PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly 1956 VoL.XXVII. No. 3. kjkj istered at THERE are no chainstores in the Admiralty Islands (NG), but this young woman has her own ideas about domestic gadgets she is using a half coconut-shell as a darner. —Photo: Walter Barker.

Fly Fast To

a a* n r on fhe Kangaroo Roufe k or holiday anywhere on the way!

QANTAS C 'Y'HE choice of seven services a week to London and Europe is yours on the Qantas-8.0.A.C. “Kangaroo”' Route. Travel fast and direct if you’re going on business.* Take a leisurely stop-over trip if you’re going for fun.

Spend time, if you wish, in Singapore or Colombo, Bombay or Cairo. Branch off at Rome, at no extra cost, and take in the cities of the Old World you’ve long wanted to see.

You’ll fly in mighty, uxurious Super-G Constellations Constellations. Sleeperchairs or slumberettes for all First Class passengers on the “Kangaroo” Route, or youtj may travel Tourist Service (at a saving of 27%).

Whichever you prefer, you’ll find that either costs a lot less than you think !

Fly the “Kangaroo” Route to London and Europe.

You’ll have time to see more and do more on the way, and when you get there.

Talk to your Travel Agent. He will give you the facts and the figures and make all arrangements for you without cost or obligation.

QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS LIMITED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 8.0.A.C.

PACIFIC ISLANDS M O N T H I Y - O C T O B E R . 1956

STOVES

Made In England

\ai% so a eman These two Coleman Stoves are of the one burner kerosene type and are available in both silent and roarer models. Their dimensions are height 8* inches, diameter 8* inches, approximate weight 2| lb. Both models have the seme outstanding features.

Model No. 532 E

Silent Type

Full-Size Fount with Filler Plug of wing type.

Air relegse on side of Filler Plug.

Heovy Bross pressure-tested Tonks.

Fount and Burner firmly soldered together.

European-type pump.

Grate and Grate Supports detachable to reduce shipping space.

Spare parts interchangeable with similar European Stoves. Representatives for the Pacific Islands: o Model No. 531 E

Roarer Type

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VENTURA ~)ffer the following range of world famous marine diesel engines to suit all requirements.

Armstrong Siddeley Range

ARMSTRONG-VENTURA with 2/1 reduction gear, 2 c v l 20 HP at 1500 RPM. Air cooled. Price £A6IO F. 0.8. nUU ARMSTRONG-VENTURA with direct drive, 2 cyl. 20 HP at Air cooled. Price £A575 F. 0.8, 1500 RPM.

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AJAX-ALBACORE MKI with 2/1 reduction, 40 HP at 1600 RPM. Price £A1154 F. 0.8. seawater cooling, four cyl.

AJAX-ALBACORE MK3 with 2/1 reduction, fresh wafer cooling by heat exchanger, 4 cyl. 40 HP at 1600 RPM. Price £A1260 F. 0.8.

AJAX-ALBATROSS MKI with 2/1 reduction, seawater cooling four cYI 65 HP at 1800 RPM. Price £A1455 F. 0.8.

AJAX-ALBATROSS MK3 with 2/1 reduction, fresh wat ;r cooling by heat exchanger, 4 cyl. 65 HP at 1800 RPM. Price £A1650 F 0.8.

Leyland Range

AJAX-AMAZON MKI with 2/1 reduction.

HP at 2200 RPM. Price £A1825 F. 0.8. seawater cc ing, 6 cylinders, 95 AJAX-AMAZON MK3 with 2/1 reduction, fresh w r cooling by heat exchanger, 6 cyl. 95 HP at 2200 RPM. Price £A2015 .0.8.

AJAX-APOLLO MKI with 2/1 reduction gear, seawate; cooling, 6 cyl. 125 HP at 1800 RPM. Price £A2287 F. 0.8.

AJAX-APOLLO MK3 with 2/1 reduction, fresh wafer cooling by heat exchanger, 6 cyl. 125 HP at 1800 RPM. Price £A2515 F. 0.8.

AJAX-ATLANTA MKI with 2/1 reduction, seawater cooling, 6 cyl. 150 HP at 2000 RPM. Price £A2467 F. 0.8.

AJAX-ATLANTA MK3 with 2/1 reduction, fresh water cooling by heat exchanger, 6 cyl. 150 HP at 2000 RPM. Price £A2695.

Norman Petrol Range Aircooled

NORMAN T3OO with direct drive reversible prop., stern tube and shafting complete. 2 cyl. 3 HP at 2000 RPM. Price £AII2 F. 0.8.

NORMAN T6OO direct drive reversible prop., stern tube and shafting complete. 2 cyl. 7.5 HP at 2000 RPM. Price £AIS7 F. 0.8.

NOTE: Alternative ratios and hydraulic boxes are available for all AJAX models, prices on application.

Sole Pacific Island Agents : fENTURA Trading Co. Pty. Ltd.

UNION HOUSE, 247 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY.

Cables: “Ventura”, Sydney. 3 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

when touring NEW ZEALAND A holiday in New Zealand is an adventure in superlatives, with all the scenic wonders of the world encompassed by two small islands.

Thermal regions . . . towering alps . . • snow sports . . . big game fishing . . . fighting trout in stream and lake . . . beauty of forest and fiordland ... all this in a genially temperate climate, fever-free and without noxious insect pests.

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. flying’s the way to travel JilAC^ 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.

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m "•* i m & practical magazine for Pacific planters

Technical Papers

Pacific Planters

TITLE coa Plantation Manage- ;nt in Western Samoa. coa Growing in Fiji ands. coa Growing in Netherids New Guinea. ffee Growing in New ledonia. coa Growing in Western moa. coa Growing in New brides. e Management of conut Plantations in Jstern Samoa. e Pacific Islander and >dern Commerce. e Manufacture of Copra the Pacific Islands. - stg.) istern Samoa An anomic Survey. (6/- .) vhere otherwise indicated, all listed above are priced at 2/- They are obtainable from Iresses listed alongside, or :e by surface mail from’ the ’acific Commission, Box 5254.

Sydney, Australia.

The St*o Quarterly ttulletin* published by the South Pacific Commission, is a magazine that provides expert practical guidance on a vv de range of topics of special interest to Pacific planters. Advice is given on the growing of crops such as coconuts, coffee, cocoa, rice, bananas, castor and soft fibres. Other topics cc ered in recent issues include: the construction of copra kiln fish farming, processing of coffee and cocoa beans, spt sge culture, rhinoceros beetle control, rat control, and t e catching and preservation of fish. Articles in the past tl ree issues of special interest to planters include: JANUARY 1956 ISSUE Mechanisation oi Coconut Growing Bamboo Culture In The South Pacific Cultivation of the Banana Introduction of Edible Pond Pish from the Philippines Pepper a Promising Cash Crop for Pacific Planters Trochus Study by a French Institute Cocoa a New Practical Handbook.

APRIL 1956 ISSUE Dryer for Preservation of Breadfruit Curing Copra on Small-holdings in Indonesia The Quality of Raw Cocoa as

Quarterly Bulletin

SUBSCRIPTION RATES : it Affects the Manufacturer A Survey of Subsistence Problems in the South Pacific Cash Crops and Imported Poods in the South Pacific Large-scale Cooking of Vegetables Dairy Farm Successfully Established in Tahiti.

JULY 1956 ISSUE Rammed-earth Construction for Self-Help Building How to Tan Nets, Sails and Lines Better Copra from New Low-Cost Dryer Oyster Farming Crops Without Soil Breadfruit Drying in the Reef Islands.

One year .. 8/- stg. ($1.15) Three years 20/- stg. ($2.80) Surface Mail) (Post Free by Copies of the SPC Quarterly Bulletin and subscriptions thereto and copies of SPC Technical Papers, are obtainable from: PAPUA AND NEW GUlNEA—Beadels Bookshop, P.O. Box 107, Port Moresby; FlJl—Desai Bookshop. Suva; WESTERN SAMOA —Wesley Bookshop, Apia—Oß direct post-free by surface mail from:

South Pacific Commission

G.P.O. Box 5254, Sydney, Austrolio. 5 C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

The China Navigation Co. Ltd

(A British Company incorporated within the United Kingdom ) ***•

New Guinea Australia Line

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

Sydney Brisbane and return.

Melbourne Sydney Port Moresby Madang Rabaul and return.

Rabaul Kavieng Madang Lae Samarai Lae

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 I Samarai Port Moresby.

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

Calls at Samarai subject to inducement.

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

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

NEW GUINEA: Colyer Watson (N.G.) Ltd., Lae, Madang, Rabaul. Cable: Colyeram. New Guinea Co. Ltd., Kavlert Cable: “Camohe”.

BRISBANE: Wills, Gilchrist & Sanderson Pty. Ltd.. 400 Queen Street. Cables: Wilgilsand.

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

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

GENERAL AGENTS AUSTRALASIA: Swire & Yuill Pty. Ltd.. 6 Bridge St., Sydney, Cable: “Swireshlp . BU 17.1 EASTERN MANAGERS: Butterfield & Swire, Hongkong. Cable: Swire. 6 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

ORCADES ORONSAY ORSOVA ORION SYDNEY depart — 11 Dec. 25 Jan. 11 Mar.

AUCKLAND arr/dep . — 14 Dec. 28 Jan, 15 Mar.

SUVA arr/dep — 17 Dec. 31 Jan. 19 Mar.

HONOLULU arr/dep — 22 Dec. 5 Feb. 25 Mar.

VANCOUVER arrive — 28 Dec. 11 Feb. 1 Apr. depart — 29 Dec. 12 Feb. 2 Apr, SAN FRANCISCO arr — 31 Dec. 14 Feb. 5 Apr. depart 26 Oct. 1 Jan.. ’57 15 Feb. 6 Apr.

HONOLULU arr/dep 30 Oct. 5 Jan. 19 Feb. 10 Apr.

SUVA arr/dep 6 Nov. 12 Jan. 26 Feb. 18 Apr.

AUCKLAND arr/dep 9 Nov. 15 Jan. 1 Mar. 22 Apr.

SYDNEY arrive 12 Nov. 18 Jan. 4 Mar. 26 Apr. ing the Pacific Islands with { Europ West Indies , New Zealand Australia and South Africa 'he 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. if*' 4 iiiO* " M »l«| £155 stg.

Ares: To England

i via Panama £l2O stg.

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

TAHITI Etablissements Donald Cable address: Donald, Tahiti, Papeete.

Papeete. [?]ing Time-Tables gs are approximate and may y as much as two weeks. sy-Papua-N. Guinea aita sails from Sydney for avieng, Lombrum, Lorengau, xishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney, y sailing approx. Nov. 9. sails from Melbourne for Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, ae, Pt. Moresby, Sydney, Melxt Sydney sailing Nov. 9. 10, modern liner, sails about weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, amarai, Lae, Madang, Manus, lamarai, Moresby, Brisbane, :xt Sydney sailing Nov. 20. jola, cargo only, sails from Brisbane, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, ombrum, Madang, Lae, Pt. risbane, Sydney. Next sailing: •om Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., treet, Sydney. how: Departs Sydney Nov. 6 me, Pt. Moresby, Rabaul, tadang, Lae, thence to Hongning to Sydney late Jan. ang: Departs Sydney Nov. 23 e, Pt. Moresby, Samarai, Lae, avieng, Rabaul. Sydney. >i: Departs Sydney Nov. 24 for 't. Moresby, Samarai. om Swire and Yuill Pty, Ltd., ~ Sydney. dney-Dutch N.G. iks service by MV’s Sigll, Silino, Sinabang (regular) and Van gular> carry passengers and E. Australian ports to Hoilandia and Sorong. DNG (with Biak and/or Manokwari if inducement), thence Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence Australia direct. Next sailings Sibigo Nov. 3, Sigli Nov. 28.

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

Far East-S.W. Pacific- Australia (Calling S.W. Pacific ports on sonth-bonnd journeys only.) SS Fengning: Departs Sydney Oct. 31 for Japan, due Nov. 19. Departs Japan Nov. 24 for Sydney, due Jan. 14, via Hongkong and Island ports.

SS Funing: Departs Sydney Jan. 5 for Brisbane and Japan. Due Hongkong on return Feb. 9, thence Island ports and Sydney due Mar. 13.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line (Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents), 6 Bridge St., Sydney.

The Australia-West Pacific Line motor vessels Arcs, Cites, Delos and Milos maintain regular services between Australian ports and Japan. Northbound vessels call at Manila, Hongkong and Japan; southbound vessels call at Hongkong, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Lae, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, with bi-monthly calls at Honiara and Vanikoro.

Milos southbound leaves Rabaul Nov 21 i£ha,? 0 M 23 i r Citos southbound leaves Rabaul Nov. 6. Lae Nov. 9; Delos southbound leaves Rabaul Dec. 28. Lae Dec 31 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. 29.

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 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 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.

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

Australia-West Pacific Lin

■on i rwm M.V. MILOS’

THE A.W.P.L. FLEET now comprises the modern Swedish Motor Vessels "Aros", #/ Citl "Delos" and "Milos" which offer the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from i tralio to Main Japanese Ports via Manila and Hong Kong. On the return voyage calls: made at Hong Kong # Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Lae, and thence to Brisbane, Sydney 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: Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. ’Phone: MB 2840.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs, Bright & Co. _ ... . Grio ISLAND AGENTS: Madang, Mr. A. Strachan; Lae, Mr. R. Tebb; Rabaul, Town Transport Ltd., Honiara, British Soc Islands Trading Corporation. _ B FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan. return to Auckland. On her last return to Auckland she underwent survey.

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

N. Zealand-Cook Ss.

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 approx. Nov. 29.

MV Muliama, 8 passenger® Sydney for British Solomon Islan approximately monthly, ports* with cargoes. Next sailing from!, approx. Nov. 20.

Details from Burns, Philp &.

Bridge Street, Sydney.

Sydney-N. Caledonia-T Vessels of Messageries Maritinn coming from Marseilles, via Wes and Panama, call about every si at Papeete, Vila (New Hebrides) J, and Sydney, and return by saira At present on this run are the ships, Tahitien, Caledonien anct gent. Next sailing from Sydney;-!

Nov. 13.

MV Polynesie (Messageries Ms: maintains about monthly passenp ings between Sydney and Noun the New Hebrides. Next Sydney\ Nov. 9.

Details from Sydney agents: Me Maritimes, 36 Grosvenor Street, | Sydney-S. Africa-UK-Pa Ports-Sydney Shaw Savill’s new one-class all-p liner Southern Cross makes four the-world voyages per year, tw bound, then two east-bound, cs Suva and Papeete every trip. Next Due Suva Oct. 30, Papeete Nov.

Southampton, via Panama, Nov. 1 N. America-Fiji-Hebride!

Pacific Islands Transport Line"

Thorsisle and Thorshall mafii regular service from Pacific Coat American ports, with sailings ot days. Some ports depend on 8 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON'

London-Suva

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Burns Philp (South Sea)

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Thorsisle: Now in Pacific, due at . 23-25. San Francisco (inbound) t. Next Pacific sailing: San 3 Nov. 30, Los Angeles Dec. 2-3, Dec. 14-16, Pago Pago Dec. 20-21, :. 22-23, Suva Dec. 26-28, Lautoka •Jan. 1, Noumea Jan. 4-6, Lae 11, San Francisco (inbound) Jan. irshall: From Seattle/Tacoma is apeete Oct. 24-26. Pago Pago Oct. .pia Nov. 1-2, Suva Nov. 5-7, Nov. 8-10, Nukualofa Nov. 12-15, Nov. 19-21, San Francisco (in- )ec. 8. from General Steamships Cor- Ltd., 432 California St., San >. USA, and Island Agents. ey-North America, via Pacific Ports four cargo vessels, Waihemo, Waikawa, and Waitomo, owned rated by the Union Steam Ship NZ Ltd., maintain a monthly icross the Pacific, from Sydney iuver and USA ports, via Suva, Nukualofa, and Apia, as cargoes rcasional calls are made at Fannd. They have limited passenger Nation. Next sailings: Waitomo, Wairuna, mid-Dec. *apeete-Pago Pago-NZ- Australia -Oceanic Line of San Francisco a regular five-weeks passenger- ■vice from Los Angeles with the Alameda, Sierra and Sonoma, terminal ports vary with cargoes Vessels call at Papeete, Pago Suva, depending on cargoes.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) operate a service three times yearly with the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba along the above route. Accommodation is entirely First Class, two-berth cabins Next sailing from Sydney, mid-February’ with calls at Suva and Lautoka, Details from American Trading & Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St., Sydney, Honolulu-Papeete The 242-ton auxiliary schooner Te Vega, American-owned, operates a luxury nasn gCr f BI IiT iCe t 0 a re eular schedule, with calls at Marquesas and Line Islands as Details from Darr Lines, c/o ™ e °- H ' I ? avies & Co - Honolulu, or Etablissements Donald, Papeete.

N. America-Hawaii-Fiji-Samoa- Tahiti-N. Zealand-Australia Matson Line’s Mariposa and Monterey make round passenger trips from Pacific North Coast American ports to Australia vm paci flc islands ports and New Zealand, Mariposa: Sails San Francisco Oct. 26, 9 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

The Garrick Hotel

Suva, Fiji

r£| Hi M X~ ' v v ||v "Vyira s \'i £ !iii b«.fii >'null I j|T. i st * trim, .n.r.rt, 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.

Via SUEZ and Via PACIFIC With Occasional Voyages Via PANAMA n LONDON GIBRALTAR MARSEILLES NAPLES PORT SAID LONDON!

LE HAVRE TRINIDAD ADEN COLOMBO FREMANTLE ADELAIDE MELBOURNE PANAMA

Los Angeles

FRANCISCO VANCOUVER HONOLULU SUVA AUCKLAND Via Suez: First Class, Tourist B Class and Tourist-One Class.

SYDNEY Via Pacific: First Class, Intermediate First Clo and Tourist B Cl c

Orient Line

Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited, Incorporated in England Los Angeles Oct. 28, Honolulu Nov. 2, Papeete Nov. 7-9, Wellington Nov. 15, Melbourne Nov. 19, Sydney Nov. 21-24, Auckland Nov. 27, Suva Nov. 30, Pago Pago Dec. 1, Honolulu Dec. 6, San Francisco Dec. 11.

Details from Matson Lines, Berger House, 82 Elizabeth Street, Sydney,

Airways Time-Tabu

Transpacific Servic

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

By Pan-American Airways

(With Strato Clippers, using Sleeps and Berths*) Sun., Thur.; Sydney, Nadi, Cantor Honolulu, San Francisco, Seattle,, land.

Tue., Pri.; Sydney, Nadi, Cantor Honolulu, Los Angeles.

Mon., Thur.: San Francisco to S (same route).

Tues., Sat.: Los Angeles to S (same route). * DC4 from Auckland connects, ai.

Nadi Sun.. Tues., Thur., departings Tues., Thur., Sun. DC4 shuttle i once monthly connects Nadi and T (American Samoa).

By Qantas Empire Airwat

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS Tues.*. Thurs.*, Fri.*’ and Sat.*: SE Nadi (Fiji), Honolulu, San Franu with Sat. service extending to < couver.

SOUTHWARDS Thur.*, Fri.*, Sat.*, Mon.*: San Fran Honolulu, Nadi (Fiji), Sydney, day’s service begins at Vancouv Sunday. Note: Crosses date-liri route). • TEAL DC6 services between Aut and Nadi connect at Nadi Tues. am northwards: Wed. and Sat. southwa 10 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Three “GROSVENOR PLATE”

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BONUS PRESENT No. 197 for 40 Va-lb. labels.

One “HOSPITAL” specially selected large HOUSEWIFE PILLOW CASE.

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There are over 300 presents to choose from You are invited to write Tor full particulars to: LAN-CHOO TEA COMPANY. 364-372 Kent St.. Sydney From the great variety of presents available, we feel sure you will be able to make a suitable selection. ffTTTim Cecf/o/7& C/>o/ceet

Canadian Pacific Airlines

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

Sun. leaves Vancouver for Sydney lame route.

Fri.: Auckland, Nadi, Honolulu, ;ouver, Amsterdam.

Cues., leave Vancouver for Auckland ame route. (Note: Crosses date-line oute).

Tional Services In

PACIFIC . Sydney-New Guinea Ice by Qantas Empire Airways (Skymasters) NORTHWARDS Mon., Tues., Sat., Sun. art: Arrive: 8.00 p.m. Brisbane, 10.45 p.m. e, 11.45 p.m. Moresby, 6.35 a.m. (Tues., Wed., Sun.,Mon.) r , 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9.00 a.m.

Thurs. art: Arrive: 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.45 p.m. i, 11.45 p.m. Townsville, 3.30 a.m (Friday) lie, 4.15 a.m. Cairns, 5.30 a.m. 6.30 a.m. Moresby, 9.20 a.m. esby, 10.20 a.m. Lae, 11.45 a.m.

SOUTHWARDS Tues., Wed., Sun., Mon. art: Arrive: 30 a.m. Moresby, 12.00 noon , 1.00 p.m. Brisbane, 7.35 p.m. ;, 9.00 p.m. Sydney, 11.45 p.m.

Sat. art: Arrive: 0 a.m. Moresby, 8.30 a.m. , 9.30 a.m. Cairns, 12.20 p.m. 2.35 p.m. Townsville, 3.45 p.m. lie, 4.30 p.m. Brisbane, 8.15 p.m. ;, 9.00 p.m. Sydney, 11.45 p.m. 5 -NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas OLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) ;d. (November 14, 28, etc.).

Lae 11.00 a.m., calls at Madang Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia p.m. Every alternate Thursday 1, 15, 29, etc.), departs ndia at 9.30 a.m., and, with calls ewak and Madang, arrives Lae at p.m.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

d. (Oct. 31, Nov. 14, 28, etc.). e, 8.00 a.m.; Finschhafen, Rabaul, :ng, arr. Manus 3.00 p.m. alt. Sat. (Nov. 3, 17, etc.) ts Manus 8 a.m. and with calls at ng, Rabaul and Finschhafen, ;s Lae at 2.55 p.m. [ORESBY-DARU (Catalina) J Is., Kerema, Kikori, L. Kutubu: ?ri. returning same day (Oct. 26, 9, 23. etc.).

Port Moresby-Rabaul

(Catalina) les. (November 13, 27, etc.) loresby, Samarai, Esa’ala, Losuia, e Hbr., Talasea, Jacquinot Bay, il. Returning via same ports (ex- Losuia and Esa’ala optional) alt. i. (Nov. 14, 28, etc.).

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

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

Central Highlands

(DCS) Fridays: Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Wapenamunda, calling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Kainantu, Wapenamunda. Arrival back at Lae dependent on stops.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) Fridays: Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, calling at any of Nadzab, Kaiapit, Gusap, Aiyura, Finintegu, Rintebe, Bena Bena, Kainantu, Goroka, Arena. Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wait (Dcs)

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

Dep. Wau.: Mon. 9 a.m., Tues. 3.30 p.m., Wed. 1 p.m., Fri. 3.30 p.m. Bulolo is omitted on these flights which take 35 minutes, Wau-Lae.

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

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

Alt. Fridays (Nov. 2, 16, 30, etc.).

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

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

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

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

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

Alt. Thursdays (November 2, 22, etc.): Dep. Lae 8 a.m., Finschhafen, Rabaul, Buka, Rabaul, arr. 2.55 p.m.

Alt. Fridays (November 9, 23, etc.): Dep. Rabaul 8 a.m., Madang, Goroka, Lae, arr. 1.10 p.m.

Service By Mandated Airlines

Scheduled Flights with DCS Aircraft Mon.: Depart Lae at 7.30 a.m. for Goroka.

Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaui — remaining overnight. Depart Lae 8 a.m. for Goroka. Wau, Port Moresoy, Wau, Goroka, Lae.

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

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

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

Sat.; Depart Rabaul at 7 a.m. for Kavieng, Momote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae. 4. Aust.-Dutch N. Guim By KLM Royal Dutch Airline* (Super Constellation Service) A weekly service between Sydney Amsterdam with a call at Biak \ and Manila (Philippines).

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Holll Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah, At wari, Noemfoer, Ransiki, Genjenu Kokonao. 5. N. Guinea-Solomor By Qantas with DCS Aircraft. (Three flights every four week; Mon. (November 5, 12, 19, etc.], dep. 6 a.m.: Finschhafen, H Buka, Vella Lavella, Yandina, HI (BSI), arriving 5.25 p.m.

Tues. (November 6, 13, 20 | Honiara dep. 7 a.m.: Yandina,, Lavella, Buka, Rabaul, Lae, el 3.35 p.ir. 6. Paris-Saigon-Noume By Transports Aeriens Intercontine DC6B aircraft depart Paris every 2! (Oct. 22, Nov. 5, 19, etc.) for , Karachi, Saigon, Darwin, No Leave Noumea on return Oct. 2© 9, 23, etc. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe I By Ansett Airways Pty., Ltd) With Sandringham Flying-boatM Return flight each Tuesday and Thu 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

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New Caledonia-New Hebrides TAI with DCS Aircraft. ays: Depart Tontouta 8 a.m., Santo 11.10 a.m., arrive Vila .m., depart Vila 2.15 p.m., arrive ita 4.30 p.m. >: Depart Tontouta 8 a.m., arrive D. 20 a.m., arrive Santo 12.5 p.m., Santo 1.30 p.m., arrive Tontouta .m.

Norfolk Is.-Auckland lAL, by Qantas (charter) Return flight Norfolk (dep. 7.45 Auckland (arr. 11.30 a.m., dep. 3.m.) Norfolk (arr. 4.15 p.m.). fable 8 above). !. Auckland-Sydney nan Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft. , Mon.; Dep. Auckland 9.30 a.m., ydney 1.00 p.m. ;pt. Auckland 4.15 p.m., arr. ’ 7.45 p.m. r. Dep. Auckland 6.15 p.m., arr. 9.45 p.m.

Tues., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 10.00 am arr. Auckland 5.00 p.m Mon., Thu., Fri.: Dep. Sydney 3.00 pm arr. Auckland 10.00 p.m. 13. Christchurch-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Mon.. Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 pm arr. Sydney 8.40 p.m.

Mon., Thurs.; Dep. Sydney 8.00 a.m. arr. Christchurch 3.10 p.m. 14. Christchurch-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Thurs.: Dep. Christchurch 5.00 p.m., arr.

Melbourne 9.30 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m., arr.

Christchurch 3.00 p.m. 15. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Tues., Fri.: Dep. Auckland 1.15 a.m arr Nadi 6.15 p.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m., arr, Auckland 3.30 p.m. 16. Fiji-Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Service normally fortnightly, with extra flights as required.

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Leaves Suva Oct. 26, Nov. 2, 9. Dec. 13.

H, Dec Le s a H. P 2 a 3 Pe M e ° Ct 28 ' NOV ' *• 17. Fiji-Tonga Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft. ~ „ o Irregular Service.

Dep. Suva 6.30 a m., arr Nukualofa 9 50 Suva 4 S 7 B T m, ° ta 9 50 a '“- Next flights: Nov. 1, 28, Dec. 20 (Continued on Page 165) 13 ic ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Pacific Islands Monthly No. 3 Vol. XXVII OCTOBER, 1956 Contents: EDITORIAL: S. Pacific Governments and Their Press Relations 17 Editors’ Mailbag ig Colourful Ceremonies When Fiji Installs First Speaker 19 Duke of Edenburgh’s Visits to P-NG and NI 19 Seeing the News Through the PRO’S Issue Spectacles .. 20 Robertson Case Supreme Court Halves Sentence .. 20 Suva Baths Now Free—For All Races to Ignore .. .. 21 French, British and Australians Celebrate Jubilees 2 r Governor Says Fijians to be Educated to Drink Beer .. 22 Do You Remember? Extracts From PIM of 20 Years Ago 22 BSIP Budget—Revenue-Expenditure Gap Widens .. 23 Petrol Shortag e Delays Search for Stolen Cl Vessel 24 Copra After 1957 —Planters’

Conference Suggested .. .

Fiji Loses Another Official to W. Samoa 25 Territories Talk-Talk .. .. 28 Air Company Wins Big Damages from Australian Government 35 Papua-New Guinea Diary .. 37 Census Taking in Fiji and Samoa 46 New Caledonia Hears Cryptic Warnings from de Gaulle —But Against Whom? .. 47 Opinions Differ Over Cook Islands Fight Against TB . 55 A First For Honiara — Superseding the A 1 Fresco Method 59 This Month’s News of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 61 GPY Boffin Islands Fixed .. 70 Foaming at the River Mouth May Help Sugar 71 Geography of a French Neighbour 77

Magazine Section: La

Plume de Ma Xante, 83; Your World of Stamps, 85; Louis Becke—the Writer Who Lived His Own Romances, 87; Book Reviews 88 Re-opening of Munda and Henderson Airports ~ .. 115 Reparation Estates Make Valuable Profits for Samoans 119 Fiji Only a “Minor” Little India .. .. 121 FOA Debunks Tilapia—but Cook Is. Still Like It .. 122 Frameless Aluminium Buildings for the Islands .. 133 Sept.-Oct. Summary of S.

Pacific Commerce and Industry 135 TAl’s NZ Extension Still Awaited 139 £5OO Damages Against Fiji MLC 141 OBITUARY: Mr. A. H.

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William Mcßirney, Mrs.

Blanche Johnson, Mrs.

Florence Hathaway, Mr.

C. F. Sollitt, Miss Minnie Walshe, M. Alfred Laborde 142-145 Sian g-Whanging in W.

Samoa’s Legislative Assembly 150 P-NG’s Bishop is Wrath Over Native Marriage Bill 153 A Tribute to Late C. H.

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Pacific Governments And Their

Press Relations

words about the relationbetween the South Pacific ds Administrations and spaper press seem to be r. have been difficulties, in ard, in the two major 3S Papua-New Guinea, Onlookers, both inside ide those Territories, may rong impression, i-overnment of Fiji, long eated a Ihiblic Relations That was not done—as is ihe case—as part of an :o secure more satisfactory between the Administra- -1 the newspapers; but >ecause, owing to circum- ,hat need not concern us Colony of Fiji was withdequate newspaper service, Government was embary lack of any machinery which it could give the i outline of administrative id policies, and the reasons course of time, the Fiji Relations came an t instruct govand — 1 directed questions influiblic rebetween mt and be beneas given e last 10 re conpua and Guinea rnment’s a Public Office ch more developnd this never see any rpose in heory, g that Adminwished e public, he newsr others to be ell e d ;he PRO, and shaped by the PRO for publication. Thus, announcements about P-NG affairs could be kept generally under control.

In practice, it proved to be merely a shelter for high officialdom. The material that high officialdom sent out voluntarily through PRO was almost always of little interest and—being usually shaped to meet high officialdom’s approval rather boring in its presentation; and, when anything of real importance aroused the newspapers to direct inquiry, and officialdom wanted to avoid the responsibility of statement or comment, the answer almost always was “Please see the PRO”.

The result has been that the newspapers generally have progressively ignored P-NG’s PRO. They have accepted the “hand-outs” without enthusiasm, and used little of them; and, when there were developments of real news interests, they made their own inquiries and arrangements, in virtual defiance of the Administration.

This ln Sharp contrast with the Fiji PRO. There, an alert officer m charge with a keen appreciation oi what the newspapers want—and will somehow get, if ingenuity and thrust will get it—himself takes the initiative; discusses the matters under notice with high officials; s £ es , that the requirements of both high officialdom and newspapers are met, as well as is numanly practicable. deplorable recent incident A in Papua and New Guinea wherein high officialdom, with a degree of savagery and stupidity almost unbelievable, sent a female member of the public service to gaol in Port Moresby, because she passed on to a newspaper some relatively unimportant information gained by her in the course of her duties, gives the ■measure of P-NG’s failure in regard to public relations. Furthermore, it is an example of what the people there can expect under the Nazi-like dictatorship that has been fastened upon Papua and New Guinea by Australian Minister Paul Hasluck.

Not only does high officialdom, under pressure from Canberra, try to conceal the actual conditions ruling in Papua and New Guinea . . it has shown that, like the Nazi or Red Commissars, it will punish, with extreme brutality, any person (even a white woman clerk of unblemished character) who has the 17 IC ISLANDS MONTH!, Y OCTOBER, 1956

temerity to break its petty laws.

The Robertson incident justifies every word we have published in recent issues about Hasluck dictatorship in P-NG.

One is tempted to comment at length. But the subject has been dealt with already in an article in this issue, by Mr. Stuart Inder.

We subscribed to every word that Mr. Inder has written.

A POINT which none has brought up, but which has a direct bearing upon this P-NG incident, and upon the whole subject of public relations generally, is the deterioration of the newspaper press, in the past couple of decades.

It is something under which all public men, and all administrators in responsible jobs, suffer acutely.

Journalistic responsibility for accurate and balanced presentation of the facts is almost a thing of the past. Seventy per cent, of big newspapers to-day unhesitatingly sacrifice the truth for the headline. They may not deliberately publish untruths; but, by giving only half the story, or laying the emphasis upon the wrong angle, they do so distort the truth that actually it no longer fulfils the newspaper’s primary obligation— that is, to give the public the whole truth, and only the truth.

More and more, public men and public hold the newspaper press in contempt.

The truly dreadful newspapers of today are the logical result of the wholesale adoption, in the past quarter-century, of the Hearst school of journalism. In the view of the Hearst reporter and editor, nothing matters much so long as the newspaper can produce a screeching headline, embellishd with legs of an undressed woman or the contorted features of a notorious criminal.

Pacific Islands administrators have suffered a great deal under this irresponsible journalism. For one competent and balanced writer who goes through the Islands —such a man as Osmar White, of Melbourne Herald, for example—there are a dozen so-called journalists who seek only the exciting and sensational, and play it up without regard for truth or its implications.

In 25 years, the Pacific Islands Monthly has directed attention to scores —perhaps hundreds —of such “cock-eyed stories”, which give a completely wrong impression of Islands conditions: but nothing thereby has been achieved. The plague becomes steadily worse. These yelping, irresponsible newspaper hoodlums would not be turned loose periodically on the Islands if they were not sent along by their equally irresponsible editors and publishers.

PROBABLY, it was in order to protect themselves against this recurrent nuisance that P-NG high officialdom tried to channel everything through a Public Relations Office, and refused to deal with news-gathering organisations, whether good, bad or indifferent.

That was wrong, because it was regarded by the news-gatherers only as a challenge. Inevitably, it made worse the conditions which high officialdom was trying to remove altogether.

“Modern journalism”, like Muscovite Communism, however much we hate it and despise it, is here to stay, and we have got to live with it. The more we ignore it, the worse it becomes. The gaoling of the woman clerk in Port Moresby is the logical outcome of high officialdom’s short-sighted unimaginative approach to the problem of public relations —just as the present paralysis of Anglo-American-French diplomacy in the Middle East today is the result of the West’s total failure to cope with the deplorable and despised methods of the Communist bloc.

If the Papua and New Guinea Administration wishes to hold its own with the newspapers, high officialdom must accept today’s conditions, and meet the reporters with something of the reporters’ skill and cynicism—as high officialdom does in Fiji, for example.

High officialdom will only make the P-NG picture uglier, and open the way for more “Robertson incidents”, if it hides its head away behind official barriers, and tries to persuade itself that thereby it can keep P-NG hidden away from the world. Modern journalism is not a pretty thing—but, like most evils of that kind, it must be recognised, and accepted as inevitable —and dealt with accordingly.— R.W.R.

The Editors' Mailbag

Another "BP & CO."

Cannon Memories were stirred for Mr. R.

Hosking of the Cook Islands by that article about ancient cannon in the April issue of PIM. (It was alleged that some of these ancient pieces were stamped, or had cast into them, the letters “B.P. & Co.” and the question was asked whether they had been used by Burns Philp in their early operations in the Pacific. The Big Firm’s Mr. J.

Mitchell answered with some heat that they emphatically were not, and he suggested that some prankster had chiselled the “& Co.” —the “8.P.” representing the insignia of some Continental royalty).

Mr. Hosking goes on: “Probably the Co.’ on the ancient gun was carved with a chisel, by the founders and not by ‘a mischievous person’, as Mr. Mitchell speculates.

If Mrs. Baldwin’s gun also! the Co.’ it may tally w: following: During the defe Mafeking, when we of th rison were in some slight diffl someone discovered that aj ing-post in the Baralong Sts a gun given by Sir Charles ' long before. It was plant side dowm, but when remow cleaned up, it was a bloodto the one that appeared in April photograph. It was 1770, cast in iron and—this point—on the breech beautifully scrolled and en not cast, ‘B.P. & Co.’ Th became much admired—and in our extremity, very use:; Some Ideas About Museums and Native A Some interesting commi Tolala’s plea for the preservs native customs in P-NG PIM, page 35) comes froim K, McCarthy of Port Merest! a revolutionary idea for at for the proposed Port I Museum—when it finally tuates. He asks; Instead of the uninspirin and wall-board beloved of Territory architecture, wM build the museum to the? of a Papuan “House Dobui New Guinea “Haus Tam) Why not, indeed. If anyo doubts about the spe<; nature of a Haus Tambai should look up the o illustration of the Maprik; in PlM’s Quarter-Century i July 1955.

The only thing against; course, is that native mat not particularly enduring fibre and wall-board unfort are. Mr. McCarthy suggests; frame and special tiles nr simulate thatch. There ma;, idea there —and if it were p it would give the Terri museum that was worth loot as well as looking into.

Mr. McCarthy goes on that Tolala will be pleased t that about three years ago he (McCarthy) was D.C., a competition for the best c: weapons, etc., was started s the Tolai and some amazing specimens of the old arts o light. As a result of the interest in native arts, MI was presented with the fit a dog carved in stone —it w that these figures were m a particularly malevolent sorcery in cannibal days bri specimens had been destre the early part of this centj Mr. McCarthy’s stone ± (Continued from Page 14£J 18 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONIT

Urful Ceremonies When

Fiji Instals Its First Speaker

Sir Lala Sukuna

id up another “first” when 3 the first Speaker of the slative Council on Sep- 4. (He was the first liversity graduate; first rister; first, and no doubt an to join the French Legion and win the Militaire; first Fijian to District Officer, first to ad of a Department; first a Lieut.-Colonel, and the n knight). dourful ceremony he was as Speaker before a of smartly frocked en in uniform, the Mayor in robes and chain, the Polynesia and the Roman Jishop. osing figure on the dais the Governor was the e Kalaniwoalu, Speaker of an Parliament, standing six feet tall and very roportioned. tradition of the office, rare evening dress, except he place of trousers he ,rk silk sulu. the insignia of his orders nedals won in Prance in ir I. Among them the Militaire which he won try before Verdun when ith the French Foreign He joined up with the Foreign Legion when he was in England and found that the British Army had no place for one Fijian.

Later, Fiji sent a Fijian Corps and Sir Lala was transferred to that. (The writer has been a photograph of Sir Lala taken in France and wearing what appeared to be a turban and he asked him if he had turned “kia India.” Sir Lala said the turban was necessary to prevent the rain in the Fijians’ hair turning to ice. The cold winter in France must have been a real hardship to the Fijians).

The Governor, Sir Ronald Garvey, said the appointment of a Speaker was surely a signpost on the road to political progress for its signified that Fiji’s feet were firmly set on the forward path which had been paved down the centuries since the time, some 600 years ago, when the office of Speaker was first created in the House of Commons.

He said that Ratu Sir Lala had attended a course on parliamentary procedure in the House of Commons and had thus added a knowledge of the traditions and fashions of the Mother of Parliaments to his wide experience of the deliberations of a Colonial Legislature.

The Governor said that the Speaker would preside in his absence, but the Governor would continue to be the President of the Council and it was his intention to attend each year at the Budget Session to deliver an address on the State of the Colony’s affairs.

Tributes to Sir Lala were made by several members of the Council —Fiji Correspondent.

Duke's Visit to P-NG and Norfolk Is.

THE Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to Papua and New Guinea is now less than a month off. His itinerary is as follows; NOVEMBER 10: Arrives Port Moresby in Royal Yacht Britannia.

Inspects Scouts, Guides, etc., at Ela Beach Oval; visits Koitaki Rubber Plantation and Bom a n a war cemetery. Reception at Government House at night. Night will be spent on board Britannia.

NOVEMBER 11. Flies to Lae.

Visits War Cemetery; flies to Bulolo, where he spends the night.

NOVEMBER 12: Visits plywood mill, gold dredges: returns to Lae by road. Rest of day in Lae; an informal reception will be given by District Commissioner at the Residency that evening. Duke will spend night at Residency.

NOVEMBER 13: Flies to Rabaul where he visits local points of interest, including Native Village Councils. An informal reception at night. Spends night at Residency.

NOVEMBER 14; Flies to Manus, tthere he inspects PIR and the Naval establishment at Lombrum.

Sees display by native war canoes ■nd in the p.m. flies to Darwin.

The Duke’s visit to Norfolk Island will be made as a side-trip from New Zealand.

DECEMBER 15: Arrives Norfolk Island from New Zealand, attends reception at Government House, where he will spend the night.

DECEMBER 16: Attends Divine Service. Returns to New Zealand by air.

Your Photographs Could Earn You £30 In PlM's current year (August, 1956, to July, 1957) we will award £l5 for the best news photograph; and another £l5 for the best cover-picture published in the magazine during the period.

Anyone may enter, amateur or professional, and there is no limit to the entries; or any special procedure. All photographs published during that period will be considered for the award at the end of the year—and anything published will, of course, be paid for af normal publication rates at the time of publication. (For full particulars see page 61, September, 1956, issue.) vernor of Fiji with the Speaker of the Legislative Council, Sir Lala Sukuna, about he Guard of Honour drawn up for the opening of the new Council.

Photo: Fiji Public Relations Office. 19 C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

Moresby’s Three-Wise-Monkey Complex

Seeing The News Through

The Pro'S Issue Spectacles

By Stuart Inder*

In Papua-New Guinea it makes an Administration PRO news-release when the handicrafts section teaches 12 more native women to make baskets; it is not news when a Police Commissioner is suspended, then demoted; or when a Naval vessel sets off to arrest a Jap ship and makes a fool of itself.

FOR a continuous record of mishandling, general abuse and petty bias in its “public relations”, the Papua-New Guinea Administration must now be due for some kind of Loyal Service Medal.

There is never a month that passes when there is not cause for complaint about censorship or parochial stupidity in P-NG’s official news releases, a state of affairs calculated to give the Territory just the kind of bad press it works so hard to avoid.

The latest burst of bad publicity follows the gaoling of a Port Moresby teletype operator. Miss Pat Robertson, for three months. (This sentence was later cut by half). (PIM Sept., page 19).

Miss Robertson had for nine months operated a teletype service from the Administration HQ to the Port Moresby Post Office, handling hundreds of confidential messages.

In the last few months she also acted, openly, as a correspondent for the Sydney Sun, and became a keen amateur journalist. • In August, after sitting on it for three days, the Administration officially released a brief story of some native murders in the Sepik, and Miss Robertson sent it to the newspaper. The next day, some more details of the murders arrived by wire, and Miss Robertson reported some o f these, too, without awaiting an official release.

She was suspended from duty, charged departmentally, sacked with a loss of about £2OO in leave money, and finally brought before the Port Moresby court on a criminal charge of having disclosed the contents of a telegram.

She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months gaol.

An appeal on the severity of the sentence could not be heard because of a legal difficulty. The Administration found it had the authority to iron this difficulty out, and three weeks after Miss Robertson first went to jail, the appeal was heard and her sentence halved.

The appeal Judge founo magistrate had been exc swayed by a desire to dete f offenders, and had not take account Miss Robertson’s character and the puni already given her by the her job. • On the strength c picture, one might thin Miss Robertson had been v but had deserved what & But in P-NG these days 7 always a story behind a stc this can change the per& The Robertson case sht looked at against the bad of P-NG’s extraordinary i to public relations.

IDEALL Y, the task of a public relations organise to help the public, throi Press, to get the straight f any matter it wants to —briefly, to help mirror picture of what is happenii If what is happening is t good, then that is the reflect] will ultimately be seen, minor blemishes.

Basically, the work thl been done in P-NG is good, Administration seeks to mirrors to reflect something than good. something surprisingly, has no blemi; all.

One may hear through j stration news releases c native co-operatives in the Bay district; but not of unrest in local native C in Rabaul, or of a of protest from unhappy uprooted from their home Madang.

One may hear of progres made on the hydro-electric near Moresby; but not indignant protests about j power in the Highlands, agricultural upsets in the district.

It is news when the J strator opens a new Scout is not news when he has to the Territory’s policy again, of his own indignant Commissioners at a vital conference.

But there are times wh news, or something like it, go out. When that ha whether it is a ship in tre a patrol attack—top priority release usually goes not public but to Canberra, no how hard the reporters around.

Canberra must know first; must know most, for pres then it can feel it has secrets.

And if a story looks like out of hand, a nersonal a;, from the top is always goot try. In the Telefomin mur 1953, Press representative;; (Continued on Page 146>; * Stuart Inder is a well-known Sydney journalist. In 1953-55 he worked as a newsman in Port Moresby.

ROBERTSON CASE Supreme Court Halves Severe Sentence rpHE sentence of three months X imposed by Magistrate O’Driscoll on Miss Patricia Robertson in August, was reduced by half by the Supreme Court in Port Moresby on September 25. (PIM September, page 19).

Miss Robertson was released from Bomana Gaol on October 10.

The Chief Justice, Sir Beaumont Phillips, found that in passing sentence, Mr. O’Driscoll had been “swayed excessively by a desire to deter other offenders, and did not take sufficiently into account her previous good character.”

He said, however, that he agreed with the Magistrate that the offence was a serious one. (Miss Robertson was charged with disclosing the details of an Administration telegram to a newspaper).

He said that had only a fine been imposed, the possible assistance given her by the newspaper for which she was part-time correspondent, would have made her punishment negligible.

Sentence Fixed on Ability to Pay The layman’s reading of the above observation of the Judge seems to suggest that if a person is taken before a court for an offence for which a fine is usually considered adequate, and if it is suspected that some remote rela 1 tion, friend or outsider, will assist in the paying of it, or if, indeed, the accused’s financial position is such that a fine can easily be met, then a gaol sentence must be imposed.

In other words, the punishment for any specific offence is not apportioned in relation to the seriousness of the offence, but only on the accused’s ability to pay. 20 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

[?]L HONOUR SATISFIED Baths Free For All- To Ignore , waited —but in vain—for the \ Indian Plunge, when the /a Sea Baths were, for the me, opened for all races on p 1. terly the baths were for the :e use of Europeans but ad been a source of Indian m for at least 20 years and iy longer. In spite of Indian e, they were kept exclusively an but baths for the Indians built alongside—and have been boycotted by the ;. (PIM September, page 4). ge of heart of Suva City has been brought about by the fact that the baths pay. The date for the allther was set for October 1. •ding to our spy, on October dcally no one used the baths inly no Indians were there. couple of young Fijians ?d themselves, with pleasure, the weary Town Council is mg what to do with the swimming baths, aposal (not yet official) has ade that it be taken over exclusive use of Europeans!

Mew Bishop Returns to Samoa French, British and Australians Celebrate

Sw Pacific Territories Enter Middle-Age

, . That Jeaven of French is probably the cause of the festivities that will mark the New Hebrides Condominium’s 50th birthday on October 20; while Papua, which had a similar anniversary in September, flew a few flags and called it a day r[E New Hebrides celebrates the 50th anniversary of joint Anglo-French Condominium government this month.

The Convention that set up the joint government was signed on October 20 —and as this conveniently falls on a Saturday this year, the Condominium is planning a week-end of festivities.

The date also allows certain British, French and Australian VlP’s including Australia’s Minister for Territories, Mr. Paul Hasluck —who will be attending the current session of the South Pacific Commission in Noumea, to make a short visit to the Hebrides.

Some of the official guests will go to Vila from Noumea on the Polynesie; others will fly by special TAI air service. Mr. Hasluck will be accompanied by Mrs. Hasluck and a member of his Department.

Dr. John Cumpston, Australian Consul in Noumea, is also expected to be with the official party. . oc l ’fr ,po| y n esie", with officials, sails for Port Vila (New Hebrides). Aboard will be the Governor of Fiji (Sir Ronald Garvey) and the British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific and many high French officials. All 34 cabins are booked—no room for reporters Oct. 19—" Polynesia" arrives Port Vila, b p.m.

Oct. 20—Official celebrations in Port Vila.

Oct. 21 (evening)—"Polynesie" departs for Santo.

Oct, 22 (early)—Arrives Santo. Jubilee celebrations.

Oct. 23 (evening)—Depart from Santo.

Oct. 24—Visit to Pentecost.

Oct. 25—Arrive and depart Port Vila.

Oct. 26 —Return to Noumea.

Although the British part of the administration of the New Hebrides comes under the jurisdiction of the Western Pacific High Commission and has nothing to do with Australia officially, Australia has a big stake in the country through the land that was given to the Commonwealth by the late Sir James Burns. British residents in the Hebrides have more ties with Australia than with the UK and the only large firm that operates in opposition to large French commercial interests, is. of course, an Australian one—Burns Philp and. Co. Ltd.

As well as social activities planned for October, the Condominium has issued special postage stamps to mark the event. 50 Years Australian PAPUA marked up 50 years as an Australian Territory on September 1, 1956—but a correspondent reports that apart from flying a few flags, little else was done to mark the occasion. • There was no Ministerial visit. • No postage-stamps, either.

From Canberra, Mr. Hasluck said that after 50 years Australia could record that the foundations of Papua had been truly laid, that her policies for the advancement of Papuans had been consistently followed and that Australia’s effort was yielding remarkable results.

Papua had a holiday on September 15. But that was not to mark Jubilee Day. That is a reminder that on September 4, 1888, Dr. William MacGregor (later Sir William) proclaimed annexation of “British New Guinea” by Britain. (September 1, 1906, was when Australia took over from Britain and renamed the Territory, “Papua”). ning to Apia, Western Samoa, after his ordination in the United States, the new Catholic f Samoa, the Most Rev. George H. Pearce, SM, DD, was greeted by hundreds of Catholics uala airport on September 6. Pictured above are (left to right): Father Jepson, the Hon. the Hon. Malietoa, Mrs. Tamasese and Bishop Pearce.

Photo: R. F. Rankin. 21 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

Learning by Doing

Governor Says Fijians To Be

Educated To Drink Beer

The decision of the Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, to allow Fijians freedom to drink beer, thus doing away with the permit system for beer, has raised mixed opinions even among Fijians.

“IT has taken me almost four X years to face the position squarely and to realise that there is only one solution to our liquor problem and that is by educating our people to a proper sense of responsibility in the consumption of alcoholic liquor.” With these words the Governor announced his decision at the September meeting of Fiji Legislative Council.

The Governor later set up a committee, headed by the Director of Agriculture, to: Consider whether, in implementing the decision to permit all races to drink beer while retaining the existing restrictions on the drinking of spirits, any special measures are desirable and practicable to ensure that the change in the law in respect of beer will not lead to a material increase in the illicit drinking of spirits; and in particular to consider whether such measures should include provision that the sale of beer in licensed premises for consumption on the premises by natives or Indians should only be lawful where the beer is consumed in special beer parlours in which beer alone is served.

The Fiji elders, never very receptive to any change, are frankly sceptical of the new freedom.

They say that it will greatly increase drinking by young Fijians, but are more concerned about the economic repercussions than the actual consumption of liquor.

They say that in Suva where many Fijians are emp’oyed in the Public Works Department and various industries, their weekly wage envelope on Friday nights will go largely for beer, not only for themselves but for hangers-on not in employment who will be able to rely on a fellow-villager or friend for free drinks on pay night—while the wives and families suffer.

That is perhaps the worst danger which may have to be met, and how any committee is going to do anything about that is not clear.

The Governor pointed out that “control” has failed. There is no doubt that this is true. Fijians who want liquor seem to be able to get it with or without permit.

Others make do with methylated spirits.

It is therefore argued that it would be better for them to have free access to beer, an overdose of which would at the worst only make them sick, and not fighting drunk as in the case of methylated spirits or adulterated whisky, gin or rum, where part of the real spirit is removed and replaced with water. and methylated spirits added to make up the strength.

It is a good argument but the question as to whether the average Fijian labourer can afford to take his pay envelope into an hotel on a Friday night is still another question. And a rather disturbing one. —Fiji Correspondent. (It is an interesting argument that one becomes merely “drunk” on beer and “fighting drunk” on spirits—but it is a theory that still has to be proved. Individuals react to intoxicants in a usually fixed, and individual, pattern. Some become happy, some morose, some abusive, some want to fight. We would like to see the statistics prove that there are fewer figl beer drunks than there J fighting whisky drunks; | conversely, more happy beer dn than there are happy wl drunks.—Ed.).

Suwarrow Resul Disappoint SHELL divers working] Suwarrow lagoon under con to the licensee, Mr. EK Brown, of Rarotonga, are fin the going far from easy. No patches of shell have yet found in depths easily accessiti the skin-divers.

When Inspire called in Septe: it was found that the com! efforts of the four suit-diving if and about 20 skin-divers, accumulated 11 tons of shell in four months since their ar About 80 people were landed in May, but some departed the two subsequent shipping and 53 now remain. t West Australian war veterans! tributed £320 to an appeal Papua-New Guinea ex-servicen president, R. Bunting, for fina aid in erecting huts or club! native ex-servicemen in the 1 tory.

Do You Remember?

From PIM of 20 Years Ago.

IN October issue of 1936, the PIM was full of stories of Japanese sam-pans and poachers who were systematically raiding the trochus beds of the SW Pacific. But nothing much else was ruffling the waters of the pellucid Pacific—even copra was considered to be doing very nicely, for the moment; and gold mining was still booming in New Guinea.

Here are some other extracts from our issue of 20 years ago: Copra prices were high and the outlook good, we reported. This was due (in part) to an agreement between Britain and Norway on Antarctic whaling. The negotiations were protracted because "Norway wanted figures limited to those of 1935-36 whereas Britain sought exceptions in favour of the Unilever and Salvesen companies—famous as friends of copra producers!" (Copra price was £l5 per ton, c.i.f. London, for top grade). * * * "It was announced in Noumea that an official mission, sent by the French Government, arrived in Papeete on September 26 to investigate a series of events known locally as the 'Kong Ah Scandals'." * * * Swarms of Japanese sampans were reported poaching in Australia, New Guinea, Solomons, New Caledonian and Fiji waters. In the Fead Islands (NG), Japs had fired on natives when discovered taking shell; in Fiji a Jai ran aground at the mouth of the Labasa it was towed off by two local boats and under a form of arrest —but the Japs c lines securing them to the other vesses got away. * * * In Fiji the Colonial Sugar Refining Ci decided to go into the pineapple t business. The company, we said, had b« vestigating the industry for months, an sore to make a success of it. They d! —for 20 years; earlier this year (1956 stopped canning, and there are now nt apple canneries in Fiji. * * * On the Rai Coast of New Guinea, A;< District Officer Norton had been attacl natives ... the men grabbed him wW women hacked at him with knives, result of his wounds, one of his lei: later to be amputated). About the samu in the Wewak District, a patrol under Officer G. W. L. Townsend arrested two for the murder of recruiter C. A. Goug!| weeks earlier. * * * The Samoan Planters' Association, Cl of Commerce and other organisation! individuals had forwarded a strong pro: the New Zealand Government again:! threatened deportation from Western Sat Chinese and Melanesian plantation (There were only about 75 Melanesians Territory at the time —from NG and BSli they had been there from 30 to 40 yea: married Samoans and had no ties wild homeland). 22

October, 1 9 5 Fi Pacific Islands Month

[?]Enue-Expenditure

Gap Widens

OR changes in income taxation ocedure will come into operai the British Solomon Islands torate on January 1, 1957. gh loss of revenue arising om will have to be made up er directions, the amendments esigned “to relieve the tax s on residents of the ms.” »utline of the new concessions pven by the High Cornier, Mr. John Gutch, at the g of the BSIP Advisory 1 in Honiara on October 11. concessions are: reduction in the basic rate : tax by 6d in the £l. n increase in the Personal llowance of £lOO. n increase of £75 in the lucation allowance for each lild being educated overseas ibject to limitation of total igibility. i increase to £2,000 in the inimum figure of chargeable come at which surtax beimes payable. l business of the meeting was onsideration of the draft ;es for 1957. ■ outlining the requirements 'eminent in the year ahead, itch said: ivill be evident from these that the gap between 5 and recurrent expenditure ning significantly. This must s cause for concern, partiat a time when it is clear owing to the economic :ies of the United Kingdom, est for increased assistance ;ay the least, unlikely to be e. d my advisers have therefore d the situation most care- We have reached the ion that this trend was lie, and that it is likely to e for some years if the requirements of the Territory be met. of the main reasons for it ’act that departmental staffs iw being built up to an strength and standard they are to do their work ely, they must be given the es for that purpose.” 3. B. Perriman, a director of Carpenter and Co. Ltd., left on October 6 for a business :o New Guinea. He is d to return to Sydney about )er 11.

Superintendents—Going and Coming Suva's GPH to Close —Temporarily SUVA’S Grand Pacific Hotel will be closed to guests for a month, January 7-February 7, while contractors carry out reconstruction work.

Although this period, in the middle of Fiji’s “hurricane season”, can be regarded as the off-period, nonetheless the closing of Suva’s chief hotel will cause no little inconvenience to the travelling public —even if acknowledged to be a necessary evil.

There are very few days of the year when Fiji’s hotels are not bursting at the seams. Frequently, Americans travelling south to escape their winter, step off the transpacific planes in the so-called offseason to spend some days in Fiji.

In Jubilee

YEAR N. Hebrides Has Manganese 'Rush' rpHE prospect of manganese mining, which has been successfully carried out in Fiji for a number of years, is currently exciting interest in the New Hebrides where a private Anglo-French syndicate is finding some opposition to its aspirations in the claims of a large mining company.

Precise details are sketchy but it appears that the syndicate of local residents (Syndicate Minier Jubilee) has found interesting deposits of manganese on Efate. The Societe des Phosphates de I’Oceanie, which works the phosphate on Makatea, has certain mining rights in the New Hebrides, however, and it is believed that the interests of the syndicate and the company may clash.

It is understood that the manganese is on native land and that the natives support the claim of the syndicate.

Why the phosphate company should have rights in the Hebrides is not clear —except that much of the formation is upthrust coral and it may have been considered that phosphate was likely to be present.

Probably the company’s “rights” go back some distance into history.

New mining regulations are expected to be issued soon by the Condominium government.

The helicopter of the New Caledonia Nickel Company has been shipped to Vila to be used in aerial prospecting for manganese.

Whether or not this company represents a third interested party, or whether they are operating for the phosphate company, is not clear. ~ , A mining industry would be of considerable benefit to the New Hebrides, whether it concerned manganese, phosphate or any other mineral.

A Start on Papeete Airport?

Mayor Alfred poroi, returning to Papeete from.

France recently, reported that the Metropolitan Government will make funds available this financial year for a start on the longawaited land airport for Papeete, and for the construction of bulk oil tanks. ff The new Director of Agriculture, Tonga, Mr. E. Lawrence, 0.8. E. arrived in Tonga by the August Tofua to start his service. He was accompanied by Mrs. Lawrence.

Superintendent and Mrs. A. D. Buchanan, who returned to NZ at the end of September after three years in Samoa. During Super intendent Buchanan's term of office there ha been considerable improvement in Western Samoa Police pay rates.

Photo: R. F. Rankin.

After a two months' visit to New Zealan to study NZ Police methods, Mr. Alf Phillip returned to Samoa by air on September 6. 1956, to succeed Superintendent Buchanan.

Photo: Edwards Studio. 23 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY—-OCTOBER, 1956

Cook Is. Vessel Stolen

Petrol Shortage Delays Search

For Missing "Inspire"

Messages from the Cook Islands on October 8 indicate that an RNZAF Sunderland was unable to undertake search for the stolen vessel Inspire because there was no petrol at Aitutaki for refuelling; and there was no petrol at Aitutaki because Inspire was loaded with petrol for that destination when she disappeared on October 6. fTIHE twin screw auxiliary trading A ketch Inspire is registered in the name of Mr. R. P. Archer, a retired American resident in Rarotonga, but operated by Mr. D.

C. Brown.

When stolen from Avarua, Rarotonga, she was fully provisioned and fuelled, and was loaded with a general cargo and with aviation gasoline urgently required at Aitutaki for the TEAL Coral Route Service. She was to have sailed the following day.

The mooring lines were cut and the vessel left the harbour under one motor. It was believed that four men were aboard, though to October 12, details reaching PIM were sketchy.

It is n t known whether the men are members of the normal crew, or other persons.

Inspire was purchased from Mr.

Hugh Williams in June, She has lately been skippered by Mr. Jack Lyons, a former AB in the Union Steam Ship Co.’s trans-Pacific freighter Waitemata. There has been a Rarotongan engineer and two crew members.

An aviation gasoline crisis at Aitutaki has been in sight for several weeks past. The vessel Melva purchased by Mr. Hugh Williams following his sale of the Inspire, was to load a cargo of aviation gasoline at Wellington, NZ, as soon as she had been readied for her new Islands trade. This work had taken longer than anticipated and Melva was still undergoing survey in Wellington up to October 10.

Maui Pomare, a passenger vessel, is not permitted to carry aviation gasoline from New Zealand; Waitemata on her north-bound October trans-Pacific voyage made a late departure and was diverted this time via Fiji to load sugar for Canada, and was already running behind schedule when she sailed and put back again with engine trouble early October; Viti could not clear Auckland on her charter voyage to the Cooks until at; October 25.

With Inspire’s small avii gasoline cargo now missing could mean difficulties for TE Coral Route service.

As none of the men bell aboard Inspire understand celd navigation, there seems to be than a possibility of the t ending her voyage on some re French-Australian Wedding in Sydney Big Plantation Deal Rumoured In B[?] fpHERE are rumours in A British Solomon Islands negotiations are proce: between Lever’s Pacific Plants Ltd., and Fairymead Sir Company, for the acquisition o latter’s Solomons property, t figure in the vicinity of £250, i Fairymead’s Yandina prcc produces something like 3,OCKX of copra per year. In additii has valuable assets in the wr wharves, ships, etc.

The story of Fairymead in Solomons is involved with; history of the Young famiJ Bundaberg, Queensland, and South Seas Evangelical Missi The family had sugar inti around Bundaberg at the time coloured Islands labour imported to work in the cane Some members of the Young fi conducted religious classes? these natives and when they' repatriated to the Solomons,, responsible for the formation « South Seas Evangelical M] which went too. From the M came the Yandina plantat: which retained the name “ Company” although the plantations produced coconut; never sugar.

About five years ago it] expected that the Fairj company would set up a mercial enterprise in BSB opposition to the Government Scheme. But the company d:J go ahead with the pro preferring instead to exoan sugar interests in Queensland Presumably, if it comes to< agreement with Levers ove?

BSIP properties, proceeds w devoted to the same purpose.. t Japan, which takes almoa entire output of Makatea phosphate rock, produced: million tons of finished i phosphate in the year endeo 31, and has an expanding ■ trade in superphosphate. t Captain Max Stanton, known as a delivery Mast Pacific Islands vessels, has been delivering a tug frc European yard to Algeria.

Mr. Robert Laubreaux, who is now stationed in Noumea as representative of the Queensland Insurance Co., was married in Sydney on September 25 to Miss Carmel Crothers. In our photograph, taken at the reception at the Carlton Hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Laubreaux are shown with Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Pelletier, aunt and uncle of the bridegroom. —Photo by Leicagraph. 24 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

[?] INDUSTRY [?] 1957 [?]ers’ Conference Suggested in Suva iscussing the Fiji copra astry recently, the Fiji Times d that the whole of the ms surrounding coconut % and marketing should be d, in the light of the :hing end of the British y of Food copra-buying t.

MOP Contract, which now copra production in all countries in the South exnires at the end of 1957. it, during 1956, the planters leen getting quite a few per ton. above the world or their product), josition in Fiji, as described newspaper, is of interest to planters all over the South ,s pointed out that, if the planter were selling his n the world market, he now )e getting about £72 Fijian, •pean port. Out of that £72, d have to pay, under present ns in Fiji: Per Ton £F to Europe, insurance hrinkage 15 nd bagging .... 3 its’ handling 3S 9 production and of >ort to Fiji port ~ 30 ieduction from cif 57 leavss the Fiji planter a •fit of only £l5 per ton, th to pay Fiji taxation and living costs. On a small an, doing 5 tons per month, not enough. ? iji Times strongly r°complanters in that country to the foregoing figures closely, mperative, if the coconut is to survive, after the 0 open-market selling, that 1 a profit of more than £l5 Probably, it will not be •ossible to reduce the £l5 ?ht, insurance and shrink- ■ the other items—especially allowed for production and -ansport costs—should be 'hole marketing outlook, as cember 31, 1957, is affected following factors: world market still is ed largely by Unilever; and takes the fullest advantage act that many oils, hitherto irded as rivals of coconut r can be reconditioned in such a way that they can be used as edible oils instead of coconut oil. • There are crushing mills in Rabaul and Suva and it is held by many that, for convenience and as a matter of local economy, it is better to sell to the crushers than to the open market. • It is generally believed that Unilever, as a matter of policy does not favour the establishment of local crushing mills, and that this makes it difficult to market coconut oil overseas—but this, of course, depends on the influence which Unilever exerts over world markets generally. • By far the greater part of the world’s copra is produced in Indonesia, Malaya and Philippines —the South Pacific’s modest production can have no effect on world prices, one way or the other— unless perhaps it secures a reputation for outstanding quality.

In its article, the Fiji Times urged that steps be taken to bring all the coconut planters of the South Pacific Territories together, in conference, to consider any steps which may be taken, by joint action, to protect the industrv. after the expiry of the MOF contract. t Pastor Bonzon of the Protestant Evangalical Mission of Paris visited Tahiti recently in connection with the unveiling of a memorial at Point Venus commemorating tl landing of the first Protestai missionaries.

Another To

SAMOA Fiji loses Two Valuable Officials Recently when Mr. b. v.

Parham, Deputy Director of Agriculture, accepted the post of Director of Agriculture in W. Samoa, Fiji lost a valuable oflicer.

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He is at present acting as Director of Medical Services and Inspector-General of the South Pacific Health Service.

As a practitioner he specialised in nose and throat ailments and in this work built up a considerable reputation.

While the Unified Colonial Service may have its good points as far as the Civil Service is concerned it has not always worked favourably for Fiji; many of its best men, finding that promotion was dependent upon accepting transfers to other and more distant Colonies, have preferred to resign and seek The Islands Bungalow... in 956 This is a far cry from the old "Island bungalow", with the dark central rooms, many verandahs and propped-up shutters. Old-timers will tell you that the old bungalow was more comfortable to live in—but modern Suva prefers this type of house. They are some of the homes in the Muanikau residential area; built on rising land, they look out over the entrance to Laucala Bay. -Fiji PRO photo. 25 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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A wedding of Interest to Fiji people took place on May 12 at Sacred Heart Church, Randwick, Sydney, when Hugh Richard Aspinall, of Nananu Ra, Fiji, was married to Miss Betty Williams, of Lithgow, NSW. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. H. Aspinall, of Samoa, and was formerly well known in shipping circles in Honiara ams Fiji. The bridesmaids were all sisters of the bride. The bestman and groomsman are sons of Mr. Fred and Mrs. Iserline Gosnell, both formerly well known in Rotuma and Fiji. The reception took place at The Espnanade, Bondi Beach, and was attended by many members of the Polynesian Association. The bridegroom's sister, Mrs. Norman McDonald, and Mr. McDonald flew over from Nadi for the wedding. 27 ' 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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By Tolala Warning To PHD The PHD of P-NG has often complained of the shortage of medicos on its staff. Such shortage would have been far greater had the department not been able to obtain the services of many European medicos, who were not permitted to practise in Australia, and P-NG was fortunate, for many of these Continental doctors were highly-qualified.

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This will mean that some of P-NG’s medicos will be toying with the idea of packing up their stethoscopes and heading south to participate in more congenial conditions generally and particularly in a greater freedom from officialdom.

On the Silver Screen In Parliament last month Minister Hasluck, in reply to a question, said the News and Information Bureau would make documentary films about the government’s work in P-NG.

There was a need, he added, to present the government’s policy in P-NG in a suitable form, both for those who wanted to understi; and for those who were disposed to criticise.”

We can now be prepared i on the screen one day al high-lights of administi achievement and most —if not will be those attained durur post-War II periods.

It could be a most illumiii documentary illustration of' great changes that have thrust upon the P-NG m according to the desires oc government. And, here, \ thetically, let me refer to a j which took my fancy re«; uttered by Padre C. A. O (who is usually referred “Major-General the Revereno an ABC talk referring to “good” people of the wondering how they can others.

“Is it,” he asked, “what want, or what we want toe And he has something theres not we emphasise our good to justify having done whether those receiving our i really want them or not?

We have now the prospect all-in effort to record in ces the progress and advance brought about by government amongst the P-NG natives. : be of interest to see wheth© credit is also given to those other main civilising instruu i.e., the Missions and H Enterprise, which in pioneering laid the foundation upon government has in recent reared its Temple of Accorm ment.

Let us hope the Minister*! not grab all the glory for his of administration officers who been working since 1946. L»i folk who first contacted wildest savages in the world] brought them into a prii submission be given some creo the work done three score before.

If the documentary starts 1946, then it’s just so muchi wash and not worthy of a m Hasluck’s stature who prides hr on his historical accuracy.

What of the Pioneers?

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Little People whom he “in a region where no an had set foot before,” >py souls because they eat and beetles contain the s-inducing vitamin T. itary! But fancy having to NG to find that out. y. I rather suspect that nad no contact with our ligh-pressure modern world r e quite a bit to do with Dpy dispositions, e how these Little Folk dically “discovered” in these areas. Lord Moyne, who trip up the Sepik in the nd a tribe of pygmies and 29 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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NG’s Volcanoes Could Help While on the subject of res? and potential new industries, t could add to the Territory’s i let me mention Perlite. This material obtained from i volcanoes, a kind of lava t when crushed and quickly Ir to more than 1500 degrees expands to form light-weight,, combustible particles of ce structure that, combined plaster, is revolutionising plastering industry because « fire-resisting qualities.

This fire-proof plaster pn the United Nations headqm building in New York. (And better test could there be thi this building, where there much hot air and inflamm matter let loose!) Perlite was on show durim recent Building Exhibition Sydney. There’s plenty of! material available in P-NG.

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Complaints were made month by the Milne Bay DC Advisory Council that the Copra Inspector was “wr rejecting large quantities of c: which was later accepted J passed in Moresby. (See elses this issue).

His action was having adverse effect upon the dis economy, so it was claimed] local business man statec£ main cause of rejection was u cured copra.

At the beginning of this m a fire destroyed a quantii copra on a lighter at Brothers’ Balmain wharf, S;iand a company spokesmanr spontaneous combustion probably the cause.

In know not whether there connection between these : incidents. There could be. the point at issue is who is < (Continued on Page 33)

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Lieut.-Col. Richards, on his return to Sydney, said the dinner was an outstanding success, with speeches "delightfully short". (Continued on Page 33) 31 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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I had often wondered who originated the idea of replacing the old-time hair-bleacher, kabang. with the more compact peroxide (PIM August, p. 81), and that it was Lil. Bennet-Miller is in character with the Territory’s No 1 Glamour Girl, whose personality and chic grooming were known, in pre-war days, from Wanimo to Kieta.

The news that she is writing a book may cause some consternation in some quarters, but there is no doubt that there will be many buyers of it when it appears, particularly by those who may have high-hatted the lady at some time or other; I hope she does not omit that delightful incident when she was hostess to a party in Rabaul, thrown by an Australian G-G’s ADC, who was staying at Government House.

Undoubtedly the book will be a best-seller. There are some people who probably would like to buy up the whole edition. (Over) Col. Richards was guest of the New Club during his fortnight in the Terriis hosts made certain that his stay was rable one. in Rabaul he was taken to the war at Bitapaka. From Rabaul he went where [?] was guest of local business- [?] L. E. Ashton. Then followed two Bulolo, where he was able to look new plywood mill, nursery and digging Col. Richards also visited Wau and before going on to Ft. Moresby as guest [?] McInnes for four days before return- Sydney. ought it was a wonderful trip, and as the Territory is concerned I think it reat future," he told RIM. hotograph was taken at the dinner; Row (left to right) Lieut. D. Campbell, G. Kent, F/Lieut. A. N. Holland, Lieut.

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He explained how Fijians and other islanders had adopted the sulu in preference to English clothing, and how much more suitable it was in every way. Natives attending the meeting favoured the suggestion of adopting what they called the “pocket,” or “Solomon” lava lava.

Here’s hoping the idea is adopted generally throughout the Territory.

A native retains far more dignity in this dress than masquerading in European clothing, in which he so often looks so self-conscious and ridiculous.

Apropos of forcing our clothing onto the indigenes I see a par. written by a Sydney Columnist describing how the Administrator’s chauffeur—“a dazzling Fuzzy,” who drives bare-footed, has been told that when the Duke arrives he must wear shoes when he drives His Royal Highness about in a newly-purchased limousine.

Just how stupid can we get? I do hope the Duke asks for him to be relieved of this Gilbertian pomposity.

A Lass in The Boob Territorial European woman in gaol? (PIM Sept., p. 19). Certainly a rarity.

I knew of only one case which occurred in Rabaul in the German days. The wife of a German planter (and, incidentally, a niece of Queen Emma) took a buggy whip to a visiting Naval officer who had made over-zealous amorous advances to her younger sister, following a dance at Government House.

Despite personal appeals to the Kaiser, the lady was sentenced to a short period of house detention —served in a Rabaul bungalow— as the “insult” to the Imperial Navy could not be overlooked! It was not long before War I.

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[?]surer Seeks More Revenue :: Segregation Problem at Kokopo :: Grounds for Appeal in Golf-links Murder Case Everything in Papua-New Guinea is on the up-and-up; Exports (according to Minister Hasluck); Australian grant (according to Federal Treasurer Fadden) and cost of running the Territory (according to Treasurer H. H. Reeve) Cost of residing in the Territory will go up also—Territorians will’ in the next financial year, have to pay more for a variety of necessities including postagestamps and beer.

SURER Reeve lugubriously ounced these proba b 1 e isures-in-store at the of the P-NG Legislative which met in Port Moresby le Budget Session on oer 24. ?e and telephone charges up this month —to bring the y into line with Australia.

A. James, Member for Papua, who against the principle of "bringing said in debate that if the Territory burdened with Australian postal and rates, they should have mainland of service—which they have not.

Ihat they were likely to have less ther than more as he had noticed nditure for mail carriage had been i £34,000 per year. He gave as :n the service to Popondetta where econd class matter went by air— goes by ship to Samara! and -.rom land. It now takes from two to s instead of hours, as formerly.) estimated that as well as stralian grant of £9,250,000 )tember PIM), the Territory 11 provide a further £4,250,000 iternal revenue. It is still DUgh. so Mr. Reeve gave hat he is looking about for by which he can gather a ore into the coffers. and club licences, motor tion, probate and succession excise, export duties and 3 will all probably go up. utilities cost the Adminimuch more than it i last year.

Reeve’s Budget allocated 3 million for capital works vices; every Administration lent, except Treasury, his »t a bigger allocation than r; and he anticipated that 0 of the Territory’s total of £14,000,000 will go on lervice salaries, year’s Budget—like the of every preceding year— an “all-time high.” ’O HAS ITS

Segregation Problem

the world has been taking ademic interest in the States race-segregation laws, arly as its applies to calling out; fhe Arm y to enforce the right of Southern negroes to attend the same schools as white children, Kokopo in New Britain, has been having some segregation troubles of its own.

Kokopo has a primary school which to date has been attended by about 22 European children.

Next year about 10 Chinese children will reach school age, and if some educational facilities are not provided for them locally they will have to travel the 20 miles to Rabaul each day. Some months ago a Chinese member of the local Town Advisory Council suggested that an Asiatic school be provided for the children in Kokopo.

In answer the Administration said that segregation in schools was not the policy of the Goverr ment and that ultimately it w& expected that at primary leve European, Asian, and nat i v children would be educated together.

The Kokopo Parents’and Citizens Association’s view is that no matter what is idealistically desirable in the long term, their viewpoint as of now, is that mixed schools are not practical or successful The P and C Assn, has not elaborated on that statement and the ball is still being tossed around between the different parties concerned.

The question of so-called segregation is, of course, bigger than the Territory; and, so it seems, bigger than the United States at the present time, World opinion, of course would likely be flat-footed in opposition to that of the Kokopo P and C Assn., who may be considered as fruitlessly trying to stem an overwhelming tidal wave with something about the size of a cricket bat, But the Kokopo citizens are regarding their problem from where they stand at the present and leaving the ideals of the future right out of it.

The Kokopo situation cannot be adequately compared with the situation in the American South, either. A large part of America’s stock-in-trade is its emphasis on Officials of Qantas Social Club, Lae, NG, claim that their ball held several weeks ago was the biggest ever held in Lae. Over 450 people attended, some travelling 2,000 miles from Sydney to be there. Two plane loads from Port Moresby arrived to attend the function, held in Lae RSL club. Shown here: Morobe District Commissioner and Mrs. H. L.

R. Niall (extreme right) were greeted on arrival by (left to right): Mr. Les Ellison, Qantas welfare officer who with his wife, were Sydney representatives at the ball; Capt.

R. O. Want, Acting-Area Manager for New Guinea; Mr. Pat Berg, area traffic superintendent and vice-president of the Qantas Social Club; Mr. Don McCredie, chief traffic officer, and president of the Qantas Social Club.

Photo: By courtesy Qantas. 37 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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But no matter what the idealists may dream, Papua-New Guinea has not, as yet, got a “way of life” that embraces all residents. The emphasis there is on the particular “community” to which one belongs, each of which has its own cultural background. There are, therefore, practical difficulties as well as prejudice, to be considered in any scheme for educating the children of these communities together.

It is interesting to note that this particular rabbit was started on its journey by an Asian whose own particular solution to the problem was that an Asian school he provided.

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Introduction of copra inspection is having expected repercussions in the Territory.

Grading that was causing dissatisfaction in Milne Bay district was aired at the meeting of Legislative Council in September by Mr. B. Fairfax-Ross, who said that the industry in that area had been thrown into confusion by the sudden application of inspection.

As a result about 20 per cent, of copra was rejected; and 28 per cent, down-graded.

One lot of copra that had been rejected in Samarai was sent to Fort Moresby, where it was reexamined and where no grounds for rejection could be found.

He said that inspectors had been appointed from the ranks of explantation managers and assistants and that they were in no s<< “experts”. If these inspectors— had no more knowledge of w constituted top-grade copra tt the average grower—misdiree their crusading zeal they c<; cost planters many hundreds? pounds. (Next H 38 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HE

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At left, top: Mr. John Lloyd, chief traffic officer, Port Moresby, and Mrs. Lloyd, lower: Mr Don McCredie chats with Mr. Kevin Williams, senior traffic officer, and Miss Monica McCabe, both of Port Moresby. —Photos by Qantas. 39 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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September. Mr. Baxter has another European to assist and four native drovers.

They expect to be on the way for about two months and in that time will take approximately 300 cattle and 10 donkeys up into the Highlands, delivering them to stations along the route. Final destination is Baiyer River —400 miles as the crow flies.

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It is understood that the right to salvage about 50,000 tons of sunken shipping in Rabaul harbour will go to the Japanese firm which sent two men to survey the field a couple of months ago providing entry permits for the team are forthcoming from the Australian Government, and that ownership of the wrecks is established.

There seems to be some doubt about the latter, and currently tenders are being called by the Administration for the right to salvage wrecks “below high water mark” in 11 Territory ports, including Rabaul. Tenders, on a royalty basis, close on November 30.

About 50,000 tons in Rabaul (See above) belong to one firm, it is understood; the question of ownership of another 50,000 tons of sunken shipping is apparently in doubt.

No official announcement of intention has been made by anyone, as yet—the war salvage business one in which participants are m than ordinarily reticent. But green-light for Japanese opera© has been given by the State bras of the RSL which announced at 42 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HE

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e of P-NG exports increased 5-56 in spite of falling prices coa, coffee and copra, and shing gold returns. Quantity three chief agricultural crops d; gold production fell by 17 nt. and earned only a little . million. )er exports—up £150,000 —shell 1 at £442,000), and an inm both value and quantity ber (an increase from £954,000 91,000) helped to retrieve the >n.

G COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK adication of the way in which ,pua-New Guinea radio comitions network has been Dusly expanded in post war is seen in figures recently d by the Department of Posts slegraphs. id-May this year 102 Governradio stations for internal inications were in operation further six were projected, idit i o n there were 177 ly owned stations and 25 projected at fixed as, and 20 other portions owned by Government ments or private organisaae same time there were 21 maent patrol craft equipped dio, as well as many privately craft trading in local waters.

T’S Grounds For Appeal

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Jhief Justice of P-NG, Sir nt Phillips, sitting without a und Smith guilty of having ;d Adele Woo and Leo Wattemeno at Rabaul. On July 30 he recorded the death sentence.

Smith bases his appeal on the following grounds.— • There was no evidence to support the conviction. (Continued on Page 125) E GENERATIONS: Andrea Louise Plant, centre foreground, third-generation Territorian, in Port Moresby on September 14, is held by her mother Ivane, wife of Mr. Harry left, Mrs. Ivan Champion, mother of Ivane, grandmother of Andrea. On right, Mrs. [?]es, mother of Mrs. Ivan Champion, grandmother of Mrs. Plant, and great-grandmother —Photo by Papuan Prints. 45 FIC ISLANDS MONTH 1. Y OCTOBER, 1956

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Cryptic remarks made by General Charles de Gaulle in speeches ng his visit to Noumea last month were interpreted in some French r ters as a warning that “Australian imperialism” represented a threat •Jew Caledonia.

CTHER the leader of French 'esistance in World War II ctually intended to sound the against an aggressive, pre- Australia is open to doubt. 10 matter how such a coni of their country would 5h Australians, that was the ision he conveyed to many in diences, sral de Gaulle told members i elected New Caledonia Asr that they must never forget ere part of France. They must conduct themselves in any vhich might discourage the country. New Caledonia was centre of a part of the world militarily and politically, soon be one of the most imt in the world. New nia, he asserted, was inevithe subject of plans, or at he thoughts, of other Powers, important were his words at marking his departure. New nia should look to the future necessary, give aid to France, d. France in return would le means of defence of New nia by establishing an air, and military base. Coming i soldier, his actual words— Caledonia should aid France y way possible”— made many • just what was implied.

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54a Pitt Street, Sydney Cables: ROBERGILL G.P.O. Box 7011 mt in reply: “de Gaulle”, e was a discordant note at a reception to General de in Noumea Town Hall. Somelied “Get out of here” to the aledonia Deputy (M. Lenor- M. Lenormand commented in his sheet “L’Avenir nien” that obviously someid had a heavy grocery bill ad paid it by making this nterruption his, M. Lenormand implied he incident rranged by opposition led by the of New d o n i a’s import export ;s.

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The saddest thing about this enormous lie, said M. Lenormand was that much of it was believed He offered as proof the fact that instructions received from France for the de Gaulle visit embraced the possibility of an assassination.

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Lenormand was that a plot was afoot to devalue the Pacific franc He asserted that among those in the plot were commercial and mining heads of New Caledonia.

A remarkable speech greeted General de Gaulle at one native centre during his New Caledonia i x? ur - , . was made by a native Grand Chief, Vincent Bouquet. He IN NOUMEA: General de Gaulle shakes hands with M. Henri Sautot first French Colonial Governor to rally to Free France in 1940 —Photo by F. E. Dunn. 49 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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said the natives of New Caledonia were grateful to France for the recent interest shown in their evolution. Rights they acquired recently were obtained without dispute or bloodshed. Although the present concessions guaranteed the future, the natives expected more. He hoped their evolution would be rapid enough to enable their children to enjoy the happiness and freedom of real citizens of the French Republic.

TAHITI residents were assembled in thousands at daybreak on August 30, and ships in port were dressed in bunting, to welcome General de Gaulle and his wife when they arrived aboard the Messageries Maritimes liner Caledonien for a 2i-day visit.

Governor Toby and military and civilian leaders greeted the visitors at the gangway at 7 a.m. The General’s crowded itinerary included a ceremony at the Bougainville Monument commemorating French Oceania’s rallying to the call of de Gaulle and the Free France Movement in the war years. He also found time to pay a brief visit by Catalina aircraft to the Leeward Islands.

Among the many Tahiti residents General de Gaulle met was one of the colony’s most honoured war veterans, Nurse Maa d i Gobrait, who served with the forces of three Allied Nations during World War 11.

While in Paris recently, Nurse Gobrait. who carries the rank of major in the French Army Nursing Service, was awarded the Legion of Honour decoration.

Forty -eight hours behind schedule, the Cal e d o n i e n brought General de Gaulle into Noumea Harbour at 2.30 p.m. on September 11. Thus, 16 years after his famous call to arms to those who refused to submit to the Germans, he came to visit the first important group of French to rally to him.

Pro m i n e n t among those who IN THE HEBRIDES: On September 10, during his visit to General de Gaulle spent an hour on Fila Island. He is shown with the Chief of the island. —Photo by Fung 50 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Efly Child Christened

infant son of Ratu Penaia au and Adi Laisa, who led from Malaya with the ion in June, was christened ugust 26, at the Methodist nary Church, Suva. He was 1 after Ratu Sir Lala la, Jossfa Lalabalavu Sukuna aliali. (These are Ratu Sir full names. When he went iool at Wanganui he reversed rder of the last two because New Zealand school-mates it easier to pronounce la than Vanaialiali). whole world remembers Ratu i’s daughter, Adi MeiKainona. > she who presented a bouquet e Queen when she stepped j in Fiji in November, 1953. [ei Kainona was then three.

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Co-Operatives Booming

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In addition to a variety of agricultural, livestock, and forestry projects in hand, there is an air of tidiness and pride about the place.

There are now five copra-making or marketing Co-operative Societies operating at Atiu, The island has a Co-operative Officer to oversee the operations. Five tilapia fishfished haV6 recently been estab- R ? siden t Agent, Mr. R. G. rnorby, has recently been undergomg a special instruction course m coffee-processing in Noumea, in anticipation of an approaching coffee crop on the island. t The Rev. R. L. Challis of the Pacific Islanders’ Congregational Church, Auckland, made one of his periodical visits to Western Samoa and the Cook Islands in August- September. t Mr. Broadhead of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service visited the Cook Islands to record songs and drum dances in August. 51 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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[?] Boys in Boxing Championships Parisian Chef Plans A Coral Paradise Plus FAMOUS Parisian chef Raymond Oliver, at present in New Caledonia, plans to erect a bungalow type of hotel for tourists on He des Pins, a coral “paradise” about 25 miles from the colony’s southern extremity. Tourists would be flown to the island by New Caledonia’s internal air service TRANSPAC, using Dragon Rapide aircraft.

M. Oliver hopes to obtain Government aid to carry out the project.

He will need it. His plan is estimated to call for an investment of 900 million Metropolitan francs. t Sir Gordon Taylor took his Bermuda flying-boat Frigate Bird 111 to Papeete on a passenger flight from Sydney early in September.

Winners of the recent Marist Brothers' Annual Boxing Tourney are, left to right front row: Antonio Washburne, Penitito Pati Po'o Lafaialii, Fred Glenister, Pesamino Etua[?] Back row: lakopo Tovio, Penitito To'o, Sefe Tasiano. (The two young men, extreme left and extreme right, front row, are, according t o th e letteri ng on their T-shirts, Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano respectively).

Photo: R. F. Rankin. 53 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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On Sunday, September 16, ex-Air Force men in Apia, W. Samoa, commemorated Battle of Britain Day by a memorial service at the grave of the seven NZ airmen who were killed in 1950 when their Catalina fiying-boat crashed on a flight from Satapuala seadrome to the Tokelau Islands. The service was conducted by the Rev. Whonsbon-Aston.

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3 article by Mr. J. P. shortall. which was published n the July issue of PIM and ed “Ministerial Sensitivity to rse Newspaper Publicity" tins some inaccuracies, overlifications, and misleading tnents in the latter half ag with the TB campaign in took Islands. b primary objects of the mass iture X-ray survey are to n an accurate figure of TB snce in the Cook Islands, i in the past has only been ed at, and concurrently, to out a programme of Mantoux ig and BCG vaccination. The nation of negative reactors es, as far as possible, the nonirance of new cases. 3 secondary object of the amme, which cannot be ;d out until the first is comi, is the treatment of new thus discovered. 3 July article stated that •e is no such follow-up and funds have been made ible.” the current financial year is being used for the iase of drugs and for treatof TB cases—more than one a half times the amount during the previous year. ier funds will no doubt be L should the necessity arise. ; follow-up programme was nto operation last November the mobile X-ray team id in the Cooks, and has gone I continuously since then. early February, when the is of the new cases came in, Health Department placed additional orders for drugs.

I are now being received. A ving was added to Rarotonga’s orium last year bringing the capacity to 64 by December, ional TB cases were admitted ;he hospital, and this practice mes. The remainder of the active cases are being put home treatment, ore domiciliary treatment can arted it is necessary, in the •ity of cases, to educate the its in the need for isolation, .ete rest, cleanliness, etc. . this is understood and cotion is obtained the treatcan go ahead. This is being and a small number of its have commenced homenent at Aitutaki. It is ted that Mangaia will follow n a few weeks time, i July article went on to -“At the present moment are 90 cases of TB awaiting treatment on Aitutaki alone. Of these, half are dangerous, active cases, living in crowded conditions inevitably infecting others. There is —or was in June—a waiting list of over 200 cases to enter the only sanatorium at Rarotonga. Some have waited two years. Some have died. But even if they could get into the sanatorium there would be no medical supplies to treat them at present."

It is true that there were 90 TB cases at Aitutaki in June, But only 34 of these were awaiting home-treatment—39 were suspects only who were due for further checks, and 5 were ex-sanatorium patients. That makes a total of 78. The remaining 12 were found to be non-tuberculous. Shortly after Mr. Shortall’s article was written some of the cases were placed on home-treatment.

Manea Tamarua, GIMP in charge of the sanatorium, has evolved a plan where patients are kept a comparatively short time at the sanatorium before being, placed 55 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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MANUFACTURING CO. LTD. 90 O'Riordan Street, Alexandria, N.S.W. me-treatment, thus ensuring iximum use of beds available, rune the number of people ig admission to the sanatorium 0, not over 200 as stated By August 27 the figure sen to 47. The number of tients, i.e., on waiting lists, ups, suspects was 364 up to 27. 6 of the 143 on the waiting ve died at home, and 7 have t the sanatorium. Most of who died had not been ; 2 years as implied in the irticle. They were mainly ed cases when discovered and ould be done to help them, tatement that drugs were ailable at the sanatorium at me is completely untrue, mass X-ray unit goes on y round the Group,” said [y article, “telling the people ave TB—which may worry of them to death but will ittle other effect,” statement is a misleading ith, implying that the are told that they have TB •e then abandoned. What 7 happens is that, in the slands, the people are given suits only when the final re sent out together with or treatment, so that homejnt can be started as soon iitions are reasonably satis- People are also advised, both in Rarotonga and the outer islands, about what they can do to help their own recovery.

Talks were given at all Rarotongan villages by the CMO Dr. T. T. Romans, and in the outer islands by CIMP’s, outlining the nature of TB, the purpose of of the Mass X-ray survey, and how they could help themselves while awaiting drug treatment.

This advice frequently arrests the progress of the disease, and was the basis of all TB treatment before such drugs became available.

“The medical department in the Cooks freely admits that when the unit makes it second round in a year or so few will turn up for X-rays,” said the July article.

This is not the official opinion of the Cl Health Department and can only reflect unofficial and personal views.

“It is also agreed that the housing situation for home-treatment is satisfactory in only about 2 per cent, of all cases diagnosed.”

The 2 per cent, can only be a guess, and although the statement is generally true initially conditions are voluntarily improved in all cases where treatment begins.

The general implication of the July article seems to be that huge Sanitoria should be built to house all cases and suspects who are found during the survey. This scheme is regarded by responsible authorities as “fantastic.” There would be a huge capital cost, extra staff would have to be obtained and trained, the annual maintenance expenditure that would follow would be enormous. And both buildings and staff would quickly become redundant.

In view of these facts the followup programme must consist of home-treatment, aided by education and the best possible use of the available sanatorium accommodation.

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r.E reader has now been presented with two versions of the TB problem as it applies to the Cook Islands and may take his 57 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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A doctor in the Health Department said vhat since the surveys were instituted in 1953 many new cases of tuberculosis had been discovered.

A few years ago, the Department found d.vficulty in placing all these new patients in suitable institutions. But now the position was completely reversed, and there were ample beds throughout the State.

The doctor said that the Department preferred to treat patients in institutions rather than in the home.

"We think every patient should be in an institution for a certain period," she said.

"We always think institution care is better than domiciliary (home) care."

If New South Welshmen cannot be regarded as making a satisfactory job of home-nursing their TB cases, it is scarcely likely that Cook Islands Maoris will mas better fist of it. However, h treatment is better than no t ment, and if that is all that be done in Cl there is no moo be said on the subject. 58 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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Happened In October

DBER of 1876 saw the eck of the brig Stranger, iptaln Garth, Auckland for on Blunt Island, off Kadavu. led with stores and a iment of horses for the Engineers at Suva, the vessel I Auckland, September 16, ade an uneventful run until, t warning she crashed onto ef at 3 a.m., October 22, in h south-easterly and rough stranding took place at high and after some heavy ng the brig was soon left and dry, and all hands, ng the captain’s wife and children, landed at daybreak, of the horses had already med ship but others were I on the reef or later died. vessel, which was owned by McEwen & Co., Melbourne, ; a total loss though much cargo and equipment was id. ear earlier Captain Garth lost the vessel Nil andum, well-known in Suva at the time, in a hurricane at New Caledonia.

Costly Burn

Mere mention of a ship-flre in French Oceania will usually raise a laugh in shipping circles—but there were no laughs connected with the Benecia singeing at the Papeete wharf in July. The vessel was not insured, our correspondent reports, and repairs will cost in excess of PF2,000,000 (£A14,250).

Joyita Traces Sought

nf or \ho eh ol f of relatives of some ot the 25 persons lost from i a year ag0 ’ the New Zealand Government has notified ail Islands Administrations from French Oceania westward that a reward of £lOO will be paid to any person producing clear evidence of the fate of any of the missing It is thought there might be traces of some of the missing on some isolated beach or island For legal reasons proof of death! or otherwise, is sought. However one imagines that if any clues were The tank landing ship 9019 of the [?]ench Navy arrived at Noumea August 31. Carrying material from Saigon for the naval base at Noumea amounting to some 700 tons, the vessel after discharging will return to Saigon.

The 9019 carries a total crew of 53.

During the voyage down a breakdown of one of the engines caused the vessel to seek repairing facilities in Rabaul, NG. —Photo by F. E. Dunn. 61 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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There is an element of excitement in a bottled message from the sea, but there was sadness too, in one picked up on a beach near Waipu, NZ, in September, by a 13-year-old school-girl.

Gunner Morris Nelson Palmer, off to the war, had tossed it from an unnamed troopship near Norfolk Island on March 25, 1943.

Addressed to his mother, it was found less than seven miles from her home. But Gunner Palmer was killed at Rimini, Italy, in September, 1944, and a brother to whom the message was also addressed, was killed in a motor .accident more recently,

Soon To Sail

In Auckland on business in mid- September, Mr. Hugh Williams reported that his 243-ton Melva to be registered in Suva, should clear Wellington early October with a cargo of aviation gasoline for Aitutaki.

The recently acquired vessel, now white with green trimmings, has a new bridge above the former wheel-house, which becomes the skipper’s cabin. The chief engineer moves into the former skipper’s cabin, making further accommodation available for cabin passengers in the Cooks interisland trade.

Among plans for turning an honest penny; a 16 mm. movie plant for use in the hold, which will serve as a theatre when empty, and a collection of Biblestory films which are expected to prove a major drawcard.

Close Shave

The 40-ton MV Nicole, of Papeete, came close to grief! when she struck a reef * Tikehau lagoon, but slid oven little damage.

Our records show that Nio owned by Edgar Bambridge.

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Captain J. McKenzie returning from vacation 62 OCTOBER. 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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1, resumed command of Hedstrom & Co.’s 260-ton terisland vessel Altair in Der. years ago in the UK he Irish sweep, purchased the Zivriballa and sailed to New He sold her there in 1952 aed the Fiji merchant fleet. are whispers in Auckland iptain Arnot might now be ig a book on his interesting many ships. He was in before going to Fiji.

Government Service?

e authorities in Papeete ately been surveying MV u, one-time US Navy aft, identical to Manu’a sed on Pago Pago, with a ) purchase. The 252-ton was acquired in Honolulu 7 years ago by Societe ative Tuamotu-Gambier. ould presumably replace ' ahena, 532-tons, sold by l 1 Government to M. Andre some years ago. The nent has not owned a )f this size since. »elieve that Tuamotu and Tele (now also for sale), only YMS-type (yard mine ) craft in use as trading n the South Pacific, though rich Navy* have two of these wooden diagonal-planked 124-ft craft in service— Tiare and. Lotus based on Noumea and Papeete respectively. They are each powered with two 400 h.p. GM 268-A diesels.

Melanesian’S Crew Departs

Sixteen members of the Solomon Islands crew who are to sail the new Government vessel Melanesian from Hongkong, left Honiara by Qantas charter plane early September.

The party, under Captain Thorsen, flew via Darwin, Biak, and Manila to Hongkong.

Melanesian was launched by Mrs.

R. J. Minnitt, wife of the Chief Secretary, last July.

Further technical details of the ship are to hand by courtesy of the Marine Superintendent yimensions of the steel vessel are 118 ft. o.a. x 105 ft. b.p. x 26 ft. moulded breadth x 9 h ft. depth of hold x 8 ft. loaded draught. She had a deadweight capacity of 130 tons, a single hold with a 19 ft x 3 ft. 10 in. hatch. The main motors are twin handed Gardner BL3’s each of 144 bhp at 900 rpm, with 3 : 1 reduction gear. The motors have fresh-water cooling and air starting. The auxiliaries are a pair of Gardner 4LW’s, each driving a 20 kw 220 v. dc. generator. These are arranged for hand or electric starting. (Over) The former U[?] Navy net-layer "Sea "Maria Ines", shows her distinctive [?]e South Pacific.

The yacht "Meridian" of Annapolis, now at Papeete.

Photos: Oscar Nordman. 63 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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On The Spud Run

Last June a small 876-ton wooden vessel, American owned but flying the quartered red-white-and-blue flag of Panama, arrived in New Zealand with a cargo of American potatoes. A former US Navy netlayer, she then bore the name Maria Ines.

In September the same vessel, with another valuable cargo of US potatoes to relieve the current NZ potato famine, and with 8,000 cases of tomatoes from Rarotonga, dropped in to Wellington flaunting the name Sea Pearl.

Formerly owned by Far Eastern Steam Ship Co., the vessel had changed hands between trips and is now owned in New York by Victor International Corp., still flying the Panamanian “flag of convenience,”

The refrigerated craft was seeking an outward cargo, and late September seemed likely to be seen in the Islands again.

Southbound, Sea Pearl, which vas earlier running frozen meat cargos from Hawaii to the US, called at Papeete for bunkers.

Rarotonga authorities learned she was south-bound, contacted the owners, and arranged the much appreciated tomato shipment. The vessel was loaded in under 5 hours at the Avarua roadstead.

The freight rate was said to be 3 - per case (40 cases to the ton).

The rate on the potatoes was group of Tahitians who passed through Sydney in August, on their way to Venice to pick hip for the phosphate company of Makatea. With them, second from right, standing, is Henri Helme, skipper of well-known small islands vessel, "Maria del Mar". ey were all visitors at a Polynesian Association function when this photograph was taken, ntertained other members with songs and dances.

Photo: Bayside Studio. 65 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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evidently high enough to warrant a vessel of this size making the long voyage.

Sea Pearl, built by Everett Pacific Co. in 1944, has twin diesel-electric drive to a single shaft. The motors are Busch-Sulzer. Captain R. L.

Deskin is in command, and Mr.

Les Ellis, well-known in Tonga, who joined the vessel last voyage, is Second Mate.

Equapac Interlude

South from Honolulu as one of the vessels engaged in Operation Equapac ocean-current survey, as detailed last month, US Fish & Wildlife’s industrious research vessel Hugh M. Smith made a scheduled call at Papeete, September 11-15.

Further Order

Next year should see an event of considerable maritime interest, Probably for the first time ever, the merchant flag of the Kingdom of Tonga will be seen in the Northern Hemisphere, and more than a few well-seasoned merchant navy officers, pacing their bridges, will be excused if they have to repair to the chart room to consult What Ship Is That? for probably very few seamen could describe this flag which will fly from the stern of probably two new Tongan ships.

The flag is three-quarters red, with a red cross superimposed on the white upper quarter adjoining the staff. When the Queen is aboard the ship also flies the Tongan Royal Standard Reading clockwise from the upper quarters adjoining the staff, this flag is quartered as follows: Yellow, on which are three white stars, red, on which is a golden crown; yellow plain; blue with a white bird. Superimposed at centre is a 6-pointed white star with a red cross superimposed them The descriptions are worth nothti as very frequently Queen Said does travel in one or other of 1 vessels.

Only Government vessels are present the two small wood ketches Hifofua and A’oniu.

Now building in Holland is; modern new A’oniu for the Co] Board, and Prince Tungi annoum 66 OCTOBER. 195 6 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH]

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Cable Vincoproducts VINCENT BROS. 947 Victoria Rd,, West Ryde, Sydney, Australia 8-10 H.P. mckland in September that a ft. tug-cum-general purpose ;1 has also been ordered in and. The two present ketches built in Auckland and Suva actively, and no Ton g a n jmment vessel —or vessel flying Tongan flag, so far as we 7- —has ever been seen beyond Pacific.

Rofit Not Important

.e 134-ft. steel two-masted iary passenger schooner Te Liberian flag, but American id, has now completed over a of regular passenger voyages een Honolulu and Papeete, via ports if required, autifully equipped for the ort of passengers, but actually vdng little patronage—possibly to fares which range from to $1,275 each way—the 242 spoon-bowed counter-sterned has maintained a regular iule. ne have expressed surprise the vessel can show sufficient b to keep operating but it is 1 1 stated in Papeete that she )mething of a hobby for a ng shareholder who uses her as ians of maintaining his income n a certain taxation bracket, rega being merely a sideline not a business, latever the truth, Te Vega does de a regular connection along fleeted sea-route, and will call at the Marquesas or the Line Islands when required. She il easily the most graceful and attractive vessel operating in South Pacific commerce to-day and many will hope that operations will prosper and extend.

In August Te Vega made a snecial run from Panppfp Marquesas and return with Mr and Mrs. Cornelius Crane, former sole owners. Present owners are Darr Lines of Honolulu, of which Captain Omer Darr. master of Te Ve 9“> is “ *“<«•

Which Were His Ships?

Mr. Ralph Chapman, of 30 Beekman Place, New York, former resident of Tahiti and a reader of pttvt * lon T on his Captain James sp f nt °>ost of his life married a ™ J? 6 Pacific ’

Fanaue of Hbfaa T^h?iP eU f a a ?Ar^o?i t i2 a ’^ Tah u ltl ' at ° ne riv Riill S S th ® bai ;quentme opic Bird of San Francisco, and his Settled in Californi a with information 7 C ilt pman see^ s on other vessels M™ Chamnan 7 hVm^if ra Sr dfa f the 7 TahitFa^Thild^our^wl? when a “b“ American visitor; he has been in the latter’s employ ever since (Continued on p age ioi) ER: Lorrin Smith (right) and companion ant, homeward bound for Honolulu from id in "Tahiti”.

ER: The Honolulu motor-vessel "Fiesta”, equipped in Papeete with a deck-house [?], to house equipment and personnel of ch movie organisation making shorts in Oceania.

Photos: Oscar Nordman. 67 JIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Rev. Father E. A. Tremblay, or many years stationed in , and author of a couple of on life in those islands since as recalled to the United .several years ago, has been ?d to the Pacific. He is now int Pastor, St. Theresa’s Church, Kekaha, Kauai, Hawaiian Islands and with hopes of eventually returning to end his days in Tonga. t Privately owned licensed radio receivers increased from 1,205 to 2,000 during the last financial year, in Western Samoa, and the number of governmentowned village and school receivingsets increased from 192 to 197. Of the government-owned receivers, 156 are in schools; members of the Faipule have the use of the remaining government-owned receivers.

A. G. Daw, Mrs. Daw, daughter Susan Christopher and Johnathon, returned rai, Papua, aboard September "Maleter four months furlough in Adelaide. law is secretary of the NG Anglican g resident Mrs. D. Merchant had com- 2 months leave in Australia when she to P-NG during September. Her husband is employed by the Department of Works at Madang; they have been living in the Territory since 1946.

Mrs. Gordon Smith (centre), wife of Mendi District Patrol Officer, her mother, Mrs. A. J Hoile, of Wau, and three-year-old son Christopher, aboard "Malekula" after four months leave in Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. Hoile have been residents of P-NG for 28 years.

Mrs. K. Muntz travelled to Dogura, via Samarai, to visit her daughter Sister Faith at the Dogura Community House —a boarding school for native girls.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Osborne. Mrs. Osborne was Dr. Pamela Blackall and will begin medical practice in Wau. Mr, Osborne owns "Kulang" coffee plantation outside Wau. 69 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Boffin Islands Fixed IT is now almost certain that scientific observations of various kinds will be carried out during the International Geophysical Year (July, 1957-December, 1958) at the following Pacific islands: PALMYRA; The Scripps Institute of Oceanography, California, will station two scientific observers at this atoll and arrange monthly visits from Honolulu. Tidal measurements, sea temperatures and samples, and magnetic observations will be made.

JARVIS: As with Palmyra, but with the addition of seismographic and meteorological observations.

JOHNSTON: Equipment already in operation at this US Airforce base, will record tidal data, longperiod (5-15 minute) ocean waves.

CANTON; Scripps will maintain equipment for tidal and long-period wave measurements. The work will be carried out by existing aviation staff.

GUAM: As with Canton, plus sea temperatures and samples.

KOROR: As with Guam.

WAKE: As with Guam.

TRUK: It is hoped that a station will be established here to maintain observations as with Guam.

YAP, MIDWAY, and ENIWE- TOK: Already have tide gauges installed.

All the above will be Americancontrolled, and there may be American assistance with bases at the following places also: EASTER ISLAND: Tidal measurements.

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stations, but the nature of the rations is not yet fixed, most cases the IGY observawill be merely additional to irological observations which [ready made. temperatures will be taken i depths of 1,000 feet once each by means of boats, ults of the tidal measurei will be of particular interest, vations have already shown for reasons not completely there are regular oscillations * sea level with periods of 5 minutes. [?]ming At The [?]er) Mouth [?]y Help Sugar PLAINTS in England that nthetic detergents might irmfully affect public health ;s, led to a report by a special y committee which should n sugar producers, if not growers. report indirectly suggested a ir sugar in the manufacture itergents which would not in the rivers and waterways itain the accumulations of foam that have become ir sights since the popularity p waned. But it did NOT nend a return to soap, irgent-caused difficulties at ; works included foaming to ent that caused nuisance and ie cases could endanger public ) the committee reported, foaming retarded purification ses and gave rise to more late than usual in the it, with possible adverse on the amenities of rivers /hich it was discharged, ml their ability to support fish !ant life and their use as a of drinking water, committee said there had io evidence so far of ill-effects letergent residues in drinking or crockery drained dry it rinsing but it emphasised he question of human ingesver a lengthy period needed irm study. recommendations included: ifacturers of household tic detergents should invest!the feasibility of producing it washing products based on als which can be readily id or eliminated and will not persistent foaming.”

International Sugar Journal iick to point out that, while ents based on sugar were not sally mentioned in the report, lust undoubtedly figure prom- J in the investigations the ttee recommended. ly are easily digested by both animals and humans, and present activated-sludge methods at sewage works will almost certainly handle Journal saW difficulty,- the journal said.

In addition, they are poor to moderate fearners. Thus the major disadvantages of present detergents are eliminated by the sugar-based products, which have excellent detergent and emulsifying properties and are comparable in production costs.” — - ■ t Vasiti Yalayala, a 15-years-old Fijian schoolgirl from Lautoka, arrived in Sydney early this month to attend Burwood Domestic Home Science School. She was brought to Australia by Mrs. Eileen Meyer, of Strathfield, Sydney, who met her when she was a nursing sister at the Lautoka School Mrs. d hopes V,“ will matriculate, and eventually be come a nurse or a phjsfotherlpfe lasiti plays basketball, will loin a tennis club, and will take up goli p g 1 Maui Pomare’s September cargo “ om Auckland to Rarotonga included a consignment of kauri and j? ur J Ba tree-fern logs for the manutacture of polished inlaid wooden ornaments and curios at the new Finnegan paua-shell processing actory ’

The founder of the Societe Tiebaghi, Mr. Emile Chalas died in Paris, on June 27, 1956 The Societe Tiebaghi operates the world’s richest chrome mine in Northern New Caledonia at Paagoumene. 71 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 19 5 6

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Sydney Agents: NELSON & ROBERTSON PTY. LTD., Plantation House, 197 Clarence Street (near King Street) [?]ch Could Tap [?] Wealth [?]w Untouched H Australia and New Caledonia 'ould get a much-needed “shot arm” if a proposal that French rial organisations build a big teelworks alongside the splendid ndeveloped deep-water harbour )rt Stephens, north of New- NSW, is adopted. tralia’s nresent steelmakinff ;ry, though highly efficient 8 t with its present output r the country’s hunger for with the result that she has port annually steel products £A44 million. reserves of iron ore great as are, are limited and here >re New Caledonia could come he French colony already sells re to Australia’s steelmasters, oken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., is millions of tons untouched itentially rich mines lying idle.

Japanese showed great inin New Caledonia’s iron ore about 1935 and by 1939 had ed large concessions, which rere working extensively. Then World War 11.

What has happened since—or failed to happen —is graphicallyillustrated in a photograph in PlM's July issue. It depicts Dr. John Cumpston, Australian Consul in Noumea, inspecting the former Japanese iron mine at Goro during a recent trip to south-eastern New Caledonia.

With Mrs. Cumpston he is climbing to the mine plateau. In the background is the loading cantilever, now in bad condition from disuse and neglect, stretching out its skeleton arms to wealth untouched.

Areas such as these, it is true, are being thoroughly prospected by the French Bureau Miniere but their future is still indefinite.

Apparently the proposal that French organisations consider establishing a big steel plant at Port Stephens—they already have built steelworks in other countries—is still in the exploratory stage.

What details are available so far were revealed by NSW Mines Minister, Roger Nott, in Sydney recently. He said he had discussed the proposal with the French Embassy’s Commercial Consul (M. Miot) but was not at liberty to disclose the names of the French interests concerned.

Emphasising the suitability of Port Stephens, Mr. Nott pointed out that its deep-water harbour lay close to substantial coal and limestone deposits Though the works proposed would compete with the BHP steel undertakings at Newcastle and Port Kembla, the Minister said, he favoured the plan.

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Americans Interested, Too Mr. Nott reported later (Oct. 3) that American interests as well as French were interested in the possibilities of a Port Stephens steel industry. He said both were “nibbling”. It was estimated that it would cost £lOO million to set up the establishment. A canal 6 miles long, to link Port Stephens with Newcastle harbour, would be part of the set-up.

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ANEW administrative building was officially opened a t Arutunga, Aitutaki, early in September. The building houses offices for the resident agent, post office, radio station, court room, and police station, and is a notable contribution—together with a new hospital, doctor’s house, dental clinic, pump-house, gaol, and laundry opened some time ago—to tidying up a very down-atheel village.

The official opening was performed by the Resident Commissioner, Mr. G. Nevill, who with Mrs ' Nevill and the Hon - Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki. CBE, leading Ariki of the Cook Islands, flBw across from Rarotonga by Civil Aviation Bureau aircraft for the occasion t A record number of ir vehicles entered New Caleo in the first half of the cu;j year - The total was 538 ~ nt 90 a month. Ther total value: about 93 million francs. Fr sent 426, the United States 70( England 16. Germany, Japam Australia sent the rest. 74 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HI

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MW 2601 (10 lines). • cables vanreid, Sydney Islands [?]et Cut [?]icence Adds Mystery VS from Wellington, in August, ;hat the Cook Islands budget :or 1956-57 has been cut by 0 will cause perplexity in that ;ory, in the light of the reendations of the Belshaw- Plan for economic developmade last year and of the Minof Islands Territories’ statepubished in the May Cook Is Review, one paragraph of read: a result of the Government’s ight and positive action, many » recommendations of the rehad reached the stage where could he implemented. (Note ord “could”). The (Auckland articles were therefore un- ' in that they created doubt 7 the people in the Cook Ls as to the motives of the nment at the very time when is important to have their onfidence.

Minister was referring to a of articles summarising the iw-Stace Plan report. s true that several appointhave been made in line with ilshaw-Stace recommendations le report made it clear (a) ertain of its recommendations irgent; (b) that the Governmust be prepared to spend money in the Group per 1 before it could ever hope to less at some future time (if ly if the public disclosure of elshaw-Stace report created in the Cooks, the cutting of by £55,000 will create a good lore doubt on intentions. At ery least one should have it that the reasons for the mid have been carefully exi to the Cook Islands people e Minister over Radio New d, and by every other means, t, not a word on the subject ;ard from Radio New Zealand ast up to time of writing); >erhaps only by chance, the was made available to the is the Minister left to attend iez Conference in London. ■e may be excellent reasons j cut in funds but surely the were entitled to hear them. 1956-57 vote is £329,000. expenditure last year was . In the very fields where Lid have been expected that iiture would be increased—the subsidies covering health, ion, etc.—the grant is reduced by £20,000. About £21,000 less will be paid in advances tociturs growers this year than last, confirming that there have been second thoughts on the Citrus Scheme as originally envisaged.

What the actual estimates for the 1956-57 year were is not known but it was stated in Rarotonga in July that these had been cut by £120,000 The estimates almost always substantially exceed the actual expenditure, whch is usually limited by shipping, available manpower and other local factors, but it does appear that the plan was to spend substantially more than was spent last year; so the cut of £55,000 may represent a greater reduction than might appear on the surface.- JPS. t Messrs. W. G. Johnson, chairman and managing director of W R center and Co. (Fiji) Ltd., and j.* Snell, chairman and managing director of Morris Hedstrom Ltd, members of the board of W R Carpenter and Co. Ltd., returned to m the first week in October after having attended the annual meeting of WRC in Sydney on September 28. Mr. Johnson also visited Canberra and Tasmania. t Dr. M. F. Barnett, head of the New Zealand Meteorological Service m the course of a tour of Pacific Islands weather stations under his control—with particular emphasis on International Geophysical Year projects— recently visited the Cook Islands. 75 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Jean Mariotti’s, Nouvelle Caledonie, the book of the Centenary year, has been followed by Pere Patrick O’Reilly’s two indispensable volumes of biographical and bibliographical researches to which PIM has already drawn attention, and by Yves Person’s La Nouvelle Caledonie et VEurope, which I have not yet read, though I am told it is very good.

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In these chapters space is found for an appreciation of the work of the pioneers: Paddon, the first trader and cattle-man, and Higginson and Lucien Bernheim, early “kings” respectively of nickel and chrome; also of the most notable of the Governors, Guillain in early days: Paul Feillet, in whose day penal transportation made way for Asiatic labour; and Joseph Guyon, whose energetic schemes in the later 1920’s were unhappily frustrated by the self-interest, timidity, and laisser-faire attitude of an all too isolated community.

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One therefore turns with special interest to the remaining sections of this useful book, those which cover mineral resources, and lesser resources which come under the heading of agriculture, cattle raising, and fisheries—activities, these last, with which the prosperity of the native Melanesian population as well as of the “colons” is closely bound up.

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TAX-FREE T Cook Islands residents will call the two New Zealand axation Department investiwho raised such a stir they appeared in the Cooks years ago. result of their visit, the New d Government agreed to a cal system of taxation, which rtly expected to come into itial Cook Islands taxpayers interested to know that the of the investigating team, , M. Boyd, 8.C0m., APANZ, ithdrawn from the Departand set up in business in nd as a taxation consultant — vill specialise in advising i residents on loop-holes (if [?]ving the Fiji Policeman's Lot many Fiji police retire when sir gratuity is available after ,rs in the force and, in a 0 check this drift, the Corner is discussing with the Govit possible improvements in ons which would induce men longer. This need to under- 3ng service was emphasised e Governor (Sir Ronald ) at a police review in July ature of the review was the :e, for the first time at a nial police parade, of a 1 of Indian police. Their r , drew praise from the Govlonald presented the Colonial Medal" to Senior Superint E. H. Mulligan and the il Police and Fire Service to Sub-Inspector Attar Singh. 79 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Tropicalities

Itranslates Popular

Books Into Fijian

the few Fijians who have anslated books from English to jian, Ratu Luke Vuidreketi, of ,ewa district, is probably the ible translator, and is certainly lost prolific. a Luke started translating in 1940, and has since trans- Gulliver’s Travels in Lilliput, :rd Kipling’s Jungle Books, ess D’Orczy’s The Scarlet rnel, M. Yahub Khan’s Golden of Islam, and The Elusive rnel and I will Repay. rt from the works translated ; Methodist Mission, these are nly books available in the language, Ratu Luke told me ly. He is now translating The By Lloyd C. Douglas, ussing difficulties of trans- Ratu Luke said: “The main m is that we haven’t got i words in the Fijian lan- English is so deep, wide and But in the Fijian translation ijians can understand somedeeper than English-speaking s in the English language.

Fijian words convey more to ijian mind than the English lents convey to English s. may be said by some people linds are limited by environbut the Fijian can still underwhat he reads, especially Christian teachings and principles, because they suit his life and environment which is related to Christianity, and is more suited than the Western environment.

“Fijian life is simple, and so a Fijian’s mind is receptive. He is more ready to accept and apply Christian teachings in his life than is the advanced European. Fijians are not politically-minded. They don’t know about party politics and don’t want to know.”

It was mainly due to this assessment of his own people that Ratu Luke decided to translate The Rohe which he is translating in weekly instalments of about 2,000 words published in a Fijian-language newspaper. About two-thirds of The Robe have now been published in this way, and it will eventually appear in book form. He is already planning to translate Lloyd C.

Douglas’ sequel, The Big Fisherman.

Ratu Luke Vuidreketi was educated entirely in Fiji, and spent two years at Queen Victoria School.

He served in the Solomons and the Philippines during World War 11, and attended the Victory Parade in London. He is 40, married, with three children. — JACK THORNTON.

Conversation A La Mode

WAITING on Madang airstrip for Qantas plane to Wewak, I wandered into a hangar, sat down on an empty case, and lit a cigarette (probably breaking several regulations. It’s amazing how many regulations there are in the flying business since DCA bought into the game).

At the back of the shed, punctuated by the occasional tap of a hammer on metal, I could hear a couple of voices in conversation.

Presently they grew louder —they had walked over closer to where I was sitting: “No, honest, Bill, if it wasn’t for that damn car, I’d get married to-morrow. But, look, I’ve paid a deposit on the damn thing.

Mind you, I like a car, and these new Holdens are really good. If I could afford both . . . but that’s the way it is. It’s just a toss-up whether I take the car or get married.”

“Hey, Jim, are you really dinkum?”

“What d’you mean am I really dinkum? Of course I’m dinkum!”

“You are? Right! Well I’ll make you a proposition—and I’m dinkum too. I’ve got a new Holden—brand new and paid for—it came off the Malekula last night. I’ve got a wife too —I’ve only had her six months.

Well, you take over the wife and I’ll toss the car in buckshee. Now don’t say that’s not fair enough!”

At this point my plane touched down, and I had to leave rather hurriedly.- PETER ENGLAND.

It's a School, Of Course

The Philippines, Too, Had

A Fraudulent Falls

fTTHE Western Samoan Stamp X purporting to picture the Aleisa Falls, but displaying in actual fact the Malifa Falls, (PIM August) recalls a similar case of some years ago.

This was in 1932 when a Philippines postage-stamp featured what was supposed to be the 200foot high Pagsanjan Falls on the island of Luzon.

However, a keen-eyed Chicago collector, noticing the similarity of this waterfall with one in the Yosemite Valley, in California, USA, discovered that in reality it was a picture of the 350-foot high Vernal Falls at Yosemite.

It seems that the stamp designer was initially unable to find a suitable picture of the Philippines landmark and thought no-one would notice if he substituted the similar (in appearance) American counterpart.—K.N.

That Old Fish Poisoning

AGAIN AN old question was raised again recentlv at Pukapuka in the Cook Islands—“ls the flesh of certain sharks poisonous?”

Among the fish caught on June 6 by the Resident Agent and a party of deep-sea fishermen was Ratu Luke Vuidreketi.

This sign is at the entrance to the public school in the district of Punaauia, Tahiti. The property was given to the French Government about 80 years ago by a Frenchman named Souvy on the understanding it would always be used for a school and would carry the sign: 2 + 2 = 4.

Photo: Oscar Nordman. 81 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

a 12 ft. black shark. The people of Pukapuka do not eat shark meat, but many of the fishing party were from the lower islands of the Cook Group where shark meat is eaten, so it was decided to bring the 300-lb. fish ashore for consumption.

The fish was cut up and eaten and the scraps were thrown to the pigs. A few days later 16 pigs had died, but the human shark-eaters were not affected.

It is reported from Mauke Island, in the lower Cooks, that there is a species of shark there that, if eaten, will cause the consumers to feel sick for several days afterwards.

Local lore has it that the way to decide whether or not the shark flesh is poisonous is to observe whether flies settle on it.

If the flies are attracted by the meat it is wholesome, but if they avoid it the meat is unsafe to eat. -— W. H. PERCIVAL.

The Loafers!

CORRESPONDENT Nordman, of Papeete, his memory stirred by the recent visit of some Samoans to Tahiti, recalls an occasion when he was serving in Matson Line ships on the transpacific run.

Strolling along the beach road at Pago Pago with a group of passengers, the party passed similar groups of Samoans. Each Samoan group was heard to make a remark as they passed.

“What did they say?” said one wealthy American tourist to Nordman.

“Oh. take no notice of them”, said Nordman. They’re talking about you people. They said ‘The loafers!’ ”

“Well gahdam, whaddayaknow!” said the tourist in some disgust.

But Nordman was having his laugh. He knew of course that the polite Samoans were murmuring their greeting of “Tolofa” as they passed on their way.

Law Strikes The Cooks!

IN the Cook Islands, where rm people consider themselves m or less exempt from the fir points of such New Zealand 1:1 as do apply there, there seemed be signs of a tightening up September.

First indication was a warn from the Police Department in local press that cyclists must k to the left—an utterly unheard! thing in Rarotonga, where cyci pedestrian, and even motor merely watch to see what the n approaching plans to do, them the opposite.

A stickler for the left-hand i is considered some sort of era pot and a source of amusemenr The other legal event of i month was the fining of a nurni of persons, apparently bakers,} (1) failure to keep floors clean,-: keep trays clean, (3) keep dour tub and lid clean, (4) provide f ployees with aprons. One imagine the wave of shocked dignation that swept over | Bakers’ Union on the morn that that piece of news broke!! t Two Japanese ships dischan at Noumea, a total of 6,500 t of coke for the Societe Nickel. * vessels then loaded nickel ore Japan at coastal mining centre;

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ACROSS I.—Who was lost as sea whilst searching for Nobile? 6.—Who was chess champion of the world 1935-37 8. —Which Greek poet is believed by some to be the inventor of tragedy? 9. —Who was eleven times premier of France? 10. —What is the largest British possession in West Africa 11. —What is a small threecornered cape? 13. —What is the term for legal infancy? 16. —What were the lists for in mediaeval England? 17. —ln which George Bernard Shaw play is the main character the wife of a parson? 19. —What is the US term for what the English call biscuits 20. —The British Isles is considered to be part of which continent?

DOWN 1. —What is the capital of Texas? 2. —What type of "railroad" was used to help negro slaves to escape to Canada? 3. —What is the term for making metal prior to drilling or cutting? 4. Which prefix means new? 5. —What is the official language spoken in Kenya and Tanganyika? 7. —Which American poet is also notea his biography of Lincoln? 11. —What small commercial vessel! peculiar to the Mediterranean? 12. —What is a piece of incombustible; raked out of a furnace? 14. What is the seventh letter of the 0 alphabet? 15. —What type of angle is less tha LEN STEPHENS, of Santo, in the New Hebrides, is the most handsome member of a family noted for manly sons and lovely daughters. Their virility and beauty come from the adventurous T. C. Stephens, of Portsmouth, and his wife, Sela Tobou, of Tonga, who established their family at Uralapa Island off South Santo in 1914, after may hectic incidents.

They were forced off the volcanic island of Ambrym by the eruptions of 1913-14, and Leonard was born while they were camping at Sasun Bay on the near-by coast of Malekula.

He was the sixth child in this family of nine, whose descendants in the northern islands of the New Hebrides are numerous.

In 1937 Len started to clear his share of the family estate on the South Coast of Santo, in Baldwin Cove, and he now produces both copra and cocoa from his plantation there.

When the Japenese war started, he enlisted in the New Hebrides Defence Force as a sergeant. When the Japanese occupied Bougainville Len was asked to transfer to the AIF for the dangerous mission in charge of Levers' vessel "Ruana", which ran stores up to the troops and coastwatchers in the Solomons.

They called at parts of the Bougainville coast sooth of Kieta, steaming by night and hiding by day from the Japanese planes.

Among the passengers they collected were Dr. Kroening and his wife from the Kieta district, who were on their way to Australia for internment. They were at Tulagi during the voyage south, while daily air raids were being experienced.

After the war Len married Eileen Hildebrand, a deaconess of the Presbyterian Mission in the New Hebrides, who happily is not the severe or sanctimonious person one might expect from that somewhat mediaeval title.—BRETT HILDER. right angle? 18. —What is the plural of die? 82 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON TUT

Vive Les Nouvelles Hebrides!

THIS month the New Hebrides celebrates 50 years of Anglo- French Condominium Government. In its way, this story by a former British administrator, is a fitting tribute to the pleasant relations that have always existed there between the two communities.

Senous commentators on the political scene are apt to wring their hands over the New Hebrides—one at the end of last year, we remember, called it a "blot on the free world.” But the people who live there would not change its unconventional mode of plural government or freedom from orthodoxy if they could.

This story appeared in the June, 1956, issue of "Corona" and is reprinted here with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

The author was British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides for a number of years, and later Governor of St. Helena for seven years. He retired in 1953. [?] the Estimates were [?]ved They Drank to —

La Plume De Ma Tante

By SIR GEORGE JOY, KBE, CMG.

STNOT think why Cook named is area the New Hebrides, le only affinity with Scotland [ could see was that in my t was choc-a-bloc with Presbymissionaries of the fire and one breed. these gentlemen I had the t respect for the work they plished and I invariably atl their annual Synod. 1 do I remember at a geter at the British Residency one of these gentlemen was ng his ginger beer and I a 7 and soda, my small son, who ?en making himself a nuisance id the contents of an ashtray ly drink, archtype of John Knox at remarked, “What an init child,” —but I took a dim if his IQ. degree of harmony at the this Anglo-French Adminisi depended to a large extent political atmosphere in Lonid Paris. I must explain that ; lotus land there was two of ling, just as in Noah’s ark, forgetting, of course, two ncies, two official seals and ommissioners. le atmosphere was bright we one another “Mon cher ue.” A discord reduced it to colleague,” but if things were middling we descended to ami.” Nevertheless I recollect n one occasion when I was particularly depressed my colleague in true Latin style threw his arms or°both Thee^ l with^M^trp^iSf phllpSo-Vip 0 ’’ 66KS Wlth M ° n tres chei „ .. , x , . whe £ sterl “ mg came unshackled from the The Convention provided that the British and French Residents were 0 f equal status and importance and any deviation in this respect was the subject of report to London and Paris. Now appointments in the French Colonial Service are graded a nd it so happened that on one occasion the French Resident was a “Gouverneur de troisieme classe” (the correct translation is “Governor Class III” and not, repeat not, “Third class Governor.”) This was awkward, for such a Governor was entitled to a salute of 15 guns when disembarking from a warship while under the Protocol the two Residents, being of equal status, were entitled to only 11. On disembarking from the next warship, the visits of which were fairly frequent, my colleague received his 15 guns and in accordance with Protocol I duly reported it to the Secretary of State and Paris was doubtless informed of this breach of the Convention.

Now, on British warships it is easy to know when to remain standing at the salute when the guns are blazing and when to sit down (though standing up in a launch in a rough sea requires some agility) because a bugler announces the beginning of a and its termination. But with the French Navy things are different. They blow a whistle and it (as one hopes) one is far enough away to prevent damage to the ear diums, it is difficult to know whan the salute has finished and when to sit down; while to go on standing at the salute as if hoping for more would make one feel ridiculous.

For this good reason I used to count the number of guns before resuming my seat. Shortly after I had reported to the Secretary of State that my colleague had been honoured with a salute of 15 guns, another French warship paid a visit.

On disembarking from this vessel at the conclusion of my official visit, I stood at the salute in my launch and counted 11 guns and then sat down but to my surprise the guns went on booming so up I got again. There were 15!

After due reflection I considered it unnecessary to worry the Secretary of State with an account of such tact on the part of the French Naval authorities to the British Representative.

WE entertained the local community, and of course ourselves, a great deal, but I never attempted to surpass the magnificent banquets of my French colleague. These highly official affairs were accompanied by many ravishing courses and the most elegant of wines of which I could never satisfy myself adequately as I had invariably to make a speech.

The piece-de-resistance was a huge turkey which was brought to the (Continued on Page 97) ely, Monsieur, you understand... it is what you call ‘stuffed.’ 83 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

YOUNG FIJI PUTS ON ITS BOXING GLOVES...

ALTHOUGH Dr. Edith Summerskill, British MP, has gone on record (in a book and in the House of Commons) to say that boxing is a brutal sport, no one in Fiji seems prepared to take much notice of the lady’s dire predictions.

Amateur boxing and boxing clubs flourish and every would-be champ from five years to 25 is catered for. Much of this enthusiasm for the Noble Art has been generated by Mr. Harry Charman, a corporal in the RNZAF at Lauthala Bay and local secretary of the YMCA.

He began his All Races Amateur Boxing Club in Suva in 1953 and j us t recently, in premises behind the old Club Hotel, loaned by Morris Hedstrom Ltd, 90 young men between 15 and 25 enrolled with the hope of becoming the current champion in their classsj About the same time, 32 junj members of the same club (thi ages range from five and up) h on a series of matches for j entertainment of their parents & friends.

As the name of club suggee membership is open to boys all Fiji communities. Each n member must produce a mediJ certificate stating his fitness ; undergo training from one of j honorary Medical Officers.

The doctors do a thorough I in examining the boys and I this way have incidents paved the way for treatment some medical defect that mijj otherwise have escaped notice. | Before each bout, contestaf line up again, stripped to th shorts, for a final medical che Everything is according to Hoyles the Club. Even five-year-olds, Pe Griffiths and Miles Hammett, w caused some amusement when tl; appeared in the ring in full equ ment, knew how to do the corn thing according to the book marching to the centre of ring, shaking hands and then go: back to their corners to await time-keeper, Mr. V. Storck, sayiii “Seconds away, first round tirm At the end of each round tl; went solemnly back to their corn to sit on boxes marked “Gordo Gin” (stools would have been . big for them) and listen to advice of their seconds.

So, even if that good socia Dr. Summerskill believes tl everything is better settled negotiation, most of Fiji still lieves in the old tag Mens scum, corpore sano, and that the no art of self-defence helps towa that desirable end.

THIS PAGE: On your left, in the blue silk drawers, guard and 16-oz gloves, Peter Griffiths, so Fiji's Accountant-General; on your [?] similarly equipped, Miles Hammett, son Fiji's Acting Chief Justice. The 3-round [?] between these 5-years-old giants resulted points win for Master Hammett.

ON PAGE 85: Paul figgess receives the Charman In from Lady Ragg on behalf of his brother who was judged the "most scientific bon There are Four Fighting Figgesses in the —sons of the Rector of Suva, the Rev. H Figgess. Harry Charman shown right.

Don't look now Robin Storck one from Paul Figgess.

A photograph taken earlier this year the Fiji Amateur Boxing Championships were The title holders —representing slightly serious boxing than that indulged in small fry—are shown with Mr. Charman left. Back row shows: S. Bennion, middleweight; Tagicabau, heavyweight; Mo[?] Light-heavyweight; M. Evans, middlew[?] Front row: Rato, flyweight; T. Curtis, ba[?] weight; Tora, featherweight; T. Schuster, [?] welterweight; Laisiasai, lightweight; and welterweight. These young men represented boxing clubs: Charman's Amateur Boxing Public Works Department Club, Fiji Mi[?] Forces Club, and Raivolita Amateur [?] Club.—All photos by Stinsons. 84 OCTOBER, 10 5 6 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Your World of Stamps—III

More About Equipment

A Column for New Stamp Collectors, Conducted by K.N.

YOU will, of course, need an album in which to display your collection. There are dozens of varieties, of all shapes and sizes and types, but at the beginning, even an exercise book (with hard cover) will do until you get going properly.

You can duly graduate to the fixed or loose-leaf variety of album.

Loose-leaf albums are easy to manipulate, and they enable pages to be handled individually—an advantage for displays or when being shown to your friends.

Never paste your stamps onto the pages of your album! It has been done by some thoughtless folk.

Always use stamp hinges, which are quite cheap to buy in packets.

Keep them in an airtight tin or drawer so that they won’t be affected by weather conditions.

They should be bent over before being fastened to the back of the stamp, near the centre.

You should always keep your albums, stamps and accessories in a convenient and safe place. This makes for easy access and neatness.

Albums should be placed in dustproof cupboards or drawers, where they won’t experience damp, hot or sticky weather.

One of your first needs will be a small magnifying glass. This will enable you to examine your stamps at close quarters. You never know, you may find some unusual error or flaw through the magnifying glass, and as a result, you may come into possession of a valuable stamp. Who knows!

Some Interesting Recent Issues • There has been a lot of comment in Britain in connection with the proposal to print pictorial stamps for the UK. Low-value British stamps since 1840 have always portrayed Royal personages, but it is felt that the many historic, architectural and scenic landmarks would not now be out of place.

Australia and New Zealand have already displayed English features on past stamps. The Cenotaph, in Whitehall, appeared on an Australian issue, while the Dominion has given us pictures of Buckingham Palace, Westminister Abbey, the Peter Pan and Eros Statues, in addition to several of the huge lions on the Nelson Monument, in London, and the notable St. Paul’s Cathedral. o Collectors have welcomed the new portrait of Her Majesty as 85 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

used on recent stamps from Fiji.

It is a change from the ordinary styling, being an actual reproduction of a £2,000 painting executed by the Italian painter, Signor Pietro Annigoni. It was originally painted for the Fishmongers Company in Britain. • You may have read about a 1955 stamp printed by Hungary on aluminium-surfaced paper as a means of publicising a Light Metal Industries’ Congress at Budapest, but did you know that shortly after the Ist World War, Latvia, now part of Russia, printed stamps on the back of old Germany Army maps?

The Latvian authorities had also to use cigarette paper and then old exercise book paper on which to print much-needed stamps. Even Bolshevik banknotes were converted into suitable size for stamp printing.

Book Tells Story of BSIP Stamps A BOOK published this month brings the story of the postage stamps and postal history of the British Solomon Island PlO- - up-to-date, including the current issue.

Author H. G. D. Gisburn, in the historical outline, quotes from original documents. He describes postal markings of the remoter islands, gives details of mail-carrying ships and aircraft, lists American and other war-time FPO’s which operated at Guadalcanal and other islands.

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Solution to Crossquiz from page 82

Telling The World That The

Harvest Is In

By Basil Hall Even Primitive Papuans Had a Public Relations Department BACK in 193 9, in company with Resident Magistrate S.M.

Chance, I saw in a village beside the Kemp Welsh river in Papua, this 60 ft. bamboo erection as striking in its way as the TV masts that have sprung up around our capital cities.

The idea is as old as time. In 1450 BC, Egyptian masons hewed the 70 ft. obelisk known as Cleopatra’s Needle from the living rock, and did so to the glory of a reigning king, and for the appeasement of whatever divinity they worshipped. In that they are not alone and ancient Egypt and Papua are alike in this: that earth’s fertility has counted most.

Unmentioned in polite society but looming large in the affairs of primitives, the fertility of gardens is only slightly less important than family fecundity. Both spell the well-being of tribe or clan, the bare bones of the matter being that an assured supply of warriors or food stuffs is a question of survival.

The Papuan male will help to clean a patch of bush for planting, but thereafter it is the women who do the garden work. Such an arrangement is considered a fair division of the household chores, and it is only when the crops have reached maturity that all hands come together again.

Harvesting is a joint and several job, which takes place about the time of the full moon. In preparation for what is the climax of the year, the men shed their air of care-free indolence, and cut the heaviest bamboos thev can find in the gullies, and lug them up a l-in-3 grade to their village on some razor-backed spur.

Why they go to all this trouble, cannot be explained in terms of common understanding. The Papuan native does it because he has always done it, and the mast he fashions is, is some obscure way, an expression of gratitude for a food supply that will keep him in the months to come.

Harvest festivals are not unknown in our culture, but it is difficult to think of a reason which prompts a small community to erect a centerpiece as high as this.

Inquiries along the Kemp Welsh meet with a blank stare. The native doesn’t know why he builds his own version of a TV mast, or why he festoons it with his choicest yams, sweet potatoes, sprouting coconuts or other produce froms garden plots.

There is one clue, however, 1 during the course of the harv celebrations, it is customary 1 some leather-lunged individual! climb to the top of the mast, in tones that carry far at nig broadcast the glad tidings oh bountiful year.

But let there be no mistake. 1 is not the honest husbandm speaking. It is the marriage broH for, since it is the women who| the gardening work, the resn prove that they are good work and will make good wives. 1 bride price paid for them, \ therefore, enrich the village I another way.

How much taller the Papus could raise their masts is a mat of speculation. In theory, thi seems nothing to prevent th attaining the mystical figure i 300 feet, which is said to have b« the height of the Tower of Bal

Becke, 1855-1913

[?]E Writer Who Lived

His Own Pacific Romances

By H. E. Maude 1 publication last year in ustralia of a new edition of y Reef and Palm (the first 1916) has revived interest in works of Louis Becke. It red, appropriately enough, on entenary of his birth, and at ie when his books are rapidly ling prized collectors’ pieces, ewed hi PIM Sept., 1955). >ugh no longer a popular bestthroughout the Englishing world, as he was in the Louis Becke still remains the rite island author of those actually live and work in the . Seas. i literary world may find Pacific through the pages of lie or Stevenson; but in an trader’s home or the cabin copra schooner, the only . book one will likely find is jviously much-read Becke. least that has been my ience. reason, I think, is that Louis really knew his Pacific from d end as no other author ever He writes, therefore, from the —of personal experiences and 5 heard by him in his irings—and his local colour characterisation bear an nticity readily apparent to living in the area. , Becke’s future biographer is to have heavy weather in ig a coherent story out of the often mutually conflicting, its of his life and adventures in his books and newspaper iews. It was not that he ?d from failing memory, for id a remarkably good one, lat he was a born romancer :ould not forbear exercising lent for picturesque invention when giving a supposedly 1 account of himself. r ever, since his death patient ch by A. T. Saunders, Basil ck and others has given us sonably clear picture of the landmarks in a life eventful h to need no embroidering. author is well-known in the where he has lived on over nds in the course of his work British Colonial official, and y on the staff of the South : Commission. He has now the Australian National rsity as Senior Research > in Pacific History.

One thing this reconstruction shows beyond doubt is that the biographical introduction to By Reef and Palm by the Earl of Pembroke, usually quoted as our most reliable source of information about Louis Becke, is in fact as good a piece of fiction as any of the other stories in the book.

Unfortunately, it has been reprinted in the new edition as it stands; and thus perpetuates a fraud, though an unintentional one as far as the Earl is concerned —he merely reproduced information provided by Becke himself.

George lewis becke (he adopted the name Louis as an Europeanised version of “Lui”, by which he was known to the natives), was born on June 18, 1855, at Port Macquarie, NSW, where his father was Police Magistrate.

In 1868, when his family moved to Sydney, he attended the wellknown Fort Street school, and in March, 1872, when not turned 17, he sailed for the islands as a stowaway on the barque Rotumah, bound for Samoa.

In Apia he was befriended by Mrs. Mary McFarland, the daughter of John C. Williams, then British Consul, and given a job as bookkeeper in the McFarland and Williams trade store.

The following year he became supercargo on a decrepit and unseaworthy 60-ton ketch, the E.

A. Williams, with instructions to deliver her to the famous, or infamous, Bully Hayes in Mili Lagoon, one of the Marshall Islands. (When last in Apia. Hayes had undertaken to try to sell the ketch to the King of Arno, a neighbouring island. The whole business was a rather shady one and resulted in Consul Williams being censured by Commodore Goodenough).

Leaving Apia on December 3, 1873, the E. A. Williams was duly delivered to Hayes, who took such a fancy to Louis Becke that he offered him the position of supercargo on his own brig, the Leonora, one of the finest and best-kept ships in the South Seas.

Thus began Becke’s relationship with Bully Hayes, the theme of so many of his stories. It lasted, not for the years Becke was wont to make out. but for just 85 months —two trading in Micronesia on the Leonora, until she was wrecked at Kusaie on March 15. 1874; and 6h on the island, from which he was removed, at the request of the King, by HMS Rosario; while Hayes escaped in a 14-foot dinghy.

It seems probable that Becke returned to Sydney soon after this episode, joining in the Palmer River gold rush and later becoming a clerk in the Townsville branch of the Australian Joint Stock Bank.

How long he remained in Australia we do not know, but certainly by 1880 he was back in the islands, for on April 11 he landed on Nanumanga, in the Ellice Group, trading for Messrs. Tom de Wolf, of Liverpool, and about a year later he removed to Nukufetau, where he set up as an independent trader.

Leaving the Ellice, Becke was wrecked on Beru, in the Gilberts, in August, 1881, losing everything he possessed. After some months on the island he obtained a passage to Sydney on the George Noble, but seems to have sailed again almost immediately for New Britain where he claimed to have had some connection with the ill-fated colonisation scheme organised by the Marquis de Rays.

In November, 1882, he was certainly located at Majuro, in the Marshalls, and probably remained in the Micronesian islands until his marriage at Sydney, in 1886, to Miss Bessie May Maunsell, the daughter of Colonel Maunsell, a retired British officer residing at Port Macquarie.

For the next eight years we have only the plentiful, though scattered details contained in his books; but his dates are few and unreliable and it is impossible to separate fact from fiction even in his professedly autobiographical articles.

It is clear that he roamed over much of the Central and Eastern Pacific, from the Carolines to the (Continued on Page 111) Louis Becke. 87 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER. 1956

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mo residents of the South-West X Pacific who saw out the war in that area and beyond, this is the most important book since Eric Feldt gave us The Coastwatchers.

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Willoughby, who was MacArthur’s own chief of intelligence in the period covered, and John Chamberlain. It follows General Douglas MacArthur’s campaigns from the escape from Corregidor until his dismissal by Truman because of a conflict of views as to how the war in Korea should be run.

The book is, in a sense, a paradox in that it is frankly eulogistic and yet is in no sense a biography. It is no intimate portrait of Mac- Arthur, the man; the authors (although one of them was in close contact with MacArthur throughout the period under review) seem never to get near him, so far as this book is concerned, anyway, with the result that he remains throughout a remote spirit rather than a human being.

We learn belatedly, that he liked viewing Western movies with his son Arthur; and that although during active campaigning in the Pacific he insisted that his “presence” at the scene of battle comforted his troops, with the occupation of Japan he assumed completely the reverse attitude and removed himself to an ivory-tower from which his “presence” was permitted to percolate to the Jananese only through a process of invisible diffusion. (Probably there was method in this madness; the Japanese were conditioned to worshipping without seeing.) But if there are few other details of his personal life, nothing is lacking in the behind-the-scenes history of his campaigns that carried him from Melbourne to New Guinea, up through the Philippines and on to Tokio. Dozens of pieces missing from the jig-saw of the Pacific war are now for the first time filled in; mysteries of the time, in respect of tactics and policy, are now explained.

IN its earlier sections, the story is as much Australia’s as America’s —a somewhat revolutionary approach from American writers who are apt to regard the Australian part in the Pacific war as that of minor importance.

When MacArthur arrived in Australia in early 1942, he was, as one of those close to him put it with untypical American understatement, “extremely disappointed in what he found.”

He had not wanted to leave the Philippines but was influenced by reports that a great American army was being prepared for him in Australia. He was not long waiting for disillusionment on this score: Australia’s crack fighting men' were still in the Middle East; one American infantry divison had arrived in Melbourne virtually unequipped and half-trained. Australia’s airforce consisted of a few Gypsy Moth and Wirraway planes and Australia momentarily expected an invasion— Australian grand strategy was to destroy everything north of Brisbane and, by the grace of God, make a stand there.

But, while “practically every ablebodied Australian thought only to die with his boots on at the Brisbane Line”, MacArthur swallowed his disappointment and went onto the offensive. The Japs, he decided, would be stopped not at Brisbane but in the Owen Stanley Ranges behind Moresby; America, preoccuped with the war in Europe, could not be depended on for quick supply of war material, so Australia must ffil the gap—and this Australia did once the Americans had slashed through Australian red tape and Australian love of sitting in committees, talking, Australia had an effective working force, when military requirements were met, of about 21 million, yet in the most critical period of the war she was supplying 70 per cent, of all requirements of the United States forces in the South Pacific as well as supplying her own forces and civilian population. Credit for this achievement is given to “Australian Supply Council, Prime Minister Curtin, American Lend- Lease Administration and to Mac- Arthur himself whose skilful diplomacy solved many wrangles between various Ministries.”

In the field full credit is given to the Australian part in the campaign that pushed the Jap back or bypassed him, and much is made of what are called MacArthur’s cloakand-dagger men—the men of the Allied Intelligence Bureau whom Eric Feldt has already immortalised in The Coastwatchers. There is as well —for the first time for public perusal so far as we know—a full account of operations Jay wick (which was successful) and Rimau (which was not) designed to spread fear and havoc in Japaneseoccupied Singapore Harbour.

New Guinea had a special interest in these two operations as one of the officers concerned was Captain R. Page, DSO, son of the late Government Secretary of New Guinea, Mr. H. H. Page, and Hf Page, now of Sydney.

On the first raid limpet mii personally placed on the hulls-; ships by the three officers off expedition operating from cart (Lyon, Davidson and Page) accoii ted for 40,000 tons of shipping a created panic beyond the fond) expectations.

Some time later a second I pedition was undertaken but t time the party was discovered! fore it could do its work. T three officers died fighting;! other members were executed byl Japanese and nine were unaccourj for.

If the General is presented! relation to his Pacific campaign! a Colossus bestriding the whole ai he is, however, a Colossus not w* out his frustrations.

If MacArthur had had his 1 he would have gone on to fl Netherlands Indies after Borne in which event the post-war hist of Australia’s near-north might h been somewhat different. M Arthur himself recorded: I had planned to move immediately 01 Java with the Australian troops and re« the Dutch Government under Van Mook w would have rapidly brought law and i there For some reason never un stood, this proposed movement ,1 peremptorily called oft and forbidden v Washington This was one of the * mistakes of the war and ultimately resulte the chaotic conditions which followed in part of Indonesia. It completely violated! basic principle of American foreign polic: support the orderly development of depen areas towards self-government.

In support of MacArthur’s attife towards the Dutch Indies, > authors publish a letter fi Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich, of Royal Netherlands Navy, written Batavia, in October 1945 to M Arthur. A damning indictment Allied —and particularly Britis muddled thinking and action those grim months when we stab the Dutch in the back.

When the MacArthur story eni the Japanese and Korean phases; of necessity becomes more entang in American politics, although less interesting for that. Whethe:; not the reader can, like the autlr subscribe to the idea of MacArtt as some sort of demi-god, he e not fail to be impressed by the t scope of this book, pulling toget as it does the tremendous amounr apparently unrelated detail t went to make up World Wan in the Pacific theatre. (Published by William Heinemann, Ltd. tralian price, 53/3.) She Crossed the Ruddy Ocean mHE classic remark attributed JL Sir John Hunt (or someoD when asked why he wanteo climb Mt. Everest was: “It’s the The same sort of reasoning 88 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Whether or not she achieved t) objective we cannot say—we I ported her in June PIM as hav: quit the sea and living in Califorr —but the story she writes of 1 adventures in 23-ft Felicity Ann amusing, entertaining—and a lit more.

There have been hundreds; books written about small-b< voyages, almost completely cc cerned with battles against the s Ann Davidson had plenty of thin addition she admits she \ scared stiff, knew little about si. ing, is always delightfully surprii when she surmounts the myn trials attendant upon being ala in a small boat, on the mig]; ocean, or when she actually arrii at the point at which she had b« aiming.

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Ocean crossed, the next 10 s, before journey’s end at New are occupied by recuperaid cruising in the West Indies, and through the inland waterways of the American eastern seaboard Ann Davidson is a skilled writer and has two other books to her credit. One, Last Voyage, tells the story of an exploit that ended in the death of her husband and was, in part, responsible for the voyage of Felicity Ann as a vindication of that disastrous earlier escapade.

As Ann tells it, Frank, her husband, was mad about boats and it was his ambition to sail around the world. With this in view they bought a 70-ft, fishing ketch and reconditioned her. But the job was too big for their purses, they got into debt and with the sheriff on the way to nail a writ on the mast they ran away to sea, heading for the West Indies, knowing that they were only postponing the inevitable.

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The abuses that attended the transportation system were probably real enough but one could become more worked up about them if Mr. Clune did not so obviously subscribe to the traditional Australian belief that all cops are low lots and deserve what they get, anyway.

So far as Captain Melville is concerned: His real name was Francis McNeish McNeil McCallum.

He arrived in Hobart on a convict transport in 1838 and thereafter, until he was found strangled in his cell in Melbourne gaol in 1857 contrived to be a pain in the neck to all concerned.

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Sydney. Australian price, 18/9.) love Me, Hate My Wife rjTHE flat, Romney Marsh country X. of Kent has been chosen as the scene for The Poison Cupboard, a psychological drama by J. F. Burke.

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G.P.O. Box on bringing wife Charlotte back to live at the family house that trouble really begins.

Charlotte is a slovenly modern —all that the rigid Laura most deprecates in humankind: and worst of all, Peter had committed the unforgivable affront of marrying her. The reader knows from the outset that Laura will try to liquidate Charlotte, and the story becomes an account of how she builds up to this.

It ends, as it begins, in court— but with a surprising and unexpected twist that will probably send most readers back to read the middle section again, very carefully. (Published by Martin Seeker and Warburg, Ltd. Australian price, 17/-.) The Dimly Seen— In 14 Parts THE author, who is an American, does not rely on the slick or pointed ending dear to the transatlantic short story, but prefers to build up a situation to the point where what has been only dimly seen suddenly becomes crystallised. So we are instructed about Elizabeth de Vegh with her 14 short stories gathered together in a volume called A Case of Eye Shadow.

The trouble is that, for some people, these stories don’t suddenly become crystallised possibly due to the witless nature of the reader rather than to lack of genius on Miss de Vegh’s part, and these more-to-be-pitiedthan-censured individuals are apt to find themselves at the end still floundering away, out in spacer Of course, you may not be we are) an inveterate readen jacket-flaps; but when the p lishers have obviously brought tl biggest literary guns to bear on writing of the blurb on the jacl; flap, and erudite phrases (“'* moment of illumination is of 94 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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As author Ledyard describes it, it is all part of the amusing Tongan pattern. At the hands of another writer it could become a damning indictment of the backwardness of a primitive Polynesian Kingdom.

It is all in the eyes of the beholder—but as Patricia beholds it, it makes a pleasant story. (Published by Peter Davies, Ltd., Australian price, 18/9.) miip Q n i fln[ , Q to M Mr S I ™as marned Noumea's Port PnS’ n*™ °f larnh ’ Constant Noumea A Jacob , at Thp m^irSS. th6 f on August 13. rnni™ Sof f father ,’ Mr „ Mich el 0 f the French Both families are well-known in Tahiti where they were formerly resident If The Principal of the Teachers’

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The majority of the members of the British and French communities could speak one another’s language in some degree but misunderstandings were frequent. I recollect that in the French magazine Illustration there appeared a picture of Winston Churchill in the regalia of an Elder Brother of Trinity House. When a member of the French colony enquired what Churchill represented, his British counterpart translated it as “le frere aine de la trinite,” to which the astonished Frenchman could only reply “Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!”

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He explained that a true champagne is demi-sec, that triple-sec showed a perverted taste, while the tongue-twisting “gout American” was just a horror.

“Plume” was made from specially selected grapes in small quantities and distributed principally among the family. My colleague was a bachelor, and an aunt looked after his welfare and that of the French Residency.

Art may have beguiled auntie’s age, for she was certainly a beautiful, charming and fascinating woman and it intrigued me to hear him call her “ma cherie” or “mon petit chou,” though a term of endearment that likens one to a cabbage seems odd to me. Certainly there have never been aunties in my family that could hold a candle to her.

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The decision of the Suva City Council that cars parked at night should have parking lights gave rise to considerable controversy The Council has now decided that cars parked in streets illuminated by street lights need not have parking lights, provided they have reflecters at the rear and red tape on the rear bumper.

It was considered that such an amendement was more satisfactory than declaring special areas exempt from the regulation.

Most motorists seem to be in agreement with the alteration that will mean that in the outer where there is no street lighting vehicles must have parking lights Many bus and taxi owners are in the habit of leaving their vehicles on the side of the road, and in future unless they keep their parking lights on all night they will “*ve to find other places to park them (Or they could do what is sometimes done in Sydney where cars have increased faster than domestic garages to house them— hang a hurricane lantern on the back bumper-bar when parked for tne night.—Ed.) 99 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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ise a BBC term, there was a slight technical hitch, amusing to all but those concerned, when the Cook Islands ketch Taveuni made a recreation cruise to Paoeete with passengers in July.

Taveani’s owner is apt to be slightly indifferent to red tape and doing things according to the book, and there was a time when you could load tomatoes in the Cooks and take as many to Tahiti as you wished. But not to-day.

There was consternation in Papeete when Taveuni arrived with a load far in excess of that for which permits had been issued, but eventually, with the aid of local people, the matter was Sorted out —though the local market was flooded.

Then came time to depart—and as fuel oil was cheaper in Papeete than Rarotonga, Mr. Brown ordered deley", the new Melanesian Mission's 52 ft. islands ship, at Ballina, NSW. (PIM Aug.

She left Ballina under command of Captain G. E. Langby, for delivery voyage September ed safely Honiara, BSIP, September 9. 101 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956 Mews of Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts (Continued from Page 67)

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Finally the problem was s out, the cargo was loaded,,, Taveuni was despatched witt haste by her agents a week bo schedule.

Tahiti offiicaldom is said 1 hoping not to sight Taveuni in the forseeable future. Bui tourists from Rarotonga, i franc-problems forgotten, mainly to have voted the w well worth while.

Operation Tan Glov

Operation Tan Glove is code name affixed to a | circling flight which begai, September 23 by a sp«< equipped KC97 Stratofreighti the US Air Force.

With special equipment a'j the aircraft will zig-zag rouir world pin-pointing the pr latitude of the magnetic equs The flight will have ns interest, but is mainly assoc with the intended launching \ earth satellites of Opec Vanguard, an Internas Geophysical Year project. Soc the equipment in the satellite be magnetically controlled. Bu “Tan Glove?”

Vuniwai Stranding

Finding that he had shownof judgment in laying too ; course, the Fiji Marine suspended the ticket of the n of Vunimai in September, vessel stranded on Kaba Poc 4 a.m., August 22, bound from to Makogai.

Two PWD tugs and thx Shell- 40 hauled her off on k 31.

Vuniwai is a trim little Medical Department vessel, , rigged, launched 1951, and ac well-scarred about the belly* earlier reef-crawling ventures.?

An enquiry into the standi the auxiliary ketch Kuinivual\ June was held at the sames The Board found that the strs 1 near Wakaya Island was d) error of judgment on the part: master, Emosi Tubuasuka. HI censured and cautioned.

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Cable Address: Berrysboat, Sydney. lew Zealand coast for some st, cleared Auckland for September 25. erhak 11, Israeli flag, with Havkins lone-handing, aruva mid-September from doorea, Pago Pago. Next oumea, Sydney. e of Auckland, returning Island cruise, grounded off lai harbour, north of Auck- September 9. Weather was good and the yacht was hauled off by a launch after all gear had been landed on the beach. Damage was suffered to keel and rudder but the yacht reached home. • Solace of England cleared Auckland for Rarotonga, Palmerston Island, and return on August 15 Solace will cruise the NZ coast during the coming summer, before continuing westbound for England With Commander Clark was Stanley Mathurin, and a Palmerston Islander returning home. • Tahiti of Honolulu, with owner Lorrin Smith and companion Ted Grant, sailed from Auckland for Papeete and Honolulu on September 1, after a long spell in port. The yacht was completely refitted. • Scolopax, 38i ft ketch, cleared Falmouth England, for the Pacific search of an isolated island” late September. Aboard are Brian Rupert° SamUnd Elverson and baby • Dwen Wyn of the US left f x, mid rA ugust on the return run to Honolulu. • Viveka, one of the Los Angeles- Papeete Race entrants, cleared Papeete again, August 26, for Los Angeles. • Quest, another race entrant, was to sail from Papeete under an engaged crew in September. Owner Dr. Howard Murphy and his wife flew to Honolulu, • Manu Moana of Auckland, continuing her Island cruise, departed Papeete for Bora Bora and Pago Pago late August. (Over) o of the Los Angeles-Papeete Race Celebes”, upper, and "Quest”, at Photos: Oscar Nordman).

"Malohi" (incorrectly spelled September PIM, p. 110) owned by lly, Sydney, returned home after s cruise to Noumea, Suva, etc., 2. 103 I C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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But so far we have heard of no claim for salvage. Mobile Ham Weil has called at numerous off-the-trail places in the Pacific and set up in business—to the delight of other Hams whose hobby is collecting cards from other stations contacted. , Faruo Mr wllliam A Robin _ son ' s y acht ’ reached Honiara, BSIP, “ I f lentiflc expedition, on be P^ emDer

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Mr. Kay went originally to the BSIP in Quest which he exchanged with Mr. Georgetti for Loma.

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In the paragraph regarding the cruising yacht Solace, page 106, September PIM, one of our linotype operators dropped out a line which made nonsense of the item in question. It read: “. . . Tuatai Marsters of Palmerston will return to the Cooks in the trading vessel Inspire.”

It should have read: “ . . . Tuatai Marsters of Palmerston will return home with the yacht. His companion, Kori Marsters, earlier returned to the Cooks in the trading Ketch Inspire”

Inspire, of course returned to the Cooks months ago.

Report No. 1 On Arakarimoa

Sometime between December 29, 1955, and February 28, 1956, a Commission of Inquiry was held into the disappearance of the Arakarimoa.

The report has just been released —although Arakarimoa subsequently turned up, of course, in southern Guadalcanal, 64 days and 1,000 miles from where she disappeared on a 19-mile voyage between Tarawa and Maiana (See March PIM); and although two other inquiries have been held, one in Honiara, which was inconclusive, and one in Tarawa in August, the findings of which have not yet been made public.

The extraordinary attitude of the authorities over the whole Arakarimoa incident is highlighted by the fact that this preliminary report—made when the vessel was presumed lost —has only now been released.

The report says in part: "Arakarimoa" disappeared because she went to sea with her main engine faulty and her auxiliary not working, without her * transmitter, and with insufficient charts.

Previous to her sailing on her last voc the vessel has been laid up because 6 burned-out bearing and other defects. A bearing also burned out, melting and do® the reverse shaft.

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SUVA, FIJI, Telephone: 114—6 lines. P.O. Box 299. bus, if the batteries were flat, and the ■y charging engine was not working, ngine could not be restarted if it ed to stop.

Mechanical Engineer of the Colony said Inquiry that he had advised the manager Tangitang Co-operative Society, owner akarimoa", that the vessel should not tside the lagoon until the auxiliary g engine was repaired.

Commissioners said that had "Arakarisailed with either her radio transmitter rts aboard she would, in the event of trouble, either have given warning it had happened, and could have been , or she would have been able to make se for some other down-wind island i Ocean or Nauru.

Commissioners were of the opinion that anager of the Tangitang Co-operative was morally to blame for permitting >sel to sail when he was fully aware imporary repairs only had been made; e generator was not working; and knowit the mechanical engineer had recomagainst sailing outside the Tarawa dealing with searches made for "Arai" the Commissioners commented: "The in of outside assistance would have Ivisable immediately it was known that ireau's' search had proved fruitless", eau" made a search for "Arakarimoa" ember 31.

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! extraordinary case of the irimoa and the equally extraina r y dilatoriness of the rities over the whole matter arch for the vessel has been sing the minds of the whole :al world. In the July issue ie Nautical Magazine, which een publishing in Glasgow for iast 100 years, some scathing s were said about the whole 3ss —both in an article by a Vharton and in editorial commas called a “tragedy so stark srrible that it might have been straight from the dark pages utical annals of two centuries nstead of out of the records 6 when more than a thousand iving devices are at the beck all of every ship.”

I again: “Only the most casual i was made for her when she eported missing. The search exactly one day and the ship hen written off as lost . . . igh the RNZAF stands by 24 a day, 365 days a year at Suva, ny such occurrence.”

XDrially, the journal demanded ow whether there was no law e sea that applied to such s; or could they continue to voyages placing human lives ipardy from the moment they »ff until they anchored in the )ort of call. The journal listed r tragedies in the Pacific in ist three years and cites the )f the Joyita which was per- -1 to lea ve Apia port in unseay condition “because she was sred in Honolulu.” y call this “arrant nonsense” i unseaworthy ship were to try ive New York or London or oncft Paciflc!° n unseaworthy Chips' 1 w ere allowed to put t 9 sea with defective radio and carrying passengers and equal chance of getting to their port of destination or going to the bottom of the sea.”

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Stranded, but not in the usual sense, is the 495-ton refrigerated twin-screw ex-yacht Rican Star —ex Samana Queen, ex Elena, ex Lynx ex Ramona, ex Dolphin, Costa Rican flag, tied to a Sydney wharf -2? 5 fc* 3 CarB ° ° f d —* sequ n enT ß d n eman e d k bv \ nd ? E , u! " navigation authorhies survey, decided the owners in Canada to repatriate the crew anc 3 put the vessel up for sale-lnother incident in what has evidently been a very chequered career, if the list of names is an indication.

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BROADCASTS i another hurricane season in when this appears, we sumthe principal voice weather asts available in the Islands.

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IN June PIM we had a little fun with our chief shipping correspondent, J. P. Shortall, currently of Auckland, NZ, suggesting that the reason why a Cook Islands ship had got confused with one in the New Hebrides was that he had an “uneducated’'• typewriter which couldn’t spell. (June PIM, p. 93).

We have now had a note from Richard Gordon McCloskey, ' secretary of the Slocum Society (C/~ V SIS-American Embassy, Lima, Peru) as follows : “Jim Shortall has been a most useful and co-operative correspondent. We think so highly of him that we are soliciting contributions from all New Zealanders in Peru to buy him a literate typewriter. We have unearthed several New Zealanders who, upon being dunned, immediately denied being New Zealanders —an act that immediately proved to our satisfaction that they were New Zealanders. Say not the struggle nought availeth. We are continuing it and hope to report success soon.” aground on a reef east of Normanby Island, Papua, on August 6 was not the total wreck at first feared.

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It aims at the general improvement of the Criminal Investigation Department which has been taken away from the control of the Senior Superintendent Southern District and has been set up as a separate department under a senior superintendent who will be responsible direct to the Commissioner.

In addition special training courses in criminal investigation have been set up. Linked with the CID is a fingerprint expert recently appointed. He has had considerable experience in New Zealand and already his services have had good results.

Eight Land Rovers, a personnelcarrier and 12 motor cycles have arrived to strengthen the Force.

Some of the Land Rovers have radio equipment.

A motor cycle patrol will operate on Viti Levu country roads to supervise traffic. No longer will it be a case of out of town out of sight.

An officer formerly stationed in Suva who has completed a traffic training course in England will train the new patrols when he arrives in the Colony shortly. t Mr. Ronald Powell, with assistants and equipment, left Rarotonga aboard Charlotte Donald early September to transfer live mother-of-pearl shells from Manihiki atoll to Pukapuka, as an experimental scheme to establ< shell in Pukapuka lagoon.

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v F ,v HEBK?DEs“°G Sb ßomSu, 38 Bue de Charleroi, Noumea. .otus, and was in turn super- , resident trader and labour ter; and it is probable that elped to smuggle arms and mition to the Mataafa faction moa, the details still remain i filled in, for we have no nporaneous records as exist ie period 1880-82 in his letters mother (now in the Mitchell T). 1894, Louis Becke left the ands for good, after a more ■ less continuous residence of 3ars, and settled down in y where he was introduced e author Ernest Favenc to J. 3hibald, founder and editor of ydney Bulletin. ening to his stories of Islands Archibald asked him to write of them down for publication e Bulletin, and by the next tecke, who was broke and in ilth at the time, had com- Challis the Doubter, soon ed by the other stories ned in By Reef and Palm. h the publication of this first ion in book form the same (which was also the year of ison’s death), Becke’s fame writer was made and for the -wo decades a constant stream >vels, short stories, sketches irticles appear from his pen ?h not necessarily under his , not only in the Bulletin but lere he could sell them, of his books were written in oration with Walter Jeffery editor of the Town and ry Journal, to whose expert mce may be attributed their r historical accuracy and sustained plots. 1897 Becke left for England, ig just in time to assist in ng De Rougemont’s fabricain the Wide World Magazine; he continued to live in id, Ireland and France 3 one of his daughters was ;ed) until 1909, when he again ed to Australia, t the call of the islands was strong is shown by his ued efforts to get back: as ?er of a trading company, collector for Burroughs, ime and Company, and , as leader of a scientific tion under the sponsorship veral British and German d societies. nothing came of any of projects—except a brief visit va in 1908 and a longer one v Zealand. His last 18 months spent in Sydney, partly in a 3 hospital and partly at the Hotel where he died on ary 18, 1913, seated in his chair with a half-completed manuscript in his hand.

He had been ill for many years and looked an old and weary man, though in actual fact he was only 58.

Opinions will probably always differ as to the value of Louis Becke’s work; in the heyday of his popularity he was generally preferred by the reading public to Stevenson, at least in Australia and New Zealand, while at the same time was ignored or condemned by most literary critics.

The passage of time will almost certainly prove both sides to have been wrong. Louis Becke is not a great author; he lacks the polish of a literary craftsman and he wrote too much, too hurriedly (34 books in 19 years, with innumerable other items) , in order to keep his head financially above water.

Admitting all this, however, one must also acknowledge that Becke is a natural story-teller who returned to civilisation after nearly a quarter of a century of adventurous island life stocked with an inexhaustable supply of reminiscences, personal and hearsay, and authentic local colour.

This he proceeded to reproduce in that peculiarly condensed, simple and direct form upon which the Bulletin insisted from its contributors, a style which never left him, though in later years, when sickness and financial 111 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956 ie Life and Writings of Louis Becke (Continued from Page 87)

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Copra Production Up in Fr. Oceania STATISTICS recently published in Papeete show that copra production for French Oceania in 1955 (21,250 long tons) was slightly above the annual average of the past ten years. The 1955 yield was 21,550 long tons The crop, which is sold on the free market, averaged about £Stg.s9/15/0 per long ton, f.o.b.

Papeete, in 1955. This compares unfavourably with the negotiated British MOF price of £Stg. 65 paid to British Pacific producers in the same period. The actual total 1955 earnings were 228,166,000 Pacific Francs.

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She has now returned to the Cook Islands. t The Imperial Rugby Club of Fiji was making a short tour of the Auckland Province in September- October. 113 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Australian and His Samoan Bride t Mr. Harry Duane, one time of Niue, returned to Auckland per Waitomo in September after spending several months in Tahiti.

Three Australian tourists figured in an accident in New Caledonia end of September, Driving a miniature 2 HP car the tourists were crossing a bridge on an East coast road when a truck rounding a corner ran into the back of the small car pushing it into the river.

Fortunately the river was not very deep at the point. Thel people were admitted to thu pital at Noumea. Most [ injury was a broken rib. t Mr. Patrick W. H. Kelly has appointed General Manager o Zealand Reparation Estates, W Samoa.

Mr. Gordon Bowman, of Sydney, and Miss Telesia Salanoa, of Falefa, Western Samoa, who were married in Apia. The couple have now returned to live in Australia thereby causing the Sydney evening Press to break out in its usual rash of literary goose-pimples. Bride was described as a "Royal Samoan princess".

Pagan wedding ceremonies were hinted-at, in front page stories.

Photo: R. F. Rankin. 114 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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ITS WOMEN “17' OE Langa Fonua a e Fefine Tonga” is the name of the Tongan women’s organisation inaugurated by Queen Salote three years ago. It has now a membership of several hundred.

Active branches are meeting regularly in villages throughout Tongatapu and in Vava’u. The parent branch is in Nuku’alofa. to which village representatives come each quarter.

Her Majesty is the President of of the organisation, the principal aims of which are the building up of Tonga through its women.

Towards this end a higher standard of living conditions in the home, vegetable and flower gardens are encouraged.

An annual Show of the Tongan women’s arts, crafts, needlework, crochet, tatting, knitting, flowers, vegetables and livestock is held.

Prizes are awarded in all sections to the best entries. A beautifully polished tortoise-shell shield is awarded annually to the best-kept village.

The Langa Fonua, as it is commonly called, is affiliated with the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association, whose Nuku’alofa branch is responsible for publishing a small magazine for distribution among the members of Langa Fonua.

Current enthusiasm for members is to improve the diet of their families towards more healthful living. Mrs. L. Protheroe regularly visits meetings in the villages giving cookery demonstrations and helpful advice on the better use of indigenous foods t The Italian Paneuropa C Co., film unit, lately “she television shorts in Tahiti, \ visit Western Samoa in O move on to Fiji, thence Vil Noumea, and possibly New Ze The unit is under the chai Signor Colonna, with d’Amico as Director of Prod 118 OCTOBER, 1956-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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ZEALAND Reparation ates, Western Samoa, which ing the Depression years sgarded as something of a >ne, have in recent years into the Big Business class. iated profit for the financial nding March 31, 1956, is , as compared with £158,247 previous year, according to Z Department of Island •ies Report for the 1955-56 st published. ofits from the Estates, which largest employers of labour tern Samoa, go to Samoan ment and welfare, iction figures and values for with those of the previous brackets, were as follows: 1,859 tons worth £110,841 ons worth £126,468). : 466 tons worth £106,064 is worth £130,248). iv: 239,080 sq. ft. worth (94,249 sq. ft. worth £7,598). s: 1,837 slaughtered, worth (2,022 worth £29,376). is an active coconut f project in hand. At 50 acres more land was id, bringing the total of unbearing coconut areas > 150 acres. At Vailele 200 ave been replanted in the 0 years. Further extension > halted by the needs of :razing. Cattle cannot be on newly planted areas as estroy the young palms, ire in hand for further n of new coconut plantat- -100 acres at Afia, 50 acres and 100 acres at Vaipapa, se will be planted this year, eports say that the cocoa ill from £S3BS per ton in 555, to £Bl9O by March this le end of the year under The by-product, cocoased in the manufacture of nine, fell from £65 to £3O in the period. (Not much of this latter product from mrces), 100 acres of land, partly d rubber trees, at Tafaigata, m cleared and is being in a leguminous crop ory to planting cocoa. At 10 acres of virgin land was ready for cocoa. About 100 new plantings came into in this area, increasing 1 of that particular plantain 86i to 120 tons in the der review. iuction of the famous ocoa clone has been speeded the establishment of a new and another clone, obtained from Fiji in 1954, and originally frcm Trinidad, is well established.

The increased world price for rubber was taken advantage of bv ?bi 6 rH ing f tapping about one third of a 710-acre young rubber plantation at Magia. Planted 8 years ago, only selected trees were tapped and only three tons of rubber produced and sold to a New Zealand rubber company.

Timber operations were hampered by wet weather and mechanical breakdowns of equipment.

The cattle herd at Mulifanua 119 'IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER. 1956

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Estates now have 144 acres e, made up as follows: At nato 38 acres of Liberian, ‘to first bearing about now; sega 25 acres of Liberian, aring this 1956-57 season; at three acres of Liberian and es of Arabian; at Aigaile-tai is of Liberian; at Faleata cres of Arabian: at Vailele s of Liberian. Machinery i order from England to n time to process the first rop expected about August, opment plans for the include experimentation to pastures on the 3,000 acres sa grazing lands, and the ion of survey of another cres of bush-land on the boundaries of this holding, le building of an access tirough the area. Crossr, of four pure-bred Zebu nported from Fiji, with the i cows is progressing. The herd now numbers 2,500 Hereford and 400 head of jreford cross-breds.

Magia estate adjoining ua now comprises 710 acres er. 400 acres of cocoa, and of coffee, the latter not yet ng. Last year 60 acres of as cleared here for cocoa acres for coffee. • fibre industry will shortly blished, provision for the y machinery being provided he 195 J-57 estimates.

Only a Minor [?]Little Ind ia"

Little Indias have sprung up ughout the world, is cted in an interesting published recently by The of course, started the on to Fiji where over people of Indian descent er cent, of the population) also was the magnet which 1 Indians to countries such tius (352,405 or 67 per cent.) 5 islands of the British ,n.

Indians in Fiji have become rmers, merchants, doctors, and dentists; but those in s are still mostly plantation or labourers in sugar fac- Despite this, they are well- -1 politically.

British Caribbean, too, the mostly descendants of ed labourers on the canelold increasing power in •ritories. laya the 691,431 Indians (12 . of total population) contie third largest community r ederation. The innumerer Indian communities in- Singapore, 91,029 (8 per Jeylon 969,726 (12 per cent) : Union of South Africa, 366,664 (3 per cent.) mostly in Natal- Kenya, 127,000 (2 per cent) • Trinidad and Tobago, 250,000 (36 per cent.); British Guiana, 216,000 (46 per cent).

The emigration of Indians has been going on for at least 1,500 years and today more than 4,000.000 people of Indian descent live outside the Indian sub-continent of whom about three-quarters are in countries of the British Commonwealth.

In the United Kingdom itself there is estimated to be (including students) about 75,000 Indians and 35,000 Pakistanis.

The Times was wrong in one respect, however. It said: Indians first went to Fiji in 1800. If they had they would likely have ended in the cooking-ovens. It was over 75 years later that they first arrived in Fiji. t Though French Oceania’s Department of Agriculture announced in November, 1952, that it planned to develop cinchona plantations for an export trade in quinine, recent inquiries indicate that there are no signs of such an industry developing yet. y t Due to the illness of one of the German fight-promoters, contest between Kitione Lava, Tongan heavyweight, and Gunter Nurnberg of Germany, scheduled to take place in Germany on September 28. was indefinitely postponed. 121 I c ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER. 1956

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Fao Debunks The

Tilapi A Myth

INTRODUCED as a potential protein food source, the hardy fish tilapia mossambica has been widely distributed in the South Pacific islands in recent years. Pondreared, these fish are only now coming to maturity.

It is therefore interesting that the United Nations Food and Agrculture Organisation has seen fit to warn against undue optimism about the fish.

In an article headed, Destroying a Myth About Tilapia, in a recent United States Commercial Fisheries Review issue, the FAO statement says, in part: “Since the end of the war, the world has become conscious of the ‘wonder fish’ tilapia mossambica. It has been talked about so much some people are beginning to believe that if there is anything a fish can do the tilapia mossambica can do it. . . but, unfortunately, it cannot support its reputation and is quite unsuitable as the mainstay of a serious fish-culture industry. It is a useful odd-job fish, a pleasant and dramatic introduction to fish farming for the inexperienced worker; it is more of a toy fish than a wonder fish.”

The article notes the fish’s hardiness and its quick growth (about 5 oz in 10 months) but says this yield is low compared with that of most other fish used in fish-culture industries.

“Certainly it grows very quickly to an edible size but then its growth slows down very much,” it says. “A good yield can only be obtained after very heavy stocking of a pond.”

The statement warns that ponds must be watched close see that they do not become { stocked; otherwise none of thi will reach a useful size.

It points out that there are; 100 varieties of tilapia and. varieties other thdn moss® may have a much greater t Two of these, tilapia melanojc and tilapia macrochir, having ferent feeding habits, ma= usefully raised together in 3 Eating different food they c: more heavily stocked and yie 122 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Manganese Prospers

USE one firm is prepared purchase all manganese ed in Fiji, on a “delivered , dump” basis, and arrange export, manganese mining Levu, Fiji, had a satisfactory 1955. average prices paid during r on the above basis were grade £F.I7/10/0 per long 0 ter cent. £F.I2; and ?rade £F.7 approximately. 11 mines in operation d 682 men and 18,700 tons vas mined, worth £F.212,390. exports totalled 7,539 tons :i01,787. Most of the outin excess of 50 per cent. ummary of Fiji news, which red by the Public Relations md broadcast each Friday t 9.17, will be repeated in on Saturday at 1.15 p.m. of 1.45 p.m. nion FAO has is not shared Cook Islands e small fish ed as a tasty ese photowhich were ed by NZ's Publi city how, top, the it of Agriish pond on imental farm [?]onga; and ome of the eing prepared at a demonput on for of the Island May. (PIM 164). Those privileged to [?]e fish were surprised and them dehe pond was June, 1955, pairs of fish t is estimated here are the largest it nine inches 123 FIT ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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“IBEX” BRAND. e conviction was against the e and the weight of the e. verdict of “guilty” was one no reasonable jury, properly I, could have reached, e trial judge erred in law in Certain verbal admissions and ;n confession, allegedly made th were not free and volunnd ought to have been d from the evidence, and aving regard to be repudiation of the admisod confessions on oath, and rhe whole of the evidence I, including the lack of conve evidence implicating the judge should have himself that it was unsafe rd a conviction and should rected an acquittal. l asks for an order that the on and sentence be quashed, h further order as the court ieem fit,

Alian Films On P-Ng

otographic team from the an News and Information reached Port Moresby late to begin shooting the first iries of films dealing with Titory. This is part of a pioject that is said, to bo going to take a year.

An official of the Bureau, Mr.

Maslyn Williams, toured P-NG recently gathering material for the films. At least five films, and possibly more, will be made.

Bulolo Gets First Church

A big crowd early September attended the dedication of Bulolo’s first church. It is an Anglican Church, called All Saints, and was built by voluntary labour.

It was dedicated by the Bishop of New Guinea, Bishop Strong, assisted by Bishop Hand. It is built in the form of a Cross; church and furnishings are of local timbers.

Natives Learn How To Fish

About 20 native students from all parts of Papua-New Guinea were at Manu Manu, on the Papuan Coast, in September attending the first Fisheries Training School conducted in the Territory.

Four of the students will be chosen at the end of the course to go to Noumea, where the South Pacific Commission is organising a Fisheries School. (See PIM July page 45).

P-Ng Natives Have Benefit

Of Specialist Treatment

One of Australia’s leading heart surgeons, Mr. C. J. O. Brown of Melbourne arrived in Port Moresby 125 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956 ua-New Guinea Diary (Continued from Page 45)

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Dr. Brown brought with hi. anaethetist and six nurses.

Another prominent Austi surgeon who returned recenli Perth operated on about 40 ; patients at the Hospital.

BRIEFS . .

Due to increased shipping between Australia and P-NG, tralian copra millers are n more for Territory copra—£B3 £B3, and £B2/7/6 for the grades. * * * Group Captain Brian W formerly chief test pilot for t Havilland Aircraft Co., Sydney become a pilot with Gibbes’

Airways. Before taking up dm the Territory, he will ferry out: Sweden another Junkers foe Gibbes fleet. * * * Mr. Jerry Pentland, veteran of both World Wars (the Firs? the AFC and the Second w special rescue unit in New Gt has been visiting “Mulloway\ property of ex-Territorian C “Blue” Allen on the North Cc NSW. Rumour is that Mr. Pen is thinking of disposing of h terests in the NG Highlarr join other ex-Territorians who established themselves in thai of NSW. * * * Rabaul’s record dry season points of rain fell in August i:i of the average four-odd inche the dry weather continued: September) resulted in a number of bush and grass fire 1 the same time, Port MI brigades and volunteers werr forming their dry season duti around the sprawling town ai. * * * The late W. A. Freeman wh. on April 2 this year at 82, 11 estate valued at £640,000. H a widower without children bui exception of £l,OOO to charit. the rest to relatives. (He w profession a solicitor but ti interested in Malayan tin: later, in gold in NG through Development Ltd.) H* H 5 H 5 The band of the Royal Constabulary —3B members Inspector D. Crawley in charge Port Moresby by October Sha play (band Music) at the OC Games in Melbourne. This band’s fourth visit to Australia last was for the Royal VT 1954. * * ♦ Port Moresby’s new and needed European Hospital is i £410,000. It will be built by{ Watkins, New Guinea Limit.

Cairns. The new native Hospq 126 OCTOBER, 19 5 6 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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Box 250, Suva, Fiji mder construction alongside of the proposed European is being built by E. S. sons, Pty., Ltd. announced in Port Moresby :ober that Secondary School vill in 1957 be the same as -that is, £145 per year, plus rn air fare. (However, Mr. man, who led a Public Association delegation to see luck in Canberra about the ne, said that the Minister tly agree to an increase in vance.) :e items from lae nen, all employed by Burns fc Company, Lae, were when their car which was ? along Markham Road imber 17, struck a tree.

Robert McGill suffered s and injury to ribs. Mr. >uigg, the driver, lacerations, d knee and general shock, iry Newton, lacerations to d face. Mr. Ray Taylor most unforunate passenger; pinned in the car, suffered left upper leg, fractured iltiple abrasion, and shock, admitted to hospital in a condition, and it may be 7 for him to go to l for treatment, lovers of Lae were grateful l*ae Parents’ and Citizens’ on, who were responsible ging Isador Goodman, the Dianist, to the town to play ;mber 25. The concert was the RSL Hall. Pianos in luinea, because of the have a habit of going out ORESBY BRIDES: At left, Mr. and waites after their wedding, September an Catholic Church; bride was Miss Centre, Mr. and Mrs. G. Brown wedding, on September 1, at St. bride was formerly Miss E. Welld right, Mr. and Mrs. R. Unger nerly Miss T. Curtis) who were August 24 at St. John's.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 127 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Annual Boxing Championire to be conducted in Hall on November 13 and e of the organisers, Mr. A. an be contacted at Box 17, flee, Lae, and would like to Dm anyone in New Guinea uld be interested in taking these championships.

Johns (NG) Ltd., of Port , have got the contract to n all weather road which will start at the Erap Bridge and continue for 11 miles up the Markham Valley as far as Chivasing.

This company has already established a small camp, and work will commence almost immediately It is expected that this first section will be completed within the next six months.

The Works Department are also to commence a further section which will take the road, when completed, as far as the Learon River It begins to look as though the long talked of Road to the Highlands is on its way. t A Field Day was held at Taliai Camp, Tongatabu, on August 27, to mark the completion of training of the intake of recruits. Queen Salote accompanied b y T.R.H. Prince Tu’ipelihake and Princess Melenaite were met at the Camp by the Commander of the Tongan Defence Force, Captain L. J. Sanders, and Mrs. Sanders. After the Royal Salute, Her Majesty inspected the troops on parade, and addressed them from the saluting base. The recruits then gave a display of bayonet fighting, arms drill on the march, and a demonstration of a 6-pounder gun going into action and out of action. Guests were later entertained at refreshments by Captain and Mrs. Sanders. t Mr. W. L. Salthouse, formerly of Lae, has been appointed manager of a new branch of the Commonwealth Bank which opened at Bulolo, NG. At 31, he is one of the youngest branch managers in the bank’s service. 129 r IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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The Ministry of Works,; employer, admitted liability fo accident, which occurred Leaso was assisting to refuj grader. He suffered severe inr to the left side of his face the drum burst. His left eyr damaged and a collarbone broken. Later his left eye removed in hospital, and the eye also deteriorated, dutj sympathetic inflammation froi other. It was stated that he probably lose the sight oi right eye also.

Counsel for the defen claimed that the defendant not be held liable for deterioration of the right because this was due toe unreasonable refusal of the pis. to have the left eye removed first advised to do so by a 4 The judge, in awarding dan said that as a not well-edu Samoan living in a foreign co and with no relatives there, L. refusal to have his eye remov first was understandable. B< was satisfleld that Leaso clearly warned of the dangen his refusal to the removal o eye was, from the standpoint i average man, unreasonable, defendant was, therefore, not; for the condition of Lease’s eye.

He added: “Giving the mat! general damages the best consE tion I can, I come to the cone: that a proper sum to awae £4,000.”

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HIGHER ialand’s three Tokelau atolls 219 tons of copra in the inancial year, according to recently published. Net amounted to £NZ12,303 or age of £NZS6/5/- per ton. m was 206 tons in the year but yielded only or an average of /0 per ton. 1950-51 Tokelau production aged 231 tons per annum, average price has been ;t, so the latest results are

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3 were up but quantities in the 1955 British nons’ trochus harvest, r , to figures now available. 1 tons in 1954 the exports 47 tons in 1955, but while J per ton averaged £A.259 niara in 1954, it averaged st year. snail, too, was up in value 1183 to £A.226 but the fell from 79 to 45 tons, eason was poor from a point of view.

Tungi, after spending some n Auckland on Tonga ent business, returned to a per October sailing of Arrest in “Waitomo”

Murder at Papeete A SHIP’S donkeyman, Henry Erskine, 49, was arrested on board the Wait o m o at Wellington. NZ. This following the return to New Zealand of a police officer and a doctor, who flew to Papeete by RNZAF flying-boat from Suva to exhume and examine the body of a former seaman of the Waitomo.

Erskine has been charged with the murder of Canadian seaman Victor August Kure aboard the vessel at Papeete on August 20.

Following a severe fire which broke out aboard the Union Company S trans-Pacific freighter °n that night. Kure’s bodv allegediy strangled, was found in the donkeyman’s cabin. t An American fisheries publication confirms that Japanese fishing vessels of a Pago Pago-based fleet, have been fishing in the Cook Islands and eastward this winter, and have been bringing in record catches. tGr overnment administrative officers throughout Fiji were called to a conference in Suva late in August to discuss matters connected with the work of district commissioners and district officers. One such conference is held every year. 131 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Rough seas hampered whaling last week, together with a ’flu epidemic among the workers, but whales are now coming south in good quantities —the Company was a bit late in starting operations and missed a lot of the north-bound movement, but with luck should fill their quota.

The operations are proving of great value to the economics of the Island but it is a pity that the government didn’t realise this and build the plant so that the profits as well as wages would remain on the Island —it would have been better than doling out a few thousand pounds every year on doubtful agricultural and forestry schemes.

Mr. Carty Christian passed away in his sleep this morning anr accorded a very well att funeral. Possessing a very lii nature and a beautiful voice “( will be much missed on the I The death has occurred c William Hyder, resident dent Norfolk Island for many yean also of late years dispenserf Public Hospital. —Nl Corresp ® 134 OCTOBER, 1 9 5 6 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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[?] Pacific Commerce and Industry PETROLEUM CO. PTY., LTD., & ’LORATION CO. PTY., LTD —ln midwas reported than Kuru No. 2 had >ned to 3,960 feet, and 9|-inch I been cemented at 3,465 feet, “ached a depth of 674 feet. Most month was occupied in recovering and much difficulty was experienced ious formation. Morehead spudded ber 5, and has reached a depth of GOLD DREDGING, LTD.—The yield i for the quarter ended August 31, 8,838 ounces from 2,112,000 yards, at 35 US dollars an ounce was liars (about £A138,440). dividend No. 34 of 25 cents lurrency) per fully paid share was i October 11, payable to shareistered in the company's books at •usiness on October 24. Payment y office will be made in Australian the rate of exchange ruling on Dividend payable to non-residents vill be subject to Canadian absentee per cent. * • * YNEYS. —TotaI sales of the Penneys' year exceeded £6,000,000, lifting ales of the Coles-Penneys chain to £43,000,000. Penneys' turnover was the chairman of G. J. Coles and [Mr. G. J. Coles), at the annual Melbourne. G. J. Coles took over July 2 in a share-exchange and worth more than £4,000,000. s said that Penneys' self-service ly foodstuffs) would provide Coles uable proving ground for developstralia of new ideas of merchandispidly gaining ground overseas. ’LANTATIONS, LTD.—New Guinea , Ltd., is getting £190,000 for its i Dylup Plantations, Ltd. Dylup ered 317,997 10/- ordinary shares subscription. New Guinea residents 3,000 shares. Dylup estimates that ’ 10 per cent. p.a. from profits an 20 per cent. p.a.

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DEVELOPMENT, NL.—August red 16 tons of development ore for gold bullion. reported early this month that operations to determine depth of overlay and basic strata were in uppliers of drilling equipment in snt one of their senior technicans e company. nment has intimated that the work the International Boundary as rethe company, is to be carried out s arrangements with the Dutch are completed. > labour line has been co-operative h the area is inhabited by some es, the company is now operating ulice patrol protection. This Jt the company has overcome one ior problems associated with oil in this area, in that friendly have been established with local *d that further evidence will soon ing as a result of geophysical, !r, core drilling and arial surveys gress. * * * LS, LTD.—Mr. M. M. Brodie, of been re-elected to the board of -td., Sydney, and will continue to company's important Pacific Islands he net profit for the year ended June 30 was £62,153, after providing for taxation and contingents, and writing off £19,236 depreciation. The directors recommended that the profit be dealt with as follows: (1) A final dividend of 6J per cent, be declared, payable on October 9, 1956 on stock units issued before that date. With' the interim distribution of 6| per cent, the full year's dividend was 12£ per cent, and absorbed £37,500; (2) The balance of £24,653 be added to the balance brought forward of £72,677 leaving the final amount carried forward at £97,330. * * * NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS, LTD.—August r* fT : i i G ft°l de r RidgCS /If' 11 treated 3 ' 454 GolHon' BD-/"e 8 D -/" e *°m 901 . d ' and ’- 471 oz silver, tributes 173* S oi " V,alS pr< " lucell 26 01 ani NORFOLK ISLAND AND BYRON WHALING CO., in ? U i lss V e of 417 -497 £1 shares n Norfolk Island and Byron Bay Whaling Co., nIV °P. ened and dosed on September 12, underwriters report. * * * m D «lc~ Th . e u e ha - ve been interesting developsenlfrJn*5 en IfrJn* the r a|or . 01 ' P r °specting companies tinnirf*/h ee t S- A Muey financial expert tipped that shareholders, who had already 135 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1056

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DEVELOPMENT, LTD.—The company ommonwealth-New Guinea Timbers, w a satisfactory profit for the year \ the Placer Development chairman Banks) said at the annual meeting, ter allowing for the initial expense the introduction of marine and waterproof grades of plywood. The net profit of Clutha Development, Ltd., was £A8,350 representing net earnings from the open cut coal mine at Foybrook, NSW, less the prospect ing expenditure incurred in Australia and the Pacific Islands. Since May 1, 1956, coal production from Foybrook open cut had continued at a higher than previous average rate because of increased coal consumption during the Australian winter.

"This wholly-owned subsidiary's prospecting activities include drilling and analysis of a sand deposit containing rutile and having an area of 5,000 acres at Harrington," he said, "the continuation of diamond drilling on a copper property in North Queensland, and, on Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands, surface examination of a gold mine prospect."

Mr. Banks said that audited accounts for the year ended May 31, 1956, were not yet available. The production figures for the year showed a decline of 695,345 dollars in the gross value of production, when compared with the previous year—1,404,690 dollars against 2,100,035 dollars. The progressive reduction in dredging activities had been anticipated and indicated in previous reports.

Dredge No. 7 capsized and sank in May.

A satisfactory insurance settlement had been negotiated. It was expected that Dredge No. 4, having exhausted its reserves, would be finally closed down during the current year. Sluicing of bench gravels above river level should continue to be mined at a profit for some years.

Minister for Territories said early in September that the output of Commonwealth-New Guinea Timbers, Ltd., was now about 32,000,000 square feet of plywood, for which there were markets in Australia, America, and the Territory itself. * * *

Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing, Ltd.—Net

profit for the year to March 31 was £1,879, Director's report said that difficulty of securing suitable European staff had continued to be a problem. At the beginning of the financial year on April 1, 1955, the company and ™t th ° Ut J?, ny Euro P ean P'*nt operator and not being able to engage any reolacem?ni f nn 'll 35 f .° rC ?, d to tem POrarily suspend mining, from April 1 to June 30, 1955. Dorwire f 36 ' 3 ?u° CUb ' C yards ° f rT,aterial were treated for the recovery of 479 oz of gold which realised £6,298.

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Sr » > r, k.'. I u ISLAND* W. R. CARPENTER & CO., LTD., AND ASSO- CIATED SECURITIES, LTD —WRC have bought a substantial interest in Associated Securities, Ltd., hire purchase financiers. WRC are already in the finance field through a subsidiary, Terms and Credits. The market for Associated Securities at the beginning of this month was S/6-8/7. It includes a 9d dividend payable this month. Associated Securities capital is £515,092, and the dividend has been 15 per cent, for the last four years.

A Sydney financial expert commented that the link should yield substantial advantages by way of dividend, besides improving access to financing facilities.

Mr. R. Symonds and family have sold their interests in Associated Securities. Mr. Symonds has resigned from the Associated board and Mr. C. W. Fletcher has been appointed. * * *

Koitaki Para Rubber Estates, Ltd.—

This Papuan company is lifting the dividend from 30 to 35 per cent, for the year ended June 30. Final dividend is 20 per cent.

Net profit is £39,405, an increase of £11,796 or 43 per cent. In the previous year profit rose from £1,896 to £27,609. Result, disclosed in a preliminary statement, is equal to an earning rate of 52.5 per cent, on capital. t An exceptionally hot summer in Japan has seriously damaged the culture-pearl industry at Mie, where about three million oysters, worth $500,000, have been killed by the warm sea temperatures. t The United States Agriculture Department estimates the 1955-56 world cocoa bean production at 1.801.479.000 lbs, compared with 1.812.844.000 lbs produced in the 1954-55 year.

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leading article, entitled “New Guinea Needs Men” brought a timely letter, for publication on October 9, signed “Retired Papuan Officer”.

He pointed out that, while retired Commonwealth officials have had a percentage increase of about 70, in their pensions, to provide for the every-growing cost of living, the percentage increase given to retired Territories officials is about 40 — and this on allowances based on the cost of living of 20 or 30( ago.

“With this example of G< ment parsimony and inequity! them, is it likely that the qm. young man will readily takei career in the Territory ?’*| “Retired Papuan Officer”.

Yet this same Commonfj Government is allocating j £5,000,000 per annum to the Co Plan, for gifts calculated to* Southeast Asians love Austl and leave them alone!

U Mrs. Francis Saville, onlj missionary of Mailu Is., Papua in WA on September 5.

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J representative said in on October 9 that negotiare still in progress between ne and the NZ Govern- I Meets in Melbourne outh Pacific Air Transport meets in Melbourne on 15 to discuss matters to the area under its This body advises member ents (UK, Australia, New Canada and Fiji) on relating to aviation, dll be represented at the by the Financial Secretary, W. Davidson, and an t Colonial Secretary, Mr. S. hall. [evelopment of Fiji’s Nadi has usually been on the at the Council’s meetings t years and no doubt Nadi :ern them again.

Ireadv concerning residents who have become used to stopping place on an interair-route but who fear th the jet age, Nadi may be considered redundant, mge of jet aircraft becomes md longer—the range of new Boeing 707 jets due rery in 1959 is 3,500 miles 1 pay loqd. Nadi is only 000 miles from Sydney, A Peep at Things to Come Giant American 8.47 Stratojet bombers will attempt a non-stop Pacific flight in November. It is planned to refuel the bombers in mid-air somewhere in mid-Pacific.

A force of US Thunderjet fiighters is expected to make a non-stop, 5,000 miles flight from Japan to Australia about the same time.

RAF Bomber command chief. Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, who was in Australia with the Vulcan jet bomber in September, suggested that the RAF might try to do better —a non-stop, 9,000 miles flight from London to Darwin without refueling. But that was before the Vulcan crashed on its return to London after its Australian visit. (Sir Harry Broadhurst was one of the two pilots who escaped by using an ejector seat. Four others were killed m the crash which destroyed the Vulcan).

Super-Constellations for NG Towards the end of 1959 Papua- New Guinea might see new aircraft on the Sydney service to replace the Skymasters which have done mighty service for the last five years.

When it was announced in Canberra last month that Qantas would buy seven Boeing jets it was stated that the Super Constellations would be diverted to other suitable routes.

If Super Constellations are used on the NG-service the air ports at Port Moresby and Lae will have to be brought up to standard. (Over) 139 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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The widow alleged that three weeks after Ayodhya Prasad’s wife committed suicide he and she lived together as man and wife, and that relying on a promise of marriage she allowed him to seduce her.

She claimed £576 paid to enable defendant to go to India, £424 spent on him in Fiji and India, and £2,000 paid to him for the return of freehold land which he had allegedly persuaded her to transfer to him without any consideration upon trust for her in the basis of a promise of marriage.

A political undercurrent was noticeable when one witness admitted that he had opposed defendant in the recent elections.

The same witness was also asked whether it was true that he was the cog which started the wheels moving in the Police Inquiry Commission, but was not required to answer after the presiding judge (Mr. Justice Hammett) queried the relevance of the question.

During the hearing plaintiff’s Ml i‘ A ’ D> Fatel > conceded claim for the return of the £2,000 could not succeed outcome was an award of £5OO damages and costs in favour of the widow.

H A son was born on September 8 to Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Thomas, Madang, NG. 141 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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MR. A. H. BALDWIN Mr. Archibald Herbert Baldwin, member of a well-know Port Moresby family, died suddenly in Moresby on September 20, aged 53.

He was the son of the late Charles R. and Mrs, Baldwin, who went first to the Territory in the 1890’s.

Mr. Baldwin, Snr. was a mastermariner, but later entered business on his own account in Port Moresby and became one of the Territory’s best-known citizens.

Mr. Archie Baldwin was born in Sydney and went to school there, but otherwise lived all of his life in Papua. At the time of his death he was in charge of native labour for APC, a position he had he 1 d since 1937. During World War II he served with the rank of Lt,-Colonel in ANGAU. where he was in charge of all native labour.

He was twice Mentioned in Dispatches. He was, for one period since the war, President of the Port Moresby RSL.

He is survived by his wife —who was formerly Miss Mary Grahamslaw, also of a well-known Port Moresby family—and by three sons and a daughter. His son Kenneth is a Port Moresby dentist; John and Derrick are officials in the Customs Department. His daughter Dallis is the wife of Sub-Inspector Max Corlis, Mr. Baldwin was held in high regard by European residents of the Territory and by the natives amongst whom he worked for a large part of his life. About 800 natives attended his funeral and later held an independent J for him amongst themselves^

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The death occurred in Sydi October 5, of Denis Murra only son of Mr. and Mrs. Lk Murray, of Manly, and formi Papua. 142 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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MR. A. V. ADDIS I and highly respected ex- ; of the Colonial Sugar Co. Ltd., Mr. Arthur b Addis, died at Suva on er 18, aged 80.

Idis had been in the employ ompany since a youth. In t time he had served Lisly at the Nausori Mill exception of a short period to the Government ship and to the Vancouver d. at Navua. d an extensive knowledge lewa River district in the ;n it was largely populated >ean settlers, very few now gdis married Miss Shepherd, of Captain Shepherd, of He had nine children, is and Mrs. Addis having >ed him.

William Mcbirney

llliam Mcßirney, a wellook Islands’ resident, di-:d :onga hospital on August was 84 and the oldest i resident of the Cook He was a native of Ireland, and served in the before obtaining a position War Office, London, took wife and family to a aboard the Manapouri ry, 1908, and shortly afterst uo as a planter at It was he who introduced to the Cook Islands — r e since developed into a )urce of income for the 3e also introduced the first s and experimented with pes of fruits and plants, came the Group’s first . policeman in the early \s a sideline, he designed ed addresses of high me of which was made for i Pomare and is believed still in Lady Pomare’s i. i, Mangaia and other Cook “Mac” recorded native nd set them down in verse i later submitted 3 volumes work to the Polynesian Dut these were rejected as tual prose was required, nuscripts are bemg held in the Rarotonga Museum. ißirney is survived by his d, and 4 daughters.

Blanche Johnson

f Fiji’s oldest European Mrs. Blanche Johnson, ’ Mr. J. T. Johnson, died on October 1, at 85. d been in ill-health for a e. her latter years, Mrs. was an active social worker fa, being particularly interested in the Red Cross and the Cottage Home.

She is survived by a son, Mr. C A. Johnson, of Sydney, a sister Mrs. Ruby Browne, of Suva, and two half-sisters, Mrs. G. Crabbe of Vatukoula, and Mrs. M. Wisdom, of Suva. Her second son, Jack, was killed in the 1939-45 War.

Mrs. Florence Hathaway

The death occurred at Lindfield Sydney, on September 23, of Mrs!

Florence Amelia Hathaway, widow of the late Mr. George Hathaway, who was for many years a sawmiller in Fiji.

Mrs. Hathaway was an Englishwoman and met her husband when he was serving in the army during World War I. They married in England and she went back with him to Fiji in 1919.

Mrs. Hathaway is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Albert Baglee, now of Wau, New Guinea, where Mr.

Baglee is an Administration schoolteacher, and by four grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Baglee formerly lived in Fiji, where Mr. Baglee was a teacher with the Seventh Day Adventist Mission.

MR. C. F. SOLLITT Mr. Charles Frederick Sollitt, who was a member of the clerical section of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in Fiji for 30 years, died in Sydney on August He was born in Leicester, UK, 143 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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eath of Matron Minnie tccurred on August 17, at ielberg Repatriation Melbourne. She was born ia and trained at Geelong bourne hospitals, and is m in Fiji and the Cook s a member of one of the ital units taken to Bombay itine during the first World was awarded the Royal 3. arsing in New Zealand and ki and other hospitals in £ Islands, Miss Walshe to Australia and was, over r of years, in charge of in NSW. ,d been in ill-health for years and in recent years n an inmate of the g Repatriation Hospital. .s the half-sister of Mrs. :er, now of Inverell, NSW, erly of Suva, where her was on the staff of the >ept.

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ath occured in the New on September 22 of M. aborde, well-know planter ignised as the model of chener’s French nlanter in the South Pacific.” ; born in New Caledonia 00, went to sea in the Service, and later served French army during the /ar as a “mitrailleur”, or gunner. He first went to Hebrides in 1926, under I scheme, working for the i Cotonnaire at Norsup on 5 years, he obtained the the plantation at Turtle to, also part of the SFNH He made this flourish, ith the help of Tonkinese nder indenture. During Par II the Santo area :rom a rain of American nd the Yankee visitors to &y included the author, ichener. 5 so impressed with the fay of life in the tropics made Laborde the central “Tales of the S. Pacific,” aracter of Emile de Beque. later book, “Return to . Laborde became the Fean Ferouse, and Turtle ame the plantation “La )ry described some of the oubles, which resulted in the Tonkinese being sent mdo-China. 15 years at Turtle Bay, Laborde found himself in financial difficulties, mainly owing to shortage of labour. Although he had often been at loggerheads with the French administration, and with his fellow planters on Santo, he had their sympathy during his last twelve months of ill-health prior to his death.

He is survived by a son, Gerald, who is with the large trading firm “Barrau” at Santo. t Colonel G. P. Sanders, of the New Zealand Military Forces, arrived in Fiji early October to succeed Colonel T. C. Campbell as commander of the Fiji Military Forces. i Tahiti’s coffee production is increasing. From 34 tons in 1954 it rose to 176 tons, worth 15 million francs (£100,000), in 1955. Its copra, which is about stable, brought 288 year. 011 francS for 22,000 tons last M. Alfred Laborde. 145 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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COMMONWEALTH BANK Guaranteed by the Commonwealth Government of Australia 5860.82 asked to refrain from printing of the more sordid details, l But just in case they broke; word, the sordid details were? pencilled out of the news-ref right there in front of themj A request might be made f Press not to use some ref© made at an Advisory C Meeting. But just in case minutes of that meeting ( become available, anyhow.

Just recently there wan request for the Press to i from mentioning the propose? of Dutch Army officers to | It was a “Federal Goveir request”, and the catchr “security”.

LIKE all systems wit ulterior motive, the syst P-NG occasionally breaks News gets out that could onM come from a Government (so much of it comes throug channel) and a witch-hunt It is an extraordinary comm on NG Government to say tK term “witch-hunt” is in gene throughout the Administrate it has one clear meaning! where —that pressure is I exerted from the top to ge news “leak”.

This constant battle of wi nerves has an effect in the run. It affects spend too much time pitting energy and skill a gains? machine, in an effort t information that should be? available.

It affects honest Adminis officials, who are slowly conditioned to believe that thr is entitled to nothing, am there is only one correct p< view and one vital role in B the Administration’s.

And what is of vital signiii it affects the public of P-N Australia by allowing tho learn little of what is really on in P-NG in the imjj sphere of day-to-day dJ Administration. It keeps unaware of the real and dar tendency towards over-Gove; in P-NG that will one an acute embarrassment te tralia.

WHY does it all go on? * In the simplest terrm Moresby is frighten Canberra, and Canber frightened of the United ] Trusteeship Council.

Canberra may talk big in : defence whenever UN cic P-NG, but meanwhile it end? the constant effort of the A stration to suppress anything might be construed as givir UN members an opportune criticism. 146 Seeing the News Throui the PRO's Issue Spect (Continued from Page 20) \ OCTOBER. 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON'

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Anyway, if any Fiji resident can help Mr. Morrow to his motel or hotel, doubtless he would be obliged.

Information Sought About Fishes A world-wide study of the Istiophoridae—that family of fish which includes the marlin, the sailfish and the spearfish has been launched by a group at Miami University’s Marine Laboratory, in Coral Gables, Florida.

Group member John K. Howard, whose particular task is to try to outline the presently-known distribution of these fish, says that he turns to each issue of PIM for assistance.

He writes: “From time to time items appear in the Pacific Islands Monthly regarding the taking of marlin or sailfish, which information I could obtain in no other way. In addition, it is true that the Japanese type of long-line fishing almost always produces Istiophorids as a byproduct. I am therefore continually trying to follow the Japanese long-line fishing or its equivalent by other peoples.

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Sir Alport Barker’s Library for Fiji r ,R so me time before his death, earlier this year, Sir Alport Barker considered presenting his fine collection of books to the Government of Fiji, but J 1 ® R down as a condition that the books should be adequately housed. J While waiting for some finality m regard to a home for the library his death occurred, but Lady Barker has now carried out his wishes and has presented the books to the Government of Fiji.

Plans are being considered for the building of a concrete extension to the Museum to house the books.

The only fault with this proposal is that the Museum, situated in the Botanical Gardens, is rather out of the way for people wishing to use the books.

It is proposed to add official reference documents to the collection and to invite owners of books, documents or photographs to donate them to the Sir Alport Barker Reference Library, as it will be known. 149 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956 Editors" Mailbag (Continued from Page 18)

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Mr. A. M. Gurau, an elected rm ber of the Assembly, moved; “T this Assembly records its deep d cern at the manner in which affairs of the Territory are? present being conducted, and « siders that Government Po should be in full accordance 1 the wishes of the people.” (This later amended by the insertiot the words “implementation administration of” before ment Policy.”) Mr. Gurau said he was not atk ing Government policy; but he; insist that the Government \ failed to implement and carry 1 that policy, as adopted by people’s representatives in the> sembly.

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Betham alleged that there sen many incidents which ed that Administration had avely at fault; but that there sen a growing tendency on rt of officials to avoid inand fog the issues by “the technicalities, ridicule and »nable schoolmarm methods”.

P. L M. Morgan was Mr. > third European supporter, was scathing in his criticism administration —he declared they had had a party system, vote of no-confidence, the ment would have been out of office, :ase for the Government was ned vigorously by Mr. Wilson torney-General) who exindignation at the timing of ack. He acknowledged that lad been made—mainly the »f under-staffing of departbut he thought that Samoan s, with any true perspective itions in Samoa, would above gs be grateful for what the nent and the public service le in building up the country point where it had achieved eminent.

Smith (Government Secalso was scathing in his ation of the methods by the critics had approached ject at this time. He caused by comparing the critics’ > with the organisation so ully employed by Com- , in their attacks on esd institutions. was mounting steadily when ournment was taken, until awing Monday. nTG the adjournment, salt rubbed into the already rting sores by the local ier, Samoa Bulletin. cribed the motion and the ns surrounding it as “a smear campaign”; corner. Gurau with Senator ly; and insisted that sm . . . ovor-looks ajects completed successid picks out the few in which > have occurred”. It said e voters of Samoa, in the next election, would give the right answer to “the hysterical bleatings by the disciples of Gurauism" 8 It would appear that, when the Assembly assembled on September 17 feathers already were ruffled and teeth were bared; and there were more savage exchanges between Honourable Members.

Nothing much that was new was contributed. It was noted that speeches of moderation, deprecating all this heat and intolerance jiSt when a new administrative system was coming in, were made by most by Mr n H tlV W.Moo o rs n membe ”* at Mr th? Ul^cious roS and “ attacks- made upon him by the local „ he harf SSf ' ,? le l claimed that rilhts fn wit “ n his toa^M^Hve^rSS?? 0 attentlon ThTS!nn t V shortcomings. to Th | Messrs^B^tham 7 11 n votes Morgan Tvff.? rs ’ ■ Bet ham, Gurau, Tufuga ’ teiig and PiAmmo« De r r° r , l and Messrs.

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isurd, impractical, ridicuious an,d an affront to ministers of i, was how Bishop P. N. W, Strong described the controversial ; Marriage Bill which made a brief appearance in the Legislative 1 of Papua-New Guinea during the September meeting. After hop had had something to say about it, debate was adjourned meeting. 1 has been “on the stocks” >me time, and was expected use some mission fireworks it did —although it has its a a Mission Conference, the missions wanted, in ras that, in relation to marriages New Guinea e brought into line with What they appear to have at Papua is to be brought with New Guinea. 20 years ago it was n New Guinea (then, of dministered as a separate ) that natives could not :cording to European law ’ Christian ceremonies denied them, if this were i wished, but the marriages registered. The reason was that they were said not to understand the implications and obligations of the European form of marriage—and that there had been cases of natives frnino- a Jvf ady v, had Several Wives going through another ceremony according to our custom.

Papua however there was no such restriction and some time ago following a Mission conference it was suggested that the legal lastnction now be removed from JJSLf natlves also ’ 80 that th ey might marry (and register) their manner. in the Christian and **3 In now trying to give the two Territories a uniform law for native marriages the legal architects have introduced an offending (to the missionaries) clause which says that before two natives marry and have 153 C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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It is this whittling do: church authority to whichT Strong takes strong exceptio said that ministers of ] were “bound in conscience” that the prospective m partners understood the trues of what they contemplated! the Bill became law hu other missionaries would b sidered no longer compete carry out these obligations—al in his opinion, they were fa: competent to do so tha District Commissioner.

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Fiaola won a Samoan 0 ment scholarship to contin education in New Zealand i At Northland College, Kaikc could not decide whether to a chemist or a radiographei the headmaster offered adv When he returns to Apia take back more than his cer —he will take his bride. S: formerly Miss Patricia Hif English radiographer at Lane Hospital, Auckland, began training together, am married last May. 154 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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Money once was wealth gold the syndicate won Creek and later from pn plantations. Now he is health, and has no money.

Territorian has put it, “Some louse has got it fro in fact, more than one lox was always good for a 1« many people who have hao from him ‘to get starts conveniently forgotten to back. And, of course, h bothered with legal docuir any other written proof.” I With his partner, Reynolds, Money owned a v, plantation on Siassi Island;; they sold to the Lutheran shortly before the Secono War, and Reynolds died Sadakan death march. Mcc had interests in other pis on the New Guinea main trading stations and schoon these too have now all gor * * * In New Guinea, people i glibly about the Big Six — few present generation Ten know who they were, precisely what they achie Even old-timers are vagua to what happened to thr dozen men who were oncee amongst the most fortunate; Guinea. One thing is certas ever —none of the Six area the millionaire class, althou are comfortable. A quick c: revealed the following info —perhaps some reader can it: • Bill Money: Now inr slopes. • Bill Royal: Still at Ml • Dick Glasson: Resid Nambucca Heads, NSW, w has an interest in prope fishing boats. • Frank Chisholm: Die

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The following is a summ what has been happen | different spheres. This is* significance to the South I Islanders, bacause if In cb dominated by Reds, is admits New Guinea, it will be tanU to opening the South R north-west frontier to the sicu millions of Asia (most of whii is either Red or Pink ).

Sharp Dutch Reply to Indoc impudence The Government of the i lands, on October 10, oc issued this very frank state “The Indonesian Governmr the fiction that the sovereifj Netherlands New Guinea o belongs to the Indonesian continues to take adminii measures with regard to the of the Netherlands Realm.

“Indonesia, in 1955, for in in view of the general el assigned the territory of I lands New Guinea Indonesian electoral ■ Furthermore, in 1956 three I were appointed members Indonesian Parliament to r© that territory. And some i ago, by Indonesian law, the r of “West Irian’’ was institu that the complete territc Netherlands New Guinea coc long to this province .

“This has been follow? reports about the appointme the installation of an Ind: ‘governor of the province o Irian.’

“To avoid any misunderstt; the Netherlands Government it fit to state explicitly tha and any similar Ind: measures with regard to ti ritory of Netherlands New and all their implications | ever, will not be accep: recognised by the Nether la; “It is generally known the time of the trana. sovereignty over Indonesia, • lands New Guinea was not it in this transfer. Since tic change has taken place situation.

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Meanwhile the Indonesian Government, at home in Jakarta, has entered into far-reaching commercial treaties with the Soviet countries, under which the latter will make huge loans and provide vast public facilities. This is part of its efforts to get itself out of serious economic troubles caused by political inefficiency and adminsttrative corruption.

Meanwhile, also, the Netherlands Government has given UNO details of the act of repudiation carried out recently by the Indonesian Government, when it announced flatly that it would not pay to the Netherlands the sum of 650 million guilders (about £75 millions Australian) which it officially accepted, only recently, as the amount justly due by Indonesia for vast assets taken over from the Dutch when Indonesia assumed sovereignty.

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General, like Colonel Blimp, ive in a world of his own. esertion of the Dutch by and America in 1945-46, ten human and international demanded that the Western immediately restore the to Indonesia (in the same at the British were restored ?apore, Burma and Hongwas one of the factors which ited so much to the loss of prestige throughout the ise of our betrayal of the a weak and undependable itration has supplanted the n the East Indies—and the f the European countries of th Pacific are in consequence to Asian aggression and :ion.

Indonesians themselves are lace —in a military sense, ; contemptible. The danger, from our viewpoint, is that they provide no barrier against the 1,200 million or so Asians on the Asian mainland.

Apia Teacher Weds Well-known Apia school teacher and sportsman Mr. W. B. Philpott, recently married a former nursing sister at Apia Hospital, Miss C. Bowden A large number of guests were entertained aft er the wedding at the Alcazar. Pictured here with the bride and groom seated, are (left to right): Miss M. Howes, Mr. R. Banks, Mrs. Banks (matron of honour), Mr. H. A Levestam (best man).

Photo: R. F. Rankin . 163 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Another Murder the Cooks A WEEK after a coroner’s in. had failed to find the | of the death last Decemli a Rarotonga woman, a man arrested in mid-September fo murder of another Raro woman. The two cases weret way connected.

It will be recalled that; Zealand police investigated I appeared to be the murder'* woman at Rarotonga last Decs while a Union Steam Shiji trans-Pacific freighter was« charging cargo at the islan A police officer later fie Canada to interview crew-meK and another officer carrieo; investigations in Rarotonga au by the local police.

No arrest was made, b( statements alleged to have? dictated to the police by wife; were later repudiated when. witnesses were asked to io certain seamen on the ship’s to Rarotonga.

It then appeared that tha| ments had not been signed I witnesses and that nothing be done.

In September the Coroner that there was no satist evidence to indicate how deceased came to be drowned: added: “This death, and the ci: stances, or alleged circums surrounding it, have naj caused great concern too authorities and to many responsible people. Those ? know the truth —and there ? be some persons who do —bui failed to tell the truth, muss with them to their own deaj reproach of this Court an the responsible members o community, for their att Several who have made state> voluntarily to the Police, later retracted them, sayin§j their first full statements; false. Therefore, either thei; or their later statements plainly, lies. In some count is a criminal offence to makes false statements to the Polio Administration is recommenti consider this aspect very full carefully.”

The other murder took pl;l September 10. Mrs. Moerosc Browne, 27, mother of children, was found shot i home at Nikao, Rarotonga, police hunt was quicklv organd two hours later Kurariki, 26, labourer, was as and charged with murder., woman’s husband was on a b:i visit to Fenrhyn Island i time. Mrs. Browne wais daughter of Mr. Fred Sti well-known local resident. 164 OCTOBER. 1950 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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massed at the September Parliament in Wellington k Islands residents full appeal in Court actions the death sentence, ent for six months or iines of £lOO an over. 7 such appeals could be refused by the Resident ner of the Cook Islands, ■e now by natural right, amendment also provides e the death sentence is e accused may be trans- New Zealand. 165 C ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Tenders For Land

TERRITORY OF NEW GUINEA. —Tenders are invited from persons eligible under Regulation 46 of the Treaty of Peace Regulations for the cash purchase of a block of land known as “Mongai Station (Portion 211)” formerly used as a Trading Station. The land has an area of about 63 acres, 99 square metres and is situated in the Mongai district on the north-east coast of New Ireland, near Kavieng.

Further particulars as to location may be obtained from the Custodian of Expropriated Property, Department of Territories, Canberra, A.C.T. Title: A freehold title has been restored under the New Guinea Land Titles Restoration Ordinance in the name of the Custodian of Expropriated Property. Terms: The property will be sold, subject to the consent of the Administrator of Papua and New Guinea.

A tender shall be accompanied by a remittance representing 10 per cent, of the tender price as deposit. The balance of the purchase money shall be paid within one month of the acceptance of the offer.

Each tender shall contain a statement that the tenderer is prepared to purchase the property with all its faults (if any).

On payment of the full amount of the purchase money, a proper transfer and title to the property will be executed to the purchaser at the expense of the purchaser. The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. A tender shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope endorsed ‘‘Tender —Mongai Station”, and should reach the Custodian of Expropriated Property, Canberra, A.C.T., by 12 noon on 3rd December, 1956. C. R. LAM- BERT, Custodian of Expropriated Property.

Regulation 46 of the Treaty of Peace Regulations reads as follows: “. . . the Custodian shall not, unless by direction of the Governor-General, sell any property to any purchaser other than to—(a) a person who is an Australian soldier or who is a natural-born British subject; (b) a company in which at least twothirds of the shares issued by the company are held by persons who are naturalborn British subjects and of which the Articles of Association contain a provision prohibiting the sale or transfer of shares in the company to persons who are not natural-born British subjects; (c) a company registered in any part of Her Majesty’s Dominions, in which at least two-thirds of the shares issued by the company are held by persons who are natural-born British subjects, and which is approved by the Attorney-General.”

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Enquiries invited.

WANTED 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.

FOR SALE FLEETS—New 45 ft. x 13 ft. 6 ins. x 4 ft. 3 ins., flush-deck, carvel workboat, built by Watts & Wright, 40 H.P. marine diesel. 3:1 reduction, hydraulic winch, anchors, flares, etc., £6,850. Fleets, Water St. East, Sth. Brisbane, Qld.

WORKBOAT, 45 ft. x 13 ft. X 5 ft. draught. Raised deck forecastle, wheelhouse and large capacity hold, nearing completion to purchaser’s requirements.

Construction under M.S.B. Survey. Suitable for cargo, Ashing, and personnel.

Price approximately £6,600, owner supply engine, etc. Builders Wynne S, Breden Pty. Ltd., “Phoenix Shipyards’’, Newcastle, N.S.W.

NORFOLK ISLAND, excellent property, good Norfolk pine built home, with 3V 2 acres flat land, mostly under banana and vegetable seed production. Apply: J. H.

Mosley, Norfolk Island, for full particulars.

Kessa Plantation Group, Buka

Island, Bougainville, N.G. Price: £37,000.

A Copra and Cocoa Plantation to be sold on a “walk in/walk out” basis with owner’s personal effects only reserved from the sale. For particulars apply: F. N.

Warner Shand, Solicitor, Rabaul.

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 2V 2 Gns. daily for 2; from 4 Gns. for 3. Under new management. Write or Phone FL 3014.

Telegrams: “Kanimblahall”, 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.

Position Vacant

SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION RE- SEARCH OFFICER FOR SOCIAL DE- VELOPMENT. University graduates with suitable qualifications and research experience in the social science field are invited to apply for the above appointment for service in New Caledonia with the South Pacific Commission. Initial salary within the range £5tg.1,250- £5tg.1,350 with annual increments up to maximum salary for grade, plus post allowance £Stg.473 single or £Stg.7BB married; no local income tax at present.

For further particulars apply by airmail to South Pacific Commission, Box 5254, G.P.0., Sydney, Australia. Applications should be sent by airmail to Secretary- General, South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia, and post-marked not later than November 30, 1956.

Positions Want

MANAGER Victorian Department seeks suitable position in Fiji.* years experience Grocery, Hard’!

Produce. Wide knowledge of Ag and Dairying requirements. O ability and energy; successful'] personality. Some Accountancy sg tarial experience, highest cr What offers for near future? Pld air-mail to: Manager, Great T Welshpool, Victoria, Australia. !

NEW ZEALANDER, 33, single, el in Wholesale and Retail Trade, ployment in Pacific Islands. T R.N.Z.A.F. in S.W. Pacific. Prett plantation work but would coir offer. Reply to; “No. 706”, 1 G.P.0., Sydney, Australia.

REGISTERED TEACHER, widow, of New Guinea, desires position,; or clerical, in Fiji, preferatl Reply: “M.F.”, c/o Bank ot Melbourne, Australia.

INTELLIGENT young man, 24, s; or plantation position in New < anywhere in the Islands. Exi will accept any kind of work. Pit to: L. Lawrik, P. 0., Tully, Nthr land.

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Manager, 36, married, is permanent position. 12 years i general merchants, sales, indent* control, warehousing, costing,, years managerial position, highea cations, adaptable, prepared too any proposition. Please reply t) c/o Box 5700, G.P.0., Melbourne' PENFRIENDS DON’T BE LONELY.—Men anc all over Australia are finding through my Friendship & Mil Correspondence Club. Someone be YOUR friend. Select and coc Write TO-DAY. No obligation.

Dorothy Pope Friendship CluH Box 182, Haymarket P. 0., Sydne WANTED Contact corree philatelists, hobbyists and Pen throughout the Pacific. Islan sentatives wanted. Members 1 every country of the world, specimen copy Club journal “Isl r ; and application form, to Secrets Sea Islands Correspondence Clulf Fiji Is.

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THE BOOK SCOUT, Westbur.i England, will find that U.K. (nix book you cannot get. Largg clientele. Local banking account; Philip R. Boulton, Bookseller, Wilts., England. 166 OCTOBER, 1956 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON

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Millers Ltd. . . 122 M. H. Ltd. . 26, 121 Mungo Scott . .141 Murex Pty. Ltd. . 96 N. & R 142 Needham & Co. . 94 Nestles .... 92 NG Aust. Line . . 6 Nile Products . . 72 Nixoderm ... 161 N.Z.N.A.C 4 Orient Line ... 10 Pan Pacific Serv. 54 P. I. Line ... 8 Papuan Prints . . 94 Parker Pens . .140 Piccaninny Wax . 165 Old. Insurance . 105 Qld. Milling . . 113 Ransomes Co. . . 38 Reckitt's Blue . . 45 Red Jack Rum .

Refrig. Inst. Co. . 93 "Rene" .... 35 Rice Growers' Co-op 95 Riverstone Co. . 124 Robinson, G. H. 114 Rohu, Sil . . . . 93 "Rouna" .... 120 Seppelt & Son . 128 Seward Ltd. ... 70 Shaw Savill ... 7 Shell Pty. Ltd. 59,115 Sleepmakers Ltd. . 42 S.P.C 5 Spruso Co. . . . 28 S.T.C. Co. . . . 73 Stapleton, J. . . 73 Stewarts-Lloyds . 58 S. P. Brewery , 133 Sthn. Pac. Ins. . 33 Sullivan Ltd. . . 45, 118, 139 Suva Motors . .127 Swire & Yuill . . 66 Tait, W. S. . . . 98 Tatham, S. E. . . 38 Thornycroft Co. . 149 Tilley Lamps . . 99 Ti Hock & Co. . . 79 Tongala Milk . . 76 Tooth & Co. . . 91 Turners & Growers 123 United Insurance . 97 U.R.D 145 Vacuum Oil . . 108 Vanderfield, Reid 75 Van Gelder, J. P. 101 Vincent Bros. . . 67 Ventura . . 3, 168 Vi-Stim .... 153 Vincent's APC . . 29 Wallace Whisky . 123 Wallis Bros. . . 33 Warnock . . . 110 Warringah Marine 65 Westfield Meats 132 Wilhelmsen, W. . 8 White Rose ... 46 Wills Ltd. ... 136 Woods, H. W. . 160 Woolf, J. C. . . 2 Wright & Co. . 62 Wrigley's ... 147 Wunderlich Co. . 153 Yorkshire Ins. . 77 167 IC ISLANDS MONTHLY OCTOBER, 1956

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Islands Produce

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations are in Australian currency. Aust. £ equals approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or W.

Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & WPHC areas; 140 Pac. Francs; SUS 2.23.) COPRA 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 £836/14/4, which varies according to distance of producing district from Apia.

E. SAMOA: —Producers receive 5 cents lb. (SUSII2 or £ASO 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 October.

FRENCH OCEANIA:—Sept.: Top grade 10.50 Pac. francs per kilo (£A62/10/- per long ton) f.0.b., 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. 3y 4 d N.Z. per lb. equal to £ N.Z.30 per ton.

COCOA: —Islands prices are based on the rate for Accra cocoa which on Oct. 10 was £Stg.2o7/10/-, c.i.f.

P.-N.G.: Good grade, £A235, ex wharf Sydney.

W. SAM.: Sept. 1, £Stg.23o, f.o.b. Apia.

COFFEE:—P.-N.G.: Top grades 6/6 lb. in store, Sydney; Fr. Oceania: 75 francs per kilo, unhusked.

PEANUTS:—P.-N.G.: In shell, large, well cleaned, 1/10 per lb. del. Sydney; kernels, 2/- lb. del. Sydney.

RUBBER:—P.-N.G. price is based on Singapore rate, which on Oct. 8, was: No. RSS, spot, 92 Vs Straits cents (32.61 d Aust. approx.) per lb.

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, reports that supplies from the new crop available and quoted at: C.i.f. Sydney, Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed, standard packs, 62/-, Green, 60/- per lb.

RICE (Australian): —Price adjusted May 1 each year. P.-N.G.; Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb. bags, 5 tons and over, £62 per ton, f.0.b.; under 5 tons £62/10/per ton. Vitamized and enriched white, 112 lb. bags, 5 tons and over, £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 the majority of the Torres Strait producers and Otto Gerdau Co. (USA) for 1956, remain as for 1955, i.e.; Sound £A736; D, £A39O; E, £A3OO; EE*, all f.0.b., Australian ports; t quotation by independent pearlers-. £AB6O-920; D, £A6OO-650; E, £A EE. £A27O-300. Cook Is.: No tram Manihiki: Lagoon closed. Tuamot'J 185 Pac. francs per kilo (£Al,OOO* per long ton) f.o.b. Papeete.

TROCHUS:—One Sydney agent* 11 quoted; New Hebrides. £4B N.G., £530; and 8.5.1.. £530 “au to grade”; another quoted £4B £520: and £520. London: early Sandakan £Stg.s7s per long tot Singapore/Macassar, £555; Mergui GREEN SNAIL:—Quote No. T Pacific, in store, Sydney, £480,1, to rejects; lower grades £ 400* Quote No. 2: £465-£4BO.

London And U.S. Prices

Copra:—London, Oct. 9: Straits c.i.f., European continent, del.4 Oct.-Nov. £63/10/- buyers. Phii in bulk, Oct.-Nov. SUSI 76 sellers/.

Coconut Oil:—London, Oct. 9-1 in bulk, c.i.f. U.K. and North E ports, Oct.-Nov. £Stg.9s seller. N© Oct. 9: Straits, crude, c.i.f., bulk Oct. £B9 per ton sellers.

Cocoa:—London, Sept. 15: Acc:: in bond (buyers). £Stg.223/10( ton.

Coffee:—London, Sept. 15; Tar (unwashed native robustai f.a.qp Oct. shipment £Stg.249: Nov. £ Dec. £ 5tg.246; Jan. £Stg.24t £ Stg.24o, all per ton W Indonesian robustas (washed and Sept.-Oct. shipment, A.P.I. £Stg.27B c.i.f. Singapore.

Rubber:—London, Oct. 8 Snottj Std. 26 7 / B d.

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FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSe BANK and BANK OF NZ. Aust Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £x Selling, £ All 3. Fiji-London, baM London: B, £llO/15/-; S. £ll2. basis £lOO NZ; B. £lll/11/9; S. i SAMOA—Through BANK OF Nc tralia on Samoa, basis £lOO B. £ A123/12/6; S. £AI24/10/9. .i London, basis £lOO London: B.

S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis * B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-F- -£lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £ 110..1

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