PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly 'DECEMBER, 1955 Vol. XXVI. No. 5 Wished 1930 '<v a newspaper ] A HAPPY study of a Samoan youngster. The small-meshed net is used to catch fish inside the Reef—a community effort enjoyed thoroughly by the young people and their elders.

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New Guinea Australia Line

Passenger and Cargo Liners Regular Services between AUSTRALIA and NEW GUINEA M.S. SOOCHOW . . . Sydney Brisbane Port Moresby Samarai and return.

M.S. SHANSI . . . Sydney Brisbane Rabaul Kavieng Madang Lae and return.

M.S. SINKIANG .. . Melbourne Sydney Port Moresby Samarai Lae Madang Kavieng - Rabaul and return.

Hongkong New Guinea Line

New Monthly Service between JAPAN, HONGKONG and NEW GUINEA S.S. FUNING 1 Japan Hongkong Madang Kavieng Rabaul Lae S S FENGNING I Samarai Port Moresby and return.

Calls at Kavieng are on alternate months, or subject to inducement.

Calls at Samarai subject to inducement.

Through bills to and from U.K., Continent, U.S.A. & Japan.

For further details please apply to agents, or refer to the weekly advertisement in the South Pacific Post AGENTS APUA: Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby, Samarai. babies: Steamships. [EW GUINEA: Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd., Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Rabaul. Cable. Colye:ram.

RISBANE; Wills, Gilchrist & Sanderson Pty. Ltd., 400 Queen Street. Cables. Wilgilsand. lELBOURNE: John Sanderson (Shipping) Pty. Ltd., 11l William Street. Cable: ® y “*\ C g te ‘ APAN* Tokyo Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe; Butterfield & Swire (Japan) Ltd. Cable. Swi .. v RTT 1719 AGENTS AUSTRALASIA: G. S. Yuill & Co. Pty. Ltd. 6 Bridge Street, Sydney. Cable: Yuill. 8U1712.

ASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong. Cable: Swire.

DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

ORSOVA ORION ORSOVA

Oronsay Orcades

1956 1956 1956 1956 1956 SYDNEY depart 27 Jan. 2 Apr. 1 June 13 July AUCKLAND arr/dep 30 Jan. 6 Apr. 4 June 16 July From SUV A arr/dep 2 Feb. 10 Apr. 7 June 19 July Panama HONOLULU arr/dep 7 Feb. 16 Apr. 12 June 24 July VANCOUVER arrive 13 Feb. 23 Apr. 18 June 30 July depart 14 Feb. 24 Apr. 19 June 31 July 11 Sept.

SAN FRANCISCO arr 16 Feb. 27 Apr. 21 June 2 Aug, 7 Sept. depart 17 Feb. 28 Apr.

Then 3 Aug. 8 Sept.

HONOLULU arr/dep 21 Feb. 3 May to 7 Aug. 16 Sept.

SUVA arr/dep 28 Feb. 11 May Panama 14 Aug. 23 Sept.

AUCKLAND arr/dep 2 Mar, 14 May __ 17 Aug. 26 Sept.

SYDNEY arrive 5 Mar. 18 May — 20 Aug. 29 Sept. inking the Pacific Islands with { sl% The Shaw Savill Tourist Class Liner S.S. SOUTHERN CROSS.

The 20,000 ton round the world tourist liner, Southern Cross carries no cargo and is a floating hotel devoted entirely to the needs of her 1,160 tourist class passengers. With air conditioning installed in every cabin, passengers rest in cool comfort even during the hottest weather.

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NIMUM fares: )m Suva via Panama £lO5 stg, via South Africa £132 stg, om Tahiti via Panama £lOO stg.

P via South Africa £l5l stg. for full particulars apply: ******* FIJI hiti Call is Subject to Weather Permitting Shaw Any Branch or Agency of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Head Office; Suva. Cable address: Burnsouth.

TAHITI Etablissements Donald Tahiti, Papeete.

Cable address: Donald, Papeete.

Shipping Time-Tables Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA All sailings are approximate and may p vary by as much as two weeks.

Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea [MV Malalta sails from Sydney for Rabaul, Ivieng, Lombrum, Lorengau, Wewak, ■xishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney. Next Ding Dec. 30.

MV Malekula sails from Sydney for Imarai, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, BXlshafen, Madang, Lae, Samaral and him to Sydney. Next sailing about midiuary.

MV Bulolo, modern liner, sails about try six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresby- Inarai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul marai-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney. Next ling Dec. 13. retails from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., (Bridge Street, Sydney.

IV Shansi: Sydney - Brisbane - Rabaul pieng - Samarai - Lae - Sydney. Sailing t. 10.

IV Soochow: Sydney - Brisbane - Port resby - Samarai - Sydney. Sailing Dec.

IV Sinkiang: Jan. 11.

FAR EAST-P.-N.G. pNING: Leaves Moresby Jan. 6, reus Japan via Brisbane. Leaves Japan L 15, Rabaul Dec. 27, Madang Dec. 31, f Jan. 2, Port Moresby Jan. 6.

ENGNING: Leaves Port Moresby Dec. pturns Hongkong via Townsville; leaves igkong Jan. 14, Rabaul Jan. 26, Madang L 30, Lae Feb. 2, Port Moresby Feb. 7.

Wails from New Guinea Australia Line S. Yulll & Co., Ltd., agentsi. 6 Bridge Sydney.

Southbound only: MV Aros: Rabaul Dec. 16.

MV Citos: Rabaul Jan. 19, Madang Jan 22, Lae Jan. 24, then E. Australian ports!

MV Delos: Now northbound.

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

Sydney-Netherlands Ng

Monthly service from E. Australian ports to Hollandia and Sorong (with Biak and/or Manokwari if inducement) thence Borneo Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 George 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.

Lyttelton, Wellington, and return to Auckland. Each Autumn there is a temporary rearrangement of schedules while the respective vessels are on annual survey.

Next sailing: MV Tofua Jan. 17; MV Matua Jan. 31.

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

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The regular passenger vessel Maul Pomare should resume early in 1956 The 700-ton freighter Viti is meanwhile operating a cargo service from Auckland and occasional limited passenger facilities are available on trans-Pacific freighters.

Pull details on application to NZ Government Department of island Territories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ. Ltd.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Tulagi, 10 passengers, leaves Sydney for Norfolk, Vila, Luganville, Honiara, Sailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships, 1955-56. 3 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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. aros-citos-delos Cargo Service, with Luxurious Passenger Accommodation, by Fast New Motor Vessels specially built for the Far Eastern Trade.

General and Refrigerated Carg oa Space; also Special Mechanical Ventilation for Fruit J Vegetables, etc., in\ ’tween decks.

M.V. DELOS —A.W.P. Line's new motorship for Australian-Far East trade.

'Phone: BU 6301. Branch Offica MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD., 63 Pitt St., Sydney at Melbourne: 51 William St. 'Phone: MU 5906.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS; Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs, Bright & Co. T , * h _e ISLAND AGENTS; Madang, Mr. A. Strachan; Lae, Mr. R. Tebb; Rabaul, Town Transport Ltd.; omara, overnme FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan. | Tenaru, Yandina, Gizo, Bougainville ports, Rabaul, Sydney. Next sailing Dec. 15.

MV Muliama, 8 passengers, leaves Sydney for British Solomons ports about monthly, ports varying with cargoes. Next sailing: Dec. 14.

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

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritlmes Line, coming from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route. (At present on this run are the new motorships. Tahitien and New Caledonien).

MV Polynesie (Messageries Maritimes) maintains about monthly passenger sailings between Sydney and Noumea and the New Hebrides. Next sailing Dec. 23.

SS Neo Hebridais-11, 1,266 tons, maintains an irregular cargo service between Sydney and Noumea, and four charter trips per annum to Wallis Is. via Suva.

Owners; Soc. Miniere et Maritime Hagen, Noumea. Sydney agents; H. C. Sleigh, Ltd., 115 York Street.

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, two westbound, then two east-bound, calling at Suva every trip, and at Papeete except in hurricane season. Next sailings: Westbound, calling Suva only, Jan. 12; Westbound, calling Papeete Mar. 30-31, Suva Apr. 5.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, etc.

Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessels Thorsisle and Thorshall maintain a regular service from Pacific Coast North American ports, with sailings every 35-40 days. Some ports depend on cargoes offering. Next sailing: Thorsisle: Sails Vancouver Dec. 22, Papeete Jan. 25, Nukualofa Jan. 31, Pago Feb. 3, Apia Feb. 4, Suva Feb. 8, Lautoka Feb. 18, Noumea Feb. 15, Lae Feb. 2. Thorshall: Pago Pago Dec. 14. Apia Dec. 16, Suva Dec. 21, Lautoka Dec. 23, Noumea Dec. 27.

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

U.S.-PAPEETE-PAGO PAGO-N.Z.- AUSTRALIA Matson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco operates a regular passenger-cargo service from Los Angeles. Southern terminal ports vary with cargoes offering. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago Pago, and Suva, depending on cargoes.

SYDNEY-SUVA-HONOLULU- VANCOUVER Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) operate a service three times yearly with the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba along the above route. Accommodation is entirely First Class, two-berth cabins. Next sailings from Sydney late Jan. and late May, 1956.

Details from American Trading & Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., Sydney.

Honolulu-Papeete

The 242-ton auxiliary schooner Te Vega, American - owned, operates a luxury passenger service to a regular schedule, with calls at Marquesas and Line Islands as required. To dep. Honolulu Dec. 31, arr.

Papeete Jan. 15. Details from Darr Lines, c/o Theo. H. Davies & Co., Honolulu, or Etablissements Donald, Papeete.

Airways Time-Tabll TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE- 1. Australia (or NZ)-Fijj Hawaii-N. America (First and Tourist Class available all Services.)

By Pan-American Airways

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperett and Berths* Tues., Thur., Fri., Sun.: Sydney - N;1 Canton Is. - Honolulu - San Francii Seattle - Portland.

Mon., Tues., Thur., Sat.: Return s route. ♦ DC4 from Auckland connects, arri: Nadi Tues., Thur., Sun., departing Wed., Sat., Mon.

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS Tues.*, Thur.* and Sat.* Sydney - : (Fiji) - Canton Is. - Honolulu -- Francisco—with Sat. service extern to Vancouver.

SOUTHWARDS Wed.*, Fri.*, Sun.* San Franciss Honolulu-Nadi (Fiji)-Sydney. Sum service begins at Vancouver. (1) Crosses date-line enroute). * TEAL DCS services between AucW and Nadi connect at Nadi Tues. and J northwards: Wed. and Sun. south wn

By Canadian Pacific Airline

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Wednesday—Sydney-Auckland-J (Fiji)-Honolulu-Vancouver-Amsterdii Every Sunday leave Vancouver by 4 DECEMBER. 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HE

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1Ecti0Nal Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea srvice by Qantas Empire Airways (Skymasters) NORTHWARDS Mon., Tues., Sat., Sun.

Depart; Arrive: iey, 8.00 pm Brisbane, 10.45 pm bane, 11.45 pm Moresby, 6.35 am (Tues., Wed., Sun., Mon.) fcby, 8.05 am Lae, 9.20 am Thurs.

Depart; Arrive: iey. 8 pm Brisbane, 10.45 pm ►ane, 11.45 pm Townsville, 3.30 am (Friday) Isville, 4.15 am Cairns, 5.25 am is, 6.25 am Port Moresby. 9.15 am Moresby, 10.45 am Lae, midday.

SOUTHWARDS Tues., Wed., Sun., Mon. depart: Arrive: 11.20 am Moresby, 12.35 pm sby, 1.45 am Brisbane, 8.20 pm lane, 9.45 pm Sydney, 12.30 am Sat. >epart: Arrive: 17.00 am Moresby, 8.15 am Sby, 9.45 am Cairns, 12.35 pm is, 3.05 pm Townsville, 4.15 pm sville, 5.00 pm Brisbane, 8.45 pm ane, 9.45 pm Sydney, 12.30 am P-NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas -HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) late Wed. (Dec. 14, 28). fts Lae 10.30 am, calls at Madang and Wewak, and arrives at Hollandla 3.0 pm. Every alternate Thursday (Dec. 1, 15, 29, etc.), dep. Hollandia at 9.30 am, and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.40 pm.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Every Wednesday.

Dep. Lae, 8.00 am; Finschhafen, Rabaul Kavieng, arr. Manus 3.00 pm.

Returns Saturdays (dep. 8 am), via Kavieng, Rabaul and Finschhafen arr Lae, 2,55 pm.

MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) Via Yule Is., Kerema, Kikori, L. Kutubu Alt. Fri. returning same day (Dec. 9 23 etc.).

Port Moresby-Rabaul

(Catalina) Alt. Tues. (Dec. 13. 27, etc. I Port Moresby- Samarai-Esa’ala-Losuia-Moewe Harb - Talasea-Jacquinot Bay-Rabaul. Returning via same ports (except Losuia and Esa-ala optional) alt. Thu. (Dec. 15, 29 etc.).

New Britain-Bougainville

(Catalina) Alt. Wed. Rabaul - Buka - Kieta - Buin (Dec. 14. 28, etc.). Returning same day, LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) Mon., Thur. Dep. Lae 6.30 am, Madang arr. 7.35 am Wewak, Manus Is., Kavieng, Rabaul arr. 3.40 pm.

Fri. only Dep. Rabaul 8.00 am direct Madang. arr. 10.50 am, Wewak.

Madang, Lae arr. 4.35 pm.

Central Highlands

(DCS) Fridays—Lae (8.30 am) to Wabamunda, calling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R # , Wabag, Wabamunda. Return to Lad arriving 6 pm.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) Fridays.—Lae (7.30 am) to Goroka, calling at any of: Nadzab, Kaiapit, Gusap, Kainantu, Goroka, Arena. Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau (Dcs)

Dep. Lae.—Mon. 7.30 am, Tues. 2 pm Wed. 11.30 am, Fri. 2.00 pm. ’

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

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

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

New Guinea-New Britain

(DCS) Fridays—Depart Lae 12.55 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.

Tuesdays— Depart Rabaul 5.45 am. Plnschhafen 8.10 am, arrive Lae 8.45 am.

Services By Mandated Airlines

Scheduled Flights with DCS Aircraft Mon.: Depart Lae at 7.30 am for Goroka, Madang. Wewak, Madang, Rabaul remaining overnight. Depart Lae 8.00 am for Goroka. Wau, Port Moresby.

Wau, Goroka, Lae.

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

Wed.; Depart Lae 7.30 am for Goroka.

Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka. Lae.

Fri.: Depart Lae at 7.00 am for Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7.30 am for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae. 5 1F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

London-Suva

<c ’OIKECT SE$. ,\V vi* A C PANAMA For Sailings and Further Particulars Apply To: — BETHELL, GWYN & CO. LTD., 138 LEADENHALL ST., LONDON, E.C.3.

Burns Philp (South Sea)

CO. LTD.,

Suva, Fiji

Regular Monthly-Service from

Melbourne Sydney Brisbane And Hollandia

to

North Borneo Bangkok And Singapore

By Motorvessel:

"Van Noort", "Sibig0" And "Sinabang"

Carrying 2 to 12 Passengers Passage Fare: Sydney-Singapore, from £Stg.79.

Hollandia-Singapore. from £Stg.s4, Further information from —

Royal Iaterocean Lines

Incorporated in the Netherlands as KJCPL, NV. 255 George St., Sydney. Phone: BU 6771 Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 7.00 am for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae. 4. Aust.-Dutch N. Guinea By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

A weekly service with Super-Cons, between Sydney and Amsterdam with a call at Biak, DNG, and Manila, Philippines.

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandia.

Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, and Manokwari. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS (Three flights every four weeks) Mon. (Dec. 5. 12, 19) Lae dep. 6am Finschhafen Rabaul Buka Vellalavella Yandina Honiara. BSI arriving 5.25 pm.

Tues. (Dec. 6, 13, 20) Honiara dep. 7 am Yandina Vellalavella Buka Rabaul Lae, arriving 3.35 pm. 6. Indo-China-Brisbane- N. Caledonia By Transport Ariens Internationales (TAI) Fortnightly.

Constellation aircraft depart Saigon Dec. 6, for Darwin - Brisbane - Noumea and return. Depart Noumea, Dec. 9. 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 Every Sat. returning next day after returnflight Norfolk-Auckland. 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas with Skymasters Flying-boats were replaced by Skymasters in 1955. Service now terminates at Tontouta (N. Caledonia) until Vlla- Santo airfields ready. (See table 10). 10. Sydney-N. Caledonia-B By Qantas with Skymaster (WeeklC (Service will operate only as far s Tontouta during December.) Depart: Arrive: Sydney, Wed., 11.30 Tontouta, Thun pm. am.

Tontouta, Thur. 8 Nadi, Thur., am. pm.

Nadi, Fri., 9.45 am. Tontouta, 1.30 Tontouta, Fri., 2.15 Sydney, Fri., pm. pm. 11. Auckland-Norfolk 1 TEAL, by Qantas (charter) Each Sun. return flight Norfolk-Auckl Norfolk (see 8 above). 12. Auckland-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

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

Tues.; Dep. Auckland 6.00 pm, arr. Si 9.45 pm.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 11.15 arr Sydney 3.00 pm.

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

Mon., Thur., Fri.; Dep. Sydney 3.0® arr. Auckland 10.15 pm.

Tues.: Dep. Sydney 11.30 pm. arr. land Wed. 6.45 am. 13. Christchurch-Sydns Tasman Empire Airways, witW DC6 aircraft.

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

Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 8.00 ami Christchurch 3.10 pm. 14. Christ church-Melboi Tasman Empire Airways, witH DC6 aircraft.

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

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 7.00 am. arr. church 3.00 pm. 15. New Zealand-Fii Tasman Empire Airways, wit DC6 aircraft.

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

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

Service normally fortnightly, with! flights as required.

Departs Suva Friday, 9 am, crosse line, arrives Satapuala (W.

Thur. 2 pm, departs Fri. 2 am, Aitutaki 7.30 am. departs 9.: arrives Papeete 2 pm. Departs Sun. 7.30 am, arrives Aitutaki departs 1 pm, arrives Satapuas pm, departs Mon 7 am, crosses line, arrives Suva Tues., 9.55 ) Leaves Suva Dec. 9, 23, Papeete 25. 17. Fiji-Tonga Tasman Empire Airways, wi Solent aircraft.

Irregular Service.

Dep Suva 6.30 am. Arr. Nukualo am. Dep. Nukualofa 9.50 am Suva 4.55 pm.

Next flight Dec. 22. 6 DECEMBER. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTi

PROM SYDNEY (Aust. currency} TO Table Single Return N 0- Moresby £48 11 0 £83 16 0 2 Lae .. . 55 7 0 99 13 0 2 Rabaul . 64 19 0 116 19 0 2, 3 Honiara 80 7 0 146 13 0 2. 5 Noumea 38 15 0 69 15 0 10, 9, 8 Norfolk Is. 27 10 0 49 10 0 8 L. Howe - 12 15 0 25 10 0 7 Nadi . . 58 15 0 105 15 0 1, 10, 19 Suva . . 73 5 0 131 15 0 1, 10. 19 Auckland 47 5 0 85 1 0 12 Christ’ch 47 5 0 85 1 0 13 Honolulu 243 6 0 437 19 0 1 S. Fran’co 301 7 0 542 9 0 1 Vancouver 301 7 0 542 9 0 1 Nukualofa 92 9 0 165 19 0 1, 10, 17 Apia . .. 97 7 0 175 3 0 1, 10, 16 Aitutaki . 119 8 0 214 19 0 1, 10. 16 Papeete (direct) 139 2 0 250 8 0 1, 18, 16 PROM AUCKLAND (NZ currency) TO— Table Single Return No.

Suva . ,. 44 8 0 80 19 0 1. 15, 19, 16 Apia . .. 52 3 0 94 18 0 1, 15. 19, 16 Aitutaki . 72 12 0 141 14 0 1. 15, 19. 16 Papeete . 87 11 0 158 12 0 1, 15. 19, 16 Norfolk .. 19 15 0 35 11 0 11

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—Etabllssements Donald Tahiti, APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA—Etabllssements Ballande.

PORT VlLA—Comptoirs Francais des LAE—Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd.

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

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

II k ** *b 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. 18. E. Samoa Service Pan American Airways, iroximately monthly flights, currently buttling Honolulu-Canton-Tafuna (E. lamoai-Canton-Honolulu, but this may oon be replaced by a Nadi (Fiji) fftfuna-Nadi monthly shuttle service. 19. Fiji Internal Airways f Fiji Airways, Ltd. Drover and Rapide Aircraft. [-Nadi-Suva: Two flights daily except un Mon., Wed., one flight. [-Nadi; Tues., Sun. (additional to the bove return flight). 1-Suva; Mon., Wed. t-Labasa-Suva; Daily except Sun. ►Taveuni-Labasa-Teveuni-Suva: Mon , fed., Fri.

I- Savusavu - Taveuni - Savusavu uva: Mon.. Wed.

I- Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Iva: Tues., Thurs., Sat.. Sun.

N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

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Norfolk Is. Cocos Is. [Aust. Trust Territories: New Guinea. Nauru [British Crown Colonies: Fiji.

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Pacific Islands Monthly No. 5 Vol. XXVI December, 1955 Contents: EDITORIAL: Why Cannot Australia be Honest About Dutch NG? :; Teachers in Demand :: Shape of Things to Come : NG Forests and Australian Newsprint 11, 12 Import Restrictions for Papua-New Guinea .. .. 12 MOF Copra Offer Will Certainly Be Lower in 1956 13 Carpenters May Buy Control of Morris Hedstrom Ltd. .. 14 Editors’ Mailbag 16 Junkers Aircraft Return Again to New Guinea .... 17 Young Officials of P-NG Gain Their Diplomas 17 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 17 Irresponsible Speculation Runs Riot Over Joyita .. 18 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 22 More Delays in S. Seas Hotel —But the Beer is Still on 31 Current News Items from Our Correspondents in Papua-New Guinea 33 Annual Exodus from Cook Islands 47 Trade Slump in New Hebrides 49 The Escape from Tarawa in 1942 1)0 French A i r-P lans for Hebrides and S. Pacific ~ 53 Air-Mail Restored to NH .. 54 Police Bribery Allegations in Fiji Show Psychological Aspects 59 Luxury Coach Travel for Fiji Tourists 62 Fiji’s Reliance on Customs’

Duty causes Concern .... 63 It Is Not A Pretty World — Impressions Gained by R. W. Robson 65 New Suva Buildings Are Soon Crowded 73 MAGAZINE SECTION; Tropicalities, 77; Charley Makes Liebfraumilch, 79; Trochus Made Him a Fortune Colourful Memories of German New Guinea, 81; Book Reviews 83 Medical Survey of Aitutaki .. 89 Sir Gordon Taylor in S.

America 9 1 Housing, Liquor and Other Problems Loom Large in Fiji 91 News of the Smallships .. 97 Ever-Rising Costs Worry P-NG Producers 114 With the Navy and Air Force On Joyita Job 119 Cocos Is. Comes Into Australian Fold 121 US Doing Valuable Fish Survey Work 122 Canton Is.—How Barren Atoll Became Airways Station 123 Are Fijian Qualities Going to Waste? 126 Fiji Development Fund’s Work Expanding 129 New Zealand Professor Sees Dangers for W. Samoa .. 130 NGG Produces Another 3d.

Dividend 131 For Pacific Radio Amateurs 133 UK Firm Will Build Roads, Bridges for APC 135 Pan-American Operations in E. Samoa 137 OBITUARY: Mautaire Pe; Tuia Ngamanu Ariki; Aerapo Pokino; Joseph Bennett; Mrs. Mary Poland; Madame P. Miller; Madame V.

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Putty 138-141 Menyamya Has Changed in 22 Years 148 New Suburban Hotel in P.

Moresby 149 French Empire On Display at Sydney Show 151 Governor Sees Bright Future for N. Caledonian Minerals 155 Commerce, Markets, etc. .. 160 A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (29 Alberta Street is 10 yards from the intersection of Goulburn Street and Wentworth Avenue.)

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Editorial . . . fhy Cannot Australia 5 Honest About N. Guinea?

AUSTRALIA'S attitude in relation I to Indonesia’s claim to Dutch I New Guinea is of considerable iportance both to The Netherlands, d the countries of the South jcific; but Australia’s Ministers are -itatingly coy on the subject.

Indonesia’s politicians have been jining around Western Europe and B United Nations, insisting that fy must get possession of Western iw Guinea; and they have been Iking a talk with Netherlands at fe Hague, at Ministerial level, in ier to promote more amicable relons.

Australia’s Foreign Minister Casey, feting his opposite number in Jonesia, said incautiously that »y both hoped that Netherlands \ Indonesia would settle their diffences by a peaceful talk. This fe immediately seized upon as evid- ;e that Australia had altered her itude towards Dutch New Guinea diich hitherto has been completely lince then (in early, December) Btralia has declared that her atide has not changed. Netherids, while ready to confer with lonesia, has emphasised that she I enter no further discussions reding the status of Dutch New Jnea. Indonesia now says she I make another appeal to UNO. leanwhile, there has been some favourable comment (voiced ecially by George Whittaker, iC) in New Guinea on the abrupt ncellation of Administrator land’s proposed friendly visit to adjoining Territory of Dutch New inea. No explanation was given; f various observers have assumed ,t the cancellation orders came in Canberra, where high ofiicialq. probably decided that the learance of Brigadier Cleland in llandia would give pain to the r-squawking gentlemen of the ionesian Government, he reaction upon the Dutch has n unfortunate. ocialist Britain, after World War abandoned her Dutch allies and iwed the Javanese rabble to ow the Dutch out of Indonesia, ich they had colonised and built, ing 300 years, into a prosperous I united country. Socialist Auslia, under the direction of the brgettable Dr. Evatt, helped the (onesians against the Dutch in 5-47, and encouraged her Comnist wharfies to refuse to load tch ships in Sydney Harbour, tie wonder that the Dutch regard with suspicion!

Vhy cannot Australia be frank and honest? Isolated here in the South Pacific, faced with 1,000 million hungry Asians, we Europeans need trustworthy friends, to stand beside us when the crisis comes. The Dutch were our friends in Indonesia —they fought beside us to the death, against the invading Japanese—and they are our friends in Western New Guinea.

The Indonesians are wholly undependable—first, because they are Asians, and no idealistic babbling can hide the basic hatred of Asians for Europeans; and, second, because they are increasingly under the influence of Muscovite Communism, whose chief purpose is to destroy the British Commonwealth.

Everyone knows that the continued occupation of Western New Guinea by the Dutch is essential to the safety of the South Pacific, and that Indonesia has no shadow of claim to the Territory, anyway.

Why cannot Australia say so? (In Singapore, on December 8, a spokesman for the Indonesian delegation on its way to the Hague, said Australia’s atitude on the Dutch NG issue was “helpful,” and that his government “appreciated Australia’s advocacy of negotiation.”) Teachers in Demand DR. MOHAMMED ROEM, described as leader of a party of six prominent Indonesians making a 10-days tour of Australia as guests of the Commonwealth Government, has been pleading for Australian teachers for Indonesia’s higher schools.

Australia, officially, made no reply.

But it would be typical of the Colombo Planners if they decided to send Australians to work in the Javanese schools, while the whole scheme of native education in Papua and New Guinea is held up by lack of trained teachers.

Australia is spending some £3O million on the Colombo Plan, with the idea of converting Asia’s fundamental hate into love of us. How much more good could have been achieved by using the money on water conservation and irrigation in Northern Australia!

Shape of Things To Come THE result of the general election in Indonesia on September 29 — the first since the Javanese politicians seized power from the Dutch in 1945-46—will not be known, finally, until about April, 1956. This is because the electoral system, "Gentlemen—My successor needs no introduction." 11 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

based on a complicated adaptation of proportional representation, calls for endless re-counting and adjustments.

However, there has been a first counting of 28 millions of the 30 million votes cast; and an unofficial survey suggests that, out of each 26 members elected (there will be some hundreds altogether), the main parties will be represented approximately thus: Nationalists 7 Masjumi (extreme Moslems) 7 Nahdatul Ulama (conservative Moslems) 6 Communists 6 A very large proportion of the 30 million voters are illiterate and, of course, they voted as directed by them communal chiefs and political organisers.

An attempt probably will be made to place a Moslem Government in power—although there is bitter enmity between the two Moslem parties. Both, of course, are anticommunist. The Nationalists are pure opportunists, and they may team up with the Communists (as they are doing now) merely to keep themselves in power.

Whichever way, Indonesia seems destined to continue as a restless, undependable and dangerous (because of its Communist associations) neighbour of the South Pacific countries.

NG Forests and Australian Newsprint PLANNERS for New Guinea should take a look at (a) Australia’s enormous consumption of paper and (b) the enormous soft-wood jungles of Papua and New Guinea; and then perhaps they may see something worth planning about.

Australia, per capita, is one of the biggest consumers of newsprint in the world. Newsprint is being made in Australia; but the supply never will be enough, mostly because Australia is a lightly-timbered country, and the eucalypt, in any event, is not the best timber for pulping.

Australia’s newsprint requirements are around 100,000 tons per annum.

In 1954-55, she imported pulp and paper worth £35 millions.

In the jungles of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago there are endless forests, and at least a proportion of the trees should be suitable for pulping.

Australian politicians go in everlasting fear of the press; with the result that newsprint so far has escaped import restrictions. But the unfairness of it can be seen when Sydney’s daily newspapers frequently publish 80 pages, nearly all advertisement, which few readers even look at. That requires huge amounts of overseas newsprint, while persons wishing to import essential goods cannot get a license.

When the inevitable happens, and newsprint is rationed, someone might suggest the establishment of a paper-pulping industry in New Guinea.

HELPING AUSTRALIA: Reduced Imports for P-N. Guinea IMPORT restrictions began in Papua and New Guinea on December 1. This is in line with Australian Government policy of bringing external payments into full balance by June, 1956.

This is regarded as essential in view of the deterioration of Australia’s overseas reserves in the last 18 months. Import restrictions were intensified in Australia as from October I—the third time in 12 months that imports have been curtailed.

P-NG imports from non-Australian sources have increased by about 300 per cent, since 1953—in the last financial year they were £9,600,000.

P-NG’s imports from Australia are not affected* by the new restrictions, which are not as severe as those in Australia. Other imports have been divided into four categories—“A”, “B”, “C” and •‘Administrative.”

Licences to import category A goods may be granted up to 100 per cent, of 1954-55 imports. Goods in this category include iron and steel, prefabricated metal buildings, mining and some other machinery, tractors and parts, etc.

Licences for only 90 per cent, of the category B goods imported in the year will be granted.

These goods include cars and trucks, clothing and textiles, manufactured tobacco and cigarettes, spirits, paint, paper, footwear, some household goods, matches, watches and clocks, and photographic goods. x .

Licences for only 75 per cent, of base-year category C goods will be granted. These goods are generally regarded as non-essential goods and foodstuffs not usually obtained from Australia.

It is hoped to keep “Administrative” category goods to their 1954-55 levels but if these imports are essential the base quotas may be exceeded. These goods include cement, chemicals, petrol, oils and lubricants, bags, sacks, cordage and twines agricultural and dairying machinery, electrical equipment and appliances, surgical and dental instruments and appliances, cotton wool and surgical dressings, medicines and drugs, tea and coffee, and articles used for educational and religious purn The restrictions mean more E work for importers. They furnish to the Collector of Cus at their respective ports, parties of their imports during 195' making a separate return for item. Returns must be accompa by a Statutory Declaration. will be allocated on a quar. basis.

Further Deaths on Tike A FURTHER 33 deaths hr occurred on Tikopia, the I nesian outlier of the E Some months ago, the island J fered a severe epidemic which was diagnosed as influenza. 120 people died up to the em September.

The BSIP government sem Assistant Medical Practitione help the islanders. An additi dresser has now been sent.

It is believed that the la& people to die refused medical ti ment.

Late News On Joyita

Official View Reje[?]

Theory Of Violenc

AUCKLAND, Nov..

AFTER all the newspaper ex ment over the Joyita myste; can tell you, on “inside" formation, that the New Zei! officials who carefully examinee vessel found no evidence whas to indicate piracy, murder, mr or anything of that kind.

They believe that the vessel countered one of the normal ; of the sea—quite possibly a comr tion of very stormy weather ano. serviceable engine and pumps.; vessel could have received a te;j battering if helpless in a cross —so much so that the people, tl; ing she was sinking, tried to; away, and were lost.

The experts’ calculations shl the Joyita is a “floater” —so : cork and insulating materials i:i holds, and the amount of woc< the hull, would keep her afloat! though she was full of water, the unfortunate people aboard y not know that, and tried to; away. —Special Correspondent. t Miss Camilla Wedgwood, who well known in the Southwest F as an anthropologist, and who a lecturer at the Australian SE of Pacific Administration prii her death, at 54, in May, 1955 an estate in Britain values £B,OOO. She was a daughter oe first Baron Wedgwood. 12 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

Date £ Stg. per ton.

December 14, 1954 . 74.5 January 14, 1955 .. 74.5 February 19. 1955 . 71.5 April 1, 1955 . . 67 May 6, 1955 . . 65.10 June 5, 1955 67 August 5, 1955 64 5 September 5. 1955 . 64.5 October 4, 1955 66.15 November 3, 1955 . . 65 December 2, 1955 65.15 Copra Price for 1956 [?]MOF Offer Will Certainly Be Lower Next Year Negotiations between the British copra-producing countires [of the South Pacific and the British Ministry of Food will take I place this month, and the agreed price for 1956 should be (announced in January.

IREE market price in 1955 showed fah overall fall and it is ex- I pepted that the price fixed for 56 will be lower than that for 1955. ider the agreement the price cant rise or fall by more than 10 f cent, in any one year.

Although many producers are ready resigned to the full 10 per it. fall in 1956, some large organitions are hopeful that the South fcific countries will do better than at. [t was expected last year that the 1 would be the permissible 10 per it. (and Fiji and BSI announced is) but Australia stood out for kter treatment and the MOF ally agreed to a reduction of ?htly over 7 per cent. This gave iducers a fixed price based on an )F price of £65 Stg. f.o.b Islands rt. From this amount, the vari- -5 Pacific Islands governments dect charges for freight, insurance, rinkage, export taxes, stabilisation ids, etc. i survey of prices of free market fra, quoted month by month in i Pacific Islands Monthly over the t 12 months shows the following:

Straits Copra, Cif London

faking the sum of £lsStg. to replent the freight, insurance, shrinkb and sundry charges, incurred tween islands port and London, it n be seen that Pacific planters ve been getting the best of the rgain for the last 12 months, however, unless a world-wide de- Jssion occurs in the next two ars, the Ministry of Food will still ish the 9-years agreement on the ;ht side of the ledger. In the fly years of the agreement, Pacific inters were receiving from the DF about half world price for Rir copra.

Pacific planters with memories ig enough to go back to the deession days of the 30’s, are already thinking of the end of the Agreement with some trepidation.

Failure to organise now could mean the return to the days when planters were at the mercy of the vegetable-oil combines.

Many planters’ organisations are of the opinion that any instrumentality set up as a bargaining medium for Pacific producers will, to be effective, have to be backed by the governments concerned.

New Guinea CMB Warns Planters A MARKED improvement in the quality of Papua-New Guinea copra will have to be made before the end of the MOF agreement in 1957 if the Territory product is to compete on the open world market.

This warning was given planters in Port Moresby in November by the chairman of the Copra Marketing Board, Mr. lan McDonald.

He said that the Board believed that urgent steps would have to be taken. He appealed to all who were concerned with the production of copra to take the situation seriously.

Smoke-drying should be discontinued in favour of hot-air dried copra and FMS.

In the first 10 months of 1955, 45 per cent, of the copra received by the Board was smoke-dried; this should be reduced to no more than 10 per cent.; and hot-air dried increased from its present 30 per cent, to 75 per cent.

OPERATION SCHOOLROOM Qantas Will Carry 2,500 Schoolchildren NEARLY 2,500 schoolchildren will travel from Australia by Qantas aircraft to join their parents in Pacific and Asian countries for the Christmas holidays.

Between 800 and 1,000 will fly from Sydney to New Guinea; others will travel to Hongkong, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Fiji and Singapore.

During December, 26 services are operating between Sydney and New Guinea, and three special flights by DC3 will operate between Townsville and Lae for children who attend school in Queensland.

The airlift of schoolchilden began in November and continues right up to Christmas Day; then, from the end of January to mid-February, the flow will be reversed as they return to school.

Well-Deserved Recognition of Territorian Mr. Ivan Champion (right), in November, received from Brigadier D. M. Cleland the OBE and the John Lewis Medal at an Investiture at Government House in Port Moresby.

The citation accompanying Mr. Champion's OBE said he had rendered distinguished and selfless service throughout his career, and his devotion to duty had been outstanding. The citation continued: "During the Mount Lamington disaster, he worked unsparingly".

Mr. Champion received the John Lewis Medal for his journey across New Guinea, from the Fly to the Sepik River, in the late 1920'5. The award (for exploration, geographical research or literary work in geography) was made for the year 1953 which certainly has an element of delay in it.

The following year, 1954, the medal was awarded to Sir Edmund Hillary for his conquest of Mount Everest.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 13 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— DECEMBER, 1955

(In Fiji Currency) £ £1 Preference Shares (6 per cent) . £1 Ordinary Shares 219,206 520,407 Total Issued Capital 739,613 Reserves employed in the business: General £451,115 Investments 128,000 Insurance Funds . .. 315,282 894,397 In P. & L Appropriation Account 436,834 Apparent total of shareholders' funds . 2,070,844 Nominal value of assets listed . . 2,548,305 Total issued capital. 3,400,000 £ Ordinary 5/- shares Other Shareholders' funds, being mostly reserves employed in business: Shares Issue Premium . £83,874 Assets Revaluation .. 38,374 General Reserve . .. 288,481 Contingencies Reserve . 170,000 Investments Reserve . . 644,544 Undistributed Profit .. 317,921 850,000 1,543,199 Apparent total of shareholders' funds 2,393,194 Nominal value of assets listed .. 2,720,957 Important Re-grouping of Financial Interests Planned

Carpenters May Buy Control

Of Morris Hedstrom

It is expected that the shareholders of Messrs. Morris Hedstrom Limited, of Fiji, will accept their Directors’ recommendation that they sell at least 75 per cent, of their Ordinary Shares (520,407) to Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd., of Sydney.

IF this is done, it will mean that: • Carpenters become the virtual owners of Morris Hedstrom —and the biggest amalgamation of trading interests in the history of the South Pacific will have taken place. • The present trading organisation in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga will not be changed at least, not outwardly.

Messrs. Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., will carry on as at present, with the same staff; and so will the Carpenter companies. But behind the scenes, there will be close co-operation between the two concerns —especially in relation to finance, and the use of accumulated funds. • If—as we understand is now planned—the companies’ joint resources are used for the development of new industries in Fiji, the Carpenter - Hedstrom alliance may have an important effect on the future of the Colony.

Morris hedstrom’s disclosed assets are around £2,500,000 Fijian.

In the case of Carpenters, there is a central or holding company, registered in Sydney, with disclosed assets of about £2,700,000 Australian; but it controls other Carpenter companies, registered in New Guinea, Fiji and elsewhere, also with assets running into large figures.

Between them, the two Companies, as shown in their last published balance-sheets, have liquid resources totalling about £1,600,000.

This appears in the following summary of the nominal capital structure of the two companies, taken from their 1955 balancesheets :

Morris Hedstrom Limited

Included in assets, as Cash and Deposits at Short Call (£427,500), Shares in Subsidiaries (£128,651) and Government & Municipal Stocks (£239,202), etc., are liquid resources totalling 803,760 W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD. (In Australian Currency) Included in assets are apparent liquid resources (including shares in other companies, £228,641; cash, £377,750) of approximately 700,000 From this it can be seen that the alliance will control assets worth nominally over £5,000,000, but actually a good deal more.

MORRIS HEDSTROM share the bulk of the trade in Fiji, Western Samoa and Tonga with Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., and probably are the major traders in those three Territories. They have branches in most of the towns, and trade stores practically everywhere.

They own local shipping services, plantations, and various healthy subsidiaries. Their annual turnover is huge—at the date of last balance, the value of their merchandise, afloat and in store, was well over £1,000,000. Morris Hedstrom may be viewed in this way as one compact trading unit.

But Carpenters are in a different category. Since 1949, when they ' turned a substantial sum to shas holders and rearranged tit financial structure generally, so tJ their Sydney company was plamx to be mostly a holding comp?( (holding the shares of the M Guinea, Fiji and other Carpen companies) their business has gro' very much.

The Carpenter parent Compic (in Sydney) now largely owns s controls the following:

In New Guinea

Pacific Trading Company/ wholly-owned subsidiary of tt parent Co., and acting as a hold) company for — New Guinea Co. Ltd., mercha* wholesalers, retailers, shipownn plantation owners, with J. B. SedgJ as chairman and managing direm Mandated Airlines Ltd., a sa sidiary of the New Guinea Comps* J. B. Sedgers, chairman.

Coconut Products Ltd., owners ; operators of crushing mills, plantation owners. C. B. Bab chairman and managing director!

IN FIJI Pacific Products Ltd., a when owned subsidiary of the parent and acting as a holding compc for — Island Industries Ltd., owning operating the crushing mills in St; W. G. Johnson, chairman and rm aging director.

W. R. Carpenter and Co., (H Ltd., general merchants, shipown etc. W. G. Johnson, manag director. (A subsidiary of Paw Products Ltd., but not wholly ow by that Co.) ELSEWHERE Terms and Credits Pty. Ltd., este hshed in Australia with a capitas £250,000, and wholly owned by parent Co.

American Trading and Shipp Co. Pty. Ltd.

Southern Pacific Insurance Ltd. A subsidiary of the parent ; with a paid up capital of £IOO,J but not wholly owned by parentf Consolidated Neon, and its J sidiary companies. Is not a 0 penter subsidiary, but represented important investment.

IN the last financial year, Mo] Hedstrom made a profit f £124,625 Fijian, and declare' dividend of per cent. Bes the recent development, thein.

Ordinary shares were quoted at ; Australian.

Carpenters, in last financial y made a profit of £193,889 Austral and declared a dividend of 15 c cent. Their 5/- shares were quo early in November at 21/- i. tralian.

As shown, Morris Hedstrom ] two classes of issued shares. 14 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HE

eferences, carrying 6 per cent., are t affected by this deal.

Carpenters offer to purchase only t Ordinaries; and for these they [1 pay, for each £1 Ordinary, 30 istralian in cash, and give 31 dinary 5/- Carpenter shares, niinally, therefore, they pay 30/is 17/6 (or 47/6 Australian) for ;h MH share. As Carpenters 5/ires were selling in mid-November 21/- Australian each, this means it MH shareholders actually will eive for each Ordinary share nit 103/6. t is part of the plan that 75 per it. of the 520,407 MH ordinary ires must be sold to Carpenters, dorris Hedstrom Ordinaries were [ing in Sydney just before the vs broke (on November 21) at -. Immediately afterwards, in a d Stock Exchange flutter, they red to over 100/-. Therefore, ler way, the holder of a MH inary share will be getting been 40/- and 50/- Australian more n the share was valued at by the ck Exchange prior to the Cariter offer. .s assets position showed, the MH re actually was worth more than -; but either it could not earn re than 12 i per cent, in the ited trading region of Fiji, Samoa I Tonga, or the Directors were ding back from distribution too ;e a part of the earnings. (In 1-55, they earned £124,625, and ributed £Bo,2o2—adding the bale to a P and L accumulation ch now stands at £436,834.) ; is probable that, under the penter regime, the MH share will ;r a much larger field of earningrer. the plan goes through, there will )e no outward change in the ;rading position in Fiji. Both cerns —MH Ltd. and WRC (Fiji) . —will go on as at present, tradas separate companies. The lership of the majority of the Ordinary shares, and therefore control over MH Ltd., will be held ;he Carpenter parent Co. in Syd- , and not by the Fiji subsidiary, here will be an amalgamation of rests, but it will be shaped and trolled from Sydney, through the 1 boards in Fiji, whereon Mr.

I. Snell and Mr. Johnson will have ling places. The public will see e of the new set-up because it take the shape of co-ordination the activities of the two conis, in buying, producing, shipmarketing, and finance, ind of the two big companies run- J rival services, and competing i each other. dually, the activities of the two nisations can be co-ordinated r easily. irpenters have crushing mills, seas shipping services, powerful ciates in Melanesia, a strong ling connection with the Fijians.

Morris Hedstroms control only some local shipping; do not mill copra; have a very important trading connection with the Indians; have important subsidiary businesses in Fiji and Samoa, but no connections in the Western Pacific. Except in re- (Continued on 145)

Work Of Two Strangely Similar

Careers May Be Merged

IF the interests of W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. and Morris Hedstrom Ltd. are merged in the manner proposed (see opposite), the event v/ill represent the merger, also, of the life-work of two outstanding men of the South Pacific—Sir Maynard Hedstrom, who died in Suva on June 2, 1951, at the age of 79, and Sir Walter Randolph Carpenter, who died in Sydney on February 1, 1954, at the age of 76.

There was an extraordinary similarity in the careers of the two men.

Each man, by tireless work, shrewd trading and a remarkable knowledge of finance, created a huge commercial organisation; and each, before he died in harness, saw the assets of the Company he founded run into millions.

Maynard Hedstrom was born in Levuka, the son of a Swedish seacaptain, and he became a trader before he was 21. He joined forces v/ith the late Mr. P. A. Morris, about 1892, to form the original Morris Hedstrom & Co.; and, by steady expansion over Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, and by purchase of or amalgamation with other similar concerns, it grew steadily into the huge organisation it is to-day. Mr. Morris retired in 1921; but Sir Maynard Hedstrom was active in the direction of the Co. until only two or three years before his death. Mr.

H. E. Snell (with whom he was connected by marriage) succeeded him as head of the Co. and his son, Mr.

J Maynard Hedstrom, became second in command. (See page 13 of PIM, June, 1951).

Walter Carpenter also was the son of a sea-captain, and was born in Australia; and he also was an active trader in tropical waters (Thursday Island) before he was out of his teens. In his youth he was associated with Burns Philp & Co., and with various Fiji trading enterprises, including Morris Hedstrom and Co.; but when Australia took over German New Guinea in 1914-13 he saw his big opportunity, and established W. R. Carpenter & Co. in Sydney. It then was a modest concern; but before he died in 1954, he also calculated his assets in terms of millions. His two sons were with him in WRC & Co. from the beginning; and they to-day are the Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively of the parent Company. (See page 39 of PIM of February, 1954).

The late Sir Walter Carpenter.

The late Sir Maynard Hedstrom. 15

I C I F I C Islands Monthly December, 1955

The Editors' Mailbag

He Remembers Carl Hoerler Tolala, who has the required pre- War I memory, reports that he remembers Carl Hoerler back in 1912, and gives the names of some people who may know more of him. (See PIM, November, page 19).

He writes: “I first met Capt.

Hoerler on board Sumatra in 1912.

He and his family were then bound for the Tasmans to trade for the E. E. Forsayth firm, and he remained there for some time. Later, I heard of him in the Solomons. Before that I believe he was a skipper on one of ‘Queen Emma’s’ schooners “I do not think he was of German nationality. His son has an uphill job to gather much information now.

“Those who might help are: Capt.

Carl Haug, (16) Darmstadt, Putzerstrasse 6, Apt 438, Germany; Mr.

Calton Younger, 3 Dexter Street, W.

Bundaberg, Queensland; and P. (Karkar) Schmidt, whose address is c/o George Hanson, Erina Heights, NSW. If they don’t know anything, then it looks like a blue duck.”

Import Restrictions and UNO Charter From a former resident of New Guinea, who should know what he is writing about: “I should be interested to know how they have been able to apply those Import Restrictions in the Trust Territory of New Guinea, in view of the explicit terms of the United Nations Charter, which apply here. Article 79 of the UN charter, subsection D, reads: ‘. . . . ensures equal treatment in social, economic and commercial matters for all members of the UN and their nationals’.”

It is an interesting point. Strange things happen among the harried bureaucrats —but one cannot imagine that so important a point as that was overlooked.

An Indonesian Gent In Singapore One hears a good deal about the hatred of the Asiatic peoples for Britain, now systematically stirred up by the Communists (writes a Singapore friend).

But for sheer impudence and arrogance, I commend the behaviour of the so-called President of the Republic of Indonesia, Dr. Soekarno, who spent three hours here on July 18, en route to Mecca.

This gentleman was accorded the usual international courtesies. He was met at the airport, on the outskirts of Singapore, by Governor Sir Robert Black, Chief Minister Marshall, and Chief Secretary Goode, and formally welcomed to this British Colony.

He accepted all this, apparently, as a matter of right, and saw no obligation to behave himself. He went straight to the Indonesian Embassy, and there, addressing 3,000 residents of Singapore, he urged the people to continue their struggle for independence, assured them of Indonesian aid, and urged the creation of a society to fight for all those “who still live under colonialism.”

On which we make the comment; It is all part of the pattern, which is so rapidly taking shape in Southeast Asia, and which so clearly is being directed by the Communists as part of their campaign for the dismemberment of the British Commonwealth. Kruschev’s snarls at Britain’s administrative record in India and Burma (headlined in early December) follow quite logically the gross behaviour of Soekarno (who came into prominence in Indonesia ten years ago as a puppet of the Japanese).

The SW Pacific's Slow-Growing Kauri “There is not much kauri left in the South Pacific now,” writes “Old Trader.” “Can nothing be done to compel the people who have reaped this rich harvest to re-plant young kauri in the areas they have denuded of the valuable trees?”

Too late now, we fear. The kauri is a very slow grower, and kauri reafforestation would appear to be uneconomic. But only the big kauri is taken—and the ground is usm covered with tiny trees spring from the liberal seeding.

Kauri was found originally in i long string of islands running no:c west from New Zealand, and . eluding the northern end of NZ, I Caledonia, New Hebrides and southern islands of the Solemn Early timber-getters reaped harvests.

Kauri still is coming out of big Solomons island of VaniM Vanikoro Timber Co., the o tractors are ceasing operations tic as from the end of 1955; but concessionaires, Kauri Timber Ltd., probably will work the tim themselves.

The biggest kauri stands were; NZ. There is some compulsory pl;I ing there now; but the trees not be of a commercial size u they are nearly a century old.

Mr. H. Chaperlin, accountant! the timber interests on Vanik who has been South on leave, that two kauri saplings were pla;i as a navigation guide on the fi shore of Vanikoro just over 30 y* ago; and in that time they have tained a circumference at the of only 41 feet. t A number of prominent people Fiji will attend the wedding, om cember 23, of the son of Rotan*j leader of the Banaban commu (transferred from Ocean Island: Rabi, Eastern Fiji. The Banai were provided with their new hi soon after World War 11, and apq to have settled down happily thr H Seven-years-old Prince Taufaas son of Prince Tugi of Tonga, , go to school in Auckland, I probably King’s College—in twv three years. At present he is v ing Auckland with his grandmoc Queen Salote. They will later sje a few weeks in Sydney.

Royal Visitor Mr. Hector Mac- Quarrie, Acting-Governor, Eastern Samoa, strolls in grounds of Government House, Pago Pago, with Queen Salote of Tonga when she visited the US Territory en route to NZ in November.

Photo: Pan American Prints. 16 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

[?]appy Returns inkers Fly Again New Guinea uNKERS aircraft, which put [New Guinea on the airighting map in pre-war New inea, have returned to the rritory. hbbes’ Sepik Airways have already m in one machine from Sweden [ two more are on order for 1956 very. wner of the air company, Capl Bobby Gibbes, landed a JUS2 — t-war version of the famous pre- [ planes—at Goroka in November, h him was Mr. Gustaf Jerineil, I had flown with him from jkholm by way of Germany, Italy, th Africa, Karachi, Rangoon, japore, the Philippines and )ng in Dutch New Guinea, ibbes was refused permission to I on or to cross Indonesian territie JUS2, like its predecessors, is w-wing monoplane with a high •load. It is capable of landing taking off in 350 yards. ; was Junkers aircraft that made ossible for Bulolo Gold Dredging xploit the rich alluvial gold dels in the Bulolo Valley, rery part of the dredges which led the alluvial flat was flown >y Junkers aircraft in the late and early 30’s. Only a Junkers at that time, capable of carrythe largest single component of edge—the tumblershaft. The full 7 of the achievements of these les was told in the Quarter bury issue of the PIM in July, TIENTS TO BE TRANS-

Ferred From Makogai

'CAL leper hospitals are to be built in Western Samoa and the Cook Islands. Patients from e territories are at present sent the central leper station at :ogai, Fiji. hen the local hospitals are t, probably at Apia, in Western oa, and on Rarotonga, in the t Islands, patients from these •s at present at Makogai will be sferred. Those, who because of disability or blindness, wish to lin at Makogai maybe permitted o so. has been decided also that ents from these areas who are at Makogai should be released r one year of negativity, inti of two as at present.

Young Officials of P-NG Gain Their Diplomas AT a formal ceremony in Sydney on December 6, the following 24 2-years’ students of the School of Pacific Administration (at St.

Georges Heights, Mosman) received their Diplomas. Most of them are Patrol Officers of the Papua-New Guinea Administration, who will return immediately to the Territories.

Many of them already have received their postings to the Districts.

In the absence of the Australian Minister for Territories (Mr.

Hasluck), the Diplomas were presented by Mr. W. J. Weeden (Director of the Commonwealth office of Education, and a member of the School Council), and the address (some portions of which will be published here next month) was given by the Principal of the School, Mr.

C. R. Rowley. Mr. Rowley traced the history of the School, and presented some unusual angles on its work and responsibilities.

In the following list (which is alphabetical), the subjects in which students gained honours are shown in parenthesis: R. a. J. Bentinck (Government, Geography).

R- W. Blaikie.

G - R- Burfoot.

K - E - Connolly.

N. Desailly (History).

'y D 9? lanj oJSi D R Hoiking ' J. J. Jordan.

M. Keary (Government), G - R- Kennan (Law, Robson Special Prize for Law).

Lang.

I' Yf- (Hlstor y) • Mcßridp W m n Smhiio V" ij’J £ Y; g- r OS s a HS ' (Law and H istorv)‘ y ( ana G . P Taylor (Anthropology, Goveminent, Geography, and Robson Special Prize for Proficiency).

Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years Ago.

TWENTY years ago the world was suffering a severe attack of the jitters as a result of Fascist Italy’s attack o n Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and the breakdown of the League of Nations machinery. In the Pacific there were some palpitations over Nazi Germany’s campaign for the return of the pre-1914 German colonies.

Here are extracts from the issue for December, 1935: PIM predicted editorially that more would be heard of Germany’s territorial claims in 1936, and that the future of New Guinea and Western Samoa would be subject to survey. It added; “The Pacific in 1936 will be under the shadow of grave international readjustments, but apart from that it should experience some inspiring progress in commerce, industry, transport and communications. The world is giving increasing attention to the rich Pacific territories”.

In Fiji, Suva had had 36 in. of rain in November, compared with an average November fall of 9.89 in. (In 1955 Suva had a record wet September, leading to spiteful imputations that at Suva abnormal weather can only be regarded as normal). * * * Nukualofa reported (December 8) that four craters at Niuafo’ou, the beautiful Tongan island labelled “Tin Can” because of its mail delivery system from passing ships, were in angry eruption, causing the evacuation of two villages. (The entire Niuafo’ou population was permanently evacuated after the volcano had broken out right In the middle of the Government village, Angaha, in 1945). * * * “It is recognised now that there is no hope for sugar-growing in Papua/' reported a Port Moresby correspondent. “It seems that if Papua grows sugar the Australian quota under Imperial Preference will be disturbed. Therefore Australia is against the scheme, although conditions in Papua are ideal for the industry.” * * ♦ Nothing had been heard of the New Guinea Administration’s schooner “Hermes”, which had left Madang for Rabaul on November 10. On board were the engineer, J. A. Andrews, N. E. Weldon, an assistant surveyor, F. Barclay, an Amalgamated Wireless official, and 17 native men. (Fragmentary wreckage was found later).

SfC % In the middle of one of Fiji’s recurrent commotions over the Crown Colony’s Constitution, the Fijian members of the Legislative Council had produced a resounding formal condemnation of “democracy” as it was apparently understood by some among Fiji’s varied racial communities. They said, inter alia: “The notion that the people are the best judges of matters of vital importance to the welfare of a State is for the Fijian utterly incomprehensible. Unconsciously he feels it to mean the transfer of power from knowledge to ignorance”. 17 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

“Freedom” of the Press Irresponsible Speculation Runs Riot Over "Joyita"

The Fiji Times headline of November 20, “All Aboard Joyita Murdered —Believed Official Fiji View”, was the culmination of ten days of wild press speculation about the fate of the vessel and had the effect of bringing the Fiji Colonial-Secretary to the microphone to broadcast an unprecedented denial. rr\HE full text of Mr. A. F. R.

X Stoddart’s statement appears on this page. It was broadcast on the evening of November 19. The Fiji Times story had been published that day and had been repeated (and carefully attributed to the Suva paper) by Australian newspapers immediately thereafter.

In the Australian Sunday press of November 20, the Colonial Secretary’s statement was played down, and sensational stories of alleged looting, particularly of the cargo of foodstuffs and fuel known to be aboard when Joyita sailed from Apia, were substitl |ted. Dou bts were cast on the Fiji Government view that the cause of the disaster was natural. (The 70-tons Joyita became missing in early October during what is normally a 2-days journey from Apia to the Tokelaus. RNZAF airsearch, with radar-equipped flying-boats, over 100,000 square miles of sea and islands, failed to locate her or her personnel, and was called off in mid- October. On November 10, Joyita was found, by G & E Government ship Tuvalu drifting, abandoned and partly submerged, about 100 miles north of Fiji and approximately on the International Dateline. She was towed by the Fiji Government ship Degei to Malau, near Labasa, pumped out, and then towed to Suva. The air search for survivors was renewed; but no trace of them and no explanation as to why they abandoned Joyita has been revealed). (All aspects of the Joyita mystery are covered in the Smallships section, this issue. See also page 119). tjj its sensational story on November 19, the Fiji Times (quoting, it claimed, from an “irreproachable source”) said that Japanese seamen murdered the passengers and crew of Joyita at night, after she had run through a Japanese fishing fleet. It was assumed, the paper said, that the people on Joyita had seen something the Japanese did not want them to see—and that young District Officer Fearless, who was on board, possibly protested, it was suggested that the Japanese then boarded the vessel, murdered or took prisoner the passengers and crew, and attempted to blow up the ship or opened a sea-cock.

This, said the Fiji Times, is 6 lieved to be the official view I by Fiji authorities.”

This story—which, in another could have triggered an internatki incident —was not only repudiii by Government, but also was vig ously denied by the captainr Koyomaru, the mother ship ole Japanese fishing vessels which been in the Fiji area during Octo He called the story “stuff and sense.” He asked the Suva aui ities to “crush this groun rumour, this iniquitious lie.”

How Press Saw Events After November Representatives of le.s Australian newspapers, .

Reuter, and New Zes; newspapers, flew into Suva to < the Joyita story. There, in thes of an entire lack of any establil facts about how or why the ship} Full Text of Colonial Secretary's Broado (Broadcast from VRH Suva, in the eveis of Saturday, November 19, by Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart, CMG.) This morning a statement was publish'd the "Fiji Times and Herald" to the effect; it is believed that the official view hele Fiji authorities is that the passengers? crew of the "Joyita" were murdered, ancb an attempt was made to sink the vess; order to cover all evidence of the crime. .

Having read the report I have come tt microphone to speak on behalf of the Gif ment of Fiji and to say most emphatically! it is not—l repeat, NOT —true that this i view of the Government of Fiji, nor is? view held in any responsible official C 3 This point was made in a statement bfl Public Relations Officer, which was quotit the newspaper, and my purpose now emphasise it.

The Government and its responsible oft have hitherto refrained from expressing! positive opinion on how the disaster tt "Joyita" came about. Until a full and tt cal examination of the vessel has been i it will not be possible to form any o opinion on what may have happened.

But, as this opinion has, withoutti foundation, been attributed to the G 3 ment, it is only right that I should i all listeners that all the evidence s? obtained from the condition of the sH; she was found, and from such examiii of her contents as has so far been piq supports the suggestion that the cause ' disaster was natural causes—that is t»1 that she was overwhelmed as a result of( freak weather at a time when perhapi engines were stopped.

This is, I admit, only speculation, butti is no positive evidence at present to s any other likely cause.

I am making this statement not only in to deny the statement which has i attributed to official sources but al:l possible, to give some assurance to the as relatives of those who were travelling "Joyita". We all have the most hei sympathy for them and we can only that their distress should be unnece: increased by the circulation of suchd suggestions for which there is no foumn How Sydney evening newspapers followed up the “Fiji Times” story on November 19. 18 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

andoned (and probably in the :e of official disapproval) they 3t the story alive in Southern pspapers with a most extraordtry sequence of assertions ana pals. tome extracts from Australian |ers published between November pnd 21 give an idea of the newsier treatment: fovember 11: Explosion and fire I occurred on board. A canvas ning had obviously been rigged shelter survivors, tovember 12: There is no trace of l ita’s cargo of oil drums, fovember 14: Joyita now believed have been rammed. There is a B in her hull through which she kin water. There are signs of |ing and it is possible that she i attacked by pirates. Radio has e, and her compasses have been i from their mounts. But the ?o of oil drums is intact (see e for 12th); awning (see note 11th) now is regarded as part regular equipment, ovember 15: There is no hole in ita’s hull. There was no exiion. A sea-cock found open in ine room now “suggests an atpt at scuttling.” ovember 16: Radio now found be intact but damaged by salt er. Ship’s compasses now found have been taken off for safe Jody while Joyita on tow to au. (See note for 14th).

November 19: The Suva paper claims the Japs murdered 25 people on board, and the Sydney papers print the story.

November 20: Cargo of large quantities of flour, sugar, rice biscuits, beef, etc., reported to be missing from Joyita when she was found, so looting is suggested.

November 21: Cargo of food (or most of it) is still on the ship.

"Joyita" inquiry to be held in Apia AN inquiry into the Joyita disaster will be held in Apia, Western Samoa, at a date yet to be announced.

The inquiry has been ordered by the New Zealand Department of Island Territories. Apia was the port from which Joyita departed on her journey to the Tokelaus. The ship is registered in Honolulu.

PIM EDITOR’S COMMENT: Fiji Has Front Seat View of Irresponsible Journalism IN a lifetime of newspaper experience, I never have seen wickeder or more irresponsible journalism than that indulged in by the newspapers after the Joyita was found drifting.

I thought the spectacle of the howling mob of reporters and photographers, in pursuit of Princess Margaret and Captain Townsend during October, was about the newspaper limit; but the performances of the sensation-mongers after the Joyita was picked up,’ reduced newspaper mendacity to an even lower level.

Elsewhere, we have quoted the various allegations about the joyita, as made by the newspapers’ various reporters; and then the withdrawals which had to be made in respect of each. The allegations, generally proved foundationless, were all headlined as if they were backed by facts.

One of the worst offenders was the representative sent to Suva by the Sydney Sunday newspaper, Sun-Herald. He climbed all over the vessel, in a personal examination, and then informed his paper that most of the known food cargo was gone—and the paper announced it, in screaming front-page bannerlines, as evidence of piracy. But within a day it was reported that, as far as could be ascertained, most of the original cargo was there.

There was no apology.

BUT it remained for Suva’s local newspaper, the Fiji Tunes to put the coping-stone on the mass of imaginative nonsense and sensationalism.

As the overseas reporters vied AT LEFT: MV "Tuvalu" (top) which first sighted "Joyita"; and "Degei" (which towed the derelict to Malau) with the partly submerged "Joyita", about 100 miles north of Fiji, preparatory to commencing the tow. ABOVE: "Joyita" at Malau, pumped out and righted and ready for the tow to Suva. Damage to port side can clearly be seen. Drums and other cargo seen at bow were taken from hold.

Photos by Fiji Public Relations Office. 19 tCIFIC ISLANDS MO NTH LY DECEMBER, 1955

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A veil may be drawn over what happened in private; but, in public, the Government Secretary took the unprecedented course of going on "Joyita" beached at Malau.

Photo by Fiji Public Relation Office Mr. Charles (Chuck) Simpson, mate on "Joyita" when she disappeared. An American Indian, he arrived in Eastern Samoa in 1954 and later married a Samoan girl.

Photo by Jack Thornton. 21 ' IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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High officialdom later had the unpleasant task of soothing a certain Japanese Embassy. One can only guess at what happened— and at high officialdom’s attempt to describe to a wondering Japanese the “freedom” enjoyed by “our popular press.”- R. W. ROBSON.

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Territories Talk-Tal[?]

By Tolala Happy Christmas!

And I don’t mean that presentday commercialised “XMAS” which we see so much these days and which means so little insofar as the true Christmas spirit is concerned.

Let’s put Christ back into Christmas —not “X”, the unknown quantity.

To all my friends: Peace and Happiness; Goodwill to all mankind.

Intersectional Snarl To me it has always been a matter for regret that the non-native section of the P-NG population has not been more co-operative, one with the other, and done everything possible to avoid sectional jealousies and animosities. Life in P-NG would be so much easier and more pleasant if every section was more tolerant of the “other fellow.”

An example of this—in reverse — claimed public attention recently when the Acting Director of Education —a Mr. G. T. Roscoe—presumably in his official capacity, made some outspoken remarks anent Mission educational methods before the Arbitration Court when it was hearing PSA claims for more dough and what-have-you. Though exactly what relevance there was between PSA claims and Mission operations I’m afraid I was unable to understand.

Anyway, the ADE was reported as having suggested possible irregularities in some mission returns; figures upon which were based government subsidies to the Missions. This occasioned an animated reply f;l the Rev. Percy Chatterton, of London Missionary Society who < equivocally went gunning for G. T. Roscoe.

I don’t want to comment om right or wrongs of eithen these gents., but it does s unnecessary to wash their linr whether dirty or not—within view of the public; and it certs does not reflect much credit! either party. Especially now, w many of our dark-skinned chss are quite competent to unders* the printed English language.

Is it so impossible for the EE pean community, at least, to s a united front to the native pe of P-NG? (On November 17, the Administrate P-NG, Brigadier D. M. Cleland. issra Press statement in which he said that Roscoe had never claimed that Misi had acted dishonestly in compiling re» relating to educational grants-in-aid 6 claimed that Mr. Roscoe had either • misreported, or that his meaning was interpreted. Mr. Roscoe, he said, , stated that some missions did noti sufficient detail in their reports, on they included in their reports detat schools that fell short of the nece; requirements for the payment of sidies. Some of the missions also ino on their returns details of activitiese could not be regarded as educational t ing within the meaning of the Eduo Ordinance. Brigadier Cleland alsoc something to say about Mr. Chattels outburst that missions objected to ‘ schools being judged by inexperii young patrol-officers” (‘‘South Pacific s of November 16). The Administrator that patrol-officers’ reports are limit* idvising the Department of Education! the schools are functioning and asces ing the number of pupils. They di report on the educational work oa mission concerned. —Editor, PIM.) Some Statistics on P.NG Education The argument between the Eo: tion man and the Missio prompted me to look up some figJ on Government subsidies for mi activities. Unfortunately, thee statistics I had on hand were 1 for 1951-52 in Papua, but, neves less, they were somewhat illurm ing.

For instance, there was mission, according to the statid which had a total of 5,001 digenous adherents, with 16 sch and was receiving a subsidy off £6OO. While Mr. Chatterton’sa mission society, at that periodfc receiving a Government subsioi £4,521 for the maintenance oc schools, most of which wen villages, and was expendingg education from its own funds,,; £97 more than that received the Government. Another mix society, however, was receivif 22 DECEMBER. 19 5 5 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Queen Emma,” on her Kokopo ntations, encouraged the idea of iblishing native communities, and I system worked well until the stralian Government came along i the League of Nations started Ing out about “slavery”—which certainly was not. ’he establishment of native ages on Ceylon estates has been narily successful owing to the ise population and the economic ssure which compels the natives i r ork —or else; both conditions beabsent from P-NG, the Land of tity. he labour situation can only deorate, in my opinion, what with e expansion of co-operative eties and the drift of the indues towards “white collar” jobs, smains to be seen whether mechsation will solve the problem. re Unco-operative nother striking example of that ional disunity amongst nonves in P-NG, which I so deplore, iven in the South Pacific Post November 23, a front-page y dealing with reported ion between Catholic sion and the minis tration >ols on the elle Peninsula, le blitz bein the Talas and the is has been mg up and n ever since early ’eighties, 1 down the s there have m numerous ippy incidents which everyone wants to forget.

As the number of denominational workers in the Lord’s Vineyard has increased, so also have the nature and number of blitzes multiplied throughout the Territory as a whole, and God in his Heaven must have heaved many a sigh as He witnessed the rivalry and hatred among His workers, who had answered the Call to spread the Gospel of Peace and Goodwill amongst Men.

Whether feature stories, emphasising such sectional friction amongst non-natives, is wise in a country passing through the transitional stage, and where so many natives are capable of reading (if not wholly understanding) newspaper stories, is a matter of opinion.

Personally, I think everything should be done to avoid fanning any flame of sectarian difference amongst the indigenes; more especially in these days when a great proportion of the native population in the more settled areas has become organised and displays a unity in the ranks which hitherto did not exist amongst the old warring tribes, and which therefore proved a great protection to Europeans.

At this date (December 3) I have read only of one side of the argument, but I am glad to see that the Catholic Mission “had accepted the challenge” contained in the article and no doubt will make a logical reply. One piece which I cannot fit into the jig-saw puzzle is the fact that the most anti- Village Council community—Raluana —is a Methodist stronghold.

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I mation that Darius To Mamua and Peni To Walaun (and note, for a wonder, their names were spelt correctly), aged 37 and 18 respectively, and both from the Vunamami Education Centre, near Rabaul, were guests of the Junior Farmers’ Club’s Council when they attended a Leadership school at Bathurst.

They received considerable attention in the Journal, with an accompanying photo of their smiling faces, and there was a flattering blurb for the Administration Education Department.

Darius, in a Press conference (!), gave them the good oil about “five per cent, of the population (of P-NG) of six million can read and write.” That, unfortunately, does not reflect too much credit on his knowledge of vital statistics and there was also the old, old tribute to the “Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels,” w is overworked.

But it all shows how Austn “culture” or habits are spre;s in the P-NG with these vss Youth Movements to catch i young and mould them to a pas nearer to the heart’s desire, s other words, regiment them eaii suppose this sort of thing hr start sometimes, but to me it s a bit early in the piece. And Youth Movements can be oven Some of them remind me od Hitler Youth movement; it sugj a preparation for nationalise; the extermination of individuc Travellers to Papua-New Guinea in November New Guinea-bound per "Sinkiang" in November were (left to right): Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Paul, who were returning to Golden Ridges, [?] following vacation. Mr. and Mrs. B. Cope, and Darryl, of Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., who were returning to Mr. and Mrs. w Gee, whe were returning to Port Moresby after furlough in England. Mr. Gee is Chief Engineer, Posts & Telegraphs Dept. 26 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Jut all this is by the way. The istion is: Will Junior Farmers’ lbs, if established in P-NG tor, be a benefit to the youthful ive, or will they further confuse se primitive minds which are ;ady flat out in an endeavour to imilate the most rudimentary ics of Western civilisation? It ns that we are trying to inocu- ; these primitive people in one ade with the knowledge it has en us centuries to accumulate, here is an excellent satirical toon by Jolliffe in a recent Iney periodical in which he dels a crowd of Australian abos., paring for a corroboree, being ressed by a whiteman; and an . on the outskirts of the asibly says: “He’s from Actors’ lity—says either we join up, or more corroborees.” 11 leave it at that. But don’t ik Union organisers, contacting natives, are restricted to native ces. My trip to NG disillusioned on that, and the discovery did make me very happy. :ial Equality and •istianity he Rev. Alan Walker took his ;ion to the Nation to P-NG; and, he end of last month, in Port esby, held forth on racial flity which, he said, was “God’s Dose for Mankind.” always seems to me that the e you cry down racial discrimion the more race-conscious )le become, and tension rises, lere has been more shouting it exterminating the colour-bar the need for racial equality ngst the white races during the - year or so than ever before. what has been the result? le Afro-Asian conference and a lounced colour bloc in UNO. And i, in itself, has made for more nity in this “United” body, e often forget that Asian itries are just as discriminating it the colour line as we are— n more so. Asian countries are more caste-conscious than we and I have yet to meet up with ew Guinea tribe which, despite communal mode of life, is not s-conscious and which, in many s, does not feel superior to the ;e race. does not necessarily follow that use the white race has modern pledge, and the know-all or the v-how, that the darker races feel ny way ethnically inferior. They illy are far prouder of their al traditions than we are. We :e according to our yard-measure aodern Speed and Greed; they ;e on other standards. » one who lived as a veritable outcast amongst Asians during the last war, I can vouch for their intolerant attitude towards Europeans, and for the many degrees of racial distinction shown by one Asian country towards other Asians —which was far more marked than that which is shown by Europeans towards Asiatics.

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With all due respect to Alan Walker and his Mission, I truly believe his time, rhetoric and personal magnetism could have been used to better advantage amongst the heathen of Sydney than amongst the Christians in New Guinea ports.

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Madame Ollier was a member of the French Consular Service, stationed at Canberra. In evidence before the Australian Royal Commission into espionage, Petrov said that he had met Madame Ollier on several occasions with the purpose of getting security information from her.

She was subsequently sent to France under guard, where she was detained for six months on a charge of plotting against the security of the State. She was released—but charged again, this time with failing to report to her superiors that Petrov was a spy.

An Army Tribunal in Paris has now acknowledged the weakness of the charge and Madame Ollier has been released. t At Supreme Court sittings in Wau, New Guinea, in November, Kevin Edward Cronow was found guilty of having gold in his possession “at some time”, it being the property of Bulolo Gold Dredging Limited. Mr. Justice Kelly placed Cronow on a 560 good behavour bond for 12 months. ■ Mr. C. Wager, formerly a wellknown resident of Fiji, and now retired and living in Sydney, has been in poor health lately—more particularly in relation to his eyesight. He has been receiving special treatment for cataract trouble, and his friends expect that he soon will be restored to normal health. 29 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Bible was translated into Gilben many years before and stood in g need of revising, as the langi? had grown and developed.

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[?]ut the Beer Is Still On 70RKING drawings, sketch plans ' and schedules of quantities for the South Seas Hotel, Suva, ;t Morris Hedstrom Ltd. £15,000. [’his was disclosed when the firm Dlied to the Licensing Court for •enewal of its provisional licence, e hundred sheets of working iwings were produced in Court evidence of the firm’s activity the construction of the new hotel, dr. E. Gough, Assistant General nager of the firm, said that the Club Hotel had to be pulled down er being seriously damaged in last hurricane. Work had ■tially proceeded on the new ith Seas Hotel to replace it when earthquake of September, 1953, ised them to revise their plans, [e said specifications of quantities ild be ready by December and ders should be in by the end of mary. If a tender was received r the amount estimated, he ught a very comfortable hotel ild result. Once the tenders were there would be no delay in comto a decision.

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I the licensee of the bar, which low operating without any house ommodation, was granted a proonal licence up to June 30, 1956, which time a decision regarding new hotel would have been ie. he bar portion of the hotel has n constructed. It has been atitively tiled and the sanitary ingements are of a high standard, oining the bar concrete pillars he height of one storey and steel iforcement rods remain as they e when work was stopped, [ile-a-minute, a rapid-growing heal creeper, has covered most the piles and, as one resident ically observed, at least hides some measure of progress in isforming the shell of the buildinto a beauty spot.

Editorial Note Hien the earthquake hit Suva in tember, 1953, the bar of the new th Seas Hotel had just been ipleted and liquor was being I from there under the old Club el licence (the Club Hotel was lolished in the hurricane of uary, 1952).

All work on the remainder of the new hotel ceased and when the Club Hotel licence came up for renewal at the end of 1954 (15 months later) lt was refused, pending assurances from Morris Hedstrom Ltd. that the hotel building would be proceeded with, and pending also certain installations in the bar itself.

After being closed for some months, the bar started functioning again about April this year.

In December, 1954, the Company stated that construction of the hotel would commence in early 1955, and would be completed in 1956 at a cost of £250,000. It would provide accommodation for about 65 guests.

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Dang Air-Strip Out Of

ACTION one hour in early November, ive inches of rain fell in Madang. As a result the Meiro er burst its banks, the airstrip flooded and sustained damage Icient to close it for some weeks, one stage of the storm, logs 2 in diameter were seen floating n the runway. ight hours after the rain •ped, two feet of water remained the strip. A DCA official and Principal Engineer of the Comiwealth Department of Works r to Madang on November 7 inspect the damage. They reed later it would take £4,000 ffect repairs. wring the storm, the road from lang to the airstrip was closed, the DCA staff on duty had to y on during the next shift un- :hey could be relieved. ; times, muddy water from the r extended five miles out to lirty miles from Madang, a ey bridge over another river washed away.

Le and Wewak also felt the effect of the rain, but not nearly so badly. Lae airstrip was closed for a few hours and several towns were flooded.

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A late model car was destroyed b y fire near Ward’s Strip, Port Moresby, in early November.

The owner of the car, Mr. Peter Goodwin, of Steamships Trading Company, left it parked on the side of a dirt track in the area for about an hour while he went shooting.

On his return, the car was gutted. Nearby bush was burning fiercely.

Psa President: No Comment

The president of the Public Service Association of P-NG, Mr. R.

Brennan, on November 7. issued his first Press statement since the Public Service Arbitrator announced his findings some days earlier. (In the findings, Mr. Wood rejected most of the claims of the Association.) (Continued Oven Mr. C. Lane, well-known resident of Goroka, Eastern NG Highlands, was married to Miss Nelson at the LMS Church, Port Moresby, on November 4.

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“Until such time as this review has been made,” said Mr. Brennan, “the determination cannot be regarded as final. The Executive of the Public Service Association considers it would be inappropriate to comment on the details of the determination”.

The Administrator of P-NG made it clear in a November statement that no public servant would have his salary reduced as a result of the Arbitrator’s findings.

Meningitis At Sogeri

Four natives died from Meningitus in the Sogeri district during October-November.

A Health Department official says that meningitis usually appears amongst the natives at this time each year and that there was little that could be done about it.

Another native died suddenly in Port Moresby early November. The native, a police constable stationed at Headquarters, could not be awakened by other constables to report for duty. A post-mortem showed that the native died from pneumonia.

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A 300 p.c. rise in the Administration charge for the recruitment of each Highland labourer has been announced. It will come into effect on December 1.

From that date, the fee will rise from 10/- to £2 per labourer. The Acting Director of Native Affairs, Mr. J. K. McCarthy, explained that the increase was necessary to help recoup the Administration for higher costs incurred in recruitment and accommodation of Highland labourers before completion -of medical and attestation formalities.

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IMI3C-55 [ female screw-worm fly mated ly once. They then bred thousds of male flies and rendered ;m sterile exposing them to anna-rays from radio-active jalt. hi official of the P-NG Departnt of Agriculture in Port Moresby nted out that the Curacao eximent had been successful partly •ause Curacao was an island. The is could not therefore move to ler areas. le added, however, that experints were now under way in irida, in the United States, and they were successful they would worthy of investigation for apcation to the Territory.

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THE lUMUS P-NG Native Affairs patrol ently re-entered the lumu area the Tari sub-district in the ithern Highlands. [his is the area where a patrol s attacked in August and where, 1953, a native constable was led when the lumus attacked an •lier patrol. following the August attack, the cithern Highlands District Comssioner, Mr. R. R. Cole, decided it a strong patrol should return the lumu country as soon as »sible as a display of strength s essential to bring about peace h these aggressive and arrogant >ple.

During the August patrol this tr, Assistant District Officer W.

Crellin repeatedly tried to conice the lumus that the patrol wished to establish friendly relations with them. efforts failed, and consistent attacks were made on the patrol, over a period of two or three days. . , Shots fired over the heads of the attackers failed to deter them and it was clear that they did not understand the fire-power of a .303 rifle. It was learned later that the lumus regarded a rifle as a noisy but harmless weapon.

The attacks continued, but Mr.

Crellin decided to withdraw and return later with a larger patrol TVia - „ re< j£ °L Natl Y^ Affairs, Mr. J. K. McCarthy, said that the recent patrol went in with a police unit of 32 and fully achieved its objective, After three weeks in the area, all the headmen reported to the Base Camp set up by the patrol, and were shown just how effective Miss Myola Elliott-Smith celebrated her 21st washday at a party in her honour at Port esby on November 5. With her in our photograph is her father. District Commissioner Elliott-Smith.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 35 1 C I F I c ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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The natives then had a change I heart and went so far as to bologise for killing the native conable two years previously. They Iso wanted to pay compensation, ad although this was refused, the |trol decided to accept an offer [ send men to work on the Tari rstrip.

The patrol also started peace negotiations between the lumus and their long-standing enemy neighbours.

Mr. McCarthy said close contact will be maintained with the lumus.

Another patrol would visit them before the end of the year.

The lumu country is only about 10 miles from the Tari patrol post.

Tv For Moresby?

The President of the Territory Branch of the Wireless Institute of Australia, Mr. Frank Nolan, announced early November, that the Branch was planning to estab- 1i s h an experimental television transmitter in Port Moresby.

Mr. Nolan’s announcement follows an earlier announcement by the Post-Master General that television licences would be issued to amateur wireless operators for experimental purposes.

Establishment of a transmitter in Port Moresby would mean that anyone with a television set living within a radius of about 10 miles of the transmitter would be able to view the amateurs’ programmes.

On October 20, Miss Geogina Turner married Mr. J. Geoffrey in Rabaul, New Guinea.

A reception was held at the New Guinea Club.

Our photograph shows, the Rev. Mr. Lutton, of the Methodist Church, the groom and bride, and (standing) Miss Jean Campbell and Mr. Bill Dupe.

Photo: C. H. Meen. 37 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1955

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Natives in the Kainantu District of the New Guinea Eastern Highlands are coming into the high income bracket.

They are reported to be earning about £l,OOO a month from gold mining. An Officer of the P-NG Department of mines has now been stationed at Kainantu to handle the gold.

Meanwhile, a mining company, has established the occurence of Titanium in possible payable quantities in the Barola area of the Eastern Highlands.

Another example of the progress and development of the area is shown in the cash turnover at the District Office at Goroka. Recently it amounted to £60,000 in one month. Three years’ ago, the average monthly turnover was less than £7,000.

An administration native labour Inspector, Mr. G. F. Brown, has suggested that native labour employment bureaus be established throughout Papua and New Guinea.

He said this would overcome the problem of unskilled natives moving from one place to another and then finding there was no work for them.

Mr Brown made this suggestion when addressing a meeting of the Lae Town Advisory Council to acquaint the members with the activity taking place in a special area set aside in Lae for nas housing.

Mr. Brown said the idea of scheme was good but the Admit, tration was not going the right about it. Land had been set ae but no provision had been lights or sewerage.

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Hanuabada Operation

COMPLETE Ihe re-building of Hanuabada Uage in Port Moresby is now nost complete.

Hanuabada was destroyed by fire ring the war, and the Australian )vernment undertook to put up w houses for the inhabitants.

Ihe re-building programme irted 6 years ago; 300 native uses have been erected. Only more remain to be built. (Hanuabada was a traditional nine village—the houses built t over the sea on high piles. The w Hanuabada —of timber and Ivanised iron—is built on the land d already looks like a slum, or e native quarters in a South Wean city.)

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Australia’s senior Trade Comssioner to the United Kingdom, r. G. R. Patterson, told planters Rabaul recently that they must Sanise themselves properly and ily explore markets and market- ? techniques.

Mr. Patterson was speaking at dinner given in his honour by the Administration and the Planters’

Association of New Guinea.

He commented also on the progress of primary industry in all districts he had visited, and stressed the importance of producers in the Territory maintaining high quality wQC P Hnnp C hP fplt cnrp t*li nVUp was done, he felt sure that valuable markets existed in the United Kingdom and in Europe.

Another Plunge On Sogeri

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A Landrover, driven by Mr. Ernest Heckenburg, plunged off the road and ended up against a boulder 20 ft below.

Heckenburg was thrown clear of the vehicle and fell another 300 ft to the bottom of the valley.

He WaS found UnCOnSCiOUS 4 hours , ariH fnkpr , fn v,n<;nitai- ir.

Juries were not serious^ %h JU £^ S wer ® * senou ®- The accident occurred in the early hours of the morning while Heckenburg was following another vehicle up the mountain road.

Forced Landing Near Wau

A ploughed field near Wau township became a landing ground in mid-November for a light aircraft Mr H. Hoffmann and Miss M. McNamara, [?]e married at the Roman Catholic Church, [?]t Moresby, on November 12. Our photoph shows them cutting their wedding cake. [?]s Val Cadzow was bridesmaid and Mr. hur Roberts bestman. Rosie Vidgen was [?]er-girl.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 39 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Cng Tow Ends In Moresby

The arrival of an ocean-going tug id two barges in Port Moresby in jjvember ended the longest tow er undertaken by the United Towg Company of Hull, in England, the tug, Tradesman, towed the (rges 11,300 miles from the UK to ipua in 80 days.

The Master of the tug, Captain I Hopper, said that the company id undertaken several tows that p lasted longer but the journey to ipua was the greatest distance.

He said the unique feature of the p was that nothing unusual happened. There was good weather most of the way, the tow ropes did not break, and no one went overboard The two barges were bought out from England for APC.

Tb Checks In Papua

The Health Department’s tuberculosis tests in the Milne Bay Districts should end before Christmas By then, it is estimated that 60thousand natives in the D’entrecasteaux, Trobriand and Misima Islands will have been X-rayed.

Health Officers have been in the area about three months.

The biggest part of their job has been moving the X-ray machine from place to place. Most of its travels have been on canoes and small boats, and landing the machine at the various islands without benefit Miss Lois Gibson was married to Mr. Allen Pratt, in the Roman Catholic Church, Rabaul, October 15. Photograph, taken at the reception, shows (left to right): Mrs. Max Lees, Mr. [?] Long, bride and groom, Mrs. Long, and Mr. Max Lees.

Photo: C. H. Meen. 41 cIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Gift Pigs For Kandrian

Natives at Kandrian, New Britain, may soon be the proud owners of some of the progeny of New South Wales champion Red Berkshire Pigs.

They will be the gift of a former Territory plantation owner, Mr. R.

Arrowsmith, to natives who helped him establish his first plantation and worked with him for the whole of the time he was in New Britain.

In a letter to the Department of Native Affairs, Mr. Arrowsmith said he had never forgotten the debt he owed the Kandrian people of New Britain. To help repay them for what they had done for him, he wished to send to Kandrian some of the progeny of the pigs with which he won first prize at the last Royal Easter Show in Sydney.

Mr. Arrowsmith formerly owned Tobera plantation in the Kokopo sub-district. He now has a property at Castle Hill, near Sydney.

Papua At Olympics

Papua may be represented at next year’s Olympic Games in Melbourne.

A committee recently formed in Papua has applied to the International Olympic Committee in Switzerland for recognition as the Papuan National Olympic Committee. This would be entirely separate from the Australian National Committee.

An official of the Papuan Committee said in November that in the event of its being recognised, the Papuan National Committee would then have authority accept nominations for any of events in the Olympic Games.

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Fnique; Ahead Of Schedule

i;The new wharf at Rabaul is now Dished —nearly three months ahead ■ schedule. [it was built by Dayal Singh Con- Cuctions (New Guinea) Limited, I a cost of £228,000, including cargo ieds. for the sheds are ftnplete but a shortage of iron is Wding up the project.

The newly-completed wharf is K) it long and 40 ft wide, and has iree concrete approaches.

Epik Art For Switzerland

k collection of the arts and crafts [natives of the Sepik District of »w Guinea will soon be placed nong a famous collection housed [the Museum of Anthropology at isle, in Switzerland.

There are more than 140,000 lecimens of the arts and crafts [Pacific Islanders and Indonesians [the Swiss museum.

The Director of the Museum and bfessor of Anthropology at Basle pversity, Dr. Alfred Beuhler, left »rt Moresby late November for tewak to start gathering the Sepik ecimens.

Dr. Beuhler, one of the world’s remost Anthropologists, visited the srritory 25 years ago but did not >rk in the Sepik district. He plans I spend about six months collect- % and studying native handicrafts.

Chief Scout’S Visit

Ihe Empire Chief Scout, Lord )wellan, will arrive in P-NG on lesday, January 17, next year.

He will leave for Honiara, in the itish Solomons, on Monday, Janry 23.

Lord Rowellan will stay at Port iresby, Madang and Rabaul durl his 7-day Territory visit. \ comprehensive itinerary has Bn drawn up for the Chief Scout’s lit. but, as yet, all details have t been finalised.

Ercy Dash By Crash Boat

DCA crash boat berthed in Port )resby one day late in November trying a new-born native child d the body of its mother. The by was rushed to Hospital and is ing well.

Die arrival of the crash-boat folded a desperate effort to get the tive woman from Abau, on the puan east coast, to hospital in rt Moresby. [t the request of the Department Health, the fastest DCA crashit available left Port Moresby to ie down the coast and pick up I woman from the motor-vessel 'fna. A European medical officer an assistant went with the mch.

Before it reached the Doma, the baby was born.

Two native nurses and the master of the Doma assisted at the birth.

OTC opened its radio-network to enable the acting Director of Health Dr. May, to give instruction to the Doma on the aftercare of the baby.

Getting Water For

MORESBY At the November meeting of the Port Moresby Town Advisory Council, it was decided to appoint a deputation to seek an interview with the Administrator.

The deputation plans to ask for the formation of a joint committee of Council and Administration officials to discuss the provision of power, light, water and sewerage, and also to discuss the establishment of a Commission to take over these services.

This move followed the receipt of a letter from the P-NG Assistant Administrator, through the District Commissioner, in which the former said the Council already knew the Administration’s plans to augment existing supplies, and that it was not going to panic the Administration into constructing temporary, undesigned engineering works.

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The Chairman of the Council, Mr E, A. James, described this as “silly.” He said Darwin was supplied at the rate of 200 gallons a day per person, and the source of supply was 40 miles away, 23 miles more than Port Moresby’s source of supply.

Mr. James said the Administrati o n should be censured for its inactivity over the last eight years as regards a water supply for Port Moresby, and that the number of people who had left the Territory because of the lack of essential services would be surprising.

Radio Telephone Is Popular

Nearly 2,000 radio-telephone calls were received in Port Moresby and a little more than one thousand in Rabaul during the 12 months from the end of March, 1964, to March 31, 1955.

In the same period, there were 1,033 overseas calls made from Port Moresby and 439 from Rabaul.

The Annual report of the Overse a s Telecommunications Commission shows that Port Moresby At the Kokopo Club, New Britain, on November 5, Miss Pamela Levi was married to Mr.

Barry O'Connor by the Rev. Mr. Hatters, of the Church of England, Rabaul. Our bridal group shows (left to right): Bridegroom and bride, Mr. Denis Jones (bestman), Mrs. W. Meehan (matron of honour), and flower-girls Dawn Reid and Brownyn Jones.

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Easter Is. To Tahiti

Rowing to Freedom lONG, precarious voyages in rowing boats are becoming a habit of Easter Islanders.

At the end of November, five Easter Islanders arrived in Atiu, Cook Group, after a 54-days voyage from Easter Island in an open boat.

They said that they had been without food for 24 days during the 2,500 miles journey.

The men, whose names are given as Gabriel Tuki Veri Very, Ambrosia Riroroko Tuki, Valentine Riroroko Tuki, Israel Riroroko Tuki, and Orlando Paoa Paoa, said that they were aiming at Tahiti, where they had relatives.

In December, 1954, three Easter Islanders arrived in Tahiti after making most of the voyage in a 22ft rowing boat; they had been 29 days on the way from Easter to the Tuamotus from which point they voyaged to Papeete on a Government ship.

They said on arrival that they were seeking liberation from the yoke of Chilean rule of their island.

They were whisked off to hospital for a medical check-up and were somewhat embarrassed to find themselves occupying the same ward as the newly-arrived Chilean consul in Tahiti.

However, the French Oceania government presumably gave them political asylum—it seems likely the 1955 adventurers were see these pioneers.

Mr. J. L. Bergelin, Administrj' Officer, BSIP, travelled in October Tulagi to Sydney, on 1»J New Schoolhouse for Western Highlands A new European school (see opposite page) was recently opened at Mt. Hagen, NG Western Highlands. The school is modern in design and attractively painted in pastel colours inside.

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Tie Matua brought replacements [repatriated officials.

Ir. Scarborough is now the lerintendent of the Radio station, I Mr. E. Cahill replaces Mr. B. inton as senior operator. Dr. M. ng, Wellington’s Director of the 5s Miniature Radiography Unit, ived with Mr. Mahony, X-ray mician.

Wo former members of the Cl ication Department, Mr. White 1 Mr. Roberts, returned to New land to take up new appointits. Mr. White will go to a school ler the Nelson Board and Mr. >erts to an Auckland Maori DOl. tr. A. S. Kerkham left Suva on r ember 8 for Australia, where he join the Sydney office of Morris Istrom, Ltd., with whom he has n associated in Fiji for 19 years, has taken a leading interest in ;ball, hockey and yachting. At a >by Union farewell he was preted with a Representative’s ter —the first occasion such a sentation has been made —and "esentatives of the Union, the ntry unions and the referees’ )ciation spoke in praise of the standing service Mr. Kerkham given to Rugby in Fiji.

Lights on in Goroka GOROKA, in the New Guinea Eastern Highlands, should have its hydro-electricity system in operation early in the new year.

The last piece of equipment for the plant, a generator, is now on its way to NG from the UK, by sea. Another important piece of machinery, a turbine, is now at Lae awaiting the arrival of the generator. Both pieces of equipment will then be flown into Goroka When this happens, lights-on should be possible within a month.

II Mr. R. D. Fairley, Administrative Officer, BSIP, returned to Honiara from leave on October 24.

Goroka school —see opposite page. 47

[ C If I C Islands Monthly December, 1955

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Basketball Champions of Papua On October 29, in Port Moresby, a dance [?] held by the Basketball Association. During evening a trophy was presented to the team [?]ich won the premiership. Members of the [?]m, shown (left to right), are: Mrs. Barbara [?]mford, Miss Maureen Shorthouse, Miss Betty don, Mrs. Vi Chippendale, Mr. Otto Zander [?]ch), Mrs. Joyce Martin (captain), Mrs. Gladys [?]mford, and Mrs. Fran Carven. Absent from [?]to but in the winning team, Mrs. Viv Geogh.

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Letter to the Editor The Escape From Tarawa in 1942 I WOULD like to give you the plain facts on the final escape from Tarawa in 1942, which, to my knowledge, have not before been published. (See PIM for July, 1955). In doing this I feel I will be clearing up any doubts cast on the loyalty of my officers and crew serviing under me at the time.

The escape from Tarawa in the first place was to have been undertaken by myself, officers and whoever among the crew wished to leave, which would have been a comparatively simple undertaking.

Subsequent events, including the arrival of a drifting life-boat with nine survivors, the wish on the part of a good many more people to leave, and the presence of heavy air reconnaissance, turned this hitherto small operation into one of heavy responsibility.

Prior to this I had received orders to proceed with the utmost celerity to the Southern Gilberts.

But, because of the reconnaissance, and the difficulties attached to travelling at night and staying concealed by day with three boats (1 launch and 2 life-boats) and a large party, I decided to wait until, in my opinion, reconnaissance had lessened and conditions regarding tides had become more favourable. The wisdom of this decision was borne out by the fact that my officers (with one exception) and men stood by me, and the escape was accomplisj leaving no one who wished to < could leave, and leaving responsibility to Government! regards Europeans.

While I do not decry in way the efforts on the part of correspondent to escape, the 50 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHE

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I am, etc., E. W. HARNESS uva, bv. 17, 1955. (EDITORIAL NOTE: The article i July, 1955 PIM, to which iaptain Harness refers, was not itended to reflect on the loyalty f his officers and crew. Nor do b think that it does. One matter lould, however, be made plain, as aptain Harness may infer that it as Captain Stead who provided Fwith the July story. This is not I Captain Stead has never unmunicated with the PIM about le Tarawa escape, or about mhing else. Staff members of [M know him only by repute. As is made clear in an introduction [ our July story, it was written ire in Sydney from copies of an Bcial report that we had held for r er 13 years. The report contained itements from almost every person volved in the escape, and official mments on the statments. Stead is commended as having shown itiative; and it was considered at “the success of his venture ntributed materially to the icision of the main party at irawa to put to sea.”) letter-Balanced Trade with N. Caledonia T the present time New L Caledonia buys far more from ' Australia than Australia buys >m NC —a sore point for a long riod—but this situation may m become more favourable for w Caledonia.

Noumea correspondent says it Australia has announced that i will triple her order for nickel, >m the present 500 tons per num to 1,500 tons. This, together th an expanding iron-ore trade Australia, might permit the ench Colony to further expand f Australian business. >ne sign of the new situation ty be seen in another Noumea nouncement. A special allocation import licenses to obtain extra ristmas goods from Australia s approved by the Government November. Items included are isky and shrimps, as well as ier “luxury” goods.

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The company pioneered the South Pacific route in December, 1937, when the first survey flight was made with a Sikorsky S-42-B flying boat named Samoa Clipper.

On the second flight, carrying mails, in January, 1938, Samoa Clipper, commanded by the company’s senior pilot, Captain Edwin C. Musick, exploded in the air about 40 minutes after take-off from Pago Pago for Auckland, Captain Musick and his six crew men being lost. This disaster, and other events, halted the continuance of the South Pacific Service until 1941.

Captain Musick’s association with trans-South Pacific commercial aviation was commemorated in Auckland by giving his name to an important radio station near Auckland which maintains contact with all aircraft and shipping. t The “Oiseau des lies” arrived at Rarotonga from the French Phospate Islands on November 23.

She repatriated the last of the Cook Islands labourers —37 men from Mauke Island. 51 * C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Noumea’s new and thriving air onpany, TRANSPAC, commenced a irtnightly air service to Vila and anto in the New Hebrides in No- ;mber. The company is seeking overnment mail subsidies, but icanwhile is carrying mail at eight rates.

This development, undoubtedly armly welcomed by New Hebrides isidents, was announced by RANSPAC’s Chairman of Directs, Mr. H. G. Martinet, who was ; Sydney in November seeking rcraft to assist the company’s esent single, hard-working De avilland Rapide.

Mr. Martinet said that the mpany’s operating schedules are ill in the adjustment stage. At esent the New Hebrides flight leaves Noumea on Wednesdays and returns on Thursdays. TRANSPAC has doubled its capital to four million francs, and will purchase immediately one or two Rapides or Herons, if these can be located at the right price.

The Rapide carries six passengers on the Noumea-Vila via Lifu sector and eight from Vila on to Santo’

Normal flying times for this aircraft are Noumea-Lifu, 1 hr 10 mins; Lifu-Vila, 2 hrs; Vila-Santo 1 hr. 40 mins. Due to the comparatively small pay-load, fares are somewhat higher than the former Qantas fares.

Mr. Martinet said that TRANSPAC has no complaints about the existing Bauer Field airstrip at Vila and Bomber-IH strip at Luganville, Santo, as far as Rapide operations were concerned.

It has been suggested, also, that the new company, Transports Ariens Internationales, which is to take over the Saigon-Noumea sector of the Air France route at the end of the year, would, if international approval can be secured, base a DC4 aircraft at New Caledonia to maintain connections with the New Hebrides as well as with Sydney and Auckland.

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For some time negotiations have been taking place for a French airlink between Noumea and Auckland as an extension of the French route from Paris to Noumea.

It has been hinted also, that the French are interested in establishing an air service between Noumea and Tahiti.

Landing rights at Fiji, Cook Islands or Samoa would be necessary for this service, but should not present any great difficulty as TEAL (owned by NZ) is already flying in to Papeete.

Unless the French are prepared to revert to flying-boats, however, it is unlikely that such a service would be possible for some time.

There is no aerodrome near Papeete although some months ago, the local Council “approved” the construction of one on a small island a few miles out of the the town and adjac e n t the mainland.

Money for the construction of such an airport would have to come from Metropolitan France, so local approval of the project apparently is just a formality.

In the meantime, reconstruction of the airfields for Vila and Santo remains at a standstill. A resident has suggested that the delay is due to protracted negotiations between the British and French portions of the Condominium.

It is said that the Americans built the two airstrips in question on French land and years ago recompensed the French Government in NH for the land involved.

Some months ago, the French Government paid the individuals who originally owned the land and now owns the land itself. It it suggested that the French Government now wants the British Government to pay half the vai of the land—although obviou the French got it without pajn anything.

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Surprising if this resulted in renewed interest being taken in the Pacific colonies. Because of this, Australia, traditional supplier of air and sea transport to the French Pacific groups, could be outmanoeuvred.

A great deal of French capital is being poured into New Caledonia and New Caledonia is fantastically rich in minerals of every sort. Big Business in New Caledonia has always regarded the Hebrides as a part of NC and there are no signs that this interest s waning.

At present there is a trade slump n the Hebrides, due to the low jrice of copra. There have been lepressions there before —and it las usually been the British lettlers who suffer. Britain has lever done anything to assist her lationals there. France, in the last, has aided her settlers with abour, copra subsidies and by other neans.

Australian Airmail to New Hebrides Resumes rE airmail service to the New Hebrides from Australia, which was suspended earlier in the ear when Qantas withdrew its ying -boats, will now resume. This ras announced in Canberra on fovember 30.

It is understood that the mail rill be carried from Sydney to foumea by Qantas and from there rill go to the Hebrides by TRANS- AC which has announced a fortightly service between Noumea and le Hebrides.

Fiji Credit Unions Still Expanding rtE Fiji Central Committee of the Credit Union movement reports that by the end of eptember, 1955, there were 118 roups with a total registered lembership of 14,521.

The Credit Unions are a form of wings and loan co-operative, total savings now amount to >0,085, and 9,495 loans, mainly of short-term nature, have been lade to members. Between July 1 nd September 30 this year, 2,515 tans totalling £23,141 had been lade.

There is now interest in these redit Unions in the Cook Islands, here it is understood that the icently appointed Co-operatives fficer is encouraging their estabshment.

US Department of Agriculture resed its estimate of world coffee 'oduction, 1955-56 season, to more ian 45 million bags (132.276 lbs ich) in November. This was 11 x cent, higher than an timate.

Rats and Ghosts Live at Suwarrow ANCHORAGE islet’s abandoned settlement in ‘haunted” Suwarrow atoll, Cook Islands, is alive with rats, according to Mr. Bob Grant, an American, who is probably the most recent caller at the atoll (excepting possible Japanese fishermen).

Mr. Grant called in his yacht Korrigan in March.

The atoll had been uninhabited since Mr. Tom Neale of Rarotonga left in July, 1954, after about nine months’ residence. During that time he reduced the rat population somewhat with the aid of cats which he took with him.

A team of Manihiki mother-ofpearl shell divers spent from May to September, 1954, at the atoll testdiving the lagoon. Shell diving may be resumed there next year.

The atoll has no present value as a copra producer, as the palms are heavily infested with termites which kill them soon after they reach the bearing stage.

The atoll has a lurid past, largely fictionalised, and is said by many Cook Islanders to be haunted. 55 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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New Buildings For Vila

BURNS Philp & Co. have completed construction of their new office building in Vila, New Hebrides; in addition the old store building is being extended 70 ft. westward.

Also under construction for the Big Firm, is a motor garage, with a greasing hoist—the first in the New Hebrides—and a kerosene store to the east of the new office.

Elsewhere in town a new store and hair-dressing saloon has been completed for Mr. George Bright.

This is the first European-operated hair-dressing saloon.

Tf Captain and Mrs. Orme Denny of Lae, New Guinea, have been in Sydney recently on “family business.” In October, Miss Audrey Denny became Mrs. V. Brookes of Melbourne. And on December 1, Miss Pamela Denny was given a coming-of-age party by her parents.

The recently completed Mormon Church [?]illage at Vaiola, Savaii, Western Samoa. [?]arge building on left is chapel and school [?]ouse. Recreation hall is behind. Dormitory [?]uildings are those shown around the playing [?]eld.

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Land has been purchased in Suva, Fiji, where new chapel, recreation hall and mission home ill be built in 1956. Plans are also being [?]ade for the construction of a new high hool and junior college in Tutuila, American [?]moa. 57 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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As a result of his visit —he said criticisms were not based on any firm information an economic survey by two leading New Zealand economists, Professor H. Belshaw and Mr. V. D. Stace, was made.

Copies of the 204-page report they compiled were tabled in the House in Wellington, and simultaneously at the annual Legislative Council meeting in the Cook Islands in October.

The full report is not yet to hand in Sydney but a Rarotonga correspondent gave in November PIM a resume of its findings on the Cooks’ copra industry. This preview seems to suggest that the criticisms from the Cooks last year may not have been far from the mark, at least in the eyes of the economists.

The full report should be of wide interest to New Zealand taxpayers who have to pay the bill each year.

Some permanent residents of the Cooks believe that these Islands, given encouragement and assistance towards development, could be selfsupporting. The economic survey, now completed, may point the way more clearly. t A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ken Windsor, of Auckland, early in November. Mr. Windsor is the well known Radio Officer-Purser of NZGS Maui Pomare, and Mrs.

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EVIDENCE heard before the Commission inquiring into allegations of bribery concerning the Fiji Police has suggested that among the Indians in Fiji, as among most Asiatic peoples, bribery is regarded as a natural concomitant of business, especially when business is to be done yith officials in subordinate posts. f For example, an Indian witness told the Commission that when he took a lorry to the Police Station to secure a certificate after »xa ruination of the vehicle, he ilso took £lO to expedite matters.

He admitted that the policeman joncerned had not asked for money, nit said that the £lO had been landed over. i Explaining this alleged transition, the witness said: “The lergeant makes a lot of fuss md trouble and points to all orts of things that have to be lone. To-day he says this thing rants fixing. When it is fixed next lay, he says that another thing iceds replacing, and on the third lay he finds something else. He 5 a good man, so I give him £lO. could see he was playing up with le. These things have to be done a the dark. Then he makes more uss and bother, so I give him lore.”

After mentioning with commiseraion that the policeman had a irge family to support, the witness dded that his lorry was a good ehicle and did not require so lany improvements.

“Good?” commented Mr. D. M. f. McFarlane, one of the Comlissioners. “You bought it from le New Zealand Army nine years go, and I would like to see a ood truck after the Army has one with it!”

At times during the inquiry it as become clear that while some I the allegations against the Police raffic Department may or may ot be true, others appear to be tade by transport proprietors who ave failed to get service licences r to have their vehicles passed, ome of these people seem to regard le giving of evidence before the ommission as a help in that irection, VHEN Commissioners asked Acting Assistant Police Commissioner H. Halstead what as the attitude of the ex-Comissioner of Police (Mr. E. K. iws) in regard to bribery allegaons, Mr. Halstead replied; “He ist did not want to discuss it.”

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He told the Commission that he believed that when the allegations of bribery were coming in. Inspector R. B. Winthrop, who had been in charge of the Traffic Office, should have been transferred, not only in the interests of the Police Department, but also in the interests of Mr. Winthrop himself.

At another stage of the inquiry, Superintendent B. F. Hooper told the Commission that Mr. Winthrop had been transferred at his own request following an interview with a visiting Inspector-General from the Colonial Office.

IN the early part of the inquiry, a bright note was given to proceedings by an Indian bus proprietor who, after stating that (a) he had not heard of bribes being paid, (b) he had no complaints to make against the Transport Board, and (c) he had never given a bribe to anybody, added after reflection that he had once bribed a constable.

It was, he alleged, in 1926, when 59 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1955

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Tom drained his glass slowly and appreciatively. “Nice drop of ruin. What is it?

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“H’m. Plenty character I’d say .

Don’t mind if I have another!” f do To say that “Valiant” Rum has “character” is a pretty good way to describe this unusual Valiant as you know, is the result of a combination ot distinctive qualities. In this in stance, it is the happy blending of smoothness, richness and mellowness which causes so many discriminating men to say: “Valiant” is a rum with character!

If you have not enjoyed “Valiant” Rum as yet, the best time may be your next opportunity. You’ll find that “Valiant” makes a very pleasant first impression indeed and improves on further acquaintance. // PURE RUM Fully matured in the wood tie had been “booked” for not laving a rear light on a vehicle. constable had said that the iffence would be worth £3 in Sourt, but that he would accept :i Further inquiries disclosed that he constable had retired many rears ago and was probably dead, ["he Commission left it at that.

Bribery allegations have ranged rom £lOO to a few shillings and iave included such items as dinners rith “plenty of liquor,” radios, free lilk for a policeman, rice, a ooster and three rums.

For the most part such allegations ave not been supported by solid pidence, and, apart from evidence f departmental disputes and ifficulties, much of the inquiry has insisted in effect of one man’s ord against another’s.

Many witnesses have admitted mt “Suva gossip” was the source [ their information, and refusals \ give answers to questions and inflicting evidence have at times inctuated the hearing. [THEN the first part of the T Commission’s hearing ended at Suva on November 24 (after hich the inquiry moved to Ba), e general feeling seemed to be at nothing of a really conclusive iture had been produced.

The evasiveness and selfntradiction displayed at times by me of the witnesses plainly bore out a remark by Superintendent J. Colclough during the hearing.

He said that some of the people whose stories had been related or quoted “could not tell the truth, even if they wanted to.”

The Commission will resume its Suva hearing after Christmas.

Surprise Visitors to Isolated Penrhyn PENRHYN Island, Northern Cooks, had a surprise visit by the Royal Air Force on September 27.

Two RAF Shackleton long-range reconnaisance bombers which have been visiting the South Pacific, flew to the atoll from Canton Island.

The first aircraft arrived over Penrhyn at 7 am and carried out aerial photography until 10 am. The second aircraft arrived overhead at 8.35 am and landed on the disused airstrip at 9 am, taking off again for Canton at 1.40 pm.

This was the first aircraft to land on the war-time built strip since the Americans departed in 1946.

The same aircraft, with their powerful radar, co-operated in the Joyita search some days later. r Following an inspection cruise of the Papuan Gulf area recently, the Senior Medical Officer said that about 150 leper patients were receiving treatment in the area at present. This number, he said, warranted establishment of another leprosy hospital in the area.

H After many years service the Rev. W. G. Murphy will retire on January 31. 1956, from his duties as head of the London Missionary Society in the Cook Group. He will live in the UK. The Rev. Mr.

Thoroughgood, formerly resident at Aitutaki, will replace him. 61

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Many of the veteran vehicles which bucket round Viti Levu provide dust-baths and mud-baths according to the weather, but the new arrivals are semi-air-conditioned and have electric fans for use when the coaches are stationary. White linen headrests are fitted to the seats, and —wonder piled on wonder —an electric button on each seat can be pressed to summon a hostess.

All this, of course, is something beyond the range of everyday travellers. The two luxury coaches, imported by Pacific Transport, Ltd., an Indian firm, are chartered to Whites Travel Service, Ltd., New Zealand.

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i N increase of £lOO,OOO in the I. annual contribution from [ revenue to Fiji’s Development und, and an increase from 1,000,000 to £6,000,000 in the loan rogramme, were announced by the •overnor (Sir Ronald Garvey) in is opening address at the Budget ission of the Legislative Council ; Suva in November.

The Governor said that although iji’s trade balance for the year was cely to be adverse, there was wide iterest in new crops and indusial development was proceeding tsifactorily, if slowly.

To the end of October, 312,000 ses of bananas had been shipped, id the total for the year might ach the 1953 record of 382,200 ses. Increasing interest was beg taken in cocoa, and the quality ocolate made from small samples own in Fiji had been extremely couraging. Pepper, a recently troduced crop, was growing and liting well.

IHE Acting Financial Secretary (Mr. R. Major) told the Council that a surplus of £65,024 was ;imated for 1955, but, because of penditure below estimates, the rplus might be nearer £300,000. rhe estimate of revenue was 410,015, and expenditure £5,444,991. ie new revenue estimate was f 2,000 over the original estimate, ised mainly by a rise of £206,000 customs receipts and an extra 1,000 defence reimbursement by w Zealand. tfr. Major referred to the itounding, and possibly alarm- [” volume of imports this year, e result, he said, would probably an adverse trade balance of DOO,OOO. Unless export income re increased, Fiji’s ability to pay the imports from which the conerable import duty total was deed, might be impaired, and this uld be reflected in the services ivided.

Revenue in 1956 is estimated at J 55,874 and expenditure at )00,574, giving a surplus of ,300. This surplus might be reied by up to £40,000 as a result measures to be introduced in the dget session.

Vith regard to Fiji’s Development -n, Mr. Major said that although [nited Kingdom grant of £2,000,000 i been hoped for, the allocation 3 £Stg.7oo,ooo. While disappoint- , this did not close the door to uture application for a supplentary grant. lS a result of the adoption of the education plan, the Development Plan had been expanded from £8,074,000 to £8,711,000. It was proposed to raise £6,000,000 by loan £777,000 by grant, and £840,000 (including the extra £100,000) from revenue, leaving a shortfall of £1,094,000.

Mr. Major said it was proposed to face the shortfall because there might be a carry-over from the first plan, they might not be able to complete a very ambitious programme in the time set down, and there was also the hope of a supplementary grant. If the worst came to the worst, they could “cut the cost to suit the cloth.”

THE heavy reliance on import duties was a matter of some concern, said Mr. Major. A careful watch would be kept so that steps could be taken, if necessary, to prevent any unbalance in revenue and expenditure by curtailing expenditure on unessentials.

Reserves were very slender, and the Colony had no surplus of fat to tide it over a lean year.

Mr. Major said that the wharf schemes at both Suva and Lautoka would be proceeded with.

The 1955 wage award for Government labour on the lower scales will cost the Government £200,000 The Budget allocates £150,000 for additional houses for civil servants The Acting Financial Secretary said that a survey had shown that 69 more houses were required at Suva and 199 in country districts. 63 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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It Is Not A Pretty World!

Some brief impressions of various countries, gained by the :ditor and Publisher of the PIM, in a tour through Southeast Lsia, Western Europe and South Africa.

They are published here because world conditions inlirectly, and Southeast Asia conditions directly, will sooner or 3ter affect our South Pacific countries.

Indonesia: A Red Bridge to outh Pacific i S the Dutch and part-Dutch folk I. move out, under the bitter, un- S scrupulous and merciless political ressure of the Indonesians, the hinese are moving in. Chinese, kther than Indonesians, are taking le place of the Dutch, as traders, lipowners, financiers.

Swarms of Communist agents are >ing in with the Chinese. There 111 be a large Communist Party in le newly-elected Indonesian Pariment.

The Indonesians are babbling, inmpetent people, whose idea of (vernment is to establish a police ate.

Indonesia, under conditions now iveloping, is likely to be a dangeris neighbour for Australia, and the luth Pacific generally.

Singapore—Malaya—Borneo THESE are the last countries of the great Empire-in-Asia over which the Union Jack flew only 25 years ago; and in all the world to-day there is no sight more likely to create misgiving and depression in the heart of a good Britisher.

Right here, amid the rioting of Chinese student hoodlums and the posturings of semi-literate Malayan politicians, I saw in operation the processes which represent the deplorable retreat of our once-great Colonial Power.

A volume could be written about the causes of it all. Sufficient to say here that as the British and French (Indo-China) retire from Southeast Asia, the Chinese are swarming in and already are actually, if not nominally, in control of commerce and finance. Behind the scenes, they control also much of the administration.

Within a very few years, the Reds will be dominant also in Burma and Siam; and the way will be open for the Chinese to roll on through Southeast Asia and Indonesia into the South Pacific.

It was against this background that I saw something of the movements around and following the Bandoeng (Asia-Africa) Conference and the Colombo Plan; and in neither could I see the slightest sign of anything likely to reduce the threat of Asia against the South Pacific.

The Colombo Plan may be likened, in its effectiveness, to the fiddle which Nero operated while Rome burned.

En route from Asia to London, I passed through or had a quick look at India, Ceylon, Egypt, Soudan, Suez Canal, and Cyprus, where the British are either out, or going out, or fighting to keep a foothold.

In all these countries, we have a 65 1 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1955

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Britain; Her Economy on A Knife’s Edge SO the depressing politicoeconomic set-up in the United Kingdom came to me as no surprise.

Because she has lost a great proportion of her overseas Empire, plus much of the trade that follows the flag, plus the income from Two Thousand Million Pounds formerly invested overseas and latterly spent on war, the economy of our Mother Country is balanced on a knife’s edge.

After 1850 AD, by reason of their enormous overseas possessions and profits, the British established high standards of living. Since World War 11, they have been trying tc replace their lost income and hold those living standards, by building up an enormous volume of exports.

That effort calls for very hard work and considerable austerity of living; but I found a Britain that, after some initial success, appears to be deliberately abandoning both.

These uninstructed one-man-onevote industrial masses, completely ignorant of economic laws and of what is entailed in the loss of £2i billions of overseas investments, are howling ever more loudly for more wages and shorter hours; the politicians, naturally, are trying to placate them; and the finances are sliding inevitably intj the red.

One sees all sorts of nation;! economic absurdities —such as hug. imports of coal from overseas, be< cause the British miners will nu hew enough British coal; and peop'c flocking into England from othu countries to undergo expenshj 66 DECEMBER 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON THU

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Awaiting Another Miracle! )NE’S over-riding impression of Britain is that of a stupid, [ brave, good-natured Colossus tumbling along in the dark, blind a the precipices on either hand, eaf to the warnings of the comaratively few who can see, quite Dmplacent about its ability to Bmain on the path, resolutely reusing to panic.

There are 50 million people in iritain. This fertile island might, if itensively farmed, support half or vo-thirds of them in comfort. But, yen under the happiest conditions f primary production, a large umber of millions must live by taking things to send abroad in schange for food and other ssentials.

Unless the 1952-54 volume of overjas trade is maintained, living landards will come down; and then le Colossus will become badimpered, and either revolt, or sur- ;nder to Communism. American lonetary gifts saved Britain beveen 1945 and 1950; but that will ot happen again.

Luck, combined with the average riton’s inability to know when he beaten, several times has saved le British nation. Maybe, some irt of economic miracle will do it jain. But, seen against a back- •ound of official statistics, the •ospect is dismal and depressing. ranee: Professional Politicians ad Debased Currency F one would know the ultimate effect of some of the political and economic evils which beset ir Mother Country, one should udy conditions to-day in France.

On the one side are the patriots id the intellectuals, engaged in a sing fight to maintain the culture id the glory which once gave :ance the leadership of the world.

On the other side are the fanatical teorists, the greedy and unscrupulis traders, the religious bigots, the •ofessional politicians, the treachous Reds, split into a dozen reconcilable political parties—and ie whole festering mass dragging France down into a sociological gutter.

Progressively, as the Mediterranean race displaces the Nordic elements which once maintained France as a great and challenging Power, France is sliding down the national scale.

Last elections, some 5,000,000 persons voted Communist and elected 99 Communists. The Red vote in forthcoming elections will be Sl f?* ficant ’ .. ..

The population has remained almpst stationary, at around 40 millions, for 30 years.

They tell me that, internally, the economic condition of Franee is quite good, despite the crippling cost of her military operations in Asia and North Africa. But how can one have any respect for the economies of countries like France and Italy, where payment of a mere restaurant bill calls for such a mass of filthy and debased paper currency!

Italy: Overcrowded, Hungry, fwiw—l Hnttmg Hettwards /"VNLY by constant struggle and political intrigue are the Communists kept out of power in Italy—about half the people vote p, ec j it'is not difficult to see why this is so. Here are 48 million people trying to sustain life in a country where there is room only for about 67 II LY DECEMBER, 1955

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The Roman Catholic Church, still the strongest influence in Italy, sets its face resolutely against birthcontrol. \ “There is no hope for Italy under the present conditions,” said an intelligent industrialist whom I met in Rome. “Our people just naturally turn to Communism. Tt might be better,’ they say. Tt could not be worse.’ Italy will go Communist soon. The Church is losing its influence.”

Germany: Red Russia’s Nightmare THE way in which the Germans are working, and restoring their country to prosperity and political power, is the most impressive thing I saw in Europe, f Where the present temper of the English and the French industrial masses is expressed in a dispirited slouch, the German worker sets his heels down firmly and confidently.

His chin is up, and he seems to know where he is going. This year tie has begun to shout for higher wages, but he still works at least 18 hours per week; and the proiucts of his busy factories are playiig Old Harry with British trade m most of the countries I visited. : Of all the Western nations, the Moscow dictators fear Germany most. They hold France militarily in contempt, and they are satisfied with the way in which they undermining and weakening the British Commonwealth, and thus isolating America. That is why they never will agree to any Geneva settlement which involves the reunification of Germany.

A strong Germany, plus United States, plus a British Commonwealth with some kick still in it, could spell ruin to Moscow’s plan for world domination. Whenever Teuton and Slav have met, on anything like equal terms, the Slav has been well whipped—and well do the Soviets know it! At all costs, they will keep Germany disunited, until they can get her securely tied into the Red family.

In London in July, when flaring newspaper headings everywhere were insisting that “the Summit Conference in Geneva Decides to End Cold War,” I wrote to the PIM and said that the Cold War would go on, because Russia never would agree to the restoration of Germany.

How right I was! But I was not crystal-gazing—l had just had a look at Germany, and talked to many Germans. The Communists, crawling and creeping out of sight, slowly destroying the politico-social roots of Western Europe, are making little progress among the Germans.

South Africa: A Horrible Racial Mess UNTIL I saw it myself, I never would have believed that ordinary sane European people could have created the racial mess that now is slowly mounting towards explosion point in the Union of South Africa.

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The Europeans are nearly equally divided between British and Dutch the latter (usually called Afrikaans) the descendants of Dutch settlers who went to the Cape, Transvaal, etc., long ago.

The Dutch elements now are in control of the Government, and seem to have been smitten with madness. They are driving ahead with plans to (a) amend the Constitution and reform the Parliamentary system so that they can remain indefinitely in power; (b) break the last few remaining connections with Britain, keep the British elements under control, and establish a republic; (c) give the Cape Coloureds a minimum of electoral voice, and keep the Asians and the Negroes altogether out of politics and administrative authority; (d) compel the Coloureds, the Negroes and the Asians to live in their own designated areas, as separate and distinct communities, under conditions that will leave the government of South Africa permanently in European hands.

Each community is in a state of anger and resentment; and each, under these conditions, represents a growing danger to peace and orderliness. But the bitterest feeling is between the two communities which should be completely unitednamely, the British and th Afrikaans.

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Undermining what the British regard as the Dominion’s vital freedoms, and soon or later there will be a clash between British and Dutch, which may destroy the Union. [That is the immediate danger.

The inevitable and far greater danger can be seen (a) in the way in which the Negroes are changing from their old-time ways of life to European standards; and (b) as they thus become detribalised, their determination to have a larger voice in the administration of thencountry. | The negroes, in the last 25 years, have moved in millions from their former settlements, where they were entirely governed by their chiefs, to the big towns, to work in the mines and factories. As a result, one may see to-day, in and around the big towns, slums more hideous than anything in Naples or Jakarta or Singapore—and I thought they were the worst on record. The class of people now being bred in these racial jesspools surely will destroy South (Ifrica, as we know it now. i The Afrikaans’ Government, with i Jim Crow policy of segregation, s trying to root out this most langerous social cancer; but its plans are of doubtful value, and jrobably too late, anyhow.

Complete unity among the Europeans, great wisdom informed by a pirit of tolerance and understandng of racial problems, might avert he danger in South Africa. But he first of these is missing. While he two European races fight each »ther for political advantage, South ifrica is rushing along to a certain acial explosion, and probably to lestruction.

Much Diving Activity

Before Manihiki Closes

rO allow the MOP shell beds to recuperate the Manihiki lagoon in the Northern Cooks is to be losed for the calendar year 1956, nd possibly for longer (as reported reviously in PIM).

Meanwhile, however, diving is roceeding apace with the closeown looming. In October, a small rea of the lagoon which had not een fished for some time was delared open for two weeks. In one ay, the island’s champion skin iver, Tekake Williams, and his ompanion, Rivao Tekio, fished £5O forth of shell. A machine-diving nit, limited to waters below the 5-fathom level, fished 15 sacks of iiell in three days’ work. The divers r ork only a few hours in the middle f the day when the light is at its est.

A party of 44 students and teachrs of Tereora College, Rarotonga, limbed Te Manga, the island’s highest peak (2,140 ft) on October 20.

Quarter-Century Anniversary for Bishop Wade THE 25th anniversary of the consecration of one of P-NG’s most distinguishd and popular Roman Catholic Priests, Bishop Thomas Wade, Bishop of the Diocese of the North Solomons, was celebrated on November 1, Bishop Wade, who arrived in the Territory in 1920, was still a young man when he was consecrated Bishop 10 years later.

During the war he was interned by the Japanese on Bougainville but escaped and was later evacuated by submarine.

Soon afterwards he was appointed Roman Catholic Padre-General in the South Pacific, under American Admiral Halsey.

Landplanes to Replace Flying-Boats Q ANT AS will eventually replace all her flying-boats in Papua- New Guinea with land planes.

At present Catalinas are used on certain routes that have no airstrips.

In November, Department of Cicil Aviation officials were resurveying wartime airstrips near Talasea, New Britain, and examining a possible site for a new strip near Kandrian. 71 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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The reason obviously lies in the wift increase of population. The idian community in Fiji is increasig by more than 5,000 a year, and le Fijian population by more than 000.

There are substantally more idians than Fijians in the Suva rea, and the result is that new locks of flats in the city are freiiently swamped by Indian families i soon as they are built.

When a European inspected a rand-new block of flats in Noanber, the footpath, stairs and issages were thronged with Indian lildren, while still more popped leir heads out of doors to stare ; the stranger.

The logical conclusion is that in le city of Suva, housebuilding is r behind the increase in the idian population alone.

This has produced another ■oblem which is helping to speed- ) the “drift to Suva.”

Three miles out of town a room can be rented for £3 a month—and a great many Indian, Fijian and other families manage to cram themselves into a single room—while a three-roomed flat in the city area costs up to £l5 a month, if three populous families squeeze themselves into a three-room flat, the cost works out at little more than “room” rent, plus modern conveniences and a considerable saving of bus fares for those who work in the city Slight Change in TEAL's Hibiscus Service TASMAN Empire Airways has made a slight change in its Hibiscus Service between Fiji and New Zealand for the benefit of travellers bound for New Zealand centres south of Auckland.

TEAL airliners now leave Nadi for Auckland at 10.30 am (formerly 11 am) on Wednesdays and Sundays. These flights end at Whenuapai at 3.30 pm, enabling through passengers to travel by NZNAC to Wellington and Christchurch at 4.25 and 4.40 respectively. t A new Catholic Church is expected to be completed at Tukao village, Manihiki atoll, by Christmas. The mission is under the care of the Rev. Father Marinus, SS.CC. 73 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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The Rev. Kolinia Saukuru has had a notable career. After training at the Methodist Mission Technical School, Davuilevu, he was appointed, in 1928, Technical Inspector at the Richmond Mission School in Kadavu.

Between 1933 and 1948, he did brilliant mission work among the Aborigines in Arnhem Land, Northern Australia, and during the Second World War was appointed navigating pilot in the northeastern waters of Australia and unofficial chaplain to the Royal Australian Air Force. The latter appointment was confirmed in August, 1945, one day before Japan surrendered.

After a period of study and extremely popular Church work in the United States, he returned to Fiji and in 1950 was appointed as the first Fijian minister at Lautoka. He was mainly responsible for the building of the Coronation Methodist Church at Lautoka, completed in Coronation year, 1953.

In the same year the Governor nominated the Rev. Kolonio Saukuru a member of the Lautoka Town Council the first Fijian appointment of the kind under the Local Government (Towns) Ordinance, 1947.

A younger, but increasingly prominent member of the Fijian Methodist Church, Anare Raiwall was appointed a Suva City Couu cillor in October. t The village of Lauli’i, TutuiiJ Eastern Samoa, was recently cod nected into the electric power systes Fagasa village, soon to be connected will be the first village on the non coast of the island to be so sin plied. 74 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON THU

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Wedding of Madang Interest t Colonel Fray, Army Commander in New Caledonia, well known in Australia, has completed his term of service there and handed over the command to Colonel Lansade, lately stationed in Tunis. t Elections for the Nauru Local Government Council will be held on December 10 —the same day as the Federal Elections. The first Council —which takes the place of the former Council of Chiefs—w a s elected in 1951. Every adult Nauruan, male or female, may vote and is eligible to nominate for election.

A member of a well-known New Guinea family, Mr. James O'Brien, was married in Brisbane recently to Miss Valma Mary Falconer, formerly a Sister at Madang hospital. Our photograph was taken after their wedding at the Holy Spirit Church. They will live at Mililat Plantation, near Madang.

Photo by R. G. Kruse.

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Magazine Section

Tropicalities

Bop In W. Indies

rHE United Kingdom Information Service recently reported that a Bird of Paradise sanctuary s to be developed on Little Tobago gland, West Indies.

It appears that in 1909, Sir William ngram, a bird-lover, fearing that tie then prosperous trade in Birdf-Paradise feathers would spell oom to the species in its natural abitat of New Guinea and neighouring islands, had 47 birds transited to Little Tobago.

To-day, only 11 birds survive there, nd the Government is taking ction for their preservation. Sir William’s heirs gave the 450-acre ittle Tobago to the Government as permanent sanctuary in 1929.

Kinda Homespun!

i N American reader, calling at \ PIM office recently, said that what he most likes about the iblication is that it’s “kinda jmespun.”

The same could be applied, perips more so, to the Cook Islands ficial daily news-sheet, a misceltieous collection of news items, anluncements, and advertisements, tie following morsel in the issue of ctober 4 must have raised some eculation from Mangaia to Pukaika; “LOST: One Wedding and One igagement Ring in Public Connience last Friday. Would finder ease ring Further Education Office Reward.”

Machine Age In The

(Islands) Kitchen

SAD little note recently re- L ceived from a Port Moresby housewife: “We have now installed a washg-machine to solve the laundry oblem since recent building operains have eliminated what little id we did have. Gae-Gae Uhe neral factotum) and I have fun id games each wash-day in the ;chen. It takes him twice as long do the washing now—what with . the knobs and switches and mgs.”

Ghty Men And One Woman

FO names, no pack drill—but it’s lon again. The city fathers of the German city of Bremen rert that they are inundated by quests from men in remote parts Australia, New Zealand or distant Pacific Islands “like New Hebrides or Fiji,” to find them German wives.

One PI resident has offered to pay the fare of any Fraulein who is prepared to “give it a go,” and to pay her return fare to Germany if, after three months, she cannot take the loneliness.

Sounds fair enough. By way of encouragement he says that there are 80 men (colour unspecified) to every white woman in his neck of the woods.

Case Of The Vanishing

LADIES AN Australian newspaper declared recently, with the usual amount of journalistic exuberance, that a hula-dancer was going to Wewak, New Guinea, to become a missionary.

The hula-dancing missionary is an American, Mrs.

Frances D i 1 Is, who has been doing radio work in Sydney but has already done some Roman Catholic missionary work in Hawaii.

Says the newspaper: Except for a few Roman Catholic nuns, Mrs. Dills will be the only white woman in Wewak.

When I first saw Wewak in early 1936, I was by no means the first or only European female, and things have improved considerably since then.

So come out, wherever you are, you women of Wewak, and show yourselves.—J.T.

GENTLEMEN, PLEASE!

SUCH is the present shipping situation in the Cook Is. that mail written there in Jifiv reached Sydney only in November.

One communication reported the visit of the Minister of Island Territories in July.

During what was described as a complacent and overawed meeting with the Island Council, there was more than one moment of embarrassment for the official translator. On one occasion, when everyone seemed to be saying the right things, one sturdy Councillor arose and said in Maori, “Tell the Minister that when the Americans went to Aitutaki they built a good reef passage in three and a half months.

We in Mangaia have been asking New Zealand to do a similar job for the past 55 years. What is his reply?”

The question was translated.

There was a somewhat tense silence in the Chamber, before the next item of business proceeded. The Councillor still awaits a satisfactory reply.

Battle Of The Redcaps

RIVAL clans of porters met in combat on the gangway of the Messageries Maritimes liner Moresby Wedding . . .

Port Moresby Papuans have come a long way from tribal marriage customs. Church weddings and all the nuptial fixings are now regarded as desirable. In our photograph are shown L. Oala Cuba and his bride of Hanuabada. They are cutting their wedding cake after their marriage in the LMS Church.

Photo by Papuan Prints. 77 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

Eridan in Papeete early in November, A Papeete correspondent, arriving at the wharf shortly after the vessel berthed, said that he was amazed to see what appeared to be some kind of a juggling act in progress on the vessel’s gangway, with hatboxes, hand-bags, and sundry other items of passenger luggage flying high.

Police Chief Waksmouth and a flying squad were quickly on the scene and put an end to the act, after a good many shirts had been torn and some bruises sustained.

When the Southern Cross came in some days later a large police squad stood by to prevent any recurrence of the affair.

Missing; Two-And-A-Half

Hockey Teams

A PLOT for an O. Henry story sees to lie behind the cryptic if intriguing advertisement in a recent Papua and New Guinea Government Gazette calling for tenders for “Thirty (30) only Hockey Sticks in new and unused condition .... offered on a basis of as is where is.”

Would-be purchasers are sternly remimled that, if successful, they w r ill be expected to remove the 30 hockey sticks from their present location within thirty (30) days.

What dark plot lurks behind the advertisement? The possibilities are endless. . . . perhaps some Planner’s dream of weaning some far-flung Brown Brothers from the age-old game of head-hunting. Perhaps a subversive plot to arm infuriated Public Servants against any future visiting team of cost-of-living adjudicators. (Tenderers must mark their sealed bids, “Hockey Sticks,” and have them in the hands of Mr.

T. Grahamslaw before December 8).

Queen Salote And The

CHAUFFEUR A SYDNEY Sunday newspaper, The Sun-Herald which apparently has joined most other metropolitan Anglo-American newspapers in a policy of leaving truth at the bottom of a well — allowed a former Buckingham Palace chauffeur, named Gill, to say this, on November 20: During the Coronation in 1953, Mr. Gill was seconded to the Sultan of Zanzibar as chauffeur.

“He was a real toff,” said Mr. Gill.

“He and Queen Salote, of Tonga, were the gallery favourites during the Coronation.

“A mate of mine drove Queen Salote around while she was in London.

“When she was leaving the country, she picked him up bodily end gave him a smacking kiss and said: ‘Thanks, chum.’”

It is re-published here to show the kind of absurd rubbish that is printed nowadays in journals which cater for the mob.

Also, we who know and esteem the charming and dignified Queen of Tonga will be intrigued by the fanciful picture of Her Majesty seizing and kissing her chauffeur, and thanking him in broad Cockney.

Richard joshua merritt FERRIS (at right), is the Manager of Arigua Plantation on Bougainville. He was born at Narrandera, NSW, in 1913, but spent the 1914-18 war years in England with his mother’s people. He rejoined his father on a farm at Barallan, NSW, and stayed in the country until he enlisted in the 1939 War. He joined the 2/3rd Casualty Clearing Station and saw service in the Middle East at El Alamein, Greece and Crete.

Returning to the Pacific area, he then saw New Guinea for the first time, working up the mainland coast to Lae and Finschafen, and then on to Borneo, still in stiff competition with the Jap forces.

After the War, he returned to New Guinea as a Medical Assistant, stationed at Buka Passage and doing patrols on Bougainville. A yr later he joined Choiseul Plantatioj Limited, a subsidiary of Burns, Ph:x He was stationed at Soraken, bef'l being sent to Arigua, where he M been manager since 1949. He marn an English girl in 1953, and tH; have a daughter, Suzanne.- HILDER.

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“ ACROSS I.—Who composed the music for the opera "Carmen"? 7.—What ground is the headquarters of the Lancashire Cricket Club? 9. —What long-haired ox is used as a beast of burden in Tibet? 10. —The wood of what evergreen tree was used in former days in England for bowmaking? 11. —What is the term for a group of atoms containing a positive or negative electric charge? 12. —Who was the greatest military commander of Rome after Julius Caesar? 14. —What term is applied to the syncopated dance music of Afro-American negro origin introduced into Europe shortly before the first World War? 16. —What game played on horseback originated in Persia thousands of years ago? 19. —What common food substance is obtained from a tropical plant called the manioc or cassava plant? 20. —What is a young ox called? 21. —What is the broad knife called that is used for spreading plaster? 22. —What is the largest city in Japan after Tokyo?

DOWN 1. —Who discovered the process of vulcanising rubber? 2. —who was the renowned and daring leader of the Chindit forces engaged behind the Japanese lines in Burma during World War II? 3. is the surname of the Australian poet who wrote "Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes"? 4. —What name was applied to the wco 1 who in the early part of the century agith for the right to vote? 5. —What are the lines drawn on cH: linking together points of equal baromrr pressure? 6. —What is the surname of the womami founded the Christian Science movement?? 8. —In which American State is Tulsaa 13. —what is the term for the spoken duction to a play designed to give the auot information necessary for following the 15. —What was the ancient name for S 3 17. —What is the term applied to as foot turned out? 18. —What is the capital of Norway? 9 78 DECEMBER, 19 5 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Charley Makes Uebfracmllch

By Bill Gill

IT was the North-West season and the sun blazed down with unrelenting fury on the clearing. In the centre of the clearing stood the copra drier.

Sitting with his back to the wall of the building, and in the full glare of the sun, the fireman slept and frizzled.

The air was acrid with the rancid stench of rotten copra; the ground was strewn thickly with coconut shells and piles of the soft, spongy “meringues” from germinated nuts.

Nearby stood a kerosene tin, threeparts full of coconut “milk” saved by the fireman to flavour his evening rice ration. Round the corner of the building strode Charley, his face scarlet with heat and exasperation.

His shirt and slacks were dark with sweat and his peevish eye alighted cn the sleeping figure.

He halted in full stride. The scarlet in his face turned to magenta as he stood momentarily rooted to the spot. Then, with a bitter oath, he sprang forward, seized the kerosene tin and dashed its sticky, oleaginous contents full in the face of the sleeper. As if fired from a gun, the boy sprang straight in the air, eyes and mouth agape. He hit the ground running and vanished round the far end of the building jefore Charley could drop the empty tin.

With most of his wrath still unspent and with no-one on whom to pent it, Charley contented himself with kicking the tin into a shapeless nass, then stamped savagely towards lis bungalow.

On his verandah, Charley flung lis hat to the far corner and slumped on a decrepit cane lounge which groaned in protest. Calling loarsely for some tea, he reached istlessly for a dog-eared, paperjacked novel. Frowning, he riffled hrough the pages then, with an mpatient growl, he hurled the book nto the comer after his hat.

Presently his cookboy padded on o the verandah bearing a tray load •f tea paraphernalia and some soggy cones. This he placed on a small able and stepped backwards awaitng further orders. The relationhip of master and servant which lad existed between them for so nany years, did not preclude a real, f undemonstrative, friendship.

“If ever I get my hands on that iamned Simoni I’ll wring his crawny neck,” said Charley with a and of suppressed ferocity. “Found lim sound asleep on the job in the niddle of the afternoon.” *We are aware that liebfraumilch is a ierman hock; but Charley's concoction is the •rauiest tipple yet heard of in these parts.

The cookboy sucked his teeth sympathetically.

“It’s the same all over the place ”

Charley continued, “the whole labour force, bar a few who spotted me first, were lying about loafing in the shade. It’s the heat I guess “It’s six weeks since I’ve had a decent drink, and now my radio’s on the blink; I’ve read every book in the place a dozen times. If something doesn’t happen soon I can see myself cantering up the range to discover a few ‘lost tribes’ or taking a cruise to Denmark and changing my sex.”

The boy waited impassively, uncomprehending.

“All right, all right,” cried Charley, impatiently, “on your way ”

The boy vanished but reappeared almost immediately. “Taubada ’e come,” he said, “Taubada Bobo”

And even as he spoke, a richly unctuous voice hail e d Charley from without. “Hi, Charley, my dear fellah, how are ye?” A great, oval figure crossed the verandah with a heavy sliding motion, hand outstretched.

“Hallo Balbo,” said Charley, “what brings you here?” Then noting the state of hi s visitor, h e added, “would you like a shower before you have some tea?”

“A shower?” cried Balbo, “no thanks, o 1 d boy, I’m wet enough without that; had a good sweat walking along those infernal beaches but I’ll tell you what I would like,” he continued, “a n d that’s a brimming glass of cool beer, tea only makes me sweat more.”

“A beer, eh?” said Charley, sardonicall y.

“Wouldn’t we all?

I haven’t had a drink of any kind for six weeks — though it seems more like six months.”

“Don’t tell me you’re dry, too?” cried Balbo, in tones of acute anxiety, “What’s gone wrong with everyone? It’s the same all down the coast. Tongues hanging out everywhere like red ties at a commo’s convention. Hasn’t the coaster been along yet?”

“It has not,” said Charley grimly, “and well you know it. Musta’ broken down again and right in the middle of the hottest, driest nor-west season we’ve had . for years. Have a sipora if you don’t want tea.”

A heavy gloom settled down on the verandah as the two dejected men watched unmoved the glory of the sunset.

Then, suddenly a thin hail, “faint and afar off,” galvanised them to life. “Sail-ho, Taubada,” cried the cookboy appearing with unwonted alacrity.

“Sail-ho!” echoed Charley and Balbo in unison, swinging to their feet and grinning like a pair of Cheshire cats.

“She’ll be here in half an hour,” continued Charley jovially thumping "Ribald jests passed . . 79 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1955

Balbo on his great, fat shoulders causing them to flinch like a camel’s hump.

“We’ll take a cruise down to the beach and meet her.” Charley linked his hairy, brown arm in the bolsterlike affair that served as the corresponding limb on Balbo.

It was dark when they reached the beach. Here they paused and turned expectantly seawards. The sight that met their gaze struck them speechless with dismay. Balbo was the first to recover.

“Why, blow me down,” he said, glaring wrathfully at the approaching navigation lights, “that isn’t the coaster, it’s only some miserable launch.”

“Looks like Skinner’s launch, and he doesn’t worry much about the grog.”

They sat down on a coral outcrop and glowered resentfully as the small launch surged through the break in the reef, rounded up smartly and sent the anchor splashing over.

Then Skinner’s cheerful voice hailed them: “Got a bag of mail for you, Charley, I’ll duck ashore with it,” and he sprang nimbly into the tiny dinghy and was pulled to the beach. As soon as the dinghy touched the hard, the two were on him. “Never mind the mail,” roared Charley. “Where’s the coaster?

Where’s my beer?”

“She’s had engine trouble,” explained Skinner cheerfully, “Won’t be round for a week yet. What’s the hurry anyway?”

“Don’t you realise that there’s a drought on? That Europeans along the coast are dying like flies for lack of a swig of honest liquor?”

“I didn’t think it was that bad,” grinned Skinner, who knew more about the coastal Europeans than anyone. “But seeing it’s so serious, I’ll lend you a case of rum. I’m taking a couple along for some fossickers up behind my place. You can replace it when the coaster comes next week.” ♦ * * AN hour later, Skinner was over the horizon to northward and Charley and his guest were seated on the verandah, with a table between them; on the table stood a rum bottle and a milk jug. Both vessels were empty. “More rum,” shouted Charley, “and more milk.”

“Rum and milk,” rhapsodised Balbo, “Ambrosia! Incomparable!

It’s the milk that does it, old boy, the rum merely flavours it, makes it more palatable. Without milk, rum is not worth drinking.”

“I wouldn’t go so far as that,” answered Charley, cautiously. “Many a time I’ve been thankful for a rum and water. Aye, and even a rum neat, if driven to it. OP at that.”

The boy reappeared with a fresh bottle of rum and the milkjug, this time only half full. He wore a worried frown. “No plenty milk, Taubada,” he said apprehensively.

“That’s all right,” hiccoughed Balbo, “don’t worry, you got plenty more goats, haven’t you?”

But the boy was worried, having already stripped every goat on the plantation. He cast an appealing glance at Charley, who must have sensed his difficulty for, staring hard at the boy, he said, “Have you tried the married quarters in the labour compound? Or over in the village?”

The boy studied his master’s face attentively then, “Orright, Taubada,” he said and vanished.

Soon the milk jug was empty again and Balbo bawling for more.

This time the boy entered promptly and, with something of a flourish, placed a full quart of milk on the table.

Now it was Charley’s turn to study the impassive face of his servant. He said, “I think I’ll switch to water. I’ve had enough milk for one night.”

“Right,” wheezed Balbo, “suit yourself, my dear fellah,” and he splashed a nip of rum into his glass, filled it to the brim with milk and downed it in one prodigious swallow, watched with a kind of fascinated horror by Charley, the cook and (judging by the hissing intake of breath from the darkened back verandah) an unknown number of unseen admirers.

Charley knew that his cook had not failed him: He could imagine the ribald jests which passed between his cook and the various nursing mothers as they yielded up their surplus lactic juices (for an exorbitant fee in trade tobacco), He shuddered. * * * By the time the quart of milk, with an appropriate ration of rum, had been consumed, the drinkers were all in. Charley was becoming argumentative, and Balbo sleepy..' “I think I’ll totter off to beo muttered the latter, and suiting hi actions to his words he rose, and wove his way towards tl: visitor’s bedroom, overshot his targ§ and fetched up in the bathrooic where he collapsed into the bath.

“Rum!” he shouted, “fetch me au other rum an’ milk.”

“There’s no more milk, I tell you said Charley, his patience at an era “Of course, there’s milk,” Ball insisted, “the place is stiff with goa jfetch me in a goat and I’ll soon gs all the milk you want.”

“Right!” said Charley, grimly, au staggered downstairs to reappears few minutes later with a wildly pn testing nanny in his arms. “Here' he cried, standing over the prostras figure in the bath, “you want a gOD —cop this,” and he dropped the ui happy ruminant into the bath wir Balbo.

There ensued a wild shemozzle screams and bleats, of flailing le and tossing horns, then the go succeeded in securing a toe-ho with her sharp, stabbing hooves a:i soared out of the bath and ov the verandah rail to disappear the darkness.

After Balbo’s wounds had bea bathed and bandaged by the n« contrite Charley, the latter said a husky voice: “Now just take it easy, Balbo, n boy, and I’ll see if can rustle a drop of rum and milk for yoi( “Not for me,” interposed Bal quickly through a slot in the bam ages which concealed his eve feature. “Never again! I intend 1 devote the remainder of my life,, I survive, to the destruction of goas I’ll shoot everyone of the breedfc come across. As for the rum—ll already said rum is only drinkah because of the milk in it—so forg' it.”

And he turned his face to the ws- “The goat soared out of the bath." 80 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Trochus Made Him Rich Overnight—

H. R. Wahlen’S Colourful

Memories Of German N. Guinea

By R. W. Robson rHE big room, crowded with priceless native artifacts of the New Guinea of 60 years ago, shook to he stentorian laughter of Heinrich ludnlph Wahlen. He had just reicurited one of his amusing memories rf his life in New Guinea in the lays before World War I.

“Well, Prosit,” he said —and we Irank again some of the fabulous fine of Southern Germany. (That nan certainly knows his wine.) From a Western European wander had gone to Hamburg, especially o call upon the famous Herr Vahlen, pioneer of German New Juinea. In a visit extending over hree hours, I filled a notebook rith useful data —and my untrained tomach with Wahlen hospitality.

I knew he was 82; but any bought I had of meeting an ensebled veteran was dispelled when e met me at the door of Beberallee 6A, wrung my hand, and literally ellowed with joy at the prospect of ossiping with someone recently rom his beloved South Seas.

Every morning, very early, he ives into a nearby swimming-pool.

Ihe attached photograph of HRW, i mid-air, was taken by his very re tty daughter-in-law). There jemed not a cloud on his mind, as is memory skipped back over six ecades.

HERR Wahlen was not 22 years old when he arrived in the new Germany colony of New Guinea, in 1895, to become a clerk in the service of Hansheim and Company.

As the years passed, and young Wahlen’s status was raised, he became impressed with the enormous possibilities of New Guinea. He wanted to plant, but Hansheims were content to trade only.

Presently, when Hansheims began to sell out, Wahlen was able to purchase some land in what now are called the Northwest Islands— the Hermit, Anchorite, Ninigo, Maty archipelagoes. He negotiated the purchase with the natives for the Government: and the Government gave him title on condition that he planted up the islands with coconuts.

Acting for Hansheims, young Wahlen had got large quantities of the then profitable beche-de-mer out of the NW Islands, for the Chinese market; and when he became a planter on his own account, he gathered beche-de-mer from his own and other islands, as far afield as the Philippines.

Then, almost overnight, in the dawn of this century, it w T as discovered that trochus shell was valuable, for the making of buttons and similar things. Wahlen’s NW Islands had vast reefs covered with trochus, hitherto passed over as worthless. Within a few years, Herr Wahlen had made a large fortune out of trochus and beche-demer. There have been endless stories about the magnificent home he built on Maron Island, in the Ninigo Group, and the establishment he maintained there.

He continued his coconut planting, on a large scale. His main problem was labour. Most of the NW Islands natives (a Micronesian type) were unfriendly at first, and he had to tame them — but when he got their goodwill they proved to be pleasant and tractable. But they did not like work. He had to bring mainland New Guinea boys to his atoll plantations—but they stole the islanders’ food and women, and were often a nuisance.

HERR WAHLEN was shocked when he studied the NW Islands birthrate. The women consistently went into the bush and ate of a particular fruit there, and thus avoided childbirth. So he broadcast a promise: “In future, every woman who can show me a new baby will receive five shillings.” In those days, in that locality, 5/- was much to be desired.

Herr Wahlen was away for six months. As his schooner came slowly back to anchorage at his headquarters, it was noticed that canoes were coming in from the islets, from all directions. His headboy came to him with deep concern written all over him: “Masta, you speak. Now all belly belong Mari e full up!”

That evening, the master inspected a parade wherein were between 40 and 50 pregnant women.

“It was true,” said the master to me, 50 years after the event, with a roar of laughter. “It worked. I got a lot of children at 5/t each.

But in the condition of that labour market, each youngster was worth thousands of marks to me.”

Unfortunately, World War I closed down before the long-sighted master got the full benefit of those happilyrecruited labourers. He calculated, nonetheless, that when Mars cut him off from his great South Seas empire in 1914, he was the owner of no less than 3,700,000 palm trees —the world’s largest coconut pro- Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen, 82, takes his early morning swim at a pool near his home in Hamburg, August, 1955.

Herr Wahlen, with the Editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly, in the garden of his home in Hamburg, September, 1955. 81 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

perty owned by one man, he thought.

MEN whose names still are well known in old New Guinea were in Herr Wahlen’s service— “Karkar” Smith, for example, who planted up Karkar Island and who is now living in retirement in Gosford, NSW: and Soltwedel, who died in poverty of cancer of the bowel a few years ago, after the Australian Government had refused his repeated plea to be allowed to return to New Guinea (the only home he had known in 35 years), to exploit a deposit of uranium he had found there.

Between 1900 and 1914, Herr Wahlen was on top of the world — rich and influential, and pleasurably -watching the development of his many broadbased plans. He formed his interests into a company, which he directed, and he had close associations with the Forsayth (“Queen Emma”) concern. He bought some of the Forsayth properties, and his brother was in charge of the Wahlen operations in the Hermits area. He shaped his scheme to develop the Waria country, in the southeast of the New Guinea mainland, in 1909, and he worked on it for years.

He submitted to the German Government his argument that if there was to be real development, they must have a much larger labour force than was available in the native population. An inquiry was started, to see whether Malays could be brought in to work plantations, goldmines, etc.

In 1912, Wahlen and his associates sent in an expedition to examine the Waria country.

Wahlen personally saw Dr. Solf (a member of the Government in Germany) in 1912 and got his assurance that something would be done to assist the enterprise. There was a change of government early in 1914, and Wahlen then got a message, asking him to go to Berlin.

There, in July, 1914, an agreement was signed, under which the Waria Syndicate was given important concessions on condition that it proceeded with large-scale developmental operations in NG.

Four weeks later, World War I broke out; and, between then and November, 1918, Germany lost her colonial empire, and Wahlen his great possessions in New Guinea.

But he was still a rich man. In 1913, he had married a Swedish lady of high rank; and, within that year, his first son was born in Kokopo, at the former plantation home of Mrs. Emma Kolbe (“Queen Emma”).

His wife and son were with him in Germany when war came, and Australian forces occupied New Guinea.

Herr Wahlen then was a very fit man of 40, and he soon was drafted into the German armies which temporarily over-ran Western Europe. His outstanding memory of that period is how he, as a commanding officer, accepted the surrender of a small British force near Calais. The British, cut off, fought stubbornly there for a long time after their situation was hopeless; and Captain Wahlen, to show his admiration of bravery, handed his sword back to the British officer when he finally capitulated. Thus was formed a friendship which lasted far into the years of peace.

ONCE the war was over, Herr Wahlen began his 35-years-old battle to induce the new authority in New Guinea to recognise the legality of the 1914 German grant to the Waria Syndicate—the rights over that large area which lies between a line drawn southwards of the Salamaua-Wau-Edie Creek districts, and the Papua-New Guinea border.

The view of most people was that all German property and rights in New Guinea were appropriated by the League of Nations as war damage compensation, and that the Waria Syndicate interests thus disappeared: but Herr Wahlen challenged this position in 1920 —and today, 35 years later, despite unfavourable rulings, he is still arguing. He proposes, as a last resort, to appeal to UNO.

In 1929, Herr Wahlen arrived in Australia and interviewed Prime Minister Bruce. He presented himself as the representative of an English company, registered at Somerset House, with interests in New Guinea (which was quite true), but actually he was anxious to see whether Australia would permit the Waria Syndicate to go in and assist in the development of the country.

“I am advised that the New Guinea Administration is not favourable to your re-entering the country,” said Mr. Bruce. “You were a man of much influence there in the German time, and they fear that you may have a revolutionary influence upon the natives.”

“What nonsense!” (Herr Wahlen says he replied to the Prime Minister.) “I want to help the Administration in the development of the country. It is to my interest to do so. My history in NG should show that I am the last man likely to encourage a revolutionary spirit among the natives.”

The Prime Minister seemed unwilling to proceed any further in the matter, and Herr Wahlen pressed his claim. “I ought to be very proud” (he says he said to Mr. Bruce) “that a nation of seven million people should fear the influence of one lone German.”

Mr. Bruce finally said that, if the proposition was to be formally considered, the Territories Minister would have to be present—and he would not be available for three months. That seems to have bee the end of that.

UNLIKE so many colonial mans, Herr Wahlen was n ruined by World War I, and t 20 years he lived a happy and usei£ life in Germany, with his famii and saw the rise of the Nazi pow in the ’Thirties. Then came tl tragedy of World War 11.

Despite his age (now 67) He) Wahlen, as well as his two sox were taken into the German forcK and his elder son—who was bco in New Guinea in 1913 —became air pilot, and was killed in actioi Herr Wahlen’s wife also died du ing the war.

The war machine declared H«J Wahlen “absolutely fit,” and he w/ sent into the Hanover area to trs' men to ride horses. He recalls, wh glee, that at 67 his duty was to 1© teams of mounted learners oven series of high jumps. Later on, , a position of command, he was wh the German armies which march! around the Maginot Line a r occupied Paris. Herr Wahlen w not exactly respectful in his refe' ences to the military achievemei; of the French, as he saw thw in 1940.

Although 82, Herr Wahlen looks i years younger than his age, ancb should not be surprised if the Sou Pacific sees him again. He says will take his Waria Syndics: appeal to the Australian High Con and, finally, to UNO: but I thii. that he hopes that this new friein ship between Germany and t Western nations will give himi chance to place a Waria Syndics; (German-Swedish-American) pl< before the Australian Govemmes under which the Syndicate wok be permtted to go in and devel: the Waria area of New Guinn upon which Herr Wahlen fixed I eye nearly 50 years ago.

True Story Of “Queen

EMMA”

A S Herr Wahlen was closz associated with the Forsayth j terests in New Guinea befc\ 1914, I took this opportunity ascertain from him the eircun : stances surroundina the death Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kolbe for, as & was generally known, “Que: Emma”).

They died within a few hours ? each other at Monte Carlo ins rather strange way just liefer World War I broke out; and, 40 years, this incident has be i made the subject of sensation stories (almost 100 per cent lies) \ cheap and shoddy writers.

Wahlen’s company then m “Queen Emma’s” agent; one Wahlen’s men went across fm Hamburg to Monte Carlo and to’ charge of the corpses of “Emms (Continued on Page 89) 82 DECEMBER, 195 5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

This Month's New Reading:- NH Condominium—Two Heads, Three Legs COLIN SIMPSON’S Christmas offering of a new book is becoming a habit.

Islands of Men, just published, is the fourth in line and readers who mjoyed the other three ( Adam in Ochre, Adam with Arrows and Adam in Plumes) will not be disappointed although this is a mixed jlish, dealing with half a dozen different aspects of Islands men and four different territories.

The book is the result of personal jbservation, plus a considerable amount of “other opinion”; it is ;rue that none of it is very new to ;he student of things Pacific—but ;he Pacific reader should not forjet that Simpson’s public is largely n mainland Australia, and the fact hat he has been able to produce aooks that are enjoyed and accepted n the Islands as well as out, is a foat of magnitude, it is probably not surprising that after four books, he should be writing more surely than ever about the Islands. And possibly it is just reviewer’s imagination that, with the coming of success, he has discarded many of the gimmicks designed merely to catch the attention of the general rea d e r—an impression gained from the earlier books—and that the newest offering profits thereby.

Islands of Men is in six parts. It deals with two localities in Papua- New Guinea—Maprik and the Sepik River (one of the most interesting sections of NG and one of the least known) and the new Southern Highlands district, including the over-publicised “Lost Valley” of Lavani; with some of the Torres Strait islands; with the New Hebrides; and with the Beqa firewalkers of Fiji.

In the Hebrides we meet again our old friends Tom Harrisson and A. J. Marshall, who worked in, and wrote about, the Hebrides in the early 30’s. (Harrisson is now curator of the Kutching Museum at Sarawak: and Marshall is Reader in Zoology and Comp a rat ive Anatomy at Barts, in London) .

At the time, both Harrisson and his book, convulsed the Hebrides — the label of eccentric was understatement in the grand manner in his case—but from this distance and through Simpson eyes he seems to have mellowed.

Twenty years ago, the sex-1 i f e of savages had not taken its present place in popular reading, and investigators into same, even if just in the interest of nure science, were looked at askance even by hardened sinners whose own sex life had followed the well-known Islands pattern.

Like every other observer of the Condominium, Simpson is concerned with the future of the unwieldy Hebrides—he calls it a two-headed little monster. . . “conceived out of wedlock, or deadlock, in a diplomatic bed Britain would have gladly climbed out of and left to had not Australia from uiraer the bed kept screaming, ‘push France out!’” (Later, he says the monster has three legs—France, British and Condominium governments).

And like every other observer, he feels that the Condominium should not be permitted to continue. His solution—and what he has to say about French colonialism—is unlikely to please the French who, if PIM experience is a criterion, already stay up at nights brooding pver every minor newspaper criticism, deserved and otherwise.

Simpson’s solution to the Hebrides puzzle (and only the bemused and those who do well out of the muddle will deny that it is that) is for Australia to take over Britain’s part of the Condominium, following this at a later stage by buying out French interests entirely.

The French, according to Simpson, are a waning power in the Pacific while Australia is a growing one. He believes the French record in education, health services and native welfare is non-existent and that the virtue that the French make out of not drawing the colour-bar, and their emphasis on individual freedom (which usually means individual licence), is in no way a substitute for the kind of paternalism practised in P-NG towards the native people by that Territory’s administration.

The Hebrides, says Simpson, are the negation of democracy, a blot on the Free World and meat and drink to the Communist table.

The first part of the plan—that Australia take over the British part of the Condominium—would be simple enough, if Australia were willing. But although she did do considerable howling from under the bed, away back at the turn of the century, her post-World War II politicians show a strange reluctance to take up the responsibility.

They consider that it would “cost too much,” or that they have already enough on their plate (in Papua- New Guinea).

Australia, of course, already has a stake in the Hebrides in the large areas of land she owns there (a gift from the late Sir James Burns) as well as (in the past, anyway) supplying the means of communication with the outside world, and in providing the bulk of NH imports.

However, the second part of the Simpson requirements—that Australia should then set about buying out the French is quite another pro- A man of Malekula, New Hebrides. From the distinctive covering [?] fibre, his people are known as the Big Nambus. A photograph [?]om Simpson's "Islands of Men". 83 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

position, and one that is unlikely to bear much fruit in the foreseeable future. France never has given up ene inch of land, anywhere, at any time, unless forced to and it is unlikely that anyone has the gifts of persuasion necessary to make her start with the Hebrides.

We have it on high authority that France regards the Hebrides as an adjunct to New Caledonia—“the garden of New Caledonia” was how it was described, meaning that while NC produces the minerals, NH should produce the copra, coffee, etc.

A great deal of French investment money is at present being poured into New Caledonia and French interest is not waning in the Hebrides where they can claim, with perfect truth, that any progress that is being made is being made by the French, on behalf of French settlers. The French never have regarded native welfare as a lode-star—by conferring French citizenship upon the indigenes they feel that they have done sufficient — and they are scarcely likely to give up their stake in the Hebrides simply because Australia feels that she can do a better job in that Department.

It seems that Australia’s best chance of acquiring the NH is some political disaster in metropolitan France which would cut off the French Pacific colonies from the motherland as they were cut off temporarily during World War 11.

In the meantime, we can only agree with Simpson —Australia is all squeal and no responsibility so far as the Hebrides are concerned, as witness the fact that the proposed tuna fishery at Santo is likely now to come to nothing—due, it is believed, to pressure put upon Whitehall by Canberra—Australians “do not like Japs” so near to their side door. (See PIM, Nov., 1955, p. 29).

COLIN SIMPSON watched the Beqa natives walk in a pit of hot stones at the special demonstration at the first South Pacific Conference, near Suva, in 1950. Since then he seems to have read every known reference to fire-walking, and anyone who wants a short treatise on it cannot do better than read this section of Islands of Men.

The burning question (no pun intended) is: Are fire-walkers genuine, and after a lot of opinion, pro and con, Simpson seems to think that they are. His belief is that they can walk on hot stones (or ashes) because of what has been called, variously, mana, confidence, hypnotic influence, religious ecstacy—that is, that it is beforehand mental preparation that enables certain people to perform certain acts which are on the verge of being supernormal.

There are, of course, other theories —one being that the rocks are of a variety that give off their heat rapidly.

The book is beautifully produced, with colour and black-and-white photographs and with line-drawings by the author’s wife. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd.

Australian price, 25/-.)

The Ladies Make

July Different

POSSIBLY Mr. Kevin Fitzgerald is not a woman-hater, but he has made an association of amoral females the collective villainess of It's Different In July.

The women, when they gang up, send husbands and brothers scuttling from the family home, completely baffle the police, and prepare to take over the country.

Of course, men baffle them in the end.

This is the sort of thriller when every apparent goodie is apt to suddenly reveal himself (or herself) as a baddie. The reader, therefore, progresses along a literary road studded with shocks and climaxes in which disappearing men and cars (and even rooms) abound, and in which the ladies have a strange secret weapon done up as a . . . well, you guess what.

Because of the wastage in manpower, through disappearances, it is hard to fix on a hero. Just as one character settles down into the role —zit, he’s gone. However, most competent thriller-readers will stay the course and find out in the end what really did make it different in July. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltd. Australian price, 15/6.)

Good Things In

Small Parcels

THIS is one of those books that come into the Can’t-put-icdown-till-it’s-finished class.

Which is remarkable, because Moment Before the Rain is a collection of short stories, the most difficult of all literary mediums, both for the writer and the seller of books.

Elizabeth Enright, who wrote the stories, may be a nodding-acquaintance of Pacific readers of American magazines but her writing is not very well known in the Southern Hemisphere. The stories in the present, volume vary widely in scope and plot but the characters are usually very old people or very young ones. Her insight into human nature is extraordinary: her style is modern and beckons the reader on to “read just one more,” but is entirely without the pseudo-cleverness that ruins about 75 per cent, of present-day literary output.

Some of her stories have an O.

Henry piquancy about them, a surprise twist or ending; but all in their way are gems, leaving the reader feeling that he not only has read a story but that he has shared an en perience. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltd. traiian price, 15/6.)

When Wives Were

Assigned In Sydney

ALTHOUGH Colin Roderick well known in Australia, it hi previously been as a sort literary entrepreneur. This is h first novel. A pity—because TV Lady and the Lawyer (the title the most unimaginative part of tld book) is better than average Auj traiian historical.

It was Roderick who discover© after extraordinary research, tid identity of the convict writer, Jama Tucker, and was instrumental having his Ralph Rashleigh pui lished a few years ago—an Auj traiian literary sensation at td time.

Roderick’s own novel is set aboc the same time as Ralph Rashlei and no doubt the research und© taken in respect of Tucker and M times, has been used to advantac in writing this present story.

The place in Sydney and its es virons, and the time is the late 1820 when New South Wales was stn primarily a convict settlement au the friction between Govern: Darling and the W. C. Wentwon faction was at his height.

It is a love story of Jane, td assigned convict wife of Jemn New, and John Sterling, a man good family, of high office and J friend of Wentworth.

Sterling meets Jane when ss appears before him in the polii court on a charge of shopliftin.

She becomes his mistress, and b tween passionate love passages pulls strings in order that ss escape the clutches of the corruj law. Without avail—this was td day when a crime involving ov £5 was a hanging offence; the dfc of assigned ‘wives”; and whr ticket-of-leave men and womr walked the knife-edge of freedoc harried by sadistic officials.

Jane is sent to the Female Facto at Parramatta, a horror chamtl presided over by an early-Australii variant of the Beast of Belso where filth, disease and deprave reduce the inmates to a state loww than that of a native dog. Ov this institution of correction a couc cil of righteous and respectafj citizens —including the Reveres Samuel Marsden, who at some otH stage of his career, went forth ar converted Maoris—cast a supervise; eye.

The story is played out, to its i evitable conclusion, against a bao ground of the political intrigue the time. Roderick makes no s tempt to present his facts his characters in plain black in white. We are left without dou< 84 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Nor does Roderick—like nr other Australian historical autho drag into his narrative large s of history by the hair of the Id The history of old Sydney is tl; secure in its own setting, and o pletely fascinating to those wfi taste for such things.

Nonetheless, he leaves a mysteries unresolved —why, fon ample, does Jane speak pure I lish when all her family and s dates speak an extraordinary an And why should New—evideJ meant to be an unsympathetic cd acter —spend so much time inr interests of his unfaithful wifi] (Published by Angus and Robertson,,!

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Rocky Mountain Past

SOME novels,, while the y 1 entertaining enough, appes have no real reason for be and Mountain Shadows, by Ms lana Eggleston, comes into category. If it had not been wri' the world would not be desolatj is somewhat of a stray, amoj stories; probably largely s biographical.

The writer is of Lithuss parentage and spent her years in an anthracite coal-mi town in Canada. She has wrt for radio, for magazines andf edited a children’s monthly.

The heroine of the story isi years-old Maggy Mileris, daun of Lithuanian immigrants who i settled in Coaltown, Alberta, time is the early 1920’5, and narrative is concerned mostly the problems of Maggy’s adolesu worked out against a backgrouii clashing national prejudices— are 35 different nations amongst the inhabitants of town.

Probably the author aimed aft, senting a penetrating stud! migrant assimilation, but the ; is merely superficial. The glimp North America in the 20’s—a p rapidly taking its place in an history—is quite as entertainiii its picture of race conflicts. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltdb tralian price, 15/6.)

After Turks, Nazis—

Then Ollie

WHEN Ollie Ladock, middles rogue, came to the islau . Malta it was with the i: 86 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Whatever your sign, don’t sell gin , sell GILBEY’S * PISCES ARIES ★ SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS 1 » CAPRICORN CANCER ★ & VIRGO AQUARIUS lon of passing himself off as the legitimate nephew of Baroness [lsabel Ferrat, an elderly recluse, ind of relieving her of some of her jortune.

However, events did not work out is Ollie planned—or in the way that isobel expected.

Although she had deliberately cut ierself off from the world since a ragedy of her youth, Isobel had ferrat pride and great intelligence nd saw through Ollie at once. [*hese ill-assorted souls had, however, an extraordinary influnce. each upon the other, and it is ti the interplay of this strange ffinity that the story is rounded ut and shaped.

Isobel is saturated in Ferrat lore nd is greatly influenced thereby.

Hlie becomes infected by Isobel and 1 peculiar Ollie fashion can spout lalta history.

Ollie and Isobel came to the instable parting of the ways. But ho can say if Ollie harmed Isobel, r whether Isobel harmed Ollie. Or to the contrary, each gained from le association?

Walled City (by Mary Dunstan) i an interesting study of a littleritten-about area, in which the resent and the past are skilfully [ended and character is cleverly rawn. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltd. Ausilian price, 15/6.) Back in Pacific By End 1956 A SPOKESMAN for the Matson Navigation Company said in Sydney in November that the Company’s first luxury liner for the trans-Pacific trade would be in operation in time to bring visitors to the Olympic Games in Melbourne at the end of 1956 He said two liners were building for their Australian run. They would be called Mariposa and Monterey, would carry 370 passengers and cruise at 20 knots. (The first Monterey and Mariposa, were well known shins on the trans-Pacific service b£ the war After war service work 5 beLun but later halted when a dispute arose between the company GoyTr^ent"

The ships were later sold. 87 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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I will give the whole of the facts i f the death and burial of “Queen imma” in an early issue of PIM.

Medical Survey of Aitutaki i FOUR-MAN New Zealand \ medical team will leave New Zealand for Aitutaki, Cook [lands, in January to carry out vo months research work.

The project will include an instigation into high infant ortality, a general investigation of liman parasites, certain work on lariasis, and study of blood-groupgs of the people.

The team will be headed by Dr. . McCarthy, Island Territories Rearch Officer at Otago University edical school. He will be accommied by Mr. R. Marples, a science aduate, and Mr. D. T. Gray and r. N. H. Leslie.

Big Savings Likely in Fiji's PWD WITH simplification and reorganisation of purchasing procedure a saving of some £30,000 annually in the Fiji Public Works Department alone is expected as a result of the recommendations of the organising consultants from England now at work in the Colony.

When stating this to the Legislative Council, the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) said that further economies in other departments were expected by the time the consultants finished their examination towards the end of the year. From the information already obtained there was every indication that very substantial savings could accrue from the application of improved working methods.

It was evident, said the Governor, that the need for improving the calibre in most branches of the service was the main single problem which had to be solved to obtain efficiency throughout the administrative machine.

II Corporals Kimbule and Awaihaka, of the Solomon Islands Police, left Honiara on October 11 for the United Kingdom to attend a Police Training Course at Hendon. 89 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955 Trochus Made Him Famous (Continued from Page 86) Solution to Crossquiz from page 82

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Sir Gordon Taylor Visits South America SIR Gordon Taylor, in an interval between his South Pacific flying-boat cruises from Sydney, journeyed by regular air line to South America in October-November.

The visit, naturally, raised speculation as Sir Gordon’s interest in a possible air connection between Australia and South America is well known. Since he made a survey flight to Valparaiso in the Catalina Frigate Bird 11, in April, 1951, it is believed that nothing has been done in the way of improving the primitive airstrip on the heights of Easter Island, though it was reported at that time that the Chilean Government planned to develop the strip for strategic reasons.

The only aircraft ever to land there, an amphibious Catalina of the Chilean Air Force, was wrecked on the take-off run in the latter part of 1950, or early 1951.

Sir Gordon’s aircraft, which made sea landings, narrowly escaped disaster twice in sudden changes of weather, while lying at its open-sea anchorage. In his book on this flight, Sir Gordon said that Easter was out of the question for commercial flying-boat operations.

It appears probable that when Australia-South America flights do eventually come, there will be aircraft capable of overflying Easter Island; or, more probably, the much shorter polar route will be used. t To pay off the cost of a concrn floor in a public building, the peo;c of Manihiki atoll, Northern Coco in a MOP shell diving one-day effo’ raised £lOO in October, DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Ousing, Liquor And

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iNE of Suva’s notorious tales — F the rumour-based fabrications which often gain a degree of dence through persistent repetin by persons who have no regard [accuracy—was dealt with by the vernor (Sir Ronald Garvey) when iressing the Legislative Council the opening of the Budget session November.

Chis particular slander was that cUers returned from Malaya were, some extent at least, responsible the latest of the periodical outaks of night-prowling and phial trespass in the capital. ’he Governor said that of 27 conlions during the first nine months 1955 for prowling offences and ninal trespass, not one concerned returned soldier from Malaya. i handful of reprobates had lied the fair name of the Fijians i way which had chagrined them Sir Ronald continued. It was icult to believe that a people who I manned the Battalion which I earned a magnificient reputai in Malaya could at the same e produce the miscreants who i penetrated the cases of criminal ipass and night prowling.

EFERRING to the drift to the towns, the Governor said that certain types of young Fijian ame an easy prey to bad comy. They took to strong drink developed evil ways of life, own housing conditions were bad mitigated against normal good aviour, and housing was also bad the villages, where innumerable Tied couples shared houses. With >e conditions in the villages, it not altogether surprising that ng men were attracted to town hoping that they would find er conditions. his comment by the Governor wers to some extent the easy taken by those people who ntain that the Fijians, in their i interests, should invariably be tent with submergence in the iges. Almpst everything militates inst the idea of such subgence in the case of young Die, and particularly in the ! of the many hundreds of ng men whose ideas have been )adened” in one way or another long service overseas. (Governit and Army spokesmen have at js implied that the assignment Malaya would be of inestimable cational and character-building antage to young Fijians). n top of this there is the uniable fact that a sizeable proportion of the Fijians who have moved from villages to towns have done so to secure better schooling for their children. And a pertinent argument in support of this domestic policy is that most Fijian parents believe that without good schooling their children will be left hopelessly behind by children of other races in the campaign for economic improvement.

IN the course of the statement quoted, the Governor mentioned the liquor problem, which is growing in Fiji as in many other Island territories.

Sooner or later the whole question will have to be faced. In the meantime, for Europeans to say that non- Europeans must be “educated” in the proper use of alcohol is pure hypocrisy. There is not a European country to-day which can claim to have “educated” itself successfully in the proper use of alcohol. Even traditionally wine-drinking France has fallen by the wayside in the last decade or so.

There is possibly no more actual drunkenness in Suva than there is in cities of similar size in Australia or New Zealand, but the results are more deplorable in a city where wage-levels are comparatively low and the cost of all alcoholic liquor, including beer, is comparatively high. (Continued on Page 93) 91 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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NCHOR FLOUR GILLESPIE BROS. PTY. LTD.. ANCHOR FLOUR MILLS. SYDNEY G. 1.97 t Mr. Pat Costello, one of Suva’s liost prominent and respected Itizens, told a PIM representative a Sydney in November that in his pinion, the liquor situation in Fiji I steadily deteriorating.

Mr. Costello, with long experience s an observer of the liquor trade n both sides of the fence, suggested coupon system in the case of perms who hold liquor permits. Each aupon would bear the number of le permit to head-off any “tradig” in coupons attached to permits.

Whatever difficulties this system ight involve —and some are obvious -it would at least enable the srmit-holder, in cold sobriety, to itimate in advance how many >upons he was likely to consume in fixed period, and how much his imily budget would be depleted. he recorded number of coupons sued to a permit-holder would also •ovide a general check on conniption in the permit groups.

Mi’. Costello conceded that with e steady increase in the number permit-holders, especially among ung Indians, the system would ean a great deal of paper-work for mebody—presumably the police.

Whether the coupon system would iply to Europeans (who do not me under the permit system) is lother point. It would doubtless supported by all those who conid that Europeans, being primarily responsible for the liquor problem in non-European countries, should be put in the same box as other people as an alternative to the idea of total prohibition, which, whether feasible or not, crops up at times in some responsible quarters under the pressure of distressing events. if Mr. A. G. Mitchell, an Administrative Officer, arrived in Honiara, BSIP, from Sudan, on September 20.

Lodge Visit by Chartered Plane A short while ago members of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, Grand Australasian Banner Lodge New Guinea 20, and Lodge Bulolo 245, flew by chartered Qantas plane to pay a regalia visit to Lodge Thursday Island. Our photograph shows the party embarking in New Guinea. 93 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Back Home in Moresby t Several large tuna have been caught recently at Puka Puka.

The local record was set by Willie Teaapa on November 11, when he caught a tuna 5 ft long and 200 lbs weight. t Mr. Glassie Strickland, Jnr., son of the former manager of Messrs, dagger & Harvey’s Rarotonga Branch, was officially appointed to succe© his father, who retired some tira ago, as from November 1. t Monsieur P. Ferlande, recent;) Director of the Bank of Indo Chin in French Oceania, departed pc liner Tahitien for France recent! his place now being taken If Monsieur R. Aubrun.

In the course of a 12 months world's tour through Japan, Hongkong and Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Carter, of Port Moresby, covered about 60,000 miles in this baby car (name of Mighty Mouse). It is doubtful if P-NG numberplates have ever toured so far or so widely.

They attracted a great deal of attention abroad.

Mighty Mouse returned to Moresby, with the Carters, in October wearing a large assortment of Automobile Club badges collected on the tour. 94 DECEMBER. 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L

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Ihe smaller vessel, Inspire, was iking trips to the north to relieve ; situation —lengthy voyages which ; not profitable for a vessel of her pacity—and a visiting American looner-yacht, Nordlys, was also liled of to carry some urgent supes to Penrhyn. fhere were less severe shortages the Southern Group islands also, h no immediate sign of any re- Kristinas Gifts Go To Fijian Soldiers ADY GARVEY’S gift parcels fund for the Fijian soldiers in Malaya has been closed because committee has more than ample ley in hand to meet requirements ;il the troops return home next r. n the yeai to October 31, exiditure was £3,736, leaving a ance of £7,801. A substantial part the fund’s revenue came from successful Queen Competition anised in 1954. ince January 1, 10,804 lb of ,ona (kava) had gone to Malaya > year, stated the committee in member. Another 1,000 lb was to in December, and 39 sacks 90 lb) would be sent by the first liable ship. In addition, 1,000 a month, up to the time the )ps are ready to leave Malaya, be sent by plane if a ship is available. his year the Fijian soldiers will sive Christmas cakes as usual, I every man will receive a •istmas card with his name on The card will enable him to rere 10/- worth of goods from the teen. he fund has also provided silver :e for the officers’ and sergeants’ »ses and small comforts have n supplied to men in hospital in laya and in Fiji, f the amount in hand on ober 31, £6,000 is banked on fixed osit. lonsieur Jacques Puravet, retly sub-director of the Papeete ;e of Compagnie Francaise des >sphate de I’Oceanie, has now n appointed director, according announcement from the comy’s head office.

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THE seismic system of hurricane location is to be extended to Queensland. This was announced on November 8.

The seismic svsfem of hurrinano location, and its virtues as a comparatively inexpensive, very longrange measure applicable to the Pacific Islands hurricane area, were set out in a recent PIM report of a lecture by Mr. J. C. Grover, Senior Geologist, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.

It was there stated that one such station is in operation at the University of Brisbane. The November announcement means that another station is to be established, this time a L th u Townsvill e meteorological office by the University, whose Dr.

Jo^ s haa sh ° wn a keen in " tereSt ln the system for ma “y y ears - Whereas a few years ago it was necessary to have three such stations at widely spaced points, linked to- Sether by cable or radio communica4on systems, it is now possible for a smgle Nation to pinpoint a hurricane at up to 1,000 miles away, the distances being dependent on various factors, including the intensity of the storm. it w |jj b e i eas t fi ve y ears before the Townsville station is properly calibrated and ready to provide accurate information. 95

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IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER: Sixty-one years ago this month, I the result of a hurricane, an rtraordinary chapter in the shipng history of the Cook Islands ,me to an end with the total deruction of the 97-tons Takitumu in e now unused Ngatangiia harbour, irotonga.

Takitumu had been built in a eat community effort by the people Ngatangiia three years earlier, ider the supervision of an Austral lander named Rapu. Rigging and leel had come from a wreck on angaia, anchor and cable from a liooner owned by Captain Goodn, which was wrecked outside ;atangiia as she arrived from New aland with a cargo of timber for e enterprise.

Launched, rigged, but still only rtly decked and not complete, the looner was despatched for Auckid with cargoes of island produce, lich were there exchanged for ;king, copper sheathing, and other ms. rhen, in July, 1894, Takitumu was spatched for Penrhyn atoll, 700 les to the north, on what was to 3ve her last long voyage. The looner had no motor, and already r sails which, Island style, had ver been properly aired or cared , were in very poor condition. ill went well until within 80 miles of Penrhyn, when a squall blew the sails to tatters. There were no spares, so Captain Tuaua took the only possibile course, a down-wind run for Samoa under the remaining tatters. Navigation in Takitumu was less than precise so it was not surprising when, instead of the mountains of Samoa appearing, a low atoll eventually showed up a couple of weeks later. As the schooner drifted closer, canoes came off and Captain Tuaua was able to pin-point hfs position—Nukunono, the middle of the three Tokelau atolls. Deep water prevented anchoring, and absence of sails prevented manoeuvring, so Takitumu’s skipper did some brisk trading with the canoes as the island slid slowly by. Much of the Penrhyn cargo had by then been eaten, but some was delivered to the canoes of a Portuguese trader in exchange for a bale of copra sacks and some twine. As Nukunono disappeared astern all hands were put to making sails from the heavy sacking, while the strange drift voyage continued.

Takitumu truly sailed under a lucky star, for when it was clear that one bale of sacks would not provide sufficient sail area to make the long windward slug back to the Cooks, the wind and drift proved such that Fakaofo, the southeastern most Tokelau atoll, was next approached.

Here again, in deep water, there was no possibility of anchoring, or of otherwise halting the ship, short of casting her onto the reef, which by this time all hands would have liked to do. So again trading was opened, a few more sacks were obtained, and many pandanus mats, the schooner already being well away from the atoll as the transaction was completed by the canoes from shore.

So the strange rig of sacks and matting, delicate and unwieldy, was completed and the long hard beat to Penrhyn began—and ended just 97 1 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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By then all the Penrhyn cargo had been eaten or traded away. After a brief rest and refit in Penrhyn lagoon the course was laid for Rarotonga.

With that island in sight only five days later after a quick run, the last of the food was shared out and eaten. Then the wind dropped.

There followed almost six weeks of calms and contrary winds, with Takitumu sometimes in sight of Rarotonga, sometimes set far away to the north again. Fortunately, a passing sailing ship, bound for Australia, supplied the schooner with desperately needed food during this exasperating period. Finally, exactly seven months after her departure, Takitumu arrived home from her last and least-profitable voyage.

Two weeks later she was pounded to pieces by a hurricane within a stone’s throw of where she was built.

The Joyita Mystery:—To

late November the wordy despatches from Suva in regard to this vessel were remarkable mainly for their lack of firm facts. Possibly because the Western Samoa Government may be faced with damage claims from relatives of the missing, there appeared to be a close-down on all factual information from Apia as to the exact number of persons, lifesaving equipment, nature of cargo aboard, and state of engines and radio, pending an inquiry which was to take place there soon.

Some reports spoke of charred woodwork and evidence of an explosion; others denied this.

Explanation of the mystery of the missing personnel seemed to centre on three big questions: were they separated from the ship at the time the visible damage occurred, at an earlier time, or at a later time?

The extent of damage suffered suggests that it was unlikely that every person was thrown overboard.

The time and place of discovery by Tuvalu shows a drift of about 37 miles per day, and agrees wii published data on speed and diree tion of drift in these waters. Curres charts would suggest that the drh began nearer Samoa than Fakaofo' Clearly Joyita passed within sigg of Wallis, visible about 20 mili at 20 ft height of eye, on aboo October 10-11, and within sight Futuna, visible over 50 miles, i about October 14-15. If there wv some early sudden disaster, whid some or all aboard survived, the may have abandoned Joyita to sb tempt a raft landing on one or othd of these islands. The landing mx have been unsuccessful for all hanoi 98 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL;

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P.I.M. 12/55. the raft might have been set leeward, and never reached the re. uch a raft, drifting probably a e faster chan Joyita, might reach southern New Hebrides by late member or early December. :elauans and Gilbertese might I survive such a drift. f charred wreckage reported on n Wallis and Futuna proved to from Joyita it would show that damage was suffered east of those islands, and would suggest a sudden disaster. Some, viewing the published photos, consider that all the visible damage could have been caused by the sea and by cargo, drums of oil, etc., smashing about,’ floating but trapped in the slowly sinking and gradually listing vessel's deck structures after the vessel had been abandoned.

Abandonment might well have been initiated merely through both motors being broken down and the radio unrepairable.

Undoubtedly, searching RNZAF aircraft must have been visible or audible. When eventually it seemed clear that the search had been abandoned, and with perhaps Wallis or Futuna in sight and good prospects of a landing, the master may have made that decision.

Apparently absence of sextant and chronomoter might strengthen such a theory, as the master would certainly take these.

There seemed to be no evidence of any attempt to rig sails, made, say, from scraps of canvas, copra sacks, or bedding, which must have been available in Joyita. This fact might strengthen a sudden-disaster theory, unlikely as it would seem that all could have been tossed or washed overboard at the same moment.

A cargo of empty drums from Apia to the Tokelaus seemed strange hips in the News: [?]per: The steel schooner "Gloria Maris", [?]able at Koror for charter by scientific archers. [?]ntre: The Panamanian registered schooner- [?]t "Fiesta" at Pago Pago.

Photo: Pan American Prints, wer: The schooner-rigged American yacht dlys" in Pago Pago.

Photo: Pan American Prints. 99 Cl FI c ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Cable Address: BERRYSBOAT, Sydney. rgo. The explanation, we believe, that a re-settlement scheme is in ogress there and the drums were : fresh water storage in a new lage pending establishment of rmanent tanks.

Reports suggested that Joyita’s msmitter was not unserviceable t had merely been put out of (ustment. There was a radio hnician aboard, but he may well ve been sea-sick up to the time any sudden disaster. It must also remembered that a transmitter useless without a power supply. nta’s 100-watt set would have a y heavy power drain.

'he set did not operate on the itinuously monitored 500 kc/s tress channel. It possibly could rate on the 2182 kc/s voice disss channel, on which Apia keeps watch, but on which Pago Pago ps a speaker watch. Fruitless s would very quickly run down accumulators. If the charging was out of action the set ild then be useless. here is another, perhaps very ikely, suggestion for a possible ippearance of all aboard. The iel was fully refrigerated in all ?e holds. If the system employed noma, a fracture or explosion ht have released a flood of that k i ng , chemical , the bilges, hands may have been forced poranly into a raft or boat (if ' ■ It is conceivable that a squall could have separated raft from ship at such a time. Unlikely—but possible! A similar event almost occurred during the Kon-Tiki voyage.

From the photos (see elsewhere) it seems clear that a collision was not the initial disaster. The hull is quite unmarked. It would still have been possible for the damage to have been done by another vessel Japanese fisherman possibly colliding with, or going alongside after the ship had adopted her heavy list Any collision then would have involved the superstructure, and not the hull, on the port side and would explain the visible damage, Presumably the master, crew, and owners of Tuvalu forfeited any salvage claim when they handed over to the Fiji Government’s Degei FOR YOUR SAFETY • —While pim is of the firm belief that the inexpensive Gibson Girl 500 kc/s emergency transmitter, described last month, is the present primary answer to many Island shipping incidents. Islands seamen should also be aware of the principles upon which air-search radar equipment operates and how their chances of location may be greatly improved, The effective range of a radar set is very much dependent upon the reflective properties of the object being sought. The set emits pulses of radio waves. Such waves, on strik- 101 3 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1955

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But here is the important factor; Metal objects are much more reflective than objects like a wooden ship’s boat, raft, or rubber dinghy.

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The larger the metal plate, the more effective it will be —but it must be free and not nailed to the mast, or an aircraft in the plane of the plate will not detect it effectively.

A plate bent at right angles is better, though not so readily stowed.

The higher the reflector is hoisted the more effective it will be. A tail of light metal foil attached to the Gibson Girl kite is a highly effective reflector. The aerial wire which forms the kite string is over 300 ft long, and the kite, in a normal trade breeze, will fly at about 100 ft above the sea.

These inexpensive safety measures may save your life and the taxpayer thousands of pounds.

NNG SURVEY:—Due to arrive in Netherlands New Guinea waters from Holland before Christmas is the survey vessel HMNS Snellius with a complement of 100 men. The vessel will joint HMNS Luymes in a big charting project, which at present is being concentrated on the south coast from the Papi border to Princess Marianne Strn near Marauke.

An interesting feature of the s vey is that DECCA navigatun equipment, now widely used in Euj pean waters, is being used. DEO shore transmitters will soon be ; up by technicians from Hollas Their exact geographical positii: 102 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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OOK ISLANDS FLEET:—A. B. laid & Co.’s 300-tonner Charlotte laid, larger of the two present ;els in the Cooks inter-island ie—the other is the hard work- Brixham trawler Inspire —came i to Auckland for survey in No- )er following a touch on the :aki reef. Formerly the Kinangan, and built at Fremantle, was the first visit to Auckland 1950. Normally, the vessel ren Papeete during the hurricane »n.

Rarotonga correspondent reports Mr. D. C. Brown (whose last 1, the 300-tonner Rannah, was ided at Avarua, Rarotonga, on mber 16, 1954, and was recently on the reef by the insurance >any), may soon take delivery of fin-screw vessel with a cargo flty of 80 tons. A company of ti Mr. D. C. Brown is senior ler, was recently registered in land as Island Merchants Ltd., tonga. 4. BEL ROSE: —To join the ;rn Samoa fleet, as reported in Der PIM, the former US Army )1 Craft Isabel Rose was to l r Sausulito, California, on aer 23, for Pago Pago via Hono- With Captain Robert C. Payes, normally skipper of Manu’a Tele is Chief Engineer James W. Sword,’ of the same vessel, and six Samoan crew men, and William Steffany with his brother, Joe, purchased the vessel for the Pago Pago-Apia trade.

FOR SALE:— Manu’a Tele, the 258-ton ex-US Navy Yard Mine Sweeper, which, in addition to providing communications with the Manu’a Group, has provided the main sea link between Apia and the Tokelaus in recent years, under charter, will soon be offered for sale by the Eastern Samoa Government as agent for the Manu’a people who own the vessel.

Manu’a Tele is almost identical with the French naval patrol craft Tiare based at Noumea and well known in Polynesia, except that the former has been stripped of all armament and modified for cargo handling Powered by two 400-hp GM diesels, the American vessel measures 124.3 ft x 24.8 ft x 11.1 ft. Her present duties will be taken over by Isabel Rose, mentioned above, as well as MV Samoa, a smaller vessel owned by the Steffanys.

NUKUALOFA IMPROVEMENTS: —New Zealand Ministry of Works engineers were recently in Tonga discussing final details of reconstruction and extensions to the Nukualofa wharf. Plans will soon be prepared and it is expected that [?]er: Captain W. J. Buckley, mentioned in [?]onth's notes. [?]er: The yacht "La Paloma", salvaged, [?]ed, and for sale in Papeete. 103 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1955

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nstable Makira, of Rakahanga md, Northern Cooks, picked up a tie at the south-east corner- of atoll on October 23, containing following message: “My name Edwin M. Watson. I am 14 years . I live at 110 Broad Ave., Naples, A. I am aboard the SS Pioneer, route to Tahiti. We are about )0 miles WSW of Panama Canal. 11 you please write and let me )w where you found this.’’ Only ng missing was date of launching, e drift was about 2,600 miles, jarently through the Marquesas, a course a good deal north of ,t indicated by Admiralty life- ,t charts. r ETERAN VISITOR:—A Novemvisitor to PIM Sydney office was itain W. J. Buckley, whose itical memories of the Solomons back to 1904. Now retired and ng near Sydney, Captain Buckley Sydney in 1904 in Captain mson’s new 45-ton schooner dsay. He remained with the ss e 1 when Levers bought out )tain Swenson’s Gavutu property n after, then returned briefly to Iney. >ut the Islands were still calling [ he shipped out for Samoa in then Southern Cross to work for Germans for a time. Then back ;he Solomons via Sydney to join s small schooner Alcyone, which [ been shipped up from Sydney ard the Moresby. Next shift was 3P’s larger Sideia, recruiting, and r to the firm’s Rogeia for a le. fter that Captain Buckley joined mership with Sam Atkinson, takcommand of the 19-ton schooner i on recruiting work. Then came First World War, and Captain ;kley, back in BP’s Rogeia, found self under naval control, patrola 400-mile stretch of Solomon ers on the look-out for Von kner, who was then loose in the ific with Seeadler. After that he ame master of the Mascot until loss in the Santa Cruz Is. as in recent issues of PIM. fter a spell ashore in those nds, trading, Captain Buckley ie back to Sydney in the de- ;sion of 1935, and was with the ney pilot service for a time, ed when he planned to ship out the islands again, the old ►per’s eyes sparkled and he hinted that he could be interested ny delivery job that was offering.

Cientists Take Note:—In

issue is a photo of the 110-ft 1 American schooner Gloria us, currently lying at Koror, ronesia, and available for charter icientific institutions or research rkers. Owned by Alfred J. tieimer-111, of Philadelphia, and rtered on a long-term basis to ural Science Foundation of that city, the vessel can be sub-chartered on a bare-boat basis with her present crew.

Bargain charter rates are offered to scientific groups to help off-set expenses. Groups interested in research in the Netherland New Gumea-Indonesia area would be welcomed, to work in with Foundation plans in those waters. Contact T. 8 P l . e wl th Captain Ernest Chamberlain, at Koror or with the Natural Science Foundation, 1510 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 2, Pphti tjc a n TOIL and TROUBLE:—T he P-NG Administration’s new medical patrol vessel Heduru has had her share of adventure since entering service. The vessel arrived in time to take part in the search for survivors of Elsie-B in Papuan Gulf waters late August, suffering some heavy-weather damage in the process. Early in November, with the Chief Medical Officer aboard, patrolling all stations from Daru to Kairuku, the vessel suffered an engine break-down and had to be sailed 40 miles to Daru. En route she struck several tidal bores in the Gulf and finally went aground but was got off undamaged.

WANT A TANKER?:—The 8,000ton former Jap tanker Naruta, lying half submerged in Rabaul Harbour, is again offered for sale by her owners, Anderson’s (Pacific) Trad- 105 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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THE AUSSIE WAY: W h e n foreigners buy Australian-registered ships they do not just put their crews aboard and sail away—as was amply demonstrated in Sydney recently. Either an Australian crew takes the vessel to a foreign port and is sent home first-class at the purchaser’s expense, or, at the discretion of the maritime unions, the equivalent of what all this would cost is paid to the unions, who may then permit the foreign crew to take the vessel away.

In one case recently the vessel was bound for Hongkong and a Chinese crew did the job after the financial formalities had been attended to; and in the other case an Australian crew took the vessel to Noumea, where an Italian crew took over for the voyage to the Mediterranean.

FOR FIJI FLEET?:—The Japanese fishing vessel Mie Maru was still sitting on a reef 2 miles from Ongea Driki in mid-November.. was reported from Suva that a II firm had quoted the Japa:* owners a “substantial sum” to cs out a survey of salvage possibilil Oyr guess is that Mie Maru, uu a new name, will be trading rco the Fijis within another tw* months. Damage is believed toe only minor, but two Japanese t 106 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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VHAT’S IN A NAME:—It has n previously pointed out in this amn that many Japanese vessels registered under the same name, ugh with a different number tended, and that the name means hing without the number, n November, when completely bunded accusations of murder of Joyita personnel by Japanese e being freely headlined in the stralian press, one Melbourne >er pinned the crime to the koku Maru. When the charge i referred to Japan, the reply le back —“Which one? There are least thirty!” he charge in this case seemed lave been based on the fact that vessel variously identified as koku Maru No. 10, and Baikoku ru No. 10, had put into Pago :o for treatment to a seaman i a dislocated right wrist and of three fingers, said to have i sustained in handling fishing ipment. his vessel was not one of the 0 Pago-based fleet, but belonged 1 fleet working the Samoa-Fiji- >erts area from Japan. It may ’ecalled that at least a year ago Japanese Fisheries Department ounced that Jap tuna vessels Id fish in the Cooks-Tahiti area year.

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raine, Agence Reuter’s 209ler, refit completed in Suva, red that port November 5 on rel to Noumea.

FARTLING THE NATIVES: orts from New Hebrides waters cate that the English Brixham fler Inspire, currently running ;oes in that area, has been caussome distraction and excitement ig the beaches. seems to centre round the less i voluminous dress adopted by three attractive lady members of five-strong crew. Some observers, lying the ketch through powerful ses when quite far at sea, so ’tis , have rushed orders to Sydney l-order houses for still better ses!

EC QMMISSIONED: Albert neaud, Compagnie Francais Hebrides’ 240-ton New Hebrides er, out of commission through lage in July, 1954, is on the run n. A new propeller was flown ay the last Qantas flight. It is wed, however, that the company seeking a replacement to this ;o-and-passenger vessel.

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jL: —lnterception of an R/T ress call by an Australian coast ion on October 31 lead at first the belief that Captain Emile Die’s Maria del Mar, somewhat due from Noumea, was in ble in heavy weather.

Some time later, when the Savoie 1 had checked in by radio with all in order, it was discovered that the cause of the excitement had been a small craft in New Guinea waters. The name of the vessel was not released to the press but the master had sent out a MAYDAY but C was“ h The b ?essef n alai d n by d afr search" P ° Wer ’ W&S located oy a i sea c .

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SPECIAL DELIVERY:—Captain Max Stanton, well known in the Islands for his delivery of many new —and old—vessels to Island owners, was to have taken the hospital ship and former BSIP trader Ruena to the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean in December, but because of delays he was off on a more pressing task SS Sj Melbourne to Trteste. SfL/weU fOT°m”rly°as ttfe “rare Knob (ex Euwarra ), was recently sold to Italian buyers and registered in Panama. she was to clear in early December with a cargo of wheat for Malta via Suez. Aboard as Third Mate and Radio Officer was Mr.

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Telephone: FF4224. Cables “Thornmotor,” Sydney. Sydney i task by the Australian Shipping ard. It seemed possible that Capn Stanton and Mr. Schultz might iver another vessel from Europe Australia on completion of the sent job. lEADY TO ROLL:—S. Berg & ’s Kurimarau, former BSIP Goviment vessel, after a long period idleness, arrived in Sydney from Hina, northern NSW, on Noiber 23, spick and span in white, h blue-topped buff funnel, buff >er works, and blue and green nmings. :urimarau’s cargo handling facils have now been greatly imved. Previously the after hatch, ited beneath a permanent upper k, could not be worked except by nhandling of cargo across the in deck. Now this upper deck been broken, a large section in way of the hatch lifting clear, he former after-mast has been laced by a shorter steel mast ited further forward. With two ricks and two new electric ches the after-hold is now well r ed. mongst other new equipment is Vaughan 4-channel radio-telene transmitter covering the 2-6 s band, with added broadcast nnel in the receiver, fter slipping and undergoing hull rey Kurimarau will enter the New Guinea coastal service. With her considerable covered deck space this Hongkong-built 288-ton vessel is particularly well suited to the carriage of deck passengers. She has a hold capacity of 16,000 ft. It is understood that the vessel is available for charter. A New Guinea crew was being brought south in December to man her.

HANDED OVER: —Renamed Indaustral, the former Fairymead Sugar Co. Army GPV-type vessel Ruena, now a smart hospital ship, was handed over to the Indian Government in Sydney on November 29. By the time this appears the vessel should be well on her way up the Queensland coast bound Torres Strait, Singapore, and her new home port of Port Blair in the Andaman slands. Cost of purchase and refit was about £60,000. The ship now has accommodation for 20 patients, a medical officer and staff, and the crew. There is an operating theatre.

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Captain Julius Jensen, now in command, had little information on her early history, but knew that she was acquired by the US Hydrographic Survey Department, and later by the US Navy, in which service she served as a patrol craft on the East Coast during the war.

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Equipment includes a record!; type of echo sounder and a channel radio-telephone transmits Her yachty lines, long overhangs counter, white hull with blue-topn buff funnel and blue star, catch eye. There are 14 all told aboard when they are not deserting, several did in Honolulu and Si on the run south, and some mr did in Sydney, where crew y sought. The island deserters w/ to be picked up on the run Ikd to Vancouver, or possibly Longbeas Cal.

Normally, it would not pay to i a vessel of this size down to S;< ney but in this case it did — cargo was dynamite, on which hr freights are received. The ownn Canvica Trading Co., had an terest in another small wooo( vessel which brought a sim:i cargo south recently. This was Mina-C, whose cost was paid the freight of a single voyage.

News of Cruising Yacht e TAHITI YACHT CLUB: Mr. Martial I has been re-elected Commodore of the rew Tahiti Yacht Club, a position which he prior to the Club's decline many years Mr. lorss is a'so President of the Assemr Territoriale of French Oceania. • RAROTONGA SAILING CLUB openedt official 1955-56 season on October 24, wifi large programme of events on Ngatam lagoon. e AUCKLAND-SUVA YACHT RACE, schecb for May, 1956, promises to be an evenir considerable interest, with an incre®: number of yachtsmen signifying their interl; to enter. Some of the number of oven; yachts currently in New Zealand waters i likely to be represented. • SOLACE, Commander Victor Clark's Emn ketch, was preparing to clear Rarqtongae Auckland via Palmerston Island late in Octet During his year on Palmerston while ; yacht was being rebuilt following strantfr Commander Clark put some of the local through a course in navigation. Three of 1 were taken to Rarotonga in the yacht, too their hand at sea*. SOLACE was to deliver 1 home again. • TZU HANG, of London, cleared Francisco October 13 for Honolulu, Farrii Island and points south, in continuation i world cruise. This yacht, manned by Mr. .

Mrs. Miles Smeeton and daughter, and Mr..- Mrs. Sikes, of Vancouver, came out to couver via Panama and the Galapagos t years ago, and the Smeetons have since farming there. The yacht, built in Hongg pre-war, is of teak construction, 45 ft. ove\ « LA POLOMA, stranded on Maiao Isa sold, salvaged, and rebuilt, was reportedb sale in Papete in November. This yacht 1 purchased in Auckland, NZ, and cleared t last June under American ownership. • RICHARD & JOHN, 60 ft., 21 ton kx rigged fishing vessel, bound from Penzis England, to Gisborne, NZ, arrived at Pane 110 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Cables: “IVAN”, SYDNEY. vember 5, sailed November 8, and arrived Gisborne on November 22 to be met with ousing welcome from over 1,000 people. It I earlier (November 12) called at Rarotonga take on oil supplies. • LITTLE BEAR, Buz and June Champion's ft. ketch from San Francisco, entered Auckd November 7. The champions indicated that hey like New Zealand, and New Zealand likes m, they may settle there. > TAHITI, of Los Angeles, manned by Messrs, th and Schroder, arrived at Auckland, 'ember 3. Philip Schroder planned to rei home immediately, but Mr. Smith has er hopes. He will seek permission from the v Zealand authorities to settle for a time Anchorage Islet, Suwarrow atoll, in the ks. > TAIHOA, 30 ft. Tahiti-type ketch, recently chased in Lyttelton, NZ, will be one of the ters from Auckland at the end of the >ent hurricane season. The yacht is jointly led now by Mr. Bob Fenton, 27, formerly Hobart, and Mr. Gunars Dambe, 30, a dan who went to New Zealand several rs ago. They will head for the American ific Coast. » FIESTA, previously unreported from any nd port, slipped into Pago Pago, on October from Honolulu. Flying the Panamanian —probably the first yacht to cruise the ific under that flag for very many years— big 72 ft. x 17£ ft. x 8 ft. schooner was ding thence for Papeete later in October, ard is owner-skipper Martin J. Vitousek i a crew of five. he yacht had spent a month at Fanning nd and all hands were most appreciative the hospitality shown them there. Presum- -1 contrary winds forced the yacht to the tward, as a windward beat from Pago Pago ’apeete is not usually done by choice. - MOANA of France, continuing her westid circumnavigation, arrived at Noumea y November. A stay of a couple of weeks planned by owner-skipper Pierre Pasquier his men, before heading for Port Moresby Indonesia. The aim is to reach St. >z, France, via Suez, by next August.

MERIDIAN, 44 ft. cutter of Port Royal, aica, manned by Dick and Abbie Stafford, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stark in yacht VIXEN arts unknown, were in Cristobal in Septempreparing to clear for the Galapagos, and umably points west. MERIDIAN planned lear the San Bias Islands for the Galapagos October.

STORTEBECKER-IM's former owner, Dr.

Franklin-Evans, lately practising as a co in New Zealand, plans to buy another t in England soon and may again be seen he Pacific. He cruised from New Zealand anada in 1953, selling the former German t there late 1954.

HALF SAFE, Australian amphibious jeep, in Sydney late in November. From there Carlins planned to ship themselves and back to Calcutta to rejoin their circumjation route. They will cross Burma, Thai- Indo China, and by water to the ppines, Formosa, Okinawa, and Japan. 5 call for clearing there next May for the Mans and Alaska. Ultimate target: New by December, 1956.

NORDLYS, of San Francisco, called at Pago in mid-October, went from there to Apia Suva, and then doubled back to the east, ed at Rarotonga again on November and visited Mauke on November 22. ;r Walter S. Johnson with his 7-man crew led to clear again for Papeete a few days to get away from the hurricane zone.

TROPIC SEAS, 36 ft. ketch in which John veil and family sailed from the US Pacific I to Australia a couple of years ago, and a year ago, sank at moorings in Sydney lovember 28. The hull had been stripped for refit and no great damage resulted, veil now employed in Sydney, expects to another book titled "Sailors in Diapers" shed in the US this month.

MORE DRIFTERS: Four men and a woman left Lima, in Peru, early m December, on a balsa raft hoping to drift to the South Pacific Islands.

It is the third expedition of its kind to leave Peru. Each party used the Humboldt Pofyn«ia'° V ° ' is,ands of Thor Heyerdahl led the first on the balsa raft kon tiki. The second carried William Willis, with his cat and parrot, to the islands aboard his raft s| ete hermanitas The KON TIKI reached French Oceania, and Willis got as far west as Pago Pago.

The adventurers now at sea are Eduardo Ingris, 45, head of the expedition, a naturalised Peruvian; Mirko Guerecky, 29, a Czech radio operator; Andy Rost, 27, a Dutch seaman,- Joaquin Guerrero, an Argentine sportsman and Natalia Mazuellos, 29. after a s g ac S re3 S Tnca flowed CAN,UTA Ha hopes to reach Polynesia in aboo. 80 days. He will then make for Australia to set up business. tl The remains nf thp Rpv aik ot .<- L t remail ? s °J. t j ie . Rev - Albert MacLaren, who died in Papua in 1891, were taken back to the Territory in November and reinterred near Dogura. He was the first Anglican missionary in Papua and died from Malaria a few months after his arrival. He wa s originally buried at Cooktown, Oiippnsland wueensiana. r p p* Rnhprtc an iHminis - *. r ' Jr' • K ' ODe ' rts > Admimstrative Officer on transfer from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and Mr. G. F. C. Dennis, of the Lands Department, BSIP, returned to Honiara Irom leave, on October 10 - Mr. Roberts has been posted as District Commissioner, Central Solomons. 111 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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“IBEX” BRAND. [?]edication of New Mormon Chapel DEDICATION service for the L new Mormon chapel at Rarotonga, was held on ivember 25. rhe chapel was completed in rly November. It is neat and jdern and is designed to withmd earthquake tremors. Acoustic ling tiles prevent voices from rerberating. Louvre type windows ve been installed. \ five-roomed mission home, comite with garage and hot and cold ter, was built under Charles M. na in 60 days. All joinery for ; chapel and mission home was ide on the spot. mder Dana constructed 13 ipels and buildings for the irmon Mission on three of the moan Islands. He plans to ve the Cook Group before the nmencement of the hurricane son. [?]ter to the Editor [?]nd and Parliamentary Reform in Tonga READ with interest your article in September PIM—“A European and a Tongan Speak Thenids.” Further to this article, I ild like to tell you something of Tongan Democratic Party and views regarding racial discrimfcion. . , here is no need for racial disnination in Tonga, or anywhere . All the people of my country uld work together for the good he Kingdom. The great potencies of a nation are all the people ig under its flag. Discrimination racial grounds is a sign of poor iership, decay and a feeling of iriority. 7e of the Democratic Party in iga do not want to abolish the igan nobility. What we do want or the nobles to subdivide their i and hereditary estates so that more equitable distribution of i can be made amongst the preb landless ones. If any trouble s start in Tonga, it will come n these people who have no land, usands of people living on nobles’ i at present cannot register their tment because it has not yet i subdivided.

Te want, too, a democratic form government for Tonga, taking best from the British and erican forms of legislature, t present, the Tonga Parliament s out of date as a Model-T Ford, consists of 7 Government Mint's (6 Tongan nobles and one opean); 7 representatives of the les; and 7 representatives of the pie. The 13 nobles naturally can outvote the people’s representatives every time. The speaker is also a noble.

Tonga should have, like Britain and the British Dominions, two Houses in its Parliament—a House of Nobles, and a House of Commons or representatives of the people, with a premier who is also elected by the people every three or four years.

I am, etc., LELOMA MATAELE.

P.O. Box 3, Nukualofa, Tonga. fl Mr. R. Yates, Assistant Superintendent, Police and Prisons, BSIP, left Honiara on October 11 for leave in England.

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Already the Colony’s exports of 54,500 francs per head of population is the highest in the French Empire. 113 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Get the family economy size and save 1/8 Tl 9 Ever-Rising Costs Worr P-NG Producers Disregarding the bo* caused in Papua and M Guinea by lavish grants from Australian Commonwealth, oo contributor, “Daika Tau” (an planter and trader) makes pessimistic survey of pri m as production conditions in the P-I- Territory.

Can anyone really honestly any long-term profitable future Papua-New Guinea?

Of late years, the country has 1 come the parade-ground of partof perigrinating politicians; but 1 things which mostly come of sir; visits are new flocks of absurditi in the daily press—such as the 11 lot about floggings, blackbirding ss rations to natives.

Judging by the numbers of flsJ young native hooligans about t town areas, there is something ; the saying that to spare the rocb to spoil the child. It is far and aw better to give a youth a cut witH cane—which is all that “flogging” —than to gaol him in close contd with adult criminals where he o learn the higher arts of crime.

The charge of “blackbirding” iss ridiculous that the serious sides apt to be overlooked.

Employers are competing wv each other for labour and are offll ing conditions which often me that very little drop in the promargin would prove uneconomics: All the recruiter does is to g£ the native the opportunity to ts. advantage of these conditions, 'll native is not bound to go to as place: he can stay in his villas or do as he pleases. He need n stay at his place of employment!

But the employer is bound strict laws to provide him wv rations, and other articles, even j the extent of being fined for n supplying them when not availar in the area. Inspectors come rouL regularly and inspect each natf and investigate each individvi complaint, no matter how trivialL If any “exploitation” is going » it is exploitation of the employ and very definitely, not of ti native.

The ration scale is laid down law and I have yet to see a nat:f suffering from starvation whir working for a European. Tbl usually fatten up, after the pern spent in the village.

The difference between villa natives and those just paid off frm work is very noticeable. No od would starve a native and exptc him to work. The news would sod get around and that employer wout get no more labour. 114 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHU

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McILRATH'S PTY. LTD. 202 Pitt St., Sydney, Australia Cable Address “Rotunda”, Sydney. rHE public service has grown so large so rapidly that it looks like snowballing to the eventual nancial bankruptcy of the country. urely a halt must be called soon nd l reoreanisation ° f consolldatlon rr.lt n f hvfnp- has risen so much no f oni Quarrelled w?th toe ablic Service’s orilnisld aonlitibiic service s wen 01 ganisea appn to| h amumenfs U fo? tooAer 5t follow the arguments lor snorter AlT'that can be done here with nrp Iciturp fs to absorb mor? of iat fluid which the medical pvid d aid Ts neceiarv to ife in a f/ „ i,® tv, £ut w P hat a rotten Dlace d if fs It takL ales to get an answer om a Government Department )wadays; and it would be worse shorter hours were worked. When ade unionism was started in Ausaha years ago “a fair day’s work r a fair day’s pay” was a slogan; it it appears to have been disrded now. Government employees iving for private enterprise rule t a lot of the shorter-hours argu- ?nt itjtt u, x, IHB bulldozmg-through of the new import duties shows what the Administration can do when its mind is made up. It is so different from the many promises about other matters which have passed the sound-barrier, into the Great Silence of official inertia.

There was certainly a great silence on the part of the official members of the 9 oun £ l when the Import Bill was l om f through—they resembled a m ob G f stunned robots. Many of them are clever and able men—who know w hat is required of a De- P ar tmental head. The disrespectful Dlggers had a saym g that “when a ™ an knew , m ° re and more ’ about J ess and less ’ until he even tually knew everything about nothing, he was promoted 1” There may be somethlDg m that - The higher import duties must hit the employers hardest. Natives’ wages have never been the greatest cost of production-it always has been the rationing, etc. To break down the cost of labour into its various individual items—recruiting, rationing, wages, etc.—and to compare them with pre-war, is an interesting study. It is also an interest- Jafou C r° mPariSOn Wlth European Any increase in production costs will tend to price Papua-New Guinea out of world markets. m HE desiccated coconut induct™ 1 killed so ent ? d shnw^thi! 7 ~ land its nrodiict in Austri?f/lbl™v than it can be C fl h f ea f h e factory here. It is doubtful if any factory will ever open here again.

The native co-operatives may: but no one apart from them would ever think of investing money in it The rubber industry is rather delicately poised and, although of immense importance in time of war, ha s no guarantee of stability. The * opra da ? try has two years to go to reach the same stage; and it is because toe ten-years MOF agreement gives stability to the industry momlnt' 8 S ° y3nt at the preSent There is nothino- define then on Who wants to h,,v nlantatio’n on such an & P I knn But what whl l hannen African product sets moving a^n Mrkan Tabour S c heaoer much 2nd Pliable efficient The ti^r industrv aDDears navabl costs are rising there.

It is amazing that, in view of two adverse reports by auditors on Administration accounting, and other 115 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— DECEMBER, 1955

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OME months ago a project was being discussed, which required ; considerable capital and would t become payable for several ars. [t appeared to be a good prosition; but it was not proceeded ih because of word from a group brokers in Australia. They ted: “In regard to long-term initment in P-NG, at the moment ► market is very dead. The high it of native labour and the inasing difficulty of getting sufent labour for large concerns is 11 known to us.

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DECEMBER 1 marked the beginning of a new native industry on the Papuan coast.

Natives from the Manu Manu area arrived in Port Moresby with a boatload of 400 lbs of smoked fish, caught and treated in the Galley Reach area.

The new industry is the result of lessons in mesh-fishing and in modern methods of smoking and preserving taught by two European officers of the Department of Fisheries.

Manu Manu was chosen as the area to start the smoked fish industry, as local natives own few coconut groves and depend on fish for money for village funds.

If successful, it could eventually bring about a long-awaited reduction in the price of fresh fish offered for sale by natives at their market area in Port Moresby.— Moresby Correspondent.

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After many years of suggestions and speculation, a practical start has been made with the planting of cocoa in Fiji Approximately 3,000 acres has been planted—three quarters of it by Fijian growers. oi£ quiries for material represent 2,600 acres and it is expected that the present acreage will be doubled within the next 12 months.

The fruiting of young cocoa at the Department of Agriculture stations is said to be encouraging The Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) said at the Legislative Council session in November that he looked forward to the day when the cocoa crop will make a major contribution to the Colony’s economy. 117 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1955

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A similar robbery occured at a shop opposite the Post Office several months ago and none of the stolen property has been recovered.

Property owners and shopkeepers are asking why more policemen are not seen on the streets at night.

They maintain that doing the rounds in a patrol car is not enough, and that a criminal has only to wait for the car to pass to know that he has ample time to carry out a speedy job with a brick wrapped in cloth, grab the loot, and disappear. t A 300-lb war-time Japanese mine floated into Rabaul (NG) harbour one Sunday in November and was found by natives. Experts who exploded it said it was an underwater magnetic type that had apparently broken from its sea-bed moorines.

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To improve the prospects disposing of the surplus outside; French Union, there are nu afoot in introduce a stri grading system in all French ; ducing areas. 118 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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The Navy and the Force on the "Joyita" Job An eyewitness account from Jack Thornton HAVE just returned to Suva from Malau —which, incidentally, is the first port on which the sun es in the British Commonwealth; i locals are very annoyed that this it has not previously been publed or broadcast in reports about i Joyita salvage. /[alau is the port for Labasa, ich is about 6 miles up-river and ; main township on Vanua Levu. :he port is about 150 miles from /a, and the Royal New Zealand Air *ce flew me there in a flying-boat :ing the salvage party from the vy frigate Hawea to the Joyita. official mission was to identify lies, if any were found, as I had viously served aboard the Joyita. tayed two days at Malau and I 5 the only scribe to remain on scene throughout the salvage rations; then I returned by flyboat with the naval divers, after y had finished making the Joyita sonably shipshape for the tow to ra.

Ve were delayed at Malau by i but I did not mind, for it gave a chance to board the Joyita m Australian reporters had reaed to Suva by land plane after ling so far to discover that the ss was not allowed aboard, cialdom eventually relaxed this ;, but not until the overseas rspaper men had departed. I rded quite legally, with a photopher and some local government hals. he ship smelled more than a bit, my ship would after being semimerged for days, possibly weeks. ■ main decking seemed sound erfoot, and I noticed that the age party had considered it sssary to patch up only a few .11 sections. A hose led down the "h just abaft the remains of the :elhouse, and I was told that the ip down below was pumping out iwater —the hull was still water- .t. r e did not stay aboard long, for flying-boat from Suva was ling above. As soon as it had hted nearby, our launch took us >ss the river to the glistening ir hull. Within ten minutes we : off, and immediately we were orne and the pilot’s buzzer had sed (signifying that we could ree our Mae Wests) two of the / rushed through our compartit aft, opened large bays on each of the tail fuselage and started ‘ing through binoculars, learnt that we were to search for Joyita survivors and wreckage for about 4 hours before returning to the flying-boat base at Laucala Bay, near Suva.

On upturned banana boxes the crew, wearing helmets enclosing earphones and mouthpieces plugged in to the intercom, sat peering through the ports. For the first time I realised what a tiring job an air search operation must be for the crews, and the great responsibility each member has. There can be no relaxing when lives are at stake, or when the sighting of a piece of floating wreckage might give a clue to the ship’s fate.

We were to search the Great Sea Reef which extends from Vanua Levu to the Yasawa Islands, where “Blue Lagoon” was filmed. Flying at about 1,000 ft. we followed the threading line of breakers and the wide multi-coloured causeway of reef.

Through the wide ports we had the rare experience of viewing some of the most magnificent reef in the Pacific. The colours were incredibly beautiful and occasionally we saw sharks and schools of big fish, 119 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Lets ratifying the change over m UK to Australian administran had previously been passed the two governments. !h\ H. J. Hull, an officer of the Pal Australian Navy, has been >ointed Official Representative of stralia to take charge of local ninistration. He left Australia, h an officer of the Department Territories, early in December, locos has been the home of the nies Ross family for over 100 rs, and Singapore has had its rsight. However, Qantas Empire tvays established a base on st Island (one of the half en that makes up the atoll) a pie of years ago when they igurated their Sydney-Johannes- ?. air service, and since then islands have been in process transfer to Australian adminition. The Qantas community is far the largest in the group, ustralia has, however, had Jr associations with Cocos that .further back than the air ice. It was here that HMAS ne V sank the German cruiser ien in World War I. 3 a consequence of the transfer ;he Cocos (Keeling) Islands to traha, the operation and ilopment of Overseas Telecomucations Services on Cocos imes the responsibility of the rseas Telecommunications Common (Australia). OTC (A) will lire the Cable Station at Cocos i Cable and Wireless Ltd. ) obtain first hand information local requirements, Mr. T. A sley, Assistant General Manager ie Overseas Telecommunications imission (Australia), arrived at )s by air in early December. >cqs Cable Station is situated Direction Island, seven miles i the air strip at West Island, is a 24 hour regenerator on. That is, its important non is to “boost” the strength of the signals passing through the two cables from Perth—one via Rodriguez, Mauritius and the Cape to the United Kingdom: and the other, via Djakarta to Singapore This Cable Station on its remote Indian Ocean atoll has played a dramatic part in’ both world wars. In World War I “Emden” put a landing party ashore to destroy the cables. But they cut the wrong ones and the cable station was able to transmit the vital message to Sydney which was able to sink the German cruiser.

War 11 the Japanese shelled the cable station at close range, and were led to believe that the equipment was completely destroyed. But the staff quickly restored communications, which played a vital part throughout the rest of the war.

The cable station, which occupies 40 acres of land, also possesses a small radio station as a supplement to the Cable service in cases of emergency, and for communication with cable ships and the handling of port and distress messages, in addition to limited public correspondence with ships. t The body of Petty Officer Lelei T. Tuitasi, who died in Hawaii recently, was shipped back to Eastern Samoa, and interred with full military honours at the family cemetery at Malaelio, Tutuila. t The p-NG Administrator denied on November 28 that there was any a g y dne y newspaper report tnat the newly-developed anti-TB drug, Verazide, would be tested first on New Guinea natives before being distributed to TB sufferers in Australia. He said that the Administration had never been approached on the matter and knew nothing whatever about it. t A mannequin parade was staged m Madang, New Guinea, in November, when local models displayed fashions from establishments m Port Moresby, Lae and Madang Money raised goes to the building fund for a Country Women’s Association restroom in Madang 121 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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US Doing Valuable Fish Survey Wo OVER the past two years United States Fish and WiloJ Service, as a part of its Par Ocean Fishery Investigations I ject, has been carrying out expi mental fishing and fish-taggingj the Northern Line Islands areas Latest visit to the area made in October by the resess vessel John R. Manning, which addition to fishing the waters ro Fanning, Washington, Christa and Palmyra, carried out mr tenance work on a permau automatic sea temperature recoc which was established on Christt; Island some time ago.

It is known that the migras habits of tuna and other fishi coupled with seasonal variations sea temperature at various deH‘ and the seasonal perambulation! certain well defined ocean currr like the counter-equatorial cun which flows in a rather na:i stream eastward through particular area. The fish tenti follow these food-bearing stre and especially the regions wv opposing currents meet.

On the present voyage, as others, regular sea water tempj tures at various depths recorded, and the results correl: with sights of shoals of fishd flocks of birds which follow Shoals. Most of the fish car are tagged and released again the hope that at a later date will again be caught and indicate their movements.

More than 900 yellowfin have now been tagged in the Is. area. The latest F & Report says that “it is anticipj that recapture, either by Han based vessels in the Ceis Pacific, by Japanese fisherman the equatorial western Pacifioj by the California tuna fleet im eastern Pacific, may reveal imp ant information on the migrar and growth of this commercr valuable species.”

Experiments with various fisj equipments have also been ur way in an effort to do mechanical means of handling type of long-line equipment which the Japanese have so n success. The Japanese meh call for considerable manp which would be quite unecom at American wage rates. F has made some hopeful hear on this problem. Ultimately \ work should be of consides value in the establishment off fisheries in the South P c Territories. t It is estimated that deposit; phosphate on Nauru will bei hausted in 70 years; those on O Island in about 35 years; and on Christmas Island (Indian Oo< in between 40 and 50 years. 122 DECEMBER, 1955-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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anton Island [?]ow Barren Atoll [?]ecame Big [?]irways Station L THOUGH Canton Island, in [ the Central Pacific, is an Anglo- [ American Condominium, it would pear from a brochure just issued the Pacific Science Board of ishington, DC, that most of the rk of improvement and developnt there is being done by the lericans. ’he brochure, called an Atoll Kerch Bulletin, is entitled Canton ind, South Pacific, by Otto jener and Edwin Gillaspy. The ;er were given the task (by the erican Civil Aeronautics Admination, of Honolulu) of introducto Canton Island a variety of nts which would take hold of the ‘ting sands of that almost barren )ical atoll, so as to prevent wind >ion, encourage afforestation and ice the almost unendurable glare, arge numbers of trans-Pacific sellers have seen Canton Island is now the well-equipped fuel- -place on the equator, between and Hawaii, for the air-liners hree large aviation companies— all will agree that it is a ;ularly uninviting sandbank, ch could be much improved by station. Otto Degener, of Hono- , is well known to Pacific nds people as an economic mist. tie brochure shows that there been careful research over ral years by botanists on Canand indicates that there are ly plants which might be imatised and established on dry atoll—if the swarming ait-crabs will permit. There are ions of the crabs there and they anything, animal or vegetable, sh comes along, either by ffh or as flotsam. will be remembered that in the Dhirties, when the possibility of ■ans-Pacific air services was first , there was a lively contest bem Britain and United States the ownership of Canton and mbury atolls (two of the mix Group) midway between Dlulu and Fij, and apparently ible as air-stations. Canton got erence, because it has an exive lagoon, and it seemed then flyingboats might be more immt than land-planes, itil then the scattered equatorial s of the Central Pacific had regarded as of no economic 5. There was a period when Lo-hunters occupied them; and her period when one or two mnies planted them up with auts. But after World War I no one wanted them—until the possibilities of the Air Age were seen by men of vision.

At different times, from 1800 onwards, the flags of both United States and Britain had been raised on the various atolls by whalers, guano gatherers, copra merchants,’ etc., and bored clerks somewhere in the respective capitals had made records in the archives. No one bothered to point out that these claims were in conflict. The maps, for 50 years, had shown the Phoenix Islands (of which Canton was nominally a part) as British.

BUT when the argument started, in the mid "Thirties, both USA and UK disclosed a good claim to Canton atoll; and both rushed landing-parties to the island to erect hags and construct concrete “Stay Out” signs.

While the Chancelleries exchanged snarling notes, and the landingparties officially made faces at each other, the two groups unofficially settled down together in amity, fished and exchanged cold beer and reading material, and made the most of a lazy sojourn on the barren sand-bank.

Finally, after three years of international spitting (May, 1936-April, 1939) the situation was resolved by the creation of a Condominium: both nations accepted joint ownership. And thus it has been ever S * nce - (Next Page) 123 ' I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER 1955

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Southern Pacific Insurance Co., Ltd. r giving the matter some ght, our advertising man 1 this peculiar bird as being *al of the sort of thing Taits d NOT supply. He said it was quite impossible to illustrate everything they CAN supply.

This is hardly surprising—after all, they have been dealing with the Pacific Islands since 1890.

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SINCE 1952, the Ist Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, has become one of the most decorated British units fighting in Malaya.

There is nothing astonishing in this fact to people who know the details, published and otherwise, of the Fijians’ record in the Solomons campaign of the Pacific War, but a question which some people are asking to-day is why so little scope is provided in Fiji for the brilliant qualities shown by Fijian servicemen in active operations in wartime.

On many occasions in the last three years the citations attached to high military decorations have gone outside the usual terse, formal wording to underline examples of courage, self-sacrifice, quick-thinking resource, fine discipline, and outstanding, aggressive leadership among Fijian officers, NCO’s and men in the nerve-racking jungle war.

The latest awards included the Military Cross to Lieutenant Livai Labaleta and the Military Medal to Corporal Alipate Cakau. (On November 5, not long after the announcement of his decoration, Corporal Cakau led a section of A Company which killed two “wanted” committee members of the Communist terrorist organisation in the Yong Peng district of Johore).

ANOTHER aspect of the Fijians’ mission in Malaya was stressed by the Auckland Star, New Zealand, on November 17.

The occasion was the arrival at Auckland of Private Alivereti Rabuka, of Nadi, who was being invalided home after being desperately wounded in a jungle foray. Rabuka had lost his left arm, had two bullet wounds in his chest, was suffering from serious internal juries, and was paralysed from waist down.

After quoting tributes to young Fijian’s courage and detf mination in “refusing to die,” newspaper said: “At Auckland, those who know him, the wv ‘courage’ will always bring memoic of the smiling Rabuka.”

The problem of giving scopes civilian life for at least some e the qualities invariably shown Fijians in emergencies is likelyv be complex, but there are so people who believe that somethr: Murray-Carr Wedding Mr. Peter Murray and Miss M. Carr were married at the LMS Church, Port Moresby, on November 12. Our photograph is by Papuan Prints. 126 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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F ever a people was in need of ■courageous and resourceful future leaders it is the Fijians to-day. >tential leaders possessing these lalities are clearly there, but in esent conditions they have little lance to exercise influence and js chance to express their views i matters of the gravest concern to eir race. [n short, the situation seems made order for the purveyors of crackt Communistic ideas of various ids, and among a less docile ople theories of fanatical nationali would have taken root long ago. \n overhaul that does not involve y revolutionary break with idition will, it seems, have to be jived before long. The fatuous ;a, voiced some time ago, that iians back from Malaya should [ard taxi-driving and hotel-wait- ; as “progress” hardly seems to fit ! record in Malaya.

ET another story of remarkable devotion to duty was told when Lance-Corporal Somaki Seru reyed the insignia of the British ipire Medal from the Governor r Ronald Garvey) in the Legiswe Council Chamber, at Suva, in member. rance-corporal Somaki, the citai stated, although a medical erly. had gone out on patrols I had killed five terrorists. While patrol was encamped at night, ree fell and pinned several men, aaki among them. Although he I a fractured leg, with the bone truding through the skin, he ivied from man to man dressing ir injuries and giving morphia. i men died, and only after he satisfied that all the survivors 1 been eased, did Somaki accept •phia for himself, fter presenting the medal, the r ernor spoke quietly to the lier. Only one word could be rd by others —“bravery.” s Lance-corporal Somaki Seru, in every point a splendid nmen of a warrior race, went £ to his place, the spectators in crowded Chamber broke into onged applause. There were few were not visibly moved by this itration of self-sacrificing heror. John Cumston, Australian sul in New Caledonia, was the >t speaker at the November lering of the Sydney Pacific ids Society. “Conditions in New idonia” was the subject of his , which was illustrated with ured slides. The December meeton December 9 will take the i of the annual cocktail party.

New Magazine for Dutch N. Guinea PIM recently received copies of an attractive “family” magazine, the Triton, printed in Holland especially for residents of Dutch New Guinea.

The magazine is printed in Dutch and Malay and although it is educational in character, it contains something of interest to all members of a family.

Our Dutch is not of the order that permits us to understand who distributes the magazine, or why. But we suspect that it is Governmentsponsored.

It is a finished production, with lavish picture coverage and with the format and style of a metropolitan magazine—much superior to anything that comes out of the other South Pacific islands. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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)ROVINCIAL balances in the Fijian Development Fund on September 30 totalled £548,310, jording to a statement by the iian Development Fund Board on vember 30. ✓opra levies in August-September ailed £44,721 (of which Cakau- >ve contributed £11,590 and Lau ,484) and withdrawals from the id in the two months amounted £28,013. ?he board’s balance-sheet for the r ended on July 31, 1955, showed r ear’s surplus of £2,126. ’he annual report states that to intain efficiency administration ts have not been reduced. Adlistration cost £7,649 in the year, tries accounting for £5,943. The f comprised a secretary, account- , travelling inspector, four Fijian ■ks, two machine operators, a lographer-typist and an office he report adds: “A large perfcage of the depositors are con- : to allow their cess to accumuuntil they possess a sum which be expended on something worth le. Nevertheless applications for idrawal are received daily, and :h time is occupied by the staff rviewing depositors who come to board’s offices from remote parts he Group. There is ample evid- * that depositors realise and reciate the purpose for which fund was created and seek adregarding applications for withval and information concerning amounts held on their behalf.”

JIANS produce between onehalf and two-thirds of Fiji’s output of copra. When the in Development Fund trust was blished in 1951, the then etary for Fijian Affairs (Ratu Lala Sukuna) said that the st was “to obtain for the Fijian nunity some lasting benefit out he high prices being paid for nodities and to ensure that the jrs of the fund provide thems with better houses, healthier brighter surroundings, and good sufficient water supplies before hing else.” e 1955 report states that the i has had prepared, under the '6 of Ratu Dr. J. A. R. Dovi, >, a plan for a type of house suitfor Fijian villages. The “Dovi, ’’ houses can be built in several s: (1) iron roof, thatched walls earth floor; (2) iron roof, ;hed walls and wooden floor; iron roof, wooden walls and en floor; (4) as at (3) but comwith kitchen.

These plans, states the report, are popular with depositors and many applications for the purchase of materials have been approved.

PS Institute on Job in P-NG THE Public Service Institute of Papua has issued its prospectus for 1956.

The Public Service Institute was established in the Territory last year and its building in Port Moresby was opened recently.

Through courses arranged by the Institute, officers of the P-NG Public Service may add to their personal qualifications, thus improving their status within the service, as well as providing them with cultural and professional interests.

The Institute will arrange tuition in specified University and Matriculation subjects; loan text and reference books and give students the expert guidance necessary for successful studies.

Few countries with the small European population of Papua-New Guinea can offer anything like these facilities to its Public Service.

IT Mr. R. Davies, Senior Assistant Secretary, WPHC, returned to Honiara, BSIP, after leave at end of September.

Nickel Needs Show Trends in Ex-Enemy Countries Prom Our Noumea Correspondent OOME interesting nickel figures O have recently been released at Noumea. The French metropolitan needs, in pure nickel, for 1954 were 7,000 tons; a year or two ago it was only 5,000 tons.

Germany’s nickel needs have nearly doubled—from 7,200 tons of pure nickel in 1953, to 13,000 tons in 1954.

Japan produced during 1954, 2,380 tons of pure nickel, and 2,500 tons ferro-nickel. The Japanese plan to place on their home market (and also the export market) during 1955 3,000 tons pure nickel, 2,600 tons ferro-nickel and 1,000 tons shot nickel (pellets of low grade nickel).

These figures explain the large exportations of nickel ore going to Japan from New Caledonia.

It is interesting to note that since 1935, the price of nickel has risen only 85 per cent., whereas most other metals have become proportionally dearer—copper 300 per cent., lead 250 per cent,, mercury 250 per cent., zinc 180 per cent, and tin 120 per cent.

Only gold and aluminium have remained comparatively stable. 129 ' IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-D E C E M B E R , 1955

Is There Really And Truly A Father Christmas

Jings! What a question to ask—of course there is! Do you know that if yot mother and father paid men to watch every chimney in the world they would nc see Father Christmas, because he is a sort of spirit, so no one sees him, but K does exist really and truly. Just as surely as your mother’s love, charity, angeh and all sorts of things that you really cannot see. The most real and lastin things in the world are those that you can’t see in the same sense that yr can actually see another little boy or girl. You might as well say yon dora believe in fairies. What would Peter Pan think of that? Coo, he’d cry so muti he would peter out (almost, any rate); so hopalong to bed on Christmas Ew after saying your prayers and in the morning you’ll find good Father Christine will have left you lots of the things you asked for—not all, ’cos there’s sun to be a shortage of something.

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N. Zealand Professor Sees Problems

And Dangers For W. Samoa

PROFESSOR K. B. Cumberland, who has been leading an Auckland University geographical and economic survey of Western Samoa, gave some opinions on the outlook for that Trust Territory on his return to Auckland in November.

Dr. Cumberland said that he had few misgivings regarding Western Samoa’s ability to accept early selfgovernment from a social and political point of view, but there are dangers from an economic viewpoint.

Heading these dangers, in Dr.

Cumberland’s view, is the possibility of Japanese economic penetration.

He noted that Japanese fishing fleets are already operating in Samoan waters and elsewhere in the South Pacific. He implied that, with self-government, the Samoans might fall to the temptation of attractive trade deals with Japan, which might give the Japanese a footing in the country.

Samoa’s biggest problem, as Dr.

Cumberland sees it, is the rapidly increasing population—which should double in 18 years. There is urgent need for increased food production to cope with it.

Health and education have been well looked after by New Zealand, but the country’s economy has been badly neglected, with far too small an allocation of funds towards agriculture. The country should have a good man in a much needed post of Director of Agriculture.

The country is capable of great expansion in food production, T in cropping and cattle grazing,, Cumberland says. To maintain sent standards the country will . have to steadily increase her exx crops—copra, cocoa, coffee, etc.,, introduce new crops, but not att expense of her food gro T ( potential.

Professor Cumberland said Western Samoa, like New Zeal has a problem of drift to the n centres, particularly to Apia—noj search of the bright lights, buj give children the advantage off better educational facilities offe there.

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[?]NOTHER [?]d. DIVIDEND AST year, after many years in i the wilderness, New Guinea f Goldfields Ltd. made a profit of 2,712, and paid a dividend of 3d. r share (about 6 per cent.) The iridend called for £55,904, and the Iference between profit and payt, some £23,000, came out of reaves, of which the Co. has plenty.

Ihe 4/3 shares of the Co., a year D, could be bought for less than ■, which made the return on an vestment, getting 3d per share ridend, approximately 12i per cent. ie PIM then suggested that the ares might be worth buying, in w of prospects. 3ut the shareholders, at the nual meeting on January 28, 1955, [ not think much of the dividend, i displayed considerable grumpi- ;s. They refused an increase in •ectors’ fees, and suggested selling i enterprise.

Fow the annual accounts have n closed after 9 months (so as make the accounting period end lually on June 30 instead of Sepiber 30); and despite the shorter iod, the Co. shows the best profit tas had in years—namely, £48,390. ; following figures are shown, to icate trends: he Directors recommend another dividend; and as this is on a onths period, anyone who bought res at 2/- will be getting a rei of about 15 per cent, per annum, respects seem reasonably good— ays provided that the Territories ninistration will graciously per- NGG Ltd. to get leases so as to ) on milling timber. It will be resting to hear what the sharelers have to say at the annual eci n g on December 15—and ther the sharemarket thinks better of the NGG shares. r. Raymond Hill will shortly e Sydney for the British Solomon tads where he will become an cultural officer. Mr. Hill rely returned from the United ?dom, where for the last four s he has been studying for his ee at Cambridge. He is Cams oldest graduate for 50 years 1 is 50. Mr. Hill was formerly irmv officer.

Australian Publicity for Wau Show ONE of the largest agricultural newspapers in Australia— The Land, of Sydney— had a special representative at the Agricutural Show at Wau, New Guiena, and farmers in Australia have subsequently been able to learn something about their counterparts in that part of the Territory.

Wau’s show was opened by the Administrator of P-NG, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, on October 30. Five special planes brought visitors from Port Moresby and Lae and there was a large range of exhibits ranging from coffee and vegetables to orchids.

In the same issue of The Land the enterprise of the two farming Hurrell brothers was described. Mi- Frank Hurrell supplies Wau with its daily bottled milk from his Jersey herd of 100. Vegetables grown by Mr. Lloyd Hurrell are delivered with his brother’s milk at a flat lOd per lb. Mr. Frank Hurrell was formerly an officer of the NSW Department of Agriculture on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. Mr Lloyd Hurrell was Assistant District Officer at Wau until a couple of years ago, when he left the service to take up farming and coffee planting. 131 ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1955

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Conducted by Ex ZK-1-AC/VR-2-AK lOUGH the Tokelaus have been assigned the ZM6 prefix, as applicable to Western Samoa, the islands are still considered »arate country from the DXCC scoring viewis is emphasised in a despatch from Les, VS, who reports a temporary lull in ZM6 ning activities, e situation now is tllows: ZM6AF (ex- AGR), ZM6AL, 6AR, and 6AI all plan sume activity early 956. GM6AT has very busy in his time working for film unit shooting ern of Islands", that should end d - December. Les, S, has just ac- I a National NC-93 er and should r on the air with w transmitter in ry. He also reports cresting visitor to some time ago in hape of Evelyn, *, of Long Beach, nia, well known n active Ham. her husband, H. ott, she was en to a Tahiti vaca- Returning, a while lent in Apia and was allocated temporary call , making about rerseas QSO's beeparting for New J via Fiji. The are now in Aus- Call-sign ZM6AB ie back into thebox.

Sparks Caldwell, KS6AB, still very busy, 0 appear again soon. In the attached 'an American Prints photographer caught ngside a 2 kw. transmitter which he has tailed at Tafuna Airport as part of the snt to serve the new PAA air link. (If hears a 2 kw. Ham signal they will rat its only really 1 kw.!) r items from Eric Trebilcock, BERS-195: <9RH, is now the sole Norfolk Island f R2AR, Eric Reynolds, of Lauthala Bay, pleased to know that he's putting a mc/s sig. into Victoria when schedding tier, ZL3RN in mid-mornings; or will jnd stations copied by Eric on 14 mc/s October included FKBAO, VK9RM, 9RH, KC6CG, KR6ZC, 6QW, 6QC, KG6AGC, 2CL. a correction to an earlier PIM item.

J-l-DL, ex-ZC3AB, is Dave Laing, not athew as stated. The latter is ZC3AC. cidentally, expresses the fervent wish 1 Wright will appear on the air from i the not too distant future. ssue we will have a photo of the new Radio Receiving Station out from This station, as earlier reported, is e control of veteran Ham W. J. Peell, with DX king ex-VK9GW, now VK2AVW, rther news as yet of Danny Weil and iming yacht "Yasme", now due in Oceania from Panama; or of the • Island, Line Group, situation. Only vs is that the Honolulu-Papeete air as not commenced. There is no inforis to whether work is yet proceeding istablishment of the Christmas Island cilities, etc., but a KP6 call could t any moment.

Cunnold, ZK-l-AB, o.i.c. Rarotonga nd the Cooks Rl, has completed his I returns to New Zealand with his family in November.

VK6WG, Mr. W. C. Gee, returned to Port Moresby late in November after vacation in England with Mrs. Gee.

Please address future communications for this column to J. P. Shortall, ZL-l-AIK, PO Box 5179 Wellesley Street, Auckland, NZ. t Scouts from Gilbert and Ellice islands, Fiji and Tonga will attend me Pan-Pacific Jamboree which begins in Melbourne, Vic., on December 28. t It is reported from Santo, New Hebrides, that Mr. Maurice Vedel Jo. described as a “commercial employee” was recently murdered in a shooting affray. No details are given. 133 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—D E C E M B E R , 1955

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P-Ng Oil Search

UK Firm Will Bu[?] Bridges in Papu [?] ONE of the largest building civil construction firms in United Kingdom, Gei£ Wimpey and Co. Ltd., has W given the job of constructing rco bridges and other enginees projects in the Gulf Papua.

The contract has been let d the Australasian P e t r o 1 ec Company.

Mr. W. S. Black, who recently Agent on the Singai Power Station, has been appofi Project Manager for the contract. Mr. Candlish, who be one of the Site Agents, already arrived in Papua, All technical and other lai is being recruited from Loir The Company has just compl the building of a modern H for the British Malayan PetroL Co. Ltd. and the construction a 27 in. pipe line for the Stat Shire Potteries Board.

Construction of roads in difficult Gulf country—it is lai swamp land —should speed up( search for oil in the rej; Whether the contract has significance in relation to discovery, or whether it is another step in systematic ; search in Papua, is anyr guess. The company’s pubL department has made the cr;* remark that it will probably good for “someone.”

One of the world’s leading fi§ in the oil industry, Lord Strat mond, said in Sydney, in Noera that his company had spc £20,000,000 in the search for oc Papua, but that nothing had! veloped in recent months to n his company any more confi than it was 20 years ago thsj would find oil there.

He described the proposed Is. scale road and engineering won “just another technique and no indication of any impending covery.”

Aramia Hole Abandon!!

Meanwhile the company made the announcement Aranda hole has been abano after “providing geological evioj of some importance.” Only s gas and oil indications encountered in the course, drilling and testing. tl Mr. C. G. Cox, new Commisa of Works, arrived in Honiara, I on October 10. Mr. Cox, who accompanied by Mrs. Cox, formerly an Executive Engines Nyasaland. 134 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Tafuna Airfield Facilities Completed [?]mething For [?]othing -NG Air Surcharge Removed from Mail >IGHT out-of-the-blue and with \t no fanfare at all, a reduction in a charge for an Administran service was announced in Port iresby in late November, lowever, it will not save the ferage person a great deal of money, although business concerns will benefit.

The reduction is in postage within the Territory. From December 1, the Department of Posts and Telegraphs abolished the air-mail surcharge of 3d per half-ounce on letter-class articles posted in the Territory for delivery within P-NG.

There is no change in the airmail rates on articles posted for delivery in Australia and overseas.

Briefly, letter-rate mail will in future go by sea or air for 3id.

Rabaul Has More Dog Troubles RABAUL’S dog problem is developing into a battle of wits.

It is not the ordinary run-ofthe-mill dog that is causing the problem—it’s the “cunning ones.”

Rabaul’s Supt. of Police, Supt. A.

Rackerman, told the Town Advisory Council on December 2 that some of the dogs were now taking refuge on private premises when they sighted the dog-patrol coming along.

Supt. Rackerman said all possible police action was being taken but it was becoming difficult to trap the “cunning” offenders.

The Council resolved to ask residents to exercise more control over their domestic animals. (Rabaul’s dog-patrol is quite unique. It consists of a bevy of native policemen plus some assistants who trundle a sort of wire cage on wheels. The posse is equipped with large contrivances like butterfly nets to make the job of dogcatching easier. Rabaul has a bigger stray-dog problem than most places.

Native labourers usually acquire a dog but when it comes time for them to return home, they find that the air companies refuse to carry the dogs, who are consequently unleashed on the town).

These fine new administrative buildings have been completed at Tafuna Airport American [?]noa. They include passengers waiting room, offices, baggage room, Customs room radio [?]nmunications office, and an aircraft nose hangar. A non-directional radio beacon has been [?]abhshed and an emergency electric power plant, though the buildings have been connected the town supply.—Pan American Prints Photo. 135

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KELAI'A plantation Highly Productive and Fertile Coconut and Cocoa Plantation Situated in the Well Known Madang District of New Guinea Area: App. 330 hectares (825 acres).

Location; App. 75 miles north of Madang, on seafront, and 18 miles south of Anchorage: Excellent south east anchorage for any large vessel, and loading can be carried out in any season.

Soil: Typical of the well-known and rich Madang Coast.

Coconuts: App. 33,000 fully bearing Coconut Palms.

Cocoa: App. 20,000 Cocoa Trees from seedlings to 3 years.

Buildings; Estate buildings have all been recently built, and are of Sawn Timber, Corr. Iron and Fibre construction, and all in excellent condition.

Plant: Motor Transport, Tool's, Lighting Plant and all necessary equipment are sufficient and ample for the efficient running of plantation, and this Estate is a going concern.

Native Labour: Approximately 50 Labourers are engaged on the Estate and will be transferred in the usual manner. All Labour engaged on “Kelaua” is recruited locally, and no recruiting expenses are incurred.

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Dettmann, Austin & Maclean, 28 Martin Place, Sydney. BW 5252, BW 9160. [?]AN-AM PLANE [?]PERATIONS [?]O E. SAMOA PAN-American plane from I Honolulu brought in 12 passeng- [ ers to Eastern Samoa and took ; 44 on November 11 and 12.

Newcomers included new Director Education Mr. Donald Rothschild I wife, X-ray Technician William ce with wife and child.

Jhief Customs Officer John imuina and Immigration Division id William Meredith flew up to lolulu for five weeks study with Items and Immigration author- -5 in Hawaii. ocal middle-weight champion uluai M. Peapeaalalo made his md trip to Hawaii to continue boxing career.

Is first visit was temporary as entered on a visa. He is now a quota list and will be free jox professionally.

[?]Otest Against

Ficial Policy Of:—

[?]ock the Producer RESOLUTION protesting against what was described as “the Administration’s official attitude irds taxing primary producers,” carried at the November meetof the Sepik District Advisory ncil, held in Wewak, NG. r. J. A. Corrigan, who moved resolution, referred to a recent ;ment by the P-NG Treasurer, H. Reeve, in the Legislative icil that primary producers Id contribute more to the Terriin money and not percentages, aey were the ones making big IS. •. Corrigan said that as there been no contradiction by the inistration, it must be assumed this was the official view of the inistration. told the Council that in view r. Reeve’s remarks, he could not t)w anyone in their right senses a try to settle on the land in erritory He said, “I very much t mat I have already invested plantation.” • Corrigan continued: “What Reeve was saying was that if ie who has the enterprise or apital, and the desire to settle ie land and invest his energies savings in the country, made y through striking favourable 5, then he deserved to have it i from him.” * resolution was passed unamin- J. D Logie, BSIP Auditor, Mrs. Logie, and Mr. J. B ley, Government Surveyor, left ira on leave in October

More Poliomyelitis Cases

In Suva Outbreak

BY late November, 16 poliomyelitis cases had been reported at Suva The victims included two European adults (one of whom died) The children included three Fijians' three part-Europeans, two Europeans and two Indians. f A Samoan, Moke Fuimono Ta’ala aged 29, of Sapoe, Falealili, was arrested in October in connection with the shooting of a Samoan police constable, Failelei Lavasi’i, on Sentember 27. 137 1F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Deaths Of Island

PEOPLE

Mr. Mautairi Fe

The first Pomare Medallist receive the coveted educatioo award there, Mr. Mautairi teacher of the Mangaia Genii School, died there recently.

Mautairi, who was a Mangaian literary bent, and could speak gj English, was about 43.

He was married and had sevr children. He belonged to a w/ known family at Tavaenga VillsJ members of which served in Wo' War I.

Mr. Aerepo Poking

The death of Aerepo Pokino, cl; of Tamarua Village at Mangs Cl, removed, on September 211 notable old-timer whose knowl© of ancient custom and geneaL made him a local oracle.

Aerepo was a member of a w known chiefly family. He between 70 and 80.

Aerepo Pokino distinguished Ir self during the currency of now-defunct Cl Natives Associai (a co-operative trading group) v encouragement and aid to then-derided project of an native trading enterprise. He im aged for a time the Tams branch, then directed by the Richard Steele Aubin, who fell!

Cassino during the struggle Rome.

Most of the influential people Mangaia are connected, eithen blood or marriage, with the Aer family. The clan owns large ai of land. Samuela Aerepo, son the late chief has inherited rank and title.

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Tuia Tera Ngamaru Ariki, Pi* 138 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH I

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ount Chieftainess of Atiu Island, Joks, died there on October 20. She id held the position of Ngamaru riki since her election in 1929, and id been ill for some time past, jr age at the time of her death is not stated.

The funeral was attended by most [the island’s population.

[ Mr. Joseph Bennett

Belatedly, the PIM is advised of 5 death in Cairns, NQ, some time o. of Mr. Joseph Bennett, who ictised as a solicitor in Port kresby, Papua, in the early 1920’5, en he left, to practise in Cairns, ere he remained until his death. )e,” to his many friends, was a st popular resident of Papua and s never too busy to join in a ivivial gathering, in Cairns, of rtime “Paps” Northbound or ithbound. —SHC.

MRS. M. J. POLAND Tie death occurred in Lae, New inea, on November 25, of Mrs. ry Jane Poland, wife of a welliwn Territorian, Mr. Leo Poland. 5 was 58.

'he Polands were pre-war resits of Wau, where they were rried in the early 30’s. During the lific war, Mrs. Poland was cuated to Sydney with other ritory women and there she conted a hostel for Chinese residents of the Territory who also had been evacuated.

Since the war, the Polands have been in business in Lae and Finschhafen.

Madame P. Miller

The death occurred in Papeete on November 19 of Madame Pierre Miller at the age of 56.

Madame Miller was affectionately known as Fateata, and she was the wife of the man who during World War I arrived in his schooner called Lutece, at Mopelia, at the time Von luckner had gone into the lagoon there to careen the Seeadler. Subsequently, Seeadler had been blown onto the reef and was destroyed.

Some of the crew commandeered 139 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Madame virginie pambrun The death occurred in Papeete on Member 13 of Madame Virginie jmbrun, nee Leuguerre. She was 75.

Bhe was the wife of the late [gene Pambrun, a member of one [Tahiti’s best-known families.

Bhe is survived by her four sons, lorge, druggist and Assistant iyor; Henri, Registrar; Aime, of 5 Government Printing Office; d Ernest, sculptor and artist, and 0 by numerous grandchildren.

Pastor R. H. Putty

>astor R. H. Putty, a pioneer of renth Day Adventist missionary 'k in the British Solomon Islands, d in Sydney on December 8, at 'astor Putty worked for 30 years 1 medical missionary in the BSIP 1 New Guinea. He retired in 1948. he number of Japanese proties confiscated in New Caledonia the outbreak of the Pacific war 58, with a total area of 3,724 tares and valued at £A12,000. 1 Government intends to hold je-quarters of this area for rant settlers or for enlarging ting native lands. :r. Silas Sitai, BEM, and the . L. Alafourai, of the Melanesian sion, BSIP, have been appointed esentatives of the Protectorate he 3rd South Pacific Conference e held in Suva, next year.

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P-NG Commuting By Helicopter PEOPLE in the Konedobu area of Port Moresby were given a peep Into the future on November 29 They saw the Assistant Director- General of Civil Aviation, Mr G S Wiggins, arrived at work 'bv helicopter. y Mr. Wiggins, who is on a tour of the Territory, is a former Air Force Group-Captain, but the local World as ijf rsr- *- . T^ e y. decided that rather than land him at the company’s heliport at Badilli, from where he would have to go by car to Konedobu, it would be easier to land him at the DCA Building right at Konedobu.

WWAS’s acting chief pilot, Frank Mm joy, set the helicopter down near the Administration officers; and while public servants stopped work and watched wide-eyed, IVfr got out, went into his office', and the helicopter took off again Mr. Wiggins was back helicopterflymg again the next day. He likes it.— Moresby Correspondent. t The Nave Appeal for the Suva Anglican Cathedral had reached £3,502 by October 15. 141 1 F I < ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1955

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II Dr, F. Hawking, DM, DI MRCP, of the National Institute i Medical Research and a member the Colonial Medical Research Co mittee, will visit Fiji from Decerm 31 to January 19 to discuss filarii control with members of the MedE Department.

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Photo: F. E. Dunn. 142 DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI!

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Tien District Commission lan ms visited the Okapa and lari River area recently, he re- ;ed that all deaths in the area b attributed to sorcery and are ned on an innocent and un- •ecting native, who is then ally murdered. Women and Iren are blamed frequently, ich killing is paid back in an nsive vendetta. cest is said to be rife, and there ; been several cases of sons killfathers in order to marry their tiers. le same area eats its own dead, le real cause of most of the hs is believed to be often iria. The tribe is in danger :termination unless the practices stopped. image of females under 12 is lent owing to the general shortof women. e Administration will seek cal and anthropological assistto deal with the problem. 143 1F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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I GLANCE back at the figures L quoted shows that the two com- I panics, together, have liquid nds approaching two millions, bilable immediately for the engagement and establishment of w industries in Fiji and adjoin- ; territories—always provided, of irse, that the Administrations conned assist in the developments itemplated. rhe Governments of both Fiji and tnoa, taking the long view, will impressed with the now rapid iwth of the local populations, it the present rate, Fiji will have f a million people (Indians and lans), and Samoa perhaps 170,000, hin 20 years. Something of a itive character must be done to vide these growing communities n means not only of subsistence, of a higher standard of life, he large resources of the Carter-Morris Hedstrom alliance 7 be the means of assisting the nimstrations to deal with the bl J m - Despite all the rubbish £d by Socialist planners since war, there is no better way of kly and efficiently developing the iurces of a country than by the juragement of private enterprise, part from the project for the ding of a large modern hotel in a— now under way—Morris strom Ltd. have been facing a e building programme for the wal of many buildings owned by aselves and subsidiaries the rman (Mr. H. E. Snell) at the aal meeting last May, said that this might involve expenditure of upwards of a million pounds.

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As the tourist industry, of much importance to Fiji, is partially strangled by the lack of hotel accommodation in Suva, the new Carpenter-Hedstrom alliance may take another—and less pessimisticlook at the South Seas Hotel plans.

The IVOI directorate has been trying to keep the expenditure within £250,000 by limiting the bedrooms to 36, plus modern public rooms and lavish equipment. It is likely that attempts now will be made to induce the alliance at least to increase the number of bedrooms.

IT was emphasised in a circular issued by Morris Hedstrom directors to their staffs that the proposed deal in shares would not affect staffs, in numbers or salaries For example, the Morris Hedstrom Pension Fund, liberally subsidised t ? e os°* for 28 y ears - now has about 3b6 members, a considerable group of pensioners, and accumulated funds of nearly £400,000, earning £15,000 per annum. This will not be disturbed.

There almost certainly will be a rearrangement of the Companies' directorates in Suva, when the share-purchase becomes effective It is, however, understood that Mr!

H. E. Snell, head of the MH organisation since Sir Maynard Hedstrom died, will remain on the principal 145 ' IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955 The Carpenter-Hedstrom Alliance (Continued from Page 15)

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In this case, plenty of c petition will remain. Burns F (South Sea) Co. Ltd. and W 1 Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., e pete actively with each othen all fields. Also, the Indian Chinese trading concerns are gi ing constantly in size and stren and will give the big European stt all the retailing competition Colony needs.

The Colony should benefit 1 more efficient organisation of duction and transport, while 1c nothing through restriction on tn THIS proposed alliance was on the best-kept secrets of South Pacific commercial w in 1954-55.

It actually had taken its 146 DECEMBER. 1055 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT*

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Sfet none outside a very small oup had suspected it —not even len Carpenters, in September, 1955, )k the public steps necessary to srease their nominal capital from 000,000 to £2,500,000 Australian, iy alert South Pacific financier ght have smelled something infesting there, and got into the >ck Exchange for “a win.” After [only five years had passed since rpenters took formal steps to subntially reduce their capital, me announcement of the rpenter offer to MH came on member 21 as a complete surprise.

' Friday, MH shares were quoted the Sydney Exchange at 57/-; news was released during the ik-end; and on Monday morning shares had rocketed to around lorris Hedstrom shares are held between 900 and 1,000 people, stly in Australia and New Zea- -1 The move has doubled the le of their holdings of MH Ord- :ies. On November 17, 500 MH inaries were worth about £1,400 tralian; on November 21, their le was at least £2,500. here is no indication of how will finance the purchase he 400,000 or so MH Ordinaries 3h they propose to buy. Under plan, they will issue another ),000 5/- shares at par to the lors, and also pay out about ,000 Australian in cash. As their balance-sheet shows, they can the whole amount out of their ent liquid resources. But they elect to raise a further sum ash by offering a further lot of 5 - Ordinaries to the public, is obviously a matter for the •enter Directors—who do not much.

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Presidential approval was jiven on November 25 for South 3 acific Airlines to operate, for years, a service between Honoand Papeete, Tahiti, by way of stmas Island. is appears to be just confirmaof an earlier approval given company’s proposed operations le US Civil Aeronautics Board, ere are no indications when service—which has been in the ling stage for several years -will actually begin. 3s P. Rowe and Miss H. age, who between them have ars’ service with the Anglican on in Fiji, will soon leave the iy permanently. 147 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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22 Years Have Seen Chang NATIVES of the Menyamya s of New Guinea, on November gave Mr. J. K. McCarthy vastly different reception to the i he received at their hands w he last visted the district in 192 Twenty-two years ago, Mr.

Carthy (now Acting Directors Native Affairs) was welcomed W volley of arrows —two of which! him and subsequently put him of action —when he led the patrol into Menyamye.

Last week, during an official! spection tour of the Morobe Sepik districts, he was greeteo Menyamya as a long-lost frierr Mr. McCarthy said a few of: natives recognised him as the white man they had seen, but. denied that they were the ones had attacked the patrol he They were all many miles awa;j the time —or so they said, he ad: Mr. McCarthy said the only ference he noted in the natives i that now they carried steel ku and axes, bought at trade sti whereas formerly their wea;j were made of stone.

Nothing else had change Moresby Correspondent.

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New Hotel at Boroko, Port Moresby ; NEW, licensed hotel, with a sub- L stantial number of modern bedrooms, is to be opened next with at Boroko, four miles east Port Moresby, between the town d the airport. It is owned by a :al company which was organised Mr. S. Fox; and it is expected assist materially in meeting the wtage of accommodation for wellers. 3 ort Moresby now has two hotels otel Papua and Moresby Hotel) a— as in so many other important itres since the war—it is seldom it there is enough accommodation take care of the ever-increasing wber of travellers. 149 ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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French Empire On

DISPLAY

At Sydney Show

ILfEW CALEDONIA will have a Ll stand of its own at the French Exposition which will be held in onnection with the Royal Sydney Show, at Easter, 1956.

The NC Assembly allotted £5,600 or the construction of a stand and n engineer of the local Departlent of Works has visited Sydney ? consult with members of the Dmmittee.

Tahiti and other French colonies ill participate but it is thought lat New Caledonia alone will have n individual stand.

The French purpose is to show lat France is still in the forefront ‘ scientific discovery and technical ihieyement—and not a decadent denial power as some people are dined to think.

Coffee Expert to Visit N. Guinea THREE weeks visit to Papua- L New Guinea by world-famous coffee expert Mr. Y. Baron )to, is being sponsored by Mr.

A. Colyer, of Colyer Watson G) Ltd., by the Bank of New uth Wales and by Mr. Robert inting.

Mr. Goto is Director of Agriculral Extension, University of Hawaii, d has for many years been in arge of the Kona Coffee Experintal Station in Hawaii, which is isidered one of the leading re- Tch stations in the world.

During his visit to NG, which will nmence at the end of January, will be accompanied by Mr. Jim my, of Goroka. [?]onations to NG Women's Club ONATIONS received from friends of the New Guinea Women’s Club.

Sydney, for their children’s Christparty were as follows to midsmber: Bellhouse £llO Perriman 5 5 0 Innes 200 Dockrill 100 Bennie ...... 1 1 0 Duncan 200 Hopkins jo o »• (Tony) Edgell .... 330 is Philp & Co q q o Northam 110 Wauchope . . 110 P T ar « r 110 . J. Duncan 2 2 0 H. Downing 1 10 0 D. M. Cleland .... 110 I. Carpenter & Co. . . . 3 3 0 rt Gillespie 5 5 0 Guinea Company 5 5 0 ■ )TAL £4O 12 0 Cruising Yacht on Papeete Reef THE converted life-boat Happy Return (see photo page 53 November PIM) went up on the reef two miles off Papeete Pass at 8 pm on December 3. She had been on her way to Auckland, NZ. No other details are available.

Skipper Tom Ackland’s ultimate destination was Hokitika, NZ, which he hoped to reach this month. Ship was reported Cristobal August 7 Balboa, August 24 and Papeete October 8. Reports from Papeete in November indicated that she was experiencing some crew trouble Will Write About Pacific History DR. JOHN CUMPSTON, popular Australian Consul in Noumea, New Caledonia, has been on several weeks leave in Australia.

Most of his time while on holiday has been occupied with research mto the movements of early shipping that visited Australia. He is engaged in writing a book of Pacific history.

During his absence from Noumea, the Consular fort has been held capably by his secretary, Miss Olive Douglas. 151 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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And Still They Go

J. R. Rigby Retires from New Guine ANOTHER old-time New Guin District Services official has dfc embarked from the Papua-NP Guinea ship of state, which see£ a bit strange in these days of pi( nounced shortages of experience personnel.

This time it is J. R. (“Reg Rigby who, in late years, has be' Rabaul Magistrate and, previous; during the post-war II period, I at Lae and Wewak. His 30 yes service was an uninterrupted rece; of straight-shooting, without fean favour in the carrying out of duty.

He was an original Anzac and hr a commission when Australia w her nationhood at Gallipoli.

Mrs. Rigby, who has always b« a great worker for deserving caui in the Territory, saw service in E£ land during War I. They will be be missed by the host of frie.s they leave behind in every distal of NG. They are retiring to tn roses and prune fruit trees on rural property in Victorisi GORDON THOMAS.

Papua:Into

Line Again

Papuan Clubs to Be Licence WITH apologies to Mr. E.

James, MLC for Papuan Ms land, who hates the phn we have to report that Papua again “come into line with I Guinea.”

This time it is in the matter clubs. Previously, only in I Guinea had clubs to be licenced, , from some date yet to be specitJ all clubs in Papua will also havr be licenced and pay licence fees. 7 will mean more paper-work someone, because acceptable accon ing and auditing systems willl demanded and returns will havi\ be made to the Licencing Comiu sioner at regular intervals.

In future, too, all licence feesa hotels, clubs, stores, etc., will! calculated on the amount of I chases of liquor—not on a fixed as previously.

Two more polio cases —a European man at Suva and i Indian man at Nadi—were repoo at the end of November, brin.r the total number of cases notf to 16. 152 DECEMBER, 1 955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Shipping Co.'s Interest in BSIP REPRESENTATIVES of the Hongkong-West Pacific Shipping Line, Messrs. F. Hollerstrom nd I. Johnson and Captain P. alja, visited Honiara, BSIP, in [ovember in connection with the iture movements of the Line’s fessels.

The company’s vessel Citos and ros are now making regular calls t Honiara, permitting Solomons argo from the UK to be translipped direct to the BSIP.

Well-Known Territorians Marry in Port Moresby WO well known old Papuan . families were united on December 3, in Port Moresby, when rs. May Ross, widow of Mr. juglas Ross, was married to the >n. E. A. James, MLC, of Port oresby. The late Mr. Ross was a plantation manager, and died tne years ago; their daughter now Mrs. Ivan Champion. There were least three Ross brothers prominent in Territories affairs— Mr Alastair Ross, Government Storekeeper for many years, was one of them. Mr. James is one of the leaders of the non-official community of Papua and New Guinea His first wife died in 1954. tf Mr. George Christie has returned from one of his many jaunts to Scotland, and is again a resident of Brisbane. He looks fit and well after a wonderful summer in the “Auld Country.” For many years he lived in Papua, engaged in mining. 153 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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Another Jap Ship Wrecke[?]

(From Our Own Correspondent) WRECKS of Japanese flshim vessels are beginning to decora! a lot of Pacific reefs.

The Yuyo Maru piled up oo Erderbury Island reef on October 2 and later broke in two.

Nasamitu Nogriti, master of tH vessel, was proceeding on a north easterly course and had figured li was past Enderbury Island am made a change to the northwes which resulted in his wrecking th ship on the island. Radio calls fo' help brought two sister ships tti following morning, but their aj tempts to free the ship only helps break her up.

The crew were removed with n casualties or injuries and we:; brought to Pago Pago on OctobK 27. The ship was 53 feet in lengt: with a 13-ft beam and 4-foot drat She first came to Pago Pago Jui 17, 1955, with a crew of 20 men..

A Japanese Fisheries Trainin vessel, the Fuji Maru, arrived Pago Pago on October 24, havir cleared from Shimizu, Japan, o October 1. The ship’s crew of men are being trained for dutii as fishing masters and sea captai:i of future fishing vessels. They s wore cadet type caps and w© obviously a high type of Japan© youth.

The ship was extremely nes: painted white with a 104.10 lengt beam 20.8 and draft 10.4, gro tonnage 191.44 and net 112.55 tor Captain Takeshi Tukagoshi, aged : commanded the ship, which cb parted October 28.

U Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Isom and MI Isom, of the Melanesian Missioj BSIP. returned there on October 154 DECEMBER, 18 5 5 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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VI-STTM costs little, aty} the VI-Stim“ Restores llwind wd Vitality [?]overnor Sees Bright [?]ture or N. Cal. Minerals From Our Noumea Correspondent IHE new session of the New I Caledonian Assembly was opened in November, h his opening address, the Govlor of the Colony, M. Rene ffherr, stressed the bright future it was apparent for New ledonia’s minerals. le said that the nickel smelters re breaking new records and that ian was buying increasing ounts of nickel ore. Chrome had erged from its recent doldrums; ckpiles at the mines were being posed of and new orders were ning in. ?he Governor spoke also of the stralian BHP’s contract to take ,000 tons of iron ore per annum. said that having recently incted BHP installations at Port nbla he could appreciate how the stralian market would stimulate iduction in New Caledonia. m Administration boarding-school native girls opened in Rabaul, , in late November. 155 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER, 1955

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NZ Interest in New Caledonia Minerals iFrom Our Noumea Correspondent TEW CALEDONIA’S mineral I riches are attracting inter- [ national interest.

After Falconbridge (Canada) had ited its intention to mine various [tals here after receiving perssion from the French Governsnt, New Zealand is also showing ■ interest in her neighbour.

Jn a recent visit here was a group New Zealanders led by Mr, tchell, of British and American stiles. Others in this group were : mining contractor and an pneering contractor.

Phis group’s visit was in order to et Edward Griffiths, the “iron” n of New Caledonia, and to inct his holdings. ?he mineral potentialities of the mtry they found to be most imssive, especially the iron deposits the Plain of the Lakes and at ro where, before the war, a irerful Japanese company mined i ore. he group has now returned to v Zealand to explore and study question of operating in New edonia. ; is thought that every facility be given the group by the NC ernment if a decision to mine b is decided on. ust what metal the New landers would mine is not nitely known. They are insted in iron and also in chrome, jcially chrome sands (chromite), is thought that the group would whatever ore is mined to who- ■ would offer the best price. It ; not seem likely that iron ore ny quantity could enter into the economy at the present time, as Australian BHP is interested New Caledonian iron, having ;racted for some 160 thousand per year, the next best customer the New Zealand miners would i to be Japan. This country aking large quantities of New donian nickel ore (3.50 per .) and is also known to be in- 5ted in chrome ore. ineral development of any sort only be to the good of New donia and any large developt of the iron deposits is to be omed. The quantities existin'? almost everlasting and it will another string to New donia’s economic bow. ’. John Pimcetich, who is deputy :tor of public relations for the •on Navigation- Company, of nca, has been making an exve tour of the South Pacific, calls at Tahiti, Fiji, Australia New Zealand. The visit is con- !d with preparations for the re- T of the Matson ships to the luled trans-Pacific services.

Hain-Holt Weddina MISS JEAN HOLT, a member of the staff of the BSIP Legal Department, was married recently in Honiara, to Mr. Kevin Hain, of the Honiara branch of the Commonwealth Bank.

A / ter the ceremony at All Saints’, performed by the Venerable Archdea,c.on H - v - C. Reynolds, a re- Patton W “ held at the RoVe - TT ' Lj l orre £ tlal ram ? ort Moresb y in the 157 1F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY DECEMBER. 1955

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WANTED Contact correspondents, philatelists, hobbyists and Pen Friends throughout the Pacific. Island representatives wanted. Members in almost every country of the world. Write for specimen copy Club journal “Island Life” and application form, to Secretary, South Sea Islands Correspondence Club, Natuvn, Fiji Is.

ACCOMMODATION NORFOLK ISLAND, “Burnt Pine” Real Estate Agency. Cable Address: “Adage, Norfolk Island". Properties for sale In peaceful surroundings and beautiful •climate of Norfolk Island. All enquiries promptly attended to.

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I also find rare and out-of-print books to order. Large Pacific clientele. Banking accounts at Sydney and Wellington. Write Philip R. Boulton, Bookseller, Westbury, Wilts, England.

“BETTER FARMING DIGEST”, a new monthly, is a “must” for every planter who is interested in the latest developments in agricultural science. The subscription rate is 24/- per year for this monthly 130-page journal. Write to: The Sydney & Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty..

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HANDBOOK OF PAPUA & NG, 1954. 320pn and maps; contains all details about the administrative and commercial organisation in the two territories; includes directory of all European residents and business firms and of the leading Chinese residents. Price; 15/- (plus 1/posted) HANDS OFF PIDGIN ENGLISH', by Professor R. A. Hall, Jnr., of Cornell University. U.S.A. A defence of the “lingua franca” of Melanesia and a plea for its official use and control. Price: 15/- (plus 1/- posted). Copies from Islands Stores and Booksellers or direct from Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta St.. Sydney.

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Cables: “VENTURA,” Sydney.

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; 5U52.23.) 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: PAPUA - NEW GUINEA;—Hot A 1 r £69/15/-; FM (Sun) £69; Smoked £66/15/-.

FlJl:—Plantation £F63/5/6; FM £F63; moister grades to £FS9/15/- minimum.

W. SAMOA:—£S42/6/-, £S4I/18/-, and £ S4l/12/- ior the three gradings in use.

E. SAMOA:—Adjusted with free-market fluctuations. Currently $89.60 (£A4O approx.) per long ton. Periodic bonus if average proceeds exceed Government buying price.

SOLOMONS;—Honiara / Gizo: Hot Air £ A6B/10/-; Mixed HA/FM £A64; FM £AS9/10/-; Yandina: 5/- higher.

NEW HEBRIDES:—Dec. 1. Merchants paying 6,150 Pac. francs (£A43/1/-) delivered Vila/Santo.

FRENCH OCEANIA;—Latest quotation 7,00 Pac. francs per kilo (£A49/5/approx., per long ton) delivered in bulk, Papeete, for top grade.

TONGA:—£AS9 and £AS3 per ton for the two gradings in use.

COOK IS.:—Growers receive £ Stg.37 to £ Stg.3o depending on quality and freight rates from particular island to Rarotonga.

COCOA:—lslands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which, on Dec. 8, was £ 5tg.262/10/- f.o.b.

P.-N.G.: £A3OS, delivered Sydney.

W. SAMOA: Dec. 4; £Stg.26o, f.o.b.

Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: Top grades 5/- lb.

PEANUTS:—P.-N.G.: Market only for Virginia Bunch, in shell, large, well cleaned, 1/5 per lb. delivered Sydney.

RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore, which quoted Dec. 7, No. 1 RSS, spot 129y 2 cents (45.8 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, quoted Dec. 1. Buying price, c.i.f. Sydney. Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 55/-, Green, 54/-.

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 between Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for 1955: Sound grades, £A 'I D, £ A 390; E, £ A 300; EE. £A225, f.o.b. Australian port. Manihiki: Lagg closing throughout 1956. Last shiprm £ ABOO c,i.\f. Sydney. Divers transfern to Penrhyft. Tuamotu; £A725, long on beach, or £A1,015 f.o.b. Papeete.

TROCHUS:—Dec. 7, in store Syd:l subject to rejects. P.-N.G. to £475-£3 Only small consignments.

New Caledonia: 52.000 Pac. francs metric ton (£A37O approx.) in S 3 Noumea. Season closed Oct. 31.

GREEN SNAIL:—P.-N.G., in S 3 Sydney, to £390-£435. subject to rej<t Only small consignments.

London And U.S. Prices

Copra:—London, Dec. 2. Straits, ca £ Stg.6s/15/- Philippines SUSI 76, weights.

Cocoa:—London, Nov. 19: Gold Co! new season, Nov.-Jan. delivery, c.i.f. U £ 5tg.252 per long ton; New York, d£ 301/2 cents; Futures: Mar. 1956, 31.14; M 31.46 cents lb.

Coffee:—London. Nov. 19: Uganda ns robusta, unwashed, f.a.q., prompt delit, £ Stg.26B, Dec.-Jan. £ 5tg.256 San £ Stg.4l3/6/- in bond, London.

Trochus: —London. Oct. 29: Singay early delivery, £ Stg.sls; Singapj Macassar, £ 5tg.465 c.i.f.

Greensnail: Singapore £ Stg.36o c.i.J Rubber:—London, Dec. 4. Spot, biu 37 7 'sd Stg.; Apr.-June, 1956, 34%d; 37V 4 d Stg. c.i.f.

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Exchange Rates

FIJI. —Through BANK OF NSW, BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia one basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Sek £AII3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO Loin B £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fijl, basis NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA. —Through BANK OF NZ. tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Sai B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Saj London, basis £lOO London: E. £lOOO S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOOO B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji, £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

Papua - Ng.— Commonwealth Hi

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kaw Madang), BANK OF NSW (branchesa Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul. Matj Samarai, Goroka; agencies: Wau, Bo Kokopo) and ANZ BANK (Port Mon quote exchange rate Australia-Papuas 10/- per £lOO.

Bsi.—Commonwealth Bank (Bin

at Honiara) quotes exchange rate traiia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific fri most valuable of the three franc g;j in French Union, are used in New donia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Oc«: FRENCH BANK (Comptoir D Escompte de Paris) in Sydney qu; Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.: 180 C fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $.

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DECEMBER, 1955 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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General Merchants

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General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

Agents For Australian, European

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

Distributors Of Every Description

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise. w. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD Head Office: 16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “CAMOHE.”

In London: Telephone: BW 4421.

Postal Address: G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney.

W. R. Carpenter Cr Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE. PACIFIC.

IK KFW GUINEA- IN PAPUA: ,N FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited. Isiand Products Ltd.. W- R. Carpenter * Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Rabaul. Lae. Madang, Kavieng.

Port Moresby.

Suva.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-DECEMBER, 1955