the Administration would realise that ward members, at any rate, were the voices of people in the wards.

They said they thought that the Administration was at present disregarding their suggestions.

Public Service And

ARBITRATION The Papua-New Guinea Public Service Association in May received a reply from the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, on its request for his intervention in its forthcoming arbitration case.

The association has approached arbitration for increased salaries and conditions after having what it considers an unpleasant brush with the Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasluck over these matters at the end of last year.

The association asked Mr.

Menzies to see that an arbitrator was appointed who would be satisfactory to both sides, hinting that it thought justice might not be served if Mr. Hasluck himself made the decision.

In his reply, Mr. Menzies said that the Government recognised that mutual confidence in the arbitrator was the very essence of a beneficial arbitration system.

He said the Government would respect this principle when making Investiture at Government House, Moresby [?]r residents of Papua-New Guinea received decorations at an investiture at Government Port Moresby, on May 7. Shown here are (left to right); Dr. T. J. Gunther, who received E; Captain J. H. Evans, MBE; Mr. W. A. Bock, Imperial Services Medal; Inspector D. [?], MBE.

Ivan Champion, who received the OBE in a recent honours list, will be invested on his from leave in Australia. Sina Malmaus, BEM, will receive his decoration at a special of the PIR on a date to be fixed. — Photo by Papuan Prints.

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These loans are distinct from those granted by the War Service Homes Division, which recently set up an organisation in the Territory.

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Reeve are made as a result of a Commonwealth decision to increase the maximum amount of a loan to £2,750 and to reduce the interest rate to 4 1 p.c.

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The new effective rate of interest has been reduced to per cent., but this is not necessarily the last word and it can be varied from time to time.

Borrowers at the old rate of 5 per cent, effective interest can apply to convert to the lower rate, and applications must be received before August.

Outbreak Of Polio

There is currently an outbreak of poliomyelitis among natives in the Manus district. The Administration, on May 23, issued a proclamation restricting the movement of natives from the district to prevent the spread of the disease to other areas.

There have been sporadic cases in the district for some time, but three cases reported recently included one death.

Gelignite Accident

Three men were injured when gelignite exploded while they were using it near Kokopo, on May 22.

They were Edward Axelson, Frank Pratt and James Atkinson. Axelson later had his right hand amputated.

The men were using the explosive while engaged in a fairly common Territory pastime left over from the war—fishing.

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A contract has been let for the erection of a three-storey Bible House at Port Moresby.

It will cost about £lO,OOO ano be erected by the British and Foe Bible Society as a Territory dfc bution centre and centre foir work of translating the scrips into Territory languages.

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The Territory appeared to M out in one of its occasional pj supply rashes in late June. i Hardly a month passes when 1 is not a complaint somewhere s the inadequacy of Territory pj supplies, or the cost of them, ess ally for the consumer.

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CITY 13/1/151 Papuan Wedding at Port Moresby ort Moresby has nothing so fancy a new power house—an old tin i on the waterfront suffices—but of its six engines broke down denly one night because a cold o (cold for Moresby, that is) put too great a strain. eak-hour rationing was introed and threatened to last for a ith until a seventh engine from ain could be installed. efore any screams could go up n the rest of the Territory for , machine, engineers began workovertime to get it safely tented into the floor. lectricity supplies for the Busulahang area, Lae, could not be ranteed after June 30, residents e told last month. Following this ice a petition bearing the signa- 5 of 60 Lae citizens was subted to the Lae Town Advisory ncil’s May meeting together with ers from some private companies ch are interested in this area. he petition asked the Council to e the Government to maintain plies in the area and stated that the electricity were not mainled many of them would suffer dships.

Lodification Of Native

CURFEW Iterations to native curfew hours all Territory townships will be °tted shortly. The new curfew irs will be from 11 pm to 5 am, ;ead of from 9 pm to 6 am as at sen t further amendment provides for control between the hours of 9 pm and 6 am over the making of any noise which constitutes an unwarranted disturbance or nuisance to residents.

The change in the evening curfew hour from 9 pm to 11 pm is being made as a trial to ascertain whether curfew can be relaxed progressively without adverse effect on any section of the community, including the natives themselves, The change takes into consideration the fact that many natives have taken up educational and recreational interests, SU9II as the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movement, evening study classes attendance at clubs operated for the native people, and going to picture shows which necessitate their being out after 9 pm.

Further, there are others holding positions of trust and responsibility in industry, commerce and Government departments, and already well advanced towards European living standards, to whom the 9 pm curfew appears as an unjustifiable restnction on the personal freedom of individuals whose record has won them recognition as persons of good repute and responsibility.

Another factor influencing the introduction of a trial period of 11 pm curfew is that th e native people should have the opportunity to emerge gradually from restrictions which limit their S9ope to demonstrate capacity for wise use of greater personal freedom, (Continued on Page 137) This bridal group was photographed on April 30, after the first full Papuan wedding ever at the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Port Moresby. The bride was formerly Theresa Ola. bridegroom is Joseph Kia. Both were educated at the Roman Catholic Mission, Port Moresby.

Rev. Father Guivarch performed the ceremony. - photo by Papuan Print s. 135 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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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.

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Laotic Conditions At

LAE WHARF ; inadequate storage facilities ; Lae Customs shed have been jly criticised. company director, Mr. Arthur said that conditions at the ifharf after the Bulolo had dised were chaotic, the latest meeting of the TAG, [arold Hindwood described the liti o n s at the wharf as lutely disgraceful.” i cargo from three ships, the Sinkiang and Bulolo was ;d ceiling high in the shed and jnors had an almost impostask clearing their consignew days after the Bulolo dei, the Shansi arrived and to the confusion by discharg- -10 tons of cargo into the shed. of Lae’s businessmen agreed :he situation was serious and that situations like this cost ,e enterprise many hundreds unds each time large shipwere landed at Lae.

May meeting of the TAG was :hat £40,000 was included in raft programme for a 100 ft >ion to the wharf, t Council members agreed that ft extension was useless bethe fact that it would allow -hatch ship to work all holds 3 time. yiously the Morobe District :il had recommended that a extension to the wharf was ed, plus all storage facilities, they made their submissions e three-year plan, ice we made that recommendthe position has become more iss,” the chairman of the Council, Mr. Bretag, said. A i was carried urging the Govnt to reconsider the original ition. ’ was a busy month for shipis eight ships arrived.

Delos loaded the largest shipto leave the port since the 1,440 tons of scrap metal and ;. Aboard the vessel were 200 of scrap metal consigned to cope with shipping at this he Lae wharf requires three the present storage space,” cott said. jAE personal notes District Commissioner, Mr. H. was accompanied by his wife he left on leave by the Bulolo, y. During Mr. Niall’s absence losition of District Commiswill be filled by Mr. Les ms. ;rican anthropologists Dr. and Jim Watson returned to ca aboard the Thorsisle last l They had been engaged on york in the Kianantu area. On turn to America Dr. Watson will occupy a senior position at the Washington State University.

Kpithpr Oporffp Bernardino was HO Lae resldents t? the RSL Hall recently. Father Bernarding has been posted to the Madang District. He was the Catholic priest at Lae for three years and took a very active interest in both social and sporting activities of the community.

District Commissionei Mr. Les Williams made a presentation to Father George fi o m the Lae clt J? e f £ s pr F Mi _ ik hac . been Jf'vich il a r Q p D 88 n appointed parish pnest at Lae. (Continued on Page i3B) Wong-Low Wedding The bridal group photographed on May 21 outside the Rabaul Methodist Church following the marriage of Mr. James Wong and Miss Alice Low.

Left to right are Mr. Steven Cheong (bestman), the bride and groom; the Rev. John Su, who performed the ceremony; Miss Peggy Lam (bridesmaid). In front is flower girl, Elizabeth Low. —Photo by C. H.

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Overcrowded School

A spokesman for the Lae Parents and Citizens Association said this month that his association was alarmed at the overcrowding of the European Primary School.

“One hundred and twenty-five children are attending this school and they are accommodated in four classrooms, each 24 ft by 24 ft,” the spokesman said. “One classroom has to seat 49 students.

“In 1953 there were 50 students at the Primary School here and it was impossible to anticipate the present large increase. The situation will become progressively worse.

Seven additional students will be enrolled at the start of next term.

The Lae pre-school play centre caters for nearly 40 children and at least 16 are awaiting admittance.

“The primary school will be expected to accommodate children leaving the kindergarten at the end of this year.

“Extensions to the school were given a very low priority in the three-year plan recommendations.

“Our association considers that the extensions should receive prompt action before the situation becomes worse.”

Lae Airstrip Improved

Lae people are hopeful that the Sky master service carrying passengers and freight from Australia will again terminate at Lae following improvements which have been made to the Lae airstrip.

The improvements entailed the removal of all grass from the main runway surfaces and complete regravelling. The project was started in the middle of May and at the end of the month it required only the assistance of rain to complete the £6,500 project.

The work was carried out by the Department of Works, and to expedite the reconditioning the department operated two shifts between 6 am and 10 pm, the night work being carried out under flood lighting A senior official with Qantas said at Lae that the Skymasters from . tralia would again terminate inr when the strip became service; and after sufficient time had elae to enable the company to reao timetables and internal organisat The last Skymaster landed ati in August. Since then the se:j has terminated at Port a shuttle service of DC3 airr has been ferrying passengers e New Guinea from Port Moresb: Lae.

Control Of Malaria If

TERRITORY The Minister for Territories,, Paul Hasluck, said on May 25 t as a further move in the ss malaria campaign in the Terriof Papua and New Guinea, he approved the creation of a 5 tion of Malaria Control Officer the Territory Department of He} and of thirteen positions of Mai Control Assistant. Applications wv be called for eleven of these n tions by public advertisement i month.

Malaria was the disease of mr importance in the Territory and!

Director of Health, Dr. Jod Gunther, had reported th a M malaria were eradicated, it etc be anticipated that the inli mortality would be halved, and i expectation of life doubled.

Possibly in fifteen years, as result of both these changes, I population of the Territory cc increased by 100 per cent.

The accepted policy was that ; problem of malaria control music tackled by the education of people and the awakening of a sire to establish their own cc: munity control.

The Territory Health Depsc ment had already established} Malaria School at Minj, in Western Highlands, where courses—one for Health officers i one for Native Affairs officers—l- - been successfully conduce These officers were now applying ■< lessons in their daily work.

It was the object of the depst ment to establish in each district Malaria Control Assistant, m Brilliant Ini Student One of the scholarships whio[?] Government of has awarded to students from Fi[?] gone to Miss [?] Basavanand, daugh[?] Mr. and Mrs. vanand of Suva, in the photograph to right) are Mrs. vanand, Mrs. E Mr Basavanand, Nirmala Basa[?] and Shri Devi Bhatia, Commis[?] for the Governme[?] India in Fiji. 138 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Telegraphic Address: “BURNSTRUST”. Box 513, G.P Also Registered Offices of Melbourne. Brisbane. Bor! Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides). ler the direction of the central laria control authority, would anise local measures and travel ough the district bringing about co-operation of the native pie in measures for community trol of malaria. tecent research had encouraged view that residual spraying, viously thought as a result of "time experience to be ineffective, jld now be successful. Their -k would be assisted by the dical Assistants and local Medical cers who were already engaged this work. ’he plans of the Director of jlic Health also envisage the jointment of a medical specialist Malariologist and, under his >ction, the Malaria Control Officer ild be engaged in research as 1 as directing control work oughout the Territory.

European Population

INCREASES ’he Minister for Territories, Mr. sluck, said on May 22 that the ults of the June, 1954, census ich had recently been analysed a bulletin issued by the Comnwealth Bureau of Census and itistics showed that since 1947 the i-indigenous population of the -ritory of Papua and New Guinea i risen from 9,439 to 17,755. Of s total, 6,313 were in the Terriy of Papua and 11,442 in the ist Territory of New Guinea, nnong some of the changes in ; character of the population re; — * in increase in the percentage of Idren, there being 21 per cent, ier 10 years of age in 1954 com- ■ed with 15 per cent, in 1947; ?he percentage of females to the al population increased from 32 • cent, to 38 per cent; [lie percentage of married people reased from 41 per cent, to 43 per it; increased proportion of persons British allegiance. )f the total non-indigenous popuion of 17,755, a total of 13,787 were ti in Australia, the Territories or w Zealand, making 76 per cent, the total. Of the remainder, 2,249 d their birthplace in Europe and 28 in Asia, including 754 whose thplace was China, rhe census table setting out the tin groups of industry showed that *re was a total in the work force 10,281. rhe largest industry group in the rritory was “Public Authority ot elsewhere included) and Prossional Activities,” which accounted ’ 36 per cent, of the total work -ce. This was followed by the ransport and Storage” group, iresenting 12 per cent, of the work fee, the “Commerce” group, (12 r cent.) and the Building and instruction group (11 per cent.).

This means that the Common- ;alth Government is s f ill the •gest employer in the Territory.

Since 1947 the number of persons engaged in the Territory in primary production has more than doubled, rising from 402 to 829, while the increase in manufacturing has been even greater, rising from 288 to 77/.

Guinea Gold Profit up By £24,000 Net profit of Guinea Gold NL jumped £24,206 to £46,695 for the year to February 28.

Dividends of lOd (unchanged) paid during the year took £20,834 and a further Id was paid from the dividend equalisation account. A distribution of 1/- was made from the amortisation fund, making a total distribution of 1/11 a share for the year.

Market value of the company’s holding in Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., fell from £215,250 to £166,050.

Manu'a Dock Project Equipment for Manu’a’s first dock project was landed at Faleasao, Ta’u, on May 12, under the supervision of Mr. E. E.

Wilson, Director of Public Works in Eastern Samoa.

Heavy seas had spoiled the first attempt in 1954. This time the heavy crane, bulldozer and other equipment were shipped in a lighter towed by the Manu’a Tele and were transferred from the lighter to a raft made of empty 50-gallon drums covered by a sturdy platform.

A 100 ft dock will be built, a small turning-basin dredged out and a road cut to Fitiuta village. (Pago Pago Correspondent ). 139 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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[?] D [?] ening Up NG’s Sepik District From a Special Correspondent ;re are some further details of lew Wewak-Maprik Road (PIM, ), the opening of which was bly regarded as a milestone of ress in that often neglected part ew Guinea.

April a trip was made over 95 miles ative-made road from Wewak to ik. This road had been finally cut gh only a week before the trip was , and the party which undertook it sted of the District Commissioner, f. P. White, Cadet Patrol Officers J. r earne and G. F. Cooke, administra- Mechanic K. Harslett, two native ibles and a native mechanic. iy travelled in two Land Rover pickdestined for work in the Maprik tistrict, and completed the strenuous ey in four days travelling time. road, native built with Administraadvice and assistance, climbs the ; Alexander Range at Mendi, 11 miles of Wewak. It crosses that range general south-south-westerly direct- The road crosses the Wawat plateau, >y avoiding the worst of the tangled n ridges south and south-west of k for which the range is famous, nding to the lower foothills, the proceeds westward along the northern of the Sepik grasslands, and re- ; the foothills of the Torricelli tains between Yangoru and Maprik. completion of the road opens up a eather route for four-wheel-drive es between Wewak and Maprik. and the alluvial gold fields and rich iltural lands of the Yangoru and ik foothill areas faster land comatlon with the coast. ive Rural Progress Societies are prof rice and peanuts and root crops, iter will be able to make use of the to market their produce. One of the les recently purchased, from Aus- , a one-ton four wheel drive utility and other societies will be assisted ihe Administration to purchase es. European agricultural interest * area is also growing. party set out on April 4. The er, at that time of the year, could ►ected to be reasonably dry: however, , unseasonable rains fell, and the which, until it is further developed, tended for dry weather use only, e slippery where the grades were The rivers and streams had more in them than was seasonable, but, stages of the journey enthusiastic s rallied round to assist wherever i. The useful rattan cane (kanda) in handy as hauling-lines. natives had built sturdy bridges many of the rivers, and had r ed a remarkable engineering feat e Minjim River. Across it they had built a 66-ft. single span bridge. The six large kwila tree trunks forming the bearers of the bridge had been slung across by means of rattan cane lines— the trees on the opposite bank being used as derrick-arms for the purpose. The banks of the Minjim at the site chosen for the bridge are 25 feet at low water.

The Nagum River, which nrovides the main drainage of the inland fall of the Prince Alexander Range, was forded in partial flood. The road crosses the Nagum down on the flats. As the water was high, the engines were not used. A large party of enthusiastic natives (many of them nudists) towed the two vehicles across the river to the accompaniment of yells and howls which are an accepted aid to effort.

At times, in this season, the Nagum can be forded at a depth of only six inches, and of course, in the wet, or after a cloud burst, it can run at 15 feet.

The river is highly unpredictable.

All along the route the party was greeted enthusiastically by the natives.

In some places a vehicle had never appeared before. The headlights after dark were an outstanding success with the children. Many of the natives had known the District Commissioner years before when, as a Patrol Officer, he had visited them in their villages on foot.

With the opening of this new road (which largely follows Administration prewar patrol trails), a total of 137 road miles can now be traversed by four-wheel drive vehicles in a general west-southwesterly direction from Wewak to Maprik and on to Dreikikir to the west. The section between Yangoru through Maprik to Dreikikir has been jeepable now for some time. This road also links up with the 36 mile north-south Mauri Maprik Road from the Sepik River.

Further improvements will be made to the road with heavy equipment which has already been used on the Wewak end and with the arrival of the dry season improvements will continue in the Range section. The natives have agreed to cooperate.

Considerable interest was aroused throughout the Sepik District and the Territory at the party’s effort. Travelling times would have been considerably reduced had dry instead of the unseasonably wet weather been encountered.

The isolated missionaries and European pioneers encountered on the journey received the party with typical New Guinea bush hospitality. Some remarked that they never believed that they would see the day when vehicles passed their door from Wewak. fl Mr. Edwin Gold, of Mangaia, has recently submitted a bulky manuscript to a United States publisher.

The novel is based on his thirty years of residence at that Island. 141 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Writing On The Wall?

More Realistic Pric[?] For Pacific Crops are numerous signs tl . the sellers’ market that has bea enjoyed so long by producers of t Pacific’s basic crops, is fading awr It could be that in the next ye’ or so, the prizes will again be gol to the smartest—or the strongest.

In April, Germany was negotis mg a trade agreement with Ind: nesia, one of the clauses of whit involved the guaranteed purchss by Germany of $22 million worth copra per annum.

It is not yet known what prr has been agreed upon but the are indications that initially it in the vicinity of $173 (£A77/10/\ c.i.f. German port, deliv e r e weights. For how many years t* agreement will run is also u: known.

Another “free-market” copra d: velopment is the announcement thr a conference of interested countrir will be convened in Manila a August 3, 1955, to consider the esta'j lishment of a combine of producir. countries “on the lines of the exisß mg International Tea Union.”

The outcome of this meeting m undoubtedly be of considerable ill terest to Pacific planters.

Cocoa Substitutes In Thl

United States

In the cocoa industry an Intee national Cocoa Congress took platf in Amsterdam late in April and wn attended by producer representative from all parts of the world.

Many delegations urged tha manufacturers get together an guarantee producers “a reasonaW price” for a period of up to 25 yea* to stimulate production in new prc: ducer countries.

All delegates agreed that the onr answer to the present instability 1 supply and demand was to raii world production. All predicted i further decline in world prices dv to declining consumption.

The recent decline in world coco: consumption was believed to be tit result of a sort of chain reaction crop failures, through climatic cor:< ditions or disease in 1953-54. an consequent periodical acute short ages of supplies in the Unite; States, had stimulated manufau turers there into intensifying the 3 search for cheaper and more acceis sible substitutes.

This search was not entirely uiij successful, and is reflected in tM; figui’es for cocoa-mill grindings. Fr the second-half of 1954, grinding 142 JUNE, 195 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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WS of a better-than-e ve r ynthetic rubber (although it is iot through its teething stages was received about the same as the advice that consumption bber in the United States this is expected to be an all-time probably about 1,400,000 tons. ose who direct the rubber busiin the US do not appear to :, however, that the “present ite balance’’ between supply demand will mean soaring ;r prices; in fact, 1956 is re- ;d as a year in which “straight competition is likely to preand it is not too early for the ■al rubber industry to get ready it.” airman of the US Goodyear Co. has gone on record as saythat his company will be fly happy if it can get 25 per of its requirements in natural ir. He expects synthetic rubber ke up the slack of increased nd because “it takes seven between planting and harvestif natural rubber.’’ ? implication appears to be that ;rs of natural rubber have been ult for not planting more new :r. Rubber planters, for a :y of reasons, have had very encouragement to put out ll in large-scale new plantings the least Of which has been etition from United States Ptip nihhpr , , , at a different story it would been for rubber planters had nmp plpvpv rhpmist HispnvPT’pd .0 maxe syntnetic. Altnougn it is important as a new secret Ml during the war, it has thp whnlp nihhpr nirtnrp d tne wnoie IUDDer picture [?]e Jap Ships Arrive at Pago Pago ! ’rom Our Own Correspondent.) 3 of the original seven ships f the Van Camp fishery at ago Pago returned to Japan lay and four others have ;d. ; crews are all Japanese and iverage ship’s complement is May 24. 30,000 cases were i by a northbound ship. ; cannery’s new assistant ger, Mr. J. St. Armour, and imily arrived on May 20.

J. Jaggard, of Auckland, was avau in April to supervise tions at the citrus products •y during the current orange 1.

Cruise Plans for Frigate Bird III BACK from successful Cruisebird Flight No. 1, Sir Gordon Taylor announced early in June that Flight No. 2 will follow the same circuit to New Caledonia and Fiji, but will be of 20 days duration.

Fare for the 5,000-mile flight, which includes four days at Nabavatu, Vanua Balavu, Lau Islands, Fiji, eastern-most point of the route, is £A.327/10/0.

A schedule of intended cruises for the next year shows the following, all flights starting and ending in Sydney: September 10, a 9-days trip to New Caledonia, fare £A.187/10 0.

September 27, a repetition of Flights 1 and 2 but extending on to Samoa, fare £A.347 10 0.

November 8, a flight to Hobart, right through New Zealand from south to north via lakes and harbours, thence to Lord Howe Island, fare £A.275.

January 8, a 9-days flight to New Caledonia again, fare £lB7/10 0.

February 1. 22, and March 15, repetitions of the Hobart-NZ-Lord Howe Island flights, fare £A.275.

Earlier a flight to Tahiti was forecast for this winter, and this could still be made if sufficient passengers are forthcoming.

New Era Predicted for Flying-Boat Captain Taylor is of the opinion that the day of the flying-boat, far from being over, may just be dawning.

His opinion is supported by an editorial in a leading British air periodical.

For a long time residents of Sydney’s Rose Bay flying-boat base area have been campaigning to have the airport closed because of plant and shielding, g and the P high atomic-powered aircraft due to Qns “ e « Gordon’s plans, as well as for other reasons, he wrote an article in May for g ydney Daily Telegraph, t of which is 0 f particular interest to Island territories; «. with the nassine of the nroneller, w J^ th becausl of its need for i ’ e over the wa t e r surface has Stated a larw deep hull which isexpensive *2 drive through ™ c “ ir is t h P P s Imv iet-nronellld A yi Pg' the land on sheer Sflciencv as a fIvSS machhie and efficiency as a macmne, a and flexibility of operation ec °H°™ y atonScDOTCr' With not verv many years ahead which is not v fl %7 n^^ yye^ r a s v an^^ * seine dominate the tians ocean scene, look for Pacific Products (Continued from Page 143)

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The journal says that the Gle< L. Martin Company of Baltimo took over where the British flvin boat builders left off 15 years ap because of lack of official Briti support.

Not all existing Pacific seadrom could handle the Seamaster becau of its comparatively long, low-ang take off, but the cost of clearii more coral heads would be she compared with the cost of modes airfields.

Meanwhile in Britain researe has been resumed by BOAC ai the RAF into the possibility ■ engining the mothballed giae Princess flying-boats, never us since they were built several ves ago. with turbo-props.

The only important flying-bo service now left to the Islands along the TEAL line from Suva Papeete.

Suva people are still aggrieve at the passing of the flving-bes services from Auckland and Sydnw which left Fiji’s capital high au dry at the end of the 100 mill journey from Nadi internation airport.

Transplanting of Cl Pearl She[?] MR. VAN PEL., the Fisheit Officer for the South Facii Commission, took 320 lit pearl oysters from the Penrhyn au Manihiki lagoons and successful! transplanted them in 17 and fathoms at Rakahanga in ean.

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Rarotongan Enterprise Cook Islands Estimates for 1955-56 allocated £30,000 for the dredging of Avarua Harbour, Rarotonga. The work has been started and the photographs show how it is being tackled.

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Qantas Travellers from Sydney [?]e passengers from Sydney to the Islands in May included: Mlle. Joesette Lenormand Maurice Lenormand (Deputy to the National Assembly and Vice-President of the Legisouncil of New Caledonia) who returned to Noumea from Paris. Brigadier H. Flaxman, Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides, who returned to Vila after a period in a Sydney M. Emile Laffon, president of Societe Nickel, New Caledonia, who was returning from [?]ss trip to Paris. He was met at Sydney by his nephew, Mr. Henry Chaverot, formerly [?]ea and now living in Sydney. 147 [FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Insurances effected at Lloyds of London [?] W THOUGHT PLANTERS [?]e the Mill to the Copra '■veral years ago, an experid Papua planter, Mr. G. A. ion, now retired and living • Sydney, strongly urged the eduction of copra-m i I ling s, which would take the mill the plantations, instead of ging the copra hundreds of s to the mill. It was an inding plan. Recently we asked Loudon what he thought of it in view of post-war deoments. Here is his reply: present price of copra is so ?h that nobody appears to ik to the future and the posof a severe drop in price y the British Government t is withdrawn and they have 5 world competition, a planters are making so money that with few exis they are not really ind in costs nor in further ig of coconuts. The interig of cocoa between coconuts irdly be considered develop n the real sense.

Copra Marketing Board is a Government set-up and, the eing so high, nobody worries mch about handling costs. a mill of greater capacity haul, or another mill in a situation, Carpenters could give the planters a better mn CMB. But the present in for Carpenters is that they all copra from their own , but will also take other at the same price as CMB nd thus make a very nice -viz., local handling and all ;harges. feature that intrigues me is ters expending £300,000 on a t the base of a volcano. Why Dopra Factory Ship? long will copra production le at its present level? A reat proportion was planted ! British in Papua and by rmans in New Guinea in the 1912-1920. Very little has lanted since. re labour costs and the unty of service without bindreements leaves the labour in a very serious position; mberra and UNO still conbo increase wages and cost ling, etc. anot see any wise financier ig funds in Papua or New unless in the production of leat, bread, etc., to feed the crats and their native folwill gather from the above not now inclined to favour )ry Ship venture or any other 3 unless it is based on the mentioned. 149 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Conducted by Ex ZK-1-AC/YR-2-AK ERE is some particularly interesting news in a welcome letter from Les ZM6AS this month. The cardsters be disappointed to know that official e has been received in Apia that the au prefix, in the past unofficially ZM7, more recently rumoured as likely to ;K3, is forthwith ZMO same as srn Samoa. view of the fact that Western Samoa Trust Territory and will some day i Independent self-governing country, »as the Tokelaus are a New Zealand idency, the decision is unexpected, but it is, at least for the foreseeable e. ; ZMO ranks have been temporarily ted, with the departure of Ivan and Irian Tarlton, ZM6AQ and 6AP, who sold their radio servicing business returned to ZL, where Ivan was ;rly ZL2ACC and Brian ZL2AAB. It t yet known whether the man from Zealand who is taking over their ess is a Ham. Des, ZM6AB, late RI, long-time commercial operator in /ZM6 area, also recently retired from NZ Post & Telegraph Department •e and returned to ZL. In recent he has not appeared on the air much. the four remaining ZM6 Hams, Les is QSL manager—address: C/o Bank w Zealand, Apia. Norm 6AT is active ) phone and should have a vfo in tion instead of the 14,160 kc/s rock e time this appears. Ron 6AR, whose we believe is the radio station at 10-Satapuala at the north-western f Upolu Island, 20 miles out of town, ive on 15 and 40 metres, CW/phone.

L, fourth man, is inactive. Les rethat he keeps 6AS warm on 20 /40/80 s CW. oss at Pago Pago, Eastern Samoa, Caldwell, back from leave in the i, and in charge of the commercial la Radio again, still remains the American Samoa Ham KS6AB. ver, no one has so far persuaded 0 show up on the Ham bands since ;turn. 6AS knows of no Tokelau activity ding in the near future. The RNZAF ft makes its usual quarterly flights Suva via Apia of course, and the •n Samoa Government vessel “Manu’a does a charter trip up several times year, so there are opportunities for ;ring Hams, but now that the Group een dubbed with the ZM6 prefix the iterest will probably have vanished, interesting might be a little activity Tonga, long silent. ‘n South Pacific Airlines’ flying-boat Sydney early June on delivery to ulu for the Hawaii-Christmas Island- -1 service, the company still expected ; operating by “about September”, tfflcial surveyed the situation on mas Island in January and returned molulu. It is anticipated that there )e “about two” Europeans and the nder Hawaiians or Gilbertese, ned there to provide radio, meteoro- 1, and refuelling services. e Hamming activity seems reasonably n, probably under the KP6 call, h Britain apparently disputes can rights in the big 35 x 24-mile and only British Government repreives are at present stationed there, is conceivable, if unlikely, that a icence would be involved, three war-time airstrips with assodated radio facilities and settlement for staff were located on the north-west side of the atoll (Casady Field). The seadrome camp is more likely to be near the British settlement at London, on the north side of the lagoon entrance, 15 miles by road west of Casady Field. This north-western part ef the lagoon is the only portion clear of coral heads, and there are some facilities for landing fuel and stores at London.

The former French-Tahiti plantation staff lived at Paris. 3Vz miles by sea across at the south side of the entrance, and probably 50 miles by road from Casady Field.

Doug Berry, ZK-l-BG, of Rarotonga, the Pacific’s 80-metre king, mainly on CW, is keen to make contact with other Islanders, especially ZMO and VR3, with his 35 watts of phone. You’ll find him on 3010 kc/s between 0500-0800 GMT most days.

Seems there’s a new one in the New Hebrides—YJ-l-DL—though mail inquiries for the latest from that area have so far failed.

There’s a lot doing in VK9 according to “Amateur Radio’’. A Ham traffic link has opened, with Doug Lloyd, VK9QQ in charge, and a new QSL manager has been appointed—Doug Beadel, VK9DB, PO Box 107, Port Moresby.

Other news from there: Bill Holland, VK9BW, plans to come south next year to view the Olympics; 9DB, now with a rotary BJK, has increased his 31 mc/s score to 151 countries; Chas, 9CR, has been transferred to Madang; Don, 9DS, still on leave; Ron, 9RG, going on leave very soon; Roy, 9AU, has a portable rig ready for use when on vacation in October; Trevor, 9TC planning to get on the air later in the year; Bob, 9BS, building a rotary for 14/31 mc/s.

Wan has formed a club with 18 foundation members, and lots of donated equipment as the result of a mention at one of the New Guinea Sunday, 0000 GMT, roundtables on 7080 kc/s.

There’s a new call to report—VK9VW, Geoff. Officially cancelled is 9VG, H. A.

Vining. 9CR’s new address is C. W. H.

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Roland, late FOBAD, who probably did more towards letting the world know where Rapa Island is, has got himself a job at a Paris television station, after doing some shack-visiting in the States en route to France.

According to a recent “QST” VR6AC is still threatening to put Pitcairn Island on the radio map.

W3ZK who went south to the Antarctic with Admiral Byrd in 1934 is going south again late this year with the 1955 Byrd Expedition.

According to the Swiss short-wave b/o station, the sunspot average for May was 29.8, ranging from as low as zero on May 9/13/14 to as high as 55 on May 33.

Predicted averages for coming months are: June, 17; July, 19; August, 30; September, 23; October, 24; November 36. Those interested can listen to the ionispheric report on the first Sunday of the month on 6055/9535 kc/s at 0420 GMT, and probably also at other times on that day. tl Mr. and Mrs. A. E. T.' Corrie left Fiji in May to make their home at Sydney. Mr. Corrie’s Suva-based agency business has been turned into a limited liability company. fl Monsieur Jean Ceran Jerusalemy, Conseiller de I’Union Francaise— representative of French Oceania in the French National Assembly, Paris, returned to Papeete in May from a periodical visit to France. He was welcomed in Tahiti style by dancing girls with flower leis as he stepped ashore from the flying boat.

Madang'S Annual Show

The Madang Agricultural and Horicultural Society offered a comprehensive schedule for its third annual show, held on June 4 and 5.

The livestock classes ranged from cattle to goats, poultry and cats.

There were 13 classes in the farm and plantation produce section, 22 in the vegetables and fruit section and 44 in the flower section. All these sections were open to all sections of the community, as were the cookery and needlework sections.

In addition, there were sections for children’s exhibits (24 classes), native produce and livestock (28 classes), native handicrafts and school work (15 classes), art and crafts (13 classes) and 22 arena events.

Commercial exhibits and sideshows completed an extremely colourful display.

Price of Crammond Radios By a transposition of printing blocks, on page 148 of May Pacific Islands Monthly, in the advertisement for Crammond Radio Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of Queensland, a photograph of the Cramruond CTR 8 set was used to illustrate details of Crammond’s CTR 13 ship-toshore equipment, priced at £llO. As the CTR 8 is considerably more expensive than the CTR 13 set, the error has caused some embarrassment to the manufacturers.

Readers should note that it is the ship unit, CTR 13. that costs £llO, not the CTR 8, which is used mainly on land. 151 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Coleman products are almost; traditional in the Islands as South Sea trader.

Mr. Weldon was pleading w the respective Government Treas : les for more liberal dollar alloc tions for his agents along the roi He said that his company is n producing small home air conditk mg units—a new departure Coleman—and already they 5 finding a keen market hT art where import licences have be< granted.

Mr. Weldon predicts that in a f years every tropical home will! equipped with such a device. Go then will be the necessity of hay" l a gale of wind blowing through i home to keep it cool. Instead, t house will be sealed and the clirau within will be “to order”, whate 1 ' conditions are like outside.

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Samoa Anxious For Restored Air Li[?] WESTERN Samoa’s interrupt, and badly-missed air serv\ will be restored, it is hope by the end of June.

The director of the New Zeala* Civil Aviation Administration (M E. A. Gibson) said at Wellingti in May that everything possifi was being done to end t interruption.

It was reported on April 5 thi Satapuala, the marine airport ne; Apia, had been temporarily closi to air services because the ra6 equipment had deteriorated.

Tasman Empire Airways, who Coral Route from Fiji to Tab normally includes Western Samci had, on May 8, about 200 bookim from people wanting to travel | or from Samoa before the end j June, and the Territory w becoming vocal about the brea^ 152 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Ronald Garvey, Governor of md Lady Garvey, who travelled igland in January, are expected ;urn in the Or cades', arriving at on September 25. gadier H. B. Norman, Adminor of Norfolk Island, Mrs. an and Miss Deborah Norman, lydney on June 4 for a holiday ayman Island, Great Barrier Leslie F. Gill of Munda, , arrived in Sydney en route Melbourne to seek medical tion in the Malaita in early is Olivia Anderson returned to 3 with South Pacific Comjn Headquarters, Noumea, in after a period at the Sydney ? Resident Commissioner of Gilbert and Ellice Islands iy, Mr. Bernacchi, accompanied Jrs. Bernacchi. left Bairiki d Te Matapula last September irry out an official tour of southern Gilberts and the Islands. 153 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE PACIFIC. Thor Heyerdahl, leader of the famous Kon- Tiki Expedition—sets out in detail the facts supporting his theory of Polynesian origins in Early America. The question of their origin has been debated by Anthropologists in many countries over the years. Illustrated. Maps and plates. £5/9/-.

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N. H. SEWARD PTY. LTD., 457 Bourke St., Melbourne. Aust. MU 6129 enormcus trade that flows out Malaya’s productiveness goes igh Chinese hands, e Chinese take it all comsntly; and then, by many rground channels, they help the prists—because they think the wrists are helping to drive the peans out of Malaya and Singathese Chinese in Southeast and Indonesia are supporters le new Sinoism —vigorous and ing and dangerous, the purpose hich is to establish a powerful a which will take possession of inch of the world as China s. i broke the power of Japan, i held China in subjection and nated the Far East. Thus we sd the way for Sinoism — i more resembles a vast, hering cloud than the brittle ary aggressiveness of Japan, vhich will be even more diffito stop.

ELL, what would you do about it?” asked my friends, when I got back to Singapore and unmed myself of some of the oing opinions.

I give the military commanders here in the field full authority ot out the suspected nests of in those Chinese villages,” I “I’d follow the Templer n, of giving a village two hours ow who were the Communists, vhere their hide-outs were, and j absolutely ruthless in punishthem when they refused co- ,tion, or were shown to have ed the CT’s.” i, yes,” said my friends. “You do that there ’ere. Ever heard irown Brotherhood, and the d rights of man?” poke warmly on the subject— they said my views were “relary.” hy should 22 young Fijian men been sacrificed in the jungles for the enrichment and pron of these unlovely Chinese )s, who give us no co-operation ?ver, and hate our guts?” I deled. 7 could not answer that one. hey went off on another tack, le Japanese had possession of country for three years,” they “These jungles then were full hinese Terrorists, conducting la war against the Japs, and •rted by the secret agents of i and the Western nations. The were absolutely ruthless —they I raze a town to cut off a few ;S8 heads at the mere waggle villager’s beard. And they had lore success in clearing the ists out of the Malayan jungles we have had.”

Duld not answer that one. me, the ugliest feature in the Malayan picture is the fact that, while the British soldiers up in Malaya are campaigning in the jungles against Chinese Terrorists, the British politicians actually are handing over the Singapore government to a rabble of Chinese, Malayans, Indians and half-breeds.

It is no exaggeration to say that Singapore seethes to-day with anti- European hatred, bubbles with subversive activities, echoes to the triumphant howls of illiterate and insolent demagogues who have just been granted a Constitution which means 90 per cent, self-administration. Further riots are expected any day.

These people are not nearly fit for self-government. But, even if they were, such a change should not have been made without closest consultation with the South Pacific countries whose ultimate fate is bound up with that of the British in Southeast Asia.

HAVING looked the situation over, and talked with scores of well-anformed people, I leave Malaya with these convictions. • If this, Asia’s gateway to the South Pacific, is to be held by the British, then every country in the South Pacific must support Britain in the task. Australians and New Zealanders should be here in force.

It is absurd that, for three years, the only representatives here of the South Pacific should be a few units of the RAAF, and this fine battalion of jungle-fighters from little Fiji. • But it is equally absurd to allow the essentially military job of holding the gateway against Communism to be shaped and influenced by the unrealistic planning of political idealists. The set-up here must be either military guardianship of the gateway (so as to protect all the European countries of the South Pacific against Sinoism and Communism) or an administrative kindergarten designed for a hotchpotch of Asians incapable of governing themselves efficiently—and who, in any case, hate all Europeans and have done nothing to win our trust or to deserve self-government. The two cannot be mixed. • Before Australia, NZ and the South Pacific Islands commit themselves to the task of helping Britain to hold this gateway, the British Government should define far more clearly its purposes and its policy here in Southeast Asia. Because if Britain is going to abandon Malaya and Singapore to these wholly undependable Asian masses (which means that both Malaya and Indonesia become a gift to the Chinese and Communists) it would be a waste of manhood, money and time for the South Pacific countries to send forces here. • If Southeast Asia is going to be abandoned to Chinese or Communist control, it would be better that the South Pacific countries should face the desperate task of establishing a defensive line somewhere in the New Guinea area. That way, the South Pacific countries might be able to get more direct American help.

Under present conditions, it is only a waste of time, money and 155 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955 Fijians Are Wasted in Malaya (Continued from Page 16)

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Sparkling moulded case. ue 9L fletf e l ★ Si us gm € * Gillette No. 24 SET ?°°d “l®?* 0 kee P the Fiji Battalia m the Malayan jungles. I personal am very glad they soon will be gc mg home. *J In ° t / ier Nicies, in future issm Mr. Robson will describe some the activities of the Fijian soldie m Malaya.) Earthquakes at Guadalcan[?] Guadalcanal, and probahi other parts of the Solomon experienced their worst shall mg-up for two years when a serii 28 29 6m ° rS Shook the area on Api( According to geologists workir at the Gold Ridge mining area, tl series opened with a good firm jo at 3 pm on April 28. Next perform ance came at 3 am next day, whii the men were sleeping in the oc Theodore house on the Ridge, i 3.30 am there was an even heavid shake, which continued at varyin intensity for about 15 minutes, b which time all hands had abandon© the house—though it remains ur damaged. Further jolts occurred The epicentre was estimated i have been probably 100 miles soutf of Guadalcanal. No seismic se wave was reported.

The Australian Bureau of Minerr Resources and the Solomon Geological Survey are jointly estaH lishing a programme of proper]' recording earthquakes in ttd Solomons, such records being o importance in a number of scientific fields and in planning harbours am development works.

P-NG Apprenticeship Plan In Force AFTER years of inquiries, negotias tions and passing of ordinances Papua-New Guinea’s Natty Apprenticeship Scheme materialises on May 2.

The scheme covers about 5:. trades, allowing apprentices to tate four or five-year courses, according to their trade.

Their parents or guardians pap a bond of £25 as a guarantee that they do not break the apprentices ship. (Labour employers woulr like to see something similar instituted for their agreement labour!). In some cases, thsr Government will guarantee the bond.

Initially, applications will lit restricted to Port Moresby, Lae Rabaul, Wau and BUlolo, but i will be extended to other centres 0 when adequate control from the Native Apprenticeship Board li feasible.

Employers welcomed the ami nouncement of the scheme anoi many inquiries were made in tlar first few days. 156 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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From Our Own Correspondent) is understood here that the Skymaster service from Sydney dght through to Lae will retnence about the middle of this Qantas withdrew the naster service from Lae about months ago, since when these ?r aircraft have been terming their run at Port Moresby smaller DC3 planes have been ing the shuttle service between ;sby and Lae. le return of the Skymasters will nd on when final work can lone on improvements to the airstrip, which has been the e of the trouble. DCA opened strip to Skymasters last year Qantas wouldn’t fly in there other improvements had been len Skymasters return to Lae, will be mixed feelings among itorian travellers. Since the lasters have terminated at they have been able to cut ■al hours off the run and filers arrived in Sydney early in evening. With Lae again on schedule, Sydney ETA will no t return to around midnight— a popular time for arrival ■here in the world. the other hand, other llers —especially those On the r Side (New Guinea) missed omfort of the Skymaster flight Lae. lat is more, the fares have the same whether they lied de luxe or in the tin, vays seats of the freighter. 157 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. S. Hollander

Samuel Hollander, general ager of Northern Hotels Ltd., died suddenly at his office in oka on May 23. . Hollander was born in Engbut spent most of his life in Zealand. He went to Fiji comtively recently and in 1952 took is appointment with Northern Is. was a member of the Lautoka i Council for a period. He was inent in musical circles, and he i keen chess player. )bably he was best known outbusiness interests for his asso- >n with Rugby football. He was w Zealand Test Referee and in lid much to further the sport, le time of his death he was lent of the Northern Districts y Union. is survived by his wife and two 1 sons.

Mrs. C. J. Beddows

2 death of another pioneer sentative, Mrs. Caroline Jane ows, widow of Mr. William jws, occurred at Suva on May Mrs. Beddows was 88 and was in Fiji. . and Mrs. Beddows had a coconut plantation in Taveuni, j they reared a large family V respected in Fiji. Later, Mr. tfrs. Beddows retired to live at the plantation being carried r their sons. i surviving members of their y are Mrs. Louise Howell (Syd- Mrs. Roger Heard (Sydney), W. A. Barton (Suva), Mrs. T. eld (Suva), Mrs. J. Hinchey ritius) and Messrs. Frank )ws (New Zealand) and Alfred )ws (Suva). Two sons, George irthur, were killed in France in 1 War I.

John Thomas Pinner

* death occurred at Canberra ay 17, of John Thomas Pinner, , FIPA, and until a few years tommonwwealth Public Service aissioner since 1947. was known to old TNG resias Accounts Member of the ipriation Board in Rabaul 1922 to 1925, and was at all a popular identity with all ns of the community, taking en interest in cricket and s. was born in 1888 in Melle, was educated in that and practised as a public ntant in Adelaide and Melie, joining the Australian Pay Corps during War I. He vith the Taxation Dept, for a time before going to TNG. m 1929-43 he was Commonh Public Service Inspector, being appointed Commissioner, leaves a widow and two iters.

Mr. Max Nicholls

Mr. Max Nicholls, of Lord Howe Island, died at the Concord Repatriation Hospital, Sydney, on April 9, at the age of 76.

Mr. Nicholls went to Lord Howe in 1924 as the Education Department teacher. On his retirement in 1927, due to ill-health (he was badly gassed in World War I), he decided to remain there. He was a bachelor and spent the remainder of his life at the island except for visits to relatives in Sydney and Tasmania.

He collected data on the history of Lord Howe, and wrote A History of Lord Howe Island, compiling a botanical section with the help of Captain J. D. McComish and Mrs.

McComish.

A violin he made from a German telephone box during his war service is now in the Canberra War Memorial Museum.

Mr. Nicholls evolved a method of making baskets and other articles from palm-fronds with the result that nearly every tourist leaves the island with a “Lord Howe basket”.

Sister M. Borgia

One of the oldest members of the Roman Catholic Mission at Vunapope, New Guinea, Sister M.

Borgia died on April 19 at the age of 87.

Born at Ipswich, near Brisbane, Sister Borgia was for a time a State teacher in Queensland, but she joined the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, and received the religious habit from Bishop Navarre, the first Bishop of New Guinea. After teaching in the Order’s schools in Sydney, she went to Vunapope in 1900 with a band of missionaries who accompanied Bishop Coupe. (Brother Saule, still living at Vunapope at the age of 86, is now the only surviving member of the group).

Sister Borgia worked at many stations in the Gazelle Peninsua, and in 1925 Bishop Vesters appointed her to found the first Chinese school at Rabaul.

In 1941 Sister Borgia refused to be evacuated and underwent the rigours of Ramale Camp. After the war she had a holiday in Australia, but, although 77, she refused to retire.

Since January, 1953, she had been suffering from paralysis.

THE REV. H. A. FA YELL The Rev. Harold Albert Favell, whose death occurred at Suva in April, was 77 years of age.

Born in London and ordained in New Zealand in 1904, he went to Tonga in 1929 and was in charge of the Anglican Mission there until he retired in 1946. He continued to live at Nukualofa until he had to go to Suva for hospital treatment.

A memorial service was held at St. Paul’s Church, Nukualofa, on April 24.

Miss C. H. Wedgwood

Miss Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood, a brilliant English anthropologist who died at Sydney on May 17, was a lecturer in native education at the Australian School of Pacific Administration, Mosman.

She was aged 54.

Miss Wedgwood, daughter of the first Baron Wedgwood, was a Master of Arts of Newnham College, Cambridge. From 1935 to 1944 she was principal of the Women’s College, Sydney University. With experience as an anthropologist in New Guinea, she was an honorary lecturer in anthropology at the University for eight years.

The Minister for Territories (Mr.

Paul Hasluck) said in Canberra that Miss Wedgwood had done much work for the people of Papua and New Guinea. Anew school to be built at Goroka, New Guinea, would be named the Camilla Wedgwood Central School for Girls.

Mr. Charles Procter

News has recently been received in the Cook Islands of the death last August at Ramos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of Charles Procter, veteran Cook Islands trader. (Continued on Page 160) 159 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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Mrs. Isabel Rennie

Mrs. Isabel Ronnie, widow of I John Rennie, died at Suva on M 31. She was in her 86th year..

Mrs. Rennie (formerly M Lang) was born in New Zealas and arrived in Fiji in the eas 1890’s. In 1895 she married Jo Rennie, a canefarmer of Baule? on the Rewa. The family New Zealand for several years, 1 returned to Suva to settle p< manently.

Mrs. Rennie is survived by a s< Mr. John Rennie, of Suva, and t daughters, Zena (Mrs. Borron) & Doreen (Mrs. A. Stafford), bothi Suva.

MR. E. L. BAKER Mr. Ernest Laidlaw Baker, w, died at his home at Manly, Sydn~ on May 30, at the age of 75, arm in Fiji in 1901 to work as a cleJ in the Colonial Secretary’s OfH3 In 1906 he became Clerk as Reporter to the Legislative Count and in 1914 was commissioned : Provincial and District Cox missioner. For a time he acted .

Assistant Colonial Secretary.

As District Commissioner, I served in almost every district* Fiji and retired in 1938 as Senr District Commissioner, 1st Grade.-.

His wife, formerly Miss M. 1 Griffiths, whom he married in 19G survives him. There are three so —Arthur (Establishment Offio Fiji), Bruce (a chartered accounts in Sydney) and Denis (a farm at Mt. Macedon, Victoria).

Heavy Coffee Surpl [?] Sends Prices Dow [?] WORLD coffee prices showed! further decline in May as t result of what is described! a huge coffee surplus in rmi South and Central American pit ducing countries, and failure f far by these producers to reals agreement on international prh controls.

In New York green (unroaste? coffee fell from 58 cents per pou: (£A.583 per long ton, approx.)! 53 cents (£A.532) for top grad Retail price of roasted coffee f by 5 cents to 90 cents.

Coffee prices have recently fall in Sydney, in sympathy wr overseas trends. 160 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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How much of this land now ses clear titles? A: Some acres.

How much is now actually cultivation or in use? A: eply was given to this queslow many tenants are occupy- • leasing parts of this land?

Bow much rent is being colfrom all of this land? A: ximately £l2O per annum.

What is the approximate cost mum in recent years of adering this land? A: There is parate vote. Any Commonl expense in relation to the is defrayed in the ordinary of the administration of this ;ment. \ve the titles of any portion is land currently being inted, and if not, when did such gations cease? A: The last ents to be handed down on ition for title to land were at the end of 1954. is any of the land currently Jr for sale or lease? A: The at all times on offer for lease om time to time prospective s approach this Department.

Vhat is the approximate value the whole of the land? A: impossible to estimate a i this letter it is evident that is a good deal of confusion just how much land was in- Burns Philp’s own records to show that 41,000 acres taken over by them from bringing their total holdings : time to about 125,000 acres, apartment’s letter would seem 161 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955

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TENDERS TENDERS ENDORSED “Tenders for Hakau Plantation”, are invited by the undersigned and will be received until 5 p.m. on August 31, 1955. for the purchase of the following; HAKAU PLANTATION.— Situated on th north-east coast of Bougainville in th Territory of New Guinea. An “al weather” and “all ship” anchorage a Tiop; highest point 300 ft. above sea level well watered by two good streams, capabl of driving Pelton Wheel.

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Islands Visitors Welcome. to indicate that Burns Philp Co. transferred to Commonwes ownership only the ex-ANHC lj and not their entire holdings.

Comment on other points rai in the correspondence by l Hebrides residents should be teresting.

Caution in Troch [?] Market THERE were indications in Sydr early in June that the buoyr trochus market of recent mon might be due for a fall—possibh substantial one.

The whys and wherefores of • shell market are always complex s difficult to fathom. Ever since ‘ war the “experts” have been say\ that shell has had its day and tt plastics would capture the but: market very soon. Yet in recc months trochus and free-marj MOP have been as high as the 1J skyrocket.

Now, suddenly, European buy' have ceased to buy, and some N Guinea producers who have b« selling directly to Europe have be< making urgent offers to Sydr buyers.

As these resell to Europe they, t are naturally cautious. What v certain early in June was that h\ ing had almost ceased at prii acceptable to producers, and tl producers might find, with mi and more producers entering I market under the stimulus of 1 recent high prices, that they mi{ have to be prepared to sell at qui a lot lower than they have recen: been receiving.

Pacific Islands Society THE Sydney Pacific Islam Society members were entc tained at their May meeti; by a selection of interesting fill from the SPC film library. Mr. .

J. Salisbury, a member of t Society, arranged and presented t programme.

A documentary on Truk, Pons and Yap, in colour, gave membic glimpses of these very beautil islands, of which comparative little is heard in this part of t world. Another film, made by t New Zealand National Film Uii some years ago in the course of flag-showing cruise by a RNZN V( sel, took members on a voyage] the Cooks, Tokelaus, and Samoa; with Lieutenant Commander JJ A. O’Neill, DSC, lately master! the Melanesian Mission sh Southern Cross VII, in commale and frequently sighted in the file At the June 23 gathering mei bers will hear an address, illustrat by colour slides, given by Proft sor A Grove Day. It will d( with Hawaii. 162 JUNE, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L

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Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 140 Pac. Francs; $U52.23.) 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: p APUA - NEW GUINEA;—Hot Air £69/15/-; FM (Sun) £69; Smoked £ 66/15/-.

Pl Jl: —Plantation £P63/5/6; PM £P63moister grades to £PS9/15/- minimum. ’

W. SAMOA:—£S42/6A, £S4I/18/-. and £S4I/12/- for 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 / Glzo: Hot Air £ A67/10/-; Mixed HA/PM £A6I/10/-; PM £AS7/10/-; Yandina: 5/- higher.

NEW HEBRIDES:—June 1: Merchants paying 6,250 Pac. francs (£A4S/6/-) delivered Vila/Santo.

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:—lslands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which, on June 6, was £ Stg.2Bs f.o.b.

P.-N.G.: £A34O, delivered Sydney.

W. SAMOA: June 1: £Stg.3lo, f.o.b.

Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: Little business; top quality about 4/- lb. (Singapore quoted June 6, finest grade (EK-1) Robusta £ Stg.27l c.i.f. Sydney).

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 June, No. 1 RSS, spot 96/4 cents (34. Id Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, quoted June 7; Buying price, c.i.f. Sydney, Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 59/- lb.

RICE (Australian);—Price adjusted May 1 each year. P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed £65 per ton, f.o.b. To other Territories £7B per ton, f.o.b.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices fixed U Torres Strait producers and Otto i Co. (USA) for 1955: Sound grades, 1 D, £ A 390; E, £A3OO; EE, £A2L f.o.b. Australian port. Manihiki: °f £ A4OO, c.i.f. Auckland. No actus ness quoted.

TROCHUS:—June 7 in store £ subject to rejects: P.-N.G. to £4l

Green Snail:—P.-Ng In

Sydney, to £340, subject to’rejects;

London And U.S. Prices'

Copra:—London, June 5: Straits* £Stg.67 ( £AB3/15/-). N. Hebrides,.

June 1, 68,000 Metro, francs per kr (£ AB7/15/-).

Cocoa:—London, May 21: Gold!

May-July delivery, c.i.f. U.K., £ per long ton; New York futures! 33.30 cents; Sept., 34.00 cents: Dec' cents lb.

Coffee:—London, May 21: Uganda!, robusta, unwashed, f.a.q., prompt db £Stg.2l9, May-June £Stg.2l6, Jur £Stg.2o2, July-August £Stg.l97 p© ton, f.o.b. Mombasa; New York, M futures: July 43.00 cents, September cents, December 37.60 cents lb.

Trochus:—London, May 21 Sing early delivery, £Stg.49s; Sin© Macassar, £Stg.4lo c.i.f. Since fall!

Greensnail:—Last quotation, Dee Singapore £Stg.34o.

Rubber;—London, June 6: Spot I 28 7 / 8 d Stg.; Oct.-Dec. 27%d Stg.

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Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, .

BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia oi< basis £lOO FIJI: Buying. £Alll/2/6; S< £ All 3. Fijl-London, basis £lOO Lob B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Flji, basis?

NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZJ tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Sa B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Sa London, basis £lOO London: B. £10(t S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £loo' B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji,!, £lOO Samoa: B. £111; s. £llO. ]

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth El

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kan Madang), BANK OF NSW (branches:; Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Mao: Samarai; agency: Wau) and ANZ El (Port Moresby) quote exchange I Australia-Papua-NG; 10/- per £lOO. .

Bsi.—Commonwealth Bank (Br

at Honiara) quotes exchange rate tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific fr most valuable of the three franc gi in French Union, are used in New ( donia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Ocea FRENCH BANK (Comptolr Natit. fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $.

D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney qu i Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.: 180 i S^n'ev L and Mih lberta p S hi ee i' Sydney - (Telephone; MA 9197.) Wholly set up ann a °y the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta street. Sydney.

TONGA is linked by the rest of the • Businessmen use the regular TEAL air service tor travel, mail and cargo. * Tourists can enjoy the experience of a )ne-day return international flight (Fiji— Fonga-Fiji) leaving Suva at 6-30 a.m. and irnving back at 5 p.m. Wonderful scenic flights over tropical islands by luxurious Solent flying boats and a stop-over of more than four hours in Nukualofa, capital of the fascinating Kingdom of Tonga.

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OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE BUYERS AND EXPORTERS OF ALL KINDS ) AGENTS FOR AUSTRALIAN, EUROPEAN \ AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, / distributors EVERY DESCRIPTION M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC. < OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

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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 £r Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, Island Products Ltd., W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng. Port Moresby. Ltd., Suva.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY JUNE, 1955