PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly 1956 Vol. XXVI. No. 9. ished 1930 a newspaper] THE mammoth Sydney Rotal Easter show was a greater success than ever this year—largely because of the French Exhibition which was run as an integral part of it. (See story inside). New Caledonia and French Oceania were re p resented by special pavilions and displays in the Exhibition and our photopraph shows the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. Menzies (right), examining a large display map of New Caledonia with the new Governor of New Caledonia and French Hight Commissioner for the Pacific, M. Aime Grimald.

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

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WITH CATERPILLAR Only when the lush but useless jungle is cleared can the rich soil of New Guinea and the Pacific Islands be used to produce money crops of cocoa and coconuts.

The mighty 191 horsepower Caterpillar D 8 Bulldozer pictured here is at work clearing the 1,000-acre estate of Macßobertsons Ltd. This plantation, situated on the fertile silt of the Markham Valley, is covered with thick rain forest, but the D 8 Tractor pushes, pulls and stacks in windrows all the trees, roots and brush at the rate of acres per day.

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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.

For further details please apply to agents, or refer to the weekly advertisement PAPUA: Steamships Trading Co. Ltd.. Port Moresby. Samarai. Cables; Steamships.

NEW GUINEA: Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd.. Lae. Madang. Kavieng. Rabaul. Cable: Colyeram.

BRISBANE; Wills, Gilchrist & Sanderson Pty. Ltd., 400 Queen Street. Cables: Wllgllsand MELBOURNE: John Sanderson (Shipping) Pty. Ltd.. 11l William Street. Cable: Syndicate.

JAPAN: Tokyo. Yokohama. Osaka. Kobe; Butterfield & Swire (Japan) Ltd. Cable: Swire.

GENERAL AGENTS AUSTRALASIA: Swire & Yuill Pty. Ltd.. 6 Bridge St., Sydney. Cable: “Swireship”. 8U1712.

EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong. Cable: Swire. (A British Company incorporated within the United Kingdom )

New Guinea Australia Line

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 f Samarai Port Moresby and return.

I 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. in the South Pacific Post AGENTS 6 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Sailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships, 1956.

ORION ORSOVA ORONSAY ORCADES ORCADES SYDNEY depart 2 Apr. 1 June 13 July 5 Oct.

AUCKLAND arr/dep 6 Apr 4 June 16 July Prom 8 Oct.

SUVA arr/dep 10 Apr. 7 June 19 July Panama * 11 Oct.

HONOLULU arr/dep 16 Apr. 12 June 24 July — 16 Oct.

VANCOUVER arrive 23 Apr. 18 June 30 July - ..... 22 Oct. depart 24 Apr. 19 June 31 July 11 Sept. 23 Oct.

SAN FRANCISCO arr 27 Apr. 21 June 2 Aug. 7 Sept. 25 Oct. depart 28 Apr.

Then 3 Aug. 8 Sept. 26 Oct.

HONOLULU arr/dep 3 May to 7 Aug. 16 Sept. 30 Oct.

SUVA arr/dep 11 May Panama 14 Aug. 23 Sept. 6 Nov.

AUCKLAND arr/dep 14 May — 17 Aug. 26 Sept. 9 Nov.

SYDNEY arrive 18 May — 20 Aug. 29 Sept. 12 Nov. nking the Pacific Islands with {& s£,*** 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. . * ■■ »*«» . *«u »•••

Ium Fares: To England

Suva via Panama £lO5 stg. via South Africa £132 stg, i Tahiti via Panama £lOO stg. via South Africa £l5l stg. for full particulars apply: FIJI ti Call is Subject to Weather Permitting 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.

Sopping Time-Tables sailings are approximate and may ary by as much as two weeks. rdney-Papua-N. Guinea Malaita sails from Sydney for Rabaul, 3g, Lombrum, Lorengau, Wewak, hafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney. Next y sailing Apr. 24.

Malekula sails from Sydney for Pt. by, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, tiafen, Madang, Lae, Samarai, Y, Melbourne, Sydney. Next Sydney : approximately May 29.

Bulolo, modern liner, sails about six weeks: Sydney-Brisbane-Moresbyai - Lae - Madang - Manus - Rabaul ai-Moresby-Brisbane-Sydney. Next Y sailing Apr. 14. ils from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., Igc Street, Sydney.

Sinkiang: Departed Sydney Apr. 17 rt Moresby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, ig, Rabaul, Lae, Port Moresby, New- Melbourne.

Shansi; Departs Sydney May 1 trisbane, Samarai, Port Moresby, T.

Soochow: Departs Port Moresby for Brisbane and Sydney. 11s from G. S. Yuill & Co. Pty., » Bridge St., Sydney. ar East-S.W. Pacific- Australia ig S.W. Pacific ports on south-bound journeys only.) ng; Departs Japan Apr. 30, Hong- May 8, Rabaul May 20, Madang May 24, Lae May 26, Samarai May 30, Pore Moresby May 31.

Pengning; Departs Japan May 8, Hongkong May 16, Rabaul May 28, Madang June 1, Lae June 3, Samarai June 7, Moresby June 8, thence to Sydney and return direct to Japan.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (G. S. Yulll & Co.. Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St.. Sydney.

The Australia-West Pacific Line motor vessels Arcs, Citos, Delos, and Milos maintain a three-weekly service between Japan and Australia calling at New Guinea ports and Honiara, and Vanikoro, BSIP, southbound.

Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty., Ltd., 63 Pitt St., Sydney, or Islands agents (R. Tebb, Lae; Town Transport, Rabaul; A. Strachan, Madang; BSIP Trading Corp., Honiara).

Sydney-Netherlands N.G.

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, 256 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 Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, 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 from Auckland: MV Tofua Apr. 24, MV Matua May 10.

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

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The regular passenger vessel Maul Pomare resumed the Auckland - Cook Islands service in April. Occasional Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA 7 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY_APRIL. 1956

Pacific Islands Transport Line

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

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, Son Francisco 4, Calif., U.S.A.

PAPEETE—Etablissements Donald Tahiti. APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

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

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

Introducing .... M.V. "Milos The latest addition to the Australia-West Pacific Line fleet fA fir *'•* wr inn With the addition of the new M.V. Milos to our Pacific-Far East fleet which already comprises the faster ship “DELOS” and the modern motor vessels AROS and “CITOS”, we are in the position to oner the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from Australia to the Main Japanese Ports via Manila and Hong Kong. On the return voyaj these vessels call at Hong Kong, Manila, Sandak; Madang, Lae, Rabaul, and thence to Brisbane Sydney and Melbourne.

Bi-monthly calls are made at Honiara amr Vanikoro on the southbound voyage.

Further particulars may be obtained from: AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD.. 63 Pitt St.. Sydney. Phone: BU 6301 at Melbourne: 51 William St. ’Phone: MB 2840.

Vvr* AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs, Bright & Co.

Toio x AGENTS: Ma dang, Mr. A. Strachan; Lae, Mr. R. Tebb; Rabaul, Town Transport Ltd.; Honiara, British Solomoo Islands Trading Corporation.

FAR EASTERN AGENTS; Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan.

Australia-West Pacific Line

limited passenger facilities are available on trans-Paciflc freighters.

Full 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 Tulagl, 10 passengers, leaves Sydney for Norfolk, Vila, Luganvllle, Honiara, Tenaru, Yandina, Gizo, Bougainville ports, Rabaul, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing Apr. 26.

MV Muliama, 8 passengers, leaves Sydney for British Solomons ports approx, monthly, ports varying with cargoes. Next Sydney sailing, early May.

Details from Burns, Philp & Co., 7 Bridge Street. Sydney Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahi Vessels of Messageries Maritlmes : coming from Marseilles, via West 111 and Panama, call about every six w at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Nov< and Sydney, and return by same rn (At present on this run are the new mr ships, Tahitien and New Caledonien) ( MV Polynesie (Messageries Maritll; maintains about monthly passenger ings between Sydney and Noumea , the New Hebrides. Next Sydney ss< May 11.

SS Neo Hebridais-11, 1,266 tons, m tains an irregular cargo service betf Sydney and Noumea, and four chx trips per annum to Wallis Is. via 8 Owners: Soc. Miniere et Maritime HsJ Noumea. Sydney agents; H. C. SHi Ltd., 115 York Street.

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacifl Ports-Sydney Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-passe< liner Southern Cross makes four roa the-world voyages per year, two y bound, then two east-bound, callinjx Suva every trip, and at Papeete ex; in hurricane season. Next sailings: I Southampton, Dep. May 31, via S. At. arrive Sydney July 6. Suva July\ Papeete July 21, arrive Liverpool, , Panama, Aug. 15.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, • Pacific Islands Transport LI vessels Thorsisle and Thorshall nr lain a regular service from Pg‘ Coast North American ports, with sail, every 35-40 days. Some ports depenu cargoes offering. Thorsisle: Sails couver May 5. Papeete May 24, Pago 8 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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I i June 1, Suva June 5, Noumea . Suva June 19, Apia June 23, une 26. Thorshall: Sails San 0 June 15, Papeete July 3, Pago Apia July 11, Suva July 15, July 19, Noumea July 24, Lae 5 from General Steamships Cor- Ltd., 432 California St.. San o. U.S.A., and Island Agents. -PAPEETE-PAGO PAGO-N.Z.- AUSTRALIA 1- Line of San Francisco a regular passenger-cargo service 3 Angeles. Southern terminal ports h cargoes offering. Vessels call at Pago Pago, and Suva, depending »es.

YDNEY-SUVA-HONOLULU- VANCOUVER Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva iry of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) a service three times yearly with ,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel , along the above route. Accom- -1 is entirely First Class, two-berth Next sailing from Sydney late 56. ; from American Trading & Shlp- Pty., Ltd., Sydney.

Honolulu-Papeete

2- auxiliary schooner Te Vega, i - owned, operates a luxury r service to a regular schedule, Is at Marquesas and Line Islands ired. Details from Darr Lines, ). H. Davies & Co., Honolulu, or ments Donald, Papeete.

Fiji Financial Secretary, Mr.

Davidson, returned to Suva ril 10 in the Orient liner from leave in the UK.

Airways Time-Tables

Trans-Pacific Services

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America (First and Tourist Class available all Services.)

By Pan-American Airways

With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths* Tues., Thur., Frl., Sun.: Sydney - Nadi - Canton Is. - Honolulu - San Francisco - Seattle - Portland.

Mon., Tues., Thur., Sat.: Return same route. * DC4 from Auckland connects, arriving Nadi Tues., Thur.. Sun., departing Nadi Wed., Sat., Mon. DC4 shuttle service once monthly connects Nadi and Tafuna, American Samoa.

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS Tues.*, Thur.* and Sat.* Sydney - Nadi (Fiji) - Canton Is. - Honolulu - San Francisco —with Sat. service extending to Vancouver. (Over) 9 FIC ISLANDS MONTH I, Y APRIL, 1956

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Telephone: 80. VINCE COSTELLO, Propriety Fly to Europe direct from Biak r and save £lOO KLM Interested? Of course . . . especially when you travel Super Constellation by KLM, the world's oldest and most experienced airline. Your saving by this new route will be anything from £55 to £llO. • Your bank or travel agent, or any office of Burns Philp & Co. Ltd., our Agents in New Guinea will tell you all about this money-saving route. som DUTCH AIRLINES

Klm Royal Dutch Airlines

*8 Margaret Street, Sydney

SOUTHWARDS Wed.*, Fri.*, Sun.* San Francisco - Honolulu-Nadi (Fiji)-Sydney. Sundays service begins at Vancouver. (Note: Crosses date-line enroute). * TEAL DC6 services between Auckland and Nadi connect at Nadi Tues. and Sat. northwards; Wed. and Sun. southwards.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Super DC-fiß Aircraft) Every Wed. Sydney - Nadi - Honolulu - Vancouver-Amsterdam.

Every Sun. leave Vancouver for Sydney by same route.

Every Fri. Auckland - Nadi - Honolulu - Vancouver-Amsterdam.

Every Tues. leave Vancouver for Auckland by same route. (Note: Crosses date-line en-route).

Sectional Services In

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

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 8.00 pm Brisbane, 10.45 pm Brisbane, 11.45 pm Moresby, 6.35 am (Tues., Wed., Sun., Mon.) Moresby, 7.35 am Lae, 9.00 am Tbura.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney. 8 pm Brisbane. 10.45 pm Brisbane, 11.45 pm Townsville. 3.30 am (Friday) Townsville, 4.15 am Cairns, 5.30 am Cairns, 6.30 am Port Moresby, 9.20 am Port Moresby, 10.20 am Lae, 11.45 am SOUTHWARDS Tues., Wed , Sun., Mon.

Depart: Arrive: Lae, 10.30 am Moresby, 12.00 m’day.

Moresby, 1.00 pm Brisbane, TT Brisbane, 9.00 pm Sydney, 111 Depart: Sat. Arrhi Lae, 7.00 am Moresby, 88 10 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

Ceylon’s Choicest Tea n C HO 0 I c Hn 'ce L *4f T M I a *' sr a 9 Hi *'b Of Every time you make tea.. save that extra spoonful with LAN-CHOO by, 9.30 am Cairns. 12.20 pm 5. 2.35 pm Townsville. 3,45 pm sville, 4.30 pm Brisbane. 8.15 pm me, 9.00 pm Sydney, 11.45 pm P-NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) ate Wed. (Apr. 18, May 2, etc.), ts Lae 10.30 am. calls at Marian* 1 Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia pm. Every alternate Thursday r. 12, 26, etc.), dep. Hollandia 9.30 am, and, with calls at Wewak Madang, arrives Lae at 3.40 pm.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

y Wednesday. jae. 8.00 am: Pinschhafen, Rabaul, leng. arr. Manus 3.00 pm. s Saturdays (dsp. 8 am), via leng, Rabaul and Pinschhafen arr , 2.55 pm.

MORESBT-DARU (Catalina) le Is., Kerema. Kikori, L. Kutubu.— Fri. returning same day (Apr. 13, etc.).

Port Moresby-Rabaul

(Catalina) Cues. (Apr. 17, May 1, etc.) • t Moresby - Samara! - Esa’ala lia-Moewe Harbour-Talasea-Jacqui- Bay-Rabaul. Returning via same s (except Losuia and Esa’ala mal) alt. Thu. (Apr. 19, May 3,

Ew Britain-Bougainville

(Catalina) ed. Rabaul - Buka - Kieta - Buin 18, May 2, etc.). Returning ; day.

E-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Iavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) Phur. Dep. Lae 6.30 am, Madang 7.35 am Wewak, Manus Is., eng. Rabaul arr. 3.40 pm. ily Dep. Rabaul 8.00 am direct mg, arr. 10.50 am, Awar, Wewak, in* Lae arr. 4.35 pm.

Central Highlands

(DCS) —Lae (8.30 am) to Wabamunda, ig at any of: Go'roka, Nondugl, , Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., ig, Wabamunda. Return to La< ing 6 pm.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) —Lae (7.3'' am) to Goroka, callt any of, Nadzab, Kaiapit, Gusap, u, Goroka, Arena. Arrival back ae depends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau (Dcs)

ie.—Mon. 7.30 am, Tues. 2 pm, 11.30 am, Pri. 2.00 pm. au.— Mon. 9 am, Tues. 3.30 pm, 1 pm, Pri. 3.30 pm. Bulolo Is ed on these flights which take 35 tes, Wau-Lae.

Viadang-Goroka (Dcs)

-Depart Madang 8.00 am, arrive :a 8.35 am, returning same day; t Goroka 9.05 am, arrive Madang un.

Iw Guinea-New Britain

(DCS) -Depart Lae 12.55 pm, Pinschhafen am, arrive Rabaul 3.55 pm. s—Depart Rabaul 10 am, Madang pm, arrive Lae 2.30 pm. 11 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - A P R I L , 1956

Regular Monthly-Service from

Melbourne Sydney Brisbane And Holland Ia

to

North Borneo Bangkok And Singapore

By Motorvessel:

"Van Noort", "Sibigo" And "Sinabang"

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

Hollandia-Singapore, from £Stg.s4.

Further information from—

Royal Interocean Lines

Incorporated in the Netherlands as KJCPL, NV. 255 George St., Sydney. Phone: BU 6771 Sundays—Depart Lae 12 noon, Finschhafen 1 pm, Rabaul 3.10 pm.

Tuesdays—Depart Rabaul 5.45 am, Finschhafen 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.

Pri.: 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.

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 Hollandla Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, and Manokwari, 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS (Three flights every four weeks) Mon. (Apr. 23. 30, May 7, 21, etc.) Lae dep. 6 am Finschhafen-Rabaul-Buka- Vellalavella - Yandina - Honiara, BSI, arriving 5.25 pm.

Tues. (Apr. 24, May 1,8, 22, etc.) Honiara dep. 7 am Yandina - Vellalavella - Buka - Rabaul - Lae, arriving 3.35 pm. 6. Paris-Saigon-Noumea By Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux.

DC6B aircraft depart Paris every 2 weeks (Apr. 24, May 8, 22, etc.) for Cairo Karachi, Saigon, Darwin. Noumea.

Leave Noumea on return Mar. 31, Apr.

Leave Noumea on return Apr. 28, May 12, etc. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Ansett Airways Pty., Ltd., With Sandringham Flying-boats.

Return flight each Tuesday and Thursday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

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BUMPER 1955 TRADE OFFICIAL figures for Western Samoa’s trade in 1955 reveal record export and import totals and a very comfortable trade balance. Totals, with 1954 figures in parenthesis, were: Exports £2,511,899 (£2,211,846), imports £1,894,542 (£1,710,494), and a favourable balance of £617,357 (£501,352).

Copra exports of 17,178 tons fetched £1,148,739, another record.

Cocoabean exports also exceeded the 1954 shipments and provided £882,510. Banana exports to New Zealand jumped from 276,135 cases in 1954 to 446,525 cases, bringing £463,035 (£300,259 in 1954).

As usual, the United Kingdom was Western Samoa’s best customer, taking £1,418,598 in produce, in return for £459,396 of goods supplied.

New Zealand took £596,595 and supplied £591,769.

The pronounced unbalance of trade with the United Kingdom also applied to the USA, which bought £367,238 (mostly cocoabeans) and sold only £91,764. In contrast, the other dollar country, Canada, took only £8,171 and supplied £74,449.

The Legislative Assembly of Western Samoa was to debate the 1956 budget late March, with a strong recommendation from the NZ Government to view the present wave of public expenditure in the light of the big drop in world cocoa prices and the impending termination of the MOF copra contract.

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Barker By C Of C

A WARM tribute to the services given to the Suva Chamber of Commerce and to the community in general by Sir Alport Barker was made recently by the Chamber.

Mr. M. E. Helsen, acting President of the Chamber and Manager in Fiji for Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., said he thought the Chamber would like to take an opportunity oi paying tribute to Sir Alport as he had recently disposed of his interests in the Fiji Times. Mr. Helsen wished the new owners, Pacific Publications Ltd., continued success in the running of the newspaper that had been the means of information in the Colony, in good and bad days, for many years. 13 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - A P R I L , 1 95 6

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Pacific Islands Monthly Contents: No. 9 Vol, XXVI April, 1956 Editorials: What Red Denunciation of Stalin Means; Those Adjectival Natives 17, 18 Duke of Edinburgh Will Visit P-NG 19 Slump in Cocoa Prices .... 19 Dutch New Guinea Grab Gets Priority 19 Editors’ Mailbag 20 Stormy Scenes at Apinaipi Meeting 21 Christmas Atoll to Become Death-or-Glory Island .. 22 ANZ Bank Buys Valuable Suva Site 22 New Hebrides Again Without Airservice 23 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 24 Poole Appeal Verdict .. .. 25 Copra Interests Prepare for 1958 27 Coconut Experts Seek Clues in NG 29 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 33 Pacific Islands Affairs to be Reviewed at 3rd SP Conference 41 New Medical Research Director 'or SPC 42 The French Exhibition Stole the Sydnev Show 45 Happy Acer dmi t Saves Mr.

Chalmers’ Face 49 W. Samoan Self-Government Will be on Tradition Not “Democracy” 51 Ray Youl d e n Pioneered Rabaul Baseball 5*7 MOF Copra Falls by 10 Cent r* New LMS Church L*nd Q ” * • Cooks '•••* NG Plante’ Puts * “Absentee’sm” O o NG Highlands Coffee Needs Good Land, Wise Development 65 Australia May Fill Fiji’s Rice Gap 69 Nondugl Sheep Experiment Will Not Be Allowed to Fail 73 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 77; More of the Queen Emma Story, 79; “BP” Trade But No Cannon, 81; Book Reviews 83 How 4 he Broadcast Lesson Overcomrs Teacher Shortages in W. Samoa 89 N. Caledonia Weather—Dry Side Gets the Wet .. .. 95 New NI Stamps for Centena v y 97 Latest Raft Drifter Recalls How Radio Goes to the Rescue 101 Two Separate Boards for Carpen f er-Heds f rom . .. 103 Wes" Abandons Dutch in Favour of Indorrsians .. 105 News of the Smahships .. 113 OBITUARY: Rangoma^ane Ariki, Vera Pocock, M’*s. Isabel L. Bell, Mrs.

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Editorial. ..

Hat The Reds' Denunciation Of Stalin May Mean

IE Cold W T ar—upon the outcome of which the future of humanity depends—has changed in char- ;r in the last few months. In le respects, the menace to the ;dom of the individual has bele greater, and world dominance Muscovite Communism seems rer. But, behind this bigger lace, we now can discern someig that may defeat the Red conators before they finally succeed their plans for hamstringing stern Civilisation. he form of Cold War which we w best is the ruthless, brutal, :rly unscrupulous drive towards world domination, as conceived directed by Stalin. Carried on hat fashion, there was only one to the Cold War—namely, the icaust of World War 111,, in 3h atomic power probably would roy most of humanity. It was or tame submission to the Reds. le Western world assumed, when in died, that the policies and s of the half-mad dictator would -inue —that Moscow eventually Id try to conquer the West by tary strength. But a vast and [pected change has occurred, the significance of which is not clear. le objective has not altered—the et leaders believe still that they achieve their ultimate plan by )sing the full Communist system i the whole world. But they ar to have convinced themselves they can do this, not by brute 3, but by slow infiltration, and ruction from within of the whole ’ture of Western Civilisation, there has been much in recent >ry, and developments in world rs, in the last few years, to sugthat they are right. the nations of the world had sen left alone after World War [—as they were left alone after Id War I—to reorganise their mal economies to take care of terrific maladjustments caused ocial and economic affairs by ievastation of international war, night have been well. There it have been a general peace; United Nations Organisation it have worked. t, as everyone knows, Joseph n and his gang had a different They knew that revolution s out of poverty and injustice; they were clever enough to se that if they struck at the ;red and partly demoralised ;ern world with every weapon had, short of war, and pre- -3d Western rehabilitation, they I so weaken the Western Powers either the West would suffer economic collapse, or the West would be so distraught that it would offer only feeble resistance to the Reds, when they struck with their armed forces.

The rest is history. Only the possession by USA of the atom bomb, and the clear determination of USA to fight if the Muscovite Reds went too far, kept Stalin’s Communist forces behind the Iron Curtain. The Reds went as far as they dared in the Berlin Blockade, in Korea, in the subversion of Persia, in over-running Southeast Asia—but they did not go completely to war.

Nonetheless, they have had staggering, incalculable successes.

China now is completely Communist. A great section of Southern Asia is teetering on the edge of Communism. Ceaseless Red infiltration of British and French colonies in Asia, Africa and elsewhere has paid enormous dividends to the Reds —France is so seriously embarrassed that she has abandoned Southeast Asia and is so embarrassed in holding and policing her Colonies that she has withdrawn most of her divisions from the Western guard on the Iron Curtain. Britain has endless, expensive trouble in maintaining order in the Far East, the Middle East and some parts of Africa, and is correspondingly weakened as a partner in NATO.

THE Middle East, under the leadership and inspiration of a cheeky and arrogant Egypt, is on the verge of a war which will represent Russia’s counter to the pro-British Baghdad Pact, and which —if it comes —will represent a major disaster to Anglo-American strategists, who must at all costs protect their Middle East oilfields and the great pipelines which carry the oil out through the Arab countries to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

Britain has not suffered as seriously in a military sense as has France; but Britain’s economic strength has been declining for the last two years, and now poses a Malayan and Chinaman, in chorus: “What Dragon? We can’t see any dragon” 17 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

most serious problem for the Old Country. „ Practically the whole of these troubles may be traced back directly to growing, world-wide subversive activity directed through Communist and Fellow-Traveller channels by the Moscow Reds. The anti-British agitation in Zanzibar, the wharfies’ strikes in Australia, the stealthy murder of rubber plantation workers in Malaya, the snarling refusal of British industrial masses to co-operate in holding the export markets, the dismissal of Glubb Pasha in Jordan and the indescribable confusion in Cyprus—all have a common origin, and all are part of the one pattern.

Had these activities, and that pattern, continued in 1956 as they were in 1954 and 1955, the end of the Cold War, and the beginning of the unimaginably horrible World War 111, could have been seen within a matter of months.

BUT suddenly, almost overnight, the outlook has changed, in an extraordinary way.

Stalin died three years ago. Georgi Malenkov (now being kissed by factory-girls in his goodwill visit to Britain) held the throne for a year, while Moscow’s policies became distorted and confused. Malenkov was pushed aside, and the very strange Mr. Krushchev and the very bibulous Mr. Bulganin took charge. The backslapping Summit Conference at Geneva came and went, with no more effect than a damp fire-cracker.

There was much intense Red probing of the Western world.

And then, in late February, it was disclosed to the stupefied West that the whole Communist world repudiates and loathes Mr. Stalin, who was variously described by Krushchev and Company as a murderer, an assassin, a powerdrunk dictator, a liar, and a crazy paranoic. The name of the man whom Russia, for 20 years, exalted as a hero, patriot and demi-god is being wiped out of the Russian vocabulary, just as thoroughly as his portraits and statues are being removed from public places.

“Stalin created in the minds of all peoples a totally wrong impression of Russia and. the Russians,” cry Stalin’s successors. “We desire to live in peace and amity with the rest of the world. Forget Stalin and all his works. Trust us. Let us open all our gates to each other. Let us disarm.”

The Westerners, surrounded by social and economic and political troubles of Moscow’s making, still are staring at Moscow as in a daze, wondering what to make of it all.

Never in all history was there such a volte face, with such potentialities.

It could mean so much—or so little. r[E more experienced and cynical—of world observers cannot see much in all this to be happy about. They think that it means only that the Muscovites are so sure now that the rest of the world is headed for economic disintegration that they can afford to sit back and wait for the collapse, thus ensuring by peaceful means what, a few years ago, they believed would have to be achieved by the sword. Probably, they are right.

But two factors give us ground for hope.

This change in Russian policy is far wider and goes far deeper than most of us yet realise. This repudiation of Stalin cannot just take place overnight, on the word of a cunning underground-engineer like Nikita Krushchev. If it is to be effective, it must be accepted by a vast Soviet empire of over 200 million people, and by thousands of Communist organisations which now honeycomb the world —all of whom have been ruthlessly drilled, for at least 20 years, to place Stalin along with Lenin and Marx among the demi-gods of humanity.

In other words, it may be expected that the Krushchev Declaration of February 25, wherein he damned the memory of the man whom, only two years before, he had publicly deifi. will cause in Russia a divisionr opinion so wide that it may s completely the Communist fao which has threatened the peace the world since 1945. If it does cripple the Muscovite dictatorss it at least should seriously i barrass the Reds, and remove mr of the menace from their 30-yeiJ old conspiracy. We can but v and hope.

The other factor lies in China* always has been a cardinal be; of British diplomacy that China never accept Communism, after Muscovite pattern; and Britain shaped her policies looks as if Whitehall will be justif For two years, the rift betv* Moscow and Peking has been gn ing wider. Recent events emphae that rift. Here, again—as betw Moscow and Peking—early ments may be interesting.

It is far too soon yet to cheer. —at long last —we may at 1J begin to hope. If the Muscoc structure is crumbling, the crumbc of the Western structure sho. cease, and begin to recover.

Those Adjectival Natives Minister Hasiuck’s latest memorandum to official Papua - New Guinea that the word “native” is to be used as little as possible, except as an adjective, makes about as much sense as some of the utterances about racial equality which have come from the visiting UN Mission at present in NG.

The vast majority of natives of the Territory have not considered whether “native” is a derogatory term or not, and will not do so unless someone in authority insists that they do.

Nor have the majority the time, the opportunity or the educational qualifications to consider the matter of “equality.” But send enough visiting experts into the Territory to tell them often enough that we regard them as inferior and that they should do something about it, and the necessary resentment will, doubtless, be forthcoming.

What are we trying to do with the New Guinea natives, anyhow?

Turn them into imitation Europeans? Or help them to develop along lines that will preserve their own natural dignity and commonsense? The latter will not be achieved merely by calling them all “Papuans” or attaching to them the ridiculous English title, “Mr.”

It is undeniable that until the Pacific war the colour bar was pretty rigidly drawn in New Guinea. But that war ended over a decade ago.

To-day there is not one realistic, forward-looking Territorian who will ostracise a native simply because he is a native. Where it has been sh*j that a native has character, itiative, mental capacity and mi stamina he is honoured for hiran —not because of racial “equaliJ There are, however, few natives T can measure up to this standard this is usually attributed (by theorists) to the fact that they lacking in education. With the I sent system of scholarships for I Guinea natives, the next 20 yr should give us some sort of a I about that.

Mr. Hasluck has, of course, pie of precedent for his edict about word native. It is tabu in eastern Pacific, too. At one tt the honoured graduates of the SE Medical School were known Native Medical Practitioners. Sox where along the line in the lasi? years they have all become Assist Medical Practitioners.

In May, the P-NG Legislae Council will solemnly debate w the natives can be called when tt are not called natives. “Papuj is not favoured by residents of I Guinea. “Melanesian” perhaps be considered as an alternative,.

However, it is one thing to what a native is to be called; qp another to pass a law setting how he is to be called. It c not take much imagination visualise a European slave-driven; say, 1966, saying (in derogab tones) : “Oh, he’s a Papuan!”

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Irpries. Surprise!

Uke Will Visit

Papua-N. Guinea

IHE Duke of Edinburgh will visit Papua and New Guinea in ivember, in the course of a tish Commonwealth tour which 1 take in the Olympic Games at ;lbourne.

Phis was announced on April 6 m London.

Ixten s i v e arrangements are eady being made for him to see much as the territory as possible the short time at his disposal, t is definite that he will visit h Rabaul and Port Moresby but Department of Territories, aberra, was unable on April 10 give any further details of his gramme. He will arrive in the ■ritory in the Royal Yacht tannia and it is expected that will use a plane when he makes ts away from the two main ts. [?]e News . . .

Yita Commission

Makes Report

IE "Joyita" disaster was caused because a pipe in the cooling system broke, flooding the vessel. is was the finding of the Commission of Iry which sat in Apia in February. Its t was tabled in the New Zealand House Representatives on April 13. The Comon dismissed the "fanciful stories that circulating at the time of the disaster". : was no evidence of mass murder, lised looting, attack by foreign vessels, rspouts or submarine explosion. ; Commission made a number or criticisms luding criticism of the lack of life-saving ment and of Captain T. H. Miller for g to ensure that "Joyita" was capable taking a voyage to the Tokelaus. The lission was unable to say why the vessel abandoned—conditions on the ship must been bad, but the vessel was afloat and >d some degree of security. ! Commission recommended legislation to jthen local shipping regulations.

A Plane'S Emergency

Landing In Samoa

i to a 140 degrees deviation in the ol compass of the automatic pilot, Pan ican Airways Clipper "Glory of the ' got off course on a flight between Nadi and Canton Island on April 12, and 1 made an emergency landing at Faleolo, irn Samoa. It is believed in Sydney by officials that the pilot chose this airin preference to Tafuna in Eastern Samoa arly used by PAA DC4s) because of the • approach, Tafuna being hugged closer fountains. ! airport at Faleolo is used seldom these and by nothing larger than a DC3. NZ on officials would not allow the Strator to take off again with passengers. A PAA DC4 went from Nadi to ferry the passengers to Canton, where "Glory of the Skies", which took off successfully empty from Faleolo, met them.

The passengers suffered about 24 hours delay but were not in danger. By the time that the landing at Faleolo was made, the aircraft was three hours overdue at Canton.

Cocoa Prices Slump r:E price of cocoa was still dropping in early April and on April 9, Accra was quoted in Sydney at £Stg.lB7.

Producers are watching the market anxiously and at present there is no indication whether this is just another such brief recession as that which occurred in 1949-50, or whether it is a real pointer of things to come.

Cocoa prices fell lower than this in 1949 —but shortly after were rising in spectacular fashion, reaching a peak of £673 Australian during 1954.

The reason for the present fall is hard to find. Consumption still outstrips supply—but cocoa and its products are items that can be taken or left at will by the consumer, and presumably buyer resistance has most to do with the present slump.

H A daughter (Sanda Lynette) was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Carter, at the European Hospital, Port Moresby, Papua, on March 13.

INDONESIAN PROGRAMME DNG Grab Gets Priority INCLUSION of West New Guinea In Indonesia is to take priority in the policy of the new Government of Indonesia. This was announced by the Premier, Dr, Ali Sastroamidjojo, in Djakarta, on April 9.

Towards this end, the Indonesian Government will shortly establish a Province of West Irian (the Indonesian term for DNG).

Other items in the new programme are compulsory military service and protection of national business against foreign competition.

The Premier said also that his Government planned to remove influences inherited from the period of colonial domination. He went on: “We may at times be obliged to take steps not approved by the outside world, especially by some circles of the Western world. However, it is utterly unfounded to condemn such steps as anti-Western.” t Mr. Walkington, a NZ Ministry of Works Engineer, accompanied by a fitter, arrived by TEAL flyingboat early in March to instal two 150kilowatt generators in Rarotonga’s newly constructed Power House. The additional power is required for the new cool store.

One New Drover Coming Up A brand-new Drover plane ex-De Havilland s Sydney factory was loaded on the "Waikawa", Sydney, in late March for Fiji Airways. This crate holds the wings of the plane. This is the first new Drover plane to go overseas—the Drovers that FA bought previously had been in use in New Guinea. A second new Drover will go to Fiji for the company about May.

CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

The Editors' Mailbag

BSIP History—Ancient and Future Captain Brett Hilder—currently on Burns Philp’s Tulagi— writes from Tenaru, BSIP. . . “just as a good excuse to send you, on the envelope, my three stamps of the new Solomons issue which came out on March 1.”

The stamps which, as he says, have just emerged, were designed by the Captain a year or so ago and are the Bd, 6d, and 5/- denominations of the new series.

The 8d stamp shows the old wartime control tower at Henderson Field, just outside Honiara, with a modern airliner flying over it. This, no doubt, will give a lot of people the impression that the famous wartime airstrip is still in use—which, of course, is not so. The Field is down for reconstruction —one of these days.

The sea-green 6d stamp shows a trading schooner; and the sepia 57stamp which the Captain says he likes best, shows Mendana and his ship.

That should send people scurrying for their history books —few people remember Mendana’s connection with the fabled islands of Solomon.

In Fiji She Missed Butchers 7 Shops The old pre-war islands idea that shooting-a-line to newspaper reporters was just not done, has gone overboard with a lot of other traditions. Scarcely a day passes when some returning wanderer does not entertain newspaper readers with lurid tales of privations in the cannibal islands, or alternately, lush love-feasts among the Polynesians.

However, people who know Fiji and its sugar-industry must have blushed for a certain Mrs.

McConochie when she recently went on record in the Brisbane Courier Mail as the woman who had to travel 50 miles in Fiji to get her hair trimmed.

The story went on (according to the newspaper, anyhow): With no household amenities, only tinned foods, and no social activities except a few parties and a picture theatre, Mrs. McConochie is not very happy with her life at Penang Mill.

After nine months away from Brisbane, Mrs. McConochie said; “It was wonderful to come back to Brisbane and see those butchers’ and fruit shops filled with so much meat and fruit.”

A reader sent this clipping to us from Brisbane with the comment: “Good God—and I always thought Fiji a much better place to live in than New Guinea.” Then he adds, perhaps with a certain amount of male virtue-triumphant, “I dismiss this as the kind of utter tripe some returning women give out to the press.”

We could point out to our Brisbane reader that returning men frequently give out with the utter tripe too; and to poor Mrs. McConochie that there are a couple of million women in Australia, too, whose only social activities are “parties and a picture theatre.”

Homosexuality—Skeletons in Many Cupboards Although opinion on the Poole murder case is divided, most residents of long standing in the SW Pacific are unanimous about one thing—homosexuality always has existed there, if not in one district, then in another.

As one Administration officer has put it in a letter to us: “Canon Warren, who had not heard of one case of homosexuality in Papua, is talking through his hat.” (PIM, March, page 28). He goes on; “I have dealt with dozens of cases— and the least said about the Europeans, the better.”

He then mentions a few of the Europeans—one of which would surprise a number of people.

Few people with any length of residence in this part of the Pacific have to think long before recollecting natives who practised the vice, or recalling one European known or suspected.

These observations should not give the impression that the vice is rampant amongst Europeans. It isn’t.

But for anyone afflicted in that manner the opportunities are greater and, because of isolation, so is the compulsion. However, in a native community “keeping it dark” is virtually impossible and discovery is inevitable. . . whereupon the European involved was, in the past, usually persuaded to fade silently from the scene and no scandal resulted.

Like our reader, we think that the less said by Missions and everyone else about homosexuality in the SW Pacific the better. The mere mention of the word must produce the sound of rattling skeletons from many cupboards.

The Atom and the Ancient Pacific Professor and Mrs. E. W. Gifford, of San Francisco, who have done some notable archaeological work in the South Pacific, now have gone to Yap, in the Caroline Islands, in Micronesia—a field considered wj worthy of archaeological researu' They were in New Caledonia 1952, and their report on what thi found in excavations there is nx in the hands of the University California’s press, awaiting pm lication.

Professor Gifford informs us tlf “an interesting feature of the Nl Caledonian research is the sen of radiocarbon dates the td earliest of which are in the 2 and sth centuries BC” —that 2,800 and 2,500 years ago. T 1 Professor made some investigatio in Fiji, also, and certain radJ carbon dates which he fixed respect of Viti Levu will be pv lished in the Journal of ft Polynesian Society (New Zealanu Mankind’s increasing knowleb of the atom enables archaeology fix approximately the century, at even the decade, when prehistoc man handled materials in eart works and building.

The Buka Boss Boy Had Had It!

The other day, I met a Bn boy who was on his way home Buka, after long residence Rabaul. I expressed surprise his preference now for a quiet ax primitive village life. TM approximately, was his reply: “You savi, Masta. Before m Govmint ’e strong. All plant tion boy can work good, ’ear * talk, an’ stop good.

“Now, behind ’long war, Govnu ’e no more strong—spoil ’im finii all plantation boys ’long silly taj talk. So boy no more work go* no more ’ear ’im talk, no mo. stop good.

“This way makim planty wo more ’long all boss boys. Mou belong me fella pain finish ’la planty talk-talk. Now all b cheeky back ’long me fella b« boys.

“ ’Long talk belong white nut Masta, me finish.”

In other words, he had “had —and this about describes my ox feelings, too —From a planter in 1W Guinea. t A group of five new scho< teachers arrived in Rarotonga : cently by air. They include PI Peterson, formerly headmaster ofi NZ Maori school, who became hes master of Tereora College; I Hardy, B.Agr.Sc, formerly fro Nelson College, NZ; Mrs. Han MA; Mr. Robert Wilson, BA, w, has been appointed to the loc Teachers’ Training College; E R. D. McEwan, who has speo qualifications in Arts and Crafts as who has been appointed Chi Organising Teacher; Mrs. Keartl who becomes an Infant Mistress? a Rarotongan school. 20 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LJ

Oil To Smooth

[?]E WATERS [?]rmy Scenes at Apinaipi Annual Meeting HEN and where do we drill and how much will it cost? This was the dominant cry of shareers at the well-attended and ny 18th Annual General Meetof the Papuan Apinaipi Petro- [ Company Ltd., held at 5 i St., Sydney, April 9. ter 21 hours of mounting heat recrimination from many ters, the matter was still unved when the Press was asked eave—some matters of an initing and confidential nature about to be presented to sharesrs. i this intriguing note the Press rted, leaving the majority of eholders agreed, on a show of Is, to see this issue through the Vernal dissension in the direct- ; became apparent in March, when Mr. R. Richardson, of tne Board —who is credited with preventing the liquidation of this company at an earlier period—issued a circular to shareholders criticising the Board for procrastination.

As a result of this action the Board recently passed the following motions: (1) that the appointment of Mr.

Richardson with the Company as Research Manager be terminated, and (2) that the Board has no confidence in Mr. Richardson as a fellow Director, and it is the expressed wish of the Board that he resign.

But Mr. Rupert Richardson chose not to resign, and, at this meeting, following a resume of the recent findings and present attitude of the technical consultants to the Company’s oil claims, the chairman, Mr.

B W. Graham, asked Mr. Richardson to present his views to shareholders.

For close upon one hour Mr.

Richardson proceeded to do this. In his long, historical survey numerous personalities received honourable or dishonourable mention and there were implications of possible political and international activities behind the scenes.

Mr. Richardson’s contention appears to be that the wealth of material now available as a result of the use of every known method of technical survey over 30 years could not be improved upon and that nothing should now stand in the way of action on the spot—but which spot, and when and how, Mr.

Richardson did not state.

The Board, too, says that drilling should proceed as soon as possible— but, by the nature of the Permit issued to the Company, they contend that they must take the advice of its consultants and comply with additional specified surface surveys to secure the Commonwealth Government’s OK to drill.

The presence of Mr. Richardson on the Board was, the chairman claimed, an embarrassment to this end, which made it clear, as a shareholder pointed out, that the re-election of Mr. Richardson to the Board would not resolve the present stalemate.

Therefore, said another shareholder, the whole Board should resign and another be elected in its place. But his motion was drowned in a storm of interjections.

One fact emerged from this unresolved turmoil: While Mr. Richardson has got across the necks of the Board and others by his methods, he has a considerable body of shareholders behind him.

He wants “oil for Australia” without more ado, and that is what the shareholders want, too.

Result of the election of directors was announced some days after the meeting. Mr.

G. H. R. Jones replaces Mr. R. Richardson.

Other members are Messrs B. W. Graham, G. F. Gregerson, L. F. Nix, A. E. Prince, and F. A. Mackell.

Gifts From The Lady Garvey Fund SANTO WHARF IN 18 MONTHS THE new wharf for Santo, New Hebrides, is one step closer.

In March, Mr. Don Gubbay was engaged on the preliminary clearing of the site and removal of the old piles of a war-time structure.

It is hoped that the new wharf will be completed in 18 months.

Ni Whaling Co. Offers

Pref. Shares

RESIDENTS of Norfolk Island have been offered a chance to have an interest in the local whaling company.

The Norfolk Island Whaling Company announced that while it would not issue ordinary shares, it was prepared to let NI residents buy 10 per cent, preference shares.

Applications were being received up to March 31.

These photographs were received recently from Malaya by Mrs. S. D.

Canard, secretary of the Lady Garvey Gift Parcels Fund, which sends gift parcels to the Fijian soldiers in Malaya.

The top photograph shows the Commanding Officer of the Fiji Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Penaia K.

Ganilau, seated at his desk at HQ, Batu Pahat, Johore, Malaya, and behind him is a magnificent piece of "Masi", or tapa cloth. It was specially made for the Queen's visit to Fiji in 1953, and was used to decorate the walls of the marquee at the special dinner which was given by Sir Ronald and Lady Garvey. Lady Garvey made a gift of this tapa to the Malaya troops.

The lower photograph shows the table set for dinner in the Officers' Mess, at Batu Pahat. This silver and glassware was paid for by the Lady Garvey Gift Parcels Fund, and it was specially crested with the Fiji Defence Forces insignia and is now in use in Malaya. Ratu Penaia has thanked warmly the donors of the gifts. 21 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

Pacific H-Bomb

Christmas Atoll Likely To Become

Death-Or-Glory Island

First prize in the H-Bomb lottery goes to Christmas Island in the Pacific, off which British scientists will, it is reported, explode a bomb next year.

REPORTS that British scientists were in the market for an “uninhabited” Pacific island were released at the end of 1955 and the choice of Christmas (reported March), which can scarcely be called uninhabited in the sense that the Monte Bello islands off Western Australia are uninhabited, is going to cause not a little consternation.

At the present time, South Pacific Air Lines, an American company, is building a refuelling and radioweather base there for its Honolulu- Papeete service which is scheduled to begin operations in a few months.

A radio operator from New Zealand was engaged a few weeks ago to go to the island to set up a radio station.

The airline has no direct representation in Sydney, but friends of the organisers have expressed “complete surprise” at the new development.

There have been no “official” announcements from Lon d o n—the matter is still in the “Reported” stage.

It has been stated that the bomb will be exploded east of Christmas and three or four miles above the sea—the first time this has been attempted.

It is also stated that there will be no danger of radio-active contamination at Christmas. This is likely to be so, as the island will be needed to house scientists and other personnel and provide a runway for the RAF bomber which will carry the bomb to its detonation point.

However, if what goes on around the Bikini area when the Americans are about to explode a bomb is any criterion, it seems scarcely feasible that a commercial airline will be permitted to carry on normal business within hundreds of miles of the area.

As Christmas Island is part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Britain can do as she wishes with the atoll, but no one will deny that if the reports are true it will be frustrating to the airline which has been permitted to proceed up to this point.

Captain Bryan Monkton, of South Pacific Air Lines, who paid a visit to Sydney in February apparently had no inkling of this development that time (PIM, February, page No matter how justified are Hbomb experiments on the grounds of security and strategy, few residents of the Pacific will escape misgivings at the shattering of the peace of what was once regarded as the remotest end of the earth. In fact, an island’s very remoteness seems to mark it down these days for destruction in the cause of nuclearweapon experiment.

If any reader has any delusions as to the kind of world towards which we are heading we can recommend to him an article in the current Australian edition of Readers’ Digest. Called, somewhat oddly, “Guided Missiles —Key to Peace,” it describes in the most terrifying detail the missiles that are at the moment being developed by the United States as a counter to equally terrifying missiles that are believed to have been developed by the Russians. In the course of the article it is said: “In the Pacific war, US battleships standing 25 miles off enemy islands pounded the defenders with thousands of shells; yet the landings were still bloody affairs. In the future, a ship 1,000 miles away could hit islands like Kwajalein with a single missile so powerful that it would extinguish all life on the island.”

CHRISTMAS, normally a dry atoll of glaring coral sand has had a chequered career since Captain Cook first sighted it on Christmas Day, 1777. Whalers, guano miners arrived first, followed, off and on, as copra rose and fell in price on the world markets, by planters. Its sovereignty has, too, been frequently in doubt, first America and then Britain winning temporary ownership. But Christmas was so economically unimportant that there was never much interest generated until the late 30’s when out-of-theway islands assumed a new importance for projected air-service operations.

After a certain amount of argument, Britain (having already conceded Howland, Baker and Jarvis to the US) clinched the matter of Christmas in 1937 by sending a warship there and placing a radio officer on the island. Subsequently, administration came under the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. There was an American invasion following this, however —during the Pacific war when an airstrip of about 2,400 yards was built. This base was garrisoned by the US forces until 1948.

Back in 1902, Lever Bros, were granted a 99-years lease of Christmas. They planted coconuts and introduced pearl-shell to the lagoon. Neither enterprise was very successful although the co nuts were worked when the price; copra warranted it.

The famous Father Rougier ti over the lease from Lever Bros.? 1913 and all through the first Wo War made a handsome profit of the copra. When copra slumr his heirs abandoned the island. " plantations have been worked si; the war by the Gilbert and El: Islands government—who boughtf the tag-end of the 99-years leases Christmas’ nearest neighboun the cable station island of Fanm about 150 miles to the north-w/ Further north lie Washington ; Palmyra with the Hawaiian Islac about 1,000 m. north. Closer at h:i to the southwards lie the Northr Cooks and the islands of the Soc:c group. The Gilberts are about 1,60»( to the westward; eastwards lies vast area of empty ocean.

Nevil Shute fans will probably 1 collect that in his rather ext: ordinary peep into the future ini novel, In the Wet, he had our p sent Queen Elizabeth, as an eldti woman, ask that a small cottage built for her on Christmas, wM was a plane refuelling place on frequent air journeys betw/ Canada and Australia.

If there is going to be much j bomb activity in the area it is n sible that not even the ingenious < Shute will be able to find enox of Christmas Island left by 1980; build a house for the Queen or anyone else.

A N.Z. Bank Buys Suva Building [?] IN purchasing recently from Garrick Estate the site occuj by Joong King Loong, the A\ tralia and New Zealand Bank I has acquired a property in the bit ness heart of Suva.

Price was £F33,000.

The Thomson Street frontage the property runs from the Gam Hotel to the premises of W. .

Carpenter & Co. on a 60-ft fronts at the rear, in Renwick Road, wii of the property is 200 ft.

Vacant possession would be tax as soon as possible, said the Manager of ANZ, Mr. G. Robe* and new premises will be ereo ( shortly after.

The price—£F5OO a foot —is s to be the highest price yet p for a city block.

Thomson Street contains such o established premises as W. Horm Co., W. R. Carpenter Ltd., and n to that again Morris Hedstrom I Renwick Road contains most of oldest established Indian wholeie and retail firms as well as mr smaller stores well patronised 1 local people of all races and n ticularly tourists and passengers? ships passing through Suva. 22 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLJ

[?]Ew Hebrides Again Without Air Services

Residents of the New Hebrides still await an international dr-service. Operations of the Transpac service have now been ;uspended, and airmails from Australia to NH have been cancelled.

ELA and Santo, NH, have been without air-services to the outside world since Qantas flyingts were withdrawn in mid-1955. that time Qantas changed over land planes and has since been ting until the airfields near i and Santo wwe brought up to standard required by the tartment of Civil Aviation, atest reports indicate that hing has been done on the airps. i the meantime, a local airdee, Transpac, has been eloped in New Caledonia and company announced a couple of months ago that it would run a fortnightly service to the Hebrides with its Ds Havilland Rapide aircraft. On the assumption that this service would continue, the Australia-New Hebrides air-mail was resumed.

No announcement has been made by Transpac, but private advice from New Caledonia is to the effect that Transpac has ceased running this service.

Local opinion is that “the big companies” have brought pressure to bear on the small company.

Big Companies presumably mean Transports Aeri e n s Intercontinentaux, successors to Air France on the P'aris-Noumea service, and Qantas. But how either of these companies are to land their large planes on , the disputed New Hebrides airfields without Civil Aviation permission Local Opinion, of course, omits to say. There seems no reason why Transpac should not run an interim service anyhow.

Recently, the French Inspector General of Airfields was in the Hebrides looking over the disputed air-strips. Perhaps this indicates that something will be moving shortly, but so far the most interested parties—the residents of the Hebrides —do not know what.

It is known that TAI is anxious to start a service and had tentatively proposed a DC3 service from an air-strip at Magenta (near Noumea) to Santo and Vila to commence “early 1956.”

Now it appears that Magenta is out —the French Inspector General has condemned it for the proposed service. Magenta, at a Noumea seaside resort, was built by the Americans as a fighter strip during the war. It is used by Transpac and by the local aero club.

Large planes must use Tontouta, about 50 miles from Noumea. This will soon be in a condition to take the DCT planes with which TAI hopes in 1957 to replace its present DC6B aircraft. t Passengers per Tahitien, in Febuary, for Santo, in the New Hebrides, were Mr. Brian Kidney and his bride, nee Miss Harding, of Brooklyn, Condobolin. Mr. Kidney has a three-year appointment at Santo. [?]in NG

The Visitation

IE four-member-six-secretary team that makes up the 1956 Trusteeship Territories ting mission appears to be iting something less than a »le on the New Guinea pond. far, no pearls of wisdom have oeen reported dropping from the Mission’s lips (as was the case the first mission in 1951); no high jinks such as characterthe second mission whose visitaoccurred in 1953. te only untoward incident rred at Telefomin, in the Sepik dct bad-lands, where on the day re the party arrived, on April 4, trol had a brush with the local •iors and one of the warriors shot dead. This incident, it was ;d, was fully reported to the ion, but reaction of Mission was given. ie party—Sir John McPherson, Mr. Daniel Massonet, Belgium, J. Rolz Bennett, Guattemala; M. E. Chacko, India; and six itaries —arrived in Rabaul by aircraft on March 15 and will ; Port Moresby for Sydney on [ 18. Their schedule is a tight and their means of transportareads thus: Aircraft, Road, I, Road, Catalina, DC3, Beaver, I, DC3, Norseman, River vessel, eman, Norseman, DC3, Road Btc. is programme should be exely educational —and certainly s no doubt in the mind of anywho has endured the Roadl-Catalina-River Vessel-Norse- -Beaver sort of business, that four members and their six taries will be glad to reach ey, where civilisation extends ar as to provide hotels, and s-with-bath.

This Month These Men Made Sydney News. .

At left, M. Pierre Fabre, who was news because of his part in the £1 million French Exhibition at the Sydney Easter Show; and lower, the New Caledonian farmers who were given a free trip to the show as guests of the New Caledonian Government. M. Fabre arranged the French Colonies exhibits.

Of the 1,220,000 people who went to the Show, 750,000 visited the French Exhibition— the most talked-about Easter event in NSW. 23 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1956

THE DUTCH DIG IN West Of The Border THERE are apparently no ogres on the other side of the border.

Brigadier Cleland, Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, who went off to visit Dr. Van Baal, Governor of Dutch New Guinea on February 29, with the reluctant blessing of Canberra (“It’s on a personal basis,” he said—see March PIM), returned March 13, “impressed.”

Brigadier and Mrs. Cleland spent two weeks in D-NG, travelled 2,700 miles and visited Sorong, Hollandia, Manokwari, Steenkool, Biak, Wissel Lakes and other centres.

A nautical school in which D-NG natives are trained in the handling of small-craft so interested the Administrator that he is going to try to get a similar establishment set up in Papua and New Guinea.

He was also struck by the advances being made in housing construction in Dutch New Guinea, particularly in the building of homes with foam-cement and hollow-cement bricks, locally made.

This construction is part of the development by the Netherlands- New Guinea Petroleum.) Company whose Administrative Headquarters, main workshops and other buildings are in Sorong.

The Administrator found that the native people and the environment of the Wissel Lakes district not unlike those of Telefomin, in the Sepik head-waters area of New Guinea.

He said also that his visit to the producing oilfields at Mogoi and Wasian gave him a spea background which will help meeting any problems that r arise should oil be discovered developed in Papua on a c«c mercial scale.

Brigadier Cleland came ai impressed by the vigour foresight of the Dutch in tJ post-war planning and rebuild!; The Dutch half of the Island) New Guinea seemed not to hi the same potential as the East? half, but its problems, he said, , being tackled with great wisdon Brigadier Cleland said that tour resulted in greater co-op«< tion and understanding and looks forward to a mutual exchas of visits by departmental technical officers of both Admr strations.

For more about Dutch-Austral relations, see article, page 105 issue.

Keen Interest In Cl Elections VOTING for the European member of the Cook Islands Legislative Council in mid-March resulted in Mr. H. R. McKegg retaining his seat by a narrow margin.

His opponent was Mr. R. J. A.

Ingram, a Rarotongan businessman.

Final voting was: McKegg, 65; Ingram, 62; informal 2. Both candidates had a similar policy; both are in favour of the Belshaw-Stace economic report on the Cooks (outlined in March PIM).

The elections for Maori members of the Rarotonga Island Council also took place in mid-March at polling places located in Rarotonga’s various districts, and far greater interest was taken in these elections than had been the case for several years.

For the first time, Maori candidates provided free trucks to transport the voters to the polling places.

Record numbers of votes were cast in all electorates. Three members of the Cook Islands Progressive Association were voted into office, and a fourth tied with Mr. D. C.

Brown, businessman and shipowner.

A Right of Appeal can be lodged by the unsuccessful candidate within 21 days of the Returning Officer’s decision. This would result in a recast of votes being made.

If Mr. Brown’s opponent wins he will be the fourth supporter of the CIPA to become a member of the present Island Council. There are six Maori members.

The powers granted to Island Councils last October made them fully responsible for the maintenance and improvement of roads, water supplies, harbour facilities and reef passages.

Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years Ago.

IN April, 1936, Mussolini was making war on Abyssinia and the Western World, through the futile League of Nations, was doing a lot of chatter about applying “sanctions” to Italy. At the moment of this writing (April 9, 1956), Israel and Egypt are taking pot-shots at each other across the so-called Gaza Strip, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations is hot-foot on the way to ask all the boys to get back to their own particular patch of desert.

We can only hope that this is not just a case of history repeating itself. . . “twenty years on.”

Other extracts from our issue of April, 1936, were: The projected trans-Tasman air-service would, it was stated, be from Brisbane (Old.) to New Plymouth (NZ), via Lord Howe Island —the direct hop, Sydney-Auckland of 1,160 miles was considered to be too long. (When the service did begin, in 1940, the direct hop was in fact used and many travellers who were in flights that met adverse winds thought the 10 hours or so of bumps and thumps much too long. Now, of course, the flight is accomplished in about five hours).

The Union Steamship Co. announced that both "Maunganui" and "Makura" would tie up at the end of that year and the steamship service from Sydney to San Francisco, via NZ, Rarotonga, and Tahiti, would cease. -M ❖ * As direct consequence of the Labour Party gaining office in New Zealand, the Mau leader, Mr. 0. F. Nelson, was able to announce that he would return to Western Samoa within a short time. Mr. Nelson had been banished to New Zealand following lengthy court proceedings against him for sedition in 1934.

Usually inoffensive Norfolk Island got itself into the news by some mischance through an announcement that she would ally herself to other countries in applying sanctions to Italy in an attempt to end the Abyssi war.

The Melbourne "Herald" pointed out Italy would now find itself in the unl« position of being unable to import ammunition, rubber or minerals from N1..1 this late date it is difficult to see why Ncl Island, a Territory of the Commonwiv should have felt it necessary to makes declaration). sK * ❖ A rather extraordinary law had comes operation in New Guinea whereby it 1 legally impossible for natives to marrr other than the native fashion—in other w they could not enter into marriage im European, or Christian manner. Althoughl now seems to have been an unnecessary ference in the private affairs of the indivv it was considered at the time that there s adequate grounds for the legislation. Iffi stated that although previously natives has the choice of native style or Chm marriages, few of the natives who chose latter understood the obligations ini therein, and often reverted to native' living which included plurality of wives; allow the anomalous position to coic merely brought Christian marriage and) good status of women into disrepute it was said.

As might be imagined, the Missions ; far from pleased with the new law.

American university student Dwight 23, had arrived in Sydney in his 32-ft.

Hour" on a round-the-world cruise, T miles of which the Pacific section already behind him. ❖ ❖ * Never let is be said that PIM ha:e always had the interests and safety of ships-owners at heart. Having pluggedb tinuously in recent months for the "I Girl" automatic radio distress signal mitter, we now give you a flashback to i 1936: "The Amalgamated Wireless organiir has surmounted this difficulty (of cas radio equipment and operator on a small!: —the automatic distress signal transai which sends out by means of a gramojo like disc, the SOS together with the name; the ship's position is given U additional attachment which can be set a minute. 24 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHB

[?]Le Murder

[?]E Verdict: Insane OLE has been found insane and will not hang. An appeal was heard in Suva late March the verdict given on April 16. e hearing was made before the Court of Appeal; Mr. J. N. ;y appeared for Poole; Mr. B.

Doyle, QC, Fiji Attorneyral, and Mr. Justin Lewis for Drown. mbers of the Court of Appeal the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. r. Hammett, Mr. Justice nson and Mr. Justice Bagnall. his judgment, Chief Judge nett said the Court considered insane because, amongst other ns, of the frenzied way he the child and of his strange lour in the Lower Court. The also held that Psychiatrist J. urge’s evidence was inadmissecause it was prejudicial to the CG Honiara, BSIP, on February i Judicial Commissioner found guilty of having murdered a ir old Mala i t a boy in iber, 1955. An appeal was subitly lodged on the grounds ome Crown evidence submitted niara was inadmissible).

Suva, in March, Mr. Falvey id that much of the evidence by Dr. J. McGeorge, Sydney atrist, was inadmissible; and 10 report of his examination used had been made available cused’s counsel (Mr. Dudley of Rabaul), who saw accused le first time on the night the trial; and that a coni obtained by Inspector id after questioning accused wo days was improperly ed. also submitted that the i Judicial Commissioner had y directed himself when, the report of the examina- ‘ the prisoner had been made, id that he did not believe d when he said he did not what he was doing, ipplication for the calling of nedical evidence was refused ! Court. The Acting Chief stated that the Court of in Fiji had the same as the Court of Appeal in d and could hear fresh ;e only in exceptional cirnces, such as hearing ;e not available at the time trial, id been submitted that such :e was available, that the who gave evidence could icen cross-examined, or an iment sought in order to sxpert evidence. The defence ide a mistake in not crossing Dr. McGeorge and lot seek to make good that ; now.

MR. B. DOYLE, in his case for the Crown, said that there was a vast difference between a doctor’s approach to insanity, and the Court’s approach. In the Poole case, it was known from the very start that insanity was to be raised by the defence, and evidence could have been called.

Mr. Doyle quoted cases to show that while it was practice to make medical reports available to the defence it was not obligatory.

However, he conceded that in the present case it should have been done. He contended that if all of Doctor McGeorge’s evidence were taken away there would be nothing left in favour of accused. There was no evidence that he was legally insane.

There was evidence that he “looked peculiar,” that one man stood on guard with a rifle, and that one woman had locked up her children, but the Court had to deal with probabilities. The only way to tell what was in Poole’s mind was by his acts.

Mr. Justice Bagnall said that apart from the statement by Poole to Mr. Hoey, Poole’s letter to his parents, and his answers to Dr.

McGeorge’s question he could see no evidence of Poole’s offence.

Mr. Doyle said the defence did not deny the murder. It relied on insanity.

The Acting Chief Justice: “You submit that it is sufficient to be able to uphold a conviction on the uncorroborated evidence of accused.

The absence of corroboration is worrying me.”

Mr. Justice Bagnall pointed out that Dr. McGeorge said that he had known of cases where people had confessed to murders that they had never committed.

Mr. Doyle subsequently quoted precedents to show that if a confession was given directly it was not necessary to have corroboration.

However, there was corroboration.

There was the fact that the body was found in accused’s house, that the murder was committed within four minutes of his entering his house; and there was corroboration in his statment to Father Hoey.

In his address in reply, Mr. Falvey submitted that the learned Judicial Commissioner had accepted the statements made by accused to the police and to the doctor before he had heard Dr. McGeorge’s evidence that accused was mentally deranged. Their Lordships were not suffering under the same disability as the Commissioner because they had the record before them, and, in considering the statements knew what the Doctor had said.

He contended that if a man in the street, the type of man who makes up juries, was told about the facts surrounding the murder he would at once say Poole was mad.

He submitted that at the time of the act the accused was insane. t Residents of Rabaul, NG, are in favour of Japanese being permitted to salvage sunken ships in Rabaul Harbour. This was announced at April TAG meeting.

Farewell Party for Indian Businessman A farewell cocktail pary was given by Mr. Hemraj Daya, businessman of, Fiji, for Mr. Sethi Narain, on April 21. Mr. Narain, managing director of Narain Construction Co., Ltd., was leaving on a world tour. Our photograph show (left to right): Messrs. G.

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[?]1958. [?]G Marketing Board to Stay E Papua and New Guinea Copra Marketing Board is to stay after the expiry of the Ministry of Food Agreement at nd of 1957. is and other matters were disd by members of the Planters’ nations of Papua and of New ea, which met in Rabaul in March. The Secretary of the rtment of Territories, Mr. C. R. >ert, attended the meeting, ler measures discussed at the ng have been placed before the iter for consideration. [?]ely Summary Director Crushing Mills I economic effect in a Terrify of the establishment of >pra crushers, and the milling narketing of oil and meal, is ively set out in a pamphlet ;n and published recently by N. G. Johnson, Chairman of . Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd. penters in recent years have ished large copra crushers in (Fiji) and Rabaul (New a). Mr. Johnson supervised hiding of the Suva mill seven ago, and has since directed ccessful operations: and none ;er qualified than he to discuss Native claims of disposing of (a) by direct shipment to a markets, and (b) by sale to )cal crushers, for conversion il and meal. ind this useful compilation is idow which increasingly is g the attention of all South J copra producers—the end of iritish Ministry of Food’s 9contract, on December 31, 1957. esent all British growers are I the benefit of that contract, 3 receiving rates better than Drld open market price. What ig to happen to them after OF contract expires?

Mr. Johnson points out, the Pacific islands produce only 185,000 tons per annum of the 5 total production of 2,800,000 vhile Fiji’s contribution to the Pacific total is under 40,000 The South Pacific planters hieve nothing by acting as a body, no matter how united lay be.

Johnson therefore argues •y in favour of (a) as much pra as possible going to the rs and (b) an effort being o produce high instead of low copra in Fiji. luotes statistics to show that copra which goes directly to the crushers in Suva earns an average of £l5 4 per ton more than the copra shipped abroad; and that, in the seven years since the crushers were established, the Fiji growers have thus benefited by at least £150,000. He points out, however, that all Fiji growers got the benefit —the extra price from the crushers was not reserved by the Copra Board for the growers who supplied Suva, but was distributed pro rata among all growers.

It is shown that, of Fiji’s total production of nearly 40,000 tons per annum, 35,000 tons go to Suva to the crushers, while the balance is shipped overseas from Levuka and Savu Savu. Mr. Johnson argues in favour of all Fiji copra going into Suva, now—and he seems to have logic as well as sentiment on his side.

Under present conditions, there is very little difference in price between the poor smoke-dried quality, and the high quality copra which comes out of hot-air driers. Naturally, therefore, the grower takes the easy way and exercises little care in production. But if real inducements were given, a large proportion of growers would strive for high quality—especially as it is likely that a small, reasonably-priced copra drier will come on the market soon, Mr. Johnson points out that the 27 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—APRIL. 1956

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Mr. Johnson, making his plea for general public support of the local crushers, reminds his readers that all the copra diverted from direct oversea shipment to the crushers not only gives the grower at least 25/- per ton more, but also pays the Colony substantial sums in local wages, taxation, and local commerce generally. And he adds that Island Industries Ltd., which own the Carpenter crushers (the Carpenter mill takes the major part of the Suva copra, and Union Soaps Ltd. the balance) are getting ready for increased business by providing more transport and storage facilities. r The High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (Mr. John Gutch), accompanied by Mrs. Gutch and his ADC, Capt. W. Curtis, RN, left Honiara on April 3 in the* MV Kovala for a tour of Malaita.

How a Pioneer Family is Integrated With Colony of [?] Local Bank for Norfolk [?] MR. REG. TURNER, young; manager of the Commonwes Bank Australia, ex Pee arrived at Norfolk Island e; £ March to open and manage the t local trading bank.

Located in the shopping centre- Burnt Pine, the bank should pn a boon to residents and busin firms previously dependent on IS ney banking facilities.

The savings bank service hario to date by the Postmaster, Mallett, will now be transferred) this Norfolk Island branch of Commonwealth Bank.

Flood Damage in Western Sami HEAVY floods in Western Sai. in March temporarily bloo the Apia water supply caused considerable damage e roads, bridges and hydro-elec* plants, particularly on the east oc of Upolu.

Provision has now been made Mr. Hendrickson, Director of Wm for a new reservoir that willt. proof against such flood dea blockages.

II Mr. M. D. Montenegro, well knr as US Consul in New Caledtf for some years, left Noumea recee to take up his appointment t the American Mission in West 0 many. Mr. W. Lewis, vice-Com is acting in his place pending i arrival of the new Consul, Mn Zimmerman, formerly with thee Consulate in London.

One of the bestknown of the many pioneer families of Fiji is that of the late Mr. and Mrs. F. M.

Waddingham, who established themselves as cane-farmers at Nadi, in western Viti Levu, many years ago. Mr.

Waddingham died in 1939 and Mrs. Waddingham in 1955. Recently, the 10 Waddingham sons and daughters met at a family party, and this unique photograph was taken. It shows; , Back row, left to right; John, who is a member of the Panair staff at Nadi; Paddy, who is a member of the staff of the Treasury, in Suva; Albert, who is manager of the Burns Philp branch at Lautoka; Richard, who is with the District Administration at Nadi; Frank, who is a cane-farmer on the old estate at Nadi; and Bill, who is steward and clerk at the Lautoka Hospital. is the widow of the late Mr. W. Mach who was a CSR Field Officer; and Doreen, is the wife of Mr. Rice, of the Shell Co. at Lautoka.

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[?]G AND [?]ST DEPT. coconut Experts Seek Clues in P-NG VO years ago, when coconut plantations in the Gasmata district of New Britain were ig eaten out by Promecotheca (a miner), alarmed planters suged that the services of a Hawaii jrt, Dr. J. L. Gressitt, be enlisted, r. Gressitt arrived in New Guinea Harch, 1956 —but fortunately for few plantations directly involved.

Promecotheca outbreak has just it righted itself in the interval — abit with this particular pest, pparently Dr. Gressitt’s visit is directed entirely to the Prootheca pest—according to the ial Moresby handout on the subhe is making a survey for the lop Museum under a grant from National Science Foundation will collect all types of insects, ever, he will also do a 2 months ey for the P-NG Department Agriculture on coconut pests Tally. He will spend three or months in the Territory and go on to the BSIP. i is an expert on rhinoceros le pest of coconuts, also—a reof his work in this field was ished some years ago in PIM. tien the Promecotheca outbreak rred in 1953-54, some members le New Guinea Planters’ Assn, ested that a fund be started to ? Dr. Gressitt to NG, and some tions were promised. Apparently fund was not proceeded with, iver.

Bug-Hunter from BSIP entomologist, Mr. E. S. Brown, >n loan to the British Solomon islands Protectorate from the nonwealth Institute of Enlogy, London, spent several s in Papua and New Guinea in h. He is investigating that mial BSIP coconut problem— nutfall—and although the pest causes this is not present in rerritory, a related bug is. Mr. n is interested in the NG bug.

Control of Pest With Predators IE very interesting data about the manner in which the scientists of the Department of ulture are combating the intests of Papua and New Guinea been supplied to one of our sentatives by Mr. G. S. Dun, s the Department’s Senior Enogist, with headquarters at fat, near Rabaul.

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MR. DUN made an interesting comment on the search for snail predator, Ganaxis, witt which to attack Giant Snail pest introduced into New Guinea in wai. time by the Japanese. When he ws in Africa collecting the Zanzibs wasp, Mr. Dun sought specimens o Ganaxis, but had no success.

The country had . just experience an 8-months’ drought, and unde! such conditions the snail Ganax a buries itself 4 inches deep in tW earth. The entomologists in Kenjj thereupon agreed to try and collet Ganaxis for Mr, Dun when condf tions improved. But, since ther one leading official was called u for anti-Mau Mau service, and then have been two bad years in whio the Chief Entomologist there coulj find only three specimens of Ganaxt and one specimen of another predatory snail. Now, the entomologiii is due to go on long leave and wr not be able to collect again untl the wet season of 1957, In view of these disappointment!

Mr, Dun has been trying to get th predator snail from American coc lecting agencies—but without succes The Americans themselves hay islands infes f ed with the Jap-introduced Giant Snail, and themselvr want all the Ganaxis they can pro Cuba.”

“However,” says Mr. Dun, patientl “I now am trying to get a snail prr dator, of another species, fro; Cuba.

“rpHE Zanzibar Scoliid, which bu 1 comes parasitic upon the Rhin«j ceros Beetle, and which I ser back from Zanzibar to New Guinej in 1954, now has become extremes well established at the Vunapojt Mission, at Kokopo.” said Mr. Dut “I now am hopeful that shortly shall be able to collect some of thes and distribute them to other areis affected by the Rhino Beetle. Froc my observations, so far, I gathr that the Scoliid is as abundau here now, after three years, as it in Western Samoa, after about ! years.

“The Mauritius Scoliid, ArycU phaga, did not become establisha here, although the Department! entomologist, Mr. J. R. William kindly sent me some 1,100 female! which arrived in very good shan He sent these in return for som Sugar Cane Borer Ichneuman pan sites I was able to collect for hiri in the Karavat area.”

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FALLING PRICES Western Samoa Faces Budget Headache FACED with a greatly decreased revenue as a result of the fall in cocoa prices and every sign of a poor cocoa crop, and with all the emphasis on expansion of medical services, education, and public works, the Government of Western Samoa will face problems in 1956 that did not have to be considered in 1955, a prosperous trade year.

Adverse weather conditions in recent months have seriously affected the current cocoa crop, which is not expected to recover before the end of 1956.

Some local businessmen are already forecasting the beginning of “the seven lean years,” A steadily dropping cocoa price and the 10 per cent fall in the MOF price for copra show that economies will have to be made somewhere.

The paying days for the cocoa industry are over, says a correspondent especially for European planters who have to pay exorbitant wages for indifferent work. Some are already talking of abandoning their cocoa plantations and going in for cattle raising.

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To Work NC Iron Deposits One of the four "Euclid" .rucks recently landed in Noumea, New Caledonia, from USA for Broken Hill Pty., who will use them on their iron-ore project at the Bay of Prony. 31 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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By Tolala ive” is Out lister Hasluck’s latest ukase to enchmen in the P-NG Adminion again high-lights the conrsial subject of a name for the enes of New Guinea. Where 3le, says the Minister, the word ve” should not be used, unless l adjective. jarently some psychologist has amongst the newlysticated indigenes a sensitivewhich may develop into resentat being called a native. One dined to wonder when the alian native will take umbrage ng called an Aborigine, or just Abo. st Territory natives have had tags applied to them: Startith “eingeborener” during the an regime, which changed in sarly days of the Australian ation to “Kanaka,” “Coon,” ’’ “Indigene,” and “Native;”

War II came the famed y Wuzzy Angel,” and the ful term, “Boong.” natives themselves, in the invariably referred to “a Man So and So,” or the “the People from Such and Such an area” when speaking in their own dialects or in Pidgin.

Safeguards against offending coloured sensitiveness seem to be overdone these days, and only emphasise the Colour line.

An interesting aspect, of course, is how these various people are named in their own languages and dialects; not the English tag we tie to them. . . Methinks we do protest too much.

Natives Talk to UNO Mission The “Look See” section of the UN Trusteeship Committee is doing its regular check-up on Austraha’s responsibility in the Pacific and the natives so far have requested: • Representation in Canberra for the Trust Territory; • That Australia take over the Shortland Islands in the BSI.

Both are high-level questions which must have somewhat flabbergasted the members of the Mission; they, none-the-less, are complimentary to Australia.

It is only since 1900 that Ysabel, Choiseul, Shortland and small islands in the Bougainville Straits have been tacked on to the British Solomon Islands. Many people may not realise that Britain’s gain in this area was her erstwhile loss of Western Samoa, which Germany received in exchange for the northwestern portion of the Solomons.

But the Teutonic reign lasted only 14 years, and when New Zealand troops occupied W. Samoa in 1914 it is recorded that this was “the first time in the history of the Empire that a British Dominion overseas had sent an invading force across the ocean and had captured a foreign territory.” And now, 56 years later the natives of that part of the BSI want to merge themselves with their old clans.

There has been general traffic between Buin (Bougainville) and the Shortlands for many years. In fact (under the lap) many Buin natives were employed in the Shortlands as casual labour on many occasions.

In these days, however, bits of a colonial empire cannot be swopped around as at one time, and even a Salisbury would find unending difficulties with all the multi-lateral and international organisations in control. Life is certainly more complicated now. (Over) 33 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— APRIL, 1956

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Said the UN leader (a former official in British West Africa) : “My friends, I did not come here to talk of these trivial matters—they are for your local officials to adjust and I advise you to go to them. What I came to see is how you are developing your lands that the Good God gave you; how you live; how your health is and how you keep your villages. What do I find? Your lands are not being developed; you do not assist others to develop their holdings: your villages are decrepit, they are unsanitary, they are full of idle people. You depend on trade stores for meat in tins, flour in bags and tobacco in crates. Why do you not grow your own meat, fish in the sea, grow plenty of food crops in your fertile lands and keep your villages in proper order?

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Name I Address Dale Collins death of Dale Collins, one of lia’s most prolific short-story , as well as full-scale author, to mind his first visit to 1 in an American millionaire’s Speejacks, back in the early ;s. craft was anchored off the arf at Easter-time and everytown was on a long and wet r . I met Dale wandering aimibout and introduced him to i NG Club where, in those they drank between drinks ,fe was uninhibited and joy iconfined. made a pub-crawl to Ah Ching King’s and the Rabaul where everything was wide rom dawn to midnight—and irds. is a bit of a shock to Dale, istanding his previous years i Inky Way in Melbourne. gave him some useful il for subsequent writings, sa Tracks of the Speejacks” a best-seller, later to be fol- [ by “Ordeal,” which was sucy filmed. anger brother of his, Admiral in Collins, has recently been :ed Australia’s High Comer in New Zealand. Dale is have made more money than ler Australian writer of his id was a jovial, kindly soul it Mariner i_ n Conan Doyle (a son of the creator of Sherlock Holmes) ing an appeal for someone lowledge to guide him to the less-known Australian pos- ; that lie off the beaten track Pacific,” and he mentions l and Kapingamarangi groups, the first-named is an Aus- Trust group, otherwise as the Feads, and more or ious for various reasons; but ter would presumably come JS Trusteeship, and is also as the Greenwich Islands. It aase of the Japs in pre-War the first to be bombed by ;raft.

Feads are of historical in- They were the site of the :e of several Europeans in d were also one of the most copra-bearing groups in the owned by Queen Emma, and ;h many unfinancial memhis staff were sent as ternmanagers from Ralum in hat their personal accounts i the red) could be adjusted iiting them with their perlaries, plus copra commission, was, incidentally, a very attitude to adopt in order are the accounts of good who had made the error of Ing the amount of their r chits!

Tropic Productions And the Budget At long last it seems that production of tropical produce in P-NG for consump ion in Australia is receiving official approval. Recently (March 21) Minister Hasluck, in reply to a question in the House, pointed out, with emphasis, the advantages accruing to Australia from assisting in the supply from P-NG of tropical commodities.

The saving to Aus ralia in exchange, he said, would be approximately £500,000 on coffee alone.

What is a “European”?

The absence of legal interpretation of the term “European” has been causing some speculation in P-NG judiciary circles since Chief Justice Sir Beaumont Phillips refused to “visually decide” the status of a prosecutrix in a case.

The Germans had a simple method during their time. If a person of mixed blood lived as a European and, if a male, had served the required time in the German army or navy, then he/she was deemed to have European status.

Not so easy to follow that system now, perhaps, with so many natives adopting the European way of life.

In many ins ances our standards of living have deteriorated while those of the native have soared to lofty heights. (Over) 35 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—APRIL, 1956

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Tom Brennan, who succeeded ), meticulously carried on with mpaign until there was a time ‘mossies” were practically unin the township. Prosecutions aunched, irrespective of perigainst those who disregarded :ulations and everyone became Lossie conscious. l a campaign in these days of ive labour costs in any P-NG would be an uphill job, lly (especially if, in future, is to be no “calaboose.”) And much doubt whether the same rative spirit still exists among fidents. There is far too much is isn’t my job, anyway! Why I worry?”

P-NG Investigations Official promises are certainly something like eggs—to be broken.

The latest, coming from the newlyappointed Federal Minister for the Church of England, Rabaul, recently, Mr. Frank Dyer, manager of the Bougainville [?]s married to Miss May Fieldwood, of Liverpool, U.K. Our photograph shows (left to right), [?]ide; the groom; the Rev. A. V. Hatters; Miss Margo Edge (bridesmaid); and Mr. Len [?]estman).

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Works, for a “most through investigation of the operations of the Works Dept, in P-NG and the consideration of i s transference to the Dept, of Territories,” will be awaited with interest.

In fact we can say with as much interest as the long-promised inquiry into Territorial Finances which was promised following the Auditor-General’s report some time ago, but of which nothing more has been published.

If, as suggested by the Minister, the Works Dept, may be transferred to the Territories Dept., it is certain that some red tape may be avoided, and if the modern economist were to consult his slide-rule he would undoubtedly find that every yard of red tape costs the tax-payer (in Australia) another few thousand quid.

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Surely the immediate post-war trend towards nationalisation of industry proved a farce, with the public the suckers who pay for the loss.

The Only Exception The one venture, which is only semi-government, anyhow, which has proved a successful undertaking in P-NG is the Copra Marketing Board and this is due in the main to its capacity to short-circuit red tape and to the practical methods and strong personality of its chairman (Mr. lan McDonald). A recent conference in Rabaul, attended by Territories Secretary Lambert, agreed to the continuance of the present system of copra marketing, with minor amendments.

Let us hope that Ministes approval is obtained for the rett tion of this somewhat unique org? isation.

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can do nothing about it until Ordinance is amended. e deaf ear turned to employers ;op-ranking officials regarding need for a more equitable re Labour Ordinance is notori- The fear that UN Members adversely criticise labour conis in NG has created such a •eyed attitude by the Adminism towards employers that the lance has become practically rkable. It seems to have been Uen that the main legal renent of a contract between two es —quite irrespective of colour— uity, and that is an ethical at- -3 non-existent at present bei employer and employee. ;ives must be made to realise have responsibilities as well as eges. . Knowledge hes On : installation of the automatic lones in Moresby, and the nem that the same type will Derating in Rabaul within 18 is reminds me that a few years ; War II a request was made itomatic telephones in Rabaul prove the service of the somemediocre “Hello Boys.” i official reply was that autos were an impossible feature to the high humidity in that hnical knowledge certainly has iced insofar as radio and across are concerned. At one time il was practically a “blind for radio reception; hence the Jerman station at Bitapaka. n 1923, when units of the US visited the port an attempt lade to launch a seaplane withiccess, owing (so it was stated) mospheric conditions unsuitto carburettors. Time and liques change. ia Pigs ison urally, there has been much sm of the “corrective institureplacing the old “calaboose” 0 me it seems but another iture and precipitate step in ig with the social life of a ;ivs people. them walk before they are to run. For the more primitive guilty of offences through customs and genuine ignor- Df European law, I would sug- -1 system of “Instructive Corn” instead of the “Corrective ution.” sophisticated native offender itled to the full penalty of the lulling no punches, t is the price everyone has to or attaining knowledge. But nkum cannibal, the immolator idows, head-hunter and entious adherent to tribal customs, he is the one deserving of instructive correction for the first offence; a'ter which there should be no discriminatory treatment.

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An old NG lad, Ken Nettleship, Jr., Third Officer of the BI Company, saved the lives of 4 men who were overcome by gas recently in Singapo r e and was commended for courage. . . Miss Susan Williams has announced her engagement to Mr.

Jan Snijders, of Rabaul. They will be married in May and live in Rabaul. . . A son arrived on March 6 to Margot Grimes (she was a daughter of the late “Nobby” Clark, of Rabaul). The son is to be named after her father, Robert Leeuwin.

If Police Inspector John Woodmansey, chief of the Port Moresby Cl Branch, was recently on leave in Toowoomba, Queensland, in which State he served for nine years before entering the Territory Police Force. t New Caledonia was threatened by a cyclone in early March, but the depression moved off to the West and little damage was done. 39 IF I C ISLANDS MONTH L Y —A PRI L . 1956

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Delegates put forward 49 suggestions at the Second South Pacific Conference held at Commission headquarters at Noumea, in April, 1953.

Progress to date on those suggestions, and on all matters of common interest, will be tabled for consideration by 1956 delegates.

As well as delegates and their advisers, observers will be present from SPC member governments, from various international bodies including the World Health Organisation, Food and Agriculture Organisation, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, and from Universities, research institutions and missionary organisations.

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NEW GUINEA (Australian Trust Territory) Delegates; Mr. Simogun Peta, BEM, MIC, Mr. Isime! Towalaka. Alternate Delegates; Mr.

Boski Tom, Mrs. Lila Matalau. Advisers for P-NG: Mr. John Keith McCarthy, MBE, MIC, Mr. Marcus Benjamin Orken, Miss Edna May Gilbert.

NAURU Delegate: Mr. James Ategen Bop. Alternate Delegate: Mr. Raymond Gadabu. Adviser: Mr.

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Netherlands New Guinea

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NIUE Delegate; Mr. Togakilo. Adviser: Mr. H Tawn Nemaia.

FIJI Delegates yet to be announced.

BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS PROTECTORY: Delegates: Mr. Silas Sitai, the Rev. Leoi Alafurai.

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American Samoa

Delegates: High Chief Tuli L. Le'iato, Petero P. Solia. Alternate Delegates; Dr.

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GUAM Delegates; Mr. Manuel A. Calvo, Lagarimas L. G. Untalan (Mrs.). Adviser; Manuel F. L. Guerrero.

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To State Politicians Y Australian Commonwealth iliticians will get free trips to apua and New Guinea, Prime :er Menzies has decided. 3 has annoyed Tasmanian er Cosgrove, who had it in fpr one Government and one ition Member from Tasmania’s State legislature to make the trip at the taxpayers’ expense.

“It’s very important that we should know what’s going on in New Guinea,” he said, “We want to know the position about defence.”

People have been known to pay their own way, of course. Return air-fare: round £l2O. fl The Chief Justice of Fiji, Sir Ragnar Hyne, and Lady Hyne, through Sydney early April hound for England on 6 months lunougn. „ Mr . David Fox, of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, was married to Miss Margaret Stevenson at Sydney in February, Roman Catholic Mission at Apia has ced the appointment of a new Catholic to succeed the late Bishop J. B. Dieter, ied in July, 1955, after holding office ne year. The new Bishop-elect is Rev.

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Exhibition, held in three odernly designed and conflicted pavilions displayed a ehensive selection of French andise —from perfumery and gowns, to heavy industrial nery, and jet helicopters— pportunity was taken to dishe tourist attractions of New >nia and French Oceania, displays by these two terridominating the French Ovcr- ’erritories’ section of the Exn. novel and attractive manner ich the various stands were 5e d delighted hundreds of nds of people who packed the tion throughout the Show.

French Government prote of Australian trade balancibraces not only the developif Metropolitan industries, but hose of its overseas terriand particular attention is ?iven to the valuable mineral :es of New Caledonia, where lia’s Broken Hill Pty., Co., icently contracted to take iron as part of the programme, shipping and air lines are mcouraged to attract greater rom Australia and New Zea- Pierre Fabre, who is responir the promotion of French s territories, flew to Sydney anally direct the construction Overseas Territories’ Section Exhibition.

CALEDONIA provided the fgest display of any of the ench overseas territories, n exhibit 78 ft in length, piece of the display was one f the Pavilion, painted in pastel shades, and featuring of the island in a large repanel. The map was suri by a number of black and Dhotographs of scenery and r on the island, while coloured aphs of marine life bordered >e of the panel. (See cover al display windows along the atured the island’s various ies, and included nickel coffee growing, samples of , products of the Ouaco Canctory and trochus fishing, section of the wall was i by a modernistic mural delife in New Caledonia, by a French artist, Robert er, who has lived on the or the last seven years, cove at one end of the wall sd a display of samples of chromium and iron mined island, together with maps illustrating the mineral potential of New Caledonia. There were also scale models of a small dam constructed 30 miles from Noumea to hold back water from an area where the much larger Yate dam is planned to be built by 1960, to supply the nickel smelting works with increased hydro-electric power.

A variety of native weapons and tabus were centred around NC’s native bird, the Cagou.

Mr. A. Mornaghini, an engineer with the French Government in New Caledonia, was sent over to supervise the construction of the display, and Mademoiselle Monique Holland, of the New Caledonian Tourist Bureau,, was present to answer inquiries.

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Suva C of C Wants To Vet New Legislation THE Suva Chamber of Commerce wants to be given an opportunity of examining all new bills and regulations before they are introduced to Fiji’s Legislative Council.

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This, it contends, could be avoided if the Chamber, which is a representative body with many trades and branches of commerce in its membership, saw proposed legislation. Sub-committees appropriate to the subject could be set up to form the basis of reports sent to Government.

At a recent meeting of the Chamber it was alleged that at least three such matters had been subsequently rectified and another of some importance to the building trade is currently the subject of protest to Government. t Three workmen were badly burnt when a gutter carrying molten residue from the nickel smelting furnaces at Noumea exploded in mid-February.

H During a routine visit too Shortlands Group in March,i John Gutch, High Commissionsi the Western Pacific, made a i sonal call on Mrs. Clara I pioneer resident of Faisi, and invested her with the MBH honour which was awarded t<: in a recent Honours List.

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Pelletier will, however, still he destiny of the new com- Chairman of Directors, with Roger as Manager, and the aff as before. iffices will be opened shortly itt Street, Sydney, and it is ;ention of Ballande (Aus- Pty. Ltd. to extend its ac ivthe export field and also in impor ing from France ;er countries. lany years, as president of nch Chamber of Commerce ley, Mr. Pelletier has been associated with the city’s community. [?]WERE [?]Wharf Pass [?]Settled ;cent decision of the Comper of Customs, Fiji, to injce a system of permits for Suva wharves caused much lissent, and is now to be ramber of Commerce, which ted the ball rolling by ask- 2ustoms for more protection pillaging, was not happy e results that their requrst that every person entering :f area should have a perl a passport-type of photo The Chamber’s protest m amendment—the s, lotos, were to be used only emptroller has now offered i six months trial of free pedestrians day and night entry o f vehicles during At night, drivers will have a good reason for their there. Firms and others ffiicles frequently at the wharves will be provided with a permanent permit.

Members of the Suva C of C expressed themselves as satisfied with the new proposal, and suggested ihat the shipping agents should exercise greater control over those who went on board ships.

The point which seems to have been lost sight of at the beginning is that pedes.rians are not likely to walk down to the wharf to pillage cargo. Apart from the difiiculty of taking it from the ship’s hold, or the wharf shed, getting it through the gates past a watchful gatekeeper would be very difficult.

Some might go down to contact crew members and bring ashore opium or jewellery. But as one member of the Chamber remarked, the Chamber was concerned with pillaging. Smuggling was the Customs job.

TI Mr. William H. Watson, wellkown merchant, of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, accompanied by his wife and daughters, arrived in Sydney late in March by the liner Orion, on his way home after nearly twelve months’ holiday in Europe. They enjoyed all the pleasures of 1955’s wonderful summer “the best summer Europe has known for 50 years.” They wandered leisurely through every country of Western Europe—not omi ting Scotland, the home of this branch of the Watson clan. 47 IC ISLANDS MONTHLT—APRIL. 1956

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The new minimum wage is 58/- a week with certain valuable concessions not enjoyed by workers in other industries. t Mr. John Thyer, P-NG Patrol Officer stationed at Madang, was married on February 25 to Peggy Cadd, of Agery, at Marryatville, SA, and will return to Madang shortly with his bride. t There are over 900 entomologists active in the Pacific area and, to facilitate co-operation between them, they are listed in a volume just received, and available from, the Pacific Science Association, Bishop Museum, Honolulu 17, Hawaii.

Michel-Charles Wedding The marriage of M. Lionel Michel, of Vila, New Hebrides, to Mile. Charles, of Noumea, in February, united two well-known Islands families. The young couple, whose photograph is shown above, will live in Vila.

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At the last Legislative Council meeting a request was received from Aitutaki, in the Southern Group, that some experimental plantings be made there also.

The Director of Agriculture said, however, that the South Pacific Commission’s Fishery Officer, Mr. H. van Pel, considered that this lagoon would probably prove too shallow, although it might still be worth a trial.

Mr. Van Pel had also recommended that the minimum size of shell permitted to be fished in the Northern atolls be increased from 41 inches to 5 inches, and that a square mile of the deeper waters of the Manihiki lagoon be pegged as a shell breeding area.

Appeals against the en f ire closure of the Manihiki lagoon during 1956, with the alternative proposal that the minimum size be increased instead, were set aside for consideration until Mr. Van Pel’s report and recommendations, following a visit last year, are received.

The Manihiki people claim that complete closure of the lagoon will result in hardship. t The next air shuttle service between Aitutaki and Rarotonga by NZ Civil Aviation Bureau’s DCS under charter to TEAL is scheduled for the first week in June. fl Mr, Paul Mow, son of Mr. Thorm Mow, Chinese businessman Rabaul, New Guinea, has passed I final for the degree of Bachelor Economics, at Sydney University. 3 is believed to be the first Chine! resident of New Guinea to has graduated in Economics. 50 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!!

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LY slight amendments to the proposals of New Zealand for a jlan of constitutional develop- ; for Western Samoa (March ) were made in a recent joint on of the Fono of Faipule loan Parliament) and the Legis- -3 Assembly of Western Samoa, e meeting of the two repreitive bodies took place in Apia sen February 20 and March 1. e only dissenting voice, opposall resolutions passed by the representative bodies, was that iropean elected member P. L. M. an. His opposition to every i toward self-government cond in the NZ proposals some- > led to stormy scenes, e first step towards self-govlent is to be undertaken this —the addition of two elected jers of the Legislative Assembly ie Executive Council, one to be sd by the European elected bers of the Assembly and one id by the Samoan elected mem- These, together with the pre- Members of Executive Council European and three Samoan) with the official members of Executive Council, become resible for Government Departs allotted to them by the High nissioner. e second step in Constitutional opment will be taken in 1957 the election of the new House jpresentatives, probably in Sepsr, 1957. This body is to replace present Legislative Assembly the Fono of Faipule and is to st of 41 Samoan, five European :wo official members, lowing the election of the new ament, Ministerial Government be established with the ative Council functioning as a cil of Ministers. The High nissioner and the two present aa (High Chiefs Tamasese and itoa) would cease to be memof the new legislature, which 3 be presided over by a Speaker 3d by the House and led by a r of Government business, e third and final step would be i not earlier than 1960 and 1 implement the introduction of Cabinet Government with a ier presiding over the Council inisters and leading the Legise. The High Commissioner and 7 autua would no longer attend ngs of the Council of Ministers, i would thus become a Cabinet.

Jetail the proposals as accepted by the ession of Legislative Assembly and Fono LEGISLATURE: A single legislature will ■ the present two bodies in 1957. The tore is to be elected every three years, lower to dissolve the legislature in riate circumstances is to be vested in the Head of State, or, until this Head is established, in the High Commissioner. • SUFFRAGE: Suffrage in Samoan constituencies to be limited to Samoan "matais" (family heads) and only "matais" to be candidates for election. European members elected by universal franchise as at present. • CONSTITUENCIES: The number of Samoan members of the new legislature to be increased from 41 to 45 to allow for population variations. • HEAD OF STATE; It was again agreed that the present Honourable Fautua (High Chiefs Tamasese and Malietoa) be the joint Heads of State, acting together and with equal power. Their term should be for life with provision to permit either or both of them to resign at any time. Future vacancies of Head of State to be decided by the Parliament of Western Samoa when the time comes. (The New Zealand proposals doubted the wisdom of having more than one person as Head of State and also pointed out that it would be advisable to have the Head of State appointed for a fixed term instead of for life). • EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT; An amendment on the NZ proposal for establishment of Cabinet Government, provided that the Premier may be removed by a majority of Parliament on any matter of confidence (instead of a two-thirds majority originally proposed).

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JUDICIARY; It was agreed that the ’ practice, whereby the Chief Judge is ted by the New Zealand Government, continue for an indefinite period and » change in the method of appointment Chief Judge should take place at least duration of the first and second steps.

OMMON DOMESTIC STATUS OF INHABI- This is still in the hands of a committee which has been deliberating considerable period without reaching definite conclusions and recommendations on the subject.

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form of the final relationship of Western Samoa to New Zealand to be determined at a later stage when constitutional development is more advanced, it will probably be based on an agreement or alliance similar to the arrangement at present existing between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Tonga. There will be a representative of New Zealand residing in Western Samoa, the status, powers and functions of this representative depending upon the exact nature of the relationship between the two countries. [?]if-Rule For Western Samoa, But Not Democracy From a Special Correspondent EN we speak of Samoa wantng “self-government” we )bvio u s 1 y imply that the ans are not at the moment ug their own country, actual fact the Samoans have own anthem, their own flag, own banknotes and have had lajority vote in the Legislative ibly since 1948. Coupled to in view of her pres economic situation. W. Samoa the enviable position of being o leave the solution of her more ng problems to New Zealand, spite of this, NZ has acceded y definite demands by Samoan s for self-government by 1960. ardless of the proximity or not of autonomy, the question inevitably arises as to what right anybody has to tell the Samoans how to run their own country or decide what form their government should take.

Samoa is now a Trust Territory of the United Nations, administered by New Zealand, with the ultimate view of self-government, and the Western World after a long history of bitter experience has developed a philosophy towards the evolution of government of backward people.

The view of the New Zealand Government was put by the Hon. Clifton Webb, one-time Minister of Island Territories, when in his address to the joint session of the Fono of Faipule and Samoan Legislative Assembly in 1952, he stated: “Selfgovernment as I understand it, means, and is intended to mean, democratic self-government, which means the election of members on a basis of universal suffrage, men and women, and I think the way to work towards the promotion of selfgovernment is to begin from what we call the ground level, work up from the village, district and so on gradually towards the central political structure.”

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The present political structure of Samoa is largely based on Samoan customs. Each family group chooses a family head or matai. The matai of each 41 districts elect from among themselves a district representative who sits in the Fono of Faipule.

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These are mostly heads of government departments).

As one male in every five is a matai, under this system 80 per cent, of Samoan males and all females are denied a direct voice in government.

In 1954, a Constitutional Convention was instituted by the High Commissioner to draw up plans for the attainment of self-government. The selection of Samoan members was, as usual, based on custom and European electors were asked to elect 7 members to represent them at the Convention.

Perhaps influenced by the views of the 1953 United Nations Mission and the Minister of Island Territories that self-government was a long way off, the public was so disinterested in plans for a nebulous future that only 35 per cent, voted as compared with the about 70 < cent, at the previous election European representatives in the ■ sembly.

Since the Convention, Samn leaders and the administration M consistently stated that the conv tion expressed the will of the peo In actual fact a great majority the people have never had the opp tunity to express their views.

The New Zealand proposals o form closely to the proposals tss lated by the Constitutional Conv tion and envisage complete self-g eminent by 1960. With memories the “Mau” in 1930, when the ti High Chief Tamasese was shot df by the New Zealand constabular;i quell an uprising, the New Zeal, government has leaned so far bs< wards to appease Samoan denial that they have agreed to ment based on Samoan custoc expressing the vague hope 1 universal suffrage may be inr. duced “in the future.”

In February of this year the F 3 of Faipule and Legislative Assem jointly discussed and approved I Zealand's latest proposals. Whes these deliberations are the pre!e to disorder or to an era of peao progress is questionable in the mr of the populace, but with one i ception Samoan and European 1© lators pressed on towards their apparently oblivious of the danr and complications attendant u these plans.

The Hon. P. L. M. Morgan—a lone voice. 54 APRIL. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH I

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M. Morgan, who with some »rt from European electors and support from that unknown ;ity, the bulk of Samoan people have no vote, says he opposes Dlans for self-government bethe country is not yet ready . (“I am not against self-govent but there is a great difee between self-government fantastic experiments in selfnment.”) Unfortunately, Mr. an has a flamboyant way of most things, and this offends lie-hard traditionalists. Conntly any pearls of wisdom that 11 from his lips are frequently 3d. ! political requisites of selfgovernment are that there should be enough educated, gent people to run the governand the population should be ted and have power enough sure that their representatives »r the general good, nomic problems further com- -3 the W. Samoan situation and generally admitted that with pid increase in population the ory is in a very precarious mic position. It is living well d its means and is committed uch extravagant expenditure, ling on good prices for pro- In Education alone, in the ' years, expenditure has gone rom £70,000 to £250,000 per n, an increase far in excess of increase in production or lal income. the moment there is no fullan at the head of any deent and there is unlikely to 3 for a number of years. There fly two or three Samoans who rominent in business or agrie. Through no fault of their the background and vision of Samoan politicians is so narrow preclude the tolerance and m so necessary in the years ing the major poli ical change snvisage. ing discussions on self-govmt, one Samoan speaker : “We have reached a tnous decision with the exn of the minority.” re is more in this ex raordinary, man’s” statement than meets ye. In Samoan politics the ity is inclined to believe its really is unanimous and n lies the danger. Local eans, and Europeans who now play so dominant a part in Samoan commerce, agriculture and the Civil Service, fear that with self-government they may be overwhelmed.

The action of Samoan leaders in opposing universal suffrage shows that either they feel that their people are not sufficiently educated to be given a direct voice in the government, or that they fear public opinion as expressed through the ballot box.

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Samoa has a long history of political violence and if New Zealand pushes ahead with her plans for a government that will be so dangerously undemocratic, in a country that is so lacking in the essentials of good government, she must be prepared for violent repercussions. t An early sequel to the murder of a native woman at Rarotonga on December 27, during a brief stay of the north-bound Waitsmata at that port, was expected following the arrival at Auckland of two New Zealand police officers on that vessel’s return there mid-March. 55 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL , 1966

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In the accompanying photograph —one of those sent by Mr. Fulton — Mr. Youlden is shown in his role of umpire.

Mr. Fulton says that Rabaul first became interested in baseball v hen the US Navy vessel Milwaukee visited the town in 1925 and played T he Government Representative team, May, 1930, back row, left to right: E. Fulton, H.

Waldby W. Dowd J. Williams, W. Marshall (Capt.), L. Gane. Front row: R. Youlden (Umpire), J. Burke, J. Marshall, A. Eglinton. 57 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY- A P R I L . 1956

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Ray Youlden did not give up, however, and with several other pioneering spirics soldiered-on and in 1929 finally started the baseball Club and a series of matches.

At first the matches were played on the cricket oval but the same old diehards were not enthusiastic about that either, and in 1930 Youlden organised a separate baseball field.

It is interesting to note that although Rabaul in those days had a much smaller population than it has now, there were then playing in local baseball a far larger number of ex-Australian top-grade players.

In addition to Youlden and Fulton, there were “Doc” Trennery (University, NSW); Bill Marshall (Petersham, NSW); Harold Murphie, now a senior member of Burns Philp Head Office, Sydney, and ‘Hammie”

Morton (both of Waverley, NSW).

In addition, the late Jack Bruce had played in Canada; and one of the greatest sponsors of the game in those days was Mr. Jack Gilmore, also from Canada.

Another interesting point—at that time, over a quarter of a century ago, the Captain of the NSW State baseball side was “Eski” Lambert, better known to present generation Territorians as Mr. C. R. Lambert, Secretary of the Department of Territories.

The theatre programmes wl Mr. Fulton sent along to subs.af ate his claim were interesting : themselves as well as for the snipe of baseball history they contain: One was a programme for Sport of Kings,” staged by I players in May, 1930; the oc "Tons of Money,” played in JI 1932.

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R. Bishop, Harry Wormald, ;er Dickie Cardew, E. Berkeley 5, Misses Marjorie and Jean nt, E. Slee and A. Eglington. e war did extraordinary things lew Guinea, not the least of h was that it cut history comly in two. The majority of torians of to-day believe history ;abouts began about 1942—and rents on the other side of the ion, before that fatal January 942, they know little and care ;. This is understandable gh—but galling to old Terrins. [?]o the NZ Dolphin [?]is Polynesian [?]niwha 5 death in early March of )po the gay and friendly lolphin of Opononi, New Zeawho achieved world notice his water-polo skill and charmmtics with local bathers, has, pears, a link with Polynesian ology. wording to 86-year-old Hohepa ri, who claims to be the oldest ; leader of the Ngapuhi people okianga, North Auckland, the Dpo was the taniwha Arai-tesacred fish guardian of the umu canoe that was promin the second Polynesian ition from Hawaiki to New nd and that is closely associwith the history of Rarotonga.

Dy the fearless Tamatea Ariki and guarded by Arai-te-Uru, Ono, the Takitumu voyagers [ their way with many adres to Whangaparaoa, on the :oast of North Auckland, then I North Cape to Hokianga, ual home of the Ngapuhi e.

Arai-te-Uru (Opo) fell the ir of guarding the shores o r mga, and this he has done for ast 600 years or so—according iperi. irned by many admirers, Opo luried in state at Opononi and norial will be erected to cornrate his frolics with the human is.

G. Nevill, Resident Commis- • of the Cook Islands, and Mr. ire, Official Secretary, flew to ogton in early March to d:sthe Belshaw-Stace Economic t on the Cook Islands with 'tmental Heads and rrturned rotonga by TEAL aircraft later ime month.

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[?]R ABSENTEEISM DLLOWING the editorial about so-called “absentee planters” in the February issue of PIM, I ik a few facts from the other ; of the fence would be in order, a respect of replantings and imvements, New Guinea plantais whose owners are resident for t of their time in Australia, come more than favourably with stations whose owners live in Territory permanently, hese absentee owners, in the n, are men who have spent 30 :0 years on the job and are there- ; now able to spend part of their e elsewhere. ew Guinea planters are not jssarily peasant farmers and run- ? a plantation is as much a busi- -5 as bringing out a magazine, editor of which does not have >e tied to a linotype, rdinary economics apply to iting as to other business —that capital, supported by sound inisation and sound management id it is irrelevant whether the er resides part-time in Ausia, full-time on the plantation or ttle time on the plantation and t of time in Rabaul. l my own case—although I live ; of the time in Australia —all coconuts cut out of my New ain plantation by the Japs have i replanted and most are bearand what little virgin land retied in 1947 has now been tted-up—none of the 720 acres ;he property are now left united. addition, the maximum number cocoa trees—7o,ooo —has been .ted and planting of this kind hed two years ago. 1 buildings, plant, vehicles and is are first-class and, in my ion, no plantation run by a -put owner is better set up or is considered normal for public ants and others to establish a e in Australia after retirement s ill draw a pension from the itory in which they invested ur but no capital, and from re, during service, they availed iselves of regular, paid leaves, le planter has invested both ur and capital and in many cases pends years in the country withany leave. hen and if the time comes when is no longer required to stick losely to the job, he is still pred to leave his capital there and pply his efforts to the continued lopment of New Guinea (and ientally earn his own pension).

Therefore, it is logical to deny the planter the right to live in Australia even part-time on retirement?

Or must he, because he is a planter, leave his bones in NG to fertilise the coconuts?

If it is the latter then interested parties should apply to the writer immediately: Under those circumstances my plantation is on the market to the first official or journalist who yearns to make a belated, practical contribution to the development of the Territory by investing his capital to buy out an absentee-planter, by saying farewell to Australia, and by spending the remainder of his days “staying on the job” in NG.

Many of the planters now in Australia are old men; most of them personally re-opened their properties in 1946 when they were in their sixties.

It is, after all, not the exclusive privilege of these older planters to keep on planting up New Guinea.

There is plenty of room for new men who are keen on investing their capi.al and labour.

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March 9, 1956. fl Mr. John Bennett, who was in Fiji from 1940 to 1949, first as Registrar- General and later as a Magistrate, has been appointed Puisne Judge, High Court of Lagos, Nigeria. Mr.

Bennett has been a Chief Magistrate in Nigeria since April, 1951. 63 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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Highlands Coffee Needs Good Land, Wise Development According to Professor Y. B. Goto, a world authority on coffee 'ture, one quarter of the plantations that he inspected in the Papua- ;w Guinea Highlands in February are on good coffee land, about one- If on mediocre land, and the remaining quarter on poor land. But :re was a promising future for the industry—if wisely developed. i clear, factual review of coffee »tential in the P-NG Highlands, •ofessor Goto outlined the e, as he saw it, to a large ;ring of interested people in lank of NSW Reception Rooms, ey, on March 18. e Professor is Director of the ultural Extension Service of the srsity of Hawaii, and his recent lands survey was arranged by R. A. Colyer, of Sydney, and ;ored by Colyer Watson (NG) the Bank of New South Wales, nonwealth Bank, Mr. Robert ing, and the Goroka Farmers’

Settlers’ Assn. jr the past 2 years Professor has visited more than a dozen Ties in the interests of coffee ?rs and agriculturists and he greatly impressed with the exand possibilities of the almost i P-NG Highlands as a future i country.

Of the 87 plantations he visited in an intensive and well-organised survey, 73 were European owned, 7 native owned, 5 operated by Missionary societies, and 2 by the P-NG Department of Agriculture.

To-day ardbica coffee planting in this cool, spacious tableland approaches 3,200 acres. Of this total three-quarters is in the Eastern Highlands, 400 acres is in the Wau area, and about 200 acres on native land.

The fertility of the vast, unexploited balance of Highlands land is, the Professor said, “spotty,” and much of it, he emphasised, has either been worked for centuries by the natives to exhaustion point, or is regarded by them as fit only for tribal “fighting lands.”

But there is much good land amongst the poor and mediocre, with the necessary 2 to 4 ft of rich topsoil and well-drained subsoil.

In the Highlands, a healthy growth of pitpit seems to point to good coffee land. Kunai grass is also a surface indication of fair coffee country, while the presence of a shrub similar to the well known Australian bottle-brush is indicative of poor coffee land.

Much mediocre land already planted or awaiting developmentpromises well at to-day’s coffee prices if assisted with adequate drainage, fertilisers and cover crops.

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This, he said, was a matter of research between planters and the P-NG Department of Agriculture.

He is of the opinion that phosphate content is low, or in a form not available to the coffee plant.

Professor Goto was happy about the Highlands climate. It was close enough to the ideal of two dry months plus ten months of wellspread rainfall.

The dry period in the Highlands could be offset by moisture conservation through adequate shading and mulching.

In its natural state the coffee plant is a forest shrub and “forest land is No. 1 coffee land.” Professor Goto recommended that forest land be made available to interested planters.

Given depth of topsoil and good drainage, the other basic needs of a successful coffee plantation are adequate shade (against both heat and wind), and good seedlings.

Present experience in the Highlands suggests Albizzia Stipulate, as an ideal shade tree but he believes the root growth of the native Albizzia is too extensive and takes nourishment from the coffee plants.

The natives favour the casuarina as a shade tree and wind-break but for the same reason as above, the Professor recommends it only with reserve.

He urged experimentation with shade trees until experience provided the best answers. Plant shade trees 18 feet apart, he says, then, when well developed, thin as observab and local factors suggest.

As regards choice of Arah varieties, he urged specialisati and he himself favours Typica ano Bourbon.

Coffee plants are delicate and J 66 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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SOLOMON ISLANDS: K. H. Dalrymple Hay Esq., Honiara. •MC* constant nurturing and inual attention. There is no e in running a coffee plantafrom the club verandah, ifessor Goto suggests 30 to 50 as adequate for a planter isly interested in coffee husry. Carefully promoted, such rea will provide the capital for ision later. ere is no such thing as uniform ng practice. It depends so much le form, structure, health and system of individual plants, ocal cropping facilities and exace. ners frequently are reluctant ndertake drastic pruning of ng branches. In Hawaii, bearranches are never left for more six years.

ROPER processing can produce e worst of coffee from the best beans and Professor Goto 1 planters to get together now omote efficient communal proig plants, essential for the iction of a uniformly high ard of Highlands coffee, i processing plants cater for eeds of more than 1,000 coffee ers in Hawaii, considered that a number of stablished NG European plants were too close together to ivailable local labour to best itage.

Dressed with the hydro-electric tial in the Highlands, he relended its early development to i the power essential to all ssing requirements. 2h of the coffee country in ii is stony and of poor fertility he desirable U tons of green per acre is achieved by the use le equivalent of 745 lbs of mium sulphate, 96 lbs of superihate, and 204 lbs of potassium ate per acre. duction figures of up to 1 ton :re have already been achieved !W Guinea and the local prois currently fetching about )er ton. some Hawaiian plantations ngs planted in the 1890’s are >roducing good crops from the umps. evidence of the future coffee ects in the Highlands, Pro- Goto pointed to the healthy reductive 20-year-old plants in jutheran Mission plantations, vaiian planters have to conwith labour costs of £4 to £5 ead per day and all field and ssing procedure was geared to the most of this outlay, fessor Goto believes that coffee ■e could make a substantial ibution to the future economic > of the Highlands’ natives and opes that they will be given g assistance to contribute to the quantity and quality of the industry. one instance he addressed 400 natives and demonstrated ng and procedure in shade :hinning.

He was interested in some reactions, as conveyed to him through the village spokesman: • What price could the Professor offer for coffee to-day? • When was the Administration going to supply them with free fertiliser? • And as their arms became tired when picking the coffee berries, was there a machine that could do this? t Aticipating local benefit from the havoc in Fiji’s banana plantations as a resulh of the January floods, Western Samoa banana growers prepared to ship 25,000 cases per Ferruary Matua, but only 15,000 shocks were on hand at Apia in which to ship them, due to some mis-management, source unknown.

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1,000 INHABITANTS WHILE the small and overburdened police force of Noumea grows smaller, population, drunkenness and prostitution increase triumphantly.

This is revealed in 4 he Police Commissioner’s report for 1955, in which he stresses some of the problems inseparable from control of a mixed population of New Caledonians, Indonesians, Vietnamese, Tahitians, and Europeans.

Besides crime in its various forms, innumerable complexities of administrative, traffic and licencing laws are dealt with by a force of 20 oolice officers in a town of 22,000 people. 67 'ine ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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[?]OUTAGE Australia May Fill [?]ji's Rice Gap 1 is an ill-hurricane that does not blow someone some good— even when it is only a near-miss ricane. Beneficiaries of the ret floods, torrential rains and pical depressions in Fiji could the Australian rice industry. 7ith this in view, Mr. E. R. dham, of the Rice Growers’ Cojrative, millers of 70 per cent, of W Irrigation Area-produced rice, well as a co-operative society of wers, left Sydney for Fiji late rch. 0 reliable estimate of the flood lage done to local rice crops is available from Fiji, but specu- -1 in rice stocks was already ent in the Colony by mid-March. ;e rises from lOd and 1/- per nd to 1/6 per pound followed second flood period earlier in month. Subsequently the Dnial Secretary presided over a ting of representatives of the firms. ormally, Fiji is almost selficient in rice. In 1955, 579 tons e imported—including 124 tons a Australia, 321 tons from ia and 58 tons from Thailand.

There is a local prejudice against Australian rice—it is alleged to be softer when cooked than Indian rice and without the same “polish.”

On this subject PlM’s Suva correspondent has this to say: “Australian rice can be landed in Suva at about the same price as pre-flood Fiji rice.

The difference in quality can easily be borne.” The italics are ours as these sentiments are indicative of the different kind of market that Australian growers will have to cater for in Fiji.

Most of Australia’s export rice goes to the SW Pacific as native rations and, in so far as Papua-New Guinea is concerned, the quality and variety is dictated by the P-NG Health Department, the arbiter of native labour rations. Irrespective of what the natives might think about it, the Health Department says that unpolished or vitaminenriched rice is good for them, and so that is what they get.

The reverse is the case in Fiji.

Fijians are not rice eaters—it is the Indians who * are the rice connoisseurs and the rice consumers in that country, and if they prefer it highly polished and white and without vitamins there is no one to say them nay.

Role Of Australia In

Pacific Rice Market

AUSTRALIAN rice production increased enormously during the war and post-war years, when because of war and post-war Asian 69 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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CAPRICORN n VIRGO AQUARIUS LEOC political troubles the Commonwealth was the only source of rice for most of the Pacific. For a decade no rice was available for home consumption in Australia —all of it went overseas, most of it to feed Pacific Islanders. In this way the rice industry contributed not a little to the war and post-war effort.

But the industry later was rewarded by being granted a monopoly of the rice market in the large Territory of Papua-New Guinea, which before the war had bought its rice on the open market, most of it from Saigon.

For a number of years no one thought anything about this monopoly—there was a world rice famine, anyhow, and there was no rice available, cheaper, anywhere.

And because of the rice famine, world rice prices soared and Australian rice prices soared with them, up to around £lOO per ton.

The Australian prices having soared, stayed there and it was not until late 1954 when Islands merchants in Sydney tried to ship Saigon rice to the Territory that Territorians learned that Eastern rice was back on the market at a price considerably below that of Australian rice.

Most P-NG residents discovered, also for the first time, that Eastern rice was a “prohibited import” and that Australia had the rice market monopoly. A lot of these people went on record as being “shocked” at this situation and some uncomplimentary things were said abo the Australian rice industry gene ally.

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NEW CALEDONIA & NEW HEBRIDES: G. Boulanzou, 38 Rue de Charleroi, Noumea. imp them, so it seemed that the tralian rice industry must be tutted to come out victorious in little preliminary brush. fis position held until April, 1955, n the price of Australian rice £AB3 per ton F. 0.8. Sydney for la and New Guinea, and £A9O ton for other Pacific Islands; when Eastern rice was ben £ASO and £A6O per ton. the middle of that month two ?s happened: Dr. John Gunther, Director of th in P-NG, said that “the P-NG imer cannot be expected to sube the Australian rice industry longer.” And The P-NG Administration aniced that they would, from 1, lift the embargo on rice * than Australian. e result is now ancient history ween mid-April and June 1, Australian Rice Mill Owners’ announced that they would ly rice to the Territory at an price of £A6S per ton —a drop in of £lB per ton—and the P-NG inistration announced that the rgo was on again.

Is, naturally, was regarded as a iph for P-NG bargaining—as it übtedly was. But there is one t that is unknown to most imers in the Islands: Before he n his mission to Fiji in March r ordham told PIM that before alian rice interests were able op their price by £lB per ton rear, they had to persuade the Rice Marketing Board to pay >sidy. Many who asked with heat last April how the asson could suddenly afford to sell ce at so very much less will iterested to know this, and ps will revise their opinion of idustry. How much of the £lB on fall was made up bv the ly, PIM does not know; it was to us, too, to know that the taxpayer was helping out with ; ration costs in P-NG. re is undoubtedly much to be or a soundly based Australian industry—recent history has i that during the war and it was a very present help ne of trouble. The industry down also, that it can adapt to circumstance—albeit it had shown the way pretty sharply, it can deliver the goods the ner wants —such as brown or in-enriched rice for P-NG — the customer certain that he ting what he ordered.

Fiji market, in normal years, ikely to be more than a small m of that of P-NG, but rrent visit of Mr. Fordham ins that Australian rice interests dive to the desirability of ing what there is of it, and ig what it can to overcome the lice there against the Ausi product.

Rice Will Cost Less This

YEAR The Australian rice harvest is in April and the price for the year is fixed as from May 1. For the 12 months beginning on that date, therefore, the FOB price Sydney will be £A62/10- per ton for brown rice; £A6B 10/- for whfie vitamin enriched rice, with a surcharge of 10 - per ton on lots less than 5 tons.

These prices will apply to rice exported to Papua-New Guinea but we understand from Mr. Fordham that Fiji will also participate in these prices which represent a substantial fall from the 1955 rates when brown rice for P-NG was £A6S per ton, FOB Sydney.

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The project commenced in 1948 and the findings resulting from this latest expedition will be presented to the MRC and Island Territories Department in due course. 71 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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Nondugl Sheep Experiment Will not be Permitted to Fail Sir Edward Hallstrom had this to say to a PIM reporter, in Sydney, i March: “New Guinea is one of those places where people without xperience have been guilty of saying you can’t do this or that. These eople would be far wiser if they took the ‘T’ out of can’t and rolled up ieir sleeves and got on with the job.”

R, EDWARD was discussing the Hallstrom Livestock and Fauna Trust which, through the exmental station, has introduced iney Marsh sheep to the New nea Highlands. tie original flock of sheep introsd to the area has done sufntly well for Sir Edward recently ave established a stud there, and pedigree Romney Marsh stud ip have been secured from Vici. . spite of what critics have said, Edward is quite satisfied with progress of the sheep at Nondugl his view was endorsed recently fficers of the P-NG Department igriculture. r Edward gave PIM the followfacts: ►NDUGL Station, situated in the 100-inch rainfall Wahgi Valley, is operated by the Trust, of :h Sir Edward is chairman.

Although the station’s efforts to raise sheep in the Highlands over the past eight years has already cost this philanthropist well over £lOO,OOO, it appears that the project is now bearing fruit, and will result in ultimate benefits for New Guinea native people.

Numerous problems and difficulties had to be overcome in the establishment of what is claimed to be “one of the most modern sheep stations imaginable.” > When it was hacked out of dense undergrowth, the station was found to be situated on old native gardens and many deep trenches crisscrossing the area made the job of clearing and levelling difficult.

Since everything that either enters or leaves the Wahgi Valley must travel by air, pastures have had to be improved without the benefit of superphosphate. Experiments in the selection of suitable grasses are still going on, and the nutrition level of the sheep, which at one time almost defeated the project, is now being steadily improved.

Worm infestation is a major problem in this heavy rainfall country, but this has been overcome by the division of the 800-acre station into 10-acre paddocks for rotational grazing. Steel posts, and barbed and net wire were flown in from Sydney by plane, and an extensive fencing programme has been practically completed.

Construction of a stud house which will provide a considerable amount of shedding for the sheep in wet weather is almost completed.

The original Romney Marsh flock of 1,400 has dwindled to 1,000. This is due to losses during the early period of establishment and the 73 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1956

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Established in th«> Pacific Islands since 1876 recent sale of weaker stock for rations, leaving the best of the flock to be further improved by the new stud sheep. The recent importations came from the stud of Mr, Ivor Manton, Manegeeta (Victoria), and comprise 30 stud ewes and two heavily fleeced stud rams, together with 14 flock ewes.

The project has the wholehearted backing of Mr. Manton and other Romney Marsh breeders, who are determined that the station will not fail. Mr. M. L. Johnston, stud manager of the Manton Romney flock flew to the New Guinea Highlands to confer with the resident station manager, Mr. Frank Pemble Smith, on the establishment of a new stud and on a future breeding programme for the already existing flock ewes.

Sir Edward said that since it has become known that valuable stud 3heep have been sent to Nondugl, jnany inquiries have been received from local Highlands residents running a few sheep, seeking rams to improve their flocks.

Sir Edward believes that there are many places in New Guinea where sheep could be raised satisfactorily. There is much undulating country with, for the tropics, comparatively low rainfall. On the other hond, no part of New Guinea is ever affected by serious drought.

Nondugl station keeps accurate statistics of the flock, including death from injuries and sickness.

Some advantages the station has over Australian sheep-farmers are that in NG there is no fluke and foot-rot, and the fleece is very clean, and contains no burr or dust.

Sir Edward claims that the station is in a much more fortunate position than many in Australia, and its losses are no more than that of the average grazier.

While he believes that the Romney Marsh breed is the most suitable type of sheep for the Highlands, he may later introduce a Scottish breed, which is renowned for its hardy qualities, and which migJ be suitable for NG.

Little trouble has been expe9 enced in introducing cattle to H Highlands, and there is a tremera ous amount of cattle country avas able throughout this area.

Sir Edward believes that Nondn Station will become an imports.

Government station for the intid duction of various breeds of sha and cattle to assist in supplyh meat urgently required for the K Highlands and the coastal areass 74 APRIL, 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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N interesting sidelight on Nondugl Station is the establishment of a 20-acre zoo on adhng ground. This contains Buds 3 aradise, tree-climbing kangaroos s-cus), many parrots and rare v Guinea ducks. isitors to the zoo are predomtely native, but few Europeans /felling through the area pass up chance of a close-up look at ie of New Guinea’s wildlife. •ne of the rarest ducks in the Id, the Salvadori, comes from v Guinea and, this year, Sir /ard has been successful in breedit in the Nondugl zoo. This is first time that it has been bred captivity, and he received contulations from all over the world.

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IE busy United States Fish & Wildlife Service vessels Hugh M. Smith and John R. Manning irned to their Honolulu base in ember after a 15,000 miles cruise he Eastern Pacific, ne of the projects on this cruise to transfer a consignment of ill sardine, known scientifically Harengula vittata, from •quesas to Hawaiian waters. The line is said to occur at times great abundance in the •quesas bays, but on this ision when the Hugh M. Smith ed, the fish were not plentiful, /ever 130 buckets of fish were :ed, of which 20 buckets survived voyage to Hawaii, most of the ainder being lost overboard ,ng a spell of heavy weather, tie object of this transfer is to whether these sardines can be blished in Hawaiian coastal srs as a much needed bait fish the commercial tuna fishermen •ating out of Honolulu. There great scarcity of suitable small at the present time, nlike the Japanese who use )-line methods and dried or dn bait-fish brought from Japan, their South Pacific operations, American boats pole-fish on the ace. Live bait-fish are carried anks on deck, and when a shoal una is sighted the boat heads the area and “chums” the ocean i live fish thrown overboard, e the tuna start taking the -fish they become frenzied and take unbaited hooks with [icial lures, as used by the 3rmen. This way there is no y in re-baiting the hooks. r. D. T. Lloyd has been promoted he post of Director of Lands, es and Surveys in Fiji. Mr. d has been Deputy Director since il, 1954, and has been acting as ctor during the pre-retirement e of Mr. R. V. Cole. 75 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—APkTL, 1956

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Tradition, No Face

1 traditional view concerning )riental poker-faces was temporarily shattered in Fiji rey when Chan Chen Ching was £lOO for attempting to avoid ms duty on 3 gold bangles, 12 rings, and a pearl ring, all ted in a tin of tea. sng’s nervous manner in deig the contents confirmed the •ms officer’s suspicion that no iman in his right mind would 32/- air freight on a tin of vhich could have been bought y for a few shillings, dence showed that Ching had Dusly been an officer of the d Revenue Department and the law on such matttrs,

When In Rome—Or

RAROTONGA HNG last December a Euro- 3an residence in Rarotonga was roken into and several valuwhich included a gold pocket with crest, a crested silver :tte case, a signet ring, a ng ring, and a diamond ring, stolen. These articles had been j possession of the family for il generations, and therefore reat sentimental value as well irinsic worth.

Police were informed, but make no headway in the case, me dragged by the lady of >use became impatient and deto do something herself, local method of advertising s and cinema attractions is truck carrying a native peri band to go around the island, ts advertising the show are n to the crowds of youths and sn attracted by the music, and eculiar method of disseminatiformation has proved very ve. lady set off round the island :r car, accompanied by her hildren. The boy, an expert 3 native slit-gong and keroan technique, provided the and the girl distributed leathering a £2O reward to anysupplying information that lead to the recovery of the ties. ug on information obtained in lanner, the Police were able :over some of the valuables had been buried in swampy i, and a man who was already ; a twelve months jail sentence mother housebreaking, was to be the thief—W. H. [VAL.

Columnist Cruise In The

Cannibal Isles

ROBERT C. RUARK, American columnist, who is better known hereabouts for his writing about Africa than for anything he did in the US, was visiting New Guinea in March. Small samples of his wares have subsequently appeared in the Sydney Telegraph.

Robert C. appears to be getting most of his facts straight but you have to dig so deep among the home-spun Americanisms to see it that the average reader is likely to give up and write the author and the Territory 6ff as some sort of fast-patter act. “I ate grandpa because I loved him,” is the heading on one of his stories; another, in Australian aborigine Pidgin, begins; ‘‘Me fella bin stop along New Guinea to visit the happy cannibals again.”

It probably isn’t necessary to point out to Mr. Ruark that cannibalism is a dying pasttime in the Territory these days and that there are probably about as many cannibals there as there are high-bikes in the US. But whatha!

It makes a good story —which is what columnists are paid for.

There is an inexhaustible supply o f high-minded visitors to NG to probe and examine and make pontifical reports. It at least makes a change to see the place presented as a two-ring circus.

Mr. Ruark, we understand, is to write a book and interested parties should be warned that if his writings about Africa are any criterion, he does not write only high-priced nonsense but packs a sting in his tail (or in his typewriter).

Two Eyes For Youwiga

YOUWIGA, ex-sergeant in the New Guinea native police, was in hospital in Brisbane in February, having some attention to his one good, blue eye. He lost the other eye and one hand on war service as right-hand man of Coastwatcher W. J. Read, in Bougainville, during the Pacific war.

Youwiga sees to-day by virtue of the fact that he was given a cornealgraft at Greenslopes military hospital in Brisbane in 1945—the first operation of that kind performed in Australia.

Before that happened, however, Youwiga had won the Military Medal and the Loyal Services Medallion. And after he was patched up he went back to his village near Yamil, in the Sepik country, and became a leader of nis people.

During his current visit to hos- Samoan High Chief . . .

Saianoa, High Chief of Falefa, Western Samoa. A study sent in by G. B. Bowman, who writes: "A fine and wise man by any standard, this Matai is typical of those in whom the franchise will be vested under the proposed constitution for Western Samoa. Many thinkers believe that this political set-up is more enlightened than the Democratic system of 'universal suffrage of irresponsibles'." Other people have other opinions, of course one of these appears on page 53 this issue.

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pital, Youwiga is without his large black beard which, in combination with the patch over his missing eye, and the hook at the end of one arm, made of him a rather benign-looking native Long John Silver.

In hospital he will receive attention to his good eye and be fitted with an artificial eye to fill the empty socket.

Youwiga, of course, has provided meat for the evening and Sunday newspapers. One describes him as “Yau Wiga, MA.” We have heard a lot of stories about Youwiga— but never that he is a Master of Arts.

ATOMIC BUS—“A” OR "H”?

THE "Atomic-Power Buses,” reported by PIM previously, as one of the most eye-catching names adopted by Indian bus owners competing for transport business in Fiji, has been chosen as the most appropriate by the Fiji Visitor’s Bureau by reason of the intermittent explosions emitted by that company’s oldest charabanc as it climbs Suva’s hills.

Other intriguing titles (according to FVB’s monthly news-sheet), are “Super Bus,” "Mountain Dew Bus,”

"Goodbye Bus Service” and “Forgetmenot Transport.” (The current Australian slang term for a motor vehicle past its prime is "Bomb,” of course; but we are sure that the proprietor of this bus line hadn’t anything like that in mind when he named his buses.

PIM published a photograph of of these Atomic vehicles some years ago, and it looked comparatively youthful.—Ed.)

No Time For A Tere

r:E long-established Cook Islands custom of packing up traps and descending en masse onto a neighbouring village or island for a month or so, is to be controlled.

This was agreed at the recent Legislative Council meeting.

The time, money and effort spent in these joyful jaunts (called a tere party), does not fit in with the world of to-day. There was also a certain hazard in inter-island ships being loaded to the gunwales with the roisterers and their gifts as they sang and drank their way from island to island.

Islands lUe is certainly not what it was although it still has its moments. Recently Atiu Island, in the Cooks, which has a population of about 1,430 persons, all told, opened a new village meeting house. The items of livestock on the menu: Pigs, 130; fowls, 167; goats, 4. t In early March the Cook Islands Mass Miniature X-Ray team arrived at Aitutaki by air from Rarotonga.

The team is led by Mr. Mahoney, an X-ray technician, and will spend some weeks at Aitutaki before returning to complete their Rarotonga survey.

E. H. Reid . . . Austral-Frenchmam[?] ERNEST H. REID is the best-known citizen of Vila in the New Hebrides, and about the soundest of the bi-lingual products of that Condominium.

He was born in Vila in 1911 at the Presbyterian Mission Hospital on Iririki Island. His father was a boatbuilder, known as Ernest "Australia" Reid, because he was rather aggressively Australian. Ernie's mother was Jeanette Ohlen, of the well-known New Caledonia family. Ernie finished his education at the High School in Noumea, and later became an official of the Condominium Public Works.

During the war he was seconded to the New Hebrides Defence Force, of which he was Commanding Officer with the acting rank of Ma : or. The New Hebrides was spared any land fighting, so Ernie fired no shots at the enemy, though his duties took him as far afield as Guadalcanal.

Since the war he has engaged in building and contracting and in looking after his properties, which include the picturesque little Hat Island near Vila. His family still own the only hotel in Vila, the Hotel Reid.

Ernie has built a small factory for making coconut oil and soap from the local copra, but red-tape technicalities liave so far prevented it from functioning as a successful local industry.

In 1933 Ernie married a local girl, Margeurite Rimbert, and they have three attractive daughters, Yvette, Monique and Nadine, the last being rather a recent afterthought. Despite his French education, Ernie has kept British nationality as an Australian citizen, and is the type on which a successful future for the Condominium could be built.

Pim Crossquiz No. 73

Solution 1 Page 8 ACROSS 1. —What contains the records of a general survey of England in 1086? 6. —What term for extravagant cajolery is taken from a town in Ireland? 8. —What part of a flower's stamen is composed of pollen? 9. What does a parasite seek? 10. —From which conflict did Britain attain Hong Kong? 11 _What does an ampersand stand for? 13_Which type of strength resists stretching? 16.—Who wrote "The Lady's Not for Burning"? 18. —Who redeemed himself in A. E. W. Mason's "The Four Feathers"? 20. —Who sculptured "The Thinker"? 21. What handball game is very popular in Latin America, Spain, France, and the Philippines?

DOWN 1. —What converts mechanical energy into electrical energy? 2. —Who played the leading role in the film "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"? 3. —Who is Finland's most important composer? 4. —What disease was overcome during the building of the Panama Canal? 5. —What is a ship's inner 7. —what is the principal coal of Europe? 12. —What is pure carbon in crystt; form? 14. —What is the ancient name fonc Spanish-Portuguese peninsula? 15. —Which island near Seattle wasi locale for "Onions in the Stew" by MacDonald? keel called? 17. —what is the largest city in LJ mining area i9._What is the Italian word for "brofo Unfortunately, with the present remotes trol and staffing of the Government England and France, the higher posts: mostly filled by transient men with one-9 national interests, rather than by bi-li[?] officials with some interest and loyalty t[?] co-operative ideal of the Condominium. —[?] HILDER. 78 APRIL. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

[?]re of the Queen Emma Story

[?]Is N. Britain Mat-Mat Speaks Of History

By R. W. Robson

HEN Gordon Thomas visited Rabaul in mid-1955, he kindly carried out a request that I had e to him that an effort be made ind the last resting place of ashes of “Queen Emma” (Mrs.

Kolbe formerly Mrs. Forsayth, ierly Emma Coe). eking details of how “Queen la” died at Monte Carlo, in 1913, :erviewed Mr. H. R. Wahlen at home in Hamburg, Germany; from him I learned that in 1913 firm in Hamburg, as agents of Forsayth firm in New Guinea, had the bodies of Mr. and Paul Kolbe cremated, and ashes sent in small urns to Guinea. It was believed that ashes still remained at the ly burial-ground in the Kokopo of New Guinea. ■. Thomas enlisted the help of A. H. Cresswell, and the ery of “Queen Emma’s Ashes” cleared up as far as possible, article in PIM, Dec., 1955). In ;ourse of that search, some inting bits of German New ea history, and of the history •ueen Emma’s” family, were uned. I am indebted for the folig material to a report made t. Cresswell. the halcyon days of the lyth family in German New ea, between 1880 and 1910, en Emma” lived at her famous s, Gunantambu, near Ralum; her sister Phoebe, who was ied to the famous R. H. R. inson, lived on an adjoining ation, Kuradui. Each of these ation homes maintained a y burying-ground, or mat-mat. ring World War 11, the Gunnbu plantation-h ou s e was y destroyed by the Japanese. plantation is now called pau. searching for “Queen Emma’s” , Mr. Cresswell decided he first d inspect the old mat-mats (or series). But, in the changes d by the war, the mat-mats lisappeared under a great mass jondary growth—Mr. Cresswell much difficulty in locating WEVER, the old headstones ere finally found, and the *ass and scrub cut away. He examined the Kuradui (Parki mat-mat. s once had been a wellled place, well cared for. But it had been wrecked during the Japanese occupation—“the beautiful tombstones and grave copings were damaged and scattered,” writes Mr.

Cresswell, “and we could recognise only six grave s—although, we thought, there had been more.”

Of the six graves, three were identified —those of R. H. R. Parkinson, 13/11/1844-24/7/1907; Max Parkinson, 23/2/1889-5/10/1907; Helene B. R. Haddon, 1883-1931.

Parkinson was the son of an Englishman who had entered the service of a Royal house in Schleswig-Holstein, and later acquired German nationality. He had been well educated, and he went originally to the German administrative service in Western Samoa. He married Phoebe Coe, sister of Emma; joined Emma in New Guinea; gained fame by writing a book (in German) : “Thirty Years in the South Seas.” His widow, after World War I, went to live in the Kavieng district of New Ireland; and was still there when World War II brought the Japs into New Guinea. She died near Namatanai on May 28, 1944, during the Japanese occupation, aged 82.

Max Parkinson was their son—he died of tuberculosis while still in his ’teens.

Mrs. Helene Haddon was one of th e Parkinson children. She married, first, Carl Diercke; and, after his death, she married Haddon, an Australian.

She died at Buka Passage; but sometime later her body was disinterred and taken to the old burialground near Ralum. Her son, Rudolph Diercke, is now a member of the Roman Catholic Mission staff at Vunapope, Kokopo.

MR Cresswell reports that at Malapau (“Queen Emma’s” mat-mat) “desolation and vandalism showed everywhere, and again the Japanese were accused of this wreckage.” Here, they established the outline of 12 graves, but there probably were many more.

Here, they were able to decipher the following inscriptions:— David Collings, 1878-1895.

W. Stanley More, 1899.

R. N. Stella Lynds, 24/4/1895- 19/8/1895.

Water Robert Anderson, of North Sydney. Died, Fead Islands, 25/11/1895, aged 28 years.

In memory of our beloved mother, Johanna Coe, died 1905, aged 78 years. (This was followed by an inscription in Samoan).

John Coe, 32 years, killed at Nuguria. Vengeance is mine says the Lord.

Capi Acostino Stalio, who was shot by the natives of Fead Islands whilst bravely assisting the Imperial Judge to arrest the King and his son for the Massacre of John Coe. Born Dalmatia, Dec., This cross, erected in the Parkinson Mat-Mat in memory of Max Parkinson ("Queen Emma's" nephew), shows the character of the monuments which were purchased by "Queen Emma" and her family for the burial-grounds in Ralum some 60 years ago.

Photo by C. H. Meen. 79 ’ I F I C ISLANDS MONTH L Y APRIL. 1951

1854—Killed Fead Islands, 1892.

O for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is stilled. This Stone is erected as a mark of respect by his many friends in the Bismarck Archipelago. (At the back of this stone was an inscription in German—apparently a version of the inscription in English.) J. F. Santo.

Peter W. Coe, 1884-1896. (This followed by an inscription in Samoan.) In that list are the outlines of one of the major tragedies in the life of “Queen Emma” of New Guinea.

John Coe, Emma’s brother, and nine years her junior, joined her in New Guinea when a young man. He had been with her many years, and was aged 32 when she sent him to look after her plantations and trade stores in the Fead Islands, off the coast of New Ireland. There was trouble with the natives, and he was killed.

An expedition to avenge hi s death was organised and was led by Captain Stalio, a prominent member of the European community in German New Guinea, and a very close associate of Mrs. Emma Forsayth (as she then was). There was a clash with the natives, and Stalio was killed.

That Emma was deeply grieved by these death s—of her favourite brother, and of her intimate friend —is shown by the memorials she placed in the little mat-mat.

Johanna Coe (Emma’s mother) was the first Samoan wife of Jonas M. Coe. They had eight children, all born in Samoa, of whom Emma was the second. In other records, Mrs. Coe’s name is spelled “Joana.”

Peter W. Coe was the sixth son of William Cos, full brother of Emma.

William joined her in New Guinea, and spent some years there before going on to the Philippine Islands, where he had a notable career.

No More Do They Sit in the Banyan Tr[?] THE accompanying photogran sent along by Mayor Poroi,, Papeete, will bring nostai memories to the once gay yon bucks of yesteryear, who rememn Tahiti of pre-World War I dsi when to many a little henpec'c stay-at-home, Tahiti was the Gn Dream, the very essence of Escapiii Top photograph shows the fame old banyan tree as it was in 1880’s, then outside the fame Cercle Militaire. At left —as it stai to-day in what are now the grou;i of the Secretary-General’s propes Many a love match is said to hr been made in the old tree’s friem shade down through the years, the recent photo Mayor Poroi s Mr. Leo Langomarzino, chief municipal works, stand at the fi of the battered veteran. t Of the nine candidates sitting for the 1955 legal examinations in Tonga, one—Siaosi Fifita —passed with honours, one other qualified, six obtained partial passes, and two failed. fl Mr. T. W. Leake, who in December finished his SOPA course, in Sydney, was a Soochow passenger to Rabaul in January. He was accompanied by Mrs, Leake. t Inter-island freight rates in . waters were increased on Marclc due, owners said, to recent rises* seamen’s wages and other runm costs. t The population at the site of £lO million Yate dam, New Cr donia, is growing so rapidly tt a school has been opened. Sic children will attend and have teachers to instruct them. 80 APRIL, 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHU Solution to Crossquiz from page 78

Early This Year An

AMERICAN, MR. DONALD H.

Clark, A Resident Of

Seattle, Wrote To Burns

PHILP AND CO. LTD., SYDNEY, THUS: “Did your company at any time use cannon on trading ships or at trading posts in the Pacific?

“I ask this because there is an old cast-iron cannon now in the possession of Mrs. Edward H. K.

Baldwin, of Makcna, Maui, Hawaii, and on this gun there are stamped markings on the upper side of the barrel just forward of the vent as follows: ‘B.P. & Co. 501’.

“The gun is 44Va inches long with a bore of about 3 inches.”

Ie “Bp” Was Royal

Trade But No Cannon LETTER received by Burns . Philp & Co. in Sydney in January (see box) has produced ne interesting facts about early cific cannon from Mr. James bchell, General Manager of Burns ilp.

Jr. Mitchell suggests that the Co.” on Mrs. Baldwin’s cannon > been added with a chisel by neone carried away by the old hfic joke that BP stood for someng else besides Burns Philp—as , Mitchell puts it, in respect of )ther cannon . . . “some misevous, idle person who had little do cut the “& Co” with a chisel, sibly as a joke to link this cannon h the early operations of our npany trading in the Pacific.”

Ir. Mitchell tells how a similar non to that which Mr. Clark debes was in the possession of the ; H. J. Moors, of Apia. Mr. chell reported this to the late James Burns, who had an exnation for the initials; so far Mr. Mitchell can remember, it a connection with some of the med heads of Europe of the 19th tury, possibly the Royal House Spain. He thinks that the “P” id for Philippa, but cannot now ember what Sir James believed “B” represented.

The Apia cannon eventually passed into the possession of H. W. Moors, son of H.J., and a few years ago Mr.

Moors agreed to Mr. Mitchell’s proposal that it should be sent to Burns Philp, in Sydney, for exhibition purposes.

However, when it arrived (in 1952) it was found to be too large for the purpose intended and it was handed over to the Australian Sea Cadet Corps, at whose headquarters it may be inspected.

Mr. Mitchell says that when BP’s got the cannon from Apia they were disappointed to find that the & Co. had been cut in with a chisel, which rather discounted their interest in the original casting and he feels that if Mr. Clkrk examines the one in Hawaii he will probably find that this is the case also with Mrs.

Baldwin’s specimen.

Mr. Mitchell says that Burns Philp had no connection with the cannon other than above but that the company believes that they were obtained from Europe by the masters of Boston whalers during the whaling boom in the Pacific and were used for protection against hostile natives, or pirates, or even to supplement the old harpooning methods then used to catch and kill whales.

Mr. MPchell recalls that in the early part of this century he saw, at Hapai’i, Tonga, the old cannon of the privateer Port-au- Prince that was captured by the Tongan, Finau, about 1806. They were buried muzzle down at the corners of a chief’s tomb.

Except that they were larger, he says that they were much like the cannon received from Mr. Moors.

The Tongans killed all members of the crew of the Port-au-Prince except one —a youth named Mariner.

Finau “adopted” him and he remained in Tonga f or some years until rescued by a British man-o’-war.

Back in England, Mariner recorded, or someone recorded for him, his experiences while a privileged cap f ive of Finau and this book, generally known these days as Mariner’s Tonga, became a classic of the immediate pre-European era of the Tonga Group. Now any copy of the book is a collector’s piece and worth a considerable sum.

With the help of the Port-au- Prince’s cannon, Finau made war on other Tongan chiefs and these historic pieces of armament are credited with playing a big role in the original unification of Tonga into one Kingdom.

In February, 1951, on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Friendship between Tonga and Britain, the four old cannon from the Port-au-Prince were presented to the United Kingdom.

How to Plan Your Own House ANEW service to Pacific Islands home builders will be found elsewhere in this issue. The Pacific Islands Home Plans Service is connected with the Sydney Sunday Telegraph home planning service which, in conjunction with a well-known Sydney department store, has supplied over 5,000 plans (from week-enders to residences of 50 squares) in the last two years.

Many Papua-New Guinea readers of the Sunday Telegraph have already become hfieres f ed in these plans, and the new Islands branch of the organisation will bring the service within reach of residents of other territories as well.

The house plans available through the Pacific service are especially designed for tropical conditions. Inquiries from readers relative to all aspects of home planning and building are welcomed by the organisation. t Well known Cook Islands trader Mr. Willie Watson is due back in his Rarotonga home in April with Mrs. Watson and their two daughters on completion of a grand 12 months’

"world tour. While overseas, Mr.

Watson was an indefatigably publicity agent for “the Cooks,” in the true “Island Paradise—Maori Princess” manner. he old cannon photographed recently in Sydney by [?]nission of the Officer Commanding the Australian Cadet Corps. The plate fixed to the butt-end of cannon states that it was presented to the Corps Mr. Moors. 81 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-APRIL. 1056

This Month's New Reading History of a Femme Fatale mHERE is a Daphne du Maurier J. touch about The Keepers of the Walls, a talented first novel by a young woman called Helga Harrison. The story is told with skill in creating suspense and tension, and in retrospect, by young unsophisticated Linda Johnson who, from the moment she met her, fell under the influence of Louise Forde. On her first encounter she was repelled and fascinated by Louise —with fascination in the ascendant as she was drawn into the Forde circle of strangely assorted people held together by Louise’s personality.

Louise had everything—character, kindness, good looks, wealth, a loving, if too civilised husband, children. She also had lovers and a philosophy that if the heart is pure it does not matter what one does with the body. Above all, she had a spirit, a personality, that amounted almost to spell-binding.

Then there were the men in her life—Michael, her husband; Sean, the young Irishman; the French professor; Cyril, the dilettante; the Anglican clergyman; the Roman Catholic priest; all stimulated by her presence, drawn to her by love, lust or envy.

From the beginning it is known that Louise will die; the events that lead to her death, the reasons for it, provide the story. To the end. the reader is left in doubt. Was her death by accident or design?

This is a contemporary novel of unconventional conception, without the weaknesses that often beset this type of writing. It has strength and vitality and should have a wide appeal. (Published by Seeker & Warburg, London. Australian price, 15/6.) The Mixture As Before THE youthful impression that E. V. Timms did a better job before he switched to writing an Australian saga (see January PIM) is confirmed —with reservations —by the recent reprint of an eariler novel. The book was originally called Whitehall, and has now been rechristened The Falcon. It was first printed in 1931.

The Falcon is a lively period piece of the Charles II era, with a Scarlet Pimpernel flavour.

The story concerns a dark plot between Charles II and Louis XIV of France, in which Charles undertakes to “sell” England into Roman Catholicism and support of Loufs in other directions, in return for a monetary consideration which would allow Charles to continue his life of debauchery and pleasure without the necessity of getting Parliament to vote him the funds.

The plot is, of course, thwarted by an English nobleman, who plays the dual role of King’s fool and agile adventurer —the Falcon.

The narrative is enlivened by the spirited behaviour of the Falcon’s bride, who knows only the conventional half of her husband’s life, and is unaware until late in the story that she has espoused the Falcon.

Misunderstandings, because of husband’s double-life, complicate the story which abounds in the usual galloping horses, sword duels, 17th century cruelty, courtly Cavaliers and wicked priests.

If The Falcon cannot be regarded as a serious contribution to the literature of the nation, at least it is a welcome change from the puerile adventures of Ma and Pa Gubbay. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd., Sydney. Australian price, 16/-.) Case History of a Reluctant Conspirator AUTHOR John Blackwell has chosen the contemporary background of H-Bomb suspicion and security for his first novel, Security Risk. But he has woven it from the old nursery adage: Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive.

Hamilton was an intelligent, capable official engaged on secret research for a Government project. He had been “screened” and regarded as no security risk; his ability was highly regarded and he was on his way up the hierarchical ladder. But Hamilton was also human, and this took the form of a woman —to wit, Vivien Rawdon.

Hamilton was attracted to Mrs.

Rawdon before he knew that she was the wife o* a colleague whom he instinctively disliked.

Trouble began when Hamilton discovered that Rawdon had copied a secret document with the intention of passing it on to those of opposing political views. Upon Hamilton fell the task of deciding what to do— and so far as Rawdon was concerned his duty was obvious and he intended to carry it out. But the complicating factor was Mrs.

Rawdon, who pleaded for her husband on the grounds that as no harm had been done he should be permitted to resign and disappear from the scene.

Reluctantly Hamilton agreed—and from thereon it is a chain-reaction of events that lead irrevocably to their end. The story has something of the quality of a thriller, but primarily it is the study of a normally clear-thinking man of integrity caught up in events over which he no longer has control. It can, of course, be said that Hamilton, in taking the first fatal step showed a weakness of character thd was merely emphasised as the stoo unfolds. But it is the weakness iii herent in most of us and the authd makes his points well and logical! —that as security risks most peon* can be found wanting, given U right set of circumstances: and thd the first step has not necessarily be dictated by compelling, vital, inj portant or even logical reasons. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltd price, 15/6.)

Church And State G[?]

Into Fish-Farming

WHEN SPC’s Van Pel capture- Rarotonga’s fancy in April, 195 J with his cry of, “Why go fishin when you can grow fish at home?? he started off a chain of interestin events that, among other thing drew attention to the healthy conn petition between Church and Staf that sometimes enlivens life in thu fair isle.

The “interesting events” com menced some three months after H Tila pi a Mozambique fingerlinix arrived by air from Suva, thro’c happily in the brand new Government fish-ponds, and produce: countless numbers of Rarotonga fn Meanwhile, many fish-farm con scious Cook Islanders had bee: excavating private ponds in pn paration for a “Government issue It became necessary for M Maurice Baker, Director of Agn culture, to publicise a date, som three months ahead, when the locas born Tilapia would be fit for life : more commodious premises.

The date fixed, Mr. Baker wv embarrassed to receive an invitatioj from the Rev. W. Murphy, LM leader, which read that he (Bake:e had “graciously consented to offio. ally open the grand new Tilapia fill pond at Takamoa, LMS headquan ers in Rarotonga,” on a muck earlier date.

Diplomatic ’phone calls follower “. . . but Mr. Murphy, I’ve promise these people no issue until six weee from to-day. . . ” **...! fully undertsand your posi tion, Mr. Baker, but the invitatioic are already out!”

Mr. Murphy had his way, aiL Takamoa had a air ok sunny day in August when a gree assembly watched Mr. Baker, wii appropriate and moving wore* empty his well-wrapped containn into the virgin waters of the spaoj ous new fish pond.

The more observant clearly §s; the flashes of silver as, it appear©the two promised lady and gentll; man Tilapia glided downwards their new home.

Happy and content, the crow dispersed, unconscious that the gi? 82 APRIL. 1956 —PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

sue had been cunningly fashioned mother-of-pearl shell by a local aftsman.

Soon conscious of the horrible nth Mr. Murphy took it very well, ith mental reservations befitting man in his position. But he enyed the game of life, and had an triguing thought: Two years earlier he had officiated the Penrhyn Island Christian ntennial. There, in preparation r the great feasts appropriate to ch an occasion, the islanders had ccessfully cultivated in brackish iols a large quantity of a local Itwater fish known by them to reond to such treatment. ft was worth a trial, and a chosen sciple was dispatched Penrhynirds per MV Charlotte Donald, on special mission.

Some months later, Mr. Murphy Dk pains to see that Mr. Baker ew that the Takamoa fish pond ,s now well stocked with fish, ex nrhyn, that were fatter, happier, d twice as big as any Tilapia Mr. ker cared to produce. /Lv. Shankar Pratap, a well-known irchant of Suva, Fiji, has been der medical attention in Sydney. •. Pratap left Fiji on a business p to India in December last, and joined an airways service in mbay late in March, on his return me. He evidently caught a chill :ause, on his arrival in Sydney a iple of days later, he was suffer - : from pneumonia and was sent mediately to the care of a doctor a friend’s house in Vaucluse. He urned to Fiji early in April. ttern of Islands Completed in Samoa Obituary for my Friend, Shanghai Brown By Peter England SHANGHAI loved the Sepik; he should be quite pleased with the place we picked for him, on the slope below the airstrip, overlooking the river, with a grove of hibiscus and frangipanni a few yards away.

He loved flowers, too.

Captain Hugh (“Shanghai”) Brown died last week. People dying, dying everywhere, dying all the time—l know. But here, in our small community, death leaves a deeper scar.

We shall miss him; yes, there was only one Shangai.

A few weeks ago, at the Club — we had been discussing poetry and, in particular, the Death of Dangerour Dan MacGrew —he said: “Now, Peter . . . Peter . . .”

He had a number of tricks, half rhetorical and half theatrical. One was to emphasise a word or phrase by repeating it two or three times; another was to spring up from his chair, take a few quick paces across the room, and then turn suddenly as if he had come to some tremendous decision.

“Now, Peter. You’re a sort of half-baked writing chap. I’ll tell you . . . I’ll tell you . . . (taking a turn to the door and back) . . .

I’ll tell you what I want you to do.”

He took a sip of his beer, and gave a deep chuckle: “Yes, what I want you to do, Peter; what I want you to do: I want you to write my obituary. Now it’s got to be good, really good; I’ll edit it myself. I want to be The Man Who Edited His Own Obituary . . . (with an even deeper chuckle as he savoured the phrase) . . . The Man Who Edited His Own Obituary!”

Well I’m sorry that I’m writing this too late for Shanghai to read it. He went up-river again and he came back, came back earlier than we expected: and he came back dead. Sorry, Shanghai, old chap— but, better late than never. Here it is: The Obituary of Shanghai Brown. * * * This is an obituary, not a biography. Someone else can tell you how Shanghai was apprenticed in sail at twelve years old; how he sailed the seven seas before he reached his mid-teens; how he got stranded in Philadelphia, and jailed in Cape Town. How, with Cedric Durham (who is still here with us), he joined the Intelligence Service in the ’l4-18 stoush, and, as an observer in one of the crazy aeroplanes of those times, he nosed out and caused the destruction of a German cruiser hidden a thousand miles up an African river.

Someone may tell you of his later career on the China Coast; as Customs officer, pilot, executive with BAT Company, member of exclusive Shanghai Yacht Club. Then his service in World War II with the Australian Navy all round the New Guinea islands and up to Shanghai again. . .

Of his post-war activities as recruiter and shipmaster with BGD Company and, lastly, crocodile hunter, trader, and gold-digger up around the Chambri Lakes.

An adventurous enough list, but a hundred men could have lived a similar life, held the same jobs, been to the same places, and still not have been Shanghai Brown.

I’d known Shanghai only for the last eight or nine years. I’ll just give you the impressions that etched themselves most deeply in my memory. * ♦ ♦ I remember convivial nights at the Angoram Club, when we’d all sunk our fair share of grog, and the singing had started; and Shanghai, equipped with cane and straw-hat on one side of his head, took the floor with “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo.”

I remember his extravagant rage when any defect appeared in one of his numerous items of mechanical equipment. Radio set, outboard motor, shot-gun, battery charger— no matter what, when they went wrong he had one cure. He would seize the offender in both hands and, with horrible maledictions, hurl it into the Sepik.

I remember Christmases when, down at his thatched house on the river bank, he would spend a mysterious day behind closed doors; and then invite all the children of the tiny settlement down to a party with a sparkling Christmas Tree ring a remarkably lucky spell of fine her the film "A Pattern of the Islands" completed within the companies 10 weeks du!e. Some of the settings were colourful it promises for once to be a really [?]entic movie of the islands. The film crew themselves very popular and the Samoan [?]rs enjoyed their parts. Seen here, just before shooting a scene, are (left to right) Tuiletufuga T., Inia De Wiata, Henrietta Godinet, Michael Horden, Susan Stephens, Moira Walker (better known as Moira Macdonald of "Return to Paradise"), John Bryce, Ollie Crichton. Standing on the left is the director Wolf Rilla.

Photo by R. F. Rankin. 83 CIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L Y A P R 1 L , 1956

loaded with presents, and ice-cream, and soft drinks, and sweets, all prepared by his own hands.

I remember when, having received some real or fancied offence from officialdom, he would write a letter to the head of the offending Department—a real stinker. He would bring it up to the Club, and pass it round for everyone to read, pointing out, with chuckles, the phrases that had especially pleased him. He would put it in an envelope, stamp it, seal it, and then, on the point of sending it up to the Post Office, tear it up and throw it to the winds.

I remember how his native servants stuck to him through thick and thin. There was often, lately, a lot of thin— wages long in arrears, rations whatever the country could provide. When it was thick, he would make it up to them, he would give them anything they asked for.

I remember how he used to borrow my spanners and my books.

The spanners frequently followed his recalcitrant machinery into the river. Where the books went I don’t know, but they seldom came back.

He was a voracious reader; he would crouch in front of my bookcase, throwing the contents right and left on to the floor, muttering disgustedly: “Rubbish, rubbish, nothing but rubbish 4 ”

Finally he would select half-adozen volumes, and, with a snort of contempt for my literary tastes, carry them away.

And lastly, I remember how, last week, we buried him. There was, I suppose, a rough dozen of us, and as we lowered him gently into his grave—that rascally, colourful, lovable irascible, kind-hearted old scoundrel Shanghai Brown, there was not a dry eye amongst us.

Angoram, Feb. 23, 1956.

Sepik River, TNG.

HOSPITAL

Gets Incinerator

Apia Dogs Get Leg (Human) THE lackadaisical approach towards getting essential things done, so common in Samoa, was shockingly illustrated by a recent incident at the Apia Hospital.

A patient had his leg amputated at the hospital and that evening people living nearby were disturbed by dogs fighting in their backyard.

Sure enough they were fighting over the amputated leg which had been dragged some 300 yards from the hospital incinerator.

Recriminations flew fast and free until it was pointed out that the incinerator was old and falling to pieces. It was quite open to wind, dogs and public gaze and it was not unusual for bandages and TB dressings to be blown from the incinerator all over the hospital compound.

Demand for a new one has been on the estimates for years but until now it has always been re f used. The missing leg finally brought things to a head and the incinerator is now protected—by a wire netting fence! —Special Correspondent.

Turn The Handle

And Light Up

By R-OI rpHE ship was anchored off the A island of Onotoa, in the Southern Gilberts, and I was leaning over the Saloon deck rail studying the coral formation about five fathoms below.

Then my day dreams were disturbed by a repeated clicking noise of almost mechanical precision. As I slowly came back to earth I was able to trace the source of the noise to a native canoe tied up to a hanging fender alongside the ship’s side.

The native’s wooden pipe was home-made and didn’t run to a stem, but no doubt it was a favourite piece and had taken him several days to carve out of the solid wood with the few tools at his command. The lighting-up was aided by the very old method of “flint and steel,” and was something I hadn’t seen for some years, but this fellow seemed an expert.

He sat in his canoe in an attitude of quiet repose, holding in one hand a piece of broken file poised as a striker, and with the other hand steadying the short bulky pipe that he was holding in his mouth, a piece of rock held by the fingers of the same hand over the pipe which had a thin layer of charcoal and coconut fibre covering the fill of tobacco. With the ease of one using a match or modern cigarette lighter, and by making a series of quick strokes with the file on the flint—at the same time drawing in on his pipe—it seemed no time before there was a sign of smoke to prove his success.

His unhurried movements denoted satisfaction as he opened a tin that he kept in a plaited basket hanging to one of the cross beams of the canoe, to put away his flint and striker, together with the other necessities of a smoker, such as stick tobacco, a roll of pandanus leaf (prepared for use as a cigarette wrapper), charcoal and coconut fibre.

Right at the bottom of the tin I could see a magnifying glass, which no doubt had started many a fire on shore for the owner.

Flint stone is highly valued iii the Southern Gilberts, it is, o course, imported into the colony as islands in the Gilbert Group are cd coral formation only.

On one voyage that I made with a Gilbertese crew, we called at Pon Moresby, Papua, and there was great activity by the crew collectinc flinty rocks from the new wharf sib at PM—so possibly the recent dis play I witnessed could have been ox rock from that source.

At another southern Gilbert Islanr I was amazed to see a Triumph o Modern Science, in the form of ax electric lighter, which had its origii in Nauru Island. The ownen son worked at Nauru, and hax picked up a high-tension magnetc: which he had fitted with a smaf handle, and by linking the four dis. tributor terminals on the magnet! with a common wire, he was abl to get a series of high-voltage sparte by turning the handle.

To complete this very effectiw lighter, there was a small ordinan hand oil-can which had a cottoc wick pushed up the spout. The cai itself was full of kerosene and thi high-tension lead of the magnet was placed near the kerosene-soakes wick. By vigorously turning thf handle about twenty times the high! tension spark had the wick alighr This gave quite a flame though bit smoky. It was a slight improve ment on the primitive flint ann striker method, but a bit moni cumbersome than the Sun Glass.

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Papua's entry in the big fish stakes: 640-1b marlin which was caught last year t Rossel Island. The fish was 13 ft. long ate was caught on a cord line with a strip mackerel flesh as bait.

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Retirement of "Ernie" Britte STILL another of the old-tli officials of New Guinea M folded his tent and stoc silently away. This time it E. H. R. Britten, “Ernie” to friends up there, where he fio arrived 30 years ago for a priv;\ company and shortly afterwards 1 came a member of the ill-fai Nakanai expedition. Several mes bers of this expedition were mu:i ered by natives back in 1926 anti think that now only Ernie Britt and Jack Thurston survive—“RT Nichols, another member of party, having died a few years i After this tragic affair, Briti joined the Expropriation Board i a period and when the estates w disposed of, he joined the Adnrj istration, taking over the duties: O/C Native Labour, Rabaul, f: that well-known identity, Hs.

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For years the O/C Native Labd Rabaul, has been known by native population as M:1 Darby,” and Britten fell heir to c title and relates how he was or greeted in many parts of the Te tory by that name.* His worW this department was excellent, . spite the many demands made u; his units for a variety of work.: was one of the few governm officials who, having expenei: conditions in an unofficial capar; was able to fully appreciate problems of non-officials.

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'ith the late Charlie Bates, •fax-Ross and others he was mgst those who gave new life hose who had been interned for ang in the Ramale Valley, near aul. i June, 1946, he was discharged i AUGAU and took over the es of ADO, Rabaul, and, in unction with Bates, helped bring old township back into someg resembling its old format, or ear as at that time, was possible, iter, he was appointed Magisi there and in 1951 he was sferred to Lae as ADO for a )d and then as Magistrate. From he went to Wau as ADO and : again to Lae as Magistrate. all, a variety of jobs, all well Drmed, backed by his thorough vledge of the Territory, and ed by a pleasing personality.

Both he and his wife made a host of friends who will sadly miss them.

The Brittens have retired to their home in Caulfield, Victoria. — GORDON THOMAS. * A Pidgin word “didimans”, meaning gardener, or in pre-war Rabaul anyone connected with the Botanical Gardens, is believed to have originated in the same way—that is, that the original holder of the job, probably a German, had a name that sounded like that. Has Mr. Gordon Thomas or any other old-time resident anything to say about this? fl Father Edward A. Tremblay, SM, of Haverhill, Mass., USA, who spent more than 30 years of his life in the mission field in Tonga, has written another book of reminiscences. In true American style, he has sought a title likely to tickle the ears of the groundlings—it is Grins and Chuckles in the Land of Upside Dovm. Despite his long years of arduous service, Father Tremblay never lost his sense of humour, and his new book should be well worth reading. His Order benefited much from the sales of his first book. 87 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 19 5 6

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[?]E WAY How The Broadcast Lesson Overcomes Teacher Shortage By R. F. Rankin ie author, who has studied ational methods in New Zea- , Australia, England and Japan, spent the last 6 years with the nation Department in Western oa and is at the moment of n 9, acting Officer-in-Charge of •oZ Broadcasts. This article has approval of the Department of '.ation, Western Samoa, and Id he of considerable interest to ationahsts in other Pacific terri s, where lack of trained teachers ampenng the great work of ation.

N countries have as many visits rom overseas experts as Western amoa. United Nations Missions countless educationalists, Hnists, geographers, agriculists, doctors, entomologists, writers seem to make Samoa Mecca. Each has criticisms suggestions to make but one institution which invariably ves praise is the School Broadig Service. This is genuinely ie as it provides a model of education by radio for backward countries and its progress is being watched from all corners of the world. j n the six years since its inception it has proved astonishingly effective in raising the standard of education amongst Samoa’s 95,000 people. It is rarely that the effects of an experiment in education can be felt in so short a time or in such a decisive manner, but Samoa has proved beyond all doubt that the radio, with proper technique, can contribute more to developmental education than any other medium.

It is based on the culmination of ideas from educationalists intimately aware of the educational needs of Samoa, and its form is not static, new methods and techniques being tried and tested frequently.

The teachers concerned with the preparation of lessons make inspections of village schools and watch and listen as a class takes a transcribed lesson. New methods and techniques are adopted or discarded according to the carefully evaluated reactions of the listening pupils.

The School Broadcasting system in Samoa is designed to meet a specific need; to make up for the great lack of sufficiently educated and trained teachers and a lack of text books in the schools. (Over) 89 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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G.I.W Most of the teachers have had only a Std. 4 education before beginning the three-years Training College course. With the rise in local educational standards, a number of district schools have been set up to take up to Forms I and 11.

Many of the lessons given these pupils contain subject matter foreign to the teacher and one aim of the school broadcasts is to fill this gap in the teacher’s knowledge.

Also, the curriculum of the whole school, from infants to forms, is built around the broadcasts and this gives a controlled unity to the work done in all schools throughout the islands. This unity and compulsion to prepare work for the radio lessons gives a general correlation to the educational system as a whole that would be almost impossible to attain with a teaching staff of such narrow background and experience.

Of the 25 school hours per week, generally only one hour for each group of Primers 1 and 2, 3 and 4, Standards 1 and 2, 3 and 4 and forms 1 and 2, is taken by the actual radio lesson.

The preparation of scripts and the presentation of lessons takes only a relatively small part of the radio teachers’ time because the subject matter of all lessons is prepared according to the syllabus some months ahead of time. All village and mission schools taking radio lessons receive cyclostyled booklets covering a six-weeks period of school work. The preparation of these booklets, generally of about 40 pages, involves considerable research and some artistic skill, as an essential part of every lesson is the illustrations which, of course, are included in the booklet.

One booklet is produced every six weeks for infants, one for the foe standards and one for forms I au 11. All booklets (except those ft the forms) are written in Samoas The only radio lessons in Englii. are those for the forms, or O actual English lessons for each cla;£ The radio hour (commencing 8.30 a.m.) is for a different clas 90 APRII. , 1956 —PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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P.O. BOX 299, SUVA, FIJI morning, and usually consists ur lessons, each of 15 minutes ;ion. Each lesson is intered with two or three minutes vely music when pupils stand give vent to natural Samoandancing, following a leader in of the class. This break stimuthe pupils’ minds and consider increases their assimilation itial. sons for forms 1 and 2 consist ealth, Social Studies, Natural ce and English. Standards 1 take Singing as well, while is for Infants are restricted to sh Speaking, English Reading, h, Story and Singing. 7 Education Department js to teachers are given at the )f the session. ;h the technical assistance of -adio Department which mainthe battery-receiving sets, all ? ork, including preparation and styling of booklets, prepara- )f scripts and the presentation ily radio lessons to over 20,000 en, is carried out by a staff ve in the School Broadcasts ' staff consists of two New ad teachers, two Samoan srs and one Samoan typist, forms’ work is the respony of one New Zealand er, while the New Zealand sr-in-charge of School Broadcorrelates the whole and > the Samoan teachers in prel work for the infants and ards. All translation is done e two Samoan teachers, amber of factors enter into the ;s of School Broadcasting in a. Pupil participation is vital, ;eachers have to learn the ed technique; have to prepare their work thoroughly and have all illustrations and aids ready as forewarned in their radio booklet.

Pupils have to be made to feel a sense of achievement in accomplishing work neither too hard nor too easy; lessons must be produced in a pleasant manner calculated to hold interest, and an attitude has to be built up among teachers and children that the radio lesson is a part of their school life and not VE LEFT: Broadcasts relayed from the Broadcasts Office over local radio [?] 2AP reach 20,000 government and [?] village school children every week. we see Si'anaua Anae, Training College [?]t Semo Koro from the Tokelau Islands latia Patu broadcasting a Nature Study in Samoan. 2AP technician Alfred an is at the controls.

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AEIS/2048 ne novelty providing a morning’s £ost lessons take the form of a logue between radio instructors 0 take the parts of teacher and fils. listening pupils take an active t by obeying radio commands 1 being selected by the class cher to point to various blacked illustrations as directed by radio. At the end of each on, questions on the lesson are ed and the classroom teacher cts children to stand and give answer. The answer is then sated over the radio. 0 be successful, the lesson re- •es a classroom teacher familiar 1 the technique, who is a good disinarian and who has thoroughly jared for the lesson. To the nary listener, the lessons, which full of pauses, giving children Drtunity to carry out commands answer questions, must seem dull, but to the listening child ' are alive, and a vital part of education. time, as more highly trained hers with broader backgrounds their places in the schools of oa, the character of school dcasts will, no doubt, change to he changing needs and circumces. However, in their present i broadcasts are fulfilling a need outstanding success and the riment has produced a formula could be applied to help solve educational problems of other peoples in underdeveloped countries.

Editorial Note

The above article fails perhaps to reveal the essential ingredient of successful school broadcasts —that is, the successful choice of the officer in charge. The specialised nature of this work calls for a rare measure of educational vision, personal force, imagination and organisational ability.

The success of School Broadcasting in Western Samoa is in large measure due to the promoter’s enthusiasm and flair for this work, and his capacity to secure, and make the most of administrative backing.

Capital is made, for example, of the Samoan’s inherent love of music and dancing. In order to relax pupils between radio lessons, two minutes is devoted to Samoan dance records, during which both teacher and pupils stand up and dance to refresh their minds for the next lesson.

This is an .illustration of how basic commonsense and psychology can be combined to a nice degree with the Polynesian’s love of rhythm and self-expression.

Other Administrations are not unmindful of the advantages of broadcasts. For example, in the Cook Islands, the machinery is organised for School Broadcasts and the scheme has the blessing of the Administration, but the negative and desultory nature of the present broadcasting set-up merely highlights the great need for the divine spark that only the right appointment can furnish. fl Mr. R. M. Major, who has been acting Financial Secretary, Fiji, has been seconded to British Honduras for two years as Development Commissioner. 93 IFIC ISLANDS MoNTHLY—APRIL. 1956

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Judge Morgan has offered his collection of local seashells, and the latest contribution comes from Te Ora Rangatira, who is giving th«i five canoe-making adzes that wem discovered when a drain was bein| dug through her land. The adzes are of grey basalt, about 12 in, long and appear to be the full tool kit of an ancient canoe buiMer.

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Food gardens—many of them also planted in alluvial soil —suffered great damage also, with a consequent shortage of such native foodstuffs as dalo, tapioca, kumala and breadfruit.

To make matters worse, shipments of flour have been delayed, first through the Australian shipping strike and later through wet weather and wharf congestion in Sydney.

Waikawa, which was carrying Fiji’s first shipment of flour since the strike, did not leave Sydney until March 29. It is believed that she is carrying only a modest consignment of flour and that the next available ship from Sydney will not be leaving there until the end of April.

Bread shortage in Fiji affects not only European households—it is almost a staple diet with some town Fijians and part-Europeans. t The RNZN warship Lachlan, now well known in South Pacific waters for her survey work, visited remote Palmerston atoll early March en route from Tahiti to Apia. This is the first ship the Marsters of Palmerston have seen since the wreck and subsequent rebuilding of Commander Clark’s yacht Solace, late 1954. f 85',03 95 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-APRIL. 1956

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It has been noted that the word is formed of the first two letters of Carpenter, Morris and Hedstrom.

That seems quite in order now; but why was the combination of letters chosen away back in the Twen:ies?

Prescience, or accident, or luck, or what?

The explanation seems to be in the facts that the founder of the Carpenter organisation, the late Sir Walter Carpenter, was a merchant trading in Fiji (in Levuka) in the early part of this century; that he came frequently into contact with the late Mr. Morris and the lace Sir Maynard Hedstrom; that there were occasions, then, when Walter Carpenter seriously thought of joining up with the then young Morris Hedstrom firm; and that he must always have had the thought of an alliance in his mind, because it was he who chose the word CAMOHE as his code address when he laid the foundations of the Carpenter empire late in the World War I period.

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Mrs. Low has considerable literary ent, and she has written frequently the "Pacific Islands Monthly". This icle is part of a farewell letter which i sent to the Editor. It was not ended for publication—but Mrs. Low )ws Fiji and the Fijians as well as r European can, and her commentary the present condition of the country worthy of a larger audience. So we e the liberty of publishing it. ase in arrogance, and an mess of the rights which have denied them for so long, lie, is it not, that the imint Indian coolies should have to the dignity of the bise, whilst the indigenous is have been kept under the ystem of chiefly rule? It is :ly undemocratic, and I should :o think of what would happen issia gets to hear of it! at will happen in Fiji when Fijians demand self-govern- } Will the vociferous Indians t, on the grounds that they are ightful owners of Fiji? An isting question to ponder, low that the PIM has a high m of the Fijians, and you are ione in that. They have some ira b 1 e qualities—they are [ly, hospitable, happy, fearless hard-working when in the and on a job they like, they are also the most irreible, unreliable and exasperateople you could ever wish to You should try working with (preferably on a plantation) td out what they are really cannot judge Fijians by their rs and their footballers —they ie cream of their race, who go as to become popular amiors of their country.

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Then Mrs. Willis got on the job.

After a silence lasting months, she was anxious about her 61-years-old husband. She wrote a letter to the American Relay League, which is the American amateur radio operators’ society, giving details of her husband’s planned drift and his radio equipment, and asking Society members to listen for her husband.

She wrote on September 7, 1954: “My husband, William Willis, has been drifting on his raft of balsa logs called the Seven Little Sisters in the Humbolt Current Pacific Ocean over the same route as the Kon-Tiki since June 22 (11 weeks to-day, 77 days) and no message has been received.

“I understood it is difficult to get the emergency frequency from here, but I thought, since he is nearing the islands in the Tuamotus, or Polynesian Group, the radio amateurs in that vicinity would be able to pick up his call letters if they knew about him. I’ve heard that radio amateurs have contacts all over the world and I am wondering if any of your members could relay this information out that way.

“As I wrote you from Lima, Peru, at the end of June, my husband has a Marconi Salvita 3, hand-operated transmitter, which is an emergency transmitter. His call letters are ‘7HTAS’ (given to him by the Peruvian Government), which stand for the name of his raft in Spanish of Siete Hermanitas, which in English is Seven Little Sisters. He is to transmit at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Eastern Standard Time and possibly at other hours, except during the emergency silent period.

“He is to give his call letters, his position, and perhaps a short message. There must be many radio amateurs in the South Pacific and I feel sure if you could get to them we’d hear of my husband before long.”

MR. DOUG. BERRY, an amateur radio operator in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, received a photo- 101 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY —APRIL, 1956

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So daily at 12.30 p.m., Rarotonga time, an operator in the station would listen on the shortwave frequency of 8364 kilocycles for signals from the raft. Cunnold also listened on his own commercial communications receiver, forming a part of his amateur radio installation at his home.

Privately, we thought it was a waste of time, as by this time Willis had gone unheard for over 100 days.

Then, on October 13, Cunnold asked the operator tuning across the shortwave frequency if he could hear him. The operator shook his head, so Cunnold went over to his bungalow to listen on his own receiver.

Earlier that day he had been up at 5.30 a.m. to listen for Willis’s 1600 gmt transmission, but he had not heard anything.

Then Cunnold came hurrying back into the station with the star ling information that he had heard Willis. It had been sheer luck, for apparently Willis, throughout his voyage, had used his transmitter regularly, but it was incorrectly adjusted and it wasn’t until the voyage was almost completed that he discovered and rectified the error.

At 12.40 p.m., Rarotonga time <2340 gmt) Doug. Cunnold tuned on to Willis’ weak, wavering signal and picked up the words, “Raft position 20 miles from Tutuila. Need help to land. All is well.”

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t vessel Manuatele put to sea to luct a search in the area East he island of Tutuila. She did sight the raft, but the next she put out again and found raft 27 miles northwest of lila and towed it into Pago Pago, le news was flashed to the world William Willis was safe, e, the professional operators in radio station, could not hear is’ signals with specially tuned ils, but a man, acting for the lent as an amateur, wi h an il consisting of just “a hunk of ” picked that signal out of the was a triumph for Doug, nold. [?]D SEPARATE [?]RDS Carpenter-Hedstrom Alliance FLOWING the visit to Suva in February of Mr. R. B. Carpenter, Chairman of W. R. Carpenter & Ltd., and discussions with the ds of W. R. Carpenter and Co. ) Ltd. and Morris Hedstrom (which are now associated in lancial alliance) the following ds were arranged to control the latter Companies: lORRIS HEDSTROM LTD.

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IDO not know who your Norfolk Island correspondent is, but the information on page 149, February issue, is quite definitely incorrect.

As a foundation member of the NI Progress Association, and a regular attender, I can state definitely that a whale tax has never been discussed, let alone suggested to the Council or to anyone else.

I have checked this with our Secretary and we feel that you should make this clear in your next issue.

The Association’s main interest at present is to press for a democratic “set-up,” with local control of affairs —in fact, just what the petition asked.

I am, etc., W. N. SELBY-NEWBOLD. t On January 25, Rarotonga’s Health Department announced that two cases of Polio had been discovered on that island, and advised the public on precautions to be taken to prevent the spread of the disease.

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This is merely the outline of a tragic story that has been told many times in this journal since 1945.

THE Dutch took over the scattered archipelagoes and the completely disunited communities of the East Indies over 300 years ago, and colonised and organised them to the great benefit of the Indo-Malay people, and their own profit. When the Japanese, after 30 years’ preparation, seized the Southwest Pacific countries by the throat in 1941, they occupied the Dutch East Indies, as well as Australian New Guinea, the British Solomons and Gilberts, French Indo-China, British Singapore and Borneo, and American Philippines.

The Dutch, although their homeland was occupied by the Germans, fought doughtily beside the Americans and British against the invaders. When the latter eventually were driven out and crushed, the Dutch naturally expected to be assisted back into their Indies empire by their allies.

But, oh no! The British and the French and the Australians and the Americans all returned to their respective Territories —although none of them had been there half as long as the Dutch had been in the Indies —but every Dutch move to return to Java (centre of their Eastern 105 IFIC ISLANDS MON T H L Y_A PRI L , 1956

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But Holland had been under German occupation for five years, and could not produce an army and navy immediately out of their ravaged country.

By the time the Dutch created a military organisation, the British and Australian Socialist Governments were giving away their South Asia territories to the nationalist organisations with both hands. The Westerners just naturally aligned themselves, both directly and through UNO, with the Javanese politicians against the Dutch, and literally forced the Dutch into compromises which never have been justified.

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Agreement after agreement was made—but every one was systematically and cynically undermined and destroyed by the Indonesians.

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Box 250, Suva, Fiji at time the Indonesians did se that all the matters in disand especially the persecution mprisonment without trial of subjects) would be cleared up roper and legal manner, every Indonesian promise to ;nd has been broken. There ) less than 23 Dutch subjects n gaol at the present time in esia, without legal justifica- The full Dutch are being latically hounded out of the try; the part-Dutch are mostly persecuted. The Dutch have at least £400,000,000 ig invested in Indonesia—but ire not permitted to take it ae Dutch are forced away, the le are silently moving in and their places. Just as in Indo-China, Singapore, the sing underground influence of linese is reflected in an imle growth of Communism, the counting of the votes in st Indonesian general election, n September, was completed rch, it was discovered that a r of the country’s first Part are Reds. ese circumstances, it was exited that the Governments lich, around 1950, succeeded scredited Leftist Administran Britain, America and Auswould use their influence for utch and against the Indo- 3—especially in regard to the demand for sovereignty over n New Guinea. Between 1951 )55 the Western Powers did to be pro-Dutch. The Indoclaim to Dutch New Guinea nphatically knocked back at in recent months, some very strange things have happened.

Britain, when she has disclosed an opinion at all, has seemed to be as indifferent to Dutch interests in Indonesia as she is to the strategic effect of her retreat from Singapore and Malaya on the British countries in the South Pacific.

Australia’s “Foreign Minister,” Mr.

Casey, who was quite definitely pro- Dutch in 1953-54, has turned a complete somersault. A well-known Victorian man, Senator Rankin, speaking in the Australian Parliament, referred to Indonesian President Soekarno and his Government as “a gang of pro-Japanese Quislings who want to thieve New Guinea.” Anyone who knows his far East-Pacific history will endorse every word the Senator said.

Mr. Casey thereupon commented: “This remark is wholly unjustified, and the Australian Government repudiates it in the strongest terms.

“I would ask President Soekarno and the Government of Indonesia to accept the profound regrets of the Australian Government that any such offensive and unjustified remarks were made”

It is hoped that the Australian outcry against the spectacle of an Australian Minister crawling thus on his belly to the Indonesian gangsters was noted by the friends of the Dutch. Australia has no more valuable human asset than the tens of thousands of Dutch people who have settled there. Australia, for the preservation of her own socioeconomic standards, will not allow interested Spectators in Fiji 0M AN OLD RESIDENT OF FIJI: People of the Sooth Pacific may agine that the political developments places like Singapore, Indonesia, ilaya, Indo-China, are of little more in academic interest. How wrong i they be!

The Western countries are being ced by Asiatic Communist threats give political freedom to the South- ;t Asiatic countries a generation or 9 before they are fit for that freen. Heaven alone knows what the ult will be.

Jut the Fiji-born Indians are not ising a line of it. They will use developments there, and in the fish colonies in West Africa, as an ument in favour of their getting common roll privilege in Fiji.

I they will be hard to answer, n fairness and justice to all the es concerned, it is not possible to i the common roll to the Indians Fiji until the Fijians themselves advanced enough sociologically to w them also to exercise the ilege. That will be some time yet. uttry to tell that to the Fiji Indians!

I don't know the answer—but I know that the situation developing Fiji does and will call for great lorn and tolerance on the part of Government there. 107 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-APRIL, 1956

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J very latest development is the appearance of the perijatetic Dulles in Jakarta, where id that “Americans were happy 3 identified with the rapid :ion which has taken place colonialism to independence”; ricans always remember that too, once were a colony, that had won their independence ard way, and that they also lad difficulties in maintaining independence”; and “Indowould have the continued : support and sympathy of both S Government and the Amerisople.” have read much criticism of ;tivities of “the American Rean bull in the Asiatic china ; and, after that exhibition, Des not wonder at it. le Mr. Dulles was praising the n and patriotism of the Indoleaders, the latter gentlemen giving the final touches to dishonourable repudiation of agreements with the Nether - Almost simultaneously, the [ States concluded the sale to jsia of surplus agricultural e worth £42,000,000 Australian, ormal Ministerial statements, ; Hague and Washington, the lands Government expressed >ck and disappointment with terances of Mr. Dulles, e Mr. Dulles was skipping around Jakarta and Singapore, Bangkok and Colombo, using honeyed phrases which made more experienced diplomats writhe, the Middle East situation was deterioratin an alarming way.

London newspapers’ most acid comment was contained in a photograph, published right alongside the Cyprus-Egyptian news, showing an unclad Mr. Dulles stretched out luxuriously on a Ceylon beach, sunning himself under the palm trees.

IT all gave point to the summary published late in January, from that most experienced of Far East commentators, Denis Warner.

Because of the danger that the “newly liberated” countries of Indochina, Indonesia, Burma (with Singapore and Malaya close up, of course) may be penetrated by Communism, Britain and America, as a matter of deliberate policy, have decided to cultivate the goodwill of the new countries.

An Indonesian named Sastroamidjojo was premier ;n 1954-5, but he fell in mid-1955 because he was practically controlled by Communists, and there was administrative corruption throughout the land. Thereupon the Moslems, under Berhannudin Harahap, formed a caretaker Government, and held the elections.

This Moslem set-up pleaded that although it opposed Communism, it was slowly succumbing to Red influence because of the Netherlands stubborn demands for various privileges, and the non-cooperation of the Western world.

It was then (end of 1955) that the British-American-Australian “diplomats” executed a volte face, and began to woo the Indonesians, The latest report is that the three non-Communist parties in the new Indonesian Parliament mostly Moslems and Nationalists —now have got together and formed a Government under Ali Sastroamidjojo, in an attempt to keep the Reds out of office.

The confusion and the shouting are symptomatic of the Western world’s state of mind. Anything goes—so long as it is, in the enfeebled opinion of the West’s “statesmen,” something that can be waved in the face of the merciless, oncoming Reds.

Seen from the South Pacific, the bewilderment and muddling in the Indonesia-Southeast Asia area are 109 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-APRIL, 1956

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The book, which is written by Mr.

J. W. Parham, the Department’s Assistant Botanist, covers all the species of grass (which the layman is likely to regard as grass) as well as such things as corn, rice and other cereals.

Only about five of the grasses now growing in Fiji are indigenous, the other 153 species have been introduced. The work of collecting and recording grasses goes back almost 100 years—the first collection having been made by Dr. Berthold Seeman in 1861.

A number of the grasses now growing in Fiji are of use as food (rice, sugar-cane, duruka, corn, etc.); others are used for fodder grasses or for thatching, and some for building—such as bamboos and reeds.

There are also a great number which are weeds.

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There are over 70 illustrations,!,i extensive glossary of botanical tep and a very good index.

Copies of the publication maw obtained from the Governrnjn Printing Office, Fiji, for 5/- FijtJ per copy. 110 APRIL, 1956 —PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHS

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is return from a visit to the i Is. aboard RNZN survey ichlan, in March, the High ssioner of Western Samoa, G. Powles, said that a reent scheme at Fakaofo atoll continue. scheme, involving the alienaland from which the Catholic Mission in Apia formerly benefited, had been put into operation by Mr.

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A special section will be reserved for the training of the nurses and for their living quarters. Another special section will be used in the campaign against malaria.

Total area of the hospital, including 32 buildings and covered footpaths, will be 16,800 square yards.

The main central hospital will overlook Humboldt Bay. t Keen efforts on the part of prospective candidates to build up the voter’s roll was evident in Fiji before it was closed on March 1 preparatory to the coming Legislative Council elections. tograph of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Dee [?]ir wedding at the Mt. Eden Presby- [?]urch, Auckland, NZ, on February 16. [?] was formerly Miss Margaret Jacka, of Mrs. M. A. Jacka, and the late [?]cka, of Suva, Fiji. The bridegroom [?]nnection with Fiji also, in that his [?]as Miss Marion Taylor, of Levuka. 111 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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?G On Tragedy Recalled

ie recent spate of South Pacific tragedies has brought along a idiary crop of newspaper stories past marine disaster's and series, and the Sydney Sun, of :h 16, recalled the gruesome [instances surrounding the ill- -1 American ketch Wing On. e are still fresh in the minds any Fiji residents as it happened ae early war years. late November, 1940, the nth Day Adventist mission 1 Loloma located a small craft all sail set pounding the shorenear Undu Point, easternmost f Vanua Levu, Fiji. lashed on the sails in large 'S, from jib to mizzen, were the s, “NO FOOD, HELP, SOS.” nging weakly to the mainmast in the water-filled cabin was Imost demented American girl, Thompson, sole survivor of an uipped quartette that had ed Los Angeles 3J months ;r. the scum and swill that almost ;rsed the survivor, were found ecomposing bodies of a girl and n. hetic log entries revealed how nexperienced American seamen, m Arthur Conly and Chester Arthur Thompson, had set sail with their wives for the Marquesas and slowly abandoned hope as their one month’s supply of provisions ran out and they became utterly lost in the immensity of the Pacific.

Two months out, Thompson died of starvation and was buried at sea.

Thereafter log entries were sparse as Conly—master and owner —and the two girls slowly gave up the struggle. Conly was the next to die.

No land, it appeared, was sighted throughout this interminable and hopeless voyage.

To the surprise of many, Mrs.

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The Pilbarra Drifted For

WEEKS Mr. K. P. Wright, of Quirindi, NSW, who was a banana planter at Maikorokoro, near Suva, early this century, recalls another singular drift —this time of the lost steamer Pilbarra: The strange disappearance of the Joyita a few months ago recalls what was nearly a similar mystery, about Chrismas time, in the year (I think), 1906.

The AUSN Co.’s ship Pilbarra, which was then in the Fiji-Sydney service, left Sydney with a full complement of passengers for Suva.

A day or so out of Sydney she lost her propellor; and she drifted helplessly for weeks. 113 "IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1956

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After many days, she appeared in the New Hebrides area and, as it appeared to the Captain that she would inevitably drift onto a reef, he landed all passengers, save one, on an island—l cannot recall which —and landed also some food supplies.

The captain himself, with one of the crew and one passenger, s ood off in a boat, to watch the ship pile up.

At the critical moment, however, the tide turned, and Pilharra drifted away from the reef. The master and his two companions quickly returned on board, and the ship continued to drift away into open ocean.

Eventually, it was sighted and towed to Suva.

The passengers had also been discovered, and rescued. Among them was a friend of mine, a Mifj Howie, who was one of the men in Henry Marks & Co. ; s business* in Suva—and who, incidentally, soldo me a pair of parallel rulers a day,’ or two after his safe return. Thea. rulers are on my desk as I writ©: this, 50 years after the event.

"Shell 40" which was in trouble in February and helped "Rona" off a Fiji reef in March (see letterpress).

Photo by J. Thornton. 114 APRIL. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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HOME ’ hoenix, a 50-ft double-ended dliary ketch, mentioned in these umns previously, arrived in Sydr mid-March two years out and ee to go on a Hiroshima-and- ;k circumnavigation. )esigner, part-builder, owner and viga t o r, Dr. Earle Reynolds, lerican anthropologist ex Hiroma University, was accompanied Mrs. Reynolds, a professional 'er, son Ted, daughter Jessica, ee Japanese amateur yachties as w, and two cats. ’he financial headaches of world ising are largely met by literary nings, with Mrs. Reynolds as the instay. ’hoenix is a stout, shipshape craft mod fled Colin Archer design, It in Hiroshima of Japanese bers. To date she has circled the ;ific via Honolulu, Tahi i, Raroga, Pago Pago, Auckland. ’he remaining three years will s all too quickly via East Indies, rban, Cape Town, the US eastrd, Panama, Honolulu, Hiroma. These people know what y are about; they spend an quate time in port preparing to to sea, and when they are at sea h emergencies as do arise are ctly of the sea’s making only.

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. 50-ft tuna-fishing vessel, Trevor built in Sydney recently by Bill ie, has been purchas°d through m Barraclough Pty. Ltd., by Mr. >ert McCullough, cocoa planter of )ua, as a general freighter and •k-boat.

'revor W is a stout beamy cra*t yered with a 50-hp diesel and igned on Japanese tuna-vessel •S with round bilge forward fairto hard chine aft.

Mr. McCullough plans to deliver the vessel himself, departing Sydney April and collecting a Solastic woven-glass sheathing in Queensland en route. Re-christening still to come. (Over) At left, the G&EI Colony Wholesale Society's m.v. "Tungaru" leaving Suva in March after annual survey and re[?]it.

Among the passengers was Bauro Ratieta, Gilbertese D.O. Ellice Is., who had been visiting Banaban settlers at Rabi Is., Fiji. The "Tungaru's" sister ship, the "Tuvalu" is due in Suva for annual survey in June. At right, Captain Mac- Addie, master of the G&EIC vessel "Tungaru".

Photos: J. Thornton. 115 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1956

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The drums, which are American Army Disposals, are in good condition and have been sorted by a party of men who reached Gusap late in March.

It is intended to move the drums by road to the Umi River, 20 miles from Gusap, where they will b e lashed into rafts and then floated down the river which eventually joins the Markham 'River.

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End Of A Junk But Not

JOHNSON Ronald Johnson, Tovata drifter of 1947, who was wrecked and made the headlines on the NSW coasc near Broken Bay during March while trying to reach the Solomons in his Chinese junk (March PIM),is living with friends in Sydney and considering ways of regaining some of the money lost when the Pacific claimed his craft and its cargo.

Engines and costly deep-sea diving gear were lost when the junk broke up after being battered onto rocks by the heavy seas.

Also lost were diaries and a scrapbook containing a record of Johnson’s escapades in Islands waters during the past 20 years.

With his capital considerably reduced, Johnson is looking for some means of making, as he describes it, “quick money.” He is undecided whether: • To utilise his present capital by buying marine engines in Australia and having them shipped to Islands ports or New Zealand; • to buy a variety of goods, including clothing [?]d Johnson (inset) and his junk in full sail as he left Sydney on March 15. A few hours later the junk was wrecked terpress).

Daily Telegraph photos. 117 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—APRIL. 1956

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Failing these schemes, he can always fall back on the street photography business which he has conducted at odd periods during sojourns in Sydney.

Recalling the night of the junk disaster, Johnson says: “It was a wild night. I encountered seas as large as I have seen anywhere. Had I been able to start the motor I might have been able to pull clear, but when I saw the white water I knew the ship was done.”

With incredible luck, Johnson leaped from the wreck and after being almost crushed by the boat as she bore down on him on the crest of a wave, he reached the shore, climbed a 100-ft precipice and walked 10 miles to the nearest house for help.

As soon as it became known that Johnson had been wrecked, Sydney’s newspapers buried their teeth into the sensational story of his night of terror, and he became front-page news.

Johnson insists that his junk, which had been laughed at by Sydney’s yachtsmen as unseaworthy, did not sink on the night of the storm. The disaster occurred, he says, because a tremendously strong current in the mouth of the Hawkesbury, where he attempted to shelter for the night, combined with the heavy seas to break his anchor warp and batter him against the jagged rocks.

Looking back on the incident, Johnson accepts it in his usual philosophical fashion.

However, he issues this warning to mariners shipwrecked on rocky shores: don’t take your clothes off!

Back in Sydney he displayed! badly-cut pair of shins, but insiste he would have been even moi severely cut in his scramble for lil if he had obeyed his first instiru and torn off the shorts and oil-ski: he was wearing, before leaping inti the sea.

The clothes he was wearing weir slashed beyond repair by marfii growths and jagged rocks and I 118 APRIL, 1956 —PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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mson, incidentally, heeded s constan: warning and took him on his junk a Gibson Girl natic radio distress-signal mitter. This is interesting, not ise it was able to aid him in ort of strife in which he found 3lf, but because it was dised in buying it that a vital part e machine has been thoughtremoved by the Australian rs-tha -be. 3 missing part is a plastic, ied wheel which, when set in m by turning the handte, causes correct sequence o x dots and ;s to be sent out as a distress I. ; wheel was removed for fear if it fell into unauthorised or ionsibie hands, the resultant dissignals would cause Authority of trouble. Which is fair :h as far as it goes. However, ?h f have been worth while if vheels had been given into doping where bona fide smallowners could purchase them and thus restore to the sets their original purpose.

The sets can be purchased comple.e in New Zealand, but so far as FIM could find out, the wheels from the Australian models were removed an The eS s t e™ y wiil still work-wlth an chaser "haroens t7fcnow mors* *alld haf partfcutoriy toe olo“dinaUoir To get the power to send the signal it is necessary to wind the generator handle, at the same time as tapping the morse key—and this appears about as involved as the old wheeze of rubbing one’s nose with one hand while patting one’s head with the other. Definitely not an exercise that recommends itself to a stormtossed yachtsman in distress.

Unlucky Deutgan

The 211 tons ex-barge Deutgan, owned by Mr. Marcel Marinacce, of Santo, New Hebrides, returned home recently after an expensive, 9 months-long refit in Sydney. in ? n v “ £■ Bioup, she grounded at’Port Resoluf™- Report is that she is a to.al loss - On her recent delivery voyage, Captain Haines, of Sydney, took Deutgan as far as Noumea and then handed her over to her owners, inrvrmm D m-7*p

Another One For Rnzaf

The RNZAF Search-and-Rescue squadron based at Lauthala Bay, near Suva, is still being kept busy. the auxiliary ketch "Phoenix", which [?] Sydney in March. Below, "Trevor W", sed recently in Sydney by a Papuan (See stories, page 115.) 119 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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March 26, one of the squadron’s derlands picked up 12 Fijians i the wreck of the Tui Vunilagi flew them to safety.

Li Vunilagi, a 26 tons cutter, is ed by Mr. J. B. Turner, and on ch 25 went up on Navatu reef, ;h lies between the islands of la and Totoya, 130 miles east uva. venty-one of the people on d, including women and chil- , managed to reach Moala in ship’s boat —28 miles of rowing sculling helped by the wind current. le 12 men left on board were ily crew members. When the g-boat arrived (with the owner, a RAAF nursing sister, and the assistant harbour-master at Suva on board) they had improvised a raft and were ready to set out for Moala or the Viti Levu coast.

Tui Vunilagi was hard on the reef and beginning to break up but the owner still hopes to salvage the trochus shell the cutter was carrying (Trochus is now over £ASOO per ton).

Cyclone Season Casualties

Cyclones and gales in the Coral Sea provided uncomfortable conditions for ships in March.

The Philippines Trader, running between Australia and Manila, ran short of fuel near Thursday Island and put into Port Moresby on March 15 to take on sufficient to finish the voyage.

It was unfortun a t e for the Trader that she was carrying cattle and that the Philippines is a footand-mouth disease country. The vessel was in strict quarantine during her stay in Moresby; she took on 170 tons of fuel.

The 853 head of cattle that were taken on in North Queensland ports did not weather the cyclone any too well —107, or 12 per cent., died before reaching Moresby.

At the same time as this was go- One result of the Australian shipping strike was that the Messageries Maritimes ship "Godavery" did not go further south than Noumea in February but landed this cargo (motor vehicles) at Noumea for transshipment to Sydney later. 121 IFIt ISLANDS MONTHLY— APRIL, 1956

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More Bad Luck For Apc|!

The Australasian Petroleum Conir pany had more ship trouble in thl Gulf of Papua at Easter when theis barge Kobosa overturned in heaw seas 40 miles S-E of Cape Black! wood.

Another vessel of the companp Gomada, directed by a Beaver air craft, rescued the crew of fou; Europeans and 12 natives.

Kobosa was recently towed or from the UK. Last information m that she was drifting somewhere f the Gulf, and had been posted as < hazard to shipping. * Two APC ships Davara and Pro' trero went up on a reef west I Moresby in January. Davara m subsequently towed to Port Mores!? by the Receiver of Wrecks.

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American schooner-yacht Glok Maris, which has appeared in thei columns many times, was expect!; to finish her work in Dutch Nr Guinea at end of March and arrive in Australian waters in Apic The vessel has been engaged 1 research, which is led and finanbj by Mr. A. J. Ostheimer, pres ; dent;l the Philadalphia Academy of Natmj Sciences. Master is Captain Ernta Chamberlain and she is manned!J amateur yachtsmen.

The schooner will refit in Ali tralia in April and then will ccv tinue marine research in the G : of Carpentaria, Indonesia and 1 Philippines. The skipper is anxui to recruit a crew in Australiji youngsters interested in the sea ai sailing. There has been one i member of the crew, so perhm females are not barred.

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•eventa, a new 56-ft plantation k-boat, was launched at Brisb early March from the yard of nan Wright & Son and departed ch 29 on delivery to her owner, R. Stuart, Tenakau Plantation, gainville. ■eventa was designed by Mr. ’. Westthorpe, of Sydney, and is ered by a 6-cylinder GM diesel died by Clae Engine Pty. Ltd., ley. ith a beam of 14 ft 6 in., and imum draft of 5 ft 2 in., she has used foredeck, covered cockpit accommoda ion aft, and is deed to carry 35 tons at 9 knots.

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MASTERS iring March there was a general ige-around of harbour-masters >apua and New Guinea ports. ;ain C. D. Foster, who had been )our-master at Port Moresby ; November, went to Rabaul, •e he will relieve Captain V. P. O’Donoghue, who goes on ;. Captain Riding, who has been iding the School of Pacific Adstration in Sydney, returns to erritory as harbour-master Port ;sby. te is permitted to wonder, of >e, what practical value a course DPA has for a harbour-master. ses at this school are, as filed by its name, for training le who have the direct admintion of the natives, mostly perel of the Native Affairs Depart- -11. Government, geography, ry, anthropology and law are of the subjects on the curim.

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mid-March there were seven entries in the 1956 Los Angelesete Yacht race, and a few other lilities. The race, of 3,570 miles, e longest in the world and is o start about mid-June in order e in Tahiti for the July 14 lie Day celebrations, e yachts, which have entered, type and their owners are as vs: la, 56-ft yawl, Wm. T. Sturgis; :a, 73-ft schooner, Robert D. r; Celebes, 69-ft ketch, John H. en; Quest, 64-ft yawl, Dr. ird F. Murphy; Ramona, 109-ft mer, Wm. Pomeroy: Diablo, 60aooner, Frank S. Wade; Ariel, cutter, A. L. McCormick, is hoped that the Novia Del Mr. John Scripps’ 89-ft ketch, /am Sang, Mr. Lewis Statham’s ketch, will also decide to sail. b race is being organised by transpacific Yacht Club, pret of which is Mr. Eugene ;on.

Howard Murphy is equipping - with powerful radio telephone and this vessel will act as a radio mother-ship. Shore stations in Tahiti will also be equipped to receive on the yachts’ frequencies.

At Tahiti, elaborate preparations are being made. The Commodore of the Tahiti Yacht Club, Martial lorss, and the Vice-Commodore, C.

Van den Broek d’Obrenan, constitute the Tahiti Race Committee, in co-operation with Monsieur H.

Jacquier, President du Syndicat dTnitiative.

The Tahiti Race Committee plans to berth the yach s in Taunoa Harbour, a safe anchorage about a mile northeastward of Papeete Harbour, and clean for swimming. They believe Papeete Harbour will be too crowded during the Bastille Day fete, which lasts from ten days to two weeks. It is planned to build at the new anchorage a club house, with fresh water showers, and arrange frequent transportation to Papeete.

They are also planning a racing tour of the leeward islands to take in Huahine, Raiatea, Borabora and Moorea.

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in trouble herself in February, the Fiji tug Shell 40 vindicated herself in March when she went to the aid of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s vessel Rona, which went ashore on a reef near Lautoka.

Cargo was removed from Rona and with the assistance of two 123 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—APRIL. 1956

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hors astern, Shell 40 and two tugs m the CSR mill at Nausori, she s refloated on the high tide, n February, Shell 40 went to the istance of the Fijian Affairs at.’s Yatu Lau, which was in able. Shell 40 overshot the low 11 of Oni-i-Lau and became lost a few days until given position an RNZAF flying-boat.

Mh Offers A Cutter

[orris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva, anmced in March that the cutter Levuka was for sale, complete i a full set of sails and a ship’s t. Built in Suva in 1950 by lers Ltd., Tui Levuka is of 22.36 t tonnage, 54 ft in length with sam of 161 ft and a 7 ft draught, carries 32 tons of general cargo 450 racks of copra, and is re- :ed to be in first-class order and dition.

Aonui Inquiry

r. Tom Cavendar, managing ;ner of United Engineers, Walu , left Suva for Nukualofa in ’ch in connection with an eny into the A. K. Aonui’s engine ikdown in Tongan waters late year. Her engines had been reed in Suva.

Jf-Safe Reaches Bangkok

le world-girdling amphibious Half-Safe reached Bangkok i Rangoon during Easter. This of the route was overland and er Ben Carlin said on arrival at Thai capital that it was the >t section the jeep has travelled e it left Nova Scotia in 1950. rs. Carlin—Elinore—became ill Calcutta recently and a West ;ralian, Barry Hanley, took her e. le jeep was on show in Sydney be end of last year and a book he first part of the Carlins’ adure—across the Atlantic and by to London —appeared about the 3 time in a book, which was ;wed in PIM. le cumbersome Half Safe looked it as supremely uncomfortable 3de of travel as it was possible et, and no one yet, the Carlins of all, has been able to exi what is the purpose of the e expedition. The amount of gy that has been expended in ing the vehicle-vessel over ny seas and dragging it through :ts and up mountains could y have been put to better pur-

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signed originally as a fishing 1, the recently launched Nowra- Santa Teretia II has been conably modified for new duties as Sacred Heart Mission vessel be Gilbert Islands. She was ally blessed at a ceremony on ■ 12, by the Australasian tolic Delegate, His Excellency the Most Rev. Romolo Carboni, at Bjarne Halvorsen’s shipyard, Sydney.

The Gilbertese crew for this vessel is en route to Sydney and the delivery voyage is scheduled to commence late April.

IT HAPPENED IN APRIL. 1925 The April of 1925 saw the end of one of the last Islands schooners to trade in waters west of the Cooks —there are still some east of the Cooks. The disaster occurred at Nassau Island, Northern Cooks, which was then leased to Burns Philp & Co. as a copra plantation, and the vessel was their handsome 220-ton wooden schooner Samoa.

The vessel had cleared Apia on April 16, and had loaded 82 tons of copra at the time of the disaster.

There is no anchorage at Nassau and the schooner was forced to sail off and on through the night.

So that the captain could maintain a bearing a hurricane lamp was set up near the loading point. The subsequent inquiry seemed to show that this hurricane lamp went out during the night and that, unknowingly, bearings were taken of another shore light.

Whatever the cause, there was a crash at about 2 a.m. on April 29 and the passengers rushed on deck to find the vessel firmly on the shore reef. A boat was got away at dawn, but Samoa, pounding heavily, broke her back at 8 a.m. and eventually broke completely in half.

The master, Captain Tschaun had the fore part set on fire as it showed signs of drifting away and becoming a danger to navigation.

As there was no radio station on Nassau there was nothing to do but await a relieving vessel. The passengers included Mr. Gow, then manager for BP’s in the Gilberts; Mr. Swinbourne, then Resident 125 / I F I C ISLANDS MONTHIY APRIL, 1956

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Allen, son of the late and well known Captain Allen, of Samoa Trading Co. • . . _ Assistance came in mid-June m the form of American millionaire Spaulding aboard his luxury yacht Goodwill “bound for Manihiki to buy a hat” —as he said. Goodwill radioed Apia and the Government vessel Lady Roberts was despatched and picked up the castaways, who by this time were fairly familiar with Nassau’s 300 coconut-covered aC res.

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End Of Another Dream

The four men and one woman who set out from Peru on the raft La Cantuta for the Pacific Islands in December are now back in Peru, maybe richer in experience.

They were 90 days on the raft and finally got themselves into a position 1,000 miles west of the Galapagos, where the system of currents is such that they would likely have gone around in circles indefinitely.

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Dick Brown Buys Another

The Cook’s inter-island fleet was added to late in March when, through the agency of Captain Kennedy, Sydney ship-broker, Mr.

D. C. Brown, of Rarotonga, purchased the well known 128 tons Fiii auxiliary ketch Taveuni from BP (SS) Ltd.

Taveuni, and her sister-ship Macuata, were launched on the same day in 1946. Powered with 5cylinder Crossley direct-reversing diesels of 125 BHP, the ketches measure 83-2 ft x 22 ft by about 8 ft loaded draught and have 100 tons deadweight cargo capacity.

Built by Charles Whippy & Sons, of Suva, from selected local timbers, Taveuni and Macuata were the first of a series of very similar craft— Moala (now in BP’s New Hebrides trade), Koro (wrecked near New Caledonia a few years ago), A’oniu (operating for the Tonga Copra Board), and Te Ma'apula (in the GEIC trade) were the successors.

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Jp until March 20, the Gilbertese vivors of the disaster were still Honiara. It was expected that ;y would later go to the new bertese settlement recently estabid at Gizo, BSIP, and be rened to the Gilberts la f er this ,r when the High Commissioner, . John Gutch, goes there on a r. f anything is likely to convince se islanders that modern comnications do not exist, this should it. In future, if they want to go miles from one island to another, y will probably realise that it is cker to go by canoe. >n December 28, the Arakarimoa, i 20 people on board, left Tarawa a voyage of 19 miles to Maiana. -ing the night the eneine broke rn and thereafter the vessel ’ted for 64 days and finally ught up about 1,000 miles away an isolated part of the Guadalal coast. In the effort to get ore, six people were lost. ; appears that it will still be ly weeks, or months, before the /Ivors reach home again. It is at t pleasant *o reflect that in these s when airlines advertise that inessmen may fly from Sydney London and return via New k (with two days for business) all within about 6 days, that *e are still people on earth to >m time has no meaning. itione Lave, Tongan heavyweight, protege of Queen Salote, is still ho fore in boxing circles under lish management. On latest adhe was to meet Italian heavyrh f Über Bacilieri, in a 10-round :est at Newcastle, England,, on ch 26. msainville’s only sawmill isri, owned by Messrs. Fryer and lorm ack—closed down at the end larch. It is not known whether mill will later reopen.

Further Step

Local Timber for C.I. Fruit Cases TANGATA SIMIONA, of Atiu, Cook Islands, is now in New Zealand undergoing two years training as a woodsman in the Kaingaroa Forest.

Simiona was educated at Rarotonga’s Tereora College, and it is expected that he will return to apply his knowledge to Atiu’s Forestry Scheme.

Mariri Paratainga, also of Atiu, will soon travel to New Zealand for a six months’ Forestry course arranged by the New Zealand Forestry Service.

This latest example of local Cl boys making good is another feather in the cap of Mr. Ron Thorby, Resident Agent of Atiu, to whose vision and energy is due the promising afforestation development now to be seen on that island, designed primarily to provide case timber for Cook Island fruit shipments !i Mr. G. S. Hill, who retired last year from the New Hebrides Condominium Government, where he had been Treasurer, will return to Vila with Mrs. Hill in April. Mr.

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Rongomatane Ariki

igomatane Maka Kea Ariki, itary chief of Atiu Island in Dook Group, died at Avarua, onga, on February 15 after an 3 of some months, was born in 1886 and became fiber of the Cook Islands Adtration in May, 1914. He started ireer as a police constable and Interpreter at Atiu, later be- Clerk of the Court and Official ireter, and was a member of >land Council for many years, attended several meetings of >ok Islands Legislative Council, n 1950 represented the Cook is at the South Pacific Cone held at Suva, gomatane had been chosen • as one of the Cook Islands tes to this year’s SPC confer - His place as a delegate will ken by his successor, Parua gomatane Ariki was a direct dant of the powerful Atiu war )f the same name who was itely won over to Christianity 7 by the Rev. John Williams ive Williams the bearing that the discovery of Rarotonga, s survived by four of his nine :n, his wife (also named Parua having died in 1953.

Mrs. Ellen Pitt

death occurred in a private il in Melbourne, on March 8, s. Ellen Pitt, owner of the i Hotel, Goroka, New Guinea, Territorian of long residence.

Pitt had gone to Melbourne operation. This was successful 5 later suffered a heart attack /hlch she died.

Pitt went to New Guinea 10 years ago with her husband, Pitt, who was ADO Madang xe died there a few years ago.

Pitt started a guest-house in g after the war and filled commodation gap there for ;rs until the Madang hotel ilt. then moved to Goroka and guest house there; the guest that e at at nrst be flfled Mrs Mrs. Pitt was not a hard-headed business w 9 m an—she left that part of her business to someone else, or simply neglected to attend to it at all. Her province was in making everyone feel that they were her hSJSS!? S tS f and hl f P delicious food fiom—in the early days anyway—most inadequate supplies and with primitive equipment.

She wi 11 be remembered by hundreds of Temtonans who met hei privately oi who passed through her various establishments, as a woman of great kindness and charm. a/ttdo tsarfi t opfuapt ■rtpt t

F Lockhart Bell

The death has occurred, at 17 Chorley Avenue, Cheltenham, Syd- £ e y> , or i January 28, 1956, of Mrs.

Isabel Caroline Lockhart Bell, aged 84 - , She was the widow of the late William Lockhart Bell, one of the early settlers in the New Hebrides.

They were married in Vila in 1898.

Mrs. Bell is survived by her sister, Miss Eva Kinsey; four daughters who were born in the Hebrides— Kathleen (Mrs. Anderson); Doris (Mrs. Ballance); Thelma (Mrs.

Keegan); and Joyce (Mrs. Kinsey); and by four grand-children and one great-grand-daughter.

Mrs. Vera Pocock

Mrs. George Pocock, formerly Miss Vera Straite, of Suva, died in Auckland, NZ, in March after a long illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Pocock left Fiji for Auckland at the end of 1955, when Mr. Pocock retired from the Public Works Department. They made their home at Auckland.

Mrs. Pocock was born in Fiji and educated at the Marist Convent, Suva. In 1932 she joined the staff of the Suva Telephone Exchange, where she remained until her marriage in 1946.

She is survived by her husband and a young daughter. (Next Page) 129 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-APRIL, 1956

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Jesse H. Buffum

Mr. Jesse H. Buffum, an American who travelled widely in the South Pacific between 1947 and 1953 gathering material and colour films for lecturing purposes, died in Massachusetts, USA, on February 20.

He was born in 1881 and became a newspaperman via a job as a printer. Early in the century he switched to the new medium —motion pictures—and became one of the first newsreel cameramen. He won an award for bravery during the “Mexican border incident’’ when Pancho Villa fought Calles.

Mr. Buffum had many technical and executive positions in motion picture business before he returned, in the 30’s, to newspaper work and public relations.

He is survived by his son, J.

Howard Buffum, Jr., who is also a newspaperman.

Mrs. J. S. Litchfield

The death occurred in Melbourne on March 12 of Mrs. Jessie Sinclair Litchfield, of Darwin, at the age of 72. Her son, Mr. Val Litchfield, is a‘member of the staff of Cable and Wireless Ltd., Suva.

Mrs. Litchfield had lived for many years in Darwin, and was one of the best known residents of the Territory’s capital. She owned and conducted the library in the town, was connected with one of the local newspapers, and had acted for a long time as Reuter correspondent there.

MR. H. L. GERHARD Mr. Herbert Laughton Gerrark JP, 77, died in his home at Gordo!

Street, Suva, recently. He was we known to the older members of tl community, and particularly to thoo connected with the banana tract and dairying.

He went to Fiji from LancashieJ England, about 50 years ago an worked for Mr. Humphrey Berkel© a well known Suva solicitor. Latcf he persuaded Mr. R. Crompton, , fellow townsman to go out to FiL where he bought Mr. Berkeley; practice.

Later, Mr. Gerrard took up lam near Vunidawa, where he gre' bananas and bought bananas f shipment.

He is survived by his wife;! daughter, Mrs. Molly Marlow: an a son Herbert, who lives in Sydnei

Mrs. G. Dick

The death occurred in Fiji < March 20 of Mrs. G. Dick at the a. of 70. Mrs. Dick was a Miss IsraE a sister of Mr. Claude Israel, ww known in Fiji commercial circM: and a niece of the late Sir Hem Marks.

She is survived by her husban: and two daughters, Mrs. C. L. Lam dale and Mrs. John Hills, of Em land.

Mr. Harold Koch

The death occurred in late Man at his plantation near Arawe, Nit Britain, of Mr. Harold Regina Koch.

He was a well-known Territorial a World War I veteran and I Military Cross winner.

He was buried at Kandrian, Tv with full military honours.

Mr. Tex Thomas

The death occurred in Sydney | March 13 of Mr. E. J. Thomas, bettf known to old Morobe district Ten torians as Tex. He was 67.

He went to the Territory in ISJ and until the outbreak of the Pad war worked his leases on the Low Edie. He was president of t Morobe Miners’ Federation and the time of the dispute over leas in the 30’s, was a strong advocio of the rights of independent minei During the war years, he wasa staunch supporter of the Pac:;: Territories Association, which v formed by P-NG evacuees in S: ; ney to fight for their property a other rights in the Territory—rigs they appeared to be losing to Australian socialist government tl in power.

Mr. Thomas had lived at Kiru Cross since 1943.

He is survived by four childnl Peter, Judy (Mrs. John Atkins of Rabaul), Susan and Roger, former wife is now Mrs. J. Woo she lives in Sydney. 130 APRIL, 1 056 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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[?]Apia Hospital

CRTS from Western Samoa dicate growing public concern out conditions in the Govern- Hospital, Apia, resulting from ite shortage of qualified Eurostaff, and, it appears, prosd internal disharmony, ic Indignation reached a new ecently when a pack of Apia were found disputing the >hip of an amputated leg, infer the incinerator (see elsethis issue). spectacular incident was, it s, just one of many recent ;ions of inadequate control of )ia Hospital. internal disharmony is said 3 developed in 1955 as a result ferences between the then >r of Health, Dr. T. C. Lonie, le team of Native Medical ioners in the Western Samoa 1 service. loss of two senior officers, Dr. s and Mr. Hodgkinson, the ,1 pharmacist, in the ill-fated in October last, and the )f Dr. Welch in February, has ly hampered the efforts of laining four European doctors 3 disgruntled NMP’s to maine service expected of them.

Dr. Lonie resigned recently to take up a new appointment with the South Pacific Commission. (See elsewhere).

Dr. Jepson, Public Health Officer, is at present acting as Director of Health, and his only qualified medical assistance at present comes from Dr. H. Thieme, Dr. Joy Purser (temporary), and Dr. Stevens (relieving) .

In the interests of the health of some 100,000 people, Samoan leaders have asked the NZ Government to take immediate steps to re-organise Western Samoa’s medical service and to staff the Apia hospital adequately. t The supply of “bottled gas” for the use of cooking stoves, lighting, etc., in isolated places, is now becoming serious business. Most oil refineries now hold this gas (hitherto a waste) and put in into metal cylinders under great pressure. A cylinder will last for a long time.

A company called Shaw Industries Pty. Ltd., NSW, has been registered in Sydney, and an offshoot of this Co., called Readygas (Fiji) Ltd., with Mr. Ray Steele as local director, has been registered in Suva.

April Travellers to Papua-New Guinea Passengers on "Soochow", which left Sydney for Papua-New Guinea on April 4, included (left to right): Mr. W. Gillette, Department of Works, Port Moresby, who had been on leave; Father H. Bather, recently of Port Moresby, who was farewelling Brother C. Milne (right), who will teach at the Catholic Mission, Sideia, Papua; Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mitchell returning to Port Moresby—Mr. Mitchell is managing director of Steamships Trading Co.; Mr. J. Viqqiano, represents of a photographic and sporting-goods firm, who was on a business trip to the Territory. 131 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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The High School, something new in native education in the Hebrides, is on the opposite side of the island from Vila, and about 40 miles distant by road. The school has been in operation for three years and the roll has grown from 11 pupils to the present 47.

Native members of the New Hebrides Presbyterian church have raised £4,000 for the school and supplied the labour; other financial assistance was given by the Presbyterian church of New Zealand.

Native education in the Hebrides is almost entirely in the hands of Missions and this school is the first High School. Instruction is entirely in English, at the request of the pupils themselves, and although the final year students at present reach an educational standard equivalent only to the end of primary education in New Zealand, it represents a ) advance in education in the Hebrid Students who receive their pi liminary education at village scho and later district schools, must pi an entrance examination (in Ed! lish) and pay fees of £2O per ye This sum, in relation to the avers' Hebridean family budget, is co; siderable and it is hoped event: ally to reduce fees substantial/: This will be when the school, throu its gardens and plantations, can p its own way—and that is where t gift tractor will assist.

The school is in 600 acres of lair most of it at present bush. It! hoped to establish cocoa and cofi< plantations to provide an incom school food gardens are alres; established.

The curriculum of the school!' based on vocational lines and pu]n will be encouraged to agriculture, carpentry, engineerfi or to study academic subjects tl will qualify them to enter ) Presbyterian teacher s’ trainx college at Tangoa, an island T Santo.

Entrance examination to the HI School is based on a stand; 5 acquired by an average 9-years4child in a New Zealand school;!; candidates sat for the examinatt last year and 12 made the grade a entered the school in 1956.

School buildings are in permanc materials, with iron roofs, cemir 132 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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BOX 512 G.P.O. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA s and coral lime walls. It is the *e of the Presbyterian Church the buildings should be in ing with the job of education they are trying to do —that is, they should proceed slowly with . class structures rather than •y to rush ahead with inferior re-material buildings in order to in more pupils. somewhat revolutionary idea in re higher education will come operation in 1958 when the al will become co-educational. then a girls’ hostel about half le away from the present buildwill have been built and a an teacher and a matron will been installed. Except in al subjects, such as cooking and ig, the girls will share the ns of the boys. e school is at present in charge dr. lan L. Gray, BA, who recently returned to the school some months in New Zealand.

Gray and their four young ren have returned with him. It rgely due to Mr. Gray’s perve methods that NZ Presbyns have provided Onesua with actor. . Gray is assisted in the school r. and Mrs. C. D. Johnson. The les of the European staff of ;stablishment are paid by the :h in New Zealand. The fees by the boys go entirely towards own maintenance. 3 Presbyterian Church in the Hebrides became autonymous )48 formerly it was part ne Presbyterian Mission. It ie ardent desire of New dean Presbyterians to further 3 education in the Group, and s and in other church projects ire still assisted financially and vise by the parent churches in alia and New Zealand. ! Presbyterian Mission has had and honourable service in the des and has been the chief, ometimes the only, British inon in the Condominium which sted itself in taking health is and education to the natives.

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Western Samoan Police Deirtment came in for some licule in March when it beknown that on the 28th of month the monthly nay roll entire Department (£2,500 in and cash) had been stolen ;he safe in Apia police station, i more extraordinary than this is the casual way in which iys of the office and safe are id —as revealed in subsequent dings. man who was making up the ft late at night after putting oney in the safe; he left the ef the safe in a satchel on r the safe, and the keys of ffice on a ledge outside the Papua- 50 Years in Commonwealth PORT Moresby’s Town Advisory Council is making preparations to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Papua becoming a territory of Australia. This will be on September 1, 1956.

A special committee has been formed to consider appropriate ways of celebrating the event. One suggestion is that there should be a special issue of anniversary stamps —or if the time is too short for this, that the current issue should be over-printed.

Gold Ridge Prospecting

CLUTHA Development, a subsidiary of Placer Development, has taken an option from the Balasuna Syndicate to prospect on the area the syndicate holds at Gold Ridge, Guadalcanal, BSIP. In addition, Clutha has been granted a larger area around the present mining area. Prospecting should begin shortly. t The second De Havilland Dragon Rapide plane, purchased by Transpac, the New Caledonian air-company, arrived in Noumea from Sydney in March. A pilot for the new plane is already in Noumea. 133 IFIC ISIANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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Making N. Guinea Too Safe For Pioneers IT is still anyone’s guess as I whether residents of the Westeie Highlands area of New Guintx are to continue to enjoy DC3 ail services or not.

Following a visit to the area witi his successor, Mr. V. A. Rule, tic retiring P-NG Director of Civi Aviation, Mr. John Arthur, said thr the Department’s policy regard* DC operations in the Highlands hsi not altered. Later he qualified thi statement by saying that whei Highlands strips were in an unsatii; factory condition DC3 aircraft wouu not land; when they were safe I all respects, DOS’s would land.

This seems to leave residents of tld Western Highland just about whee they were.

People living in the Mt. Hagq area had expected the axe to fas with regard to DC3 operations, o March 1; Mr. Arthur said this ww not so—the date was “deferred Someone else now puts the date ] March 31.

The DCA scheme is to use Do< aircraft to operate into Minj, froo where light aircraft will carry gooc and passengers to other local strifiJ Settlers point out that" this w» mean double handling of everythin! and thus much greater cost. Thee is also greater risk of loss throug; damage, pilfering and delay. 3 addition, settlers are denied tl right to charter large aircraft f the cheaper backloading of th©j produce to the coast.

Mr. Danny Leahy, who was ok of the original discoverers of tl Highlands, says that the air serviii to Mt. Hagen was better 20 yeae ago than it is to-day, and in thr he is no doubt right.

There was no DCA 20 years a@ The first thing any pioneer in N©' Guinea did, be he prospector ' patrol officer, was to put in th roughest of air strips and withe hours some airman, without bavin to ask permission of anyone, hn landed a plane on it.

There probably is something to 1 said for the present method of cok trols—but it sometimes goes ill will rugged pioneering.

If the Department of Civil Aviatici had been running affairs in 1930, , is unlikely that there would ev/ have been a great gold-dredgiii enterprise in the Bulolo Valley.

One cannot somehow imagine the Mr. Arthur would ever have allowtv anyone to land on the Bulolo stn: as it was in those days, with a three engined Junkers carrying a capacii: load of a three-tons dredge tumbles shaft. 134 APRIL, 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H L

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Offices all Capital Cities, Newcastle and Launceston Popular Teacher Leaves Samoa ewalesi Rokosawa, an 18-yearijian girl, is at Sydney Uniy studying the servicing and vation of archives. She is emi in the Fiji Government il archives department. t KLM Royal Dutch Airlines are the first European airline to place an order for Lockheed Electra turbojet airliners. Deliveries will start in 1959. Four American airlines have already ordered Electras. ff Mr. P. E. (Pops) Dewey, a Norfolk Island resident of long standing, and well-loved local vocalist, bowler and raconteur, died on that island in mid-March, aged 82 years. fl Sir Alport Barker, formerly owner of the Fiji Times and Herald, made a short business visit to Suva in mid-March. [?]r five years with the Education Department, first as headmaster of Avele Boys' School [?]n as Assistant Director, Mr. S. (Shep") Fish recently returned to New Zealand. He is bowler and interested in Scouting and was popular with all sections of the community. [?] is seen here with his staff of School Inspectors, left to right—Lafulafu, Leota, Maiava inspector), Mata, Mr. Fish, Fa'amanu, Tanuvasa, Pulotu, Fuiono.

Photo: R. F. Rankin. 135 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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ie’s phenomenal drought year of (only 154 inches!) has been wed by a record dry beginning 956 (7 inches below normal for first two months of the year) record heat in March. On Jh 3, the shade temperature rose 8.6 degrees and on March 4, to 100 —and that is very hot for tropics where humidity is unlly high. Old residents of the district say they cannot ever mber it as hot before—and what al records exist confirm this a consequence of this heat and ess, grass fires raged all around town in early March and kept e and fire-fighters busy. correspondent in Lae blames extensive rain in Australia for drought—which is probably a what unscientific way of lookit it, although the layman will 7 admit that things have been •sed this year. New Caledonia )lains that the dry side of their d has had more rain than the and just across the mountains Lae, Port Moresby has had record rains—about 22 inches up to mid-March, which is about twothirds of the annual supply of an average 39 inches.

Moresby Now Dials And

PAYS MORE Almost all of the 1,060 registered subscribers of the Port Moresby telephone exchange were busy on March 12 either calling or being called through the new automatic system. Portable phones, extensions and other devices brought to 1,600 the total of communication points in use.

It was the first business day after a Saturday night start of the Port Moresby Automatic Telephone Exchange.

Reports from heavier users—Government departments, airlines, banks and other large business houses — indicate a huge increase in telephonic communication and some subscribers joyfully said they got through almost instantly where previously they had fumed for minutes on end waiting for a line.

However, telephone officials were surprised at signs that more than a few telephone users had not properly understood the automatic function of the new exchange.

Some subscribers who had not read the instructions aright, either picked up the telephone handpiece in the old expectant way, waiting 137 MFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL. 1956

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Moresbyites’ enthusiasm for the new phones had not been dampened by the announcement made earlier that from April 1, telephone charges would be reckoned somewhat differently and would probably cost more—particularly for users of public phones, who formerly used them “for free.”

Subscribers on Moresby’s automatic system will pay annual rental of £6/12/6 plus 2ld for each call — the old rate was a flat £lO per year covering everything.

Calls from public phones will cost 3d —the necessary coin attachments will be installed soon.

Telephone users in other centres where manual exchanges are still in use will also have their phone charges raised from April I—in Lae md Rabaul they will go up to £l3/5/for a domestic phone, and to £25 per year for a business phone. The old rates were £lO and £l5 respectively.

Natives Don T Want Any

LOANS Whatever else the natives of P-NG need, they apparently don’t need money.

The Treasurer of the Territory at present holds £57,000 in the Native Loans Board —a n d canno t find any native group that wants to borrow money from it.

The fund represents profits from trade stores operated during the war by the Production Control Board under ANGAU. In October, 1955, it was announced that this money would form the nucleus of a fund from which loans of up to £5,000 could be made to native groups Councils, Co-operative Societies, etc. —to further their economic and welfare activities. A Board was set up to administer the fund—and hasn’t found any work to At the Church of England, Rabaul, New Guinea, in mid-February, Miss Jacqueline Hughes was married to Mr. Logan Irwin of the Bank of New South Wales. Matro[?] Honour was Mrs. Rex Iredale and best[?] Mr. G Smythe. Photo: C. H. M. 138 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH'

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Ose-Up Of A Menyamya

VENDETTA ill details of a recent patrol into icted Kukukuku country of the yamya sub-district were released ort Moresby early March by the stor of Native Affairs, Mr. A. A. ;rts. ie patrol, led by Assistant Dis- Oflicer Chester, entered the area wing a report that a number of res had been killed in tribal ies. The number has now been at seven. . Chester’s report to Headters said the trouble arose when native killed his wife. Her lers then went to the village e he lived and killed the first they saw. Afterwards, several ets joined forces and raided a e which had had no part in the •. The outcome was a total of l deaths.

Chester said he could get little tnation from the natives lly, but later two volunteers forward and supplied the s of the wanted men.

L’ing the search for them, the sman for one clan demanded ow what the patrol was doing ng about their country, and sted that they go back to amya Station. He was then told the patrol was searching for mrderers, and that the search would continue until they had all been arrested. weT^fired^t^olice 0 parties opera? 8 hS close ItoKinnoui Wm- SI shote werefi?edovTthehS ot the attackers, and dispersed them w^rereivedTslight arrow woumf wertf arrested and U amto^continue thfsearch mafetag wanted men The area concerned has been visited only twlre since Menyamya Station was opened in 1950.

Mr. Roberts said that it was an extremely mountainous region and that the Kukukuku people were as difficult in temperament as the country they lived in.

Another Archbold

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Russel Peterson, were in Samarai in March, where they will recruit a staff to open field work on Normanby Island. Later, they will move to Fergusson Island. Mr. Brass will lead an Archbold biological expedition to the D’Entrecasteaux Group.

They plan to collect vascular plants, mosses and liverworts in these islands, and then go on to Woodlark Island to study and collect reptiles, amphibians, fresh-water fish, insects, and birds.

The scientists will work first in [?]nd Mrs. A. Smith at the reception [?] their wedding recently in the Church [?]d, Rabaul. The bride was formerly [?]a Curnow. Mr. A. Hartley was best- [?] Miss E. Williams bridesmaid.

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Natives Lost At Sea

ree natives were lost at sea folg an ocean drama north of ik in early March. As soon as canoe had left the lee of u Is. it was swamped in heavy on board clung to the partlymged canoe until dusk. The nen then decided to separate ry to reach the shore on planks from the vessel by the heavy Only two of them were sucil. One of these was rescued lagers who saw him struggling ; water and battled their way ) them in a small canoe, hing was seen of the three natives when an aerial search nade on March 4 along the from Wewak to the mouth of ?pik River. • of the three men missing itive medical orderlies.

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;he District Court in Lae on 7 a European woman, Mrs.

Elizabeth Kimmich, was fined i default three months jail, pplying liquor to natives. Subtly, her 66-years-old husband, i Wilhelm Kimmich, was ced to 6 months- imprisonvith light labour for the same t natives to whom the liquor pplied were jailed for periods n two to six months.

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PUPIL n the Territory Director of , Dr. John Gunther, reto Port Moresby on March i a tour of the Far East, he iat the Territory was well in :e of some of the countries he sited in the fields of TB and :ontrol. However, these same es were ahead of the Terrii malaria, health education, ifant and maternal Welfare s. other words,” he said, “there h we can learn but at the ime, we can teach.”

Uunther’s tour took him to Dre, Malaya, Hongkong, North and the Philippines. At □re, he represented Australia World Health Organisation al Meeting.

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APC TAKES 40 NATIVE APPRENTICES Twenty technical students from the Malaguna School at Rabaul were taken to Port Moresby by chartered aircraft on March 12, to start their probationary term as apprentices.

They will be trained at the APC Badili workshops and the Company’s marine slipway at Napa Napa.

Twenty apprentices from the Idubada Technical School at Port Moresby have already commenced their probationary apprenticeship period with APC.

Those who successfully complete the three months initial probationary term will be apprenticed as diesel mechanics, fitters and turners, carpenters and joiners, wood machinists, sawyers and motor mechanics.

All have already done two years pre-apprenticeship training at the Technical schools.

An official of APC said that the Company’s decision to engage apprentices from the technical schools was made after the APC Staff Training Officer, Mr. Huskisson, had visited the centres and inspected the work being done.

Mr. Warburton Leaves

MADANG The Mad a n g Town Advisory Council has a new Chairman and At St. John's Church of England, Port Moresby, recently, Miss Colleen Orr-Harper was married to Mr. William Morley. The couple will make their home in Madang.

Photo by Papuan Prints. 141 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—APRIL, 1956

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Their appointments at 11 month’s meeting followed the ress nation for health reasons of | T. E. Warburton, who has b» Chairman of the Council sine* first meeting.

Mr. Meek expressed the Coundi regret that ill-health had compels Mr. Warburton to leave the Tefe tory and the Council later putli record its appreciation of his I vices.

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A former Chief of the New So|o Wales Criminal Investigal Branch, Mr. Joe Ramus, arrived) Port Moresby on March 12 on m Qantas officials described ass “familiarisation tour.”

Mr. Ramus retired from the Nr Force 18 months ago and is nown tached to Qantas’s Security Offi Since joining the Company, hel travelled to most parts of the wq on Qantas flights and has beenli sponsible for the arrest of a numi of baggage thieves and would) smugglers. £7,500 BANK FOR GOROK# Tributes were paid to the ej pioneers of the Highlands by speb ers at the ceremonial opening?

March 14 of new premises off Bank of New South Wales in Gorf The first cheque drawn was a j for the projected Agricultural Sic at Goroka.

It was accepted on behalf ofr show committee by the Dist; Commissioner, Mr. Seale, its Prfi dent, who formally declared the!

Bank premises open for businesasi The Bank’s Chief Inspector!

Australia, Mr. R. R. McKellar,!, tended the opening and later m an inspection tour of the Gos( and Wahgi Valleys. Mr. last visited the Territory for I opening of the Bank’s new prentfr at Port Moresby.

A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Danny S who were recently married at the R Methodist Church. The bride was formerly if Lynn Lee.

Photo: C. H. [?] 142 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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/o fires were burning in the lie of Rabaul harbour in mid- ;h. They had been lit by ige crews working on a Jap sunk during the war. len the salvage men blasted off ship’s propeller, oil fuel, preibly from the oil tanks on the rose to the top of the harbour, e was a danger of its spreadicross the harbour and causing ble damage to shipping, e oil was set afire —and would until the fuel in the submerged was exhausted.

Historical Society

RESUSCITATED e Historical Society of Papua- Guinea was revived in Port =by in March after about a year action. 3 previous president and vicelent, Mr. W. C. Groves and Mr. . V. Stanley, had resigned for nal reasons.

Ivan Champion was elected lent, and Mr. Anthony, Vicelent; Mrs. F. A. Anderson was d Secretary-treasurer, j Committee of six includes for first time a Papuan, Toua aa, Chief Native Clerk of the :tment of Education, whose er, Boe Kapena, is a delegate 3 South Pacific Commission, ers elected to the Committee Mr. E. H. Clark, Mr. H. Clay, Mr. E. Glover, Mr. H. Plant and the Reverend D. E. Ure.

Over 50 persons attended the meeting.

The Historical Society of Papua and New Guinea now rates as a parent body of an organisation which —speakers suggested—will probably have branches at Madang, Rabaul and other centres.

Minister’S Concessions To

PSA The recent quick visit of representatives of the Territory Public Service Association to Minister The Bristol Freighter which recently flew Aberdeen Angus cattle from Australia for Mr. lan Louden, Eilogo Plantation, Sogeri, shown at Port Moresby. Photo: Papuan Prints. 143 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— APRIL, 1956

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March 23, the Minister advised ssociation that he had approved ayment of leave fares to homes, subject to certain conditions. ; Minister has also approved ent of fares and removal exs of officers on their retireor in the case of deceased •s, fares and removal expenses dow and any dependants. ; Minister said that under ng arrangements there is no ilty in approving requests for nt of land in P-NG within a or two before retirement and cial cases this may be extended e years. remaining matters raised by elegation would be dealt with ;edily as possible.

VICTOR CONVOY, LAE- HIGHLANDS or vehicles too large to be into the Highlands may be i in convoy from Lae later this jral vehicles have in recent been driven over the unmade between the head of the lam Valley road and Gusap, istern terminus of the Highroad system. :ral rivers—such as the Umi, A photograph taken of the official party at RAOB Lodge Bulolo's Regalia Ball at end of February (see March PIM); left to right, standing, Mrs. L. W. Bergstrand, Mrs. Halpin, Mr. A. E.

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Mr. J. R. Winders, a Queensland Government official, is now engaged on a six weeks’ tour of P-NG including Port Moresby, Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Wau and Bulolo. He will examine the pros and cons of local government in Papua and New Guinea.

It is claimed that Mr. Winders has wide academic and practical experience of local government organisation and is well qualified to assist in settling a question much discussed in P-NG in recent years and raised by some Territory Advisory Councils.

Mr. Winders is the Secretary of the Queensland Sugar Board and previously Chief Clerk of the Queensland Local Government Board. He was selected for this survey as it was considered that conditions in the coastal towns of Queensland provide the nearest comparison with those in Territory centres.

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Mr. Winders will later submit his findings to the P-NG Administration.

U Mr. Bob Wright, Fiji Public I lations office photographer, left!

New Zealand in March, where! f will interview travel organisatid newspaper and tourist departm® with a view to increasing Fi,r photographic publicity in IB Dominion. 146 APRIL. 1956 —PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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CONDOMINIUM This is How it Appears to a Stranger a newcomer to the New rides, arriving at Port Vila before Christmas, 1955, and have seen nothing of the slands of the group. My wife decided to make our per- ; home here, and from the : view of climate and beautiful idings, find it perfect in every newcomer, I came with a ;ely unbiassed mind. The ; of the Condominium was a me to me and outside any s experience. r, the Condominium appears ike an unruly child with two whom it plays one against er. Neither father will take Donsibility for the child’s misours. srhaps it could be called a ship with no dictator who approached. esult is that the people who the revenue have no voice iver in the budgeting of it, parently no expenditure has istified. As it has been put the people who have lived generations, property owners like, families born and bred th deep rooted love for their , and others who have chosen id their lives here are d by transients. Transients, the most part, have no inn the future of the New s and are counting the days ey leave. 2, this is a deplorable situar hy it has been tolerated for is beyond me. Why is there ncil of elected, responsible to decide upon matters of and public works, as in .her civilised community? It icerting to find a people bed as though they were the rimitive of humans, in as as they are allowed no ;, nor permitted to play a the ruling of their country, ite of affairs occurs within sdiction of two Democracies. : been told of the time when iecided to build a dry dock Vila. So far as I can gather, lot considered necessary to a marine architect or conreliance was put in the serthe Public Works, to whom iject seemed easy. There me costly not-very-dry-dock which cannot be drained } it’s having a fresh water It is doubt f ul if it would be )ugh to permit the drawing p’s shaft, anyway. Result; f, amount unknown, is here a road tax on motor as is general in most 3. Most of the roads were r the Americans during the I hope they never see what ening to them. On fine rack roads, the jungle has been allowed to encroach, leaving broken-down single tracks. Road maintenance consists, in the main, of throwing loose coral into holes in the surface with no binding material whatever.

The first rains wash it out again, or vehicles knock it out, then, after a few more springs have been broken, the procedure is repeated, and so on ad infinitum.

Should one own a radio one must have a Broadcasting Licence; it is hard to tell why, as there is no broadcasting service here. All programmes heard are supplied by overseas stations.

The most intriguing situation I have come across so far is the great airfield mystery.

Until June, 1955, Qantas operated a flying-boat service to the New Hebrides. This was a year longer than they had intended to use flyingboats on the service, as they had proved too costly. But they operated the extra year, anyhow, to enable the Condominium to repair the airfield the Americans had made, just outside Vila.

This airfield is a full-size bomber strip, capable of handling any airtraffic and is still putting out of cultivation a considerable area of two plantations.

The loss of revenue for one of the 147 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY—APRIL, 1956

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Henry Scott, QC, of Suva, who een a patient in St. Vincent’s tal, Sydney, is reported to be ved in health and will probably i to Fiji shortly.

Working for Fiji Athletes Another Hotel for Lae Soon LAE is to have its second hotel, following the granting of a licence to Morobe Hotels Ltd. in early March.

The new hotel will be of the cabintype currently favoured for tropical hotels and will be erected in Markham Road, Lae, for about £50,000.

From the description of the proposed hotel given to Lae Licensing Court, it is evident that the Company has learned a lot about hotels from its other pioneer-type hotel at Wau—and also from the new Pine Lodge hotel at Bulolo.

The hotel will consist of a main building comprising kitchen, bar, lounge, dining room, office, etc— connected to cabins, flats, and a large block of 12 bedrooms by covered-ways.

There will be two beer-gardens.

Lae at present has only one hotel —the Hotel Cecil —owned by Mrs. F.

Stewart, who built it after the war for the cost of about £lOO,OOO. t Bands of the Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary, and the Pacific Islands Regiment may go to the Olympic Games if the Games organisers are willing. These native bandsmen made a visit to Australia at the time the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visited the Commonwealth and were very popular.

L. Cook, now of Melbourne, who has ed by the Fiji Amateur Sports Assn, ympic Games liaison officer for them, now over 80, Mr. Cook has many He is official timekeeper for the Amateur Athletic Assn, of Victoria, a tireless worker amongst New Aus- -he speaks Italian fluently. Mr. Cook years in Fiji with the CSR Co., and other 14 years at Ocean Island for [?]h Phosphate Commission. 149 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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The Church with a Knowledge of Pigs THE introduction of white man’s law to a primitive society can! involve the bringers of the law in a vicious circle of cause andi effect.

There is, for example, the of native pigs in the Eastern lands of New Guinea. Here the men regard themselves as warriorsp and the monotonous business of i working in the gardens and tending; pigs is left entirely to women.

At one time, they penned their-j pigs or kept them in their knowing that if they did not, somS= unfriendly tribesman would soomr cause them to “go off.”

Now, of course, pig-stealing is: frowned upon and punished by the Administration and consequen lyh the over-worked women let the animals run at will. The result is: that the pigs—any of which can do as much soil shifting as a bull-T- -dozer when in the mood for 10am the roads and do a great dealll of damage.

At a meeting of the Goroka Dis-j- -trict Advisory council recently, memf bers were of the opinion that a veterinary officer should be to the district to train the locaE natives in proper methods of animam husbandry—i.e., pig culture an 6t corailing.

Pastor A. J. Campbell, of the SDA,„ in a fine example of inter-mission! cordiality, then said it was a pityy that the Rev. Fr. A. Schaefer was not present that day—the Rev.;.

Father had some very sound idea* on pig husbandry and had had many years experience in the problem: now before the council.

It was resolved, further dis cussion on the pig menace, to defer! the matter to the next meeting ofi the Council when Father Schaeferi would be present.

Girl Who Escaped Lamington[?] Disaster a Brilliant Scholar MISS Pamela Cawley, now 17,1 starts an Arts course at Sydney i University this year. She is, the daughter of Mrs. Cawley and the late Mr. Cecil Cawley, who lost hiss, life in the Mt. Lamington eruptions in Papua about five years ago. Hep was then District Commissioner at; Higaturu.

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LE big events of the Papua and New Guinea Golf Association year were played this Easter on difficult, hilly course of the golddng and plywood town, Bulolo. d, on Good Friday, chartered airft converged upon Bulolo from >aul, Port Moresby, Madang, Lae Goroka, while vehicles brought tors from nearby Wau. n Easter Saturday the Papua and v Guinea Amateur Champion- ), played over 36 holes, attracted naximum field of 60 (after a iber had been ballotted out) and the Monday, the Territory Assoes’ Championship was played ’ 27 holes. offers not competing in these n events came for the ride and )lay in minor events, off is a very popular sport in r Guinea and each of the towns itioned has a good course with i houses which would do credit my medium-sized town in Ausia. Altogether, hospitable Bulolo immodated 150 visitors over the week-end and an additional 60 Sunday. Approximately 1,500 free meals were served to guests.

Each town takes it in turn to act as host; last year it was Rabaul, next year it will be Goroka. All clubs are affiliated with the Association, which controls the championship events and has been responsible for a number of excellent measures, e.g., all clubs have reciprocal rights.

The quality of the golf may be gauged from the scores. The terrain of the par 70 course is difficult and, owing to a drought period (locals blame the hot air from the rubble piles left by the dredges for lack of rain in recent years) the greens were not at their best. Yet Bernie Hack, of Lae, playing off 3, won the main event with 150 (two 75’s); and in the morning round, Barry Flannery, of Rabaul (6) had a 72 off the stick to break the course record.

The Associates’ Championship was won by Mrs. Punshon, of Goroka (formerly Riverina champion and runner-up at Katoomba), with 133.

The locals won the Kriewaldt Cup, best scratch score of a team of four ; IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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Sole Islands Agent for Hardie Rubber Coy. Ltd. a bare one stroke from Rabaul. rew-Guineaites take their game ously but, because of local conons, it inevitably has its lighter i. This is mainly because of the iloyment of native caddies, busily aged in earning their shilling, ake the incident at Rabaul last r, when an Associate from ther town hit a nice ball off the ; tee in the championship, only see her dark-skinned caddy reve it like a terrier and bring ack. nder the rules of golf the caddy in adjunct of the golfer, who ; suffers dearly for his misdeeds, ce the local rule at Bulolo this r; “Native hag-carriers are ted as porters, not caddies.” obably the best anecdote cons the Port Moresby member, took along to the course to Y' his bag a Chimbu who knew ing but his own “place talk” l the plantation labour line, i his surprise and disgust, the t lost six balls. He seemed to litting them straight and the Moresby fairways aren’t lhat Back at the plantation, he the boss-boy to inform the y that he did not intend to pay anything, as his job had been nd balls yet six had been lost. ’ the the inevitable gabbling, boss-boy explained that the boy was very sorry, but he had the Taubada hitting the balls far away over the hill and had concluded that he was trying to lose them. He had assisted in this by picking them up and throwing them into the rough!

Then there was a Finschhafen associate who claimed that she had done a hole in seven. Her partner's native pocket-size caddy was determined not to see his missus taken down like this, and interrupted indignantly. “Nogat!” he yelled, “me Two Old Fiji Families United The marriage of Miss Cordelia Marion Pickering, daughter of Mr. Harry Pickering, to Mr.

Godfrey Robin Bentley on March 3, in Suva, united two very old Fiji families. The bride's great-grandfather had an eventful career in pre-cession days. At one stage he assisted the Rewa people against Dreketi and was given the name of Vuti Rewa, which means "helping Rewa".

The bridegroom's grandfather worked for Wishart & Co. in the early days of the Colony after cession. There were over 300 guests at the wedding reception, the majority being relatives of either the bride or the groom. Our photo shows (left to right, standing), Miss K.

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A53/A Ua lukim you faitim bal ten fella timas Namba wan you faitim bal e mi g®, long liklik wata. Namba tuna? namba tri you faitim air tasol,”f' and so on through the whole mortili fying ten strokes.

Even those most critical of Pidgii. must admit that it can bs a succinct and expressive language on occasion Young European children, who are looked after by “meris” normally speak Pidgin fluently. A small bay of three, after watching his golfll beginner father, a well known Rabatt citizen, in one of his early essayl, at the game, on being asked whaif his father had done that afternoorfr gave this graphic description: “Paps; em i kisim wan liklik ball. Nau enn i kisim wanfella club. Nau em ¥ faitim bal long club. He faitim, her faitim, he faitim, nau ball i winimJj' The really fearsome feature ofc some New Guinea courses is ther kunai rough. The kunai may lx over head-high and the ball onac in, seldom found. An associate om one of these courses hit her balb far into the kunai and was lucky enough to find it.

For a considerable time the only sign of activity^was the occasional? flashing of a club blade above thjr kunai. Her partner, going to in vestigate, found her still slashing at; the ball and moving it inch by inchi On her suggestion, that she should pick the ball up, drop it on the fairh way, and take the penalty, the ase sociate replied that she had beeie told that there was no out-of bounds on this course and if she was on the course she felt she had ttf play the ball and was determiner to play the round out.

So you intending visitors to thd Territory, don’t forget to pack you sticks. You will enjoy your gar* on good courses and under nove conditions, not forgetting thaje traditional New Guinea in the Club house. And to thofi keen Territory golfers, who madb the trip to Bulolo—see you next yets at Goroka. * "No got! I saw you hit (fight) the bast 10 times. The first time you hit it into tH water. Number two and number three you I) air, that's all." t "Father gets one little ball. Now ore club. Now he fights (or hits) the ball w’di\ the club. He fights it, he fights it, he fighrli it —then the ball wins." 11 Miss Susan Williams, of Sydnate just returned from a six montH working holiday in Rabaul, afii nounced her engagement to Mr. Ja?

Snijders, of Rabaul. They plan t marry in Sydney in May and mabl their home in Rabaul. t A sling of fabricated steel droppe off Norfolk Island jetty recently e Shansi was located by a locio underwater enthusiast, and MV Vih Star was pressed into service j salvage same for the new NI wha.fi ing factory. 154 APRIL, 1 9 5 6 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL’

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Public Effort To protect [?]ild Life In Fiji SUVA, March 15. r 1950, following a suggestion by the Director of Agriculture, the Council of the Fiji Society set a Committee to investigate and hse Government on various iects of nature protection in the ony; and, in particular, to study breeding habits of native game Is, as a basis on which the annual oting seasons could probably be ided. ►ver the past five years the Corntee has had the following memship, representing both scientific 1 sporting in erests: Messrs. R. A. pis, R. A. Derrick, H. Gatty, Rev.

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B. Southwick and H. Gatty. y have all reported their obserons from time to time; and an 2al to sportsmen in 1953 and brought in additional informale Committee has advised on revision of the Schedules to the ection of Birds and Games inance, on proposals for the inuction of exotic game birds and r animals, and on applications the export of native birds, le Committee has recognised the -term nature of the investiga- -5 which are necessary if its remendations are to be based on itific facts and not on casual rts and opinions. Each year it reviewed the available informaon the population status o f the ye game birds and has taken consideration the effects of external factors such as hurris, and the abundance or otherof natural food supplies, has also given careful attento the legitimate claims of :smen for a reasonable annual ting season and has realised that unnecessary restrictions might controls 6 |dv birds Consequently 1 It has each Sv^nmSS 1 Jho wS spason 6 S«lh?P d6d th longest open season possible.

Because of Colony-wide reports regarding the status of the grey duck, the Committee in 1954 recommended a total prohibition for the time being on shooting of this species. The case of the migratory birds has also been investigated.

It is an unfortunate fact, however that from time to time wellauthenticated reports are received of illegal and wanton destruction of native birds by individuals.

It has been possible to Investigate only a few of thes“ cases and th= Committee feels that the best prospect for the future is to enlist the interest and support of the people of all races in Ts work. It is in the interests of all concerned that a rational and well understood programme of native conservation should be observed in all districts of the Colony. _

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Another activity of the Committee has been the study of local needs for the establishment of nature reserves and scenic reserves, especially in view of the fact that Government had signified its intention of abandoning, not only the roadside scenic reserves proclaimed in the early thirties but also the Bird Sanctuary and Nature Reserve at Colo-i-Suva proclaimed in 1926.

The Committee, through the Council, made several major recommendations and during 1954 requested that early consultation be arranged.

Mr. H. Gatty is now Chairman of the Nature Protection Committee.

Mr. H. Hardie, at present on leave in Scotland, will represent the Fiji Society at the meeting of the International Union for the Protection of Nature, in Edinburgh, in June. t Fa’afaga, a 12-year-old Samoan girl of Tanugamanono, courageously rescued a 3-year-old boy, Uota, swept into the Vaisigano River in lecent mid-March floods. 155 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956

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New Guinea Club Scholarmrrent again for this year lued at £5O per annum, are 1 to: —Marcia Searle, Rabaul; Mahon, Rabaul; Leonie an, Port Moresby, and i Ralph, Port Moresby. /[fine Bay RSL Scholarships, 1 for the first time this year, ued at £5O per annum, have varded to Robert Coleman, rosby, and Floyd Pauline all of Milne Bay. ivian Whittaker, son of Mr. s. George K. Whit'aker, of w Guinea, who was born Guinea about 24 years ago, 1 to the Territory recently join the Public Health Belt. t Traditional Samoan ceremonies at Saleloga, Savaii, on March 2 were a feature of the official opening of the new wharf at that coastal village, constructed to facilitate the shipment by inter-island vessels of bananas and other produce to Apia.

Led by the High Commissioner, Mr.

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WANTED; employment on a plantaii the islands, by a Dutchman, singl* 24, with certificate of the State C for Tropical Agriculture at (Holland). H. B. Gunnink, 13 Rac* Rd., Orange, N.S.W., Australia.

COMPETENT baker and pastrycook responsible position on Pacific te Experience in island production* handling of native labour. Speaks Bi French and German and some Polym Please reply to: Box 290(3. G.P.O Si Australia.

FOR SALE FLEETS. 36 ft. heavily-built carvel workboat, launched 1953, 30 h.p. diesel, 2 ; 1 reduction, 1,000 hrs., hydraulic winch.

Condition as new, ready to steam away; £4,500. For boats of all types contact Fleets, Water St. East, Sth. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

For Sale By Tender

TOVANAKUS AND VUNABERE PLANTA- TIONS. Sealed Tenders endorsed “Tovanakus and Vunabere Plantations” are invited and will be received by the undersigned up to noon on May 31. 1956. Situation: Approx. 45 miles from Rabaul in the highly fertile Nth. Bainings Area of New Britain. Area; Approx. 550 acres of freehold land fully planted with approx. 30,000 fully bearing Coconut palms, interplanted, except for small area, with approx. 20,000 cacao trees from seedlings to fully bearing, and approx. 1.000 acres Administration 99 yr. Leasehold virgin land. Anchorage: Good Sth. East with wharf capable of taking vessels up to 85 feet. Soil: Volcanic loam typical of rich Bainings Area. Buildings on planted area: Modern plantation bungalow all conveniences. New Hot Air Drier. All Plantation buildings good. Plant: Motor transport, tools, lighting plant, etc., sufficient for efficient running of properties. Native labour: Approx. 65 natives under Native Labour Agreement. Vendors will endeavour to do their utmost for N L.Agmts. to be transferred to purchaser of freehold property. The foregoing particulars are believed to be correct but no representation is made to that effect.

The Personal property of the Manager is reserved from Sale. The property will be sold subject to signing Contract of Sale with terms mutually agreed upon and to the consent of the Administrator of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. The vendors shall accept tenders for: (a) Freehold and leasehold properties as a going concern; or (b) Freehold properties as a going concern; or (c) Leasehold property alone. The highest or any other tender will not necessarily be accepted. For further particulars and arrangements for inspection please contact the undersigned. Dated the 20th day of March. 1956.

F. N. WARNER SHAND.

Barrister and Solicitor.

Rabaul, T.N.G.

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This new discovery makes it possible to quickly and easily restore rigour to your glands - - pun and body, to build rich, blood, to strengthen your minu: and memory and feel like i new man In only 8 days. El fact, this discovery, which is i home medicine In pleasant, easy? to-take tablet form, does awi with gland operations and be gins to build new rigour am: energy in 24 hours, yet it I absolutely harmless In action., The success of this amazim discovery, called Vl-STIM, ha: been so great that It Is noy being distributed by all chemist here under a guarantee of corny plete satisfaction or money bad In other words, VI-STTM mua> make you feel full of vigour an energy and from 10 to 20 yeait younger, or return the empft package and get your money back VI-STTM costs little, and Vi-StimH— Restores Manhood and Vltafli FOR SALE M.V. Melva for £7,000 (N.Z.) “as is”

Built 1945. Steel frames and kauri hull in good condition. Totara sheathing. Cargo carrying capacity about 260 tons. 2 holds. 4 derricks, 4 winches, twin screw, 2 Gleniffer diesel engines of 160 H.P. each; have only had 12 months running, costing £6,000 before installation.

Price includes everything aboard, such as oil, stores and linen valued at over £B5O, new lifeboat costing £4OO, etc. For further particulars apply to Secretary. Greymouth Shipping Company Limited, P.O.

Box 165, Greymouth, N.Z. 158 APRIL, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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BLUNDELL H Ah 0 enaH* 1 GLOSS jo** ( ‘ r 'Or •uid walls PAMM/lUIC KERR BROS. PTY. LTD. 4 O’Connell Street. Sydney, N.S.W. index to Advertisers .... 41 Ltd. . . 131 5. F. . . .61 e .... 93 im Ltd. . 48 r Sales . 146 Mn. ... 4 . ... 110 n Cotton 34 .... 96 /., Jno. . 73 . M. . . 146 NSW 95, 99 NZ . . . 74 gh, . 128, 129 Gwyn . . 9 Rae . . 123 Spence . 159 . ... 154 Mills . . 76 Bros. . 132 it . 57, 94 N. S. . 114 Motors . 9 & Co. . 38 A. H. . 50 Museum 45 85, 100, 147 ry . . . 6 A Charters 114 Ltd. . . 6C • ... 14 . 42, 122 Meat . . 92 s'n. . . 151 ealth ... 43 >s. . . 157 ... 11l Co. . 156 A. H. . 141 ... 121 1 ... 70 w. c. . 133 bber . . 33 d. . . .13 i ... 90 • ... 86 n. . , . 97 ... 155 Heidecke 73 m ... 69 ig. • . 116 & M. 160 del . . 10 & A. . 70 Bros. . 90 • 1, 47, 72, 126, 137 *a) . . 13 ook Co. 46 • 31, 98 B. . . 113 Sons . 115 iourt 41 Spear . 34 . Hall . 3 ider . 142 ncies . 87 esels 5, 88 I- ... 63 Ltd. . 125 ... 71 ■ . . 135 ' ... 35 3l ... 16 es . . 91 rt . . 123 /ax . . 75 ig. . . 49 ... 10 Kennedy, Capt. . 118 Kerr Bros. ... 46 Kiwi Polish ... 66 Kopsen & Co. . 136 Kwit 40 Lanchoo Tea ... 11 Maclntyre, T. . 110 Madang Slipways 120 Maize Products . 53 Marine Spares . 117 Masse Batteries . 44 Mcllrath's ... 138 Mendaco . . . .125 Millers Ltd. ... 58 M. H. Ltd. . 26, 59 Morgan Vernex . 69 Mungo Scott . . 45 National In. Co. 124 N. & R. . . 119, 145 Needham & Co. . 62 Nestle's .... 68 NG Aust. Line . . 6 Nile Products . . 56 Nixoderm ... 135 N.Z.N.A.C 2 P. 1. Line .... 8 Papuan Prints . 129 Piccaninny Wax . 30 Prager, F. H. . . 37 Qld. Insurance 37 Qld. Milling . . 87 Ransomes Co. . . 62 Refrig. Inst. Co. . 65 Riverstone Co. . . 52 Robinson, G. H. . 38 Rohu, Si I . . . .65 Royal Interocean . 12 Sails and Covers 113 Seppelt & Son . 36 Seward Ltd. . . 98 Shaw Savill ... 7 Shell Pty. Ltd. 55, 127 Sparklets Ltd. . 103 Spruso Co. . . . 28 S.T.C. Co. ... 109 Stapleton, J. , . 89 Stewarts-Lloyds . 94 S. Pi Brewery . . 97 Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 105 Sullivan Ltd. . 105, 139, 149 Suva Motors . .107 Tait, W. S. . . 102 Thornburgh . . . 50 Thornycroft Co. . 117 Tilley Lamps . . 51 Tillock & Co. .. 150 Tongala Milk . . 104 Tongan Photos . 61 Tooth & Co. . . .66 Turners & Growers 106 Tyneside Eng. . . 67 United Insurance 151 U.R.D 157 Vacuum Oil . . .108 Valiant Rum ... 89 Vincent Bros. . . 144 Ventura . . 121, 160 Vi-Stim .... 158 Vincent's APC . . 29 Warnock .... 102 Wakefield Oils . 152 Westfield Meats . 148 Wilhelmsen, W. . 8 White Rose ... 58 White, John . .106 Wills Ltd. ... 112 Wilson, W. E. . 137 Wright & Co. . 118 Wunderlich Co. . 39 Young, Harry . . 153 Yorkshire Ins. . . 93 ic ISLANDS M O N T H L T A P R I L , 1956

FIJI Aug..1939 June, ’55 Apr. 10,1 Emperor . . b9/ll sl4/blO/v Loloma . . . s25/6 b23/9 b26| PAPUA-NEW GUINEA BulOlO , . . bl24/b47/b46ii N.G.G. Ltd. . bl/10 sl/9 b2/| Oil Search .

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Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are In Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons X WPHC areas; 140 Pac. Francs: SUS 2 23.) COPRA Price negotiated between British Ministry of Food and British South Pacific Territories for 1956 W'as £Stg.sB/10/- FOB main ports—a reduction of 10% on the 1955 price. Stabilisation funds and other charges reduce the actual prices to producers to those given below, per ton: PAPUA - NEW GUINEA:—Hot Air £A62/10 -: FMS 'Sum £A6I/15/-; Smoked £AS9.

FlJl:—Plantation £FS7 for top grade.

W. SAMOA:—£S3B/2/-, £S37/14/-, and £S37/9/- approximately for the three gradings in use.

E. SAMOA: —Adjusted with free-market fluctuations. Currently $89.60 (£A4O approx.) per long ton. Periodic bonus if average proceeds exceed Government buying price.

SOLOMONS;—Honiara / Gizo: Hot Air £A6I/10 -; Mixed HA/FM £AS7; FM £ A52/10/-; Yandina: 5/- higher.

NEW HEBRIDES;— Buying price Apr. 9, 5,600 Pac. francs i£A39./4/-) delivered Vila/Santo.

FRENCH OCEANIA:—Mar. 1. top grade 8.36 Pac. francs per kilo (£A6O/12/0 per long ton) ir store, Papeete. Minimum price for lowest grade 5.35 Pac. francs (£A39 per long ton).

TONGA; —1956 prices not yet available.

COOK 15.;—1956 prices not yet available.

COCOA:—lslands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which, on Mar. 6, the rate for Accra cocoa which, on Apr. 10. was £Stg.lB7/10/- f.o.b.

P.-N.G.; £ A 235. delivered Sydney.

W. SAMOA: Apr. 10. £Stg.2os, f.o.b.

Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: Top grades 5/6 lb. in store, Sydney; Fr. Oceania; 60 francs per kilo, unhusked.

PEANUTS:—P.-N.G.: Market only for Virginia Bunch, in shell, larere, well cleaned, 1/5 per lb. delivered Sydney.

RUBBER;—P-N.G. price is based on Singapore, which quoted April 9, No. 1 RSS, spot 92 cents (3/6d Aust.t.

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, quoted Apr. 10 buying price, c.i f. Sydney. Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 42/6.

Green. 41/6 per lb.

RICE (Australian);—Price adjusted May 1 each year. P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dreg £62/10/- per ton, f.o.b.

PEARL SHELL. —Prices between Tok Strait producers and Otto Gerdau W (USA) not yet fixed for 1956.

Lagoon closed. Penrhyn: £B6O c; Sydney. Tuamotu: £A9IO, long ton* raw shell on beach, Mangareva.

TROCHUS:—ApI. 9. in store Sydp subject to rejects, SW Pacific £550« ton.

New Caledonia; Season closed Oct* GREEN SNAIL:—SW Pacific, in st Sydney, to £445, subject to rejects! [

London And U.S. Prices ]

Copra:—London, Apr. 10. Straits, I.: £Stg. 66/10/-; Philippines, SUSIBO, o Pac. Coast, del. weights.

Cocoa:—London. Mar. 31: Gold C(' May del. c.i.f., £Stg.lB3 long ton. 1 Coffee:—London, Mar. 31: Uganda* busta f.a.q., Apr.-May £Stg.249 f, Mombasa: Santos, May. £Stg.463/9/* Shell: —London. Feb. 16, Singai trochus, £Stg.sBs c.i.f. Green® £ 5tg.565 c.i.f.

Rubber:—London. Apr. 9, Spot buj Stg.27%d; Feb. c.i.f. afloat Stg.27d: JJ Sept., Stg.26%d.

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Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, i BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on! basis £lOO FIJI: Buying. £Alll/2/6; SelL £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO Lonci B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-Fljl, basis $ NZ; B. £lll/11/0; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. I tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Sam B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/0. Sait!

London, basis £lOO London: B. £lOO/\i S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £ 1001 B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji, f £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth Ek

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavif Madang), BANK OF NSW (branches:. 1 : Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul. Madjfc Samarai, Goroka; agencies: Wau, Bo4'i Kokopo) and ANZ BANK (Port More) quote exchange rate Australia-Papua|j 10/- per £lOO.

Bsi.— Commonwealth Bank (Brs

at Honiara) quotes exchange rate I tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific fra: most valuable of the three franc gm in French Union, are used in New O donia, New Hebrides, and Pr. Oceai: FRENCH BANK (Comptoir NatlrtJ D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quCi Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.: 180 ] fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $.

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General Merchants

t i Capital £2,500,000 ESTABLISHED 1914

General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Wholesalers And Retailers

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

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< OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

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Head Office: 16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: Telephone: Postal Address: “CAMOHE.” BW 4421. G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney.

In London: W. R, Carpenter & Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, Island Products Ltd., Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

Rahaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng. Port Moresby. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Suva.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY APRIL, 1956