PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly SEPTEMBER, 1956 Vol. XXVII. No. 2. ĥ ATA the New Solomon Islander. (See page 18). . *I» —Photo by Mrs. R. C. Short. newspaper]

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But it’s a thousand miles from Bluff to the Bay of Islands. And that’s why so many tourists fly—with N.A.C., of course: to save time, to travel in armchair comfort, and to enjoy a bird’s eye view of beauty. ying’s the way to travel N.A.C. links all principal New Zealand cities and tourist resorts and has offices and agents throughout New Zealand, Australia and the South West Pacific. 5 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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New Guinea Australia Line

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

Sydney Brisbane Rabaul and return.

Kavieng Madang 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 "I Japan Hongkong Madang Kavieng Rabaul Lae 5.5. FENGNING f 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 j • iT SSSSST*. Ootnea Co. Lta„ Kavt.n gs niSBANE: & Sanderson Pty. Ltd -» j} 00 Syndicate lELBOURNE: John Sanderson (Shipping) Pty. Ltd., 11 i Wllltem Street. Cable Synd .

APAN* Tokyo Yokohama. Osaka, Kobe: Butterfield & Swire (Japan) Ltd, Cable. Swire. jiniOUL AGENTS AUSTRALASIA: Swire & Yuill Pty. Ltd 6 Bridge St.. Sydney. Cable.

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

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September. 19 16 - Pacific Islands Month!

SYDNEY depart °ff Y 0 2 f,° a^ arrvf LAND arr £* ep 8 Oct. 14 Dec. 28 Jan!

SUVA arr/dep 11 Oct. 17 Dec 31 Jan HONOLULU arr/dep 16 Oct. 22 Dec! 5 Feb VANCOUVER arrive 22 Oct. 28 Dec! 11 Feto depart 23 Oct. 29 Dec. 12 Feb SAN FRANCISCO arr 25 Oct. 31 Dec. 14 Feb depart 26 Oct. 1 Jan.. ’57 15 Feb HONOLULU arr/dep 30 Oct. 5 Jan. 19 Feb’

SUVA arr/dep 6 Nov. 12 Jan. 26 Feb!

AUCKLAND arr/dep 9 Nov. 15 Jan. 1 Mar.

SYDNEY arrive 12 Nov. 18 Jan. 4 Mar! iking the Pacific Islands with { z '”“ 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. !*„ **■ * ■ t

Jm Fares: To England

luva via Panama £l2O stg. na South Pacific £155 stg.

Tahiti via Panama £ll5 stg. na South Africa £lB2 stg. for full particulars apply: FIJI i Call is Subject to Weather Permitting Any Branch or Agency of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd., Head Office: Suva. Cable address: Burnsouth.

TAHITI Etablissements Donald Tahiti, Papeete.

Cable address: Donald, Papeete.

Shipping Time-Tables ailings are approximate and may ry by as much as two weeks. dney-Papua-N. Guinea Malaita sails from Sydney for , Kavieng, Lombrum, Lorengau, , Alexishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney, ydney sailing approx. Sept. 26. dalekula sails from Sydney for Pt. 7, Rabaul, Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, afen, Madang, Lae, Samarai, Melbourne, Sydney. Next Sydney approx. Nov. 3.

Bulolo, modern liner, sails about six weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, 7, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Manus, Samarai, Moresby, Brisbane, Next Sydney sailing Oct. 3. dangola, cargo only, sails from for Brisbane, Cairns, Pt. Moresby, i, Rabaul, Madang, Lae, Pt. r, Brisbane, Sydney. Next sailing: Is from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., :e Street, Sydney. linkiang; Departed Sydney Sept. 17 and Rabaul; she then will go on tral Pacific Islands on a charter ig trip. Returns to P-NG service November. lansi: Departed Sydney Sept. 18 for b, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Sydney, toochow: Departs Sydney Sept. 25 sbane, Rabaul, Kavieng, Madang, dney. s from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., e St., Sydney.

Sydney-Dutch N.G. weeks service by MV’s Sigll, Silinlibigo, Sinabang (regular) and Van Cloon (irregular) carry passengers and cargo from E. Australian ports to Hollandia and Sorong, DNG (with Biak and/or Manokwari if inducement), thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct. Next sailings Sinabang Sep. 25 Silindeong, Oct. 5.

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

Far East-S.W. Pacific- Australia (Calling S.W. Pacific ports on sooth-bound journeys only.) SS Tuning: Departs Sydney Sept 29 for Japan, due Oct. 19. Leaves Japan Oct. 31, due Sydney approx. Dec. 9.

SS Fengning; Due Kavieng Sept 26 Rabaul Sept. 28, Madang Oct. 3, Lae Oct’ 5, Moresby Oct. 11. Sydney Oct. 20.

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 main- *ai" re eular services between Australian ports and Japan. Northbound vessels call at Manila, Hongkong and Japan; south- S d t V6SS n S u Call at Hon ekong, Manila, Sa s d^ a Rabaul . L ae, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, with bi-monthly calls at Honiara and Vanikoro Milos leaves Sydney Sept. 22. southbound leaves Lae Nov. 12, Rabaul Nov. 15 Honiara Nov. 19, Vanikoro Nov. 23; Aros’ southbound, leaves Rabaul Oct. 17, Lae Oct. 20; Citos, southbound, leaves Rabaul Nov. 2, Lae Nov. 5.

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

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. 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 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 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

Tahiti Samoa Fiji New Caledonia

New Hebrides New Guinea

GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION LTD.

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

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

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd. NOUMEA—Etablissements Ballande.

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

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

Australia-West Pacific Uni

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THE A.W.P.L. FLEET now comprises the modern Swedish Motor Vessels "Arcs", "Cites?

"Delos" and "Milos" which offer the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from Au tralia to Main Japanese Ports via Manila and Hong Kong. On the return voyage calls a made at Hong Kong, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Lae, and thence to Brisbane, Sydney an Melbourne.

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

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

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs, Bright'& Co. T . . _ . . m ISLAND AGENTS: Madang, Mr. A. Strachan; Lae, Mr. R. Tebb; Rabaul, Town Transport Ltd., Honiara, British Solora Islands Trading Corporation. __ „ „ T FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan. return to Auckland. Next sailing from Auckland; Oct. 5.

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 Territories in Wellington, or to any office of the Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd.

Sydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc.

MV Tulagi, 10 passengers, leaves Sydney for Norfolk, Vila, Luganville, Honiara, Tenaru, Yandina, Gizo, Bougainville ports, Rabaul, Sydney. Next Sydney sas October 4.

MV Muliama, 8 passengers, I Sydney for British Solomon Islands approximately monthly, ports vas with cargoes. Next sailing from October 12.

Details from Burns, Philp & C Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-Tab Vessels of Messageries Maritimes coming from Marseilles, via West I and Panama, call about every six at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides), No and Sydney, and return by same At present on this run are ; the nr ships, Tahitien, Caledonien and E gent.. Next sailing from Sydney: CaledJ Sept. 25.

MV Polynesia (Messageries Maritt maintains about monthly passenger 1 ; ings between Sydney and Noumea* the New Hebrides. Next Sydney ss Oct. 5.

Details from Sydney agents: Messa* Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, Syo Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Paci Ports-Sydney Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-pass; liner Southern Cross makes four n the-world voyages per year, two bound, then two east-bound, calliu Suva and Papeete every trip. Next v« Arrive Sydney (via Sth. Africa) Oo dep. Sydney Oct. 21. Suva Oct. 30, Pi' Nov. 3-4, arr. Southampton, via Pas Nov. 28.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, Pacific Islands Transport Line’s t Thorsisle and Thorshall maintat regular service from Pacific Coast American ports, t with sailings over • 8 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLAND.S MONTH

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Some ports depend on cargoes I. Thorsisle: Now in Pacific, due at Sept. 24-25, Suva Sept. 28-Oct. 1, a Oct. 2-3, Nukualofa Oct. 5-8, a Oct. 12-13, Lae Oct. 18-19, San ico (inbound) Nov. 8. Thorshall: Seattle/Tacoma is due at San ico Oct. 1-5, Los Angeles Oct. ipeete Oct. 19-21, Pago Pago Oct.

Apia Oct. 27-28, Suva Oct. 31- Lautoka Nov. 3-5, Nukualofa Nov. umea Nov. 13-14, Lae approx. Nov.

San Francisco (inbound) Dec. 8.

Is from General Steamships Corn Ltd., 432 California St., San co, USA, and Island Agents.

Oney-North America, Via

Pacific Ports

four cargo vessels, Waihemo, a, Waikawa, and Waitomo, owned erated by the Union Steam Ship NZ Ltd., maintain a monthly across the Pacific, from Sydney couver and USA ports, via Suva, „ Nukualofa, and Apia, as cargoes Occasional calls are made at Fanand. They have limited passenger odation. Next sailings: Waihemo, ober; Waitomo, early Nov. .-PAPEETE-PAGO PAGO-N.Z.- AUSTRALIA n-Oceanic Line of San Francisco a regular five-weeks passengerjrvice from Los Angeles with the , Alameda, Sierra and Sonoma. 1 terminal ports vary with cargoes Vessels call at Papeete, Pago d Suva, depending on cargoes.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver

Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (sub- >f W. R. Carpenter & Co.) operate :e 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, October 5’ with calls at Suva and Lautoka.

Details from American Trading & Shlnping 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

transpacific services 1. Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America (First and Tourist Class available all Services.) I* AIRWAYS (With Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths*) Mon.. Pri.: Sydney. Nadi, Canton is

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

Hi rii Bi i Ui* * PH>'::«i This well-known Hotel is centrally situated in Suva’s main business quarter Modern accommodation provides comfort in all climatic conditions :: Only the best of Beers, Spirits and Wines is served.

Telephone: 80. VINCE COSTELLO, Proprietor.

Honolulu, San Francisco. Seattle, Portland.

Wed., Sat.; Sydney, Nadi, Canton Is..

Honolulu, Los Angeles.

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

Sun., Wed.: Los Angeles to Sydney (same route). * DC4 from Auckland connects, arriving Nadi Mon., Wed., Fri., departing Nadi Tues., Thur., Sun. DC4 shuttle service once monthly connects Nadi and Tafuna (American Samoa).

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS Tues.*. Thurs.*, Fri.*’ and Sat.*; Sydney, Nadi (Fiji), Honolulu. San Francisco— with Sat. service extending to Vancouver.

SOUTHWARDS Thur.*, Fri.*, Sat.*, Mon.*; San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi (Fiji), Sydney. Monday’s service begins at Vancouver on Sunday. Note: Crosses date-line en route). • TEAL DC6 services between Auckland and Nadi connect at Nadi Tues. and Sat. northwards; Wed. and Sun. southwards.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

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

Every Sun. leaves Vancouver for Sydney by same route.

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

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

Sectional Services In

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

Depart: Arrive: Sydney, 8.00 p.m. Brisbane, 10.45 p.m.

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

Thurs.

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

Brisbane, 11.45 p.m. Townsville, 3.30 a.m (Friday) Townsville, 4.15 a.m. Cairns, 5.30 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Sat.

Depart: Arrive: Lae, 7.00 a.m. Moresby, 8.30 a.m.

Moresby, 9.30 a.m. Cairns, 12.20 p.m.

Cairns, 2.35 p.m. Townsville, 3.45 p.m.

Townsville, 4.30 p.m. Brisbane, 8.15 p.m.

Brisbane, 9.00 p.m. Sydney, 11.45 p.m. 3. P-NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas LAE-HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) Alt. Wed. (October 3, 17, 31. etc.).

Departs Lae 11.00 a.m.. calls at Madang and Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia 3.30 p.m. Every alternate Thursday (Oct. 4. 18, Nov. 1, 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)

Alt. Wed. (Oct. 3, 17, 31, etc.).

Dep. Lae, 8.00 a.m.: Finschhafen, Rabaul.

Kavieng, arr. Manus 3.00 p.m.

Every alt. Sat. (Sept. 22, Oct. 6, 20. etc.) departs Manus 8 a.m. and with calls at Kavieng, Rabaul and Finschhafen, arrives Lae at 2.55 p.m.

MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) Via Yule Is.. Kerema, Kikori, L. Kutubu: Alt Fri. returning same day (Sept. 28, Oct. 12, 26, etc.).

Port Moresby-Rabadl

(Catalina) Alt. Tues. (October 2, 16, 30, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Esa’ala, U Moewe Hbr., Talasea, JacquinotJ Rabaul. Returning via same ports} cept Losuia and Esa’ala optional!

Thurs. (Oct. 4, 18. etc.).

New Britain-Bougainvillh

(Catalina) Alt. Wed.: Rabaul. Buka, Teon Kieta, Buin (Oct. 3, 17, 31, Returning same day.

Lae-Mad Ang-Wewak-Manus

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) Mon.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madanc 7.35 a.m. Wewak, Manus, Ks!

Rabaul. arr. 3.40 p.m.

Tues.; Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., din Madang, arr. 9.10 a.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Ml Awar, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, H arr. 4.05 p.m.

FrL: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. KC Manus, Wewak, Madang, Laes 3.55 p.m.

Central Highlands

(DCS) Fridays: Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Wapenai. calling at any of: Goroka, Ntl Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyy Kainantu, Wapenamunda. Arrive at Lae dependent on stops.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) Fridays: Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroks ing at any of Nadzab, Kaiapit, Aiyura, Finintegu, Rintebe, Benas Kainantu, Goroka. Arona. Arrivr at Lae depends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau (Dcs)

Dep. Lae: Mon. 7.30 a.m., Tues, !

Wed. 11.30 a.m., Fri. 2.00 p.m.

Dep. Wau.: Mon. 9 a.m., Tues. 3.3 E Wed. 1 p.m., Fri. 3.30 p.m. Bv; omitted on these flights which 1 minutes, Wau-Lae.

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

Tuesdays: Depart Madang 10 a.m.,, Goroka 10.35 a.m., returning sain depart Goroka 11 a.m., arr. I 11.35 a.m.

Alt. Fridays (Oct. 5, 19, etc.).

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

New Guinea-New Britaii

BOUGAINVILLE (DCS) Fridays: Depart Lae 12.55 p.m., hafen 1.45 p.m., arrive Rabat p.m.

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

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

Tuesdays: Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m., hafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 S Alt. Thursdays (Sept. 27, Oct. etc.): Dep. Lae 8 a.m.. Finso Rabaul, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 2..

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Pacific Islands Monthly No. 2 Vol. XXVII SEPTEMBER, 1956 Contents: EDITORIAL: Minister Hasluck’s Papua-New Guinea :: The Suez Pot Begins To Boil 17, 18 Duke of Edinburgh’s NG Visit Extended 19 Savage Gaol Sentence For Port Moresby Woman .. 19 P-NG’s Burnt Offering To the God UNO 20 Suva Has a “Switched-Baby”

Case 21 Nabavatu’s £54,000 Price-tag 21 General de Gaulle in Noumea 22 Do You Remember? Extracts from PIM of 20 Years Ago 22 GEIC Copra—£23 for Producers; £5O for “Charges” 23 Court Sequel to 5-Years-Old Air Accident 23 Editors’ Mailbag 24 Chilean Government Promises S. America-Australia Airservice by 1958 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 28 Australia and New Zealand Unhappy About SPC .... 35 Few Changes in Fiji’s New Legco 38 Critics Assail Plan For Apia Port 42 Anderson’s Sell Out Of Whaling Companies .... 43 All In Together in Suva’s Sea Baths 47 Papua-New Guinea Diary— Summary of Month’s News 49 Oryctes Rhinoceros Defies Science 57 Preliminaries to the Geophysical Year 58 Suva—An Unnumbered City 63 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 65 UK Researcher Throws Doubt On Bombard Theory .... 79 Boom Price Cocoa Did More Harm Than Good 81

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Eutychusian, 87; It Was An Historical Occasion For Papua and for Australia, 89; Your World of Stamps, 90; This Month’s New Reading 92 New Guinea Highlands’

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Minister Hasiuck'S Papua-New Guinea

L HASLUCK has been Ausalian Minister in charge of e Territory of Papua and New a for five years. He has bea controversial figure. He has so keen a personal interest administration of the Dual >ry that his ideas and outlook eem to dominate the whole mental structure. Many Terrii call him a dictator.

Hasluck himself will vigorieny that in those five years s developed, and put into e, an administrative system on “anti-colonial” idealism, at, in substance, is the charge s most frequently levelled him. said of him that he puts too an emphasis upon native ; and refuses to accept the :nt that, if there is to be yancement of living standards natives as primitive as those ia and New , very subl inducemu s t be to Europrivate ise to go develop the i t o r y’s nt natural SS. will have I the conthat, if and New are to be along to a conyhere they support ves and hemselves, in proporwhat the regard as n a t i v e s’ m, e n t a 1 must be d temto what sluck and :ers regard grant “exlASLUCK iself is a n of out- : ability— r the most I the most Minister Territories stralia yet I. If anychallenges statement, nvited to read Australia’s Task In Papua and New Guinea, which is the title of the Roy Milne Memorial Lecture of about 11,000 words delivered in Perth on September 10 by Mr Hasluck.

There, in masterly fashion, Mr Hasluck outlines the principles and the plan upon which he bases his system of administration in Papua and New Guinea. Anyone who has not made a close study of New Guinea administration, and seen the plan in operation in recent years will be impressed with the breadth and clarity of the argument, and with the sincerity of the man who has devoted so much thought and effort to his Ministerial task.

Much of the argument cannot be faulted. Here, says Mr. Hasluck, is a primitive population of perhaps Is millions: divided by the country’s physical conditions, and by hundreds of different languages, into countsohta S r?%h t fn ( ? or^ ?:l !i nities ~ not on e blndlng them toth!f 6r fv, as a natlon > except the facts that they are all dark- irT dr?f 6 t S a ay hin hat 'K is * im P°ssible to ait a blue-print for a national fh^f Ct A Uro f h v re; and he advocates Australla should carry out her task m accordance with certain guiding principles, and leave the future society and form of governrnent to evolutionary processes is HlS no riC s!!?h” *?£• remarks - “there is no such thing as Panuan nationalism ” The principles which he says should be observed are !Jose of justice, freedom, repretrusteeship. government, and fhis is the end result, as idealist - 11 s 6 d b ? this Ministerial Scores of different groups knowmg no relationship with each other, may gradually become a Papuan (New Guinea) people joined by a common language, living at a common standard of material wellbeing, and with a common culture, strongly influenced "Say, friend, we want you to fix a date for giving these people self-Government.”

AUGUST 10: UN Trusteeship Council by 8-6 vote (USA assenting) resolves that Australia set target-date tor self-government or independence" for New Guinea. AUGUST 21: Patrols out for May River murderers onowmg massacre of 28 natives below the junction of Sepik and Yellow Rivers in New Guinea. 17 ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBEP , 1956

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Ata is a “New Solomon L ” from the Gilbert and Ellice : and appears well pleased m scheme to resettle people f\ overcrowded Gilberts at Tiu Gizo, in the Western Solon® was one of the second g§ arrive at Gizo under this si For the photographic Mrs. Short gives these do Voightlander Prominent was used , with Kodak. Pl\ m.m. film, home-process a enlarged simply by using at slide-projector.

Results speak for themsa by Christian teaching, and by Australian social, economic and political practice, but preserving and enriching all that is best in their native cultural heritage” rIS might be possible, in a different kind of planet. But in this world, in this incalculable century, it is sheer dreaming. There is neither time, nor the money nor the administration, to carry out the task that Mr. Hasluck has outlined. .. . . , There is no time, because the kind of Islands paradise that Mr.

Hasluck visualises cannot be created within three or four generations.

Long before “a Papuan people” can be shaped, the Asians will be spilling over into the empty South Pacific lands, their hungry masses smothering every vestige of Papuan nationalism.

There is not the money. Before the last war, Australia gave about £40.000 per annum to Papua. Since the war, the annual grants have gone like this (Mr. Hasluck s own figures); Only a Hasluck could imagine that the Australian taxpayer will continue indefinitely to act as fairy godmother to an idealistic dream.

So far, Administration officials have not outspokenly criticised the Ministerial policy to which they have been forced to conform. But that is not to say they are happy about it. On the contrary there are hundreds of experienced and toughened officials in the Dua Territory who see a great deal of merit in the old British ‘ colonial system, at which Mr. Hasluck has sneered in his Milne Memonal lecture. ~ . .. Q Under the “colonial” system, the Papuans (or New Guineans, or Melanesians —what you will) would be obliged to accept new living standards pretty quickly; and contribute substantially to the development of their country, and to its defence against threatening invasion. It may be the fashion now to decry British “colonialism —but it produced some notable results There is not in the world one example of a virile new nation having been created out of a hotchpotch of racial groups like Papua and New Guinea, by the methods advocated by Mr. Hasluck.

MR. HASLUCK’S general plan is well presented, and impressive; but it has weaknesses and fallacies and they may be found in the “Notes” prepared by the Minister for this month’s Budget debate. For example; “Land is purchased from native owners for settlement only by the Administration, and only if the Administration is satisfied that the owners are willing to sell and do not need it. The Administration must also be satisfied that any proposed non-native settlement is consistent with established policy for native advancement.” (Italics are ours.) District officers are allowed no discretion in these matters. They know the local conditions —the character of the soil, the needs of the natives, the quality of the would-be European settlers. But they are not given any authority in relation to settlement. The decisions are not made in the District; probably not in Port Moresby; almost certainly in a well-panelled room in Canberra. That is part of the “dictatorship” that has stifled individual enterprise in Papua and New Guinea land settlement in the last few years.

The Minister himself, in his Memorial Lecture, acknowledges that the greatest problem before the Administration is that of providing a medium of instruction—some common language through which the children among these 1,750,000 natives may be made literate. \et in his “Notes” to Parliament he says that practically the whole responsibility for elementary education is left to the Missions; and that, out of the £9,000,000 or so which Australia gives to P-NG, a beg? £120,000 per annum is given to.

Missions, to assist in this wok elementary education. There be no worthwhile progress in in education and literacy unless i large numbers of native teas are found and trained. Yet t«. there are only 563 —326 teaching 227 in training. And it also ; ported that an important co ence between Administration: the Missions, to consider ami ordinate education methods,; been postponed from this yean 1957, for reasons not explainee European land settlement; primary education are divisions of administrative p but they are the vital things if this enormously expensive* tralian effort in P-NG is not; wasted.

Experienced administrative ol< know of these conditions i problems, and talk about their discuss more effective meas all based on a system of dec© isation, in which trust is plau the men on the spot. But thr nowhere, because too much po held jealously in Canberra.

Like so many men of out! ing ability and vision, Mr. If seems to be incapable of del© authority. Consequently,, administration is held in a jacket. Much is being in New Guinea—but mostly wrong directions, and at a cos disproportionate to the achieved, or likely to be aclr The Suez Pot Begins to Boil

Biggest ? Is Over The Kremlin

7T\HIS is written at noon on Wedi nesday, September 12. It is a moment of crisis in world affairs. . A , As was pointed out here in August, Britain and France have reached the point of no-further-retreat before the wave of “anti-colonialism, promoted by Moscow and supported by Washington.

Blundering Nasser gave them exactly the kind of reason they needed for taking a stand in the Eastern Mediterranean against any further invasion of their wellestablished Middle East rights.

Under American, Indian and Communist pressures, a month has been wasted in talk. Nasser has not surrendered one inch or one word of his July 26 grab at the Suez Canal. London and Pans now have decided that this talking phase has ended To-day, the Suez Canal Company is withdrawing its staff and organisation. To-day, Nasser is screaming with rage, and threatening to arrest the departing European pilots. To-day, the Britis French are alerting their now waiting and ready in Malta, Tripoli and Southern To-day, the British Hok Commons is assembling, in. session. .

His Canal organisation o (Continued foot column 1, next.

SEPTEMBER, ,956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MON-

'rom column 3, opposite page.) erseas funds seized, faced with serious politico-economic ms, Nasser almost certainly lo something to bring the i and French forces down him. That must be expected. ; been foreseen and provided problem of the moment—and rshadows the world—is, What ussia do?

Western Powers probably will his dispute before the United is and, while insisting on right immediately to protect nationals and their property, ;mand early action, will either off feteam ng to UNO, screaming posturing while sup- X the Arabs means short or she will edia t e 1 y to the aid pt, and thus tate World 11. ia’s cold calculating : course, is USA. a n while i n gton is platitudes ursing (in atic langu- [t really is king thing aese stupid s h and 3 h should se this t to resist Nationalism Fellowing Antilism, and upset the ntial camand all the ith pink its and 'rated s. [?]e of Edinburgh's NG Visit Extended ! Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to Papua and New Guinea has )een extended by two days, will arrive in Port Moresby Dvember 10, visit Bulolo, Wau /lanus, in addition to Lae and il, and will depart for Darwin )vember 14. sveen now and the visit, £28,000 s spent on improving the Port by-Sogeri Road, which the will travel early in his visit. (If sk is completed in the time now ble it will be the slickest piece d work ever performed in the ory.)

Breach Of P-Ng

Official Secrets

Savage Gaol Sentence For

Incautious Woman Teletypist

History of the less glorious variety was made in Port Moresby on August 31 when Miss Patricia Robert on an Administration employee in the local post-office, was sentenced to three months imprisonment for “disclosing the contents of an official radiogram” to a Sydney newspaper * FEW European women have stood public trial in the Territory— and none, to our knowledge, have ever been required to serve gaol sentences there.

There was no accommodation for women at the Bomana Gaol, and what is locally called a “donga” was hurriedly erected for her within a matter of days.

Miss Robertson was the accredited representative of the Sydney Sun.

Her part-time work on this newspaper’s behalf was known to the Administration and she is stated to have gathered news for the organisation in an open manner.

Miss Robertson’s “lapse” concerned the recent tribal murders in the Yellow River area of the Sepik, in which 28 natives are supposed to have been killed. . Th i s ? ews reac hed Port Moresby about August 21 and was soon tri? i^ 0n « pr ? 1 perty - The Administration finally made a statement, evidently a couple of hours after Robertson had “jumped the What the official release did not say—for reasons it is hard to find (see Editorial, p. 20)—was that the native murderers had removed the heads and fingers of some of their victims. But Miss Robertson, through her official duties, knew that this was what had happened, and informed the paper accordingly.

On this trivia she stood her trial and was sentenced to three months gaol.

A Crown Law Officer, prosecuting Good afternoon, Your Excellency . . .

When the Australian aircraft-carrier "Sydney" made a four-days visit to Suva in late August, her Commander, caplain W. H. Harrington, DSO, RAN, paid a visit to the Governor of Fiji by helicopter. landing on the lawn in front of Government House. It was the first time that a helicopter has been seen in Fiji and Fijian and Indian residents were vastly intrigued. Our photograph shows Captain Harrington taking off again from Government House after paying his call.

Photo: Fiji Public Relations Office. 19 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLF SEPTEMBER, 1956

at the trial, said that Robertson had previously sent stories to the Sun which had not been released by the Public Relations Office—one concerned dead turtles and the other a Japanese fishing ship. (The turtles referred to presumably mean the dead turtles that were mysteriously washed up on the islands off NE Papua in June—it was thought they might have been victims of radio-activity).

Magistrate O’Driscoll, who sentenced Miss Robertson, said that her behaviour was a flagrant breach of the criminal code and the Oath of Secrecy that every Post Office employee took—and that he had never before heard of a more serious breach. He suggested that if she had not been detected she might ultimately have done the Administration or a private individual great harm.

Mr. C. Kirke, who defended Miss Robertson, gave notice of intention to appeal against the severity of the sentence, but it was later discovered that there was no legal machinery for this, Miss Robertson has, of course, also been dismissed the Service.

P-NG Burnt Offerings To The God UNO THERE is no doubt that Miss Patricia Robertson was guilty of a technical offence when she divulged the contents of a telegram to a third party—she pleaded guilty to the charge, therefore there is little that can be said in mitigation, in the legal sense.

But the trivial nature of the “secret” that she divulged in comparison with the fierce gaol sentence that was imposed on her, has shocked Territorians to whom the idea of a European woman in a local gaol is anathema.

During court proceedings it was stated by the prosecution that Miss Robertson had previously divulged Administration secrets—in relation to dead turtles and a Japanese fishing ship!

One can perhaps say that Miss Robertson was maladroit, incautious and that it was putting too great a temptation in her way for her to be both a newspaper correspondent (in her spare time) and a public servant with access to official despatches.

But it can also be said that, judging by the paltry nature of the secrets that she did divulge, either nothing of any consequence went her way, or that she showed surprising restraint in passing on only those “secrets” of no importance whatsoever.

But whatever the legal and human angles of the case, many people are seeing the Robertson affair as a symptom of a far deadlier disease that has beset the Territory—a disease that can be called, for convenience, Windowdressing for UNO.

This reluctance on the part of Officialdom to release news to the press is no new thing in the Territory but on few occasions has it had more ridiculous reasons behind it than the present case. Tribal brawls, head-hunting, and, in some districts, cannibalism have gone on in the Territory for thousands of years; and in the remoter parts are likely to go on for a few more generations.

This particular massacre on the Yellow River happened to “hit the headlines” (in spite of official hushhush) but there are many tribal killings that do not.

They do no discredit to the Australian administration —they merely underline the difficulty of its task.

Even if Miss Robertson had not had access to official messages, an intelligent guess on her part should have been enough to assure her that a few heads were taken —headhunting is traditional for ritual purposes in that area.

The suppression of these trivial details and, indeed, the general reluctance to admit that there was some more of the usual trouble on the Upper Sepik can be attributed only to muddled thinking on the part of officialdom; To present New Guinea to the world as a paradise in which the grosser aspects of primitive existence no longer prevail.

This utterly stupid attitude makes small sense alongside the professed official indignation when the Trusteeship Council recently asked for a date for NG “independence.”

The fullest possible details of the difficulties of administration of these stone-age primitives might (and we say “might” advisedly) give that august body a better idea of : task that faces Australia. Of v benefit is this ridiculous desire show that all is right in the Guinea world, even to the rer; areas of the Yellow and May Riv We have agreed that I Robertson technically committee indictable offence. However, would like to say that if the?

Administration has heard of i than one way of cracking a. than calling up a battery of ; dozens then it deliberately o to ignore it in this case.

Two courses were open to< Administration when Miss Rok son recently added a head or' to the dead turtles and the i ship: It could have institute.

Departmental inquiry, which o have removed Miss Robertson the Port Moresby official seen effectively as any gaol; ox could institute civil court pro«( ings. It chose to do the latte It could be that this affair further than expected and the was not contemplated that a sentence would result from this* ticular witch-hunt. It could beE Magistrate O’Driscoll was cae away by his own outraged fee and lack of experience (he sai. had never heard worse, which s to suggest he has had little ex ence) when he imposed the sent But the result is the san European woman of excel character and unblemished rex tion has been thrown into gaol native country for what amoun little more than a departim misdemeanour. The P-NG Ao istration may be happy aboutf But it should have no delusions the majority of Territorians sul it in its folly.

LATE NEWS An amendment to existing P-NG leg was gazetted September 6, which will Miss Patricia Robertson to appeal sentence. Originally appeal was denir cause no legal provision for it —see ale Switched- Case (See sto[?] opposit[?] The two mot[?] the switched bal[?] Vivita Tari who has broug ame op as he[?] and Batalaun, m[?] Tahir.— Fiji PRO graph. 20 SEPTEMBER. 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Racial [?]ble Here

[?]A Believes It Has A “Switched Baby Case ”

In anywhere but the Islands it probably would have meant ag drawn-out litigation, but in Fiji, what was apparently a by mix-up in a maternity ward a dozen years ago, has, as t, produced nothing more explosive than friendship between 5 families concerned. 944, an Indian woman, Batam (wife of Katub Ali) and idta Tari, a Fijian, each gave to sons at Suva’s Colonial War trial Hospital, but as the en grew up the mothers id that they were unlike other en in their families.

Batalaun saw that her “son,”

Tahir Ali, had fuzzy hair and dark features. About 18 months after she left hospital, as she became more certain that she had not received her own baby, she told her brother, Ismail Khan, about it.

Some time later Batalaun and her family heard that there was an Indian child, about the same age as Tahir, living in a Fijian village in the Rewa delta.

Ismail enlisted the aid of two Fijian friends to arrange for the Fijian “parents” to bring their child, Viliame Sawamatua, to his home at Samabula, and for Tahir and Batalaun to be there at the same time.

It needed only a glance to see that Tahir was very like a Fijian boy, and similarly, that Viliame was very Indian in appearance.

Vivita then said that when she left SWM maternity annexe in 1944 she felt that the child she took away was not her own because its hair was straight.

The stage was set for a return of the children to their rightful parents at a later date, but in the intervening period parental attachment to the children the respective families had brought up, had become very strong.

The change has not taken place, and as time passes it seems less likely to. The children have been told of the situation, and have elected, for the present, to stay with their foster parents.

Neither child has suffered, but later there could be social complications when the boys move out from their homes to take their place in the community.

The meeting at Samabula led to the Indian family making a return visit to the Rewa village, where they were accorded a traditional ceremonial Fijian welcome. The Indians left laden with presents.

A warm friendship sprang up between the two families, who exchanged frequent vists. In schoo FiiVsm y viii^ ahlr has gone to the Fijian village, and Viliame to the Indian home at Samabula. The families, in fact, consider themselves related.

Tahir goes to the Indian school at Samabula, and Viliame to the Fijian Ratu Kadavulevu agricultural and trades school at Lodoni.

Tah i£.. s P eaks Hindi, but not a word of Fijian. Viliame wears a sulu speaks Fijian, but does not understand Hindi. in the recent August holidays, the families were got together again ana blood-tested. So far the tests have been inconclusive, as bloodtests in such cases very often are, *u Th £-£ ijian P ar ents and Viliame, the child they have brought up, were tested. Results showed that he could have been their offspring, but not necessarily that he is.

The Indian father was absent from Suva and this family has not yet been blood-grouped.

CONFUSION OF NAMES No Connection With W. R. Carpenter Co.

Shareholders and others have been confused by a similiarity of names between Carpenters Investment Trading Co. Ltd. and W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd., Islands traders. (PIM, August, page 151).

There is no connection between the two companies at all —Carpenters Investment Co. trading wholly within New South Wales and being interested in numerous enterprises.

Many people, through an association of ideas, have assumed, quite wrongly, that it was a subsidiary of the big Islands firm. This has not mattered very much until recently when the Investment Co. announced that for the first time in 21 years it would not pay a final dividend, due to a trading loss in one of its companies. This, naturally, immediately attracted some attention.

Therefore, we repeat—Carpenters Investment Trading Co. has no connection with W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd.—the latter company and all its subsidiaries continuing to make profits and declare dividends. iame Sawamatoa (left), brought up as a Fijian; Tahir Ali, who has been brought up as an [?]n. Tahir Ali appears much more Fijian in the [?]nal photograph than he does here in the repro- [?]on made from it. —Fiji PRO photograph. 21 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

Escape to the Islands Comes High £54,000 PRICE TAG

For Nabavatu

IN one nod and a lifted eyebrow, the auction of Nabavatu estate, Exploring Islands, Lau, Fiji, held in Sydney on August 31, was over. (PIM, August, p. 23).

In that space of time, the auctioneers, Richardson and Wrench, say they turned down an offer of £45,000. “ (A PIM reporter who covered the auction was unable to discover where this nod, wink or facial contortion came from, therefore the bidder remains unknown).

However, £45,000 was not considered enough. Reserve had been fixed at £54,000.

This has set Mr. Fred Hennings, Sydney-domiciled member of the famous Fiji Hennings family, yelping with amazement. We do not know at what price the property has changed hands in the past, but at a rough guess we should say that the present reserve is about 20 times more than what the late Mr. Gus Hennings received when he sold the property to Captain Grey (20 or 30 years ago), who subsequently sold out to Mr. and Mrs.

Garnet Malley, the present owners, in 1949.

Interviewed in Sydney after the auction and before they returned to Fiji in mid-September, Mr. and Mrs. Malley said that they had used Nabavatu as a private residential estate, recuperative health and pleasure resort. They have not exploited the production of copra on the estate. Figures disclosed indicate that copra production is currently 60 or 70 tons a year.

They said that there have been some private negotiations following the auction, but that they are now in no hurry to sell —three groups have made approaches to them about making films on the estate for televsion.

Mr Malley has spent much money in putting down roads throughout Nabavatu. About 10,000 new coconuts have also been planted and will shortly come into bearing.

K. H. Dalrymple Hay

Pty. Ltd. In Liquidation

K. H. Dalrymple Hay Pty., Ltd., was put into liquidation in the NSW Supreme Court at end of April.

This is the company that was concerned in export of war-scrap from the Solomons; it was involved in a law suit with Erland Blomqvist (Aust.), Ltd., in 1953.

The liquidation of this company has no effect on the other Dalrymple Hay enterprises in the British Solomon Islands.

General De Gaulle In Noumea WHEN General de Gaulle, once the famous leader of Free France (1940-45), landed in N T oumea on Sunday, September 9, he was on the scene of some of the dramatic incidents of the struggle between Free France and Vichy France, in World War 11.

Probably, he met Henri Sautot, most lovable of elderly Frenchmen, now living in retirement in Noumea.

Sautot, then Resident Commissioner in New Hebrides, was the very first French Colonial Governor to rally to de Gaulle, after the surrender of Vichy France in May, 1940. Sautot’s example was followed by New Caledonia and French Oceania and soon Sautot, as Governor of New Caledonia, was leader of the French in the South Pacific.

Now that de Gaulle is among us, he perhaps will give us the key to one of the war-time mysteries of French administration here.

Why did de Gaulle, in 1940-42, twice supersede the loyal and courageous Sautot —by sending Brunot (“an undistinguished windbag”) in early 1941; and, a year later, after Brunot had been got rid of, by introducing the former monk, d’Argenlieu, who almost precipated a revolution before he, too, was got rid of?

D’Argenlieu exiled Sautot; as even after d’Argenlieu himself ■ kicked out, de Gaulle alloc Sautot to remain in exile. W\ Sautot was the co-operative frit of both Americans and British, i were the allies of de Gaulle. Bru and d’Argenlieu, if they were Vichy-ites, and were not crazy, w certainly no friends of the West; Allies, and caused much trouble embarrassment.

Maybe General de Gaulle, a= all these years, would like to plain that 1940-42 situation to little group of well known men New Caledonia, who were so she. ingly maltreated by “the i monk.”

Nadi Open Again NADI, Fiji’s international airj which was closed for repair: August 13, reopened for busii again on August 22. (PIM, Au§ page 21).

During the time that Nadi closed, Qantas, Pan American Canadian Pacific Airlines roc their Sydney-North America vices through Auckland and c fiew Nadi.

Tasman Empire Airways n special flights between Auclc and Suva with flying boats.

Do You Remember ?

From PIM of 20 Years Ago.

NOT so much as a pint-sized sensation broke the tranquillity of the Pacific Islands world in September, 1936. It was still an isolated world, not yet the happyhunting ground of wandering journalists.

Copra was up to £l5 per ton, and gold mining was still doing very nicely.

Here are some other extracts from the very dull (in a news sense), month of September, 20 years ago: The Union Steamship Company's new motor vessel "Matua" made her maiden voyage from Auckland to Fiji and Polynesia at the end of August—but in mid-September when leaving Aitutaki, Cook Is., she hit a reef, sustaining slight damage to her rudder. * * * Dissatisfaction with the severe gaol sentences being handed out by Judge Wanliss of the New Guinea Supreme Court were engaging the attention of readers and of the PIM. Several cases had gone on appeal to the Australian High Court, and the sentences were reduced drastically. * * * It was reported that Pan American's giant flying-boat service from San Francisco to the Philippines was booming—but no passengers were being carried for the time being. The possibilities of a branch-line service from Hawaii to New Zealand were still in the "indefinite stage".

Japanese fishing boats were general! ferred to as "sam-pans" in the 30V September, 1936, their activities were r© from New Hebrides, New Caledonia am Solomons—and they were no more populas they are to-day.

Twenty years brings some changes—p larly in the value of money! The New Legislative Council discussed estimates ft year 1936-37; £454,100 was the budg including a works programme with s penditure of £102,000. What is morn Territory expected to raise the whole money itself, without any grant from Co —and announced a reduction in taxatt boot: Import duty on cars and parts n from 20 per cent, to 10 per cent.; a; mission of native labour taxes for c year. * * * A Papuan was given a month's gaol i Moresby for having killed and eaten a> pean woman's pet Manx cat "fully k>l that the animal was a valued possessioo ❖ Then, as now, the tourist trade in FI reported to be booming. "Katoomba", ' v aird", "Orford" all had made cruise; every trans-Pacific ship was reported ter tourists to stay from one to five week! ❖ ❖ * Gold mining was still the most lul industry. Eleven Fiji mining companies listed on Australian stock exchanges; theis also six Papuan and 16 from New Shares in Oil Search (which then opern New Guinea and not Papua) were quM 3/4. 22 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTK

[?] [?]RA [?] For Producer; [?]5O For " Charges"

S low price that producers in tie Gilbert and Ellice Islands lolony receive for their copra •eceived attention before from TM ; it will probably come as a to producers in other Pacific Is —receiving around £A6O per nder the current MOF price— arn that the same grade in benefits growers to the ex- )f only £A23/6/8. e is price structure for 1956: ‘ MOF price, ex Tarawa, is 2/6, and these funds are ;d as follows: Producer 5/8; Producers’ Co-operative y agency fee £5/8/4; Cobive Society shipping bonus ; Wholesale Society agency /7/2; Wholesale Society shiphandling, etc., charges £l2/19/9; Board Development and isation Reserve Fund £6/8/-; nment Export Duty £lB/5/7. co-operative societies do the handling and production, and holesale society does the purig and exporting business. ra production in the Colony tirely in the hands of the s and the biggest slug of the m their industry is the £lB/5/7 extracted by the Government as export duty. This incidentally, provides the Colony with about one-third of its revenue No doubt the Colony’s government has an impressive list of reasons why this fierce tax should be levied on the industry. Nonetheless, it is not hard to imagine the screams of rage that would go up from Moscow, Delhi and points East if some private enterprise filched from native producers twothirds of the amount European copra producers are getting in other parts of the Pacific.

“Exploitation” would be the verdict. t Messrs. W. G. Johnson, chairman and managing director of W. R Carpenter and Co. (Fiji) Ltd., and H. E. Snell, chairman and managing director of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., members of the board of W. R Carpenter and Co. Ltd., are expected to come to Sydney from Suva for the annual meeting of WRC on September 28.

LATE NEWS Distress signals picked up September 17 by an amateur radio operator in Port Moresb> saved the life of a yachtsman whose engine had failed.

Daniel Weil (last reported May PIM at Canton Is., more recently in BSIP), drifted for hours in yacht "Yasme" in heavy seas. He sent out SOS messages which were picked up by the Port Moresby amateur, Frank Nolan Weil said he had "given up the ghost" and couldn't last much longer. Nolan gave Civil Aviation authorities in Port Moresby Weil's position. They sent out a launch which found the disabled yacht and took it in tow.

5-Years Old

INCIDENT Airways Co. Claims £40,000 from Govt.

THE long-drawn-out process of litigation in Australia is illustrated by the fact that the case between Trans-Oceanic Airways and the Commonwealth over an incident in the Brisbane River in 1951 began in the High Court only in early September, 1956.

Trans-Oceanic Airways has long go^e^oul i °. f the airways business and the incident has been forgotten by everyone but the litigants.

The company alleges that negligence on the part of Commonwealth Servants in laying a flare path and conducting the movements of the aircraft resulted in damage to a Solent flying-boat.

While en route to Port Moresby from Sydney on November 28, 1951, a TOA Solent hit a dredge in the restricted waters of Hamilton Reach. Brisbane River. Captain P. H. Mathieson was pilot.

In June of 1951, another Solent of the company, in command of Captain P. G. Taylor (now Sir Gordon Taylor), struck a ship in almost the same circumstances.

The Company is claiming £40,000 t Mr. J'. M. Hedstrom, of Suva, a director of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., visited Australia in August.

Month These Children Made Australian News...

The six Melbourne school children in this picture last month won a competition that this month took them on a fortnight's tour of Papua-New Guinea. They were the successful candidates in a quiz conducted by Qantas and the "Sun News- Pictorial", Melbourne.

Dorith Roozen, a new Australian, shakes hands with aircraft captain J. A. Bird, at Mascot Airport, Sydney, just before departure. Others in the picture are (left to right): lan Whelan, Anthony Blake, Ross Egan, Jillian Dreschler, Leonie Colbourn, and Melbourne journalist, Mr. Osmar White who, with his wife, was comanager of the party. 23 ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 19 5 6

The Editors' Mailbag

Cook Is. Has Its Own "Illustrated"

MR. GORDON RUSSELL, editor of the Cook Islands Review, while on a visit to Sydney recently heard the editor of PIM going through the usual monthly routine of chivvying the blockmaker into producing blocks on time.

This must have given Mr. Russell furiously to think and when he returned to Rarotonga he loosed this broadside at us on the matter of process-blockmaking in general: Soon after the inception of the Review, in December, 1954, the Government Printer, at Rarotonga, Mr. lan Forbes, convinced himself by studious application that there were some short cuts to success in this process-engraving business. Persistent about this he was given some latitude by the Administration.

The ultimate result has proved a surprise to local sceptics and a tribute to the perseverance and ingenuity of the instigator.

In the July issue of the Review a half-tone (80 screen) illustration appeared featuring Rarotonga’s first Maori lady, Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki, recent recipient of the CBE. To prove that this initial effort was no accident, one line “block,” and two half-tones, made in Rarotonga, are to be seen in the August issue of the same newspaper.

The equipment over which Mr.

Forbes performs his mumbo-jumbo would cause a fully-fledged processengraver to burst into fits of laughter. But the pictures tell the story and, while at present each one produced is something of a labour of love, time and experience will furnish a quality and quantity in local process engraving that will satisfy all local requirements.

We note that Mr. Russell carefully does not give the recipe for this remarkable process and we have visions of Mr. Forbes putting in the thousands of dots necessary in a process-block by hand, maybe with the aid of a toy gimlet. The whole thing sounds interesting— although one block in two years, or even two blocks in one month, seem hardly likely to overcome our own difficulties.

Missionary Family In Micronesia I have had an order in for the next edition of the Pacific Islands Year Book for two years, and I am now anxious to receive this priceless book (writes the Rev. Creston K. Ketchum, of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, from Okinawa, in the North Pacific.) My family and I are thinking in terms of moving back to Micronesia, where we were captaining the Morning Star VI for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. You may remember that I lost Morning Star VI in the fall of 1952 in a storm. Since then I have been home to Canada and now am back in the Pacific Islands, to make them our future home.

Details of new PIM photographic awards appear on page 61, this issue.

Would Suva Support A No. 1 Restaurant?

I notice in the June PIM that someone asks why Suva has no first-class restaurant and dancefloor to cater for the stream of tourists which passes through Suva, and give them a little lively Islands entertainment (writes a former resident of Fiji).

The answer is that, unlike Tahiti, class distinctions and racial barriers are evident in Suva. Suva has not yet advanced to the stage when all races can frolic together and let their hair down in public, with everyone permitted to drink and have a jolly good time, as is done in Tahiti.

Do you suppose there is a hotel or restaurant in the whole of Tahiti (or Hawaii) where, if a man goes to dinner comfortably dressed, without a coat, he is approached by a waiter and informed that a coat is compulsory? This often happens in Suva, and it is not the sort of thing that makes a tourist happy.

Suva people take refuge from each other in a variety of Clubs, but the unfortunate tourist, being a bird of passage, is left to his own devices, unless he has an introduction to someone who can take him to a club.

The situation will probably resolve itself some day, but I think it will be many years before Suva even faintly resembles Papeete in the matter of night life. t For the hydro-electric project at Yate (NO, 25,000 tons of cement will be bought in Japan. This represents nearly half of the required tonnage. It will benefit Japanese ships, which hitherto have arrived empty to load nickel ore. Four were along the NC coast on August 7, lording the ore.

After All —

Samoa Will Have Tip Top Ice-crea THERE are more ways than of killing a cat—and of dti business —as was demonstr;: by an announcement from Auckl: early in September.

Recently PIM reported sta opposition in Apia to estabL ment of a New Zealand ice cn company which had applied f< permit to put in a factory thu Policy has long been againstd entry of any outside companies the face of the opposition th© cream company withdrew application for a business licer At the beginning of Septerr the company—Tip Top Ice Cr Co., largest ice-cream compam New Zealand, and with interest Fiji—announced that Tip Top: Cream (Samoa) Ltd., had registered in Apia with a capita £20,000. All the capital is Ss owned.

The New Zealand company supply equipment and techi know-how, including some sta;j is expected that production commence about next April.

Yate Strike Over

IIfORK on a £lO million dam ff ing built at Yate, NC, um hydro-electric project, wai sumed last month after a strife volving New Caledonians (n and white), metropolitan Fre men, Italians, Tahitians Wallisians The strike ended when claims for better pay and ! conditions were met. While it in progress, men of the i smelters at Noumea came on sympathy for 24 hours.

New Savings Bank

FOR FIJI TWO of Australia’s leading pc banking institutions, the of New South Wales am Australia and New Zealand Ltd., have extended their ■ savings-bank operations to all branches and agencies in Fiji They both opened their sai bank departments on August These banks have only withe last year been given authors operate savings-banks in Auu and its Territories.

II Mr. S. E. Tatham, mane director of S. E. Tatham left Melbourne September 141 business visit to Papua-New GC 24 SEPTEMBER, 19 56 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT!

[?]an Govt. [?]ises Air Service

Dney-Santiago Across

SOUTH PACIFIC BY 1958 A direct air service between South America and Australia [ be in operation in 1958 when the Chilean Government apletes a landing field at Easter Island. The service will be irated by L.A.N. (Line Air National), owned by the yernment of Chile.

MANDANTE Robert Parraque, lilean Air Attache in Ausilia, told PIM that the service be operated initially, once a by DC4’s or DC6’s, but by was hoped to have jets on n. are building a runway 10,000 ag at Easter Island,” he said.

Chile Government plans to aving the runway in January, proposed route in the initial will be Santiago, Easter Bora Bora (Fr. Oceania), >ydney. The Americans built ray at Bora Bora during the This is now being extended DC6’s. But if it is not ready ise aircraft by the time the i service is ready to begin, will be used, Commandante ae said. i jets come on to the route ill make the journey in three Santiago-Easter Isla n d i Samoa a) Sydg time for )4’s will be 40 hours, fo r DC6’s 36 hours. ie jets will h e DC6’s >y half—to 18 hours, m andante ue said that sent other is were not ;ed in the ecause they it know if ild be a rcial proi. ink it will 7 to get a ane load r week, lly Ameriurists who :o have a at Easter which is ost unique Pacific,” he tin P. G.

Taylor (now Sir Gordon Taylor) blazed the air trail between Australia and South America in 1951.

Since then Chile has had many discussions with Sir Gordon about problems which have to be overcome.

Commandante Parraque is something of a trail blazer himself In 1951 he was in command of a Catalina amphibian which made the nrst flight from Santiago to Easter Island. He landed at Easter Island on a runway 2,000 feet long. This was not long enough to allow him to take-off again with a full load of fuel.

So he put 100 gallons of fuel on board—sufficient to enable him to fly to a bay for a sea take-off. In the bay he had the bad luck to break a float. The float could not be repaired at Easter Island, so like the crew, he had to be taken back to Chile by sea.

The Chilean party arrived at Easter Island about three months before Sir Gordon Taylor.

France. , Too, Examines Transpacific Aviation T ONG-VISIONED men in the JU French aviation industry have also been taking another look at Pacific Ocean possibilities lately; and there are indications that a reappraisal of the situation will bring Tahiti and New Caledonia prominently into the picture.

The position of Tahiti is particularly interesting.

In an air sense, Tahiti has been the Cinderella of the South Pacific, In itself, it is fairly large and commercially important; but it is isolated, away out in the southeast corner of the South Pacific Islands, with no important territories in between to commercially justify an airline connection eastwards (towards South America), northwards (towards Hawaii) and westwards (towards Fiji, New Zealand and Australia), TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Ltd.) of New Zealand pioneered and still operates a regular seaplane service between Fiji and Tahiti; but the available traffic doss not pay Route L.A.N. will use with DC4's or DC6's. === Route to be used by jet aircraft after 1960. 25 FIC ISLANDS MONT II I, Y SEPTEMBER, 19 5 6

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Through our Large Establishments in Suva and our Numerous Branches; we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of General Merchandise and provide almost every kind of service. Our departments am associated businesses include; DRAPERY

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There is a Branch or Agent of Morris Hedstrom Limited in every Town in the Three Territories We are Sole Agents in these Territories for British Drug Houses Ltd.

"Chula'" Copra Dryers.

Electrolux Ltd.

Ford Motor Co.

General Electric Co. Ltd.

Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co.

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Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.

Matson Navigation Company.

Max Factor and Co. Inc.

Pacific Islands Transport Line.

Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ltd.

Vacuum Oil Co. Pty., Ltd.

Yorkshire Copper Works Ltd.

Morris Hedstrom Limited are LLOYD’S AGENTS in Fiji and Samoa.

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b long and costly flight, and •vice is kept going by subsidy, ite enterprise has been trying ablish a regular airlink be- Hawaii and Tahiti; the UK’s for using Christmas Island -bomb experiments appears e put “paid” to that, a new factor now is coming ie air transportation industry dy, great land-planes which 3,000 to 4,000 miles, without ling. 0s t overnight, Cinderella has assumed a new import- . the eyes of airways planners. ;E is a very large air-traffic ential in South America. At sent, air-travellers and airget in and out of South a mostly in one way—northinto Central America and America. Air-planners can ie day approaching when American traffic will proceed rds through Easter Island French Oceania, for Asia, ia, Europe and Africa, rto, France has not taken interest in South Pacific i. French Oceania and New lia have small internal air but both have been too far rom the larger countries serif the major French air lines. 7, French interests have to see something new and ng in the South Pacific, e end of August, M. Francois b, representing the major air group (TAl—or Comde Transports Aeriens Intercitaux) which followed Air on the Paris-Noumea seris in Australia, en route to aledonia, New Zealand, Fiji hiti. lieves ardently in the future r-continental aviation, and al of the young Frenchmen ■e determined that France in the forefront of pending nents. ler words, TAI now is maklose examination of Pacific lir transport possibilities.

IG the chief problems, as 1 by the French planners, is reluctance of Australia and aland to give landing and rights to any more overjmpetitors of the Stateiviation services, like Qantas AL. e, herself famous for the s she has taken to protect n trade, appreciates the an and NZ situation. But ;he French) competition in •tation is very good for innal trade. Why withhold, tion, rights and privileges re so readily given in ship- □uchet has been in comion with important aviation wernment people in Aus- Jew Zealand and Fiji; and his visit to Tahiti is likely to have considerable significance.

It has been apparent, for years that someday, as the South Pacific Islands develop, someone will plan a lateral service—that is, a service running east and west along the southern tropical belt, and thus directly connecting New Guinea Solomons, New Hebrides, Fiji’

Samoa, Cooks and Tahiti—instead of leaving air communication between the major South Pacific territories to indirect services, which shuttle back and forth between the Territories, and Australia and New Zealand.

The French appear to be giving some thought to this. A glance at the map shows that they have a small but very Interesting bit of S ry ? Wallis Island (principal i|™d of J he French Futunr- Wallisgronp). which lies northeast hL F i’ — ar Sam °a. Wallis has been receiving a certain amount o attention from air-planners, lately, definitely, are thlafcthf n -° W ’ m relati tO the South American potential and comin £ of the giant new aircrait.

It is thought that an international airport on Tahiti could become an important staging-port, where traffic between South America and other continents would sort itself out, for Asia, Europe and Australia. Those new air-liners could fly over that vast, empty ocean between South America and the South (Continued on Page 145) 27 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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By Tolala In September . . .

The month of September commemorates several important events for P-NG folk. On September 26, 1884, representatives of the German Government first arrived in Mioko, Duke of York group, to colonise the Bismarck Archipelago.

In September, 1888, Sir William MacGregor first took office as Administrator of British New Guinea, and fifty years ago (1906) Australia assumed control of B-NG and it became Papua. (Incidentally, I haven’t heard or seen of any special ceremony to mark this golden jubilee).

On September 12, 1914, Australian forces officially occupied German New Guinea; and exactly twenty years later, in 1934, Administrator Griffiths unveiled the Bitapaka Memorial to those who fell there in 1914. On the day following the unveiling, Administrator McNicoll took office.

On September 13, 1942, the biggest explosion during the Jap occupation took place when ammunition dumps in Matupi Farm blew up; on September 13, 1945, Australian troops first contacted civilian internees at the Catholic Mission camp at Ramale (near Kokopo).

What’s next?

Time Table For UNO The request, made by the UN Trusteeship Council, for Australia to fix a date when TNG natives are sufficiently advanced to run their own country has created a series of outcries and protestations far greater, in my opinion, than the UN request warrants.

The surprise packet in the whole affair was the USA’s part in allying itself with the pin-pricking Afro- Asian bloc, which is all-out to embarrass the Western Powers at every opportunity.

Australia would have been quite justified in giving a date sometime in 2060 AD, and to leave it at that.

In one way, Australia has only itself to blame if the Trusteeship Council expects TNG to become self-governing in the not-distant future. Window-dressing has always been well to the fore in the annual reports, both to the League of Nations and to UNO. The sophisticates and the Bright Boys of the Class have always been well on display for UN Mi ssi o n inspection; the backward, primitive and undeveloped parts of the TI tory have been kept well inr background.

Well do I remember the report to the League of Na£ showing photographs of nr student carpenters, tinsmiths plumbers at work at the M guna Technical School, showed a student, seated lx a typewriter, and the caption i “This student is learning as tecture.”

Little wonder then that: Indian chairman, Rikhi Japs the Trusteship Council, sli think that after 35 years of “advanced” education the T tory should be able to stand o own feet.

We should feel no qualms, cause NZ speaks of 1960 as the target date for Western Sa:j independence. There is no parison between the two territ Western Samoa, consisting of' square miles with a Polyrj population of 90,000, can scs: be considered the same cup as TNG with its 93,000 square and U million primitive Melaru The Downs Deal About the best long-range; print for inter-racial relatio come out of NG is the char the Goroka Highland Farmer Settlers’ Association. It co more commonsense than aE tomes on native welfare and ilation from the pens of starn theorists.

But then a practical plan fo a purpose is only to be ex •when you realise that such « enced men as the Leahy bn lan Downs, George Greathes Jim Taylor are connected wi association and that Downs president.

The Charter is such a doc earth document that officialdoj probably try to steal some thunder and claim the ideaj own.

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Dse are principles of good, >t horse-sense, suggested by of experience. 3 whole set-up reminds me vhat, of the Capricorn ter, recently drawn up by one I Stirling for the co-operation the inhabitants of Nyasaland arkest Africa, which suggests ution to colour discrimination , palliative to the violent black lalism prevalent in that section “ African continent, one with any knowledge of it affairs can ignore the pretrend of global race discrimn: the Afro-Asian bloc; the •ed majority in UNO; the drift Britain by its coloured subthe over-lauded trend towards ; nationalism; the present Suez ion and the repudiation by nesia” of its debt to Holland ts claim to “Irian.” se are only a few of the straws sway in the wind, ther part of the same picture: ieparture of Europeans from a and the disposal of their :■ plantations: the replaceof Europeans in the Malayan es; the unbalanced migration est Indians to England and, a strike of the bus and tram yees in London protesting »t the recruitment of coloured 1 for transport services, a white race we have been ling race equality for the past iecades. During the same the dark races have accentuace discrimination against the >. So where do we go from :lpful Dnary irding to a Sydney newspaper, an g Lutheran missionary, rd Reitz, on arriving in Sydaid: “Natives, some educated istralia, were spreading the diite ‘Cargo Cult’ among back- New Guinea tribes and the las been responsible for the t of scores of Europeans in i areas north of Australia.” iming the Sydney newspaper Dt misreport him, this is the of bilge from a Yankee nary that is not appreciated, lim keep that sort of tripe ickers in the States, loesn’t go down here. (Over) 29 1 F 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1958

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Wishing bon voyage and so fo to the G.G., the message was sim signed, “WILSON.”

The reply from H.E., full of that to all and appreciation of } wonderful progress brought ab by all sections of the commun was signed, “W.J. SLIM, Govern General.”

There was a time and, so fan I am aware it still remains practice, for peers of the realm use only their surnames for offi signatures. I wonder whether I had this in mind when he metti cusly signed his initials, name office?

Page Park Some argument has been g«: cn in the Rabaul Advisory Cou over the suggestion to erect t« conveniences in the triangular serve bounded by Mango andJ George Avenues and Kame Street, which has been named B Park, after Government Secres Page, who was lost during the ’ and was Acting Administrator w the Japs came in. (See Next h Page Park, Rabau l—looking towards Avenue, with Mount Mother in the back The cement foundation, in the foregroun the base of the Japanese symbol of in 1942. — Photo by C. H. 30 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Duke’s isiderable publicity has been to P-NG’s criticism of the of Edinburgh’s itinerary durhe forthcoming visit to the ory, and the suggestion that it i be as informal as possible, ring in mind the native tendto appreciate formality and “hamamas” I cannot but agree with the Administration’s desire to put on formal guard inspections, even if it does entail a galaxy of stuffed shirts.

P-NG is still (to some people'* in the dark ages where dignity and lespect are still appreciated- deprecation of formality is by no means welcomed by the average native and ceremonial is dear to his heart. He does not appreciate the easy familarity of the itinerant back-slapping Labour politician who bends over backwards in an effort to expound his theory of race equality. (It was never suggested that the P-NG natives should be informal with the Duke, or he with them The crux of the criticism was whether this visit was for thentertainment of P-NG—including the natives—or for the entertainment of the Duke, and a great many people were hoping that this time it would be the latter.— Ed. PIM.) The Kunai Curtain Some consternation was caused last month when an alleged leak was discovered in the Kunai Curtain protecting Moresby from news-contact with the outside world.

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Bits and Pieces Ron McNicoll, a son of TNG’s late Administrator, has been promoted to Major-General and to become Controller of Design and Inspection, Military Component Dept, of Supply. . . Leslie Austin McAlpine, of Bondi, died on August 2. He was an old Islander, having served with the SID in the Solomons, with CPL at Arigua and was for sometime an inspector for WRC in TNG. . . Six hundred birds-of-paradise feathers will decorate the theatre foyer in Sydney when the premiere of “Walk Into Paradise” is shown on October 5. The fine for having the plumes would have amounted to £60,000 but Chips Rafferty gave them to the Australian Museum first. Query: When is the ban on these BOP to be lifted? They would be a welcome addition to Territorial revenue. . . . Donald, the 22-year-old son of Senator Roy Kendall, crashed his plane recently while flying in Queensland, but escaped without injury. t Copies of Mr. N. K. Wallis’s documentary film on the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, In the Wake Of Mendana, which is in colour and has a sound track, are being prepared. Distribution will embrace countries overseas. t New Caledonian natives fought Tahitians outside two hotels in Noumea one night in August. Bottles were thrown at the greatly outnumbered police, who took more than an hour to restore peace. t Fiji Amateur Athletic Assooi tion’s appeal for funds to main# and develop athletic facilities ; Suva’s Buckhurst Park, closed w the target of £5OO reached. t Six new stamps, ranging fr lid to 5/-, will appear in Fiji J October 1. The different illust; tions will depict the Queen, an inu island vessel loading copra, a sug cane train, bananas being broui to a packing station for export,: the Vatukoula gold mines.

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Commission costs £200,000 alian) per annum. Australia he biggest share. It was aned that Australia would have vigorous leadership. Instead, lia merely sits in at the ission and contributes little > constructive.

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European: Mr. J. N. Falvey votes, defeated Mr. J. B. Turne= votes.

Indian: Mr. Vishnu Deo, votes, defeated Mr. Odin Ramn 1,423 votes.

Northern-Western'

DIVISION European: Mr. H. Maurice elected unopposed.

Indian: Mr. Ajodhya Prasad! votes, defeated Mr. Krishna F 1,348 votes; Mr. Chattur Singh j votes; Mr. E. D. Lakshman, 10S< Mr. D. S. Prasad, 40 votes.

Eastern Division

European: Mr. H. B. Gibson votes, defeated Mr. F. Archibal votes.

Indian: Mr. J. Madhaven,, votes, defeated Mr. Kanji, 866

Fijian Members

The five Fijian members o new Legislative Council are K. K. T. Mara, Ratu E!

Cakobau, Ratu Penaia Gs Ratu George Cakobau and S= Sikivou. The five members? appointed by the Governor f;' panel elected by the Coum Chiefs.

Nominated Member?

The Governor has again appc the Rev. S. G. C. Cowled, OBL Mr. W. G. Johnson as Eui Nominated Members. Mr. A..

Deoki, of Suva, and Mr. A. R. of Lautoka, have been appoinr Indian Nominated Members.

The new Council met for tfci time on September 14, when' Sir Lala Sukuna took his pIJ the Council’s first Speaker.

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William Tailby, formerly nt Commissioner, Cook 5, is now engaged as a clerk New Zealand Taxation Debt’s Auckland office. A numl other former well known s Administration departmental are employed in the same t A C 47 aircraft of the French Air Force landed at Honiara for refuelling during a flight from Rabaul to Vila, via Santo, on August 24. The aircraft, commanded by Captain Lurin, commenced its journey in Saigon and took spare parts to a disabled French vessel at present in Rabaul. [?]hiti Actor's Exciting Apia Evening

Cocos Lashed By Cyclone

A FREAK cyclone over the Cocos Group (Indian Ocean) on August 27 blew over a small Qantas temporary passenger shelter There were no casualties.

Cocos generally has one or two cyclones a year, usually in the autumn, but the latest was completely out of season.

They never occur in such frequency or pattern as to upset Qantas operations on the Sydney- South Africa service.

Jon Hall passed through Apia, W. on August 5 and was given a reception president of the Samoan Red Cross Shown here (left to right): Mrs. L. [?], Mr. A. Preuss, Miss Linder, Mrs. J. [?]. Jon Hall and Mr. E. Annandale. [?] same evening more than 2,000 people rushed the gates and broke down the doors to push into Apia's Tivoli Theatre to see a new Tahitian film produced by Mr. Hall.

Although capacity crowds attended the two full screenings given that night, the collection —for the Red Cross —yielded only £63. —Photo by Edwards Studio. 39 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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Several new transmitters were purchased from Redifon Limited, in the United Kingdom, and these will be used mainly to provide improved coverage in aeronautical communication and the transmission of weather information from the Protectorate. t Membership of the Junior Red Cross in Samoan schools now stands at more than 2,000.

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Would the contributor who supplied the photograph appearing on page 153, August PIM, contact us tor payment. No name and address appears on back of the photograph. —Editor, PIM. [?]ecent Apia arrivals in the "Tofua" appear to be happy at the prospect of hard work in [?]. Depicted are, left, Mrs. G. Leopard (centre), wife of the Union SS Co. manager, greet [?]r. and Mrs. A. O. Lambourne. After 17 years in Fiji he has become Morris Hedstrom's manager. Right, Misses Josephine Haugan, Enid Schow and Lavinia Bird, school teachers USA, who will teach for the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Mission in Samoa for two years.

Photo: R. F. Rankin. 41 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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The Executive Council recently debated the building of a deep-sea wharf and the general development of the port. It was considered that if an American firm, whose representative visited Western Samoa recently (PIM, July, p. 47), made a definite offer it would be “one of the strongest expressions of faith in the future economic prosperity of the Territory. . .’’

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Hamilton said that the coms whale quota for the season L5O hump-backed whales. The season lasted from May to »er, inclusive. expected that the company i be able to take its quota bethe end of October. The •y can handle three whales per 1 company has bulk storage for tons of whale oil, and 500 )f fuel oil.

Hamilton said that a new og company, Norfolk Island Byron Bay Whaling Co. Ltd., ormed to purchase the fixed of Byron Bay Whaling Co. -«td.. and Norfolk Whaling Co.

These two companies were iiaries of Anderson Meat Ines Ltd., Sydney. lersons have completely sold leir interests in the two com- 5. registered in Sydney, a nominal capital of £1,000,000, of wh i ch £420,000 (which has been underwritten), will be issued Residents of Norfolk Island were invited to take up 10 per cent, preference shares in Norfolk Whaling 0 ‘ and a number of these f S „ h r areS haVe bee "

Mr. Hamilton was previously manager of the meat division of Andersons. He moved from that post to Sgffi, &d.fSS that to Norfolk Whaling Co Ltd Whlle employed by Arsons he Island 116 whaling Nation at Norfolk „ . now general manager of the holding company, and of the other tw ° u con JP anies - A T S® dlr i ct °? . are Messrs. Patrick fl„^ rad (chairman and managorew°TxA-^ £* e Hopkin- SSnStoS; PhU,ip and ===== * A af .

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Samoan Fighter Loses

ON POINTS TUNA SCANLAN, middleweight champion of Samoa, who arrived m New Zealand in April with a record of 12 knock-outs in 14 professional boxing contests, was defeated on points by Wellington boxer Billy Beazley in Auckland Town Hall on August 21.

Soon after his arrival in New Zealand, Scanlan knocked out Ulf Christensen, a top man in the middleweight class, and the fans were picking Scanlan as probable winner of the latest contest.

Though Scanlan seemed to have the upper hand and came near downing Beazley in the second round, Beazley was saved by the bell. From there on, Beazley gained points through skilful defence to the end of the bout. t Two West Samoan Agriculture Department search teams collected and destroyed in 10 square miles round Apia a record number of rhinoceros beetles—39,o3B —during July. The beetles were in many breeding places but mainly in rotting vegetation and sawdust. teachers return to American Samoa and comed at Tafuna airport, Tutuiia, by the of Education (Dr. Donald A. Roths- [?]nd his wife. The homecoming Samoans, to right, are Mrs. Annie Jennings and [?]tita Tavai, who studied for a year in Honolulu; Messrs. Tupuai Titialii and Amani Magalei, who completed a similar course in the United States. Their tour of study was made possible by the Feleti Memorial Teacher Training Scholarship, which aims to make good Samoan teachers better.—Pan American Print. 45 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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The family also made available the site which has been set aside by the New Zealand Government as a memorial to Mr. Nelson.

Meanwhile a temporary public library will operate in quarters provided by the Methodist Mission.

The Government has appointed a librarian, Miss B. Allen.

Late O. F. Nelson’S Career

Mr, Nelson died in Samoa in February, 1944. He was born in Samoa of a Swedish father and a Samoan mother, in 1884; he founded the successful firm of O. F. Nelson and Co., in Apia during World War I.

In the early 1920’5, when NZ took over the Administration of W.

Samoa, as a C Class Mandate, Nelson actively espoused the Nationalistic cause of the Samoans and became leader of the Mau Movement.

For his activities in this direction he was twice banished to NZ. His second term of banishment was ended when the Labour Party was returned to power in NZ in 1936.

With a more enlightened type of Administration, the Mau movement died. Mr. Nelson, his health affected by 15 years of bitter struggle, took less and less part in public affairs.

Opinions on Mr. Nelson, of course, varied widely, but his name \ always be remembered in Samoai At the time of his death, K commented: “If the NZ Governmn had had the wit to enlist his in the beginning, instead of igra ing and insulting him, one of blackest periods in Sama chequered history need not h been written.” 46 SEPTEMBER. 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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[?]vas Sea Baths ILITY to pay (and, of course, lompliance with the by-laws), dll in future be the only factor eciding whether you can use Suva sea-baths or not. estions of race, colour and 1 worthiness are out. ends the long battle of wills sen European and Indian comities on the question of sea ng in Suva. sent capitulation of the Suva Council (which owns the baths) Councillor J. B. Turner disag, can be taken as conceding tory to the Indians—and prebly there has been general reig amongst this section of the community, plus hurrahs in way places where any kind of siveness is seen as horrid >h imperialism. ny years ago the Suva seawere built, according to Mr. sr, “by Europeans for Euro- >” but as PIM remembers it, l municipal project. The city rs decided that they were for se of Europeans only (although )ers of Fiji’s Chinese comty have patronised them). This d the ire of the Indian comty, particularly of Indian rates, who insisted that as they :o pay lor the upkeep of the they should be permitted to hem.

' city fathers stuck to their but to keep the record straight, another sea-baths, exclusively le use of Indians. The Indians tted them, and to this day remain unused —except (again ig Mr. Turner), in which mmit an occasional nuisance which they have to be closed eaning. ) reasons are now given for the :e of heart: Tie Sea Baths have become a e on the City of Suva—they ot paying. t is now admitted that there ;hing in the by-laws covering iths to exclude non-Europeans r exclusion simply hinged on 2ity Council’s instructions to aretaker and if an excluded i or Fijian had cared to take ase to court it was unlikely be would lose. / that it is all in together I be interesting to see if and w much the receipts go up. ans, too, will now have a e to show their paces as ners. All Fijians can swim, •urse —but some people have 3ted that they might have championship mater i a 1 ? them. To date there has been anywhere to try them ) see if they have. (It goes without saying that there never has been one peep out of the Fijians on the matter of segregation in Suva’s salt-sea baths.) t A proposed seismographic survey of the lagoon near Noumea, New Caledonia, in which about 30 tons of explosive will be used by a French oil search company, has brought protests from local professional fishermen and sportsmen The oil-searchers say that it will do no harm—or not very much Fishermen say that it will. The argument proceeds.

Leefe-Worley Wedding

A wedding of Islands interest took n!ff C vf at , A St , , Mar y’ s Anglican Cathedral, Auckland, on August 25 when Miss Elizabeth Mary Susan Worley was married to Mr. Nicholas Henry Leefe.

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£9,250,000 From Australia : Co-operatives Become Big Business : Fires loom As Public Enemy No. 1 Papua-New Guinea Legislative Council’s budget session this year will be held earlier than usual—commencing September 24. Australian Treasurer Sir Arthur Fadden sweetened the prospect in advance early September by announcing an Australian grant of £A9,250,000. y lng an B is Australia’s all-time high i its annual gift to the comined Territory—over £BOO,OOO than in 1955-56—and certainly than might have been reasonexpected in view of the fact Federal Treasurer Fadden was on a Mixture-as-Before Budget 256-57 (presented in Canberra ugust 30). lister for Territories Hasluck red Sir Arthur Fadden’s icence by announcing, Sep- ;r 3, that P-NG intended to le emphasis this year on agrial development, particularly on ; agricultural development, to introduce a sour note into joyful proceedings, it can be hat P-NG natives fared better • hands of Sir Arthur than did ilia’s Old Age pensioners. A .tion of the latter metaphoriclained themselves to the steps rliament House, Canberra to or an increase in pensions. ~thur, at first too busy to see relented after 24 hours and ;ed” them lunch. But he did icrease their pensions—which the academic question as to s better off—the native NG r; or the Australian Old-Age ner on £4 per week? veil as Australia’s £9l million, will have its own internal le —over £3 million last year. a nice tidy sum for P-NG irer H. H. Reeve to parcel out. ever, as Mr. E. A. James, 3r for Papua in the Legis- Assembly, frequently points ■ is one thing to have this t of money at the Territory’s il; another to spend it all.

Budget waits on the Aus- Budget—then comes the ion, and the plans and tender which half of the effective g year has already gone. At 10, what has not been spent nartly back into Consolidated le. pushing the P-NG Budget i of Legco forward (a month t year) this time-lag is, to stent, overcome, idier D. M. Cleland expects seting to last about a week.

Feam Up, Steam Off

>eople who have been steamed ut their 99-per-cent.-complete ospital which still was not admitting patients, have been told that the reason for the delay is that the hospital entirely lacked steam.

Mr. W. Flemming revealed this at Lae Town Advisory Councils July meeting. He said the entire working of the hospital depended on steam and until steam boilers and a water treatment plant were installed the sterilising plant could not be used. Unsterilised household water could not be used because it would ruin parts of the equipment.

He understood the water purification plant was on its way.

In Port Moresby a Public Works official estimated that the hospital would be handed over to the Administration about the end of this month.

Hit Spot 9 Times

A mercy plane dropped antitetanus drugs to a seriously-ill native on Nissen Island, midway between Bougainville’s northern point and New Ireland’s north-east coast, early in August.

All nine parcels of drugs landed safely on the tiny and remote island.

The First Million

Native co-operative societies are last becoming big business. Turnoverlast financial year exceeded the 11,000,000 mark for the first time topping the previous year’s total by £40,000.

There are 224 societies with a total membership of 61,000 and a total capital of £333,000 compared with the previous year’s 198 societies, 49 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1056

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Meek And Wild

Because the Territory Tt Planning Board failed to refer U matters to Madang Town Advil Council, the council decided oc sit-tight strike.

Members resolved not to n One of P-NG's most colourful natli sonalities, Sgt.-Wajor Bagita of thee Papua-New Guinea Constabulary on Aui marked up 40 years continuous servi.i the Force and became the only police the Territory with four coveted goll pinned to his police tunic.

Our photograph shows how, at polio quarters on August 10, Bagita, without the proudest man in Papua paraded Police Commissioner Normoyle and his fourth star.

European police in Moresby, togetht a number of old residents, contributed I buying Bagita a radio set. He also a wallet of notes. The management <* Philp and Co. and Steamships Trading U gave him open orders for £5.

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until the chairman was ed in writing that all alteraand additions to the Madang plan would be referred to and ved by the Council before benplemented. uty Chairman Meek said acidly ihe council’s recommendations wn planning had been largely ;d since 1951. The Madang ;-market proposal, for in- >, had vanished from the town ■ find that the staff surveyor to the town and plans it,” Mr. complained. “His plan has :en referred to the council but has gone straight to Moresby.”

Later, In Port Moresby, the Acting Administrator said the Administration was considering the appointment of a town planning board for each town. “Now that the main towns of the Territory are growing, it is not unreasonable that we should consider the altered circumstances,” he added.

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Too few roads go by in the Territory but increasing traffic has brought the civilised concomitants of road safety and courtesy campaigns. (Over) soldiers in Port [?]y held their [?]l annual Minden [?]inner on August 1 [?]hich is certainly [?]g things a long back. August 1, was an important [?] the Seven Years' when the English the Hanoverians I up to resounddefeat the French [?]nden, a Prussian [?]n Westphalia. It [?]irly safe bet that [?]ople - even ex- [?]s - have ever of the battle. [?]r, the dinner was at success. Our [?]aph shows: [?]n Captain Blox- [?] Sub- Inspector [?]; and Mr. P. V. Middleton, who were the 120 who attended it.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 51 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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big crowd, including settlers in Western Waghi and Kainantu 5, attended the annual general ing of the Highland Farmers’

Settlers’ Association. The meetheld in Goroka, decided to a the eligibility for memberelected these new officers; President, lan Downs; President, George Greathead; itary, A. Clark; Treasurer, W. :ley.

Egregation Cracked

0 formerly-hostile tribes in the omin area are becoming ed through their children, ►lishment of a school at the rnment station at Telefomin the zeal and personality of lative teachers are responsible, ginally, because of longing tribal mistrust, the parents e children from the Feramin asked that they be taught by erent teacher to the one who t the children from the )min group. Accordingly, two ers were appointed, one for class. lough the school has been ished only since March, a icant change has taken place pupils’ attitude to one another the attitude of the tribal s. Mistrust has vanished and ihildren are joining together le common interest of the . and school work, ingements are now being made ablish at Telefomin a boardchool to accommodate 40 to dents from the once mutually- Dnistic tribes. A European er will be in charge, with s as assistants. It is hoped to this school next year. all this is happening in an where, three short years ago, iatrol officers were murdered attack on their patrol. Howit is not all sweetness and yet. A slight outbreak of >alism was reported from the recently—allegedly as “pay- (See elsewhere this issue).

Trucked Across

1 commercial vehicles owned itive rural progress societies completed an overland crossom Wewak to Maprik, in the district, were the first conventional trucks to make the journey.

They did it in ten hours at an average speed of a little less than ten miles an hour, getting through without assistance, even at river crossings.

Two Administration Land Rovers were the first vehicles to traverse the Maprik-Wewak road, which was cut through to the coast at Wewak in March, 1955. They took 35 hours.

Coroner Saw Red

A fire in which a young native girl was burnt to death sparked off censure of the Administration by Rabaul Coroner Hall.

His finding was accidental death but he said the building, one of a number allotted to married native police in Rabaul, was totally inadequate by Native Labour Ordinance standards.

Mr. Hall pointed out that four adults and seven children lived in the building of 60 cubic feet. For this number the regulations required a building of 3,000 cubic feet.

The regulations also laid down that such buildings should be of iron, fibro-cement, weatherboard or wallboards. The one destroyed was made of native materials. It was regrettable that a similar structure was being built to replace it.

Mr. Hall said the Crown, and therefore the Administration, was not bound by the Native Labour Ordinance. But, he protested, “this 53 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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Gardens “Filched”

Rabaul botanic gardens had been gradually filched from the people, Mr. J. L. Chipper charged at a meeting of the Town Advisory Council. He pointed out that parts of the gardens had been taken over for the native market, by the Public Works Department, and for the Government Compound.

Reflecting the growing concern in Rabaul about this parkland, the the meeting adopted a resolution asking that trustees be appointed and funds made available to reestablish it.

Harbour Mix-Up

Two native canoes, one carrying a European passenger and a native crew of three, were damaged by the MV Bulolo as she left Port Moresby on August 4.

An angry complaint of having been run down by the ship is understood to have been made to the Crown Law Department but the other side of the story will not be known until the Bulolo forwards a report to Port Moresby’s Harbour Master.

The natives are reported to have said they were fishing off Paga Point when suddenly the Bulolo was on top of them. The European grabbed the mast and hung on.

Two of the natives dived overboard and swam to a smaller canoe nearby but, just as they reached it, tH was swamped.

The Bulolo lowered a lifeboK which towed the larger canoe to tf wharf.

Flying Footballers

New Guinea native soccer playe' are going places—by air. Ty Madang teams chartered a Dako aircraft and flew to Goroka, whe. they played local teams.

Both Madang teams were beatt but all players on the field gaves splendid exhibition of clean, opq football that kept a large crowd' European and native spectators their toes.

Miss Elizabeth Jack (pictured), nursing Sister at Port Moresby hospital, has announced her engagement to Mr. W.

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Photo: Papuan Prints. 54 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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School’S In—And How

bool was in with a rush and ly bursting at the seams in Kainantu area of New Guinea.

Administration official had told g crowd of natives that the school at the station was theirs, ey took him at his word, ied through the classrooms, sat he desks, apparently enjoyed mere physical presence in >l. ndreds of inquiries for enrol- ; were received from, or on If of, people whose ages ranged 5 to 30. e enthusiasm of the youngsters ;o great, it was saddening that r had to be turned away for ime being. They will not be led until additional staff is d to the area next year. was in full swing in Port Moresby in August with the Manu Manu people offenng 50 canoes for sale at .? okl> Hanuabada and Porabada.

Manu Manu has been the centre of the Motuan canoe-making industry for centuries. The long process of building starts with the felling of the logs in the rain forests between the Vanapa and Doura rivers, whence they are floated down Gaily Reach to the village of Manu Manu.

There the work of shaping the hulls and preparing spars and outriggers goes on throughout the year July or August Sice for an im g assembled canoe is usually abin't £A2O, plus a certain numbed of tn shells which are valued at a thing from £3 to £l4 1 y ’ qwnPTnnDMo T

Shorthorns, Long Hops

, Another step in the sorely-needed development of the Territory’s cattl e industry was taken last . moi }th when two Dakota aircraft landed at Kokoda with 27 head of £, Shorthorns consigned to the Kok °da Pastoral Co. (Continued on p affe m> young prize winners at the Combined Fancy Dress Ball held in Port Moresby [?]st 17. Patricia Russell as a Balinese and lan Searle as a Judge.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 55 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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Experiments to test the possible control of the rhinoceros beetle with insecticides and (b) with attractant chemicals left still unsolved problem of dealing with the No. 1 coconut pest of New Guinea, Wpet Samoa anrl Tnmra , west aamoa and longa.

Y were carried out in West imoa by entomologist Dr. R. A.

Limber, whose findings have published in a South Pacific tission circular.

Cumber, in his report on indes, said that unless relative m from attack could be proby a simple infrequent crown ation, their use could not be ed. no cases were the monthly ations made during the tests sful in keeping the crowns 3tely free from beetle attack. cticidal application would be :tical for the greater part of imoan coconut areas. The dif- ;s attached to its application were so great in comparison ombatmg the beetle through anitation and plantation consolidation that insecticidal control was not worth considering.

Dr. Cumber’s other tests were intended to ascertain whether chemicals known to have an attractive influence over certain insects could exert a similar influence over the rhinoceros beetle.

He said log-trapping in West Samoa could in some areas take up to one-quarter of the beetle population present and an increase in efficiency of traps by, say, 100 per cent., through use of an attractant, could have been a very important contribution.

Dr. Cumber devised three types of olfactometer to test possible attractants but the results were negligible, In the field testing of attractants, two types of traps were set up on the margins of the Vaipoto plantation, where there is a high beetle population and serious damage. t ? n case a fow beetles were 7^ unlikely that “ fntnSP™ wi l? in the foreseeable cumber^eno^pd™ 1 measures >” Drin oenernJ _ .

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Last month, PIM made brief rejerence to a Tokio radio report that the vessel Satuma ( not Satsuma) had left Japan for the Pacific equatorial regions to join American and French vessels in oceanographic research work. The Chairman of the US National Committee, IGY, has now supplied a most interesting report on what is known as Operation Equapac.

Equapac is a study of equatorial Pacific currents, seawater temperatures, chemical constituents, marine life, radio activity, at various depths and at many points.

Weather observations at fixed times throughout the day, and the recording of bird life sighted between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. ship’s time daily, are also included.

Equapac commenced in June and should finish on October 6, according to the published plan. It commenced with the sailing of Syunkotu Maru, of the Shimonoseki Fisheries Institute, in June, on a course more or less directly to Guam, thence 850 miles north-east, then due south 900 miles to near Nukuoro, in the Carolines, then back to Guam and Japan.

Next to sail, on June 28, was Dai Fuji Maru, of the Shizuoka Fisheries Laboratory. Her course was direcD to a point north of Ponape, then directly south-west through tlur Gilberts and Tokelaus to south: west of Suwarrow, then due north to near Johnston Island, then ttf Honolulu, and back to Japan b* September 12. 58

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Uso in August the Kagoshima iversity’s research vessels Kagoma Maru and Kieten Maru were sail south on parallel courses /ards Indonesia and Netherlands w Guinea, to the equator, and ;k to Japan. iugust was the big month. While i Japanese scientists were work- ■ in the Western Pacific, those >y research vessels Hugh M. ■ith and Charles H. Gilbert, of ■ US Fish & Wildlife’s Pacific sanic Fishery Investigations unit :e to clear Honolulu on August md 6 respectively. ?he Smith was to make for a nt at 12 degrees north latitude iway between the Marquesas and i Francisco, due south to near 10, in the Tuamotu, due west for miles, north again through the th-western Tuamotu, due north the latitude of Christmas Island far to the eastward, west 500 es towards Christmas, south past •oline and Flint to Papeete, then a point midway between Raroga and Manihiki, due north past nihiki to the equator, fom there to :istmas, west again to the 160th ridian, and north again to Honoi by October 6.

'he Gilbert’s track crossed that :he Smith at several points. She, , was to head for the equator a point far north-east of the rquesas in about the longitude Pitcairn, then south to 14 degrees th, north again then west and th through the Marquesas and n there back to Honolulu by tember 25. This vessel was also ig experimental fishing along the te.

'n August 20, two other vessels e to sail. The little Orsom 111, ;he French Institute of Oceania, i to defer Noumea for Suva, nee through the Fiji Group and north to 10 degrees north latie, then south-west between rshalls and Gilberts to 170 rees east, south then due west Santo, and again south to imea where she should arrive ober 3. t the same time the Scripps Inution of Oceanography was to patch its vessel Stranger from lolulu south-west and south ough the Phoenix Group and k along ja (parallel course to lolulu by October 3. cripps’ vessel Horizon, which ted various South Pacific ports ing Operation Capricorn in 5-53 was to do a circuit south n Kwajalein to the southern end of the Solomons, northt through the Solomons to near igainville, due north through the olines to 12 degrees north, thence back to Kwajalein, but no dates had been fixed for this cruise (See “News of Pacific Shipping,” this issue.) Last Equapac cruise was to be made in October by the Tokio Fisheries University’s Umitaka Maru in the extreme western Pacific down past the Philippines and return.

THUS, in all, 11 vessels were involved. The Japanese were particularly eager to co-operate as the reasearch ties in with their constant fishery research work.

Since before World War 11. Japan has provided special fishery research courses at her Universities, and these institutions have operated research vesels, a number of which have been replaced since the war.

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Equapac provided the first major cruise for Orsom 111 which is employed jointly in fishery training cruises under a SPC scheme to tram islanders in modern fishing methods, and in oceanographic research work. She is a 90-ton wooden Australian-built trawler, launched as Bateman’s Bay in 1947, and purchased by the Institute from Mr Roy Gubbay, of Santo, last year. 59 'ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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Photo: Fung Kuei. 61 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 195 6

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PIM reported in March that a US military LST loaded with equipment for a special meteorological station arrived at Tarawa in mid- December. American aircraft had flown in technicians and the station was hastily set up. This followed the visit to Tarawa of Amercan military officers some time earlier.

The Meteorological Service in Wellington, which operates a station at Tarawa as part of the South Pacific meteorological observing network, could shed no light on the purpose of the American station in March, but supposed that it might have something to do with highaltitude jet-stream research.

Others guessed that more probably it was connected with forecasting winds for the forthcoming 1956 American atomic bomb test series.

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The July Tarawa announcement says: “It is possible that odd planes may continue to arrive for a short time, in which case mail sent to the above address may be carried, but the service will officially cease on July 15.”

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Unnumbered [?]y" [?]rst the Street- Numbers; [?]en the Postie is always a source of amazement to newly arrived residents and visitors to Suva, to learn houses and business establishts in the city have no street ibers. jout the middle of July, a en wrote to the Fiji Times askwhy the postal authorities had taken steps to institute a 5m of numbering. The corrodent added that numbers would it grocers, bakers, and milkmen heir deliveries, particularly to customers. le letter drew a spirited rese from the Postmaster-General J. A. Marais), who said that lepartment was prepared to inte a mail delivery service, but it was the responsibility of l City Council to do the street bering. reporter made some inquiries i the Mayor (Cr. A. D. Leys) t the matter but did not re- ; much satisfaction, hether the council has some to start numbering is still not m, but if there is a plan then council is being secretive about th some pomp, Suva declared : to be a city a couple of years (pop. about 30,000). Why not city-sized services to go with ;itle? t for Suva taxi drivers’ exdinarily wide knowledge of the visitors, and many local reits, would waste much time in ng their way about. These rs seem to know the dwelling of every person in Suva. sause of a shortage of certain stuffs at Manihiki, Northern Islands, in July, permission requested from and granted by Resident Commissioner for four sailing boats to make the ile open-sea passage across to hanga. The outward passage 4 hours, and the return passon the following day 5 hours, 'ound-trip being made without ent. wording to US Fish and Wild- Commercial Fisheries Review, Van Camp cannery, at Pago contracted with the Japanese ig organisation to accept 7,570 of tuna and other fish in 1956. 5d prices a short ton were: ;ore, $275; gilled yellowfin under ~ $180; 90 lb-130 lb, $140; over ), $100; spearfish and miscelus species, $lOO.

Foreign Warships

Off Bsip, But—

No Newspapers , No Headlines Residents of Honiara, bsip, enjoying pre-luncheon drinks at home and in the Club on Sunday, July 29, were surprised to see four warships cruising between Guadalcanal and the Florida group.

However, as we have no local newspaper we were spared headlines about this mystery “Navy.”

The vessels were in line astern, about ten miles offshore. Those with binoculars produced a flock of identifications ; They were Australian destroyers on manoeuvres some said; others knew them fo’

American cruisers. Wags claimed to see ice on the masts and sailors in red jerseys.

The ships were later announced as being an American destroyer squadron en route to Brisbane from Pearl Harbour—and no doubt each had its share of wide-eyed rookies listening to old-timers’ tales about the beaches of Guadalcanal.— Honiara Correspondent. t Japanese pearlers claim to have found a 70-carat pearl, possibly the biggest in the world, in the Arafura Sea. 63

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Ith the search for Pacific nds sources of guano and phosbe again in the news, we turn : to the days when there was a regular trade in the products l many unimportant little islands me of which were apparently secret. >w else can we explain the fact on September 25, 1865, when 52-ton Auckland schooner Coral in, Captain S. H. Trayte, arrived hat port with a full load of ms of guano, the loading place entered with the Customs as al Queen Island.” far as we can discover there r was an island so named, ally; but on examining Coral ■n’s movements more closely i is good reason to suspect that ictually loaded at Flint Island, ading had taken six days, the 1 cleared the island on August rrived at Rarotonga, September id sailed for Auckland three later. ler vessels had lately been ig at Malden Island, that name given in the Customs entries, the sailing times given above appears the most probable e.

The records show that that island was extensively worked for guano by Houlder Brothers & Co., of London, between 1875 and 1880, after which coconuts were planted. Today, Mr. Lionel Bambridge and 25 Tahitian labourers are stationed there making copra.

A^f SS£?E: ° n week-days there will be f enalt y of 10/6 for entry and £l/1/.. nnhi J lea £ a vS e; on Sun days and g ub Jl c J hollda ys the penalty is doubled.

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CARONIA GUTTED bv ftbf Tn FIRE September, 1954, PIM published LEFT: Photographed on board the yacht " Vara " prior to departure for Rotuma from Pago Pago ion July 25. Left to right: "Life" photographer Elliott Elisophon, yacht owner and writer William A. Robinson, and Dr. D. D. Bonnet, of tahiti. Financed by the Peabody Institute and "Life" Magazine, the trio are visiting Rotuma, the Santa Cruz and Solomon Islands and proceeding eventually to Bangkok. Dr Bonnet is obtaining blood samples to test the periodicity of the microfilarial specimens. RIGHT: capt. (Flight-Lieut.) Francis Bottoms of "John Williams VI" (see story). 65 ,FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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Cables: “Braybonian”. Sydney. de tai 1 s of a big scrap-salvage operation that was being undertaken at Canton Island on the wreck of the liner President Taylor by two American syndicates, North Coast Corporation, and Taylor Salvors, of Seattle.

That work has been proceeding ever since, but it was reported briefly from Tarawa recently that the headquarters salvage vessel, the 296-ton steel motor-yacht Caronia, was gutted by fire in the early hours of July 11. PIM is seeking further details.

Vasu Inquiry

The formal inquiry into the loss of the Vasu, which foundered north of Tonga on June 14, opened in Suva on September 5.

Mr. M. Saunders, Senior Magistrate, was Chairman, with assessors Captain M. Harvey and Mr. A. A.

Ragg. Mr. Justin Lewis appeared for the Fiji Marine Board, Mr.

H. M. Scott for the master of the vessel (Captain W. F. Darling) and Mr. J. N. Falvey for the owners (Burns Philp SS Co.) Finding was that sinking caused by a leak in the hull aft in a moderate sea resulting in water entering the engine-room and passing through a "watertight” bulkhead to flood the hold, forcing off the hatches.

The master of the vessel was not guilty of incompetence in his handling or general navigation, but censured for failing to take steps to discover the cause of the leak as soon as he was informed of it. The owners were guilty of negligence in that they knew of a defective bulkhead and a leak in the stern and did nothing about either.

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HMS Telemachus, submarine on loan to the RAN, returning to Sydney from a Pacific cruise reported having taken instrument soundings of the Tonga Deep to as low as 34,050 feet—6,ooo feet deeper than shown on present Admiralty charts and only 1,200 feet shallower tha known depths in the Mindam Deep off the Philippines.

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Chasing Cosmic Rays

om Washington, DC, it was rted that the 4-year-old, 4,310- Swedish Translantic Co. vessel maren was to clear Gothenburg r September to chart a cosmicmap of the world, le expedition is financed by the rican National Geographic Jty. ws despatches on the subject far from clear, but it seemed the research team might switch ther vessels on different trade 2s to complete the work graduand that the Lommaren was specially chartered for the surwhich is required to cover areas r previously surveyed by cosmicresearchers.

Busy Road To Nauru

uru Island is a dot in the ic Ocean, but is certainly a busy )ing port. Fourteen overseas titers were scheduled to load phosphate cargoes there in and nineteen in August, arby Ocean Island, with slower ng methods, handled five in month. lereas for years all phosphate these islands went to Australia New Zealand, there is now a ly quantity flowing to the 2d Kingdom—five of the 33 Is which were to load at Nauru, d for the UK.

Out Of Retirement

ptain Van-Ness Budd, living in ;ment at Muri, Rarotonga, polished his sextant and put to sea again in July-August as relieving master of Mr. D. C. Brown’s recent acquisition, the auxiliary ketch Inspire, on a voyage to the northern atolls. Captain Budd is an American and has made some lengthy Pacific yacht cruises between the Wars. Trained in sail, he commanded US military supply vessels during the Pacific war.

A New Southern X Too

COSTLY The Melanesian Mission, following receipt of tenders for the building of the projected Southern Cross VIII, has decided not to proceed with construction at present due to high cost.

Mission personnel will travel by |Ph\ r d al ßad^4 n tui h \ r a e nd t le NewHebrYles groups the Solomo " s - She was to clear Australia for the Solomons early September.

The Lepers Trust Board-financed i?nH h ’ "“ ly building in Auckland, should also be operating in the Missions service by the end of the year. french ship in trouble off N. BRITAIN A French Navy 1,200-ton LST limped into Rabaui; NG, in mid- August and so provided that town with its first post-war French Navv visitors.

T, he ship was on its way from the Philippines to Noumea when its Marcel Marinacce's "Deutgan", at Mort's Sydney, in August. Formerly a trader [?]ew Hebrides waters, she is now up for at £25,000. (See August RIM). 67 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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The Marine Towing and Contracting Co. {Wewak’s owners) charges £3 a head for cattle shipped to Cairns, and will charge £3O a head for cattle shipped Cairns-Lae.

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Scow Wrecked

The 56-ft copra-scow Kari, owned by Steamships Trading Co., of Papua, ran on to a reef east of Normanby island, on August 6 Two European passengers and nine natives subsequently spent six days on a small uninhabited islet U^ri a v °y a ee between Woodlark Island and Samarai when ro6f in bad weat her, at night. She was not equipped with ladl °- (Over) [?]: Sir Hugh Ragg's "Tropic Bird" at Suva [?]y after a fishing trip. Built at Suva [?]. A. Lee, she was converted early this [?]or big-game fishing, to the specifications [?]. and Mrs. Hayford, an American couple with Mr. Harry Terry as skipper, fished [?]vely in Fiji waters for about two months.

H. Terry, of Suva, is Fiji representative International Gamefish Association, which [?] headquarters in the Museum of Natural [?], New York. "Tropic Bird", shown here Mr. Terry standing on the prow, is the [?]unch in Fiji fully-equipped for big-game Photo: Jack Thornton. [?]ER: After the G&EIC Wholesale Society's "Tuvalu" damaged a propeller at [?]ea's south lagoon in March it was de- [?]to fit the ship with a new propeller in [?]bert Is. instead of voyaging to Suva for [?]. The ship was beached at Betio on one tide, and after the new prop had been the ship was refloated on the next tide. It was the first time since the at a ship of this size has been beached [?]pairs in the Gilberts. This photo, by [?]. Ward, master of the "Tuvalu", shows [?]ip beached at Betio, with interested [?]ese boys, some of them naked, looking hull. 69

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On the morning after the wreck, those on board managed to get ashore with gear and food, and set up camp. While they were still removing gear from the ships, a RAAF bomber flew over—according to the European survivors, at about 200 feet.

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The passengers and crew were taken aboard and it’s understood the Kari is a total wreck. Her cargo, 300 bags of copra, plus a small quantity of shell, had also been lost.

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The ship that Mr. Willie Schutz, of Tarawa, was serving is an Second Officer (a freighter on the Atlantic run), was requisitioned August 16 by the British War Office; it went to Barry, Wales, and with a number of other ships, was being fitted as a trooper as a result of the Suez crisis. Mr. Schutz reports that Captain Max Stanton, well known in the Pacific Islands small-ships delivery business in post-war years, is now an officer in one of the famous Mr. Spyros Niarchos’ tankers, World Glen. His address is c/o Niarchos (London) Ltd., 41/43 Pan Street, London, W.l.

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Built in Britain in 1946, the ship s first named Empire Sloan and s converted for mission work in tB. She was renamed by Princess irgaret at a ceremony at Tower idge Pier on August 5. of that ir.

Mter her conversion, the John lliams VI, commanded by Capn Williams, showed her flag at itish ports. Captain McKenzie mght the ship to the Pacific. She •ived at Suva on December 14, [S.

Captain S. Page, who had previ- ;ly commanded the John Williams V, was appointed to succeed Captain McKenzie. Since then, masters of the John Williams VI have included Captains Ward (now in the G&EIC marine service) and Goslingothers have served for brieferperiods as relieving master.

The mission ship now has the distinction of being commanded by a Royal Air Force officer— Flight-Lieutenant Francis Bottoms, MBE, master mariner. (See photo page 65).

He still holds a RAF commission.

He is, in official terminology, “on RAF release” while serving aboard the John Wiliams VI. He can be recalled to active RAF service at any time.

Captain Bottoms who hails from Lancashire, has held a master’s ticket since 1928; his first command was in 1930 when he tooh ships on an expedition t( Baffin Bay, west of Greenland Or another occasion he took a shin tr within 700 miles of the North Pole in December. He retains vivic memories of seafaring in and around the Arctic Circle.

In 1938, Captain Bottoms joined the Royal Air Force. Of the next 10 years he spent six in the airsea rescue service, mainly commanding flotillas of high-speed launches. He was officer-in-charge of a flotilla at Tobruk, but spent eight of his RAF years in the Arctic.

In 1946, he commanded the RAFA Cawley, and was then appointed (Continued on Page 105) [?]wo Auckland-Suva yacht race entrants were Noumea, New Caledonia, in August. They shown here, ''Daydream” (top) and [?]enis” (lower). "Daydream" was the only [?]tralian entrant in the race. She is owned sailed by Mr. Peter Fletcher, of Bondi. He [?] spend some months cruising about Queens- [?]d's Barrier Reef before returning to Sydney. [?]'Glenis" is owned by Mr. Jack White, [?]ppered by Mr. Don Coulam of NZ. They do expect to return there before year's end.

Photos: F. E. Dunn. 71 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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South Pacific residents are apt to think of the United States in terms of money being no object. That was certainly the impression gained from contact with American military forces. The policy then was to snatch a brand new radio receiver from its packing case rather than to change a faulty tube.

Micronesian Reporter makes it amply clear that this state of affairs ceased sharply when the Department of the Interior took over the US Trust Territory from the US Navy administration in July, 1951.

True, the Navy had left some equipment on the main islands but there were few spares and fewer men with the know-how to keep the gear operating—and no funds whatever voted for maintenance or expansion. Up to 1953, the situation steadily deteriorated, with staff reductions and a general belt-tightening. It was not until the Territory’s headquarters was transferred from Honolulu to Guam, in June, 1953 that a start could be made in building an efficient post-war communications system.

A Central Electronics Depot—two quonset huts and a great pile of war-surplus equipment found on the island —was established at Truk, with two technicians. Four months later a radio-telephone circuit was opened between Guam headquarters and a station in the Territory. From then on the situation has steadily improved.

To-day there are 26 stations operating or about to begin operation. There are main stations at ICoror (Paiau), Yap, Truk, Ponape and Majuro in direct communica- 73 1 FI C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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By J. P. Shortall

ISED on a field survey and on research made this year, the report discloses that the Cooks amongst the most backward dries in the world in infant tality rates. reveals that over the three ncial years ended 1954-55 the age mortality rate for infants to 12 months) in the whole ;hern Group was 121.48 per I live births. In the Northern ip the situation was far worse 1.5 average. These figures comwith a NZ Maori infant tality rate of 58.60 in 1954, or an age of 72.04 over the three years jr review.

Aitutaki, 193 infant deaths 5 registered over the past 15 s, 47.66 per cent, dying within first month. alnutrition (and that is not nation) of mother and infant a primary cause of death, imonia often resulting through of resistance as a result. In tion, there were many cases of jirths through the same cause requently, as an after-effect of > or syphilis in the earlier >ry of the mother. the infant mortality is dising, the general health picture irdly less so. At Aitutaki, where latest research team worked, 75 ent. of the population examined infested with intestinal para- , which affected children as ig as seven months, i the subject of personal illness, the report says that 73 cent, of males and 86 per cent, emales examined on Aitutaki infested with lice and/or nits. ;e, and the many diseases, tong leprosy, were spread through estion in living—especially in >ing accommodation. Of 294 lings examined, some very small, )eople were housed in each, on iverage. le survey shows that on taki, 31.5 per cent, of those exled had microfilaria in the blood, the advanced manifestation jphantiasis—common, even in young. It suggests that con- •ation be given to a mass aton the disease, using the drug azan, so well-demonstrated in ich Oceania, and an insecticidal against the mosquitoes. Hetrathe report says, is also effecagainst one of the more prent intestinal parasites, jspite the grimness of the genhealth picture, the population icreasing at the rate of 2.7 per . annually in the Southern up and will thus double itself 5 years. The report says: “With •ition already lagging far behind existing requirements it would appear that measures for lowering infant mortality should be preceded, or at least accompanied, by vigorous efforts to increase food supplies and, in particular, the availabilty of protein; otherwise the state of affairs might well deteriorate instead of improving.”

Viewing the present state of affairs in the Cook Islands, it does not seem unreasonable to suggest that the £1 million currently exb/thA N 7 Hj- i l on a recent re P° rt ««adein It® ? Z . Me . dl l cal . Research Council on he. ; ') m the Cook Islands, shows that NZ has tr°at V ion eVe Th 9m * of admin A- ♦ration. The greatest lack seems to be elementary instruction in hygiene rather vhan in medication. In this matter of nits for example—are government officials supposed to leg-rope offenders and forcibly remove live stock from their hair? Cook islanders are supposed to be reasonably intelligent humans. Would if not be a good idea if they got going on some ot their minor problems themselves—instead of having remedies funnelled into them by Government? —Editor, PIM. pended by NZ on the Colombo Plan —worthy as that plan may be— should be diverted to its own Cook Islands while the health situation exists as it is now. 75 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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THE sequel to an incident of a few months ago in which Mr.

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Rather surprisingly, it was Mr.

Waite who was charged with maliciously wounding a pig by discharging a loaded .22 rifle at the animal while it was penned.

The pig, property of a native, Tofogeni of Kwariekwa, where the incident occurred, died three weeks later.

Mr. Waite was found guilty and ordered to pay the owner of the pig £8 compensation.— Honiara Correspondent. j Three Tongans are currently undergoing a police training course in New Zealand. They are Mr. Vuna Ahome’e, Mr. Hynie Tonga, and Mr.

George Faletau. Mr. Ahome’e, a noble, has recently been a student at Mt. Albert Grammar School.

Mr. Faletau has just completed 4 years of study at Auckland University College.

Deputy Wins Libel Suit

AN echo of the campaign for the election of a Deputy to the French Parliament was heard in an action for libel brought by the returned Deputy, Maurice Lenormand, against Noumea’s (NC) evening paper France Australe, in August.

Subject of the action was an article printed by the paper during the campaign. It was a photographic copy of an article published in Paris during World War II by a prominent Vichyist bearing the name of Lenormand but not the same initials. Plaintiff said the paper intimated that he was the author, ivhich was completely untrue.

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By W. H. Percival

IN late May, the Cook Islands Administration paid the people of Pukapuka 11 bags of flour and one bag of rice for laying the concrete floors of three school buildings.

The flour was shared out between the three settlements of Ngake, Yato and Roto, but it was decided that the bag of rice should be awarded as a prize to Pukapuka’s best cricket team.

There was a heavy downpour of rain on the opening day of the matches which served to replenish the water tanks and did nothing to discourage the players and spectators.

The three teams first paraded on the playing field, singing as they marched. They were dressed in whites and the Yato team was distinguished by their black neckties and black shoes.

After short prayers and speeches, play was opened by the match between Ngake and Yato, both teams putting 30 players each into the field. Yato won this game.

Ngake then played Roto, and this time there were 40 players a side, Ngake won the game.

The final match, between Yato and Roto, was played with 35 men per side, and Roto were the winners.

This was most unsatisfactory, as each team had now won a game and the problem of the disposal of the rice still remained unsolved.

Lengthy discussions, which sour times became heated, were hu over this brain-teaser, until finas an old Councillor stood up and su; gested that the rice be divided ir three equal shares, one share to i to each village.

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Researcher Throws [?]bt on Bombard Theory DK in 1952, Dr. Alain Bombard, f France, set out to prove to cean voyagers that, if shipped, they could survive on :ton and sea water. ■ 51 days, drifting in the itic on a 15 ft rubber raft, he no other nourishment —and he ved. a result of his experiment, and Libsequent book on the subject, ne to be widely accepted that, ary to all past theories, up to it of sea water could be safely £ each day, and that shipped mariners had in the past needlessly through refraining drinking it. the subject is of considerable ;st to people who have to ey about the Pacific in small of doubtful seaworthiness, we draw their attention to an e which recently appeared in Penguin series Science News, 8, of November, 1955, entitled, Physiology of Survival at Sea. s written by an English doctor, I. Harvey, who carried out rch in the subject for British iry and Ministry of Transauthorities.

Harvey completely rejects the »ard theory—without even reig to Bombard’s practical extent. This is what he says: cannot be stressed too strongly castaways should not drink sea . . . Salt can only be excreted e cost of a volume of water i is greater than the volume i water drunk. . . Mixing sea with a ration of fresh water 3 no difference to its effects... effect is to destroy the brain controlling breathing.”

Harvey says also that plankton po dietary value, and that the I of fish should also be ed unless plenty of water is ible. Protein foods in general armful in the absence of fresh being available, will be remembered that ard based some of his survival ique on the fact that fish cona high percentage of water, ard, and the Kon Tiki adrers, too, were enthusiastic the beneficial effects of ton. the Bombard experiment, ocean voyaging yachtsmen taken to mixing a proportion t water with their fresh water ies, which are often limited by ivailable tankage in a small Dr. Harvey warns against :cept in a low proportion to The Harvey article is certain to raise a good deal of controversy, as some American researchers seem to have reached a conclusion in agreement with Bombard.

However, Bombard is reported to be very seriously ill since his experiment. t Qantas and BOAC are linked now by a round-the-world private telecommunications circuit which provides instantaneous communication throughout their world-wide airline system—and therefore almost instantaneous air booking anywhere that these airlines fly.

T An RNZAF flying-boat flight was to be made from Suva to Tarawa in August. The passenger list included Mr. Eyrebrook, FRCS, eminent surgeon from Bristol University, England, who was to discuss latest medical techniques with the CMO, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony; and officers of the NZ Meteorological Service, who were to talk over plans to install new equipment for the International Geophysical Year. t Norfolk Island’s we 11-liked Anglican Vicar, the Rev. K. Tutt, has been transferred to Stoke, near Nelson, NZ, in the diocese of his old mentor, Bishop Hulme-Moir. 79 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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About 100,000 tons, or 15 per cent of world production, could not be sold in 1954-55, and an approximately equal amount from the current crop will probably also be unsaleable and must be stockpiled.

There has thus developed in the cocoa industry a vicious circle of circumstances which, if left to operate unchecked, could pursue its destructive course for years.

It has therefore been decided to refer the problems of the cocoa industry to the Commodity Problems Committee for discussion of what action would be appropriate to returning stability to the industry.

In addition, a meeting of interested governments called by the United Nations Secretary-General m May, referred the question to the Food and Agriculture Organisation.

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In addition to Australia and New Zealand, the “South Pacific area” of WHO includes Papua and New Guinea, Netherlands New Guinea and the Australian, French, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States Island territories in the South and West Pacific.

WHO area offices are being established in strategic centres of the Western Pacific region, to facilitate the work of WHO. The Area Representative for the South Pacific now has his headquarters in Sydney.

Dr. Cruickshank, upon his arrival in Sydney in July, made the following statement, describing the new office of WHO in the South Pacific Area.

“The main objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. If requested by Governments, WHO is prepared to render assistance in various ways to achieve this objective.

“Several Islands administrations in the South Pacific area are already conducting campaigns to control disease, in which WHO is assisting by providing technical advice, specialist officers and demontration teams.

“Assistance from a United Nations international agency such as WHO is usually for a prescribed period, during which time it is essential to train local personnel to continue the Government-expanded heae programmes after internatior assistance is withdrawn. To rm this need, WHO also provides fell© ships to enable local staff to acqu special training. The University colleges and technical institutes?

Australia and New Zealand logical centres to provide speciae training for the South Pacific ai.

“With the increasing number’; health programmes being plam by Governments in this area u which WHO assistance is invoh it is considered that these devel ments, and the associated train 82 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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Jmerbunds (Turquoise

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Gilbert & Ellice Islands leadquarters information Notes f late July it is stated that a merbund design has been roved for the Colony—“of colour uoise green (i.e. the colour of sea over coral reefs).” it they’re not on “issue.” The rtly turned out officer will have ind his own 32/5d (Stg.) and I it off to a certain firm in don, which has agreed to lufacture the item.

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It. Elmo’S Lights With

Square Portholes

E curious lights reported on two occasions by residents of Levuka and described as being liar, glowing with light from in, and having square portholes, ; been described by Mr. Arthur nson, an old Fijian resident, eing St. Elmo lights caused by s and static electricity. (PIM , page 59). ; said he had seen dozens of 1% particularly off the island Loro, from which direction the s had been seen. ; said he had seen some near aya and between Makogai and ika, sometimes in pairs. He stated that they are often in the riggings of ships and Dianes. it he had not yet seen one portholes, square or round.

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FO’CASTLE TE in June, the New Zealand vessel Maui Pomare —also known n seafaring circles as The pom —was plodding her way ly south from Rarotonga, tern, and gaining, was the n Company’s new freighter oa on her maiden voyage; and d, and also gaining, was the member of the Pompom’s crew overheard discussing the matter a passenger. f course, they’re changing the pom’s name, y’know,” said the “She’s going to be renamed mie.” hat so?” said the passenger in ; surprise. “Why ‘Connie’?” hort for ‘constipation,’ ” said AB. “She can’t pass a thing!”

Dog Establishes American

Citizenship, Escapes Gaol

A SHIP’S OFFICER from the GEIC had an unusual tale of Canton Island to relate when he arrived in Fiji recently— a tale that would please no end a certain Mr. Van Campen (PIM Aug., page 155).

According to this seafaring gentleman, a minor international incident which caused tempers to flare happened not long ago at this atoll administered jointly by Britain and the USA, when a British District Officer, an ex-military policeman, issued orders that all non-American owners of dogs should pay 5/- dog licence fees into GEIC coffers.

An Australian dog-owner refused to pay on the grounds that he was employed by an American company; he also claimed that his dog was a wellknown and wellbehaved descendant of a long line of American dogs and bitches.

The Australian, in fact, claimed USA citizenship and protection for his dog.

He insisted on sticking to his points, so the DO, in true army fashion, arrested the dog and marched it to the atoll’s gaol.

But the dog was not a gaolbird for long. It was released by Americans, and returned to its Australian owner.

I n v e stigations followed, and it has now been officially declared that the dog’s pedigree is 100 per cent. American, and its owner has been exempted from paying for a dog lic e n c e.— JACK THORN- TON.

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THEY must have heard about the minions of the Hilton group ivho have been cruising the Pacific looking for suitable places for tourist hotels.

An official notice from the GEIC Resident Commissioner’s office seems to suggest that there may be more comfort at Ocean and Tarawa for visitors in transit. The notice: His Honour wishes that the Transit Quarters at Ocean Island and Tarawa shall in future be referred to as Government Rest Houses.

In the past, these quarters have been somewhat lacking in comfort and amenities, resulting in a certain degree of stigma becoming attached to them. Recently, however, considerable effort and funds have been expended on improving the facilities offered and it is hoped that officers who now have to spend some time in one of the Rest Houses will not feel their lot to be akin to a customer at Dartmoor. v July was a prolific month for fish throughout the Cook Islands. At Pukapuka a record tuna 6 ft 5 in. long and weighing 324 lb was caught.

Wearing his new beret and white "sleeves" this member of Royal Papua-New Guinea Native Constabulary directs traffic at the corner of Douglas and Musgrave Sts., Port Moresby. -Photo by papuan prints. 85 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

Tales Of Tonga

Father Tremblay Clocks The Gurgle WATER going down the drain in the South Seas turns clockwise; in the northern hemisphere it turns anti-clockwise.

Should you doubt this, veteran South Seas missionary Father E.

Tremblay challenges you to try it and see.

That is one of the many examples he gives to explain the topsy-turvy theme of his new book, Grins and Chuckles in Upside Down Land, now ready for publication. For his prospective northern-hemisphere readers he explains that “The Land of Upside Down" simply means: In Oceania in general and Polynesia in particular, the seasons, the climate, the native customs and even many ordinary actions are almost always the exact contrary to theirs.

He gives them these other examples: The south wind is cold as it blows up from the South Pole; the north wind is hot as it blows down from the equator.

When you peel fruit you move the knife towards you; the South Sea native moves it away from him: When you call anyone with your hand, you turn it upwards and lift your fingers likewise; he turns his hand and fingers downwards and makes a gesture that reminds you of a cat burying something with his front paw.

Your rules of etiquette require that you pass behind a person; his make him pass in front.

In Polynesia [Australian topers E lease note] it is considered very ad manners to drink while standing. But it is the thing when making a speech before the queen or any big chief to sit on the ground. r.THER TREMBLAY explains that in the Islands “Yes" can mean “No" and vice-versa.

He quotes Sister M. Maureen, of Apia (Samoa), for this delightful example of topsy-turvy talking: When you grimly tell the *punishment squad that now they may go home after weeding for two hours and one comes up to you nervously cracking her knuckles and blurts out, “Sister, I forgive you for being naughty”, you understand the reversal, of course, and, trying not to smile, you add to yourself, “I hope God will, too”.

In his new book Father Tremblay again turns the spotlight on Tonga, where he spent a great part of his life as a Roman Catholic missionary. Since he retired from the active mission field he has written much in the United States about his memories of the South Seas. His Order has assisted him In the publication of the books.

His other Tonga book is doing very well. Its French edition is going “goodo” in Canada, he reports cheerfully from Hawaii, where he is now living. In Italy an Italian translation is being made. t Georges Tsakiris, a Greek from?

Australia, recently stowed away aboard the liner Tahitien while that ship was in Sydney. On arriving in Noumea harbour, Tsakiris came out from hiding and dived overboard hoping to reach land and safety. He seemed to fear the gendarmes of Noumea more than the sharks in the Harbour. He was captured on coming ashore and later appeared before the local court. He was sentenced to 15 days gaol but sentence was suspended. He was returned to Sydney on the Polynesie.

An Apia "First"

Pim Chossqiiiz No. 78

Solution Page 10M ACROSS 1. —who is the author of "The Dam Busters" and "The Great Escape"? 7 —From which Rogers and Hammerstein musical does the song "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" come? 8. — Who was the Queen Consort of George V? 9. —What is the name for the period including four Sundays up to Christmas Eve? 10. —Which Latin wrote the "Art of Love"? 11. —What is the name of the oblong piece of cloth which Arabs wrap round the head and body? 12. —What is the most primitive member of the primate order of mammals to which man belongs? 13. —Who was England's wicket-keeper in the 1955 Test series? 16. —What is a female hare called? 18. —Which of the Greek gods is identified with the sun? 19. —Where are the famous brown coal deposits in Victoria? 20. —With what sign did Judas betray Jesus? 21. —Of which country is Teheran the capital?

DOWN I.—What is the name of the line above which no ship must sink in the water when loaded? 2. —Who wrote "Magnificent Obsession"? 3. —Who is credited with introducing tobacco to England? 4. —ln which part of the Yukon territory in USA did tremendous gold rushes take place in the 1890's. 5. —Who was the queen reigning vw Ferdinand of Spain who financed Column on his expedition of discovery? 6. —Who composed the "Hungarian Fantas for piano and orchestra? 14. —From which Italian city did Petruo come to tame Katherine? 15—What don't invertebrate animals has 16. —which writer of detective stories • an advocate of Spiritualism? 17. —On which island are all immigrants;’

America first landed?

Sponsored by the Methodist Church, recently-opened Wesley Book Shop (pictu[?] fills a great need in Apia, Western Sa[?] which previously had to make do for most its literature with occasional pocket bo[?] supplied by the stores. Built by L. Pearson [?] J. Sheck, it makes a fine addition to Be[?] Road. Mr. N. H. Mapperson, who is in cha[?] of the shop, writes that public response to project has been "quite hectic". —Photo by R. F. Ran[?] 86 SEPTEMBER. 1956 PACIFIC' ISLANDS MONTH

[?]an With Itchy Feet . . .

DUG. ASKEW is an Islander True, having served in most of the islands between New Hebrides and Borneo, e was born at Douglas, in the Isle of Man, December, 1899. He served the last two rs of World War I in the Royal Flying is, and went to Australia in 1920. During next seven years he built up a rugged titution as a timberman in Victoria, then t to Vanikoro to cut out Kauri logs under litions which, after two years, persuaded to join the rest of the timbermen in a ie. They were returned to Sydney, bout this time Askew married Laura Whit- , whose father was trader Frank Whitford, fhe Banks Group; her mother was related Queen Emma of New Guinea.

Fter a year in New Caledonia, where Doug cutting out Kauri, inland from the Bei Pirogue, they went to the Banks Group Tibby Hagen, Doug working on the sulphur sits on Vanua Lava. Four years later he loped blackwater fever and returned to ralia. In 1935, he went to the plantations iu'u, Bonani and Menaba on the coast of lita in the BSIP, for the Malayta Company, :h sold out to the Fairymead Sugar Com- ' that owns Yandina in the Russells. hen war started in 1939 he was at Qantas Aascot; he was released to join the RAAF i Fitter II E., and found himself at Richd in a bunk next to a lanky clerk named s Rafferty. tug was accepted for a commission in the ) Branch, and became an adjutant, irwin, Bathurst Island, Drysdale, then uinot Bay in New Britain followed, then a se at the Staff School, then a commando ;e, and finally, as an acting Squadron er, he was at the landing at Balikpapan orneo. ith peace he prepared to settle in Ausa, but after a few months with Qantas, vent to Papua for Steamships Trading Co. the lonely Conflict Group for a year, am there to the Vailala River, three years back to Sydney, but not for long. Back war plantation on the Mad?ng coast, NG, site Manam volcano, where he spent three ;, followed by a spell running a trade in the Maprik and Wewak area, ben this drawing was made he was in -BRETT HILDER. [r. Maurice B. Baker, Cl Director Agriculture on long leave, r elled in the Waitemata to Aucki, Ranqitiki to Panama, and by on to Jamaica to visit his homei in Julv-August. He will reic duty in January.

There Was Something Odd in the Attic

The Eutychusian

HIS face was sad for one so young, but kind, and the width behind his ears indicated either great mental power or excessive bone development.

I felt drawn to find out which it was, so replied to his friendly glance as we passed in pacing the deck.

On the next round I turned and fell-in beside him.

“The climate,” I suggested, “is very agreeable here.”

“It is,” he said simply.

“Is this your first voyage to the Islands?” I asked.

“It is,” he answered.

“Perchance,” I went on, “you are accustomed to a milder zone?”

“I am,” he said. “Tennessee is tepid.”

“Tennessee,” I exclaimed, “how interesting. I have not before met a Tennessean. You have a fascinating country I am sure. Was it not made famous by William Jennings Darwin? Are there not some strange religious systems there?”

“There are indeed,” he cried, “Some are sadly peculiar. It is regrettable when the Truth is so clear.”

“Yes, I, too, wonder at the abnormal movements of man’s mind in the religious realm,” I said feelingly. “After all, simple faith and the kindest conduct. . .”

“Ah, yes, good conduct is important,” he agreed, “but that can come only from a right dividing of the World of Truth.”

“But, why divide that?” I asked.

“Why not take the little Truth we know wholly, and carry on with mercy. .

“Have you the Truth, Friend? he enquired.

“A gleam perhaps, Brother, and I followed the . . .”

“But why not have it all?” my companian cried earnestly. “It is so clear if we only read aright.”

“You are, I gather, a religious man,” I said. , .

“I am more, Sir,” he replied proudly. “I am an Eutychusian.”

I was somewhat startled. “May I ask you to spell that?” I said, wonderingly.

He spelled it.

“This is delightful,” I exclaimed, “it is so enlightening to meet with different shades of belief. I never have met an —er —follower of your faith before.”

“We are not many in this hemisphere,” he said sadly. “Few are they who walk in the right path, but soon, I trust, multitudes will know the way even in these islands of the sea.”

“You are a missionary, I presume?”

The author of this topical item, who is now a planter, after being for many years a missionary (strange metamorphosis!) sent it along with this note: “in view of present intensified concern over the tangled interpretations by X number of missions among innocents abroad, you may consider this skit worth space.

I printed it many years ago for private circulation and to my knowledge it has not appeared in any publication “I am the advance agent of a mighty army. Our Cause must increase. It must,” he repeated, “for light cannot be hid.”

“Strangely enough,” I said, “I think that I have met a man who belonged to your Order. I recall that he never would light a fire on a Friday.”

“No, he probably was not one of us,” the missionary answered. “We have little concern with fires on Earth. Our main foundation is the upper-room. In fact, we sometimes are nick-named ‘atticites’. And how any thinking man fails to see the impregnability of our position is a mystery to me There is overwhelming precedent for worshipping in an upper room. The second of the greatest epistles, the second chapter and the second verse, is very definite. The very fact that there are three twos in its composition is to us an unmistakable sign of divine inspiration. There is no scriptural example of worship on the first floor, but the upper chambers are clearly indicated in the two, two, two. . .”

“Too True!” I exclaimed, glancing anxiously at the enthusiast.

“There was Elijah,” he went on.

“You may remember that when he stayed with the widow, at Shumen, her guest-chamber was an upper chamber on the wall.”

Memories of boyhood Bible Lessons came mysteriously to me.

“Was it not Elisha who stayed there?” I said. “Was it not he who burned the cakes?”

“Did I not say Elisha?” he questioned. “Yes, it was he who stayed in the upper room. You may remember, too, that Solomon overlaid the upper chambers of the temple with gold. Why did he do that if they held no special significance? In fact, we read in Ezekiel fifty-two five, that all the upper rooms had special arrangements. It was also from upper (Continued on Page 102) 87 >CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

SEPTEMBER 1, 1906 It was an Historic Occasion for Papua . . . And for Australia By A. P. LYONS, formerly Director of Public Works in Papua.

THE first of September, 1906, was an historic occasion for Papua, because, on that day, at Port Moresby, the young Commonwealth of Australia took formal possession end control of the Crown Colony of British New Guinea, re-naming it the Territory of Papua. This was Australia’s first Island territory.

This change from UK to Australian administration was legally brought about by the Governor- General’s proclamation that the Papua Act of 1905, which had been passed by the Commonwealth Parliament, would come into force on September 1, 1906. The proclamation had been printed and published in a Gazette Extraordinary by the Government Printing Office at Port Moresby.

The Act provided for a constitution for the Territory; for some person to administer it; and for Executive and Legislative Councils to make laws for its administration.

The Governor-General appointed Captain F. R. Barton, CMG, to continue as administrator, and the following gentlemen to constitute the Executive and Legislative Councils: J. H. P. Murray (Chief Judicial Officer), A. Musgrave (Government Secretary), D. Ballantine (Treasurer), R. M. Drummond (Chief Government Surveyor), A. M. Campbell (Resident Magistrate, Samarai), and C. A. W.

Monckton (Resident Magistrate, Northern Division). The following three gentlemen were appointed Non-official members of the Legislative Council: W. Whitten (Merchant, of Samarai), F. Weekly (Miner, of Woodlark Island), and W. Little (Miner, of Yodda goldfield) .

Most of the European population then lived at Samarai, or thereabouts, or at the Northern and Eastern goldfields. Samarai w the business and commercial hu an entrepot from which miners at others obtained their goods at native labourers.

The transfer ceremony at P‘ Moresby was impressive for all tnr PORT MORESBY between the wars. A photograph taken about 25 years ago when the now capital of the combined Territory had a population of less than 200 Europeans. Most of the vacant land shown herein is now covered with houses and other buildings. This photograph looks towards Paga Hill.

An even older photograph looking in opposite direction to photograph above. It has I loaned from the collection of the Rev. B. T. Butcher, veteran missionary of the LMS, whir currently in the United Kingdom. The block was made from an old glass "Magic-Lantern" ; and we were unable to find out in which year the photo was taken. The intersection Shi lower centre of the photograph is the intersection of Douglas and Musgrave Sts., three cornen which are now occupied by modern establishments of the Bank of NSW and Commonwealth 3as and by the Hotel Papua. Perhaos some old Territorian can tell os the date the photograph i taken —the Port Moresby of that day bears little resemblance to the present town of moio shops and houses.

ook place at the Government etary’s office, a small, threeled building located close to :e the Anglican Church now ds. The office was also used ;he Central (Supreme) Court, Council Chambers. The buildhas long disappeared. the forenoon of September 1, 306, about 60 Europeans (including myself), together with a few hundred natives from near-by villages, assembled before the Government Secretary’s office.

A squad of Armed Native Constabulary formed a guard of honour near the flagstaff from which the official flag of the Possession was flying.

Precisely at noon, the Administrator arrived and, after inspecting the guard, entered the building from which he read aloud the Governor-General’s proclamation.

Thereafterwards he delivered a short address to the Europeans, followed by a translation in the Mold language to the natives.

At the conclusion of the address, Captain Archibald Hunter, Commander of the Government Steam yacht Merrie England, hauled down the Possession flag, and hoisted the Australian flag.

The Administrator, accompanied by the Legislative Councillors, then entered the Chambers, where each of them took the oath of office.

In spite of its new importance as a capital, the first Legislative Council meeting was held at Samarai —on September 28, 1906.

Most, if not all, of the Councillors who attended that meeting are now dead.

ABOVE: Sir Hubert Murray, Lieut.-Governor of Papua from 1908 until his death, at 78 while still on duty, at Samara! on February 27, 1940. He was regarded as one of the greatest of colonial administrators. Papua was stilt savage, unimportant and little known. Sir Hubert, through his sane, enlightened and inspired policy put.it on the map.

AT LEFT: Port Moresby at an even earlier stage of its development—about 1900. It is simply marked "Looking out over the harbour".

It could have been taken from the hotel of the day—which was located in what is now Musgrave St., slightly above the existing Hotel Moresby.

BELOW: Some of Papua's more recent history —at left, Australian troops, who had retaken Kokoda from the Japs, watch as the Australian flag is raised again in November, 1942. At right; The twisted wrecks of jeeps at Higaturu following the disastrous eruption of Mt. Lamington in January, 1951. Over 4,000 natives and 30 Europeans were killed.

Other photographs page 90. 89 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

Evolution of a Hotel . ..

Your World of Stamps —II

Minimum Equipment

AT FIRST A Column for 'New Stamp Collectors, Conducted by KN THIS month I propose to discuss what you will need in the way of basic equipment to begin stamp collecting.

If possible, you should buy a stamp catalogue so that you can quickly identify the country from the inscriptions used on your stamps, You’ll also learn when and why the stamps were first issued, and their current prices.

Perhaps a friend has an wd catalogue that he’s finished with that you could begin with, to set ycu on the right collecting path. As time passes maybe you could buy a more up-to-date one.

There are many ways of acquiring your stamps. Firstly, you can swap, stamp for stamp, or set for set, with your school or work associates. Others may come through exchange with penfriends in other countries. Later you might join a stamp club, at school, work, or in your home district, where swapping, auction sales and comp°titions will help to add to your collection.

There are many reliable stamp dealers that would assist you with specimens. Some of these advertise their stamps, and will usually provide you with price lists and catalogues.

You will have to decide early whether you will save used or unused. or as collectors like to call them, “mint” copies. Whatever type you finally follow, is up to you. The “mint” specimens look better in an album, and under a magnifying glass, you can see all the details.

However, keep the used stamps for exchanging and replacements.

Sometimes “approval books” of stamps are also available from stamp dealers and clubs, and when you receive the books you simply extract the stamps you want, and return payment for them with the book.

You will find that there are separate books for each country, as well as books of various designs.

You should specify the variety of stamps in which you are interested.

It is wiser not to try to get a complete set of stamps at one time.

Unless your finances permit it, it is best to content yourself with small sets, at a lower price. Later you may add some of the higher values.

Often you will find the same design is used in a set of many different values. Therefore wouldn’t it be better, as a beginner, to secure short sets, with as many distinct desii as possible?

You should always handle yi stamps with great care. Greasy dirty fingers could ruin a valus specimen. Thus, a pair of tweei; come in handy, and prevent y i issues getting creased or torn.

Never pull stamps from envelo or your album, but remove tM by soaking in warm water —butt careful, because you may find paper used in certain types envelopes will stain your specime “Ease it off” liquid can be bouj to assist in the removal of stuck* stamps. (Next month, more about eqt ment.) Some Interesting Recent Issues WHEN the tiny Liechtenstein, in Europe, year celebrated the 10th an versary of the formation of National Red Cross organisation' fine series of “portrait” stamps issued. Each stamp carried a st:J ing portrait of the Royal Chikb of Liechtenstein. These were Crc Prince John Adam, Prince Phr Prince Nicholas and Princess Nod Ever since they were first inr duced as a means of raising moD for health work, in 1929, New 2s This (left) was Port Moresby's only h[?] photographed in 1900, and even then about years old. It was called the Hotel Moresby and consisted of one large cen[?] room in which there were six stretchers. W[?] business was brisk, more stretchers were up along the verandah. Roof and walls [?] of corrugated iron. In 1910 it was [?]ec that Moresby warranted something b[?] (lower left), and this building was constru[?] But the old hotel remained as a sort annex —known to the old Territorians as "Dead House"—until about 1938 when it demolished to make way for the new H[?] Moresby (lower right) which is well know present day Moresby residents. The Mon is regarded as the town's second hotel—H[?] Papua, further up Musgrave St., is rega[?] as the "best". Both are owned by a B[?] Philp subsidiary. 90 SEPTEMBER. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

i's “Health” stamps have been urites with collectors, my of the designs have depicted and girls at play and in campscenes; there have also been raits of Royalty, local views and ery. ie 1956 NZ Health stamps, which to appear this month (Sep- >er) will show two young chilin an orchard picking apples i a well-laden tree, ie 1954 “Child Welfare” stamps Indonesia, in six different u e s, gave an indication of hful activities in that Republic.

Mingangkabus boy and girl pering the Umbrella dance; girls ng Jondkak; boys on bamboo ; Ambonese boys playing flutes; re girls with musical instru- ;s and a Srimpi dancing girl used as the designs.

[?]Ashing Success

sweet the tropic sounds are! ... e birds that wake at dawn, wild fowl in the tree-tops, e tame fowl on the lawn. . . lovely though these warbles, ere’s no noise can surpass crash of falling china, e snap of breaking glass. its crashity-crash and tinkle, loops! we go again! e’s Auntie Grace’s wedding gift ?oing down the drain, ve broken half the breakfast ups— dw let us break the rest”! sh to God they’d choose the rorst; ey always choose the best! tropic life is tranquil, 3 tropic life is sweet; iroken only by the sound large and plodding feet, if you want to change the Line, t clean the Swedish glass— leave the kitchen just a tick 1 hear what’s going to pass! t’s crashity-crash and tinkle— -3 best jug’s come apart; ’ve broken baby’s bottle, think they’ll break my heart!) never choose the candlesticks which we’re both depressed! when he’s left to do his worst ;s he always choose our best?

NOELLE TAYLOR. ainville. ! Resident Commissioner of the Islands in a public notice rei appealed to motorists in ;onga to drive more carefully, warned Government drivers they are liable to be dismissed seeding the speed limit, which mph maximum on the open

Could This Be Fiji-Or Thai Old

American “Paradise" Of The South Pacific?

FIVE pounds per day per head, that is what tourists to Fiji paid out in cold cash last year, according to an expert. (PIM, August, page 135). It made a total of £500,000, in lovely, lovely dollars and £’s, Stg., NZ or A.

What did the customers get for this reasonably large sum of money? The genuine Fiji, or a pale, pale imitation of Hawaii?

As the customer is always right, the minority, who wanted it that way, probably got a fair approximation of authenticity; and the majority—glamour; meaning hibiscus, guitars and hula-girls.

Especially hula-girls. Why tell the customer, who has paid his good dough, that the Fijian maid is a modest creature who prefers to ignore the fact that the Almighty gave her legs and rigorously covers them down to the ankles; or that, on her native heath, she never, never dances the hula.

Fiji has other kinds of Islanders, and they do the hula, do they not?

Certainly; but why not extend the idea by rounding up the Scots lassies to do the Highland Fling at some chosen beach resort? Or the Spanish senoritas (if any are resident) to do the tarantella? Or —but why continue? The idea has limitless possibilities.

In the South Pacific, only in Fiji has tourism “arrived.” It occurs in other parts of the area, but is not spoken of as an “industry.”

Is tourism a good or a bad thing?

Opinion is about equally divided.

Many good citizens feel that there is something degrading about the bally-hoo that appears to be an inescapable part of organised tourism.

They could be right. Certainly tourists, en masse—in Rome or Rarotonga—do nothing to restore one’s faith in the human race.

The cameramen . . .

Dust off that old Box- Brownie gents, and step right up. This is Fiji (repeat, FIJI) where exotic hula-maidens sway to the rhythm of guitars beneath the coconut-palms. Did we say "exotic"? That's what we meant. According to our dictionary: "Not native; brought in from abroad". . . The subject According to Mr. Jack Thornton, who supplied these photographs, this young lady is the most photographed hula-dancer in Fiji. Could we doubt it? 91 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHIY SEPTEMBER, 1956

This Month's New Reading Elizabethan Treatment For Victorian Plot IT is interesting to speculate on what lay behind the decision of a novelist of A. J. Cronin’s calibre to indulge himself with the classic example of the hackneyed plot. Certainly it is a challenge; and one to which he rises with his usual brilliance.

Briefly, Crusader’s Tomb tells the story of a young man of the English “gentry,” Stephen Desmonde, destined by family tradition to enter the Church but who, several months before he is to take Orders, bolts for Paris because he wants to become an artist.

His family does not immediately cut him off without a shilling, that comes a year later when it is felt that he has had time to get his aberration out of his system.

There follow years of garrets and grinding poverty, of self-neglect, bad food or no food and finally— of course, —a hacking cough. The period is between the beginning of this century and the end of the 20’s It takes in the First World War, which the hero ignores, absorbed in his painting in neutralist Spain.

When the war is over and he goes home, his “lack of patriotism” is therefore used as a weapon to flay him, and his family: his abhorrence of war is regarded as cowardice; his art is vilified and he is dragged into court on a charge of painting obscene pictures.

Misunderstood but unrepentant he withdraws into the obscurity of London dockland, painting but refusing to exhibit or sell, finally expiring of TB in the arms of his Cockney wife, Jenny, leaving her still carrying their unborn child.

Ten years after Stephen Desmonde’s death he is, of course, a famous painter.

What would any author make of it, with all this on the agenda?

When the author is a Cronin, it becomes a story of complete and absorbing interest.

Moreover, convincing.

You may not like “modern art;” belong to the cows-in-themeadow school; feel that all artists are poseurs —and end this novel feeling that there may be Stephen Desmondes, with a seeing eye denied the rest of us.

This is a story in which the emotions go deep—the plot may be threadbare but there is nothing thin and patchy about the characters.

Essentially it is a story of aristocrats, although socially some of the people who inhabit it are far from that: the triumph of high intellect over the grosser facts of life and social custom.

Completely fascinating also are the pictures of Paris and rural France and England in the halcyon pre-World War I period of those countries’ greatness. (Published in Australia by Angus and Robertson, Ltd. Australian price, 18/9.) Twenties THERE is nothing aristocratic about this novel: It brims with American brashness of the Prohibition, pre-Wall Street-collapse period.

However, as a first novel, the author, Kate Farness, does better by her publishers than do some of this company’s other “firsts.” The title, One Half So Precious, comes from that line in the Rubaiyat: 1 wonder often what the Vintnebuy One half so precious as the gooo they sell.

Basically, it is the struggle b' tween Nell and Gort Crae Minnesotans of Irish descent, t the well-being of their six childre Gort puts his faith in the fact tb; he was born with a caul (a tW membrane which sometimes cove the head of a child at birth aif which is supposed to bring goa fortune); Nell in prayer. If virtf is not entirely triumphant in ti end, it probably can be said th Nell made her point. However,, we do leave Gort down it seeK distinctly unlikely that he will 1 permanently out.

This is by no means a religio book. Although the young Cra* spend an appropriate time lighti candles to this or to that, thr extra-religious activities are i traordinary, even viewed with U tolerance.

The Craigs are blessedly Rom Catholic, which permits a mu more realistic rapprochement of ; ligion and the exigencies of eve:; day life —but whether Bishop She (see below) could tie their philosoß in with his is another matter.

Community Fathers who wrr their hands over the iniquities Youth in 1956 are obviously wrin ing a good 30 years too late. Equsg By permission of Sydney "Bulle[?] 92

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The Craig-type teen-agers spite their beer with pure alcohol whii their High School boy-frieru carried in hip-pocket flasks; tbi went on “petting-parties;” dano the Charleston; and really put ft cult of the automobile on fi]j foundations.

But, in comparison with the pn sent generation of young, they wr tough-fibred beings, suffering nco of the complexes, isms and reactio since sent to try us.

Gort Craig was a dentist with flourishing practice. But that w not the end of his activities, ran boot-leg liquor from across t Canadian border and elsewhere; dabbled in real estate and rode t stock-market boom —alas, too lot He had an affair with anotl woman, and killed her in a « accident. He finally went to pris for two years. In all of these entc prises the Craig kids were timately concerned.

But when the final day of recko ing came, did they retire hu emotionally twisted, socially secure? No. They came up w. chins out, fighting. Gort was s their hero.

It seems that human young less easily damaged than specialists of 1956 would have believe.

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But if someone must wring last juice out of Tahiti (for wlr read Paradise) as the theme ot book, it is probably as well tJ it is veteran word-spinner Willi Price who does the job.

There is nothing, absolutely noc ing, left to say about Tahiti Tahitians; all that can be done to say it in a different way—tthis Price somehow manages to The book (Adventures in Paradu covers the Cook Islands, the Sanr and Fiji, as well as French Ocea;j but about half of it is devotedt the last-named and by the tJ the author has reached Fiji, P:* and wife Mary are obviously an ous to get back home, and onl;I very superficial account is givem Readers will probably derive ? much entertainment from read) the Fiji section of the Pao: Islands Year Book and the inforrr 94 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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Collins Street, Alexandria, N.S.W., Australia i therein will likely be found to more accurate, or Mr. Price’s information, Fiji not exported butter since the -thirties and currently imports ut £BO,OOO worth of butter and e from Australia and NZ to :e up the deficiencies of her own iuction. (With no ulterior motive strictly in the interest of iracy, if Mr. Price cares to ly, we should be happy to supply with a copy of the Pacific Year k, 1956 edition, gratis), he best part of Mr. Price’s book that dealing with the Cook nds, and this section we found ghtful. r ith the over-publicised sex jtices of Tahiti left behind over horizon, and the butter statistics Fiji not yet encountered, the lor gives himself over to the exences of Mary and self in the r Zealand-run Cooks.

Tiat he has to say will, of course, iriate some private individuals the administrators of that fair up, both in Rarotonga and lington—these people having deped an almost French touchiness such matters in recent years. >me unfortunate episodes ctuate the visit of the Prices to Cooks but, remarkable for an jrican writer, he does not cise unduly or put it down to effete Colonial system under 3h we Britishers exist.

Nonetheless, the fact that he has had the temerity to write about events as they happened, and not present them as an excursion of unblemished bliss will probably be sufficient to bring up the hackles of many in these far away isles.

This is as good a point as any, perhaps, to exclaim at the extraordinary attitude of Mr. Price, an American, to the Colonial system, either British or French.

Not once does he insist that we free our slaves; or give these downtrodden people “independence.” He notes the problems of the Sol di Pacific; ponders upon them— ard leaves the solution to the admblistering authority.

This from an American writer and traveller is so extraordinary that it leaves the British reader with almost a feeling of anti-climax, if with some pleasure as well.

The Prices landed at Aitutaki from Tahiti, having travelled by TEAL. They went from Aitutaki to Rarotonga by an 80-ft “reeking, leaking little tub.”

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54a Pitt Street, Sydney Cables: ROBERGILL G.P.O. Box 7011 tactfully leave out the name — ough everyone in the Cooks vs it, and it has recently iged hands, anyhow. But Price’s ription of the voyage and the is such a classic and we canforego the pleasure of giving 3 extracts. le Captain explained when they b on board that some Latter- Saint missionaries had already :ved the deck-house, so it would lecessary for them to go down the crew’s quarters * showed them the way. Says 3: “He opened a hatch and we 3d down into a black pit that up odours known only to the ;ls of ships. . . In the depths ould dimly make out six bunks. 1 was covered by a grimy ;ress and a pillow that had r been cleaned in all of its msly long history. . . Adjomthe cabin, but with no door een, was a cubbly-hole conng a dirty sink, a primus stove some pots and pans. Evidently as the galley. . . A small door le other end of the cabin disd an indescribably messy hole a toilet bowl full of dark-brown r. ‘Facilities,’ said the Captain rfully. ‘Flush doesn’t work. Just ; it. The boy will take care 9 99 ie Prices went back on deck took refuge in a lifeboat full yet canvas, with two fellowpassengers, New Zealanders. The ship put to sea and once from the shelter of Aitutaki began to “toss and turn like a barrel.’’ Waves shivered into spray against the gunwale and showered into the lifeboat.

The conversation with the two ]^ ew Zealanders became Jess and less animated, and finally the NZers went below. The Maori deck passengers retreated to lie on the of copra in the hold, from which retching sounds soon came.

Says Price: “The Maoris deserve all the more credit for their great Pacific explorations since they are constitutionally poor sailors.”

The Mormon miss ionary, who had berthed his three daughters and one wife in the cabin, came out twice with a basin and em P tied over the side. Then he came out with a ™sh—without the basin, The en £ ineer came U P from below and also went smartly to the rail.

After the necessary interval he returned ’ sheepish. “Happens every he “ Never used “ The Prices stayed in the lifeboat, with their stomachs strangely close to their mouths - But, of course, they never got seasick-or hadn’t for 34 years-and it was only an overnight trip, anyhow.

Then a Maori seaman came along and told them to get below—the Captain said “hurricane.” (Oven 97 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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They made it—and instinctively reached into the galley for two pans which they used at once. The record of over 30 years was broken.

An English crew-member occupied one bunk; the two NZers two others. The Prices fell into two lower berths in their clothes.

The cook came and began to operate in the galley. “Bully beefstew or bully-beef curry,” he offered.

The passengers groaned.

The fumes of the Primus joined the “reek of the copra, the pungency of crushed cockroaches, the musty fug of bedding, the sickening odour of lost dinners, the stench of the bilges, and the acrid stink of the John.”

Once, when Mary was more than usually occupied with the pan, a sympathetic New Zealander leaned down from the top berth and struck a match. “Want a light,” he asked.

“Thank you,” answered the lady, “I don’t need a light for what I’m doing.”

The hatch-covers stuck and huge seas washed down into the cabin — and even when the Captain finally freed it, the water continued to rise, and reached the bunks.

On deck, several crates of live crabs burst open in the storm and sought refuge below in the bunks with the cockroaches, copra-bugs and passengers.

The ordeal went on for two nights and two days. Finally the Captain came below to confess he could not find Rarotonga—it was around somewhere, but the 100 out who had been up the mast'i the previous day could find no la: in sight.

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Chinese consider age the acle of life. Whereas at 50 we our hair, the Chinese is ‘perjd’ to grow a beard —as a sign honour. When great-grand- *r speaks, all who are younger, natter what their station, are e respectfully silent. Such a ty has a solidity and an unnlness denied the group that itself be completely guided by youthful and inexperienced.” dished by World's Work (1913), Ltd.

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“Quite so,” I interrupted, “I am sure the kings. . .”

“Dorcas,” he shouted, “was brought back to life in an upper room. Right through we get it, up to the time when the first missionary held a service in the upper room at Troas from which Saint Eutychus fell on his head.

You get it all in the twentieth chapter of Acts. Our arch-angel even now wears a golden knob on his crown to mark the place where he hit. Our dear Eutychus stuck the sermon for four hours before he gave up, or rather, went down.

And that was only because of the heat of the old-fashioned lamps.

“Of course,” he went on thoughtfully, “now we have a dispensation to use electric light which is less conducive of somnolence. Surely the reason why the churches have not swept the world is that they will not rise to upper rooms. I consider the argument that many of their buildings are on high foundations to be a mere begging of the question! Do you not agree that all religious bodies should raise a few extra pounds and always hold their services in upper rooms?”

“Certainly, Sir, I do,” I exclaimed.

“The extra cost could be recovered by letting the basement.”

“That, Sir, is a consideration that has not entered into our calculations. Still, it would assist the finances. But the call is to follow the example of the saints of old.

To be content with lower floors is disloyal to holy precedents. I, Sir, intend to establish churches om higher plane. I go to a people w have not yet been contaminated J custom and who must see that! ways of great men of old werel purposeless, and the upper ro© should be restored to their right, place.”

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He lingered for a day, but despite the skill of the ship’s surgeon, and the patient’s faith that he would be restored as was Eutychus, he passed away.

Before doing so he asked me to write to friends, whose addresses in Tennessee he gave me. Although he was dying through an attempt to descend to a lower room, he made me promise to proclaim his martyrdom.

That event cast quite a gloom over all aboard, and after we had buried him there was scarcely a dry lip on the ship.

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motor-vessel Jabiru, owned j Jabiru Trading Company, bandoned at sea August 21, les south-east of the Ninigo i, New Guinea, dio message from MV Josey that morning said she was ig by Jabiru, which was mak- ,ter with all pumps working, gers had been transferred that stage her Master, Caplorgan, was standing by on iking vessel. first report indicated that the had struck exceptionally bad r which had washed out some caulking. equent reports stated that i Morgan got away just bete vessel sank. u (then spelt Jaberoo) was this column in March, 1955, •eported that she had had a escape from a reef off the g coast when the engine iown.

Zon In Bougainville

American vessel Horizon, by the University of Caliand carrying a team of eight ts and 21 crew, anchored at Bougainville, August 19. had been carrying out an graphic and hydrographic in the equatorial belt.

1 Of Cruising Yachts

Timaru, 24-ft yawl of Honotiome-built by 38-year-old nder Florentine Das, was in i March. The voyage com- May 14, 1955. A month later, onape with the yacht leakas accepted an offer of a Dm a Japanese tuna-vessel; mined there until February 5. Next stop was Truk and tion is given as the Philipthen back home. Mrs. Das ght children watch events [onolulu. :a, of Victoria, BC, is another lipped through our guard. 01 ft x 18i ft x 6S ft x 4J ft -sheer yawl, manned by mder John Guzzwell, arrived Wand, June, 1956. The yacht Victoria, September 10, 1955, at Honolulu and Fanning. > a brand-new modern-type ad has created much interest kland yachting circles.

Varua, W. A. Robinson’s schooner yacht, west-bound from Papeete on medical research work, as reported last month, touched at Rotuma, August 6.

Tahiti , Tahiti-type Honolulu ketch, was preparing to head out for Papeete and Honolulu from Auckland in late August. Since arriving November 3, 1955, the yacht has had an extensive refit —new rudder, rigging, roller reefing gear, sail tracks, sails, pressure stove, and other general repairs and improvements. Owner Lorrin Smith has taken on American Ted Grant to replace Philip Schroeder, who returned to the States. Grant formerly owned the Honolulu 34-ft schooneryacht Penrhyn and was one of the 105 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956 hipping and Cruising Yacht News (Continued from Page 71)

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Miranda, Auckland yacht, has heen purchased by Australian John O’Donnell, and he plans to cruise to Tahiti next winter. O’Donnell, who was employed as a radiographer in Pago Pago for a time, arrived in Auckland as a member of the crew of the Seattle ketch Mariner.

Mariner will remain in Auckland until next winter at least, then owner James G. Robinson may head for Queensland waters and New Guinea. George L. Karl, former partner, left Auckland last December by normal means of travel and was lately reported in Scandinavia seeking a double-ender pilotvessel type of craft in which to do some more cruising.

White Squall, of Auckland, which cruised Polynesia in 1953 and planned US Pacific coast cruise this winter, will not undertake the trip due to ill-health of Ross Norgrive, owner.

Jellicle, trim 20-ft English sloop, still lies in Auckland for sale.

Owner Lieutenant Bailes is back with the Royal Navy in UK.

Solace was still undergoing refit in August at Auckland, but owner Commander Victor Clarke, DSC, RN (Retd.) hoped to clear for Palmerston Island before the end of September. He recently flew to England and back. The yacht may spend the hurricane season in the Cooks, or she may be headed back for Auckland for at least part of the summer. West Indian SI Mathurin is still right-hand and Tuatai Marsters, of Palme will return to the Cooks in the ing ketch Inspire. The yact been replanked on the stai side, fitted with a new Victor diesel, and given a g overhaul. The planking, whic done at Palmerston, foil 106 SEPTEMBER, 1953 PACIFIC ISLANDS MO.NT r

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A complete and up-to-date technical service is available from the Agents in Fiji for Perkins Engines: BURNS PHILP (S.S.) CO. LTD. ng there, was replaced in ad. i, Auckland 20-footer, which to Sydney via Lord Howe inter, has since been to and back. She cleared for Brisbane late July, and cruise Barrier Reef waters, home, possibly via Noumea, ; hurricane season. m, of Auckland, bound for S, cleared Rarotonga for i July 23, and was to head Papeete after a couple of lice, 20-ft Sydney cutter, in Frenchman Maurice de I made two abortive atto reach Lord Howe last nally made it recently. With teuil is Peter Clifford, 26. d Polo, of Auckland, bound the world, was at Miama, , in August. Messrs. Armit )e plan to head north for for a while, but should enter ufic again via Panama next on the homeward leg. a was the only yacht of the ngeles-Papeete Race group ng at Papeete by early It is assumed that the have all headed directly Stirling, Auckland motoraound round the world, was bane early in August after \ the Tasman. e, of England, Danny Weil’s one-man radio amateur ex- 1, touched at Ocean Island , leaving again the same day iru.

Gemini, Jack and Leah Wheeler’s 34-ft Honolulu ketch, which cruised to French Oceania in the winter ot 1953, and caused much interest or overseas radio amateurs-Jack is a radio ‘ ham’’—is coming south again, this time with a new crewmember, 9-months old Sharon. The yacht was to clear Portland, Oregon, for the Islands in August.

Taurangi of Auckland, one of the Auckland-Suva R ace entrants, arrived back at Whangaroa, NZ, on August 22.

Daydream, Sydney entrant in the above race, arrived in Brisbane from Suva via Noumea on August 21.

The passage from Noumea took 10 da .X?; rr j. , . , „ White Hart, in which Tony and Bridget Reeves and 3-years-old son Michael of Victoria bp avp Ing to NewZealandarrived at Rarotonga from Papeete August 20* Coonglola, Wellington! NZmotorsailer, reached Sydney in and will work up the coast to Brisbane and beyond Sari Marais, of Australia with Charles and Janice Ramsom was reported at Fort Lauderdale Florida, last May. This yacht, continuing her round-the-world voyage, should enter the Pacific via Panama next winter.

Viajera, Tahiti-type ketch owned by Bill and Sue Rorison was planning to leave the Pacific Coast of the States for Honolulu this winter, and may be seen further south, bound New Zealand, next winter. (Gver) [?]e went to a lot of trouble to be [?]ith this old slime-covered lifebuoy this picture, and found by a fisherthe shores of Botany Bay, Sydney, on [?]3. it was reported then that the Fiji [?]nt had asked that inquiries be made [?]. However, Dalgety and Co., Ltd., [?] Sydney for the Fiji Government, [?]d- [?] that they had received no instruc- [?]m the Fiji Government, and did not action. The whole thing was too a hoax. —Sydney "Mirror" photo. 107

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Hope 30 ft Auckland ketch, with *: Norris and companions, called at Rarotonga between August 2-11, clearing thence for home. Leaving Auckland in May, the yacht called at Raivavae, Papeete, Moorea, Borabora, and Huahine before reaching Rarotonga.

Quest, one of the Los Angeles- Papeete Race contestants, returned UPPER; A scale model of the bamboo raft “Tahiti Nui", not yet launched in early September.

LOWER: The three crew members who are building the raft under the direction of Captain Eric de Bisschop Michel Brun, Francis Cowan, and right Alain Brun, standing beside the raft (see story page 110). 109 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1956

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Tahiti Nui Takes Shape

Preparations for the Tahiti Nui raft voyage from Papeete to Chile and return are progressing well, according to a Tahiti correspondent, and the expedition, headed by Captain Eric de Bisschop, should be on its way on time.

This raft voyage, like all the others before it, is expected to prove something—to the satisfaction of the voyagers if no one else. de Bisschop believes the Polynesians sailed to South America—not the South Americans to Polynesia as the Kon Tiki raft voyage was supposed to prove.

The Tahiti despatch says construction of the 40 ft x 16 ft raft commenced May 15, after lengths of selected bamboo had been tested for their ability to retain buoyancy in sea water over a 6 months period.

The construction has been carried out by three of the expedition, Francis Cowan and Michel and Alain Brun, under the supervision of Captain de Bisschop, who designed the raft and constructed a scale model to test its behaviour.

Over 400 bamboo poles were selected from one of the best stands of bamboo on the Mutovini Estate.

As the photo of the model shows, the raft will employ two large triangular woven pandanus sails, and will have no rudder, steering being adjusted by two centreboards which can be lowered.

No nails or bolts have been used in construction. There will be seme carving and decoration sirr to old-time Polynesian craft. ■ TOP LEFT: Papeete volunteers helping to fight the fire which broke out aboard MV "Benecia" during 14th July festivities. The ship suffered extensive damage to superstructure and accommodation. Photo: Studio Mackenzie.

TOP RIGHT: Mr. Ted Kistner's graceful staysail schooner "Dwyn Wen", lately visiting Papeete with a party of guests from Honolulu.

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LOWER RIGHT: The yacht "Vacua" leaving Pago Pago on July 25.

This yacht, which cost 575,000 to build, is 66 ft. long, with a draft cf 6 ft. 6 in., and a beam of 16 ft. 2 in. (See also page 65).

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>r to departure the raft will iled off the Tahiti coast and arough her paces in the first of rough weather to see how shaves. Any necessary adjust- , will then be made before final ture late September or early er. crew, says our correspondent, a “perfect state of strength aoral and physical condition” there appears to be some as to the fifth member of the who was to be radio operator, h it is hoped that radio convill be maintained throughout cpected 4-month passage from te to Valparaiso. ; raft will he headed south to )th or 35th parallel of latitude k up favourable winds for the >ound passage. The return run be by the Kon-Tiki route ;r north where winds and its move westward. ie expedition will be clearly mtific one, much difficult and e work being done,” says our ipondent. Modern electronic me nt will be carried for idi n g the depths. Winds, its, and other data will be led. Captain de Bisschop bethat Polynesians sailed from i to South America about 500 lour and black-and-white s and still photos will be taken f all goes well a scientific book ie voyage will be published as as another book for popular imption dealing with the human ts of the voyage.

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Fishing Season

ae- strange craft were reported ag night into day with brilliant in Northern Cook Group ■s recently by the inter-island ig vessels Taveuni and lotte Donald. early August they were cond by an American source to be lese fishing vessels, based on »a.

Rarotonga correspondent coming on this, says: “These litous harvesters of the sea the moment to strike. Not for ag time have Cook Islanders so much marine life, grappled such monsters, or enjoyed so i sea food as over the last : months. imdreds of fat tuna have been at by canoe fishermen in this period, and in late July great schools of wahoo made the water boil off Rarotonga, the local canoe fleet being equal to this exciting occasion.

“Lesser breeds such as flying fish have been scooped up by the thousands and seasonal runs of inshore fish have been heavy.

“There has been a spate, too of interesting marine visitors. Most unexpected of all, a seal turned up one day in June at Arorangi, Rarotonga—a ridiculous place for an Antarctic mammal to be. It was soon in the local pots.

“Next star catch was a huge swordfish, which kept a small fleet of canoes fully engaged for six hours.

“And now the whales are cavorting offshore. Rarotongan tuna fishermen had grandstand seats on August 10 as six whales surfaced and swam lazily about, at times within throwing distance of the assembled canoes. Reports from outer islands suggest the biggest seasonal movement for years.

“There was a time when, on whales being sighted off Rarotonga the lookout would blow his conch, boat-steerer and seasoned crew would spring to launch the waiting whaleboat, and, if a harpoon found its mark, the whole population would follow the leviathan struggle round the coastline.

“To-day one opens another tin of meat and counts the whales going by.” (Over) 111 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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Still In Sydney Dock

The 600-ton Melinga, owned by Bern Shipping Pty. Ltd., expects to be out of dock by the end of October.

She was towed to Sydney in July by the NG Australia Line Shansi from Port Moresby, where she had been under charter to the Australasian Petroleum Co.

Her future movements are uncertain.

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Captain Emile Sovoie’s new purchase, the 800 tons Comara, is currently on a voyage from Fremantle to Darwin: she will go then to Tasmania and does not expect to enter service Sydney-New Caledonia until late October.

The 64-dollar question as to whether she will have a name change to bring her into line with the rest of the Savoie Del Mar family, is as yet unanswered. I Sydney agents say “no decisionc —but it’s probable.”

We understand that ano: Savoie ship, Maria del Mar, is for sale. 114 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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The Australian “administering authority” (which suffers badly at hands of anti-colonial powers like Costa Rica, India, Indonesia and, nurse, USA) should be pleased with the remarkable document that natedfrom the Highland Farmers’ and Settlers’ Assn., Goroka, New nea, after that body’s 4th Annual meeting on July 29. But it is a ea to a gooseberry that it will not. ;LY the official view will be at if there is any tub-thumpr to be done; any Charter or -Rights for any part of the >ry, it should be done illy,” or not at all. begin with, the settlers, in manifesto, assume that they a perfect right to be where re. And this is something— as we know —that no one ; official side of the “adming authority’s” fence has ever ed in plain words, i, too, the settlers have set blunt fashion that as well as ges, natives, settlers and the stration should assume their isponsibilities. sort of speaking is apt to be lin to be palatable, lly, such a public avowal of is likely to be regarded, ly, as offensive to the United s Trusteeship Council: Papua erritory of Australia, but the s on the other side of the are being groomed for selfment, and if the UN envisages is a partnership, along the uggested by the F & S Assn., ip to date we have misjudged ling the UN Trusteeship [1 has said. no one imagine that these nds settlers are not cornsincere in the rules for livit they have set out for them- -they do not pay mere lip i to the idea of partnership n European and native. They not starry-eyed dreamers, but men long in vision, laps someday, one of these bulating experts who wander ruinea surveying this and that, )me up with a theory as to his particular breed of men attracted to the Highlands >e people endow pioneering l spiritual as well as a praclignificance. It is a pity that lo not live in more propitious for at no period in the affairs i has the high-resolve of the group been so nullified by the res and stresses from the without. it would be an incautious who said that this crystallising ;ir aims into a Charter was tie importance; or that the mds experiment has not already had results. It is watched with interest —and not a little envy— by the rest of Papua and New Guinea. And this feeling of “brotherhood” between white and brown was the most significant thing remarked upon by the recent Visiting Mission in its report to UNO.

The Charter, unanimously adopted, sets out the following aims: • The good relations now prevailing between the Highlands people and ourselves must be maintained by just and fair dealing, and we look to the Administration to foster and encourage, by the actions of its officers, the growing economic and development partnership which we consider to be the best means of helping all classes and all races. • We believe that it is our duty and function to provide those skills and services which the Highlands people are not yet able to achieve without direct assistance. By collecting, purchasing and marketing the produce of all who lack the means of transportation and disposal, we can create the beginnings of a sound economy for the Highlands people.

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Box 250, Suva, Fiji i and find their own markets by , incentive and imitation. believe that it is important for the s people to realise that we and they n thrown together at a time and place lake us partners in the development jntry only recently released from the of tribal war. We place no limitaon the future progress of vhe tlighople. accept without qualification the fact land is owned by the Highlands people y themselves choose to dispose of their e believe that it is they alone who lave the right of accepting us as I settlers. In those cases where the ation can clearly establish the fact pite the desire of the owners of land their land, there is real danger of and shortage for such owners, we at no action should be taken by the mt to purchase any land vital to enerations of Highlands people. are strongly opposed to the specuquisition of land, and we are opposed essary interference and obstruction of \ of men to buy and sell what they own in circumstances which do not the development of the country. believe that the social organisation lighlands people and their traditional must not be damaged or changed ti time as they themselves, by natural of development, desire to make which will better adjust them to tact with Western civilisation. are opposed to the introduction of aids, subsidies and systems which are I on economic realities and basic facts y and demand. We are opposed to osed organisation which cuts across ing social organisation of the people. are opposed in principle to the system tured labour; to any form of disry law or regulation and particularly fo the growing tendency towards overgovernment and excessive legislation. We believe that good government creates a maximum opportunity for progress and development with as little interference with the rights of individuals as possible. • While we strongly oppose discriminatory legislation which places separate restrictions upon people of different racial origin, we deplore any weakness by those in authority to enforce the laws and regulations of the country upon the indigenous inhabitants. It is our belief that it is the duty of the administering authority to create a sense of responsibility amongst the people by the establishment of good order and the encouragement of selfdiscipline. • Sincere in our desire to see the Highlands people advance and progress without restraint, we declare that we will oppose with all the means at our command any attempt to obstruct our own economic and social status in the community. • We declare our. loyalty to the Throne and to the country in which we live. We believe that our presence as persons developing the country is essential to internal security and vital to the confidence of the Highlands people. • in time of war we shall place ourselves immediately at the disposal of the Australian Military Commander; but we will oppose any attempt to remove us from our homes and land. We shall remain, under Providence, as the resident representatives of our people in the face of any invasion. t A Government printing press is expected to be in operation in Western Samoa before the end of this year. Some equipment already has arrived and New Zealand is to make surplus plant available. * The geological survey of Western Samoa, which will be made m conjunction with a soil survey already under way, is expected to take about three months. Mr D Kear and Mr. B. L. Wood, of the NZ Department of Scientific and Industrial Research’s geological survey branch, will make it. 117 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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Fears For Fish And Coral in NC Lagoon

Oil Quest Pl

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NEW Caledonia’s Assembly refused permission to an oil search company, the Societe de recherche des petroles en Nile.

Caledonie, to prospect a lagoon near Noumea with explosives.

One prominent Assemblyman said that the company, probably with assurances given by a previous Administration, had planned to prospect the lagoon without consulting the Assembly.

It was only the protests of fishermen and sportsmen that had brought the affair to the Assembly’s attention.

The Administration conducted certain tests in co-operation with scientists. According to these scientists, there would be some destruction of coral and fish but not enough to upset the biological balance.

Professional fishermen, however, contended that if the work were carried out at present the results would be disastrous. The fish were in the breeding season they said, and dynamiting might destroy certain species.

Beaches would be polluted with dead fish, which would also attract sharks.

The Assembly suggested to the company that extended tests be carried out under the supervision of a commission which would have power to stop them immediately if any of the feared complications arose. The Assembly also pro to discuss the project further: these tests had been made, -i tMrs. Edith Gray, who first as in Lae in the early 1930’5, ret' once again last month to vis sons, Les and Jack. 118 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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if the best known persones of New Guinea’s pioneerdays has gone—on August erick Reidy Jolley died in id been living in retirement he early thirties; first at Gardens and latterly at le. He was one of the few ag Australians who had with the Queen Emma com- German New Guinea over ; ago and, to my knowledge, the only individual ever id British Consul in the man colony. rived in New Britain in 1905 kkeeper for the E. E. i firm and later became int at the headquarters at He had a natural gift for trative work and was enrith a pleasing personality.

War I broke out he was itely interned by the Gernd taken to New Ireland 5 Australian troops occupied linea. Later he enlisted in a in the AIF and saw ser- France, where he attained k of Captain. 11 meeting him at Candabar t Tidworth, when he was his training and, phlegmatic , he remarked: “I’ll see you Guinea after the piece,” i he did. When I returned ul, in October, 1920, he was Secretary to the Admin- General Griffiths, and had taken over —part time —the Business Manager of the Lation Board, which had ly been formed with W. H. s Chairman.

Jolley concentrated all his on the Board and eventuime Deputy Chairman. The s I remember it most vividly, i of Lucas, chairman: J. T. (later Public Service Comr in Canberra) as Finance : Jolley as Business Mand Cliff Judd as Chief In- -all of them now gone West. 5, Jolley left the Board and •ecame interested in the >n of the Melanesia Comrhich controlled a number NG plantations. In previrs he had had interests in it plantation and various ventures on the North Coast Britain. ; early thirties he retired to and took no further active in NG affairs.

Jolley was a man with a )wledge of New Guinea, and a born executive; he alone was responsible for much of the easy running of the Board in its early days.

The years he had spent with the Forsayth firm and his association with the German residents before War I, his thorough knowledge of the German language, his practical plantation and trading experience were all qualities which made him particularly suitable for the difficult task of dealing with the expropriated Germans in a tactful, commonsense manner; while his own war service in France gave him common ground in his handling of the Australian personnel (nearly all Diggers) who constituted the Board’s staff.

He was the first President of the Returned Soldiers’ Association when it was formed in Rabaul.

A widow, a son, two step-sons and a brother survive him.—G.T. t An indication of the interest being shown by Japan in New Caledonia’s nickel is that between July 21 and 23, three ships left the Colony for Japan laden with ore.

Our Noumea correspondent writes that many familiar faces —Japanese —are being seen in New Caledonia for the first time since the war.

Many of the Japanese have families there and there have been “many joyous reunions.” It certainly has been a long war for some people. 119 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 19 5 6

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Port Morefeby, police there ting damage so far this year irly £75,000, with the biggest ak that at No. 1 Customs n the waterfront, e January 1, brigades had been out to fight five in properties, board ships, seven started by cal faults, 135 in grass or biggest in grass burnt out an about a mile wide and five long, starting behind the Department at 4-Mile, runalong the entire length of ; Strip and carrying on Is Waigani swamp, where it 5 became too hot a subject le authority to handle Administration heads, police s all pitched in with fervent s to watch that cigarette ake all precautions.

Othercare Mileage

le nursing sisters of the s Health Department’s inwelfare branch get around, travelled more than 40,000 n the Territory last financial aring for native mothers and n.

The 27 European sisters and their native trainee-assistants covered 37,000 miles by road and 3,000 by sea, (the total (representing 6,000 miles more than in the previous year.

They had travelled mainly in Land Rovers but nowadays in most centres they have new mobile clinics and are using these.

Leg Lost, Life Saved

An 18-years-old Australian who visited Papua for a fortnight’s working holiday lost his left leg there. But for two native truckdrivers the loss might have been his life.

With two other teenagers the youth, Keith Collins, of Bentleigh (Victoria), was in a jeep which skidded and overturned on the gravel surface of Brown River Road, near Laloki River.

Collins, sitting on the front seat, right-hand side, was thrown out.

As the jeep came to rest after overturning, the rear off-side wheel crushed his leg.

The truck-drivers, who had been following the jeep, helped to lift it off the maimed victim. One of them, Moses Raho, put Collins in the cabin of his truck and rushed him to Carter’s garage at the 4-Mile, where Mr. Vic Carter transferred him to a car and took him to hospital. (Over) [?]eption followed the wedding of Mr.

Cochlin to Miss Alice Beacom at Chapel, Port Moresby, on August 11. [?]hlin is on the staff of the Kila Animal [?]ne Station.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 121 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956 pua-N. Guinea Diary (Continued from Page 55)

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Telegraphic Address: “DONALD, PAPEETE”.

General Merchants (Wholesale Cr Retail) Cr Shipownei Importers Cr Exporters Branches Throughout the Marquesas Islands ASSOCIATE HOUSES: A. B Donald, Ltd., Auckland, N.Z.; A. B. Donald, Ltt Rarotonga, Cook Is.; Dominion Fruit Co., Suva, Fiji.

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Agents and Distributors for: FRANCE: Hennessy Cognacs; Marie Brizard & Roger Liqueurs; Charles Hiedsieck Champagnes; Gruber Beer.

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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AEIS/2048 Doctors amputated the leg above the knee.

Master Builder

An unusual feature of an area school recently opened at Pagwi, Sepik district, is that it was built by the headmaster (Mr.

Hammersley), assisted by villagers.

The buildings consist of two classrooms, four dormitories, a storeroom, a kitchen and a dining hall.

There are also dwellings for Mr.

Hammersley and two native teachers.

District Commissioner S. Elliott- Smith officially opened the school, the first of its kind in the area.

Fight For Phone

Wau people have found an ally in the Legislative Council’s woman member, Mrs. Doris B<J in their all-out fight for a Bulolo 24-hour telephone sen Operated previously by a pricompany, it closed down after 1 ness hours when the Administrs refused to subsidise the servic: Mr. Jaroslav Malik, well-known Port Moresby photographer, greets his fiancee, Miss Ingeborg Bocker, upon her arrival in Moresby on August 11. She flew from Germany to Hollandia by KLM. —Papuan Prints photo. 122

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Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.) e is now a phone link bethe two centres only during is hours, none at all on holi- : at week-ends.

Booth dubs the taking-over service by the Administraitrograde. Her main point: and Wau are active mining where serious accidents can [f medical aid is needed from centre there may be serious sefore one doctor can comte with the other.

Administration replies: ■ circumstances exist in many in Australia, so what’s all juting about? Although the ontinues it looks as though, Port Moresby officialdom n.

Ar Risks Of Peace

time ammunition is still ; peace-time casualties. Exby heat, a .303 bullet struck Moresby native fireman in t while he was fighting a e. The wound was not serit it was a narrow escape. :k held both ways after lunch, on August 14, I Rover left Lae for Goroka laving travelled down from ighlands to the coast the s day in less than 11 hours, sd alongside hgr husbandwas Mrs. Judy Downs, beto be the first woman to town the long, winding road, back with them was their oy son. le, Mr. and Mrs. Downs said ruck no trouble on the way down, were hoping their luck would hold until they reached Goroka. It did.

Yam Session

Both the living and the spirits of the dead whooped it up last month in the Trobriand Islands, home of the giant yams, where August sets the stage for one of the most colourful annual festivals enacted in the Territory.

That’s the time of the year when the yams (some of them 10 to 12 ft long) are harvested and stored in the big yam houses that are a feature of every Trobriand village.

Portion of the harvest is hung on the walls of village houses as an offering to the spirits of the departed, said to live on Tuma, island of the dead. When the harvest is stored the spirits return to their villages and join in the three-week festival.

Then the villagers decide that the spirits have had enough and. with a beating of drums and blowing of shells and whistles, they drive them back to Tuma.

Mine Break-Through

An important underground connection, the break-through of the two main No. 6 Level entrances, was made at New Guinea Gold’s Upper Ridges mine early in August. [?]. Costello and Miss P. Wood were at the Roman Catholic Church, Port on August 18. They are shown at [?]ption that followed.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 123 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1956

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“Surely some antiseptics are better than others ?”

M A "Of course, there are differences. Yet, it is not by mere chance that Dettol is used and recommended by almost every doctor in the British Commonwealth.

DETTOL REGa The Safe Way Safety rh portals of these entrances, niles apart by road, are just ilf a mile apart underground yh long, winding tunnels, the ction was perfect. :kmen have driven nearly ft of underground workings ; mine so far.

Guinea-Pig Goats

iculture Department officers laying about with killers —to the mysterious cause of death ;ow in the Port Moresby area, t-mortem examination disfeatures which could not be d to any known disease and, ;ting snake-bite, they tried out >an on a goat, a death adder nther goat. alts were conclusive for the i-pig goats—the taipan’s victim n 27 minutes, the adder’s in it not for the experimenters, er animal revealed all the oms the cow had shown. i the Papuan black snake is suspect. Efforts will be made pture one for use on a third cts of the bites of such dear pets as the small-eye snake :he whip snake will also be d.

Iducation’S Growth

artmental figures tell a story eady progress in the vital tion field. They reveal that at 30 the Administration schools i throughout Papua and New ia—l67 primary, 11 postry, 1 secondary, 3 technical, 6 sr-training—had a total atnce of 10,662, representing a : cent, increase on the 1954-55 the 230 receiving teacher ng, 200 will finish their courses » end of this year and become ble to join the 477 teachers ly in the field. addition, 600 Territory chilare receiving secondary educain Australia, while a further re undergoing correspondence is.

Boy-House Loot

t Moresby police set out in midst to track down a stolen ;r pen and pencil. The result ished them. m one boy-house they re- -3d clothing, jewellery, writing •ial, a camera and dozens of articles, including about 20 of various makes. Total , £2O.

Kerema native was arrested charged with theft. ; the police still have unied business on their hands — are still searching for the ial pen and pencil.

Patrols Back

o more patrols have returned eir bases with difficult missions accomplished. These, setting out from the Eastern Highlands and the Madang district, traversed areas on both sides of the Bismarck Range.

One, led by Patrol Officer N, F.

Fowler, found in the Ramu Falls area about 8,000 pepple, living mainly on the steep mountainsides. Mr. Fowl°r said the valley New Britain District Commissioner, Mr. J. R. Foldi, performed the ceremony when Mr. H.

H. Watkins was married recently in Rabaul to Miss N. Wilson. The group above, taken after the ceremony, shows (left to right): Mr. W. Flynn; Mr K. Jacobson (best man); Mr. Foldi; groom and bride; Miss M. Arbuthnot (bridesmaid); Mr. J. Shaw. Photo: C. H. Meen. 125

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Get the family economy size and save up to 1/8 VGSA floor was usually only a few hum yards wide, with the mount rising to 8,000 ft and in some px to 10,000 ft.

The other (from the Madang? trict) was only the second pt ever to have gone into the Sir Valley. Its leader (Patrol Of Holloway) reported that the naf in the Aibe areas were particui friendly. The patrol often met going about their everyday 1 ness armed with bows and an but at no time did the natives o weapons when they visited patrol camps.

Mr. Holloway took back with: 33 native trainees who volunte for work at Aimome.

Brief Interlude

Two American mineswee Surfhird and Waxwing were du make a goodwill call at Moresby on September 7 am sweep away with their 11 offi and 160 men on the following The “skedool” listed a visit to ! win first.

Shark Tragedy

“Kapa had just speared a and came to the surface. Sudc he screamed and the water n him turned red. We saw a big se swimming away. Kapa was 10 ft from the canoe, so we bro( it alongside him and pulled hie boat. As we were doing this* shark came back in for a se< attack but we chase him away a spear.”

That was how a Hula m fisherman, Kapa Renagi, a mai man with three children, fatally mauled by a 11-ft si while spear-fishing about 200 $ off Fishermen’s Island, in the Moresby area, on August 22.

Kapa was only a few yards 1 his canoe when tragedy oven him. On board were two c natives, one of whom, Kwara I told the story quoted.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Hawkins at the rec[?] that followed their wedding at Tourama C[?] Port Moresby, on August 11. Bride was J. Kennedy; the bridegroom is a DCA member.

Photo: Papuan 126 SEPTEMBER. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HI

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G. 46 a remained conscious throughe 60 minutes it took to take > the Native Hospital. Doctors put up a desperate fight to lis life but he died several 'as the third shark attack in oresby area within a month, ative, attacked a week previoff Paga Point, is still in al.

Irtisans Of Future

ng natives who make the at Port Moresby, Rabaul and ;chnical schools will not lack unities to qualify as the Territradesmen of the future, agh the apprenticeship scheme i only 16 months ago, Native nticeship Board chairman in says many requests have been received from employers for apprentices. Buddmg fitters and turners, mechanics, shipwrights, welders and underground miners are among those in demand.

Seventy native youths already are apprenticed to employers in different parts of the Territory and loners 0 30 apprenticeship pro ' Technical schools in Port Moresbvand Rabaul now ha ie “out 100 Ttudent a s b whh n t°rom h two to three years’ training ready for absorption in industry. The one at Lae will have its first trainee* available at the end of this year. rRAMn TnTTR nTr nTTTV

Grand Tour—Of Duty

Administration officials believe Australians are taking a greater interest in Papua-New Guinea and employment in the Territory.

Applications have arrived from all States for positions in the Public Service and Selection Committee Chairman Groves will take a two-month swing through the Commonwealth to interview the candidates As Director of Education in the Territory he is particularly wellequipped to deal with 50 of them —they all want jobs in education

Drought, Then Deluge

Lae’s long drought ended in a ? eluge ' o Fi ve inches of rain fell bet A ween 3p m ’ Au S ust 6, and 2 a.m., “ Li day T2O IS gwrther day ’ ° But conditions in the Wau district led to postponement of the Wau annual show , which now will be held on December 2. Wau’s 46.7inch rainfall in the yea r ended June 30, was the lowest recorded for 27 years,

Mail Totted Up

More than 9 million letters and parcels were handled by post offices in P-NG in the 12 months ended June 30—about 1,881,000 more than during the previous year.

Falkinder, MP, leader of a recent Parlia- [?]y party that visited P-NG, lights a long of Chinese crackers to open the new Matupi Farm Community Hall near Mr. Ping Hui and Mr. Thomas Mow [?]. The Dragon Ball, which 450 people [?]d, followed the cracker-lighting cere- [?] District Commissioner and Mrs. J. R. were guests of honour at the ball.

Photo: C. H. Meen. 127 :iFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1056

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Incephalitis Probe

birds breeding in the Terricarry the mysterious brain ; encephalitis to Australia? are some indications that lo but Australian medical reer, Dr. S. G. Anderson, of the : and Eliza Hall Institute, to find a definite answer to lestion.

Anderson arranged to fly last by Qantas Beaver float plane dated Bulema Lagoon, near [y River, where he will conthe investigation of the of the disease he began in ■uinea in July with his famous ;ue, Sir Macfarlane Burnett, immediate objective of their n then (see August PIM, page was to collect the type ol ito suspected of being a • of the virus.

Dld Hope Renewed

Dbe District Advisory Council jorted to have asked that be made available this ial year for a new District Post Office and Courthouse k The old buildings have long had their day but the old bugbear, money—or the lack of it—has stood in the way of replacement.

Olympic Games

Fever Grips Fiji

PROMISING performances put up by candidates for Fiji’s Olympic Games team has greatly stimulated Colony interest in the Games.

In view of this, the Fiji Broadcasting Commission is seeking to ensure the colony the most comprehensive broadcast coverage possible.

At Olympic athletics trials in Suva last month, Torika Varo broke the women’s 220 yards Fiji record and equalled the 100 yards record.

Her time for the 100 yards was 12 seconds.

Viliame Liga, with a throw of 203 ft 8 in., broke his own Fiji record for the javelin throw. No other records were broken but the athletes generally acquitted themselves well.

Five commentators the New Zealand Broadcasting Service is sending to the Games in Melbourne will watch Fiji’s contestants as well as the Dominion’s. It is hoped that regular information about members of the Fiji team will be included in Radio New Zealand bulletins rebroadcast by the FBC.

In addition, the FBC has asked the Australian Broadcasting Commission for permission to re-broadcast commentaries and results from a transmission beamed to Canada or the United States. This would make possible the re-broadcasting of frequent commentaries on the Games as a whole.

H-Bomb Plea Fails

CONCERN expressed by West Samoans in a petition to the United Nations over Britain’s proposed hydrogen-bomb test at Christmas Island, about 1,350 miles from their country, accomplished nothing.

The UN Trusteeship Council decided to take no action, on the ground that Britain had given assurances that all precautions would be taken to guard against possible dangers to people and property.

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(Contributed) .is day when the effect on the .mature mind of television ist being introduced to Ausand well-established overis being argued back and the effect of an older medium tertainment the übiquitous —is being argued in Honiara, •t of complete audience segre- , which is attempted only in -New Guinea, there appears nothing much that can be to soften the blow for the 'listicated savage, our correspondent points out Westerns are preferred fare •e generally regarded as “safe” i se in authority. Frankly, we ilways wondered why: Surely is no more inane form of the i-picture art; or one so zd from present-day reality. ,e matter of that, the Ameriilt of the two-fisted, hairyd he-man, who settles all difes of opinion in a free-for-all would put nine out of 10 lood movies outside the : of reality, or “safety”—if s what is to be aimed at. ever, it is pretty certain that he dumbest savage perceives here is a subtle difference belife as lived by the cowhands xas and that lived by the al Service in Honiara. hope that he brings the same f reasoning to bear on the love passages and the bedscenes that slip by the censor. first cinema in Honiara, itish Solomon Islands, has w been operating for over a and it is interesting to note langes it has made amongst five population, it from the start it was s that to be a financially proposition, films would have directed more at native lers than at the handful of jans living in and around ra. n other Islands groups, native soon showed itself in favour Western picture, or colourful >-historical stories with plenty tion and an uncomplicated more flashing guns, the more ig swords, the greater was ice-approval. Musical ex- :anzas, and the more subtle turned out by Hollywood and i studios, played to small ices, composed mostly of Euro- The cinema has brought plenty of surface changes. On picture nights the native population dresses in best clothes. The carefree dress of pre-cinema days has given place to whites and shiny black shoes, and house boys on a night-off lean against the soft-drinks counter with all the aplomb of hardened habitues of filmland bars.

Audience reaction is easy to fore- -3£ a ? at i ve if a picture was enjoyed a £ d hls reaction is straightforward.

Good picture—plenty fight long gun”—with variations according to the era being portrayed. Romantic stories devoid of action are usually dismissed as having “Too much love”; or “Too much talk-talk.”

Whether or not the cinema has had any harmful effect on immature minds is a point often argued about locally.

There has been no official attempt to point out that the films 131 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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KOVYHOS shown are “just stories”—imaginary creations, and not portrayals of real life. And in view of the low standard of so many Hollywood films this seems important.

Most of the films seen by natives prior to the opening of a commercial cinema were the products of the Central Office of Information, or Mission bodies; films which were factual and often dealt with a type of life known to the local natives. (But having once sat through a long film about copra drying in West Africa which was shown to a large native audience in Honiara, we must admit that the level of entertainment has certainly risen with the new cinema).

Any cinema owner operating under local circumstances faces great difficulties. Honiara is at the end of the line as far as film circuits are concerned. There are no other cinemas to take over programmes; films arrive, are screened once, and are shipped out again.

Supply is an erratic business, due to restricted shipping services, and it is almost impossible to please both European and native tastes with the same film.

Recently it has become policy to show the better films as one of the week’s two programmes mainly for the benefit of the few Europeans.

IT has often been remarked that since the opening of a cinema, there have been cases of natives molesting, or attempting to mcj European women in their hu at night—a thing hitherto pm ally unknown in the Protects This leads to the question censorship of films, which s« ingly is not very rigid.

When commercial cinema op: in Honiara, a board of censors? formed comprised of Governm commercial, and Mission re sentatives. The board rarely films privately; during the pas? months it has examined one fll A synopsis of each film forwarded to the Chief censor apparently judges its effect on population after reading it.

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J. A. East, founder of the iross movement in Western , has been made the first lifer of the Apia Red Cross NZ Restricts School Entries TONGA has been notified that, because of over-crowding in New Zealand schools and an increasing demand from people in Pacific territories for education in the Dominion, the NZ Labour Department’s immigration section has decreed: (a) Island students will not be permitted to enter NZ for education at the primary level; (b) before a student’s permit is issued, in addition to other requirements, a letter is required from the Director of Education, Tonga, certifying that the type of education sought is not available in the kingdom.

This means that in the case of students from Government schools, apart from scholarship holders, permits will be granted only to those seeking special education.

Though the Wellington announcement does not say so, it is assumed there will be no restriction on entry permits for students to attend private schools, if those schools have vacancies. 1 The 70-acre Arakuo plantation, Rarotonga, was offered for sale at £4,000 in July. Owned by Mr. W. P.

Browne, this is the first sizeable plantation to be offered for sale in the Cook Islands for many years.

The lease has 46 years to run. 133 :fic islands monthly September, 1956

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DISTRICT Officer John Hunter, on his return from a patrol in the Guadalcanal bush this month, reported the discovery of a hot spring a few miles west of Gold Ridge.

The surrounding rocks were coated with iron oxides and other precipitated minerals and the water was extremely hot.

This is the eleventh thermal area to have been discovered on Guadalcanal during the past two years, and of these, the two in the mountain behind Visale Mission appear to be the hottest.

From here, in the extreme northwest, the line of hot springs extends for 75 miles in a south-easterly direction across the Guadalcanal mountains to the other side at Avu Avu on the South coast.

This line marks a major structural weakness in the earth’s crust, and it is believed to have originated tens of millions of years ago.

It is believed that this thermal activity could be the key to the distribution of economic ore minerals on the island.

Geologists Visiting

GUADALCANAL Dr. Norman Fisher, Chief Geologist to the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, arrived in Honiara by air on August 20 for a brief visit.

He was accompanied by Mr. J.

Thompson, Senior Geologist of Papua-New Guinea, Mr. J. Grover, Senior Geologist to the Solomon Islands Govenment, will accompany the visitors on excursions into the Guadai bush and to adjacent islai Honiara Correspondent. t Mr. J. Palmer, lately of th Civil Aviation Administration been appointed salaries clerk,, Islands Administration, in cession to Mr. R. Clarke. 134 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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FISHERIES [?]ling Down Food Imports IHER long-term effort to ike Papua-New Guinea less Dendent on imported food ; made under a plan to deits fisheries announced by lian Territories Minister k. /es will be introduced to imfishing techniques and given cessary gear; ashore and as )f Administration vessels they trained in all aspects of fishatives will be encouraged to ;e their consumption and n fish.

Administration, which will ; a trawler under the plan, ;o train native fishery assist- -0 help their fellows. itial fishing grounds will be rated. Commercial fishing by uropeans and natives will be aged where they will not conith village communities deit on fishing. overseas expert already has the Territory under the i; visits by others will be ed. One will advise on longihing for tuna. i-water fish production, pary in inland areas, and oyster tion will be fostered. Local tion of salt for preservation investigated, shing develops, economic and ;ing aspects will be studied, >pection system will be in- -1 and, ultimately, a marine 3al station will be established, igh for many years there has an appreciable export of 5 and green snail shell, P-NG, t-55, had to import £A321,000 of fresh and preserved fish, plan aims to increase shell tion and exports, reduce im- )f fish and, eventually, to exsh. If successful, it will not icrease the protein food availo the natives but augment cash income from trade as ivals in W. Samoa [?]gers pictured at right arriving in the "Tofua" include (left) Mr. G. Bass, [?]y (representing White Rose flour), on a trip, and (next) Mr. Johnny Walker, [?]tist, returning with Mrs. Walker from in New Zealand and a period of work in Niue. Others in the picture [?] Mr. Bruce Broadhead, of NZBS, who [?]record Island programmes; and Mr. M. from Auckland, who is revisiting his [?]. 135

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Mrs. East was welcomed on arrival at the airport by the full committee of the Western Samoan Red Cross Society, and by several hundred boys and girls, members of the Junior Red Cross who acted as a guard of honour.

"Sinkiang" Travellers Among passengers who left Sydney for Papua- New Guinea recently on "Sinkiang" were (top to bottom): Mrs. H. Vinning and her two daughters, Phillipa (8½ years) and Peta (4 years), who sailed for Lae after four months' leave in Perth. Mr. Vinning, a radio technical officer with the Administration, flew back to Lae earlier in August.

Mr. and Mrs. Ivor Manton, who were bound for Nondugl where Mr. Manton will inspect the Hallstrom Experimental Station. Mr.

Manton is former owner of Manton's Emporium in Melbourne and present owner of a famous Romney-Marsh sheep stud in Victoria. He has sent 16 rams and 30 top-stud ewes to Nondugl as part of a scheme to establish a registered stud farm in the Eastern Highlands so the Nondugl Trust can produce its own rams and save big freight costs. While at Nondugl, Mr. Manton will class the sheep and examine the nutrition level of the pastures.

He expects to be in the Territory about four weeks.

Mrs. M. J. Coolhaas, of Port Moresby, and four-year-old daughter Leonora, who were making their first trip to the Territory. Mr. Coolhaas is a hydrographer with the NG Department of Works and has been in Moresby for some months.

Mrs. K. Warnock will join her husband, who is on relieving work for the Bank of NSW in Port Moresby. Mr. Bill Young of Rents Records Section of the Department of Lands, Port Moresby, returned to NG after four weeks leave in Sydney. He has lived in the Territory for seven years. 137

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This year’s American experim in tracking hurricanes will be s to an investigation the US Wes Bureau has been carrying on: years—that of the possibility; breaking up or diverting hurrio in their early stages of formas using cloud-dusting methods. 138 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTffl

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Hers to Papua-New Guinea from Sydney [?]r Man” Plea ) officer and self-styled eper Man” of the Lepers’ ust Board, P. J. Twomey, “For well-nigh 30 years your have generously supported Deals for the stricken leper the islands near our shores, including the New Zealand dependencies. During this period 1,340 patients were discharged as cured from Makogai, where so many of the patients from NZ were treated.”

Mr. Twomey thanks all who have supported his appeals and asks that they continue to contribute. The address of the board, which is undenominational, is 115 Sherborne Street, Christchurch, NZ. t American Samoa’s population is now about 23,000, with births continuing to exceed deaths. In the year ended June 30 there were 138 deaths but 771 live births. [?]ers sailing on the late August "Soo- [?]um Sydney included Mrs. J. Dowling (upper right), and her son Stephen years, and her mother Mrs. B.

Mrs. Dowling's husband has business interests in Rabaul, and is managing director of the newly-formed NG Finance Co. Mrs. Walder returned with Mrs. Dowling to the Territory.

Mrs. E. Henty travelled to Lae where she will join her son, Mr. Edward Henty, on his plantation outside Lae. Mrs. Henty, who comes from Melbourne, will live in NG for a year.

Mr. and Mrs. D. Marek returned to Rabaul after a month's holiday in Sydney. Mr. Merek is an employee of HP's at Rabaul. 141 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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VHIA Rock Will “Talk” To Device FROM the United States: seismitron, designed to grv vance warning of the rocK: or bursts which are the No. li in tunnelling and mining, hass to the South Pacific.

Certain types of rock, often “popping rock,” tend to audible sounds under strain, seismitron has been evolve' enable the trained ears of n and geologists to hear the hii inaudible sounds occurring ii material before falls occur.

The instrument, which ws vented by Liberty Mutual Insu Co. safety engineers in Bostoir sists of a highly-sensitive geof an amplifier of special design magnetic and crystal earphon hand counter and a watch an used.

Heart of the dev ic e is geophone. It is a 11 in. sealed, stainless-steel, roundcylinder containing synthetic « crystals which act as the piu The piezoelectric action of quartz converts microseismic j tions into a minute current: The pulses of this flow are to audible level in the earß by the seismitron amplifer.

The seismitron is placed drilled hole about 3 ft deen an observer listens to the g?

“talk” for a predetermined pe: normally about 15 minutes at) placement. Weighing only with its batteries, the instn is readily portable and it cost than £ASOO.

It is claimed that the seisir will do all the following i much more accurately and posi; than can any miner “soundiir back” with hammer, bar or • Aid in warning minei approaching hazards. • Listen to the otherwise audible sounds of trapped min • Test the effectiveness ofi bolts or other mining and tin ling ground supports—steel, ti brick, concrete, etc.—and tell if port is needed in any given an • Help to test the effectiv of scaling (barring-down) ai check haulage ways for ul “loose.” • Detect the presence of ui termites eating away the hea? the timbers.

R. B. M. Long Pty. Ltd., of : ney, will manufacture the ami under licence in Australia, the firm probably will also the extremely sensitive geoph t Father Prasad, SM, first F" born Indian priest, was ordain:: Suva in July by the Vicar-Apo of the Fijian Islands (Bishop T Foley). 142

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;abie: “Ventura, Sydney” 247 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W, Shansi Passengers for Papua t With the Resident Commissioner and an official party aboard, the GEIC government vessel Nareau, in July-August, made one of her periodical lengthy voyages to the Line Islands from Tarawa. Calls were scheduled at Abaiang, Abemama, Onotoa, Tamana, Bern, Canton, Christmas, Fanning, again Christmas, Canton, Funafuti, Vaitupu and back to Tarawa. [?]ellers on the "Shansi" from Sydney to P-NG on August 21 included (left to right): [?] Lane of the Department of Agriculture at Port Moresby, who has completed six months Sydney, and her brother Robert, who was at the ship to say goodbye. Mr. and Mrs. K. [?]nd their three children, Heather, lan and Bruce, who returned after eight months leave [?]ai where Mr. Graham is attached to the Co-operative Section of the Department of [?]ffairs. Miss B. Schipp, of the Department of Public Health, who returned to Moresby [?]ee months leave. [?]r: Agricultural economist Mr. M. Dali, and Mrs. Dali, who returned to Port Moresby [?]ir 16 months-old son Lachlan after six months leave in Australia. Mr. and Mrs. J. A.

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Pko PRINTERS, stationers, systematists 8L3211 88 PITT ST.. SYDNEY, Islands in one hop; and, ;y reached the Islands, there e stop-over places in plenty vards towards Hawaii, st towards Asia and Europe, ds towards Fiji, New Zeaustralia, and on to Africa pe. n ten years, Tahiti could in relation to South ~ the position that Hono- »w enjoys, in relation to America. That is, if the can provide, in Tahiti, an ional airport capable of ig with the airport that aw is putting in on Easter has been a lot of talk new airport in Tahiti —but ne. If Chile is not to steal e, the French will have to lemselves.

WHILE, where does Fiji le in, in all this? That is considerable interest to Fiji nal interests, which now n almost daily air service stralia and New Zealand, are some who forecast that be cut out of trans-Pacific ces —just as New Caledonia : out—because planes will nger and longer hops, and need to re-fuel at Nadi, sualise services from North which will make only one ific landing (in the vicinity n Is.), en route to Australia, dlarly one landing (maybe en route between South and Australia.

I no major Territory nearer South Pacific than Indoi’rance was not in the early acific aviation developments, ier the new conditions, the hope that they may play jrtant part in the South air developments of the ture. ley want landing-rights in a and New Zealand. And w are reminding Australia 5 is one way in which Ausn remedy the very lopsided lalance between Australia nee. France buys a great Australian produce. Auslys very little from France.

Auckland Extension

ations between the French r Zealand Governments over rights in the Dominion for e continuing in September, i received by the Sydney f the air company in early er was to the effect that the a of the Paris-Noumea ser- >m Noumea to Auckland would not now come into operation before October.

Qantas Buys US Jets It was announced in early September that Qantas Empire Airways will purchase, for £lB.B million, a fleet of seven Boeing 707-138 Stratoliner jet aircraft from the United States.

Qantas expects to take delivery of these planes in 1959, and will be the first company outside the United States to put them in service.

The planes will be used on Qantas' Australia- UK and Australia-North America routes. They have a range of 3,500 miles and will cut the Sydney-London flight from 48 to 27 hours, and the Sydney-San Francisco flight from 28 hours to 16. (Canton Is. is about 3,200 miles from Sydney). t Mr. R. G. Thorby, Resident Agent of the most progressive outer island in the Cooks, Atiu, is visiting Noumea to attend a month’s course in coffee production methods. Mr. William Lefebre, of the Department of Agriculture, is overseeing the Atiu agricultural projects during the absence of the Resident Agent.

A CURE Western Samoa’s Hydro Headache FINAL decision on the method of sealing the forbay gave the green light last month for completion of the Alaoa hydro-electric power project in Western Samoa.

Concrete blocks sealed with flexible joints will be laid over the bottom of the reservoir in a chequerboard pattern, as suggested by Public Works Department assistant engineer C. L. Green.

This can be done entirely by local labour at a cost estimated to be far below that of schemes proposed by overseas companies.

Mr. Green is confident now that the entire project can be completed in three months, which should supply a palliative for the headache Alaoa has been to the Government *f or a long time. 145 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956 i and Chile Plan S. Pacific Air Services Continued from Page 37)

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South Pacific Comme and Industry BOUGAINVILLE CO., LTD.—Mr. Dudle* chairman of directors, reported to the i general meeting at Rabaul on August : the company had had a successful yeas profit was 14.2 per cent, on subscribed However, in view of the company's i policy of building up reserves for futt pansion, the board recommended a 6 of 5 per cent, on both A and B class During the year the company's motori "Polurrian", had continued to maintt strictly scheduled service to Bougainvii which it had earned a high reputation service had been supplemented by the vessel, "Nuguria", recently acquired company, and chartered vessels.

The Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., had appoim company its selling agent for Boug.i and a branch office had been opened all The general meeting elected the fo to the board for the coming year: CW Mr. Dudley Jones; managing director, W. Hallam; directors, Messrs. J. Jon Mason, R. Stuart, R. McKay (Bougainvii H, V. Quinton (Sydney). ❖ * * BURNS PHILP.—Part of the company's; Imperial Arcade property was passed i auction in August. The lot offered 17 ft. 9 in./22 ft. x 101 ft. irregularly' site fronting Pitt Street. The price was £90,000, but the reserve was n nounced. A Sydney financial writer com that BP had a nice prospect for a profit and the provision of substantial • to liquid reserves in the property.

DYLUP PLANTATIONS, LTD—This o will make a public issue of 317,99; shares at par. The issue will acquisition of a group of plantations al miles north of Madang, NG, from New Estates, Ltd., at £190,000. The plan produced about 1,200 tons of copra an Cocoa produced 1956 is expected to tons and should be 800 tons by 196 residents have already taken up 220 r the new issue. ❖ * * KEREMA RUBBER, LTD.—The compas nounced a higher interim dividend of cent. Last year an interim of 5 per ces followed by a 10 per cent, final, maH per cent, for the year. ❖ * * MARIBOI RUBBER, LTD.—The companyy 76 per cent, more profit and raised the o from 10 per cent, to 15 per cent, for tt ended June 30. Profit was £47,050 £26,665. The dividend took £30,1771 duction rose by 98,009 lb to a record ! lb.

The company sold 607,800 lb at an of 43.13 d oer lb. The previous year's was 27.87(i. Directors say that increas output of synthetics, at lower prices,, it difficult to forecast the trend in prices. But they expect the recent eas restrictions on the sale of natural rul Russia and China to stimulate demai prices.

Ng Gold And Petroleum Develops

Test drilling in its Sepic River area was i by Enterprise of New Guinea Gol Petroleum Development NL on August 111 will test the depth of sedimentary oven basic strata. The open cut mining M closed payable ore about 40 ft. wide, company has not yet determined its value.

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CO., LTD.—This company was formed fo i the assets of Norfolk Whaling Co., Lit the Byron Bay Whaling Co., Ltd. It •» £170,000 cash for the Norfolk island cw 146 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

ose from our standard range of small craft 16ft. to 40ft. ve Stock Designs for 16 ft., 18 ft. 6 in., 22 ft., 25 ft., 27 ft 6 in., 30 ft., 37 ft. 6 in., • ft. We have found by standardisation on a one Design principle that we can produce eapest price boat in Australia, which is of first-class quality and workmanship. -awing and Specifications can be supplied on application BELOW WE SUBMIT OUR PRICE FOR THE 18 FT. 6 IN. AND 40 FT. CRAFT 6 in. HALF CABIN LAUNCH with 5 H.P. Simplex Marine engine with reverse gear <tras which include anchor rope, etc.. Carvel built £625/-/-.

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Quirk Street, Dee Why, Sydney, Aust. buy the Byron Bay company from Meat Industries for £150,000. capital will be £1,000,000, and the be handled by Brisbane and Sydney Fhe company also plans to build up trade in lobsters. It hopes to make £174,000 for the 1957 season before depreciation. An issue of 417,000 hares which was made to the public I closed September 13, oversubscribed, details see article elsewhere in this * * * RCH. —London buyers came back into >t for Oil Search shares early in er a short absence. But there was ;e. In many instances the London e forestalled by locals who, sensing ;e, got in first. The market rose to the UK influence was not as ina few weeks previously. Buying was aller scale and bidding was less t. The market fell again in the >k of August, and at the end of last : round about the 15/10-16/- mark. * * * APINAIPI.—This company's options ed to be one of the market's most oil speculations. Shares now traded arket, unlike those in the current do not include the one-share-onelor. At 4/- they are 1/- below the price of the new shares. So options y are worth 1/-. A speculator could in the new issue, sell them on the current levels, and retain the In prospect he would have the of a several hundred per cent, rise - on a favourable NG oil developsd Freney Oil Fields, NL, has joined Btroleum Co., Ltd., in its search for pua. Associated Freney previously Western Australia without success. )w put 1,000,000 5/- contributing he current issue by Papuan Apinaipi. pinaipi will buy from Associated Freney the National 55 drilling plant and ancillary equipment at present in WA. Assodated Australian Oilfields, NL, previously agreed to take up about 1,400,000 shares in Papuan Apinaipi. This included about 900,000 shares for the sale of a National 132 drilling rig and ancillary equipment. * * * SANDY CREEK GOLD SLUICING, LTD.—During June and July about 45 oz of gold were recovered from about 4,300 cubic yards of material treated. In August approximately 33 oz. 10 dwts. of gold were recovered from approximately 3,250 cubic yards of material dredged. * * * SOUTHERN PACIFIC INSURANCE CO., LTD - The gross premium income for the year amounted to £1,157,228, compared with £1,028,210 in the previous. year, the directors reported. After deducting re-insurances, £489,555, claims commissions and management expenses amounting to £626,444, the balance was £41,229.

From this £29,712 was transferred to Premium Account, the additional amount required to maintain the reserve for unexpired risks. The reserve account now amounts to £319 810. Net profit for the year was £22,597 to which is added balance brought forward in the proflt and , oss account £99 668 making £122,265 available for distribution.

Further funds were invested during the year, and investments now total £752,601. The income from '"vestments returned £29,080. 0n February 28 an interim dividend at the rate of 10 P er cent - P er annum was P aid The directors recommended a final dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, absorbing £5 000 be declared and payable on August 24 for the six months ended March 31. it was proposed to carry forward the balance of £117,265 remaining at credit of the profit and loss account. The directors reported that the branch office, opened in Suva in 1953, had made satisfactory progress, and that the office was now well established It was announced on August 31 that the company would issue £lOO 000 of now nrHinor, capital The comoanv offered registered on September* 14 one new 20/ H <h*' ' at par for each one held The s h a V« » f payable 5/- on application by October 5 5/ on December 31 5/. on March 31 fosl' i 5/- on June 30 1957 They will Jank for dividends 6n the amount D aid un mol 1, 1956. P P oer ’ * * * cnn-rur,**. , T n^n- RN CROSS MARINE INSURANCE CO., L j * . com P a "y». registered in New Guinea, f nd ' h *°u Ut th * Ter c r i' af £ net profit, providing £1,700 for taxation, had a 'S Srw/rd nrofit”nd lo«J 5 a l d ,n . * he pi L°£ ac .' cou " t ' was added ' mak,n 9 f “J' 7 * 1 - 3 ti,l f ° j th ru P ° f ° f this subsSdiarv Southern rn® s L V; s,d ' ar Y of Southern Pacific Insurance Co., * * * ... , w R - CARPENTER & CO., LTD.—Net profit f ° r # the year ended June 30 was £242,019, against £193,889 in the previous year, when P rof,t jumped £47,840. The acquisition of Morris Hedstrom raised capital by £445,321 to £1,305,321. Latest profit is equal to an earning rate of 18 6 P er cent - on the higher capital, compared with 22.8 per cent, earned in the previous year Dividend remains at 15 per ce ! lt ' i"' l oud 0 ud ' n 3 5 r P er r cent - . bon " s ', and re ’ qu,res £l7B - 72 4 Carryforward is £317,466 (up f 6 J' 295) Th c e . .an n al ™ etin 9 wi " he held in S V dne V September 28. _,T , „ . t Exports of fresh and canned fish from American Samoa during the past financial year were worth S 4 596 402 The Van Camn Sea Food rn fe nmi pynPrim.ntZ with the Co - experimenting \Vlth the C&nnlng 01 Other types 01 IlSh Desides tuna. 147 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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Offices all Capital Cities, Newcastle and Launceston [?]ar Boosts Training for War on Disease . . . •ge Naufahu, of Tonga, was id by an unpopular technical »ut in a boxing match t Brian London at West Hartlepool, England, on July 7.

The referee stopped the fight in the fourth round, to the annoyance of the crowd, as Naufahu seemed capable of continuing, although London was the better man on this occasion. It was Naufahu’s first fight in England.

Directed by Dr. Mc- Carthy, of the World Health Organisation, these Pacific Islands assistant medical practitioners undergo a twomonth course - centred at Apia Hospital i on public health, sanitation and tropical diseases. The line-up, left to right, is—Row 1: F. R. Bugg (Chief Sanitary Inspector), A.

G. Fisher (NZ expert on public health). Dr. H.

Thieme (Acting-Director of Health), Dr. Amgara (Philippines), Fa'amatala Faleto'ese. Row 2: I.

N. Turaganivalu (Fiji), Tapeni Fa'ai'uaso, Peni Mapa (Tonga), Amosa Sis, Senoa K.A. (GEIC), Ualesi Toelupe. Row 3: Okesene, Sione Palamo, Hanipale Mose, Pupuke Robati (Cook Is.), Bill Deigoub (Nauru). —Photo by R. F.

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Insurances at Lloyd's and Companies Suspected Murder Pacific Freighte[?] WHEN the Union Steamship trans-Pacific freighter Wav arrived in Auckland on tember 2 the vessel was board© police who began an investign of a portion of the crew’s ace modation on the boat deck whad been gutted by a fire at Pap wharf on August 20. It was bro under control in about 20 mil by the ship’s fire-fighting dep ment.

It started in the donkeym cabin, completely gutting it, pirn other cabins, a mess-room ai bathroom.

When the flames were quelled body of a Canadian AB, August Kure, was found inj donkeyman’s cabin. It is all that he had been strangled.

The Papeete police, after a liminary investigation, declared! as Kure was a British sm aboard a British ship the rm was outside their jurisdiction.

French Priest Becomes Australian Cit[?] The Rev. F. Louis Willem, of the RC [?] Kamulai, Papua, became an Australian on June 16 at a ceremony in the Sub-Ioffice, at Tapini.

The picture shows Mr. D. Anderson[?] Goilala, presenting the certificate of nat[?] tion to Father Willem, a former Alsatian.

It is the second time that this ceremo taken place in Tapini. The first was [?] Zigas, now a District Medical Officer in 0[?] After Father Willem had taken the oat[?] Anderson gave a reception for the missi[?] and officers of the Sub-District. 150 SEPTEMBER. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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•e Anne, baby daughter of d Mrs. Eric Whitton, of Lae, first girl born into the n family for 70 years. She on August 10. t In 1955, 20 students from the Port Laguerre Agricultural scho o 1, Noumea, completed their studies.

Six of these students were retained at the school as “apprentice teachers”; three others went back home to assist their parents with farm work; the other 11 took jobs with no agricultural interest. All naa been to the Agricultural school on Government bursaries. Agriculture in New Caledonia is at such a ebb - says a correspondent, tnat it holds no future for youngfarmers. ![ Visitors to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate during August included Mr. A. L. Eyrebrook, FRCS, an eminent orthopaedic surgeon attached to Bristol University, UK, who is visiting Pacific territories under a Colonial Development and Welfare scheme designed to sponsor visits by specialists to keep local Medical Departments abreast of latest medical practice, techniques and developments. Mr.

Eyrebrook, who has already visited Fiji, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Tonga and Samoa, remained in Honiara one week.

August Brides in Suva TOP: Mr. and Mrs. Erling Stokholm Pedersen after their marriage in the Anglican Cathedral, Suva, in August. The groom is from Copenhagen, Denmark; the bride, nee Miss Lorna Myrtle Smith, is the second eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Smith, of Natewa Bay, Vanua Levu, where Mr. Smith is a planter.

LOWER: Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Terry after their marriage in the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Suva. The groom is a member of a family well-known in Suva; his bride is from Boca Bay, Vanua Levu.

Photos: Popular Art Photo Studio. 151 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 19 5 »5

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C. A. Swinbourne, Qbe

undreds of former residents South Pacific Islands, who Australia lost one of their ;nds on September 4, when i. A. Swinbourne, OBE, Preof the Pacific Islands died in hospital, at the age [e had been in failing health ; time. 15 years since Major rne retired from the service High Commission for the Pacific; and, for at least rs, he gave devoted service Association. Every month, bis kindly and courteous nship, Australian residents 1 spent much of their lives Islands, met in Sydney, to Iresses, engage in discussions, oy hospitality; and most of cessary organisation was ly directed by “the Major.” f overseas visitors thus have tertained. His passing will gap in the happy little tion which will be hard to Swinbourne was born in educated at Fort Street and he joined the British Service in 1909. He was Fiji Public Service until (far I; was an early volunteer service; led the European ;nt from Fiji to England; irith distinction in Gallipoli where; and, although he re- ,o his cilivian job in Fiji at ■’s end, he never lost his in military affairs, ost notable work was done 1920 and 1938, when he red from Fiji to the WPHC in the Gilbert and Ellice -he filled a wide variety of . that Administration. In ? went as Administrate to Fanning Island; retired and did various war-time ing World War 11.

Swinbourne is survived by ; (who assisted him very i his social work for the PI and by 5 sons and 2 rs. Two of his sons are men Lt.-Colonel Alan rne and Major Edward rne. i. W. A. MACDONALD ieath occurred in Moorea, Oceania, on August 12, of illiam Alister Macdonald, His death followed a fall i he fractured his hip. > day, Mr. Macdonald was is water-colourist and book or —some of his best-known hng water-colour drawings London scene, executed be- . 890-1910, now hanging in Idhall there. mt first to Tahiti in 1921, all spent three long periods he last of about three years.

An article about Mr. Macdonald and his painting appeared in the April, 1954, PIM.

He continued painting until shortly before his death and had no difficulty in finding a market for his work.

Mr. Ernest Reid

One of Papua-New Guinea’s bestknown air pilots, Mr. Ernest Reid, owner of Goilala Airways, died at Taipini, August 21. He was only 36.

Mr. Reid went to Papua after the war with Charters Air Service and after returning to Australia arrived back in the Territory to establish a plantation at Taipini. He later started several trade stores and recruited native labour in the area, flying them to and from Port Moresby and other centres in his own Anson aircraft.

He is survived by a widow and 4 months old daughter.

Mr. George L. Wignall

Mr. George L. Wignall, formerly of Fiji, died suddenly of a heart attack at his Chatswood (Sydney) home recently. He was 57.

Mr. Wignall was born at Ba and was attached to the CSR Co. at Ba and Lautoka until 1953, when illhealth caused him to move to Sydney.

He is survived by a daughter, Marjorie, and sons John and Ben, all of whom were born in Fiji, and by his second wife.

His first wife, Ruth, who was also born in Fiji, died 11 years ago.

M. Jules Chevrier

A well known old resident of Tahiti, M. Jules Chevrier, died there at the age of 80 on July 21 M. Chevrier arrived in Papeete as a serviceman aboard the French frigate Auhe from New Caledonia in June, 1899. For many years he was an attendant at the Colonial Hospital, Papeete, and as such was a well known public figure. In recent 153 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

Home Plans for the Tropics / ~i m m The Standard Plan illustrated (for tropical construction) is available for £B/8/- including airmail postage. ☆

Standard Plans

Other standard plans as illustrated in leaflets (drawn for NSW construction) £B/8/- complete, providing 5 copies plans, 3 copies specifications.

Pacific Islands

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Plans To Your Own Design

Plans will be drawn to any design submitted at the cost of Twenty-five shillings per square (100 sq. ft.). Minimum fee £lO/10/-. As a working basis to arrive at the ideal plan we will prepare a Ground Plan Sketch for £l/1/- from a client's rough sketch or written instructions. Sketch Elevation to show outside appearance £2/2/-.

LEAFLETS Five leaflets showing a selection of different designs for all types and sizes of homes: 35 home plans 2/6, 34 home plans 2/6, 33 home plans 2/-, 30 home plans 2A, 20 home plans 2/-. Please add postage. Each leaflet weighs 2 oz.

Advisory^Ervice

Free advisory service on all aspects of home planning, building, fitting and furnishing.

Co-ordinating with Grace Bros. Homemakers' Bureau to give clients estimates for all P.C. items, bathroom, kitchen, electrical, furniture, soft furnishings, etc., etc. Colour Advisory Bureau available for interior decorating advice, painting methods, paint quantities supplied free with every standard plan. 3- 9 • 9 Bed P-.M z A T ¥r Esassm years he had been living in i ment in the country.

Capt. Alexander Merm

Captain Alexander Mervin, j the three well known Mervin bn of Papeete, died there on A 24 from a heart ailment, ag* The Mervin family has for been associated with French Q(< shipping and island ti Alexander, better known as “ 9 will be remembered by a great: American ex-servicemen when were stationed at Borabora « the war, as the master of MVi the liberty-boat which transje groups of servicemen dow Papeete each week.

Captain Mervin is survived wife and an adopted daughten Georges Lehartel.

Mrs. Mary Lum Houng I

The death occurred in Suvs on August 27 of Mrs. Mars Houng Lee in her 101st year; was born in China in April, ; Mrs. Houng Lee and her hu were the first Chinese to go I —they travelled from Hongkt: Levuka by way of Singapon Sydney.

Mrs. Houng Lee had nine cli and her grandchildren and grandchildren numbered. 100.

On the occasion of her 99th day, Mrs. Houng Lee was the of honour at a large family and until into her 100th£ enjoyed good health.

Mr. Charles Widdy

Residents of the Solomon I were sorry to hear of the de Mr. Charles Widdy in Sydn June 22. He went to the So Islands in 1922 as a plan overseer for Levers Pacific E tions and became General Ml and a Director of that Compc 1936.

It was on Mr. Widdy’s ord 1942, that the MV Kurimaro made ready and used fa evacuation of civilians fron Solomons, while he stayed at 0 and left later by the SS Moi On arrival in Sydney he the RAAF and was later ati to the US Marine Division t landing at Red Beach, Ter Guadalcanal, on the morn;/ August 7, 1942.

In the same year the S«< Island Labour Corps was ft with Squadron-Leader Wid charge. He was decorated USA with the US Legio Medal.

Mr. Widdy was at one t member of the Solomon Islar visory Council and an o member of the Balasuna Syr which owns the Gold Ridge I 154 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONIT

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ChaVte^shii 0 / p,e .fu, write , f ?. r fu " listin 9 s including Second-Hand tonnage, iSihridls a or fiml.a’r"' 9 45 ° £,3S T 45 L 6 T 25 Two 527 524 532 543 T 2 T 8 130 ft. x 28 ft. x New Launch Hulls. 6 ft. 7 in.

Steel lighter, 2 hatches, 2 derricks. In Survey. £5OO. ip ft add 1, ' n * £1,078. 18 ft. x 6 ft. open clinker, ca 4 ft AM a T' h , alf - cabin ' £555 18 ft. X 6 ft. 7 in, carvel, stream^ lined cabin, £632. All plus tax. 45 ft. x 14 ft. x 4 ft. 3 in., Prawner, 6LW Gardner, 5,000 lb insulated hold, all gear, 3 berths, 15 months old. First class. £7,500. First time offered, converted L.C.T.'s, 190 ft., twin diesels, 160 passengers. £20,000 each. Photos. 463 tons cargo vessel, built 1944. In Survey, £25,000.

L.S.T., 316 ft., D/W 4,000 tons, in class, £130,000 (American Bureau). 770 ton cargo vessel, 40,000 cu. ft., £37,500, Approx. 125 ft. cargo vessel, 310 tons, £17,000.

Wor , k , boat ',, so ft- * 15 ft. x 4 ft. 9 in., raised fwd., with accommodation 6, house amidships, flush aft and hold below, near new, G.M. Diesel, 3:1 reduction. £lO,OOO.

Old but sound counter stern work or fish boat 40 ft. x 14 ft. 4 ft. 6 in. layout as with T 2, Southern Cross 30 H.P. £2,000.

T 4 Work boat 48 ft. x 1 ft. 5 in. x 4 ft. 6 in., layout as with T 2, Lister Diesel 40 H.P., in fishing party survey. £5,500.

Tl 7 Steel cargo and passenger, built by Vosper, 46 ft. x 19 ft. x 2 ft. 8 In., 40 H.P.

Southern Cross. £3,000.

Tl 3 Very Clean Fairmile, 112 ft., twin Chryslers, £5,500.

T3OB Cray or fish boat, 50 ft. x 14 ft. x 6 ft. 3 in, Gardner Diesel, registered. £B,OOO.

Tl 2 Cargo ship, 84 ft. x 16 ft. x 8 ft. 6 in. Gross 72, nett 62, hold capacity 3,600 cu. ft. 50 D/W. Built 1915, flush, wood construction, 3 steel bulkheads, steel masts, 2 holds, Hercules 210 H.P. 2:1, 30 cu. ft. deep freeze, accommodation 8, all sails, lifeboat. £12,000.

T 1 Trawler or Cargo boat, cruiser stern, 5 ft. x 1? ft. 6 in. x 7 ft. Solid wood construction. 100 H.P. Atlas, 300 R.P.M. Twin Ruston Diesel auxiliaries, 21 H.P., lifeboat. In Survey. £ll,OOO.

T 33 Surveyed fishing party work boat, 40 ft. x 12 ft. x 6 ft. 47 H.P. Thorny, hydraulic steering. £3,250.

SI 218 ton steel cargo ship, in class, twin Diesels, 120 ft. x 24 ft. x 9 ft., moulded, 185 D/W tons cargo. £25,000.

Sl3 Steel 154 ft. cargo ship 1928, Diesel, 450 D/W tons, in class. £35,000 T 24 Working Trawler, 1946, 45 ft. xl3 ft. 6 in. x 6 ft. 3 in. Winches, gear, etc.

Gardner 6 LW. £6,500.

C 9 40 ft. xl3 ft. x 3 ft. 6 in. personnel launch, Eng. 1945. Twin Berkins, 18 knots, echo sounder. £3,750.

T 22 Passenger launch, 45 ft. x 12 ft. x 4 ft. 6 in., sound. £2,750.

T 5 As above, registered ship, 51 ft. x 14 ft. x 5 ft. 6 in., 6LW Gardner, 90 passengers. £4,000. 511 Wooden cargo ship, 117 ft. x 24 ft. x 11 ft., 1949, 13,760 cu. ft. cargo, survey out, diesel. £30,000.

Sl4 As above, 64 ft. x 18 ft. x 7 ft. 6 in., 30 tons D/W, Buda diesel. £8,500. 512 Handsome modern steel Swedish cargo vessel, 172 ft. x 28 ft. x 13 ft. 800 tons D/W. A 1 Lloyds, Noheb Diesel, reinforced bow. £lOO,OOO. 53 Wooden cargo ship, 85 ft. x2O ft. x 8 ft. 1947. 120 tons D/W cargo, in class, machinery aft. £21,000.

S 5 Wooden cargo ship, 160 ft. x 36 ft. x 9 ft., suit timber, T.E. steam being converted Diesel. £20,000.

Y 1 Schooner, luxury, 85 ft. xl4 ft. x 6 ft. 6 in. Twin Eng. £12,900. 54 Steel cargo ship, 1940, 165 ft. x2O ft. x 6 ft. 6 in. Docked for reclassing, French registered. Twin Diesel, 10,000 cu. ft. cargo. £25,000.

Two steel L. barges 60 A.L.C., 40 Twin Diesel, in survey. £25,000 each.

Ketch, Colin Archer, 45 ft. x 18 ft. x 6 ft. Gardner power, fitted for trading. £5,500.

PLANS and photos available of Bjarne Halvorsoh's 60 ft. Copra Scow at £lB,OOO.

PLANS available new landing barge, 125 ft., £20,000. 50 ft., £8,500, Gardner diesels, also of workboats, trawlers steel or wooden construction by local Dutch builders to Lloyds specifications.

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leath occurred in Brisbane, and, in late August, of Caparyndon Henry Luxmoore, )\vn to an older generation rerritorians. in Luxmoore, writes an old yas one of that band of oldmters employed by the Exion Boards in NG in the teach the returned Diggers i War I to run the German ms. s a veteran of World War I il failing health in the last irs prevented it, he was , conspicuous figure at Briszac Day parades, s believed to be about 80 at of his death. His daughter the wife of Mr. J. C. Archer, ninistrator of the Northern 7.

Govt. Calls [?]s' Bluff tIBER of marine base erases and the crews of several eminent vessels at Tulagi, ;opped work at the begin - August. The men declared ild not return to work until for better pay and condi- >re met —and 45 of them imately packed off home, larine Superintendent, Mr. is, visited Tulagi and ind the extent of the strike ;r receiving reports, Govdecided it would not cony demands until the men to work. larine Superintendent and rict Commissioner, Central, i ultimatum to strikers that ;hey resumed work they e regarded as having left lent service, and would not le for salary due, accumuave—and would, furtherrepatriated to their home ive men were involved in e, 23 resumed work on the tiding that no salary would for their period of absence, remainder who refused to ) work were transported to ne islands. majority were from the District. —Honiara Correlints were made in Western ast month at the irreguthe cargo-steamer service tlney to Apia. There were ; of flour and rice imported istralia at a time when as a shortage of locally- 'ood, such as taro and in many districts in Upolo. ecided to ask the Governtry to obtain a regular ?dule from the Union Steam or other lines. 155 'IC ISLANDS MONTH!. T SEPTEMBER. 1956

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

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

And behind the inbuilt strength and performance of this mighty D 8 Tractor stands the Hastings Deering Organisation, with engineers, mechanics and a parts service second to none.

Not all clearing jobs justify a DB, but from the D 2 with 43 h.p. to the D 9 with 286 h.p. you can be sure there is a Cat-built Tractor to meet your clearing needs cheaper than any other method.

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Write to: :rahame book company pty. ltd. 39-49 MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY. Phone: BW 2261 [?]ia and NZ Bound from Samoa . . . k Island had an unusual when the Registrar (Mr.

Findlay), from his bedside tal, performed the ceremony Johnny Belan, of New USA, and Miss Lavinia raid, NI schoolteacher. y thrombosis took the Registrar to hospital but he was expected to make a good recovery. t Two more shark fatalities occurred recently off the Guadalcanal coast, when a young child and an adult native were taken close to the shore. 1i Miss Maadi Gobrait, who served as a nurse during World War II and has recently returned to Papeete as one of a French Ocean! 1 delegation sent to France for the July 14 celebrations, has received word that she has been awarded the honour of Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Affectionate goodbyes mark these departures from Apia in the "Tofua". TOP: Mrs.

Tina McRory (left) off to visit friends in California. Mrs. J. Suhren and Mrs. J. Churchward farewell her. LOWER; Mr. Alec MacDonald, Apia businessman and sportsman, leaves for an indefinite stay in Auckland. Left to right; Mr. MacDonald, Mr. W.

Kerrigan (brother - in law), Norman, Ronald and Mrs. MacDonald, and daughter, Mrs.

Walker.

Photo: R. F. Rankin. 157 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER. 1956

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Distributors: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva, Lautoka & Ba, Levuka, Nukualofa, Apia. > -MOW Made by Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ltd., Ipswich. England. [?] A GOOD IDEA, BUT— [?]af Joins Other "Promising" Indudtries On The P-NG Scrap-Heap The kenaf industry, which seemed, two years ago, to have right future in Papua-New Guinea, is doomed unless the amonwealth Government provides assistance. was the opinion given to A by Mr. R. A. Colyer (who ; primarily responsible for cing kenaf to P-NG), shortly he left for the Far East, nd UK on August 25. He iat it would be regrettable industry were allowed to ut failure of the latest crop to have spelled the doom of lustry in P-NG. viewing latest developments, dyer said that it was un- ,te that the seed provided by ;partment of Agriculture at [oresby over the last two or rears had such a low germpoint that the ensuing crop , provide the opportunity for decorticating machine to get )erational efficiency, machine was imported by , Estates Ltd., the private ly formed to promote the industry, after the company anted 15,000 acres of land at \y, Papua, in 1953. ; machine works at its best ns from a properly planted nd seed germination of 80 at.,” Mr. Colyer said. stems need to be thin, nt, and at a certain stage of ty for separating the fibre ae stem. Because of this and ar germination there was no » sell. e responsibility originally aken by me was to prove that could be grown in Papua- 3-uinea which, in case of ncy, would make a suitable ack. 3 job was said to have been ery thoroughly in the way it arried from point to point, it stage we were using the nanual decorticators. operations proved that kenaf rell in the Territory, that the f dry fibre per acre was most ctory, and so also were the lacks manufactured from the :e my early work there has quite some development in overseas. New disease-resistrpes have been propagated, a longer growing season. d a process has been evolved terica which does away with corticator. This is an in-line ;al separation process, ed kenaf is fed into the ting operation, and the fibre comes out at the other end completely separated from the bark.”

Mr. Colyer said he considered kenaf provided an ideal opportunity for a village industry, editorial Note A ND apparently, is the end \ ’ 01 Kenai - Just one of th 9 se industries that politicians on their galloping visits b°y mafe "thfflSrtc™penfn the lnt|duced to Papua at a time when the price of J ute and hence Australia s wheat bags and wool-packs had reached fantastic levels, The basic cause of this had been the partition of British India, which left India with the machinery for weaving jute and Pakistan with the facilities for growing it, and little co-operation between the two newly created and separate States, This, added to general post-war inflation, made all jute materials scarce and expensive and the future uncertain.

It was therefore regarded as logical, far-sighted and of national importance when private enterprise was instrumental in introducing into the Territory of Papua and New Guinea a crop that could, if developed on a large scale, make Australia independent of overseas sources for the containers in which to ship away her vital exports.

But, as was foreseen, by the time that the several seasons of experimental work had been concluded in Papua-New Guinea, the price of jute had come down and the supply to increase: It was unlikely that 159 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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In any Australian capital city. akistan or India would reactive when one of their export markets was ed. with jute again within ile price limits, Authority to have decided that that that was desired of kenaf.

Department of Agriculture told a PIM representative ee years ago: “Kenaf has erved its purpose—the price has come down.”

Australian Government—as ance that the primary prof the Commonwealth would tushranged again for woold wheat bags and to ensure ;y of supply in the event of ild have fostered the ndustry by subsidy or other out it quite obviously has that it will not. r ears ago, PIM asked the of Territories whether the idustry was to be afforded n. The Minister replied promoters had not asked and that if they desired was a “well-defined proinvolved”—i.e., approach the Tariff Board. Further, project had already been considerably by the local epartment of Agriculture. )f course, quite outside the of the Department of Territories to decide on anything of this sort, and it is obviously no part of Australia’s trade strategy to foster Papuan kenaf at the expense of India and Pakistan jute when Australia in her turn wishes to sell large quantities of her wheat and other produce to those countries.

The arguments pro and contra protection or free trade of this sort can be interminable, and most Territorians have simply accepted the fact that, in spite of bright beginnings, kenaf is one of those industries crushed out of existence between the nether and the upper mill-stone of what Australian trade experts consider expedient.

Nonetheless, they reserve to themselves the privilege of cynicism: The perambulating politician who is incautious enough to “see Papua-New Guinea as Australia’s tropical garden” is regarded as a figure of fun and no prophet in the Territory.

P-NG may be Australia’s special international responsibility—but one needs the heart of a lion to attempt to establish any new export industry there. It is usually not long before it is found that it cuts across either Australia’s other trade arrangements—or is alleged to take the bread and butter out of the mouths of mainland Australians by using “cheap, sweated black labour.”

[?]Sr General-Post Follows

[?]R. Elliot’S Retirement

VE ELLIOT, chief manager in Fiji t Colonial Sugar Refining Company, etire in January, 1957. His retirebe followed by a reshuffle in CSR positions in Fiji.

R. (Barney) Rourke, at present Lautoka, will succeed Mr. Elliot.

Potts will go to Lautoka from id will be succeeded at Rarawai by Rowley, who has been manager at . J. M. Aitken, acting manager at le Mr. Rowley has been on leave, ■firmed in his present appointment. retires, Mr. Elliot will have been pany's service for 43 years, 39 of i. He was appointed chief manager the retirement of Mr. E. H. Griffiths, t has been actively interested in rs in the Colony. In 1950 he beminated member of the Legislative i three years mber of the louncil. his year he inted chaire Committee tural Educa- Committee's ere released une. He is mber of the 'isory Board, Conservation the Fijian t Fund Board. awarded the this year, lot is im> ist - president luva Rotary always took interest in is the redent of the Fiji Lawn Tennis Association.

Mr. and Mrs. Elliot plan to settle in Australia after a brief holiday in New Zealand.

MR. ROURKE joined the CSR in 1918, and went first to Fiji in 1923 as mill chemist at Labasa mill. In 1933 he became mill manager at Penang, and several years later, manager of the company there. He has been manager at Lautoka since 1947.

In his 33 years' service in Fiji he has had appointments at most of the company's mills.

Mr. Rourke has been a member of various boards in the Lautoka district, and is chairman of the board of visitors to the Lautoka Hospital. He is also a member of the Advisory Council on Agriculture.

Like Mr. Elliot, Mr. Rourke is interested in sport and, as president, has worked hard for the Lautoka Golf Club.

Mr. Elliot.

Mr. Rourke. 161 IC ISLANDS MONTH!. Y SEPTEMBER, 1956

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A BREWERY will be bui Walu Bay, Suva’s indu area, and be in productio early 1958.

This was announced in Sm, W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltc the end of August.

A spokesman for the con said in Sydney that the br: would produce bottled and dr beer—but that the emphasis 1 be on draught.

The company has not yet do where it will buy its plant, an listing Australian know-how hs been considered.

There are no plans yet appointing a brewer. However company is confident that the ducts of the brewery will be of quality and be welcomed local Beer Drinking for Ai If the new brewery can pn an acceptable brew —and there; reason why it should not venture will probably be as phe enal a success as that of the 1 Pacific Brewery in Port Mores l ; P-NG the local product is sll less in price than imported but it holds most of its popu on its merits.

Certainly the Suva brewery not have been contemplated more opportune time. The Gov of Fiji announced to the Coun Chiefs, which met in mid-Aj that the Government propos amend Fiji’s liquor law to maK drinking of beer open to all without any control by permii present the drinking of all ale; liquor by Fijians and India controlled by the permit syslf The Governor said that a mittee is to be set up to discusE the new system is to be brough effect.

This news will naturally bs corned by all brewery interests will probably appal many wishers of the Fijian race.

This is a second attemi liberalise Fiji’s liquor laws, th*j being defeated by public or Following the first failure,; granting of permits was g liberalised and the results are; to anyone with eyes and earr passes a Suva hotel in the eve or at week-ends. The Indiai, hold his liquor; the Fijian gem cannot —a few beers can turn from the most amiable of H islanders into a quarrelsome The new proposal is appaE based on the current desire f«l called “racial equality,” anoj theory that by denying alcoii a section of the communij 162 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Gold Ridge

Progress as Planned THE Clutha Development Co. (a subsidiary of Placer Development) has completed the surface costeaning (sinking pits down to rock to ascertain the direction of a lode) it planned to do during the dry season at Gold Ridge, BSIP.

The company is not yet in a position to disclose what has been yielded.

Twenty-four New Guinea natives were taken to Gold Ridge to strengthen the local native labour force, and are reported to have settled down well. 163 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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Dication Of Tomb In Western Samoa

•e of land atop of Mount a, near Vailima, behind i. in Western Samoa, now dedicated in perpetuity to rnment of Samoa; and the ent, through the present immissioner (Hon. G. R.

DBE). has given a pledge tomb there will be always mb on Mount Vaea con- ; remains of Robert Louis i, who died at Vailima on r 3, 1894, and the ashes of Fanny, who died in Cali- -1914. nerican writer, Mrs. Elsie ildwell, who is an admirer ison’s work, was in Samoa and discovered that the the land on Mount Vaea in the name of the late ny Stevenson. She informed ibel Field (Mrs. Fanny i’s daughter), then a f over 90, residing in Calijspondence ensued between family of RLS, Mrs. Cald- Mr. Powles, with the restated) that the site of renson tomb has become ifficial Samoa, and its rety. iedication probably reprethe last incident in the aating story of how Robert venson came into the South slands —the love-story of a lous man. ras born in 1851, in Scote son of a strict Presbyinister. Fanny Vandegrift i 11 years earlier, in 1840, mopolis. In 1857, when ged 17, married husky Sam ?, RLS was a gangling boy robably showing already is of the tuberculosis which him during his short life, nd Fanny Osbourne begat 1859) and Lloyd (1868). was restless, hot-blooded, nental —she longed to be . Nineteen years after her !, she was semi-separated • ever-roving Sam, and livvillage in France with her lildren, taking drawing- There she met RLS, also a : and, although only 25, a famous writer. They be- /ers, and lived together in 8, Fanny and her children to USA and, still more or ported by Sam, lived in y. Isobel, an exceedingly coded lass of 19, met, and eloped with, and married Joe Strong, an artist.

RLS, defying the edicts of the manse and the pleas of his friends, followed Fanny to California in 1879; Fanny (now 40) got a divorce, and married RLS on May 19, 1880.

Fanny and RLS —usually with Lloyd Osbourne as part of their household —wandered in America and Europe. Stevenson did some of his most famous work in these years.

Isobel and Joe Strong wandered also, in USA and Europe, and settled for a time in Hawaii. They had a son, Austin Strong.

In 1888, the Stevensons took their first South Seas cruise, in their vessel Casco, out of ’Frisco, to French Oceania, and back to Hawaii, where they were joined by the Strongs.

In 1889, RLS, Fanny, Lloyd Osbourne and Joe Strong left Honolulu in the yacht Equator, cruised in Micronesia and on to Samoa. Isobel and her son, Austin, went to Sydney, and waited there.

Late in 1889, the Equator party arrived in Samoa; decided to settle there; RLS bought 400 acres; left H. P Moors (who wrote With Stevenson In Samoa ), to clear the estate which afterwards became Vailima; and went on to Sydney.

RLS, Fanny and Lloyd took another South Pacific Islands wander in the Janet Nichol —he had been very ill in Sydney—and by 1890 they had established themselves permanently at Vailima.

RLS there supported quite a large houshold —Fanny; her daughter Isobel; Isobel’s artist husband, Joe Strong; Isobel’s son Austin (later sent to school in California) ; Lloyd Osbourne; and for a time, old Mrs.

Stevenson (mother of RLS) from Scotland.

Joe Strong was not a social success in Samoa —he was “too convivial,” and he had a wandering eye. The women “pushed him out,” and he went to USA, and he and Isobel were divorced. Isobel became RLS’s secretary.

RLS had only four colourful years at Vailima before he died suddenly from a cerebral haemorrhage (not, as many suppose, from tuberculosis) . He had been much loved by the Samoans, who carried his coffin on their shoulders up the steep slope of adjoining Mount Vaea, to his grave there, at the spot where now is the well-known, inscribed tomb.

Fanny, Isobel and Lloyd remained in Apia for some years—Lloyd, now a mature man, became USA consul there Then Vailima was sold to a Vladivostock merchant and later, after Germany fully annexed Samoa, it became the Governor’s residence —as it still is.

Fanny and Isobel lived together in California; and Isobel married Salisbury Field, a playwright friend of her mother. Lloyd Osbourne married, did much writing, and had two children before he was divorced.

Isobel’s son. Austin Strong, became a successful architect and playwright, and died in 1952, aged 71.

There was an oil fortune in the Field family, and Mrs. Isobel Field lived luxuriously in California, until she died, aged 95, in July, 1953.

There were unfortunate developments following the death of “Teuila” (Mrs. Field retained her Samoan name for 50 years). Lou and Alan Osbourne, sons of Lloyd Osbourne, brought suit to share in their aunt’s estate, and this action was still going on in August.

Austin Strong’s widow (her daughter-in-law) was Mrs. Field’s sole heir. Mrs. Field’s income from oil royalties ceased with her death. t A booklet setting out the advantages of co-operative movements and notes on their formation, has been published by the office of Registrar of Co-operatives at Rarotonga. 165 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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TOURING August two s outbreaks of native murdd reported from New Guinea from around the Telefomin ai other from the country ne3 junction of the Sepik and the rivers.

News of the Telefomin ] seeped through to Port ]Vv mid-August and finally ws nounced officially on August : statement released by the A istration.

ADO E. D. Wren, of Tele reported to headquarters thaj on patrol, one of the villag Fugara came forward and con to having taken part in thr ings.

The native explained that Miamin warriors came to vii Atemkismin people. Three men and one older man sat men’s house while the rest visitors sat outside.

The attack was made on the and those inside were killed] others escaped.

Mr. Wren, in his report, sug that the killings were made compense for previous murde;; petrated by the Miamin people.? the four men were killed, tM tribution of the flesh for eatii. a ritual indication that the had been settled.

Then, with Administration a trying desperately to “stall porters on the Telefomin inr more embarassing news got thi This time, there was fightin murdering near the junction Yellow and Sepik Rivers. I reported that 28 natives hao killed.

The murders took place 30 miles below the junction., victims were in a fishing which met a small group of ; apparently from theMayßiv© These people left soon aftes but returned three days lateE group of eight canoes. It is as that this was a bigger party the original.

Some time later, the aftao made. Heads were taken anb were other mutilations. Two females were among the attJ party, who used spears tomahawks, and later carrii their victims in the canoes. .

Immediately after thes . cidents, two patrols set out vestigate, and the next daf Director of Native Affairs, Mn Roberts, was on his way t Sepik from Port Moresby. 166 SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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NG SELF-GOVT. ibove incident was made m only a few days after 14 members of Trusteeship of the United Nations had, row majority, recommended stralia be instructed to set date for “self-government pendence” for the New natives ent on this piece of foolishmperfluous did shake Australians, hows the fact that it was the he United States that gave mlous resolution its necestit votes. hard to see valid reasons s— except, of course, the States’ current anti- -5m phobia. The implied of Australia’s efforts in ; New Guinea comes badly i US at this time when she ntly calling out the Army with tanks to enforce antiion laws in her own Southern nrealistic resolution shows e waste of time and money in sending Visiting UN to the Territory. The last dip Mission is only recently to Headquarters from New Either these people are inof evaluating the evidence own ears and eyes, or they m the wrong things, time a galloping-mission ie Territory, it should be oose in the headwaters of k and allowed to find its r back to civilisation, if it may then be in a better to advise the Trusteeship as to whether or not NG ters are in an advanced ;tate to run their own Gov- [?]al in Rabaul [?]lf-Links Murder nil High Court .of Australia given Frederick Phillip h, of Rabaul, leave to appeal his conviction of a double (PIM, August, page 121). ily 20, Smith was found y Sir Beaumont Phillips, istice of the Territory, of der of Adele Woo and Leo ;no. )dy of Miss Woo was found ml golf-links on May 20; ;no was found injured md died later. ence of death was recorded Smith. 167 P I c ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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For full particulars write to the Sole Distributors in Pacific Islands: FER JACKET! & COMPANY 1 Bond Street, Sydney [?] Babies Sent Greetings t The Whaling company at Norfolk T s la n H under the control nf Mr iSiana, Unoer tne Control 01 Ml.

Allan Anderson, was busy early ill August getting ready for the whaljng season. Death had robbed Mr.

A nrtpmn Q Pri of thp rh irirp 5o ho Anderson, ben., 01 the Chance tO DO there when his enterprise got under way.

Cocktails for BSIP Visitor [?]e's Boys and Girls" said it with a cheque—when they bade faremonth to Nurse Grace Morrison [?]o for more than 30 years has [?]o the world most of Suva's babies, mothers, some with their children, [?]or the occasion in the old nursing [?]va. Mrs. Maclndoe, of Lami, who [?] at Suva Hospital with Nurse [?]ade the presentations. The small staff of Fijian and Indian nurses also received cheques. Any idea Nurse Morrison had of making a speech was abandoned when the girls broke into tears around her. So, after saying "Thank you", she retreated behind her presentation basket of flowers. Fittingly, one small voice was raised frequently during the proceedings—that of Master Durham, just one week old and Nurse's last patient. —Photo by Stinsons, Ltd.

Mr. A. Macleod-Smith, Financial Secretary of the Western Pacific High Commission, visited Vila, New Hebrides, at end of July. He is shown here, centre, with the British Resident Commissioner of the New Hebrides, Mr. J. S. Rennie, left, and the Rev. Eric Owen of the Presbyterian Mission.

Photo: Fung Kuei. 169 -IC ISLANDS MONTHIY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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PIM London quotations shox in the first half of 1955 then a steady climb from 23£d U in June. Then there was a s jump to 43d by September: followed by a jumpy decline tH to last March when the II spot quotation stood at 25!d beginning of that month.

Since then there has been a and slow rising tendency to £ August.

The controlling factor appe be the production cost and ability of synthetic rubber, has now been developed technical stage where it has. of the favourable property natural rubber.

Although world synthetic output is increasing steadilt world demand for rubber i increasing rapidly, and at e the combined natural and syi’ rubber supplies do not mee demand. That was especial case late in 1955 and earl! when United States auto manufacturers found a suddt creased demand for vehicles.

According to one recent natural rubber demand in 193 exceed available supplies by: 10,000 tons. World pro®' should be about 1,835,000 tons about 77,000 tons on 1955.< United States is now produci:i using 11 million tons of sy\ rubber, but its demand for i —4O per cent, of total consul —is still as high as in pre-was Men associated with some larger Malayan rubber estate; diet that a satisfactory retui be received for natural rub world output is stabilised at 1,800,000 tons annu a 11 y.. quantity will ensure a satisg balance with the synthetic whose cost of production likely to fall greatly in the fl able future and is at presei; above efficient natural rubbe< duction costs.

All in all, the rubber pundii seem to see no serious colla view, though some plantatioc have to improve efficiency.

The Tariff Board Inqu WHAT has happened to 1 port that the Australian Board was to make to 170

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Department of Territories, a, says that the “report has een released” —and will not e on that statement.

Fariff Board inquired into or not Australia should le Papuan rubber industry. planters asked specifically ission of the 2d per lb duty s paid on Papuan rubber Australia and in this they were supported by the Department of Territories.

The key to the mystery is probably the fact that in the year preceding the inquiry price for Papuan rubber fell as low as 20d per pound—below cost of production for some plantations—but since the inquiry the price has continued to rise—current price (September 8, 1956) being A32.61d.

Mr. Harrie Standen, of the Bamu River Mission (“The Mission in the Mud”), Western Papua, goes to Britain and other European countries in April next year, on a lecturing tour—which, it is hoped, will attract some additional fund; for the organisation. Harrie and Eva Standen established this Mission over 20 years ago, in one of the least inviting spots in the Gulf of Papua. While Mr. Standen is abroad, Mrs. Standen will carry on the education work in the Bamu Delta. v More than 70 Roman Catholics cn Norfolk Island have launched an appeal for the building of a church there. As the island is in Sydney Archdiocese, the appeal is going through Sydney.

Cheerful Victim There was an outbreak of polio in the Tokelau Islands recently. However, this patient, who was brought to Apia, Western Samoa, by RNZAF flying-boat on August 5, for treatment, looks happy enough.

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Photo: Edwards Studio. 171 ? IC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

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175 PHILLIP STREET. SYDNEY. BL 3954. BOX 3456. G.P.O. [?]AT 2d. [?]OUND! [?]t Project Launched Northern Territory LD rice production is increasig and Australia should weigh a valuable contribution if a 50-million-dollar project to i a vast rice bowl in her rn Territory succeeds, tory Rice Ltd., the company is launched the NT venture, ed 220 acres off an experirice planting this year. In ier it will plant 1,500 acres d. Just a year later it will a 10,000-acre planting and his it hopes to reap in May. :om one to two tons of rice •e —its first commercial crop.

Australian Government is ating by making 500,000 f land available in NT. company—mainly American, ;h Mainguard, an Australian lent concern, providing a Df the finance —proposes to i 750,000 acres on a 30-year selling 500-acre parcels to t farmers as the project exlate production aim is 500,000 year. And, according to a ry Rice Ltd. spokesman, the ly hopes to sell its deliveries than 2d a pound—£lB/13/i. This should be good news G and other Pacific Islands’ insumers who currently are over £6O per ton f.o.b. Sydney; but bad news for Islands rice growers who have been getting the equivalent to imported price. t The Methodist Mission Board in Australia is arranging for the Duntroon to make a missionary JSi? 6 T to i Flji ’ Ton g a and Samoa next July. She will carry 360 passengers on a round voyage from Sydney that will take about 3’. week> Ports of call will be Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau and Apia.

Whole [?]eam happy - looking family arrived [?]rn Samoa re- [?]y air prepared [?]nse education take it. Mr. [?]Z. Smith sue- [?] Mr. Robert [?]s Director of [?]y Education; [?]ith will teach [?] Dependants' [?]aintained for of US Govern- [?]ployees; and [?ren - Carolyn [?]old (10), Sarah enrol in the [?]ool. They are [?]suile, Florida, [?] by Pan Prints. 173 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

Classified Advertisements | Per line, 2/-; Minimum, 6 lines.

Position Vacant

SHIP’S MASTER required, for Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony Wholesale Society, as relieving Master in first instance, take command small 120 ft. motor vessel interisland cargo/passenger service. Minimum qualification First Mate Foreign-going MOT Certificate. Contract one year with possible extension two. Salary in Scale £1,170 x £36 £1.242 x £4B £1,386 Australian Currency, point of entry according to qualifications experience.

Free furnished quarters, with stove and refrigerator, free medical attention, passages paid to three adult fares. Vacation leave on satisfactory completion contract at rate seven weeks each completed year resident service. Voluntary Provident Fund 5 per cent. Reply, giving fullest personal data and details career to date, to; Manager. Wholesale Society, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands.

Positions Wanted

EXPERIENCED CLUB MANAGER seeks position anywhere in Pacific Islands. Replies to: A. Bathgate, 39 Ethell Street, Hornsby, N.S.W., Australia.

MARRIED man, 25, residing New Guinea, desires a position with opportunities on a plantation, anywhere in the Islands.

Conversant with machinery and vehicle maintenance, building, carpentry, etc.

Has keen interest in agriculture, experience in cattle and sheep raising. Two years in New Guinea Timber Industry, speaks Pidgin, able to control Native Labour. No previous plantation experience, eager to learn. Reply: “Advertiser A”, c/- Box 3408, G.P.0.. Sydney, N.S.W.

MARRIED Australian male, 24. requires position anywhere in islands. Wide clerical experience; general accounting, salaries, travelling expenses claims, etc. Any offers considered: not necessarily clerical. Reply; R. J. Healy, 202 Headland Rd.. Dee Why, N.S.W.

NEW ZEALANDER. 45. married, with two children, seeks responsible position in the Timber Industry. Twenty-five years experience in design, construction and management of sawmills, planing mills, dry kilns, box factories, and all methods of bush operation. At present employed as an executive with a Gippsland timber firm. Reply to: G. Burgess, 51 Princes Highway. Moe, Victoria.

PANEL-BEATER, German, single, 34. seeks permanent position in New Guinea. Write: H. Schenk. 2 Lennox Street, Bellevue Hill, Sydney, N.S.W.. Australia.

WANTED ANYONE having book “Tin Can Island” by Ramsay, prepared sell, please write: Captain R. Nancarrow. Adelaide Steamship Co., 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.

ACCOMMODATION FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne, Sydney.

Water frontage, large, comfortable, two bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 minutes to city. Enquiries: Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd., G.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney, Aust.

HOLIDAY FLATS, comprising lounge room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom, refrigeration, radio, cleaning service, etc., 5 mins, city centre. 12 Springfield Ave., Potts Point, Sydney. Tel.: FA 6301.

KANIMBLA HALL, 19-29 Tusculum St., Potts Point, 5 mins, city, next Kings Cross, modern, 9 floors, harbour views, restaurant, S.C., furn. serviced suites with separate Lounge. Bed & Bath Rms. & K’ettes. Refrig., H.W. from 2Vz Gns. daily for 2; from 4 Gns. for 3. Under new management. Write or Phone PL 3014.

Telegrams: “Kanlmblahall”, Sydney.

NORFOLK ISLAND, “Burnt Pine” Real Estate Agency. Cable Address: “Adage.

Norfolk Island”. Properties for sale in peaceful surroundings and beautiful climate of Norfolk Island. All enquiries promptly attended to.

BOOKS ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

Tralasia And The Pacific Bought

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence invited. Berkelouw, 38 King St., Sydney, Telephone: BX 1243.

THE BOOK SCOUT, Westbury, Wilts..

England, will find that U.K. (not U.S.A.) book you cannot get. Large Pacific clientele. Local banking accounts. Write: Philip R. Boulton, Bookseller, Westbury, Wilts., England.

PENFRIENDS HELP yourself and another lonely person to a full life. Be introduced the modern way by correspondence. Members in Australia and overseas. All ages (from 18 on), faiths, nationalities and walks of life; cities and country. State age, sex, languages, etc., and write for free information brochure to be sent to you, in plain sealed envelope, to: Milton’s Friendship Club (Regd.), Dept. 5, Box 2871, G.P.0., Sydney. Strictly confidential—No obligation—New Australians welcome.

DON’T BE LONELY.—Men and women all over Australia are finding happiness through my Friendship & Matrimonial Correspondence Club. Someone wants to be YOUR friend. Select and confidential.

Write TO-DAY. No obligation. Locker P, Dorothy Pope Friendship Club (regd.), Box 182, Haymarket P. 0., Sydney, N.S.W.

WANTED Contact correspondents, philatelists, hobbyists and Pen Friends throughout the Pacific. Island representatives wanted. Members in almost every country of the world. Write for specimen copy Club journal “Island Life” and application form, to Secretary, South Sea Islands Correspondence Club, Natuvn, Fiji Is.

Drive Yourself Cars

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.—At your service in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty.

Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward St..

Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: FA 1091.

Enquiries invited.

FOR SALE FLEETS—New 45 ft. x 13 ft. 6 4 ft. 3 ins., flush-deck, carvel wo built by Watts & Wright, 40 H.P. diesel, 3:1 reduction, anchors, flares, etc., £6,850. Fleets,* St. East, Sth. Brisbane, Qld.

WORKBOAT, 45 ft. x 13 ft. » draught. Raised deck forecastle, | house and large capacity hold, completion to purchaser’s requin Construction under M.S.B. Surveyv able for cargo, fishing, and pe* Price approximately £6,600, owner engine, etc. Builders Wynne S.

Pty. Ltd., “Phoenix Shipyards”, Ne?

N.S.W. 500 £1 SHARES Madang Slipway', New Guinea. Will sell all or an of them. Contact: A. E. PedM Holmes St., Brighton, Queensland.

MOVIE ENTHUSIASTS, 8 or 16 mm your films and receive in exchange type and condition. Accompany ea with 2/6 N.Z. or 25 Pac. fr. Pacific Film Exchange, c/- C.P.O. Boc Auckland, N.Z.

KESSA PLANTATION GROUP, Island, Bougainville. N.G. Price: i A Copra and Cocoa Plantation to on a “walk in/walk out” basit owner’s personal effects only reservr the sale. For particulars apply:: Warner Shand, Solicitor, Rabaul.

FOR SALE “PRACTICAL PLANTING,

Territory Of New Guini

By Albert Richards.

REVISED EDITION.

On Sale Rabaul Stores. A

Angus & Robertson. L'

SYDNEY, FOR SALE "M.V. TUVALU" 120 FT.. 9 ft. draft, steel, convert ton ocean lighter, built in Australi Engines: Ruston Hornsby. 6 cylincb BHP. 8 knots; three generator! battery bank, four electric winches,? lass. Tanks: water 30 tons, fuel 22 One hold, four derricks, 120 tons 170 tons general cargo. Accommoo crew. 14 berths: cabins for masM six officers. Radio, all LSA navi® equipment to standard. Last Lloyd) vey: November, 1955; slipping Suvi\ October 8.

Offers to: Manager, WHOLESALE SOCIETY. 1 Gilbert and Ellice Islands; or “TRADE, Tarawa”. 174 SEPTEMBER, 195 6 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT'

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Local Agents : R. Gillespie (N.G.) Ltd., RABAUL. F. L. Kwock Cheong, RABAUL. Century Motors, LAE. Madang Slipways Ltd., MADANG. Pacific Island Motors, PT. MORESBY. J. H. Ellis, GOROKA. A. H.

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EDC36 Advertisers . . . 161 d. . . 33 : . . 70 ’. .122 ;eptance 84 es . • 56 Ltd. . 60 c . . 80 . V. . 2 . . 48 . . 148 . . 42 ' 115, 135 . . 109 J. . 155 . . 9 lodge 112 . . 110 ice . 138 lls . 108 . . 118 os. . 66 iday . 4 101, 141 S. . 106 otors . 9 Co. . 82 H. . 114 I, 93, 95, 104, 107 . . 46 . . 118 ottlers 12 reries 100 d. . 116 cts . 137 . . 71 126, 142 stard 153 at . 144 . . . 171 Ih 30, 163 . . 152 . . 34 . . 173 0. . 172 . . 159 g. . 160 L M. 175 . . 125 ts . 170 . . 14 . . 102 C. . 131 »r . .41 Co. . 16 . . 57 . . 122 . . 146 fc S. . 39 . . 121 lecke 61 . . 74 chery 13 . . 68 I . . 10 8. A. 83 . . 50 ts. . 73 . 1, 47, 110, 120 'aints 167 Farm 78 . . 13 ks . 157 45, 134 . . 67 ns . 55 irt . 54 fall . 44 . . 39 jr . 150 sels 156 . . 151 1. . . 49 . . 154 vators 3 . . 149 . . 95 . . 32 . . 136 . . 164 . . 70 Jackett, P. & Co. 169 Johnson's Wax 94 K.L.M 12 Kennedy, Capt. . 66 Kerr Bros. . . .153 Ketch For Sale . 105 Kiwi Polish ... 46 Kopsen & Co. .. 140 Kolynos .... 132 Lanchoo Tea 11, 38 Long, R. B. M. . 37 Maize Products . 98 Marine Spares 69 Mcllrath's ... 31 Mendaco .... 33 Middleton, M. R. . 27 Millers Ltd. ... 34 M. H. Ltd. . 26, 35 Morris, P. ... 82 Mungo Scott . . 53 Murex Pty. Ltd. . 52 N. & R. . . 74, 105 Needham & Co. . 62 Needham, R. & J. 53 Nestles 76 NG Aust. Line. . . 6 Nile Products . . 120 Nixoderm ... 143 N.Z.N.A.C 5 Pabco Products . 124 P. I. Line .... 8 Padrotta, H. . . 171 Papuan Prints . . 98 Penfold, W. . . 145 Piccaninny Wax . 162 Prager, F. H. . . 51 Qld. Insurance . 121 Qld. Milling . . 102 Ransomes Co. . 159 Reckitt's Blue . . 97 Refrig. Inst. Co. . 77 Rice Growers' Co-op 59 Riverstone Co. . 128 Rohu, Sil . . . . 81 "Rouna" .... 36 Sails and Covers 109 Seligson & Clare . 78 Seppelt & Son . 168 Seward Ltd. . .134 Shaw Savill ... 7 Shell Pty. Ltd. 79,119 Spruso Co. . . . 28 S.T.C. Co. ... 129 Stapleton, J. . . 176 Stewarts-Lloyds . 114 S. P. Brewery . 51 Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 73 Sullivan Ltd. . . 54, 103, 106 Suva Motors . . 117 Swire & Yuill . . 65 Tait, W. S. . . . 58 Tatham, S. E. . 157 Thornburg College 58 Thornycroft Co. . 64 Tilley Lamps . . 43 Ti I lock & Co. . . 166 Tongala Milk . . 96 Tooth & Co. ... 81 Turners & Growers 42 Tyneside Eng. . . 75 United Insurance . 61 U.R.D 173 Vacuum Oil . . .40 Vanderfield & Reid 99 Van Gelder, J. P. 41 Vincent Bros. . . 69 Ventura . . 143, 176 Vi-Stim .... 165 Vincent's APC . . 29 Wallace Whisky . 137 Warnock .... 62 Warringah Marine 147 Westfield Meats 158 Wilhelmsen, W. . 8 White Rose ... 113 Wills Ltd. ... 72 Wilson, W. E. . 117 Woods, H. W. . 139 Wrigley's . . . 127 Wunderlich Co. . 133 Yorkshire Ins. . 113 175 ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956

FIJI Aug., ’39 June, ’55 Ser Emperor . . . b9/ll sl4/b8/i Loloma . . . S25/6 b23/9 b28' PAPUA-NEW GUINEA Bulolo . , , . bl24/b47/b4J: N.G.G. Ltd. . bl/10 sl/9 b2/l Oil Search . b3/ll s9/bit Ent. of N.G. b3/bly.

Oriomo Oil ! b5/s4/6 bW Papuan Apin. b4/ll s3/b4,J Placer Dev. . . b68/6 s295/bll Sandy Creek . bl/5 s9d s46 YOUR NEXT LEAVE Modern up to the minute homes between Dee Why and Palm Beach available to Island Residents for Holidays.

Write for information to:— J. T. STAPLETON PTY. LTD., ESTATE AGENTS , 133 PITT STREET, SYDNEY.

BU 3420, BL 1737. or any of the Branch Offices located at Dee Why, Narrabeen, Mona Vale, Avalon or Palm Beach.

Consign Your Shell To VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD.

26 Bridge Street, Sydney

We con offer highest 1 prices for all types of Shell and Island Produce, and invite your inquiry.

Cables: “VENTURA,” Sydney.

Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are In Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 140 Pac. Francs; SUS 2.23.) COPRA Price negotiated between British Ministry of Food and British South Pacific Territories for 1956 was £ Stg.sB/10/- FOB main ports—a reduction of 10% on the 1955 price. Stabilisation funds and other charges reduce the actual prices to producers to those given below, per ton: PAPUA - NEW GUINEA:—Hot Air £ A62/10/-; FMS (Sun-dried) £A6I/15/-; Smoked £AS9.

FlJl:—Plantation £FS7/5/6 for top grade; FMS £FS7; moister grades £FSS/18/- to £FS4/2/- minimum.

W. SAMOA:—Basic price of £S36/14/4, 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 6,400 Pac. francs (,£A44/16/-) to 6,000 Pac. francs (£A42) delivered Vila/ Santo; still at that rate early September.

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. 3V 4 d N.Z. per lb. equal to £ N.Z.30 per ton.

COCOA:—lslands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which on Sept. 8 was £Stg.226/5/-, c.i.f.

P.-N.G.; Good grade, £A235, ex wharf Sydney.

W. SAM.: Sept. 8, £Stg.23o, 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, 1/8 - 1/9 lb. del. Sydney.

RUBBER: —P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on Sept. 7, was: No. RSS, spot, 92 Vs Straits cents (32.61 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 ah<i 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. £6B/10/per ton f.0.b.: under 5 tons, £69 per ton.

Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £7O per ton, f.o.b. Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL.—Prices between majority of the Torres Strait pic and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for it main as for 1955, i.e.: Sound? £A736; D, £A39O; E, £A3OO; EE, : , all f.0.b., Australian ports; n quotation by independent pearlersli £ AB6O-920; D, £A6OO-650; E, £A EE, £A275-300. Manihiki; Lagoon Tuamotus: Approx. £A1,300, long raw shell on beach, Hikueru.

TROCHUS:—One Sydney agent* 10 quoted: New Hebrides £4BO-£5O! £520; and 8.5.1., £520; “accon grade”; another quoted £470 to | GREEN SNAIL:—Quote No. I Pacific, in store Sydney. £4753, to rejects; lower grades £4OC> Quote No. 2: £465-£4BO.

LONDON AND U.S. PRICE!; Copra:—London. Aug. 8, Strait) buyers, £Stg.63/10/-; Philippines I c.i.f. Pac. Coast, del. weights.

Coconut Oil:—London, Aug. 8: in bulk, 1% FFA, £Stg.94/10/-, jc ton; Straits, bulk. 3V 2 % £Stg.B9/10/-, c.i.f., per ton.

Cocoa:—London, Aug. 17: Acer in bond (buyers): £ 5tg.222 ton.

Coffee: —London, Aug. 17: Tam Grade A, £Stg.sBo per ton. B. i peaberry, £Stg.sso, A.F., £Stg.s3{i nesian robustas (washed and i August/September shipment. A.P.I £ 5tg.274.

Rubber;—London, Sept. 7; Spot) Stg.2BV 4 d.

Islands Mining Sh[?]

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NS* BANK and BANK OF NZ. Aust Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £i Selling, £ All 3. Fiji-London, basj London: B, £llO/15/-: S. £ll2. basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. i SAMOA.—Through BANK OF N” tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9.

London, basis £lOO London: B.

S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £ B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-F £lOO Samoa: B. £111: S. £llO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealti

(Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Madang. Wewak), BANK OF (branches; Port Moresby, Lae,.

Rabaul, Madang, Samarai, agencies: Wau, Boroko, Kokopo) !

BANK (Port Moresby) quote |j rate Australia-Papua-NG: 10/- peie

Bsi.—Commonwealth Bank 1

at Honiara) quotes exchange rtr tralia-BSI: 10 - per £AIOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacing most valuable of the three frame in French Union, are used in Nil donia. New Hebrides, and Fr.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney?

Selling 140 Pac. fr. to £Aust.: fr. to £Stg.; 63 Pac. fr. to US $ J Published bv PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD.. 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone: MA9197.) Wholly set up c printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

Stop feeling “Tied down”

Isolation and its handmaiden, the “tied down’’ feeling, are things of the past. TEAL South cific air services now make near neighbours of hitherto remote places ; turn travel days into hours !

The TEAL “Coral Route” (linking Fiji—Samoa—Cook Is.—Tahiti), the “Hibiscus” Service Fiji—Auckland), Fiji—Tonga and Auckland—Norfolk Is. services, plus three different air routes across the Tasman Sea . . . al! contribute to the making of South Pacific air travel as up-to-date as any in the world. > find out more about TEAL services, consult your Travel Agent or any TEAL office.

FIJI

Norfolk Is.®

L TAHITI TONGA SAMOA AUCKLAND

Cook Islands

CHRISTCHURCH m EMPIRE AIRWAYS LIMITED. NEW ZEALAND’S INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE, IN ASSOCIATION WITH QANTAS AND B.

SEPTEMBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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General Merchants

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Copitol £2,500,000 ESTABLISHED 1914

General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Wholesalers And Retailers

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

Agents For Australian, Europeans

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS..

Distributors Of Every Descriptions

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise.

W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD.

Head Office: 16 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: Telephone: Postal Address: “CAMOHE.” BW 4421. G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney..

In London: W. R. Carpenter Cr Co. < London) Ltd., IB Rood Lane, London, E.C.3.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, Island Products Ltd., Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng. Port Moresby. W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., So PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER, 1956