PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly AUGUST, 1956 Vol. XXVII. No. 1. dfd ďfdf DRESSED in tapa costumes, Fijian schoolgirls perform a Vakamalolo— an action song that tells a story.

Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office.

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DISTRIBUTORS: Papua and New Guinea: Steamship Trading Company Limited, Port Moresby.

Solomon Islands: Mr. K. H. Dalrymple Hay, Honiara. New Caledonia: Agence Automobile, Noumea.

Fiji, Tonga and Samoa: Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Limited. Tahiti: Hintze & Company, Papeete.

New Hebrides: Kerr Bros. Pty. Limited. Sydney.

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THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD. (A British Company incorporated within the United Kingdom ) 1 4 4 *“■ ' - w ,. ; - SNxUSi*

New Guinea Australia Line

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

Sydney Brisbane Rabaul Kavieng Madang and return.

Lae Melbourne Sydney Madang Rabaul Port Moresby Samarai Lae and return.

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 J 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 KMM; S£ °SSS: Colyeramf S New Guinea Co. Ltd.. Kavieng. war« ~ wwM * EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong. Cable. Swire. 6

August, 195 C Pacific Islands Monti

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de P art 5 Oct. 11 Dec. 25 Jan. gtY^? LAND arr /dep From . o 8 Oct. 14 Dec. 28 Jan.

SUVA arr/dep Panama 1 t-jt 11 Oct. 17 Dec 31 Jan 5?2SSSL arr/d6P * i 16 Oct. 22 Dec. 3 5 Feb, VANCOUVER arrive J 3 22 Oct. 28 Dec. 11 Feb depart 11 Sept. f; o 23 Oct. 29 Dec. 12 Feb SAN FRANCISCO arr 7 Sept, jj V. 25 Oct. 31 Dec 14 Feb depart 8 Sept. 1 &. 26 Oct. 1 Jan., ’57 15 Feb HONOLULU arr/dep 16 Sept, ft 30 Oct. 5 Jan. 19 Feb SUVA arr/dep 23 Sept, j- 6 Nov. 12 Jan. 26 Feb AUCKLAND arr/dep 26 Sept. Q * 9 Nov. 15 Jan. 1 Mar SYDNEY arrive 29 Sept. 1 ,s£ 12 Nov. 18 Jan. 4 Mar. inking the Pacific Islands with { w Zealand The Shaw Savill Tourist Class Liner S.S. SOUTHERN CROSS.

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

Mum Fares: To England

i Suva via Panama via South Africa n Tahiti via Panama via South Africa £lO5 stg. £132 stg. £lOO stg. £l5l stg. iti Call is Subject to for full particulars apply: Weather Permitting Shaw 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. [?]ipping Time-Tables sailings are approximate and may vary by as much as two weeks.

Sydney-Papua-N. Guinea if Malaita sails from Sydney for lul. Kavieng, Lombrum. Lorengau, ak. Alexishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney. ; Sydney sailing approx. Sept. 26.

T Malekula sails from Sydney for Pt. >sby, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, Ishafen, Madang, Lae, Samarai, icy, Melbourne, Sydney. Next Sydney ig approx. Sept. 14.

T Bulolo, modern liner, sails about r six weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, ■by, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Manus, ml, Samarai. Moresby, Brisbane, icy. Next Sydney sailing Oct. 3. f Mangola, cargo only, sails from ey for Brisbane, Cairns, Pt. Moresby, irai, Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Pt. sby, Brisbane, Sydney. Next sailing: 16, tails from Burns, Philp & Cos. Ltd., idge Street, Sydney.

I Sinkiang: Departs Sydney Sept. 12 jae and Rabaul; she then will go on lentral Pacific Islands on a charter iting trip. Returns to P-NG service ild-November. f Shansi: Departed Sydney Aug. 21 for ane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Sydney, f Soochow: Departed Sydney Aug. 21 Brisbane, Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, Sydney. »ils from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., Idge St., Sydney.

Sydney-Dutch N.G. ree weeks service by MV’s Sigli, Silint, Sibigo, Sinabang (regular) and Van [ (irregular) carry passengers and I from E. Australian ports to Hoilandia and Sorong, DNG (with Biak and/or Manokwari if inducement), thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct. Next sailings: Van Cloon Aug. 21, Sinabang Sept. 20.

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

Far East-S.W. Pacific- Australia (Calling S.W. Pacific ports on south-bound journeys only.) SS Funing: Departs Japan Sept. 11, calling at Hongkong Sept. 19, Kavieng Sept. 20, Rabaul Sept. 22, Madang Sept. 26 Lae Sept. 28, Pt. Moresby Oct. 3, Sydney’ Oct 11 (approx.) and returns to Japan direct SS Fengning: Departs Japan Oct. 23 for Hongkong Oct. 31, Rabaul Nov. 11.

Madang Nov. 15, Lae Nov. 17, Samarai Nov. 21, Moresby Nov. 22, Sydney Dec. 2 (approx.) and returns 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 Aros, Citos, Delos and Milos mainnortc reg^ la T r ser vices between Australian ports and Japan. Northbound vessels call at Manila, Hongkong and Japan; souv ■bound vessels call at Hongkong, Manila, Rabaul> Lae > Brisbane, Sydn . and Melbourne, with bi-monthly calls a: Honiara and Vanikoro. s ° uthb ound, is due at Lae Sept, 12, Rabaul Sept. 15, Honiara Sept 19 Citos, due to leave Sydney on Sept. 8 call at Rabaul Oct. 29, Lae Nov. 1; Miloleaving Sydney Sept. 17. calls at Rata u Nov. 6. Lae Nov. 9.

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

N. Zealand-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa MV Tofua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa Vavau, Niue, Pago Pago. Apia, Suva and return to Auckland. On her return to Auckland on Sept. 3, she will undergo survey). Next sailing from Auckland Oct. 1.

MV Matua maintains a service from Auckland to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa Apia, Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington, and Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA Sailings of Orient Line Passenger Ships, 1956-57. 7 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 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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PAPEETE —Etablissements Donald Tahiti. APlA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA —Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

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

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

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THE A W P.L. FLEET now comprises the modern Swedish Motor Vessels "Aros", ' Citos "Delos" and "Milos" which offer the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from Ausa frralia to Main Japanese Ports via Manila and Hong Kong. On the return voyage calls an made at Hong Kong, Manila, Sandakan, Raboul, Lae, and thence to Brisbane, Sydney an., Melbourne.

Bi-monthly calls are made at Honiara and Vonikoro on the Southbound voyage.

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

Transport Ltd.; Honiara. Bolomo, FAR-EASTERN 8 AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd- Manila, Hong Kong & Japan. return to Auckland. Next sailing from Auckland; Sept. 3.

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

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The passenger vessel Maui Pomare maintains a regular service between Auckland and the Cook Islands (Rarotonga, Aitutaki and Mangaia).

Full details on application to NZ Government Department of Island Terrilories 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, Tenant, Yandina, Gizo, Bougainville ports, Rabaul, Sydney. Next Sydney sailing mid-October.

MV Muliama, 8 passengers, leaves Sydney for British Solomon Islands pod approximately monthly, ports varys with cargoes. Next sailing from Sydnc Sept. 7, for Honiara, Yandina and Loa^j Details from Burns, Philp & Co.„ Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-TahitJ Vessels of Messageries Maritimes LL coming from Marseilles, via West Inb and Panama, call about every six wea at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noum and Sydney, and return by same rov At present on this run are the moti ships, Tahitien, Caledonien and Res gent. Next sailing from Sydney: Caledonii Sept. 25.

MV Polynesie (Messageries Maritime maintains about monthly passenger s« ings between Sydney and Noumea s the New Hebrides. Next Sydney sailic Sept. 14.

Details from Sydney agents: Messages Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydn© Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pacifi Ports-Sydney Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-passera liner Southern Cross makes four rout the-world voyages per year, two wn bound, then two east-bound, calling; Suva and Papeete every trip. Next voys Depart Southampton Sept. 13, at"

Sydney (via Sth. Africa) Oct. 19, c Sydney Oct. 21, Suva Oct. 30, Pap.< Nov. 3-4, arr. Southampton, via Panat Nov. 28.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, e; Pacific Islands Transport Line’s ves Thorsisle and Thorshall maintain j regular service from Pacific Coast N»1 American ports, with sailings over 3£ days. Some ports depend on carr offering. Thorsisle: Due to sail from Francisco Aug. 24, at Los Angeles i 8 AUGUST, ISS f pacific islands month

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P.I.M. 7, Papeete Sept. 7-8, Pago Pago Sept. 1, Apia Sept. 15-16, Suva Sept. 19- Lautoka Sept. 22-23, Nukualofa . 25-27, Noumea Sept. 30-Oct. 1, Oct. 5-6, San Francisco Oct. 24. •shall, now in the Pacific, will sail i Seattle/Tacoma on her next voyage , 21. at New Westminster Sept. 22- San Francisco Oct. 1-5, Los Angeles 7-8. Papeete Oct. 19-21, Pago Pago 25-26, Apia Oct. 27-28, Suva Oct. 31- 2, Lautoka Nov. 3-5, Nukualofa Nov.

Noumea Nov. 13-14, Lae approx. Nov. (, San Francisco (inbound! Dec. 8. tails from General Steamships Cortion Ltd., 432 California St., San cisco, USA, and Island Agents.

Iydney-North America, Via

Pacific Ports

e four cargo vessels, Waihemo, una, Waikawa, and Waitomo, owned operated by the Union Steam Ship of NZ Ltd., maintain a monthly ce across the Pacific, from Sydney ancouver and USA ports, via Suva, )ka, Nukualofa, and Apia, as cargoes j Occasional calls are made at Fan- Island. They have limited passenger amodation. Next sailings: Waikawa 3ept.; Waihemo: Early October.

U.S.-PAPEETE-PAGO PAGO-N.Z.- AUSTRALIA tson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco tes a regular five-weeks passenger- ! service from Los Angeles with the ira, Alameda, Sierra and Sonoma. iern terminal ports vary with cargoes ag. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago and Suva, depending on cargoes.

| Sydney-Fiji-V Ancouver

ific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (suby of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) operate a service three times yearly with the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba along the above route. Accommodation Is entirely First Class, two-berth cabins Next sailing from Sydney, second week in October, with calls at Suva and Lautoka Details from American Trading & Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St., Sydney,

Honolulu-Papeete

The 242-ton auxiliary schooner Te Vega, American-owned, operates a luxury passenger service to a regular schedule, with calls at Marquesas and Line Islands as required. Details from Darr Lines, c/o Theo, H. Davies & Co., Honolulu, or Etablissements Donald, Papeete.

Airways Time-Tables

Trans Pacific Services

1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America NOTE: Nadi Airport closed on August 1; for a fortnight for runway reconstructior —Qantas, PAA, CPAL and TEAL mad. adjustments to their flight schedules foi this period. (See article elsewhere in thL issue.) (Over^ 9 rIF 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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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, arrlt Nadi Mon., Wed., Fri., departing I Tues., Tliur., Sun. DC4 shuttle sen once monthly connects Nadi and Tal. (American Samoa).

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS Tues.*, Thurs.*, Fri.*’ and Sat.*: SydL Nadi (Fiji), Canton Is., Honolulu, Francisco—with Sat. service extent to Vancouver.

SOUTHWARDS Thur.*, Fri.*, Sat.*, Mon.*; San Franc: Honolulu, Nadi (Fiji). Sydney. M day’s service begins at Vancouver!

Sunday. Note: Crosses date-line; routei. * TEAL DC6 services between Auck: and Nadi connect at Nadi Tues. and northwards; Wed. and Sun. southward

By Canadian Pacific Airline:!

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Wed.: Sydney, Nadi, Honoc Vancouver, Amsterdam.

Every Sun. leaves Vancouver for Syr by same route.

Every Fri.; Auckland, Nadi, Honoc Vancouver. Amsterdam.

Every Tues., leave Vancouver for Aucto by same route. (Note: Crosses date: en route).

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Depart: Arrive; Sydney, 8.00 p.m. Brisbane, 10.45 Brisbane. 11.45 p.m. Moresby, 6.35 (Tues., Wed., Sun..V Moresby, 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9.00 10 AUGUST, 1856-pacific ISLANDS MONTHU

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Depart: Arrive: pdney, 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.45 p.m. risbane, 11.45 p.m. Townsville, 3.30 a.m (Friday) >wnsville, 4.15 a.m. Cairns, 5.30 a.m. lirns, 6.30 a.m. Moresby, 9.20 a.m.

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

SOUTHWARDS Toes., Wed., Sun., Mon.

Depart: Arrive: ,e. 10.30 a.m. Moresby, 12.00 noon jresby, 1.00 p.m. Brisbane, 7.35 p.m. isbane, 9.00 p.m. Sydney, 11.45 p.m.

Sat.

Depart: Arrive: e, 7.00 a.m. Moresby, 8.30 a.m. jresby, 9.30 a.m. Cairns, 12.20 p.m. ilrns. 2.35 p.m. Townsville, 3.45 p.m. wnsville, 4.30 p.m. Brisbane, 8.15 p.m. isbane, 9.00 p.m. Sydney, 11.45 p.m. 3. P-NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas AE-HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) j. Wed. (Aug. 22, Sept. 5, 19, etc.), parts Lae 11.00 a.m., calls at Madang and Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia 3.30 p.m. Every alternate Thursday (Aug. 23, Sept. 6, 20, etc.), departs Hollandia at 9.30 a.m., and, with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.20 p.m.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

u Wed. (Aug. 22, Sept. 5, 19, etc.).

E>. Lae, 8.00 a.m.: Finschhafen, Rabaul, Kavieng, arr. Manus 3.00 p.m. jry alt. Sat. (Aug. 25, Sept. 8, 22, etc.) departs Manus 8 a.m. and with calls at Kavieng, Rabaul and Finschhafen, arrives Lae at 2.55 p.m.

MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) I Yule Is.. Kerema, Kikori, L. Kutubu: Alt. Fri. returning same day (Aug. 31, Sept. 14, 28, etc.).

Port Moresby-Rabaul

(Catalina) k Tues. (Aug. 21, Sept. 4, 18, etc.) Pt Moresby, Samarai, Esa’ala, Losuia, Moewe Hbr., Talasea, Jacquinot Bay, Rabaul. Returning via same ports (except Losuia and Esa’ala optional) alt.

Thurs. (Aug. 23, Sept. 6, 20, etc.).

New Britain-Bougainville

(Catalina) . Wed.: Rabaul, Buka, Teopasino, Cieta, Buin (Aug. 22. Sept. 5, 19. etc.).

Returning same day.

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Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) n.; Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. 7.35 a.m. Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul. arr. 3.40 p.m. ss.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., direct to Madang, arr. 9.10 a.m. irs.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang, Iwar, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 4.05 p.m.

Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 3.55 p.m.

Central Highlands

(DCS) lays: Lae (8.30 a.m.) to Wapenamunda, calling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Kainantu, Wapenamunda. Return to Lae arriving 6 p.m.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) lays: Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, callus at any of Nadzab, Kaiapit, Gusap, (Uyura, Finintegu, Rintebe. Kainantu, joroka, Arena. Arrival back at Lae iepends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau (Dcs)

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

'• Wau.: Mon. 9 a.m., Tues. 3.30 p.m., 11 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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(8 Margaret Street. Sydney

Wed. 1 p.m., Fri. 3.30 p.m. Bulolo is omitted on these flights which take 35 minutes, Wau-Lae.

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

Tuesdays: Depart Madang 10 a.m.. arrive Goroka 10.35 a.m., returning same day; depart Goroka 11 a.m., arr. Madang 11.35 a.m.

Alt. Fridays (Aug. 24, Sept. 7, 21, etc.).

Dep. Madang 8.00 a.m. arrive Goroka 8.35 a.m., returning same day; depart Goroka 9 a.m., arrive Madang 9.35 a.m.

New Guinea-New Britain

BOUGAINVILLE (DCS) Fridays: Depart Lae 12.55 p.m., Finschhafen 1.45 p.m., arrive Rabaul 3.55 p.m.

Saturdays: Depart Rabaul 10 a.m., direct to Lae, arr. 12.40 p.m.

Sundays: Depart Lae 12 noon, Finschhafen 1 p.m., Rabaul 3.10 p.m.

Tuesdays; Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m.. Finschhafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m.

Alt. Thursdays (Aug. 30, Sept. 13, 27 etc.): Dep. Lae 8 a.m., Finschhafen, Rabaul, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 2.55 p.m.

Alt. Fridays (Aug. 31, Sept. 14, 28, etc.); Dep. Rabaul 8 a.m., Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1.10 p.m.

Service By Mandated Airlines

Scheduled Flights with DCS Aircraft Mon.: Depart Lae at 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— remaining overnight. Depart Lae 8 a.m. for Goroka. Wau, Port Moresby.

Wau, Goroka, Lae.

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

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

Fri.: Depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Sat.; Depart Rabaul at 7 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, Manokwari, Noemfoer, Ransiki, Genjem, and Kokonao. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS Aircraft. (Three flights every four weeks) Mon. (Aug. 27, Sept. 10, 17, 24) Lae dep. 6 a.m.; Finschhafen, Rabaul, Buka, Vella Lavella, Yandina, Honiara (BSI), arriving 5.25 p.m.

Tues. (Aug. 28, Sept. 11, 18, 25) Honiara dep. 7 a.m.: Yandina, Vella Lavella, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, arriving 3.35 p.D'. 6. Paris-Saigon-Noumea By Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux.

DC6B aircraft depart Paris every 2 weeks (Aug. 28, Sept. 11, 25, etc.) for Cairo Karachi, Saigon, Darwin, Noumea.

Leave Noumea on return Sept. 1, 15, 29, etc. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

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

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

By Qantas, with Skymasters Every Sat.; Dep. Sydney 11.30 p.m., NI 6.15 a.m. Sunday; dep. NI p.m. same day for Sydney, arr. p.m. Alt. weeks makes NI-AucklJ NI flight. (See table 11 below). 9. Sydney-New Hebrides By Qantas, with Skymasters Plying - boats were replaced by S masters in 1955. Service now terrain at Tontouta (New Caledonia) until T Santo (New Hebrides) airfields re 1 (See table below). 10. Sydney-Noumea By Qantas, with Skymasters (Three flights every four weeksX Wed. (Aug. 22), then Thur. (Sept. 69 20). Sydney dep. 11.30 p.m., am Tontouta, 7 a.m. Thurs. Aug. 23, tic after 7 a.m. Fri., Sept. 7, 14, 21J Thurs. (Aug. 23), then Fri. Sept. 7T 21, Tontouta dep. 9.30 a.m., arn Sydney 3.20 p.m. 11. Norfolk Is.-Aucklair TEAL, by Qantas (charter) Alt. Sun.: Return flight Norfolk (dep.. a.m.) Auckland (arr. 11.30 a.m., , 1.15 p.m.) Norfolk (arr. 4 p.m.).

Table 8 above). 12. Auckland-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, wlthi DC6 aircraft.

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

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

Sun. only: Dep. Auckland 6.15 p.m..

Sydney 9.45 p.m. 12 AUGUST, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

FROM SYDNEY (Aust. currency) TO— Single Return Table Moresby .

Lae . . .

Rabaul . .

Noumea .

Honiara Norfolk is.

Lord Howe Nadi . . . £ s. d. • • 46 11 o • . 55 7 0 . . 64 19 0 . . 48 15 0 ■ . 80 7 0 • • 27 10 0 • • 12 15 0 • . 76 0 0 £ s. 83 16 99 13 116 19 85 15 144 13 49 10 25 10 136 16 d. No. 0 2 0 2 0 2, 3 0 9, 10 0 2. 5 0 8 0 7 0 1 °z7"" y a Wui beat,t;§ r 9 u nds S *i Uate d in s Bai,i - -°f pi;: **°tel U P Silva’.

Spe i Jl ' is the the s °dal £ Uv i>s Gr aod centre s.. Sat.: Dep. Sydney 10.00 a.m., irr Auckland 5.00 p.m. .. Fri., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 3.00 p.m., irr. Auckland 10.00 p.m. 13. Christchurch-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft. ~ Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 p.m., rr. Sydney 8.40 p.m.

L Thurs.; Dep. Sydney 8.00 a.m., rr Christchurch 3.10 p.m. j. Christchurch-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft. •s : Dep. Christchurch 5.00 p.m., arr. felbourne 9.30 p.m. f Dep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m., arr. (iristchurch 3.00 p.m. 15. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

I Sat.: Dep. Auckland 1.15 a.m., arr. idi 6.15 p.m. ) Sun,: Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m., arr. |ckland 3.30 p.m. 16. Fiji-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft, ce normally fortnightly, with extra fhts as required. rts Suva Friday 9 a.m., crosses dateie. arrives Satapuala (W. Samoa) lur. 2 p.m., departs Fri. 2 a.m, fives Aitutakl (Cook Is.) 7.30 a.m., parts 9.30 a.m., arrives Papeete Sahitl) 2 p.m. Departs Papeete Sun. 30 a.m., arrives Aitutaki 11 a.m., |>arts 1 p.m., arrives Satapuala 5.30 p.m., departs Mon. 8 a.m., crosses dateline, arrives Suva Tues., 10.55 a m Leaves Suva Sept. 6. 20, Oct. 4, 19 26 Nov. 2, 9. Leaves Papeete Sept. 9 23 Oct. 7, 21, 28, Nov. 4. 11. 17. Fiji-Tonga Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Irregular Service.

Dep. Suva 6.30 a.m.. arr Nukualofa 9 50 a.m., dep Nukualofa 9.50 a.m., arr.

Suva 4.55 p.m.

Next flights: Sept. 5, Oct. 1, Nov. 1, 28. 18. Fiji Internal Airways Fiji Airways, Ltd. Drover and Rapide Aircraft.

Suva. Nadi, Suva: Two flights daily except Sun.. Mon., Wed., one flight.

Suva, Nadi: Tues., Sun. (additional to the above return flights).

Nadi, Suva; Mon., Wed.

Suva, Labasa, Suva: Daily except Sun.

Suva, Taveuni, Suva: Mon., Wed., Frl Suva, Savusavu, Taveuni, Savusavu, Suva; Mon.

Suva, Savusavu, Labasa, Savusavu, Suva' Tues., Thurs., Sat., Sun. 19. French Oceania Inter- Island Service Regie Aerienne Interinsulair (RAI), With Amphibious Catalina Twice weekly service to the Leeward Group.

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

Friday: Papeete, Huahine, Raiatea.

Papeete.

Booking agents in Papeete: Messageries Maritimes. 20. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is Internal Service Societe Caledonienne de Transuort Aeriens (TRANSPAC), with Rapide aircraft, Nomnea (Magenta), Lifou (Chepenehe) Noumea: Tues. am penene^ Noumoa. Mare (Tadine), Noumea: Tues N °Ufo« M^ 6 ’ LlfOU ’ Noumea - or Noumea t£S. Umea ' Noumea. Koumac, Noumea (with con- FH°a a m. Call at Plalne des ° aI S: Noumea, Lifou, Ouvea Is.: Wed mornlm?« Noumea. Polndimle, Noumea (wlth? n ; ditional call at Houallou): Pri n m Noumea, lie des Pins, Noumea: Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

Approximate Airways Fares Fares quoted are First Class on** tr at t° per cent ' lower Is available - —- (Continued on Page 157) 13 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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The houses are surrounded by lawns and gardens, which slope down, in an easterly and northerly direction, to the water’s edge. Much of the original bush, including a fine grove of turpentines, has been preserved.

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This property is for private sa * e ’ nvo extra and dai, official., valued receu.lv a. £B O ss= A ” "

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HOUSE NO. 1 On two blocks of land: One timber house with 3 ft e white, with green tiled root Econo - steel frame. Compr[?] Lounge with modern fire[?] built-in bookcases, picture win with dining - annex leading three double bedrooms, one built-in wardrobe; sun-room; trance hall; green-tiled bath[?] with shower recess, toilet; modern kitchen with s.s. siN[?] plate electric elevated stove; in fitments; modern light fi[?] and Venetian blinds throug some floor coverings; num built-in cupboards, etc.; tast[?] decorated. In basement: Wor[?] and laundry, tubs, was machine, shower. Car-port. T[?] and pergola in front of houses wide steps leading to ga[?] cemented paths and yards, peak hot water, connected kitchen, bathroom, laundry; matic pump servicing house 5,000-gal. cement tank, and gal. galvanised tank. Septic Telephone, with extension to s[?] house. An electrically -driven[?] bench for firewood. Optional chase: Deep-freeze unit in ki[?] HOUSE NO. 2 A second house, complete, on one section: Tim b er, on timber frame, with Wunderlich metal-tile roof. Comprising sun-room, large lounge-dining room, stone fireplace, built-in book-cases, picture windows; two large bedrooms, one with built-in wardrobe; modern bathroom with toilet: large kitchen equipped wih s.s sink, modern slow-combustion range, which supplies continuous hot water to bathroom, kitchen and laundry, back porch; many built-in cupboards; Venetian blinds and light fittings; side terrace and steps; stone terrace in front. Cement paths. Laundry with tubs, etc., copper and shower in basement. Also in basement an area of approx. 30 ft. x 12 ft., with cement floor lined and ceiled, louvre windows, fireplace, suitable for conversion to holiday flat. Three 1.000-gal. tanks supply house by gravity, with electric motor-pump as booster when required. Septic-tank. Jetty and dinghy. 14 AUGUST. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Editorial. ..

Colonel Nasser Drops The Cold War'S

Riggest Rrick

OR 48 hours from Thursday, July 26, when the irresponsible [ Egyptian dictator, Nasser, seized i Suez Canal, the world teetered the edge of war. Since then, the ibabilities of international cont have slowly receded, although [ situation still is highly explosive, anwhile, a number of comforting tures have emerged. Here are le of them; ! Britain, after years of humiliai and shackled diplomacy, at \ has re-asserted herself as the tier of the Western Powers, i The British Commonwealth ions, and a large section of the stern nations, outraged beyond [urance by the Egyptian move, i supporting and applauding tain in a way not seen for many rs.

Britain has shaken off the iing-strings of Washington’s muous diplomacy, of which les has been the instrument, ring, since World War 11, been led by United States “antifnialism” to abandon much of [ Asian Empire, and meekly to jpt the insults of various Asiatic ids which 50 years ago, honoured t obeyed the White Ensign, lain now has reached the point 10 further retreat.

Middle East events have thrown pear, revealing light not only n the politico-economic plight i which Britain and France B been driven by American anti- Wiialism, but also upon the sucwhich has attended Moscow’s 1 War operations in Southern i and the Middle East.

The whole of the Western Id —even the American section — realises that one further step twards by Britain means the ender of the Middle East oil- Is. as well as the Suez Canal, he Arab States; which in turn ns domination of that area by Communists, and the economic nation of Western Europe.

No single event in the Cold War greater significance for the th Pacific than this grab at the s Canal. If it should succeed, tern Europe will be hamstrung can give no further help to us i. The isolation of Western )pe means also the isolation of th America. Without Western )pe, America soon will be fightfor her own survival against Reds. She would abandon the ish and French of the South fie and Southeast Asia to the .tics, just as she abandoned the ch of the East Indies to the mesians.

IT is vital to our survival here that Britain shall regain and hold the leadership of the Western Powers in international affairs, with the help of France and Western Germany and of the smaller Nordic nations. If that does not happen, we shall be doomed to World War 111 and Communism —either as the result of an explosion in the Middle East, or of an hysterical decision by America to put the issue to the test of nuclear war, before she is overwhelmed by a Moscow-dominated Asia.

A combination of Western Europe and North America, strong and alert, can hold off World War 111 indefinitely. But it must be a combination directed by Britain. The combination which has been led by Washington diplomacy during the past ten years has brought us to the very edge of disaster.

The weaknesses of America > leadership have been exploited h cunning^ I®*’ 1 ®*’ With Me P histo Phelean Because of their idealistic viev;pomt in relation to nationalism, th Americans always have attacked thcolonialism” of the Europeg n nations, and especially have they undermined British, French and Dutch influence in their various Step by step, the Western Europeans have been driven out of their colonies; and each step weakened their national economy which, over a couple of centuries, had been built upon trade with their overseas possessions.

This was exactly what the Muscovite Communists wanted: They believe that, short of a World War 111, the only way to overthrow Western civilisation and establish world Communism, is to overthrow the economic structure of the West, to destroy it from within. America forcing Britain, as the price of American help in the Cold War crisis, to withdraw from her Empire (India, Burma, Ceylon, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Egypt, Soudan, and Jordan) caused enormous disruption of Britain’s economic organisation, and brought about the MATS! IN THE CENTRE: “What do you think, boys—do we tighten our belts?” 17 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

political and social troubles which have convulsed the Old Country in the last two years.

THE spear-point of Moscow's Cold War plan was directed at the Middle East. Russia, both Czarist and Communist, always has dreamed of a warm-water port, either in the Mediterranean or the Persian Gulf. Russia wants to dominate the Middle East, so as to deny the further use of the priceless oilfields to Britain and Western Europe. She wants access to the Middle East, so as to disrupt the Suez Canal communications, and get an entry into Africa, where — except for French North Africa — the vast colonial possessions of Britain and France are comparatively undisturbed.

Russia, while pulling ugly faces at America, cleverly allowed the Americans to do her dirty work for her—to push Britain and France out of much of Asia, and to bring them into conflict with the Arab States.

Had Britain and France been given the right kind of support from Washington, their retreat from Asia, while inevitable, would have been slow and orderly and would have added to their prestige as colonial Powers encouraging nationhood. Instead of which it has H precipitate, calamitously expenu disorderly and of such a charae as to lower their prestige in a that does not bear thinking ab HAD it not been for Nasz blundering action in seizing?

Canal—taken in pique, bee: the Americans and British ref1 to finance his Aswan Dam —the: British collapse might have o soon. Britain’s international pre:: was very low; her domestic final condition deplorable. The o; flirting of Egypt with Moscow the last three months, the je© of B & K while Washington lenr its preoccupations to the condf of President Eisenhower’s he: was the measure of the West’sa gradation.

Suddenly, there came this ins«i challenge by one of Most, stupidest instruments. Withb few hours, all the Western Pox united in anger and indignatio a way not seen in internal affairs since the Japs strucl: Pearl Harbour, were lining u. deal with an insult that could: be ignored. True, it was on Gyppo insult, and there are: races more contemptible Gyppos; but Nasser evidf imagined he was speaking for Soviet—it was only a week on since Moscow’s mantle had officially thrown around Cairo.

Mr. Dulles did not approve—he from Washington to Londox great agitation, to insist that i ing be done to precipitate t appeasement, and more app: ment, seems to be the root cd policies.

But Mr. Dulles achieved no: —except to bring from Britain France a very clear indication: this was the end of the road! more retreat in the face of nati; i s m and anti-colonialism blundering idealism. Mr. I flew back again, to receive home truths from a gnmr Menzies, awaiting him in Was ton —and an indication that, ever Washington may think,; much of United States public op was supporting England.

There was no further sig. weakness in London. Iraq asto; ingly (in spite of the Baghdad . fell in behind Egypt. H merely ordered another ai. carrier to be got ready. T. snarled that every Egyptian give his last drop of blood, retiring from the Suez Cana.i answer came next day, whe9 French fleet was ordered 9 Toulon to join the British 1 Mediterranean.

Nasser saw the Soviet Ambaf three times in one day. H went coldly ahead with her to take the Canal out of Eg? hands, and into internationax trol—which meant, of course there was to be no further apq (Continued Column 3 Next Pas The Case For Better Quality Copra HISTORY will, no doubt, record in due time whether Mr. H. B.

Gibson, Fiji MLA from Labasa, or the oil-millers are right about copra. What these two parties have to say on the subject can be found on pages 69-75 this issue.

Of the two opinions, Mr.

Gibson’s is the most interesting.

One may infer from it that Europe is clamouring for Pacific copra; that the future is assured, and that even those who make poor copra have nothing to fear.

In other words, why bother to make good copra? mi But why make bad copra? The reasons why you should not, are set out clearly on page 69, and onwards. The fact that they are explained by a Unilever executive should not blind you to the fact that they make good, commonsense As every South Seas copra producer knows, Mr. H. D. Howard, of Unilevers, visited the South Pacific copra-producing areas early this year, met planters and everywhere urged upon them much of what is contained in the article published in this issue on the pages mentioned. . . , , .

PIM, like everyone interested in Pacific copra, was at first intrigued by Mr. Howard’s visit and the purpose behind it. We were convinced early, however, that its main purpose was as stated —to meet producers and inform them what the oil-crushers wanted in the way of quality.

The great majority of planters were pleased to meet Mr. Howard and learn what he had to say—if for no other reason, than to find out what they were likely to be up against after 1957 and the end of the British MOF copra agreement.

But a small minority—particularly in Fiji—took the attitude that Unilever, through Mr. Howard, was simply trying to get at them again, probably by down-grading and down-pricing their present grade copra under pretext of requiring something better, for the ultimate enrichment of the Unilever combine.

However, there are some factors which copra producers should consider—factors that have little to do with Unilever: • FAO figures show that 150,000 tons of coconut oil per annum less than pre-war is now being used in soap. This is largely because of the use of detergents which take the place of common washing and scrubbing soaps. For high-grade toilet soaps it is desirable to have high-grade copra. Broken, badly dried, smoky copra does not make good toilet soap. • Although the world’s population is growing at a prodigious rate, the use of copra in food has not grown at a like rate. Only 50,000 more tons of coconut oil per annum are being diverted to food production than in 1938.

In other words, 100,000 tons of coconut oil have been lost somewhere along the way between 1939 and 1956—the place of these tons being taken by other oil-seeds and synthetics. , More edible oils than ever are being consumed; people are using cleaning agents in even higher degree than pre-war. The copraproducers are clearly not getting their old share of the market It could be, of course, that Colonel Nasser will provide another shotin-the-arm to the copra market, so that planters everywhere can continue —as Mr. Howard picturesquely put it—“to cut down everything but the tree,” smoke-dry it, and get away with it. ...... ..

According to the experts, it is not very much more difficult to make good copra than bad copra. Why then does so much indifferent copra continue to be made? A great deal of it, of course, is native copra; and, to date, it has been a seller s market. . , ... .

Human nature being what it is, it seems that the British Solomon Islands Protectorate has the right idea —£9 differential between top grade and third grade. On a plantation doing 300 tons a year, this means nearly £3,000 —probably enough to pay the rice bill, anyhow. 18 AUGUST, 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

(From Column 3 Opposite) iof the Arab States. Which it, also, that any Arab interice with Anglo-American oiler pipe-lines will bring prompt j&tion. die the British and French 5 move into position, Russia is ling noisily and gesturing ically, and giving a fine pretion of the part of Egypt’s friend. But the West is not imed. London and Paris know ir’s Grab was the last thing the ans wanted —they had Britain France on the run, and they nly to stand by and let bumblei Western diplomacy take its e, and the Middle East was I. * * * is The Grand Showdown. The ;nge is straight up to the t. If it does not support Britain and France will reto the dominance of the Middle If it does support Egypt, it it certainly will have to face United States and the—at nt —very silent Western Geri Indications are that there >e very much talk, but no fire, while, Britains’ ten years’ rewill have ended, and Britain’s f ul place in world affairs will gained. iser’s Grab may yet prove to been the turning-point in the War. is said that B & K are still ig and back-slapping. But it safe bet that there is nothing B & K would like better than locked un in a sound-nroof alone with a knout and Mr r. ration Feet-on-the-Ground

New Guinea'S Dc3 Aircraft

Unsafe For The Duke

Papua-New Guinea folk were amused to learn during the month at although they were a “calculated risk” .when it come to flying into e Highlands in DC3 aircraft, these planes were too chancy for the like of Edinburgh and that is why he was not visiting the Territory’s ost interesting area.

INDREDS of people each week ise the DC3 “Milk Run” services n P-NG, undeterred by the fact f if the 2,000,000 th chance tuates and one engine fails on -off, they will crash.

J 3 aircraft on the Highland run allowed 26,200 lbs weight—7,ooo lore than is considered safe for Jty. The high-density, stripped- [type of DC3 aircraft used in rerritory weighs 19,000 lbs betaking on fuel, crew or luggage, "obvious, therefore, that some- [ else would have to be stripped ■ the Duke is to travel in what the Civil Aviation authorities regard as Royal safety.

And, as every traveller in NG knows, there is nothing much left to strip. All the usual amenities of air travel have gone long since.

If it is only the safety factor that is keeping the Duke out of the Highlands, no one will regret it more than the Duke.

At the same time, local CA authorities cannot be blamed for not encouraging His Royal Highness to take risks that would be tabu in the UK.

Australian officials who are in charge of the Duke’s tour were to descend on P-NG in early August.

For a simple, “unofficial” visit, there seemed to be an impressive array of talent. Two Directors of the Royal Tour, a Public Relations Officer, a transport officer of the Department of Supply and an official of the Department of Civil Aviation.

They will visit Port Moresby, Bulolo, Lae, Rabaul and Momote.

It is rumoured that the Duke will be staying two more days in the Territory than was originally announced. 50 Years Of NH Condominium AS October 19, 1956, will be th 50th anniversary of the signin of the Franco-British Conven tion under which the New Hebrides became a Condominium, and as the South Pacific Commission meet tor its 16th Session in Noume;. close to the New Hebrides, on October 20, efforts are being madto arrange a visit to this area o ’ some distinguished people, so thai, the New Hebrides Jubilee may be fittingly celebrated.

Invitations have been issued to the Australian Minister for Externa I Affairs (Mr. Casey) and the Australian Minister for Territories (Mr.

Hasluck), to visit New Hebrides and New Caledonia in October, and there is a plan to issue invitations also to some distinguished Frenchmen and Britishers.

So far, the only definite arrangement to mark the jubilee is a new issue of Condominium postage stamps. (See elsewhere).

The New Hebrides is one of the richest, but least developed, of the big archipelagoes of the Southwest Pacific.

It could sustain a population of millions; but at present there are only 1,500 Frenchmen, 500 British, 50,000 Melanesians, and a significant, growing community of 2,000 Tonkinese.

There are three separate administrative organisations—the French, the British and the Condominium.

Probably, per capita, this is the most elaborate and expensive government in the South Pacific.

South Pacific Island . . .

As it says in the poem . . . "Many a green isle needs must be, in the deep wide sea of misery ..."

The Koki "Traffic Island" is not green but it has caused much controversy and some misery in Port Moresby since this form of traffic control has been adopted by the local Police Department. Orange warning lights have been installed. Many cars have hit the island since it was built—but whether this is the fault of the island or the result of local driving habits has been a matter of much local argument.

Photo by Papuan Prints. 19 ' IFIf ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

The Reason Why

Fiji No Longer Hears The Abc

9 O'Clock News

The sudden discontinuance by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission, in July, of the 7 p.m. Australian news service (hitherto broadcast regularly at 9 p.m. Fiji time), caused dismay in Fiji.

RESIDENTS have come to regard this rebroadcast news bulletin as their main radio news service. As produced by the ABC it represented a nice balance of overseas and Australian news.

Rumours in Fiji gave many reasons for the cessation of what was regarded as a public amenity, including objection by the local newspaper and/or a Press Agency representative. Inquiries in Suva and Sydney, however, indicate that this development had been under consideration for a long time.

The ABC is agreeable that Fiji should reproduce, without charge, any news material in the service that has been gathered by the ABC’s own staff, but the ABC includes in its 7 p.m. broadcast various services supplied by other organisations at a fee and there are certain copyrights inherent in fhpcp sspfvi PPS Consequently if such services are broadcast by the FBC, the FBC makes itself liable to a claim? for fees.

Present indications are that it is unlikely that the easy going arrangement under which the FBC transmitted the ABC 7 p.m. news service without charge will be resumed.

But Fiji still hears one ABC news broadcast a day one that originates in Australia at 6.30 a.m. over Radio Australia and is rebroadcast in Fiji during the day.

This bulletin contains news gathered only by ABC reporters and correspondents.

Mr. A. N. Finlay, assistant general manager of the ABC, said in Sydney late July that the ABC was “very happy” for Fiji to have this service.

“But we can’t give the FBC permission to use bulletins containing press agency news,” he said.

“If they can make arrangements with agencies to use the general news in our bulletins we would be quite happy to let them do so.

But we have to protect our contracts.”

Radio-NZ Gives Poor Service THE New Zealand Broadcasting Service like its Australian counterpart, operates a special short-wave broadcasting service intended primarly for the entertainment and information of people in New Zealand’s Island Territories.

The New Zealand service is run on a limited budget and the transmitters are under-powered, with reception ranging from very poor in the early mornings, to often quite good—but never as good as the much more powerful Radio Australia transmitters which co the world.

Perhaps this situation cannot 3 improved at the present time, there is at least one feature; Radio-NZ that could and sho be improved, and this is the nr service for the Islands.

The ordinary daily broadcasts New Zealand news—one at nr and two in the evening, are aim always identical, and are m repetitions of a news bulletin wh has already been transmitted J morse from Wellington and R lished in public news-sheets ini the islands earlier in the day.

Once each week there ise special “Newsletter for the Islanr This session consists substanti of merely broadcasting back to Cook Islanders items of C Islands news which appeared! their own news-sheet weeks or e months previously often witH any sub-editing, so that they read as is and appear as id which happened “yesterday.”

This material would make interesting broadcast directed!

Islanders resident in New ZealJ As such it would have to ( broadcast by a New Zea!. medium-wave station. But ii absurd to broadcast this mate to listeners in the islands.

On the other hand news Islanders resident in NZ, sucH that contained in despatches f the Rev. Mr. Challis, are of interest. There should be mon this: as well as regular informs, despatches from Island Territc Department, talks on tropical c;; Island industries, native co-or tives; up-to-the-minute ship news, prompt reports on pc received in New Zealand tomato shipments; overseas ms quotations on copra, etc.

When it's Wintertime Down South . . .

In this season of biting winds and rain and snow Down South, the Navy has been showing the flag in the pacific Islands.

HMAS "Swan", under the command of Commander Rebertson, DSC, visited Vila, New Hebrides, amongst other places. At left, the mander is seen after placing a wreath on Vila War Memorial. At right, the social side of the occasion, when leading Vila residents met of of "Swan" at a cocktail party at the British Residency. Photo by Fung 20 AUGUST. 19 5 6 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

St. Administrator

P-NG. [?] Wilson Calls Quits [?]ter 2 Years FTER two years in Papua-New Guinea, Mr. R. W. Wilson, Administrator, will r e for a new appointment ards the end of this month, e will become First Assistant retary to the Department of nary Industry. e was appointed to P-NG two rs ago after the position was sly advertised, and after a great lof delay. It was assumed that would stay more than two years.

Fe cannot think of anything that Wilson leaves behind in the ritory as a lasting memorial. His rtic u 1 a r Administration job fared to be to say “no” to imunate residents; and to fire Cana bullets. inberra expects no more of its linistrators. So as far as Cana is concerned, no doubt Mr. ion is regarded as being an f.a.q. ess, even if, in the eyes of Terrims, he failed to ignite even the it blaze on the Laloki.

R. Marsh Now “Acting”’

le Department of Territories, berra, told the Pacific Islands thly, on August 13, that Mr. R. sh, an Assistant-Secretary of the wtment of Territories, will pro- [ to Port Moresby shortly and become Acting Assistant Adstrator pending the permanent lintment. for the position of Jtant Administrator have been d. and close August 18. spokesman for the Department that the fact that Mr. Marsh going to Port Moresby had no ificance as far as the permanent lintment was concerned. He was ble to apply for the position— was “up to him”—and if he his application would receive same consideration as that of me else. ‘ recently was Acting Govern- -6 Secretary, Northern Territory, ng the time he was in Darwin, was Acting Administrator for weeks. )OTNOTE: At the time of his intment, Mr. Wilson was itant Secretary to Trade and stry Branch of the Commonth Treasury. It was said that: 5 had been engaged in come; • He was a graduate of the tesbury Agricultural College; a had been a Director of War ice Land Settlement; • He had wised the rural training of excemen. what use was Mr. Wilson able ut these special skills in the itory? it could be that Mr. an, too, has suffered frustraand considers that two years is enough.

Could Be Hint Of Things to Come Fiji Isolated from Australia, USA, While Repairs Made at Nadi Scant warning of less than a month that Nadi international airport was to be closed for repairs, and the obvious disregard of Fiji s convenience by the Aviation authorities, have caused annoyance in all sections of the Fiji community.

FIJI has been without a direct air link to Australia or America since August 13, while Nadi International Airport is closed for the reconstruction of the intersection of two runways, Repairs are expected to take about 2 ee^ s ‘ _ Qantas, Pan American Airways, and Canadian Pacific Air Lines will operate Sydney - Auckland - Canton Island and vice versa during this period.

While Nadi is closed, Tasman Empire Airways is operating a flying-boat service between Auckland and Laucala Bay, Suva, three times a week.

This service will leave Laucala Bay on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays at 7.30 a.m., and will leave Auckland for Laucala Bay at 8 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

The flying-boat service will enable inward and outward Fiji passengers to make plane connections at Auckland, All overseas air mails will v> carried between Auckland and Suva by TEAL.

Air mails from Australia for Piii will close at the GPO at Svdnev on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 a.m. These mails will be transferred from TEAL DC6 to flying-boat at Auckland for Suva Inward mails for Australia from Fiji will leave from Suva on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. thttt’ci TritiDToir T , TT — TT

Fiji T Tc Jh^ Ist Industry

A - Ll Upside Down”

The announcement that Nadi Airport was to close for 10 or 15 da y g gave rise to considerable criticism in Fiji. Particularly as such short notice was givenalthough those responsible must have been aware of the hold-up for months—and because the month selected for the work is one of Fiji’s busiest tourist months, (Continued on Page i4i) Apia's Winning Queen . . .

The queen carnival, recently held in Apia, raised almost £5,000 towards the erection of a St. Mary's High School for girls. Pictured above is the winning queen, Mrs. A. Steffany, with some of her Old Girl supporters after her coronation at the final ball of the carnival held in the Tivoli Theatre. Back row, left to right: Mrs. T. Jessop, Mrs. Stoechict, Mrs. G. Fepulea'i, Mrs. F. Paul, Queen Amy Steffany, Mrs. A. Strickland, Mrs. Maria Netzler, Mrs. S. Rankin, Mrs.

Jane Fruean, Mrs. Ida Meredith, Mrs. L. Chan Mow. Front row: Mrs. N. Pereira, Mrs. Pepe Ah Kui, Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. L. Nauer, Mrs. R. Fabricius, Miss Feula Stowers, Miss Beka Stehlin.

Photo by R. F. Rankin. 21 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

The Editors' Mailbag

Concerning the Worms of Mangaia Our editorial dictum was: “No— nothing more about Mangaia’s worms.” We were sure that oiir readers do not care if Mangaia is permanently bereft of worms.

But the editorial sanctum is persistently attacked by Edwin Gold, of Mangaia. “I did not say that there were no worms on Mangaia,” he shouts. “What I said was that Mangaia needs more worms.” OK —Mangaia needs more worms.

“And you made me say that no co-operative enterprise (presumably anywhere in the world) has succeeded,” he wails. ‘What I said was that no co-operative enterprise ever has succeeded on Mangaia.”

All right. The slate now is wiped clean. Let there be silence. (For new readers: Mangaia is the most southerly of the Cook Islands.

It produces oranges, a few tomatoes and a tough and argumentative type of trader.) Old-Timers Old-timer Nixonwestwood is back in London again, after investigating possibilities of cocoa-trading in West Africa. But his heart still is in the South Seas, where he spent the more virile years of his life.

“Just heard from two old New Guineans,” he writes, unconsciously adopting the current name for the inmates of the Trust Territory.

“Percy Woods is in Brisbane, and Norman Izod is at Sewa Sewa, near Samarai. Norman was a partner of Henry Dexter, and I calculate that he got there in 1911, and so must have been 40 years in the Territory. I hope he writes that book some day—he must have seen some strange changes.”

Incidentally, a book of reminiscences by Nixonwestwood himself is at present being looked over by an American publisher.

“Congratulations on taking over The Fiji Times,” adds Nixonwestwood. “Fifty years ago, I met the man who started The Fiji Times — Griffiths, a most kindly editor, with a paternal beard. He used to print Fiji’s early postage stamps.”

Colonel Sir Charles Ponsonby: A Warning “I note that one of the leaders of the Royal Empire Society, Sir Charles Ponsonby, is about to visit Fiji, on his way to Australia and New Zealand,” says a London correspondent.

“I hope that someone in the South Pacific will give the gentleman a few details of how Britain has fallen down on her job of developing the resources of the Solomon and New Hebrides islands, and of how she connived at the transfer of Indonesia from the responsible Dutch to the irresponsible and unpredictable Indonesians.

“Above all, I hope that, when he is given the details, he will be able to get the right angle on the sorry picture. Will he see the Asiatic settlements in the South Pacific Islands in their true focus? I doubt it.

“I will wager anything that he will attend some pleasant teaparties in Sydney and Melbourne, and return to tell us that all is well in the South Seas, and that you will be saved from Asiatic invasion by grateful recipients of the Colombo Plan ”

Where Charles Darwin Hunted Pigs We have word of that veteran LMS missionary, Rev. Harold J. E.

Short, now retired happily in a lovely place called Paira Point, near Rigo, on the northeast coast of Papua. He did yeoman service in the Papuan mission field; but we remember him best as a skilled writer of tales.

“My place is 100 hilly acres of freehold, beside the bay where the Beagle anchored, and Charles Darwin came ashore and shot wild paira (pigs)”, he writes.

“Our reference books show that HMS Beagle was in that area over 100 years ago.

One of Those Moments It was sad to read in your July PIM of the passing of John Ryan —he enjoyed life (writes an Old Territorian).

I remember an occasion when John was at Aropa Plantation, Kieta. He came in to Kieta to meet the Siar, which was tied up at the old Kieta wharf—she then was running via ports from Rabaul.

Ted Bishton was then the radio officer at Kieta.

In the afternoon we celebrated the birthday of Patrol Officer Ward —he had one every month. During the celebrations, John Ryan fell into the “drink”—and as he went over his white helmet fell back on the deck.

There was a lot of scrambling by the on-lookers, but their assistance did not contribute much to the rescue of John. Eventually, John crawled up the side of the stone wharf, and on to the jetty.

Ted Bishton replaced the helmet on John’s head. After a while John felt the helmet, and discovered that it was quite dry. He said: “I couldn’t even have gone un»j the water.” Actually, he wn down so far that we thought would never come up again.

Joyita's Ex-Owner is Finnish, not Polynesian What’s in a name? Frequem more than appears on the surfat Reviewing that volume Polynesian folk-lore, Voices on Wind, we referred to the autM Katherine Luomala, as “ps Polynesian herself.” (See Jt PIM). Whereupon an old frie who knows Miss Luomala w chides us gently: “Katherine Luomala is a h fessional anthropologist, trained the United States, and —although resident of Hawaii—anything like a Polynesian you never lr seen. Her name is Finnish, shu the child of Nordics, and she thin and blonde. However, can be excused for thinking t Luomala is Polynesian.”

A Queer Ship Nukualofa, Tonga, had its first visit t submarine in early July when HMS machus" arrived for a three days' visi[?] carried two scientists who are mak[?] survey of the sea-bed in connection w[?] geo-physical year. Tongans from all Tongatabu came into town to see w[?] them, was a very queer ship. The usual hospitality was accorded the Captain submarine and his crew. Queen Salo[?] Tonga, was presented with a model ship and a replica of the sub's cresl[?] photo shows a Tongan and his sm[?] examining "Telemachus".

Photo by AUGUST. 19 56 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

[?]IVERSAL [?]JFF RAGE [?]ew Voting Powers For French Colonials FEW laws (Loi Cadre) which I came into operation recently in French Colonies are designed ■ decentralisation of administran. shifting the responsibility for :h colony’s interior development m Metropolitan France to the al Governor and a “ministry” >sen partly by the Governor and tly by the local Consul-General. )ne of the most far-reaching jets of the Loi Cadre is likely be the introduction of universal frage; Europeans and non- •opeans over 21 will have equal tits —the only bar to voting will a criminal record—according to Noumea Correspondent, tow this will affect New edonia’s rather uneasy electoral «m is not known, i new constitution for New edonia was proposed in 1951 ler which for the first time ives were to be represented on Conseil-General. A double roll I proposed—the natives voting the 9 native members and the opeans voting for the 16 opean members. bwever, before the 1952 elections E place, the common-roll became ve issue. he Colony split on it and for year there was no Conseilieral; a deputation of French uties visited Noumea in tember, 1952, and some comnise was made. An election on mon-roll basis was held the wing February in which the ist Lenormand party which aded the 9 native members— ted a healthy majority.

Imost half the voters on that ,sion were natives, but they had have certain educational ifications, is not clear whether, under new laws of universal suffrage, sational qualifications will come the matter at all. The last lable population figures give )peans as 21,788; natives as U; and others as 7,700. ijor C. A. Swinbourne, owing 1-health, has resigned from the idency of the Pacific Islands ety, Sydney, where he has 1 yeoman service over many s. He has been undergoing ital treatment, and slowly renng his health. He formerly well known in the adminisve service in Fiji and Western fic High Commission. son was born on May 18, at G & EIC, to Capt. and Mac Addie.

The Mikimoto Recipe

Japanese Will Produce Australian

Pearls For International Company

Without fuss and with no advance publicity, a joint Australian- Japanese-Amencan venture has gone into operation in North Australia and will produce culture pearls, primarly for export. A party of 15 Japanese, mostly technicians, is already on the job. P y Surprisingly, no howls of outrage have yet come from the Australian groups which usually give tongue on these occasions.

The company, called Pearls Pty.

Ltd., has been formed by Broome pearlers, Male and Co.; Brown and Bureau Ltd., well-known Australian firm of importers with HQ in Melbourne; Otto Gerdau Co., of New York, buyers of Torres Strait pearl-shell: and Nippo Pearl Co.

Ltd., of Tokio. With this international commercial talent, the company is scarcely likely to fail in its enterprise.

The pearl farm is on Augustus Island, 200 miles NE of Broome —the West Australian Government has granted a lease of certain waters and the land.

The methods used in producing the pearls will be those of the late Kokochi Mikimoto, the Japanese pedlar of noodles who after about 30 years’ effort discovered, in 1913, how to make oysters grow pearls at will. He died a millionaire a couple of years ago, aged 96.

Nuclei up to one tenth of an inch in diameter are inserted in selected pearl oysters along with a graft of mantle tissue. Nacre secreted by the “mother” oyster builds up around the nucleus and produces the pearl. A Japanese “specialist ship” Otama Maru will collect live shell from Australian luggers and transport it to the farm at Augustus Island.

This is not the first time that culture pearls have been produced from Australian oysters. Before the war the Japs transported shells from the Arafura Sea to the Caroline Islands and Okinawa and successfully produced pearls from them.

Csiro Will Show You How

After the Pacific War, Australia obtained Mr. Mikimoto’s secret — apparently as part of war reparations and the CSIRO was entrusted with the task of seeing if anything could be done with it.

In Sydney on August 1, Dr.

George Humphrey, of the CSIRO’s Fisheries and Oceanography Division at Cronulla, NSW, admitted that they had carried out successful experiments at Thursday Island, following the Mikimoto method.

“We have produced pearls experimentally,” he said.

While not expansive on the subject of culture-pearls, or the CSIRO’s part in producing them, the Doctor promised that if anyone wants to know how to make a culture pearl, they can go along to the CSIRO and the Organisation will show them how.

Which seems a very fair offer.

FOR SALE IN FIJI Famous Hotel And A famous Plantation PIECES of valuable real estate have been finding their way into the “For Sale” columns of Australian newspapers recently.

One is the Beachcomber Hotel, Deuba, established half a dozen years ago by the Philp brothers and currently owned by Mr. Hope Gibson. It is about 60 miles from Suva and is advertised as: “modern in every detail and derives excellent profits, not only from tourists, but also from local trade.”

It is for private sale.

The other is Nabavatu, in the Exploring Islands of Lau—or, as the Malleys, present owners, prefer to call it, “Turquoise Harbour,”

The estate, primarily a copra plantation, is described in such a way as to make the average harassed city-dweller drool with envy and it is suggested that it is a potential Tourist and Health Resort.

It is to Nabavatu that Sir Gordon Taylor usually takes his air-tourists on his off-the-beaten-track flyingboat cruises.

Nabavatu is, of course, famous for its beauty—even in beautiful Lau.

The estate was once owned by the late Mr. Gus Hennings. It was to Nabavatu (which means the “stone wall”) that Mrs. Hennings went as a bride from Germany about 1912. At that time the Hennings divided their time between Nabavatu and Naitauba but later ; old the former to Captain Grey. He in turn sold to the Malley; a few years after World War L.

The property will be auctioned in Sydney on August 31. 23 c IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

Papuan Oil

SPECULATION Lack Of Information Annoys Shareholders OIL Search shares have fluctuated between 21/- and 16/- over the past month, and were, on August 11, quoted at 18/6. This instability has been dictated by whether or not British buyers were operating on the market and not by any news from the current interest —the drilling of Kuru No. 2, following the sealing of gas in Kuru No. I—which has been entirely lacking.

It is estimated that at least 600,000 Oil Search shares have been bought by London interests in the last few weeks. This has led to rumours that British Petroleum, which has been responsible for a large part of the buying spree, aims to buy Oil Search out.

It is obvious that with the 5/share of Australia’s Oil Search (which owns only one-tenth of A PC) around £l, it would have to be a very rich oil strike, indeed, to return an adequate income on shares bought at the latter figure.

However, logic does not enter much into oil-share speculation.

APC in a 60-word report in mid- August, stated Kuru No. 2 has reached 1,640 ft. The drill met gas in the same formation as did Kuru No. 1, and after drilling through the gas-zone, “water-bearing formation was penetrated.”

This report came almost 5 weeks after the previous one, when No. 2 was at only 500 ft; in the interval the drill passed through the gas, around 900 feet, but APC made no report on it to Australian shareholders. This has annoyed most shareholders and newspapers.

They have had to wait in doubt while London investors, in possession of information denied Australians, operated on the Australian market, causing wild fluctuation.

They are, they say, forced to make do with the meagre monthly reports handed out by APC. If anything—or nothing—happens in between the date of one hand-out and the date of the next, APC hugs the information to itself. There should be at least weekly reports.

Up-to-date information is available in London. Why not to Oil Search shareholders in Australia?

Another complaint is that when the brief reports are made, they are almost meaningless to the average person.

These complaints are not unreasonable. Some Oil Search shareholders have come a long way with APC, but the attitude of the big company now is that, apart from their modest contribution of money, they are of no importance whatever.

“ PROMISING ”

Lae Sisal for Melbourne Rope A MELBOURNE rope manufacturing company received the first Sisal exported commercially from Lae, NG, in early July.

The Sisal was grown on the Bubia Experimental Station, about eight miles from Lae. The shipment was described as being of top quality and equal to the best available in the world. The price now is in the vicinity of £ll2 per ton.

Time alone will tell whether Sisal will become one of the many small crops developed by the small farmer. —Lae Correspondent. (As our correspondent says, time will tell. . . as time has, apparently, already told with the “promising” kenaf industry and the “promis:; manila hemp industry—both which crops were grown experirmj ally, at Bubia.)

R. Gillespie Executive

Back On Job

MR. H. N. GREEN, a directa Robert Gillespie Pty. Ltd., the misfortune to lose his n arm in a motor accident in Syo last May.

As he has not yet learned to v; competently with his left hand has asked PIM to pass on to< friends in the Islands his thsj for the many messages of symp;i he has received.

Mr. Green returned to dut: Pitt Street in July.

Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years Ago.

A UGUST, 1936, was a particularly J\ dull month in the Pacific —except in Western Samoa to which the exiled Mau leader had recently returned, and where a delegation of the newly-elected Labour Party of NZ was visiting. This change of NZ Government did, in fact, put an end to the Mau troubles; but NZ’s Socialists had other ideas that were not so popular. They were for example, determined to get rid of the Chinese who had been introduced by the Germans to work in the plantations. And this, as history has shown, they subsequently did.

Here are other extracts from the PIM of August, 1936: About 15,000 Samoans gathered on Apia's foreshore when the Mao leader, Mr. 0. F.

Nelson, returned by "Maui Pomare" to Western Samoa with his three daughters after two years exile in New Zealand. Mr. Nelson had been preceded to the Territory by a NZ "goodwill mission" of Labour parliamentarians who returned to NZ to announce that all the "mistrust, grievances and misunderstanding of the past have been cleared away". * * * Childishness in public life, was what we called it when three former councillors of the recently defunct Suva Town Council were charged with the cost of one mayoral chain.

Suva had changed over from an elected Council to a nominated Town Board, and Mr. Alport Barker had been the last mayor. As a parting gift, three of the ex-Councillors presented him with the Mayoral chain of office; no one was going to need it on the Town Board, anyhow.

Unauthorised expenditure, the new auditors called it; the three councillors were taken to Court and charged £l3/10/- for their sentimental gesture. * * * A paper pulp mill to cost £500,000 was to be established at Collingwood Bay, Papua. The pulp was to be made from kunai grass and the paper from the pulp was to be of fine writing and printing quality. British Australian Pulp and Paper Co. were the promoters. The was to turn out from 15,000 to 20,00 ff of pulp per year. If was just one of dreams that did not happen. * * * "Most ominous" was the way "o quarters" were regarding the fact that native villages around Rabaul were settiii their own copra driers and selling dire copra-buyers instead of selling copra in parcels to traders. The small traders being "deprived" and natives were bea "possessed of too much money".

These sentiments make odd reading in * * * A stir was caused by Australian news! when the Captain of a ship reported sii a man on remote Motu Iti in the S Group. Mrs. C. T. P. Ulm, wife of the fl airman who had disappeared on a trans-lflight near Honolulu in 1934, said she bo that it was her husband and Australian papers took up the cry. Investigations a that Motu Iti was currently inhabited by l cutters. «{• One thing that has not changed much years is the Cook Islands fruit trade witH Zealand. In our issue of August, 193 E tomato growers were complaining bitterlyi having "cheap labour" tomatoes dumpt them. As it was then mid-winter in would be interesting to know where the tomatoes were coming from. * * * A traveller in Western Samoa was lyn the low cost of living in that Territory, rent was £2 to £3 per month. House su £1 per month; native foodstuffs in ko It was said that for £4OO per year a could live in luxury.

Sjs * Mr. Jack Hides, who had resigned frc Papuan Administration, was prevented!] leading a gold mining expedition into w now the Southern Highlands of Papua,, he had discovered, when the area was su; proclaimed an "uncontrolled area". Mr ■ was to have been accompanied by Capt.l Taylor—now Sir Gordon Taylor—famous * 24 AUGUST, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

[?]y Still May Meet

Prime Minister Menzies And “Turncoat"

SOEKARNO IE Suez Canal crisis blew out the Australian Prime Minister’s plan to visit Djarkarta on ust 25; but the persistence of mesia’s claim to West New nea might have made it worthe. ith politico-economic conditions [ndonesia growing progressively ie, and a steady immigration of lese, mostly under Communist lence, the vital importance of possible land bridge from Redinated countries of South-East Ito Australia and the South fic cannot be under-estimated, riting in the Dutch periodical, schrift Nieuw Guinea, Dr.

H. K. Feuilletau de Bruyn, of Hague, warns that South and Australia may be the Pacific’s time hartland in Communist [•term plans for world dominaand he suggests that Indonesia d be included as a jumping-off he German word hartland is a olitical term meaning a country 1 to serve as a main centre of nation of a large part of the 1] I Djakarta meeting between f, Conservative Mr. Menzies and and slick President Soekarno, •ibed by his foes as a man of y masks, would at least have ided striking contrasts. f o. publication, entitled, “Once ancoat. . . the South Molucl Anti-Communist Committee s a series of photographs deig Dr. Soekarno entertaining being entertained by General and other would-be Japanese aerors of the Pacific during d War 11.

The committee says that Dr.

Soekarno won the plaudits of the Japanese in speeches which said in part: “America we shall iron out, England we shall break part. .

“Your fight against the Americans is being joyfully acclaimed by u 5...”

“We Indonesians will continue to collaborate with Japan. . .”

For political power, the committee says, Soekarno would sell his birthright. To-day, he claims to be neutralist but he always has shown and still shows strong Communist sympathies. “Once a turncoat always a turncoat. .

Soekarno Joins Nasser In

Repudiating Obligations

INDONESIA will pay no more debts to Holland, the Indonesian Government announced in Djakarta on August 4.

The debts, involving about £A43O millions, were taken over by the Indonesians when they took administration from the Dutch East Indies Government.

The Indonesians have now discovered that the debt is “offset” by the “war waged against us by the Dutch”—and, that, in fact, the Dutch owe them money.

This irresponsible action by the Indonesians was linked by the New York Times on August 6 with the Nasser grab at the Suez Canal.

These were matters of economic morality, said the Times, and asked what will happen to international economic society if this sort of thing becomes an accepted practice.

“Actions like President Nasser’s and President Soekarno’s make a real international credit structure impossible.” (A week later, on August 11 was announced that a far-reachn trade agreement” had been reachf between the Indonesian Governme; and a Communist delegation froi Moscow.) The extraordinary effect of a sudden rush of power to the head; of such people as the Indonesians and Egyptians was simply illustrated some weeks ago when some of the Messageries Maritimes cargo ships on their way through Suez, were refused water at Port Said because the Egyptians did not approve of the line the French were taking in Algeria.

These people scream for independence: and then, when it is given to them, they are incapable of accepting the obligations of nationhood.

General de Gaulle's Visit to N. Cal.

General Charles de GAULLE’S only contact with Australia in his forthcoming visit to French territories will be a brief stop at Darwin when his plane calls there on its way from New Caledonia to French Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The General will arrive in Noumea, on September 9, on the Caledonien and stay four days. t At Areligo plantation, 17 miles from Honiara, BSIP, on July 23, an 8-years-old native girl was taken by a crocodile. The child was asleep on the beach between her parents, and the father awoke to see her being dragged away by the crocodile.

Next day the reptile was killed; part of the girl’s body was found inside. [?]er 12 Months Again an Air-Service... population of [?]rned out in force [?]uer airfield on 5 when the first of Transports [?]ens Inter- [?] ntaux arrived [?]oumea. The New [?]s has been with- [?] air link to the world since withdrew its [?]oats in mid- [?] Apparently TAI to some arrangewith TRANSPAC, was reported to anding rights to la airstrip. The Service will be [?]n Mondays and [?]ys.

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ria Syndicate’s Marathon Fight tE marathon fight of the German - Swedish - American group, called the War i a dicate, for developmental and ;r rights over a large area in New Guinea Trust Territory vs no sign of ending. r. H. R. Wahlen, of Hamburg, German-New Guinea pioneer is the moving spirit, still ses, after all the years that i elapsed since World War I, all it a no-decision contest, le latest round has been nclusive. The New Guinea imissioner of Titles (Mr. C. P. lubbery) stated, a few months that he cannot make a Final ;r until he receives from the ctor of Native Affairs a ficate on non-existence of ve rights over the area claimed ;he Syndicate. lies generally southward of the tmua-Wau line and northwards le Papua-New Guinea border and ides all the Waria River ict, but not the Morobe goldiria’s claim is based on a grant 6 by the German Government before the outbreak of World I. The Syndicate contends it ternational and thus cannot be ted by the expropriation of nan properties which followed war.

'. Wahlen has received through Minister for Sweden in ralia advice that the position i by Mr. MeCubbery is this: tnvestigation of the native s in detail over 5,000 square I of the District of Morobe 1 be a large task.

No official objection has b~en i by any interested party to provisional Order stating that Varia Syndicate has no interest le area, nor has he received request to take further action.

In view of this he has not ed for advice from the Director ative Affairs on the question itive rights. b next move (see February » is likely to be an appeal by Syndicate to the Australian rnment or the High Court of •alia. anwhile, with time still mng on, tenacious Mr. Wahlen ommented, in Hamburg: T am not being able to accept the es of the Commissioner for the but I hope it will not take ier year before we get the Order now.”

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DR. J. C. LOPDELL has been appointed Director of Health Western Samoa, as successor to Dr. T. C. Lonie, who left the Territory several months ago Dr. Lopdell, MB, ChB, DPH, served in Western Samoa from 1945 to 1951, the last four years as Chief Medical Officer and Director of Health.

He has since been in private practice near Dunedin, New Zealand and was associated with the Medical School of Otago University.

Dr. and Mrs. Lopdell are expected to arrive in Apia beginning of September.

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J A son (Garry James) was born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Chillcott of Lae, New Guinea, on July 3 27 riFlc ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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' Sudanese claim it would inre with their vital rights to water. They prefer the present m of smaller dams, at intervals, timates vary; but the project 29 1F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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An article elsewhere these startling development i Middle East may directly affee future of the South Pacific. tf Judge T. Gore, of the Suj Court of Papua and New Cl with Mrs. Gore was Norfolk Island late July. 30 AD’GOST, 1 956 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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By Tolala pone Know obeland”? >stal officials in P-NG must get b brain-teasing addresses to un- -1 at times. ae such was forwarded to me ntly from Manager Sandford, of la Numa, down Bougainville om England, the envelope was ■essed: “Pacific Ils South Seas, la Numa. Bourgainville. via i. Raybaul Island. Globelands. alasia. Australia.” te contents were also mystify- A letter, written from Numa 1a in 1920 to “Dear Lou,” and ;d “Bill,” together with a photo n Australian outback scene —a i a fly, horses’ harness on a peg, iddle and numerous packing 5.

I the back was written, “Our )y Home at Globelands.” so on the photo, in the same ng as that which appeared on jnvelope, was this message: “37 I ago our brother did dig for with a Radiar Globelands.” identified “Bill,” the writer of )ld letter, as one W. H. Glad, who was an overseer with me on Arigua (near Numa Numa) in 1915.

He is now dead, I believe. But where is Globelands, who addressed the envelope and wrote on the photo?

And how come the digging for gold “with a radiar” 37 years ago?

Any answers?

Operation TNG Many articles have been written; many talks given over the air as to Australia’s ability to deal with the Trusteeship responsibilities in TNG following the last visit of the UN Mission which, quite justifiably suggested that “the international community” has a special responsibility to help Australia in this matter.

Some writers and speakers deprecate the idea that Australia should be assisted in bringing TNG into line with modern conceptions of welfare and political freedom.

They express the fear that extra- Australian ideas may affect Australia’s internal interests and become a danger from a cultural or economic viewpoint.

I do not think the UN Mission had any such intention when the suggestion of international assistance was made. Rather do I envisage help coming from such bodies as UNESCO and WHO, whose activities are non-political, and who a Jr ea u d y capable of rendering valuable help to the Administration both in personnel and finance.

There is also the inference whether Mr. Casey likes it or not that the largesse showered upon near Asiatic countries, could be fS Ual T^ sl^ red by in digenes of the NG Trusteeship.

If our policy in TNG is to be one of swift development and a hurried greasing of the slipways lor the launching of self-government for these people (with which I dont agree), then it is only too apparent that the few million pounds subsidy, given oy the Australian taxpayer for this purpose, is totally inadequate for speedy resuits.

Only assistance from outside sources can meet the case, plus the diversion of defence allocations which, in the past, have proved too large to be spent in any one financial year. To what better purpose could defence money be applied than to roads, bridges, air-strips and port facilities in TNG—our acknowledged first line of defence?

From the general trend of opinion expressed regarding TNG development, it would seem that Time is the essence of the Contract; that all speed must be made in 31 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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VHIA ment is only storing up trouble; the future.

Old Timers Pass On Two of TNG pioneers passed ai in Queensland recently, and timers’ memories will be stirred an empty glass turned down.

At the end of June, Jack RF went to his Long Sleep in Brisbc (July PIM).

I met him first in the Exprobo in the early Twenties, whem came over from Papua, and m a long and whimsical letter i; ceived from him when he Board Plantation Inspector dt Buka way.

Those overseers serving ui him will recall his unremit} efforts to slash away the entarr ments of red tape that imp«« their activities.

Carl Augustus Wittkopp died July 14 in Bundaberg, Qld. Ch;j was a popular Kiap in Manus t ing the military administration held the rank of Captain ti though he previously was a ME in the AIF.

For many years he had a hi ware business in Bundaberg leaves a widow to mourn his de The Wheel Turns Often, when I read some of’ current declarations of policy the Golden Era Plans for nr welfare I can easily visualis knowing smile of satisfaction wl if she is still alive, must spc over the features of a little,, lady who nearly 30 years ago sts a crusade against racial discrii. ation and advocated many of’ things now being put forwaro so-called sociological expertsa bring New Guineans into Western fold.

What Mrs. Jane T. Wallace ( then lived just out of Rab lacked in tact and diplomacy,, more than made up for in sist Q nt adherence to her prino and consistent sniping at Powers That Were.

Officially, the Little Lady considered a pain-in-the-neck. she should now be feeling, eve some of the hobby-horses she so persistently were not pra able or advisable, that her have now received the imprint of official advisers.

Had official thought traw along the Jane Wallace Lirr years ago she would probably received much kudos and n decorations.

One of her sons, Tom, was 3 in the Montevideo Maru diss another one is currently No. the NSW Medical Services, was a MO in TNG at one till And so the wheel turns its plete cycle. (Mrs Wallace is still alive, in g health and living in Sydney.— 34 AUGUST, 1856 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTK

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Iy own impression of that gentlen a few days before the kite it up, when I approached him arding press-censorship, was that he was wholly unprepared for any such emergency as that which eventuated.

There were taller poppies in the field. It was a poor show that made Rabaul so expendable. Let us hope it is not repeated.

What of the Old Customs?

At a meeting of native leaders in Moresby recently, the fact that old traditions and customs were going into the discard was deplored. The younger generation knew little of the old skills and cultures so well (Continued on Page 133) After a seven - years [?]ht to get out of mmunist Ciecho- [?]vakia, Mrs. J. K. [?]ova (centre), arrived Port Moresby on [?]y 14 to join her son- [?]law and daughter, and Mrs. Janousek. [?] had to sign all her [?]perty over to the [?]ch Government, give her citizenship and [?]vel as a person of nationality. She flew KLM to Hollandia, [?] from Hollandia to [?]resby by Qantas. [?]to shows her at the port with her daughter son-in-law.

Photo by Papuan [?]ts. 35 CIFIC-, ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1856

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Papua-New Guinea was thick with VIP visitors during July. Native troops and Police were kept busy forming guards of honour and Administration officials spent a great deal of time showing the visitors what the visitors wished to see.

All were welcome, however, except the Indonesian Military Attache, Lt. Col.

Roekmito, whose visit to “inspect Australian Military establishments in Port Moresby, Lae and Manus” caused much criticism.

Australia’s External TT Affairs Minister Casey might say on the subject of Indonesians, most residents of Papua- New Guinea feel that they could be fighting Indonesians on Territory soil some day.

They were reassured, on the occasion of the Attache’s visit that it was “in order.” Few cared what the diplomatic facts of the matter were, however; they felt that the visit was an “impertinence.” Mr.

Casey has a hard time getting his recalcitrant Australians to toe the Diplomatic line.

More welcome visitors taken North by Australia’s July cold were: The G o v e r n o r-General, Sir William Slim; the United States Ambassador and Mrs. Moffat, and the US Consul-General, Mr. Donald Kennedy; Ambassador for Thailand, Nai Konthi Suphamongkhon; Minister for the Army Cramer; Minister for Works Fairhall; United States Military Attache Milner; Labour Member for Reid, Morgan (private visit); Deputy-Leader of the Opposition Calwell (also private); and last, but not least, six Federal Parliamentarians led by the Tasman i a n Liberal Member, I Falkinder.

Lae Loses The Eekhoffr

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After the Second War they were longst the first back in Lae, retablishing their business, but later [ling out to Buntings. They have Bn living in retirement for a numr of years.

Both were keen workers for the IL and for the Church of England.

Before Mrs. Eekhoff left for Cairns er 70 of her women friends enterned her to afternoon tea at the ►tel Cecil, where a wallet of notes ,s presented to her.

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rhe Markham Valley Developmt Co., made its first commercial mting of rubber in New Guinea June. >eed was imported from Malaya 1 50 acres have been sown.

Jew Guinea is not, of course, a iducer of rubber in the same way Papua where it is of first momic importance. However, >ber has been grown and exported m New Guinea in the past—l 6 is as late as 1947.

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In 1954, 414 acres were planted up m Bougainville and New Brltain - Successful A ton per day of native ration biscuits is being turned out from this factory of Buntings Ltd. (a subsidiary of A.

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he Fourth Annual Fashion ade, organised by the Caroline )n, was held in Stewart Hall, , on July 13. ine mannequins took part— icilla Howes, Ann Stockton, Muffle lling, Pam Margin, Judy Sara, ;y Potter, Patricia Freeborn, raine Roberts and Jennifer ries.

Jhool funds are expected to sfit to the extent of £loo—it ht have been more but heavy i dampened the spirits of some he patrons.

Rabaul Race Meeting

POSTPONED abaul’s first post-war race meethad to be postponed from early r until a date to be fixed in Sepber. he meeting was to have coincided i the visit of Orient Liner nsay, but has been put off because a number of horses which were to have run have not arrived from Australia, (Over) e Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Ure, of the London [?]onary Society, Port Moresby, photographed [?]une with a large group of native LMS teachers who attended a conference at Port Moresby.

Photo by Papuan Prints. 41 OIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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Local police had a busy night, too looking for three vehicles that had been stolen—one of them by a member of the Oronsay’s crew The man, Colin Marshall, failed to appear in Court on July 4 and forfeited his bail of £25.

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The Lae Town Advisory Council is seeking representation on the Territory Town Planning Board on the grounds that the present Board is made up of Port Moresby residents who have little idea of tl— requirements of other centres A resolution to this effect wa passed following the rejection by the Board of a suggestion to bu:* a through road to the new European Hospital.

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Those present at the meeting said* (Continued on Page 117) [?] the IMS Church at Metoriea, Papua, on 20, Miss Beatrice Dalgleish was married Mr. Kenneth Coss, of Port Moresby. The [?]g couple are well-known residents of Port [?]esby. —Photo by Papuan Prints. second Customs shed for Port Moresby [?] course of construction by Hawkes Con- [?]tion Co., on the foreshore near the wharf. first new Customs shed can be seen in background. It is now in use.

Photo by Papuan Prints. 43 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTH I, Y AUGUST, 1956

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HIS death notice appeared in the New Zealand Herald last month: GOEDICKE, Frederick Theodor. -On July 13, 1956, at a private cspital, Auckland, dearly beloved .usband of the late Ana (Tonga), nd loving father of Alexander Devonport); in his 96th year. ome day, perhaps, I shall learn ) F. T. Goedicke really was. know, for a fact, that he was hereditary Count van Asten, Asten, North Brabant, Holland; t some of the bluest blood of thwest Europe was in his veins; , I strongly suspect that he was natural son of one of the Geri minor kings. know that he was a contemiry of Wilhelm 11, Emperor of many (they were almost the .e age) and that he was reared and educated in close association with the Hohenzollern family, it was through him that I had an interesting correspondence with former Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, the ex-Kaiser’s son—once the execrated “Little Willie” of the World War I period. Goedicke had sent him a copy of the PIM; and the Prince was graciously pleased to show a lively interest in the South Pacific.

Goedicke, for long a resident of Tonga, became a pen-friend of mine over 20 years ago; and when he moved to Auckland, after World War 11, I used to go and see him— a lovable little bearded man, with a perfect head and perfect manners —a real aristocrat of the old school.

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HE was born in Germany in 1860.

His great-grandfather was a General in the Army of The Netherlands; and when France and The Netherlands invaded Spain in 1798, General Goedicke so distinguished himself at the Battle of Orcana that he was knighted. But his son (our subject’s grandfather) became a churchman, and did not carry on the title. Somehow —I do not know how —the family then appears to have become German.

Goedicfce’s great-grandfather on his mother’s side was Count van Asten, of Holland, and his daughter, Caroline van Asten, was our subject’s grandmother.

The van Asten family seems to have dwindled; and a search for an heir began just before World War 11, when Count Hendrick van Asten died—leaving property worth about £20,000, the records covering •which were deposited in a bank in Asten. The war came, Holland was overrun by Nazis, the bank in Asten was bombed and blown to pieces, and it was 1947 before Goedicke (now 87 years old) was located and designated Count van Asten. An attempt was made to get possession of the property—but it had been mostly destroyed by the Nazis, and all records were lost.

“I am a Count of no account,” said Goedicke, with a wry smile. He never whimpered; but by then he was desperately poor, and those vs Asten guilders, if they have be« recoverable, would have been tru a godsend.

BY the time Goedicke was 21, t: young German Empire’s shi were appearing in every sea, a* the lad was given some sort of se 46 AUGUST, 195 6 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Tie Germans were displaying a ily interest in New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago in 1884, I Goedicke appears to have been the Duke of York Islands area 1884. He records that on October 884, he was in Port Moresby (no el, miserable village) when he r Commodore Erskine’s squadron i lson, Srinagar, Dart, Raven, and iegel ) arrive, to formally declare t part of New Guinea a British tectorate.

'.e seems then to have gone on the Tongan Islands, and made first acquaintance with Haapai, ch was to be his future home. ; may have been after that that proceeded to Sydney. In Sydney, .885, he was engaged by the Geri Consul to go for three years New Guinea, to be assistant to i Oertzen, Imperial German imissioner for the Bismarck hipelago. Oertzen’s mission was select a suitable site for the ;ure capital of Neu Pommem w Britain)”. hey cruised around that area in German warship Albatross for months in 1885. Goedicke met e notable people of that timemissionary Brown, “Queen na” Forsayth and her Samoan tions, some of the survivors of ill-fated Count de la Rays exition. he natives then were persistent nibals, and treacherous. Goedicke the German service, and went ling for the DH and PG firm. was raw and primitive. Two man traders stole native women broke tribal tabus. The natives id them. The German warship itross came back and “punished” n with great severity. was during this period that Joedicke had an experience that, ver afterwards, he spoke of with *or. He was induced to spend souple of nights in a house baran with some 30 young men Sabaira village, where he was a ler. The first night they all lay it together, talking and smokext night, part of the gang was sing. About midnight, they ied up, dragging with them two len, whom they had captured i a jungle village. Grotesque les occurred, while the women J made use of by the assembly young men and while the ified young German cowered in corner. When that part of the 'was finished, the women were bed to death, dismembered and meat” divided up. Some was i and there broiled on the se tambaran fires, and eaten; some taken away by the men, when the party broke up at dawn.

The wretched Goedicke sneaked away, also, at dawn; and when the warship Albatross came along later that day, he gratefully went aboard and abandoned his trading station.

It was two years after he first referred to his “most terrible experience” before the little man finally could bring himself to give me the details; and even then, nearly 70 years after the event, h* got sick at the memory of it.

FROM there, Goedicke went to Western Samoa, and then on t< .

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Jetween 1885 and 1905, Goedicke Dears to have travelled widely: became a naturalised Britisher; ;, gradually, he settled down as ; of the best known citizens of nga—Haapai trader and planter, i Nukualofa business-man. Somele in his earlier residence in apai he married Ana, an attracj Tonga woman, of Haapai. She i-deceased him by many years, always spoke of her with affeci and esteem. They had one , Alexander, now a resident of jkland.

Writing to me in 1947, when he i me about that ancient Dutch e, Mr. Goedicke said: “I have 1 my son—who has worked in a ;1 construction establishment in ukland since 1913 —that if he hes, after my death, he may lime the title of Count, which is right by heredity.”

Owing to his background, “the Little Count” —as he was known in recent years by the many who esteemed him—held the title in reverence. Probably, it will not be so tenderly regarded by the new Count, the citizen of New Zealand.

With F. T. Goedicke there disappears our last remaining link with that picturesque, exciting and romantic period, between 1884 and 1918, when Imperial Germany came full-panoplied into the Pacific, set up an impressive Empire in Micronesia, New Guinea and Samoa, and then lost it all when the greedy, sabre-rattling Kaiser decided to challenge the British for domination of the world.

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The circular, issued by the new Social Development Officer, called on the recipients to pull their weight in promoting more cordial relations between Maori and European residents and in improving the social awareness and general knowledge of the English language amongst the Maori people.

To attain these ends, the circular called on the selected Europeans to form social groups of about a dozen Maori friends, to meet at regular intervals in the successive homes of the group who would lead in discussions of an educational but non-controversial nature. The subject of religion should in particular be avoided. Reading lessons would be in order, but there must be no suppers or teas, as such commitments might be beyond the means of some.

Without in any way decrying the ideals of the scheme, those who know the ways of the world, with particular reference to the Cook Islands, feel that though suppers may be shunned like the plague at these social gatherings, it is probable that the bush-beer bucket may not be far away and that the gatherings might prove more cordial than expected, though aloir less idealistic lines.

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HERE will be only one uncontested seat in the midgust elections for the Fiji jislative Council. Mr. M. H. >tt, barrister and solicitor, of Suva, i been returned unopposed for the rth-Western Division. ►n the other hand, Indian candies for the same Division have re than made up for lack of an jtion for a European member, less than five candidates taking field. Out of this medley of [ring talent anything could hey are Mr. Ajodhya Prasad, sitting member described as an iculturist, of Lautoka; Mr. hma Das Lakshman, printer, of itoka; Mr. Chandrasen Chattur gh, fanner, of Ba; Mr. Din u Prasad, builder and general tractor, Lautoka; and Mr. K. ha Reddy, cultivator, of Nadi, wo European candidates will best the Southern Division. They Mr. John Neil Falvey, barrister solicitor; and Mr. James ton Turner, company director, i of Suva. Mr. Falvey is the ng member. he Indian candidates are Mr. mu Deo, agent; Mr. Hari ran, barrister and solicitor; and Odin Ramrakha, law clerk, reside in Suva. Mr. Vishnu Deo represented this electorate for ly years. l the Eastern Division the ng European member, Mr. H.

Gibson, barrister and solicitor, jabasa,’ is opposed by Mr. F. G. tiibald, planter, of Savu Savu. tie Indian contestants in the e Division are Mr. J.

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bOM announcements made by various Muslim bodies in Fiji it seems certain that few lims will vote or take any part he elections. is one point on which they all se. Even the Fiji Muslim League the Muslim Association of Fiji, i bitterly antagonistic groups, this occasion meet on common md.

At present the Muslim? minority is catered for by the appointment by Government of a nominated Muslim member. The Government nominee, for obvious reasons, has not always been acceptable to the Muslim community, who naturally would prefer a representative answerable not to Government but to the Muslim* community, and whose directions he would be obliged to carry out if he were an elected member.

The President of the Association said that the present Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Lennox Boyd, has told the Association that he considered it was premature to grant separate representation for the Muslims.

The Fiji Muslim League has advertised through the or instructing its members to abs from canvassing, voting or tak part in the forthcoming Legisl Council elections. ™ ln Council Just dissoh Mr. Abdul Samad was the Mus* member nominated by i Governor. According to Mr. A K Sahu Khan, President of th Muslim Association of Fiji, he is by no means a well-known memb< ■ of the Muslim community. “He ha been seen in Council but not heard”, said Mr. Sahu Khan.

The Association has sent a resolution to the Governor asking him not to nominate a Muslim to Council, and has also requested all Muslims not to accept nomination. 51 I CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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JIGGERED by the approaching International Geophysical Year (it lasts 18 months and cornices July 1, 1957), a good deal jreliminary work is already in d all over the world and in w different scientific spheres. In fields of oceanography and ;orology, and no doubt in other s, too, things are on the move he Pacific. le Australian Bureau of Meteoric announced in mid-July that dio sonde and radio theodolite on will be in operation at Lae, by late August. This is the such station to operate in New lea since the American forces drew after the war. At the i time it was announced from ington, NZ, that radio sonde 3ns would shortly be put into ition at the Chatham Islands, pbell Island far to the south, at Tarawa in the Gilberts, all ; stations coming under New md Meteorological Office conere is nothing new about the i sonde equipment which has in use since the 1930’s in various parts of the world. It consists of equipment sensitive to changes in atmospheric pressure temperature, and humidity. The expansions or contractions of these elements are used to control signals from a miniature radio transmitter The complete unit, quite small, is hoisted by a suitable balloon, and when the balloon finally reaches a height where it bursts, the equipment floats down by a small parachute. Many sets are lost—at sea or in uninhabited areas far from the point of release. A few are found. Instructions tell the finder what to do with the equipment Its discovery is not essential from the technical point of view, as a radio receiver at the point of release has already recorded the transmitted data. But the equipment is valuable, can be reconditioned, and used again.

Formerly the radio sonde balloons were observed with an optical theodolite—a telescope whose angles of elevation and direction can be accurately recorded. The rate of ascent of the balloon could be estimated with fair accuracy, and as a result of this knowledge and the observed direction of the balloon after release, it was possible to calculate the strength and direction of winds at any level.

That is, until the balloon disappeared behind clouds—and such balloons might rise to 100,000 ft.

A later development is the radio theodolite—simply an accurate radio direction-finder, which disregards g™? COV6r and kee P s tr ack of the balloon accurately. This Hi . equipment will be installed at Lae but apparently not at the other stations mentioned.

In addition to the above, radar ar<B , b 8 established a, Funafuti and Rarotonga later. These merely record upper winds. A radar e ei or to a balloon, and the balloon kept track of until i; . H{ Bts 8 ts- Upper temperatures humidities, and pressures are not recorded under this simpler system Radar equipment will gradually replace all the optical theodolite equipment. * n . the oceanographic sphere, Tokio Radio reported on July 25 53 1F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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that the oceanographic research vessel Satsuma was sailing that day for the equator, and would be joined by nine American vessels to carry out preliminary work for the IGY —so there need be no panic in Tarawa or Fiji if “mystery vessels” are sighted in the months ahead.

As PIM warned last year, there will be lots of queer goings and comings from now through to the end of 1958, and so many nations are involved that it is difficult to keep track of intended events.

The Satellites are Coming THE sky is going to become particularly interesting during the 18 months of the so-called Geophysical “Year.”

United States scientists report that preparations are well advanced for the launching of the first of twelve man-made satellites next year. It should be visible in the Islands, and there is even a possibility that it may even lob into someone’s back yard there if the rockets used for its launching from Patrick Air Force Base, Cape Canaveral, east coast of Florida, fail to do their work.

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Later satellites will record other data. t Qantas Catalinas in Papua-New Guinea flew two mercy-flights to bring sick natives to hospital in Port Moresby in July. Patients were a man from Abau and a baby girl in the Trobriands. my Minister Sees Jungle Training Course Resident Agent Fined AT a special sitting of the High Court at Rarotonga, on June 11. Mr. R. M. L. Gladney.

Resident Agent of Aitutaki, was fined for negligent driving while in Rarotonga. The vehicle driven by Mr. Gladney had struck a native youth who was riding a bicycle injuring him and wrecking his machine. Evidence was given for the defendant (who was not present) that he had taken an air sickness drug and an asthma drug on the day of the accident. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge, was fined, and paid for a new bicycle, flashlight and a pair of trousers—W.H.P. tralian Minister for the Army Cramer round) visited Papua-New Guinea in July as can be seen in this photograph, was some idea of what kind of place a is to fight in. With the Minister is [?]ecretary and behind the Secretary is [?]n Frank Hoeter, OC Madang unit of the and New Guinea Volunteer Rifles. This has doubled in strength since Captain took over about three months ago. photograph was taken at the jungle- [?]g course at Siar, eight miles from [?]g.

Minister said, before leaving the Territhat when he returned to Canberra he discuss the prospect of training some units in NG; and also the eligibility of [?]e, Ambonese and part-European residents [?]n the PNGVR. These people cannot, at [?]t join military forces in the Terriory.

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Make a nui teremoana ARIKI, of Rarotonga, who was awarded the CBE in the recent Queen’s Birthday Honours List, is the third Cook Islander on whom a British Civilian Order has been bestowed.

The first recipient was the present Ariki’s father, Makea Nui Tinirau Ariki, who was awarded the OBE in 1934. Lord Bledisloe, then Governor-General of New Zealand, made the presentation at the Waitangi (New Zealand) celebrations.

The second award took place in 1935 when Judge Ayson, then Resident Commissioner for the Cook Islands, presented Makea Karika Takau Ariki with the award of Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire on behalf of the Governor of New Zealand.

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II Mr. Don Reid, of I s 1 a nr Territories Department, Wellington who has lately been attached South Pacific Commissioner Hea«, quarters, Noumea, returned Wellington in July. 58 AUGUST. 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH.

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L Miller, Mr. Les Williams and eight Fijians that while fishing July 13 between Wakaya and mka, Fiji, they saw a strange tit in the sky has been followed other reports of a similar fcure. dr. Miller said it was a large iect, shaped like a circle, and wing with light. It was moving wly toward them from the ection of Koro. The ten men d they watched the weird circle brilliant light approach them selessly through the air. As it ised over Wakaya they had a irer view of it. All the men i it had square portholes which •e brilliantly lit from within. It ised them considerable alarm, ty 4 a.m. the object had disteared over the island of Ovalau. ree other residents of Levuka ort seeing a similar object in sky on the evening of July 18. retired police officer now ding at Levuka states that he iws Mr. Miller and Mr. Williams, said both were reliable men, [ not the type to let their ginations run away with them. :e they flying saucers? Fiji respondent.

Editorial Note

o, these are not Flying Saucers. ■Y are Men from Mars and their ng Mushrooms. They come n in flaming meteorites; when >e cool off, in about 48 hours, a wed lid comes off the top and come huge, translucent green ihroom-shaped objects which elevated from the ground by ;netic circuits. They are manned the Men, who look something grasshoppers, but have four ds and three brains. They also b a powerful ray machine which apable of blasting anything on h into nothingness, and not i an H-Bomb can prevent it. rever. although the Men have e brains, etc., they are mighty ’ in white corpuscles (or is it 0 and have no resistance to of our minor diseases. So, n the earth is in a proper nbles, they suddenly succumb 1 mump or a measle and the ig mushrooms simply fall out ;he sky. All this is carefully ained in a movie now doing country circuits in Australia— Between the Worlds. It is, it lleged by Hollywood, based on ethmg written by the late H.

Veils. idio Tahiti, as from August 1, changed its English news .dcast on 6135 kc/s to 0730 T, 15 minutes earlier than lerly.

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BECAUSE of transportation difficulties and inability to complete the job before next rainy season, filming of “Typee” at Tahiti has been postponed and Mr. John Huston, film director returned to the United States in July. (PIM, July).

Meanwhile large quantities of “props” are being stock-piled for the b:: event. These include huge quantities of native housing materials, bomboo slats, etc. for the building of a village in the district of Mataiea. A large area of land has been leased for the shooting next h May scheduled to commence a nH he o fill S win s P en d one and a half million dollars in Tahiti, according to Mr. Huston' Over 400 local people will be engaged. The French Oceania Customs authorities have agreed to allow all imported materials for the filming to come in on a “visitor’s permit” basis, so long as they are not disposed of locally.

Mr Igor A. Allan, resident in Tahiti for 16 years and now of Honolulu, has been representing the film company. United Artists, in negotiations with the French Oceania authorities. 59 ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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56 Feet Copra Vessels

•H Photo shows 56 ft. Gardner Diesel powered K class Copra Vessel built by us for Steamships Trading Co. Ltd. of Port Moresby. Hold capacity is 2,000 cubic feet—2s tons of copra below decks on approx. 5 ft. 6 ins. draft. • These vessels and also 40 ft. Army Workboats are in regular production in our Yards with choice of engine.

We also build PEARLING LUGGERS.

For further particulars please write to:

Bjarne Halvorsen Ltd

John Street, Berry's Bay, North Sydney, N.S.W.

Cable Address: BERRYSBOAT, Sydney. [?]is Month's News of—

Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

A.Ui Pom Are Replacement

Latest move in the New Zealand wernment’s leisurely plans to reice veteran Maui Pomare was an nouncement by the Minister of and Territories on July 11 that j preparation of plans and speciations for a new vessel had been thorised. A service speed of 12-14 ots, a refrigerated cargo capacity 60,000-70,000 cubic feet, and pasger accommodation for 40 are led for.

Maui Pomare has a cargo >acity of 37,000 cubic feet and ries 30 passengers in accommolon designed for, at most, 22, at ervice speed of 10 knots, t may be assumed that it will the best part of another year ore any contract is let. Some e ago the Minister said that dery would be at least three years n date of ordering a new vessel, his would seem to imply that new vessel will be built in a tish ship-yard, as most continal yards can offer much quicker very than that. i his July statement the lister reiterated that an exhausworld-wide investigation last year failed to locate an existing vessel as a suitable replacement or any shipping company interested in taking over the New Zealand-Cook Islands service. As a result Maui Pomare underwent a refit whi-v, believed to have cost £180.000“

Matson Commander On

First Service

To command the new Marivo< h fL m ? l ? en .voyage to Australia via the Islands in October, the Matson Line has chosen veter; r Captain William R. Meyer. On con pletion of the voyage he will re- Left, the American barquentine, "S. N. Castle", named for a well-known Hawaiian family after building on the US Pacific coast around 1880. She played a romantic part in the filming of the movie "Mutiny on the Bounty" —taking the name role.

But back in 1914 she was the vessel which took German nationals from Tahiti to Honolulu for transhipment to the neutral United States. This photograph was taken on that occasion as the French phosphate company's vessel "Cholita" towed her out of Papeete harbour.

Photo loaned by Capt. F. K. Klebingat. 61 ICI F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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SINCE 1890, SUPPLIERS AGENCIES: To Britain'^ E urop e T „ Slh. A' rtca 66

To The Pacific Islands

I Associated with W. S. TAII (Hongkong) Co.

YEARS sc* 8 TtL From Japan T* TO THROUGH N. S. TAIT & CO PTY. LTD.

SYDNEY N.S.W To the Canadian Salmon.

Japanese Textiles.

Japanese Fish, Crab & Oysters.

Dutch Herrings & Sardines.

Dutch Canned Hams & Meats.

Dutch Condensed Milk.

British Mining Hand Tools.

British Garden Tools.

Etc.

New Hebrides To New Caledonia For All Your Requirements W. S. TAIT & Co. Ply. Ltd. 8 Spring Streo Sydney, NSW Australia tire and the command will fall to Captain Malcolm R. Peters, another senior Master of the company.

Captain Meyer commanded the Ventura at the time of the sinking of the Union Co.’s Tahiti in 1930 when passengers were picked up by the Ventura.

Sea-Going Jeep In Japan

Ben Carlin’s amphibious jeep crawled ashore on the south coast of Japan on July 25, according to Tokio Radio.

Occupants were given as Carlin and a Canadian male companion.

Mrs. Carlin quit in Calcutta months ago—ill, it was said. An Australian accompanied Carlin overland to Bangkok, which was reached at "p 1 Q py»

Island Weather

BROADCASTS As from July 1 Nadi Aeradio ceased broadcasting South Pacific weather forecasts in morse for the use of overseas shipping. The voice broadcast from Nadi on 7530 kc/s at 0915 GMT still continues, however.

The morse broadcast is now made from the new Himatangi Radio, near Foxton, New Zealand —forecasts for the Islands are being broadcast at 0915 GMT by ZLZ/ZLX, 5915/11130/14850 kc/s, and at 2115 GMT on the above frequencies plus 19800 kc/s.

The Map Analysis, in code, is broadcast at 2315 GMT on the same frequencies as are used at the 2115 GMT broadcast.

Yuill’S—Ship Husbandry

Islands traders who send their ships to Australian ports have a new service at their disposal through Swire and Yuill Pty. Lto of Bridge Street, Sydney.

The company will look after the? ships for owners and agents, an will arrange for docking, repair and general ship “husbandry”. Th is a new departure for this compan —better known as General Aui 62 AUGUST, 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

mtnmtna NEW a sturdy son A 4 of the sea The Archimedes 4 h.p. modeJ A-4, 16 3/4 cu.in. (275 c.c.), is a motor of exceptionally robust construction and particularly low revs the crankshaft has a speed of 1,400 r.p .m. The 3blade /ifOIISf* propeller, running at 800 r.p.m. only, has a diameter of no less than 14 11/64 11 (360 mm). It is a motor with real drive —and economical, too A-4 is completely reversible. It is provided with a throttle for trolling speed, underwater exhaust, well-balanced carrying grips, is extremely easy-starting and pleasant to operate.

Archimedes outboard motors are available in 8 different models ranging from 2 to 10-12 h.p. all of them designed for continuous run at full load nmmmmm - utility motors of world-wide reputation If you want a really tough "■ utility motor, which does its job in all weathers choose the Archimedes new model A-4 which is specially designed for heavyduty service.

NELSON & ROBERTSON Pty. Ltd.

Plantation House, 197 Clarence Street (near King Street), Sydney, Australia. lasian Agents for New Guinea stralia" L|ifie, and China Navigai Co., etc. t l spokesman for the company 3 in Sydney early August: “We prepared to act as agents for nds traders and look after their os while they are here.” ’he company will be able to ange for necessary services in Iney, Melbourne and Brisbane, also has agents in Hong Kong.

Baddeley Launched

'he first and smaller of two Tenements of Southern Cross VII, ideley, was launched from the d of Ballina Slipway & Engineer- Go. Ballina, N.S.W., on July 11. i christening was performed by Mrs. Harold Venn-Brown, wife of a prominent Sydney mission worker.

Baddeley, a single-screw vessel powered with a 76 h.p. Gardner diesel, measures 52 ft. x 16.25 ft x 7.25 ft. Registered in Sydney the vessel has a gross tonnage of 42.57 and a registered tonnage of 33.09 tons. She has no passenger accommodation.

It was anticipated that Baddeley would be completed in time to clear Ballina for Honiara on August 15, under command of Captain George E. Langley. At her Solomons base command of the vessel will probably be taken over by a local skipper. She will be used for Melanesian Mission work in Solomons-New Hebrides.

Tenders for the second vessel, to be named Southern Cross were ad yertised in Australia and New Zealand. These have now closed and the contract will be allotted in the near future. This vessel will have passenger accommodation and will measure about 87 ft. overall bv about 21 ft. beam. Both vessels will carry a certain amount of sail,

Toil And Trouble For

CHARLOTTE D.

A. B. Donald & Co.’s Charlotte Donald, which returned to the Cooks in March after an extensive rent in Auckland, suffered a fractured engine bed-plate during a Southern Group voyage in June.

She completed the voyage on one motor. Spare parts went north per [?]p to bottom: "Novia del Mar", scratch in the Los Angeles-Papeete Race, on [?]al at Papeete July 7. The Auckland yacht [?]pe" at Papeete. The yacht earlier sailed the Auckland-Suva Race. "Manu Moana"

New Zealand—not beautiful, but she gets nd!

Photos by Oscar Nordman. 63 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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We also stock all widths and weights of canvas.

Tarpaulins supplied at short notice.

Sole Agents Papua-New Guinea, Solomons •ocke & Co., Bremen—Bush Knives, Axes, [atchets, Trade Beads, Spoons, Bellied Pots, etc.

Ominion Flour and Wheatmeal. jnnyside Canned Fruit—Pineapple Juice, ose Brand Issue Blankets, vanish Shotguns.

Bright Knight” Fluorescent Lighting. r ebster’s Biscuits, Cakes, Etc.

Distributors for Leading Australian Piecegoods—Mosquito Nets—Towels.

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Canned Fish (All Types).

Ashby Bicycles.

Northgate Axe Handles, Etc.

Inner Spring Mattresses, Pillows.

Three Star Macaroni, Vermicelli, Etc.

Campus Cottons (Frocks). and Overseas Manufacturers. rRADE ENQUIRIES INVITED—ALL TYPES OF MERCHANDISE SUPPLIED OVERSEAS INDENTS ARRANGED. si 1 i m an ee am bles: “BRUCECO’

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CORNER LEICHHARDT AND ALLENBY STREETS. « BRISBANE. G.P.O. Box 908 ui Pomare in 7 to effect temra r y repairs, ugh it appeared ly that a come new bed—or new motor — ht be necesr before long. i vessel is a idard A u s - ,lian- b u i 11 oden 300ler.

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HOME r. Willie h u t z, of raw a, who, r a period in Australian st a 1 trade, id from Melne late last as Second ;er under Cap- Max Stanton larisse, is now the transntic run as nd Officer in 7,600-ton British freighter Midt. Mr. Schutz plans to sit for Mate’s ticket in London before rning to the Pacific. Midhurst currently on the Dunkerqueolk, Va., run. A letter to c/- (ilias & Co., 7/8 Bury Court >e, Bury Court, London, EC3, i him.

Exit The Italians

The sinking of the Vasu north of Tonga in June wrote off the second of the two Italian-built wooden vsssTs to be brought to the South Pacific trade since the war. Both sank under similar circumstances on the high seas and with little warning, and by a strange coincidence both sank on June 13. ( Vasu vpc J y ne 14 • Suva date—but the the datT June Yaf 6 longltude with ®"I a , report last month that not correct W6re SiStel " Ships " aE i anS SV f 299 S ns ’ arrive d at Auck- |. anc * ipro m Mediterranean In May 1953, as the Ada. In August of The fine new wharf at Pago Pago, American Samoa, commenced July, 1954, completed May, 1956. Length 459 ft., width 53 ft.

RF concrete piles, and 8 inch RF concrete decking. Depth of water alongside, 32 ft. at low tide. Mr. Elmer Wilson, PWD Director, gets credit for design and carrying the job through.

Photo: Pan American Prints. 65 ,F IC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 19 5 6

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LISTING; STEEL DIESEL CARGO VESSEL, about 600 tons dwt., 9 knots in Class andJ working. £15,000.

STEEL TWIN DIESEL MOTOR VESSEL, built 1936, engines aft, 140 tons dwt., well maintained, in Survey and working. £18,750.

STEAM TUG, built 1946, Lloyds Class, I.H.P. 1,150. £50,000.

AUXILIARY CARGO KETCH, 75 ft. x 20 ft. X 7 ft. 6 in., about 100 tons dwt., cubic capacity 3,997 cu. ft., Gardner Marine diesel aft, large hatch/hold. Hull, machinery and sails recently overhauled, complete with 12 ft. dinghy andi 18 ft. diesel-powered workboat. £B,OOO.

NEW 50 ft. x 16 ft. x 4 ft. 6 in. cargo hull, excellently built, accommodation! aft, mast, derrick, etc., ready for installation of engine, £6,500, or builder will) finish to buyer’s requirements complete with 6LW Gardner Marine diesel fori about £9,000.

WORK LAUNCH, 43 ft. x 13 ft. 4 in. x 4 ft. 6 in., sheathed, 100 h.p. Perkins Marine diesel, 2/1 reduction, strongly built. £3,100.

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Cable; “Ventura, Sydney” 247 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W. that year she was given the Fiji name of Vasu.

The other vessel, originally named San Michele, 407 tons, was renamed Nukalau before her delivery, and she arrived at Suva in January, 1954. In June of that same year, bound from Coff’s Harbour, NSW, for Wellington, NZ, with a cargo of sleepers and poles, she suddenly sprang a serious leak in heavy weather and the crew barely got clear before the vessel sank.

It was then stated that these vessels had a weakness in their fastenings and Vasu was tipped to some day take a similar plunge.

However, Vasu underwent critical survey and was passed as sound.

She has voyaged widely throughout the Pacific from Auckland to Fanning Island and been through previous heavy weather.

A Suva statement announcing that a formal inquiry will follow the preliminary hearing in Suva in July, said that the sinking was directly attributed to choking of the ship’s pumps, but there was no indication of the cause of the serious leak.

The vessel foundered rapidly, illustrating again the necessity of a continuous radio watch. Suva Post Office station intercepted the high-frequency R/T distress call which came at a time when watch was being maintained.

In mid-July navigational warnings were being broadcast in respect of floating drums, cargo from the Vasu, in the vicinity of 15 degrees 10 minutes South, 177 degrees West.

Vasu Replaced

BP’s lost no time in replacing the Vasu. Shipping Manager Simpson flew to New Zealand and it was announced in mid-July that the company had purchased the elderly 248-ton iron twin-sen motor vessel Nikau from the Nort ern Shipping Co. of Auckland.

Originally a steamer and a pj< senger carrier on the Cook Stn run, Nikau was launched Glasgow in 1909. She has capacity of about 240 tons general cargo and is powered Polar Atlas diesels. She will 66 AUGUST, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Spare Parts Available from Stock for all Morris Marine Engines

Lars Halvorsen Sons Pty. Ltd

BUILDING YARD: Waterview Street. Ryde, N.S.W.

BOAT HIRING AND SERVICE: Bobbin Head. JJ2489. (Telegrams: - Phone WY 3248. ‘Halvorsens." Sydney.)

Builders Of Halvorsen Boats

LH.23.A? igaged in the Fiji inter-island ade mainly, freeing the recently squired Zephyr II for BP’s Shell il Co. agency commitments in e Fiji-Tonga-Samoa area. Nikau understood to be smaller than ;sired, but she was the most itable of the very few secondaid vessels immediately available the South West Pacific area. ;her vessels considered included ibinda, 659 tons gross, but she is too large to be handled by ji’s available slipway facilities.

Nikau was purchased from ichor Shipping & Foundry Co. of slson, original owners, in 1954 by wi Shipping Co. of Auckland, and jistered in Vila, NH. This comny included some senior share- Iders in South Pacific Shipping ». of Suva, former owners of ikalau, and it was thought that kau would enter the Islands imp trade. However she relined on the New Zealand coast.

Sikau cleared Auckland for Suva July 21 under command of Capn W. F. Darling, late of Vasu, ptain A. Prosser of Auckland as ite, and the rest of the crew flown im Suva.

On’T Know Where, Don’T

KNOW WHEN Burns Philp’s new Montoro 11, 00 tons, which was ordered from Norwegian yard about a year ago, ly reach Sydney at the end of this ir Dn the other hand, it may be st year. slor does BP’s shipping manager Sydney know what service she 1 enter, either.

The first Montoro, built 1910, was 11 known on New Guinea-Sydney service between wars and for a short time after War. II.)

A’Oniu Rejuvenated

Tonga Copra Board’s Suva-built 125-ton ketch A’oniu cleared Auckland for Nukualofa on July 21 after a false start July 20, and after an expensive annual refit.

Under Captain T. Fifita the vessel had arrived April 25. It was found desirable to replace the keelson, and this involved six weeks wait for a 72 ft. hardwood log from Australia. In addition to a general overhaul the ketch was fitted with a complete new suit of sails. Reported for sale a couple of years ago, it is assumed that the ketch will be kept in service until the arrival of the new A’oniu now building in Holland and due for delivery late 1957. That vessel will terns 6 a CU^IC cargo capacity of 700

Tutuba, It Is

Mr. Roy Gubbay’s threatened name change of his February nur'chase, Vila Star, has been put into effect.

VS now becomes Tutuba, named for a small island off Santo.

Tutuba was expected in Sydney from NH early August.

Still On Lau Reef

Fast on a reef at Ongea Driti Southern Lau, since October 13 last] the Japanese fishing vessel Miye (Continued on Page 101) pper: Captain Taviti Fifita, Mate P. Taua- [?], and radio operator-purser V. Ha'angana [?]onga Copra Board's "A'oniu", which corned refit in Auckland. [?]wer; Burns Philp (SS) Co.'s latest [?]isition, "Nikau", prior to departure from kland. The funnel was later given the BP [?]uer-board marking. The late owner's ur-scheme with dark green hull was almost [?]tical to the BP Fiji colour-scheme.

Photos: J. P. Shortall. 67

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Seppelts Wines are available from all retail stores throughout the Pacific Islands.

Wholesale supplies through B. Seppelt & Sons Ltd., Box 163, G.P.0., Sydney.

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Copra And Stricter Grading

The delegates from 20 countries who gathered in Lucerne, in June, for the 34th Annual Congress of the International Association of iced Crushers, heard a valuable address by Mr. H. D. Howard, who larly this year made a comprehensive tour of all copra-producing ireas, including those in the Pacific. What Mr. Howard had to say, md what Congress resolved through a special committee on copra set ip subsequently, is of vital concern to all copra planters. Whatever nay be the opinion on seed-crushers in general, they are the mrchasers of your product and as such, what they require in the pay of quality must be your yardstick also.

The following is the text of Mr. Howard’s address: WILL confine myself at the noment to describing some of ;he present methods of copra Auction, and concentrate on the n object of my tour, namely, rovement in the quality of copra ig shipped. question so often asked is— at do you mean by quality of :a? ne immediately starts to talk it cleanliness, snap, water lines. ; but surely the answer must be the quantity, F.F.A. content and colour of the resulting crude oil.

This, after all, is the main object for which we buy copra; and therefore the laboratory must determine why one parcel is superior to another, irrespective of appearance.

Fortunately, nature is rather cooperative in this case and, although not able to provide direct answers, can indicate (a) Oil Content by thickness of pieces and ease of oil expression, (b) F.F.A. content by mould general deterioration and bv 5?.®. (large pieces bein'much lower in F.F.A. than particle’■ of copra dust) and (c) colour bv degree of burning, overheating and again general deterioration Immature copra is usually low in oil content and difficult to mill but can always be detected by its rubbery nature and shrivelled rind Moisture content, although important tp the crusher from the point of view of loss of weight during processing, is far more important at the time of storage prior to shipment Whether copra is shipped at 12 per cent, or 6 per cent, moisture it usually arrives in the UK at about 4 per cent, or 5 per cent., but due to evaporation and consequent heating in storage and m transit, the F.F.A. content rises appreciably. From a quality-of-oil viewpoint, F.F.A. at time of arrival is far more important than moisture content.

IT is certainly true to say that moisture is the biggest factor in quality of copra and that underdrying is the main cause of deterioration and mould, with the accompanying high F.F.A, and infestation.

Taken in the logical sequence: When a nut is split, with or with- 69 CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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If sun-drying, the sun must be present. This seems obvious, but so often this form of drying is purely exposure to the atmosphere.

If kiln-drying, the kiln should be warm so that drying commences immediately.

The rate of drying is also important. Sun-drying cannot really be hurried but kiln-drying can, and it is a common fault to overfire, causing burning or case-hardening to take place. In the latter case the remaining moisture is usually sealed inside the copra which, when broken, may snap, due to the hard exterior: but, on standing, softens as the moisture percolates through.

This is often mistakenly referred to as “taking in moisture” and considered unavoidable in humid climates.

The final step is to see that the moisture content is reduced to about 6 per cent. With controlled drying a good product should result and, if stored and shipped under reasonable conditions, it will arrive at its destination with very little deterioration.

THE problem now arises of how to get the producer to make better quality: • By educating the smallholder, and in many cases the estate owners, in the need for such a 'product, and how it can be achieved. • By introducing a firm system of grading whereby the cope produced is classified into o'( of a maximum or four gradA Not fust “FMS,” “HAD”

“Smoke dried,” which are ves loose terms and to-day do m indicate the true mode of dn ing. In general, it does w matter by which method cojx 70

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MW 2601 (10 lines). • cables vanreid, Sydney is produced, providing the quality conforms to certain standard s. » By instituting price differentials based on the true value of the product, such as saving in refining costs, etc. These would obviously not all be in one direction and penalties must be expected for low grades as well as premiums for the high.

Basic prices will, of course, fluctuate, but the differentials could possibly be based on a percentage.

There is little doubt that if all Klucers in the Philippines, for unple, installed hot air kilns, the ility of copra from this area nld be substantially improved ause smoking would be elimind and the drying would be inicndent of so-called “sunny iods.” his is long-term thinking, but o feel that 50 per cent, of the irovement can be achieved solely the producer knowing what the cessor wants, why he wants it t way and, in the case of the illholder, education as to how >e results can be achieved. I gest the following as examples the latter: — Avoid using immature nuts.

Avoid splitting the nuts until ready for drying.

Apply heat within four hours of splitting.

Avoid drying too quickly, but ensure that the copra is dried down to about 6 per cent, moisture.

Avoid cutting meat into small pieces. If the nut is split whole and meat gouged out for drying, a knife with a curved blade should be used in preference to one with a flat blade. This ensures that the meat is removed whole or at least in large pieces.

If the meat is cut in the field and transported to a central drier, the bags, when filled, should not be rammed. Much damage is done by ramming both at this stage and when the dried copra is rebagged prior to storage, (The ironical part is that all this breaking up is purely for domestic convenience as the copra is finally shipped in bulk).

Lastly, when using open driers, burn shell only instead of a combination of shell, husk, wood, etc. :hink you will readily agree that of these actions would appear ivolve the producer in any great tal expenditure, and that any will certainly assist in the ufacture of better copra, hen considering Hot Air Kilns 5 wrong to think only of an orate model costing £3,000- >O, whereas a smaller, locallytructed unit, using oil drums ihs fire box and heating chamber, would be adequate for the average smallholder.

It is also a mistake to look upon a particular type of kiln as a panacea. Although most desirable it must be borne in mind that they’ too, depend upon the human element’.

Whether a unit costs £3O or £3,000 it is still the man who stokes the fire and, where necessary, turns the copra, who determines whether a good product will be produced. By this I mean that we should not lose sight of the smaller points and look upon better quality as something that can only be achieved by spending a fortune.

I offer the following summary to cover 5 main factors: (1) The gradual raising of the f unded of cultivation, selection and cutting. def } nite .ly a matter of On T selection of w? paln } s t 0 P rov ide the seedcorrect use of fertilisers and the attention given to keeping the plantation clean and free from undergrowth.

During my tour, I was able to visit a number of villages, in the company of members of local Departments of Agriculture, and to explain to the villagers how impjortant it was for them to look after their plantations and to keep down the undergrowth. I pointed put that they could substantially increase their yield of nuts solely by being able to find all that had 71 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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Dne can make a strong point by iphasising that the planter is ing whenever he picks immature ts. because the meat is not comitely formed and he will be jnding the same amount of time and money producing a smaller intity of copra.

Hiis is generally accepted as ;dom but when prices are high ire is a tendency in some areas cut down everything but the m, and in areas where hurrites or heavy winds are experi- :ed it is a great temptation, letimes essential, to use the maturely-fallen nuts in the nufacture of copra, feel that proper grading is the y effective way of dealing with ! problem, e.g., “Grades 1 and 2 5t be free from copra made from nature nuts.” egarding cutting of the nuts, it ifficult to change tradition overit but where possible the nuts uld be husked and split only in ready for drying. Where it is to split whole nuts in the I, a curved knife should be used extracting the meat.

The adoption of efficient drying apparatus and methods. 5 previously indicated, the hod of production should be ten to suit local conditions, e.g., ■drying in areas having days of roken sunshine. In general, however, the Hot-Air Kilns and Ceylon-type driers are to be preferred, being comparatively independent of climatic conditions.

Hot Air Kilns should certainly not be looked upon as being out of the reach of the smallholder Many designs discussed throughout my tour were adequately suited to the man producing up to 45-50 tons a year. (3) The elimination of pests.

These, of course, appear on the plantation and in the prepared copra, but I will elaborate on the former in my subsequent report and just mention the pests found in the copra.

Although sometimes disputed during my tour, I am firmly convinced that the copra beetle and other forms of infestation are only attracted by raw coconut and partly dried copra in various stages of deterioration. Copra dried down to 6 per cent, moisture soon after splitting, and therefore free from mould, appears to present no attractions to the insects (this is also true of heavily-smoked copra). To me this indicates that if we reach the stage where dry, clean copra is being produced, I am certain that, providing the storage conditions are suitable, the copra will arrive at its destination free, or comparatively free, from insect infestation. (4) Rewards for the efficient and penalties for the inefficient.

This I have covered in my remarks about grading and incentives and if we are at all desirous of u improved quality, I feel that systems grading and worthwhile price differentials must be given serious consideration. (5) Realisation by producers shippers and transporters that the quality of copra can suffer badly as a result of inefficiency or neglect and that steps must be taken to educate all those concerned accordingly. . 1 h 5Pe that during my recent uV r P f the Producing areas I was able to make a few producers and exporters aware of how good material can be ruined by inefficiency and neglect, and now I have the opportunity of also addressing those responsible for the transportation of this material.

To these latter I say when poor material is loaded you obviously 73 CIF 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST, 1956

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The dust problem, in particular in connection with Indonesian copra, has been mentioned. During my short stay in Djakarta, I was able to discuss this question with Jojasan Kopra and to lodge complaints on our members’ behalf. The reason given out there was that certain shipping lines were operating mechanical trimming apparatus and that this was causing the copra to be badly broken. Photographs of various shipments certainly showed the heavy dust concentrations where this equipment was used.

This is most likely to be a question of re-concentration of dust already existing in the copra, but it is obvious that in unskilled hands this apparatus could be responsible for the break-up of the product and so lead to further deterioration during shipment. Transporters must surely join with other members of the industry in appreciating that this commodity is, in the main, destined to be processed into edible products and so do all in their power to preserve its quality during shipment. r[E leader of a recent trade delegation said to me: Do your people in Europe really want better quality? When we were over there the general attitude was: “We know that you produce some of the finest copra in the world but we are so advanced in our techniques that we are quite content to receive the cheapest grades available.”

You can imagine how surprised this gentleman was when I arrive carrying a banner with “Bette; quality for Europe.”

Let’s face it. Our techniques aij good; but, in general, the higluj F.F.A., darker colour and infests, tion associated with poor qualii all cost money to rectify, and wheie 74 AUGUST. 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

4k m the greatest aid J ' better Copra Practical experience has proved that, where “CHULA” Copra Dryers are used, better quality Copra is produced when dried by this scientific process. No discolouration, free from mould, thoroughly and evenly dried throughout, Copra can be produced the whole year round—irrespective of the weather.

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SOLOMON ISLANDS' K. H. Dalrymple Hay Esq., Honiar lible products are concerned we ust insist on receiving our raw aterials in such a condition that [ality deterioration is minimised.

To conclude, the governments id local chiefs in the Pacific are terested in supplying us with the pe of copra we require and are lling to receive advice on gradl and to submit samples of copra : evaluation. They are also keen have advice on improved methods drying and to co-operate where Bsible. kUE largely to a period of de- ‘ pression in the 1930’s the planters are very concerned DUt the future of copra and have b replanted, to any great extent, ensure adequate supplies for the irs to come. They are thinking , Howard’s answer to Fiji copra nter, page 97; Fiji MLC Says ere is ",Nothing to Fear ” Page 99. re in terms of secondary crops case the price of copra again ps below their production costs. do feel that now is the time meet the planters on these quesis, through their Copra Boards similar organisations, and as far possible to encourage them to all their efforts into the copra ustry. b one can possibly predict, with ■ certainty, what the future deads for any one oilseed may be. r if in any way we are able to [cate a comparatively stablised •ket, I feel that planters will be ouraged to plough back more ) the industry and to lose the tude of “getting out when the •ket collapses again.” s you have said, Mr. Chairman, it is needed is co-operation by concerned and, where necesary, )r dination of effort. We hope, instance, that the F.A.O. will ible to help at the research end.

Quality and Grading LTER in the Congress, a special committee submitted the following four resolutions, which e adopted unanimously: Having regard to the advantof pooling knowledge and exence and of co-ordinating inigational work— ecommend that everything fid be done to encourage coration between Official and imercial Bodies interested in ing the standard of copra probion, with particular regard to following problems: 0 Provision of increased availity of good quality copra. >) Design, provision and utilisaof efficient driers.

J) Educati<pn of smallholders the practicability of communal ng in certain areas. (and) Control of pests both in the field and during storage. (e) Improvement in methods of cropping, production, storage and transit. (f) Improvement in marketing conditions calculated to encourage the production and supply of highgrade copra. 2. Being aware of the desirability of marketing copra under well-defined standard grades and at differentials which will encourage the producer to improve quality and meet the requirements of the market— Recommend that the sub-committee of the Consultative Committee of the Association dealing with quality stipulations be requested to investigate, in co-operation with the appropriate trade bodies, the pos~ sibihty of evolving a standard system of grading which will command wide support and enable price differentiais to be established which will encourage the producer and raise the general level of quality. 3 Regret to note reports of high dust content in copra shipments compared with pre-war experience, and consequent deterioration in quality and increased processing costs— Urge that exporters, shippers and marketing bodies be invited to do all m their power to improve the (Continued on Page 97) 75 IC IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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Atom bombs make a better story an sunspots in the popular press, t quite recently a panel of entists gave it as their firm inion that atom bomb explosions ild have nothing more than a T local effect on the weather, ereas it has long been known it radiation from the sun, which ncides with sunspot activity, has definite effect on climate, jong range forecasters, such as ; late Inigo Jones, of Brisbane, i his successor, base their pretions on past weather cycles, and se cycles coincide with regular ispot cycles. it the present time the sunspot le is approaching its maximum, ich should coincide with the Intiational Geophysical “Year”— 18 months period commencing y, 1957. o for the next couple of years, ither conditions should continue disturbed, while radio reception except for intermittent blackouts, should generally improve in the higher-frequency short-wave bands which are of particular interest to Island listeners away from local broadcasting stations.

According to Swiss observatory figures, the daily average of sunspots in June, 1956, was 116.7, and the predicted daily numbers for the remainder of this year are July 138- August, 146; September, 152; October 157; November, 162; and December 165.

There may be more crazy weather ahead for the next three years with an increase in the frequency of hurricanes not unlikely.

After that, weather conditions might return to “normal”— whatever that is—until the next sunspot peak in HI years time. Meanwhile, don’t blame the bombs—but prepare for hurricanes.

Dr. Goto Reports on NG Coffee A COMPREHENSIVE report on observations and recommenda tions on coffee growing in the New Gumea Highlands has been issued to his sponsors by Professor 10 ’ world authority on coffee culture.

Professor Goto is Director of the Hawaii Agricultural Extension Service of the University of Hawaii.

His tour of the NG Highlands early this year was arranged by Mr R. A. Colyer, of Sydney, and sponsored by the Bank of New South Wales, the Commonwealth Bank, Colyer Watson Pty. Ltd A. H. Bunting Ltd., and the Highlands Farmers and Settlers’ Assn.

Professor Goto has made a number of recommendations for the future of the industry, all of which were reported in the April issue of PIM. 77 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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The descendants were claiming 7,000 hectares of land, owing, they claimed, to their ancestor.

In 1874, the Governor of NC made an inquiry into the escape of Henri de Rochefort and five companions.

The artilleryman, though never ever having contact with de Rochefort, was nevertheless arrested.

His innocence was proved later and he claimed 300.000 francs damages—a princely sum at that time —or its equivalent in land.

He was offered a tract of Government land.

The descendants of this man are now claiming the land but the Minister of Overseas France claims that as the offer was never taken up when made in 1910, it is now null and void.

This decision was upheld by the Conseil d’Etat.

Henri de Rochefort was perhaps New Caledonia’s most famous prisoner. He was deported to New Caledonia in 1873 for his activiities in the “Commune,” and was lodged on the Ducos peninsula, now the Hansenide Sanatorium. He escaped from New Caledonia on board a British ship. He returned to France in 1880 after the amnesty. t A party of botanists from Auckland University College spent a month at Raoul Island, Kermadecs, in June-July. Intending to remain on the island only a fortnight, the party was marooned due to the relief vessel suffering an engine breakdown. Many specimens wes collected by the party. t The short-wave broadcast static at Honiara, BSIP, operating t 5960 kc/s (50-34 metres), is no well received over a wide area the Western Pacific. There is : transmission on Sunday; Wedne day, 0630-0800 GMT; other da:. 0700-0800 GMT.

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Bottling Blondes

[RS. LILIAN MILLER, well- I known pre-war resident of New Guinea, and wife of equally 11-known Territorian Toby Miller, o is now a journalist on a North eensland newspaper, has sent us s story, inspired by Tolalas nments on the ü blonde” NG repdative at the recent South nfic Conference (PIM, June, page ). Editorially, we are amazed at cost of blonding, and presume \t, at £6 per bottle, Mrs. Miller not referring to common-orden peroxide. .propos to your par in the June A concerning the blonde Fuzzy zzy, Lila Matalau, from Matupi, Daul, I am not surprised that th McCarthy’s knowledge of the bter should be so limited. In the t place, he’s a mere male and mdly the period to which I am ut to refer was before Mr.

Darthy’s entree to the Terri- 7. 0 be quite honest, I am and ays have been a natural blonde 1 have yet to meet the woman », to keep her tresses up to the :k, has not had to resort to “bottle,” especially in the humid ritory climate sre such aids are essary to give dame her wellomed look. ly two meries, sbasias and kolas, from Namnai, and signed to me by the r remembered Bill ' w n s e n d, at )aul, in (no date pack drill), soon rned that peroxide 1 other uses than British Pharmpoeia specified. It i much more jacious and easier handle than the ssy kabang. •m e n-like, the •et soon got out i as the demand peroxide inised, store stocks v and its use pidly became er. fhen I returned ► m a trip to ope it was as a tinum Blonde and I brought back a healthy supply of the beautifier. It was necessary to keep the commodity at an even and cool temperature and so it was stored in the Icy-ball—there were no refrigerators at Salamaua in those days. Imagine my astonishment one afternoon when I noticed “Bass” with an aura of shimmering silver dancing over her attractive face. On investigating, I discovered my treasured stock sadly depleted— and at £6 per bottle it was no joke.

To my knowledge, Bass and Makolas were the first two native women to use peroxide in the Territory.

Incidentally, this is an excerpt from my book that I am writing and hoping to have published next year.

Found—One Samoan

WATERFALL FOR a display of bureaucracy at its amusing best, a June announcement from Apia would be hard to beat.

PIM readers will recall that a year ago, writer Jack Thornton, in an article, drew attention to -a waterfall depicted on the Western Samoan 3d. stamp as “Aleisa Falls.”

The writer found that, in actual fact, Alesia Falls are a mere trickle while the falls depicted on the stamp were of Niagaran proportions; The Western Samoan Govern ment seems to have taken note of l!lfrJ na A er and 9 ut a re searcher to One can imagine the weary months which that minion har; spent m ‘‘giving the matter serious consideration.” But now at last he comes up with the answer. The SfXS al f nd Post Office Philatelic BuHetin for July announces that the Western Samoan Government has advised the New Zealand Government that the falls depicted are actually the Malifa Falls.

To reach this amazing conclusion took a year, though there could be no other possible falls that would fit the illustration. But doubtless the researcher plodded methodically through the Lands Department’s list pf Samoan Waterfalls, perhaps visiting each in turn and carefully crossing it off the list, until the great day of the visit to Malifa— within a few minutes of his Apia office.

That Versatile Coconut

THE new Pacific Islands Year Book, like its predecessors of recent years, carries an interesting diagram illustrating most of the many products of the coconut palm.

But there is at least one application not depicted there.

Coconut husks, neatly cut in halves and with the inner shell removed, are currently selling in a big Auckland department store at 3/- per pair—and the label reads BUDGERIGAR NESTS.

Inquiry reveals that there is a The Perils of Travel . . .

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brisk market throughout New Zealand and Australia among bird fanciers. The Auckland firm recently arranged with an importer to be supplied at 1/10 per pair.

All In With Your Tea

SOUTH-BOUND for New Zealand, conversation amongst Maori passengers aboard the Maui Pomare turned to the relative merits of the several brands of canned meat available in the Islands and of the present cost of same.

“I eat plenty” said one young man from Titikaveka, “but my sister doesn’t eat any meat now.”

How come, the others wanted to know.

“Well, two years ago she opened a tin,” he said, “then when she’d taken out about half there was a man’s finger sticking up, with a gold ring on it, and the nail still on the finger.”

“Did she sell the ring, or give it to the police, or what?” someone wanted to know, when the laughing had subsided.

“No,” said the young man from Titikaveka, “she threw the tin very far away—and now she doesn’t eat meat any more. Girls are real silly like that, aren’t they?”

But if a certain cannery worker in New Zealand is interested, there’s where the finger and ring now lie.

JPS.

A Coat—If You Own One

AS we have said before, Cook Islands News —the daily newssheet issued in Rarotonga—can be educational and very amusing.

This is not so much because of what is said, as for what one imagines lies behind the cryptic messages it contains.

For example, when recently someone from “the Printing Office” advertised for an experienced housegirl, stipulating “knowledge of dishwashing essential,” little experience of the Islands and little imagimj tion are needed to conjure up tl; assorted kinds of anguish the atj vertiser must have suffered at tl; hands of inexperienced dishwashea in the past.

And educational! Through tl: columns of the News we now kno what semi-formal means. In tM case it was an advertisement fi the Green and Gold Ball. Ladies Evening dress. Men: Long-sleeve shirt with tie, and coat if possih c That’s succinct, leaves no roo for doubt, and is based on a ledge of human nature —that is, tlr women like to dress up and mx do not.

It is a thousand pities that soc.i leaders in other parts of the Pacii couldn’t be equally as explicit—tl cause formality dies mighty hard some Islands. It is a fact that places like Paris and London ax New York one can get along wr fewer, and more informal cloth: than in some of the further flut parts of the British Empii Formality is in direct ratio to hi Far the colony in question happe to be Flung.

Except in the Cooks, of court where everyone exists in a far m<u advanced state of democracy a: comfort.

Love Tokens in a Hot Climate

Pim Crossquiz No. 77

Solution o» Page 88.

ACROSS 1. —Who is famous for his Prelude in C Sharp Minor? 7. —The first Director-General of the World Health Organisation was Dr. Brock ? 8. — Who was Commander-in-Chief of the Australian military forces during World War II? 10. —The adherents of what Hindu philosophy continue for long periods in unnatural postures? 11. —Of which Athenian philosopher was Plato a pupil? 15. —Zsa Zsa Gabor played the part of Jane in "Moulin Rouge"? 16. —What is the term for a word that has the same spelling as another but a different meaning? 17. —From what is tar derived? 18. —Who was the spirit in Shakespeare's "The Tempest"? 21. —What is the name for a member of the native race of Borneo? 23. —ln whose honour is the 145 ft. column in Trafalgar Square erected? 24. —What is the surname of the actress married to Errol Flynn?

DOWN 1. —Who won the world heavyweight boxing championship from Jersey Joe Walcott? 2. What was the name of the ship in R. L.

Stevenson's "Treasure Island"? 3. —of what group of islands is Angra the capital? 4. —what is the term for verse that has alternate short and long syllables? 5. —What is the capital of Canada? 6. What is the name of the small flute used in military bands? 9. —what is the name of the veil worm Moslem women in public? 12. —What fine clay is used largely in n ing paints? 13. —Which is the "eternal city"? 14. —Who wrote the beautiful poem Memoriam"? 19—What island off the coast of Argylh is the ancient burial place of the Sco kings? 20.—Who is the New Zealander who hsi come famous in the British Press foie political cartoons? 22. —What old cloth measure was equu U yards?

Swathed in garlands of Tiare—according to jur friend Oscar Nordman, the Love flowers of Tahiti—Miss Maadi Gobrait sets off on her journey from Papeete to France where she was the guest of the French Government at this years' Bastille Day celebrations. Although the giving of these garlands is a sign of affection and esteem, there is only one thing we can think of that would be more uncomfortable for a hot climate and that is a Davy Crockett hat.

If your island is so remote that you have never heard of Davy, or seen one of his hats —we'll tell you that Crockett was one of America's folk heroes; the Wild Frontier and all that. So tough a guy was he that he used to grin grizzly-bears into submission. He wore buckskins and a fur hat with a fox-tail hanging down the back. Last summer every little boy in Australia wore a Davy Crockett hat: mostly they were of fox fur, but there were some horrible tales of Junior cutting up mama's squirrel coat, or even mink. Just to look at these hats in mid-summer brought out a heatrash, but the strange thing is that with the winter and its record 1956 cold, when a Davy Crockett hat —or even two or three in strategic places—would be a real comfort, not one fur hat is to be seen. Davy, as far as the young fry are concerned, has returned to the Wild Frontier. 82 AUGUST, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHII

he Evidence was Circumstantial ut Damning, He Thought

The Case Of The Bare Footprint

By H. S. Faddy THINGS were very grim for the L men of the Returned Soldiers Dairy Settlement, in Fiji, during le Depression years. Butter prices 11 to the all-time low of sixpence pound on the London Market, here most of our butter was sold.

Fortunately, we had a small procted local market, which gave us iturn on our butter-fat. That tabled us at least to eat, if not be clothed, so that most of the ne we went around in rags.

Boots were no trouble for we iver wore any (except on the rare casions when we went to town), the rainfall was heavy and coniuous, and the soil so churned up ■ the cattle that we got. more mud the boots than on the outside.

In these circumstances, my other and I, who were partners two adjoining farms, cast our es around for a profitable sidele, to augment our meagre inme. In the end we •cided to plant an :perimental fourire plot of bananas, r which there was ready market, as a n a n a shippers gularly toured our [strict buying fruit.

My brother and I ;re also part-time mana Inspectors ider Government, id we had to attend the banana selling itions twice a anth, acting as addicators between e native growers, id the European yers.

By virtue of our sitions, we had nettling of a “pull” th the shippers, d one of them adily offered us a ntract price, well ove the ordinary te, A. nei g h b curing inter offered us the cessary “Suckers,” r the digging, so r enthusiasm ixed high, and we irted to fence the >ck.

We cut and hauled heavy bush timb- > for corner posts, d in putting on e wire, we took od care to make it w-proof.

Making a fence cow-proof is no mean feat, for there are occasional cows, and generally the best milkers, which will go through the proverbial eye of a needle to get at rich pickings, and there is nothing more enticing than luscious banana shoots. What damage one cow can do in a night, is nobody’s business.

We ploughed and cross-ploughed, and harrowed that loamy soil, until we got the fine tilth that we desired: then we planted the stools, and resting on our laurels, left the rest to Nature.

At that time we used mostly Indian labour. Originally, these labourers had been brought out to Fiji, under strict Indenture Terms, and time amongst the coolies was reckoned from the ships that they had arrived in, very much on the same principle as the English aristocracy points to the Norman invasion as the date „ f thrl , ennoblement. tneir If anyone enquired of an Indian how long he had been in Fiji he SSStls £ e ; the earlier the ship, the greater the prestige of the individual Later on, however, the indenture system was scrapped in favour of £ ree settlement—an old story that “f s . no P lace here, except in that in new freedom the inevitable +r s ar * d know-alls emerged, fhe time of our banana expenment, a full-blown Sadhu from Indla mysteriously appeared, who ] n secret meetings all over the 01 2f n • racial hatreds, 15 e +iJ ndlans to return to th6ir demands n °t he a P ass and 1 Reminded rwateiation^Sfm the GovSnment repatnatlon Irom We on the dairy farms got on very well with the Indians, and had no trouble securing milkmen, £ “ * hardlf S‘ a K W<s E hdd no rrate aeamst us “ grudge 5 A FTER some months our banana plantation began to flourish . . . Grabbed hold of his foot and measured it with the grass-stem. 83 ACIFIC I S I. A N D S MONTHLY AUGUST. 1956

like the “green bay tree” in the paddock in front of the house, and was the very apple of our eyes.

Every night after dinner, it became my habit to prowl up and down the fence, with ears cocked, listening for any alien sound, and especially for the greedy munching of cows.

Then one morning, an Indian accompanied by his wife and children, came down from a neighbour’s place up the river, where he had been employed as a milkman.

He had evidently been bitten by the “Return to India” bug, and asked whether he could stay in our labour-lines, until such time as he got word about the sailing date of his ship. We gave him permission to stay as long as he liked, and the whole family went over the river to the barracks, and made themselves at home.

A couple of days later, I had occasion to go down to the shopping centre, by the transinsular road that formed one of the boundaries of our bananas. I was enjoying the goodly sight of the green canopy of the flaunting banana leaves, waving gently in the morning breeze, but all at once I saw a gap in the line of trees bordering the road, and crawled through the fence to see what had happened to them.

I was astonished when I got there, to see about ten trees absolutely flattened to the ground, as if a strong man had beaten them down with a club, and evidently a club studded with nails, as I could see the punctures in the stalks of the leaves.

I yelled out for my brother to come down, and we both looked around for any clues that would give a line on th Q perpetrator. Under the trees we had allowed the grass to grow unchecked, to conserve the moisture and keep the ground cool, and we could not see any tracks, except between the fence and the trees, where the grass had been trampled.

After awhile we gave up looking and talking about it, and went about our business. But the thing haunted us all day long, as it was so inexplicable.

Next morning after milking and breakfast, I strolled down to have another look, and to my astonishment, another dozen trees had suffered the same fate. This was too much of a good thing, so we went further afield, to see if the same thing had occurred elsewhere.

While doing this I came to a shallow drain, in the lower part of the paddock, and in the soft soil at the bottom, I saw the prints of bare feet, leading in amongst the bananas. Following them up the drain, I found that they broke off from the drain, and in the long grass there was evidence that someone had passed through towards the river, and in the direc- (Continued on Page 93) Scientific Research Points Way

8 Point Plan For

A Happy Sex Life

rERE you have it —the cover of the book that caused newspapers, organisations like the National Association of School Masters, and the churches to condemn it as a “danger to young people,” when it was first published in Britain a few months ago.

And, as soon as the book reached Australia, it was serialised—with the original illustrations —in People, subsequently causing the newspaper company to be charged in the State of Victoria under one of the new laws relating to obscene literature.

The case came before the Court in July, the magistrate ruling that, within the meaning of the Act, Love in the South Seas was not obscene —but a “serious anthropological study.”

So be it . . . if your anthropological studies drive you along this path, in very truth you may find as much gold in old favourites like Malinowski’s Sexual Life Of Savages (about the Trobriand Islanders) or in the current publications of anthropological societies.

The only difference is that you will have to delve deeper and, like it says in the American advts., they come to you in a plain cover.

The thing that offended the pure-in-heart most about Mr.

Danielsson’s scientific treatise was the cover (in glorious technicolour) and the naked-from-the-waist-up, pin-up girls inside, in plain black and white.

There seems no particular reason why a scientific book should not have posed photographs of this sort.

And no particular reason why it should, either.

A more accurate indication of the contents of the book would have been Sex In French Oceania, because, as the author goes out of his way to state, the abstract Western term, “love,” has little relation to Polynesian sex practices.

The South Seas (for which read Tahiti) that Danielsson describes moreover, are just prior to the advent of the white man—say, about 175 years ago. This is a point that the eager-beaver looking for the purple patches is likely to miss if he does not read carefully from the beginning and then check up with Chapter 10, at the back, to see what changes have occurred since 1780, or thereabouts. It could that your particular line of “scientific research” has been dropped altogether in the intervening years.

Finally, in Chapter 11, we of West are urged to go Polynes? in relation to our ideas about s and to make this thorny, if lightful path easier, the author I drawn up an eight-point pc gramme. One of the Points c»; cerns the desirability of plurai of wives. As a reviewer in Times Literary Supplement said “It is a measure of his persuasii ness that this looks rather nr sensible at the end of his book tH it would have looked at the ginning.”

But for our money we think tJ Bengt still has his head in tt great big beard of his. Imag any sane Sydneysider, for instai taking to himself as many as fl wives when the present price the lowly spud is 2/- per poiu —JT. (Cost of the book in Australia is 2 genuine scientific researchers Union » must be shown may borrow it from R library, gratis.) t The tenth and last of the I series of American atomic be* tests took place in the Marss Islands on July 22. According Japanese scientists explosions tt place on May 5. 21 and 28; June 26, and July 3,9, 11, 21 andJ United States authorities repo:t cnly the first two, and the o elusion of the tests. t A population census will 1 place in Tonga on the night of S tember 26-27 this year. There also be a census of the Cook Isis this year, the last being takenr September 25, 1951.

The cover that was said to be a "dan to young people”.

AUGUST. 1 9 5 6 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

The Heathen Of Bora Bora By Charles Brown Jr. r was by chance that Jack London learned from a young woman at Apia, Samoa, that Tehei, the ihitian sailor on the Snark, had en a cook on the Eimeo, a tradl schooner owned by a Mr. *xter, which was literally blown pieces in the Tuamotus during e terrible hurricane of 1906 that r ept this dangerous archipelago d Tahiti.

Fehei and another Tahitian alone rvived to tell of the loss of the meo. rhey had managed to catch hold a hatch-cover which, torn from e Eimeo by the wind, was blown fir way. For three days the two re in the water, one in and one t alternately, there being room • only one man on the cover, rheir ordeal ended when they v the coconut-fringed atoll of hanea above the sea and, by ving the ragged shirt that was t between them, attracted the iention of natives, who sent a ice out to them.

V week later, they were carried Tahiti by the French rescue liser.

Jot one word of this experience d Tehei breathed to London — hei never talked about himself. it Penduffryn Plantation, on adalcanal Island, in the “terrible” iomons, where, surrounded by lourers and servants from the inibal and head-hunter tribes of ilaita Island, London lived and Dte for a time, he made the neo adventure the starting point his novel called The Heathen.

Jut he did not call his hero Tehei. named him Otoo, and said he s the “one heathen of Bora Bora.” r did he take Tehei’s fellow bitian as the companion of the tch-cover; instead, he created arley, a white adventurer, the >t-person narrator of the story. )too and Charley, according to idon’s story, met in the maw of turricane. They knitted the bonds their comradeship and ranged i wide Pacific together, survived ee shipwrecks, and prospered m their business enterprises.

Lfter 17 years of companionship, iy parted in Savo Lagoon, in the omons—Otoo in the jaws of the irk that dragged him under the ter, after he prevented the 16-ft ler from getting Charley. /harley memorialised his brown •ther in these words: “If Jehovah from His high place watching iry sparrow fall, not least in His igdom shall be Otoo, the one ithen of Bora Bora.” * * * LONDON met Tehei first in Uturoa Lagoon. The yacht Snark was anchored just off • village of Uturoa, between the twin islands of Raiatea and Tahaa The tall youthful native, wearing a white-flowered crimson pareu and the brim of a pandanus-leaf hat shading his dark brown eyes, had beat up from leeward to the Snark in a reddish-brown coffin-shaped outrigger canoe that rocked appallingly beneath an impossible huge spritsail.

The dugout was no more than 14 ft long, 2 ft deep, and scarcely a foot wide.

But it was the spritsail which captured the attention of the young American standing in the Snark’s cockpit. As if the hoist of the sail and the length of its boom were not sufficient, its builder had put an extraordinary large head on it, with a spar lashed to the canoe and projecting aft over the water. To this was made fast a sprit guy, the sail being held by the mainsheet and the peak by the guy to the sprit.

The cheerful-faced, wide awake islander lost no time in ingratiating himself with the white man. He presented him with a fish, a bundle of greens, and a basket of sweet potatoes. His honest, uncommercialised eyes beaming good-will for him, he would accept no price for what he gave.

London acknowledged the goodwill offerings and again his eyes ran over the outlandish craft.

“Well, I know one thing,” he said to himself, “I don’t leave Raiatea till I have a ride in that canoe.”

He made signs that he wanted to do just that and Tehei’s face lighted with pleasure.

“Come for a sail,” London called down the companionway to his wife, Charmian. “But put on your swimming suit. It’s going to be wet.”

In brief time they were off, headed toward the coral rim of the vast, shining basin. It was full and away on a long tack, the “sailing machine” skimming over the brittle crests, like a flying-fish before a bonita. The wind increasing, they ran off before it with slacked sheets, the blue, foam-laced wavelets continually lapping over the canoe’s freeboard which was but two and a half inches high, as Charmian London bailed furiously with a primitive wooden bailer.

Perched midway out on the outrigger, Jack supplied the weight to keep the canoe bottom-side down.

In the puffs, the native climbed part way out on the outrigger, a large steering paddle clasped in both hands, the mainsheet held with his toss, and supplied the nerve. It seemed the canoe must capsize; but the steersman smiled assurance that they were in no danger. This was sailing, Jack told Charmian; the first real small-craft sailing they Few; present generation Islanders read what were once the acknowledged classics of the Pacific—books by Stevenson, Melville, Becke, London and others. There probably is no good reason why they should: Fashions in literature change like fashions in everything else and what is good writing to one generation is tedious and boring to the next.

There are still some older residents of the Pacific who can remember Jack London and the cruise he made in the Snark —and the author of this story is one. He tells how London came to write his pre- World War I novel, “The Heathen” had had since coming to the South Seas.

“Ready about!” commanded Tehei Cautiously, crablike, Jack shifted his weight inboard, maintaining the precarious balance as the sail spilled wind.

“Hard a-lee!” shouted the native, and shot the canoe into the wind.

Jack sidled out to the opposite side of the water on a spar athwart the canoe, and they were full and away on the new tack, “All right,’’ cried the canoeman He had used up his English vocabulary.

Returned to the Snark from the short trial ride, Tehei pointed northeast to the lofty emerald island over whose minarets and escarpments the trade-wind clouds were racing, two miles across the lagoon and, uttering one word, “Tahaa,” renewed an invitation for the Londons to accompany him there.

Though the exhilaration of their ride was still upon them they hesitated. They had the letters given them on Tahiti to deliver and Uturoa residents to make acquaintance with. Still —the prospect drew the Londons like a magnet. “We’ll go,” they said, as their gaze completed the half-circle of seascape before them, and hastily shoving shoes, shirts, a pair of trousers, cigarettes, matches, and a book into a biscuit tin, they were in the canoe, and away.

The thrilling traverse ended at Tehei’s white beach. Jack and Charmian, two youngsters on a lark, were received by Bihaura, Tehei’s smiling wife, a “dark, wiry little vahine ... in a limp black calico.” She took them to a little bird-cage house of plaited bamboo and pandanus-leaf thatch.

Tehei and Bihaura proceeded to overwhelm them with hospitality.

No limits were there to the hospitality. Nor was there any escaping it. It extended into the next day. At sunrise, Jack and Charmian went fishing with Tehei, baiting their hooks with the portions of live 85 IC IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

tentacles that he bit off the squirming squid on his long spear.

When they returned to Uturoa that evening in a cutter, it was to take the Snark to Tahaa the next morning and take aboard Tehei and Bihaura, who accompanied them to Bora Bora, 28 miles to the northwest. Bihaura owned a large two-story frame house there.

It was stone-fishing that attracted the Londons to Bora Bora. Come down from the ancient times, it was, generally, a successful way of fishing. It took place as an outing and to honour visitors to the island; and all the pleasure-loving Bora Borans joined in the hilarity.

The fish are driven through the lagoon by the fishermen standing in the bows of canoes repeatedly smiting the water with stones several pounds in weight and attached to short ropes. The canoes eventually form a circle, with an inner reef of coral as the far edge.

Here stand women in a long row that extends far out into the lagoon, forming a barrier of legs to break any headlong flight of the fish.

When the canoe circle is small enough,, a canoe shoots out from the reef and pays out a long screen of coconut leaves for reinforcing the fence of legs. After which, the guest of honour leaps into the shallow water and impales the first fish on a spear. He is then followed by the rest of the party and usually there are thousands of fish •caught, the trapped fish boiling up and over onto the reef.

This particular fish-drive was a failure, however. When the chief fisherman entered the crystalline water of the coral trap, there was not a fish to be seen. One in five of these drives fail; it was the luck of the Londons to draw the one chance in five. „ When the Londons left Bora Bora they did so with new names— Tehei and Bihaura —exchanged for their own in the beautiful native ceremony of name-exchange.

The initiative had been Charmian Tendon’s; and Tehei and Bihaura, whom the two white sea wanderers would thenceforth call Jack and Charmian, were happy when she suggested it . _ ..

As the freshening wind filled the JSnark’s sails and the water widened between her and the little white cutter heading home to Tahaa, Jack, formerly Tehei, was kneeling by the Snark’s taffrail, breathing a silent prayer His cheeks were wet with the tears he was shedding for ■Charmian, his little brown vahine, who was waving adieu to him from the stern of the cutter that was growing smaller as he watched.

Signed on before the mast, after the fifth refusal by his white brother Tehei was beginning his log of many thousands of miles of seafaring in the uncharted coral seas of the South.

OF course, Tehei was never a heathen, except as Otoo in The Heathen. As London described him in the story, he “was all sweetness and gentleness, a love-creature, though he stood nearly six feet tall and was muscled like a gladiator.”

While the Snark lay at Ontong Java Atoll (Lord Howe), the brown inhabitants of which were of Polynesian origin, Tehei, a bit shaky and frightened with fever, went inshore for a change. He spent two days on the ring of sand and coconuts, visiting and praying with the two native Wesleyan missionaries.

He returned to the Snark with a stiffened soul; he seemed himself again.

But shortly after, black-water fever heavy upon him, he gave up and stumbled to his bunk, to face he knew not what. His temperature repeatedly mounted to 104 and his pulse 115. His heart was chugging close to his mouth; his life, it seemed, must slip away like a puff of smoke.

London, studying everything in the medical library pertaining to black-water, pulled him through the fever. Tehei’s chance had been the one in a hundred.

Then he went out of his mind.

One early morning, in his dementia, as the Snark was fetching Manning Straits, he carried his best suit of clothes on deck, threw into the unfamiliar sea, and made to follow them, as if on the way to the blest kingdom, when he was restrained.

Whether conscious or raving and babbling in his native tongue, all his “childish-lisping talk” was in the nomenclature of the missionaries. So wore the days away, until Tehei gathered new strength.

The cruise of the Snark, begun as a world good-time cruise, had to be abandoned at Sydney. London was miserably sick in a hospital there for five weeks, while the Australian skin specialists could not find in the literature of medicine anything that told the nature of the loathsome, painful malady which afflicted his hands. They were literally going to pieces, on occasion swelling to twice their normal size, when 11 dead and dying skins were peeling off simultaneously.

And, at times, in the space of 24 hours, his toenails grew as thick as they were long, and when filed down, immediately thickened again.

Not until London returned to his native California did he learn that he had a strong predisposition toward the tissue-destructiveness of tropical light and that the ultraviolet rays were destroying him. In temperate California, he completely recovered. , . _ .

Tehei, too, regained his lost senses. He was sent home by steamer to the Society Islands, taking with him not only numerous Snark souvenirs and the prodigious wishes of Jack and Charmian (Continued on Page 95) 50 Years a Pioneer in P-N[?] MRS. FLORA STEWART, of the Hotel I at Lae, is so well known in the TI tory of Papua and New Guinea that she nr no introduction to residents, or to visitors have passed through that centre.

She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, reached Papua from Australia in 1906. first became Mrs. Gofton, and had children, a son Moresby, who was killed Germany in 1940, and a daughter Ela, is now married and living at Lae.

By her second husband, Mrs. Stewart hii daughter Flora, who is married and lives Port Moresby.

From a hotel at Wau on the Morobe < field, in 1935 they built another hotes Lae, the Hotel Cecil, of which nothing left in 1945.

Mrs. Stewart was the first civilian w<m to return to Lae after the war in 1946,, she spent three years fighting the Adminii tion and Town-Planners who wanted hes move the proposed new hotel to the reside area on the plateau.

Here she was offered a smaller piece of so she clung to her old site, which hr permanent water supply. The present was built in 1952, with two stories, accommodation for 127 people, besides spas public rooms, a fern courtyard and witW Huon Gulf just across the road.

There is a dance hall adjacent to the tl and a lot of other buildings which air part of the property, in the grounds a> metre swimming pool has been built.

Mrs. Stewart has done some travellim the last few years, once to England fori British Festival and again for the Coroiui Her last trip was to China and Japan,, she is currently on a tour of other par 1 ! the. Pacific—New Zealand to Hawaii.

While the site of the new hotel was debated, Mrs. Stewart set up a tempq hotel in a disused AWAS camp in the ju Any person who stayed there will neven the memory of those brown-paper wallse rusty tin roofs, and the barest minimon privacy. Most of the walls protectedb inmate, like the old swimming costumes, , neck to knee, unless the observer outsidel interested enough to go to trouble to t better view.

The conditions were so far removed normal standards that a visitor felt th»i was part of history and tradition ini making, like a prisoner in the Towers London.

Post-war in devastated New Guinea i tough. Hard to believe now that thee New Guinea is only about seven yearn —BRETT HILDER. 86 AUGUST, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT Ht

[?]ur World of Stamps—l [?]OW TO BEGIN [?]OLLECTING K.N., an Australian stamp-collecting enthusiast, has written a series of articles on this hobby and these will appear each month in the PIM, commencing with this issue. Primarily the articles are written for young people who are just beginning to think of stamps as a hobby, and thus they begin with first principles. But the articles should be of interest also to people of any age who have just joined the ranks of the stamp-collecting millions.

HERE is one thing about collecting stamps—you can be any age to start adding to your )wledge, pleasure and profit, t doesn’t matter who you are where you live, everyone is equal en it comes to “Philately,” which the love of Stamp Collecting, ind if you asked why they col- ; stamps, some people might say y didn’t know; others would give gthy reasons. But a stock reply ild be “Ah, just for something do in my spare time!”

Vhatever your reason for being racted to the hobby—your world stamps—you will never regret it. i can travel the world by stamps: 3t famous people: learn about is, animals and insects of other ds. At the same time you have tures of forms of transport, on d, sea and air.

Tien, too, stamps often appear publicise important national and jrnational conferences, celebrate liversaries, and, by reason of ir designs, reflect the passage of tory. ’he hobby of stamp collecting dually developed over the years more and more countries began issue their own stamps following example set by Britain in 1840, sn it printed the world’s first Lesive stamps.

Imost 200 stamp-issuing nations >t to-day, so you can see that , have plenty to select from, iest assured that stamp collectis worthwhile. Franklin D. )sevelt, President of the United tes, recognised as one of the ■ld’s leading philatelists, said, ie best thing about stamp collectis that the enthusiasm which it uses in youth increases as the rs pass. It dispels boredom, irges our vision, broadens our iwledge and in innumerable ways iches our life.” nother American, General Mark rk, also wrote on one occasion: amps gave me a knowledge of er countries and other people t I found of value when I veiled abroad. Stamp collecting Is interest to the study of history, graphy and finance.”

Now, when you start a collection, it would be wise to decide what form this is to take —whether you will become a “one country” enthusiast, or collect stamps by their designs. You might even specialise in foreign or British Commonwealth stamps, or you could concentrate wholly on the countries of the Pacific, either individually or collectively. (Next month we will discuss what equipment you will need.) Some Recent New Issues In April, Brazil introduced an interesting new stamp on the occasion of the Juvenile Games.

The design showed two young girls taking part in a relay race, in the act of changing the baton.

Only last year the same South American republic produced a similar stamp for the same event, this time illustrating two athleticlooking schoolboys at the start of a foot-race.

Mother’s Day, usually celebrated during May in most countries, is recalled this year by special stamps from Turkey and Cuba. The design of the Turkish issue showed Zubeyde Hanim, mother of former President of Turkey Kemal Ataturk.

Two stamps were included in the set from Cuba, one of which portrayed Victor Munoz, founder of Mother’s Day in Cuba. The other showed a mother with her baby.

The Boy Scout Movement, whose activities are world-wide, will next year observe the 50th anniversary of its foundation in Britain by the late Lord Baden Powell. On this occasion a great Scout Jamboree is to be held in the Midlands of England.

Already such countries as Venezuela, Norway, Luxembourg and Belgium, have indicated that they will make available new stamps for the Jamboree. The stamps should be welcomed by scouting ent A school has been opened at Mendi, in the Papuan Southern Highlands where tribal warfare has ceased only recently. An estimated 1500 natives attended the ceremony and many told officials they wanted to send their children to school.

"Forty Years On, When Far and Asunder . . ." rIE interesting and ancient photograph was taken in Rabaul on December 16, 1916, on the occasion of a cricket match between Civilians and the Australian garrison, It was sent to us by Mr. W. E.

Ryall, well-known executive of the Islands firm of Nelson and Robertson.

Mr. Ryall was able to identify seme of the people in this picture.

The first man standing on the left is Steve Whiteman, a well-known resident of New Guinea, who captained the Civilians’ team. Fourth from the left is Mr. L. Hart, and next to him, also from left, are Lieutenants Mcllwaine and Scroggie, members of the Occupation Force.

Mr. Ryall himself is the dark young man, seated, about the middle of the photograph. Mr. Jim Pym, who became a well-known commercial traveller in New Guinea, is third from the right.

The match was held on thesportsground, where a Chinaman had been hanged the previous day.

The aim of the players was to try to hit the ball over the gallows.

Mr. Billy Dupain, who was then manager of Burns Philp, in Rabaul, is also in the picture, but Mr. Ryall was unable to identify him. Mr.

Dupain is now BP manager in Cairns.

Mr. Ryall had gone to Rabaul to take over for Nelson and Robertson, the management of Rabaul Hotel from Mr. W. Louri.

Many of the civilians there at the time the photograph was taken, were waiting for the Matunga to take them back to Australia, but their wait was in vain —Matunga had been captured by a German raider. They had to wait for another three months before a ship arrived to take them back to Australia. 87 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST. 1956

This Month’s New Reading Out Amongst the Bull-Dust TWENTY or more years ago, an Englishman went to Australia, travelled extensively on that Continent and went back home and wrote a book called Cobbers. Since then it has been fashionable —and apparently has shown some profit— to write factual books about the Australian Outback, or about journeys through the Outback.

And still they come. Latest is Overlanding With Annabel, an amiable enough tale of the wanders of Stuart and Jan Gore in a vintage Chrysler, from Perth through the NW of the Continent, over to Darwin and down the Centre. However, if the book had remained unwritten, neither literature nor the extent of human knowledge would have suffered to any discernible degree.

These two adventurers were professional photographers. They left Perth with practically no money and thereafter managed to exist on the proceeds of showing films of their own making to outback audiences at townships and stations.

There is always one inescapable inference to be drawn from this sort of story—that the people who undertake these outback adventures are something more than human.

Sand-traps, dust—bull-dust, they call it —sandflies, mosquitoes, heat, cold, car troubles, discomfort. But does wife ever bat husband over the head with the frying-pan in a fit of despondency? No.

Does husband, after struggling with recalcitrant carburettor in a sand-drift for 17 hours, curse whinging wife and say he wishes to God he’d left her behind in the city?

No.

No —the pair continue like a couple of sucking-doves, while it is your reviewer who is thrown into a fit of despondency as she considers the inevitable reactions of her own (indubitably lesser-fibred; menage under similar frustrating conditions. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd.

Australian price, 18/-.) Cornish Gentlemen A NOVEL based on historical fact oftimes is like a sandwich with little meat and although Mary Dunstan’s new book, Trusty and Well Beloved , suffers somewhat from this disability its picture of Cornwall in the days of the Stuarts more than makes up for it.

Particularly so for anyone with the least acquaintance with this rugged part of England, or anyone with the Celtic blood of Cornwall in their veins.

In 1625, when the first Charles Stuart came to the throne, Cornwall could still almost be regarded as frontier country. Its Celtic people had been the last to submit to Saxon rule, and in the early 17ih century the feudal system was still supreme. What the Cornish gentry thought became the opinion of all.

Each gentleman could unquestionably count on the loyalty of his own people.

Educated by tutors and at Oxford, followed by a polishing period at Court or through Continental travel, the Cornish gallant was usually satisfied to come home in due course to his estates, to marriage, to work and to his sports and to the welfare, as he saw it, of his retainers.

Such a one was Francis Basset of Tehidy.

But with Charles came change, even in Cornwall —and in the end, divided loyalties: between King and Commonwealth; between Puritan and Anglican.

The book covers the period of Charles I’s reign from 1625 until its end with the victory of Cromwell in 1645. It covers also this period in Francis Basset’s life, and in the life of Cornwall. It finds the county in its simplicity, its greatest problem the raids of the so-called “Turks” —Moorish pirates from North Africa—and leaves it licking the wounds of civil war.

In all it is a narrow canvas — Cromwell’s name is never mentioned and Charles himself is a nebulous figure, the unseen writer of those communications which invariably began: To Our Trusty and Wellbeloved Francis Basset, esqre.

But it does give a fascinating picture of southern England of that day and an almost incredible reminder that time was when distance was measured by the pace of a swift horse, and not by the speed of a supersonic jet air-craft.

A smaller world; more leisurely.

But better? It is doubtful. Misery and uncertainty abounded. The conflict of men’s ideas led, then as now, frequently to death. (Published by William Hienemann, Ltd.

Australian price, 18/9.) One Kentish Summer IN a very dull month, a new novel by Kate Mary Bruce—Felicity— probably seems even more enjoyable than it should be.

Th°re is nothing profound about Miss Bruce’s stories; their virtue lies in their sheer entertainment value, and for the delight of her characters.

Her sure touch for narrative is, no doubt, a natural gift, diligently cultivated; and her plots attempt to solve no world-shaking problems.

But how very pleasant it is to read a book occasionally for the pleasure it gives, and not to be harasstj by the psychoses of charactes adrift in this world of woe.

This story is told by Fanny. Sft had not seen Felicity for 20 yea* until Felicity appeared in coul charged with the attempted murdi of her (Fanny’s) father, Char!

Roland. The story had become sensation and had been spresi across the front pages of the popull newspapers: Charles and Felicii admit that they have been seen lovers for 20 years.

Fanny goes back to the early 30C to a summer house-party in Ken when the affair was just beginnii. —ignored by her mother, observe by her grandmother and unknov? to Fanny and her sisters, immers* in teen-age affairs of their own.

Miss Bruce handles the story wii great skill, never letting it on: descend into bathos, yet keepiij her characters completely human (Published by William Hienemann, U Australian price, 17/-.) Guess What, in the Garret YOU write it, we’ll read it. Tlr is the slogan we work by—■■ to a point.

The point seemed to have be: reached on page 67 of The Sorroi Of Travel (by John Breon), as as we had not by then found c what it was all about, or appean likely to, we gave up.

So —having fallen down on o side of the bargain—we tell y < merely what it says on the jacH flap. We quote: “Paris has always served as lodestar for the artistic young.

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more than half in love with Lit] who shares the hardships of tH garret life although she does need to; and George, who hopes write, pursues Livia with his affi tion but never seems quite ables find fulfilment with her. . . n this close circle comes a forr Army companion of Paul’s, Alben How he shatters their roman withdrawn world ... is the bun: of this appealing story. Perhaps some readers the serious impl j! tions of Mr. Breon’s theme will, apparent, although the book can read primarily for its narrai values. . . His talent is sensitive : yet remarkably disciplined. Herr a truly remarkable novel.”

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So it is over to you, gentle rea* For us —we are probably growing? and crusty. The haverings American post-World War Ilyov in search of their souls in Mo: marte do not appear to us tcc important. (Published by Peter Davies. Austr price, 17/-.) When the Paddle- Steamers Ran IN this year of exceptional fid in all the main river syst of Eastern Australia —you I to go back to 1890 to find anytl; comparable the re-issuing Dreadnought of the Darling, K C. E. W. Bean, first published 1911, has a certain amount! topical appeal to Australians.

Much history, too. Australia in those days, a raw and yo- Commonwealth with the Out; correspondingly closer to the cost fringe than it is to-day. It was day of the stage-coach, and — be* the Murray had been dammed at Albury, or locks and weirs below Renmark —when pa d£ steamers plied on the Murray ' the Darling, bringing in the groco and taking out the wool, right o to the sea. In between trips literally holed up when the n dwindled to a series of holes, v ing again for the bankers, or I bankers that permitted navigj? almost 1,700 miles from the sa Author Bean has, of course the intervening years become 0 monwealth Historian, but whes gathered the material for this ' in 1908 and 1909, he was a y? reporter on the Sydney Mem Herald. In 1908, he was sem his paper to report on the all ative routes which the State was vestigating for a railway to < Sydney with Broken Hill.

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I mooched down again to the drain, where I had discovered the footprints and sat down to meditate.

I began to be thoroughly ashamed of myself for the way I had treated the Indian and his family, and would have given something to see them reappear, so that I could apologise.

Looking idly down into the drain, after awhile the footmarks began to look strangely familiar. I began to wonder sheepishly if they were not my own, which I had made in wandering about the field. So I put my foot down on to the print, and it fitted perfectly.

So much for circumstantial evidence, I thought. Let this be a lesson not to jump to hasty conclusions on such flimsy evidence.

BUT this left the ravages unexplained, and our minds were like squirrels in a cage that day, trying to think of a solution to the puzzle.

That evening my brother and I went down to a neighbour’s place for dinner. The two young sons of the house were my godsons. Durmg the meal we recounted what had happened, but our combined experience could hazard no answer All at once, Ronnie, the eldest lad, piped up and said, “But Uncle I did that.”

His father said, “That will do son. Don’t butt in, while your elders are talking.”

“But I did do it, Dad,” he said 93 CIF 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956 Case of the Bare Footprint (Continued from Page 84)

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I turned to Ronnie, and asked, “Well, how did you do it, Ron?”

“Well,” he said, “it was not actually me that did it, but my dog.”

“Well,” I said, pointing to a small tree growing in the backyard, “go out and show me how you did it.”

So Ron raced out to the yard, and picking up a stone, flung it at the tree, and sooled his dog on.

In a moment that great powerful brute sprang at the tree, and leaf by leaf, tore that tree to the ground—he was not using a club with nails in it, but his own toothstudded jaws.

To the Queen of Cocos—a Daughter A DAUGHTER has been born to Mr. and Mrs. John Clunies- Ross, of Cocos Islands (Indian Ocean), the tiny cluster of islands midway between Australia and Ceylon that has played a significant part in Australasian history.

The group has now been transferred from UK administration to Australia, but the present Clunies- Ross continues to enjoy all the rights and privileges granted to his ancestor, John George, by Queen Victoria —including a perpetual lease of Home Island, which produces about £60,000 worth of copra per year.

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At this hour stations at Lismore, NSW, and Dunedin, NZ, on the same frequency, had closed down. [?]y Should British [?] From [?] Singapore Chinese! \ a letter to the London “Daily •graph,” in May, a Mr. T. E. gkinson, of Bath (evidently a •ed British public servant) puts effective words what most \h Pacific people are thinking it the Singapore situation: jring the war, Sir Winston rchill once said hat he had not n office to preside at the distion of the British Empire. >w the policy of the Conserv- “ party has altered! A Donative Colonial Secretary has de- ;d —it was even on St. George’s —that the Government recogi the “legitimate desires of the ile of Singapore to govern iselves.” hat absolute nonsense this is. apore is British, bought from rightful owner by Sir Stamford les, and created out of a wilder of mangrove swamp by British ur and capital. The few fisher who inhabited the island at time of its sale to Raffles probwelcomed the change in ;ers. i-day, Singapore city ranks as of the most modern in the ± Its harbours and dock inations are second to none in Far East. is blessed with a just and imial administration, so that the i immigrant Chinese have been to make fortunes, and keep i, without fear of being dered by their Malay neighs. e majority of the Straits-born ese I met while I was serving the RAF Regiment, Malaya, glad of British government in sland. ie remedy for the others who dislike us is in their own Is. Tickets to China are readily liable. 1 the work of the loyal, sufficing thousands of Britons who laboured, lived and died to j Singapore great is apparently ; discarded by the Government le asking of a man who cannot claim to speak for the majority ie inhabitants. s. Bernice Ewing, wife of James ur Ewing, former Governor of :ican Samoa, filed suit for ce in San Francisco on July 5.

Ewing obtained a court order mting Ewing from disposing of of his assets until the prelary hearing on July 15. Mrs. ig seeks $7OO a month mainten- The suit claims that Ewing, low engaged in the importing less, has an estate worth 000. 95 The Heathen of Bora Bora (Continued from Page 86) CIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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Regret to note reports of damage to copra during handling and transit— Recommend that shipping companies be approached and urged to ensure that copra destined mainly for use in the manufacture of edible products be handled and stowed with all possible care and that mechanical appliances used for trimming and other purposes should be operated by skilled personnel or under adequate supervision. mething More Personal-Mr. Howard and the Fiji Planters FRIENDLY letter is in from Mr. Howard himself, in which he refers to some critical comit by Mr. Jack Price on proiings at a meeting between Mr. vard and the planters of Savu u (May PIM, page 151). was rather interested to read Jack Price’s letter on my visit to u Savu; and, although not wishto enter into long discussions, ould like to make one or two its— assuming, of course, that we both referring to the same meet- The one I attended was held tfarch 24, not 31, as he stated. and quote: “Several of the planters :e in reply, mentioning such igs as methods of production, age, shipping, etc. The dision seemed to be going round ircles and getting us nowhere.” ay I say that the “several” referred to were in fact the majority; and that these planters were all keen to discuss the real problems of the copra industry, instead of just talking of the years of depression when, incidentally, many people other than copra producers were finding the going pretty tough.

Mr. Price told me that there was no intention of improving the quality of copra from this area and that I was wasting my time. The forceful comments of the other members left me in no doubt that the speaker was on his own in this view, and that the other planters were most anxious to hear of the buyer’s requirements and to discuss methods of grading, incentives and other points of mutual interest.

As for a “lull in the proceedings,” and the “meeting just fizzled out,” this hardly does justice to what was J:- most interesting exchange of views, lasting the best part of two hours and ending only when somebody kindly suggested that I shouM inspect the “production” of the Planters’ Club (where, incidentally I paid a forfeit for being the first to talk shop) I would just like to add that I respect a man’s opinion; and, if the majority of the planters of Savu Savu feel that I wasted their time on March 24, then I sincerely apologise. I am certain, however, that men who felt that the trip “was just a propaganda move and an excuse for bringing the price of copra down still further” would not have been as hospitable as were the people of Savu Savu during my short stay in this area.

The British crushers have all along been anxious to buy South Seas copra and to help the British Ministry of Food as well by doing so. This is one reason why they are anxious to see an improvement in the quality of copra being shipped from this area.

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Not so terribly frightening, are they? (Mr. Howard’s address is 14 Beechway, Bexley, Kent, England).

World Copra Use Declines JF planters need further warning that the halcyon days of the late 40’s-early 50’s are fast drawing to a close, they had it in a report by the Committee on Commodity Problems —a sub-section of FAO —which met in Rome in early July.

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"Nothing to Fear"

ID, now finally a different opinion on the subject. It comes from Mr. H. B. Gibson, >pean Elected Member for the em Division in the Fiji Legise Council. He recently spent e months in Europe, i his return to Suva in July aid that he could find no unted copra either in England or Continent. ! found the reverse was the It was in very keen demand, largely to the additional uses hich copra was now being put. t saw the Nessbank load copra lavu Savu in Fiji and saw it aded in England. He took )les from the shipment to comthe copra with that from : Pacific countries, the East Africa. appeared to him that the mills crushing peanuts, palm kernels other such products while waitfor copra ships to come in, i they immediately shifted over pra. That was particularly the on the Continent. was particularly impressed the extensive use of coconut n European countries. Prely restricted mostly to soap, arine and explosives, coconut as now used by all the leading urants for cooking, and was extensively used in cakeng, biscuit-making and con- >nery. m the extended use to which mt oil was being put he was need that copra planters had hg to fear in the future, even icers of low grade copra .

D. M. Kamerling, governing- ;or of Demka Agencies Pty.

Pacific Islands representatives number of leading Australian ifacturers, will leave Sydney on imber 1 on another business to PI territories. For those ng to contact him personally g his tour, Mr. Kamerling an- Des the following time-table; ;te, Sept. 6 to 23; Apia, Sept, it. 8; Suva, Oct. 8-25. During )n of his stay in Western a, Mr. Kamerling will be tipanied by Mr. W. Griffiths, leal director of Glazebrooks s Pty. Ltd.

Family'S Run Of Bad Luck

SOME sort of a hoodoo has been placed upon the Nordman family, of Tahiti.

The last of the series of accidents occurred recently when a car in which daughter Ethel was travelling (she is Mrs. Harrison Bourke wife of an Australian), left the road near their home (up on the mountain behind Papeete, where is situated the famous resthouse, Fare Rau Ape), and fell into a ravine. As it fell the door opened and Ethel fell out, very bruised and shocked, but not seriously hurt. But for the door opening, she must have been killed.

This was the fifth of the family misfortunes. Oscar Nordman's sister died in California in January a , fi f e destroyed his home at Mataiea in February; Mrs. Margot Nordman developed spinal trouble, and is ordered to Paris for special treatment; and another daughter broke her arm while skiing in Europe in March.

H Mr. J. A. Greenfield has been appointed postmaster, Rarotonga, m succession to Mr. C. R Porter Mr. and Mrs. Porter took locai leave to Papeete aboard Taveuni in July. 99 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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'ER SHIPS AGGRESSING lowing lengthy ys, including )er shortages, I progress is being made i the first of three 55-ft liary ketches :h are being iced by the lers Trust *d of New Zealand for service in the Solomons- New Hebrides area. The vessels are to be operated by three Mission organisations. The first ketch her hull now planked and deck partlv planked, should be ready by Oc 0 r 1956, though a name has not t*. een decided upon.

This vessel will go to the Mel?-, esian (Anglican) Mission The second vessel, whose keel will probably be laid in August, will be detJ?e Meth °dist Mission; Mission. V 6 t 0 the Catholic rJ he A builders are Chas. Bailey Ltd., Auckland. The contract originally called for the delivery of the second vessel four months after the first, and the third vessel four months after the second. The contract price of each was £NZI9,BOO, fully equipped with an 80-90 h.p, diesel, radio phone, refrigerator, etc,

A “Must” For The Bookshelf

An extraordinarily interesting book Ancient Voyagers of the Pacific, has just been published in Wellington, NZ, by the Polynesian Society. In it author Andrew Sharp, MA, BA, debunks the ancient Polynesian as a master of the art of celestial navigation in page after page of well documented The "Joyita" was auctioned in Suva (on a basis of "as is") on July 12. Mr. David Simpson, Sr., plantation owner of Vanua Levu, was successful with a bid of £F2,425. He will have to pay Fiji customs duty of £F1,260 in addition. Our photograph shows Mr. Laurie Simpson (who bid on behalf of his father Dave Simpson) in a discussion with Mr. A. G. McCown (standing) after the auction. Interested in the discussion is Mr. Maurice Scott, owner's representative, and Mr Dave Reimy (glasses) auctioneer. Mr. McCown was the only other bidder.

Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office. 101 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956 This Month's Shipping News (Continued from Page 65)

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Beagle —Phase Two

The Royal Society of London has invited the Royal Societies of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to join forces in organising a scientific cruise to follow in the wake of Darwin’s cruise in HMS Beagle, a century ago. Apparently, the cruise is to tie in with the International Geophysical Year researches.

The London announcement, however, raises the query as to what happened to the 86 ft. auxiliary ketch Argosy which, according to news despatches at the time, cleared New York on May 29, 1952, on an identical mission.

So far as we know this vessel never reached the Pacific. Argosy was to call at some places which HMS Beagle did not touch. She was to touch at Galapagos, Easter, Pitcairn, the Cooks, New Zealand, and be in Australian waters by December, 1952.

A Captain E. Davies was in command of Argosy, with Captain G. B.

Osborne of Scotland in charge of the scientific work. Perhaps our Balboa correspondent can si; some light on this cruise, whr evidently was terminated by finy cial or natural disaster.

HMS Beagle and the famr Charles Darwin, incidentally, sail from Devonport, England, on I 102

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Other Fr. Oceania Fire

tie 227-ton Papeete motor vessel ecia suffered extensive damage uperstructure and accommodawhen a fire of unknown origin e out on the afternoon of July s the vessel lay at her berth. vessel was in the news in , 1950, when she was wrecked l Tuamotu reef. Salvaged, she converted from graceful oner to a very top-heavysaring, straight motor vessel, resumed service in the followyear. Then in August, 1953, was towed into port by another I craft after having broken i at sea. large percentage of marine diss in French Oceania is assod with fires in port or at sea. •e, presumably, is some exation why these accidents are nore prevalent there than else- ■e in the Pacific.

Narrow Squeak For

TAVEUNI e Cook Islands vessel Taveuni iwly escaped being involved in Venecia fire. veuni had arrived from Raroi with a party of round-trip lie excursionists, and a cargo 4 cases of tomatoes. All hands ashore when fire broke out on cia, moored close alongside. ;ver, bystanders cast off uni’s lines and pulled her clear, Captain Simpson and some of irew arrived soon after with r Dick Brown to move the ship safer berth.

Foyita Prepares For

NEW LIFE sparing for her new life on the ■Vanua Levu run, Mr. David son’s Joyita has been under- ' refit at Whippy’s Boatyard, ■ since she was purchased at an recently.

Angeles-Papeete Race

re details have come in about iOs Angeles-Papeete yacht race finished in Papeete in early J race commenced at 2000 , June 6 Greenwich date, and antenders crossed the finishing at the times here given. In ets are the handicaps in days, minutes, and seconds. ; del Mar (scratch) July 7, i GMT; Viveka (00.06.00.05) came off with very little damage. and thence to the slip at Tulagi.

Next morning it proceeded to Honiara under its own power It is now back in service.

The "Baruku", 67 ft. long, 15 ft. 10 in. beam, 7 ft. 6 in. mean draft, Governmentowned, which was on charter to the BSIP Port Authority when it went on a reef just Hast Visale on the north coast of Guadalcanal, BSIP, at about 8 a.m. June 30. It was well on and early efforts failed to move it.

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S Of Cruising Yachts

m Wen, a big American 65 net schooner-yacht owned ed C. Kistner, arrived at te from Honolulu on the same ls the race arrivals, July 7, iighteen persons aboard. Last report on this yacht was in August, 1953, when the then joint owners, Kistner and William K. Pratt, were the subject of a legal action by members of a paying crew who were demanding their fares back to the mainland from Honolulu. Dwyn Wen departed Los Angeles in July, 1953 and has been in Hawaiian waters since. She cleared Honolulu this May 13, calling at most of the Marquesas islands, Takaroa thence Papeete. Plans are to visit Moorea, Huahune, Raiatea, and Borabora. The big yacht has a full crew, including radio operator There are a number of women aboard.

Little Bear, Buz and June Champion’s 37 ft. Honolulu ketch which has been in New Zealand waters since last November 7, left Auckland June 10 coastwise, and was poised in Whangarei to clear for Brisbane, possibly via Noumea in mid-July.

Corsair, Australian-built steel 43 ft. cutter, seems to be something of a mystery craft at the moment.

This yacht originally left Sydney on January 25, 1953, and arrived in Auckland on February 18 that year. She lay in Auckland until late January this year, then owner George Hunt and a companion put out for a reported coastwise cruise, though it was also reported that the yacht was heading for the Islands. This sturdy craft underwent a considerable refit before sailing. Mr. Hunt, formerly an armourer in the RAF, has lived in Fiji and Tahiti in post-war years ££t a A « si under new ownership on a world ciuise, first stop Brisbane. Aboard were owner s. Worthington. hS Sl e Vf MISS f udy Merritt, Mr. Clark Lbbett, and two others travelling t 0 Brisbane. If all goes well that yacht should enter the Pacific via Panama westbound in a counle of years time.

Manu Moana, 38 ft. Kaitaia, NZ sloop, mentioned as arriving in Papeete from Auckland last month, made Island cruises in 1952 and 105 ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1956

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Keriyea, mentioned in January as likely to be purchased in England and brought to the Pacific this winter by Messrs. Athol Rusden and Ronald Baker, of Auckland, will not be coming. The sale fell through and the partners, though they still have plans for a yachtcum-trading craft, will not go to England to seek a vessel until next year.

Coongoola, Mr. Norman Thomas’s 75 ft. motor-sailer, of Wellington, was to clear that port early July for Sydney and the Barrier Reef, Vila, and Noumea. Under the ownership of Mr. G. H. Griffiths, of Toowoomba, this handsome vessel made a world cruise in 1953-54. She was purchased by Mr.

Thomas early 1954, underwent improvements, and made a lengthy coastal cruise last summer. Next winter it is planned to cruise to Tahiti and Honolulu.

Moonraker, with Peter and Anne Pye, arrived back in England early this year. This yacht called .at Papeete and Honolulu en route from Panama to Canada in 1Q63.

New Silver Gull, 44 ft. Sydney ketch, which cruised the Islands several years ago, was reported at Kingston, Jamaica, recently.

Stortehecker 111, sold by Dr.

Franklyn-Evans in Canada in 1954 after cruising from Auckland via French Oceania, now has a successor, name as yet unknown.

The yacht measures 391 ft. x 29 ft. x 184 ft x 6 ft., with a sail area of 780 ft. She will probably enter the Pacific via Panama next year.

Lamerhak 11, one of the (possibly only) Israeli cruisi yachts to visit the Pacific, arn Papeete July 3, via Mediterranr Atlantic, etc. Has been on since November, 1953. Owi Joseph Havkins (crew, if any, mentioned). Lamerhak 11, aj ft. yawl, crossed from Atlantic Pacific overland, via Mexico C! (O 106 AUGUST, 19 56 PACIFIC ISLANDS MOp T I

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P.I.M. 8/56 'ua, Mr. W. A. Robinson’s jte-based schooner, last red north-bound from that port [onolulu —and apparently since tied —was expected in Apia in bound Borneo this time, well-known photographer, Elisofon, was waiting there in Varua. Others aboard the )ter were said to include American scientist who has associated with the French lia anti-filariasis mosquito aign; an Easter Islander, and >th°r Islander. Mr. Robinson • Water & Shoal) has also been y associated with the abovetoned French Oceania project, cially and otherwise, in recent . but never-the-less has found to make a 1952 voyage to i America and Panama, and more recent voyages to iulu. It is assumed that the it voyage has some scientific round.

Bisschop Tells Why

ie time ago we reported that in Eric de Bisschop, of French lia, who will soon launch a do raft named Tahiti Nui as mtribution to the current ,n of drifting across the Pacific, tells why and wherefore in a two-volume book about to be published—presumably in French though doubtless an English edition will follow.

Meanwhile, launching date for the Tahiti-Peru-Tahiti round trip is set at October, and a number of companions have been selected The party includes a radio operatormeteorologist formerly stationed at Rapa Island and well known to world radio amateurs—Mr. Roland d’Assignies—so the voyage promises to be interesting from the communicational point of view.

In The Furniture Business

Captain Hugh Williams, late owner of the Cook Islands trader Inspire, has often caused amusethl nt rifp^ l ! : cklanci when he left for me Islands carrying a cargo of second-hand furniture. slwing machines, vacuum cleaners, etc This cargo, disposed of very promptiy at Rarotonga, has helped to pay expenses.

Tonga Copra Board’s A’oniu now seems to have entered the trade.

Crew members took aboard piles of sirmiar furniture for relatives and friends in Tonga prior to the vessel s departure from Auckland in July.

New “Incas” On Rapa

When the Norwegian vessel Chris Bjellard (See June PIM) returned to Papeete on June 24 after visiting Rapa and Raivavae (she left soon after for Norway) Thor Heyerdahl [?]re flag in Papeete—Mr. Joseph Havkins, [?]el, and his small yacht "Lamerhak II" [?]ory page 106). 107 THLY AUGUST, 1956

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Refloats Pacific Star

. Reece Discombe has succeeded floating the Pacific Star, and he rumour goes), has earned jlf something over £5,000. ■ific Star, ex-landing craft, d by Mr. Stein, disposals lant of NG, resumed normal ig activities after she lost hern the Coral Sea in February ;h PIM) but became stranded louth of South River, Erroa, New Hebrides, on April 8. seemed that she might stay when Mr. Discombe underto refloat her “within 60 days” ;lse. succeeded, just within the limit —after, according to our uper-human efforts.

Happened One August

this month of 1842 there was hing of a mid-Pacific binge off Conway Reef, roughly 420 east of Noumea and 300 miles •west of Suva. The previous January, the 153-ton vessel Rapid had been wrecked there, bound China from Sydney via Auckland A Sydney syndicate later bought this wreck and sailed in a vessel whose name we’re unable to trace, to attempt salvage of ship or cargo’

There was also a rumour that the master of Rapid had buried $5,000 in gold on a sand-bank on the reef Clearing Sydney, June 17, the vessel sailed first for Rotuma to investigate reports that some of Rapid’s crew had landed there, but none appear to have been found.

After some searching, the shoal and wreck were finally located.

The report of the voyage says that it is possible that Rapid could have been refloated, and it is certain that most of her cargo could have been salvaged—except for one thing: The shoal was littered with casks of liquor from the wreck—and no sooner was a boat-load of men sent off to the wreck than they broached the liquor, and no work could be done.

For 23 days the salvage vessel sailed off and on—it was impossible to anchor —then the project was abandoned and the vessel returned to Bay of Islands, NZ. But it was not altogether without result. On the second day at, the wreck the master located $2,918 dollars in gold on the sand-bank; and the crew certainly had a wonderful time. (Over) 109 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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Koki Gets Away

The copra scow Koki, built; Bjarne Halvorsen, of Sydney, Steamships Trading Co., E Moresby, left Sydney for Papuas July 27, with Captain G. E. Lanji in command for the delivery (Safe arrival at PM reported Aug?

Halvorsen’s is at present lax down a 60-ft scow at the B( Bay yards. This prototype is sirm in design to the well-known 5g scows—only difference is the * more in length.

SAVOIE BUYS 800-TONNEH Captain Emile Savoie, well km in the Sydney-New Caledoi trade (his Maria del Mar was. some minor trouble off the N coast last month) has disposeo his Sorana del Mar through shipbroking firm of Ca p t Kennedy. Sorana will go to K Schmidt Bros., who are engage* the sand and gravel trade in Mor: Bay.

Savoie will replace Sorana Mar with an 800-ton, steel-hu vessel called Comara, now Fremantle, WA. Comara was 1 in 1936 and until a couple of y i ago was in the NSW coastal tn She is equipped to carry a If amount of refrigerated cargo.

If Savoie follows his usual prao Comara will have a name chu and join the del Mar family.

Deutgan Back In Sydne

The ex-barge Deutgan, owne«; Mr. Marcel Marinacce, of Ss< New Hebrides, which left Sy* after an expensive 9 months only in February and groundeE Port Resolution Tanna, only a i weeks later, is back in Sydney,, is up for sale. £25,000 is the pi

No Work For Tungari

A prolonged drought in Gilbert Is. has seriously affr G & EIC copra production. Am perienced G & EIC ship’s mr estimated recently that copra duction is down by more thsj half.

G & EIC Wholesale Som ships are finding it difficult to. cargoes in the Gilbert Is., andJ reported that the Tungaru wir put up for sale shortly, unless; is chartered by some other pany.

Melanesian Launched

HONGKONG The new steel-hulled BSIP eminent vessel Melanesian launched in Hongkong, on Juh by Mrs. R. J. Minnitt, wife o:c Chief Secretary, WPHC.

Melanesian should be comn shortly and be in service befon end of this year.

She has a displacement ofc tons, 8,550 cubic ft of cargo a will carry 10 cabin and 75 passengers and is powered Gardner engines. 110 AUGUST, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Fish Packing Industry Flourishes in American Samoa f M h *? rt i y after the USS Co.’s Tofua sailed from Auckland on July 17 a s te ward, Mr Albert Leslie Pinf°ld, 39, died of knife wounds The vessel put back and Donald Alexander Lindsay, 36, steward, was arrested and later charged with murder. The vessel sailed at 120 p.m. again the following day. fan Camp Company's cannery, which helped American Samoa out of its economic doldrums l>le of years ago, continues to flourish. The factory, on the foreshore of Pago Pago harbour, »wn above. And below, some of the Samoan girls who are employed in the factory as rs. he tuna that is canned is caught by Japanese ships and fishermen who work under shortcontracts to Van Camp.

Photos by Pan American Prints. 113 1 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST. 1956

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NEW ZEALAND: Vacuum Oil Co. (N.Z.), Ltd., Petroleum Products.

SWEDEN: Hjorth & Co., Primus Stoves; Elektrolux Refrigerators & Motors.

GERMANY: Breckwoldt & Co., Hamburg; Beck’s Beer, Bremen.

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Scarcely a week goes by when there is not a call from one of the Hauraki Bay islands, or from inaccessible coastal homestead, for the Grumman Widgeon amphibious aircraft of Tourist Air Travel to speed to someone’s aid.

Recently an intending member of a week-end yachting party arrived at the wharf after the yacht had sailed. Within minutes he had chartered the Widgeon, and minutes later, but miles away, Ladd was landing him safely alongside the yacht—to the astonishment of all aboard.

Early in July a man was pinned under a falling blue gum tree at the height of a storm on the Coromandel Peninsula. Word reached Auckland Hospital, and the hospital was on to Ladd by radio within minutes. The Widgeon was at the time out on a charter-flight to Great Barrier Island.

Diverting to the scene of the accident the sea was found to be far too rough for a landing, and there was no airstrip in the vicinity.

However, a return flight was made in the afternoon and after a very tricky landing the patient was successfully transferred from a small boat and the aircraft was and on its way back to Auckla Aucklanders are beginning wonder how these people manai before the Widgeon arrived on scene, so often is it called on special missions.

Interesting too is the fact t 114 AUGUST, 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS

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[?]ROP [?]res Show All Well With Citrus JUGH the resources of the Cook Islands Department of Agriculture are concentrated ly on the citrus industry, the to crop is clearly top favourite growers. ; citrus crop proved disappointn the 1955-56 financial year, ;s for which are just avail- ; value of citrus exports fell 10,000 on the previous year, to 8. In comparison, tomato exjumped from 52,000 to 92,000 , and the value rose by almost 0 to a new high of £lOO,OOO. was achieved by reasonably shipping connections with NZ. fortunately, exports of Cook is citrus are listed in the comy meaningless term of “boxes’ «ad of in bushels or pound t, or some other comparative ire. There is no generally ted standard size in citrus In the Cooks the case sd for oranges is 11 bushels, certain other citrus are id in the 1-bushel tomato case. 1 citrus are lumped together ; Annual Report it is not poster interested readers to know y what quantity was exported. iana exports reflect the ine announcement made during ear by Fruit Importers Ltd., ain New Zealand fruit importrganisation, that they would or all bananas delivered to onga wharf when an export is in port, regardless of er or not there is space aboard le actual export of the fruit, ty, of course, is given to orts rose from 181 bushel worth £174, in the previous to 946 cases worth £906. above guarantee applies only rotonga at present, and as a plantings are likely to show dy expansion on that island, main virtue of tomatoes and as is that they are a quickig, cash crop, calling for a imall capital investment comwith the citrus scheme, and enting no great loss in the of blight or hurricane, iapple exports, mainly from ha and Aitutaki, fell from to 15,000 cases, and the value £19,000 to £13,000.

This crop is highly dependent upon shipping space at the critical times, and has no priority.

The Minister recently indicated that current policy was to discourage the growing of this perishable crop—but processing plans may alter that policy.

Copra production showed a decline to the lowest tonnage for a good many years—l,o76 tons worth £72,000. In the previous year the value had been over £lOl,OOO, and the quantity 340 tons greater.

The output of mother-of-pearl shell declined from 290 to 242 tons, but prices were excellent and the financial yield rose by £lB,OOO to £92,000, highest since 1951.

Due to the closing of the Manihiki lagoon during 1956, this item will show a serious decline in the current financial year, unless Suwarrow lagoon gives a phenomenal yield. Operations commenced there in June. 4 ue the tomato crop, the total yield from these main export it em s rose from £309,000 in the 1954-55 year to £333,000.

End Of Another Dream

Food Exporters (NZ) Ltd., who were reported last month (July PIM), as being interested in buymg Cl tomatoes—to be paid for “on the beach”—have gone into reverse Reason (according to the company) ; Lack of co-operation by the Administration or Cl Shipping Committee in the matter of a vessel to pick up the tomatoes in August. 115 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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Meanwhile, the native ex-servicemen themselves have raised several hundred pounds and hope soon to start building their own clubhouse. The newly formed ex-PIR Association had promised its full support with this venture. px P pTß in^ o^K olment P f all known ATrrS' ™ emb ers ln the Territory, Mr. Don Barrett is acting as Chair- Mr ‘ Alan Hatherle y as

Pir Into Line With Police

Meanwhiie serving native members of the Pacific Islands Regiment will receive substantial sums in

[?]E Recent Weddings In Rabaul: At

[?]t the Catholic Church on July 30, Miss [?]ed Loory was married to Mr. L. Enkera Rev. Father Dwyer, left to right: W. [?]best man; groom and bride; Miss Mary [?] bridesmaid; Father Dwyer; Julie Anna, flowergirl. Centre: At the Methodist Church Rabaul, recently, Miss Betty Chung was married to Mr. Peter Cheong by the Rev. John su. left to right: Mr. Henry Cheong, best man; the Rev. John Su; groom and bride; Mr. Johnnq Chong; Miss Lily Chung, bridesmaid. Right: Miss Philomena Na was married to Mr. Peter Seeto at the Catholic Church, Rabaul, recently.

From left to right: Mr. August Chow, best man; the Rev. Father Franker: groom and bride; the Rev. Father Dwyer; Miss Emerline Seeto, bridesmaid. Photos by C. H. Meen. 117 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956 The Month's News from Papua-New Guinea (Continued from Page 43)

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From O.S To S.W

As any *Gilbeygirl will tell you, undue volume in eating or drinking is apt to have permanently inflationary effects on the waistline. According to the Gilbeytonian code based on sound liquid experience these unpleasant effects are avoided by a strict adherence to Gilbey principles. Internal economy is immediately arranged by a pleasant course of short or long Gilbey drinks containing no inflationary substances whatever.

Gilbeygirls (and men) swear by this simple rule and cannot be lured away by any foreign fluids or Mrs. Beaton. —for internal economy Gilhey's Gin * Slim, healthy Lass back money as a result of pay ri announced in Rabaul early the Minister for the Army, I Cramer.

The increases range up to per cent, of current rates and retrospective to June last yr except in the case of certt specialists.

Mr. Cramer said the new pc rates would bring native Army p sonnel in the Territory into . with native Police.

The new rates range from 6 to 100/- per month for privates vi several years service; with a ms mum of 300/- a month in the o of third-year sergeants. (There seems something ext ordinary about this business. If new rates are retrospective to Jt 1955 (14 months ago), then eit the PIR has been made to wait; too long for justice; or the IV ister is now leaning too far bs wards to do the “right thing/

House-Building Loans Co

MORE Increased interest rates for hu ing loans were announced e July by the P-NG Commissionen Housing, Mr. Reeve. From Jul the new rate will by 5 per cent, increase of \ per cent.

The Commissioner said the e: of the increase would mean the monthly repayment on maximum loan of £2,750 for a pe of 25 years would rise from £l5 to £l6/1/7. This works out at) a week.

Since the scheme got away slow start three years ago, hou loans totalling £135,000 have granted. 148 MILLION ICE-CREAM] COMING UP Australians last year lie: 148,000,000 ice-creams from woe “spoons” and sticks made Bulolo pine from the Golden R.; Sawmilling Company.

As well, one Australian comi produced 33,000,000 battery arators from the pine.

By using the Territory tin Australia was thus saved thous of dollars. The only other sun timber for these goods is Arne;?

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Economics Of Native Cc

A P-NG Native Affairs ot believes that within ten i native-grown cocoa in the Gi Peninsula of New Britain wr worth about £500,000 annually (; present price prevails).

Last year, more than 470 toe cocoa was produced in the This alone was worth in the vkj of £lOO,OOO.

Native growers were reo; granted permission to borrow _ £BO,OOO from the Bank of NSW* so far have used £38,000 of th© to extend fermentaries, com new buildings, and purchase necessary equipment. 118 AUGUST, 19 5 6 -PACIFIC ISLANDS

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O, which is the happy huntround of every brand of t” and expert, was visited by mtatives o f the well-known )rld-famous American Summer te of Linguistics late July, vill make a preliminary surthe linguistic set-up in the •ry. leader of the three-man team, Pittman, says if all goes well, ts of the Institute will be to the Territory to study )f the P-NG languages.

Pittman explained that the )f the Institute were three- To make a scientific study guages for Universities and pological Societies. (2) To prepare literacy material in the local vernacular for the teaching of English. (3) To translate the Bible into the local languages.

Atom Bombs Or Sun-Spots

The Result Is The Same ’

Weather patterns all over the Southern Hemisphere continue to be reversed.

Little rain in most of the Morobe district, which is usually overendowed, if anything, has in recent months made the area drier than "old-timers” can remember.

In the Finschhafen area, native crops have been seriously affected and the natives are finding it hard to get sufficient food for their needs- This same area usually supplies a in g L§e rti ° n ° f th 6 Staple food sold In the Bulolo area, the Baiume Cieek has less water than ever belore, and the entire vast valley if, parched. J Police in Lae spent two hours late ouly fighting a fierce grassfire which broke out in the area between Huon Taxis and the sawmill.

Fanned by a sea breeze, the fire was out of control within minutes of starting. Four European police and the crew of the DCA fire tender fought hard to check the fire sweeping onto the taxi premises, The fire had its sequel the following morning in the District Court, when a native was fined £2 for lighting a fire. (ove n hats at a Hatters' Party in Port Aviat Club at end of June—Miss Oriel and partner.

Photo by Papuan Prints.

Central Dis- [?] Papua has [?] a Euro- [?] and a [?]n to the [?]ct Ad- Council for [?]t time, [?]vera is the representa- [?]Mr. John [?]own here, [?]s the part- [?] popu- [?] Papuan 119 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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the P-NG Supreme Court, in ,ul, on July 30, a part-European, erick Phillip Smith, was found y of the murder of Adele Woo Leo Wattemeno, in Rabaul, in sentence of death was “red” but not pronounced—which probably means that Smith will not hang. The Governor-General of Australia will make the final decision.

The body of Miss Woo was found on the Rabaul golf links on May 20. She had suffered head injuries. Wattemeno was found near by. He later died of his injuries.

Smith made a confession to local police officers. In court he retracted this—he said that he had made it only because he wanted to please the police, and was frightened of them. He said he had been in bed and had slept all night on the night of the murder.

The Chief Justice of P-NG, Sir Beaumont Phillips, who heard the case, described some of Smith’s explanations to the Court as fantastic. He said that there was no doubt in his mind that Smith had committed the attacks that had led to the death of the victims. os show, top to bottom, Leo eme n o, Adele Woo and ick Smith.

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isation marches on l The on Army is to open a new f work—a Training Farm as m at° r y for native delinquents Moresby area. A former indmg Officer of the Army fcaue. Major Baker, accomby two other officers—one P 1 a nurse—will leave Brisor Moresby at the end of i Baker said that the Army begin medical work later on oubt the Army in the Terriml., have many supporters the native people—part cularly if they bring with them their uniforms and their bands If they don’t, and only bring themselves, they are certain to continue the good work they carry out in other parts of the world It is interesting to note that the Army’s accent will be on welfare work—and not, apparently, to compete for souls in the overcrowded Highlands’ area.

New Airstrips, New

SERVICES An important new airstrip in Papua which will shorten air operations into the Southern Highlands, is about to come into operation.

It is at Vaimuru, near Kikori in the Gulf District. * Vaimuru will initially take aircraft up to and including Ansons, but later, DC’3’s will be able to operate from it. This strip will save the Administration thousands of pounds annually in freight charges.

Goods going to the Southern Highlands will now be shipped from Moresby to Vaimuru and then flown direct to the Highlands area At present, everything consigned to the Southern Highlands goes to Madang and is then flown over the vast mountain ranges into Mendi or other strips in the district.

Mr. V. Rule, Regional P-NG Director of Civil Aviation, has announced that the Department is planning to reconstruct the airstrip at Daru. This is used mainly by light aircraft flying to and from the Territory from Australia.

The airstrip at Wau once tv,* “.the world, IsstUlhandlto? ras, quantities-||(Pgoods, but instead 121 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-AUGUST, 1956

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For the six months ended June 30, more than 435,000 lb of vegetables alone were air-freighted from Wau, consigned to Moresby, Lae and Manus Island.

This figure, however, represents only a fraction of the total weight of goods flown into Wau from Salamaua in the middle thirties.

In these “gold-rush” days, everything from the giant dredges to small handtools, had to be carried into the valley by air. 1 Now most heavy freight gdes by the war-time-built road.

Two pilots and two engineers of World Wide Air Services based in Moresby will leave the Territory for training on Sikorsky S5B helicopters—three of which will be coming to the Territory early in the New Year.

In Melbourne, in July, the General Manager of APC, Mr. Pym, announced that following completion of the drilling sites at Kuru, Barakewa and Morehead, it was planned to continue exploration drilling in Papua in 1957 on the basis of two outfits operating continuously. These would be transported and served entirely by helicopters.

The Chief Pilot of World Wide, Mr. Frank Minjoy, says the Sikorsky is at present the largest helicopter licensed to be used commercially.

It has a pay-load of more than 4,000 lb weight, and when moving large objects, such as pipes and motors, carries them in a net slung underneath the aircraft.

The three Sikorsky’s it is planned to bring to the Territory will be shipped to Port Moresby, assembled at the Company’s heliport at Badili, and flown to the oil-drilling sites.

The Sikorsky’s carry two pilots. , World Wide already operates H helicopters for APC in Papua m have made a notable contribud to Australian aviation. These m the first commercial helicopters j Australia and it was this Comps that trained the first official of ' Department of Civil Aviation to * AUGUST, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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AVAILABLE ; P-NG Administration denies not enough is being done to it qualified doctors for service le Territory—the Territory is e same situation as the rest ie world—there is a general ige of doctors and very little e done about it. its recent report, the 1956 d Nations Mission to New ;a commented on the shortage ictors in the Trust Territory uggested that the entire system iruitment be reviewed.

Administration official said ting was going on continuously istralia and in the United :om. As well, the Government ponsoring a unique Cadetship i whereby medical students, completing their third-year- !. could have their fees paid eceive a salary on signing an nent to work in the Territory pecified periods after they ed.

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ARREST ? T work by Police and esence of mind on the part a European woman resulted Papuan being fined S2O, in t 3 months imprisonment, for obscene language over the one early July. woman, working in a oy retail store, managed to the native talking in a ion conversation for 45 Js while the call was traced ohce went to the office from he was phoning, was the first case of its kind the introduction of the autoexchange in Port Moresby.

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After all the preliminary controversy about Japanese examining the wrecks around Rabaul harbour with a view to salvage, the team of two experts arrived in the town unnoticed went about their business, also virtually unnoticed, and departed within a few days for Sydney (July 10) en route to Tokio.

They made only one appearance in public—at the local picture thlm r6 ’ WhBre no ' one recognised . f he manager of Pacific Distribution Company, Mr. Csolle who is the Rabaul representative of the f t al Jf 9 g c e Company, said in Rabaul it was not possible at present to evaluate the potentialities of the scheme to salvage the eyesore wrecks. The survey party^wUl and ol if lts . Com P.any in Japan, and if the scheme is commercially sound further action and representation will be made. 123 ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1856

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CSIRO found that even in irne’s climate the domestic upplied 60-70 per cent, of sat required for a domestic ition. installed price in Australia, ng storage tank, is about per square foot, which is probably a little more than the conventional types of heater. However, the subsequent saving is considerable, as the cost of running would be virtually nil.

Such a system should be very successful in many Island areas. left, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ternes at one of the many farewell-parties prior .o their re from Port Moresby at the end of June. Mr. Ternes was officer-in-charge of Overseas munications in Port Moresby and has been transferred to Australia. At right Mrs [?]och, who left Port Moresby at the end of June for Australia. She will be joined there Koch, of APC, and they will go to the United Kingdom. Mrs. Koch has been Associates at the Moresby Golf Club and she was suitably farewelled by the Club prior to her Photos by Papuan Prints. 125 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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Last year, the Manihiki agents of two Rarotonga shell exporters were fined for this offence—but the value of the shell, which is no less on the world market because of its slightly smaller size, was far in excess of the fines. The fine in fact was no deterrent, as there appears to be no prevision for confiscation of the shell in such cases.

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DISAPPOINTING post-war years mother-ofearl shell has become big usiness for the Cook Islands— KK) worth was exported last —so there were high hopes Suwarrow atoll lagoon would e prolific when it was opened living recently. (PIM, July, 69). suits in the first month are not using. out 80 people were taken to irrow from Manihiki in midto dive under contract to Mr.

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IG June and July, the Polynesian iociation of Sydney entertained many and former Islands residents. Among ve been: id Mrs, Jim Mathieson, who have now ick to Tonga. Mrs. Mathieson was Shiela Heenan, of Fagonahina, Tongaith them were Margaret Shober, Mr. . "Mac" McCorkill, and Vince Guerin, onga.

Brian Armstrong, now of Curl Curl, io was Ruth Framheim, of Takuvaine, 8. A Tahitian visitor was Captain Ime, of Papeete, skipper of the little ship "Maria del Mar". The captain sd with several Tahitian songs.

Fiji were Mrs. Waia Bovill, who was illoy, of Suva; trainee-nurses Jessie (Sigatoka), Elizabeth Gibson, of and Felicia Emberson, of Suva.

Hawaiian visitors were visiting wrestlers Don Beitleman and Alo Leilani, of Honolulu.

Former well-known residents of both Samoa (Apia) and New Guinea were Mr. and Mrs.

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At the July gathering, members made a presentation to newly weds, Don and Mrs Malcolm. The bride was Alma Young, of Norfolk Island, daughter of Mrs. Christine Young.

Continuing with their charitable work, the Association's concert party gave a recital of Polynesian dances and songs at a large gathering at Neutral Bay, this time for the benefit of the Fairbridge Farm Homes at Molong.

Mrs. J. Byron, hon. secretary of the Association, can be contacted at FY 3211 (evenings); Mr. L. Moran, president, on FW 4661 (evenings)! t Mr. K. R. Bain, who has fc secretary to the Tongan Goverr ment for the past three years i completed his tour of duty! and h left the Kingdom, accompanied ; his wife and daughter, for leav {£ England _ Mr - Bain wrote th book, Royal Tour of Tonga. I] successor is Mr. R. Sanders. t A branch of the Pan-Pacific Womens Association has been started in Nukualofa, with HM Queen Salote as President. Thi branch is affiliated with the Langa Fanua, an organisation of women who aim at better living conditions in the Tongan villages. 127 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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Front Row: K. Eldridge, J. McDonald (capt.). [?]arl Corbett, a well-known angler of [?]own here, was fishing for small fish i 12-ft. dinghy when he felt a poweron his 35-lb nylon line. Sixty-five later, after intricate manoeuvring of [?] motor, the "fish" surfaced. It was turtle of ample proportions which, affed and hauled aboard, promptly Corbett's companion, Ted Raddock, d, broke a glass rod, and turned ines into "bird's nests". The turtle, id snagged the hook into the base of flipper, weighed in at 126 lb.

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It is most attractively situated, with spacious grounds and modern houses for its teaching staff.

Some of the less wealthy European residents of the Cooks are discovering, however, that their children are not going to be educated there, at least in the foreseeable future. This arises from a ruling that pupils educated at the so-called Side School at Avarua are not eligible for entry to Tereora.

The Side School is a primary school where the standard of education is somewhat more advanced than other schools. It is designed for children who, usually through their better knowledge of the English language, are able to advance more rapidly than children brought up to speak only the Maori language. In effect, this means that the majority of Side School pupils are European or part- European.

Because Tereora College cannot cater for anything like all the applicants seeking entry, and because the parents of European children are more generally able to afford sending their children to New Zealand secondary schools, the above-mentioned ruling has been given by the Education Department.

It seems unfair, however, that the less wealthy Europeans who have made the Cooks their permanent home, are unable to give their children secondary education.

There are not many such cases, so those affected are hoping that something might be done by of exception, even if it imw some kind of means test. fl The Messageries Maritimes s Godavery, Laos and Anadyr reported to have been ret fresh water at Port Said rec«; due to a boycott by Egyu workers of French ships in rep 3 for measures taken by Frr in Algeria—an interesting fact view of Colonel Nasser’s even ] recent nationalisation of the Canal. 130

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Keep Flag Flying ? SS Suva, well known in the 'acific tramping trade, and also i, places as far apart as Ade- SA, and Kobe, Japan, has a of Fijians and Fiji-lndians. ? lads are good ambassadors ieir country and to give them necessary esprit de corps, a all and Social Club was formed months ago. We are indebted ■ird Engineer Myles W. Morris 'lis information: s Club was formed as a means iting the crew in sporting and activities. Since its formait has rapidly progressed and has a very strong Rugby team. This team, under the ncy of the ship’s Third Officer, )lley, has played three first matches to date, being victori- ) of them. first match was against the rsity of Sasebo, in Sasebo, , and the Suva team won 6 to nil. The Japanese were by ans easy opponents, for what acked in size, they made up peed and agility. ’ months elapsed before the Fifteen again took the field, me facing defeat. The match ayed in Adelaide, South Ausour opponents being West is Club. The Fijians put up a ight; however, lack of trainteamwork gave us too big a i to carry. The final score points to 10 against us was effort. again took the field on June Melbourne, against St. Kilda. ing a hard training pro- :e after our Adelaide defeat; r e chalked up a 13 points to ory against the St. Kilda until the formation of the at least 60 per cent, of the boys had not played this af football. A thing very ■ble with these boys is the )lay shown. After tackling an nt they always stop to help i his feet, then with a pat on ck they are off again, a endeavour to keep everyone Club active, a Soccer team en formed and it has had latches to date. The first was played in Victoria, BC, a team from a British er, MV Wheatley. team were victorous with a 5 points to 1. Another Soccer was played while the ship Adelaide—our opponents bee British freighter Rabone. sam proved too good for the )y beating us 5 points to nil. ending players in the Suva team were: Nemaia Yara, Israel Sevrada, Josef a Sokia, Kelem Roqica, Saula Qivi, Paul Barry Mum Prasad, Gaya Prasad, Ram Gir, and Samisoni Batiyaka.

Preparations are now under wav to field a cricket team for our coming visit to Rabaul, New Guinea The Club has been very active socially as we have a top-line Hawaiian Band and Vocal Groun We have played at many Clubs throughout New Guinea, principally Lae, Madang and Rabaul. Our last engagement was at the Norwood Football League Social in Adelaide A crowd of 400 people were present at this evening, and it was very pleasing to hear from the many people, both at this gathering and throughout our ports of call, what fine boys from Fiji are and how we l they conduct themselves. This ha*; oupS- pr „ oved ,, b y the numerous requests for the boys’ presence a social outings and in the homes o+ people in our ports of call. lln1 In h . ls .capacity as Chief Judicial g?“ lon ° f the Western Pacific High Commissioner, Mr. Justice Hammett, Acting Chief Justice of recentl y went to Tonga to near a case of manslaughter involving a part-European. in Tonga the Tongan Court hears all cases against Tongans, but charges against Europeans or part- Europeans are heard in the Hiah Commission Court.

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TNG natives are said to be ing more of their Old Ways, ne notices many changes in i and the dropping of old is amongst the Tolais, the s of the Gazelle Peninsula, old characteristic greeting of i!” has long been discarded “Bona milana,” or “Bona i,” the equivalent of “Good ig,” and “Good evening.” tabu on mentioning your own has also disappeared. On a ist year, in vain did I try to from Matupians a tortoiseinger ring, inlaid with silver e-time plentiful product from sland; and the once-famous, woven baskets from the la area were also unobtainnder if the Bukas still make clay pipes and saucepans; hether “king spears” are for Buin? many fathoms of the old noney—made from the teeth “black-bokis” —still exist? e should be at least one i still reposing in London’s Museum, for I sent it there over 40 years ago. not a Society for the Preserof P-NG Traditions? And consist solely of native memvith no influence—or inter- ;—from long-haired Euro- ,rd )rcements P-NG Public Service has sent SOS for more staff and .tions have been called for 90 and 45 Education Officers, will mean (if the PS gets 135 more pay-envelopes, icrambling for housing, more ire, plumbing and what-haveould be interesting to know uch of the furnishings of the an Administration houses are d from the Technical Schools ive workmen. /ood and cane furniture could ie locally—timber, rattan and low are all available, to say g of the kapok for bedding, much of it is?

Talking Place The move by the PS Institute in Moresby to hold classes in Police Motu and Pidgin (PIM, July, p Hi) is, as described, an excellent idea Back in the Thirties, a class of Europeans was formed in Rabaul to learn the Blanche Bay dialect.

For a while the class was popular and then, after a few months enthusiasm waned. Some of the pupils got the idea that it wasn’t “quaite naice” and a bit undignified to talk to a native in his own language.

Native respect increases for the European who knows the vernacular The German Governor (Dr. Hahl) spoke the Tolai dialect like a native and became known to the natives as their Patuan— a term of the highest respect and honour.

For the most part we are a lazy race where languages are concerned and one of our oldest and biggest mistakes in TNG was not encouraging officials and others to learn the vernacular, or even to learn Pidgin efficiently.

Speed in the Courts Some of the Legal Eagles in P-NG are complaining of long-drawn-out Court procedure owing to lack of court stenogaphers.

For many reasons, no doubt, the Judges themselves would be the first to support such a change when record^evident ST°n|-hand °I have wondered how it waf t ha t th Judges in Rabaul did not suffofrom writer’s cramp Xing some of the more lengthy Sings There but there is this to be said ?n favour of the present system: The Judge is also the Jury and is thus able to obtain a more comprehensive and ve ana 133 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956 Ferritories' Talk Talk (Continued from Page 35)

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An official announcement ok matter of stenographers says' courts must wait until the n;i have become proficient in thiss of work. That will mean somej I should think, as court won quires 100 per cent, efficiency, 1 Murder in Rabaul So far as I can remember, have been only two persons < European, or part-European convicted of murder in TNG sentenced to death: Ludwig ScH tried in Rabaul in 1936, and young Fred Smith, found guii the golf links murder.

Schmidt’s victims numbere' least five up in the far reacH the Sepik, while Smith’s were two. Schmidt hanged: S:< sentence has, as yet, only “Recorded.”

Coincidence; Both named S and Fred, born the ye at Schmidt’s trial and execution: A Military Look-See In keeping with Austt appeasement policy with oun North Neighbours an Indo:c Army Officer recently made : of our Army “installations” in This was loudly declaims many P-NG organisations.

Such protests appear quite II in principle, but I don’t suppo worthy Colonel saw anything , of which he had not already ous full and detailed inform Did he see the b ow-and-j brigades at Mount Hagen?' nuclear-weapon testing grout Goroka? Or the guided miss:< Mt. Balbi?

Then, why worry?

Joyita Hoax An ancient, slime-covered) buoy marked, “Joyita—Help,( found washed up on the sho.

Botany Bay, near Sydney, fisherman on August 13.

Routine inquiries are being? but the occurrence is regardes hoax on the part of someonr a warped sense of humour. tDr K. F. Burke, an I general practitioner, arrive Western Samoa by plane oc 12 to join the staff of Apia G_ ment Hospital.

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tourist industry brought about 0,000 to Fiji last year, said Mr.

Hewlett, Secretary of the Fiji 5’ Bureau and Fiji Travsl ition, at a meeting of the ition.

Hewlett’s figures are based estimated daily expenditure urist of £5. This means an ted 50,000 tourists in 1955 traordinary number for a wintry like Fiji. However, in ik-down of figures it was that 18,000 were through air ?ers, who spent an estimated . 15,500 were through ship ?ers, who spent an estimated i; and 9,000 were cruise-ship ?ers (£lO per head)).

Trusteeship Mission Reports to UN on W. Samoa r[E report of the UN Trusteeship Council Mission on their visit to Western Samoa in May 1956, contains nothing of a startling nature.

The Mission comments favourably on the rapid political advancement of the Territory and considers that full self-government should be achieved in 1960, keeping to the time-table proposed by the New Zealand Government.

The Mission also favours the maintenance of special relations with New Zealand to the mutual m ter es t of the two countries. _ T* 1 ' ° u Sh Mission would have welcomed the introduction of universa! suffrage, it app?eciates the attachment of the Samoan people to the matai system and accepts then* contention that this system represents a form of family democracy. The Mission also shares the misgivings of the New Zealand Government concerning the proposals for the two fields of State and regrets the delay in determining the common domestic status of the inhabitants of the Territory.

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ABORIGINAL WOMAN—SACRED AND PROFANE (Phyllis M. Kaberry). A study of the aboriginal woman of Australia. Illust. £l/14/9, postage 1/6.

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Five years ago two young Australians discussed alternative business tures for Rabaul: The establishment of a desiccated coconut :ory—or a coconut-fibre industry. One was started and failed nigh circumstances beyond the control of the promoters. The other iow finding its financial feet. young men were Mr. ichard Gault, formerly of delaide, SA, and Mr. Harry i, then Rabaul manager of t Gillespie Pty. Ltd., and now ney director of the same firm, were then 29. y weighed the pros and cons i two projects carefully before r deciding that the manufac- )f desiccated coconut seemed more profitable. The coconut project then seemed too to launch. New machinery, I in Rabaul, would have cost 0, delivery in 18 months. In mi, there were other heavy shment expenses, is now history how the Red coconut venture failed ;e of a typhoid scare, which through Australia in t-September, 1953, although articular coconut was free of ispect bacteria.

GAULT, encouraged by Mr. rreen and other Robert illespie executives, started sing desiccated coconut in and soon the project was ling, Gillespie’s were buying shipments from Mr. Gault six or eight weeks and it on the Australian market, i the blow fell. A Victorian Health inspector declared he und a group of bacteria, very to typhoid bacteria, in a of desiccated coconut ictured in Papua.

Commonwealth Health ment stepped in and ordered all stocks of desiccated t from P-NG be destroyed, r. Gault’s product had from Rabaul (and most lesiccated came from Papua), •een asked a leading Sydney ologist to examine it. The ologist pronounced it to be f the bacteria. But the t still had to be destroyed 5 labelled “NG”). the Comm?onwealth did later, and allowed Gillespie’s ih it for coconut oil for use ). jreen wrote to the Common- Health Department and if a stamp could be put on igs containing Mr. Gault’s : sa ying that the contents were fit for human consumption The Commonwealth replied that while the coconut was free from bacteria, under the Health Act, its letter of advice could not be used , , an y form of advertising (which covered stamping the coconut bags). * e „r. S ° ™ Promising industry folded UP- Even now, with the prospect a A S M C °f rt£ i^ e desiccat ed coconut ln . Australia because of import restrictions, the industry will not be started agam-at least not by r - He has sold his machinery, and has pulled the factory down. . It is extremely doubtful if the industry could be started again £ ecau se of public prejudice against New Guinea desiccated coconut.

WITH this bitter experience behind him Mr. Gault turned his attention to his other 137 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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He and Mr. Green wrote t other frequently, and often possibility of producing coc< fibre commercially in Rabaul o into their letters.

Early in 1955 Mr. Green said he had come across a partly set of fibre making machii owned by John Lawler and i Pty. Ltd., manufacturers of II Land innerspring mattresses.

Mr. Green, on behalf of Gault, told Mr. Geoffrey Armsti; managing director of Lawler’s' the possibility of establishirr fibre factory in Rabaul,, machinery could be secured { reasonable price. The fibre w be of better quality than produced in Ceylon; it coulo delivered more quickly—and itd duty free.

Mr. Armstrong was attractee the prospect and agreed toi the machinery. It was shippe Rabaul late last year.

Mr. Gault had his three • enterprises to run, and he ha do something which he had i done before. Although buildii factorv would not present difficulties, he knew nothing a installing machinery for a factory.

But with a native labour 1 he and his wife (they were only Europeans on the jobl about the job, Mrs. Gault he her husband mix concrete for bedding for the machines.

They made remarkable pro and in February this year, a six weeks after the factory' completed in Rabaul. the first ment of coconut fibre arrive Sydney.

Production has been steppe? steadily, the quality of the fill improving as the natives be familar with the various proc: and there is a ready markt; Australia. By the end of July Gault had shipped between 40 50 tons of the fibre to Gill© for resale in Sydney.

Mr. Gault is gradually overco the “teething” troubles involv\ setting out on such a venture? employs about 20 natives, ano engage more as the bun expands.

FOOTNOTE: It is unlikely\ the desiccated coconut industn be started again in P-NG. the 1953 scare, stringent ordim have been introduced coverinr manufacture of the coconut ii Territory. Another leading Sc importer said that it woulj impossible to produce desio: coconut under such condition a profit, although there certain to be a shortage desiccated coconut in Ausj because of import restrictionsa 138 AUGUST. 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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SINKS MILLION [?]T BILL Big Scope for Cattle Industry in Papua-New Guinea The Territory of Papua-New Guinea, from the Sepik plain to the geri uplands, has a proming future for beef cattle raising—if some the mistakes that have already been made are speedily rectified.

S appears to be the opinion of Dalgety’s Brisbane stud stock >fficer, Mr. Charles Lock, who i the Territory a short time i of the most interesting things jock had to say when he re- -1 was that it was regrettable jo many herds on Government Imental stations were comof such nondescript cattle . speaking of the Erap experiil station near Lae, he said cattle were of poor type and alls in use were no credit to idministration” —a fact to be ed when settlers naturally to the Administration for a n these matters, i has been said before, igh perhaps not so bluntly— le P-NG Department of Agrie has refused to rise to the Lock also had something to >out what he called “tension” exists between Administramd settler. He quoted the f Mr. Mick Leahy, of Zenag, las established a herd of 450 lerefords. Before importing Mr. Leahy was assured by iministration that ticks would dicated from the area. This lot been successfully underwith the result that he had d serious stock losses from vater.” He is claiming cornion.

Lock felt also that the Decnt of Agriculture had overthe carrying capacity of a leal of the Territory and that Id be necessary to introduce rasses to some areas. [ety’s will be shipping 1,000 of cattle to P-NG over the ew months. Cost of shipping f our batches in a landingfrom Cairns to Lae—will be Plain Country for Cattle ilready reported in PIM, the on family has taken up a irea for cattle around Gusap, e entrance to the Eastern nds. as now been announced that acres have been bought from s in the Sepik District and astoral interests have already i for leases. so-called Kunai country of the Sepik stretches from the Sepik River side of the Prince Alexander Ranges to the River.

The foothill country between plain and range carries a large native population.

A beef industry for this area was the dream of the late Mr. “Bill”

Map Gregor, who at the time of his death was in charge of the Administration cattle station in the Baiyer Valley.

MacGregor knew this Sepik country as few others did and was also an experienced cattle-man. • last occasion that he visited Sydney he spent some time with PIM extolling the virtues of this country—much of which was covered with Mitchell grass, he insisted—not kunai.

Last year, P-NG imported £Alh million worth of frozen and canned meat—proof that the Territory could carry a local cattle industry. 139 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

Male per Female i annum annum £ £ Under 18 years .. 507 507\ At 18 years . 657 6202 At 19 years . 769 6952 At 20 years . 880 7A7\ At 21 years . 945 79U At 22 years . 945 791f At 23 years . 963 809?

Public Service Of Papua & New Guinea

CADETSHIPS Applications are invited from persons desirous of appointment to the following vacancies in Public Service of Papua and New Guinea:— CADET PATROL OFFICER (50 positions).

Qualifications. —Applicants must — (a) have passed an Australian Leaving Certificate examination or equivalent, or (b) be sitting for a Leaving Certificate or equivalent examination this year.

Preference given to matriculants. Applicants should be healthy and of good physique.

Training.—On appointment Cadets do a short induction course in Sydney. After completion of Cadetship of two years and a period of field work they undertake a longer course at the Australian School of Pacific Administration, Mosman, New South Wales.

Advancement. —As Patrol Officer Grade 1 £1,053-£1,413 p.a.

CADET EDUCATION OFFICER (19 positions, male and female).

Qualifications. —Applicants must — (a) be sitting for an Australian matriculation examination this year; or (b) have passed an Australian matriculation examination or equivalent examination recognised by an Australian University as being of matriculation standard.

Training.—Two years' course at a New South Wales Teachers' Training College. The course is especially designed for the Territories' requirements and includes lectures by staff of Australian School of Pacific Administration.

Advancement.—As Education Officer Grade 1 £1,053-El ,593 p.a. (male) or £899-£1,439 p.a. (female).

CADET AGRICULTURAL OFFICER (4 positions).

Qualifications.—-Applicants must— ..... (a) be undergraduates in Agricultural Science at an Australian University; or (b) have matriculated for an Agricultural Science Course at an Australian University; or (c) be sitting for an appropriate Australian matriculation examination this year.

Training.—Completion of degree course with practical experience during vacations.

Advancement. —As Agricultural Officer, Grade 1 (£1,053-£l / 593 p.a.).

CADET FIELD MEDICAL ASSISTANT (14 positions).

Qualifications— Applicants must— . + (a) have passed an Australian Leaving Certificate examination or equivalent recognised examination; or ..... (b) be sitting for the Leaving Certificate (or equivalent) examination this year Training.—On appointment Cadets do a short induction course at the Australian School of Pacific Administration, Mosman, New South Wales, followed by:— (a) four and a half months medical and general training at Mini, New Guinea; (b) eighteen months instruction and practical experience in a sub-district or district hospital.

Advancement. —As Field Medical Assistant (£1,053-El ,503 p.a.).

CADET VETERINARY OFFICER (one position).

Qualifications. —Applicants must .... . .. (a) be undergraduates in Veterinary Science at an Australian University; or (b) have matriculated for a Veterinary Science Course at an Australian Universify; or (c) be sitting for an appropriate Australian matriculation examination this year.

Training.—Completion of degree course with practical experience during vacations.

Advancement. —As Veterinary Officer, Grade 1 (£1,413-El ,593 p.a.).

CADET FOREST OFFICER (two positions).

Qualifications. —Applicants must All . (a) be attending a Forestry Course at the Australian Forestry School or an Australian University; or (b) have matriculated for a Forestry Course at an Australian University; or (c) be sitting for an appropriate Australian Matriculation examination this year.

Training.—Two years Forestry Course at an Australian University followed by one year of field work in the Territory and two years at the Australian Forestry School, Canberra.

Advancement. —As Forestry Officer (£1,053-El ,593 p.a.).

Conditions Of Service

Eligibility. —These cadetships are open to married male British subjects under the agei 24 years at February 28, 1957. Applicants* appointment as Cadet Patrol Officer and Cadet Medical Assistant must be at least 18 yean age at the above date. Females are eligibll apply for appointment as Cadet Education Oft Salaries (actual, including Territorial Allowas Subsequent advancement during Cadetships ' maximum of £1,053 per annum (male) or per annum (female) is by annual increment! £45.

Taxation. —Income derived by residents of 1 Territory from sources within the Territory is at present taxable under Commonwealth legislil Leave.— Three months after 21 months servid Territory. Three weeks annually while trainin Australia.

Contract of Service. —Cadets enter into an s ment that they will complete their course training and remain in the Territory Service period of two to five years depending om length of Cadetship.

Advancement. — On satisfactory completion of ing Cadets advance to the positions shown each Cadetship. Opportunities for further advl ment are set out in the special Cadetship hancb Further Information. —Copies of the special ( ship handbook on conditions of service ini Public Service of Papua and New Guinea are able from any District Employment Office, Conn wealth Public Service Inspector or from the Did ment of Territories, Canberra or Sydney.

APPLICATIONS. —Special Cadetship application are available from any of the offices mentr in the paragraph above. Applications close s the Secretary, Department of Territories, Canln on Saturday, September 8, 1956. 140 AUGUST, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides ). has been stated that the work ‘constructing the intersection le two runways makes the ig down of the Airport ridable. The Fiji Public Works rtment will assist the New nd Public Works Department, man Empire Airways Ltd. i will run services from Suva ickland and return during the ), will be able to offer 135 per week each way with space irgo and mails. tourist-class seats will be hie. ise passengers who already sonfirmed seats on the Hibiscus e flights from Nadi to and will be automatically 'erred to the nearest Suvaand Flying Boat Service.

Bookings Upset

Bob Hewlett, Secretary of iji Visitors Bureau, said that result of the closing down of Airport, travel and hotel igs were “all upside down.”

I agencies and hotels also ed the same confusion. short stop-over tours from ca would have to be led, Mr. Hewlett said, as it scarcely be expected that can travellers would proceed ckland and go back to Suva there. i estimated that 135 seats per is inadequate for the traffic ;n Australia-New Zealand iji.

Iadi—“Limited Life”

present hiatus has again rived the question of the timate usefulness of Nadi, i believed by many that Nadi e “out” as an international b when Tafuna in Eastern - is brought up to requirefor the new jet age—the :ans are planning to spend lion on it. three big Pacific operators, 5. PAA and CPAL, are •ily interested in carrying gers between Australia (or ,nd the United States. The ediate haul, between Sydney ladi or Auckland and Nadi, ice versa, represents a small n of their business. built during the war, “just led to be there” and to date erved a useful purpose as ? point for these transair operators. With bigger, and longer-range aircraft V in production, it is ible that Nadi will ultimately -passed, as Noumea —once a link in the trans-Pacific i —was by-passed years ago.

Unfortunately for Fiji, a vital part of its commercial life has now become orientated to the fact that it is on an important international air route; it will not be easy for the Colony to re-adjust itself if— or more probably, when—Nadi is found to be no longer necessary for the operations of the transpacific airline companies.

The present crisis is sufficient indication that Fiji’s convenience will receive scant attention. Nadi airport is operated under the direction of the Civil Aviation authorities of Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

So far as they are concerned, Nadi was already there and in the right place. It could well have been that Mangaia, Swain’s or Palmyra would suited their purposes as well. Fiji has been fortunate— notto dale—that these islands did The first Qantas service out of Sydney on the temporary route was scheduled for August 14, and the first southbound service, out of San Francisco, for August 11.

Qantas time-tables from Sydney are unchanged. Planes leave Sydney at 11 a.m., arrive Auckland at 6 Pm., leave Auckland 7.15 p.m. and arrive at Canton Island at 5.15 am next day.

PAA planes leave Sydney at 9.45 a.m., instead of 11.45 a.m, as previously, and will arrive at Auckland at 4.45 p.m. They leave 141 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956 ji Isolated When Nadi Airport Closes L (Continued from Page 21)

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NG Women's Club Says "Thanks" to President fTIHE annual general meeting JL the New Guinea Women’s 0 of Sydney, on July 19, maE the 10th anniversary of Mrs. M Foxcroft’s term as president.

This must constitute some so* record in social effort Foxcroft is, if anything, more pon at the end of 10 years tham was in 1946 when she took the over from the first president, H. H. Page, A remarkable wo —and a remarkable club. If thing has happened to ruffles surface of its harmony in tlr or 16 years of its existence have never heard of it anr certainly has not been perrm to show on the surface.

To mark her 10th anniversar president, members of the presented Mrs. Foxcroft witt travelling bag inscribed with! initials. The presentation made by Lady McNicoll, the patroness of the Club.

All last year’s office bearers re-elected in a block, in a im of seconds. “When we know have something good,” said Page, “let’s stick to it.”

Mrs. J. Edwards, tireless m for the Club, is therefore i Vice-president; Mrs. W.

Johnston, Hon. secretary; andi I. Carr, Hon. treasurer.

Mrs. A. A. Innes, who was. able to attend the meeting, flowers to Mesdames Fox* Edwards, Carr and Johnston. t Danish author Hakon Mii who has been a visitor to parts of the Pacific over the ; gave a lecture at Union University of Sydney, in An describing the scientific expeis of the Galathea, 1950-52. 142 AUGUST, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Iced thin when he entered the nd tired quickly. rtheless this did not detract he merit of Laitia’s win. He confidently throughout, and le had Williams groggy with right he showed initiative Dwing up smartly with lefts ;hts. a’s victory has put Fijian on the map, particularly in view of the fact that the only other man to knock out Williams was Kitione Lava, now fighting in the UK.

In agreeing to fight Laitia at the lighter weight, Williams and his manager made a tactical error The Fijians have been described as pocket battleships in that they have maximum strength with minimum Allen Williams, Australian light-heavyweight and heavyweight boxing champion, beat Tom Him, Fip heavyweight champion, on points at the Lilac Theatre, Suva, on July 2 for the championship of the South Pacific. Williams weighed in at 12 st. 13 lb. and Hini at 12 st 9 lb It was a case of a fighter-boxer being too good for a straight-out fighter. The referee was Mr J Campbell, and the |udges, Messrs T. Frost and G. Thompson. Photo (by Prasad) shows Williams (left) about to attack after being driven into the corner by Hini. Prasad's Studios 145 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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NZ to Have New S[?] Deal NEW ZEALAND expects to £2,000,000 sterling a year ft: years under an agree negotiated by the New Ze, Prime Minister, Mr. S. G. Ho on his recent visit to London!

The Dominion will buy su§. world parity prices from tW ginning of 1957, whereas un special arrangement, which v expire at the end of 1958 bought her sugar at a negotiated annually.

Previously, New Zealand H 75,000 tons of sugar each year Commonwealth sources —ms from Fiji and Australia, arrangement ends on Decemi next.

Thereafter, for seven years Zealand has undertaken to and Commonwealth sugar exj to sell, a similar quantity of' each year at prices based up« world price of sugar.

New Zealand takes about £4,1, worth of raw sugar a year. L about £45 a ton at present, I because of high freight (The UK, which is much fl away from the source of suppc her sugar landed there at £3J Mr. Holland said that an inr ate benefit of the arrangemr NZ consumers was that an wise inevitable increase in o retail prices would be avoided., had been recent steep incres shipping freights on raw sul New Zealand.

The general manager of thr in Auckland, Mr. A. C. Isaac that because of world p c fluctuating daily, and high rates, it was not possible as stage, to tell to what extent 1 tail price in New Zealand wo affected. However, he did noi( the decrease would be as mr a penny a pound. (World-parity price is ba* Cuban price, but sugar man is subject to so many agres and agreements within agres that it is almost impossiWj the layman to makes it work. The real w<\ Mr. Holland’s deal will be on how much the NZ houses going to get out of it apparently is not going to bee AUGUST, 195(5 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON"

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GERMANY w Air Service for Chatham Islands ZEALAND’S outlying Chatn Islands, in the far South ific, will have a regular air from Christchurch by the this year. was announced by Transairways Ltd., of Christchurch, i-July. The company has been licensed to operate a fortnightly or weekly service with Beechcraft planes which are on order from the United States.

The airline distance from Christchurch to the new 3,400 ft runway being completed in the Chathams, is about 550 miles, and from Wellington about 470 miles.

In recent years the Chathams have been served by a few summer flying-boat flights by TEAL. These were halted when TEAL disposed rnvif for all but the AnSf^ Ute s - rvice - Last summer Ansett Airways, of Sydney, made a flymg-boat charter flight from Wellington to the Chathams The new airfield will make it possible for land-planes to maintain contact. won't [?] This infant ic Loyalty New Caledonia, to disagree t got her first Lepine anti* cine in Noumea The campaign ing very little jp to the end In the first so only five were taken for vaccinations, ber rose to 27 third week of h. New Caled an outbreak in June; it to die down ut two other cases were admitted to [?]fter the middle of the month. Three have died during the epidemic.

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IS for South Pacific Air Lines operate a flying-boat service m Honolulu to Papeete have ntly gone back into the melt- »t since Britain decided to 3-bombs in the vicinity of nas Island. rding to an executive of the Company, which has the ling interest in SPAL, the ipany had expended $lOO,OOO istmas as a staging base beley had orders to get out.

Dollar spokesman said that ould claim compensation not >r this expenditure but also i cost of three flying-boats ng at Oaklands, California.

Honolulu report said that the las Island base was to have AL about £200,000 when corndoes not sound as though now expects to get the sering at all, although in July, i Bryan Monkton, who had nost of the promotion of was making inquiries about a as an alternative to las. lyn is in the Northern Cooks, used as a US landplane base the war and the lagoon has led by flying-boats. An RAF anded there last year when making a survey for an Hdropping base —and subse- Christmas Is. was chosen, of the base facilities now The lagoon has never been Penrhyn is about 400 miles f Christmas Is.

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)WING on a successful air se to French Oceania by a y of Honolulu business men . five more flights have been d by the US civil aeroauthorities. ,rst of these is scheduled for 26, with the others followintervals of about a week, bartered DC4’s, DC6’s, or ations, depending on the ering.

The flights are organised by Richard K. Kimball, head of a company registered in Honolulu as Hawaii-Tahiti Air Cruises.

Mr. Kimball is also head of Palmyra Development Co., which financed the June flight, said to be successful. On that occasion the American plane flew to Bora Bora and connected with the local French Catalina for the last stage to Papeete.

Mr. Kimball is emphatic that, on these trips, as in the initial flight, no women will be carried to Tahiti —they are only a source of trouble, he says. In addition, all the women necessary are in Papeete. (Everyone knows this, but it seems to be putting it very bluntly).

The 42 men travelling on the June flight, mostly married men, were, however, tended by one stewardess in flight. They seemed to suffer no ill-effects.

Mr. Kimball said that flights cannot continue immediately: they await the arrival at Tahiti of a Catalina aircraft belonging to Transports Aerie n s Intercontinentaux the airline operating from Paris to Noumea, and a regional service between Noumea and New Hebrides.

This seems to suggest that TAX may be about to take over the local Transports Aeriens Interinsulaire service and perhaps base another Catalina at Papeete to aid the present single Catalina.

Passengers coming south by one Kimball fight will remain a week, then pick up the next flight back: to Honolulu.

It will be interesting to see whether these schemes prosper, as almost every Honolulu-based scheme * or air services in the South Pacific m post-war years has “flopped,” for one reason or another, (Over> 149 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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Mr. Walter J. Grand, presidei the French Oceania Assent Territorial, en route to France,: in Honolulu recently that he w seek “about one-third” of the million Pacific francs necessan build the long-planned Papeete ternational airport.

Mr. Grand considered t; prospects of receiving this am from the French metropolitan ernment for an immediate Stan the airport were good.

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Institutes for Pacific Delinque A SCHOOL for delinquent gii to be built at Nasinu, miles from Suva. The fact] it will be situated half a mile the delinquent boys’ school prorr Mr. Vishnu Deo, in Legist Council, to ask whether there not some danger in “placing hi combustible material so clos other highly combustible mate Mr. Vishnu Deo, who mellowed with the years andf often displays a dry sens humour in the House, was ass that there would be no dangen Acting Director of Education plained that the staff’s quu would be downstairs and the? would be quartered upstairs..

Like the boys’ school, whi on the site of the old Agricut Demonstration Farm, the school will be attractively sift on a small hill overlooking an of native bush. Suva 0 spondent. (This term, “delinquent,” new one for the Pacific Island institution for these hard-to-h youngsters is to he set up B 3 Salvation Army in Port Mn (see “P-NG Diary ” elsewhere issue). It is a fine comment ca our Christian civilisation. If ! were “delinquents” in native the village or the clan or trV& a way of dealing with them 150 AUGUST, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Save for the future with an account in the COMMONWEALTH BANK Modern in Service—Old in Experience KET MOVES Pacific Commerce And Industry ENTERS INVESTMENT TRADING CO., his company incurred a loss of £22,952 year ended June 30 and for the first its 21-year history will not pay a vidend. Last year there was a profit 193. The parent company showed a f £6,721, compared with £15,862 last n interim dividend of 2 per cent, was quiring £3,000. Normal dividend rate per cent. The group loss was caused effect of flood conditions on Rainbow rigation Pty., Ltd., directors say. Other ies and the parent company earned * * * IS HEDSTROM, Ltd.; Net profit of ledstrom. Ltd., planters and merchants, 1 by £19,815, or 15.9 per cent., at 10 for the year ended March 31 after provisions. The result is after tax, r (down £6,386), depreciation £87,596 £31,446) and staff fund £17,241 (up Ordinary dividend is unchanged at last creased rate of 12£ per cent., absorb- ,oso. The remainder of the profit irry forward to £503,072. * * * UA RUBBER ESTATES; Lolorua Rubber Ltd., earned £31,941 net profit for ended April 30, a rise of £17,884. ras after charging £6,904 depreciation year, £6,392). Dividend, doubled from ent. to 20 per cent, required £20,000. ❖ * * 0 GOLD DREDGING, LTD.; Production 2 months to May 31 dropped by about )z fine gold. The total output was oz, compared with 60,001 oz. The dredged also dropped, from 14,176,650 to 11,339,200 in 1956. The respective n US dollars, were, 1955, 2,100,035; ,404,690. No. 7 Dredge sank and in its dredge pond at Bulolo after the list shaft broke. Damage and standing were covered by insurance. * * * t DEVELOPMENT; Placer Development, de 10,948,910 Canadian dollars profit ended April 30, a sharp increase previous year's profits of 2,036,149 The rise was mainly due to a large paid by a subsidiary, Canadian Ex- Ltd., which operates lead-zinc and mines in British Columbia. * * ♦ iOLES AND PENNEYS: G. J. Coles and paid £4,175,000 in shares and cash iys. Ltd., the retail subsidiary of Boms 1 Co., Ltd. Coles paid 3,600,000 5/shares, and £1,025,000 cash. On latest prices the share payment equals 0. * * * iLDFIELDS: During June New Guinea , Ltd., production was as follows: den Ridges Mill, 1,130 oz fine gold, silver. Golden Ridges Alluvials, 109 jold. Koranga Alluvials, 569 oz fine ibutes, 118 oz fine gold. Timber, super feet. * * * ID AND PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT: leum prospecting permit of Enterprise uinea Gold and Petroleum Development been extended to June 30, 1957. me the company treated 12 tons of For 10.5 oz of gold. * * * i APINAIPI PETROLEUM: Papuan Petroleum Co., Ltd., plans a new issue solders and public, and also a link Delated Oilfields N.L. to develop the ir 0,1 on the company's permit area in Papua. The total issue could involve 4,000,000 5/- shares, or £1,000,000 The planned issoe involved 3,000,000 5/- ordinary shares, a further 500,000 to be taken firm, full Y Associated Australian Oilfields, and 500,000 for public subscription. In addition the directors reserve the right to accept applications for a further 1,000,000 shares Associated Australian Oilfields, N.L., has agreed to sell plant to Papuan Apinaipi.

LOLOMA (FIJI): Loloma (Fiji) Gold Mines N.L. will td lcg up 96,830 of the rSahtc if entitled to in the issue being made 9 by Grs Boulder Pty. Gold Mines, Ltd This win Loloma s holding in Great Boulder 825,000 stock units which numerically equal Lolom? own issued capital of 825,M0 shares Th ’ directors say they have made satisfactory (Continued foot Col. 1, Page 153) 151 ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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Pratt, and to receive also port on the New Guinea ,al Scholarship Trust. i scholarships, which have warded since 1948, went, in st instance, to children of ruinea men who had lost ves during the war. With r ard for the current year, ?ible children under this of the scholarship have atered for; the trustees of holarship fund must now : future policy, initial amount of the Fund 0 raised by the New Guinea ’s Assn. This was added to me to time, and a total of ?as finally contributed. 1952. the amount of the ;hip was £3O per annum for i. It was then raised to ■ annum. At the end of 1959, all scholarships so far granted will have terminated.

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Late Capt. R. Page Honoured ONE of the streets of Duntroon —the Australian Military College near Canberra—has been named Page Street, after the late Captain R. Page, DSO.

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Captain Page was engaged on secret raids on enemy shipping and installations in Japanese-held areas north of Australia. He and his small unit carried out a number of raids successfully—but from one of them they did not return. [?]rs and their from NZ, Ausand Norfolk visited Fiji to rt in a bowling ent in Suva, ne 23-30. cocktail parties Grand Charity the Grand fotel, were held the week. At 12 pretty debuwere presented Governor, Sir Garvey, and rvey. The girls spared for their [?]y Lady Ragg, sented by Mrs.

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Smaller and Sma All the Time IT is unlikely that the laU lamented Adolf Hitler ha± Guinea or a rugged trip Lae to Goroka over unmade in mind when he promised German people a Volkswagem Hitler’s Germany never sat VW, of course—but this rug® unlovely, small car has now be well known in most parts o world.

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The Umi is really the Markham headwater, and was deep and swift. As it turne the VW went through undiJ own newer, with the watee over the tops of the wheels, an over the engine. On the climl. the Markham Valley to Kai we struck one very bad hill; a one-in-one grade with a H turn half-way. This held us awhile, but we eventually mr This particular hill spells for all vehicles; a jeep wen the side of it some time agoc the top of this first din Kainantu, Goroka, and Chimt roads are quite good, though' ing and winding, up and dow gullies and out again.

I reckon you wear outi steering wheels than tyres uj.

The whole trip was good, was a severe test for a brar vehicle—we left Lae with o miles on the speedo. The on of the trip was when a boulder than the rest rolled the front bumper-bar, and bent it underneath. Canij noticed unless pointed out.; happened in the Umi River.' The cars and light vehich are tackling this trip are smaller all the time. It was that only a four-wheel drives, could make it—then in Holden sedan was driven June, a Peugeot light lorry; t German “baby.”

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mjoy your magazine very ich up here, we really do. iat furious little voice out last century, screeching and g against the inexorable ; of civilisation, is good for »f laughs and we wouldn’t out it. pleasant to watch the bad nial system going down the 11 over the world—in Africa, south-east Asia, and your the Pacific—and it makes it tore pleasant to hear the 1 cries of the colonialists slide down the sump, sh, however, to enter a against the abysmal :e revealed in most of your g of events in Hawaii, h a bit removed from? your c, we are among the Islands” and it seems to it might behoove your staff Hire a little elementary ge of conditions here, y as this is the only ago in the ocean that has 1 to rise above the battery hemical toilet, warm beer delevelopment. immediate motivation of 3t is the stupid remark, in :ent story on Hawaii-based investigations, to the effect Iging by the names of the ;1 on the research ships we iking thorough use of >e know-how” in this work, ersons to whom you refer Americans, born here or States, and whatever ow” they have was acquired can schools and universities you consider that it could ;en inherited from their i ancestors, most of whom mers. not fishermen), night with equal justice, stupidity, have remarked are making good use of “know-how” in our city •ritorial governments, our rts, and our hospitals, as n our baseball teams. The that we are making good he industry, honesty, and that these people learned icir immigrant parents; other knowledge they s strictly American, writers often dwell with the material richness of our blasted television our congested mass of les, our revoltingly ig tourist business, our •kets and stores filled with prices not too different •se of Mainland cities.

Then the blighters will turn around and tell with horror how we have been overrun by Asiatic hordes, how we even have a “Jap” on our Supreme Court, how the poor Hawaiians have been crowded out of the picture. You have got to realise that these two pictures are just two sides of the same medal.

If you are going to hold down the working people in your territories, justifying yourselves with phony notions of racial superiority, you will hold yourselves back in the process, and eventually you will be kicked out. leaving only black ignorance and hatred behind.

I am, etc., W. G. VAN CAMPEN, Ocean View, Honolulu.

Aug. 2, 1956.

Editorially—if We May Now that Mr. Van Campen, whoever he might be, has given his interpretation of how Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, we would like to explain what it was that brought on all this fuss and fury.

It was a small paragraph— innocent we imagined—in the shipping section of the PIM. it concerned the activities of the US Fish and Wildlife research ships some of the technical personnel of which are (let us whisper it) ethnologically Japanese. We said that about fishing they had Japanese know-how.” Mr Van Campen says they aren’t Japanesethey are Americans. Moreover what they know about fish is what American universities and schools have taught them.

We don’t propose to argue with Mr. Van Campen about what these Americans with the Japanese 155 ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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However, seals are by no means unknown in the tropics, and are common in the Galapagos Islands cn the equator, where the cold Humboldt Current circulates. know about fish—although juld like to say that the people with Japanese names merican nationals) whom we ncountered fishing about the know more about the •y than the rest of the South together, and they didn’t t in America. most interesting thing about ade has nothing to do with \ course—it lies in its antisentiment. of us here in the South feel nothing but friendship mericans and the United -so much so that we are apt et that there is a solid block ;rican opinion that does not at same way about us. mialism” is, of course, ly the most popular whip hich to flay our hides and people will remember Mr. utterances on the subject a nths ago in Indonesia. the end of World War 11, a has taken the lead in ; Western policy. The of this, in Asia, the Middle Hrica and Europe may be = to the Van Campens. are, however, many others i the light of events in igust. 1956, are doing a lot d re-aligning of thought, fan Campen’s opinions don’t in the least—except that ed a million times they rovide that wedge that the seph Stalin used to dream ng between the British and encans. [?] of NI Council Election voting for the election of mbers to the Norfolk Island 7 Council took place at the July and resulted in two of ng members being re-elected Hors W. M. Randall and olloway).

I members were beaten in W and Mount Pitt Wards of which there were four tes. ? was as follows: ADE WARD: L. D. Hollo- •: T. B. Bailey, 44.

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STON WARD: W. M. • 79 : w - N. S. Newbald, 40; euchars, 5.

ITT WARD: N. C. Christian, J. Needham, 28; A. B. iS > 19; W. W. Sanders, 11. cess collected from native Jopra growers under Fijian ment Fund regulations £1*89.915 at June 30 Withdrawals for approved uty projects this year have 2d to £F127,140. 157 Airways Fares (Continued from Page 13) FIC ISLANDS MONTH! Y AUGUST, 1956

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Lady Maraia Vosawi

Lady Maraia Vosawale, v Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, died.

Colonial War Memorial HE Suva, on August 1, aged 53.

She was the only child ofl Tatawaqa of Bau and Uluibatiki of Viwa. Shu directly descended from the Levu, Pita Raori, whose j brother was Ratu Deve Togs ISO. for many years Roko T: She married Ratu Sin Sukuna at Bua in 1928, at has given her devoted ser good causes sponsored tJ husband and herself. She ] many years a member c Board of Education and sen numerous social and committees, more particular Fijian Women’s Committeenow as the Soqosoqo Vakani which has branches throughi Colony. She was an active i of the Methodist Church.

For her war-work, she 1 in 1945, a member of thi Excellent Order of the Empire.

During her 1953 CoronatL with Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna* United Kingdom she was pr to the Queen at Buck Palace and later was rece:; the Queen Mother at the Party organised by the V* Corona Club at Lambeth On this latter occasion si dressed in Fijian trat women’s costume.

When Queen Elizabeth a Duke of Edinburgh visited 1953 Lady Maraia led the ce which began the Fijian cer welcome in Suva.

Mr. Fred Jolleys

The death occurred in Syr August 9, of Mr. Frederick H formerly a well-known resii New Guinea.

Details of Mr. Jolley’s can appear in the September : PIM.

Ruby May Westbrc

Mrs. Ruby May Westbro« of the late John Alfred We) died in Auckland on July * 63 years.

Member of a well known j family, Mrs. Westbrook arr Tonga with her parents : She was the youngest daufj the late Captain Charles at Jury, who took upaplantati; miles from Nukualofa. M.l married Mr. Jack Westbrook the late G. E. L. Westbn Apia, and they lived there ft 158 AUGUST, 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MON-

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Westbrook is survived by lughters. A son was killed m in World War II and died recently. t During 1955, Mr. Norman Wallis, of the BSIP, and a keen moviecamera enthusiast, toured the Protectorate making a colour film dealing with the economic and administrative development of the islands.

The film also showed scenic attractions and the native way of life.

Arrangements are now being made for the film to be distributed overseas through the Central Office of Information, London, and a copy has been received in the Protectorate. wo Weddings of Islands Interest Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Gibson, with their attendants after their at Labasa, Fiji, on June 30. The bride, formerly Miss Gloria the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Shultz, of Matieri, NZ. She has been in Fiji since 1948, and has been Public [?]ter at Ba and Ra and on Vuana Levu. She resigned in 1954 the United Kingdom. The groom is the second son of Mr.

R. Gibson, of Havelock North, Hawke's Bay, NZ. He has abasa since June, 1953, where he is accountant in the Bank [?]fter a honeymoon at Suva and Dueba, the couple returned Miss Rona Shultz, a sister of the bride, was bridesmaid.

Mr. Harry Carey, of the Bank of NZ, Suva, was best man.

AT RIGHT: Two Port Moresby residents, Mr. Sid Monagle, and Miss Joan Scott, were married at St. Stephens, Sydney, on July 7. A reception was held later at the Hotel Australia. After a short honeymoon the couple returned to Port Moresby.

Our photograph shows the bridal party leaving the church. 159 r 1 C I S I. A N D S MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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CONDUCTED BY EX ZK-1-AC/VR-2-AK. lowing list of New Guinea Hams is from information kindly supplied by Inspector, Port Moresby, with some —the deletion of VK's 9 KC and lieve there is also another Club t Rabaul, not shown here, and the named R. M. Harrison, c/o P.&T. roka but gave -sign. The ;all-sign was and may not B. Bunting, #x 38, Port y- J. Hum- !s , Bui n , iville Island, rtable—A. 8. tt, c/o RAAF, i, Manus.

A. Wittaker, C, Lae.

A. J. Taylor, C, Wewak.

P. O'Connor, Boroka, c/o x 84, Port A. Sutherland, Central Ave., Rabaul, . H. Holland, c/o Rabaul Co., Rabaul, H. Ewen, PO Box 56, Port Moresby. i. C. J. Patrick, Catholic Mission, i, Manus.

J. Spehr, Lutheran Mission, Madang. iu Radio Club, Wau.

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B. Schroeder, c/o DCA, Wewak.

G. Taylor, Boroko, via Port Moresby.

S. Mullan, c/o Crowley Airways, M. Nolan, c/o Station 9PA, Port Barrie, c/o OTC, Lae.

C. Raebel, Lawes Rd., Port Moresby.

T. Overend, c/o RTC, Lae.

F. Hanran, c/o DCA, Port Moresby.

R. Coleston, c/o DCA, Port Moresby.

R. Foldi, c/o District Office, Rabaul, M. Nolan, c/o Station 9PA, Port (portable).

W. Mullins, c/o MV "Wallach", Tie, c/o DCA, PO Box 9, Port F. Lloyds, c/o OTS, Boroka.

G. Garrett, c/o Burns Philp, Rabaul, B. Monfries, Wau. 0. Sutherland, c/o OTC, PO Box 55, NB. \C Fleming, c/o APC, Port Moresby. c/o RTC, Kavieng, Nl. d'Evelynes, Rugli, via Mt. Hagen.

A. Vinning, c/o RTC, Lae. ? C. Gee, Torres Crescent, Port *ial WIA Station, c/o PO Box 107, resby.

K. Webster, c/o DCA, Port Moresby.

VK9WL—J. Widdup, c/o RTC, Sohana, Buka Passage.

VK9WP—W. A. P. Luke, c/o OTC, Rabaul, NB.

VK9YT—Rev. C. J. Zimmer, Catholic Mission, Lamasong, Nl.

VK9YY —A. J. Smith, PO Box 13, Lae.

VK9ZAL —R. F. Lloyd, c/o Dept, of Works, Port Moresby.

From Apia Les, ZM6AS (see photo) reports that he will be returning to ZL in October, Ron, ZM6AR, will pull out in November, and Norm, ZM6AT, will follow about next January or February. So if the ranks are not meanwhile reinforced, Ernest, ZM6AL, will be tho only senior ZM6 remaining. (Over) Les Reid, ZM6AS of Apia, with his attractive set-up—a National NC98 receiver on the left, and a Johnson Viking Ranger transmitter on the right—and the time in three languages apparently, above. 161 1C ‘ ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

NOTIFICATION PERMOGEAZE est donnee par ces preserves que la marque de fabrique indiquee en marge est la propriete unique et exclusive et la propre marque de fabrique de PERMOGIAZE LIMITED, situe au Tyseley Paint and Varnish Works, James Street, Tyseley, Birmingham, England, Fabricants, et que GLAZEBROOKS PAINTS

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Les couleurs preparees et partiellement preparees, emaux, teintes, varnls, laques, codes d'or et de toutes sortes, finis, detrempes, imprimures, apprets, glacages et les preparations pour la conservation de bois, de metal, de pierre et des tissues de toutes sortes, et on avertit par ces presentes le Commerce et la Publique centre quelque contrefacon ou utilisation injuste de la dite marque de fabrique.

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However ZM6AF, Percy Rivers, may m comeback, and three other new men an paring for action —Bruce Evatt and exu Dan Allen an ex VK, and Alan Gordon i Ham Radio. Norm, ZM6AT, is currently\ on 14,160 kc/s, and ZM6AS is w 10/15/20-metre phone. Les is bound f Olympics and will reach Sydney per "MO3 on November 10, according to present 1 He will be there for six days—time enon the locals to collect their QSL's from i From Parry Island, Eniwetok Atoll, atomic Marshalls, William S. Thompson W6UFS, writes under date of May 21 that he expected to be on the air I June as KX6BQ, and is keen to contact!

Hams. The QSL address is: c/o H. & I 3116, APO 435, US Army, via Hii Hawaii.

Christmas Atoll, Pacific, has been U the map in recent months by Chas., charge of the radio set-up for South i Airlines. It may be assumed that he w there much longer however, as the ne will have to be abandoned as a result!

London decision to hold atom-bomb t the vicinity.

Your scribe, under former call of 1 came on again, for a while with 8 watt to a Type-A Mk. 111, CW, on 7 mcs.

May 5 and June 21. Nothing that C 3 described as DX was worked, but the W's and KH's, a couple each of VK's, Z!

VE's, had some fun at least.

The rare (?) ZK-l-AC card has gon to every station contacted. Until next ' ZK-1 log-book has been replaced by thr base ZL-1-AlK—same Type-A, Mk.-111, sa CW signal from the heart of Auckla Though in Fiji for a while this winte was no time to dust off the VR2AK i Banking or the Se[?] Mr. Alan D 3 who has be* to the Goves American Sas now become: of the BJ American S.J Pago Pago.

Figures arc only interest Bigelow hov has his Mastl and has Captain of tl ment shi pi Tele" on a occasions.

Photo American Priii Visited Paris Grand-chief Leoula of Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, who was a guest of the French Government in Paris at this year's July 14 (Bastille) celebrations.

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Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, 422-428 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [?]U COLLEGE Years Service to Tonga LANDMARK in missionary hievement was reached July, 56, when the Free Wesleyan h in Tonga celebrated the .nniversary of Tupou College, is the oldest secondary b in the Kingdom. )u College was opened in with the late Rev. J. E. in as headmaster, for the e of training young men for inistry, and a selected few sitions in the Government. first location was in ,lofa, then it removed to a in 1921, and in 1947 it nother move, this time to its present situation, some 12 from Nukualofa.

College has had a chequered since its establishment, but e distinction of having had >f Tonga’s most famous sons roll at one time or another.

H. Prince Tungi and Prince ehake were students there going to Australia to finish iducation. More recent old r ho have achieved academic ;ion are the Rev. Sione ke Havea, BD (USA), and li’uli Tupounui, B. Com. u College has had a ion of brilliant Headmasters, st famous being its founder t only translated both books Bible into Tongan, but also essary textbooks for use in hqol; these included an history, Euclid, mathematics stronomy. Dr. Wood was aster for 14 years, and it im that the college owes its pre-eminence in Tongan Dn. udents of Tupou College led government positions for ears, and a number are now magistrates, teachers and Blerks. [?] Mr s W. L. Ty lor > Reuben, and Auckland per "Maui Pomare" early r Mangaia, Cook Islands, where Mr. agriculturalist, has been appointed Agent. 163 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY AUGUST, 1956

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New Grammar [?]ools for Suva JTS of pupils attending i’s Grammar Schools were pleased to hear from Mr. ilvey, MLC, in July, that a fs’ Grammar School and a rls’ Grammar School will ed in 1957 on the site of Brighton Park Racecourse.

Lte, recently purchased by f eminent from the estate late Lady Barker, has a ocean view. The schools irected on the slopes above racecourse. s were pleased to learn, it a long-standing request >ard of Governors to contwo schools will be formed. >ard will consist of one “old the Boys’ School and one ” from the Girls’ School, nts to be nominated by the id School Association, one ative from the Governrepresentative from fhe y Council and three other residents of standing.

[?] Flag Incident

In Papeete

scar Nordman and friends, fahiti, have written prong against an incident ►ok place at Papeete on —American Independance _ey want some publicity irdman has occupied the Consulate building since )sed down in 1948 and has vailable for the American ationed at Noumea, under jurisdiction the French area now falls, and who ffli annually. ilding itself stands on land United States in y by Quern Pomare IV iccording to Mr. Nordman, Tahiti-born, of American parentage, but a naturalised French citizen.

It appears that the Papeete Police, acting under orders, instructed Mr Nordman to haul down the American flag from the building’s flagstaff shortly after he had hoisted it at 8 am on July 4. Mr. Nordman says that local Americans were greatly put out by the incident.

It is easy to be sympathetic with them—but it is probable that the French authorities were well within their rights, although the Governor and various high officials denied all association with the incident.

Assuming that the consulate building is still American property, the question seems to be whether flaghoistmg rights are attached to a building, or to a person. If the latter, the matter would be of some significance if the building were occupied by an officially accredited American Consul or Vice-Consul We know nothing more about it than what Mr. Nordman has told us. It appears, from this distance, to be a storm in a teacup. The local police seem to have be°n unnecessarily officious. At the same time, it is unlikely that the French officials intended any insult to the United States. It appears to us to be a matter that could quite well have been settled, on the spot, between Mr. Nordman and local officials.

A large number of American flags were flown in the big city of Sydney on the Glorious Fourth—although the day our Yankee friends were celebrating was the anniversary of their “freedom from Britain.”

It is no offence to fly another nation’s flag in Australia. It could be that it is, in France or in French Territories.

Co. Executive in Samoa [?]tail party was given H. Gow, manager of lilp (SS), Ltd., Apia, 12, in honour of Mr. s, general manager of ho was visiting the Our photograph ft to right): Mr. Gow; [?]. N. Kelly; The NZ [?]nissioner in W. Samoa, Powles; Mr. Roberts; les; Mr. T. Dunleavy; [?] Wisdom, TEAL [?]n Suva. by Edwards Studios. 165 10 ISLANDS MONTHLY- A U G U S T , 1956

FOR SALE FLEETS.—2O ft. carvel 6 h.p. Clae, £325. 25 ft. sharpie 4 cyl. Clae, £9OO. 40 ft. sharpie trawler, 2 yrs. old, 50 h.p. Caterpillar marine diesel, 2-way radio, £3,500.

Fleets, Water Street East. Sth. Brisbane, Queensland.

ISLAND in South Pacific (New Hebrides Group) approximately 4 miles long by IVss wide —no swampy country, good rainfall, very suitable for cocoa and coffee on plateau, and coconuts round sea shore, suitable for cattle raising, comparatively healthy being free from mosquitos, some useful timber for building purposes. Good landing on north side in bay sheltered from prevailing winds; good harbour nearby on mainland Could arrange for visit of inspection. Further particulars from; Graham Kerr. Boite Postale, Noumea, New Caledonia; or D. H. Kerr, 46 Rosamond Street, Hornsby, N.S.W.

KETCH; 57 ft. x 14 ft. x 7 ft., ex- “Kurrewa III”, has cruised Pacific to America. Copper sheathed, Lister diesel, large variety sails. £5,500. Further particulars: John Gilliam, 47 Ward Street, Ashburton, Victoria. £.OO £1 SHARES Madang Slipways Ltd., New Guinea. Will sell all or any part of them. Contact; A. E. Pedler, 143 Holmes St., Brighton. Queensland.

WORKBOAT, 45 ft. x 13 ft. x 5 ft. draught. Raised deck forecastle, wheelhouse and large capacity hold, nearing completion to purchaser’s requirements.

Construction under M.S.B. Survey. Suitable for cargo, fishing, and personnel.

Price approximately £6,600, owner supply engine, etc. Builders Wynne S. Breden Pty, Ltd., “Phoenix Shipyards”, Newcastle, N.S.W.

WANTED MANAGE OR LEASE copra plantation anywhere in Pacific. Managerial experience in plantation work; also tradesman connected with engineering. Age 34, married, two children. Replies to: “Manager”, Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, Australia.

INTERESTED in buying sea shell specimens from all parts of the Pacific. Also, commercial shells and coral in large quantities. Newman’s, Nags Head, N.C., U.S.A.

BOOKS ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

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I also find rare and out-of-print books to order. Large Pacific clientele. Banking accounts at Sydney and Wellington. Write Philip R. Boulton, Bookseller, Westbury, Wilts. England.

Position Wanted

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OPERATOR; married, no children, ceeks position in Islands. Experienced in newspaper work, general jobbing printing, and proof-reading. Used to controlling staff Reply: “AX”, 43 Pine Avenue, Golflands South Australia.

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GEOLOGISTS. Wanted for sedimentary mapping in the Company’s 8,600 square miles oil prospecting Permit in Panua; One Senior Geologist (at least 5 years field experience); Two Geologists and One Micropalaeontologist (at least 2 years field experience). Salaries; Senior Geologist, £2,500 to £3,000 per annum; Geologists and Micropalaeontologist, £1,750 to £2,250 per annum. Actual salary according to qualification and experience. Higher salary thatn maxima quoted in exceptional cases. A bush allowance of 15/- per day whilst on actual field work is payable in addition to salary. Income derived by residents of the Territory from sources within the Territory is not taxable under Commonwealth legislation. Married accommodation will be available in Papua before the end of 1956. These positions offer the opportunity of interesting work in a major sedimentary basin in which the prospects for discovery of oil are good. Applv with details of qualifications and experience, relevant personal details, and names of references to: Chief Geologist, The Papuan Aplnaipi Petroleum Co. Ltd., Box 4991, G.P.0., Sydney.

DRAFTSMAN. —Survey draftsman required for preparation of geological maps and sections. Successful applicant will be required to serve in Papua. Salary; £1,500 to £1,750 per annum according to qualifications and experience. Single man provided with free board and accommodation.

Married accommodation will be available in Papua before the end of 1956. Married men will receive housing at nominal rate plus allowance of £7 per week. Income derived by residents of the Territory from sources within the Territory is exempt from taxation under Commonwealth legislation. Apply with details of qualifications and experience, relevant personal details, copies of references and specimens of drafting to; Chief Geologist, The Papuan Apinaipi Petroleum Company Limited, Box 4991. G.P.0., Sydney.

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WANTED Contact correspondents, philatelists, hobbyists and Pen Friends throughout the Pacific. Island representatives wanted. Members in almost every country of the world. Write tor specimen copy Club journal "Island Life” and application form, to Secretary, South Sea Islands Correspondence Club, Natuvu, Fiji Is.

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[?]x to Advertisers . ... 35 Ltd. . .145 F. . . 78 .... 94 N. V. . 56 ... . 3 i Cotton 70 Sales . 130 'm. . . . 4 ... 112 . ... 42 . Jno. . 53 >W 115,123 \1 ... 77 iwyn . . 9 -Hodge 152 lae . . 62 jence . 134 ... 143 Mills . 144 . ... 58 Jros. . 117 t . 58, 126 I. S. . 102 rers . . 47 Motors . 9 V Co. . 91 CK. H. . 93 78, 89, 128 ... 48 iducts . 42 reweries 92 Ltd. . 104 Guinea 73 iducts . 42 ... 107 . 34, 138 r. Cream 70 Mustard 125 \eat . . 52 >'n. . . 91 ialth ... 151 s. . . 161 Co. . 160 . . . 155 arg. . . 44 . & M. 167 ... 121 i. . . 149 W. C. . 135 Dber . . 45 I Co. . 148 ... 114 ... 146 n. . . 133 ;cords . 32 leidecke 147 late Co. 60 m . . 126 atchery 165 ig. . . 100 tel . . 10 & A. 118 iros. . 114 L . 1, 30, >, 108, 142 s Paints 150 i Farm 46 /a) . . 13 looks . 49 . 33, 122 B. . . 61 Sons . 67 iourt . 39 nder . 154 iesels . 96 Id. . . 36 d. . . 95 Ltd. . 11l s . . 158 ... 39 ... 16 al ’.. . 5 ft . . 106 & Co. 38 Wax . 110 rig. . . 69 ... 12 •apt. . 66 Kiwi Polish ... 74 Kopsen & Co. . . 64 Lanchoo Tea . .11 Maclntyre, T. . . 54 Maize Products . 54 Marine Spares . 101 Masse Batteries . 116 Mcllrath's ... 31 Mendaco .... 133 Middleton, N. V, . 27 Millers Ltd. . .130 M. H. Ltd. . 26, 131 Mungo Scott . .125 Murex Pty. Ltd. . 80 McNiven Bros. . 164 N. & R. . . 50, 63 Needham & Co. . 65 Nestles .... 136 NG Aust. Line . . 6 Nile Products . . 76 Nixoderm ... 147 Northern Traders 137 N.Z.N.A.C 2 Orient Line ... 10 Pan Pacific Service 153 P. I. Line ... 8 Papuan Prints . . 94 Partner Pens . . 156 Piccaninny Wax . 37 Prager, F. H. . . 35 Property For Sale 14 Qld. Insurance . 109 Qld. Milling . . 53 Ransomes Co. . 155 Reckitt's Blue . . 49 Retng. Inst. Co. . 97 Re.axa-Tabs ... 79 Rice Growers' Co-op 59 Riverstone Co. . 120 Rohu, Si 1 . . . .77 Sails and Covers 65 Seppelt & Son . 68 Seward Ltd. . .137 Shaw Savill ... 7 She.l Pty. Ltd. 55, 99 S.eepmakers P/L 106 Spruso Co. . . . 2 S.T.C. Co. ... 109 Stapleton, J. . . 113 Stewarts-Lloyds . 98 S. P. Brewery . 11l Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 57 Sullivan Ltd. . . 43, 113, 119 Suva Motors . . 51 Swire & Yuill . 159 Tait, W. S. . . . 62 Tatham, S. E. . . 45 Territories Dept. 140 Thornycroft Co. . 101 Tilley Lamps . . 127 Ti I lock & Co. . . 90 Tongala Milk . . 72 Tongan Photos . 97 Tooth & Co. . . 98 Tractor Sales . . 41 Turners & Growers 122 Tyneside Eng. . . 75 United Insurance 121 U.R.D 161 Vacuum Oil . . .40 Valiant Rum . . 74 Vanderfield & Reid 71 Vincent Bros. . . 103 Ventura . . 66, 168 Vi-Stim .... 149 Vincent's APC . . 29 Warnock .... 50 Waters, Edwd. 162, 163 Westfield Meats 132 Wilhelmsen, W. . 8 White Rose . .102 Wills Ltd. ... 124 Woolf, J. C. . . 41 Wright & Co. . 105 Wrigley's . . . 129 Wunderlich Co. . 139 Yorkshire Ins. . . 93 167 P 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY— AUGUST, 1956

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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 v.

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 A 1 r £ A62/10/-; FMS (Sun-dried) £A6I/15/-; Smoked £ A 59.

FlJl;—Plantation £FS7/5/6 for top grade: FMS £FS7; moister grades £ F55/18/- to £FS4/2/- minimum.

W. SAMOA: —Basic price of £836/14/4, which varies according to distance of producing district from Apia.

E. SAMOA:—Producers receive 5 cents lb. (SUSII2 or £ A5O approx, per long ton). Periodic bonus, if average proceeds exceed Govt, buying price and expenses.

SOLOMONS:—Honiara/Gizo: Hot Air £A6I/10/-; Mixed HA/FM £AS7; FM £AS2/10/-; Yandina: 5/- higher.

NEW HEBRIDES:—Buying price on June 1 fell from 7,000 Pac. francs (£A49) to 6,000 Pac. francs (£A42) delivered Vila/ Santo; still at that rate early August.

FRENCH OCEANIA;—ApriI: 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 IS.:—Local price is based on £ NZSB/14/4 (£Stg.sB/10/-) per ton f.0.b.. in bulk. Outer islands copra producers receive approx. SVid N.Z. per lb. equal to £ N.Z.30 per ton.

COCOA:—lslands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which on August 8 was £Stg.23s, c.i.f.

P.-N.G.: Good grade, £A235, ex wharf Sydney.

W. SAM.; Aug. 9, £Stg.2oo. f.o.b. Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: Top grades 6/- lb. in store. Sydney; Fr. Oceania: 75 francs per kilo, unhusked PEANUTS;—P.-N.G.: In shell, large, well cleaned. 1/7 per lb. del. Sydney: kernels, 1/4 x / 2 lb. del. Sydney.

RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on August 8 was: No. 1 RSS, spot, 104% Straits cents (36.95 d Aust. approx.) per lb.

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, reports that early supplies from the new crop are nominally quoted at: C.i.f. Sydney. Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 60/, Green, 58/- 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 white. 112 lb. bags, 5 tons and over, £3 per ton f.0.b.: under 5 tons, £69 pj Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etJ per ton. f.o b. Sydney or Melboum PEARL SHELL.—Prices betweea majority of the Torres Strait pn and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for I£. main as for 1955, i.e.; Sound £A736; D, £A39O; E. £A3OO; EE, all f.0.b., Australian ports; nx quotation by independent pearlers: £ AB6O-920; D, £A6OO-650; E, £A‘.

EE, £A275-300. Manihiki: Lagoon j Tuamotus: Approx. £A1,300, long t raw shell on beach, Hikueru.

TROCHUS:—One Sydney agent one 8 quoted: New Hebrides £4BO-£5OO £520; and 8.5.1., £520; “accord grade”; another quoted £470 to B GREEN SNAIL:—Quote No.

Pacific, in store Sydney, £475, to rejects; lower grades £400( Quote No. 2: £465-£4BO.

London And U.S. Prices

Copra:—London. Aug. 8, Straits buyers, £Stg.63/10/-; Philippines $3 c.i f. Pac. Coast, del. weights.

Coconut Oil:—London, Aug. 8; in bulk, 1% FFA, £Stg.94/10/-, c.:. ton; Straits, bulk, 3Vz%l £Stg.B9/10/-, c.i.f., per ton.

Cocoa:—London, July 20: Accn in bond (buyers), Sept. 1, £Stg.2 ton.

Coffee:—London, July 20: Uganr busta, grade 10 (unwashed). Am shipment, £Stg.2s9 f.o.b. M Santos, extra prime, 510/- per 5c in bond London.

Rubber: —London, August 8; Spot; Stg.3iy B d.

Islands Mining Sh[?]

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSV BANK and BANK OF NZ. Austi Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying. £A« Selling, £ All 3. Fiji-London. basic London: B. £llO/12/6; S. £ll2. basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9: S. £3 SAMOA.—Through BANK OF Nil tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO B. £ A123/12/6: S. £AI24/10/9.

London, basis £lOO London; B. £3 S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £' B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-FIl £lOO Samoa: B. £111: 8. £llO

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth

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FR. PACIFIC COLONIES,—Pacific: most valuable of the three frano in French Union, are used in Nea donla. New Hebrides, and Fr. • FRENCH BANK (Comptoir D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney 1 Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.: 1 fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $..

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ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THI PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA; IN PAPUA; IN FIJI; New Guinea Company Limited, Island Products Ltd., Morns Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

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