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Bamboo pulons support replicas of four Fijian war from which is suspended a lite "tabua", or whalestooth, which plays an important part in Fijian ceremonial.

Photo: Fiji Public Relations Office.

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

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Japan Hongkong New Guinea

New Monthly Service between JAPAN, HONGKONG and NEW GUINEA (Returning via Australia to Japan Direct) 5.5. FUNING ) Japan Hongkong Madang Kavieng Rabaul Lae 5.5. FENGNING I Samarai Port Moresby.

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

Calls at Samarai subject to inducement.

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

For further details please apply to agents, or refer to the weekly advertisement in the South Pacific Post AGENTS PAPUA: Steamships Trading Co. Ltd., Port Moresby. Samarai. Cables; Steamships T tri Kaviene NEW GUINEA: Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd.. Lae, Madang, Rabaul. Cable; Colyeram. New Guinea Co. Ltd., Kavieng.

Cable: “Camohe”. .. , BRISBANE: Wills. Gilchrist & Sanderson Pty. Ltd.. 400 Queen Street. Cables: WilgUsand.

MELBOURNE: John Sanderson (Shipping) Pty. Ltd.. 11l William Street. Cable: Syndicate.

JAPAN: Tokyo. Yokohama. Osaka, Kobe: Butterfield & Swire (Japan) Ltd. Cable. Swire. „a_. lrps , hln .. BU 1712 GENERAL AGENTS AUSTRALASIA: Swire & Yuill Pty. Ltd.. 6 Bridge St., Sydney. Cable. Swireship . BU 1712.

EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong. Cable: Swire. 6 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

Sailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships, 1956.

ORSOVA ORONSAY ORCADES ORCADES ORONSAY SYDNEY depart 1 June 13 July 5 Oct. 11 Dec.

AUCKLAND arr/dep 4 June l& July From 8 Oct. 14 Dec.

SUVA arr/dep 7 June 19 July Panama 11 Oct. 17 Dec.

HONOLULU arr/dep 12 June 24 July 16 Oct. 22 Dec.

VANCOUVER arrive 18 June 30 July 22 Oct. 28 Dec. depart 19 June 31 July 11 Sept. 23 Oct. 29 Dec.

SAN FRANCISCO arr 21 June 2 Aug. 7 Sept. 25 Oct. 31 Dec. depart Then 3 Aug. 8 Sept. 26 Oct. 1 Jan.

HONOLULU arr/dep to 7 Aug. 16 Sept. 30 Oct. 5 Jan.

SUVA arr/dep Panama 14 Aug. 23 Sept. 6 Nov. 12 Jan.

AUCKLAND arr/dep — 17 Aug. 26 Sept. 9 Nov. 15 Jan.

SYDNEY arrive — 20 Aug. 29 Sept. 12 Nov. 18 Jan. inking the Pacific Islands With \ Emope ’ West lndies ’ New Zealand [ Australia and South Africa The Shaw Savill Tourist Class Liner S.S. SOUTHERN CROSS.

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[Mum Fares: To England

n Suva via Panama £lO5 stg. via South Africa £132 stg. m Tahiti via Panama £lOO stg. via South Africa £l5l stg. for full particulars apply: ■iti Call is Subject to Weather Permitting FIJI Any Branch or Agency of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Head Office: Suva. Cable address: Burnsouth.

TAHITI Etablissements Donald Tahiti, Papeete.

Cable address: Donald, Papeete.

Shipping Time-Tables II sailings are approximate and may vary by as much as two weeks.

Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea [V Malaita sails from Sydney for >aul, Kavieng, Lombrum, Lorengau, vak. Alexishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney. :t Sydney sailing June 15 (approx.). [V Malakula sails from Sydney for Pt. ■esby, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, cishafen, Madang, Lae, Samarai, ney, Melbourne. Sydney. Next Sydney Ing approximately May 31.

V Bulolo, modern liner, sails about •y six weeks: Sydney. Brisbane, esby, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Manus, aul, Samarai, Moresby, Brisbane, ney. Next Sydney sailing May 26. 3 Mangola, cargo only, sails from ney for Brisbane, Cairns, Pt. Moresby, larai, Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Pt esby, Brisbane, Sydney. Next sailing; 5 6.

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

V Sipkiang: Departs Melbourne June nd Sydney June 8 for Pt. Moresby, arai, Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Rabaul Pt. Moresby, Newcastle, Melbourne. ' V Shansi: Departs Sydney June 2 for aane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Sydney.

V Soochow: Departs Sydney June 22 Brisbane, Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang Sydney. tails from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd idge St., Sydney.

Far East-S.W. Pacific- Australia ing S.W. Pacific norts on south-bound journeys only.) Funing: Departed Japan May 11 for Hongkong May 19, Rabaul May 31, Madang June 4. Lae June 6, Samarai June 10, Pt. Moresby June 11.

SS Fengning; Departs Japan June 5 for Hongkong June 14, Rabaul June 27, Madang July 1, Lae June 3, Pt. Moresby July 8, then to Sydney and return direct to Japan.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (Swire and Yuill Pty. 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-Dutch N.G.

Monthly service by MV’s Van Noort, Sibigo and Sinabang carrying passengers and cargo from E. Australian ports to- Hollandia and Sorong, DNG (with Biak and/or Manokwari if inducement), thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct.

Details from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 George St., Sydney.

N. Zealand-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa MV Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return to Auckland. Next sailings from Auckland: May 2; June 19.

MV Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa, Apia. Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington, and return to Auckland. Next sailings from Auckland: June 7; July 5.

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

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The regular passenger vessel Maui Pomare resumed the Auckland - Cook Islands service in April.

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Terri- Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY - MAY, 1956

Pacific Islands Transport Line

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

Regular Freight and Passenger Service between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and

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

PAPEETE—Etabllssements Donald Tahiti. APIA —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 ff m fen if i t * f c Ifllllll, With the addition of the new M.V. Milos to our Pacific-Far East fleet which already comprises the sister ship “DELOS” and the modern motor vessels “AROS and “CITOS”, we are in the position to offer the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from Australia to the Main Japanese Ports via Manila and Hong Kong. On the return voyage these vessels call at Hong Kong, Manila, Madang, Lae, Rabaul, and thence to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

Bi-monthly calls are made at Honiara Vanikoro on the southbound voyage. and Further particulars may be obtained from: MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA; WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY PTY. LTD.. 63 Pitt St..

Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. ’Phone: MB 2840.

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

ISLAND AGENTS: Madang. Mr. A. Strachan; Lae, Mr. R. Tebb; Rabaul. Town Transport Ltd.; Islands Trading Corporation.

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

Sydney. Phone: BU 6301.

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tories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd, Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Tulagi. 10 passengers, leaves Sydney for Norfolk, Vila. Luganville, Honiara, Tenaru, Yandina, Gizo, Bouganville ports, Rabaul, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing approximately June 19.

MV Muliama. 8 passengers, leaves Sydney for British Solomons ports approx, monthly, ports varying with cargoes. In early May, she was in dock in Sydney, with the next sailing date as “indefinite”.

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

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Vessels of Messageries Maritimes Line, coming from Marseilles, via West Indies and Panama, call about every six weeks at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea and Sydney, and return by same route (At present on this run are the motorships, Tahitien, Caledonien and Resurgent MV Polynesie (Messageries Maritimes] maintains about monthly passenger sail ings between Sydney and Noumea am the New Hebrides. Next „ Sydney sailin) June 8.

SS Neo Hebridais-11, 1,266 tons, main tains an irregular cargo service betweei Sydney and Noumea, and four charte trips per annum to Wallis Is. via Suva Owners: Soc. Miniere et Maritime Hager Noumea. Sydney agents: H. C. Sleigt Ltd.. 115 York Street.

Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacific Ports-Sydney Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-passenge liner Southern Cross makes four round the-world voyages per year, two wesl bound, then two east-bound, calling i Suva every trip, and at Papeete (excel in hurricane season). Next sailings: Froi Southampton. Dep. May 31. via S. Africs arrive Sydney July 6, Suva July 1 Papeete July 21-22, arrive Liverpool, vi Panama, Aug. 15.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, et< Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vesse Thorsisle and Thorshall maintain regular service from Pacific Coast Nor( American ports, with sailings over 35days. Some ports depend on cargo offering. Thorshall: Sails San Francis* June 19, Papeete July 3-5, Pago July 1 Apia July 11-12, Suva July 15-18, Lautol July 19-21, Noumea July 24-26, Honia July 29, Lae July 30-31. Thorsisle: Sa San Francisco July 27, Papeete Aug. 1 12. Pago Aug. 17, Apia Aug. 18-20, Su Aug. 23-25, Lautoka Aug. 26-28, Noum Aug. 31-Sept. 3. Tauranga (NZ) Sept. 11. Nukualofa Sept 15, then via Su\ Apia and Pago to reach San Francis at beginning of October. 8 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L

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Details from General Steamships Corjratlon Ltd., 432 California St., San rancisco, USA, and Island Agents.

Sydney-North America, Via

Pacific Ports

The four cargo vessels, Waihemo, airuna, Waikawa, and Waitomo, owned d operated by the Union Steam Ship of NZ Ltd., maintain a monthly twice across the Pacific, from Sydney Vancouver and USA ports, via Suva, utoka, Nukualofa, and Apia, as cargoes er. Occasional calls are made at Fanig Island. They have limited passenger mmmodation. Next sailing: Wairuna d-June.

U.S.-PAPEETE-PAGO PAGO-N Z.- AUSTRALIA Jatson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco trates a regular five-weeks passengergo service from Los Angeles with the itura, Alameda, Sierra and Sonoma, ithern terminal ports vary with cargoes ;rlng. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago fo, and Suva, depending on cargoes,

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver

acific Shopowners, Ltd., of Suva (subary of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) operate service three times yearly with the W) ton. 98-passenger vessel Lakemba ig the above route. Accommodation jntlrely First Class, two-berth cabins, t sailing from Sydney, June 8, with s at Suva and Lautoka. etails from American Trading & Shipj Co. Pty., Ltd., Sydney.

Honolulu-Papeete

ic 242-ton auxiliary schooner Te Vega, irlcan-owned, operates a luxury pas- :er service to a regular schedule, with > at Marquesas and Line Islands as ilred. Details from Darr Lines, c/o ). H Davies & Co., Honolulu, or (lissements Donald, Papeete.

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* Mon.. Fri.; Sydney, Nadi, Canton Is., Honolulu, San Francisco, Seattle Portland.

Wed., Sat.: Sydney, Nadi, Canton Is., Honolulu, Los Angeles.

Tues., Fri.: San Francisco to Sydney (same route).

Sun., Wed.: Los Angeles to Sydney (same route). * DC4 from Auckland connects, arriving Nadi Mon., Wed., Fri., departing Nadi Tues., Thur., Sun. 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 9 "IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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UA Francisco— with Sat. service extending to Vancouver.

SOUTHWARDS Thur * Fri.* Sun.*: San Francisco, Hono- Mu'. Nadi (PUli. Sydney. Sundays service begins at Vancouver. (Note.

Crosses date-line en route). , * TEAL DC6 services between Auckland and Nadi connect at Nadi Tues. and Sat. northwards; Wed. and Sun. southwards.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Suoer DC-6B Aircraft) Every Wed.: Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu.

E ve^rsX r iea A v? S “ver for Sydney Every S pri.: Auckland, Nadi. Honolulu, Vancouver, Amsterdam. ...

Every Tues, leave Vancouver for Auckland by same route. (Note; Crosses date-lme 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 p m. Brisbane. 10.45 p.m.

Brisbane. 11.45 p.m. Moresby, 6.35 a.m. (Tues., Wed., Sun., Mon.) Moresby, 7.35 a.m. \ Lae, 9.00 a.m.

Thurs.

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.45 p.m.

Brisbane, 11.45 p.m. Townsville, 3.30 a.m. (Friday) Townsville, 4,15 a.m. Cairns. 5.30 a.m.

Cairns, 6.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby. 9.20 a.m.

Pt. Moresby, 10.20 a.m. Lae. 11.45 a.m.

SOUTHWARDS Tues., Wed., Sun., Mon.

Depart: Arrive: Lae, 10.30 a.m. Moresby, 12.00 noon Moresby, 1.00 p.m. Brisbane, 7.35 p.m.

Brisbane, 9.00 p.m. Sydney, 11.45 p.m.

Depart: Arrive; Sat.

Lae, 7.00 a.m. Moresby, 8.30 a.m Moresby, 9.30 a.m. Cairns. 12.20 p m Cairns, 2.35 p.m. Townsville, 3.45 p.m Townsville, 4.30 p.m. Brisbane, 8.15 p.m Brisbane, 9.00 p.m. Sydney, 11.45 p.m 10 MAY, 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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'Parts Lae 10.30 a.m., calls at Madang and Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia 3.00 p.m. Every alternate Thursday (May 31, June 14, 28, etc.), depart Hollandia at 9.30 a.m., and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.40 p.m.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

ery Wednesday. p. Lae, 8.00 a.m.: Finschhafen, Rabaul, Kavieng, arr. Manus 3.00 p.m. turns Saturdays (dep. 8 a.m.), via Kavieng, Rabaul and Finschhafen, arr.

Lae, 2.55 p.m.

MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) Yule Is., Kerema. Kikori, L. Kutubu: Alt. Fri. returning same day (May 25, June 8, 22, etc.).

Port Moresby-Rabaul

(Catalina) Tues. (May 29, June 12, 26, etc.) Pt. Moresby. Samarai, Esa’ala, Losuia, Vloewe Hbr., Talasea. Jacquinot Bay, Rabaul. Returning via same ports (except Losuia and Esa’ala optional) alt Phu. (May 31, June 14, 28, etc.).

New Britain-Bougainville

(Catalina) Wed.; Rabaul, Buka, Kieta, Buin May 30, June 13, 27. etc.). Returning ame day.

LAE-MAD ANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavteng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) •• Thur.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang rr. 7.35 a.m. Wewak, Manus Is Rabaul, arr. 3.40 p.m. only: Dep. Rabaul 8.00 a.m. direct ladang, arr. 10.50, a.m.. Awar /ewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 4.35 p.m.

Central Highlands

(DCS) ay; Lae (8.30 a.m.) to Wabamunda. ailing at any of: Goroka, Nondugl anz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R..

'abag, Wabamunda. Return to Lae •riving 6 p.m.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) ays; Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, callg at any of Nadzab, Kaiapit, Gusap ainantu, Goroka. Arena. Arrival back Lae depends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau (Dos)

Lae: Mon. 7.30 a.m.. Tues, 2 p.m ed. 11.30 a.m., Fri. 2.00 p.m.

Wau.; Mon. 9 a.m., Tues 3.30 p.m J p m :- Fri - 3.30 p.m. Bulolo is utted on these flights which take 35 mutes, Wau-Lae.

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

ys: Depart Madang 8.00 a.m., arrive L r „° k F a^ 8 ' 35 . a m -’ ret urning same day; part Goroka 9.05 a.m., arrive Madang ■5 a.m.

New Guinea-New Britain

(DCS) e A P c art Lae 1255 pm - Finschlen 1.45 p.m., arrive Rabaul 3.55 days: Depart Rabaul 10 am. ■dang 1.25 p.m., arrive Lae 2.30 p.m. ys. Depart Lae 12 noon, Finschhafen J.m.. Rabaul 3.10 p.m ay: ° e P art Rabaul 5.45 a.m.. Finsehten o.io a.m., arrive Lae 8 a m MANDATED airlines leduled Flights with DCS Aircraft Depart Lae at 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, 11

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If you are wise, you will consult your Solicitor and allow him to turn your intentions into a legal document. But the need for professional assistance does not end with your signature. Not only must your Will be revised at regular intervals, but it should name an Executor whose experience, knowledge and readiness to act are beyond question.

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Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul remaining overnight. Depart Lae 8.00 a.m. for Goroka. Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul at 6.30 a.m. for MadangT Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Wed.: Depart Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Fri ‘ Depart Lae at 7.00 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul remaining overnight. Depart Lae 730 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 7.00 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae. 4. Aust.-Dutch N. Guinea By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. (Super Constellation Service) A weekly service between Sydney and Amsterdam with a call at Biak (DNG) and Manila (Philippines).

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandia, Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, and Manokwari. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS (Three flights every four weeks) Mon. (May 28, June 4. 18, 25, etc.) Lae dep. 6 a.m.: Finschhafen, Rabaul, Buka, Vella Lavella, Yandina, Honiara (BSD, arriving 5.25 p.m.

Tues. (Apr. 24, May 1. 8, 22, etc.) Honiara dep. 7 a.m.; Yandina, Vella Lavella. Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arriving 3.35 p.m. 6. Paris-Saigon-Noumea By Transports Aeriens Intercontinental.

DC6B aircraft depart Paris every 2 weeks (May 22, June 5, 19, etc.) for Cairo Karachi, Saigon, Darwin, Noumea.

Leave Noumea on return May 26, June 9, 23, etc. 7. Sydny-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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Tontouta, alt. Thu., Sydney, alt. Thu 9.30 a.m. 3.20 p.m.

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TEAL, by Qantas (charter) Each Sun, return flight Norfolk, Aucl land, Norfolk (see 8 above). 12, Auckand-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Sun., Fri., Sat.; Dep. Auckland 9.30 a.n arr. Sydney 1.00 p.m.

Wed.: Dep. Auckland 4.15 p.m., a; Sydney 7.45 p.m.

Sun. only; Dep. Auckland 6.15 p.m.. a: Sydney 9.45 p.m.

Tues., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 10.00 a.x arr. Auckland 5.00 p.m.

Sun.. Fri., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 3.00 p.i arr. Auckland 10.00 p.m. 13. Christchurch-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

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Mon., Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 8.00 a.i arr. Christchurch 3.10 p.m. 14. Chrislchurch-Melbourn Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Thurs.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 p.m.. s Melbourne 9.30 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m., s Christchurch 3.00 p.m. 15. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Tues.. Sat.: Dep. Auckland 1.15 a.m., s Nadi 6.15 p.m.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 am., » Auckland 3.30 p.m. 16. Fiji-Tahati Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

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Papeete May 27, June 3, 24, July 1. 17. Fiji-Tonga Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Irregular Service, p. Suva 6.30 a.m. Arr. Nukualofa 9.50 a.m. Dep. Nukualofa 9.50 a.m. Arr.

Suva 4.55 p.m. xt flights: May 17. June 20. 18, Fiji Internal Airways Fiji Airways, Ltd. Drover and Rapide Aircraft. ya. Nadi, Suva; Two flights daily except Sun., Mon., Wed., one flight. va. Nadi; Tues., Sun. (additional to the above return flight). di. Suva: Mon., Wed. ta. Labasa. Suva: Daily except Sun. va. Taveuni. Suva; Mon., Wed., Fri. ra, Savusavu, Taveuni, Savusavu, Suva: Mon. ra, Savusavu. Labasa, Savusavu, Suva - Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun.

French Oceeania Inter- Island Service Regie Aerienne Interinsulair (RAI) (Amphibious Catalina) ice weekly service to the Leeward Group.

Wednesday: Papeete, Raiatea, Rora Bora, Raiatea, Papeete.

Friday: Papeete, Huahine, Raiatea, Papeete. Booking agents in Papeete: Messageries Maritimes. 20. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service Societe Caledonienne de Transports Aeriens (TRANSPAC). (Rapide aircraft) Noumea (Magenta), Lifou (Chepenehe), Noumea: Tues. a.m.

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Noumea, Lifou, Ouvea Is.: Wed. mornings, Noumea, Poindimie, Noumea (with conditional call at Houailou): Frl. p.m.

Noumea, He des Pins, Noumea: Saturday and Sunday afternoons. 21. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airlines.

Using Grumman Albatross twin-motored amphibious flying-boats, operates a service throughout the American Trust Territory of Micronesia on behalf of the Government. Details from Trans-Ocean Airlines Agana, Guam.

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Pacific Islands Monthly No. 10 Vol. XXVI May, 1956 Contents: Editorial: Hotel Keeping in the S. Pacific : Third Time Lucky? 17-18 Jungschlaeger Case Indonesians Cheated of Revenge 19 BP’s Sell Penney’s Chain to Coles 19 P-NG Legco Will Meet End of May 19 Sec. of State Makes Papa- Know-Best Decision on BSIP Taxation 20 Boram May Be International Airport 20 Editors’ Mailbag 21 Clutha On Job at Gold Ridge 22 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 22 Pacific Islanders’ Parliament —3rd South Pacific Conference 24 Territories Talk-Talk .... 27 ' Norfolk Is. To Decide on Liquor Laws 31 Fiji Has Vested Interest in Pacific Air Routes 35 The Way of a Modern Prince 38 Pigeonholed? Plan for Agricultural Experiment in S.

Pacific 41 Jap Mines Go Cheaply in N.

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Hotel-Keeping And Other Problems In The

South Pacific

IHE presence in the South Pacific Territories in recent weeks of Very Important People, examinj air services, shipping facilities d accommodation problems genery, directs attention to an industry at still is mostly neglected, but ich should rank next to copra )duction as the South Pacific’s ;t money-spinner.

Phere seems to be in the world increasing number of people who re the means to travel, frequently luxury, and who insist that they nt to go “somewhere different.” f the comparison be with the dent ruins of Europe, or the untied shores of the Mediterranean, the sophisticated and over-comrcialised charms of Hawaii and West Indies, then the South dfic Islands definitely are “some- 3re different.” .11 the archipelagoes, from New inea right through to French lania, can offer to world-weary pie an unspoiled Islands’ charm t is quite unique; and yet nearly ry group has something different nterest the traveller, ut all suffer in common from the ie disability—a grievous lack of 3l accommodation. Here and •e, there is a first-class hotel— 11—the people they can accomlate are not enough to make i a ripple on the economy of the th Pacific Territories, ane and ship-owners and travel noters look the situation over shake their heads despairingly. 3 is everything needed to build a travel industry that would g millions each year into the :ets of most of the South fic Islands communities; but the le of their planning becomes ned in the bottleneck of hotel mmodation. le bigger and shrewder comes interested in the South fic are getting over the problem their own way. The Orient pany, and now the Matson Line, sending parties of world- 3llers through the Islands in ing hotels—fine, modern liners, llent, as far as it goes—but not ly enough. is not as if investors are unilling to build hotels. A few ears ago Morris Hedstrom ted, of Suva, decided to use of their accumulated funds in ing the modern South Seas i in Suva, designed to accomite many first-class travellers.

But two years ago they stopped the project literally in mid-air—the storey l * It e£ hari her!? e^ri the ranstruetlOTi r ’ costs! operated* 1 a?* “ reonomic b tion h After /UgthTSSISfS in g favour 15 ©? 6 a t win °Thpre C fs l^ n ?h^ atlon ™ There is nothing new in that. For exactly the same reasons —the prohibitive costs of building and of staff —there has not been half a dozen big modern hotels built in the British Commonwealth in recent years, although the need is clamant.

THERE is something here that needs the attention, not of the baffled and exasperated travel men and investors, but of the several South Pacific Administrations.

The latter, collectively through their South Pacific Commission, and individually through other channels, express repeatedly their urgent view that there is need for the establishment of new “alternative” industries in the South Pacific Territories— that they dare not think always in terms of coconuts and coffee and cocoa and metals. They are prepared individually at all times to subsidise industries based on the Well, boss, if you’re stuck you can just call me ‘mate.’” (This month Pap ( Guinea Legco will try to decide what the indigenes of the Territory are to be called now that the term "native" is tabu.) Teritory 17 CIFTC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1956

land the minerals, the forests and the sea Yet here, in Tourism in the South Seas, is the industry with the biggest potential of the lot; and, |>u|f» thO=nfV- SPl" S through* social V andindustrial and economic changes that need not be described here, and over which the Islands Administrations have no control, it is impossible foi private enterprise to supply the missing link in the organisation of South Pacific Tourism, is there not a responsibility upon the several Administrations.

If New Guinea or Fiji or Tahiti is prepared to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds in the development of a new agricultural industry, why should they not assist private enterprise also in finding funds foi hotels for the development of the tourist industry, which could enrich all classes in the same way as any other well-established and profitable industry? . , In the case of Tourism it becomes merely a matter of providing private enterprise, on behalf of the country, with sufficient cheap money to enable private enterprise to make a profit out of the construction and operation of first-class hotels.

THIS seems to be a matter in which consultation between South Pacific Governments becomes necessary. A principle, as well as a modus operandi, for the guidance of all the Territories, seems to be needed.

There clearly is a call upon the Governments for their co-operation in the establishment of Tourism; but some sections of private enterprise are greedy and cunning and unscrupulous, and the utmost. care would be needed in seeing that public funds are not made available to persons and corporations with no sense of public responsibility. Hence, the need for consultation.

The Governments —we refer particularly to Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Netherlands, United States —have put enormous effort and money behind the activities of the South Pacific Commission; and the latter, in its turn, has done a mighty job in studying and recording all phases of social, economic and medical development among the indigenous folk of the 18 different South Pacific Territories.

If the six Governments could co-operate in this, surely they can similarly co-operate with the numerous interests concerned in developing and encouraging new industries in the South Pacific, and especially the tourist industry.

A little vision, a little energy and a little co-operation in providing better transportation and better hotel accommodation could change the economic pattern within a very few years in most South Pacific Territories —and especially Fiji, New Guinea, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, both Samoas, Tonga and French Oceania.

Third Time Lucky?

INDONESIA will bring its claim to Dutch New Guinea before the United Nations General Assembly again—this year, or maybe next, according to Indonesian leader Sastroamidjojo.

This will be the third time that the problem infant has been left on UN’s door-step. Unlike the first two occasions, this time it may be more difficult to produce technicalities to show that the child is not yet there. Indonesia’s third claim will be mtade against a different background—the changed attitude of the West, particularly the United States, to Indonesia.

America has adopted a “neutral” attitude for which many observers, basing their beliefs on some of the utterances of Dulles (PIM April, p. 105) read “support for Indonesia.”

The West obviously believes now that it can get more out of Indonesia that out of the Dutch — i.e. Indonesia as a bastion against the march of Communism, although Sastroamidjojo has already gone on record as saying that Indonesia intends to get the best out of the two worlds, East and West, and has already done some preliminary flirting with Russia.

These propagandists for the socalled neutral line in Indonesia are ignoring one interesting fact: As the Dutch are shoved out of key commercial positions in Indonesia, it is not Indonesians who are taking their place, but Chinese.

What claim has Indonesia to Dutch New Guinea? One—the territory was once Dutch. This is as logical as saying that the Indonesians now have a right to claim Curacao in the West Indies, which is also Dutch.

Ethnologically the Indonesians have no more claim to DNG than they have to Fiji. The natives of both are basically Melanesian.

The big unanswered question for Australia is (if the Trust Territory is not to have Indonesian neighbours across the invisible line that runs through the NG mainland about the 141 degree of E.

Longitude) whether now, in view of the West’s “neutrality,” it is worth while for the Dutch to hangon in New Guinea. Perhaps it is, in view of the oil that is known to be there and the other miner; suspected to be there.

But after New Guinea, whj Already there has been so: grandiose talk in Djakarta of campaign for the “liberation”

Portuguese Timor from colonialis The Indonesians already have 1 former Dutch half of Timor and the West has already recogni! this it might be hard to be nice about a similar claim to i Portuguese portion. After Indonesia here has some logic its side in that geographically £ racially Timor is akin to Indones and Portugal does not do v much with this t e r r i t o ] Certainly, Portugal is traditions England’s “oldest ally.” But < anyone imagine England (or A tralia) going to war to save Tii from the Indonesians?

After Dutch New Guinea s Timor, what? There is, of cou British Borneo (the Indonesi already have the former Du possessions in Borneo) and althoi this could be a tougher prob than getting the Dutch out of 1 Guinea and the Portuguese out Timor, nothing is impossible in era of high global strategy.

As Dr. S’Jojo himself has sa: the Indonesians are a peac> people.

Fiji Times Becomes Morning Daily THE Fiji Times and Herald, wl for many years has appearet an evening paper, changed ' on May 1 and appeared with a name (“and Herald” has I dropped), a new face lift and : new time.

From now on the newspaper be published in the morning, main reason for changing to m ing publication is to enable paper to be delivered by bus, 1 and air to centres outside of £ on the day of issue.

The Fiji Times was establishe 1869 and was published firsl Levuka, changing its home to i when that village (it is now a « became the capital of Fiji. The n paper was recently bought frorr Alport Barker by Pacific Publica Ltd. (In commenting on the fact the paper had changed ove morning publication, the New land Herald, Auckland, said ths will be the first Pacific newsE to be delivered between island air.” We have some friend Port Moresby who are going to pute that!) t Rabaul, NG, held its first . cultural Show at Easter. It w “tremendous success.” 18 MAY !856 PAC IF I C ISLANDS MONTH!

[?] e Jungschlaeger [?] se Indonesia Loses Out BATH cheated Indonesian fanatics of revenge in April ;n Leon Jungschlaeger, 53, 1 in a Djakarta hospital of a ;bral haemorrhage. mgschlaeger and 34 other Dutch onals were arrested in mesia over 2 years ago, use of “subversive activities.” a long time they were held iout trial and the trial of jschlaeger which has dragged low for over a year, was cornfly farcical. Eight weeks ago Indonesian Public Prosecutor anded his death; verdict was April 27. le American Ambassador at the ae sent a message of condolence le Jungschlaeger family hoping they “will find some consolain the fact that during his trial he bore himself with such iling courage and dignity.” the Ambassador’s government supports the perambulating, John Foster Dulles (who a weeks ago went on record in arta as saying that Americans, remember that they were once ilony that won independence bard way, and that Indonesia i continue to have the strong irt and sympathy of the US rnment and people) it seems ely that the Jungschlaeger y will be much comforted. b case against Mr. Jungeger and the other Dutch nals, arrested in Djakarta in ary, 1954, led to many official sts from the Netherlands side, ontrovertible evidence showed Mr. Jungschlaeger was on in Holland at the time of alleged acts in Indonesia, al witnesses have been *d by torture. Witnesses for rosecution were paid perjurers. > defence counsel, Mr. Herman an, was terrorised and in i, 1955, was forced to flee the ry. (And, PIM understands, manager of the shipping my which owned the ship on he got away, was then ed).

Indonesian Government revisas to distinguished Dutch, a and US lawyers willing to take his defence.

International Commission of s, meeting at London, in i, sent a statement to the esian Ambassador in the UK I that Jungschlaeger was not tried in accordance with the mental principles of justice ognised by civilised nations.

Djakarta, 13 other Dutchmen nprisoned awaiting trial.

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Big Islands business is adding unexpectedness to its other qualifications for fame. The recently announced sale of Pennevs’ chain stores (owned entirely by Burns Philp and Co. Ltd.) to G J Coles & Co. Ltd. has left the financial quidnuncs of Australia gasping that it is the most sensational retail deal in Australian history.

IT is supposed, also, to be the biggest retail deal ever—price offered by Coles is undisclosed but it is “believed to be over £5 million.”

All but 10 of the 48 Penneys’ stores are in Queensland where the business has been entrenched for many years. The odd 10 are in NSW, mostly in the north but one is in a Sydney suburb. It is believed that when BF’s acquired the Imperial Arcade property in the heart of Sydney city a number of years ago that the intention was to open a Penneys’ there.

Penneys has been a similar kind of chain to Coles (a “Woolworths” type of store). Before the war, Coles chain traded on the slogan “Nothing over 2/6”—however postwar inflation appears to have put an end to that; many new departments have been added although the policy is still best value for the least money. In recent years, Coles has not confined itself to this type of merchandising (although it has acquired two other chains, Selfridges and F and G); a year or so ago it bought Mantons, in Melbourne—a mediumclass departmental store.

The most surprising aspect of the new deal is in BFs decision to sell, as this seems to be a direct break with post-war policy when the big company has diversified its interests by buying large country stores.

It will be interesting to see— providing much of the price is in cash—to just what section of Ts large empire Burns Philp will turn its new liquid assets.

Penneys' last balance sheet (June 30 1955) showed paid-up capital of £1,787,534 (all owned by BP); Net tangible assets, £2,990 449 profit of £161,338; a dividend of 10 per cent! absorbing £143,002; and freehold property held by the company valued at £1,963,070.

PNG Legco Will Meet May 28 r:E first 1956 meeting of the Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council will commence on Monday, May 28.

It is expected the meeting will last from seven to ten days.

At this session, the report of the Council’s Select Committee on Finance will be tabled.

Famous Airman in American Samoa Lieut. - General and Mrs. James Doolittle spent a day in Tutuila, Eastern Samoa, late April on their way to Australia where the General was Australia's 1956 guest of honour for Coral Sea Week (festivities that celebrate the victory at the battle of the Coral Sea which is believed to have been the turning point in the Pacific War). Our photograph shows General Doolittle (right) with the Governor of Eastern Samoa, Mr. R. Barrett Lowe. —Photo by Pan American Prints. 19 1 1 F I C ISLANDS M O N T H I Y M A Y , 1956

Different Medicine, Same Result

Sec. Of State Makes Papaknows-Best

Decision On Bsip Taxation

After 18 months of cogitation, the Secretary of State for the Colonies has opened his heart to the BSIP. From January 1, 1957, Income Taxation can be substantially reduced providing other taxes are increased to make up lost revenue. npHIS information was not 1 received well when it was announced by the High Commissioner of the Western Pacific (Mr. John Gutch) when he opened a meeting of the Advisory Council at Honiara, on April 26 The announcement follows 18 months after Sir Robert Stanley (the former HCWP) made a flying visit to London to press for tax concessions in order to induce overseas investment in the Cinderella Solomons: and about the same time after a petition for the same purpose, signed by BSIP taxpayers, was sent to the Secretary of State The Solomons is in a unique and unfortunate position in the South Pacific • It was complete 1 y devastated by war in 1942-45; the British government refused to pay war damage compensation; instead they discouraged returning settlers and new capital investment by imposing taxes on production— such as copra export tax; all the usual Customs duties; and on top of it all, they imposed a comparatively high rate of income taxation. As a consequence the Protectorate has never emerged from its post-war economic doldrums. .

The reaction of unofficial members of the Council to the Secretary of State’s decision was violent. Mr. K. Dalrymple-Hay said that it seemed that the ruling had been extracted from the S. of S. through recent telegrams and that he personally objected to the fact that this was all that 18 months of procrastination had produced. The Secretary of State had not even had the courtesy to reply to the petition that had been sent by taxpayers of BSIP. Hay said a new petition, this time to the Queen, was in course of preparation.

Other members had even less complimentary things to say about the Secretary of State, and his apparent contention that he knew better how to run the Proctectorate from London than did experienced residents who were on the spot.

Even Government members .seemed less inclined than usual to the blandly neutral position of good Colonial Service officers. In replies to questions they were more than usually frank.

The Secretary of State’s edict on taxes means that residents of BSIP are going to be no better off than before. Their direct taxation may be less after this year, but they will have to pay heavier indirect taxation which is going to hurt where it can do most harm—that is, by discouraging new enterprise.

Bsip Murder

CASE Poole Slips Through Newspaper Barrage Travellers from Papua-New Guinea and points east who arrived in Sydney on Wednesday morning May 2 (the plane had been delayed), were amazed to find a huge line-up of press talent plus camora-men with telephoto lenses trained on disembarking passengers.

News had got around that convicted murderer Reginald Poole had boarded the plane in custody in Honiara on May 1 and according to newspaper calculations he should therefore have arrived in Sydney on Wednesday.

However, in this event normal newspaper instinct for a sensation had got ahead of knowledge of the airways schedules. Poole did arrive at approximately the normal time —about 1 a.m. on Thursday morning. He was taken to Long Bay gaol, by CIB detectives who met the plane, and left by air the next night for the United Kingdom.

He will be committed to Broadmoor Asylum for the criminally insane. In February a Judicial Commissioner and three Assessors found Poole guilty of murdering a young Malaita boy last November and sentenced him to be hanged; in April the Court of Appeals in Suva found Poole guilty, but insane.

The native riots in BSIP which were freely predicted to follow Poole’s reprieve have not eventuated.

Boram International

AIRPORT French and Dutch Airlines Interested THE rumour reported recen (PIM, March, page 35) that t new airport at Boram, N Guinea, might become an int( national airport was given fresh ii petus in April.

The new P-NG Regional Direci of the Department of Aviation, I V. Rule, said in Port Moresby tl two overseas airlines were interest in Boram—the Netherlands Dul New Guinea Air Company, wh: wanted to operate a service to Li and the French airline, Transpo Aeriens Intercontinentaux, whict few months ago took over the Pai Saigon-Noumea service from France.

Mr. Rule said that TAI wished expand its activities in the Soi Pacific and would possibly route Saigon-Noumea section of its sen through Boram instead of throi Darwin.

Air France used to call at B] bane, as well as Darwin, but ii known that TAI is anxious to landing rights in Sydney. In t event Saigon-Boram-S ydm Noumea would be a logical route Mr. Rule explained that after war it was apparent that airstrip at Wewak was inc able of development to anyth like the standard required for I operations, while facilities for cs handling and minor maintenp work were primitive and incapj of improvement.

Mr. Rule said the Japanese-b Boram airstrip, about 5 miles f] Wewak, will be capable of t ing all types of aircraft in use in 1 Guinea and also of accepting craft up to DC6 standard. The partment had, therefore, decidec transfer operations to Boram.

At present, a hangar and a c bined operations and terminal br ing were being built with terminal incorporating not only normal passenger lounges but Customs, Health and Immigra facilities.

Mr. Rule said the installation Boram represented the minin requirements for an airport more than 500 movements per m* including international movem* They were the first permai terminal facilities designed for p wa r operations in Papua- Guinea. t In the year ended February 1956, Guinea Airways Ltd. ma< net profit of £36,471. Dire® recommended preference ordinary dividends of 12i per t 20 MAY. 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

The Editors' Mailbag

atery Land of the pik No Longer "Dry" 1 friend who lives in that land of wodiles and XXOS mosquitoes, s sent us this piece of thirstzncing information from the oik, NG: Lngoram reverberated to the jplng of champagne corks and an asional pistol shot (read feu de z), when the first pub on New inea’s mighty Sepik River —Engd’s Hotel —was opened on March District Commissioner Elliottith having cut the ribbon and ned the door, the savage Sepik des (all the local residents, plus plane loads of enthusiastic sts from Wewak) trooped into lounge and did their part, s somebody remarked to licensee I England: “You’ve got a pub r, Mum!” hey weren’t kidding. To coin a ase: a good time was had by /v the Lisp Got ) Fijian mtors to Fiji frequently give up struggle when they find that is inexplicably pronounced ’, and ,( d” as “nd” and “b” as etc., but they are usually insted in how this came about, he original story was that the y missionaries used spare letters their type fonts to reproduce e unusual sounds ; later this ry was discounted. Now it bobs again, with all the marks of uenticity. Reader A. J. Sheat es: le Rev. John Hobbs (1800-1883), of the first Wesleyan missionaries ew Zealand (1823)—did a lot of ting between the years 1833 to , when he was transferred to ?a. He appears to have been of the first of the missionaries ?t up the scriptures in type for n converts. Mr. Hobbs resumed on work in New Zealand in 1838 wrote his reminiscences while g in retirement in Auckland.

Tonga he printed not only in Tongan language but also in san and Fijian, where the eyan missionaries were seeking erts. Writing of his difficulties spelling he set down this fact: next printed a leaflet for Fiji.

Cargill (a pioneer missionary to said that he wanted me to some Greek thetas.” (The Greek of our English sound Th). said that the sound Th in n is flat and that I was not 3e founder; but to take one of ;pare letters and make that do.

In a short time I got the thing printed, giving C the sound of Th.”

This information comes from Page 23 of a book dealing with the life of John Hobbs, written by Mr.

T. G. M. Spooner, MA, and published by the Wesley Historical Society of New Zealand, in October, 1955.

Do Islanders Stammer?

An old resident of Fiji, Mr.

Arthur Robinson, who always has something entertaining or amusing to say when he writes to us, has now come up with the suggestion that stutterers amongst Pacific Islanders are rare or non-existent. There are, he says, plenty of deaf and dumb Fijians (we don’t know whether he means this in the metaphorical sense) but goes on: “It had never dawned on me until I met a European a few days ago who stuttered rather badly, that during my 50 years in Fiji I’ve yet to meet a Fijian, Solomon Islander, Samoan, or Tongan who was affected in this way. I wonder if there are any natives in the Pacific who stutter?

“And the only native I’ve struck who could not swim was S grown man from Vunldogoloa, a coastal village in Natewa Bay, who could not swim a stroke. He worked for me when I was in the Yasawas Group—a place where the natives learn to swim almost before they are born.”

If Mr. Robinson is correct, the psychologists probably have a reason for it. . . stammering can sometimes be attributed to temperamental maladjustments or uncertainty in infancy, so maybe native children just have a more stable life than European children.

NG Natives in Coal-to- Newcastle Drill Maybe the Army has its reasons, but as Brisbane reader, Sydney H.

Chance, writes it seems completely crazy that New Guinea PIR soldiers have to come down from the jungles of P-NG to Australia to do some basis jungle training at Canungra training grounds near Brisbane.

To prove it he sends along a photograph of two NG native sergeants who had just arrived by air from Moresby to go to jungle training school.

Repeating: there may be reasons, but we agree with Mr. Chance—it seems mad.

Kitione lave Floors Britain's (Now Ex) Champ An incident in the recent non-title fight between Don Cockell (right) and Kitione Lave, of Tonga, at Earl's Court, London, that subsequently lost Cockell the Empire heavyweight title.

Cockell was invited to relinquish the title —but was not inclined: so the UK boxing Board of Control relieved him of it, announcing that there were three eligible contenders of whom Lave was one. Lave is now regarded as in world class—and who knows, may even be world champ one day! Cockell unsuccessfully challenged the then holder, Rocky Marciano, last year. Lave appears to have got over the homesickness that ailed him a few months ago.

Boxing fans had a lot of uncomplimentary things to say about Cockell after his fight with the Tongan—particularly about his condition. Certainly, in this photograph, he looks to be in better shape for wrestling than for boxing. 21

Cif I C Islands Monthlt-May. 1)56

Gold Ridge Prospects

Clutha On The Job

In Guadalcanal

WHAT could be one of the most significant developments in post-war Solomon Islands history occurred in late April when technical men arrived in Guadalcanal to test Gold Ridge gold deposits for Clutha Development Ltd.

Messrs. John Edwards and E.

Robinson arrived from Bulolo, NG, on April 23, and were followed a few days later by Geologist Alan Blatchford.

By early May work had commenced and it is expected that the BSIP’s 64-dollar question will ultimately be answered; Is Gold Ridge big enough to support a mining venture of the necessary dimensions?

It is likely that a road will be built to the Ridge in order to get mining equipment to the site. It is understood that Clutha is prepared to spend a large sum to prove, once and for always, whether Gold Ridge merits attention.

Mr. Blatchford spent 10 years with Emperor in Fiji and knows the Gold Ridge type of formation well.

Interested parties in BSIP realise that there is yet much to be done but they are encouraged by the fact that Gold Ridge is at last getting the attention it deserves.

Winter Walkabout

Is On Again

More MP's To Visit Papua-New Guinea WIVES of District Commissioners in the remoter districts of Papua and New Guinea, having successfully weathered the visit of the recent UN Visiting Mission, would do well to get busy with the grocery orders again.

This winter Parliamentary recess no less than three delegations, each of six Members from Government and Opposition, will visit the Territory.

Minister Hasluck announced this recently.

No doubt the Parliamentarians will see all the well-known sights— natives being mercilessly exploited and oppressed as well as having to travel on the hard seats of the highdensity, milk-run air-services.

On the credit side, of course, they will observe that New Guinea should be able to supply all Australia’s requirements in cocoa, rubber, coffee, etc.

RSL Congress Meets in Lae r!E Sixth Annual congress of Papua-New Guinea Branch of the RSSAILA, at Lae, during April 7-8, discussed at great length questions affecting land settlement, the status of New Guinea in nominated migration, and other issues of Government policy affecting Papua and New Guinea.

The congress recommended the award of life membership in the League to Mr. J. V. Knight whose association with the RSL dates from 1920.

Congress was opened by Commander Eric Feldt, of Coastwatcher’s fame, who was visiting Lae.

Mr. R. F. Bunting, who was elected President unopposed, left Lae, April 9, by air to lead this years RSL delegation at the Anzac ceremonies in New Zealand.

Fiji Elections

MLC’s Will Use Radio Appeals To Elector Elections for the Fiji Legist tive Council will be held i August this year.

The Fiji Broadcasting Con mission has agreed to make tin available free of charge condidates during their campaigr Each candidate will be offered £ initial broadcast of 15 minutes ar a second one of five minutes.

Sydney Women Present For To New Rabaul Church THE New Guinea Women’s Cli of Sydney has sent to the ne Church of England, Rabaul, christening font. This is in memo of the men who lost their lives New Guinea during the Pacific wi The font went forward by t Malaita, which sailed from Sydn late April. Messrs. Burns Ph: shipped the crate containing t font freight free—a gesture mu appreciated by the Club.

Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years Ago.

IN May, 1936, you could buy a “light-weight tropical suit” for 79/6, but copra was only £l2 per ton in London. At the same time we had the first breath of the air-age when giant aircraft began to span oceans. On the debit side were war jitters as Mussolini got busy in Abysinnia and Hitler made fire-eating speeches in Berlin.

Here are some extracts from FIM of May, 1936: That casino for Noumea! It made its first appearance in print in that May of 1936 when we announced that a company had been formed to establish one to be run along the lines of the famous Monte Carlo casino. It was expected that it would entice a lot of tourists to Noumea. (Of course the casino has not eventuated, although the idea has been resurrected on numerous occasions and still sounds faintly wicked to Anglo-Saxon ears. If there is any moral difference between running a casino and permitting lotteries on the super scale now indulged in in Australia we would like to have it explained to us). 5*- # ❖ Prince Tuku'aho, second son of Queen Salote of Tonga, died in Nukualofa, aged 16. * * * Father Anthony Cranssen, a young Dutch priest, was sentenced to five years imprisonment for arson. Following a conflict with Lutheran missionaries in the Ramu district of New Guinea the previous year, the missionary had sent a party of natives to burn down two native houses. Commenting, we deplored the sectarianism that was creeping into missionary work as rival missionaries competed for "souls" in newly opened-up areas of New Guinea; and also had something to say about the severity of the sentence and asked: Is it not time some official notice was taken of certain sentences imposed by the Chief Judge (Wanliss) of this jury-less Supreme Court of New Guinea . . . they have a quality that is not consistent with the decisions of Bni judges elsewhere". * * ❖ "Because of the difficult internatio siuation (Mussolini's grab at Abysinnia) tt was uncertainty in the copra market, observers, on statistics, feel that prices she go higher before the end of the year". (N 1936, price was £l2/2/6 per ton, cif Lend * * * There were seven air companies registe in New Guinea —Guinea Airways, Holden's Transport, Carpenter Airways, Stephen s serv P.A.T. Service, Mendham Service and Parer; between them they had 40 airc ranging in size from a Junkers 3-engined ( to a Fox Moth. At that time there was hei controversy as to whether or not air tr. port should be brought under Government trol—an air-merger it was called. * * * "It has been reported that Japanese inter will build a canal through that portion Siam that lies athwart the stem of the Ma Peninsula ... try to visualise what c such a canal would have on Far Eastern traffic." * * * A "huge crowd of proud citizens, awee wonder and amaze" turned out in San Franc to see the flying-boat "China Clipper" I on the first flight that "bridged the N Pacific". The Clipper called at Honolulu, way, Wake, Guam, and Manila on its wa' Macao on the Chinese mainland. The f was called the "most marvellous developi of 1936". * >; : * "Seeking more efficient control over ga and cane pests, the Fiji Department of < culture has imported (from Honolulu) 67 f of the Bufo marinus species. The experii is the result of a suggestion made in Legislative Council by the Hon. Alport Ba> The first shipment of toads has gone) Lautoka which is said to be an ideal bree ground." (All those millions of present Fiji toads from 67 great-great-great-etc. gi daddies and grandmummies!) 22 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!]

PIDGIN [?]thography Based [?] Dr. Hall's Work TE orthography of the new Papua-New Guinea standard work on Pidgin (coming along a) will be based on that of fessor R. A. Hall, Jnr. This can regarded as a triumph for pure nee and theory because fessor Hall did not visit the ritory until 1954, by which b he had already formulated his )ry on Pidgin as a language, all is a Professor of Linguistics Cornell University, NY, and in : spent a period at the Adelaide versity, during which time he able with a grant from the :genheim Foundation to make field visits to the Territory, subsequently wrote a book jlished by Pacific Publications) :d Hands off Pidgin English, in ;h he defended Pidgin as a uage against the attacks of rists who regarded it as a ve language” or, as someone put it, a “monstrous perion.” 1955, the P-NG Education sory Board decided to accept in as a language and now ‘a standard alphabet and spelling is to be printed, lose who are antagonistic towards Pidgin English can muster some excellent arguments; however, it is firmly implanted in the life of native New Guinea and the Education Advisory Board was taking a realistic view when it decided to use Pidgin in order to teach native children to read and write. That it is capable of study like any other language is proved by the fact that Professor Hall became interested in it in 1942 when he studied and prepared vocabularies for US troops from as far away as New York State.

PNG Administrator Advised To Rest rCE Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, Brigadier D. M.

Cleland, has been advised by his doctor to take a few weeks rest.

He has been suffering from strain and overwork.

The Administrator will, it is believed, go on leave shortly. fi Dr. J. A. Barnes, of the London School of Economics, will succeed Professor A. P. Elkin in the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney. Dr. Barnes’ special study has been the natives of Rhodesia. t Bad weather delayed the US H- Bomb test near Eniwetok scheduled for May 8. is Month These Men Did Not Make Sydney News...

Suva Misses

AGAIN Proposed Second Hotel for Lautoka A CONDITIONAL certificate to build another hotel at Lautoka, Fiji, was granted March 6 to Mr. R.

Grayson, at present of Sydney.

Under the conditions of the certificate, the hotel has to be built within two years.

In Sydney, in May, Mr. Grayson said that the hotel will be called the Trade Winds Hotel and will be constructed on land at the corner of Tavewa Ave. and Verona St., Lautoka. It is expected that when completed, the hotel with land, licence and stock, will have cost £120,000.

Residents of Fiji will shortly be invited to subscribe some of this capital when the venture is turned into a public company.

Plans provide for an attractive, cement, double-storey building with large lounge and bar space, a beer garden, courtyard gardens, two dining rooms, and, initially, 13 double bedrooms, each with its own bath, etc., on the top floor. Other bedrooms will be added later.

Accommodation and services provided will be to the standard required by discriminating overseas visitors.

It is hoped to begin building early in 1957. The bar should be operating within six months and the rest of the building complete in from six to nine months after that.

Mr. Grayson, who has had long experience in hotels in Western Australia and in NSW, expects to manage the hotel personally.

When asked why the hotel went to Lautoka and not to Suva, where the need for first-class hotel accommodation is desperate, he said that he first considered Suva but that any possible building site for such an hotel was so highly priced that building a high-class hotel in that city was economically unsound CORRECTION Bank at Norfolk Is.

In April issue of Pacific Islands Monthly the new bank branch at Norfolk Island was inadvertently described as a trading bank. The bank is actually a branch of the Commonwealth Savings Bank, though trading bank facilities will also be available there.

The existing agency of the Commonwealth Savings Bank conducted by the Island’s postmaster will continue to operate as an additional banking service. 956 United Nations Trusteeship Visiting (four members, six secretaries) arrived ey from New Guinea on April 20, and through to New Zealand via Canberra [?] Un-noticed by Sydney newsmen and [?]phers. consultations with the Minister of [?]es and Australia's Foreign Minister in [?] the Mission left for New Zealand [?] ther consultation with that govern- [?] efore going on to NZ's Trust Terriestern Samoa. estern Samoa arrangements for the visit have now been finalised.

The Mission arrived in Apia on May 3, and leaves on May 11.

A correspondent who travelled with the party everywhere in NG says they made a favourable impression especially Sir John Macpherson. So now it's over to you W.

Samoa.

Photograph shows (left to right): Mr. M.

Chacko (India), Mr. Daniel Massonet (Belgium), Sir John Macpherson (UK), and Mr. J. Rolz Bennett (Guatamala).

Photo: UK Information Bureau. 23 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1056

Pacific Islanders' Parliament

Third South Pacific Conference

Meets In Suva

Keynote of the addresses at the official opening of the Third South Pacific Conference at Nasinu, Fiji, (April 23-May 3) was the emphasis placed by the Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, and other speakers, on the value of the Conference in promoting friendship, progress and understanding among the Pacific islanders.

IT was a colourful ceremony from the moment the Governor drove under the decorated archway and inspected a guard of honour of Fiiian troops wearing full ceremonial dress of scarlet jacket and white SU I U Inside the Conference Hall were 70 delegates from 18 South Pacific territories members of the South Pacific Commission, and observers from international scientific, University and missionary organisations l4O altogether.

Delegates attended from eighteen South Pacific territories. Tonga, which is outside the sphere of the South Pacific Coffimission, was represented, by special invitation, by Crown Prince Tupouto’-Tungi and Prince Fatafehi Tu’ipelehake.

The Kleig lights of movie and television units made the flagbedecked hall a blaze of colour, Cameras recorded the scene from all angles, and radio units made a direct broadcast of the event.

The delegations sat at tables facing Sir Ronald Garvey who welcorned them as Governor of Fiji, and also addressed them as Chairman of the Conference.

Most of the delegates were housed and messed at Nasinu, where the college buildings were made available, AN archway symbolic of Fijis ±\. warrior past and present-day friendliness for all people, spanned the entrance to the grounds.

The archway consisted of four bamboo columns, the bases bound with coconut fibre twine (magi magi). There was a fan on top of the arch, indicating the important part played by the fan in ancient Fijian warfare and dancing.

The arch itself was four Fijian war clubs, from the centre of which was suspended a huge symbolic whale s tooth (Tabua) the symbol of welcome from Fiji’s earliest history. (See photo, front cover).

A guard of honour from the Fiji military forces, in scarlet jacket and white sulu ceremonial dress was, on the opening day, drawn up in front of one of the buildings, over which waved the flags of the six nations forming the South Pacific Commission Australia, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, After inspecting the guard, Sir Ronald Garvey was escorted into the Conference hall, normally the college gymnasium, by the Secretar: General of the Commission, E Ralph C. Bedell, who were atten< ing his first Conference.

The official opening was filmed I a New Zealand Government fil unit now touring the Pacific, at by a representative of a televisic concern.

It was a colourful scene wil many of the delegates wearii traditional dress.

An interesting feature of tl Conference discussions was the u by New Guinea delegates of Pidgi They felt that they could expre their thoughts more eloquently tl way than in English.

The two official languages of tl Conference were English ai French, and a number of worn were employed as interpreters. rpHE first day’s proceedings we X devoted to set addresses by £ Ronald Garvey, both as Gc ernor of Fiji, and as Chairman the Conference, the Secretary-Ge eral of the South Pacific Coi mission (Dr. Bedell), the fonr deputy-chairman of the Resear Council (Dr. E. M. Ojala), who now an official of the Food a Agriculture Organisation with hea quarters at Bangkok, the executi officer for health (Dr. Em Massal), the acting executi officer for economic developme (Mon. E. J. E. Lefort), and t former executive officer for soc development (Mr. H. E. Maud who retired from that position so] time ago.

Brief extracts from each of I addresses are as under: Sir Ronald Garvey: He felt cc fident that the delegates’ delibei tions would add to the effectiven of the South Pacific Commission, well as promote a greater und standing of our common proble and a greater bond of friendst and a common purpose in furthi ing the welfare of the Pacific peop as a whole.

Dr. Bedell: The Commissic effective contribution to region progress owed much to the cour; and practical assistance of its pi ticipating governments, territoi Sir Ronald Garvey opens the Conference.—Photos of this and page 25 by Fiji Public Relations Office. 24 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!.

ministrations, interested instituis and its two auxiliary bodies, Research Council and the Conmce. r. Ojala: The value of exports Pacific territories had risen dily since 1953. Increases in e as well as production had conuted to that happy result, but gain in economic welfare was less real on that account, r. Massal; Health education, I and nisption, and mosquitole diseases were the three main ects receiving the attention of Commission’s health experts.

World Health Organisation was peratmg in the health education ramme. ons. Lefort: A review of demment in the past three years fed a strengthening of the omies of many territories. Ex- -3 of cash crops had generally jased, and there was a tendency greater diversification. The oach to all fields of Pacific I vi t y> particularly economics, Id be common programmes for non objectives, as a means of ling the islanders to benefit lly from tangible results.

Maude: There had been re- :able extension of governmental ity in the social and welfare :ts of the islands territories, cularly in education. But too h reliance on government nes could do more harm than Community self-help promes, whether based on the e, district or island were the hope for progress in the imate future in all fields.

GENERAL committee of six lembers, one drawn from each t the national territories, cond the procedures for the conof the Conference. The members of the Committee elected by the Conference were: Australia: Raymund Gadabu, of Nauru.

France: M. Jacgques Drollet, of French Oceania.

The Netherlands: Markus Kasiepo, of Netherlands New Guinea, attending his third conference.

New Zealand: Mataio Maka Parua Ariki, ol Cook Islands.

The United Kingdom: R a t u Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara of Fiji.

The United States of America: Mr. Manuel A. Calvo, of Guam.

Committees Break Down Formal Atmosphere nnHE General Committee’s first act A was to arrange reference of the business of the Conference to two standing committees, one to deal with economic matters, the other with social development and health.

This arose from a desire of the delegates at the Second Conference (three years ago) to take a greater part in the conduct of the Conference business, it being felt that discussions would be more effectively conducted if the agenda subjects were considered by committees before being handled in plenary session. p * Uater, Prince Tugi of Tonga was elected chairman of the Social De- SlSP“!Sr nt a T nd Health Committee, v. th Mrs. Lagrimas Untalan, of Guam, deputy chairman Ratu Mara, leader of the Fiji delegation, was J elected chairman of the economics committee.

This procedure broke down the formal atmosphere Df the full Conference.

The smaller numbers of the committee seem t o encourage a more confident approach to the subjects discussed.

Another thing which encouraged easier debate was the use by several of the delegates of their own language, in preference to English.

Thus, at the Conference table and in the committees the languages spoken included Samoan, Indonesian Malay and Pidgin.

Interesting Personalities

Kalsautu, chief of the tribe of Mele, of Efate Island, in the New Hebrides, spoke a dialect which was understood by one other person at the conference: a Frenchman, who spoke only French, which had to be translated into English.

On occasion, the Conference had the experience of hearing Indonesian Ma-|ay being translated into English by a Dutchman, then translated by an Australian into French!

Pacific Islanders are, as a rule, large men. There were many men of mighty girth at the conference, but all were dwarfed by Queen Salote’s two sons—Prince Tugi and Prince Tu’ipelehake.

The most picturesque figure was a high chief from American Samoa, Tuli L. Le’iato. He attended all sessions in ceremonial purple lava lava; bare to the waist excepting for a lei, a flower behind one ear, and barefooted. And he spoke in Samoan.

In the sweaty, rainy weather of Suva there was much applause for Sir Ronald Garvey’s answer to the High Chief’s Samoan greeting— Soifua (long life) : “I only wish we could all be as elegant, sensible and cool in attire.”

Women Delegates Pull Their Weight r[E keenness and intelligence of most of the women delegates (Continued on Page 137) Coolest? . . . . . . Hottest? [?]gh Chief Leiato, of American Samoa, who [?] a tapa lavalava and a lei of flowers.

Delegates from the Solomon Islands, Silas Sitai and the Rev.

Leonard Alufurai. 25 1F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 1 956

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Decially so as the diagram >wing the Numa Numa anchori refers to a portion of the again ville coast-line which, if i took notice of the bearings ►wn on many not-so-old charts, aid take you well into the bush definite trap for young inners. n fact, most of the Bougainville st —both east and west—for ny years appeared on charts as :ely dottled lines. Just prior to r I, a German survey ship :ted the Buka passage, but that as far as they got before war ke out; after which very little anything—was ever done to /ey the area in peace-time, he “Casuarina Island” shown Hilder’s chart (if I’m not taken), was previously known Ferguson Island, being the site re a Capt. Ferguson and his v were massacred by the local , who were notoriously tough. vn Memory Lane spent a week-end on Numa la plantation back in the early days. My old friend, Arthur th, was then manager, while I engaged opening up Arigua Nation for the CPL—a few s to the south. My wife and 'rived at Numa to be greeted the news that an attack was cted from the bush natives, had objected to certain areas land being planted near the ; boundary of the estate, ord has been sent to the srnment station at Kieta, but autions were necessary. The -y Polly (the company’s small h) lay tied up at the wharf the half-caste skipper alerted an immediate get-away, if ssary. Meanwhile patrols were 3d, rifles issued and we ipeans adjourned to the ;alow for an all-night vigil, pying the time by playing a 3 called “Corner,” popular at time, 3 soon forgot the threatened :k in our efforts to make a ler” in wheat, oats, barely or 1 1 ev e r it was, and our usiastic shoutings for the lines ed became deafening, the midst of the game there 'ed “Masta Grass,” a sedate, e-bearded German overseer by the name of Heydenreuther, who was armed to the teeth in true German Colonial style: Revolver in holster: knives in belt, leggings and wide-brimmed hat. He had heard our cries, and had feared that we were being massacred.

“Gott im Himmel!” he cried as he entered, “Are you all long-long (mad)?”

Our Australian casualness was not appreciated by the worthy “Masta Grass.”

That is my brightest memory of Numa Numa, one of the few properties run by small Sydney companies, which has survived and proved a success down the years.

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Guns for . . . What?

There must have been a few raised eyebrows, by older residents of P-NG at least, when they read in the Moresby Post the reported statement by Administrator Cleland that: “New Guinea natives would soon be able to apply for gun licenses.” The statement was made 27 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 1956

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Well, well! And where do we go from here? First of all it’s liquor, now it’s arms. How irresponsible can the statements of an Administrator become? Is there to be no reference to the Legislative Council of the Territory? Or is it a Ministerial Order to be railroaded, willynilly, onto the Statute Books? Little wonder, too, after such a statement that there has been trouble on plantations as reported recently in southern papers.

Sir John, from all reports, seems to have his feet well planted ' the ground, and quite capable taking a realistic view of the coi plexities in P-NG.

This reminds me that in the Ge man days, “Shoot-boys” w e licenced for pigeon-shooting 1 their employers, but each explod cartridge had to be brought back that all ammunition was accounl for. This edict followed the Paul massacre in the Lainings wb a “shoot-boy” was one of the rir leaders in that said affair. It v subsequently found that he had be accumulating ammunition for own use over a long period. (Our recollection is that legislat: to permit natives to take out sh gun licences was brought before i Legislative Council of P-NG by official member (unofficial memb dissenting), about three years ag licences to be issued at the discret of the Administrator or his nc inees. The argument was that sponsible natives had as much ri; as anyone else to possess a gun hunting game.— Ed. PIM ).

A Plantation Is Made After that tragedy at St. Paul back in the very early 1900’s— government worked out a met of punishing the less import participants.

There were hundreds of Baini connected with the crime and t were put to work terracing the 1 of Old Massawa plantation in 01 to facilitate the planting of cocoe on the steep hills that run d« to the sea.

Present readers of PIM wH journeys take them past this New Guinea Compagnie planta will no doubt notice the tern facing the sea. Long months of h labour by imprisoned Bairn brought this about.

Recent marriages in Port Moresby included that, on March 29, of Miss Prue Delany to Mr. Ron Dixon at the LMS Mission Church. (Photo extreme left). Centre; Mr. and Mrs.

Bruce Griffith (he is a member of the Royal Papua and New Guinea Constabulary), who were married at Ela Church on March 28. (The bride was formerly Miss Joan Clarke, of NZ).

And, right, Miss Clarissa Healey and Mr.

Hennessy, who were married at the Catho Church on April 6. —Photos by Papuan Pri[?] 28 MAy 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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It taught them a lesson. There as no trouble with them for half century—until a spot of bother a w years ago. r ot! More Brian Maegraith, a professor of >pical research, a famous Rhodes holar, is reported by SMH’s •ranny” to be on his way to NG. ie worthy professor, no doubt, will ike many observations, report and in—what? 5 -NG seems to be a happy huntground for researchers, theorists, jerimentalists from all parts of 5 world testing the NG guinea- . Research is valuable if it can, i will, be practically applied. But much can lead to confusion, 1 many energetic researchers have ived in the past decade with a re of trumpets as though entera land hitherto untouched, his is hardly fair to those men » laid the foundations of research hard way, and whose knowledge 1 guidance brought the country he stage of development existing )r to War 11, and all without generous government subsidies University grants and endowits of these later years, espite the 900 entomologists in Pacific area (PIM, April, p. 49), e still appears to be a chronic iache over coconut pests. Is it -use, despite present-day knowe, the theories are not practicapplied? Forty years ago—and e—the Planters’ Bible was a 11, red-covered brochure written N. W. Froggatt, NSW Governt Entomologist, who had toured Islands from Papua to the mons, describing the ravages of Dynastid family and the varied ises and how to deal with them, advice was faithfully followed. ; n came War II and the L’y that the government would with everything, is all very well to know what 3, but it is not much use if it done. And that’s what is hapag too often, in these slapy days. nee Comes mans? e query as to the derivation of vord “Didiman” (April PIM, p. in connection with the Rabaul lical Gardens and then, later rnibers of the staff of the Dept, gnculture is—so far as lam rned —v eil e d in a certain nt of mystery. tiave heard that a German d— a surveyor —who laid out anginal gardens, was named lann, which became “Didiman” pronounced by the Tolais, who .verse to two consonants (exnd,” “mb” or “ng”). (Over)

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It was a wonderful area in its heyday, with botanical specimens from almost every tropical clime, would have become a rival of the famed Buitenzorg Gardens laid down by the Dutch in Bavatia had it not been for two wars and a full-scale eruption.

“Didimans,” in the early days, was a favourite venue for beer Pities and one incident, which I recall being described, was one staged by the inimitable Steve Whiteman when he, as host, bade his house-boy Go ketchem boxis dice” from his home down Casuarina Avenue, in order that his guests might tarry a while with the goddess of Chance.

After waiting an interminable period, Steve sent a “boy” along to find out the reason for the delay.

The lad returned. “All he come now,” said the courier and in a few minutes Steve and his guests espied from their kiosk on a small hillock in Didimans, a crowd of some ten natives struggling along with a huge ice-chest slung on poles.

“Ah,” said the boss-boy, me think you sing out long boxis ice.

I t’ink ear belong me fast.”

Which is one argument against Pidgin. I should have told that to Dr. Hall for his Hands Off Pidgin- English.

Anyway, check on Herr Landmesser Dietmann. Come in Darmstadt, Germany! Calling Capt.

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Louis Becke’s Works And the mention of Capt. Haug reminds me of a letter I received from him not so long ago in which be sent an SOS for some of Lou Becke’s books.

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TRIPs New Director Has Some Other Ideas IHE Regional Director of Civil Aviation in Papua-New Guinea, Mr. Vern Rule, says he sees reason why Dakota aircraft )uld not be permitted to itinue using certain airstrips in ; Highlands of New Guinea, rhis did not seem to be the nion of Mr. John Arthur who ently retired as P-NG Regional ector of DCA. (PIM April, re 134). lecently, it was proposed to close number of Highland strips to iota operations and replace the iree’s” with light aircraft /ices. This met strong opposition tl local residents (native luded) who pointed out that they ild be faced with higher freight rges, and that all cargo would e to be double-handled.

When the UN Visiting Mission in the area, one of the matters ed by natives was why Dakota r ices were not being permitted iperate to Mount Hagen, which ne of the strips affected) i Port Moresby, Mr. Rule said : in the short time he had been lonal Director he had been ble to appreciate the backind that had led to the proposal close the strips to Dakotas mg other things, he believed it Id be very difficult to provide proper ground organisation for proposed light aircraft opera- 5. t*. Rule said he could not see DC3’s should not continue to ate but emphasised that there d have to be fairly rigid control the number of movements, that a great deal of work d need to be done to maintain airstrips to the standards ired by DCA. ferring to the Mount Hagen itself, Mr. Rule said he had impressed with the appearance and the work that had been sd out there in recent months. 3r 1,237,000 tons of crude phosc rock was shipped from Nauru ie year ending June 30, 1955. was a record.

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Whether to Drink Ex-Bond or in Pub NORFOLK ISLAND residents will hold a plebiscite on their future liquor laws shortly— probably early in May.

At present liquor is sold at certain periods from the Government Bond and there are restricted licences to approved guest houses and clubs.

Residents are being asked by their Advisory Council (which will recommend the desire of the majority to the Department of Territories) whether they are in favour of retaining this system.

Or whether they: • Favour a fully licenced hotel only. •Or favour the issue of restricted licenses to approved guest houses and clubs in addition to the hotel. •Or favour the issue of liquor for Medical purposes only.

According to PlM’s correspondent in late April, the liquor question “has not excited much interest as yet.”

Tf The engagement has been announced of Miss Gwen Allen, Samarai, Papua, to Mr. R. J. Paul local manager of STC.

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“But perhaps they would not be so pleased if they know that in order to transport a lot of these travellers, the SPC chartered—in very scarce and expensive dollars— a large American plane, which had to come a long way to take the charter. , “Yet ‘Bill’ Taylor’s big modern seaplane, which regularly makes tourist-party flights among these Islands, was available for charter, and was formally offered to the SPC for this kind of work.

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Tie introduction of jets is the se. The Americans think that if ii is to be used by jets it will need ensive adjustments; some are in 3ur of abandoning Nadi, he South Pacific Air Transport mcil, which apparently has hority over all airfields Dmmodation in the South ific, was—quite inconspicuously i session in Suva in mid-April, nade no announcement —in fact, seemed anxious to stay mspicuous. at it is known that they conred the overall S. Pacific airfields ern—and looked over Fiji, irently with a view to something e suitable than Nadi. Ba (north t, Viti Levu) is believed to have i favoured, is said that if Nadi only is lable, US jets may switch from l to Tafuna airport, which the s developing near Papo Pago, E. oa, ie British Trans-Pacific air- — notably, Qantas do not ar to be taking the same lively est in what is going on. That scause Qantas has not been in a hurry as the others to change to jets.

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Fiji Airways, the Colony now - very good internal airways i. Suva, Nadi, Lautoka, Ba, a, Savu Savu and Taveuni are all linked by direct air or d-bus services. But the Y cannot get the full benefit ie organisation while the ri set-up remains, is bad enough that the 1 should be 100 air-miles away from the international airport. The transport difficulties and frustrations are made worse because Nausori is so far away and so quickly affected by weather.

WITH an international airport right at its back door, Fiji should be able to get an answer to its airmailed letters back from Australia or New Zealand within three days. Because the Post Office is not geared at all to the air services, Suva cannot do it m less than six days; other centres are worse off.

Recently, on a Friday, this writer called at the Nadi Airfield Post Office at 4.4 p.m., and asked for an airmail letterform, so that he might get a letter to Sydney by aircraft due in Sydney on Saturday. He was curtly informed that the PO was closed at 4 pjn., and they were not going to open it again for Father Peter. This writer could not get back to Suva to catch the Saturday airmail (which closes at the ridiculously inconvenient hour of 11 a.m.) and his communication had to await the next Suva airmail (closing at 3 p.m. on Tuesday!), to catch the Wednesday aircraft at Nadi Consequently, the letter, which could have been in Sydney on Saturday, did not reach there until the following Thursday.

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Offices all Capital Cities, Newcastle and Launceston j ine Tourist Hotel in New Guinea [?] ese photographs show, upper, the main block (office, lounge, bar, etc.) of the new Pine Hotel at Bulolo; and lower, part of the lounge. Rich wood panelling in walnut, ash and are a feature of the establishment. Residential accommodation is provided in detached [?] ed cabins with private bath. Photos by courtesy of the owners, Bulolo Gold Dredging. 37 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1956

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Tugi Plans for Copra Quality and Ships OUR old friend, Prince Tugi, Premier of Tonga and Heir Apparent to the throne, is getting a reputation among merchants and shippers as the Bad Boy of the Pacific. He is taking a line of his own, in copra and in shipping, of which some people do not approve.

As everyone knows, the Ministry of Food contract, under which all British South Pacific producers get for their copra a price that is better than world price, comes to an end in 1957. Copra producers are looking thoughtfully into the future.

Tugi, always planning for his little kingdom, decided to prepare for the day when the MOF contract ends. He arranged that, out of the 16,000 tons or so of copra which Tonga produces each year, there should be released to him between 2,000 and 3,000 tons, which he might dispose of as he likes.

Efforts now are being made by the Tonga Government to sell this copra under some sort of regular contract, either in Western Canada and United States, or in some Central American country like Venezuela. Great care is being taken with this copra—it is to be of the highest attainable grade.

However, in those places to-day, the ruling price is at least £5 per ton under the MOP price.

“But, Tugi,” protest his merchant friends, “you are going to make a loss of from £lO,OOO to £20,000 each year—that is the differ between what you can get from MOF contract for this deta< copra, and what you will get j America. And you will have the bother of arranging shipp “I say it is worth it,” argues Tongan aristocrat, gently.

“At present, under the 1 38 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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These services are available through all branches of the (INCORPORATED IN NEW BOOTH WALES WITH LIMITED LIABILITY) A5447a ract, there is only a small jin of a few shillings between and bad copra. Consequently, growers are careless —it nearly s bad copra. When the MOF *act ends, we all will simply ct the world price for very copra—that is sure. But if, in meantime, we can establish a ; for Tongan copra, based on ry good quality, we shall get uch higher price after the act expires, for all our proon. I think it is worth risking £lO,OOO or nnore per annum, for the sake of the future.”

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CRE is a much livelier interest i the Prince’s shipping plans. . large proportion of the goods i go to Tonga from Europe America are transhipped in and the Tongans have ed, for years, that they pay lighly for freight for Suvaalofa, and too high for ing services generally.

Tugi now has ordered two one 500 tons and one a little sr, to maintain a goods and iger service between Tonga djacent ports—especially Suva Auckland. The little ships, of ;, will maintain services within kingdom’s widely-scattered )elago. shipping men tell him, ly, that he will soon learn lots shipping—about the costs of ing ships, and keeping the sober and respectful, and the le problems of maintenance lese tropical Islands ports. ;r to pay all the companies’ is, and finish, and so dodge eadaches,” they say.

Tugi, incurable optimist, his wide and friendly smile, ays he thinks he can make shipping plan economically He seems to be putting his in the technical skill and r of a number of young ns who are undergoing ig- Depression Causes N. Caledonian Damage YCLONIC depression passed er the New Caledonia group April 6-7. The disturbance entred off Walpole Island, ng winds and very heavy f rain resulted. All road comitions were broken by floodvers during the two days. vy losses have resulted to fruit ;offee crops. Damage was ve in the Loyalty Islands, ivea, northernmost of the coconut palms and banana suffered heavily. Damage me to buildings also, opra is almost the mainstay ;se islands the government me to the aid of those who iuffered most.

PNG Coffee Production COFFEE production in Papua-New Guinea in 1956 will, it is estimated, reach 170 tons. Although there has been a steep drop in coffee prices recently, NG coffee was still bringing 5/5 per pound wholesale in Sydney in May.

This is still sufficient to show a profit but because most new coffee planting in NG has been in the Highlands area, from where it must be airfreighted to the coast, NG coffee naturally is more vulnerable to steep price falls than coffee produced in other countries. t News of the victory of Loyalty Island boxer Doudie over Australian Don Johnson, at Sydney Stadium recently, was received with pleasure in New Caledonia. 39 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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GEONHOLED? an for Experimental griculture S. Pacific LANS for a South Pacific Tropical Agriculture Experimental Station have been living some attention lately; but •ear, as usual, to have become gged down among the eaucrats. i this overcrowded world, ctically all areas can benefit n* experiments in agriculture example, as a result of jstigations into the possibilities certain grasses, in relation to quality of available land, there some districts in New Zealand ■ying eight sheep to the acre— e than twice as many as could there before. tie idea that something of the I would be useful in the South ific was developed, a year or two by Dr. Ojala, former head of Research Council of the South fic Commission (he is now nother job in Bangkok); and it strongly supported by other itifically-minded gentlemen erned with the Commission. was felt that every tropical itory in the South Pacific could ent from? well-conducted research. Contact was made with certain American interests who were working along the same lines. The Americans indicated their lively interest, and their readiness to support financially the project in the South Seas, if it could be developed.

This seemed good enough to submit to the six member nations of the South Pacific Commission; and, through the Commission, it was formally presented for the consideration of Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom*, United States, France and Holland. It seemed to be an idea that could have been worked easily through the machinery and personnel of the South Pacific Commission.

That was away back in 1955.

Nothing has been heard of it since.

One man says it “has been lost among the pigeonholes.” Another says “it is bogged down—the agricultural experts of the various countries are fighting about it.”

It is rather a pity from New Guinea’s viewpoint. That is the chief country in the South Pacific which could benefit from experiments in the establishment of good tropical pastures. t The Rt. Rev. Edouard Bresson, Vicar Apostolic of New Caledonia, will retire shortly owing to illhealth. He will remain in Noumea until a new Bishop is appointed. 41 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 1956

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Insurances at Lloyd's and Companies Jap Mines Go Cheap In N. Caledonia THE sequestrated Japanese mil came up for sale in Nourr early April.

Eight of them were withdra' from the sale; 22 found no buy and 26 were finally sold.

Most of the mines were boug by well known NC resident, Edward Pentecost; the remain* fell to the Nickel Co.

The sale brought nearly million francs (£A98,000) ah half of the sum expected.

From Levuka to Kerav[?] In Five Generations AN April visitor to PIM was 1 Peter Dennis, of New Guir who is a fourth general “Islander.” He came in to tell that hi s six-years-old daugt Margaret can claim to be a fi generation islander, although claim is entered for an elder ch Peter Junior, who made his de into this world prosaically in A tralia.

The Dennis family is having few weeks holiday in Australia few weeks is considered enough their cocoa plantation near Kera New Britain, is just coming i bearing.

Away back in the last cent a Captain Cocks and his wife w from New Zealand, at a date known, to Fiji and there, in 1853 Ovalau, was born James Cocks, James grew up and eventu married and one of their child was Amy Florence, born in Levi in 1881. Amy in due time mar: Selwyn Dennis, of the CSR Co., in 1915 son Peter was born in Rewa district.

He went to school in Sydney when still a youngster in the e; 30’s went to the Watut, in Moi District, New Guinea, goldmin Those were depression years w gold offered opportunities forgoi in this present decade.

After the Watut, he joined Bu Gold Dredging and was with company when he enlisted in and saw service with the 1 Guinea Contingent in the Mi* East and New Guinea.

He married an Australian June Burgess, and after the wa was back to BGD (Margaret born in Wau in 1950) and then 1 to New Britain to plant up c< on the North Coast.

We hope that when the time cc young Margaret will take her sponsibilities seriously and earn this Islands tradition into fol ing generations. 42

May, I 956 Pacific Islands Month

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What is more, dieldrin is potent in small dosages ~ * 1U1, 6 w'-cu uocu with telling effectiveness in public health work and on farms the world over. It is a thoroughly established insecticide ... one that r p h sat£r S loWer Cost permanent° n p!aee h S your own hom«. products are available from formulators throughout Australia, or as Shell Dieldrin Concentrate (15 per cent). * . SHELL CHEMICALS (Australia) PTY. LTD. (Inc. in Victoria) .SHELL} Melbourne Sydney Brisbane —Perth Adelaide Hobart [?]is Months News of—

Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

The report of the Joyita Comssion was released simultaneously Apia and in NZ on April 12 and kes interesting reading for all 0 followed this affair. The Comssion consisted of Chief Judge C. Marsack, of W. Samoa, and pt. A. H. Prosser and Mr. C. G. R.

Kay, of New Zealand. A summary the report follows: oyita was described as a twinew motor vessel of sturdy hull ign and built in 1931 by the Imington Boat Works in Los geles, California, with an overall gth of 69 feet, beam 17 feet and ft 7 ft 6 in, and a gross and net nage of 70 and 47 respectively, ’he vessel was used as a yacht for eral years and as a Patrol Vessel the US Navy during the Second rid War. a 1948, she was purchased by a fate firm for use as a fishing sel and refrigerated holds were ;alled in her. he was powered by 2 Gray fine Diesel engines of 225 hp, 1 driving independent shafts and pellers. She had, besides, two iliary diesel engines, made by leral Motors, each driving an trie generator of 20 kilowatts, i 120-volt output, to serve lightand various other electricallyen appliances. i September, 1952, the vessel was to her present owner, Dr. n Katherine Luomala, of Hono- , who, in September, 1952, ited a bare-boat charter to mas Henry Miller, trading as the enix Island Fisheries. The US itime Administration, Washingapproved the charter to Miller, was, as a British subject, an i under US law, for operation in commercial fisheries at Canton id, Central Pacific, and for sportation of frozen fish to an, returning to Canton Island supplies, le charter was on condition that vessel should not be subtered to aliens without the prior ■oval of the Maritime Admintion. This conditional approval red on April 1, 1956. iller commenced fishing in the nty of Canton and Christmas ids in October, 1952, and made 3 round trips to Honolulu. In l.May, 1954, Miller left Honofor the last time and went to oa. He arrived in Apia on July 954, with a cargo of frozen fish ale m Western Samoa. He made umber of trips between Pago • and Apia until he finally ed at Apia on March 23, 1955 een April 1, 1955, and May 1, he made one fishing trip to the vicinity of the Tokelau Islands.

On this trip he was accompanied by Mr. R. D. Pearless, recently appointed District Officer of the Tokelau Islands. Mr. Pearless was interested in the employment of Joyita on a regular service to the Tokelau Islands, which could replace the irregular service by the American vessel Manuatele and other casual connections. Proposals to that effect proved abortive. Miller was in straitened circumstances financially, and unable to undertake additional fishing voyages, which in any case had proved unprofitable previously. Joyita was laid up at anchor in Apia Harbour from May 1, 1955, for over five months.

By September, 1955, the situation in respect of food and medical supplies in the Tokelaus had become serious. There was also some 70 tons of copra, the main export of the Islanders, waiting for shipment.

Mr. Pearless, anxious to obtain relief for the Islanders, approached Messrs. E. A. Coxon & Co. Ltd., an Apia firm, with a proposal that they should charter the Joyita for trips to the TokelaUS. (Continued, Page 45) 43 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1956

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NAME ADDRESS PIM 5/56. if ter some negotiations, the irter was agreed upon and a go of foodstuffs and medical plies was loaded. A total of nine sengers was embarked for the trip, of whom 3 were Europeans (R. D. Fearless, District Officer, A D. Parsons, Government Medical Officer, and H. Hodgkinson, Dispenser, Apia Hospital) , with 6 Tokelau Islanders, including one woman and a child. The crew numbered 16, including the mate, C. R. Simpson, an American citizen, 8 Tokelau Islanders, 2 Gilbertese, one Swain’s Islander and two members of E. A. Coxon’s staff, Messrs.

G. K. Williams and J. Wallwork, who travelled as supercargoes.

Over 2,600 gallons of diesel fuel oil were put on board, sufficient to cover a range of about 3,000 miles.

Food and water was sufficient for a much longer trip than the Joyita was to undertake. Fakaofo, the port of call in the Tokelaus, is about 270 nautical miles from Apia.

Joyita left Apia at approximately 5 a.m. on Monday, October 3, 1955.

She was not seen again until she was found in a water-logged condition with no persons on board, north of Vanua Levu, Fiji, in latitude 14 deg. 42 minutes south, longitude 179 deg. 45 minutes east, in the early morning of November 10 by Captain Gerald Douglas, of the GEIC ship Tuvalu . (Qver) TOP: The new New Caledonian Government slipway now nearing completion near Noumea.

It is said to have cost the equivalent of almost £A250,000. The photograph shows the slipway as it appears when looking towards He Nou, where it is located. When complete the slipway will take ships of up to 1,000 tons.

LOWER: "Neo Hebridais I" at Noumea wharf in company with "Polynesia" and "Godavery". The old "Neo Hebridais" was being prepared for towing to the East Coast of NC, where she is now being used for a hulk. 45 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 1956

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THE report states that it was established without doubt by the evidence that the Joyita was exceptionally seaworthy in hull design and with a very high degree in buoyancy due to the cork insulation of the refrigerated holds.

Technical witnesses were of opinion that Joyita was virtually unshakable. Before she sailed from Apia, Joyi'.a was well found in fuel, lubricating oil, water and food.

However, the Commission found that Joyita, as equipped in October, 1955, was definitely not suitable for the carriage of passengers.

Passenger accommodation was poor, though generally speaking, the carriage of passengers on small coastal vessels on deck even on voyages as long as that from Apia to the Tokelaus is an accepted practice.

Joyita had no passenger license.

The Harbourmaster of Apia, Captain J. W. Jones, when enquiring about this was informed by Captain Miller that the ship had a license to carry 25 passengers, issued by the Bureau of Shipping, Honolulu.

This was not true.

Under US law, a ship which is licensed merely for fishing and owner’s freight is not liable to regular survey; whereas a vessel holding a passenger license must be regularly surveyed.

The life-saving equipment carried on board was inadequate in view of the number of persons carried in the ship. There were only 3 oval floats of US Navy type, together with a sufficient supply of individual life-jackets. The floats and life-jackets would be only useful to keep persons above water for few hours in expectation of ear] rescue, but insufficient to enable tt ship’s company to spend any tin at sea or to make for any land thj was visible. No lifeboat was carriec even the light work-boat belongir to the ship was left behind at Api 46 MAY. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Miller had previously experienced tiouble with the clutch of the starboard engine and the propelling equipment of the vessel was not in thorough and reliable order. The port engine was, according to expert opnnon, out of commission not long after the ship cleared harbour. The Scdt water circulating system contamed in at least one place 1-in. galvanised pipe threaded into a brass fitting under the floorboard of the engine room. This piping was verv liable to corrosion and defects would have been disclosed on a proper survey whpn u When subjected to engine vibration the pipe was liable to corrode and break at any time. The two bilge pumps were not fitted with strainers and this had given trouble on previous voyages through blockage of the pipes. The liability to blockage was increased by the Joyita having lain idle in port for months when a considerable quantity of cotton waste, dust and other rubbish must have accumulated in the bilges —~ , s + The Commission considered that i n orn L al Prudent routine had been followed and Joyita had been taken , sea K fc l r a J^ ial run of a few before the voyage to the Tokelaus was undertaken, some of £ hese machi nery defects would have been noticed and steps could have been taken to repair and correct them. (Continued on Page 4»> [?] yachts recently in Papeete, top to "Diana", "Jellicle" and "Girl Isabel", [?]ory, page 129).

IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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“Ventura, Sydney” 247 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W. le Joyita had two receiving sets a transmitter on board, but effectiveness of the transmitter reduced to a negligible quantity use of a break in the aerial lead i. above the transmitter. This k was of long standing and 1 have been discovered by a Detent radio technician. The irintendent of Apia Radio made ffer of service to Captain Miller :e the ship sailed, but Miller not avail himself of the offer Joyita went to sea with the :t still existing and undised. e superstructure of the vessel flimsy and had considerably iorated over the years due to and tear and the entry of sea This fact probably con- ;ed to the disaster. The deck ngs were not well protected st the entry of sea water. dence showed that Miller was bly competent Master Mariner, g served with the British lant Marine and during the vith British naval forces, last the rank of Lieutenant-Comer. Later he had sailed all the Pacific before taking the ;r of the Joyita. He thus had ed a very extensive knowledge cific waters. He was deeply led to his ship and had the t confidence in its seagoing The report emphasised that the examinations disclosed no evidence whatever of damage by sudden and violent external means such as ramming by another ship, fire, explosion, or contact of the hull with rock or reef.

The cause of the casualty to the ship could be explained without recourse to any sensational and extraordinary hypotheses and to the fantastic and imaginative stories published by the Press all over the world.

The cause of the Joyita disaster was to be found entirely in the mechanical and structural equipment of the ship itself. The real cause was flooding of the vessel, due primarily to the corrosion and breaking of the 1-in. galvanised pipe which formed part of the cooling system of the port auxiliary engine.

When this pipe broke through and a section of it was carried away, water commenced to pour into the hull at a very rapid rate. The flooding was aggravated by the worn port propeller shaft and other leaks.

Expert evidence indicated that the total volume of water admitted through these sources of leakage would be in the region of 2,000 gallons an hour.

The failure to discover the fracture in the 1-in. pipe very soon after it took place lead to the conclusion that no proper engine-room watch was kept, as such a watch would have noticed the rising water in the engine-room and a routine search would have disclosed the source of the leak as soon as the floor boards were raised. Once the water rose a few inches above the engine-room floor, the source of leak would be 49 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 195 f?

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John Street, Berry's Bay, North Sydney, N.S.W. difficult to discover. A resuit of the fracture of this pipe would be that the cooling water would be cut off from the port auxiliary engine, which would then be unable to operate.

The most important contributory cause of the engine breakdown was the failure of the bilge pumps which made it impossible to keep the inrush of water under control. The blockage of the intake pipes was probably caused by the presence of rubbish in the bilges and the absence of strainers.

If water were allowed to rise 18 in. above the engine room floor, then water would enter the blower of the starboard engine and stop the engine. With the pumps not working, the ship took in water at a very serious rate, water gradually finding its way throughout the whole ship. With the engine stopped and the ship losing steerage way, Joyita became unmanageable and fell broadside on to the seas.

There was no heavy weather in that part of the Pacific at the time, but there were choppy seas. Joyita would then start taking water in through her deck openings, and from that time onward complete flooding became inevitable.

ALTHOUGH the Commission found it possible to speak with a reasonable degree of conviction as to the cause of the casualty to the ship, they are quite unable to do so with regard to that of the ship’s personnel.

The opinion that many members of the crew and passengers were washed overboard at once when the waves swept away the port side of the superstructure was unlikely.

It is more likely that the Master and crew abandoned the ship their own act, but this was c ficult to explain. When the Jo% was discovered, an awning \ lashed down partly over the dama; superstructure. This indicated t there were survivors on board ai the hull was filled and the sup 50 MAY. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Box 3838, G.P.O. *e swept away and that they le awning for shelter. Part :argo was jettisoned and rein the afterhold by empty apparently to improve the ;y of the vessel.

Joyita, listing heavily and breaking over her, was at ioat and offered some desecurity, preferable to going 5 side and hanging on to a it or to a makeshift raft in m ocean, though such an would probably have been if, at the time of abandonhe ship was passing some ich it was thought could be with the help of the lifeequipment available, in- ; though it was. nly islands in range were nd Hoorn Islands; certain f wreckage identified as coming from Joyita were Futuna, one of the Hoorn her explanation of the nent of the vessel may be damage occurred at night, lat the ship might founder : and believing that land . the ship’s company might cided that it would be ' trust themselves to the g equipment available than i on board. o( T curred on the night of October 4, at no great distp?nQpf 1 nf n fvr akaof °’ 1 ? n + 0f the main causes of the casualty to passengers and crew was the lack of efficient wireless transmitting apparatus on board which would have enabled communication to be established with Apia radio.

TN the opinion of the Commission, 1 the main responsibility for the disaster lay upon Captain Miller.

Many of the technical deficiencies of the vessel must have been known to him before he sailed. Particularly the lack of a well-found lifeboat, which may have been the main cause of the loss of every person on board. The break in the wireless ae r ial lead was of long standing and Miller must have known that he was unable to make any radio transmission, in spite of his statements to the contrary statements „ , , .f 16 was al so negligent in failing, after a 5-months’ lay-up, to give the of outside the waters lagoon.

The lack of judgment on Miller’s P ai ’t ma y have been caused by the circumstances he found himself in at the time. He was in debt in A P ia and Pago Pago and his fishing (Continued on p age 117) NORDMAN writes: "The above picture [?]le former American three masted bald schooner 'Lucy' renamed the 'Raita' [?]ed by the late Mr. Albert Leboucher, ete. picture was taken in 1925, when [?] ro Goldwyn Mayer Company was in Iming 'Never the Twain Shall Meet'. ita' was chartered by the company med in the story, and when the star, ita Stewart, refused to get into the and swim out to the ship lying in [?]am, the director, Mr. Walsh, picked [?]rgot Nordman to double for Miss When Margot was out in the water, was seen to come towards her. She he warning as she knew that a fake is to have been floated out and tied ng. She did not know it was a live util she got out to the 'Lucy'.'' [?]ys that the schooner subsequently near the US Pacific coast. He also photo shows Margot swimming and [?]s fin—but it is difficult to make [?]is old print.

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/f ORRIS HEDSTROM LTD. ■* announced mid-April that the mpany’s plans to build a new and iborate hotel at the corner of ctoria Parade and Gordon Sts., va, have been abandoned. [t was made clear that ever creasing costs made the construc- ►n of such an hotel, in accordance th the original plans, uneconomic.

Fenders were recently called for npletion of the hotel; lowest bid s £339,772, n abandoning the plan, the npany recognises frankly that decision will probably imperil future holding, after June 30, of old Club Hotel licence under ich a liquor bar is operated on ground floor of that part of new premises already built, ndications are that permission I be sought for MH to complete building according to a much dified plan which will add -ually nothing to Suva’s already al l e d accommodation for /ellers.

'lans to build the multi-storied el were announced by the jpany in 1952 and preliminary k proceeded. It was expected t th e completed job would cost £F250,000 and accommodate about 50 guests. However, after the earthquake which shook Suva in September, 1953, work was abandoned with only the ground floor bar complete. Nothing has been done to it since.

The Fiji Licencing Court has not been happy with the arrangement and has reviewed the licence a couple of times and at one period held up renewal. It comes up for consideration again at the end of June this year.

Matson Interest in Hotels The hope that the Matson Company might have its own hotel in Suva has again been revived.

It is a possibility which has been 53 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 19 54

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Yorkshire House, Shortland St., Auckland, N.Z. P.O. Box 2006. Cables: Chemin. discussed from time to time, but about which the Company has shown little enthusiasm.

This time the idea is believed to come from the Company itself.

At a recent meeting of shareholders, Mr. Randolph Sevier, President of the Matson Navigation Co., said the Company was investigating the feasibility entering the hotel business in t South Pacific.

This week (April 25), Mr. Sev and two other executives j visiting Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti.

It is easy to understand a chai of attitude since before a immediately following the An artist's drawing of how the South Seas Hotel in Suva was to have looked. 54 MAY, ,956-pacific ISLANDS MONTH!

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Phone 31-636 (2 lines) Cables & Telegrams: “DUNSHEATH. AUCKLAND," N.Z, len the Company firmly scouraged any idea that it might come interested in a hotel in Suva.

Fo-day, air-lines have opened up new travel area. The South cific has been well publicised by ig and story and stage, and by ,vel agencies and air-lines.

Wealthy travel-minded Amends have done Europe; they have 0 done Honolulu several times ;r, and have become intrigued h what lies beyond the blue •izon—the “romantic” islands of hiti, Samoa and Fiji—with the cresting and well publicised mg nations of Australia and New iland, each with its individual factions. uva is the junction from which branch lines run out to such •active places as Tahiti and aoa, from the main line which is to the New World.

Ir. Sevier states that the Dmmodation problem has to be ed if the new areas are to )y any significant expansion of r present tourist business, ut (he adds, in a saving clause) ther it would be economically ible for the Company to make tal investments in various areas Df course, a different facet of problem. He said they meant ssist in over-all development in y way possible. •me of the Matson Company's reluctance to run, or invest in, Is in foreign territories is hasised in the statement; he that “our experience but not ssarily our capital is at the )sal of whatever island or try needs it.” lerein lies perhaps some underlie reluctance, not only in sting in outside territories but aps also some fear, also underlable, of coating under the icting and often irksome •ol of Colonial officialdom, vertheless, the Company •usly realises the effect of the nt hotel deadlock in Suva, in a private enterprise can do on a large scale without rnment help. o, the Co. seems to recognise importance of Suva, in linking ahiti and Samoa with a really rehensive South Pacific tour, 1 could offer the large array ealthy Americans something •ly different. Suva Corre- \ent.

Editorial Note

ore Suva gets too optimistic Fairy Godfathers (name of Sam): Representatives of lean hotel interests have ed up everywhere in the South c _ m the last six months, right Papeete to Sydney. All the pleasant things have been ibout the tourist business and nice—even sensible—it would have American-type tourist • Then the experts have gone rieir way without anything having been decided. Sydney at present has the offer of a Hilton hotel—well, the Hilton hotel knowhow, anyhow. But local business has to provide the capital and the hotel, then the American experts will come in and run it. A fair proposition—but we haven’t heard of any Sydney businessmen getting together to provide that necessary ingredient, to wit, the £SD and/or the building. !f Mr. E. W. Watkins who had 20 years service in Papua-New Guinea before he retired in 1949 (as Patrol-Officer, Resident Magistrate and District Commissioner) was in April appointed area secretary of the Newcastle and Hunter River district of the Boy Scouts’ Assn.

You Can Dial Your Number In N. Cal. TOO fpHE new automatic telephone 1 Sa.Sfa. was eSd «o < SSS 2 a 7t S hl« It cost 50 million francs (£350 000) and has been in course Qf CQn _ struction since 1952. The capacity of the present installation is 1 500 subscribers but it can be extended to 3 000 ’ installation was put in by a French company which will also provide maintenance for the first 12 months 55

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Where indeed? Every bottle serves well over two dozen full strength cocktails or long drinks. No expensive ingredients are needed. Just one bottle of Gilbey’s and your own selection of soda, tonic, mineral waters and a few slices of fresh fruit and you have a complete Home Bar ready to serve the needy or greedy, swiftly and economically. -for the Perfectly Balanced Budget GUhetfs * Astute Economist

Case Of The

Purloined Pay

NZ Called to Aid of Apia Police THE search for the missing Api police pay-roll (PIM, April, \ 133) was extended to New Zea land in April and a close-watch wa being kept on all sea and ai arrivals.

Customs’ officials and pol i c searched passengers’ luggage whe the Union Co. vessel Tofua arrive in Auckland after her March-Apr voyage to the Islands.

The pay-roll, over £2,300 i Samoan currency, was stolen froi the Apia police station on March 2 It had been left in the office sa: overnight; the key of the safe h£ been left in a satchel on top of tl safe, and the key to the office c a ledge outside the room.

All Samoa (except members of tl police force) laughed when t] theft was discovered.

New Zealand police came into tl picture at the request of the Hi* Commissioner of Western Same Mr. G. R. Powles. Sub-Inspect W. R. Fell, of the Auckland Cl left for Apia in April to take char of investigations. The Sub-Inspect was once a member of the Samoi police force. A reward of £250 h been offered.

This case recalls a similar afh of about a year ago. On th occasion over £2,000 was stolen fre the Public Works Department Apia but the thieves remain u discovered.

The police pay-roll was in Samo banknotes, which are not negotial outside the Territory.

Suva Suburban Post Office t Over 3,290 people are in regii employment in New Caledoni 2,149 of them in the employ of Nickel Co. This is an indicatl of how this Colony depends on nickel industry.

Suva's growing suburb, Samabula, now its own post office, opened in March, is the trim little building with the postma Mr. W. Ragg, on the verandah.

Photo: Jack Thorn 56 MAY> 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Another Attempt To Put Palmyra On Tourist Map A SURVEY-cum-aircruise was be- * ing organised in Honolulu in February by Richard K. Kimall, of the Palmyra Development ompany, and was due to leave Hawaii for the 6,500 miles flight on [ay 21.

This is another attempt by imball, a Hawaii hotel owner, to ;t Palymra atoll onto the Pacific iurist map. He hoped to get 50 en interested enough to pay $l,OOO )llars each for the seven days trip bich would take in Bora Bora, ipeete and American Samoa as 31l as Palmyra.

Kimball’s company has Palmyra ider lease from the owners, the illard-Leo family of Honolulu, imball was at one time interested South Pacific Air Lines—now ntrolled by the Dollar Company; _d in 1953 personally chartered a 24 to fly a group of Hawaii men Palmyra in an effort to stir up merest in the atoll as a potential !. £ ame fishing and tourist resort, us does not seem to have proced the desired results but the lyler-Dahl Fish Company, of Seattle (which has an interest in Palmyra Development Company), later tried to develop the atoll as a tuna fishing base—but after poor results and the loss of two valuable boats has now given up the attempt.

What response Mr. Kimball has had to his sl,ooo-a-head air-cruise we do not know, but it is interesting to note that Palmyra is in the Christmas Island area—something like 350 miles to the north-west of it. If Britain is to use this region as a testing area for H-bombs it is unlikely that it will become a popular playground for American tourists, even though Palmyra will no doubt be technically out of the danger area.

The atoll is controlled from Honolulu and is American territory; it is covered densely with Fullard-Leo coconuts but these have been unworked for a long time—the reason being that, unlike Christmas Island, whose copra is sold to the UK Ministry of Food, Palmyra copra would have to be sold to the United States and labour costs under Hawaiian conditions are excessive. In addition there is the matter of shipping— Palmyra having no natural harbours and only doubtful and dangerous anchorages. 57 CI F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 19 56

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MERCHANTS P.O. Box 1509. Cables and Telegrams: “Kingdom,” Auckland. tropics. Other presses in th “Original Heidelberg” range ar the larger platen, 12 x 18, and th “Original Heidelberg” cyhnde 21" x 28".

Recent Installations “Original Heidelberg” 10 x platens have recently been instalh at the Government Printing Omc Port Moresby and at the Missic of the Sacred Heart, Yule Islan An “Original Heidelberg” cylind is now in operation at the Methodi overseas Mission in Rabaul, and 12 x 18 platen will shortly installed at “South Pacific Post Port Moresby. Mr. Paul Rouss« head of printing operations at Yu Island, has reported excelle results, especially with the printr of texts in native dialects. 1 usually prints at a speed of 4,0 impressions per hour (top speed 5,000) compared to about 700 p hour on old type presses.

Information Further details of “Origin Heidelberg” printing machines c be obtained by writing to t Sole Agents: SELIGSON & CLARE (Aust.) Rty. It 567 It. Bourke St., Melbourne, V Printing Vital to Progress in the Territory master the refinements of highclass printing. “Original Heidelberg machines are renowned for their ability to turn out W* profitable printing. Great economy is possible mainly due to fast running speeds, rapid change-over of separate operations and many other features, including a built-in roller washing device and central lubrication of main points.

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It has the advantages of low cost, simplicity of operation and easy maintenance. One operator only is necessary, and even the most inexperienced man can quickly Record Created by Western Samoan Girl t New banknotes of £1 denomination are now in circulation in Fiji.

These are smaller in size than the old notes and carry the Queen’s portrait for the first time in a Fiji issue. Notes of other denominations are to have a change in design also —but “not in the immediate future.”

Samoan or to any other Islands student.

Although Miss Ma'ia'i has been so successful in her University studies, her own people are still her first interest. Even though she frequently appears conspicuous in her NZ setting she insists on retaining her Samoan dress and is proud that she is a Samoan.

During her stay in New Zealand she has given many hours of her own time to assisting in educational matters concerning Samoa.

Early this year Fanaafi Ma'ia'i (above) was awarded by the Department of Education in New Zealand the first teacher's "B" Certificate ever issued to an Islands student trained for Islands Services. Fanaafi succeeded last year in passing the four units for her Bachelor of Arts Degree and this, with her former studies and previous Training College experience, entitles her to hold the highest Teacher's Certificate that has yet been issued to any 58 may. 19 5 6 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT H LJ

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COMMONWEALTH BANK COMMONWEALTH BANK TRADING THE BOOM [?] SUSTED Western Samoa “Must Economise”

I/'EYWORD of the recent Budget session of the Western Samoan egislative Assembly was “economy,” s lower prices for Samoa’s chief xports were already being felt.

The Budget session commenced a March 27 and continued until pril 18. Estimates of receipts and lyments for the year 1956 were deited lengthily, and the need for onomy and increasing production id improving the quality of agriiltural products was stressed.

Efforts by members of the isembly to reduce development exnditure of a non-essential and n-urgent nature were unsuccessful id the Estimates, as submitted by e Government, were passed witht deletions or amendments.

Criticism was levelled at the un- Susfactory medical services and e lack of qualified medical staff the Health Department, and dur- ? the discussion of the Public >rks vote the very high cost of the dro-electric scheme was criticised. :t was pointed out that the initial imate for the Alaoa hydro-electric leme of £36,000 had already been needed by £lOO,OOO and that the vernment was committed to spend ther large sums on these schemes a time when the financial posia and prospects were anything - sound. temarks by the Secretary to the vernment, Mr. T. R. Smith, that itical pressure had caused losses ounfing to thousands of pounds the Public Works and had ught about the resignation of the ner Director of Works was mgly challenged by the elected nbers who pointed out that, to contrary, chaotic conditions iting at the Public Works Detment had led to the request for impartial investigation of the •artment by a Commission of In- •y and that the subsequent find- ; of this Commission had fully ified the investigation, which had img to do with politics. ipies of an attractive new publish dealing with the petroleum istry in Australia, overseas and apua are being made available to New South Wales school Iren. The booklet is entitled r Magic of Oil,” and has been ially prepared by Vacuum Oil ipany Pty. Ltd. to meet requests i school pupils and University ents for authentic up-to-date ?nal.

W. Samoa Copra and Cocoa Shipment THE SS Nessbank left Apia, W.

Samoa, in April with a total of 2,634 tons of copra and 241 tons of cocoa.

The copra shipment cleared the sheds of all stocks, but there are still some stocks of cocoabeans held by Apia exporters who feel disinclined to sell at the ruling low prices.

A nominal rate of £Stg.l6s was quoted as the best USA FOB price, thoughsome parcels were sold at £Stg. 195 and £Stg. 185 for first and second grade respectively.

Bulolo Plywood Production "Up to Quota"

COMMONWEALTH -New Guinea Timbers Ltd. maintained plywood production at the permissible level of log intake during the nine months to February 29.

Australian and overseas orders more than covered production, Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. reports.

Ludwig Dowong, a Sacred Heart student of Nauru Island, is at present at the Catholic College at Douglas Park, Sydney, studying for the priesthood.

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The Vegetable Oil Market After 1957 A FULL and free interchange o] views and information betweer the Copra Marketing Board o: Papua-New Guinea and the BSII Copra Board will result from th copra marketing conference held ii Rabaul in March.

Representing the Solomons a that conference were the chairmai of the BSIP Copra Board, Mr. A. M Wilkie, and Mr. K. H. Dalrympl Hay, a member of the Board.

The conference discussed market ing and shipping of copra from th SW Pacific after the expiry of th MOF Agreement at the end of 195' No formal commitments wei entered into by the BSIP reprt sentatives.

Palm Kernels—Rival of the Coconut A SURVEY of the palm-oil ar kernel industry, recently mai in a bulletin published by tl United States Information Servr of Sydney is of interest to cop; producers in so far as anything th coconut oil can do, palm oil can < almost as well, if not better.

Palm oil and kernels are prcduci mainly in Nigeria, Belgian Cong French West Africa and Indones: and at present Western Europe pr vides the biggest market —the Unit Kingdom alone taking 186,000 tons oil and 339,000 tons of kernels 1954. United States also buys pal oil and kernels—but only about on fifth as much as before the wj Western Germany and the Nethe lands are also large consumers both the oil and the kernels.

Palm oil—the solid yellow reddish fat obtained from the fie of the palm fruit —has may us depending on its grade. It can be food, an ingredient for soap a candles, a coating for iron plates be tinned or a lubricating grease Palm kernels are the seed of 1 same fruit; when crushed they yii about 45 per cent, of palm ker oil —white edible fat of diffen composition from palm oil. It similar to coconut oil, and is u. in the same ways: for soap, mi garine, etc.

Unilever, through its Uni Africa Company, is interested palm oil. The UAC is described John Gunther’s Inside Aft (which should be on the bookshe. of every Island resident who 1: to keep up with native trends), the “largest trading company the world.” 68 MAYV 195 6 - PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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Ducating Islanders

Vava'U Teachers Go Back To School

By E. A. CRANE, MA, Principal, Tonga Teachers’ Training College.

In April PIM, a member of the staff of the Western Samoa Department of Education told how that Territory coped with one aspect of education there —school broadcasts. This article deals with teachertraining in Tonga. r is the practice in Tonga to organise schools for teachers for a week during January at Ha’apai d Vava’u, the two island groups ng 90 and 160 miles respectively the north of the main island of ngatapu. These refresher courses ord the only opportunity for icers of the Education Departnt to meet teachers of these lated groups and endeavour to plant in their minds new ideas, thods, or teaching techniques ich, it is hoped, will bear a west of increased efficiency. !o last January 10 the senior igan tutor of the Teachers’ lining College, J. Fusimalohi, and 3uld be seen mounting the gangr of the Tofua with an assortnt of queer-shaped parcels and s, looking more like travelling ismen than Training College urers. aside one bag were rubber balls, beanbags, film-strips, textbooks on the teaching of nature study, social studies, English, hygiene, books of singing games and folk dances.

In a huge parcel were duplicated notes on the teaching of Speech- Training and Writing. Under one arm I carried a roll of wall-charts and posters of the British Pacific Islands, New Zealand, the teaching of Arithmetic and Sewing; under the other was a baseball bat, its long unwieldiness defying all efforts to conceal it. Truly a jumbled assortment of ammunition with which to storm the battlements of ignorance at Vava’u!

Although we were travelling on a modern tourist-cum-cargo ship, Tongans and Samoans were everywhere seen sitting on the decks chewing biscuits, opening tins of bully-beef, walking interestedly round the decks. We had on board a Samoan dance band, widening their experience of the world by playing at the various ports on the Samoa - Fiji - Tonga - Niue, - Samoa round-trip. About 8 o’clock they assembled, together with a number of Tongans with a couple of guitars, at the top end of the promenade deck.

The instruments of this band consisted of two trumpets, a trombone, and an ingenious drum. The soundbox was one of those heavy iron 4gallon benzine containers, obviously a legacy of the American “invasion” during the war. Attached to a hook soldered into its side was a piece of strong string about 4 ft 6 in. long. The drummer would place the end of the stick on the edge of the tin, put his foot on the side of the tin, pressing it to the floor, and by leaning his weight outwards against the pole, would make the string very taut. Then he would pluck CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 1956

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For an hour first the Samoans, then the Tongans, would strike up, the rhythm of the instruments and voices being accentuated by the clapping of the hands. Then a Samoan or a Tongan girl would move on the open floor interpreting the rhythm through hands and arms, body and legs. Keeping perfect time, feet would beat or twist, arms would move backwards or forwards with wrists rolling gracefully and fingers flexing and unflexing. The hands would sometimes clap together forward and back, sometimes one hand would touch lightly on the ribs, or arm, or quickly to the foot or cupped to the mouth would make a sudden, staccato cooing noise.

Then a man would whirl on to the floor doing a counter-dance, never synchronising his movements with the woman’s, always playing a secondary role, behind or in front of the woman, as if the imperfection of his own performance served only to enhance that of his partner.

It was only when a Samoan announced: “Gentlemen, take your partners for a foxtrot” that one realised that the soul had gone out of the evening.

BUT back to our school: For five days 79 teachers, mostly from the Free Wesleyan Church schools, Free Church and Latter Day Saints schools, met together to work and play.

To my mind it is essential for a Tongan teacher to increase his competence in the teaching of th< English language. There are many especially in the mission schools who oppose this view, claiming tha it is futile to try to develop com petence in an alien language whicl is almost completely divorced fron 70 MAY 1 9 5 6 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Mr. K. WITHERI NGTON, 2 Burns Philp Buildings, SUVA AUSTRALIA & NEW GUINEA: T. H. BENTLEY Pty. LTD. 123-125 William Sc., MELBOURNE, C.I he thought, speech, and culture of he great majority of the people, think this lack of English is havig a braking effect on Tongan jchnical progress and cultural deslopment.

If Tongan educationalists take the isy way out by teaching only in le vernacular progress will be ultified because of an almost compete lack of cultural, technical, )mmercial, scientific and periodical ;erature printed in Tongan. My dere at this Summer School was to y to fan some glimmer of fire into te ashes of their lukewarmness.

Most of the spadework for this rmidable task had already been me; all I could do was to give me guidance on the teaching of rtain topics for upper classes. So ?ave three lectures which included ch subjects as the use of the Conmous Tense; following directions en describing what had been done the Past Tense; the use of “this,” lat,” “these,” and “those”; the use the nominative and possessive mouns; the comparison of ad- ;tives; the use of adverbs; the Js of “can” and “could”; how to : English questions.

Another two lectures were devoted Speech Training. Unless a ngan has lived in a European enonment, he finds it very hard to ablish correct habits of English munciation. This is understande when one considers the lack of )ortunities they have for hearing 1 using correct speech, is their own language has the .al vowel sounds they find little iculty with English vowels and hthongs. But English has many sonantal sounds new to them I the errors they make with these very difficult to eradicate. The owing mispronunciations are espread : or sh for j: (“Siosi” for “George”: amp” for “jump”) ; d for th or (“fader” for “father”: “dis” for :s”: “dop” for “top”); / for th: rden lor “thirteen”) ; p for b\ “I in a pig house—one boy wrote) • » r: (“Kalaisi” for “Christ): elate for “decorate”); g for (“gaught” for “caught”: “Gate Kate ). showed correct positions of ;ue, teeth, and lips, and had ybody confidentially saying les and tongue-twisters. All very • Until later in the day when :aught some action songs. Then n emotion had taken the place ;ason these words were sung with idon: Tee blind mice! See how dev run! all after de farmers wife, le 9ut> off deir dails with de garving knife.” is hard to find a reason for the Tally poor teaching in general vledge subjects in Tongan ols, but it is all too sadly true that pupils can go through six years of primary schools and five of secondary schools without picking up any more than a smattering of knowledge on geography, history and elementary science.

It is hard to believe, for example, that in the recent College Lower Leaving examinations two candidates actually completed a factual question on the world map with the map turned up-side-down! I think basically the reason is poverty, the teachers in the past having too little money left over after satisfymg the food and clothing needs of their dependants to have any extra to spend on essential textbooks and teaching material.

I gave, also, three lectures on geography. The first was on the British Pacific countries west of Tonga. Of those countries only Fiji was at all well-known by the teachers. Not one knew the capitals of the Solomon Islands or the New Hebrides; and only a few had heard of Port Moresby.

I have often wondered why it is that the Pacific Islanders whom I have taught, the Fijians and the Tongans, although living in surroundings of great beauty, with leaves and flowers of many hues and colours, with fish and birds of exotic shapes and lustrous colours, appear to regard it all with complete indifference. (Continued on Page 73) 71 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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I think that the main reason for lis is that they are most completely ?norant of the miracle of life in >af and flower, in insects and birds, i animals and fishes, in rock and hell. They don’t know how plants eproduce themselves, how fishes reathe, how seeds germinate, how oral grows, how birds fly.

I tried to point the way to the lethod of taking insect studies by iving a model lesson on the mason asp. It was certainly revealing to ote the interest with which they iudied for the first time the mudests containing paralysed spiders, rgs, larvae, and cocoons of an inict which is common to almost rery tropica! building.

Perhaps the part of the school men will have most immediate feet, and certainly the part which as most enjoyed by the teachers, as the teaching of new singing imes and dances. On two afterions new songs were taught and ere then sung to the appropriate :tions. One had to lose all selfnsciousness in order to teach the eps, claps, turns, swings, pirouettes, les and actions that go to make ™coc m T? V^ °L S iu Ch si £ gil ? g Rnnr. t H he^ U T l ??i rry ’ r^ y p"r L h?’t th f Vlllage ’ The urmei m the Dell, etc. n^ ural grace and tunefulness the Tongans soon made them ept m these games, and all were quickly mastered. Only once did they meet something that really upset them. In one game, while the class skipped round in a circle, a stout, jovial headmaster in the centre had to initiate some activity which would then be copied by the others in the second half of the song, At the same time they had to sing: “Go this way and that way, Go this way and that way, Did you ever see a laddie go this way and that?”

Well, the leader in the centre got stuck for an activity so he merely put his tongue far out! Try putting your own tongue out and singing- “Go this way and that,” and you will quickly realise why the show broke up in doubled-up laughter.

The evenings were devoted to learning more new songs, a lecture on current affairs, and a Question Box evening.

Some of the questions revealed a desire of the teachers to improve their own professional and economic standing, such as “Why can’t a teacher get an advance on salarv in order to buy a bicycle as other members of the Civil Service can?”

Other questions seemed to have a Political tinge, such as: Please explain the policy of appeasement; the Anti-Comintern Pact; shock worker; fifth-columnist; white man’s burden; totalitarian government.” Or, “What are the reasons for the present prominence of the USA in world affairs?”; “Would you explain fully everything about UNO.”

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A dance and a launch picnic ended the week’s activities.

I feel sure that it was worthwhile.

For a short time the hungry sheep bed looked up, and had been fed; for a week the feeling of frustration arising out of the teachers’ isolation nad been dissipated; and I believe that the teachers returned to their schools with a new spirit of enthusiasm, a little bit better equipped to cope with the tremendous problems of education that face them in the days that lie ahead.

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RACE OWING to the bad state of the coastal road in Rarotonga this year, the famous Easter Monday round-the-island cycle race took place in separate heats. Each heat consisted of three riders, who represented one of Rarotonga’s six villages, the winner being the man with the fastest time.

The machines used are ordinary roadsters, and under the ruling of the Rarotonga Sports Association they may be stripped but must retain their balloon tyres.

For the last five consecutive years Arorangi has won this race, but this year Titikaveka village became the winners.

In the Ladies’ cycle race, of U miles, the winner was Tere Daniella, of Arorangi, with Teina Carlson, of Avatiu, second and Nono Maki, Arorangi, third.

Nga Carlson, who won the Ladies’

Race last year for the fourth year running, did not compete this year, but trained her sister, Teina, who came second.

If Mr. H. T. Kienzle, of Yodda Valley, Papua, and a well-known Territorian, arrived in Sydney in early May for extended leave. He does not expect to return to the Territory until early 1957. 74 MAY, 19 5 6 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Bibles, Chocolates and Diesel Engines Tropica! Mushrooms t Six native nuns from Fiji—Sisters of Our Lady of Nazareth —arrived in Melbourne recently with their Mother General, Mother M. Pierina, SMSM. Four of the Sisters will continue their studies with the Presentation Sisters—two at “Star of the Sea,” Gardenvale, and two at Presentation Convent, Windsor (Vic.). Two others will study at Brigidine Convent, Mentone. When qualified they will return to Fiji to teach. finds crocodiles at his stopping places he shoots them and sells them to augment his meagre mission funds. The gift of a rifle by a Melbourne admirer will considerably reduce the hazards of such hunting, as Pastor Kila has been using a shot gun, which, he says, necessitates approaching to within about 18 inches of the reptiles.

Pastor Kila Galama has to assist him four ordained ministers and 21 unpaid volunteer helpers. In two years the Sabbath school membership has increased from 100 to 1,000.

During his stay in Australia, Pastor Kila visited the old Port Arthur convict settlement in Tasmania; Cadbury's chocolate factory (and enjoyed sampling the products); the Mint and Observatory in Melbourne: Holden car factory and a glass factory in Adelaide; also Gardner's diesel engine factory, where he was given some instruction to assist him in caring for his ship's engine; the Bible Society, which presented him with 100 copies of St. John After three months attending Seventh Day dventist camp meetings in New Zealand and [?]stralia. Pastor Kila Galama (above) flew back Papua from Brisbane on April 7.

Pastor Kila is President of the Western puan SDA Mission, with headquarters in the [?]iomo River, near Daru. The population in [?]s area is estimated at 99,000.

With one assistant. Pastor Kila sails a 28vessel, the "Diari II", along the 300-mile [?]stiine to the Dutch border. Whenever he [?]lushroom culture is not an industry usually [?]d in the tropics; but Fiji has a mushroom [?]er of no mean capacity. He is Mr. W.

Pearman, of the Burns Philp staff; and this a photograph of some of his choicest [?]imens, grown at his home in Robertson [?]d, Suva. He began the enterprise 25 years and now can grow mushrooms up to 12 diameter. There is a market for every hroom Mr. Pearman can produce— of the delicate fungus appears not to be latter of longitude or latitude. and 24 copies of the Bible; and the Sydney Royal Agricultural Show.

On tour, Pastor Ki la addressed church gatherings of up to 3,000 people, and altogether raised £8,000 for general mission funds.

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A BOILER!

An Early Sawmill In Papua

By J. Nixon Westwood

Away back—over 40 years ago—l was associated with the erection of a sawmill at Manu Manu, at the mouth of Galley Reach, Papua. The things I saw done there showed how the pioneers put Papua on the map. r[E mill was owned by the Pacific and Papua Produce Ltd., whose Managing Director was George Francis Whybrow. He was a Lonloner whose father had made a ortune from the manufacture and ale of “Whybrow’s Pickles and finegar”.

The P.P.P. had timber-cutting ights or leases up the Vanapa, Irown and Veimauri Rivers. That Id Tasmanian, Mick Hassett (of he “when I likes a bastard I calls im a bastard, and when I doesn’t calls him Mister”) was there. Mick as one of the old school and knew is timber-getting thoroughly. He as for a time employed by William unningham Bruce to fell timber ad have it left near the banks of le of the abovementioned rivers, e also made rafts of some logs, and these were towed by the Dexter and Izod launch to the sawmill or elsewhere for shipment to England.

Those at the island anchorage were lifted by the barquentine Okta which flew the Norwegian flag, and had sailed across the Pacific from Callao in ballast. She was chartered to carry one million board feet for London.

J think that the man who erected the mill was a Scandahoovian named Bensen. He managed it for some months, and I well remember how very frugally he lived— canned fish or meat, rice and sweet potatoes with, once in a while, fresh fishand three times a week, for dessert he had cabin bread and jam. As he did not smoke or drink, he saved money.

The machinery, including the steam engine, came from Sydney, but the boiler, a Cornish type, was purchased from a Company which had tried its hand at timber-getting up behind Bona Bona, in the southeast. The mill was 18-20 miles up the river, and 60-80 feet up on the left bank.

WHEN the mill was being erected, I was in Samarai, and Whybrow asked me to join the firm and accompany Bill Doig, in the A/K Kia Ora to the boiler site and help bring it to deep water.

The ketch was about 25 tons, and capable of 5 knots when opened full, so against any current we could manage 40 to 50 knots per day.

We finally reached the spot, and found the boiler covered with long grass, and almost inaccessible. However, Bill was a real bush engineer, and in addition to his boat’s crew we had two very capable Kiwai boys.

The job was to have the boiler taken to Bona Bona for the Moresby to lift and deliver at Moresby. We 77 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1956

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We then had to cut a trail to the water’s edge.

Eventually we placed long trees fore and aft to make skids. We improvised some coverings for the man-hole and other openings into the body of the boiler, and forced them into position with a sledge hammer. . , , Then all was ready to launch the unwieldy piece of machinery. It was necessary to parbuckle it down the hill. As the line available was short, this job was done in easy stages.

Finally we launched her, and she floated. , At this stage the rain commenced again, and we had the greatest difficulty in manoeuvring the boiler so we could tow it to the anchorage.

After several hours’ toil, we managed to make her fast for towing- , , The greatest danger was that she might with the current overrun us, but as soon as we got to tidal water, we found her much easier to tow.

That boiler was 20 ft long by 9 ft 6 in. diameter, and weighed well over ten tons. The effort was a great credit to Bill Doig and his boat’s crew and his two Kiwai workers. r[E journey to the coast took nearly 30 hours. We thought we had missed the Moresby because we could see no sign of her at the anchorage. But, as we dropped our anchor and made our cargo fast, we saw the smoke of the steamer on the horizon, and two hours later she also anchored. Having all gear ready for the heavy lift, she lost no time in getting the boiler on board.

As I had to accompany the boiler to Manu Manu, I became a passenger on the Moresby. The Captain was Mclnnes and another passenger was Dr. Fleming Jones who, although he did not at the time know it, was making his last trip as Medical Officer at Samarai.

At Port Moresby the boiler was put overside onto the deck of the scow Zelma, captained by Tommy 78 MAY. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH LI

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We had to go up the saltwater creek behind the mill site, where we could parbuckle her on to the shore. Then we rolled her to the position fixed, and finally she was in situ, ancT did the job she was intended for.

Unfortunately, when Bensen “set her”, she was either slightly out-ofplumb, or the back end sank at least four inches, with the result that the brackish water ate a hole of about three inches in diameter at the end. She had to be taken down for repairs, and as such could not be done in New Guinea, it was necessary to send her to Sydney.

I do not know who towed her this time, I think it was the D. & H. launch, but as it was only to the Vari Vari’s, the distance was not ;reat. Here the Matunga (Captain Sammy Mortimer) took her on deck, ind delivered to the Mort’s Dock.

The repairs took one week. She yas ready for the return of the tatunga and without further mislap again did her job at Manu rfanu.

As a matter of interest the sawn imber was sold in Port for from 8/- to 25/- per 100, and proved to •e quite a boon at the time.

As World War I had started, the enture, instead of being a loss, urned out to be profitable.

The Broken Hill Proprietary has scently received two shipments of ickel ore (9,850 tons) from? the ickel Co., New Caledonia.

From Tahiti's Warmth to European Snow wo well-known Tahiti girls, the daughters Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nordman, are shown [?]e near par is in a sleigh, with a Nordman grand-daughter June Breaud. They are Ethel the wife of an Australian, Mr. Harrison [?]rke; and Anatila, mother of June, and wife M.Jean Breaud, of Paris.

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Magazine Section

tropicalities

Cross New Guinea From

Fly To Sepik In 24 Pages

[THOSE who have read Ivan L Champion’s interesting book, Across New Guinea from the ly to the Sepik are unlikely to see uch resemblance between this and le 24 pages to which the South acific Commission Literature iireau has reduced it for one of > Bonito Series readers.

They call it “simplified and >ridged.” We’ll say it is—and wider why they bothered to give lampion a by-line. The 24 pages, very large type, give a brief tline of one of the most remark ile achievements in Papua-New iinea exploration. But it would ,ve been much better all round they had simply called the oklet How Champion and Karius ossed New Guinea, and left all estion of authorship out of it. ic idea of these booklets is to ivide reading matter for natives lo are barely literate in English ;o say that it is an abridged 'Sion of the original is to give completely wrong impression. It s no relation at all to the ginal text of the story, rhere is nothing wrong with ;se booklets or the purpose behind im. But why give the benighted age who has struggled through i full 24 pages of the “abridged, iplified” version the notion that has read all Mr. Champion has say on an adventure that upied him from December, 1926, January, 1928?

Iso in this series is The Hiri Titten specially by the late nilla Wedgwood. This tells of lakatoi voyages of the Port resby people to the delta country r Kikori during the season of south-east trade-winds when 3 were traded for sago.

No Commercial Value

IE discussion was about the technical difficulties which develop when men and women, i a love of the Islands in their rts, die in some place far from Islands. Customs men are the ble.

Vhen old Shirley Baker died,” the man from Tonga, “his ily wanted to inter him in ga. They put him in a suitable et, and shipped him without ‘ulty to Nukualofa. And then fun started. Customs didn’t v how to classify this particular crt; and, as the regulations seemed to offer no solution, they suggested that the casket be shipped away again. There was an outcry, so finally Top Brass compromised with ‘Personal effects, NCV’ (No Commercial Value). That was how Shirley Baker went peacefully to rest in a land that, in his later years, had regarded him as a pain in the neck.”

The old Burns Philp man became reminiscent. “Yes, we had a case like that once—a corpse that the family wanted to plant in Fiji, and the bloke had most inconsiderately died in America. ’Frisco office made a tidy job of the casket, and wrapped it up in a wooden case, and labelled it ‘Archaeological Specimens.’ Came in OK, without any Customhouse argument. Average Customs official is quite human, at heart!”

What’S In A Name—Free

ADVT. DEPT.

AGENT who looked a little the worse for wear entered the bar of the hotel at Tavua, Fiji, gazed feverishly upon the lass there, and asked: “Could you get me a PIM?”

The lady seemed a little surprised, but obligingly went out into the office, fossicked around, and went back with a copy of a certain magazine.

The gent moaned: “No, I don’t want something to read—l want something to drink”—and thus battled his way through to a cold.

Pirn’s No. 1.

The Wires Were Crossed

THE presiding genius of the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva, Mr.

Brian Hurley, told this one. He was suffering a sinus trouble; and he also had a tropical skin rash.

He described his woes to a friend.

“Oh,” said friend, “we’ll soon fix that. I’ve got an excellent thing— One of the Pacific's Famous Buildings Photo by Frederick Simpson, CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1956

Til send the boy with it.

The servant came along presently with a thin creamy substance. The miserable Brian poured some into his hand, and sniffed it vigorously ud his nostrils.

When he had finished turning handsprings and displaying other signs of agony, he went looking iot his friend, and told him about it in language plain and unadorned.

"Good God,” said the friend, “That was for your rash, not for your sinus.”

Solomon Islanders Who Are

"EUROPEANS”

THIS photograph shows part of Solomonafou (Samoan for “New Solomon”) village, situated in low hill country inland about 1 6 miles from Apia.

Built on land set aside at nominal rental from NZ Reparation Estates following a goodwill visit to Western Samoa in the 1930’s by the late Mr.

Peter Fraser, the Samoan-style houses are now occupied by about 40 Solomon Islanders, their wives (mainly Samoan) and children.

The Solomon Islanders, all who remain of hundreds taken to Samoa as indentured labour in German days, are hospitable, contented, and, having regard for their age, industrious. Their village is kept tidier and cleaner than many Samoan villages these days, and the plantations are regularly tended.

Under Western Samoa’s confused laws regarding domestic status, these Solomon Islanders are classified in census reports and other official documents as “Europeans”; yet they were without political representation until about a year ago, when Malietoa, one of W. Samoa’s two fautua (royal chiefs who, of four claimants, have their regal status and authority recognised by government) offered to represent their interests in the Fono of Faipule (Samoan Parliament).

The Solomon Islanders converse in Pidgin, but their children are taught in Samoan at the village school. —JACK THORNTON.

White Man Miracles

I USE a kerosene-operated refrigerator and yesterday morning, while mixing the doings for some short-bread, the local store orderboy (a Fijian) arrived for my usual orders. I told him to wait a few minutes till I completed the job and, as usual, put the shortbread into the frig, to set.

The order-boy, all eyes, said ,‘T’ve never seen that done before,” and then asked what the “cakes” were liked when cooked. I told him that when he brought the order next day I would let him try some.

Naturally, the shortbread was cooked in the oven last night but when he called this morning I duly handed him some. He tried it, found it perfectly cooked and then said: “Now I know why a kerosene light is put under a frig but never before did I know that you can both cook and freeze in it— Sa vuku dina na kai valagi” ("the white man is wonderfully smart”).

He went off muttering: "If I had not seen those cakes go into the frig, with my own eyes I should never have believed it. . . Au sa drukaf' ("It’s got me beat”) GA NI BULU. fi A wedding and an engagement have been announced by the Deland family, now of Adelaide, SA, formerly of New Guinea, where Dr.

C M. Deland was a Medical Officer.

One son, Dr. Curtis Deland, a resident at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital will marry towards the end of the year Miss Gillian Bowden, who is a nursing sister. In Pennsylvania USA, Mar. 31, another son, Mr Raymond John Deland, was marriec to Miss Nancy Dundon. The coupl( met at Pennsylvania State University, where Mr. Deland went on i Fulbright Scholarship. He graduate< in Science in Adelaide and sub sequently spent some time a Macquarie Island as a meteorologist t Mr. Bruce Crofts, Australian Ai Pilots’ Association manager, spen two weeks in Papua-New Guinea i] April to study conditions unde which air-crew work for airline operated there.

Pim Crossquiz No. 74

Solution on Page 97.

ACROSS 1. —who constructed the first practical telescope with which he discovered the Milky Way? 6. —What man do you associate with Eva Braun? , , , . , , B.—Who is the "Spiritual" head of the Ismailian Moslems? 10—What metal is obtained from pitch-blende? 11. —What are you likely to get if you push a gran'ma around? 13. Of what is Canida the capital? 14. —What medicines ar e supposed to make you sick? 15. —which Australian cricketer of recent years has taken over 100 wickets and scored 2,000 runs in Test cricket? 17.—What is the largest known anthropoid? 19. —What plant was sacred to Bacchus? 2i—Who was the discoverer of oxygen? 23. —in what book of the Bible is the story of Cain and Abel recorded? 24. —What is the name of the upright column about which the steps of a circular staircase wind?

DOWN 1, —Who wrote the children's classic "Wind in the Willows"? 2. —What is the capital of Ti 3-Who composed Ihe music for "The Merry Widow"? . . ciirisC 4. —what instrument in a plane measures its height above the earth? . . 5. —What kind of a musician is Gene Krupa? 7. —who did Abraham offer as a sacrifito God? 9. —what is the study of coins and medal 12. —What style of architecture has hi< pointed arches and clustered columns? 16. —which Australian writer was noted f his poems on the outback? 17. —Who composed the "Peer Gynt" suit) 18. —What is the fifth of twelve? 20.—What is the monetary unit of Jap* 22.—" Where . . . ends, tyranny begin Solomon Is. village in W. Samoa. 82 MAT, l.»«-PACIFIC ISI,A N I* S MON I H 1

Lock Snipping Ceremony

Its Fun-But For Parents Only

By W. H. Percival

FN Rarotonga (Cook Islands) to- L day one still occasionally sees a boy with shoulder-length hair, ’hese long-haired boys are the Idest sons or the favourite adopted 3ns of local families, and have been bliged by their parents or guardians 3 remain unshorn until a hairatting ceremony can be arranged.

During this ceremony the boy sits q a chair, wearing girl’s clothes nd with his tresses arranged in iris or tufts—of a sufficient number >r the family head of each group : guests to snip one off. The careilly selected guests each bring a ft for “the girl” who has now beime a boy—presumably to give him good start in life. The hairitting is followed by a feast, organ- -3d on as lavish a scale as the ►y’s family can afford.

This peculiar custom does not >pear to have any connection with e various “initiation” rights known other parts of the world, and lich concern the passing from olescence to manhood. It may ce place when the boy is any age )m about 10 to 21, and is purely social event, which is now dying Did Rarotongan residents recall it 40 years ago, long-haired boys, ne of whom wore their hair in .its, were a fairly common sight, t to-day they are seldom seen, rhe hair-cutting ritual was not 3wn before the arrival of the ssionaries, and to-day nobody ms to have any idea as to how custom started. ’here is no doubt, however, that boys themselves are not in our of the idea. At school they teased and ridiculed until the elty wears off and they are illy accepted into the schoolboys’ :ernity. wo factors have considerable ring on the date on which the r-cutting ritual is performed. One be amount of successful pressure boy is able to put on his parents fet him out of his predicament; the other is the financial status lis family. the parents are comfortably off 7 will be able to stage an umukai st) that will augment their tige at a far earlier date than e not so fortunate. But in any it it seems that this custom will l be extinct, and Cook Islands hs of the future will have no e to feel shame because of their riant tresses. •robably the worst misery any parent can inflict on a child is to deliberately make him (or her) look different from his school-mates —even in the sacred name of “looking-smart.” PlM’s editor was reminded of such youthful troubles recently in a Sydney cafe where two teen-age boys were buying milkshakes. They wore inconspicuous grey, college-suits—and long-hair rolled up in a bun on top of their heads and secured in a hair-net.

They were said to belong to a religious sect called Israelites).

I The Mayor of Suva (Mr. A D Leys) and Mrs. Leys are at present m New Zealand on holiday. The Deputy Mayor (Mr. W. E. Goodsir) is acting as Mayor during Mr. Levs’s absence. J Miss Jean Innes, of the Gosford District, NSW, left for Santo, New Hebrides, in April to teach in the Presbyterian mission school there for the next 21 years.

T-i-m - b-e-r !

JOHN L. CHIPPER (right), one of Rabauls best - known residents, was born in England, in 1910. He was educated at the Emmanuel School at Wandsworth, Surrey, and then, like the story books say, he left home to make his fortune. He arrived in Australia in 1927, went to work in timber around Kyogle in northern NSW.

In 1933 he went to New Guinea to work for Allen Innes as a carpenter at Salamaua, and then spent two years on the goldfields on construction jobs. From Morobe he went to the Wewak goldfield, but gold-mining did not hold him for long, and by 1939 he had returned to his first love and was shipping Walnut flitches out of New Britain to the American market.

A broken foot and other slight medical defects prevented his going to the Middle East with his mates from New Guinea who joined the AIF, but when the Japanese war started he went to Melbourne and got into "Z" Special Unit (AIF) —the cloak-and-dagger merchants. The medical requirements were not so severe because the members of the outfit were not expected to live too long.

For the next four years he lived a life of secrecy and activity. He was first in the troublesome undercover trade with Timor and other Jap-held islands of Indonesia, and when business slumped in that area he was able to get into the select stream of mischiefmakers who prepared the way for Allied landings in the Philippines and Borneo. He went around in small ships and aircraft, and made landings by submarine.

John was demobbed from the AIF in January, 1946. His first post-war job was in Commonwealth disposals of shipping in Papua and New Guinea, after which he went to Rabaul and started the firm of J. L. Chipper and Company. The interests of this firm and its dynamic head are many, but the business is still based on timber—sawmilling at Rabaul, and timber-getting from leases in the Warango!

River valley, about 25 miles sooth of Rabaul.

Here they have constructed 20-odd miles of first-class roads, 17 miles of secondary roads, and widened 50 miles of other roads. The company is still trying to get agricultural leases to enable the area to be developed properly—but that is another story.—BRETT HILDER.

Correction And Apology

IN the “Pacific Islands Monthly” of February, 1956, there appeared (page 79), a drawing and an article about Mr. Ray Parer. At the end of the article, the author, Captain Brett Hilder, used these words: “Ray may wander off to Wau, where the attraction may be gold, or a golden-haired blonde. It is no use asking Ray what he is going to do next.”

Mr. Parer is, in fact, a happily married man and his wife and son live in Rabaul. The use of these words has, therefore, caused him great embarrassment. PIM takes this opportunity to correct the erroneous impression given by the use of this story, and to apologise to Mr. Parer.

Ray Parer was well-known as a pioneer airman and miner in New Guinea between the wars. More recently he has been engaged on various enterprises in Australia. He leturned to the Territory towards the end of last year and at present is skipper of one of the Australasian Petroleum Company’s vessels in P-NG waters. t A recent visitor to New Caledonia was M. Jean Berliet, head of a French firm which has been famous for over 60 years for its motor vehicles. Since World War II the company has concentrated ’ on h u av^" dut 7 tr ucks and has abandoned the manufacture of private motor cars for which it was once internationally renowned. t.The RNZN frigate Pukaki will visit Noumea, New Caledonia, between May 22 and 25 83 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1056

This Answers that Old Question . . .

What Do You Do For Amusement?

By J. Edward Brown

a 'T)UT what do you do for il amusement in a place like Rarotonga?” several people asked me after I returned to New Zealand from the Cook Islands.

"Well there’s picnics, parties, pictures and dances. Pictures and dances might not be as sophisticated as those in Australia and New Zealand, but they are a lot of fun, and there is plenty of unconscious amusement attached to them, too, at times. . .. .

There are two movie theatres in the village in which I lived One of these is modern while the other is a somewhat ancient wooden building with an unlined corrugated iron roof so that when it rains it is impossible to hear the sound track anyhow.

In this latter theatre the best seats are upstairs on a small balcony were patrons sit on hard chairs after paying their two bob, while the “rest” stamp, whistle and shine their torches on the screen from the hard wooden benches below In both theatres there is the the smell of coconut oil, the scent of flowers in the hair of the girls, and occasional dog fights—for in Rarotonga everybody, even the dogs, turn out for the movies.

The first pictures were screened in Rarotonga away back in 1909.

The projectors then were cranked by hand and they used acetylene lamps, but although the projectors are newer anything is still likely to happen to-day, and does.

One night when I attended we got half-way through a feature film, then the screen went blank.

The audience sat in darkness; the natives grew impatient, whistled and talked and flashed torches on the screen. Then the interval slide flashed on. The theatre emptied.

We had half time. But when we got back in we sailed straight off into another feature film. No one ever found out what happened to the hero and heroine in the first film, because we never saw it.

Even such a thing as gettting the last reel of a feature film first, and the first reel last is not unknown. A friend went to see “Mutiny On The Bounty”; the operator put the fourth reel on first and the patrons didn’t seem to mind at all.

Old-time serials with plenty of action in them are popular, but the whole series of “episodes” is run through, one after the other as an evening’s programme. What adds to the excitement is they are not always shown in sequence. The operator puts on one reel, jumps a couple, and then goes back again for fill-ins. It makes them far more exciting In one film the end of a reel showed a person looking into a pool. The start of the next reel showed the reflection. The operator, switching in this reel saw this reflection, and thought immediately he had the reel wound upside down. He stopped the machine, rewound the whole spool while the audience waited impatiently; got it going again.

The first few frames showing the reflection were all right—anyhow the pictures showed the people the right way up—but as soon as the camera swung off the reflection, everything was upside down again.

Stop the machine. Rewind again.

Half time lasts until the stores -run by picture, house ownershave sold everything they possibly can, then it’s back inside to see a good rousing western, Some films, such as “Mutiny On The Bounty”, “Hurricane” and several other old-timers about the Pacific always draw a good house when they are screened for the umpteenth time, WELL, so much for the movies, \f Friday night in Rarotonga is dance night, and dances have a flavour not likely to be savoured in any dance-hall “down south.”

Outside the hall it is a warm tropical night, alive with the chirping of cicadas. Across the road is the lagoon, the waters lapping on the coral sand.

A team of entertainers doing an "item". 84 MAY. 1956-PACIFIC 1SIANDS MONTH I

There’s a moon hanging in the iky out beyond the reef on which he Pacific rollers are thudding, naking a streak of white on the leaving water. Couples stand under he trees talking.

The sellers of peeled oranges, liced watermelon and fruit-drinks re doing a steady trade in the laring light of their gasoline interns.

Inside the hall it is hot, the air ieavy with the scent of tropical owers woven into eis and worn by oys and girls alike. The girls are Mr. Brown wrote the article which ppeared in April PIM (“How Radio ■oes to the Rescue of Rafts”) from hich the by-line was inadvertently mitted. earing their best dresses, shoes, pstick and cheap scent from the ores.

The band is composed of guitars, celeles, a drummer or two, and — le most important instrument—a ittered trumpet, the only one on le island. Vocals are provided by chorus of middle-aged women variably dressed in white.

They play all dance music, all nes more or less the same, to mi-foxtrot tempo, commonly lown as the Rarotonga Hop.

DU can pick out any rhythm you :e from* the mixed-up notes that ey pour out, and the dancers do ecisely that.

Some are doing the foxtrot, me are waltzing. It is, however, st enough to stir the blood and ovide rhythm for the hula, and couple in one corner are jittergging, an accomplishment no übt learned from a visiting sailor, from the movies.

Rarotongans like to entertain d be entertained. Dances withb “Items” are not popular. ;ems” can consist of displays of ncing, or a play from local ;tory which is acted with great sto. women’s group tried to have a nee every Wednesday night at J . local theatre. But it was a aight dance with no Items, and soon flopped. fhe Friday night dances are lally run by some organisation nting to make money, like the ys’ Brigade, or a committee (resenting a church or village id, and the people concerned ictise for weeks on their Items, "he dance concludes with the id playing “God Save The een”, which sounds just like all i other tunes, except that the icers stand still.

OR sheer entertainment a Tere (travelling) Party is tops.

These are groups of people who vel from one island to another entertain. In the old days they travelled without restriction to any island they cared to visit; but they are now under Government control.

When a Tere Party descends on an island they have to be fed and housed. A big Tere Party of 50 or more people moving from* village to village can soon clean out all the pigs, chickens, taro and anything else raked up to feed the hungry visitors. After a big Tere Party has visited Rarotonga, there are no eggs or chickens on sale for some time. So now before a Tere Party can visit another island, the Resident Commissioner has to give his permission.

There are also concerts, given by the schools, just as in any other community.

The Catholic Convent held a concert. The church of course is commonly called Roman Catholic.

The Nuns that staff the school are Irish. The Priests of the Catholic Church in the Cooks are Dutch.

The children were Rarotongan, but the songs they sang to entertain the European and Rarotongan audience were predominantly Scottish.

That is the sort of thing that happens in the Cooks.

How They Drank The Kaiser's Health Under The Noses Of The New Zealanders IN April, a spry, well-groomed, elderly gentleman, by name George Wilhelm Hagedorn, called at the PIM office in Sydney. He introduced himself as that German resident of Upolu, Western Samoa, who boarded the warship Scharnhorst off that island in September, 1914, and who was described by PIM some months ago as “a rather jovial citizen.”

In a gracious, old-world manner, Mr. Hagedorn revealed some interesting facts about this highlight in his World War I career, when (see PIM, September, 1955, p. 79) cruisers of the Imperial German Navy threatened to upset the relative harmony that had prevailed in Western Samoa following the occupation of that German territory by New Zealand troops a few weeks earlier.

Mr. Hagedorn was at that time a prominent planter and a member of the Legislative Council. It can be taken for granted that the visit of the cruisers to Mulifanua plantation was not a coincidence, but a deliberate action to contact this leading German resident and learn the local facts.

Mr. Hagedorn was anxious to point out that he was the “rather jovial citizen” referred to in our September account, not Captain Hagedorn, a brother of his, who was also a local planter. Captain Hagedorn is now living in Germany, in Bremen.

Secondly, there were three German warships, the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Nurnberg. And thirdly, both the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had first entered Apia harbour and then departed on their visit to Mulifanua plantation.

The NZ troops fully expected the warships to return to Apia that evening to bombard that port, and were taking action accordingly.

Rowed out to the Scharnhorst by some of his plantation boys, Mr.

Hagedorn was received by the commander and taken before Admiral (Count) Von Spec, with whom he spent three hours discussing the situation of the moment, and, among other things, drinking a toast to the Kaiser, while the New Zealanders around in Apia prepared for a bombardment.

When the German officers were fully appraised of the position ashore, the merits and demerits of a little shelling were discussed and here Mr.

Hagedorn pleaded the futility of such action, emphasising that nothing would be achieved by the action and that all German residents were receiving considerate treatment from the NZ troops.

The Count admitted frankly that they were looking for enemy vessels but wished to steer clear of the superior firing range of HMAS Australia.

It was suggested that Mr. Hagedorn proceed with the vessels on their war-time errands, but he pleaded that this would only bring harm to his relatives and fellow Germans ashore and disrupt a situation that, viewed philosophically as a misfortune of war, was as satisfactory as could be expected.

Assured by the Count that no offensive action would be taken, and that the warships would leave for other parts, Mr. Hagedorn returned ashore and took immediate steps to contact Colonel Logan, QIC NZ troops, to whom he conveyed the results of his visit.

Mr. Hagendore assured PIM that Colonel Logan was “a fine gentleman,” and added, “He was good enough to call me a brave man.”

Mr. Hagedorn’s little trip to the Scharnhorst was to alter the course of his life, however.

Shortly afterwards he was interned in New Zealand for 6 years and 9 months—long after the war w T as over. This was, he claims, because of his considerable influence with the Samoan people and would have been an embarrassment to the New Zealand authorities in the re- (Continued at foot of Page 90) 85 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1956

How In 1910 Britishers Discovered Pygmies In Netherlands New Guinea Those were the days when love of adventure took men off the beaten track without thought of reward.

PRESENT-DAY residents of New Guinea are frequently accused of believing that history began thereabout in 1942, but even oldtimers will probably be surprised to learn that there was a British expedition into Dutch New Guinea as early as 1910, and that during the party’s 15 months in the country they discovered pygmies.

Pygmies, of course, were a favourite “discovery” in the Mandated Territory in the 20’s and 30’s but this appears to be the first record of their discovery by Britishers on the mainland of New Guinea.

"This (is a) country with continual rain, flood and swamp, with sickness rampant amongst our coolies, the natives ravaged by yaws and syphilis the picture which my memory will conjure up in later years will be rather one of loathing for a country which is so utterly God forsaken and stamped with the mark of Cain.”—Dr. Marshall, Oct. 18, 1910.

A dismal picture, indeed —but at all events, science has marched on since then. We now know that if a native has yaws he does not have syphilis, and that yaws can be cured by just one shot of penicillin.

An account of this expedition— which otherwise was close to completely abortive —has come to us through the diary of Dr. Eric Marshall, a member of the party; Dr. Marshall had previously gone with Shackleton on his 1909 expedition to the South Pole.

He now lives on the Isle of Wight.

Dr. Marshall, in a separate note, says that the expedition was sponsored by the British Ornithological Union and was backed by Sir Edward Grey, of the Foreign Office.

But because funds were very short, the Royal Geographical Society was invited to participate and sent two geographers.

The objective was to reach Mt.

Carstenz, the highest peak in the Central Snow Range bordering German and Dutch New Guinea. The area in which they explored is south-east of the “neck” that separates Vogelkop from the bulk of the mainland.

Members of the party were: Ornithological section, Walter Goodfellow, Wilfred Stalker, Guy Shortridge Claude Grant (who joined the party later as a replacement), A. F. R. Wollaston (Entomologist and Botanist).

Geographical Section, Capt. C. G.

Rawling, surveyor; and Eric S.

Marshall, assistant surveyor and surgeon.

Officer in charge of Dutch escort, Lieutenant Cramer.

The expedition tried to penetrate the country from the south coast of the Dutch territory, and as the Dutch at that time had not recovered from Britain’s part in the Boer War they were not particularly co-operative. Dr. Marshall writes; “The negotiations were prolonged but the Dutch finally agreed, and in the meantime organised an expedition, on the same lines as ours but from a different base, for the same purpose. They ‘rode us off the main river route,’ the Oetakwa River, and arranged for us to use the Mimika River which, as rivers go in NG, was a ditch leading to the hills!

“We arranged for 10 Gurkhas as our personal escort, but the Dutch insisted on 40 Javanese soldiers with the necessary convict coolies.

“Stalker, a collector for the BOU, recruited our carriers from the Dutch El, instead of from Borneo, Dyaks being the most suitable.

“Walter Goodfellow, a bird collector who had sold a famous humming-bird collection to Gould, which the Natural History Museum later acquired, was appointed ‘leader.’ ”

As with many such expeditions, dissension arose almost from the start —a great deal of it stemming from the fact that most members of it had little faith in their leader, as a leader.

Then, almost as soon as they had landed on New Guinea soil, Stalker became lost in the swamps bordering the river and his body was recovered some days later.

Goodfellow and Shortridge both were subsequently invalided out of the country. Of those who returned eventually to England, Rawling was killed during the First War and Wollaston was shot by an undergraduate at King’s Col- -leg e, Cambridge, about 1929. All other members of the expedition, except Dr. Marshall, have since died.

The expedition lasted from December, 1909, until March, 1911—a great deal of that time completely bogged down by frustrations through which no one appeared able to break a clear and decisive way.

In all their 15 months in the country they penetrated but 30 miles inland as the crow flies. : It was Grant who first saw the Tapiro pygmies, and some time later, in company with Marshall and Rawling, returned to the area, where they spent about two days observing and photographing these small people. Dr. Marshall, in his diary, describes the incident thus: NOV. 9, 1910: Precisely at 8 a.m. we started for the pygmies' clearing.

For the first 40 minutes the jungle trad rose steadily, the going being fairly good then, turning off sharp to the left, wi clambered down a steep incline and arrive* at the junction of the White Water and « branch stream. These, like the main stream were much swollen. Wading up the brand stream for 10 minutes, we called a brief hal‘ for the carriers at the foot of a steep ridge The track up the ridge was precipitous, bu the going was made comparatively easy b] Mimika River natives with Tapiro pygmies—an old photograph ta by Dr. Marshall in 1910. 86 MAY 19 5 6- PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

he network of roots, and the ledges and lefts, worn by the toes of generations of ygmies, in what is probably their highway i the river. At 11 a.m. we reached the meeting place".

It is here that the pygmies had, on previous ccasions, met Grant, escorted him into the illage or clearing and, when departing, taken lave of him.

It appears that the etiquette is to wait •re until properly introduced, for on one ;casion Grant failed to observe it and arched straight into the first village and, tiding it deserted, shouted across to the earing, from whence came a score or so these little men, running hard, gesticulating olently and much excited, evidently angry at the customary etiquette had not been (served, and no doubt fearing that Grant as in search of their womenfolk, who, bower, were not in evidence.

Halting at this meeting place, we could stinctly hear the high treble voices of the >men on the clearing opposite, although it is impossible to catch a glimpse of them, shouted twice and we then marched straight the clearing, our carriers keeping up a rt of running conversation with the pygmies, 10 did not seem to relish the idea of this rasion by the white men.

Entering the clearing, I caught a fleeting mpse of one or two naked forms disappearj into the jungle, but whether men or >men it is impossible to say. A good deal excitement prevailed.

Diminutive figures carrying bows and arrows peared at the top of the clearing, and, spite the fact that the ground rises at an gle of 30 degrees and is obstructed by led trees, creepers and undergrowth, it imed to offer no hindrance to these agile le fellows, who ran along the treenks and cleared the obstructions as easily we might step on to a curbstone.

Fhe foremost pygmy brandished an arrow one hand, and shouting excitedly, soon ne in touch with Peau, our pygmy runner, o closed in on him, possibly with the idea preventing him using the weapons. understanding appeared soon to be ived at, for, although still boisterous in manner, he joined the main group at the t of the clearing. About 20 Tapiros had now put in an appearance, coming in from ry direction. lur motives were hastily explained in the lika dialect, which most of them seemed understand, although they have a distinct ;usge of their own, and all moved in direction of the village, situated on a 11 immediately opposite the clearing. he first village consisted of four huts of e or less uniform style, scattered over the ulations. It was entirely deserted. We ;ed through, and topping a slight rise, were astonished to see another village of huts laid out in two terraces and nestling the N.E. side of the same knoll, n the upper of these two terraces we ded to pitch our camp. No opposition or est was offered by the owners, although made no attempt to assist, standing nd in sulky silence or whispering in little ips. le water problem had now to be solved, here again the pygmies refused help, ig that it was "far away", pointing to a ntam stream some hundreds of feet down hillside but we rightly concluded that the ge would not be here unless a constant ly was fairly accessible. (Continued on Page 9S>

History Of The Tin-Can Mailman

Is Already Obscured Ry Time

AS a lad in Nukualofa, Tonga, in 1890, my brother and I used to wander round to Mr. W. Hettig Snr.’s tinsmith shop and watch him, on behalf of the Tongan Government, soldering the Niuafo’ou mail in a kerosene or a biscuit tin. These biscuit tins had been used for 25 lbs or 70 lbs of cabin bread, and so were just the right thing for packing the mail in.

The mails were only soldered down on the arrival in Nukualofa of the steamers from Auckland, New Zealand. The ships were either the SS Upolu, with Captain Crawshaw in command, or the SS Ovalau. On the outward passage, the captain of the ship would drop the tin overboard when he was very near the landing at Niuafo’ou, and natives would swim out and bring the mail ashore.

In those days Mr. W. Tarvis, trading for the firm of Messrs. Ostemore, Davey & Co., of Sydney, used to attend to the mail. Later, Mr.

Tarvis sold his business to Captain W. Ross, owner and master of the topsail schooner Ysabel, which was, before Captain Ross bought her, the first mission ship Southern Cross. (Captain Ross once told me, when I was going to New Zealand in the Ysabel, during World War I, that he sold the engines out of the Southern Cross for more than he When Mr. George Quensell died recently in Tonga it was stated in Australia and elsewhere that it was he who had originated the famous Tin Can Mail. In this article, Mr. J. D.

Whitcombe shows that the Tin Can Mail was in existence long before Mr.

Quensell arrived in Tonga—although Mr. Quensell gets credit for putting the mail on a commercial basis and thus earning revenue for Tonga.

Another man, C. S. Ramsay, is usually regarded as being the original ''mailman''. Since the eruption of 1946, of course, Niuafo'ou has been abandoned except by visiting copracutters. gave for the ship. That was how money was made in the early days).

After Captain Ross bought out Tarvis, Mr. Arthur Tyndall, of Nukualofa, accepted a position as the Captain’s manager at the Niuafo’ou store. Later the two went into partnership under the name of Tyndall and Ross. While at Niuafo’ou it was Arthur Tyndall who kept his eye on the Tin Can Mail.

It was not until 1921 that the late Mr. George Quensell arrived on Niuafo’ou. He later turned the “Tin Can Mail” into a money-making affair, or commercialised it. The "Tin Can Mail” was in existence long before George Quensell landed in Holy Tonga.

The Tongan boys used to swim out to the ship to take and receive the mail, until about 1931, when one of the swimmers was attacked by a shark. After this the mail was taken out by outrigger canoes. The only European who used to swim out to the ships with the native boys was Mr. C. S. Ramsay.

One of the funniest things that ever happened in connection with the Tin Can Mail was in 1901. It was a beautiful Sunday morning just about 10 am and the church was full of good, native churchgoers. The SS Horoto, Captain Newton, was in the roadstead, and as there was a small mail, Captain Newton decided to send it ashore by rocket.

The mail was duly attached to the rocket, which was fired and, unfortunately, landed on top of the thatched roof of the church, which was soon in flames. The congregation rushed out of the flaming church and went home to their Sunday dinners. That was the last time the mail was sent ashore by rocket. J Mr. W. Hettig, Snr., who used to solder the mail in tins in 1890 still has a grandson living in Nukualofa; he is Mr. August Hettig, local merchant and photographer. (Over) Returning to shore with two cans of mail a photograph reproduced from Ramsay's book. 87 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

Niuafo’ou is only 19.4 square miles in area, a speck in the great Pacific ocean, with a one-time population of i 291 Niuafo’ou is the most remote island of the Tongan group, being much closer to Samoa and Fiji than to Tongatabu.

The island is almost circular and of its 19 square miles the lakes of the interior cover 6 miles. It rises to 588 feet and has a dangerous, •dormant volcano, whose rec eruptions have occurred m 1853 (when 25 people were killed) in 1867, 1912, and 1929 The village of Ahau was destroyed in 1853 and Futu in 1929.

Then, in September, 1946 the -volcano was again active and devastated the whole island to such an extent that Queen Salote, on Clearing of the plight of her people, made arrangements for their removal. The inhabitants were taken off their island home by the MV Matua and given sanctuary on the island of Eua and also in Nukualofa, on Tongatabu.

Only about 20 people remained to ■keep an eye on the remaining copra •arop.

Editorial Note THIS is a somewhat different version to that of Mr. Charles Stuart Ramsay in his colourful -book, Tin Can Island, published about Niuafo’ou, in 1939.

In that book, Ramsay mentions Quensell only incidentally as manager of the other trading company ■on Niuafo’ou. . . “an old friend of mine, an ex-sailor, and a German.”

The impression gained from Mr.

Ramsay’s story is that prior to his arrival on Niuafo’ou (mid-1921), the mail was a one-way affair, fired-off occasionally from passing steamers by rockets. Ramsay got the idea of swimming out with mail tied in a water-proof packet when he saw Tongans take to the surging waves that roared in onto Niuafo’ou’s shore, supported by buoyant swimming -poles of fau wood. In all, Ramsay made 112 swims with the mail, towing the sealed tins of mail on the return trip. In 1932, Ramsay left Niuafo’ou, and the mail was then -taken out in canoes.

This is how Ramsay describes his first attempt: “The seas were running high when, on that Sunday afternoon, we first swam out with the mail. I was thankful for Masi’s reassuring presence and sound advice, “The Tofua appeared as a smudge of smoke on the horizon. Down on the rocks near the derrick, armed ivith our 8-ft swimming poles, we awaited her near-approach before taking off. Our mail was made up in two well-wrapped parcels, each -tied to the end of a light stick about a yard in length so that the packets (Continued on Page 91) This Month’s New Reading Gnawing Conscience Beneath the Palms THIS book is about Hawaii but the title, Let Us Alone, does not refer to the grass-skirted nakedfrom-the-waist-up hula girls who are featured on the dust-jacket.

Author John Fisher takes his title from Tennyson: Let us Alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb.

Let us alone. . .

It is Hawaii of the immediate pre and immediate post-American annexation and is a story of a man who would likely have pleaded to be left alone to drift even if Fate had cast him up in Bloomsbury instead of the languorous islands of Hawaii.

But fate had been unkind to Frank Fanning in the matter of a backbone, so the Jade made up for it by seeing that he was provided with sufficient of the world’s goods to make drifting possible.

The author knows enough about the Pacific—the air and steamer routes, anyhow—to infuse authenticity into the book, and as a study of a weak character it has its merits.

Nonetheless, the narrative at times drags its feet to such an extent that it becomes wearisome —particularly when Frank has twinges in his better-self and feels that he should be up and doing—either as an historian, a doctor to lepers, or as a traveller in foreign parts.

Considering the slightness of the theme one can wonder, unprofitably, of course, why the story was drawn out to make this fairly bulky novel.

The readers it is most likely to appeal to are those who still entertain romantic notions about Pacific islands —and these are not likely to be dwellers therein, (Published by Heinemann. Australian price, 18/9.) Zeb in the West And in Cinemascope THE publishers of The Fortune Finders (by Jacquin Sanders) describe it on the dust-jacket as “Western extravaganza,’’ which is about as near as anyone could hope to get to this amazing piece of fiction. There are Indians, murder, skullduggery, much shooting, gold rushes and all the usual trimmings, plus principal characters twice lifesize and three times as entertaining.

Zeb Hawkins, a store “clerk,” left his home town in Vermont and headed West to make his fortune when his grandmother left him 500 dollars. Zeb travelled west for six months and then, in the desert, met up with Davis Borton and Borton’s two young squaws, Necktie and Other One. They are : identical twins except in the small degree of difference in their moralsJ Borton teaches Zeb to mine; they make a modest fortune which Zeb loses in a roulette game. Necktie teaches him a couple of other things.

When he is flat broke, Zeb goes back to clerking in the local store and is subsequently offered the job of manager of the local brothel. He declines and he and Necktie set up as water-sellers during a near-by goldrush. They coin enough to set up a store for themselves.

Zeb continues to have adventures,; economic and otherwise. His treatment of the avocado pear affair could be regarded as Lesson I for any up and coming business tycoon, Western style.

That is the bare bones; in addition you get Sanders’ vigorous and lusty style of writing which is in itself worth the price of admission.

But don’t mistake this for some-l thing you can give Junior Son for his 13th birthday. It is to be considered strictly as not for (general exhibition.

If you like Westerns you will probably like this. Even if you don’t, you will probably like it, anyhow. (Published by Peter Davies. Australian price, 15/6.) Love in an Aqua lung WHEN you hear a story as a radio-play of about 50(1 separate daily episodes you arc unlikely to take the book, when il appears, as a serious piece of literature.

Morris L. West’s novel, Gallows on the Sand (which has been broadcast recently over Australia!

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On his release in 1945, Mr. Hag dorn resided in Germany for so] years and returned to Australia 1952, with permission to reside h( as long as he wishes.

Now 75, and living near Carlir ford, NSW, he bears no grudge I his long internments, and is as : terested as ever in agricultu matters and is still a “rather jov citizen,” happy that he was oi peacemaker in a delicate incid< between two major world Power t New Caledonia potato grow are, it is reported, dismayed at 1 advice from Sydney that se< potatoes are £7O per ton and tr have asked the French Consul to “try to do something about However, as Sydney housewives currently buying seed or any otl potatoes for eating at 1/- per lb is doubtful if anything can be do t At a meeting of the Norfolk Isla Agricultural and Horticultural ! ciety, held in April, it was foi necessary to postpone the Sri until October, due to a recent s] of very dry weather on the Isla An Exhibition will be held in place during the week of Centenri Celebrations in June; but no pn will be awarded. about a Spanish galleon loaded wit gold coins that could have bee: wrecked on this island on th Barrier Reef. Renn had actual! found a gold, Spanish coin then and he had confirmation of th galleon’s movements from a archivist in Mexico.

It is not hard to imagine th rest of the story—complete wit faithful aide (part Japanese-pai Gilbertese), a beautiful girl whoi they found at death’s door (from stone-fish sting) when they lande on the island to dive for treasun and the villain in the person ( our old friend Manny from King Cross.

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T replied with chattering teeth d doubtfully threw my pole into ; devil’s cauldron before me, as isi hit the water. The packet of il disappeared beneath the foam ;h me. . . I found I was washed ; at the rate of knots and I aggled to the surface just in time grab my pole, throw it over the d wave and snatch a breath of before I followed Masi in )ther dive. . . We swam extended ng our poles, our weight keeping m in position against our chests 1 obviating our need to hold m. The elbow of the arm carrythe packet of mail was hooked r the pole, leaving the other arm I both legs free for swimming.

Dver half a mile from shore we ist our poles down between our ;hs and rested as though sitting a rail fence, our bodies subged to our chests and our legs gling. rhe Captain sighted us from the ge and bore straight towards us. . . . The 4,000 tons Tofua loomed towering and portentous as she drew near. It was pleasing to note the excitement aboard. The passengers clustered along the rail pointing to the two apparently legless trunk's protruding from the water, . . The first officer, seeing our parcels, lowered a bucket at the end of a line. We dropped into the bucket the first delivery of the ‘swimming mail.’ ”

The book contains little else about the history of the mail and we still do not know when Mr. Quensell turned it into a “commercial proposition.” In the late 20’s and 30’s a letter post-marked Tin Can Island was a philatelist’s prize—but so far as PIM is aware, it was always Ramsay who was regarded as the Tin Can Island mailman; and Quensell has been little mentioned in that capacity. istory of Tin-Can Mailman (Continued from Page 88)

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I questions were looked on with suspicion answers stolidy refused. Every little ce had to be paid for in beads or cco, the bribed pygmy being subjected to jlent tirade from a diseased old man who jn the verandah of the nearest hut. ere seemed to be no chief, although the men commanded some respect, but how i is shown by one instance when an old head was given some tobacco, which was st immediately taken from him by the is. aberi-mirbiri—the village—is built on no al plan, save that the group of huts on terrace has an open level space, around i the huts are built according to the •ility of the ground. The floor space of hut is from 12-15 ft. square, but from nust be taken about 2 ft. which answers urpose of a verandah in the front. Spiit r fills the walls, outside which are fixed strips of bark. Access is gained by steps, made from two upright or sloping across which are lashed two or three r pieces. The roofing is made from XL”' fan pa ""' sui,ad far lhe The huts were 3,1 , l uite bare and empty, save for the " fire p| a ce", or rather the patch of sand on which the fire is made. The huts are barer than those of the plainsmen, which a t least have one or two crude shelves on which to place sago, dry wood, etc., while at Nimei, on the coast, they enjoy the luxury of roughly carved wooden pillows.

N. carving o( anv description relieved the ies , huls of , heir worknl a „, ike appearance , ai > and rrr 5 " ,hev are superior to the low jungle huts.

TN height, the pygmies range from 4 ft. 1 3 i n ches-4 ft. 10 inches, averaging 4 ft. 6 inches . 0 f a chocolate, or deep brown co | oor , they are nonetheless of a lighter hue than the plainsmen, but their coatings of dirt might lead one to think otherwise, Their hair, which is woolly and fuzzy, is matted and caked with dirt, and the general uncleanliness of their persons makes association with them most repugnant.

They all adopt a phallic ornament in the shape of a penis koka, made from a gourd, varying from 9-15 inches. Some of these, which are of exceptional shape and length, They are extremely proud of, and are unwilling to part with them for anything less than red cloth.

Armlets of woven grass are occasionally worn, and wristlets similar to those of some of the plainsmen, are commonly seen on the left wrist, no doubt as a protection against the recoil of the bowstring, The lobe of the right or left ear is pierced, in which they hang a variety of ornaments 93 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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Two old men wore tufts of the young cassowary dyed with red earth. Another keen hunter adopted a coronet made from the collar-bones of the cus-cus, while one old man, almost bald, attempted to hide his infirmity with a string, plaited wig ornamented on top with cowrie shells, his lank greasy locks falling to his shoulders.

Each man carries a string bag slung over the right shoulder and over the left arm.

The contents are miscellaneous, such as fire sticks, pipe tobacco, food in the form of roots, and a folded pandanus mat. The hunters ornament their bags with boars' tusks, or pigs' tails, between 20 or 30 being sometimes seen on one bag.

From their bows and arrows they seem inseparable, always carrying half a dozen or so of the latter, some of which are carved and of superior workmanship to those made by the plainsmen. Not even the offer of a knife would induce many of them to part with them. No doubt the fashioning of these entails much labour, for they have no steel implements, one axe, 1 in. x 2 in., apparently traded in from the coast, being the only steel implement they possess. Many of them had home made jew's harps constructed from split bamboo and string, from which they extract a few notes. Scarcely setting foot on the plains, but always clambering up and down the steep hillsides and rocky razor backed ridges of their mountain homes, these little fellows are essentially hillmen.

Living on bananas, sweet potatoes, roots and jungle fruits, and dependent for their meat on their hunting powers, the latter are no doubt developed in a very marked degree, and this doubtless is one reason why they set much store by their bows and arrows.

Stone clubs and spears they have no truck with, for none have been seen, but stone axes, similar to those of the plainsmen are used, Their clearing, which must be nearly 120 acres in extent, is no doubt the result of a vast amount of labour, for it has been carried out with the steel axe already mentioned, anc probably stone axes and fire have played j part. Here they produce tobacco, swee' potatoes, bananas, pumpkins, etc.

Scattered over the clearing were a few lean to huts which were probably occupied by th< women during our second night's stay at th village. On our approach they and the childrei all fled to the higher ridges, for the smok of their fires could, the first night, be see 94 MAY 19 5 6'— PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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SOLOMON ISLANDS- K. H. Dalrymple Hay Esq., Honiara. ig from an old clearing on the opposite side about 1,000 ft. above us. The nies were convinced that we were after r womenfolk, in spite of attempts made Peou, the pygmy runner, to persuade them the contrary. : FORTS to bribe them with 12 in. knives and botcher's knives, to bring the en to be photographed, failed entirely, no it owing to the opposition offered by or two of the old men who had all along fed to have anything to do with us. ic second day, after debating it for some , our hopes were raised by our carriers ig us that the women were coming, only e dashed to the ground a little later by who said they had been frightened away the sight of our hats and clothes. Our to dispense with these was of no avail we never saw a sign of them. Etiquette is apparently the reverse of what our sation has taught us! ibery again had to be resorted to in to induce the men to stand for the ra and manoeuvre for the cinematograph, plainsmen understood, for they see the I in print, but what did these people of it? However, so long as it amused white men, and they were paid in beads, no ill effects resulted, well and good— ugh for a long time they were of the )n that they would get pains in their ichs and die. it was an easy method of earning , and they had to part with nothing! ing downhill towards the camera resulted eads! Walking uphill with the big plains- -again beads! And finally, a hasty retreat to the huts—more beads All the while ite man grinds the handle of a big box eems unnecessarily gratified at the result, n again, to stand in big or little groups a much worried looking man walks and fumbles with a black box—this ■ very hard work and is well worth the prized blue and white beads! ing our stay a certain amount of ity was evinced, but much less than shown by the plainsmen on our first ance in their country. Nothing would them to accept a looking glass, always ning "namouti namouti" ("ill, ill"). Behis they evidently had had no idea they so ugly! r the first day, most of the old men ed and never again showed themselves, n the second morning, when ready to )ur leave, only some 15 to 20 youths •resent. Many weapons and other articles nographical interest had been purchased knives, red cloth, beads, etc., and, in two instances, presents of knives were those who had been disposed to assist we been able to prolong our stay I ittle doubt that we should have gained :onfldence sufficiently to induce them to forward the women and children. As , we were forced to leave without seelem, and unless we have time and inity to make another attempt, it may any years before their photos and ements can be added to our meagre dge of these primitive little people.

S expedition ended in March, 1911 —the discovery of the pygmies being, from the aphical angle, anyhow, about nly tangible result. But those the days before aeronlanes and when the hazards of the tropical jungles were far greater than they a f e , The , diary makes abundantly clear that results were averse ratio to the Z enCTgy that was expended It could not be called a lucky expedition. It started off on the wrong foot, and thereafter continued to limp along to its inevitable conelusion. But although it was not the most successful of British adventures in exploration, members of the party were able to bring back to the civilised world the first news of New Guinea pygmies.

'i Chief Justice of Fiji, Sir Ragnar Hyne, dropped in on his alma mater recently before he and Lady Hyne left Australia on long leave in the United Kingdom. Sir Ragnar was one of the first Arts graduates from the University of Queensland (in 1912) and it was as an educational officer he first saw Pacific Islands ser v i c e—Director of Education, Tonga, after World War I. Later he switched to Law, was admitted to the Queensland Bar, and became Chief Magistrate in the BSIP. During his career he has seen service in many of Britain’s overseas territories. 95 ' I F I C ISLANDS M O N T H L Y M A Y . 1956

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Such special issues have marked iportant national occasions and ,ve provided stamp enthusiasts in my parts of the world with valule pictorial documents in miniare of historical events.

Ihirteen stamps were specially srprinted for use throughout New ledonia, in 1903, in connection th the 50th anniversary of the mch occupation, formal possession which was initiated on September 1853. The overprint for the mt also included an eagle imnt.

Similarly, for the centenary of French Administration four welldesigned stamps were provided in 1953, each of which typified explorers and missionaries and views of local significance. One issue portrayed Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, who arrived at the Isle of Pines on June 16, 1792, and explored the area, with aspects of his frigates —the Recherche and Esperance.

A view of the Bay of Noumea and the likeness of Admiral Febvrier Despointes, figured on a second design. It was he who took possession of New Caledonia in 1853 for France.

The third stamp was devoted to a study of Admiral Dumont d'Urville, who in 1826, while seeking La Perouse, also explored New Caledonia. Background to this design was a map of the territory.

The fourth design of the series was the Noumea Cathedral and a portrait of the French missionary, Monseigneur Douarre, who in 1843 led a band of missionaries to New (Continued Next Page) 97 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956 Solution to Crossquiz from page 82

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Consequently, in August, 1939, New Zealand saw fit to mark the 25th anniversary of its administration with a new issue of four stamps for the territory. They showed a coastal village scene, a map of the area, and a typical dancing, or “siva” party and Robert Louis Stevenson.

These attractive stamps remained on issue for three months.

Her Majesty Queen Salote has figured on a number of stamp issues made by Tonga over the years.

In October, 1938, three values were included in a series put out to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her accession to the throne. Designs used typified the Queen wearing Coronation robes, in the Royal Palace at Nukualofa.

When, in January, 1944, five more stamps appeared in connection with the “Silver Jubilee” of that event, the same overall design was employed, except for the dates at the bottom of the stamp, “1918-1943.”

Additionally, three striking portrait studies graced the stamps struck in November, 1950, on the occasion of Queen Salote’s 50th birthday. One design showed a head and shoulders likeness, with the 1/- value picturing a half-length likeness of Her Majesty wearing the Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander), presented to her in 1932 Tonga continuing link with great Britain was evidenced by the issue in July, 1951, of a pictorial series in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the Treaty of Friendship between Tonga and Great Britain, signed on FeM ruary 16, 1901.

A map of the Tongan Islands and Great Britain; the Arms of the two countries identified two designs while the Royal Palace on Tonga* tabu, the national flag and a repre- 98 MAY, 1 9 5 6 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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In addition, there was a picture the HMNZS Bellona, the 5,900aiser, built in 1943, at anchor with tiny Tongan schooner in the backound. Medallion insets of Queen lote appeared on the 2id and 3d nominations. rhirteen values were included in series of stamps on issue in New linea in August, 1931, when the ;h anniversary of the Australian ininistration was being observed. e design used was of a Bird of radise, in the limbs of a tree, and i stamps ranged in value from Id. £l.

Fnder the New Guinea Act, passed the Commonwealth Government 1920, Australia accepted under igue of Nations mandate, control the former German possession.

May, 1921, a proclamation issued Rabaul ended the military admin- ■ation, in control of the region ce capture by Australian Forces September, 1914. )n November 6, 1934, a set of r stamps was distributed in >ua to signify the 50th ansrsary of the territory being sed under the protection of lat Britain. The designs were pted from contemporary illustrals of the time. ne design showed the hoisting of Union Jack at Port Moresby in t, with Government, Military religious representatives in atfance, in front of the London sionary Society’s Mission House, e LMS became established in t Moresby in 1874). iset portraits also included were Commodore James E. Erskine, Commodore of the Australian ion, who proclaimed Britain’s ;ectorate, and of Boe Vagi, reused head chief of the Port esby District. le second motif illustrated the e on board HMS Nelson anchored 'ort Moresby Harbour, with some .ative chiefs in conference with military officers prior to the ing over” ceremony of 1884. ur years later, in September, five airmail stamps were issued apua to coincide with the 50th versary of the transfer of sh New Guinea from Queensto the status of a British ession. [ stamps used the common de- —an aerial view of Port Jsby Harbour, in which the ner Katoomba, since sold to a gn Government is moored, a DHB6 aeroplane in flight lead. A tiny inset at the foot ie stamp on the left was of a 3-sailed island cutter, o current stamps, bearing aits of Presidents Washington Roosevelt, were circulated by United States authorities in st, 1928, in commemoration of 150th anniversary of the liian Islands under their original L of the Sandwich Islands. The leant overprint inscription for , the occasion read: “Hawaii. 1778- 1928.”

It was Captain Cook who discovered the Islands on January 18, 1778, on his third voyage of discovery, and it was unfortunate that his effigy did not distinguish the new American stamps, which were initially placed on sale in Hawaii.

Copies of the stamps were also available at the Postal Agency in Washington, but not in United States Post Offices. Nevertheless, the stamps were in order for postage in the USA.

Another anniversary occasion that did not escape the attention of the stamp-printers occurred in June, 1953. The French Oceania settlements made available an issue of a single airmail label stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the French painter, Paul Gauguin, who went to Tahiti in 1891.

He remained there for ten years and devoted much of his time to painting native women. His most famous works were “Maori Women,” featured on the commemorative issue, and “Maori Venus,” the former under the title of “Nafea.”

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They suggest it would be more convenient for all concerned, and would result in a better general understanding if officials would attend meetings of the Chamber when matters affecting their departments were dealt with, and take part in a round-the-table discussion.

Many of the letters received by the Chamber either involve technical matters, or matters which have a particular bearing on a particular section of trade and commerce; and such letters have to be referred to special subcommittees of members with a knowledge of such matters.

The latter report back to the Chamber and their report is considered a month later —which all adds up to delay, with further delay added while waiting Government’s reply.

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Professor Elkin expects to spend, his retirement writing and camping] out in the bush studying the Australian aboriginal. He also will make other field trips to Arnhem Land, and an early trip to Wabag, in the Highlands of New Guinea.

Professor Elkin has specialised ir \ the Australian aboriginal whom he j has regarded not only as a subject i of scientific study but as a real and likeable individual with one 01 the most highly organised social structures and spiritual philosophies in the world. A great deal of the changed attitude of white Australians towards the oldest Australians can be attributed to the Professor’s work in this field.

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Fhe Easter Islanders originally inided to go to Tahiti —why, we do t know, although they are reported have said that they wanted to isit friends.” Reports on their ire recent adventures have come us from Suva and Papeete.

From Suva: BOUT Christmas the men were 1 shipped to Rarotonga, where they were quartered in a new use and paid 10/- each per day— per diem as it appears in the icial record of expenditure of NZ money.

Fhe new house in which the men re quartered had been erected for jail superintendent who had not ; arrived. n February, the men were shipped Aitutaki, and from there they re flown to their original destinan, Tahiti. The official idea in ! Cook Is. was that the men could n a ship at Papeete to take them Panama, where Chilean officials uld assume command of the congent of Easter Islanders without ?sports. sut when the plane arrived at hiti the French authorities reed to let the Eastern Islanders d, and they were flown back to utaki, whence they were again pped to Rarotonga, n March they were shipped back Aitutaki and again flown to tiiti. /feanwhile the villagers at Atiu f e refused to let the Cook Is. ninistration take the Easter inders’ boat to Rarotonga and it to defray expenses. The Atiu pie insist that they are entitled the boat in return for their ipitality to the Easter Islanders en they reached Atiu. t seems that officials in the Cook Tahiti and Chile cannot make their minds what to do with the iter Islanders.

'he five men involved are reted to be quiet and mildinered, and in no apparent hurry the farcial situation to end.

Phis report comes from Papeete: Tie Government in Tahiti does like the idea of having to support these Easter Islanders here. It takes the attitude that whoever or whatever lands in Papeete is Tahiti’s headache —but why should the Government be responsible for anyone the New Zealand Government likes to dump on these shores?

I have spoken to the Chilean Consul here and he is of the opinion that the Chilean Government will eventually send the funds for the repatriation of these people—but obviously the funds have not been sent up to date.

The local Police Chief thinks that the Easter Islanders cannot be trusted to go back to their homes by ship if allowed to land in Papeete —he asks what is to stop them taking to Tahiti hills the day the ship is due to leave, and missing it?

ED. NOTE: It is not clear from any of the above where the Easter Islanders are at present, but it is reported (repeat, reported) that the Chilean Consul in Papeete finally produced fares for the return home of the castaways, and that they went on their way some weeks ago. t The new branch of the Commonwealth Savings Bank and Commonwealth Trading Bank, Goroka, TPNG, will have as manager Mr.

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Established in thv Pacific Islands since 1876 New Home for Suva Masons Fiji “Got in First " is reported from London that le famous and very popular irtrait of Queen Elizabeth 11, by in artist Pietro Annigoni, is to ar on a new issue of Fiji poststamps. : Postmaster-General Hill has rapped over the knuckles by London dailies for letting Fiji scoop the UK over this issue. He should have adopted the portrait for British stamps, they say, instead of letting Fiji get in first. li Mr. L. F. D. (Nick) Carter well-known pre-war resident of New Guinea is still living at Auchenflower, Queensland, and sends greetings to old friends through PIM. he Masonic Temple at Gladstone Road, Suva, which last year replaced the old Masonic [?] on the corner of Hercules and Butts Streets. The old building is now the Merchants' —Photo by Jack Thornton. 105 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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More Successful Functions of Sydney Polynesian Assn.

THE Polynesian Association's Monthly Social gatherings in Sydney have been the meeting place, during the last two months, of many Islands people.

Among these functions was a farewell to the Association's Social Secretary, Mrs. Ann Griffen, who is on holiday in Suva. At the same time, farewell was said to Doctor M. and Mrs. T. Salato, who also went back to Fiji after an extended stay in Sydney. In return, the Salatos and Mrs Griffen gave a □arty at the Griffen home, East Hills, when many Suva people were present; kava was made and presented to the Association s President, Mr. Leonard Moran, and to many of the guests.

Among islands people present at the monthly meetings were: Mrs. $ a Wolf gram and J Tukia, of Tonga; Mrs. A. Kohlhase and her daughter, Mrs. W. Aspinall, and niece, Mrs.

A. Smith, all from Apia, Samoa; Mr. Eric Allen, another former resident of Samoa.

From Fiji were: Mr. K. Qiqiyaqa, of Suva, on his way to London to study law; Miss Lena McGregor, of Suva; Mr. Harry Kiss, of Suva: Mr. M. Bahn, of Ba; Army Nurse Orbell Chambers, of Levuka; Mr. Brian Grant, of Suva, with his sister Pinkie and cousin Noeline Grant; and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Thompson, formerly of Suva. Another Suva personality was Miss Ann Wilder, on leave from Tarawa, Gilbert Islands.

In accordance with the Association's policy of helping deserving charities, the members recently presented a recital of Polynesian songs and authentic dances in a large suburban hotel lounge, in aid of the Sydney- Bankstown Sub-Normal Children's Association.

They had the satisfaction of knowing that their presence attracted people interested in this good cause. The sum of £5OO was raised in the single night's performance.

Islanders wishing to contact the Association should ring Mr. Moran, the president, BW 7370; or Mrs. Byron, BU 5737.

If Mr. Jim Wilton, well-known resident of New Guinea, left Brisbane for Goro k a , Eastern Highlands, in April after fo months leave in Australia: Great missed at the Friday get-togethe at a popular Brisbane hostelry, t A Tahitian, Henri Bar employed on the new Yate dam New Caledonia, was swept aw and drowned while trying to cr< a flooded river in April. 106 MAY . 19 5 6- PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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r[E internal New Caledonian air line, Transpac, has received another de Havilland Dragon Rapide. The plane arrived from England recently.

The arrival of this second plane will enable Transpac to extend its service. 1i The Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, with Lady Garvey, and an official party, made a tour of Lau Province on HMNZS Pukaki in May.

H Mr. E. A. O’Connell, who has joined the staff of the P-NG Crown Law Dept., was admitted to the Territory’s Supreme Court in early May. 107 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY 1956

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nseasonal conditions gave parts the Central District of Papua the first four days of April n, eight and as much as 11 es of rain or about 30 p.c. more i the average for the entire th. ckson’s Airst r i p, in Port esby, had nearly eight inches Government House only slightly Port Moresby, itself, the rain ed severe damage to the town’s idy bad roads. Hundreds more loles appeared and water carted r tons of gravel from the unid roadways. •wever, a big road-repairing jet is under way in the area hundreds of yards of roadway being ripped up prior to being erly repaired. uld this all-out effort be conid with the proposed visit of Duke of Edinburgh? uring the rain, Jackson’s Airwas closed to air traffic several 0.

Easter Accident

e fatal accident on the roads e Territory was reported durhe Easter holidays.

On the evening of the last day of the break, a five-ton truck slipped off Rouna Road, about 17 miles from Port Moresby, falling down the cliffface, killing one of its occupants.

The victim was Leslie Russel, the 2-years-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Russel, of Port Moresby.

The child’s mother and her eightyears-old sister, Wendy, and Leslie Brown, aged 7, were injured in the accident. They were admitted to hospital.

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A Senior official of the P-NG Department of Native Affairs, Mr. D.

Fienburg, says that results achieved on the Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain indicate that area organisation of natives has immense advantages over the village system in helping raise the standard of living of the people.

Gazelle has five area organisations for native government. They are Rabaul, Reimber, Livuan, Vunadirdir and Vunamami. The Gazelle area system of native councils is the oldest in the Territory, having operated for five years.

Four other native area councils exist. They are Baluan, which covers most of the south coast of Manus, two in the Milne Bay district, and one in Port Moresby.

Mr. Fienburg says discussions are under way to expand the Hanuabada Council (Port Moresby) into an area organisation for Local Government by natives in the whole Port Moresby area.

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On Tuesday, November 13, he will fly to Bulolo and Lae, and on that afternoon to Rabaul.

The Duke will stay in Rabaul until about mid-day on Wednesday, November 14, and then leave on the Royal yacht for Darwin.

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The Milne Bay District Advisory Council dealt with two critical questions affecting public health at its meeting in April.

At a suggestion of Mr. A. Beavis and Mr. R. Donaldson, the council informed the District Medical Officer that supervision and treatment in the Grisela Hansenide Colony had deteriorated since the removal of the permanent Medical Officer. A new permanent officer was asked for, and it was urged that the Commonwealth Government send a specialist to inspect the Colony.

Some speakers said that inmates of the Hansenide Colony vtsit Samarai for shopping without supervision at week-ends.

At Mr. Donaldson’s suggestion also, the Council protested to the District Commissioner against the scale of dental charges.

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£2O Fine For Overcharging

The first case of overcharging for a considerable time came before the District Court in Port Moresby in April.

A Chinese trader, Luk Poi Woy, was fined £2O for selling rice at 3d a pound more than the ruling price of 1/- a pound. He pleaded guilty.

Later, outside the Court, the Prices Controller, Mr. H. H. Reeve (who is also P-NG Treasurer), said his office was closely watching the observance by traders of the prices fixed for various commodities—particularly on sales to native peoples.

Most Moresby residents echo: “It’s about time, too.” The whole question of prices in the Territory cries out for investigation, Some traders seem to believe that th £ y ° an chaT % e an y P rice Public vail stand. After all, they seem to argue, the natives will pay anything and they certainly would never think to complain to the Prices Branch, which really exists only in name.

Mr. Reeve himself admitted before the Public Service Arbitrator when he was in Port Moresby that his Branch was not very effective.

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Reeve had to live on a similar A photograph taken after the wedding David Thomsen and Miss Aafke Fokkema and, at the Ela Church, Port Moresby, [?] 3. The young couple met when Mr. was visiting Holland during a tour [?] pe. The bride was given away by her Mr. Arne Fokkema, an engineer in for some time now. [?] A photograph taken after the on April 14, at the Roman Catholic Port Moresby, of Mr. Allingham and oner.

Photos: Papuan Prints. 111 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1956

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NAUTICAL 'he members of the Lae Town nsory Council, at their April jting agreed that those streets in which are now distinguished by nbers should remain so. [embers also adopted a suggesi to tack the word “West” onto currently-named 6th, Bth and Streets. he council gave to Service Road new name of Central Avenue; “V” street is to be known as imaua Crescent. was also agreed that streets he wharf area of Lae should conic to have “M” names, but that r be renamed after various nds ships. The suggested names J Mubo, Meikalong (??), Maci, Maiwara, Mindini, Matunga, igola and Morinda.

Jilding Boom In Rabaul

itween early 1953, when the postreconstruction programme for aul first got under way, and the of March, 1956, the Commonth Department of Works had ed buildings to the approximate 3 of £900,000 in the town area, as does not take into account minor works under £l,OOO and repairs and maintenance.

The Regional Works Officer at Rabaul, Mr. A. O. Davis, said this week that these buildings were erected by both direct labour and contract labour for various departments and the Department of Works’ own use. The main client Departments in Rabaul were External Territories, Interior, Copra Marketing Board, Overseas Telecommunications and Civil Aviation, Public works to the value of £84,000 were in hand in Rabaul by the end of March, and a start would probably be made soon on the Nonga Native Hospital.

Caring For The Aged

The Town Advisory Council at Lae has asked the Administration to consider setting up an Old-Age and Invalid Pension system for Europeans, Asians and non-native residents, subject to the rise and fall of similar pensions in Australia.

Mrs. E. Pollard told the council that one old man in poor circumstances was being kept in hospital by the kindness of the Medical officer.

The Deputy-Chairman, Mr. G.

Whittaker, said he felt that funds should be collected to establish for them a home at Kainantu, Eastern Highlands, where they could have cattle and help grow fruit and do gardening. Then the Administration could be asked to subsidise the idea pound for pound.

Mr. Whittaker added: “We can find thousands of pounds to send to Australia for any distress or calamity there, yet we seem unable to do anything for the incapacitated people of our own Territory.”

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Govt. Bus Line—No Takers

The Administration in still looking for some private enterprise which will take over the bus transport system it has operated for several years for Port Moresby’s 16,000 people.

An earlier call for tenders produced nothing satisfactory.

The Administration’s ten buses are now carrying more than half a million passengers a year. The number of persons carried in January, 1956 (44,000) was just twice the number carried in January, 1955.

Papuans, who represent only twothirds of the population of Port Moresby, are providing most of the passenger revenue.

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Mr. Hasluck added that the views of the Association had been noted and “the way was always open for the Association to convey to him any opinions it might have on the matter.”

In a letter to the President of the PSA, Mr. R. Brennan, the Minister said that following the recent decision of the Public Service Arbitrator, he believed the need existec for a complete review of the basis used in determining Public Servlet salaries.

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Mercy Flights

ree separate flights were made lints along the Papuan coast on 18 to return four sick or inl people to hospital in Port sby.

Santas Beaver aircraft brought i APC rigger who was injured ipril 17 when a tractor overid on him at Kuru; and APC’s lina later picked up a native also was injured the previous in a motor accident at Bara- . A second native was killed in iccident which occurred when ck ran off a road and careered a cliff-face. >n after landing at Port sby, the Catalina took off again for Yule Island and picked up two Europeans—a man and a woman.

The Catalina was in the air five hours on its two mercy flights.

Local Native Enterprise

An enterprising group of natives in the Boana area of the Morobe (Continued on Page 133) Recent Port Moresby weddings included that of Mr. and Mrs. K. Cullen (left) at Ela Church on April 7. (Bride was formerly Miss J. Mclntyre). And (right), that of Mr. and Mrs. Max Kaboth, also at Ela Church on March 27. (Bride was formerly Miss Gwenda Thomsen). —Photos by Papuan Prints.

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LAM S UOfykplf/Mqm VMS DUPLICATOR CO. (Sydney) PTY 52 Margaret St., Sydney. Tel.; BX 1998. ixaus/ve xpamb LTD itures had been financially uncessful. He had been unable to the Joyita with the owner’s hority at a comparatively high je. The charter, with a fair incial profit, offered some way of his difficulties and a chance ffear his debts and to return to lolulu. He was therefore exnely anxious that the charter one or two trips to the Tokelaus aid be successfully completed, tiller was also aware that he had license to carry passengers. A dition of the charter by Dr. mala to Miller was that there aid be no sub-charter to other i US citizens without the con- ; of the US Maritime Adminision, so the sub-charter to E. A. on & Co. Ltd. was therefore :al and rendered Miller liable to re penalties on his return to US sdiction. le question as to whether any onsibility lies at the door of the I authorities in Western Samoa not so easy to answer, le Harbourmaster of Apia, Cap- J. W. Jones, had doubts as to ther the ship was well found and fully equipped for the voyage and made enquiries from Miller on the points as to which he felt doubtful. Captain Jones had no legal means by which he could test the truthfulness of Captain Miller’s statements. Therefore, the Commission was unable to place any responsibility for omission or breach of duty on Captain Jones.

Mr. Pearless might have made it a condition of the negotiations for the charter that the vessel should be examined by a competent authority—in this case the Harbourmaster—but he was very anxious that nothing should stand in the way of the charter and was probably convinced from his own experience of one month’s voyage that the vessel was in all respects satisfactory. This conclusion is supported by the fact that Pearless himself was to be one of the passengers.

The burden of personal responsibility thus falls almost entirely on Captain Miller, whose anxiety that there should be no hitch or delay in the carrying out of the charter led him consciously to deceive the shore authorities.

The Commission was satisfied that all possible steps were taken by airsearch to locate and assist the missing vessel. The lack of success of the air search was not in any sense due to faulty organisation or to lack of service and attention by the air crews, but to the fact that the Joyita was barely afloat and would make an extremely small target either for radar or for detection by the human eye.

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NAME ADDRESS LP.I.M. _ DM V 21.84 clearly on the radar screen from a distance of 20 miles, whereas no image of Joyita appeared even when the aircraft had approached within an extremely short distance of the two vessels. The Joyita, as a woodenhulled vessel, would not respond sc sharply on radar as a metal-hulled vessel.

At the conclusion of its report, the Commission refers to the questior of the degree of control which, undei existing legislation can be exercised over ships leaving Apia for ports overseas. The only shipping law ir force in Western Samoa is the Pori Control Ordinance 1932, which makes provision for the survey and inspect tion of inter-island trade ships (owned in Western Samoa) and home trade ships of Western Samos as to sea-worthiness, certification ol Masters and Engineers, and lifesaving appliances but provides nc powers in respect of overseas ships which arrive in Samoa from outside the territorial limits of Samoa.

The International Convention fo] the safety of life at sea has nevei been applied to Western Samoa. Ir any event Joyita, because of he] small size and limited purposes would have been exempt from the provisions of the Safety Convention There is no provision for withholding the clearance of an overseas ship on the ground, for instance, that the life-saving equipment is inadequate, or that ar efficient radio transmitting set ii not carried. The Commission therefore stressed the desirability of initiating legislation with a view tc achieving a greater measure of control over overseas vessels which proi pose to carry passengers fron Western Samoa to overseas ports. 1 JOYITA FOR SALE.

Joyita w as put up for sale in Suve in April. She is at the Public Works Department shipyard ir Suva. She is being offered on behalf of the owner, Dr. K. Luomala by the Suva legal firm of Wm. Scotl and Co.

The position with regard tc salvage rights has never been made clear. As a derelict, Joyita wa i found by the Gilbert and Ellice Islands ship Tuvalu, and later towee to Malau by the Fiji Government ship Degei.

Deutgan Floats Free

The ex-barge Deutgan, owned bj M. Marcel Marinacce, of Santo, Nev Hebrides, which was reported as “probably a total loss” at Port Resolution, Tanna, NH, was floated off on the equinoctial neap tide or March 21—apparently to the surprise of everyone, including the owner. A report from Vila states: Deutgan was almost lost on the night of March 13-14, when, despite the fact that she was riding to twe anchors and running both engines; she was driven by a sudden near- 118 M A Y , 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Fortunately, the weather subsided id the ship was left, almost dry at sv tide, in sheltered water.

A survey revealed that the ship is not holed and though several ates were badly buckled she was aking very little water. Both proffers were badly damaged. M. Maracce went to Vila during the first arter of the moon and before he ;urned to Tanna for the fuff moon les of the 26th, he learned, to his rprise, that the ship had been ated off on the 21st.

Darnley was chartered to tow utgan, with one screw turning at iuced speed, to Vila, where the o ships arrived on the afternoon March 25.

Rocinante Homeward

BOUND rhe New Hebrides Condominium >sel Rocinante, which made ivspaper headlines in Australia in e February, when she lost : position off the New South lies coast in heavy gales, t Newcastle in the second week April, bound for home. rhe Rocinante, of 48 ft 1.0. a., was It last year by Wynne S. Breden Pty. Ltd., of Newcastle, and went to NSW for minor repairs. While she was in the builder’s yard, she had a refrigerator fitted and additional bunk space put in.

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OCEANIA Reports from Papeete say that the motor-cutter Haupeeaterai, owned by F. Richmond, Jr., went on the reef on Rairoa Island on March 10.

It was not known whether she was a total loss or not.

A week later March 18 the schooner Florence C. Robinson dragged her anchor during a squall and drifted onto a shoal near Motu- Uta. Papeete’s Port Captain Bailly, assisted by Captain Louis Carlton, pilot at Papeete, succeeded in getting her off.

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Spick-and-span and much befiagged, the new Sacred Heart Mission vessel for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands was, on April 12, at Bjarne Halvorsen’s shipyard, Sydney, christened Santa Teretia II by Mrs. McKenna, wife of Australian Senator McKenna, and blessed by the Most Rev. R. Carboni, Australasian Apostolic Delegate.

Speakers at this pleasant ceremony included the Lord Mayor of Sydney and the Consul-General for France. (Continued on Page 121)

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TRADE Another order for a cargopassenger motor ship has been placed in the United Kingdom by the British Phosphate Commissioners, Melbourne.

The new vessel, to be built at Harland and Wolff’s Clyde yard, will be similar to the Triaster, completed at the same yard for the same owners last October. The Triaster was of 12,000 tons deadweight. The new ship is to be named Tri Ellis, after the late Sir Albert Ellis, described as the “Father” of the Pacific phosphate industry. She will carry phosphate from Nauru and Ocean Islands to Australia and New Zealand.

She is intended for delivery at the end of 1958. (Over) Left: The "Sirius" on the reef at Kar Kar Is. and, right, after she had been pulled clear. (See letterpress, page 122.) 121 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1956

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Recently sold to Gallois et C Papeete, the old Mitiaro (named one of the Cook Islands) will en the Tuamotus trade as a feed ship collecting copra from sir islands.

Mitiaro has been owned by Eti lissements Donald Tahiti for past 30 years and the price at wh she changed hands is said to 750,000 Pacific francs (somewh around £5,000 Australian).

Meklong Saves Sirius

Time marches on, and catches with most of us in due course. He ever, when PIM received some C( this month in the form of a ta] recording, the editor was not mi pleased and cursed loudly while tape-recorder was dragged in by ( train and taxi from a remote ou suburb in order to find out wl mysteries the tape concealed.

Thereafter, of course, considera entertainment was had by the enl staff —albeit not a little toil by company’s most competent st ographer.

The recording was an on-the-s one made by Captain Laurie Thon of MV Meklong, in early Ap while he was in process of salv; ing MV Sirius from a reef off I Kar Island, which is about 25 m: from Madang, New Guinea.

Sirius was blown onto the r in a gale on April 2, after dragg both anchors; the Josey tried pull her off but gave up the atten on April 4.

On the morning of that day, Ci tain J. H. Evans, Madang Harbo master, flew over Sirius with Ci tain Thomas to decide whet!

Meklong could, with safety, get i; position between the outside £ inside reefs off Kar Kar.

Captain Thomas found when arrived at the scene, that he had little space to manoeuvre that wl the tow-line was secured with s ficient length to keep the stern Meklong clear of the reef, the t was only 40 ft off the reef on other side of the opening.

A strong current was running £ getting the heavy wires and ro across from Meklong to Sirius ( tailed hours of laborious toil. Matt were not improved by the roi coral bottom which fouled wires Sirius was sitting in a large h in the reef, which she had dug herself in the four days that , had been sitting there. Nothing i to be achieved by steady pulli but by making runs at the rc the vessel had been moved at end of the first day two or th feet. Then the wires carried aw Op the second day, after wi had again been got on Sirius w great difficulty, and more trou with the coral bottom, the vessel \ pulled out of her hole and even 122 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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The boys are cheering madly, the "Sirius" is moving! All the people on board are madly waving and cheering—you have no idea what a scene it is. The wire is as tight as it can be and now the ship is sliding off the reef—she is sliding into the water!

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That, of course, is not the end of the operation—as the Captain says, there was quite a lot of cleaning up to be done before Sirius could be taken in tow for Madang—someing like 2,000 feet of wire lying around, and gear everywhere. Sirius had to be brought up close to Meklong and a jury rudder rigged. Her 123 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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Cre ,i dlt ' S due t 0 the excellent c °"Vf nt radl ° . communication provided with "them and been a e "big ... . B p ‘ this manoeuvring for hours and hours )ut the ("Meklong") engine room temire up to 139 deg. and much credit ! fnr d ?t a „ t H°:„n th % Chief n 9 inear . and bis for standing down and working under conditions—l won't say without a word implaint. He would ring up every 10 es and complain bitterly about the heat want to know when we were going to so that he could come up and get some air. But then again, he wouldn't be an ler unless he was complaining all the Id finniiv hoe o ” SrHA y ’ has 5 w , ords wlth ff, who, we understand, is Capt.

G. Griffiths, owner of Sirius. The conversation; Captain Thomas: Now what do you think about the vessel being afloat again, Geoff.

Does she look any better than she does when she is sitting up on a coral reef?

Geoff: She looks very much better. I must say that the scenery around is much improved by the lack of the "Sirius" on a coral reef —she looks much better floating at sea without the waves breaking over her.

Capt.: And does she appear to be damaged to any extent? Is she making water at all?

Or is the damage mostly superficial with the loss of the rudder and a few pieces of copper?

Geoff: The damage appears to be superficial except for the loss of quite a lot of copper and the rudder. The rest of the hull seems to be intact and she is not making much water.

Capt.: After this experience, Geoff, do you think you are going to continue in the shipping business? Or are you going to buy a farm in Central Australia or settle down to a nice quiet life in the mountains?

Geoff (very firmly): I think I'll stick to the shipping business. I had a farm once and it's worse.

NB. Meklong was herself rescued from a New Britain reef by Capt.

J. H. Evans, in April, 1954.

New Navigation Lights In

TAHITI A new navigation light at Point Venus, Tahiti, was to come into operation about April 10. The old fixed white light has been replaced by an intermittant light (five seconds). The position of this light 125 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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About April 20, new lead lights were to come into operation in the Grand Pass into Papeete—the two fixed red lights were to be replaced by a red upper light and a white lower light which will be synchronised to shine for three seconds and to be in eclipse for 1 second.

The two fixed red 87 deg. lights in the inner port have been replaced by two fixed green lights.

TARAWA FREQUENCY-

Thickening Plot

The paragraph which appeared in the February PIM concerning the new local frequency for Gilbert and Ellice Islands smallships has produced some confusion. The old frequency was 6280 kc/s, and we stated that it was to be changed, from February 1, to 4104.4 kc/s —or rather that Tarawa Radio-VSZ would listen on 4104.4 and reply on 4413.8.

The whole matter recently did some rebounding in Sydney when Pan Pacific Service were asked to organise the radio equipment on the new mission ship S. Teretia.

This they did through Amalgamated Wireless, one crystal being ground for the 4104.4 kc/s frequency. Then a message was received from the Mission in Tarawa —the crystal was to be 4108.4. AWA was somehow able to get confirmation of this in Sydney—but when PIM tried, a fruitless hour was spent being passed from one person to another.

Finally OTC courteously suggested that they “speak to Suva” abc it.

After an hour or so, back cai the information—Tarawa listens 6280 kc/s; replies on 4413 kc/s. j So it still seems to be anyon 126 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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CO° K IS.: United Island Traders . . . TONGA: P. Bhagwan PAPUA’an NEW GUINEA: Robert Gillespie (New Guinea). Ltd. No .s—although ours is that the don is right. le original paragraph was ten by Mr. Jim Shortall, who not usually make mistakes of sort. Mr. Shortall at present round Manihiki, in the Cooks, too far away for a “please exi.” All we can suggest is that was wrong, as seems likely, and ic Mission ever catches up with they extract from him the price lat 4104.4 crystal,

/Essel In Two Days Drift

New Guinea coastal vessel, the na Maris, owned by the Rai t Trading Company of Madang, towed into Wewak early April ter drifting for almost two days he Sepik coast. ortly after rounding Wewak b, at 5 p.m., April 14, the Regina s’ engine broke down. Three its were then fired from the but were not seen on shore. ;er drifting all night, the native sighted the MV Meklong on vay to Wewak and again fired imber of rockets, which also unnoticed, rly on Saturday morning, the 1 was drifting off Keul Island several crew members decided w to the mainland in a dinghy, i they reached 12 hours later from there walked to Wewak sported the matter to the Dis- Officer. 3 Administration vessel Thetis Vewak five hours later, located \egina Maris, which had drifted towards Cape Terebu and towed >ack to Wewak.

Htsman-Ham At Canton

Dannie Weil, a radio Ham, as as a cruising yachtsman, has ed Canton Island in his sloop e. s indicated in a letter written n from Canton early April that tends to stay some time—he is ashore with another Ham. il was previously in Tahiti, : he made many friends. He from Papeete to Canton in i.

R Nspire May Be Sold

• converted Brixham trawler 'e, which has been engaged in ig in the Cook Islands for il years, is reported in Auckfor refit. is understood that Skipper Williams has put Inspire up lie and that “someone in the Islands” is interested.

I Cific Star —Another

MISHAP ex-landing craft Pacific Star, 'esuming normal trading activn the New Hebrides following ebruary experience, when she erself in the Coral Sea (PIM, i), was reported stranded on 8.

Point of stranding was mouth of the South River, Erromanga Is., NH.

It is feared that the prevailing easterly winds in that area will make salvage operations difficult.

Pacific Star had on board a cargo of Islands produce.

A Copra-Scow For

“STEAMIES”

In May, Bjarne Halvorsen Ltd. was completing at the company’s Berry’s Bay establishment in North Sydney, another of their popular 56ft copra scows for Steamships Trading Company, Port Moersby.

The scow will be powered by a Gardner diesel engine.

Delivery is expected to be made about July, but it is not yet decided who will do the job.

Bitten By Dead Shark

A Japanese crewman, Takao Otiai, 19, of the Jap fishing vessel Shoichi Maru No. 11, lost a hand in a strange accident north of Eastern Samoa in March. He was helping to haul in a regular catch 500 miles north of Pago with fellow crew members, when a six-foot shark came on board, was disembowelled and pre- 127 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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Cables: ROBERGILL 54a Pitt Street, Sydney G.P.O. Box 7011 med dead. Otiai placed his right nd between the shark’s jaws and ;y closed on same. Luckily, his sp knife was in his hand and the ,de lay flat along the inner side his arm to give some protection; svever, the razor-sharp teeth of ; monster slashed into the unitected upper arm. r irst-aid of a crude sort was en and permission received by eless to enter Pago Pago. Three /s later a nearly dead seaman ived for transfusions and fast gical attention. Gangrenous intion, however, set in and the it hand had to be amputated, leaman Otiai know knows that n a dead shark is still a bad rk.

Uising Yachts Gather In

PAPEETE apeete, mecca of all worldlling yachtsmen, has had a numof visitors recently, he 41-ft yawl Diana arrived re on March 7 and sailed for v Zealand via Fiji early April, ner-skipper is N. E. Young, with C. Palmer and F. C. Woodhouse irew. iana was built in Falmouth in 1 and arrived at Papeete via raltar, W. Indies, Panama, Galaos. She left Falmouth in June, L (Arrived Suva late April), he 25-ft sloop Jellicle, also on /oyage from the UK to NZ, ved in Papeete on April 3. R .M.

Bailes is owner-skipper. The vessel has no engine. Its home port is Plymouth and ports of call have been Vigo, Antigua, Panama and Nukuhiva.

Argentinian sloop Zonda 111 arrived Papeete, April 12 from Buenos Aires via Rio, Recife, Port of Spain, St. Vincent, Panama Canal, Galapagos, Marquesas and Tuamotus. Owner-skipper Hilary Chiswell has as crew Carlos M.

Paiva. Length is 33 ft and it is auxiliary powered by a 4-hp Stuart engine. Destination is said to be “round the world to Buenos Aires.”

Girl Isabel arrived April 5 on her way to New Zealand from Belfast via Madeira, Las Palmas, St. Lucia, Colon, Guayquil and Nukuhiva.

Girl Isabel has a length of 48 a Kelvin engine, a crew of four.

SinmM' D ° nald iS owner; J • Evans _ ’

The Arakarimoa Inquiry

A Commission of Inquiry on the AK Arakarimoa met in Honiara BSIP, on April 4. The Judicial Commissioner, BSIP, was chairman of the Commission, and the Marine Superintendent, Mr. J. W. Morris, and Mr. D. M. Thorsen, of the Marine Department, other Commissioners for the Inquiry, The Commission had to inquire into the circumstances in which the AK Arakarimoa left her course while on passage from Tarawa to Maiana and finally went aground 129 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1956

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BLUNDELL on Poole (or Sagalu) Reef, near?

Lauvi Point on the weather coast? of Guadalcanal; and whether the loss of the Arakarimoa and the deaths of those who did not survive were due to neglect on the part oft any person or persons.

The first few days disclosed nothing of any significance which had not already been recounted by the Master (Captain E. Hugill) and the other survivors on reaching Honiara. The real point of the Inquiry was to ascertain whether Arakarimoa was unseaworthy when she left Tarawa for the 20-mile voyage to Maiana and, if so, why and by whom she was permitted to sail, and it appears that these question will have to be answered at the Tarawa end.

Kon Tiki In Reverse

New entrants in the raft-drifting business are at present busy in Papeete constructing a platform of bamboo and native wood for a drift from there to Chile and back again?

This drift is supposed to be going to prove that Polynesians firs'; migrated to South America abou; 500 AD.

In command of the drift will be Eric de Bischoff; Roland d’Assignie? and Jean Bres will also be on board: with the present first mate o< Oiseau des lies, M. Brun, and M. F Francis Cowan as crew.

Our Papeete correspondent say; l that they expect to “make a lot o< money” out of the venture and thaj radio and TV interests are already assisting.

Roland d’Assignies, who is a local radio operator, left Papeete in thu Tahitien in mid-March for France where it is believed he will line uj. further publicity. The raft will b< called Tahiti Nui.

De Bischoff has never done an;i raft-drifting before but he has ha*, experience of other odd craft. If the mid-thirties he sailed a canot from Hongkong to the Frencl Riviera and later traded in thf Pacific with the junk Cheng Ho

Arthur Rogers Makes

MONEY The March issue of privately cin culated log of the Seven Seas Cruise ing Assn. (PO Box 163, Coronado California, USA) has been received Amongst many interesting letter, from cruising yachtsmen is one fror: Tom and Diana Hepworth, o Arthur Rogers, still in New HefcJ ridean waters.

In the Hebrides, AR has, of cours* temporarily left off being a cruisinr yacht, and has been doing a job o work. The owners state in then letter to other members of the Assit; that in their first three months o NH trading they took in nearl £A2,000.

They also record that Tom ha owned AR for 17 years and that hi and Diana have now lived aboan for 9 of them. They had intendes MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL 130

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BOX 512 G.P.O. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA ‘lling the vessel but “are now Fanuary) not so anxious to sell.”

Nz Cutter For Tahiti

PLEASURE The former New Zealand cutter 2 Paloma was sold recently by Mr. . Lambert to Mr. Marc Darnois, of ipeete, for 100,000 Pacific fcs. srnois will use it as a pleasure aft.

Jk Yacht Visits American

SAMOA The 45-ft yacht Tzu Hang, of mdon, arrived in Pago Pago, nerican Samoa, April 20. On board ;re owner W. R. Smeeton, retired itish Army officer, his wife Beryle ice and 15-year-old daughter Clio, le Tzu Hang’s last port of call s Fanning Island. Owner Smeeton ited that the ship would remain in go Pago a week and then proceed Tonga. rhe ship has a lli-ft beam, sevendraft, displacement of 15 tons d gross tonnage of 20.

The Geboso Story

tfore details of the Australasian troleum Co.’s steel-landing craft boso (spelled Koboso in April VI) have been received. she overturned in the Gulf of pua early in the morning of ril 5, and has been lost. Her Dper, Captain Hammerstrand, and other members of her crew had harrowing experience in a lifet for nine hours before they were sued. it 6.10 a.m., Captain Hammarmd radioed that the Geboso had eloped a 45 deg. list. He gave position as 32 miles south-east Cape Blackwood. ’hen the APC vessels Gimada, mli, Kibeni and Dobira were detched to the rescue. The Geboso I been bound for the Company’s ;ion at Middletown on the them side of the Gulf laden ti heavy equipment, and it was lised that her situation was istrous.

Beaver aircraft despatched n the Company’s base at Middlen, had sighted the Geboso floatupside down about 36 miles fch-east of Cape Blackwood at 11 . and, in a lifeboat in the vicinity, r Europeans and a number of ives were huddled together.

Within an hour, an APC Catalina n Port Moresby was flying cover the lone lifeboat, which tossed ut in the heavy sea. It found the re shipwrecked personnel of 16 safe, and took them aboard.

Mother Mishap Off Kar

KAR he MV Henrietta, owned by erprise of New Guinea Ltd., was Dated on April 26 after 35 days a reef on the south-west corner £ar Kar Island, in the Madang be vessel went aground while ying an injured native to hos- -1 from Bam Island.

Early attempts by the motorvessels Morna and Koro failed to refloat her although at one stage She had only six feet of her hull on the reef.

She was pulled free at high tide (April 26) by the Lutheran Mission vessel Simbang and the MV Josey.

Pim Contributor Wins

LAW AWARD A FORMER Suva girl, Miss Dorothy Weaver, who is studying law at Melbourne University, has been awarded the Supreme Court Exhibition for Constitutional Law—a prize awarded for the person who scores top marks in the class of any one year. Miss Weaver passed with honours.

A cheque of £l5 goes with the award—and is treasured by Miss Weaver more for the fact that it is signed by Victoria’s Chief Justice, Sir Edmund Herring, than for its value.

Miss Weaver has contributed several stories to PlM—the last a few months ago when she was “nostalgic for hurricanes.” (PIM, Feb., page 79).

She is an ex-pupil of Suva Girls’

Grammar School; her mother still lives in Suva. 131 CInC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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Cars and Trucks BAYER Medicines Olympia Typewriters—NSU Motor Cycles—Continental Tyres and Tubes—Hohner Mouth Organs and Accordeons—Brewo Power Bikes —Bosch Electrical Products—Telefunken Radios, etc. Rolleiflex and Rolleicord Cameras Petromax Pressure Lamps Feuerhand Hurricane Lanterns—“ Two Lions” Butcher Knives—Becks’ Beer—BREWO Canned Fish—Trade Beads—Cotton Piecegoods—Copra Sacks—Mosquito Nets and Blankets for native issue—BßEWO Brand Perlon Fishing Lines—BßEWO Brand Briar Tobacco Pipes and a variety of other trade goods. ,rict has gone into the bakery mess and is now selling bread ocal native people, he new industry was discovered a recent patrol by Cadet Patrol cer Green who, after sampling bread a number of times rated s “excellent.” 11 the flour and other ingredients going into the Boana area by owever, about the same time the ;rict Officer at Lae was asked to ;stigate complaints by motorists t natives of one village on the -Wau road area have been placlarge rocks in the local creek- —and making quite a profit out t. btorists complained that their i became bogged in the creek, n afterwards the natives appeared helped pull the cars out of the r, nearly always receiving payit for their labours. This unusual 1 industry was not noticed until or two of the victims had been ;ht several times and no longer udered the situation accidental, icially when the same natives e along and helped. £12,000 PER BED rief details have been given in ; Moresby of the design of the >osed European Hospital at Port esby. The hospital will contain -52 beds and probably cost up to £600,000.

It is to be erected alongside the new native hospital on Taurama Road but is not likely to be ready for about two years.

The hospital will have two operating theatres, pathological and Xray sections, an administration block, and an out-patients section.

Separate quarters will accommodate 26 nurses.

Menyamya Natives Get

Three Years For Tribal

KILLINGS Three Menyamya natives charged with murder were each sentenced to three years by Mr. Justice Gore (April 23) at sittings of the Supreme Court in Lae.

This is the result of three months active patrol in the Menyamya area.

ADO Chester is still investigating and recently arrested another three natives believed to be implicated in the murders, which started with the death of a woman and snowballed into an inter-village vendetta.

Anzac Day Observed

Large numbers of native exservicemen marched with European ex-servicemen at Anzac ceremonies throughout Papua-New Guinea this year.

Wearing their service ribbons, they were there at the dawn services, at the marches and at the various ceremonies which took place in the main centres and the smaller outposts.

Again, the impressive Anzac Day services started at the first light of dawn coloured the sky. Big crowds saw the dawn in at the War cemeteries at Bomana, in Port Moresby, Bitapaka (Rabaul), and Lae.

Later in the morning, several hundred returned men and one woman took part in a commemora- 133 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 195 6 ews Items from PNG (Continued from Page 115)

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tion service at the Memorial Gat in Port Moresby. The Chief Justic Sir Beaumont Phillips, took tl salute in place of the Administrate This Anzac Day picture was r peated throughout P-NG.

Appeal Dismissed

An appeal by Adolf Wilhel Kammach, of Lae, against tl severity of a sentence imposed < him in March this year was di missed by Mr. Justice Gore at rece: sittings of the Supreme Court Lae.

Kammach was sentenced to s months light labour for sellii liquor to natives.

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Police on night patrol now stc all Fijian women—unless marri( and accompanied by their husbam —seen in the streets after midnigh They take their names, and wai them that if they are seen out agai after midnight they will be sei back to their villages!

This is not being done under ar general ordinance but under tl native ordinances. Many nath girls come to Suva and give the occupation as domestic servants, bi of some of them it could be sal that they toil not, neither do the spin. They are generally know around the town as “six-fo-six girls They roam the streets or frequeu kava saloons from 6 pm to 6 am.

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She spoke on social and health problems, particularly infant welfare, in a way that showed a keen awareness of the position. She mentioned the old custom, common in many territories of the mother chewing taro and then placing it In the infant’s mouth, and stressed the P eec t, * or more nutritious food. She kee £ly supported a proposal that workers working outside their place of origin be given a family allowance.

Then there was Miss Hildegarde Naime, from Papua. Miss Hildegarde was very a i er t. she has a small, p iq Uan t f a ce, full of brightness and intelligence. Her hair was limed, anc j a i moS |; ma tched the canarycoloured jumper she wore, Apparently Miss Hildegarde regarded Fiji as a temperate zone, in comparison with New Guinea, She was a nurse and midwife and is at present in charge of a Health Department Clinic at Hanuabada, near Moresby, serving over 2,500 people, and lecturer on child care at the Training Hospital and in Hanuabada schools, The keen interest shown by the women delegates emphasises once again that you cannot raise a race by raising the men alone. If more and more women are educated up to the standard shown by these women they will make their influence felt among their own menfolk, and with the Administrations.

This could be one of the healthiest signs of progress the Commission has shown since its inception.

The primary weakness of the Commission in its inability to implement decisions was perhaps 137 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956 South Pacific Conference (Continued from Page 25)

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Concluding Sessions Reference of the Conference bi ness to the two standing cc mittees—an innovation—proved success, according to observers.! freer atmosphere in the sma meetings, away from the ov sight by a European chairman, i visers and experts of the cc mission, was quite evident.

In previous conferences ev speech made was a set speech. 4 ' this conference, observers had unique experience of the Island cross-questioning each other, se ing and giving information by ari ment and example.

The Conference passed thir three resolutions on the three m subjects of economic developm< social development and health.

This is considerably less than] number of resolutions at the pre ous two conferences; and the resd tions generally have much m substance to them.

Face to Face!

An interesting item on the ager was a formal meeeting between J Conference and the CommisS (which later held its 15th sess in Fiji).

At previous conferences, the Co mission opened a session after j Conference closed, but received; report in the presence of delegat little more than a courtesy.

This time the item “Discussii between the Conference and I Commission” was a part of ] agenda.

Thus, the representatives of 1 six metropolitan governments tl form the South Pacific Commissi (Australia, France, New Zealand, : Netherlands, the United Kingd and the United States of Amerit came face to face in the Conferei hall with the delegates from the South Pacific territories that thi governments administer.

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There were possibilities about I but all passed off quietly.

Levelt, the Senior Commissioner the Netherlands, presided at j opening session of the CommissU then Sir Ronald Garvey, chairmi called the Conference into plem meeting and said, “Let battle begii Battle was brief, and bloodless., few questions were asked. TE were answered by the technic experts of the Commission Sec:: 138 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH Li

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Suggestions have been made that the fourth conference be held at one three places: Rabaul, in Western Samoa, or in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

They Want to Stand On Their Own Feet By ROBERT C. MILLER, United Press Staff Correspondent.

JE of the surprises at the Conference was how Pacific Islanders renounced Santa ns. he delegates representing more i 3,000,000 people in the South ific made it bluntly plain that r have outgrown the “spoonling” era of paternal governit by the six nations linistering them, he Dutch New Guinea delegaat Suva mirrored the ctically unanimous feelings of the delegates by emphasising that co-operatives should be established among the peoples of the Pacific Islands, but without financing by the administering governments. Radji Ibrahim Bauw, the Radja of Roembati, a 36-yearold Moslem father of seven children, agreed that co-operatives were needed to help bolster the economies of the Islands, but insisted they be developed and administered by the people and not the governments.

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Iren. We don’t want any more bis Santa Claus treatment. We t to be stimulated to work for elves, calling on the government if help is realy needed.” ; the wirely little delegate ;e, there were vigorous nods of •oval from the rest of the erence members, anea Tamarua then spoke up jehalf of the Cook Islanders, will pay back with interest money we borrow to organise start our co-operatives,” he ted, emphasising his remarks ounding on the table, le outbursts came as no rise to the members of the lation South Pacific Cornion, who said the discussions ! typical of the “stand on our feet” attitude of delegates, rtainly no group of individuals sat down together with a ter awareness of the responses they faced, and the ner in which they tackled their nunity problems was the most ing thing of the conference, my of the delegates were only v years removed from the most itive of jungle life; they had wage difficulties; they lacked the polished oratory to express themselves and their ideas; there was none of the skilled phraselogy at Nasinu that one hears at the United Nations and none of the plush surroundings that the UN claims are so necessary for its attempted diplomacy.

But there was statesmanship at Nasinu in abundance, along with that rarest of rare combinations, honesty and sincerity mixed up with good old commonsense. It was unfortunate that the Trust Territories Committee of the UN (now touring Paci fi c Trust Territories), couldn’t have attended a few sessions of the South Pacific Conference. Even more unfortunate that the entire UN coudn’t have gone to Nasinu and watched how the little people produce democracy with single syllable words that sometimes come out in Pidgin and mixed up a bit grammatically, but which originate in the heart, not the head. t A village in Dutch New Guinea went a-feuding in April and murdered 29 people in a neighbouring village. Government patrols are investigating.

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He was born in England in 1900, retired from the post of Senior Agricultural Officer in Nyasaland in 1951, after having acted as Deputy Director of Agriculture for varying periods between 1945 and 1949 and as Director of Agriculture in 1949.

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Mr. Victor Mune

Mr. Victor Mune, well-known Suva and in the Rewa district, di in Suva on April 11, at 75.

Born in Queensland he went wi his parents at a very early age Fiji, where his father was esta lishing a sugar mill at Koroniv After leaving school he joined t Colonial Sugar Refining C remaining with the Company ] many years as an overseer, la: taking up a banana plantation the Rewa River.

Later still he joined the Put Works Department and v engaged on the construction of t Queen’s Road and other roads Viti Levu.

Mr. Mune took a keen and acti interest in the affairs of t Colony, and was an authority ; the early days of Fiji, and Fijian and Indian life, havi a very deep knowledge of t customs and languages of be races.

He is survived by his wi (formerly a Miss Coward), s David, and daughter, Marjorie. ]

Van Der Broek D’Obreni

The death occurred in Tahiti March 13 of Mr. van der Broek Obrenan, 46. He was born France but was of Belgian parei age; he had lived in Tahiti J many years and was, at one tin president of the Synducat Iniative (the local tourist agenc; He had a beautiful property ne Papeete, at the top of Haapa Hill, in the grounds of which was buried.

He is survived by his wife— English girl.

Mr. John Grant

Mr. John Grant, MBE, JP, w died at Suva on April 18 was well-known Indian resident Suva, and was for many yes closely connected with theatres a boxing and wrestling promotion.

He was proprietor of Grai Theatres, which operate the Li Theatre Suva, the Samabi Theatre, a few miles from Su and other theatres on Viti Le' As a boxing and wrestling promo he had much to do with t development of professional boxi in Fiji.

He had been in bad health 1 several years, but his death v unexpected.

His wife died in 1953 and his s Edward in 1954.

Mr. Grant was awarded the MI 10 years ago in recognition of work in raising money for patrio purposes during the war.

MR. W. A. FREEMAN A man who had a considera influence on the economic life 142 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTiII

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? death occurred in Papeete, ,i, on March 22, of Mr. John in. was a master mariner and lent of the Tarona Section of church of Latter Day Saints, as a member of a well-known i family.

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r . Brother Alphonsus-Mary, one of the best known maries in Fiji, died at the end >ril at the age of 91. rn near Maitland, NSW, Brother >nsus, then Archibald Pilson, his childhood on an outback He was educated at St. h’s College, Hunter’s Hill. In 1883, while still at school, he sd to devote his life to religion, became a Marist Brother, en volunteers were asked for in 1888, Brother Alphonsus d himself, was accepted, and the rest of his life in the iyconsecration in US New Samoa Bishop S consecration of the new latholic Bishop-elect of Samoa, he Rev. Father G. H. Pearce, s to be held in his home town, in, Massachusetts, USA, on 29, 1956. e consecration will be per- -2d at Holy Cross Cathedral by bishop Cushing of Boston, who ned Father Pearce as a priest 47..

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Left: A new Roman Catholic Mission was opened at Koki, just outside Port by, on April 21. Our photograph shows ost Rev. A. Sorin, RC Bishop from Yule Papua, speaking at the ceremony which marked the school's opening.— Photo by Papuan Prints.

At Right: The marriage of Miss Rose Kooleshevich, of Port Moresby, to Mr. Ric Guinan, of Muro Estate, Papua, was celebrated at the Catholic Mission chapel at Orokolo, on Easter Monday.

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The great annual Australian post-war tourist exodus is to the UK and the Continent and when most of these people have got this cut of their systems they may be prepared to think about the Pacific.

At the present time the average Australian thinks that if he has spent a couple of weeks on an island on the Great Barrier Reef he has seen everything a Pacifiic Island can offer.

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If The engagement has been an nounced of Miss Suzanne Liddle t Mr. Julian Pickrel, patrol officer, c Mendi, Southern Highlands, Papua 146 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!.

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It rs proposed thaf with the money realised from this sale to repay preference capital in full (T6/6 per share). A reorganisation of share structure will follow. It is not proposed to dispose of the company's assets in Australia —income-producing investments and bank credit balance. ...... , .

The reasons why the directors urged shareholders to sell were set out in a circular: • The estates deteriorated during enemy occupation and since the war this deterioration has continued due to the difficulty in obtaining labour and materials and regular sea trans- . p ;e , ,a.e? o i. sc t hr e Pr.;:c,”:: e Dama,e ' nsu,ance • The plantations are at present leased and if at the termination of the lease in three years time it was decided to rehabilitate the estates, and make necessary replacement of buildings and equipment with a view to the company operating again, it would be neC essary to call on shareholders for further P • In view of the almost lifeless market for the company's shares and the absence of any dividend on the ordinary shares over a number of years, it is felt that the required finance would not be forthcoming. « The securing of suitable local manageand the direction of operations from Australia presents a most difficult and costly problem. # The planted areas are grossly overgrown ?»■> r*'°: ■■ •» « Due to lack of labour for clearing, many of the trees need replacing because of age.

Businessmen Visit S-W Pacific D. M. Kameriing, governing-director of Agencies Pty., Ltd., Sydney manufacrepresentatives, who will visit all main [?] in Papua and New Guinea, and Honiara, [?]P, between May 16 and June 22.

Peter McGillivray, a member of the [?] tural Department of the newly-formed Chemical (Australia) Pty., Ltd., who will Papua, New Guinea, New Caledonia and [?] the next three months. The use of als in agriculture, cattle raising, forestry lantation activities will be among the examined by Mr. McGillivray during his He left Brisbane for Port Moresby on 23. 147 :iFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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DO 97 7 9 Travellers to Papua-New Guinea in April Copra Experts Visit Wester Samoa WHEN Mr. W. G. Johnson, managing-director of W. R. Carpenter (Fiji) Ltd., passed through Apia, Western Samoa, on the April Voyage of Tofua, he took the opportunity to discuss with the Samoan Government and the Copra Board certain matters affecting the future of the copra industry and shipping arrangements of interest to the Territory.

Mr. Johnson is a member of the Legislative Council of Fiji. He is also a Chairman of Directors of Island Industries Ltd., a Carpenter subsidiary, which operates a copra crushing mill in Suva.

Another visitor to Apia on the same Tofua was Mr. H. D. Howard, of Unilever Ltd., who is on a tour of investigation of the world’s copra producing countries. He is of opinion that the quality of Western Samoan copra could be greatly improved. He advocates the grading of copra into three grades with different price levels to encourage the production of better copra; and a more rigid system of inspection by the local authorities. —Apia Correspondent.

Among those who sailed on the "Malaita" on April 27 from Sydney were —LEFT: Mrs. J. [?]h, returning to Goroko, NG, after a world tour, with Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Johnco, who are [?]g back to Lae in May. RIGHT: The Rev. Westley Lutton and his wife with their three dren, Jan, Peter, and Linley. They are returning to Rabaul after leave, where he is chairof the Methodist Mission.

Sailing on the MV "Malaita" and MV "Tulagi" on April 27 from Sydney were (LEFT): and Mrs. Q. Crawford and their daughter Elizabeth returning after leave to Rabaul where Crawford is engineer-surveyor with the Customs and Marine branch. RIGHT: Mr. and Mrs.

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[?] tter to the Editor Visit of Mr. Howard of Unilever MEETING was held at the Hot L Springs Hotel, Nakama, Savu Savu, Fiji, on March 31, with 3 view of meeting Mr. H. D. ward, who, we were told, was a >resentative of Unilever, and the ;ernational Assn, of Seed Crushbanters came from all over the trict; it was the biggest meeting tave ever seen here. lr. Howard arrived by plane from venui, where he had been to meet nters; he was accompanied by . Lament, of the Department of riculture, Fiji. jLr G. H. Wilson, QBE, took the air and asked Mr. Howard to iress those present as to the why i wherefore of his visit. Mr. ward then proceeded to tell us about the poor quality copra had been producing over the ;t years. In fact, we were not iducing any good quality copra all and it was time we did someng about it. Mr. Howard then it on to tell us what sort of copra crushers required—that is, only ■e white, properly-dried, copra ild be bought, as they wanted it the making of their Lux soaps 1 other products; smoke dried or l dried would not do. The present ility was no good and the shers did not want it. everal of the planters spoke in ly, mentioning such things as thod of production, storage, shipg, etc. The discussion seemed to going round in circles and getl us nowhere. had been listening carefully for le time and during a lull in the ceedings I asked Mr. Howard if would oblige by answering a few stions; he said he would, so I the following, which he answered; Do the people you represent r any copra from Fiji?

Yes.

Have they been buying it durthe MOF Contract?

Yes.

I: And have they been paying high prices the MOF asked?

Yes.

Well,” I said, “they must have n satisfied with the copra or y’re a lot of fools.” then told Mr. Howard that I ught his trip out here was just iropaganda move and an excuse bringing the price of copra down I further, hinting out to Mr. Howard that ing the last two years the price copra has dropped 111 per cent, sked him if his firm or our local shers have made any reductions the prices of the products they ke, during that period.

Mr. Howard could not or would not answer that, and the meeting just fizzled out. Present quality is and has been used for years for the making of soaps, margarine, fancy or otherwise, and will still be used.

A lot of really first-grade copra is at present being produced here, but nobody bothers to separate it, and when shipped, it is all dumped in the ship’s hold with other lower grade stuff. The Government and Department of Agriculture of this Colony during the last 30 years have, to my knowledge, worked hard to get planters to make better quality copra and during that time there has been a big improvement.

I told Mr. Howard that his visit was a waste of his time, and ours, too. What do you think?

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Savu Savu, Fiji, April 15, 1956.

EDITORIAL NOTE: When Mr. Howard was in Sydney in March, after his visit to Papua and New Guinea, he was interviewed by PIM. Like Pacific planters, there were a number of questions about the future of copra which we should have liked Mr. Howard to answer. Mr. Howard, however, said that he was a technical officer and had no part in shaping the policy of the organisation which he represents nor could he state what part Unilever would play in the copra market after the MOF Contract expires at the end of 1957. We have no reason to disbelieve 151 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTH I, Y MAY. 1956

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RAfll P ATil'C DTV ITP Pitt Sydney, Australia If IVI Ki I* mm ll| tm I 111 LI !#• Cable Address “Rotunda”, Sydney. although Mr. Howard naturally will be ig a survey of the industry for his com- Price and other planters have every i to be concerned about the future of opra market after 1957 and they would mpletely unrealistic if they underestimated rer's part in it —neither war nor post-war npaired any of the thousand ramifications e great combine. rever, copra quality—which was what oncerning Mr. Howard —is another matter. first-class copra is produced in the : but there has also, in the past, been at deal of inferior copra. While there a sellers' market (that is, in the imte post-war years) inferior copra was ed but the copra market is now such fhe buyers are already calling the tune, gh British producers in the South Pacific rotected for the next 18 months. This so, it seems prudent for Pacific proto listen to any advice anyone can in raising the quality of the product, factor in the present and future market had not to be considered before the s the role played now by synthetics in hape of detergents or wetting agents ake the place of soap. There is scarcely isehold in the Western world where a ent is not now used for some task ly performed by soap. Consequently tends to become reserved for the finer soaps and for foods such as margarine ooking fats, and for these it is desiro have top quality copra.

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Bunting Ltd., Samarai, left ia for Australian leave early Singles Champions in Inter-Samoan Tennis Appeal by Samoan Murderer THE appeal of a Samoan carpenter, Moke Fuimaono Ta’ala, 29, against his conviction by the Apia High Court for the murder of the Samoan Police Constable, Failelei Lavasi’i, at Poutasi, Falealili on September 27, 1955, has been dismissed by the New Zealand Supreme Court. The Chief Justice (Sir Harold Barrowclough) commented that in spite of the able arguments submitted, none of the grounds of appeal had been established.

It is now intended to lodge a petition for reprieve of the death sentence, which is subject to the decision of the Governor-General of New Zealand, acting on the advice of his Executive Council.

Western and American Samoa resumed annual tennis matches over Easter holidays with the ladies of Western Samoa taking three doubles matches to retain the Viopapa Cup.

In the men's bracket, American Samoa won one singles and two doubles matches out of the series of five to retain the Ernest Reid Memorial Trophy for another year.

Picture shows Apia's champion singles player, Mr. Russ Banks, shaking hands with Mr.

American Samoa, after Smith Ho Ching, of won by Banks with scores of 8-6 and 6-2. a hard-fought match —Photo by Pan American prints. 153 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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Travellers to SW Pacific P-NG Final Cop[?] Payments for 1955 THE Australian Minister for T ritories, Mr. Hasluck, annoum on May 9 that final prii for copra delivered to the Coi Marketing Board in Papua and N Guinea during 1955 had been fi* at £2/10/- per ton higher than 1 tentative prices which were paid l producers throughout the period delivery of the copra. The ad tional payments due will be m£; by the Board soon.

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[E USS Co. Matua was far down the channel, out of Suva Harbour, one morning in late April, n two frantic young New Zeal girls arrived at the dockside. y were tourist round-trippers, they had mistaken the ship’s ng-time. lion SS Co. officials grabbed a ch, bounced the ladies into it, chased the Matua. But the race to the strong—the Matua had much start —and the very dis- ;ed NZ girls, luggageless and idless —were brought back to the rf. ficialdom immediately raised an rnational problem of status and idle. It was pointed out that s wretched girls had no right tever to be in the Colony of The fact that they were there nhappy accident did not placate haughty Czars of the Immigrasection. They were outraged offended. They called the police, uon SS Co. officials protested, iy this was a matter for sensible stment with the head of the irtment. [migration were not to be deid of their prey. The two girls, ely guided by policemen and igration officials, were haled he Magistrate’s Court —to the ; where thieves and thugs and re prostitutes are dealt with. r were charged with the heinous ce of being in Fiji without lission, or something like that, e magistrate, Mr. Sanders (who only just arrived in Fiji from Africa) seemed a little surd. He heard the official’s exation —and promptly dismissed charge as “frivolous.” the Fiji Times remarked, clous” was scarcely the word, e thing did not end there, itable people took charge of the girls, and they were accommoi in a private house, to await ance of rejoining the Matua. following morning a police car ally called a “Black Maria”— led by a crew of three uniid policemen, pulled up in front e house, and insisted that the girls should proceed forthwith e court. lignant protests and explanafollowed. then appeared that Immigraand Police somehow had got wires crossed. Police did not that the case had already been e the court, and thrown out. nment on the case in Suva •sts that there are some ms of the British Colonial ce in Fiji which are due and ue for overhaul.

Promising Tongan Boxer in Suva BY knocking out Atun a i s a Camaibau in the fifth round of a heavyweight championship bout recently fought in Suva, Tom Hini, the powerful-hitting Tongan boxer, must attract the attention of overseas boxing associations.

Particularly so as Atunaisa, who fought in Australia and New Zealand as Henry Bray, had very good wins against such well-known fighters as Ritchie Sands and Len Harvey of Australia, and the heavyweight champion of Tahiti.

Mr. Ned Henneberry of the well-known Australian boxing family, trained Hini for the fight and proposes later in the year to take him* to New Zealand.

While Hini is inclined to leave himself open he is a hard-slogging fighter with a very heavy punch and has the capacity for taking punishment and in good hands may easily do very well overseas. !f Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, who is studying parliamentary procedure in the UK will return to Fiji in August. He is to be the first Speaker of the Fiji Legislative Council. ■ The Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s senior bachelor quarters at Lautoka, Fiji, were destroyed by fire on April 30. The quarters had only recently been completed. 161 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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Letter to Editor Role of Indians in World War II I SHOULD like to correct somj mistakes in an otherwise well-balanced article by Mr R. W. Robson in February PIM| It is not right to say that then are several races of Indians ii Fiji, but it is a fact that they an divided into more than om religion, and whilst one mus admit the usual differences o opinion amongst them, there i nothing in this to get stirred-U] about.

The “stubborn adherence” t( the Hindi language is not onl; natural and inherent in th Indian, also it was inevitable sind the State did not provide, unti a short time ago, any facility fbi the education of a vast numbd of Indian children. India] vernacular is now second to Englisl language, and it would surpris many to know that a considerabt section of the Fiji-Indiai community now speaks English better than Hindi.

The contention that the Indiarj “refused to assist the British ii World War II” and that thd “did practically nothing” to helj are statements that have no basi at all.

If anything, the Indians’ offer join the fighting forces wa refused. One of the war-tim Governors asked me why th Indians were not in Worli War I. In spite of the Goverrj ment’s refusal to take them i; the fighting forces and despite th fact that the authorities disbandej the Indian platoon in the loca Defence Force, hundreds of Indian joined and remained, until th close of the war, in the Transport Labour Corps and other section of the army. My own sons, high] recommended by persons i: authority, were turned down by th army authorities.

Only 3 years ago His Excellent] the Governor put a full stop toj controversy on the same subject b admitting the Government’s failui to enlist the Indians in the fightih forces.

I am, etc.,

C. Chattur Singh

Ba, Fiji April 3. (It seems probable that in tn fifth paragraph above, Mr. Sind means World War II —not Wort War I). t There was a short but shar earth tremor in Suva in the earl hours of May 2. Occasions tremors have been felt in the cit since the severe earthquake in Sep tember, 1953. 162 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!.!

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Protection of P-NG Against Asia WELL-KNOWN pioneer, planner l and public man in Papua, Mr.

Tom Nevitt (now residing in uthport, South Queensland) has itten for us his comments on what thinks may be the future of pua and New Guinea, ie sees the menace against this pty land of the growing populan of Asia; he insists that the only Hection P-NG has lies in the rapid wlopment of the country and the ablishment of our own selected '■ )ples; and he points out that that i be done only if we face up to ■ necessity of bringing in a labour ce, from somewhere —presumably 0 m the overcrowded Asian intries. n the view of the United Nations sembly, the World’s population 1 increase by from 35 per cent. 60 per cent., by 1980. This poses problem for Papua and New inea. lations north of New Guinea , for the present, solving their hlems of over-population by sloping to the utmost- all their ources at home, and expanding ir overseas trade, n marked contrast, Australia’s ler-populated Papua-New inea Territory is far from being eloped and therefore in a carious situation.

'or both economic and strategic sons, immediate consideration uld be given to promoting ater development of Territories’ entialities. ’ecently-compiled statistics show t only 70,000 to 75,000 people engaged in primary production P-NG to-day: an absurdly low lo of the population. ’he late Sir Hubert Murray, in 3, said: “Papua has no labour spare, and is in this respect lost in the same position as New inea. In fact, if payable oil discovered in Papua, a very ous labour difficulty will arise.” large proportion of the native Dur now employed in Papua and is being drawn from the deep terlands and highlands of New nea. Transport from these is has been made practicable by ins of air travel, and so has yided a new avenue of labour ply. Were it not for this newly ned field for plantation recruits, very successful rubber industry Papua would not have been i to produce to capacity of put, as now. he much larger increase in 'eminent grants, supplemented the high values of rubber and :a, accounts for circulated funds ;hing boom heights, and 163 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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SHIP TO SHIP N m m m m # SHIP TO SHORE CRAMMOND'S CTR 12-£110 (ex. fac. Brisbane) Vessels now equipped with this transceiver have communicated with other fishing boats over 600 miles. The broadcast band is provided and the two working frequencies used by fishing boats are crystal controlled and therefore do not require tuning. Press to talk switch in microphone automatically changes from receive to transmit when pressed. Operation is from 12 Volt D.C. All steel cadmium plated enamelled cabinet to prevent harm from salt spray. Loud speaker in cadmium plated enamel box for bulk head mounting.

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• Over the years our Island customers have been completely satisfied with speedy service and the personal attention given by our experienced Staff. • Orders from the Islands for everything electrical are increasing month by month and you too can receive the same prompt attention. • We are familiar with tropical requirements, so let us advise you on anything in the Radio and Electrical field Receivers, Tape Recorders, HI-FI Speakers, etc. • Place your orders through Shipping and Confirming Houses or direct to— UNITED RADIO DISTRIBUTORS PTY. LTD. 175 Phillip Street, Sydney, Box 3456, G.P.O. fiting trade and commerce. iite this, the economic position he Territory has not in any 3e improved. It remains in the ion of “stalemate” it had ned pre-war. itish investors with extensive ests in Malaya and Indonesia visited Papua-New Guinea in it years. Their mission was useful, but they left disiged when they discovered the nee of labour non-sufficiency, the disinterest shown by the Guinea people themselves rds making any active contion to their own welfare, solution of the problem could upon a policy of migrant e. The immediate result would ncreased rural development, would be no new departure what other nations in the .c have adopted, and continue opt, for their self-preservation, jre already is a population of ;se in New Guinea; a large er, compared with the meagre of Europeans there. They introduced during the German e. ;se Chinese have grown in ers, despite enemy occupation labaul, and will continue ising. As owners of large and I interests in commerce and and of large plantation rties, they have become tant contributors to New ia’s economy. These Chinese now be recognised as a iled New Guinea community. of the younger generation fing educated in Australia, tralia postponed immigration stralia because the politicians : day opposed it. But to-day ation is feverishly endeavour i make up the leeway lost.

Federated Malay States not have developed its well ished and profit-earning ries without the introduction hinese and Indian Tamil ers. lon’s advance did not depend ly on the efforts of the iese population. Ceylon was useful assistance by its >ours in the north. visitor to Suva readily es how Fiji has progressed outcome of migrants arriving to settle, from India.

Caledonia’s large nickel are still operated by iese labour transported there ically. Many of these people not be repatriated during War n, and so have led there, to the economic ;age of the French Territory, sh Borneo fulfils a share of bour obligations by getting from the Philippines, under ngements made by the ;ive Governments, n the Dutch Government ated its first plans for Dment of Dutch New Guinea, ended employing there a proportion of its excess Javanese population.

Australia might follow the same policy as Holland undertook (and completed so meritoriously) in its colonisation of Java.

This —which might be described as a Help-Ourselves and Help- Others line of policy—conforms with the primary motives behind the Colombo Plan and SEATO, to both of which the Australian Government is party.

The outcome of any sound policy of introducing dependable labour to P-NG would be a feeling of much greater security than one feels at present. Another result would be that the Administration would carry out its responsibity to protect the people’s rights and property, at a much less capital cost to the parent Government.

Youth Club For Rabaul

A RABAUL reader writes to say that the young people of Rabaul have decided to do something about their boredom and have formed a club of their own, the “Garamut Club”. They held their opening dance April 28; it proved a tremendous success and they are now planning numerous barbecues and expeditions for the future.

Many citizens of Rabaul have made generous donations to their cause so that they have now £lOO towards a Building Fund. (Their temporary quarters are, however, at the New Britain Women’s Club.) These enterprising young people have startled Rabaul by organising a baby-sitting agency, and three of their members acted as Hostesses to the flying tourists brought in recently by Ansett Airways.

Minimum May

BE RAISED New Cal . Trochus Season Opens THE 1956 New Caledonian trochus fishing season opens on May 1, and discussions were proceeding in the Colony in April as to the advisability of increasing the minimum size at which the shell may be taken.

Present minimum is 8 centimetres and trochus experts from the Institut Francais de I’Oceania, which has its laboratories at Noumea, think that it should be increased to 9 centimetres.

According to the experts, the 8 centimetres coincides with the period when the trochus is at its best as a reproducer.

With the high price of trochus, the number of people engaged in fishing has increased from 1,500 to 2,000 but at the same time the tonnage fished in 1955 was only 723 —which is 172 tons less than for 1954. This, say the experts, is a sign that trochus in NC waters is being over-fished.

IFIC ISLANDS MONTHIY MAY. 19 5 6

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Norfolk Island”. Properties for sale In peaceful surroundings and beautiful climate of Norfolk Island. All enquiries promptly attended to.

FRENCH PENSION with French cooking.

Apply: 6 South Avenue, Double Bay, Sydney. Phone: FB 3549.

KANIMBLA HALL, 19-29 Tusculum St., Potts Point. 5 mins, city, next Kings Cross, modern, 9 floors, harbour views, restaurant. SC.. furn. serviced suites with separate Lounge, Bed & Bath Rms. & K’ettes. Refrig., HW. from 2V Z Gns. dally for 2: from 4 Gns. for 3. Under new management. Write or Phone FL 3014.

Telegrams: "Kanimblahall”, Sydney.

HOLIDAY FLATS, comprising lounge room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom, refrigeration, radio, cleaning service, etc., 5 mins, city centre. 12 Springfield Ave., Potts Point, Sydney. Tel.: FA 6301.

PENFRIENDS DON’T BE LONELY.—Men and women all over Australia are finding happiness through my Friendship & Matrimonial Correspondence Club Someone wants to be YOUR friend. Select and confidential.

Write TO-DAY. No obligation. Locker P.

Dorothy Pope Friendship Club (regd.), Box 182, Haymarket P. 0., Sydney, N.S.W.

HELP yourself and another lonely person to a full life. Be introduced the modern way by correspondence. Members In Australia and overseas. All ages (from 18 on), faiths, nationalities and walks of life; cities and country. State age, sex, languages, etc., and write for free information brochure to be sent to you, in plain sealed envelope, to: Milton’s Friendship Club (Regd.), Dept. 5, Box 2871, G.P.0.. Sydney. Strictly confidential—No obligation—New Australians welcome.

WANTED Contact correspondents, philatelists, hobbyists and Pen Friends throughout the Pacific. Island representatives wanted. Members in almost every country of the world. Write tor specimen copy Club journal "Island Life” and application form, to Secretary, South Sea Islands Correspondence Club, Natuvu, Fiji Is.

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FOR SALE YACHT “BLUEBIRD” for sale, moored at Port Moresby. 27 ft. 6 in. x 9 ft. 6 in. and 5 ft. 4 in. draft. Ketch rigged, built-in cabin, 2 bunks, with 5 H P. mooring engine (Simplex) with sail and spares, very seagoing craft. Can easily be converted for pearling boat. £A7SO. Apply; Eric Berg, Golden Ridges, Wau, N.G.

FLEETS 38 ft. B.D. diesel sharpie, suit trochus, copra, £3,350. 66 ft. Army trawler 100 h.p. diesel. Price (including spares worth £2,000) £10,500 Aust.

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Meadows Diesel Generating Set

complete with switchboard and voltage regulator. The capacity of this wellknown unit is 100 H.P. 75 KVA, 415 volts. 104 Amps, 3 phase alternator, 50 cycles.

Has had very little use and cost £2,825.

Will sacrifice sale of this unit for £l,OOO plus delivery costs. Photo can be submitted upon application. Brico (Australia) Pty. Ltd., 41-57 Mallett Street, Camperdown, N.S.W., 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.

BOOKS ANY NEW BOOK (English), which is print now, posted to you in a few da I also find rare and out-of-print bo to order. Large Pacific clientele. Bank: accounts at Sydney and Wellington. Wr Philip R. Boulton, Bookseller, Westbu Wilts, England.

HANDBOOK OF PAPUA & NG, 195 320 pp and maps; containing all detl about the administrative and commen organisation in the two territories; eludes directory of all European reside and business firms and of the lead Chinese residents. Price: 15/- (plus posted). HANDS OFF PIDGIN ENGLI by Professor R. A. Hall, Jnr., of Cor: University, U.S.A. A defence of “lingua franca” of Melanesia and a j for its official use and control. Price: (plus 1/- posted) or $2.00 US pos Copies from Islands Stores and Bo sellers or direct from Pacific Publicatl Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta St., Sydney.

Crew Wanted

GLORIA MARIS, 110 ft. schooner, do marine research throughout Pacific , now in New Guinea waters, needs amaf crew members keen on sailing and the Knowledge of Bosuns’ work and oi nautical skills valuable. Air mail personal details to: Capt. E. Chamberl Biak, Netherlands New Guinea.

Gland Discovery Bestores Youth inZ4Hours Sufferer* from loss of vigour, nervousness, weak body, impure blood, failing memory, and who are old and worn-out before their tiny* will be delighted to learn of a new gland discovery by an American doctor.

This new discovery makes It possible to quickly and easily restore vigour to your glands and body, to build rich, pure blood, to strengthen your mind said memory and feel like a new man In only 8 days. In fact, this discovery, which is a home medicine in pleasant, easyto-take tablet form, does away with gland operations and begins to build new vigour and energy in 24 hours, yet it is absolutely harmless in action.

The success of this amazing discovery, called VI-STIM, has been so great that it is now being distributed by all chemists here under a guarantee of complete satisfaction or money back.

In other words, VI-STIM must make you feel full of vigour and energy and from 10 to 20 years younger, or return the empty package and get your money back.

VI-STIM costs little, and the Vl-Stlm“ Restores Manhood and Vitality 166 MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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Three Models: 2.5, 4.5 Kw. 7 5 Kw. illus DANGAR, GEDYE & MALLOCH LTD. 10-14 Young Street, Circular Quay, Sydney P.O. Box 509 Radiograms: Dangars, Sydney Local Agents: R. Gillespie (N.G.) Ltd., RABAUL. Century Motors, LAE. Pacific Island Motors, PORT MORESBY.

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J. H. Ellis, GOROKA. 1L1A.82 index to Advertisers 139 R. Ltd. . . 146 Dairies . 128 . & F. . .93 ✓ite . . .106 nium Ltd. . 132 , Bank . . 116 •, Wm. . .156 adrene . 30 53 of NSW 39, 103 of NZ . . 105 I, Gwyn . . 9 nd-Rae . . 51 ;11-Spence . 130 ird Mills . 64 jn Bros. . 125 voldt 133, 141 i, W. S. . 51 Ltd. ... 61 I Myers . 107 vay Motors . 9 m & Co. . 91 Pty. ... 66 g, A. H. . 145 W. J. . . . 67 fly Museum 125 12, 72, 89, 123 orn Charters 46 iter Ltd. . . 96 i 5 e . . 68, 122 al Meat . . 80 W's'n. . . 126 mwealth < . . 59, 143 Bros. . .168 Co. . . . 161 lond Co. . 164 .... 133 62 il Marg. . 14 •, G. & . . . 118, 167 villand . . 16 6O Ltd. ... 58 ss, W. C. 131 Rubber . 149 eaters . . 35 ath Mach. . 55 Ltd. . . 117 i, L. . . 121 nald ... 94 dy .... 79 Wm. . . 139 & Heidecke 159 Rum ... 54 r Eng. . . 120 : Hotel . . 10 W. & A. . 56 ie Bros. . . 78 ie, R. . . . 1, 127, 129, 154 i Ltd. . . 138 ooks Paints 63 's Gin . . 91 (Suva) . . 13 i Books . . 34 Ltd. . 38, 123 ;en, B, . , 50 ;en Sons . 47 m Court . 57 & Spear . 74 m & Hall 140 Trinder . 42 Agencies . 78 is Diesels 36, 112 Ltd. . . 115 )ks Ltd. . 157 Plans . . 162 Co. . . .110 1 37 4O itional ester ... 32 ustries . .11l nsport . . 50 Johnson's Wax . . 90 Kasper Refrig. . . 69 K.L.M 10 Kennedy, Capt. . 46 Kerr Bros. . . .146 Kiwi Polish ... 70 Kodak 33 Kopsen & Co. . 152 Lanchoo Tea ... 11 Madang Slipways 52 Manning & Osborne ... 57 Marine Spares . 45 Masse Batteries 104 Mcllrath's . . .153 McPherson's . . 114 Mendaco .... 33 Millers Ltd. . . 98 Morris, P. . . .113 M. H. Ltd. . 26, 99 Mungo Scott . . 119 National In. Co. 124 N. & R. . . 70, 155 Needham & Co. . 77 Nestle's . . . .136 NO Aust. Line . . 6 Nile Products . . 100 Nixoderm ... 137 N.Z.N.A.C. ... 4 Oliver Corp. . . 142 Pacific Mineral . 54 Pan Pacific Service 34 Parker Pens . . 144 Pabco Prod. . .108 P. I. Line .... 8 Papuan Prints . 53 Penfold, W. C. . 38 Piccaninny Wax . 163 Plastalon .... 65 Qld. Insurance . 129 Old. Milling . . 74 Ransomes Co. . 126 Refrig. Inst. Co. . 94 Rice Growers' Co-op 147 Riverstone Co. . 160 Rohu, Sil. . . .113 Ruston & Hornsby 45 Sails and Covers . 49 Seligson & Clare 158 Seppelt & Son . 148 Seward Ltd. . .106 Shaw Savill ... 7 Shell Pty. Ltd. 43, 135 Sparklet Ltd. . . 75 Spruso Co. . . . 28 S.T.C. Co. . . . 109 Stapleton, J. . . 101 Stewarts-Lloyds . 102 S. P. Brewery . .119 Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 73 Sullivan Ltd. . . 31, 41, 137 Suva Motors • .121 Tait, W. S. . . 102 Thornycroft Co. . 30 Tilley Lamps . . 71 Ti I lock & Co. . 134 Tongala Milk . . 76 Tongan Photos . 97 Tooth & Co. . . 98 Turners & Growers 114 Tyneside Eng. . . 95 United Insurance 105 U.R.D 165 Vacuum Oil . . 150 Vincent Bros. . . 48 Ventura . . 49, 168 Vi-Stim .... 166 Vincent's APC . . 29 Warnock . . . .110 Wakefield Oils . 158 Westfield Meats . 2 Wilhelmsen, W. . 8 White Rose ... 97 White, John ... 73 Wills Ltd 92 Woolf, J. C. . . 37 Wunderlich Co. . 151 Yorkshire Ins. . . 93 167 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956

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Ltd. . bl/10 S1/9V2 b2/2 1 / 2 | Oil Search . b3/ll S8/10 bl4/8 j Ent. of N.G.

S2/11 bl/11 1 Oriomo Oil ! b5/b3/9 b6/9 1 Papuan Apin. b4/ll s3/6 j /2 b3/9 1 Placer Dev. . b68/6 s300/b112/6 .

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Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 140 Pac. Francs; SUS 2.23.) COPRA Price negotiated between British Ministry of Food and British South Pacific Territories for 1956 was £ 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 (Sun-dried) £A6I/15/-; Smoked £AS9.

FlJl;—Plantation £FS7/5/6 for top grade; FMS £FS7; moister grades £FSS/18/- to £FS4/2/- minimum.

W. SAMOA:—£S3B/2/-, £837/14/-, and £ 537/9/- 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 £ A6l/10/-; Mixed HA/FM £AS7; FM £AS2/10/-; Yandina: 5/- higher.

HEW HEBRIDES:—Buying price May 9, 6,300 Pac. francs (£A44/2/-) delivered Vila/Santo.

FRENCH OCEANIA:—Apr. 1, top grade 8.36 Pac. francs per kilo (£A6O/12/- per long ton) in store, Papeete. Minimum price for lowest grade 5.35 Pac. francs (£A39 per long ton).

TONGA;—A Grade, £TS2/5/-; B Grade, £ T46/5/-.

COOK 15.:—1956 prices not yet available.

COCOA:—islands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which, on Mav 9, was £Stg.2o7/10/-, c.i.f.

P.-N.G.; £A235, ex wharf Sydney.

W. SAMOA: May 9, £Stg.2oo, f.o.b.

Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: Top grades 5/5 lb. in store, Sydney; Fr. Oceania: 75 francs per kilo, unhusked.

PEANUTS:—P.-N.G.; Market only for Virginia Bunch, in shell, large, well cleaned, l/sy> per lb. delivered Sydney.

RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore, which quoted May 8, buyers, No. 1 RSS, spot 87% Straits cents (3/2y 4 Aust. delivered).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, quoted May 9 buying price, c.i.f. Sydney, Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 46/-, Green, 44/6 per lb.

RICE (Australian):—Price adjusted May 1 each year. P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb. bags, 5 tons and over, £62 per ton, f.0.b.; under 5 tons £62/10/per ton. Vitamized and enriched whj 112 lb. bags, 5 tons and over, £6B/1 per ton f.0.b.; under 5 tons, £69 per I Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., I per ton, f.o.b. Sydney or Melbourne. I PEARL SHELL.—Prices between Tot Strait producers and Otto Gerdau p (USA) not yet fixed for 1956. Manihi Lagoon closed. Penrhyn; £9OO c, Sydney. Tuamotus: approx £A1,300, li ton, for raw shell on beach, Hikueru.l TROCHUS:—May 9, in store Sydn subject to rejects: New Hebrides, ‘ £ per ton; N.G. and 8.5.1. fluctuating! tween £4BO and £520 per ton, accord to grade.

GREEN SNAIL:— sw Pacific, in st Sydney, £450, subject to rejects.

London And U.S. Prices J

Copra:—London, May 8, Straits, c. £Stg.7l/15/-; Philippines, $U.5.172, c Pac. Coast, del. weights.

Coconut Oil: —London, Apr. 21 • Cey] in bulk, 1% FFA, £Stg.lo2, c.i.f., per j Straits, bulk, 3V 2 % FFA, £Stg.99 c per ton.

Cocoa;—London, Apr. 21: Gold dj May del. c.i.f., £Stg.lB7 long ton.

Coffee:—London, Apr. 21: Uganda > busta f.a.q., prompt shipment, £Stg; f.o.b. Mombasa; Tanganyika, bond London.

Shell:—London, Apr. 21, Singai trochus, £Stg.sBs c.i.f. Greens] £Stg.s6s c.i.f.

Rubber:—London, May 8, Spot buyi 5tg.25 3 4d.; May c.i.f. Stg.2sy 4 d.; Oct -D Stg.2sd.

Islands Mining Shari

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW, A BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £AIII, 2 Selling, £ All 3. Fiji-London, basis £ London: B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. NZ-F basis £lOO NZ; B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4 SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. Ai tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO Sami B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. Sami London, basis £lOO London: B. 100/7 S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO 1* B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji, ba £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

Papua - Ng—Commonwealth Bai

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kaviei Madang), BANK OF NSW (branches: Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Mada Samarai, Goroka; agencies; Wau, Boro Kokopo) and ANZ BANK (Port Mores* quote exchange rate Australia-Papua-N 10/- per £ 100.

BSI.—COMMONWEALTH BANK (brar at Honiara) quotes exchange rate A! tralia-BSI: 10/- per £lOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific Iran most valuable of the three franc grou in French Union, are used in New Ca donia. New Hebrides, and Fr. Ocean FRENCH BANK (Comptoir Natioi D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quofc Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.; 177 Pfr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $.

Published ky PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD.. 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA 9197.) Wholly set up and primed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

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SYDNEY BOURNE CHRISTCHURCH MAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD., NEW ZEALAND’S INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE, IN ASSOC. WITH QANTAS ANP POA C MAY, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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General Merchants

m 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.

) Agents For Australian, European

) AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

S Distributors Of Every Description

< OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Head Office: 16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: Telephone: Postal Address: “CAMOHE.” 8W4421. 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.

Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng. Port Moresby. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Sura.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1956