PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly FEBRUARY, 1958 Vcl. XXVIII. No. 7 ablished 1930 gistered at the G.P.0., Sydney, transmission by vost as a newspaper] A bright Fijian smile from Somo Somo, Taveuni, Fiji, photographed by J. B. Bailey.

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Dealers: New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., Wau and Lae. Rabaul Trading Co. Ltd.

DUTCH NEW GUINEA: H. Englebert n.v., Hollandia.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Mr. K. H. Dalyrymple Hay, Honiara.

NEW CALEDONIA: Agence Automobile, Noumea.

TAHITI: Hintze & Company, Papeete.

NEW HEBRIDES: Kerr Bros. Limited, Sydney.

FIJI: Niranjans Service Station, Suva. 3 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Brayboh n KVA diesel sets ’We feature here one of our larger industrial light and power plants which will jperate motor up to 5 H.P. 3 phase. Sets are available petrol or diesel from to 100 KVA capacities.

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Telephone MA 6853 TELEGRAMS: '‘Braybonian**, Sydney PEOPLE The Very Rev. Timothy Connolly, iperior General of the Coiumban ithers, in the course of a world spection of Coiumban Missions, sited Fiji in January. The Columin community established there six ars ago, will shortly be increased r four priests to 19 members. ♦ * * When John Gunther, son of the isistant Administrator of P-NG, *. John Gunther, began his studies The King’s School, Parramatta, 3W, in early February, he was e fourth successive generation of » family to attend the school. ♦ * ♦ Honiara, in the British Solomons, ,s well represented in Sydney in nuary. Among Honiara people leave or passing through on siness were Mr. John Morris, Mr. 2k Byron, Mr. and Mrs. Ross jhardson and daughter Avon, Geoff Dennis, Mr. E. J. joney and Mr. Jan Schenke. art Moresby businessman, Mr. 1 Maloney, got some publicity he Australian Press in January, n he decided to take a six weeks' day at Queensland’s Surfers’ adise with his wife and three dren. intrigued the Press was that was given permission by the G Administration to bring along native servants. This, these days, [?] nguist and missionary H. Myron Bromley, [?] ographed in Hollandia in January after [?]leting four years among natives in the [?] r al Highlands of Netherlands New Guinea, [?] was en route to Sydney and the US but [?] will be returning to NNG. As a linguist, [?] main interest is with the population of [?] Baliem Valley.

Photo: W. E. Tausent. 5 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1958

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DISTRIBUTORS: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva, Lautoka and Ba, Levuka, Nukualofa, Apia is not unusual —and Mr. Malom himself has done it before. But I wasn’t allowed to escape the limi light. * * * Two girls from well-known Ne Guinea families won bursaries fi training as pre-school teachers January. The girls, Anne Camera daughter of coffee planter Mr. B!

Cameron, and Margaret O’Loghli daughter of Sir Colman O’Loghli; are both 17 and will attend tl Kindergarten Training College Melbourne for three years befo: coming back to the Territory teachers.

Miss Cameron was born in tl Territory. Her father before the w worked a Wau goldmine.

All the residents of Misima Islan in the Milne Bay district of Papu attended the wedding of Miss Vain Parascos, a former Misima schc teacher, to Thomas Inman, Samarai, in late December. Tl‘ ceremony was performed by tl Rev. Col. White in the Method!

Overseas Mission, Misima.

Mrs. Lorraine Houghton, P-N Director of the Junior Red Croc Mr. T. Thoenness with his bride, formes Miss Robin Hodges, after their marriage Port Moresby in late December.

Photo: Papuan Prim Mr. D. L. Leach, executive of the Auckli[?] surveying firm of Leach and Browne, left A[?] land for Tonga aboard the "Matua" in Janu [?] to inspect progress with the cadestral sur [?] of Tonga which is being made by his c[?] pany.

Photo: J. P. Short! 6 FEBRUARY, 1958-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Tnj FRUIT IES. ... the new fruit-flavored soft-centred sweets ... made by Pascall * * : i 9 n : * i •>* ASSORTED FRUIT FLAVOURS Hl/M/I m Bite through that crisp candy casing and there’s that soft, fruity centre. Suc K a delightful range of flavours in ever handy square-pack of Pascall Fruitie.

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5 in Melbourne in January atding a Red Cross leadership ning centre. There are 250 Junior I Cross members in the Terri- T. * * * sventeen-year-old Nauruan, rinda Itsimeara, in January bele the first girl from Nauru to lin a NSW Leaving Certificate, has been a pupil at the Convent lercy, Parramatta, NSW, for the five years, and now intends to ►me a schoolteacher. ♦ * * lelaide film man Ralph Peter was back in Adelaide in Januafter a visit to Fiji, writing and sting a colour documentary, in Profile, for an Australian pany, Ajax Films, le film is the first of a series documentaries covering social, omic and political aspects of dus countries. Mr. Peterson is tor of the film and stage success, Square Ring. e residents of Rarotonga made :ewell presentation to Mr. and W. N. A. Allison on January 22 to their return to New Zea- Mr. Allison has been Director ducation in recent years, and had resided in the Cook ds for the past twenty years.

Resident Commissioner, Mr. G. 1, presented a cheque on behalf sidents. (See page 41). * * * stor J. B. Keith, Senior Seventh Adventist missionary in New [?] itional lighting of the candies for Miss Normoyle at her 21st birthday party [?] rt Moresby in late December. She is [?] aughter of the P-NG Commissioner of [?] Mr. C. Normoyle, and Mrs. C. Nor- Photo: Papuan Prints. 7

C I F I C Islands Monthly February, 1058

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Guinea, arrived in Auckland in January to commence a threenonths lecture tour, during which ie will visit his home town of hvercargill. ♦ * * Mrs. G. R. Powles, wife of the few Zealand High Commissioner to Western Samoa, attended the annual aeeting of the New Zealand branch of the Pan Pacific and iouth East Asia Women’s Associaion at Auckland in January, i former Suva girl, Miss Dorothy aver, who is a part-time student Melbourne University has suesfully passed her fifth year Law ruinations. Her subjects were ation, equity, company law and iveyancing. She passed with lours in all subjects and equal t in three. She is an ex-pupil of J a Girls’ Grammar School and written several amusing stories PIM in recent years. Her mother I is resident in Suva. ♦ • ♦ Ir. J. f. Ernshaw has been ap- Scout Leader Ben Ellis, of Manihiki, return- [?]I home after a jamboree in Britain, was [?] ewelled in Auckland by Mr. E. F. Prende- [?]t, attached to the Auckland office of the [?] and Territories Dept., and by Mrs. Prende- [?]t. Also returning to the Cooks was Rev. [?] her F. Benetio (not pictured), who had [?]n visiting Holland.

Photo: J. P. Shortall.

Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Turner, who left Auck- [?]d for Suva in the "Matua" in January. [?] Turner was taking up a post with Fiji [?] ders. Ltd.

Photo: J. P. Shortall. 9 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

1 Protect Your Possessions Your household possessions cost you a lot of money, but have you considered what it would cost you to replace them to-day?

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The best protection you can have is Householders Comprehensive Insurance which covers Burglary, Larceny, Theft and Storm and Tempest damage.

Whenever you go on holidays see that your luggage is fully insured against theft,, loss or damage. In these days of high values and equally high replacement costs have your jewellery protected with All Risks Insurance.

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Insurances at Lloyd's and Companies pointed manager of the Bank New Zealand in Suva, Fiji, in sult cession to Mr. C. D. Barford. WL Ernshaw has been with the Barr, since 1927 and has served in mam branches in New Zealand, and, 1956-57, in the London office. Sim returning to NZ from the UK : has been sub-inspector at Wellinn ton head office.

Fijian Methodist Minister R©' Setareki Tuilovoni made a colouu ful picture in the opinion of Peril (West Australia) people, when I arrived there in January wearing g sulu, and carrying an umbrella thri had just accompanied him aroum the world. Tuilovoni was return ing to Fiji after attending an inteo; national missionary conference Ghana.

Lady Gutch, wife of the Higi Commissioner for the Westers Pacific, passed through Sydney i the end of January, en route froo* Britain to her home in Honiam Mr. and Mrs. A. Herrick returned to Sw[?] in the "Matua" in January after three mont[?] in New Zealand. Mr. Herrick has been busin[?] manager for the London Missionary Society [?] Fiji for the past 25 years.

Photo: J. P. Shortall A big crowd attended the marriage Papuans, Oala and Rarva, at the London Missionary Society Church, in Port Meres [?] on December 28.

Photo: Papuan Prim 10 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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N.8D.42 SIP. Sir John returned from long ave in October, in order to attend te South Pacific Commission session in Noumea.

Mr. G. W. A. Perks has been pointed Resident Agent of luke, Cook Is., in succession to '. K. S. Mills who has returned New Zealand to continue iversity studies.

Ay. Perks is aged 37, married, :h no children. He served as ministrative Assistant to the strict Commissioner, Nyasaland, 1948, was accountant with an company in Sumatra for two irs, spent some time with a Suva siness firm, and has lately been employee of the NZ Ministry Works at Dargaville, North ckland. ’he marriage took place at lier, NZ, in December, of Miss :gy Allison, daughter of Mr. W.

A. Allison, then the Director of ication in the Cook Islands, and 5. Allison, with Mr. Tony Bird, aierly a radio operator at 'otonga Radio.

'he bride, who has just passed final nursing examinations, was m away by Mr. Doug Cunnold, ner Superintendent of Radio in Cook Is., in the absence of her tier.

Mrs. and Mrs. Charles Kelly after their [?]riage in Port Moresby in late December. was formerly Miss D. Twembow.

Photo: Papuan Prints. [?] r. and Mrs. Strath Garside were among many Islands' people who attended the [?] nesian Association's New Year party in [?]ey. Mr. Garside was a radio announcer ZJV Suva, and his attractive wife was former Luck Kwong, of Suva. 11 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Mr. Kenneth Hemus, lately beaus master at Akaaka School, Waiulsij near Auckland, NZ, has be«s appointed Principal of Tonsr College in succession to Mr.

Kennedy, MA. Mr. Hemus is < married man with a family.

Mr. C. W. Seton, well knowc planter of the British Solomonc was in the Repatriation Generc; Hospital, Brisbane, in January, fi a few weeks treatment fi osteoarthritis which caused him lose the use of both legs some timi ago. He reports that he is nor recovering. * * * The Administrator of P-N>V Brigadier Cleland, was back at M desk in Port Moresby in Februae Australians of Polynesian descent, M[?] Donald Dodd and her sister, Loraine Watt[?] were among those at the Polynesian Assoc[?] tion's New Year party in Sydney.

Captain Frank Hoeter, MBE, formerly [?] PNGVR, Madang, returned to P-NG in Februa [?] after six months' leave in Australia. He [?] pected to be posted to Rabaul in his capaci[?] as a sub-inspector of police. While in A[?] tralia. Captain Hoeter qualified at the Atom[?] Warfare Course at the School of Infant[?] Seymour. 12 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Anyone can paint well with Spred Satin, with brush or roller, painting with Spred Satin is child’s play. You don’t have to turn the room upside-down, Spred Satin the rubber latex wonder paint won’t drip, goes on smoothly, dries within 20 minutes, and has no unpleasant painty smell. See the wonderful range of fade-resistant colours now. Use Spred Satin.

Approach us direct or our Representatives for the Pacific Islands: DEMKA AGENCIES Pty. Limited 2-12 Carrington Street, Sydney, N.S.W. iter leave in Australia. He and Mrs. 51eland spent much of the time •isiting Tasmania.

Many New Guinea people and ;veral former residents attended le Australian Institute of Political nence three-day summer school in anberra in January.

The subject was Papua-New uinea, and among those who atnded were the Administrator, /igadier Cleland, and Mrs. Cleland /ho were on leave), Dr. John anther, Messrs. Bob Bunting, lan awns, John Hohnen, Bill Conroy, sorge Whittaker and his son, Dr. vian Whittaker (who is now with e Australian National University, inberra), C. Rowley (principal of e Australian School of Pacific Adinistration), Gus O’Donnell and s. O’Donnell, and Norman Cowper. group of P-NG patrol officers 10 attended, on leave, included ?ssrs. Bill Brown and Ron Neville.

Samoan has been top man in :Kland for some time past. He d.r. Paul Gabriel, who has been ervising the erection of a 175-ft erhouse chimney at Greenlane pital. Now nearing completion, chimney will be a new major -ure of the Auckland skyline.

Mr. F. M. Bateson (left), who was return- [?]g from a US lecture on astronomy, and Mr. [?] R. McKegg, of the Cook Islands' Trading [?] were among the passengers in the "Maui [?]mare", en route from Auckland to the Cooks late December. Photo: J. P. Shortall.

Mis happy pair, Mr. Chris Straatemeter and bride formerly Miss M. Dennis, were [?] ographed just after their marriage in [?] mber at St. John's Church, Port Moresby.

Photo: Papuan Prints.

CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT_F E B R U A R Y . 1958

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Pacific Islands Monthly Contents: No. 7. Vol XXXVIII FEBRUARY, 1958 PEOPLE: Personal Para graphs of Islands’ Interest 5 Complete Review and Comparison of Copra Prices . 17 Queen Mother’s Brief Visit to Fiji 17 First Day Under Fiji’s New Drinking Laws is Quiet and Orderly 18 Fiji and Tonga Hit by NZ’s New Import Cut in Bananas 19 Relief for the Big New Caledonian Droughts . .. 19 Possibility of Income Tax for P-NG Soon 20 Pacific Islands’ Regiment is Having “Officer Trouble” . 20 P-NG Labour Laws Will Be Debated by March Legco . 20 New Moves in Indonesia .. 20 A Full Review of Latest French and Australian Air Moves 21 W. Samoa Criticises New Zealand 21 Reported Sale of Fiji Airways to Qantas 21 More Hotels for the South Seas: Latest Moves .. .. 23 Commentary: The Publisher and the Editors Look at Pacific and World Affairs 25 The Editors’ Mailbag .. ~ 29 Australia’s “Nino Culotta”

Makes a Literary Debut . 29 Territories’ Talk-Talk .. .. 31 “West N. Guinea Belongs To Us” (Says an Old Hand, Who Explains How He Captured It) 33 A Fijian Makes a Plea for Tolerance 37 Behind the Scenes With the Jap Tuna Fishers .. .. 38 Popular Cook Islands’ Educator Resigns 41 How to Make a Vast Fortune From Crocodiles 43 There May Be Some More Asian ’Flu in the Pacific . 47 An Australian Gives His Views on a Federation of Melanesia 49_ New Standards Sought for P-NG Cocoa Industry .. 55 A Review of a New Pidgin Grammar 55 Mr. Hasluck’s Canberra Address, Reviewed by R.W.R. 61 It’s Not All Paradise in the S. Pacific, says a French Journalist 71 More Facts About the Cross of La Perouse 79 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 81; Crossword, Brett Hilder Profile, 82; Sweet-talking a Tongan Shark, 83; Native Jumpers of Pentecost Island, 84; The Tragic Story of “Kar Kar” Schmidt, 86; The Month’s New Reading .. 88 Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts 101

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Dealers: New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., Wau and Lae. Rabaul Trading Co. Ltd.

DUTCH NEW GUINEA: H. Englebert n.v., Hollandia.

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Mr. K. H. Dalyrymple Hay, Honiara.

NEW CALEDONIA: Agence Automobile, Noumea.

TAHITI: Hintze & Company, Papeete.

NEW HEBRIDES: Kerr Bros. Limited, Sydney.

FIJI: Niranjans Service Station, Suva.

International Harvester Company of Australia Pty. Ltd. District Sales Offices in Capital Cities of Australia. Works—Dandenong and Geelong, Victoria. PIM 967.32 16 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLYY

Control and Prices In Solomons Following the resignation on December 31 of Mr. E. J.

Thomsett, as chief official of the British Solomon Islands Copra Board, the Board's affairs will be conducted by the BSI Trading Corporation.

The Copra Board will still be the administrating body. It announced that, as from January 1, the ruling price of copra within the Solomons will be: 1st Grade, £51 ; 2nd Grade, £40; and 3rd Grade, £44. Prices (reviewed monthly) rose 30/in Feb. —See page 151.

Mr. Thomsett (who was the first non-Government official to be Chairman of the Copra Board) has left the Protectorate after a period of ten years, associated with the copra industry. fferent Territories and Different Procedures omparison of Copra Prices [?]New Guinea and Fiji The way in which the Australian authorities in the Dual Territory of Papua and New Guinea now are handling the Territory’s copra output is of significance to all the South Pacific Territories.

VERY one of the 16 South Pacific Territories produces copra; and in all except Fiji ?ar), Samoa (cocoa) and New edonia (metals) it is the domincrop. 3Uth Pacific production scarcely cts the world market, however, lippines is the largest producer, )wed by Indonesia, Southeast i and Ceylon. The world products about 3 million tons; and th Pacific does not export much e than 200,000 tons, le annual production of P-NG low close to 100,000 tons. No t South Pacific Territory pro- 's more than a quarter of this.

P-NG Marketing Board ie disposal of the whole of the a output of P-NG is in the is of the Papua and New Guinea ra Marketing Board, which was ip under a special Ordinance in , and which is responsible to Australian Territories Minister, is not part of the P-NG Adstration structure. It comprises chairman (who actually is the I executive officer), three memrepresenting the P-NG copra ucers, the Director of Agriculand one other. le Board has power to control sale of all copra that goes outof P-NG; but it has no control buying and selling within j. For example, P-NG traders larly buy quantities of copra both European and native ucers, and sell to the Board.

Planters’ Association recently i the Minister to amend the nance, to ensure that all copra ken by the Board, e biggest buyer of copra within > is the Carpenter crushing at Rabaul (Coconut Products —it could probably crush the e P-NG output of 100,000 tons; MG Growers Get £47: Fiji owers £s7—See page 149. there is no legal reason why mill should not purchase its s directly from the growers, t—apparently for the sake of 1 economy and orderly market- )f P-NG’s main product—some igement has been made under i the mill buys the whole of its rements from the Board, at a agreed upon.

The price to the mill is kept in line with the dominating factor— the sale of about 20,000 tons per annum to Unilever (Raw Materials) Ltd., London, at a price regulated by the prevailing quotation in the Philippines market —and the delivery to the mill in 1958, apparently by agreement, is to be 40,000 tons.

The effect of all this is as follows: • All the copra produced in Papua and New Guinea is delivered to the Marketing Board, either directly, by the growers, or indirectly, through traders. • Until otherwise notified, persons delivering copra to the Board at the main ports receive, provisionally, a price ranging from £A47 to £A4S/7/6 per ton, according to grade; and if the Board finds, on periodical adjustment of accounts, that it has made, net, more than this from the sale of the copra, the persons delivering the copra will receive a “dividend” in addition to those rates. • On the assumption that the P-NG production will be 95,000 tons, the Board proposes in 1958 to supply 10,000 tons to the Rabaul mill; 20,000-22,000 tons to Unilever; between 26,000 and 30,000 tons to mills In Australia, for Australian consumption; and the balance to the open market.

It is not anticipated that the present “tentative” price of £A47 for first-class copra will be altered, unless there is a marked change in the governing factor—namely, the Philippines quotation.

The £47 price, fixed in January, as compared with the then prevailing Philippines quotation, seemed to leave th-r Board with a safe margin for contingencies. This suggests that there should be a “dividend” for growers, in later adjustments. l i ? (Over) W elcome I t's clearly a warm meeting between Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Motherland Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna, at Churchill Park, Lautoka, on January 31. Her Majesty's two-day visit, made en route to NZ and Australia, was crowded with colour and ceremony. It seemed that every Fijian for hundreds of miles came to pay homage. Photo: Akbar's Studios. 17 IF, C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

Sydney Habits In

A New Suva Bar

They have Sydney habits Suva.

After the bar of the old CIV Hotel, in Suva (now being n built as a first-class hotel) iwj reopened early on February \ it was crowded all day by o and new friends —and it is t% biggest bar in Suva.

When business commences early, Manager Max Lovell out, for use, 864 glasses gross). When he closed up 9.30 p.m., and made anothtf check, there were 144—10 doze> s or about 14 per cent., had be& “pinched”!

A marked movement upwards in the Manila quote might mean an increase in the £47 “tentative” price.

A marked fall in Manila certainly would mean a reduction in the £47 rate.

Months may elapse before P-NG producers will know how the new system is working. In some ways, the Board will be feeling its way. However, the presence of three producers’ representatives on the sixmember Board gives the growers an assurance that their interests will be closely studied at the regular Board meetings.

If P-NG growers ultimately get £5O, per ton, they will be down £7 per ton on the rates they got in 195[7 (£57 per ton.) , It is now quite clear, of course, that a “pool” system is being operated.

All the P-NG copra goes into a common pool, and is graded. The “tentative” price per ton is paid at once, according to the grading. The Board markets the copra, and credits the pool.

The Board pays all the costs (storage, handling, grading, shipping, insuring, accounting, shrinkage, etc.), and charges same against the pool. If the net result at the end of the accounting periods (probably every 12 months) is better than those “tentative” prices, then there is a dividend for the growers, (Continued page 149)

Copra Prices

IN SAMOA APIA, January 20.

The announcement that the new copra-buying rates will be considerably reduced has seriously affected the great mass of Western Samoa copra producers.

The price under the contract with the British Ministry of Food (which terminated at the end of December, 1957), was £55 Stg. per ton, f.o.b. Apia.

The new price, fixed for the first quarter of 1958 only, is £45/14 - Sterling for hot-air dried, £43/19 - for sun-dried Her. l, and £42/19/- for sundried No. 2.

These prices have been made under our 1958 contract with Unilever Ltd., based on the ruling open-market price for Philippines copra, plus a premium of £3 per ton for hot-air dried, 35 - for sun-dried No. 1, and 5 - for sun-dried No. 2. These premiums are dependent on the maintenance of the quality standards established recently. (Note: W. Samoa’s £ is equal to the NZ £, which is at par with Sterling. Therefore, £1 Samoan is, equal to about r U 4/6 Australian.)

Quiet And Orderly

Beer-Drinking

Fijians' 'New Freedom' On February 3 From a Special Representative Suva’s first day of beer-withoutpermits, for Fijian and Indian males over 18 years of age, on February 3, was a victory for the protagonists of the system.

The good behaviour of those who were permitted to drink for the first time in hotels was a blow for those who had forecast dire results.

Restraint and orderliness were apparent all day in Suva’s five hotels.

The majority of public bar patrons were Fijians: and Fijians have a reputation—often deserved— for becoming objectionable and unruly when under the influence.

There was no unseemly behaviour whatever on February 3.

Groups of Fijians in the bars chatted animatedly among themselves, or called out cheerfully to friends.

However, it is difficult to form a balanced judgment on what happened on this one day. There are a number of factors to be considered.

The first day of “free beer” was two working days after pay-day, and a week-end after the Club Hotel public bar was reopened; and a large proportion of these Fijians already had had “permits” to drink.

End-of-th e-m on th pay-days usually bring bedlam in their wake in and outside all hotels in Suva.

On Friday night, January 31, there was the usual noise.

Next day, February 1, the Club Hotel bar reopened (see elsewhere) —and for years before its closure this was the traditional meetingplace of Fijians. So the Fijians had had three opportunities prior to February 3 to spend money on beer.

It could be that permit-holders already had spent their money; and the new drinkers were proceeding with caution.

Scenes in the Bars I made several tours of Suva’s hotels during February 3, and this is my summary.

Grand Pacific. —The public bar almost as quiet as a cemetery, with the biggest crowd between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Few voices were raised.

Bar patrons sat in groups and talked quietly among themselves.

Melbourne. —Everybody well behaved, and the licensee reported no “incidents”. He asked one man to stop singing—but nothing unusual in this.

Club. —Fairly well crowded during most of the day. Biggest crowd, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The usual hum. conversation generally assocowith a big bar. The assembly sees happy, but no one was objection!

There were about 100 there closing time.

Garrick.— A big crowd all until about 7 p.m.—no untoward cidents.

Metropole. —A big crowd dvf the evening, but all quiet. Thisl closed an hour before normal ing time.

Regular police patrols may had some effect. Off-duty police f noticeable among the well-behrf bar patrons.

From Ba it was reported thaif bars were “quiet”. There were ; a handful of new patrons—ttwho held no permits in the pasi At Tavua, it was pay-day, , the bar was crowded: but tf was no unruliness. There about 50 new patrons.

At Lautoka, conditions wvs “normal”.

What the Drinkers Said Mosese Waqa, 23, of Wailoko, , Suva, having his first drink ; hotel with the knowledge thasi policeman would not tap him onn shoulder and ask if he had a pern said he had taken a little time; from work to sample his new-fco freedom, and he “liked” the system.

“This is a good idea”, he s “Now I know that I can haw drink of beer whenever I wan'E there is no temptation to try to) something I was not allowed to ( Tomasi Waicala, of Toga, R(£ who had held a “permit”, said:: j is good to know that my ym T friends can now come and havf drink with me, under good coio tions. They could not go into a r because they had no permits.””

Parmanand, 21, an Indian do who lives in Samabula, said he ; (Continued pag?e 145) 18 FEBRUARY, 1958-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

rade Balance Trouble

Fiji, Tonga Shocked By Nz’S

[?]Lanned Blitz On Banana Imposts

Whatever the outcome of New Zealand’s effort to reduce overseas spending by slashing imports of tropical fruit, it is certain that there will be no more fruit from faraway places for New Zealanders for some time to come: No more bananas from Ecuador; pineapples from Hawaii; or citrus from the Middle East. But those most rocked by Prime Minister Nash’s bombshell of January 2 were Fiji and Tonga banana producers.

WEN had there been no change i of government at the recent New Zealand general election it was rtain that action was imminent reduce the depletion of overseas nds, but the announcement of a per cent, cut in fresh fruit imrts from areas outside the New aland currency zone caused shock d consternation to the New Zeaid fruit trade and to growers and ippers in Fiji and Tonga.

Most extraordinary feature of the lasure was that it was apparently :en without any reference to, or isultation with, anyone in those rritories. As soon as the fruit de in New Zealand had had time absorb the announcement, which s made on January 2 and became active from the previous day, the ongest possible representations re made to the government linst the measure by both the olesale and retail trade, rhe Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald rvey, on behalf of the Fiji Govment, sent a radio message to the me Minister of NZ pointing out hardships which the Fiji banana iustry would suffer if NZ put its lana restrictions into effect.

Ir. Nash replied that an urgent .ruination of the position would carried out immediately.

Production Down Ip until the end of January there 1 been no further developments, the case of Fiji, the 25 per cent. , which was to be based on 1956 jorts, would be particularly un- ', as banana production was m by at least 200,000 cases from recent average due to widespread nage to crops by bad weather that r. hit there would be other serieffects. iji has a very strong historical im to favourable consideration R New Zealand, having supplied t market for the past century. 3 whole industry has been based the New Zealand market —there no other at the present time— I New Zealand fruit importers r e operated a steady campaign, r recent years especially, to enrage Fiji growers to extend their plantings and improve the quality of the fruit.

The effect of a cut at this stage would be a severe blow on the morale of the growers and New Zealand would certainly lose face, even though the Government had not had anything to do directly with encouraging the Fiji banana industry.

Less Planting New Zealand importers know that imposition of this restriction, even if only for one year, would almost certainly result in a reduction in plantings and a turning away from the crop which they have worked so hard to encourage.

The Pacific banana crop is, of course, almost entirely native grown.

The cut might also have a serious effect on the Union Steam Ship Company. They have a new vessel, the Tarawera, of 1,750 tons deadweight cargo capacity, now building in Hongkong and due to enter the Islands service next August.

This vessel has been designed especially for the fruit trade and built at the urging of the New Zealand fruit importers. It would be uneconomic to divert the ship to the general cargo trade.

Western Samoa will be uneffected by the restriction and will even benefit, as there have been occasions in recent months when Samoan shippers have protested that insufficient cargo space has been allocated to them in comparison with that reserved for Fiji shippers.

In this connection there should be food for thought on the part of those people in Western Samoa who may be over-anxious to cut the New Zealand apron strings. The favoured treatment now enjoyed will probably cease in a few years time.

As far as Island growers are concerned, the restriction will effect only Fiji and Tonga. The latter has also been encouraged to extend banana plantings in recent years.

On Other Pages

New Administrator for Norfolk, p. 136, Freak Pacific Weather, p. 136; Fiji's Chief Justice Retires, p. 139; Sea Drama Off Lae, p. 139; Brighter Side in W. Samoa, p. 115.

Rain Eases New Caledonia Drought, But Still Severe Shortage of Meal From PlM’s Noumea Correspondent A week of heavy, widespread rain relieved New Caledonia’s long drought in January. r[E rain was general, and the Loyalty islands got a share of it.

However, despite this welcome relief, the meat situation was becoming even more grave in late January, for it could not be expected to pick up overnight.

Butchers were open only twice a week in Noumea, with customers mipiieine for tlrpir jtttcT even then missing out P ln country closed down entirely.

The Oucoa meat works on the west coast has temporarily ceased canning because of the lack of ca ttle.

Meanwhile, there is agitation for official rationing of meat so that everyone can get a share. Some butchers have been fined heavily for overcharging.

Mainstay of the butchers is imported Australian pork, The drought has brought several suggestions for solving similar problems in the future, In the Loyalty group where things have been especially critical because most drinking water comes £ hmS Pt fr,rt h °o'i'vor-l?1 1x13.00 to t&p holes cind C3Vorxis known to exist in the bands’ coral and reported to contain i^being™ex^ned^ 1 "' Th 6 prOJ6Ct Another idea is* to follow Australia’s successful rain-making experiments. xwo members have tabled a motion in the Territorial Assembly, suggesting that similar experiments be tried but' in New Caledonia (possibly involving Lancasters with the French Air Fleet Arm). 19

Acific Islands Monthly— February, 19 M

The Ng Riots

Officer Problem

With The Pir

• The cause of the Pacific Islands Regiment’s lost week-end in December, during which so-called "well trained” native troops rioted in Port Moresby streets and later stormed into and broke up a court sitting, can now apparently be summed up in just two words — "officer trouble”.

THE Australian Army is now reviewing the system under which it has been sending officers to the P-NG native regiment, for criticism it has got from every side has pointed to this as the grave PIR weakness.

At present, Australian officers are sent to New Guinea for two-year terms. But because of the officer shortage or resignations they do not always remain their full period.

In any case, the officers are usually comparatively inexperienced at handling men, and certainly native troops, and in addition they do not live with the troops.

Most of them, with wives and families, live in rented Army houses at Murray Barracks, some miles from Taurama where the native troops are housed. Some junior officers only may stay at the Taurama mess.

Been Working Up The December trouble has probably been working up for some time.

Some PIR troops have played up before, to a less serious extent, but as the events occurred within their barracks they were given no publicity.

In fact, with the latest trouble, the Army has been most unoperative in accepting advice, even from the Administration, which naturally has an interest in what goes on in its own territory.

The PlR’s attitude seems to be that the matter is the Army’s business, and nobody else’s. As a result, relations between the PIR and the Administration are at the moment strained, and between the PIR and civilian population they are at an all-time low.

Many P-NG people most experienced with natives say the healthiest way out of the trouble is for the PIR to discharge all its present troops, and commence training afresh.

Interest of Former Commander Keen interest in the causes of the recent troubles has been expressed by Colonel H. T. Allan, OBE, who had command of the first Pacific Islands Regiment in New Guinea at the conclusion of World War 11.

Colonel Allan told PIM that he probably would visit New Guinea in March and he hoped to have a chance of studying the causes of the unrest among these servicemen.

He thinks it may be due in part to the inexperience of young officers.

“I feel that in New Guinea a system is wanted akin to that of the old Indian Army, where officers served their cadetship, learned the language and spent the whole of their service with their Indian troops”, said Colonel Allan.

The Colonel said that at the end of the last war he had a revolt in the Third New Guinea Infantry Battalion in Rabaul, and it could have been much more serious than the one in Moresby. “But,” he said, “I had with me experienced New Guinea officers like Norman Neal, Sepik Robbie, Lee Ashton, Jack Mullaby, Don Barrett, Harry Read, Murchison and others. They understood the natives and the causes of the trouble, and the revolt soon subsided”.

In Sydney, in January, Captain Frank Hoeter of the PNGVR, suggested, independently, that the PIR should consider adopting the training system of the old British Ghurka Regiment, which would mean that Duntroon graduates would be sent to the PIR on a permanent posting.

Oil Shares Slump

Shares in Oil Search slumped on the Australian stock exchange in early February following news that Vacuum would not put in money beyond the current Papuan drilling programme.

See Commerce, page 164.

Vital New Moves In Indonesia The move against the Soekarno Government by Central Sumatran Army Officers on February 9 may yet be checked. But it does mean the early collapse of the “Republic of Indonesia’’.

Economically, the former Dutch East Indies Empire of 83 millions is falling to pieces. Such orderly government as remains cannot last much longer. A series of “rebellions” in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes and Moluccas—is likely.

The situation—of vital interest to the South Pacific—could develop eventually as a fight for control of Indonesia between the Communist party, directed from Asia, and the Moslem sections, led by Dr. Hatta.

Australia, maintaining armed forces in Malaya and probably in North Borneo, can scarcely escape involvement.

Meanwhile, a very large proportion of the world’s copra supply is “frozen” in Indonesia by lack of marketing and shipping facilities.

Now A “Hot” Question

Income Tax

For P-N. Guinea

IT is possible—even, at the momenn probable—that taxation of incomes in Papua and New Guineis which was approved in principle fccf the Australian Cabinet in 1957—win commence as from July 1, 1958.

Most Australian Ministers am high officials, seeing the high profitf which P-NG traders make out o P-NG’s national income (two-fiftM: of which represents Australias bonuses), are wholly in favour of in. come taxation.

But action has been deferred bee cause of the practical difficulties it applying the system to the politicos economic set-up in P-NG. Here an some of them, with the answers supi plied by the pro-tax advocates: P-NG people already are taxe: heavily through Import Duties. ..

ANSWER: No more heavily thas in Australia, where both impo;c duties and income tax apply.

Private enterprise will he dus couraged, especially in planting. ..

A: Wipe out the export duties o copra, cocoa, coffee, rubber, and tH; gains thus made by the plants should about equal his income tae The tax will fall heavily upey the traders—and most of the smallV new enterprises in P-NG now aw: being financed from traders’ surphl profits. . . A: As these big profifl come mainly from Australia’s annuu £lO million donation to P-NG proportion of them should go baoi to P-NG in income tax.

Taxation of the incomes of P-NV public servants will seriously distuw. the whole basis of their preset salaries and allowances. . . Thee appears to be no answer to that om It could be that an increase : Public Service pay to take care ■ increased taxation would be so larji as to absorb much of the planmr income tax.

The matter is under urgent rn view. It is possible that the two mas difficulties (disturbance of the pubic service, and discouragement of pm vate investment and enterprise) mu cause further postponement of tit taxation plan.

NG Labour Laws as Scheduled—Almost P-NG’s proposed new Native Labour legislation will come before the Legislative Council in March as scheduled. But it is unlikely to be put to the vote.

After debate, the vital legislation will probably be held over to the mid-year meeting. 20 FEBRUARY. 1 958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

French and Australian Air Moves

Qantas May Close The Sw

Pacific Air Gap

• The overall effect of plans now being developed by French and Australian airline companies will be to bring all Pacific Islands’ residents closer to one another and to everyone else. A Pacific island can still be remote —but not very often. i/fOST interesting air development rl of the past month is the survey flight carried out by antas in mid-January from Lae to oumea via Honiara (BSIP), Santo id Vila (New Hebrides).

A report is now being prepared ir the company’s directors, but iere is every possibility that this st link in the South-West Pacific r circle will be in operation withthe next 12 months.

At the present time, anyone in e New Hebrides or New Caledonia 10 wants to visit the Solomons may r so by infrequent ship connection or by flying via Australia and New Guinea. The air distance between Santo and Honiara is only a few hundred miles and what Qantas now proposes is long overdue.

The Solomons link with Australia is now by DC3 shuttle service between Honiara and Lae, where passengers connect with the Bird Of Paradise DC4 service, Qantas began this service about 10 years ago.

For several years, the Hebrides were served by flying-boats—first by Trans Oceanic Airways, later by Qantas. The Qantas service was an extension of the Noumea service and when Qantas flying-boats were withdrawn in mid-1955 and replaced with Skymasters the Hebrides lost their air connection with the outside world for about 12 months — until the French air company, Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux commenced operations Noumea- Vila-Santo with DC3 aircraft in July, 1956.

Airstrips at Vila and Santo were not up to required DCA standard for the DC4 aircraft that Qantas proposed to use. The new service extending from Honiara will, if it eventuates, be with DC3’s. The DCS used on the Lae-Honiara service is with the usual commercial aircraft amenities—unlike the rest of the DCS’s used in the Territory which are of the high-density type, furnished with tin soap-dish, backless seats along the sides of the fuselage.

The new service would be a boon to business people and others wishing to make a grand-circle visit to the SW Pacific. At Noumea, the traveller could connect with the Qantas service to Sydney: and the TAI services to Auckland, Fiji, and Brisbane. Through TAI it would provide BSIP residents with an alternative route to Europe; and also through this airline with a link with the trans-Pacific services at Nadi, and with the Coral Route service to Cook Islands, Samoa and Tahiti.

TAI Proposed Service No finality has been reached in the Noumea-Tahiti service proposed by TAI. Discussions are currently proceeding between the French airline and the New Zealand Government.

It is proposed to run the service from Noumea to Bora Bora (with a flying-boat shuttle service to Papeete) via Nadi, and either the Cook Islands or Samoa.

There is no official confirmation of the take-over of the regional French Polynesia air-service (RAI) by TAI interests—but plenty of unofficial reports of this and other matters.

Air Moves in Fr. Polynesia From Our New Zealand Correspondent.

IN January, when a Catalina aircraft from Tahiti flew to New Zealand, it was planned to reach Auckland via Suva. But the hurri- Reported Sale Of Fiji Airways Although it was definitely anunced in Suva on February 8 that Irs. A. F. Gatty has agreed to 1 to Qantas Empire Airways her ;e husband’s shares in Katafaga tates Ltd”, the Qantas manage- ;nt in Sydney on February 10 knew thing of any such agreement.

PIM was informed that Qantas bmitted an offer to Mrs. Gatty ne time ago, but had received no )ly. Qantas would make no further nment. katafaga is the Lau Island purised in 1951 by Mr. and Mrs. itty. Its ownership was taken over a company, formed by Mr. and ■s. Gatty; and funds from that mpany established Fiji Airways 1951. Ownership of Katafaga ians ownership of Fiji Airways. :t seems clear that if Mrs. Gatty prepared to sell, the transaction mot be completed legally until )bate is granted in Mr. Gatty’s ate.

Jantas owns and operates a large tion of New Guinea’s internal vices, as part of its main busies (which is inter-continental). ere is no indication of how it 1 handle Fiji Airways, in the mt of a purchase.

This purchase would mean that 1 another Australian corporation entering Fiji. Those already ablished there include CSR Co.; rns Philp; W. R. Carpenter & ; Bank of NSW; ANZ Bank; peror Gold Mines; and some filer concerns. The only large i-Australian-owned corporations rating in Fiji are Union SS Co., i Bank of NZ.

NEARLY PENNILESS, THEY SAY— W. Samoa Critical of New Zealand A WEST SAMOA Public Servant, Mr. Alan Gordon, schools’ broadcasting officer, joined the critics of New Zealand’s colonial administration in the NZ press in January.

He said that while New Zealand was expending large sums on the Colombo Plan, Western Samoa, its “main colonial responsibility” was in grave difficulties because of a near penniless administration.

All developmental public works have ceased in Savai’i and 200 Public Works employees have been dismissed, Mr. Gordon says. Schools may be closed and up to 200 teachers —about a third of the teaching strength—may be dismissed. There will be no new intake to the Teachers’ Training College this year.

Skilled New Zealand staff are being sent home or are not being replaced when their contracts end.

New Zealand is in danger of losing face in W. Samoa, said Mr. Gordon.

The carrying out of her honourable intentions was left to amateurs.

Australia, he said, spent millions of pounds annually in Papua-New Guinea but little of New Zealand’s own money went into Western Samoa.

“Now is the time for New Zealand to give practical expression to her oft-repeated good wishes by making grants for education and public works and by making loan money available at attractive rates to promote secondary industries,” he said.

Mr. Gordon says that the Samoans have been most tolerant for many many years but, now that they are steering the ship they will also want to plot the course. Wise guidance and practical friendliness at this time would give New Zealand a better opportunity to say to the Commonwealth in three years’ time: “Samoa has asked to join our family; we are proud of her decision”. (See Commentary, page 27) 21 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

cane which had battered Fiji on the previous day offered fair winds and a great saving in gasoline for a direct flight from Aitutaki (Cooks), which was completed in 12 h hours on January 8.

The aircraft skirted the extreme southern fringes of the hurricane, using the winds of its clock-wise circulation for a favourable boost of up to 26 miles per hour.

The Catalina, piloted by New Zealander Alexander Frame, and with Captain R. Seitre as co-pilot, and Messrs. M. Diard and J. Bataille as flight engineers, was one of the two owned by the local French Polynesia inter-island service.

This organisation, formerly known as Regie Arien Inter-insulaire—RAl for short—is, as from January 1, Messageries Arien Interinsulaire— MAI. RAI was a totally governmentowned organisation under the jurisdiction of the local Public Works Department. The new owners are an amalgamation of Messageries Maritimes—the shipping company— and TAl—Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux.

Plans are already afoot for the establishment of a regular twomonthly flight from Papeete to certain Tuamotu islands, two flights per annum to the Austral Is., two to Mangareva, and later, for occasional flights to the Marquesas, in addition to the present regular services to the Leeward Group.

When a representative of TAI passed through Suva in mid-No- \ ember he said that TAI would commence a service from Noumea to Borabora in January. Captain Frame said that he assumed that his service would commence when the sealing of the Bora Bora airstrip and the establishment of radio-beacon facilities were completed, probably in February. The work was progressing well.

Captain Frame said that plans for the establishment of an airfield cf international standard at Papeete appeared still to be at a standstill as far as actual construction was concerned, though there may be progress in the organisational sphere.

However, both TEAL and MAI have transferred their facilities to the intended site at Faaa, near the Hotel Les Tropiques. MAI has a maintenance workshop and passenger facilities there.

Captain Frame reported that Mr.

Richard K. Kimball, of Honolulu, who operated some “men only” flights to Tahiti in 1956 has now acquired a “luxury” PBY Catalina flying-boat which arrived at Papeete in mid-December with half a dozen passengers and was due again in mid-January, flying via Christmas Island.

The operational owners of this aircraft are the Friends of Tahiti Club of Honolulu. A privately owned “club” aircraft apparently is not subject to the American civil aviation licensing restrictions which hamper commercially-owned aircraft in their non-scheduled opera*: tions.

Captain Frame said that theis was also an unconfirmed story i Papeete that the French authoritid there had now granted South Pacifii Air Lines of Honolulu a license t base one of its Solent flying-boats 8 Papeete to maintain a connection with an service operated by lam ’planes from Honolulu to Bora Born It will be recalled that this corm pany was ready to commence regular Honolulu-Papeete Soleia flights when Britain suddenly dd cided to use Christmas Island, as intended staging point, for its H bomb test base.

A later report from Honolulu sa:js that South Pacific Air Lines migl. overcome this difficulty by usim land planes with greater flying range direct from Honolulu to Bora Bora with the company’s present Solenn maintaining the water sector on Papeete, where no airfield exists. .1 However, Captain Frame sail more appeared to be known in tIL outside world of plans in connectioi with air services and air facilitild associated with Tahiti than w;v known in Papeete. Most of his nevs of “what was cooking” in fact cam from PIM, he said.

The two MAI Catalinas, origin ally of the amphibious type, har been partly converted to straiglg flying-boats before going to Papees* several years ago. But the noo (Continued on page 145)

More Hotels in South Seas Rich Canadian's Plans Arouse Some Interest Out of the blue, there has come a development which may assist considerably in solving the tourist accommodation problem in Fiji, to which many references have been made in recent years.

FIJI believes it can materially increase its revenue from tourism, if there were more suitable ictels in Fiji, and especially in Suva.

Fiji in this respect has been handiapped by the ever-mounting costs f hotel construction—now so high s to make the profitable operation f new tourist hotels a difficult latter.

A Canadian group, headed by Mr.

F. Rehnborg, apparently has deeded to enter into the tourist hotel asiness in the South Pacific Islands, [r. Rehnborg and his associates in sry recent weeks have: • Purchased the well known Les ropiques Hotel, which is delightilly situated on the lagoon-side at le western end of Papeete. • Interviewed the directors of the nion SS Cos. of New Zealand Ltd. furtherance of a plan that they lould purchase the Grand Pacific otel, in Suva. • Purchased a block of land on e Suva waterfront, adjoining the rand Pacific Hotel, and announced at, if purchase by them of the rand Pacific Hotel is not practicile, they will establish another st-class hotel there. • Examined the possibilities of tablishing first-class tourist hotels Western Samoa, Eastern Samoa and elsewhere in the South Seas.

Meanwhile, other activities have en reported.

Associated with Mr. Rehnborg are )ssrs. Fletcher C. Kettle and dolphe J. A. de Seife. They have pstered a company called South as Enterprises Ltd., capital 1,500,000 liars. rhe three men left Suva on nuary 23, in Sir Gordon Taylor’s rmuda flying-boat, to inspect posle hotel sites in Aitutaki, Raroiga, Western Samoa and Tahiti, ey now have returned to Canada, tfr. Rehnborg founded and is the id of a successful North American poration called Nutrilite Products ’• of California, which specialises the preparation and distribution foodstuffs, especially fruit and stable extracts.

First Class Hotel ’he well known company, Northern tels Limited, of Fiji, which owns 3 operates a chain of hotels in i, including the well known rolevu resort (a) has taken ir the bar section of the very modern Club Hotel (now being erected at the corner of Victoria Parade and Gordon Street, Suva by Morris Hedstrom Ltd.) and (b) plans the construction of anew first-class hotel in the Waimanu Road area—on the low hill behind Suva city, near the hospital.

It is announced also that another well known Fiji hotel-owner Mr Barry Philp, is planning the construction of a hotel at Namaka on a hill overlooking the Nadi International Airport T . . , , it is presumed that, as a result oi the reconstruction of Nadi airport (decided upon lately by the international authority controlling the main air routes of the South Pacific) the Mocambo Hotel at Nadi (now conducted by Mr. Philp) will be done away with; so that a firstciass hotel will be needed near the international airport.

It is suggested that South Seas Enterprises Ltd. will co-operate with Mr. Philp.

Many people, talking much hot air, have been in the South Pacific Islands in recent years, discussing hotel plans. South Pacific people therefore are somewhat wary of accepting new stories about hotel construction.

However, the history and background of Mr. Rehnborg suggest that he may provide Fiji and the South Seas generally with what they really need—more first-class hotels.

"Attractive Type"

Mr. Rehnborg is descriped as an attractive type of elderly Canadian who has made a lot of money out of his food manufacturing business, which he personally developed by initiative and enterprise. Some time ago he holidayed in Tahiti and Samoa, and became interested in tourist possibilities. Then he bought Les Tropiques in Papeete and developed his plan for a chain of South Pacific hotels.

Mr. Rehnborg also has been making an analysis of the various useful (Continued on page 147) At a Canberra Conference on the Problems of Papua-N. Guinea At the summer school of the australian Institute of Political science held in canberra in January, Mrs. Charles Walton (the Australian airwoman Nancy Bird, whose father and a brother are P-NG residents) talks with P-NG Assistant Administrator Dr. John Gunther (left), and Mr.

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COMMENTARY ... fliat Know They Of Islands fho Only P-NG Know!

I ATS off to the hard-working men and women who organised the Political Science convention j Canberra in late January, to scuss Australia’s interests and •oblems in the Pacific Islands. We » not think that much was hieved; but the effort surely was the right direction.

The emphasis was all on New nnea, although Australia’s reonsibilities and obligations extend uch farther into the east and rth-east. What do they know of e South Pacific, who only New linea know!

Ihe principal talks came from linly academic folk, who never ve sailed a little boat, or planted coconut, or kicked the behind of cheeky native labourer in New linea. Yet they got most of the lelight in the newspapers and >adcasting. rhere were sound and experienced n there from New Guinea, like F. Bunting, and lan Downs and orge Whittaker, and they were ;ouraged to make contributions to talk. But they were given ond place to the academicians; i very, very little of what they 1 got through to the Australian )lic. fiblic opinion was given little t was new or practical. That ; why we think that little was ieved. : does not seem that the Ausian Institute of Political Science has accepted as fact that tralia’s interests in Solomons, 7 Hebrides and Fiji are large, growing; and that Australia, mse of her size and importance the South Pacific, must take a ;er and bigger share in seeking fiution to the growing problems :he dozen Territories which lie :he South Pacific between New nea and French Oceania, tiese Australian students seem med to run away from South ific problems. The only men ng the chief speakers who ?d their eyes beyond the idaries of New Guinea and ua were Dr. J. Andrews (Sydney fersity) and Mr. J. R. Kerr; they looked only at British mons and Dutch New Guinea, possible units in a planned leration” or “United States” of mesia. ie political planners may run f; but the merchants drag ralia steadily eastwards. )i is a big and important sh Colony. Take out of Fiji Colonial Sugar Company, Burns 3 & Co., W. R. Carpenter & Co., the Banks of NSW and ANZ, Emperor Gold Mines, Qantas and their associated interests, and there would be nothing left in Fiji except an economy-less population of 175,000 Indians and 145,000 Fijians.

Much of the Solomon Islands’ economy is Australian-owned.

Britain and France administer the New Hebrides Condominium —but the Australian Commonwealth Government owns about 80,000 acres of the best land there.

If the Australian Institute will forget the professors for a while, and look at the Pacific Islands through spectacles that are less politically scientific and more realistic, they might assist materially in the planning of Australia’s future course.

The High Incidence Of Japanese Appendicitis THE incidence of appendicitis among Japanese fishermen must amount to an occupational disease. Few hospitals in the larger Pacific Islands ports have not been honoured by a Japanese patient by now. There was another case of it in New Guinea last month (see story page 143).

The cheeky behaviour of some of these people never fails to get lesidents’ hackles up especially those whom our NG correspondent describes as having long memories.

It would be a mistake to imagine that these people are spying; the Japanese must know almost everything that there is to be known about New Guinea.

It is probably something best y/ritten off to the mystery of the inscrutable East: they probably like to show that there is more than one way of entering forbidden territory.

In the light of reason and commonsense the Japanese cannot be ostracised forever, but these inquisitive fishermen are not doing anything for the Jap cause. Most people in the SW Pacific feel that America’s famous writer of nonsense verse, Ogden Nash, had the last word to say about them when—away back in 1940—he wrote: How courteous is the Japanese; He always says, “Excuse it please.”

He climbed into his neighbour's garden And smiles, and says, “I beg your pardon”; He bows and grins a friendly grin And calls his hungry family in; He grins and bows a friendly bow; “So sorry, this my garden now”.

For a PM: Indifference For a Queen: Acclaim THE presence of Harold Macmillan —first British Prime Minister ever to visit the South Pacific— did not exactly stir the Australian nation. There were no “crowds”, and the few people who did gather in places were unenthusiastic, though quite friendly.

Most newspapers did their best to demonstrate warm British- Australian friendship; but the Fairfax-owned group quite evidently did not like Mr. Macmillan.

The Sydney Morning Herald was cold, but correct; the Sydney Sun was unfriendly (“What Is He Here For?” squawked one of its “feature writers”); and the Sunday Sun Herald ran a particularly nasty story Mr. Powles' Record In W. Samoa Most people who know Western Samoa and its High Commissioner, Mr. G. R. Powles, CMG, hope there is truth in reports in NZ newspapers, that Mr.

Powles is slated for a New Zealand diplomatic post abroad. He has earned a good reward; and he had diplomatic experience abroad in the ’Forties.

It is nearly nine years since Mr. Powles was put in charge in Samoa. Apart from the inevitable discomfort of administration life in "the Ireland of the Pacific” —a title earned Long ago by the politically restless country—Western Samoa has been faced for some time with tough economic problems.

Mr. Powles has been given the task in recent years of explaining the very simple facts of national life to the new nation.

It has not been an easy task. In fact, it has called for a high degree of tact, diplomacy, and patience.

In the first couple of decades after World War I, New Zealand’s administrative record in Western Samoa was shocking— she tried to govern a highspirited people through gentlemen whose only qualification was a World War I military title. y The two men who, by patience and hard work, plus a capacity for inducing the right type of Samoan to accept the right kind of responsibility, changed NZ’s record from discredit to credit, were Alfred Turnbull (eight years) and G. R. Powles (nine years).

Mr. Powles deserves a suitable reward for distinguished service. 25 ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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suggesting bad relations between Macmillan and Menzies, and stating that Menzies was “hogging the limelight”. There was perceptible fury in a press statement issued by Menzies, denying such incidents or sad relations.

Watching the Macmillan professions, we were inclined to say ;hat both Australia and New Zeaand —both in many ways “more British than the British” —are growng away from the Old Country. The )3der generations, and especially hose who remember the old Empire, he Pax Britannica and the domnant White Ensign of pre-1914, still all Britain “Home”, and contemilate no world in which Britain is lot all-powerful.

But the newer generations pparently are not moved by these hings. The Britain they see is a Britain badgered and harassed by olitical, social and economic evils, r hich have arisen directly out of l ie exhaustions of two World Wars. ; hey think mostly in terms of their ationhood. They seem to be imlensely more influenced by a new X)n-song from America than by all le patriotic fervour of a British rime Minister, so painstakingly ?eking their goodwill.

That is how it seems. And then, ght on the heels of the Macmillans, rnies the Queen Mother—and these ime unpredictable people gather in leir countless thousands, to cheer id demonstrate. Our memories go vck four years, to similar scenes hen Elizabeth and Philip were sre.

Maybe cur focus needs adjusting.

Queen is always a Queen—and ie British of all latitudes always ive had a monarch at their head, it a Prime Minister is just another )litician—and there is no doubt bout how the South Pacific itish feel about politicians! ie Urgent Damning Dulles & Co. , MAZING man, this Mr. Nikita L Kruschev. Well-informed commentators, like America’s Time H him a bumble-footed clodpper, an ignorant peasant, an ipredictable alcoholic; but Mr. ruschev maintains his precarious rch on top of the Kremlin, and eps the Western leaders hopping ound uneasily, their moods rangg from fury to panic.

Throughout the world, nothing is )re anxiously desired than peace, that we may live out our lives tnout this daily threat of atommb extermination. Most people rse our leaders, because they fail end the tension.

This, of course, is capitalised by 6 ignorant peasant”. Every day, he insists that none desires peace more ardently than the Soviets. Why, he demands, will Western leaders not meet him “at the summit”, to seek a means to end the Cold War?

The Western masses turn an increasingly friendly eye upon Nikita, and echo his “Why”. Which is precisely what the bumble-footed clodhopper wants them to do. The under-mining of responsible Western governments by Col d-War-weary people is the next stage in the Muscovite plan to bring the whole world under Communism.

As this is written, Dulles (in Turkey), Macmillan (in Australia) and Eisenhower (in Washington) are increasingly under fire because they ignore the jovial Kruschev hand, extended daily from the Kremlin.

But our leaders seek deeds, not words, before they gather at “the summit”—they want some proof of Russia’s sincerity. They dare not forget (a) that after 1945 we disarmed to the point of nakedness, while Russia maintained all her armaments, and initiated the Cold War; (b) that we are secure and safe only while our H-bombs are dry and ready; and (c) no one in his senses would entrust his life and his future to the unsupported word of a Communist.

We are inclined to hope, increasingly, that the twinkling Mr.

Kruschev means all he says. But we dare not drop our guard, until we are sure.

On Having And Ealing Your Cake A WEST SAMOA public servant’s outburst in the New Zealand press about the Dominion’s approach to what he called its colonial administration, made sensational reading (or as close to it as the NZ press ever gets) but showed little realism. (See article page 21, this issue).

It has been obvious for the past year that W. Samoa’s finances have been sick; and in the last six months that there has been something like panic, with budget estimates being slashed in an attempt to live within income.

The event that triggered the crisis was the expected £126,000 payment from the Trust Estates Corporation that did not eventuate. (See PIM September, p. 20.) The trouble in which W. Samoa now finds herself may be due partly to the bungling of what the critic called “amateurs”, but mostly it is due to the fact that in the postwar boom years, the Samoan people demanded and got more and more social services and began more and more projects of a capital nature.

But production in basic industries was not increased to cover this soaring expenditure, with the result that as soon as export incomes fell and NZ grants were not forthcoming so freely, Samoa fell on evil times.

When West Samoans get full selfgovernment—and they are close to it now—they will learn that government hand-outs are never free, and that everything ultimately is based on labour and production. It can hardly be said that they have shown much appreciation of the situation as yet, however—having just voted in favour of a paid legislature of 46, plus Speaker, etc., for a population of about 100,000.

To compare New Zealand and W.

Samoa with Australia and P-NG, as the critic did, is ridiculous. New Guinea is a bastion against Asia— conclusively proved in 1942-45; it is a huge, rich territory with industries that dwarf any enterprise in W. Samoa. Australia pours millions in, but gets much in return.

W. Samoa is of little value to New Zealand; strategically it is worthless and economically it is unimportant.

There are a dozen valid reasons why Australia should stay in P-NG: few why NZ should hang on in W.

Samoa—a fact evidently recognised by the last Nationalist government which decided to give the Samoans the independence they have craved lor 30 years, and thereby at least gain some international kudos.

The freedom and independence that W. Samoa is soon to attain will be that Territory’s just so long as there are no larger and stronger Powers to fit their eyes upon it; or so long as there are larger and stronger Powers to protect it. None of the Pacific territories, now working towards independence, can ever be “freer” than that.

How Silly Can Indonesia Get?

IF the Indonesians remain serious in treating the Java Sea (between Java and Eastern Indonesia) as “territtprial waters”, to be used by international shipping only with Soekarno’s permission, an ugly situation could develop. This has been a maritime highway, between tne Indian and the Pacific Oceans tor hundreds of years.

If SU9II a claim could be upheld, Australia would have an equal right to sovereignty over Bass Strait (between Tasmania and Victoria) and T °rres Strait (between Australia and Papua), and to close those highways to the ships of other nations.

The reasoning is in line with Indonesia’s claim to West New Guinea, which has no political, historical, geographical or ethnical foundation.

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ustralia's Stake i the SPC Twice recently, according to the perts. PIM has had Australia beg a great deal more generous the South Pacific Commission an the Commonwealth really is.

Am SPC official in Australia and other from New Zealand have inted out that Australia has never ovided 60 per cent, of the Comsslon’s revenue and that the prortions, unchanged from the ginning, are: Australia, 30 per cent.; Netherids, 15 per cent.; New Zealand, per cent.; United Kingdom, 15 ■ cent.; France, 12i per cent.; and ited States, 12 h per cent, fhe proportions are obviously not >ed on ability to pay; but on the pective territorial areas involved. 3$ at the apanese Thrust"

'lM’s January review of The Japtse Thrust, volume four in the ny series of Australia’s official f history, created some interest. . reader, who was there, has taken torian Lionel Wigmore gently to k on one or two minor points, I asked us to forward his letter That, we will do. mother letter says, “What I think a disgrace is that nothing has n done to write up the deeds 'he little band of locals—the New mea Volunteer Rifles. It did nderful service in Rabaul, maua, Lae and Madang.

NTo war history of New Guinea be complete unless this littlewn unit gets its worth also in it. The unit was just a handful civilians armed with old rifles 1 bell-mouthed Lewis guns, but . the Nip very worried. 3ur strength he did not know, arently, or else things may have 3 n different. About 100 units ked over 600 miles of coastline rear reserves, short of supplies, . with their backs to the wall il relieved almost a year later”. r e couldn’t agree more.

Ropati 1 Johnny sopie in Polynesia, who feel that 7 have a sort of proprietory inst in Johnny Frisbie, daughter of the American novelist, the late Robert Dean Frisbie, will no doubt like to know that according to her 1957 Christmas card she is enjoying a full and varied life.

Johnny married an American, Mr.

Carl Hebenstreit, and they now live in Hawaii —with their two cats and a healthy, extremely photogenic son aged seven months. The baby’s name is Carl Ropati—and is usually called Ropati—as was his maternal grandfather, by his Polynesian friends.

Johnny and Carl are in the entertainment business, and evidently to fill in time waiting for Carl Ropati, they went on a trip to Europe. That is what the central photograph on Johnny’s card seems to suggest, anyhow. It is taken of the pair of them, in Majorca, with Johnny wearing the usual short-jacket suit, appropriate for the occasion.

Friends in the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tahiti and elsewhere are always glad to know that the Frisbie kids, about whom their father wrote so delightfully, are doing well.

There May be Magic in the Mushroom The story that PIM ran in the issue of September, 1957, about the fungi that grew at Minj, New Guinea Highlands, around July- August, and was suspected of causing hysteria, interested a Fiji reader, Mrs. Elizabeth Hennings, of Naitauba.

Mrs. Hennings had recently read an article in Life by a Mr. R.

Gordon Wasson, a New York banker whose hobby is collecting strange mushrooms. He and his wife were to embark on an expedition into Mexico for “Magic Mushrooms which gave strange visions to those who eat them”.

Mrs. Hennings thinks that there may be some connection between these Mexican mushrooms and the Mmj fungi; at her request we sent the September item to Mr. Wasson.

The NG fungi grow at the base of some Wahgi Valley trees in July-August, and the natives eat them. The fact that some of these natives appear to go berserk at this time of the year was thought to be too much of a coincidence and some of the fungi have been sent to Kew Gardens in England for examination. A verdict is awaited. themselves believe that eating of the fungus causes hysteria—so that it may be just a form of auto-suggestion.

Australia's Nino— A TEMPORARY

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HIS real name is John Patrick O’Grady—of the Public Health Department, Apia, Western Samoa; but to thousands of Australians he is Nino Culotta, the bloke who wrote the literary riot of a decade, They’re a Weird Mob They’re a Weird Mob is the impressions of Nino, a New Australian whose culture-contacts with the old variety in pubs, on the surfing oeaches, the racecourse and on the job as a bricklayer’s labourer, are hilarious. Most of Nino’s troubles are language troubles. “It was very depressing,” he says, after hearing three men in a cafe discuss horseracing, “I understood nothing Yet my boss had said that Australians spoke English, and he was a knowledgeable man”.

The book first hit the bookshops in Novemoer and has already run into three editions. It also has been lunnmg as a serial in the Daily telegraph. Before Nino’s identity was revealed, a number of DT readers wrote letters to the editor wanting to fight the Italian b— tor his presumption.

Krt Joh^, Patric K (“Nino”) O’Grady is «>O, with a wife and three grown sons—one a producer in a radio station; one a bricklayer; and the third a RAN lieutenant in the fleet air-arm.

O’Grady Snr.’s business is that of !w r r i 5 CIS V bu , t his llfe has not been devoted entirely to that. He enlisted Wot h TT as % P riv ate in World War ll—and ended as a captain— .?/orean<to. harmaClSt ° n the old He returned to peace and a There is nothing Latin looking about this portrait of John Patrick O’Grady, alias Nino Culotta, now in Western Samoa. 29 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-F E B R U A R Y . 1958

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pharmacy job but a couple of years ago he felt he needed a more active ife, quit for six months and took i job as a bricklayer’s labourer. It vas here that he met Nino, the New Australian —and believing that a few Australian would write a book ibout being a New Australian someime, he decided to do it for him.

In May, 1956, he and Mrs. O’Grady irent to Western Samoa, when he oined the Public Health Departlent for the usual three years term. )n the way they lingered a while n New Zealand, where O’Grady dished up his novel before sending ; back to his eldest son to place if e could. The book was accepted by . Ure Smith —and the rest is istory. The story is that when told I its phenomenal success lately, ’Grady, said, I “don’t believe it.”

Well, it’s true enough, Nino ’Grady; for Australians it’s the ;st best-seller for a long time.

The book is more than a parody ! the Australian scene and the ipact it has on the newcomer: it lows real insight into human Lhaviour and emphasises that Ausalian phenomenon—made matetip. But a lot of its charm is in e extraordinary Australian nguage, and for foreign consump- >n this is a disadvantage. However, :e Dennis’ Sentimental Bloke of earlier age; and Lawlor’s Summer the Seventeenth Doll, of the prent, Nino and his tribulations seem ted to survive that obstacle to come part of the literature of the ition.

Lhe report is that O’Grady is ending Samoa and the Samoans. We n’t know whether Nino will visit a,t Territory—but there is cernly plenty of scope there for the netrating O’Grady eye, and the 3rady sense of fun.— JT.

They'Re Not As Silly

AS WE ARE Melbourne phychiatrist Dr.

Uex Sinclair, who recently n,ade a study of the mental wealth of New Guinea natives, old a conference in January: “In the natives’ own culture, his hief stresses are fear of atack, subsistence fears, and the zar of supernatural forces. Disutes between individuals are xainly in relation to property— ither of land, chattels, or )omen. . .

“We do not know whether hese people are happy or not, 0 more than we know whether ’s are, ourselves.

“One thing we do know is that ■ is almost impossible to find, 1 relatively untouched native ulture, any evidence of the eurotic pattern oj betiamour ana 'linking which is the predomxant ill of our own so-called n lightened social structure.”

Territories Talk-Talk

By Tolala Following on the New Year near-riots amongst lads of different talks in Moresby, the good old counter-irritant policy of more “recreation facilities” has been suggested by officialdom.

THIS means more competitive sport, which in turn invariably means “kick ball”, or even “kick cross”. Of the latter there are various types, some with bloody results.

It might not be amiss, if football is to be a safety valve for unexpended inhibitions, that teams should be composed of players from different areas in order to lessen tribal friction.

But then tribal rivalry is by no means confined to the more primitive parts of the world, according to recent newspaper reports of a “pitched battle in Piccadilly” following an England-Wales Rugby Union international match in London, when the Welshmen turned on a blue resulting in 18 police being injured and 30 people arrested. Unconsciously, perhaps, the Moresby lads were merely responding to modern civilised standards, and shows how successful have been the efforts of the tutelary administration.

Sport And Spare Time The introduction of lusty sporting rivalry was launched in TNG by the Australians. The Germans relied upon the good old sing-sing as an escape valve for unexpended energy—if any.

For, be it remembered, the Teuton employer, unrestricted by anti- Colonial propaganda and not responsible to any constituted dogooders, such as the League of Nations of UNO, demanded the maximum of work from a minimum of labourers with the result that spare-time of the employees was not so great.

I well remember the first nearriot at a native sports gathering. It was in 1913, at Soraken—one of the few Australian-owned plantations in the German colony—the event was a tug-of-war between Black Skins and Red Skins (Buka-Bougainville versus New Britain-New Ireland).

The stoutest ropes proved inadequate for the strain and an anchor chain was used.

Old Jim Campbell was the adjudicator, and when the Blacks eventually pulled their opponents across the line a general melee ensued and all hell was let loose.

Only direct action of the most emphatic nature by the whites restored peace; hands were shaken and eventually food shared by one and all. Tugs-of-war were banned from subsequent sporting fixtures for some years after.

Christian Unity I was somewhat surprised, but nevertheless gladdened when I read the heading in the Sydney Morning Herald (25/1 58), “Churches Unite in Port Moresby”; only lo be disappointed when I discovered that the United Church in PM. which “will mark an important forward step in co-operation between the churches” was the appointment of a Congregational minister who would represent the Presbyterian. Methodist and Congregational Churches there.

As neither the Presbyterian nor Congregational churches have entered the Missionary Stakes in P-NG, one is inclined to the view that yet another missionary body is about to be launched into the Newgumeasphere; a missile guided by one Society already operating there (Methodists), with two denominations which, heretofore, have not endeavoured to compete against the other 30-odd mission societies— all flat out to missionise Black Brother.

I feel strongly in this matter of missionisation which goes on in P-NG, for two reasons: (a) The variety of denominations, each pushing the sale of their particular dogma, confuses that simple native mind and encourages the more sophisticated native to exploit one sect against the other; (b) The animosity which is created amongst a section of the white population as a result of divergent religious opinions in a country where there should be the greatest cooperation amongst the European section.

Much of the present dissension in due to the multiple mission activities. Only recently in PM, press reports mentioned that objections had been raised to the methods adopted amongst the natives by the oehovah Witness sect, and an investigation into its operations was suggested at a meeting of the local TAG by one of the councillors; only to be reminded that such investigation would be establishing a “dangerous precedent” and the same weapon used against others. 31 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-PEBRDABT, 1958

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‘ Surely some steps could be taken to control this excessive religious zealousness, which is by no means an essential ingredient for native welfare or boosting the standard of living.

Forward The Planners!

Following on the Summer School session of the AIPS at Canberra, the ABC on one of its “I Put It To you” talks turned on Mr. J. R. Kerr, QC, to expound “What We Should Do With New Guinea”.

It was quite an interesting session; it could have been more so had there been a more enthusiastic team >f questioners to bring out more devils of the speaker’s Federation scheme.

It is nearly twelve years ago— Hay, 1946, to be exact—since Mr. ■Terr (then a Colonel and Principal ?f ASOPA) made one of a panel on )ii ABC Forum Of The Air when, mder the chairmanship of H. B. 31ack, he advocated the extinction >f the “exploiters” (Europeans in (Tew Guinea) and a new economic iolicy for the benefit of the natives, lis ideas have undergone no change, vith the exception that in his r ederation he would include Dutch few Guinea, but rules out the lebrides (where there is most cerainly room for improved adminisration from the present Pandeaonium).

The more I listen to the ideas f these planners for a Pacific Slysium the more I am aware of he unctuousness of their declaraions, clothed in altruism, about native welfare when beneath it all ies the hard reasoning of: What an we do to better out own political ecurity and attract these primitives way from other nations with political aims in conflict with our wn? How can we include them in ur Way of Life; to be absorbed n our religions; our trade unions; ur commercial expansions and as a uffer unit in event of armed ggression? All the nations are dong it; all of them have their ongues in their cheeks; throwing way sprats to catch mackerels.

Man Hard "o Replace I see where Director of Education V. C. Groves is calling it a day 'hen the month of August comes round. And I should think that lost people, who have the educaional welfare of the P-NGites at eart, will feel somewhat appreensive at the thought of this old 'ar-horse being put out to grass at bis particular stage of the Terri- Jry’s struggles from the primitive j the modern Way of Life, and the lousand and one complexities bat snow-ball during such a letamorphosis.

Bill Groves has gone a long way since the days when he was teaching school at Kokopo in circa 1922, and formulated an education policy for the then Director of Education, Harry Cardew. He was wise to give teaching away for a while and concentrate on practical anthropology, whictß he carried out the hard way, especially during his research work on Tabar Island when shekels were few and adverse criticism aboundin &- His near-four inches in “Who’s W r ho in Australia” gives some indication of what he has accomplished; but withal, he has ever kept his feet on the ground.

What endears me to this tall poppy of the present P-NG Administration is his down-to-earth, logical reasoning, which his early experiences as a teacher and a research anthropologist among the natives, have given him the dinkum drum on what should be done.

Bill has by no means been a Yesman; but his long-range plannings have indubitably proved to be accurate and the progressive statistics of the Education Department are pioof of his wise decisions.

Personally, I think it is gambling with fate to allow such a wellbalanced and experienced man to step out of his job at this critical time, when the eyes of the world are on NG. His successor’s selection creates a problem, for I know of no one with his particular qualifications —outside of the missionaries—able to carry on with the same ideals and practical conception of the requirements of the native people, without sucking up to the Canberra poohbahs.

Bill is only a young man—comparatively speaking. He will be 60 j n August when (and if) he resigns; but a good mode of living and a watchful spouse have kept him in good nick. I’d like to see him keep going at least for another five years when probably he would be able to see more of his dreams come true, 'Njoctsloif' inr JMOSiaigic me.

Congratulations to former P-NG residents now in Melbourne in getting off to a good start for the formation of a P-NG Association (Jan. PIM, p. 49). Brisbane has already such a body that meets weekly at the Criterion; but their Sydney opposites appear to be content to allow the unofficial rendezvous at Usher’s to serve as the venue for nostalgic burblings; and a well-patronised place it is, too, though I can imagine it would be more comfortable with seating accommodation available after the first two hours of a session, That’s one organisation where the NG women are right out in front, and their associations in Melbourne, Sidney, and Brisbane, formed in the early forties, are still flourishing, And what a good job all of them are doing! (Over)

"West N. Guinea Belongs To Us!"

Some Secret History, by “One of the Three”, Now Living in NG.

Why all this controversy over the ownership of Dutch New Guinea? After all, legally it belongs to Papua-New Guinea, the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles having captured it in 1942.

I know, I helped, and this is how it happened: The Japs landed at Hollandia in April, 1942, removed the Dutch officials, and after a short stay left two Jap political officials to introduce the new “Co-Prosperity Era”.

Because of all this, Hollandia went off the air, and it was no trouble at all for Army HQ at Port Moresby to send a signal to the NGVR platoon (a whole 15 of us) who held the fort at Madang, with instructions to “go west, young man” and investigate the reason for Hollandia’s silence.

The result was that the NGVR unit provisioned our Naval Branch —the Edith (capable of a full four knots with a following sea) manned by three NGVR units, with Sgt. Gordon Russel in command, and ventured forth.

En route. District Officer H. C. Jones, of Wewak, was collected to see that we behaved ourselves and to give us Government authority. A couple of Police boys were also brought along to add to the protocol.

In due course we arrived in Hollandia, ten days after the Jap naval units had returned to Manus—thank God!

We looked everywhere for a Dutch flag, but never a one to be seen; there were only Jap flags, mostly paper ones.

We decided, therefore, to run up the good old Aussie flag.

As DO Jones stepped ashore, we broke the flag at the masthead.

The “occupying Army”, plus a large crowd of locals who were present, came to the salute.

So there you are. No one can dispute our ownership. West New Guinea is ours!

But did you say that was tough? It sure was; as the local pub was the first place we visited, only to find that the Japs had drunk it dry! 33 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1058

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NA4-55 Pandanus Soup I note where a Benjamin Stone is carrying out research into the jses of pandanus iPIM, Jan. p. 77), vhich reminds me of a trip I made o Iboki (New Britain) one time n the ’2o’s when the Chinese engineer went down with blackwater 'ever.

The skipper, Capt. Cole (the same ad who made the epic trip from Lua to Aitape in a whale boat) was reating him with saline injections, ut without much success. Returnng to Rabaul we called at Talasea Linga Linga) plantation, where a ouple of Chinese carpenters were mployed and they promptly took harge of their sick countryman, nd after a couple of days proounced him out of danger. By the tine we reached Rabaul he was Imost as good as new.

The cure? A soup, made by the ifusion of the subterranean roots f the pandanus palm. Passed on to su. Benjamin Stone, for what it worth. [appy Days And they were happy days, bleed, as recalled by Supercargo rank Street ( PIM , Jan., p. 146) of le old Mindini. I seem to remember im as a dark-eyed, beetle-browed, lergetic Super. And as for Skipper oy, with his sweat-rag round his 3ck, his gruff greetings and the erry twinkle in his eye; and Chief ngineer Corrigan, he with the axed moustache ends, and the ouble-shooter of nearly every BSI unch-owner when there was someling wrong with the phuf-phuf live. Corrigan was later Marine iper. for BP.

Many of the names mentioned I member well; particularly Sam id Willie Atkinson; the former om Awa and the latter —dyed-ine-wool old bachelor in those days lived down in the south Shortnds somewhere. He must also recall e genial Julius Oien, the inimitile Long Jack, Dick Ravener (who sappeared in Falsi harbour one ght—and perfectly sober, too). )mmy Mason, Father Boch, Jack uickshank, of Sivilu and his wife bm”; Hughie Scott, of Orlofe, and s wife Claire (she is still there tnewhere and only recently her >ter, the glamorous Ethel Austin, 10 married Judge “Ikey” Bates id her a visit not so long ago, en returned to her home' in Tica).

Phil Coote was BP manager at one ne and little Doctor Critchlow is the magistrate. I was at tfung for a while, having relieved toppy” Dakers, before I left for ar I .

Ves; they were happy days. No dios, no League of Nations; no cial consciousness. A happy, low mdard of living when, if you mted cold beer you put it in a wash tub and swirled it round with washing soda. God bless ’em all.

Bits And Pieces Married: John Laws to Sonia Zlotskowski at St. Phillips Church, Church Hill, on January 10. John is the only son of the late Mr. R.

Laws, of Wau, and Mrs. Laws, of Lindfield. . . Cyril Parer has been down on leave recently; I met up with him returning to Brisbane from a trip to Melbourne where he had been visiting Ted Fulton. Cyril seems none the worse for his “Bellbird” experience, A lucky man. He still has faith in copra and is extending his interests from the Malai Plantation to a venue at Kokopo. (I wish I had his optimism.). . . Only 25,000 sq. miles of P-NG’s 183,600 sq. miles now remain “outside full Aministration control”, according to Minister Hasluck, and full control is now promised by the end of 1959. We hope. UN Trusteeship Committee, please note. . . Export of puk-puk skins in 1956-57 amounted to £63,571, an increase of about £lO,OOO on the previous year. (The news item, appearing in a Sydney paper, showed the figures as quoting “£A”. Must have been a handout for the English Press. No?), . .

Ansett Airways is after the control of the Bobby Gibbes Air Lines in NG, according to a Sydney columnist’s report. 35 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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The Problems of A British Colony A Fijian's Plea For Tolerance and Co-operation • This analysis of the chief governmental problem in Fiji—namely, how best to merge the indigenous Fijian race with the introduced races, Indians and Europeans, so as to create a small, united nation — was written for us by a Fijian resident of Melbourne Mr Joe Kamikamica. He is a student at the University of Melbourne and doing his final year for the degree of Bachelor of Commerce It discloses a capacity for analytical thinking, a breadth of view and a spirit of tolerance that are remarkable It is published with pleasure by “ PIM”, in the belief that, as a statef j View Fijian, H will be of help to the men who are dealing ‘with these problems on the spot, in Fiji.

I" INDUE stress has been placed U upon some aspects of Fijian development, leaving untouched he main problem, which is one of ihange from a relatively under- [eveloped economy to an inlustrialised economy.

Most writers have made too much f problems relating to population, aces, land, and the economy. They .ave even suggested that a solution f one would solve the whole Fijian roblem. This is not practicable.

The problem of change in which lie Fijian is involved is not only ae of substitution of rule by custom ) regulation by competition, but a aange involving his whole way of fe, and of underlying methods of lought associated with it.

This process is complicated, and emands careful planning and nderstanding.

But however efficient the plan ay be —or however great the nount of freedom given—the exsnt to which Fijians will emerge om this transition successfully— iat is, with a high standard of /mg —seems to me to depend ostly on the individual urge to ake progress. much generalisation on the whole race gives wrong impressions—it fails to appreciate e individual.

For instance, I disagree with the atement in your paper that while e £ IJlans are the most amiable of 'Uth Sea Islanders, under the inlence of liquor they become a larrelsome pest. I can quote inmces, from personal experience, iere Fijians become quarrelsome m without liquor, and of instances len Fijians become happy under e influence. f also know some Fijians who do t drink liquor at all; but yet 10 deserve the description given your paper. [ claim that it is the individual lian who will be responsible in e end for dealing with the problem of liquor consumption.

Other peoples, and religious bodies who have the interest of the Fijian at heart, could best serve him, in my opinion, by helping the individual to make the right decision, rather than by preventing him from deciding at all.

IREAD a complaint in your paper some time ago that students from Fiji in Tasmania called themselves Fijian students, although they belong to the Indian race in Fiji. This raises broad issues.

The presence of an Indian community in Fiji has been often explained. Although the Fijian chiefs originally objected to the “indentured labour system”, the Europeans in Fiji, because of their profit motive—or, more politely, because of their desire to industrialise Fiji —dismissed the objection.

As the Fijian economy developed, and the Indians, through their enterprise and their desire to make profits, became increasingly competitive with Europeans in trade and commerce, the objection to their presence now comes—interestingly enough—not so much from Fijian chiefs, but from Europeans in Fiji who pose as the champions of the Fijian race.

I feel that to use words to create uneasy feelings between Fijians and Indians is to do a great wrong to both communities. After all they have been brought to their present situation by events which now are outside their control.

Naturally, the Fijian villager, in his communal life, is bewildered by the changes, and by the Indian individualist grabbing every opportunity to make a profit.

The Europeans in Fiji, if we regard them as a group, enjoy a superior existence, which is generally accepted without question by the majority of Fijians and Indians. It is only when some Indians and Fijians have progressed far enough to be able to share the higher amenities of life with Europeans, and to enjoy economic superiority, that racial distinctions become apparent. I offer, as an example, the Suva sea-baths, and the liquor permit system.

I do not blame the Indians for what they may have achieved through their hard work and business ability, and their wish to secure equal recognition with Europeans in Fiji.

There are, of course, some Europeans who have the interests of all persons at heart, and work to raise the standard of living of the whole community.

There are certainly Indians in Fiji who make first-class citizens; and Fijians who, in their own humble way, amid all the social and economic obstacles, do what they can to improve.

If we think of the people as individuals, the racial problem becomes simpler.

BUT there is an essential difference between the Fijian way of life (based on the communal system, with the emphasis on mutual assistance and help) in a controlled economy and that of the Europeans and Indians who operate in a free-enterprise economy, with the emphasis on the making of profit.

On this basis, it is foolish to compare the material achievements of Fijians and Indians, or Europeans, for that matter.

However morally justified the basis of Fijian communal life is, it cannot survive the competition of the free-enterprise economy, unless a well-thought-out plan for Fijian economic development is devised, and drastically enforced, to the last letter. This, of course, involves a loss of human freedom, and is opposed to democratic ideals. remains for the individual Fijian to make up his mind as to whether he wants to change or not; and, if he must change, it must be done quickly.

The belief that gradual change avoids the evils associated with accelerated change fails to recognise that this encourages inefficiency in the Fijian economy. It could mean putting an obstacle in the way of those who want to change, for the sake of those who want to stay as they are.

TO generalise, as some writers on Fijian conditions do, and say that the Fijian is happy-golucky, easy-going, etc., is to overlook the important fact that this attitude is dictated by custom and tradition bound together by the security of the communal system.

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Rather, we must admit our responsibility for the situation and, as individuals (Fijians, Indians, Europeans) work for a better Fiji.

Our choice now, it seems to me, is not whether Fijians and Indians, Europeans and Chinese, part-Europeans and Islanders, should live together or not; but whether, living together, we should quarrel or cooperate.

Considerations of morality, economics and commonsense all point to co-operation. But there are powerful forces of prejudice, stupidity and political ambition, which drive us in the opposite direction. The quicker we realise this, the better for us all. , .

IN making these changes in living J. conditions, the Fijian should be made to understand the problems of Western civilisation, sir John Maud, one of Britain’s outstanding Civil Servants, has pointed out that industrialisation gives the possibility of more freedom and more slavery, more fellowship and more loneliness, more civilisation and more barbarism — and that between these we cannot always choose. But to the extent that we can choose we can, by taking thought, avoid the worst extremes.

The problem is one of individual choice. By making a wrong choice, some Fijians have indulged in drink ing habits detrimental to themselves and to the community. TT immediate need is, first, to convinu him of the need to change his sonal outlook, so as to acquire tl urge to make profit, and this turn will bring him into the coir petitive system on the same level ; Indians and Europeans in Fiji.

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From J. P. Shortall One of the more interestiii (and for some, frustrating ar infuriating) developments of pos war years in the South Pacific hi been the great expansion » Japanese tuna fishing activitii south of the equator.

IN the years between the waj there were always a few sampai working these waters, but nev< the scale of mother-ship operation as now exist, with operations sout to New Zealand, east of Sout America, and west into the India Ocean, the Persian Gulf, and eve into the Atlantic.

But despite all this activity, moi people, outside Japan, know ve: little of the day-to-day life aboai one of these modern tuna fishiri vessels.

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It is from a bulletin written 1 Mitsuo Nagai, director of t h fisheries experiment station of tl Kanagawa Prefecture of Japani one of the leading Japanese fishe:; research institutes.

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About 19 men are required in itting the gear. The boat steams ; 8 to 9 knots while the line is set om the stern, setting being finished l about 4 to 5 hours. The speed of tting is related to the depth of shing.

Line hauling calls for all hands id requires 12 to 14 hours, and aen there are line breaks or the tch is heavy, the work frequently ntinues through the night. Once le hauling is completed, setting arts again after 1 or 2 hours.

When fishing is poor, boats somenes keep on operating for as long 40 days.

The working hours of the crew e 6 hours for line setting, and 13 »urs for hauling, a total of 19 urs, and if one hour is added for jals and so forth, about three or ar hours are left for sleep. As ch labour is done continuously, b fishermen are terribly fatigued the end of a trip, and frequently eir health is damaged. Conluently, men can engage in this >rk up to about the age of 40. rhe compensation for this labour erages 29,000 yen (£Stg.29 a mth) and when taxes and cost of rking clothes are subtracted, this ives a monthly income of £Stg.2s. ie captain receives three times as ich as an ordinary fisherman, and “ chief engineer about 2i times as ich.

In 1956, the average monthly income of regularly employed workers in Japan was 20,669 yen < £Stg.2o/13/-), and for miners the figure was 20,465 yen. By comparison, the pay of tuna long-line fishermen is very low, in view of their working conditions.

In foreign countries the income of maritime workers is generally considered to be about twice that of workers ashore, but the Japanese fisheries are peculiar in this respect, and this is one of the problems to be faced in the future (the article concludes).

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All-in-all it is a gloomy picture, nd from the above portion of the rticle alone it is possible to begin > understand how many strandings ccur, probably through sheer exaustion of the navigating staff, and hy a Japanese tuna boat, once i a while, pulls into the lee of some ninhabited or sparsely inhabited land and lands her men for a ash, a fresh coconut, and a brief eep under a shady palm, no atter how illegal it all may be.

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ERSONALITY popular Cook Islands’ locator Resigns Popular Cook Islands Director of lucation, Mr. W. N. A. Allison, tired from the Public Service and ~t Rarotonga for Australia, and a w job, on January 25.

IR. ALLISON becomes Editorial Assistant with the SPC’s Literature Bureau. He will be itioned at Sydney, and will take his new duties about the end of bruary. The duties consist of Iping with the production proimme of the administrative and ►earch work of the Literature reau, and advising territorial janisations in the establishment and maintenance of village libraries, ere will also be normal editorial ties.

Lllison’s career in the Cook Islands ran in March, 1940, when he was pointed Resident Agent and headcher at Atiu.

During his ten years on that md, he persistently urged that a :ater part of the New Zealand )sidy be spent on the outer inds; fought for improved plantshipping and marketing; and nanded a guaranteed price for > growers. n his period of office he saw many mges—improved water supplies, i introduction of a democratically 3ted Island Council, and the ssion-run schools of the northern tnds gradually replaced by Adnistration schools under Maori idteachers. n November, 1950, Allison became headteacher of Avarua school, rotonga. Much of his time was spent as Acting Education Officer, and he was confirmed in that position when Mr. H. H. Hickling retired because of ill-health.

As the Education Department expanded, the position of “Director” replaced that of “Education Officer”, and in February, 1955, Mr. Allison became the first Director. Always keenly interested in the welfare and development of Cook Islanders, he was one of the men who helped to build the framework of the Legislative Council. He subsequently attended eight of its 11 annual sessions, first as Atiu’s RA, then as Education Officer, and finally as Director of Education.

During recent years, he has had the satisfaction of seeing the establishment of Tereora College, a Teachers’ Training College, and several new schools built in Rarotonga and most of the outer islands.

School grounds have been improved, qualified organising and supervisory staff introduced, and academic standards raised.

Mr. Allison is the first and only European to be elected Honorary Member of the Maori Teachers’

Guild—which indicates the high regard in which he is held by the teaching staff.

He has given many years of conscientous service to the Cook Islands, and has friends m all sections of the community. He goes to his new career in Australia with their sincere good wishes.- WHP. 41 *CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Report With a Moral to it First Steps in Making a Vast Fortune from Crocodile Shooting From PAT ROBERTSON, in Lae, NG So you’d like to shoot a crocodile, hang the trophy on the wall, or present the little woman with some crocodile skin shoes?

But don’t try it for a living unless you are fully equipped; an experienced shot; immune to insects and mosquitoes and prepared to suffer hardships and exist on native food for long periods. uJR. COLIN PIETRIE, who left ri Lae, New Guinea, in October last year with a mate for some •ocodile shooting in the wilds of ew Guinea, returned early in muary to pick up some more luipment and supplies. Col. kept diary during the two months, and ter taking a peep at it we gather at crocodile shooting is no lecure.

Before starting off, the two men it together some hundreds of unds worth of gear, including a nghy, shot guns, spot lights, ttery charger and supplies.

First hazard was encountered len they decided to try out their ar at Labu, a little way down the ast from Lae, before starting off • the big stuff. rhe lighting failed, but they inaged to get one light going. Col. hted a croc and shot him in the v and he sank to the bottom, revious to this the men had been en all kinds of advice—some good, ne bad —regarding the proper ,ce to shoot a croc, but Col. had d some experience and knew that must be shot in the back of the id.) Croc. Tried to Board We had to poke around for him h a harpoon”, his diary reads, id while doing this he came up tit alongside the boat. I still had gun, so immediately turned nd to have another shot at him I in doing so knocked one of the er blokes in the water. After that ad to forget about the croc and 1 the bloke out. We kept the it on the croc and he went nd and round the boat and tried get in with us about three es. He eventually raced up the bs of a mangrove tree and just there about 25 feet away, so I shed him off with the .303”. fter this experience the men ed they would get their gear in t-class order before attempting ir trip. ventually all was set and they Lae at the end of October on little coastal ship Muho. Destinai, the mighty Sepik. Pietrie’s •y takes it from there: * * * L/11/57—Departed Angoram 600 hours for Toko without any idea of where it is or how far. We are going on what the boys told us. 13/11/57 —The big motor on the canoe broke down. We worked on it for about three hours but couldn’t get it going. I put our motor back on the pinnace and took off up river again with two boys. After two hours it rained so we made camp. Ron stayed with the canoes and drifted back to Angoram.

Bad Bunch of Natives 14/11/57 —Arrived Angisi. Boys warned me against staying here as they are a bad bunch of natives.

However, had kai and settled down.

An hour later a native tried to push something through the floor under my cot. I take it that it was a spear.

We took turns at watch all night and at daylight got out very smartly. 15/11/57 —Arrived Toko about 1500 hours. Natives very friendly, as I have one of their tribe working for me. 18/11/57 —Quite a good night; one croc 28 in. and another 16 in. across the tummy. Ron arrived at 1300 hours with all our gear on the canoes.

It was good to see him. Went to Bumbura to do a bit of shooting and have a look at another “round water”. (Round water: Pidgin for lake or pool). No good at all, too much grass. 20/11/57 —My legs gave out after three hours walking to Bingo.

Passed through quite a few small villages on the way. All very poor.

In one particular place the few natives I saw were like scarecrows; their dogs likewise. 21/11/57 —Quiet night, slept well.

Left Bingo 700 hours for round water. Met a stupid old headman about an hour out, who told me all sorts of yarns about the water. He said he would take me to it. We had to go through a swamp about half a mile wide.

As we went into it the old man reached down inside a palm tree and brought out a bottle with a tiny drop of water in it. I asked him what it was and he said “Tambu Water”.

He thinks that while he has it on him in the swamp he is safe from crocs. I guess he has just been lucky and that there have been none around when he has been in the water.

"He Was Nuts"

We went along for about another hour and came to a little dead tree.

He said that if he cut it down it would rain. I reckon he was nuts.

We eventually came to the water.

This character said that if he hit the bank at the edge of the water the crocs would come up all over the place. I didn’t believe him at the time, but I do now, as that is exactly what happened. The smallest one I saw was about 14 ft long. He also told me about a two-headed croc and one 30 ft long, but these I’ll have to see to believe. 24/11/57 —Took off for main camp and arrived back completely exhausted. It was good to talk to a white man again. The boys had picked up five skins during my absence. Decided to move on to this new water, taking plenty of salt and good lights. The native boys are working on canoes and a house for me out there. Ron will stay here and keep these native boys working and organise as many more villages as possible. 26/11/57 —After sorting out enough gear to take with me we find we are a bit short of rations and equipment. I am going out for three weeks and all the foodstuff I can carry is 1 tin coffee, 1 lb tea, 3 tins of meat and a few pounds of sugar. I shall have to live off the rifle, though I have done before. Carriers have started taking my gear to new camp and Ron has gone down to Angoram for more supplies. If rain holds off I should get at least 10 skins a night at this new place. (Over) Towards Cooler Tropic Nights average Tropic dweller mops his way through the humid day and manages to keep fairly comfortable with the aid of numerous showers and electric fans, and at the day’s end is rewarded with a cold pint of the best on his club verandah. But the nights are the big problem.

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a memorable gift N • 1 ▼ ENGLAND 27/11/57 —Rained heavily last light; no shooting. Had a small hoc tied up at the camp and durng the night a big one came in t nd ate him. You can’t win! 3/12/57 —Arrived about 3 p.m. louse ready but canoes a long way If being finished. They are makag them too long, about 45 ft. Too ite to stop them now and will have 3 use them for the time being. ,m camped about five miles from ae round water but will have to tiift again when the canoes are nished. Plenty of pigeons here and files of fish in the riVer, also rawns so big you could nearly ill them lobsters. Have had fever, ad still have dysentry.

Some Magic Words 4/12/57—Still waiting around for inoes to be finished. River has sen about 2 ft but boys say it ill not affect round water yet. ;ill got dystehtery and took a iod dose of sulphaguanidine. Old ‘adman and witch doctor came a while ago and said a few agic words over me. Said he was fhtening my stomach up. Crazy -and-so’s. 6/12/57—Had a bad night. The adman went long-long and was ncing around singing war songs ilf the night. He reckons two tier fellows have made poison ainst him, and that a croc is gol to eat him. I wish one would! ; wants me to shoot these two )kes but I don’t think it’s a very id idea. 10/12/57 —Quite a good night. I ;ked up a 36-in. skin and a 30 one. A fair few around, but ildn’t get onto them as most of r crew boys are afraid of them ;. Both crocs went to the bottom t night and we got one after lot of trouble. I had to go back 1 fish the second one out this rning. I also hit a third one mt 6 ft, but he was in deep ter, and I lost him altogether. 1/12/57 —Went out last night and i a hell of an experience. I ited a croc a good 20 ft long.

Boys Panicked had the boys pull the canoe within 25 ft of him, when he ed his head out of the water I let out a heap of wind and a I of a roar. The boys panicked I shook the canoe about. /e drifted to within 6 ft of him I he lifted his whole body out the water and started to open mouth and come towards the oe, so I had to give him a ’k pellet from the .303. The big md-so went to the bottom and Dst him. 1/12/57 —No good again last it. Saw five big ones but boys are still scared after last experience and I just can’t get them to go close enough for me to shoot.

I badly need a dinghy and outboard motor. 14/12/57 —More rain, no shooting. 15/12/57 —Still raining. Second canoe completed, with 40-ft long.

Big launching. Boys cooked a heap of kai and ate it in the canoe. Then made talk over it, saying they were rousing all the evil spirits. 16/12/57 —Tried new canoe out last night. She is a good one. Nose whereas the other one is about an inch. Sighted three small crocs but got Qnly one sh ou i d have had bie'one^last^ieht' I haven\ mentioned him before hm-’ he his fcSS the cam P all the ttae. I S have “fed to get him five times so far, but I i U st can’t eet within rantre to choot him I mult git him shortlv Is he is the one that hw got the Irew scared I calculate he is over 20 ft long ne is over 20 It.

Civilisation Ahead 17/12/57—Went out again last ni^ht sighted only one croc.

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he river has risen a fair bit and think all the big ones must be iding in the pit-pit. I covered bout three miles last night and le second canoe did the same, ave decided to head back to central imp. 19/12/57 —C amp was deserted hen I arrived back late last night ; Ron had gone down river to ck up some skins. River has risen )out 8 ft since I have been away, illons of mossies here night and ty. Ron arrived back with seven ore skins and Peter England’s noes arrived about five. Will soon i off to civilisation. * ♦ * kURING their six weeks on the " river, the two men got 35 skins —which, in view of the time and )rk involved is not a paying oposition.

However, they have not yet given 1 the idea of making a living from icodile shooting. Experienced ooters have advised them to try the Upper Sepik, near the •een River, and this, with new nipment and fresh supplies, they :end to do. tfr. Pietrie apologised for his ir y—there are, he says, oldlers who could give a bigger and tter story of crocodile hunting. 3is story, however, gives some :a why, in spite of the alleged tunes that are made, crocodile loting isn’t likely to become an profession. There are many other, easier ways of mak- : a living.

But Not as Severe as the Last There May be Another Epidemic Of Asian Flu The pandemic of influenza due to the Asian type of influenza A virus has now spread to all parts of the world, with the exception of perhaps a few islands and other isolated communities. For most areas the pandemic is over or is rapidly decreasing.

HOWEVER, although the mortality rate has remained low, the actual number of deaths has >een by no means negligible, since n many areas a very high proicrtion of the population has been ffected. This ranges from 20 to as ligh as 70 per cent.

Many people are now speaking nth concern about the possibilities f a “second wave” of the disease nd some fear that this might be lore severe than the first.

It may be useful, therefore, to examines possibilities for the future.

First, it must be appreciated that every 10-15 years the influenza virus undergoes a major antigenic change, which means that people have little or no immunity to the new virus.

Since the influenza virus was discovered in 1933 that has happened three times, the last time in 1947.

More Epidemics Forecast It is logical to expect that the Asian strain will replace the FMI group, which has been prevalent since 1947, and that it will be the predominant cause of influenza for the next decade or so.

It may also reasonably be anticipated that epidemics of varying extent will occur every two or three years.

It may be as well to emphaise that the 1918 pandemic appears to have been an event without precedent in history and cannot be compared with any other pandemic of which we have record. There are grounds for believing that the Asian virus may be related to a virus prevalent in 1889 and subsequent years, since some people who lived through this period have antibodies to the Asian strain which younger persons have not.

This does not, of course, mean that what happens in 1889 and subsequent years will necessarily repeat itself, but in view of our present lack of knowledge we must take history into account.

The 1889 pandemic did not cause a high mortality even though there were no antibiotics, and medical care was primitive compared to the present day. In the two or three following years there were again extensive epidemics, and in some areas these were associated with a moderate increase in mortality, To be Watched Closely HOWEVER unlikely it may be, we must watch carefully for any such mortality trend now.

This watch is being carried out by the WHO network of influenza centres, and many co-operating laboratories and hospitals all over world.

The network of laboratories was initiated by WHO ten years ago in Many Pacific Territories, in common with the rest of the world, were hit by last year’s wave of Asian influenza. In this article, Dr. A. M. M. Payne „ chief of the Endemo-Epidemic Diseases Section of WHO’s Division of Communicable Diseases, discusses the newlydiscovered virus, and makes some predictions on what it is likely to do in the future. anticipation of just such an event as took place last year.

Within three weeks of the firstnews of the epidemic reaching WHOthe virus had been isolated, sentby air to the World Influenza Centrein London, identified as a new' strain and a warning issued W world-wide broadcast to health authorities that existing vaccines would be unlikely, to protect against the new virus, and that extensive spread was anticipated.

All experts agree that it is at present impossible to check the spread of epidemic influenza, so that you may ask what is the use of such a warning. The first and by far the most important thing is that it gives time for the health authorities to organise medical care for the large number of people who will fall sick within a short time, and which otherwise might disorganise medical services and drug supplies.

The second purpose of the warning is to enable vaccine production to be initiated.

Vaccination can play a role in maintaining medical service, but it is not the major role since it is only roughly 50-70 per cent, effective and is expensive and by no means easy to produce. It is the organisation which matters in ensuring adequate relief for hard-hit areas.

Less Extensive Should one anticipate a further epidemic this winter as extensive as the last? Personally, I don’t think so, although no one can be certain. A large part of the population has acquired at least a basic immunity as a result of the panoemic so it is not unreasonable to hope that if an epidemic occurs, which is not improbable since one is now under way in Japan, it will be less extensive and cause fewer complications than the pandemic Here I would stress that it may be misleading to speak of such an epidemic as a “second wave” sincethat carries the implication that it will be as extensive as the first. That, is, in my view, unlikely.

It would be wise to anticipate an epidemic but not a “second wave’" in the above sense.

Finally, can such an epidemic be prevented, for example, by quarantine restrictions against countries where an epidemic is in progress?

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Australian Thinks In Terms of Melanesia A very wrong impression may have been given by the following Press message, broadcast from Canberra on January 26: A new British Dominion the Federation of Melanesia—might be the natural outcome of a close economic, cultural and defence partnership between Australia and the Dutch, according to Pacific affairs expert, Mr. J. R. Kerr.

Mr. Kerr, a Queen’s Counsel, who was the first Principal of the Australian School of Pacific Administration, and who was Organising Secretary of the South Pacific Commission when it was formed in 11)48, was addressing the Summer School of the Australian Institute of Political Science here.

He said the new Dominion would include Dutch New Guinea, the Australian Trust Territory of New Guinea, Papua, and the British Solomon Islands. — AAP-Reuter.

IN explanation of which it is necessary to state, categorically and specifically; • No such development is imminent or even probable. • Mr. Kerr is not a “Pacific affairs expert”. He is a Sydney barrister, practising in a modest way.

He was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1938; but he does not appear to nave practised until 1948.

In the meantime, and especially luring World War 11, Mr. Kerr was me of a group of “brilliant young planners” who circulated more or ess in an orbit around the turbulent Australian politician, Mr. Eddie Ward, while that gentleman was Minister for Territories. This little jroup insisted that they knew all ;he answers to the problems created n the Southwest Pacific by the fapanese invasion.

Supported by their counsels, Mr. tfard proceeded to create a Socialist leaven and an anti-capitalist earth -c function in Papua and New Guinea after the war; but the dealistic conception was already lollapsing when the Australian electors took a hand, and Mr. Ward etired into obscurity with his plans md his planners. • Mr. Kerr was nominally the irst Principal of the Australian School of Pacific Administration, fhe man who actually started the nstitution was Colonel J. K. Murray, ater Administrator of Papua and 'Tew Guinea. Late in the war period, while in charge of Duntroon Military College, Murray was also “Chief Instructor” of the “School of Civil Affairs, Duntroon”, where young officers were trained for administrative duties in P-NG. Mr. Kerr was given charge of it in 1946, when it was given permanency and its present name, and transferred to Sydney. He was only a brief time in this position—then he became a practising barrister. • To describe Mr, Kerr as “the organising secretary of the South Pacific Commission when it was formed in 1948”, is to give a wrong and unfortunate impression. Mr.

Kerr, while Principal of the School, appears to have carried out some work for Messrs. Evatt and Ward when the SPC idea was being shaped up in 1947-48. (He was asked to act as Secretary of the Commission, in April, 1947, and the Commission’s temporary headquarters were established near Mr. Kerr’s office at the new School of Pacific Administration, St. Georges Heights, Sydney—see PIM of August, 1947, page 13.) But it never appeared to me that he had much to do with the Commission, and I then was keenly interested in this new organisation.

Mr. W. D. Forsyth, OBE (now a top official of Australian External Affairs Department) came into the picture a few months later (in 1948) as Secretary-General—he created the organisation and between 1948 49 * A C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1958

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Federation Debated MR. KERR’S plan for a Federation of Melanesia was debated in an ABC broadcast of 45 minutes on January 29. Mr. Kerr briefly outlined his idea, and then various people from the Canberra “Summer School” shot questions at him.

The picture thus presented was not impressive. The constitutional difficulties (transfer of NG Trusteeship and the old Territory of Papua from Australia, transfer of Western New Guinea from Holland, transfer of the Solomons from the British Colonial Office) were barely touched upon. Two or three commentators, who seemed to speak with some authority, emphasised that so many decades must pass before the Melanesians could be regarded as capable of self-government that the plan was scarcely worth considering at this stage.

Mr. Kerr, in reply, emphasised two things: (a) That it was important that the Melanesians, groping their way upwards towards nationhood, should be kept closely within Australian influence, and grow up to regard themselves eventually as a Federa- ;ion closely associated with Australia within the British Commonwealth. (b) That the Europeans in New Guinea should understand from the beginning that they would have no dominant or deciding voice in the future of the country—that the future belonged to the Melanesians.

Few will dispute argument (a) t represents the general idea of nost observers, as far as they have jone. It is the main argument developed by Minister Hasluck himself.

But (b) carries the ancient earnarks of the Evatt-Eddie Ward 'egime. Mr. Kerr says that these toropeans (greedy, exploiting, captalist-minded, according to Mr.

Ward) must understand that they lave no future in Melanesia. This istener was almost tempted to shout icross the ether: “If you allow Chinese to settle permanently in 'few Guinea, and give them Ausralian citizenship and presumably i voice in the future of the country, rtiy cannot you give privileges and ncouragement to Australian settlers •nd Australian enterprise, whose )resence there is vital to the derelopment of Melanesian citizenship md a Melanesian economy.”

Finally, Mr. Stuart Inder—in Canberra as a PIM observer —asked Mr.

Kerr what he thought of the idea, not of a Federation of Melanesia, but of a Federation of the South Pacific, bringing in at least all the Territories administered by the British —somewhat along the lines indicated by the formation of the South Pacific Commission.

Mr. Kerr said he had given consideration to the idea of a South Pacific Federation, but had dismissed it as undesirable and impracticable.

He also indicated that he did not think that the South Pacific Commission, on its record, had served its original purpose. 1 may appear critical of Mr. Kerr’s plan, because it appears limited in scope and vague in character. But, as shown elsewhere, the South Pacific people should be grateful to Mr. Kerr because, of all the worthy thinkers who spoke at the Summer School, he was one of only two who lifted their eyes beyond the political borders of P-NG.

It is a small thing; but at least it is a move in the right direction.

Australia, by her growth and virility and strength, must accept far wider responsibilities than are represented by Australian Administration in Melanesia. That is, if Australia is going to fulfil her apparent destiny as the politicoeconomic leader of the South Pacific.

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A New Conference in April

New Standards Sought For

Growing Ng Cocoa Industry

From COLIN SINCLAIR , in Port Moresby.

The talks between New Guinea cocoa producers’ representatives and Administration officers, recently held in Rabaul, may result in legislation for the creation of an export standard for the Territory’s cocoa.

F:e legislation may also provide for the registration of persons, other than growers, who export jocoa.

The Rabaul talks were arranged jy the Director of Agriculture, Mr. x. E. P. Dwyer, following repre- >entations from the Planters’ Assonation of New Guinea for a iiscussion on these aspects of cocoa narketing.

The main session of the conference was between the executive council of the Planters’ Association md Mr. Dwyer.

The conference introduced a ligger one to be held in April, which lull be open to representatives of all sersons and interests concerned in he growing and marketing of Terriory cocoa.

Chairman of the meeting was Mr. )on Barrett, president of the banters’ Association.

Planters' Views Opening the conference, Mr. larrett presented the following iews of the Association; • The proposed legislation must afeguard the cocoa industry generlly but must, in addition, safeguard le interests of the individual groups r ho were sufficiently interested and areful to produce cocoa of good uality. • It was essential, therefore, that n export standard be set to apply iroughout Papua-New Guinea. • Cocoa reaching this standard lould be designated by standard larkings.

"Don't Want Grading" • Cocoa not reaching this standard lould not be debarred from the market but should have no warranty. • All cocoa entered for export lould be inspected. • Individual markings adopted by roducers should be continued, as nder present customs. • It should be possible for exorters other than growers to be igistered and to sell under their vn marks. • A person offering cocoa for tie to a registered exporter should 'oduce, if required, a certificate of gistration as a grower.

Continuing to address the conference, Mr. Barrett stressed that the suggestions made by the Planters’

Association did not mean that grading of cocoa should be introduced.

“What we ask for is a suitable export standard with a suitable name but we do not want grading,” _ ' . , Immediately after the initial stages of the main conference, Mr. Dwyer produced the draft legislation which had been drawn up by his department and asked for suggestions on it.

Mr. Barrett put forward amendments reflecting the opinion of the Planters’ Association, the main points of which were; • The inclusion of a definition of what is meant by standard cocoa. • Provision for the grower or exporter to appeal against classification of cocoa and for the appeal to be heard by a committee consisting of Department of Agriculture officers and producer representatives.

The planters want the provisions for the registration of exporters and the production of a certificate of registration as a grower by a person selling cocoa to prevent dealings in stolen cocoa.

It is expected that the April conference will deal with the general problems of growing and marketing Territory cocoa, and will be much wider than the latest one- AAP- Reuter.

Mew Approach To Pidgin

It’s Got a New Look, a New Nome And Some Respectability • Pidgin English used to be regarded as necessary, hut funny.

Now that it is being attacked scientifically, it is not so funny but is more useful. Here JUDY TUDOfI discusses the REV. FR. FRANCIS MIHALiC’s new Dictionary-Grammar of Neo Melanesian IT used to be said in New Guinea —and maybe still is—that the people who spoke Pidgin English best were foreigners.

Although in this neck of the woods we do not regard Americans as foreign, it is probably no accident that the most notable work on Pidgin English has come from Americans. They have the outsiders’ approach to the subject while Australians, even those who defend it lustily, still think it something that can be made up as you go along.

The first American to take Pidgin seriously was Dr. Robert A. Hall, Professor of Linguistics at Cornell University. He did his basic research in the United States, theory only; and arrived out here a couple of years ago to do a year’s field work on Pidgin from Australian headquarters.

To the amazement of those socially-conscious Australians who wanted Pidgin banned (as a slave language), he proceeded to defend it and his efforts have done a lot to cast a cloak of respectability over the much-maligned lingua franca of the SW Pacific.

While he was here he wrote a small book called Hands Off Pidgin English! which was published by Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd. He also rechristened the language Neo- Melanesian; it is too soon yet to know whether it is a name likely to stick. (Continued on page 57) Father Francis Mihalic, SVD, a native of Pennsylvania, USA, whose research into Neo- Melanesian has produced an important Pidgin English dictionary and grammar. 55

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As everything gets a price tag sooner or later, we’ll say at once that this book is designed to sell at £2/5/ —so it is no mere pamphlet.

Our visitor was the Rev. Father Francis Mihalic, who compiled the Dictionary-Grammar; he went to New Guinea in 1947 and has spent most of his time there as a missionary teacher. In the last two years, however, he has been at the University of Michigan studying linguistics, and at the same time completing and then shepherding his book through the press.

Fr. Mihalic does not waste time debating whether Pidgin should be banned, or whether it is a slave language, or not. He regards it as a. bridge to English, and gets on tvith the job of making it so. The study of English (by the natives) nust be based on Pidgin, he says, lecause it is impossible to base it m the 300 native languages extant n New Guinea. __ The grammar, which occupies the irst portion of the book, is expensive but easily understood by the ayman to whom the scientific reatment of linguistics is a baffling nystery.

The second part of the book is a hdgin-English dictionary, designed irimarily for Pidgin-speaking natives iho are learning English; the third •art, English-Pidgin is for nonlative users of Pidgin; and finally here is a section devoted to word roups, or phrases—such as household terms (coffee-pot = sospen \elong kopi ); or fishing terms porpoise = hulmakau hilong sol- >ara), etc.

An Extensive Job Whether they believe in Pidgin r not, everyone will agree that Fr. lihalic has done a remarkably denied and extensive job of his ictionaries and phrases. But some isagreement over orthography is frtain. Fr. Mihalic says that there re nine semi-official versions of idgin spelling in use in the Terrify (and we can add that there are robably 999 unofficial versions used V those people who make them up s they go along). Where there are me ways of doing anything in New rumea it means that there are nine its of very stubborn people.

The nine orthographies in use re listed as the Alexishafen, lurphy, Madang Lutheran, Vunaape, Agricultural Dept., Health ept. and the three native Pidgin ewspapers ( Rabaul News, Lae Garamut and Wewak News).

Fr. Mihalic uses none of these; he uses the 10th version—the New Standard Orthography. This has been approved by the Minister for Territories, the Administrator of Papua-New Guinea, and the P-NG Director of Education. Its rules were drawn up by three noted experts in linguistics and it was based on the pronunciation of adults in the Madang district—as Pidgin in that area was regarded as being relatively unaffected by anglicisms.

Even before people began to be serious about Pidgin, there were always two schools of thought about the written versions. Some have held that as it is based largely on English, something close to English spelling should be used. [Those who put forward this theory feel that they have won a point in recent years, since it has been said that Pidgin is only a stepping stone to real English.] The other school believes that Pidgin should be written as the natives pronounce it—that is, that the language should be orientated towards the native and not to nonnatives. This is the theory that has prevailed in the Approved Official Orthography (used by Fr. Mihalic). (Over) 57 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Adopt One Version The vital thing, for the sake of the natives, whose lives must be influenced by it, is to adopt one version and stick to it. As matters stand at present, the New Guinea natives are in the position an Englishman would be if he wished to learn Spanish but found that the Spaniards had 10 different versions of writing their language.

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The printers of Fr. Mahilic’s lictionary have taken special care o make it tropic-proof—with a pecial cover and nylon stitching. It hould be available in New Guinea hthin the next few months, irobably through local stores, but ertainly from the Catholic Mission, \fewak, New Guinea.

Many ''Still Believe" [?] Cargo Cult The Cargo Cult won’t die uietly in the Pacific.

ATEST to kick the ball around J —not without interest—is Dr.

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He began his work in 1949 in the ladang district, and was back to polish it off”. He intends to write book this year, describing the growth of the cult in the Madang- Saidor area. 0,/if CCC f r( H Lawrence, the cult started in that district about JJ/A’ . , a scientist named Mikluho- Maclay, a Russian noble- ?? a *? Scottish descent, arrived to study the native way of life, and the natives found it necessary to explain his possessions u Many believe It Dr. Lawrence says he believes there are many P-NG natives who have a belief in the Cargo Cult without practising it, and adds: “It is essential to understand how these people think of us and our way of life, because if you are going, to change their ways of thinking and their way of living, you must know what you are up against.

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When Mr. Paul Hasluck, Australian Minister for Territories, prepared a lengthy address for the Summer School of the Australian Institute of Political Science (Canberra, Jan. 25-27) he made of it practically a review of the seven years in which he has been virtually Dictator of Papua and New Guinea. He called it Australia in New Guinea—Present Tasks and Policies.

MR. HASLUCK is a man of statesmanlike vision, and of marked literary ability. His address becomes a useful historical document, because he describes analytically the difficulties which Australia faces in P-NG, and he inlicates where she has succeeded, md where failed.

Mr. Hasluck perhaps is unique imong politicians, in that he is traightforward and honest in disussing his own difficulties, as a Minister.

Incidentally, this is a different linister to the Hasluck of seven ears ago. Then, he approached his ask with irritating cocksureness— ery much the leader-writer getting ito action. Since then he has lamed a good deal—and honestly anfesses his inability to get over Jrtain hurdles. For that reason, he a more impressive Minister. He as got his focus adjusted.

If given a few more years in the b—an unlikely contingency—he mid get a sufficient hold on this laotic mass of tropical islands and imitive men and undisciplined iropeans to really shape It into mething worth while.

No other Australian Minister ever ought anything like Mr. Hasluck’s lent and vision to the Territories b.

In his early days, one got the imession that Minister Hasluck, -alist and planner, kow-towed to s Trusteeship Council, and enrsed many of the views of the liticaliy-unbaked gentlemen who me out here from UNO and deluded prompt liberation of the w Guineaites from the exploiters, d their establishment as a scheming unit.

'fow, after years of struggling h the P-NG headache that repress his portfolio, Mr. Hasluck is reshingly frank.

"Need New Society" tfr. Hasluck describes at length J extreme difficulties of making J cohesive society out of the inmerable primitive communities, united and speaking countless languages, that live in P-NG; and he emphasises that until there is one social entity in the country, it is impossible to create a self-governing state.

“Unless a society of a new kind grows in P-NG, there will be no life of a new kind”, he says. Obviously, there can be no “society of a new kind” while the tasks of introducing civil order, better living standards and complete illiteracy remain undone.

“We cannot predict with certainty the nature of the society which will finally develop in P-NG, and hence we cannot predict with certainty the shape of the institutions, or the successive stages in the growth of that society,” says Mr. Hasluck.

“This is the final answer to the stupidity of those positive fools in the United Nations who are always talking of target dates for political advancement .”

Thank you, Mr. Hasluck, for those simple words. The PIM often has tried to express the same sentiments. They come much more effectively from the Australian Minister who has had the problem right in his lap for seven years. .The Minister is equally emphatic about the misuse of the term “selfdetermination”. Surely, he says, these dependent people of P-NG must be left—after a suitable period of training and tuition—to do what they themselves want to do—not what the United Nations votes that they should do or some neighbouring power wants them to do!

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It is in that connection that Mr.

Hasluck develops his principal argument. “The ward has to grow up before the trustee relinquishes his trust to it”—and he points out that it is the duty of Trustee Australia not only to prepare these primitives for nationhood, but to base Australian planning on the belief that Australian interests and the interests of P-NG are either identical or cannot be considered apart from one another. . . We have to recognise that if we want to maintain that view we have to give constant care to keep the interests of Australia and P-NG as a common interest”.

Mr. Hasluck indicated that he had been often nagged at by politicians and Press because he had given no clear-cut “policy” regarding Australian intentions and planning in New Guinea. It is impossible, in existing circumstances, he says, to lay down a “policy”; “There are so many unpredictable forces at work both in the Territory, and outside, that only those who know they are omnipotent or do not know they are foolish would declare emphatically what they would do.”

There again we may agree entirely with the Minister. The over-all purpose of Australia’s presence in New Guinea and Papua is to create there an independent nation, allied closely with Australia; but how and when it is to be done depends upon a score of factors now in process of development.

Australia’s administrative policy must be adapted to factors which, in many cases, are not yet clear.

Actually, there is little in Mr.

Hasluck’s long, admirably-presented address to the Summer School with which his critics could disagree. (Over) Tahiti: The Island That Awakened From a Slumber The beautiful island of Tahiti bids fair now to awaken from that slumber which a tropical climate, and the voluptuous temperament of a scant population, seemed condemned her.

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Augusto Soares, an Englishman, who has formed a company for the growth of cotton and coffee, having acquired 12,000 acres of land at Atimaono-Papara, now named Terre Eugenie, the most fertile portion of the island.

“A more charming sight can scarcely be conceived than the 1,500 acres now planted, and bearing the most beautiful sea-island cotton; and one of the loveliest valleys in the world has been cleared * or ( transplantation of coffee-shrubs.

The whole is under the management a gentleman of great experience and ability, who has succeeded in inducing the natives to work in emulation of the Coolies; and the estates under his care form a model plantation, which might weM be the envy of any colony.

“Animated by the prolific and almost fabulous returns the English company is receiving from its outlay, the natives are cultivating their patches with cotton, all over the island; and a large and regular export of this product may be expected, which must greatly contribute to the prosperity of the island and its inhabitants " —Extracted from "Hena, or Life in Tahiti", a book written nearly 100 years ago by Mrs. Alfred Hort, and published in 1866.

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Their descendants in Tahiti now number 10,000, at least. 61 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1958

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Name Address State Reading it, one gains increased respect for this young member of the Menzies’ Government. 38,000 Sq. Miles Left With justice, he says that Australia deserves full credit for her performance in three or four fields of administration.

Australia’s first and most important task was to bring the 183,540 square miles of Papua and New Guinea under “control”—and that has been done through a system of patrolling in which the young Australians excel. To-day, the Minister claims, only 38,000 sq. miles are not under control; and of that area, some 28,000 sq. miles are under some kind of Administration influence.

Australian achievement has been equally impressive in the field of health. These natives have no conception of health needs —they had to be taught the most elementary things, trained as individuals and as communities. The beginning was made by Europeans, and the services enlarged as natives were trained to become medical and health officers.

Gradually, a health service, equipped with clinics and hospitals, has been spread across the Territory—and the work goes on, and must continue on an increasing scale.

Much also has been accomplished in the field of economics—through direct tuition, through co-operative societies, the natives are being taught to produce and market foodstuffs and materials in an organised way. The figures are impressive.

The natives are being trained in self-government. A large group of Dfficials is giving direct tuition to hundreds of village councils.

So far, so good. The record—supsorted by statistics—deserves netting but praise.

Much Left Unsaid But, having read the long address, ne is left with the feeling that here is much the Minister left unaid —much that might have been xplained to the Summer School, iere, presumably, the politician was n control of the statesman.

For example, WHY is Australia in lew Guinea at all, giving so freely ►f her valuable young men, and of ler treasure (at least £lO millions )er annum) in an administration ask for which she receives no interlational thanks or kudos?

Australia, with a vast and almost mpty continent at her disposal, Ices not seek colonies. No one ever las accused her of hunger for new erritories. All her men and her reasure can be used most profitbly inside Australia.

Everyone, of course, knows that Australia holds New Guinea for security reasons. Left unprotected, this vast tropical area soon would be occupied by Asians —and it would be in the highest degree dangerous to have Asia right on our doorstep.

For the same reason, we support the Dutch in their continued occupancy of Western New Guinea.

Why cannot the Australian Minister say so, instead of leaving his cogent and logical arguments up in the air? Australia is engaging in huge expenditure of money, men and effort in order that there may be, in New Guinea, a strong economic backbone, supported by ll million natives, for Australia’s advanced line of defence against Asia.

Mr. Hasluck does makes a reference to the danger of Asia: but he does it indirectly, and puts the cart before the horse: “The trust to the people of P-NG can be carried out only if there is peace, with freedom from enemy ‘‘Why Is Australia In New Guinea At (From page 61)

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Quite true. But Australia is in New Guinea primarily to keep the other fellow out, and not to discharge any trust to the people of P-NG.

Need for Settlers Mr. Hasluck describes his plans for the economic development of P-NG —the encouragement of old industries and the establishment of :iew —by the natives; and properly claims credit for some excellent •ecords.

But he says practically nothing— except by inference—about the need or settling in New Guinea as many uitable Europeans as the economy pill hold —Europeans who will build ip production, create larger civil irganisation and —this above all— how the natives how to become armers and industrialists, and ccustom themselves to less primitive Dims of living.

The Minister, a logical man whose even years on the threshold of New ruinea have taught him much that e did not know as a leader-writer, ow acknowledges privately that, leasuring one thing against another, lere is no factor more likely to Emulate among the New Guineans le kind of progress he wants than lenty of European settlement. Yet e will not say it.

Another example of the politician nothering up the competent stateslan. Politicians seem to go everstingly in terror of being called colonialists”.

Mr. Hasluck pleads for the coaeration of the P-NG Europeans i the task of stimulating native 'ogress in P-NG. Yet Planters’ ssociations and Returned Soldiers’ 3agues appeal to him in vain for mething more positive and active the way of European settlement.

In this Summer School address, ; spits boldly at the “fools” of e United Nations. Why then let e United Nations scare him oif a oper, forthright and long overdue inouncement on the subject of )re European settlement in P-NG?

Native Education Mr. Hasluck is particularly vague d unsatisfactory on the subject native education.

T would want to see develop in pua a society with a common iguage,” he says; and then goes to explain that a society with a tnmon language and a cultural ■ :ce of its own is impossible while e majority of II million natives are illiterate, and divided among scores perhaps hundreds —of language groups.

He describes educational needs and says: “We cannot build except on this foundation; and I would frankly confess that the achievements in education, subjected to this very simple test, to-day fall a very long way below the requirements of policy or the demands the Government has been making.”

“The first job we have to do, and the job we have not yet succeeded in doing to my satisfaction, is to bring a sound elementary education in English to every child in the controlled areas.

“Over and above this, of course, we have to do many things; but none of the additions can be made until the foundations are laid.”

This journal could not agree more —the Minister is saying what the PIM has been saying, year after year, for a long time.

But the Minister, after making this candid confession, stops there.

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Mission Difficulties It has been apparent for a long time that there is lack of co-ordination between Administration and Missions in the field of education.

The Administration knows that it jannot make satisfactory progress in Its chief task unless there is a jteadily growing volume of literacy tmong natives, based on an accepted ind approved pattern.

The Missions greatly value their lold over village schools, as part )f their work of introducing Christianity—and we may not forget hat, until very recent years, they ;ave to the natives practically all »f the little education the natives eceived.

But times have changed. The reponsibility is plainly upon the Administration. If it cannot reconcile ts urgent education requirements nth Mission machinery, it will be iamstrung in its principal activities.

Instead of apostrophising God, the linister might be wiser to deal very rmly and justly with God’s servants, i the Missions. Knowing something f the grimness and strength of the fissions in P-NG, one is not surrised to see the Minister shrinking little from the task which con- *onts him in this field.

Another field in which the Minter outlines a policy, but seems ly in indicating the shape of the )reseeable future, is that of native ,bour.

He says that his policy for the mtrol and regulation of native hour is intended to serve three ain purposes—the general adincement of the native people, the ’otection of the native workers fainst unfair and improper treatent, and “to ensure that the native srker honours his obligations”.

He goes on to explain that his iministration in this connection eks measures “that maintain ilage life and the attachment of e native to his land”, the educa- )n of the native in better ways of r ing, use of tools, and so forth; id “it is to be remembered that e parallel policy of economic delopment means that industrial iterprise requires efficient use of bour”.

That is fine; but it is too vague.

All that we know is that in recent ars the laws controlling native labour have been mostly for the native worker and little for the European employer. As in the case of European settlement, P-NG residents would have warmly welcomed a Ministerial finger-post, showing the future shape of native labour regulations.

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The first letter said : “This has been delivered to me; but clearly is intended for someone else. You appear to be the party indicated.

I did not think there was another ‘H. S. Wynne’ in captivity”.

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“My Christian names are Herbert Sydney—What are yours?” asked Rabaul Wynne.

Back came the answer. “Believe it or not”, wrote the Melbourne Wynne “my full name also is Herbert Sydney Wynne”.

After that, there had to be a meeting, and they have been friends ever since.

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As a French Journalist sees it: It's Not All Paradise In The South Pacific In a year of travel, we have visited the Tongan isles, Fiji, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, the British Solomons, New Guinea and parts of Australia. We have had recourse to three shipping companies, six air servires, and we have each worn out two pairs of shoes.

ETS7E have moved about on horserf back, in canoe, on Land Rovers, Jeeps, 2-horsepower Citroen, ind motor bicycles.

Some 30 of our articles have already leen published and we are taking lack to Europe as many again, as veil as innumerable notes and ome 6,000 photographs, 1,000 of hem in colour.

When we have had time to digest nd handle all this material, we lope, either together or independntly, to start off on our travels gain—probably to the USSR and he Far East.

We shall then again experience he barriers that face every traveller -visas, vaccination, exchange and ther difficulties that are common 0 this century. “Who are you? /here have you come from? Where re you making for? Are you a ichelor, married, widowed, divorced? ross out the particulars that don’t pply.”

But the Australian authorities ave been particularly helpful, -ather to my surprise, I may say, nee the Australian immigration ithorities and Customs people have ie reputation of being rather ough”. And you are hardly able to ip them a bank-note to obtain >me favour, as you can do in some mntries I could mention.

It is different again in Tonga.

DNGA:— IHERE the Minister of Police goes - out of his way to examine the cause of your visit. Journalists, id —worse still—photographers, are it in much favour with the Royal ithorities.

When I went ashore at Nukualofa st April I had to undergo a stiff iterrogation: “Will your stay last month? All right, but not more tan a month? Will Her Majesty ceive you? Hum, Hum! She is not 1 exotic curiosity. We shall see.’’

Prisoner Upon a Throne I saw the Queen on several casions but had only one oppornity of speaking with her. But if ie did not accord an official interew either to Katharina von Arx myself, she made daily inquiries i to our well-being, and appointed an aide-de-camp to look after us, and she made us presents.

During our stay we became aware that the sovereign is not only HM Salote Tubou, Queen of the tiny Tongan group, but a sort of distant divinity and almost inaccessible. She lives like a prisoner on her throne, She is aware of the jealously and intrigue that seem to surround her.

She hesitates to make a gesture or cecord a smile that might in any way be regarded as a favour, She must remain alone, eat alone, a formal life carried to the point that her own sons cannot sit at her table.

She is the captive of two opposing currents: the Nobles, who would democratise the Crown and bring her nearer to her more humble subjects, are opposed by the conservatives, anxious to maintain their influence and preserve their privileges.

In the first group you find the young men, awake to the spirit of a new age. In the other are found dignitaries of the old school; also Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul.

These isles disappointed me. The arrival at Nukualofa lacks charm.

Gone are the luxuriant splendours of the Tahitian scene and the savage grandeur of the Marquesas.

The capital turned out to be a square arrangement of uneven surfaced streets, very warm at mid-day.

There is the main artery, the street of commerce, where the usual stores, Burns Philp, Hedstroms, and others, are found. It is only the flowers that adorn the houses that save the place from looking drab.

Puritanical Hypocrisy But Vava’u, the big isle to the north, made up for what I had been missing.

This isle has beauty, is less bourgeois than Tongatabu. Here there is less denunciation of the liberty that is part of the Polynesian nature; Vava’u is not spoiled by the puritanical hypocrisy which one feels elsewhere in the archipelago.

The isle enjoys a rather special reputation as the place where one can enjoy oneself. One goes there for a holiday and so the memories one brings away are quite precious and imperishable.

New Caledonia:—

WITH special pleasure I revisited New Caledonia, where I formerly lived for some years.

My friends there had not forgotten me, and I and my companion were well received.

Noumea has changed. It has become a town of some importance, whose new suburbs now spread out some kilometres from the centre. A new hotel has been opened, the automatic telephones installed.

Salaries are high, and cost of living extremely high.

During our stay, Japan was buying up nickel ore as fast as ships could load. There was a feeling of optimism and the Administration was enjoying its customary and agreeable slumber. A few people, perhaps the better informed, were urging caution.

Since we left, the situation has modified. Several mines have had to close down or carry on at a reduced production rate.

This has been a bad knock for the promoters, and the superoptimistic forecasts of the Economic Bureau have proved false. The Bureau had estimated that in 1957 the exports of ore to Japan would exceed a million tons compared with 773,000 tons in 1956. £5,000 a Year Ministers All the same, the near future of the colony does not appear to be unfavourable. Whether the plans drawn up are completely or only partially successful, it is the job both of public and private interests to see that the Caledonian economy functions properly. Above all it is

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The man-and-woman writing team for the Swiss magazines “Sie and Er ” and “ITLlustre” and the French magazines “Paris Match’' and “L’Europe” did not get lost in the crowd, although 1957 was a bumper year in the SW Pacific for perambulating journalists.

She was Katharina von Arx, tall dark and German. He was Freddy Drilhon, blond and French. They have both now returned to Europe; but, before he went, Freddy Drilhon did this story for “PIM”.

The ideas are those of M.

Drilhon, and not necessarily those of the “PIM”. They are sufficiently steeped in acid and sufficiently close to the bone to, we anticipate, produce metaphorical hives amongst some of the indignant inhabitants of the Territories he visited. 71 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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The production of nickel metal will remain the principal source of Caledonian revenue, but the island must diversify its general mineral output more so that the economy of the country will not be so vulnerable in case of a nickel slump.

The price of New Caledonian nickel is still too high. It may not be generally known that up to 1956 metropolitan France granted a subsidy to Caledonian nickel with the idea of making it competitive on the world market.

Since then, French industrial users and their European colleagues, among them the Germans, have had to pay the full price. But because of the strong demand for nickel metal (nickel treated and bought in the form of matte on fonte) a black market has existed, and they say it is this that has so opportunely saved the big operators from difficulty.

The attempt is now being made to lower the cost of nickel-metal production to bring it into closer relation with world prices. To this end a vast programme of hydra electric and electro-metallurgic in stallation was launched in 1955.

The Nickel Company is investim a great deal fo capital in these imi provements, and France still more But if local charges, wages am so on, are increased much further it will cancel out the benefits a this modernisation programme.

What of 1960?

The short term future of nicke seems to be satisfactory, but wha will happen in 1960? Then, accordl ing to the experts, Canada, whicl is now sinking a great amount a new capital in the industry, wil have completed her own programm. of production and development Also, America’s strategic stock-pilJ is due to reach its contemplate* size about the same time. Thus, ii two or three years time, a certaii amount of over-production am some difficulty in getting rid o: supplies are to be feared.

I would like to be able to speal of New Caledonian agriculture anc cattle raising but this is difficult ii not impossible—one may almost sa: that these activities no longer exist The mines have emptied tin countryside of its labour force. Im porters of foodstuffs still have j fine future before them!

The metropolitan officials in Nev, Caledonia are still grossly overpaid I hardly dare to quote figures anc give examples here—if I did, Plh readers would not believe me Fortunately, the workers of th( Renault Biilancourt and grea, industrial undertakings in France victims of our political anarchy who are called on to contribute to th» vast sums wasted in the colonies b: cur overpaid officialdom, are ir ignorance of the scandalous wastage that goes on. • One must also draw attention to the scale of 'payment estabiishec by the newly constituted Neu Caledonian legislature, for its eigh\ new so-called “Ministers”, who are each receiving £A42O a month, plui housing, a car and a Ministerial secretary. In addition, members o, the local Territorial Assembly, which replaces the former General Council now draw £A329 a month.

How does this compare with the pay of British or Australian Parliamentarians?

Anyhow, these are charges that New Caledonia and not France wil] have to pay—it is their look-out.

Many people, of course, perhaps actuated by jealousy, told me the new “Ministry” is nothing better than an expensive joke.

One can’t help wondering what might happen if the 1,500,000 native inhabitants of New Guinea ever arrive at a comparable stage of evolution. What would their “Ministry” be likely to cost? New Caledonia has only 70,000 inhabitants.

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IN the New Hebrides we owed to the ethnologist Guiart the visit we were able to pay to the interior of Santo. Without him this visit would have been impossible.

After an unfortunate happening in 1952, when a settler was responsible for the death of two “men Santo”, it was Guiart who was able to restore calm among the tribes of chief Mol Valiv. We were able to make an agreeable stay here, from which we came away with many notes and photographs.

Shocks in Pac. Fes.

I again met in the Hebrides M.

Anthonioz, the French Resident Commissioner, rather to my surprise, since our fonctionnaires rarely stay in the same place for long, and Anthonioz came here as far back ns 1949.

I was also surprised to find he had come to terms with the monotony of administrative life, for hitherto he has been rather a man revolutions, of civil wars, of dramatic happenings.

The role of dictator, of course, foes not displease him either. But in the New Hebrides he doesn’t exist alone. The British are there to act as a brake, and although they may 3e looked on by their opposite French numbers as a set of imbeciles, :hey are yet capable of bringing )ff a subtle tactical success.

I am thinking of what happened to the war-time dollar harvest eaped by the Condominium, that is ;o say, by the British and French administrations jointly. If one is to relieve the story one hears on the spot, almost all this valuable :urrency went into the pocket of the Britanniques” although we had sufficient need of it in France.

So let us be under no delusion: [f M. Anthonioz sometimes seems ;o parody the famous mot of King -ouis XIV in declaring “les Hebrides e’est moi” (as he suggested to Katharina von Arx) he vas adding a bit of wishful thinkng to the position France holds in he archipelago. Let me explain nyself: The New Hebrides is costly to France because the exchange is inked with the sterling area. Great Britain (or, rather, Australia) senefits almost entirely from the eommercial transactions that go on. ’n this connection let me quote M.

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33UM0/P SAM* jCUI/AU ® 939V7 04709 )M7noM MS3J//>f>OAJI to metropolitan France of the organisation of the group is an annual deficit of some 1 milliard 401,878,000 metropolitan frs., poured out to safeguard the economic interests of a population of French origin which numbers scarcely more than 1,200 inhabitants.” (This deficit is in 'pounds sterling, of course!) The Future of N. Hebrides Periodically the question is raised as to whether the New Hebrides should not be passed over completely to France. There are logical reasons (including the cost of the group to France) why this outcome would seem to be justified.

But settlers in the Hebrides would probably be sorry to depart from the present regime. If one goes around with ears open, it is to find that they are not dissatisfied with the Condominium.

One single control would deprive them of liberties they now enjoy, and also the?r freedom to take advantage of their attachment to a currency of some stability, the Australian pound.

When the special New Hebridean franc, which circulates in the Group alongside the Australian pound, was devalued last September, there was considerable discontent, for the Fiench population had thought their NH franc was solidly tied at an unchangeable rate to the £A. It was a bitter disillusionment to find that this was not the case.

The new situation has placed the colonists in a painful situation. But in reality their situation even before devaluation was a far from brilliant one.

The metier of colonist has become precarious and the arrival in the Hebrides of an inspector of labour who declared he would shoot all the planters if he had the chance has hardly given them encouragement.

The desire to protect the native workers so that they do not work cn the plantations for wages inadequate or inferior to those promised is reasonable. But to go to the other extreme and expect to assimilate them to the conditions and pay of European workers, under the delusion that their work will be as productive, is a very different proposition. This would be an extraordinary way of encouraging the economic development of the Group, a scheme only possible in the eyes of an absolutely irresponsible administration.

BSIP:— Friendliness WE did not stay long in the British Solomons. All there was time to do was to visit a leper station and a few old battlefields of the Pacific war.

In the absence of Sir John Gutch, the High Commissioner, his representative, Mr. R. J. Minnitt, did all that was possible for us, and we take this opportunity of thanking him.

We should have much liked to visit Malaita, where native life in the tribal sense still continues to some extent as in the past. But, pressed for time, we were obliged, to take the plane which links Honiara and Lae.

Papua-New Guinea:—

MANY writers have written in the spirit of “See Tahiti and die!”

For my part I would much rather apply the phrase to Papua and New Guinea. But for different reasons.

Papua/New Guinea represents in the Pacific one of the Territories most worthy of attention, so vast and rich ethnographically, artistically and linguistically that one would need many lives to get abreast of it all.

Universal Treasure Trove In the limited space of this article one can only remark, first of all, that with relatively limited resources i bearing in mind the size of the country), Australia is doing a very great deal. We saw some fine roads, good bridges, posts in the bush of surprising comfort, and air transport facilities really well developed.

Papua and New Guinea indeed owe much to aviation and the skill of pilots who assure communications day by day, and in all sorts of weather.

It is amazing to see the grassy and uneven runways that sometimes do service as aerodromes. Perched on and cut out of mountain slopes they exact the utmost flying skill from pilots. I couldn’t help recalling similar skill of the great French aviator, Mermoz, who pioneered flights over the Andes of South America. Indeed, the aviation in Papua-New Guinea recalled to me the heroic days of the postal service in that sub-continent.

Talked to Everyone After having accompanied a patrol that was carrying out an annual census in the high valley of Chimbu fEastern Highlands) we stayed at Maprik and on the Sepik River, talking to administrators, colonists, recruiters, gold prospectors, native chiefs, getting to know what we could, in a limited time, of their lives, their difficuties, their hopes.

From nearly everyone we received the utmost help and consideration.

From the air we got some idea of the uncontrolled territories, landing at Tari, Erave, Mendi and elsewhere.

We much appreciated the cordial welcome we received from the in- 75 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Of all the places we visited it is to New Guinea that we gave our most ardent attention and of which we retain the most appreciative memories. It has been an unforgettable experience and a marvellous source of interest.

CIERTAINLY our visit had its less f pleasant side. For example, the treatment of my colleague; Katharina von Arx, by an airline official in Lae when she pointed out) certain difficulties she was experiencing in preparing certain publicity stories. He said to her: “It is not my fault if your paper gave you a man’s job. I have daughters, and I know what a woman should da and not do”.

And at Maprik, when we wanted to learn all we could of the fight) against Malaria, the doctor in charge opposed the idea —not formally, but) by showing such a discouraging amount of inertia or lack of enthusiasm that it was impossible for us to get the material we had hoped) for. • One final criticism of existing things in New Guinea! The Sepih. region is extremely rich in objects of native art, but I was astonished', at the way self-styled anthropologists, who are really nothing but opportunist traders —and there are', many of them —are allowed to carry\ off such objects by the ton, their one and only object being to sell, them for their own personal profit in overseas countries, the USA for example.

I was told that laws in force would allow the Administration toi forbid their export by buying them: back at a reasonable price. But; these regulations do not allow for 1 the fact that the officials who should: control such traffic are far from being experts, so that it is comparatively easy to pass off real) objects of value as worthless modern objects.

Why can’t the export of native; art objects be centralised at Port, Moresby (or Lae, or Madang—where; doesn’t matter) so that one or more: specialists could control and veto exports of objects whose value will one day be better recognised?

In my view, the museums of the world, starting with those of Australia, are to-day being robbed by traffickers of what should rightly be theirs.

Immigration Problems While in Australia we were essentially occupied in studying immigration problems. We watched the arrival of New Australians, saw them settling in, visited their centres, and the industries and farms where they are employed. We gathered a large number of impressions and everywhere were greatly helped by 76 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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This article, naturally, is far from being the whole story of our travels.

In limited space perhaps undue importance has been given to the few criticisms I have to make, not least about the French.

These remarks I make above all because I am French and because I have great faith in the future of France.

France is a great country, her people hard working and eminently civilised: but she has not the political leaders just now, or the internal and external administrators that she merits. Like the majority of my compatriots, I hate to see a swarm of second-rate people giving an idea of France that France does not deserve.

I write from the heart, and what criticisms I make are intended to be constructive.

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CHURCHGOERS A Special Correspondent Anyone interested in trends in religious affiliations in the Cook Islands can get a lot more information now that the details of the 1956 census have been recorded.

There are facts which were not available in the 1951 census. In the past, the affiliations of Maoris only have been recorded, but the 1956 census records the entire population. Some new categories thus appear.

For example, whereas at last census there were no Presbyterians, 58 now are listed, and 38 are listed under “miscellaneous sects” where none appeared before. The Baha’i sect which has entered the field since last census is listed with 20 adherents.

While the five “objections” continued to object and were joined by no others, those in the category “none, or not stated” jumped from 16 to 122, suggesting that this group is largely Europeans. But there again it is impossible to compare European and Maori comparative population figures, because in the 1956 census only those of 100 per cent. non-Maori blood are listed as Europeans, where before a European could be part Maori.

The 1951 census recorded 322 nonindigenous persons in the Group, and the 1956 census lists 307, so there is no great change involved.

IMS Has More The figures given for the main religious groups show an increase of Hi per cent, for London Missionary Society followers, 23 per cent, for Roman Catholics, nearly n per cent, for Seventh Day Adventists, and a jump of 71 per cent, for Church of England, while the Latter Day Saints declined by 9 per cent.

The latter sect, of fairly recent appearance, has spent considerable money in the Group on new buildings, including an expensive school at Rarotonga. The Congregationai group is listed as unchanged.

In actual numbers the LMS sect, with 13,067 of a total population of 16,680, is far ahead of all others.

Roman Catholics are next with 1,845 followers listed.

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FILEWOOOD, of Vanikoro, who says: r[E Kauri Timber Company did not establish itself on Vanikoro in 1923, a company called San Christobal Estates having that honour.

After a very short period of operations, this company got into difficulties and part of its interests were taken over by a company calling itself The Vanikoro Kauri Timber Company.

In 1926 the present operators took over the whole interests and commenced working the island under the name of the Kauri Timber Company and have continued to do so except for a break during the war.

In 1947 the manager was sent to Vanikoro to clean up the settlement and get ready for timber extraction again. This recommenced in 1949 and subject to the demand for Kauri continuing, will go on for some years to come.

At least three other vessels have gone aground at Vanikoro, one a ship of the South African Railways Line, the name of which I do not know; Erica, which grounded close to the spot where Milos did last year; and the Australian cruiser, Shoalhaven, which grounded on the shoal in Pallu Passage.

The cross commemorating the La Perouse fatality, was not placed there by the Officer Commanding the French Pacific naval forces about a month before the grounding Df Milos. This Officer, Viceadmiral Toulouse-Lautrec, merely added a few bricks and a little ttement to the base of the cross to secure it from the erosion of the reef waves.

Been Two Crosses The original cross was placed on the reef by a French party sometime in the 1930’5, the spot having aeen pointed out to them by a former Kauri Co. manager. Two lengths of railway line made up the cross installed.

This remained there until Jctober 20, 1956, when the French patrol vessel, Tiare, under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Bonnet, sent a party to demolish the old cross and erect a new one, the components of which had been brought by the vessel.

The writer was with the Commander, his Chief Officer, Lieutenant Lambert and a marine biologist, M. Rene Gale (who has since been drowned during his diving research work) for the whole of the period of erection of the new cross, and took a number of colour pictures of the ceremony, which unfortunately, were not very successful.

Company native labour was also made available to the Commander and the task was carried out during the low water period.

Pieces of Eight The writer also piloted the party to all likely spots for the search for further relics, particularly to the spot where local legend has it that the second vessel of La Perouse’s command foundered, about 12 miles down the coast from the company settlement; and to the spot where it is almost certain that the great Frenchman struck the reef.

This spot, now know as False or Wreck Passage, is north-west of Pallu Passage and is about two miles south-east of the spot where the cross is placed.

The position of the wreck is not known for certain, but a lot of wreckage was found at False Passage by an investigating party under Captain Dumont d’Urville, of the French Navy, in 1828, which was said to have been consistent with the equipment of a French vessel of the correct period. It has been accepted as such by all authorities.

Why the cross was placed where it is, no one seems to know, as it is also fairly certain that at least some of the party got ashore at the spot where the company headquarters now stands, and built a boat, in which they attempted to get away, but were not heard of again.

Musket balls, coins, pieces of copper, etc., were found in the area, all of which are of the same period as the wreckage, and it seems reasonable to assume them to be authentic.

A Brave Man Incidentally, the La Perouse Cross is not white, but black, constructed of 9 in. x 5 in. rolled steel joist, bolted together and cemented into a large coral rock close to what is known as the Lemon River Passage. The company visits it twice a year, to ensure its stability and maintenance.

It is a good landmark and a reminder of a brave man, who could quite easily have beaten Captain Cook to his landing in Botany Bay, losing that prize by a few days only. 79 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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WHEN talkies first hit the screen it didn’t matter much what the actors said, so long as they said something. The voice was the novelty.

Cinerama has been going for some time now, but apparently it hasn’t got out of that novelty stage yet.

The Fiji Visitors’ Bureau, reporting progress on the production of an American cinerama film on the South Seas, says that in one scene the producers have 15 giant Fiji Rugby footballers run up to the camera, sit around in a circle and take off their right boot and sock, stand up, kick the ball at the camera, and then all start hopping around on their left foot, nursing their right foot in their hands.

“It’s hysterical in action,” says the Visitors’ Bureau. Which must just about sum it up.—HOPPY.

All His Eye

THIS business of identity cards for P-NG native labourers is all my eye. A lot of people are going to do a lot of laughing. Will they >et their cards mixed up? Anyone who has ever been a tax collector knows all about it. Ask them for ast year’s papers and they are likely :o produce six or seven—all belongng to different boys. They did it in ny time and they’ll do it again.— DLD HAND.

Fiji’S “Wairarapa”

SITE mostly called him “Wai-ra- -7T rapa” in Fiji—he being one of the few rescued when a ship ;f that name was wrecked off the ;oast of New Zealand.

The story was that the first thing le did after the wreck was to send i cable to his brother in England, laying, “SAVED”.

His brother knew nothing of the vreck, but was fully informed about i lot of other things, and replied, •HALLELUJAH”.

I always felt rather drawn to that )rother and sorry I never met him.

Wai-ra-rapa was a good sort, irratic as a result of the wreck, no loubt, but I always liked him.

How well I remember the night *hen, starring in one of the amateur heatrical shows, we used to put on n the Suva town hall, he was in )articularly good form and gagged so much that the prompter got lost.

The latter kept booming out the prompt, till finally Wai-ra-rapa walked across to the wings and said, “Shut up, damn you”, and back to centre stage while the house, from the Vice-Regal party in front to the gods at the back, rocked with laughter.

Came the sad day years later when I arrived from the Ba district with a cargo of prisoners and witnesses for the Quarter Sessions and one of the first things I heard was that Wai-ra-rapa had the DT’s.

It was my job to open up the court and have everything in readiness for its session at 10 a.m. and the first thing I saw when I got there was our friend, peering through the Venetian blinds, sticking his fingers through and pulling them back and shaking his hand as though he had been bitten by something.

It was a matter of passing the buck quickly—that court had to be ready on time or else —so I said good day and told him that the Superintendent of Agriculture w r anted to see him.

He trotted off without argument and I heard later that he went into R. G. Knowles’ office and said, “What are you going to do about these red spiders?”

“What red spiders?”, said R.G.K.

“Why”, said Wai-ra-rapa, “They’re all over you NOW. They’re all over you NOW!” and from then on he w 7 as taken good care of.

Poor old Wai-ra-rapa, he passed on years ago and there must still be This is "Miss Manam". Her real name is Boisali, and she—and all that fruit precariously balanced on her head —are products of Manam Island, off the coast of Madang, New Guinea. However, in case any tourists have the idea of racing up there to take a first-hand look, they should be warned of the following points: (a) Manam Island is at present in the grip of an erupting volcano and everybody is now on the mainland (b) The only time you see this kind of thing in New Guinea is when magazine photographers pose it —as New York photographer Madame de Beausacq did with "Miss Manam".

a few left who like myself had a lot of fun with him and who, also like myself, hope he is having good hunting, wherever he is.—C. WAGER.

Roll Your Own Rock ’N

ROLL HONIARA (BSIPi bachelor Eddie Clooney is a rock ’n roll fan.

He liked the music when he first heard it, but not having seen it danced to he got over the problem of what steps to use by creating his own. Thus, rock ’n roll came to the Guadalcanal Club.

Eddie is currently, in Australia on leave, and while in Adelaide he popped along to a rock ’n roll turnout to see what the experts were doing with it. •Well,” says Eddie. “I decided I liked the Honiara brand best. And when I turned it on, I heard one chap say, ‘Gee. I’ve never seen it done like that. Is HE from America?’ ”

Away From It All—Almost

\ LOTUS eater, diligently searching a chart of the world for a spot in which to eat his lotus in peace, might well settle for Suwarrow, currently uninhabited atoll of the Cook Islands, as a pleasantly warm spot as far from the affairs of the world as he well could be.

That was perhaps what Richard and Abbie Stafford of the Panamaregistered yacht Meridian thought when they put into that quiet lagoon anchorage for a break en route to Pago Pago from Borabora recently.

But they were wrong.

Their consternation can be imagined when, barely having arrived in the place, not one but two helicopters came roaring over, looked them over, then put down on the beach of Anchorage Islet like space ships from Mars. They uplifted Meridian’s outgoing mail, and zoomed off over the horizon again— to return later with a handsome contribution to the yacht’s larder before rejoining their ship somewhere out in the blue and proceeding on their way to the Antarctic as part of the American Operation Deepfreeze.

Wouldn’t it!— JPS. cROSSQUIZ (Solution on page 97) ACROSS I.—Which mountain range divides France from Spain? s.—What bird is signified by the letter "0"? 7. What is it that tends to keep a spinning wheel spinning? 8. —What is the term for those people in the torrid zones that cast no shadow? 9. Which conifer tree sheds its leaves? 10. —On which island in Samoa is R.

L. Stevenson buried? 11. —What is the largest city on Crete? 13. What was the setting for Shakespeare's "Hamlet"? 14. —Which river is known both as White and Blue? 16. —What are the ropes that form steps in rigging? 18.—What percussion instrument in an orchestra is composed of a series of horizontal steel plates? -DOWN 1. —What would you find a rip-cord in? 2. —What is the American term for a one floor home? 3. —ln Greek mythology, what is the spirit of the spring and fountains? 4. —Who invented the incandescent lamp? 5. —Who shares the adventures of "The Three Musketeers”? 6. —What hopping rodents are hunted for their fur? 11. —What is the Southern US term for pure-blooded descendants of early French or Spanish settlers? 12. —Which famous Roman poet lived 65-8 BC? 15. —What measure of wire is equal to one thousanth of an inch? 17.—What abbreviation once stood for what is now Indonesia?

He's Another of the Sepik Robbies wolfish smile and wicked moustachioi of Wilfred Robinson made many friendl during a seven months' visit to the Sepil River, where he was staying with his brother E. D. Robinson, the "Sepik Robbie" of Coastl watching fame. Being "Sepik's" elder brothei would be sufficient entree to most Territory circles, but Wilfred is also as charming a: his appearance is striking.

Born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, in 1891 he was 21 when his brother Eric (Sepik) left foi Australia, and they have only recently met again after 44 years. They both fought in two World Wars without seeing each other. Wilt finished the First World War as an RSM, after service in Mesopotamia and Persia, reverting to his job in Local Government as Relieving Officer in Doncaster.

During the Second World War he served as> Adjutant in the Home Guard, and then in the Command of the Cadet Corps of the King s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Returning once more to peacetime work he was appointed!

Director of Welfare Services in Doncaster County Borough.

He retired in 1956 at the age of 65, and! immediately set out to join his daughter im Australia. She had marrier a former RAAF : officer, Cyril Small of Castlecrag. They are nowi living at Lane Cove, and their home is about! to become a Sepik River outpost.

Wilfred, who is very taken by the Australiani use of Christian names in place of the meaningless "Mister", went to the Sepik River for three months and stayed for seven, during i which time he was able to do several trips: up that remarkable river. There he was : spotted by Lee Robinson, who was directing the Chips Rafferty documentary film "High i Adventure", and so Wilf was interviewed by Lowell Thomas in the film on TV. This is part; of a series sponsored by General Motors, and made by the Southern International Film Company.

After being a widower for 16 years, Wilf is not in the marriage market. But he makes friends wherever he goes, and is now pleased to be settling down as a New Australian.— BRETT HILDER. 82 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Was it Flattery—Or Pork?

How To "Sweet-Talk" Those Tongan Sharks You may not believe it. Neither did Father Paul Boussit when he heard the natives in Tonga say that they “sweet-talked” the sharks, and put nooses around their gills, and then yanked them aboard ship. Father Paul was incredulous; but he went out with the crew and made them prove it.

INHERE had been a shortage of food . in Haapai and Father Boussit went out on the home-made mission yacht Fetu Moana, with a dozen sharking experts aboard, in the hope of catching fish. They had assured him they would lasso sharks.

Sharking is a fine art, handed down from father to son, in this part of the world.

The first day was a dismal failure.

Ihe experts spent part of that day and half the night trying to wheedle the sharks into the inviting trap.

Due can still hear the soft-vowelled natives with their coaxing singsong chant: “Beautiful girls of the briny deep!

Zome on over from your cozy haunts .

Bring some friends along. Come over 'o see our new boat—a boat with in engine, no less. Come aboard!

Let us look into your lovely eyes md let us put this sweet-scented tecklace around your beautiful r ,.ecks.”

Thus went the chant, alluring, appealing, enticing, all through the light, but in vain.

The next day brought a different story (says Father Boussit). No looner had I finished Mass—the first wer aboard that new boat —than I neard the glad shout: Malie! MaLie! iWonderful! Wonderful!) I rushed up on deck. Sure enough, about ten yards from the port side, ivas a huge fin, terrible to behold — and yet a thrilling sight for sore lyes at the moment.

Came Zero Hour A long pole, its end baited with a smelly piece of pork, was held over the water.

Meanwhile the flow of Tongan love-language kept up, over and wer again.

For a while it did not work. Friend shark was in no hurry; a sort of hard-to-get somebody.

When I was just about to give up and go below to finish my breakfast, the shark seemed to decide that he wanted that chunk of pork. His wicked, yellow-green eyes glistened with drunken hunger, hypnotised and unmindful of danger.

He made one lunge for the bait; rolled over on his back, opened wide his cavernous jaws, baring the rows of needle-like teeth.

The pole was expertly drawn in closer to the ship’s side, and held a bit above the water. Closer, closer, closer edged the voracious shark, lifting its head higher and higher above the water.

This was the zero hour. Breaths were held!

At the right moment, the lasso was deftly slipped over the shark’s head and eased gently down behind the gills. Then one swift, strong ierk secured it.

One of the heavyweight natives, armed with a stout cudgel, promptly brained the brute, after which it was duly hauled aboard and properly insulted and ridiculed in colourful language that would not look nice in print.

This is from a new book "Grins and Chuckles in Upside-Down Land", by Father E. A. Tremblay, S.M.

Father Tremblay was a missionary for many years in Tonga, and he has written a number of bright books about life in the South Seas. They have sold well in America, and the proceeds have gone to the church.

Father Tremblay now lives in Hawaii.

The funeral rites consisted of a dirge-like tune played on conchshells to the accompaniment of tincan drums, pots, pans, anything that would contribute to the pandemonium.

Before dinner-time, three more sharks were caught in the same manner and honoured with the same ritual.

A Wild Tattoo Then we came across a giant 15footer —a veteran who was too clever for us. He refused to come near enough to be lassoed. Worse than that—with a display of lightninglike speed he made off with our bait.

After taking two more sevenfooters, we decided to call it a day and go home.

As soon as we came in sight of the shore, the ear-splitting din of the conch-shell broadcasting began.

We just had to tell the world that cur sharking expedition had been a huge success.

Mischief-Makers In Your Household MISUNDERSTANDINGS between Europeans in the tropics are frequent between planters, planters and business people, officials and non-officials; and so on.

In many cases, troubles accumulate because of natives—either those employed on plantations or domestics in private homes. It is as well for newcomers—and some older residents—to realise this and be prepared accordingly.

Like spoiled children, natives have a tendency to spread rumoms (often untrue or grossly exaggerated) and revel at the thought of being the instigators of misunderstanding between bosses. to spice an otherwise dull existence.

“Mary was seen talking to Joe . . .we must tell the husband. ...

Moses passed by Jim’s garden; he must have been up to no good, etc., etc.

Natives can’t keep secrets. They must tell, because it will start something interesting. The storyteller becomes the Centre of Attraction, and covers up his inferiority—more especially when chatting to Mastas and Missuses — with imagination.

Boys, on their days off, will encounter a planter in town, and make it known to him: “Me wantem come work long you too much, but ship b’long ’nother Masta ee come and tallem me ee pay more better wages than you”.

Or, “. . . he tallem you no good . . and so on. Imagine the fury of the planter!

In a private home, Mary will say to her mistress: “Me look Missus X long store; she tallem me go work long ’em —place b’long ’em ee more good”. Again fury!

Mrs. Official is versus Mrs. Private- Citizen, after hearing: “Missus Y, ee got more plenti dress long you”.

Or hearing about what the children had to say against the children of the household.

In order to avoid unpleasant feelings all around, and at the same time maintain peace among coloured servants and labourers, we must always be on the alert, and prepare to lend only the “deaf ear”. Or use the diplomatic brushoff: “Tell me tomorrow”.- J.R. 83 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

A Legend That's Become Big Business A man who has photographed the weird native jumpers of the New Hebrides presents this fresh angle on how civilisation—in the form of the world’s movie moguls—is affecting them.

By Freddy Drilhon

First made public to the world in 1952 in a series of photographs, the Gaul dancers and jumpers of Pentecost Island, in the New Hebrides, have been unable to resist commercial temptations offered them by the film industry.

Their once unique and jealously preserved performance bids fair to become a regular tourist attraction for which big money is asked —and given. r:E dance of the Gaul, in the course of which the men throw themselves down from a high tower (in some cases from a height of more than 80 feet), was until recent years a somewhat rare event, taking place no more often than once every five years.

Even though the event was sometimes talked about outside, yet no white man had, in fact, ever been a spectator of this tribal feat prior to 1952, when the British and French Resident Commissioners were invited to view it They happened to be on the spot fixing up peace between two tribes thai had been at war.

Now, the story or legend of hov the Gaul dance began has beconu more familiar. It goes back tc the time when a man nameo Tamalie of the Bongwulwul tribu forcibly carried off a woman. Thij woman, apparently an unwilling victim, seized her opportunity U escape from his clutches and swam up a coconut palm.

Tamalie climbed up after ano tried to grab her. But the woman had the bright idea of trying s long vine stem to her ankle, ano when he got near she jumped to earth; because of the vine stern anchor she pulled up without injury.

Tamalie, lacking any vine anchor to his limb, sprang after her ano was killed.

Legend Perpetuated The Gaul of the Bongwulwul today perpetuate this remarkable legend. They build a high tower from which men jump, while or the ground below the woman sing and dance. The honour of jumping from the highest platforms of the curious edifice goes to the mer highest in rank, while the crowning' vertiginous jump with which the fete ends, is made by the biggest chief of all, who gains great kudos thereby.

Contrary to what one might expect, nobody gets killed.

The jumpers, it is perhaps necessary to explain, are attached to whichever platform they jump from by supple vines of the requisite length attached to their ankles.

These vines stretch rather like an enormous length of elastic; they act as a brake and lessen the force of the fall just as the man’s body is about to make contact with the ground. The soil the performers fall on is prepared in advance and free from stones.

Enter the Film Makers Such a spectacular event, once mooted abroad, could hardly fail toe attract the attention of the filmi makers. The first to arrive on the scene were representatives of am Italian film concern.

But they met with some reticence on the part of the dancers, whoe considered their performance not as* a spectacle for outsiders but as aj tribal tradition.

The Italians came to them withi an offer of 50,000 francs, then put; it up to 100,000 —only to meet withj a blank refusal. So it went on,, until a session was agreed to on payment of 400,000 francs, or rather,. their equivalent in Australian. pounds. [That is about £A2,850, if Pacific : francs are meant; about £A44O, if; the deal was in equivalent of ! metropolitan francs. PIM Ed.] Hitherto the Bongwulwul of; vines around his ankles, this dancer hurtles awards the ground after taking his wild jump off the uppermost platform. 84 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

LOOK OUT, BELOW!

From his 80-ft perch, dangerous enough in itself, an islander prepares to hurl himself into space.

Vines about his ankles will act as giant brakes fust before he hits the ground. Once the Gaul dance was performed as a rare tribal feat.

To-day it is done for big money.

The author of this article, Freddy Drilhon, took these photographs.

Pentecost had always lived a penurious and simple existence, and to find that they could gain money so easily gave them furiously to think.

They formed a sort of syndicate with a view to bargaining with further clients. One such client came along presently in the form of American cinerama. By now the price of the performance had gone up to 600,000 francs.

The Americans paid up without hesitation, though for this tarifi they exacted a number of repetitions, and they saw to it that the actors wore weird and wonderful attire—such as the Bongwulwul had never dreamed of, even in their most extravagant nightmare!

Dance Bare-Breasted For this is a tribe with no dress consciousness; their men had never worn anything more imposing than the most meagre of loincloths, while their women had always danced bare-breasted.

But the extreme modesty and pure-mindedness of the American female is well known; the power the women’s associations of the United States exercise over Hollywood is notoriously all powerful.

The box office would have been compromised were South Pacific natives to be shown doing anything in their native, or near naked, state.

To-day, it seems, the businessmen of the Bongwulwul are rubbing their hands in glee.

The Gaul business has become an appreciable source of revenue, allowing them to enjoy riches which they had never dreamed about as they squatted round the smudge fires of their primitive huts. And they have no intention of resting on their laurels.

They are out to establish, or at east they will welcome, contact with the tourist agencies. Soon we may see big tourist liners landing their oassengers on Penetecost agog with the thrill of watching Gaul jumps and dances arranged in their honour. Why not, indeed?

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

‘'Kar Kar” Smith, by enterprise nd industry, made two modest yrtunes in New Guinea —and died i Sydney in December at the age f 73, worn out and broken-hearted, wning no property.

“Kar Kar” had the bad luck to e born a German, and the bad idgment to be proud of his birth, e never changed his flag. So where others prospered, he was ruined.

But he bore no malice—tired and ill, he remained to the end a kindly and courteous and scholarly old gentleman.

This outline of his life—which contained some singular adventures —was written for “PIM” by a man vcho knew “Kar Kar” very well, and treasured his friendship.

The Tragic Story of "Kar Kar" Smith He Should Slave Been a Millionaire

By George Hanson

Paul Ignatius Schmidt was born on February 1, 1885, at Deutschkrone, West Prussia, of sound, middle-class stock.

IE received a liberal education, was groomed for the Catholic Church, acquired a good knowdge of Latin—but elected to join ie German Imperial Navy and ecialised in navigation. This knowdge stood him in good stead when ter, as a schooner-master, he sailed the wide Pacific, searching for nely, low-lying atolls.

Commencing work in German ew Guinea in 1907 for a German mpany, Paul Schmidt quickly tablished for himself a name as a antation manager, and an efficient n d humane superintendent of itive labour.

He was friend and neighbour of Lieen Emma, and he had a fund of ories concerning that dynamic f leisure-loving lady.

After he had successfully opened > new out-stations for his firm— id had been wounded often by itives in the process—he was reived in Buka by a friend, Gordon aomas, in 1911.

Explored Edie Creek With a German partner, Flugball, hmidt commenced a series of exorations, coupled with bird-ofradise shooting on the mainland New Guinea, in 1912. He explored e then unknown Wau, Bulolo, and lie Creek regions twelve years bere the Edie Creek-Koranga-Bulolo Id rush began.

Then Dr. Hahl, a far-seeing Geran Administrator decided that ar Kar Island should be tamed id developed. It had been for any years a thorn in the side of e Madang District Officer—patrol ter patrol had been chased off the and by the war-like natives.

Dr. Hahl finally asked young Paul hmidt if he would try to settle on e island and bring the natives under control. Schmidt agreed; and so “Kar Kar Smith” was born.

“Kar Kar” soon found he had on hand a terrific task. All his advances were repulsed by the inhabitants, often with loss of life among the loyal natives he had taken to the island with him from New Britain and Buka.

Treacherous Attack In one treacherous attack on his small homestead (which he literally had hewn out of the jungle), his New Britain boss-boy, a lad who had looked after “Kar Kar” since his arrival in New Guinea, was murdered.

“Kar Kar” then abandoned diplomacy, and a short, sharp war ensued.

With his right leg smashed by a war club, speared through the side of his chest and both arms, one eye completely covered by a mass of flesh shot adrift from his forehead by an arrow, “Kar Kar” emerged victorious; and planted upon the island one of the finest plantations in New Guinea.

The natives of Kar Kar Island gave no trouble after that. Once again, Dr. Hahl had proved his ability to pick the right man.

World War I broke in 1914. “Kar Kar” continued his pioneering work, and he found firm friends among the Australian Military District Officers.

When he heard, in 1917, of the possibility of expropriation, “Kar Kar” saw the then Australian Military Governor, who stated that, although there was a chance of his present property (which had been commenced during the German regime) being taken over, any property which he (“Kar Kar”) applied for and planted up during the Australian Military Occupation should remain his.

Thereupon, “Kar Kar” cleared and planted another very fine plantation a few miles from his earlier venture. But both were taken from him at the close of World War I, when “Expropriation” came into effect.

He Started Again Leaving Kar Kar Island, and all he had loved, worked so hard for and fought for, in 1922; “Kar Kar Smith” (as he now was generally known) captained Island schooners and helped young British planters.

Some thirty years ago, he gave this writer more valuable practical advice on choice of soil and planting than our own Agricultural Department, in Rabaul, could furnish. In my opinion, one of the greatest disabilities we and New Guinea suffered was the almost wholesale expulsion by Australian bureaucrats of German brains and experience, under the Expropriation Act. A few German pioneers were allowed to remain, and these experienced men, mostly brave and adventurous spirits of a past generation, gave of their best to the newcomers who Paul Schmidt ("Kar Kar" Smith) —a photograph taken just before his death in December, 1957. 86 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

‘ wished to carry on the pioneering work.

In 1926, “Kar Kar” was back on the mainland, in the big, gold rush.

After various adventures, he disl/i the Gold Rush covered a profitable gold mine of his own, and recouped his fortunes sufficiently to buy Pal Mai Mai Plantation, on the South Coast of New Britain.

It was while on the goldfield that “Kar Kar” witnessed the brutal murder of a native carrier by police boys.

Working on his lonely gold claim, “Kar Kar” was shocked, weeks later, to learn of the arrest of a wealthy Australian miner, who had been charged with the murder of the carrier and escorted to Rabaul to stand trial.

“Kar Kar,” although then in straitened circumstances, working hard to win gold to establish himself again, immediately made a seaand-air dash to the capital. His evidence gained acquittal for the Australian, and the police boys who were guilty were charged and sentenced. In court, the Judge praised “Kar Kar” for what he had done in the cause of justice, and complimented him on the manner in which he gave evidence. But he lost two months of gold-winning, and his fares and accommodation cost him hundreds of pounds. The wealthy Australian did, I think, thank him.

In 1928, with his hard-won gold, “Kar Kar” bought Pal Mai Mai Plantation. The place was badly run down, but “Kar Kar” cleared the palms, erected new labour houses, copra driers, etc. Then, co-operating with Australian Charles Boles, he built and equipped a splendid sawmill, supplied timber to Rabaul, and built himself one of the finest houses in the Islands.

He returned to his old love, coconut planting, felled the adjoining bush and increased his holding by another 600 acres. He married a New Zealand girl and settled down to the planter’s way of life.

Midwife Smith “Kar Kar” owned a 24-ft craft, with auxiliary engine, in which he made business trips to Rabaul.

On one occasion, in Rabaul, he met a very large white woman, who wished to return to her home on the South Coast. She had travelled to Rabaul in order that her expected baby could be born where it would have a better chance of survival.

But the doctors assured her she was not pregnant; and, in view of the lady’s bulk, such a diagnosis could be excused.

She, “Kar Kar”, and a native crew of four sailed from Rabaul. At a point near Tokua Plantation a fierce sea whipped up, and they were forced to anchor.

During the night, with the small craft bucketing about madly, the lady was seized with labour pains.

“Kar Kar”, a stickler for white prestige, immediately sent the boys swimming ashore; and, in the small hot cabin, with a hurricane lamp swinging wildly, as sole illuminant, and a piece of teased-out rope and an old pen-knife, he delivered a bonny babe. He then up-anchored, beat back to Rabaul and presented the sorely harassed doctors at Namanula with mother and child.

Companion Killed In 1939, World War II hit us again, and in 1940, “Kar Kar” and other German nationals were brought to Australia and interned in Tatura Camp until 1946.

With all that he had built up lost again, the ageing “Kar Kar” returned to New Guinea and managed a plantation for a friend on New Ireland. Although now far past his prime, he did a magnificent job in reclaiming the property from the (Continued on page 99)

Do You Remember?

From RIM of 20 Years ago rN the Pacific, in February, 1938, things were beginning to warm up after the holidays (which :ame late in many places, because ;he ships with Christmas supplies veren’t too punctual).

Educationists from all over the "acific were meeting in Honolulu to liscuss some airy-fairy aspects of education, Suva was getting some lew Administrative buildings at long ast, NG identity Mrs. Doris Booth lad five Europeans and 200 natives working in her Wau goldmine, and n Tonga they had just gaoled a iongan confidence man who for six ears had taken “tax money” from lis fellow natives, and used it to uy himself cars, expensive European suits and cigars instead of igarettes.

Some other events, as reported in 'lM’s issue of February, 1938: Fiji had just had a strike among Indian and ijian labourers at the Lautoka sugar mill, he trouble started over the payment system )r workers, who established an organised icket line as soon as they struck.

PlM's Suva correspondent said the CSR Co. cceded to the workers' demands after a ouple of days, "a fact which caused conderable comment throughout the Colony, old ands remarking that it was most unlike the SR to give in on such a matter". ❖ * * In Hawaii, tourist traffic was booming so much that it had now become the island's third industry. 53,000 tourists visited there in 1937 —which is small potatoes to-day. * * * A correspondent in the New Hebrides—a planter—was getting hot under the collar about anthropologists. In a letter he said, "What constitutes an anthropologist? For many years this —and I suppose other groups—have had a succession of people coming from this or that museum or university or body, and claiming to be specialists in one or other branch of science. A portion are genuine and keenly in search of knowledge, others are seeking notoriety, cheap or otherwise; others simply seek local colour to clothe fiction or theories".

Twenty years don't change some things, apparently.

In an editorial headed, "Japan's Shadow on the Pacific", PIM was saying: "The facts are indisputable; and the danger is so real that we need offer no apology for returning to the subject again and again. The peoples of the Pacific must try to realise what is happening . It has been explained in this journal many times that a clash between Europeans and Asiatics, led by the Japanese, is unavoidable." * * * Miss Barbara Hitchins, 23, who had made news the previous month by flying her singleengined aircraft from Australia to Port Moresby, was making further news by being reported ™ ,SSI "9- L But she turned °P after three days.

She had been forced down near Madang, while making a flight from Kerema to Wau. She had simply "overshot" Wau, explained a Port Moresby correspondent, in the understatement of the year.

Kar Kar's Famous Colton The photograph at left is reproduced from "Catalogue of New Guinea Expropriated Properties", which were sold in 1926. It shows "Kar Kar" Schmidt, 35 years ago, among the famous cotton he produced on Kulili Plantation, Kar Kar Island. The catalogue says the plantation, 272 hectares, had been planted up with 34,000 palms and 10,000 cotton trees. "Kar Kar" lost the lot.

He also lost Kavilo plantation, nearby, on which he had planted about 12,000 coconuts. 87 acific islands MONTHLY-F E B R U A R Y . 1998

The Month'S New Reading

With Judy Tudor

One of the most interesting small books to come this way in a long time is Sources of Australian History, collected and edited by Professor M. Clark of the department of history at the Canberra University College. rHE period covered is from the earliest discovery up until about vie First World War; but what nakes this book different is that 3 rofessor Clark has not written a nstory of the period, but has colected together reports, documents, lewspaper articles and even current 'erses and songs of the appropriate jeriods, and let these accounts carry he story.

The collecting and editing has >een so skilfully done that it makes , smooth chronological narrative, without that curse of most modern histories”—the conscious or unonscious “slanting” by the person /ho is doing the writing.

We therefore proceed through exracts of Tasman’s, Dampier’s and book’s journals, to eye-witness ccounts of the landing at Port ackson and the establishment of he convict settlement; to relevant louse of Commons papers on the onvict system, free settlement and ther matters.

There is the indictment of Macuarie and his idea of democracy by lac Arthur; and Macquarie’s desnee of his administration to Earl lathurst, the then Secretary of itate for the Colonies.

Extracts from newspapers of the ay, and other, official, reports cover tie establishment of other States, ae gold-rush period, including the ureka Stockade; the years precedig Federation and the years after, ;ading up to the First War.

These latter were the years of wilder social consciousness. In June, jO7, the Sydney Morning Herald r as editorialising at great length bout the “Drift to the Cities”, he Melbourne Argus, in January, ? 11, editorially approved “moving ictures” in spite of the “banality nd frequently the vulgarity of )mic films”; and in the same year ithused over the amazing progress ie Motor-Car had made since the idustry began 10 or 12 years previ- ■isly.

But in May, 1914, the Argus rented at length a condemnation ade by the State Presbyterian ssembly committee on public orals. It was headed, “Dance and ress Fashions—Tendency to Run iot and a Sign of Moral Laxity”, The report left no doubt that, in resbytenan eyes, our grandmothers id grandfathers were standing on the brink of hell with their “new and eccentric forms of dancing” and their “extremes of indecorous and uncomely fashions”.

Professor Clark’s book is a must for every student of early Australia, and will be of considerable interest to the general reader as well.

The volume is in the World Classics Series, has over 600 pages and is, of course, well indexed. (Published by Oxford University Press. Australian price, 12/9.) Real Cannibal Stuff ROSS SALMON is an old Harrow boy with a fine war record, who went off to South America a few years ago to look for a bit of extra adventure. To learn whether he got it, the reading public need look no further than the first paragraph of his book, Forbidden Jungle, v/hich begins: “Two arrows forming a cross were stuck in the trail ahead of me. This was a declaration of war. A declaration by the hostile Motilon Indians, a primitive, almost unknown tribes living in the mountainous jungle land on the borders of ColombiaE and Venezeula. A land of mystery* and legend which still awaits to bs explored by modern man. Now I was in that land; face to face with theses cannibal Indians after sixty days ofi frustration and hardship shared by* Eric Keen my sole companion.”

Well, we can report that the old Harrow boy, despite the impenetrable jungle, raging fevers, crouching jaguars and those canniball Indians, finally got out of it all right! —although it is still beyond us why* he ever got into it, unless it was toe write this book.

According to the dust jacket, hee is now back in England running thee “Lazy S”, the country’s first ranch..

No doubt the South American! authorities are hoping he stays there.. (Published by Hodder and Stoughton. Australian price 26/-,) More Customers for the Nut-House WE don’t know what Carl Jonas; tries to set out to prove in his; latest novel, Our Revels Now e Are Ended, but we suspect that it: is that all Americans are poor mixed— up kids. The two leading characters; in this opus have psychiatric treatment—and a lot more of the characters appear to be in need of it.

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This story concerns Mildred, an cute case of arrested emotional levelopment; and Wesley, a sucessful young businessman whom be married. Things go Wrong at the ut s e t—or as Wesley puts it, Mildred won’t sleep with me, Ben”.

The rest of the story is taken up allowing Mildred through the [inic she attended to get herself traightened out. We aren’t too sure bout this —but the root of the 'ouble seems to have been that a lort while before their wedding, [ildred propositioned Wesley and Lesley said, “Oh dear no, Mildred, luch as I want you everything has ) be right in our marriage”.

Mildred felt somewhat set down /er this.

This is the sort of book you like » cast off half read, but which you rniehow continue to read with lorbid fascination to the bitter end. ne thing is for sure, if this is a ;al picture of American contemjrary life, Russia has no need of tercontinental missiles. All it needs patience. Given time all Amerims will become so involved in their vn frightful emotional problems lat they will all take an overdose : sleeping pills.

Mildred is the sort of character lat makes you long to be a Russian ;mmissar. Cracking rocks on a ans-Siberian express-way would ; just the shot for this dear girl. (Published by Peter Davies. Australian price, lonsters—And How o Catch Them T’S natural for man to go out and kill things. When it is other humans it’s called murder; when is animals or fish, that’s sport.

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This is by way of explaining that when someone called Athel D’ombrain wrote a book called Game Fishing Off the Australian Coast, pnd his publishers sent it here for review, it was a dead loss. But if you are one of these people who like to go out to sea to wrestle with 600lb fish on the end of a line no thicker than sewing cotton, you can take it that this is a very fine book. t* ♦ -a • , , , , ls ™ of advi f e oa what to do and what to do it with; and stiff with pictures of people standing alongside 10 feet high fish they have caught. There are even pictures of a character called Bob Dyer and his wife, Dolly, and the assorted th6y haVe PU ' led fr ° m the ocean - It seems pretty clear, however, that game fishing (off the Australian coast) is not likley to be one of the overcrowded sports, because one of the first things that is necessary is a boat; and as one engine is always likel y to g ive U P at a critical moment, il better to have a boat that is fS U I ppe .?> P 1? two^and diesels at engines, says the au T th or, could explode in one’s face).

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Pilkington (according to the jacket flap) was a research scientist at Cambridge but now is more concerned with writing children’s fiction.

Why he should be called on to KTite a book about the Pacific is tiot quite clear but the result is juite unremarkable, one way or mother; The sort of quasi-text book [or children that anyone could write Torn the distance of London.

Pacific experts on or nearer the ipot might have a couple of bones o pick with Mr. Pilkington, noneheless. For example, he favours the ion Tiki theory of Polynesian nigration—that is, that they came fom South America —rather than he older theory that these islands pere populated from SE Asia.

And it is news to learn that iamoa “produces fine hardwood imber for export”. Or that the “gay nd scented” frangipani and hibiscus ,re indigenous to the South Pacific slands. New Guinea has a native übiscus, from which native twine > made, but the cultivated, flowering hrub does not grow wild.

But Mr. Pilkington is half-right: übiscus are gay; and frangipani 3 scented. (Published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd. Ausalian price, 11/-.) nternal Combustion SECAUSE his fiancee was killed in a motor accident on their wedding day, Arthur Warman had phobia about motor cars. He was razy in only this one way but conidered that it was his mission in fe to warn people of the peril ngendered by the internal comustion engine.

John Hereford makes Warman be central figure in his newest cvel, The Man Who Was Angry.

Feeling, as he does, it seems unirtunate that Arthur continues to ve in a town where the youth are edicated to racing cars. While the uthor works out his theme against /arman’s obsession, the reader has ) put up with the half-baked irgon of lower middle-class Engshmen in pursuit of their pleasures.

Hereford specialises in “quiet luntry people”, and his characteration is, in the main, competent, he trouble is that the class of Engsh youth he writes about is so in- Tnally unattractive —fags, and beer t the local and a lot of wishful linking about racing cars and orses.

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This is a novel which would have eld together quite well without barman, who is nonetheless, deigned as the pivot around which ie plot revolves. Although the linor players are well cast, Warman ; a badly overdrawn character who ever quite rings true. (Published by Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd, jstralian price 15/6.) error for Terrorists JfOST readers will identify James U. Dillon White’s latest novel, Night On the Bare Mountain, ith Cyprus and the Troubles, though the author is more than mally insistent that the characters •e imaginery.

It is a grim story of adventure, ade up of a whole lot of unlikely ctors that become plausable lough at the hands of this comment writer.

Primarily, it is a story of revenge the revenge of Anderson against ,e Island’s terrorists who had lied his son, an officer in the 'itish Army. Anderson is a New alander, for no particular reason her than it is becoming the habit novelists to cast New Zealanders these roles of derring-do. (For ample, the hero of Maclean’s ins of Navarone).

Anderon had flown the 10,000-odd iles from his sheep farm in NZ the island, ostensibly to see the >t resting place of his son. But len he should have departed he iged a fake drowning and stayed to start a campaign of terror longst the terrorists.

Anderson’s love for his son had ose elements of fanaticism that •uld sooner or later have meant >aster, and the implication is that 3 vendetta was more than usually splaced because Anderson, Jnr., fore his death, was up to no good, rhe story is based largely on interiy between the feelings of Ander- -2 and the girl Ilena, daughter of terrorist, who had loved Anderson, r., and then transfers her affecms to the father; and Major siding, who is in charge of the :al military unit, whose job it is catch the man who is successfully gaged in counter-terrorism, rhe story is as much Fielding’s Anderson’s. Fielding does not ink much of himself as a soldier: i is much more liable to see things terms of human problems than military exercises. ft is not a story that could have happy ending; but most readers 11 agree that it is a satisfactory e.

Published by Wm. Heinemann. Australian :e, 18/9.) Fascinating Facts— By Frank TiHAT word-m achi n e, Frank Clune, has given birth again.

And when Frank writes he believes that everything and everyone should get a mention. Some people have had a suspicion that he is paid lor it; but we think it is just part of his big-heartedness.

The brand of the canned soup he eats; the name of the manufacturer of the vehicle he drives; the airline he flies by, the petrol he uses —all form part of the fascinating story. As well, you get the vital statistics of every hamlet encountered shot at you from his fact-filled cranium.

The result may not guarantee him an ultimate place in Poet’s Corner, but he does produce a literary phenomenon that combines the virtues of a radio commercial, a gazetteer of Australia and a socialclimber’s Who’s Who.

What set Frank off on his latest rampage is uranium (The Fortune Hunters). He acquires a geigercounter and with this as bait collects around him in a well-known Sydney restaurant (named) a syndicate (also named) composed of “business tycoons” and “legal eagles”, politicians and other scions of Australian society.

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They didn’t get any uranium bu it gives Frank a heck of an oppor tunity for practising his own variet: of publicity; and innumerabll occasions for loosing on his reader such shafts of wisdom as this: “. . . Wellington, a prettily situi ated town at the junction of thi Bell and Macquarie Rivers, 22} route-miles west of Sydney. It wa> named by Major Mitchell after th» Iron Dook, who stonkered Bonej (with the aid of the Prussians, tht Russians, the Dutch and the Aus trians) in 1815.”

Thanks, Frank. (Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltc Australian price, 25/-.)

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But we have several bones to pick with the SPC Literature Bureau over these books. They usually land in this office like poor little country mice let loose in a big city. It is necessary to look hard amongst the six-point type to find where they come from at all; there is no indication what section of Pacific peop'e they are aimed at; there is no indication what they cost: and no way of te’ling where, or if, they may be purchased One presumes, therefore, that they cost nothing and are distributed through some instrumentality of the six member governments of the SPC. This is probably weM enough, but as the idea behind the Literature Bureau is dissemination of reading material among the native people, it might help the work if the natives concerned could go out to a store and just buy a book.

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It is an imaginative collection of animal stories from Fiji, Papua and New Guinea, BSIP, etc., and in our own society would be suitable for children from five to eight years old. With a soft cover and black and white illustrations, the book looks to be worth about 3/- or 4/-.

Most youngsters would find the stories entertaining, although they might reflect that most of the bad habits these creatures have like crocodiles eating people and mosquitoes buzzing and biting at night were originally caused by mischievous humans, according to the myths Mr. Lansdown has collected, anyway.—.

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1} V jungle chaos which developed during the Japanese occupation.

One day in that area of bad roads —or no roads —and blown-up bridges, a motor vehicle “Kar Kar” was driving turned over on him, killing Dutright his white companion and areaking “Kar Kar’s” remaining sound leg.

His natives carried him to his Dungalow and, despite the telegraphed appeals of his friend and ‘mplwyer, he refused to go to hospital, stating that if he left the plantation no work would be done.

The leg knitted naturally—as all lis other wounds had had to an— and he carried on efficiently until he property was sold. He returned o Australia in 1949 and lived lappily near his friends, with iccasional breaks in Sydney, until he end.

With three fine plantations which le established, and the high prices if copra, cocoa, cotton and timber uling since 1945 “Kar Kar” Smith -but for the misfortunes of war— ould have been in receipt of 65,000 to £70,000 a year, free of inome tax. This would have placed urn in the millionaire class, in any urrency.

He lost every palm and every ienny.

He refused to repine, tended his arden and raised fine crops at his tome near Gosford. Occasionally ashing for a change, he would go and his small Sydney flat.

The day he died he had entered ito a contract to write the early istory of New Guiena. * * * “Kar Kar’’ was more than an exlorer, pioneer, planter and miner, 'n his first property he grew the nest cotton ever produced in the outh Sea Islands. He crossed the est varieties and produced out of ’ar Kar Island soil a staple that ad the Liverpool cotton-masters Ousting for all he could send them, 'he writer has seen old letters offerig “Kar Kar” a price far beyond 'le ruling rates for all he could prouce. His knowledge of cocoa culture -as prodigious, and his crops rought the highest price.

A gallant gentleman, a fine .'holar and loyal friend. The world all too short of “Kar Kar Smiths”.

Teady to time or else —so I said grandfathers were at the beginning of the century. Rudd was a real literary craftsman, and although the day of the selector has pretty well passed, there is a freshness about the tales that 50 years have failed to dim. The present volume is a companion to On Our Selection, which the same publishers reprinted in 1953. (Published by Angus and Robertson. Australian price, 17/6.) 99 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958 The Story of "Kar Kar" Smith (Continued from page 87)

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Pacific Shipping And Cruising Yachts

The question of registration of United Nations Trust Territory-based merchant ships is shortly to be discussed by a UN committee. There are some complex legal aspects to the problem, which involve insurance and various international shipping regulations.

The matter received some publicity Australia a year or so ago when e New Guinea Trust Territory irchasers of the former Melanesian ission ship Southern Cross (since named Kilinailau ) were unable to gister her as a trading vessel. She is formerly registered in London a yacht.

She eventually sailed from Sydney r New Guinea minus the protecm of any flag, and theoretically uld have been seized on the high as with no protection available, i doubt she is now registered under ne flag as she goes about her busiss in the New Britain-Bougainle area. Her particular case was mplicated by several factors, but e question of registration in the ust Territory arose. It may be that, future, vessels based in Trust rritory waters will fly the pale le United Nations flag with laurel ives enclosing a globe map.

R That Secret Destination

Fhat “secret destination someiere in the Pacific”—Christmas and to you—was in the news ain in mid-January. “The atmosere was tense” at Port Adelaide, wording to a news agency despatch >m that port, when the 4,255-ton ixivell Brander loaded heavy uipment, including two 30-ton )bile cranes under a guard of ;curity men” —next stop Suva. The ;ter item seems to have slipped rough the censorship.

Someone, doubtless wearing a false mstache, also managed to get one the crew to admit that the ssel’s cargo “certainly could be” nnected with nuclear explosions, istoms officials were busy prevent- >• photographers from operating ;m a wharf opposite the ship’s rth. Suva will have viewed the rstery ship well before this appears print.

Anging Colours

rhe 394-ton Fiji vessel Ai Sokula, Hong Ann, ex Empire Mayhury, rchased from Singapore, together th the New Guinea vessel Mekig, a sister ship, early 1954, has en transferred by W. R. Carpenter Co. to Morris Hedstrom & Co. An -fired steamer, she will continue operate within the Fiji Group and Rotuma. The command has been ken over from Captain M. Whippy Captain J. McKenzie Arnot, lately of Altair, which Captain Whippy will now command.

Ai Sokula arrived in Suva early in 1954 and took over her Fijian names from another Carpenter ship, which had been named with much pomp and ceremony by Fijian chiefs a couple of years before. The first owner of the name then became Oliver Mac and something of a white elephant in the Carpenter fleet. Oliver Mac remained stubborn to the end. In late 1956, she was sold to M. Jean Hagen, of Noumea, for scrapping in the Far East. She was towed there by the ancient Loyaute under the command of Capt. R. T. Hamilton, but due to a series of mishaps and bad weather the vessels did not arrive in Hongkong until April, 1957 —five months after leaving Noumea.

Meklong, Too, Has New Owners

Meklong, which was purchased by a W. R. Carpenter subsidiary (Coconut Products Ltd.), for the New Guinea trade at the same time that Ai Sokula began operations in Fiji, was sold in January to a Hongkong shipping company. Her previous owners say that she was found to be too big for requirements.

New owners are Lanena Shipping Company. Meklong will be towed to Hongkong by a tug chartered by the Lanena Co., and was expected to get away north at the end of January.

The Company representative who negotiated the sale said that there was a great demand for ships of about 500 tons for trading out of Hongkong.

Loitering With Intent

For a week or so in mid-January a suspicious low-pressure area was lurking in the vicinity of northern New Caledonia and had all the makings of a tropical hurricane but was still in docile mood to January 21.

On January 17, no less than four low-pressure areas of potential menace appeared on the South Pacific weather chart. In addition to the one mentioned there was another west of the Solomons, one well north-east of the New Hebrides, and a fourth near Suwarrow in the Cooks.

In The News This Month Ai Sokula A'oniu Arthur Rogers Bergensfjord Daifuji Maru Daydream Fitheach Ban Flying Walrus Fonualei Havannah (ex Colorado del Mar) Havfruen 111 Hifofua John Williams VI Kadavulevu Kerynia Kilinailau Kurimarau Levuka II Loyaute Mahina II (ex Scaldis, ex Manu o Aitutaki) Maloleilei Maui Pomare Maxwell Grander Meklong Melva Nordlys Novia Oliver Mac Orion Oshoro Maru Phoenix San Cristobal (ex Pagan) Satsuma Sea Wanderer Takio Te Rapunga Tui Valavula Trekka Vitiaz Yatu Lau Ve Tega "Ai Sokula", 500 tons, which has been transferred from the Fiji fleet of W. R. Carpenter and Co., to the associated company, Morris Hedstrom, Ltd. "Ai Sokula", for MH, will go onto the Suva-Rotuma service and make about four trips per year.—Fiji PRO Photo. 101 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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LH A 7 In Suva, Captain Matheson, of u,rimarau reported that his ship d received a heavy buffeting in e vicinity of Niuafo’ou Island in e December tropical storm which Dssed north of Fiji, missing that ■oup. Not much was heard of that >rm, which missed the major land isses as it whirled down between ji and Tonga.

Ike Your Pick

Last month we demonstrated how single letter dropped from the me of a Japanese ship can make the difference to her identifican in a shipping register.

We also noted that while Rabaul s satisfied last July that the issian survey ship visiting that rt was Vityaz, which agreed with d spelling in British scientific irnals describing her work, Suva s convinced that her name was tiaz when she called there in Denber.

Arriving in Wellington in January ; papers there were prepared to tie at first for Vitiaz. Up to here had been unable to trace any :ails of this interesting vessel in >yds Register. Then a Wellington ming paper’s shipping column issomed forth with Witjaz —and ire, surely enough, under the r ’s” in Lloyds was a Witjaz, but it entry does not seem to fit, as i listed vessel is only 2,975 tons >ss.

U this stage it was time to check ;h the Soviet Legation at Well- ;ton while the ship was in port, tne days later came a reply: The ter had been handed to Professor gorov—of the vessel Vitjaz —who uld no doubt reply from Vladivock (after clearing the matter with ►scow perhaps) so vich is which leave to you. All we can say is it she takes her name from a .v a 1 corvette commanded by miral Stephen Makaroff, which s said to have made the first ianographic survey of the North cific. {See p. 109 for final word).

Captain Igor Sergeev said at illington that on leaving Vladivock last November 5 the vessel had ided east to longitude 174 west, i had followed that meridian ith, except for the diversion to va. On leaving Wellington the isel was to return home along igitude 172 east, and so might be ected to pop in to Tarawa perps, as she worked her way north m station to station on her entitle work.

Ming Ashore

Captain Francis Bottoms, MBE, ster mariner, and at the same ie holder of a commission as ght-Lieutenant in the RAF, who 3 been in command of the LMS '-ton John Williams VI, well own in Island waters, is reported have accepted a shore position with a Suva shipping firm. Some details of his interesting career appeared in PIM of September, 1956. Ten of his 30 years as a master mariner were spent in the RAF’s air-sea rescue service in command of rescue vessels.

Still In Trouble

The motor fishing vessel Pagan, brought out from England via Tahiti a year ago, adrift at sea in the Kermadecs region for several weeks en route, sold, refurbished — and promptly damaged by fire —was again in trouble in January. Renamed San Cristobal when sold, she sank at her berth at Onehunga wharf, near Auckland, on New Year’s Day. Someone had left something open.

Plumbing The Depths

Included in the several Japanese oceanographic vessels now making an IGY survey of waters south to New Guinea is the recently launched 900-ton Takio, and the 1,000-ton Satuma, which took part in Operation Equapac last year. Governmentowned vessels, they, like warships, do not carry the “Maru” suffix.

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VI-STIM costs little, and the Vi-StimW' Restores Manhood and Vitality ?laid, it does not appear to have seted their record tally of sperms. ?he target of the six Japanese aling fleets which went south in member was 1,710 sperm whales — sperm season precedes the season baleen or toothless whales which ;ned early January. From Tokio s reported that the actual catch riled 2,190 sperm.

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liggest maritime event of the r for the open-roadstead port of irua, Rarotonga, was to be the ■too-brief visit of the big new •wegian cruise-1 in e r Bergenrrd on February 3 with a full ster of dollar tourists. Operation lenback, the removal of as many these dollars as possible, in most isant possible manner and in the ited time available, was the sub- ; of active planning on the island January. he hula skirt, necklace, and curio sers were straining all efforts to ;t the hoped-for rush of business, put the customers in the right ne of mind a party of island Stainers was to board the ship i music and eis (Cook Islands sion of leis) when the pride of 3 Norwegian merchant fleet pped anchor at 7 a.m. To the :hing tunes of the South Seas clients were to be shepherded ore to the souvenir stands in Union Co. sheds, rom there the tourists would re out to cars and trucks—Raro- ?a has only one taxi and somees none—and split into three ips for entertainment in outer iges. Sailing time, 6 p.m. All ild depend on the weather — ch could hardly be less predict- ! than in the middle of the hurrie season, which now appears to 'ast developing into the favourite s for cruise-ships to head for the nds.

Icy Mission

'aui Pomare, southbound from Rarotonga and Apia in January, wa s diverted to Raoul Island, Kermadecs early January to a sick Tongan member of the ten-man staff at this weather station — Sekona Vi. With him also came a member of the island’s catering staff, a Mr. Van Sales. A boat was launched from the “Pom Pom” to pick up the evacuees.

A similar call was made by the ship about a year ago. Due to a glut of bananas at Western Samoa, Maui Pomare was again to call at Apia on the home run from the Cooks in late January, when a call was also scheduled for Niue. She would then have her annual refit.

According to a well-tuned coconut radio signal, Maui Pomare No. 2 is still in the “planning” stage—and new, with a new Government and Minister of Island Territories, and a general tightening of the New Zealand belt, it will be surprising if the new vessel is actually ordered until well into 1958. The Minister is to visit the Cooks, probably in April.

Explosion Victim Progressing

Mr. Bob Grant, of Boston, USA, who survived fire, explosion and sinking of his trading vessel Ve Testa, in the New Hebrides in December, came to Auckland as a stretcher case in a TAI aircraft early January and is now making excellent progress there in Middlemore hospital, where he is undergoing skin grafts. He will probably be in hospital until May.

During the flight, Mr. Grant was in care of Mrs. Diana Hepworth, of the yacht-cum-trader Arthur Rogers, who came south on a business and holiday visit. There was a possibility that husband, Tom might bring the Brixham trawler south again soon.

The Payoff

Still purring pleasantly over the satisfactory sale of his vessel Melva, Skipper Hugh Williams returned to his Rarotonga banana farm in Janu- After the Hurricane This is how the "Yatu Lau", hurricane battered, looked from a RNZAF flying-boat that was preparing to drop much - needed lubricating oil to the vessel, after the Fiji hurricane. See story on page 106. —Official RNZAF photo. 105 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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We have been instructed by the owners of a very successful and well known pearling fleet to dispose of their assets as a going concern. Assets include six luggers fully equipped and in working order some as newly built as 1956, all diesel powered. Shore establishments include Engineer and shipwrights shop, caretakers quarters, Store rooms, Shell sorting and packing, office, divers quarters, etc. ’

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Hurricane Horrors

Fijis inter-island shipping took a battering in the hurricane which swept past the eastern tips of Vanua Levu and Taveuni and on through the Lau Group on January 7.

Fortunately, the hurricane warning system in Fiji has reached a state of efficiency where the effects of a big “blow” are minimised, board afterdeck stove in.

The first indication that there might be a hurricane came late on January 5. The small ships in the ereas likely to be affected scuttled for the nearest safe anchorages, while those in Suva went to anchorages at the nearby Bay of Islands.

For several days after the hurricane a number of ships were reported missing. Two of them, the Yatu Lau (84 tons) and the Kadavulevu, are operated by Hurley’s Shipping Agency. The Yatu Lau reported by radio on January 7 that she was in the middle of the hurricane and that both her anchors had carried away.

Then there was silence for about 24 hours, when a brief message was picked up in Suva. At the time lost her anchors, Yatu Lau actually anchored at Vua q s Island. She then drifted out to RNZAF Sunderland flying-b« returning from Auckland on Janu 8 (they had taken off hurrit from Laucala Bay on January when the hurricane threaten searched for Yatu Lau without s cess. The master, Anare Vuibur said later that he had seen Sunderlands, and had made vis signals without attracting their tention.

On January 9, the RNZAF ] three Sunderlands looking for Yatu Lau, and the Orion, steam to Nukualofa from Suva, was g asked to keep a look-out. The f!

Sunderland out found the Lau about 30 miles from Va Island, and stayed with it until eai afternoon, when another Sunderla took over.

The second Sunderland “home the Orion to the Yatu Lau, a stayed in the area until about p.m. It made contact with the Yc Lau after dropping a plastic cc tainer of instructions. At the it the Yatu Lau was completely c of control, so this container v dropped along the line of drift, obeying the signal instructions, t Yatu Lau was able to convey to t Sunderland that it was out lubricating oil, and that there w ample food and water on board.

The third Sunderland set out w: 23 gallons of oil to be dropped parachute. On the way out it spe five minutes flying round Matui Island looking for the Kadavulei When the third Sunderland arriv. it found the Orion standing by wi a rowing boat down.

The Sunderland dropped the in two containers by parachu; These were picked up by the rowii boat from the Orion and taken the Yatu Lau. The Orion also ga the Yatu Lau some oil. She w then able to limp back to Su; under her own power.

In addition to losing her ancha the Yatu Lau lost two rowing bog and a dinghy. Her main steerii was smashed and she had to ste with auxiliary equipment. F davits were smashed and the sta "Meklong", formerly of the WRC New Gui fleet, which has been sold to the Far E (See story page 101). 106 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Fhe “blow” over, these busy little Lps returned to their trading ssions throughout the Fiji Group.

B On Coast

Savannah ex Colorado del Mar, lich was sold by the Savoie invests to Societe Transports Marile Caledonien a couple of years d, for inter-island work in New ledonia, has been sold again. She 11 go to work on the Queensland ist.

" Marks The Spot

rhe Japan Fishery Research Intute is shortly publishing an ,borate tuna-fishing chart of the cific and Indian Oceans for the idance of Japanese tuna fisherm. The result of 30 years of study d research by the Nankai Fishery search Institute into the best isonal tuna fishing areas, it mhses to be an interesting docunt.

Transport Astronomers

party of Japanese astronomers, aded by the director of the Tokio ;ronomical observatory, is to be .nsported to Pukapuka or Nassau, rthern Cooks, to observe a total ipse of the sun next October—an Y effort. The vessel to be used by » Japanese team is the 620-ton aery research vessel Oshoro Maru, ned by the Fishery Department Hokkaido University. This is parently a new vessel as no dels appear in Lloyds Register of •7. She is probably similar to the eamlined, well-equipped fishery ining vessel Daifuji Maru, 472 is, which called at Suva in Sepnber, 1954—first post-war Jap- Bse vessel to call at that port.

Ess Button Weather Station

Dne of the Chesterfield islets, ighly midway between Noumea d Townsville, may get an auto- ,tic weather reporting station. A rty from a French naval Pacific ition vessel recently called at the inhabited French islet to investite re-establishing a station there.

During the war, the US Navy inlled an automatic weather tion there on Long Island, and operated successfully for about o years, a flying-boat from Noumea paying a visit about every four months to refill the petrol tank and oil the machinery.

That station was almost uncanny in its operation, and any new one, with further refinements, will be very similar no doubt.

Power was supplied by a petrol motor-generator which was started up at predetermined times by a battery-powered pendulum clock, which activated the motor selfstarter from a 12-volt accumulator battery supply.

The motor-generator charged the battery. Weather transmissions were made four times per day. The generator plant and radio transmitter, which operated on two frequencies, were housed in a 6-ft cube building, together with an automatic fire-extinguisher to deal with emergencies. On the roof was a standard type of screened “meatsafe” housing the instruments — barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, rain gauge, and on top, the wind gauge, The transmitter was activated alternatively by these various instruments it being automatically switched from one to the other in sequence. Listeners in Noumea and elsewhere knew the sequence. All they did was count the succession of morse dashes sent in one minute by each instrument, with the aid of a stop-watch. Then by checking with a graph they were quickly able to interpret this information. The 107 1 c I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Ngan Vessels Later

rhe vessels building in Holland • the Tonga Government are runig behind schedule, and the first isel, A’oniu, is not now expected ’each Tonga before June. Hifojua be completed about three months ;r. arlier it had been anticipated t both vessels might be ready by ut March and they were to im out in company. Now they i be brought out by European vs under contract separately, as n as each is ready, he new dual purpose towing nch-cum-cargo carrier Fonualei, It in London, shipped to Suva, I brought on under her own /er, reached Nukualofa on Deiber 14 and on the same afterm there was a welcoming 3mony which terminated in a rt official voyage and picnic at ,ta. .11 four new Tongan vessels are ig powered with Kelvin diesels. j two smaller craft have 88-hp ts. '•:A J omu will have a 500-bhp t would be interesting to know v much these Tongan vessels will illy cost and whether a less exisive job might have been done Australian or New Zealand shipbuilders. Australian shipping experts, making rough calculations, say that the delivery voyages will cost “thousands.”

Raising Japanese Ships

Japanese salvage workers in Rabaul, New Guinea, have been raising, on an average, a ship a month since they began operations in February, 1957. This is about onethird of the sunken Jap ships owned by Pacific Distributing (New Guinea), which is employing the Japanese on the salvage project.

However, some of the ships are in water too deep for easy salvage.

Almost 100 Japanese, including 20 divers, are employed. Divers blast the wrecks into pieces of 80 to 100 tons. Floating cranes then pick up each piece for taking ashore, where it is cut by oxy torch into scrap suitable for sending to Japan.

News of Cruising Yachts • FOR SAFETY'S SAKE: The New Zealand Marine Department is now issuing a form which is to be filled in by all yacht-masters departing overseas or on long coastwise passages from New Zealand ports. The aim of the questionnaire is to have a full record of the yacht, its colour, type, rig, safety equipment including radio equipment, frequencies available where a transmitter is carried, route and destination, etc. This is for the use of the Search and Rescue organisation in the event of trouble, and also to avoid unnecessary search for a vessel believed overdue. It is a fact that many yachtsmen do not leave this information behind them when they sail for distant shores, and the questionnaire seems overdue. • MAHINA II is the latest name under which the steel Dutch-built craft which left Holland some years ago as SCALDIS, is now sailing. En route to the Pacific she was renamed SEVEN SEAS by owner Bounmeester who sold her in Rarotonga. Converted to a trading craft she became MANU 0 AITUTAKI.

Now John Harrington has sold her to lan Lowes, until recently of Aitutaki but now stationed at Nadi, Fiji. In January three yachtsmen, Messrs. Beard, Lever, and Auchterlonie, went north from Auckland per MAUI POMARE to bring the yacht south. At the end of the hurricane season she will be delivered to Fiji. Plans were to use the diesel motor a good deal on the run to Auckland. • TE RAPUNGA, reported last month as stranded near Greymouth en route from Hobart to Auckland and the Islands, was refloated by owner George Dibbern on January 7, and is now undergoing repairs at Greymouth. • FITHEACH BAN, 83-ft. schooner yacht which Captain A. Watchlin brought from the Mediterranean to Auckland via Island ports several years ago with an Italian crew, and which he sold last year in Sydney, is now being altered at Picton, NZ, by owner Captain A. Tregida, for use as a crayfishing vessel.

The motor is being shifted forward to make room for galley and deepfreeze chamber aft. • NOVIA and the Greggs have lately been cruising in Coramandel waters near Auckland, together with the Norgroves who cruised Polynesia a few years ago in WHITE SQUALL. • FLYING WALRUS and the Wells couple were reported still based at Whangarei, NZ, in mid-January. • TREKKA of Canada, still in northern NZ waters, might be fibre-glassed before owner John Guzzwell puts to sea again a little later in the year. • SEA WANDERER and Edward Allcard, heading for the Pacific, were reported at Antigua, West Indies, late December, so the [?]e attached photo effectively ends the con- [?]n regarding the English form of spelling the name of the Russian oceanographic [?]ey vessel which was "Vityaz" in Rabaul "Vitiaz" in Suva. Here, painted on vhe [?]el's bow below the Russian form of her [?]e, is the English form: "Witjaz". Photo [?] he ship was taken in Wellington, NZ.

Photo: J. P. Shortall. 109 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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For further particulars apply to: BURNS PHILP (SOUTH SEA) CO. LTD. P.O. Box 355, Suva, Fiji or BURNS, PHILP & CO. LTD., 7 Bridge Street, Sydney Built 1947 Ft. ketch may appear in Polynesia this ling winter. » HAVFRUEN 111, with Group-Captain T. H. r and Mrs. Carr, reached Auckland January and will stay there for some time. > KERYNIA, 72-ft. x mahogany ketch, Southampton, England, may be brought to ;k Ia n d via Island ports this year or next Athol Rusden, remembered in Polynesia as rr.er owner of NEW GOLDEN HIND, LANTE 11, etc. Mr. Rusden, who earlier med to leave for England in January, re- ‘ed then that he was not going to take very just yet, due to pressure of business, i NORDLYS owned by Walter S. Johnson the US, cruising the Cook Islands in ember, cleared the group from Penrhyn Papeete, where the yacht is currently :d, on December 15. » PHOENIX is on schedule according to a ery note, dated January 14 at Balboa, al Zone, in from Dr. Earle Reynolds. He te to announce that the 50-ft. doubleer auxiliary ketch is back in the Pacific in. Dr. Reynolds, an American anthro- (gist ex-Hiroshima University, with Mrs. nolds and son Ted and daughter Jessica Japanese crew members were in Sydney PHOENIX in March, 1956, being about 20 months out on a circumnavigation planned to last four or five years. They had already come down through the Pacific Islands, and at end of June, 1956, were at Thursday Island.

Their route back to Hiroshima was via East Indies, South Africa, Panama and Honolulu.

They promised to be back in the Pacific early 1958—a promise they have kept. Planned route to Hiroshima now is via Galapagos, Marquesas, Hawaii Group and points west. • AUCKLAND-SUVA YACHT RACE: The Royal Akarana Yacht Club of Auckland, sponsors of the Auckland-Suva Yacht Race—intended to be a biennial event—announced late January that the 1958 race might have to be cancelled by default. The race is scheduled to start from Auckland on May 3, but when entries officially s'?.TX E 4 , M M 6 wh ; c . h en,“^ as i.: i.sa i:r^ s p s !i^rSes b "LrLffi starters. Two other yachts were rejected on the score of being less than the acceptable minimum of 24-ft. waterline length. Other 1956 starters are willing, but the cost of equipping, and time lost from work, are the factors entering their considerations of the event.

The Club is likely to accept entries a good deal later than the official closing date, if the boats concerned seem certain entries. • WAYWARD, 20-year-old yacht of Whangarei, NZ, will sail this autumn for Noumea, Suva, Apia, Rarotonga, Papeete, and South America. With owner Geoffrey Rawson on the first stage of the voyage will be Frank Perry.

Rawson purchased the yacht for £5OO and is fitting her out for the voyage. Dimensions unknown. • LANDFALL II in which Dr. and Mrs. Holcomb of the US cruised the Pacific in 1954, completing its world circumnavigation, passed through Panama Canal several months ago and is again in Pacific waters. • TAKI-O-AUTAHI and MAHINA II (see elsewhere) were both expected to clear Rarotonga for Auckland about January 24.

Cart. Cook Said

IT FIRST A COUPLE of years ago when there was a certain amount of interest in what the natives on The Other Side should be called to distinguish them from Papuans, the two native NG members of the P-NG Legislative Council, plumped for “New Guineans”.

A hideous appellation, we thought', but apparently they were in good company.

In August, 1770, when he was on the Australian east coast, north of 26 deg., Captain James Cook wrote this in his journal: “When one considers the proximity of this Country with New Guineay, New Britain and several other islands which produce Cocoa-nutts and many other fruits proper for the Support of Man, it seems strange that they should not long ago have been transplanted here by its not being done it should seem that the Natives of this Country have no commerce with their neighbours the New Guinians it is very probable that they are a different People and speake a different language', for the advantage of those who want to clear up that point I shall add a short Vocabulary of a few words in the New Holland Language. . (This extract comes from an interesting small book, “Sources of Australian History”, edited by M. Clark, and produced by the Oxford University Press. It is reviewed in this issue of “PIM”.) 111 ‘CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Search of a House for >m, Dick and Wall European-style houses for P-NG fives are on the way, say reports >m Port Moresby. The Adminisition Works Department is exrimenting with building materials an effort to find an easily and eaply constructed house for iversal native use. rhe department has already made icks and blocks of pise (rammed rth), adobe, and stabilised earth sing an ingredient, such as portid cement, to make the earth >isture resistant). [t has got a number of natives Port Moresby under instruction the different methods, and exits to build several experimental ases this year.

Phe idea is to expand the nucleus uur force as the programme exads successfully, so that eventuv T natives will be apprenticed to s type of building and spread it ht throughout the Territory.

Said Mr. M. Lumsden, the Works’ partment architect: “We want a iterial which can be used in perinent construction—cheap in first it, easy to make and to use, and luiring little or no maintenance. ‘From data to hand in this early ige, it is almost certain that :ths occurring in the major Justice and Paul Ami Justice caught up with Paul imi, at Lae, in January, after allowing close behind since 953.

Paul Ami, of Beipa Village, iairuka, Papua, broke into the tore of E. Serafini, at Lae, in March, 1953, and stole firearms.

Four months later he again mtered the store, stealing immunition.

In April, 1955, he was arrested or both crimes and was given hree years’ gaol. But the conations in gaol apparently did tot suit Ami and after two oeeks he tried to escape. Caught, le was sentenced to an extra nonth.

At the end of December last fear, Ami, with a fellow prisoner n the Oomsis Gaol named loski, stole methylated spirits rom the gaol clinic, went on a Irinking spree, and escaped.

The two soon headed for the wift-flowing Markham River, uhere they boarded a raft. The Markham was in flood, and the aft capsized in the torrent.

Only Boski got ashore. 113 \CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Tt is hoped that in every popu- «d part of the Territory, earth 11 be found for block making by least one of the three methods.”

Across the New Guinea border, the therlands administration has been ving the housing problem, in rts of the coastal areas at least, building with crushed coral cks —and red-tiled roofs. it Stuff for e Future Black pepper may make news as new cash crop for the Pacific, rhe plant introduction gardens at duruloulou, near Suva, are conitrating on it as one of five main ps (the others are cocoa, coffee, nboo and taro) and many inries are being received about uting material. during 1957, Naduruloulou sent re than 500 black pepper cuttings the agriculture departments of ler Island territories. ih in the ■lagers 7 Diet niapia, which have been used by Icialdom to stock pools and lakes many parts of the Pacific in the t few years, are apparently iving in the New Hebrides, jake Siwi, on the island of Tanna, t a marsh on Santo, both of ich were stocked with a few fish the South Pacific Commission in 6, seem to be teeming with tilapia v. This is despite losses due to : exceptionally dry weather. ’eople from villages neighbouring se Siwi have been catching and ing the fish for months. »'s New Tax: Get What u Can, When You Can *apua-New Guinea’s new annual id tax of £2 a man, got off to good start, if not exactly to a ng start, on January 1. It met h a few growing pains, tome people complained about ring to produce a tax receipt bee being issued with a travel ticket get out of the country, taxation Commissioner G. Tooto said he would fix this by issuing i travel companies with lists of zens who had done the right ng, and save the inconvenience.

Ie said there was also a posllity that Customs’ officers would authorised to relieve travellers of ir unpaid tax before they left the port or wharf. is the head tax, for Europeans i Asiatics, is due from males over i age of 18, the Taxation Commissioner said he was looking forward to eventually having lists with 6,000 names—4,ooo European end 2,000 Asiatic.

However, the native population still looks like being harder to fleece, not having any desire to take a plane trip out of the country.

Some native groups told patrol officers they didn’t want to pay their tax—especially since it had been fixed at the some rate applicable to the highly paid European.

However, District Officers filed reports on what proportion of the tax they thought the natives in their districts were capable of paying.

As a result, natives in the poorer district may be exempt, or pay only portion of the tax, but the others will be invited to appeal to patrol officers, who will be appointed taxation tribunals.

T raf J p I In* Rrlnhfpr laUc up. Drigmer <Jirlp in W Samna i!ae m vv * 3amoa Despite the Government’s financial crisis and a retrenchment policy for Government servants in 1958, Western Samoa managed to have a boom Christmas and New Year, Trade figures were excellent, Among the stimulants that brought this about were the end-ofyear payment of the growers’ banana bonus (at the rate of 6d a case for 115 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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r shipments, amounting to about }0), and the increased prices f cite beans. he cocoa crop recently harvested a more than average one, and ana shipments had increased • the last few months of the iru Gets a New icial Reorganisation r. Justice Mann, Chief Justice Papua-New Guinea, is to be je of the Court of Appeal for ru, under a new reorganisation he Nauruan judicial set-up, aniced in January, lis will be in addition to his Guinea appointment, le new change is one of several h follow introduction of a new ciary Ordinance for the phose island. The main effect is divorce the Executive and nary, and free the Adminis- >r from dealing with appeals, lere will be a District Court, a ral Court and an Appeal Court, ropean and Nauruan magisis will sit in the District Court, in the Central Court jurisdicwill be exercised by either a e, or a bench of not less than i magistrates.

More Japanese )$ for Scrap re Japanese cargo vessels, left- > from World War 11, will soon ide revenue to the BSIP Govlent in the form of royalties, ounded on the coast of Guadal- 1, from 10 to 25 miles from ara, the vessels are all of approxely 5,000 tons. e Hongkong Company, Interon ia 1 Industrial Enterprises ted, in conjunction with local R. C. Symes Pty. Ltd. have ?ht 39 Chinese labourers to the to demolish the vessels scrap iron, which will be exd to Hongkong. e fact that each vessel is with- -0 feet of the shore has made :ask of demolition easier. As plate is cut away, drag lines attached and the scrap is )d to the beach by winches, is estimated that the job will >mpleted within 2 years. ng More for Power Zest Samoa !St Samoa’s new Executive icil has made a fairly timid on its plans to get more me for 1958. announced new increases in il rates, then had to shelve the ne temporarily because there doubt that it had the power to ge the old rates. (Over) 117 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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IG's Cadet Scheme Seems the Ball ith 22 “professional cadets” on way to P-NG from Australia i, the Territory’s cadet training me appears to be working well, re scheme was instituted a few s ago when Dr. John Gunther, then Director of Public Health P-NG, recommended that jted medical students at Ausan universities have their fees on condition that when they finished their training they > the next few years of their to the P-NG Administration, re there was a shortage of ors. .ter, a similar scheme was tuted for students qualifying as hers, agriculturalists, forestry veterinary scientists. ?ures released in January show in the last three years, 44 Bssional cadets have been led for the Territory service, lother 73 are still attending ersities and colleges in Ausa. right Year for cation in Nauru st year was something of a [S year for Nauruan students in ralia. Of 33 studying in the try, five sat for the Leaving ificate and 12 for the Interate Certificate—more than in year since the establishment of julsory education for Nauruans J2l. addition to these secondary mts, three Nauruans are fing at the Central Medical 01, Suva, and others are rtaking courses in teachering, civil engineering and ral administrative duties in ralia. In 1958 two Nauruan who have recently completed secondary studies in Victoria begin five-year apprenticeship ses, probably in the metal is, while another will study ) engineering.

Cook Islands arts Up th the exception of pearl shell d even there the value was ahead all Cook Islands exports increased in quantity and value during the last financial year, with tomatoes taking the lead.

Though the citrus crop lags heavily on planned output, there was an increase from 39,453 cases on the previous year—to 61,403 cases—and value rose from £55,138 to £86,641.

The tomato cash-crop, given much less consideration in the past by the Department of Agriculture, has steadily increased in grower-popularity, despite the absence of a guaranteed price or shipping outlet. The growers have been very well catered for in actual shipping, however, over the past several years.

Exports last year reached 96,599 half-bushel cases (averaging about 17 lb of fruit per case) which was up 4,687 cases on the previous year.

The financial yield rose from £99,978 to £101,660.

Banana exports, which the New Zealand importers and the Administration are encouraging, rose from 946 to 1,105 cases and the value from £906 to £1,071.

Copra, which is again becoming the subject of some attention after having been permitted to decline badly, increased from 1,076 tons to 1,439 tons. The value last year was £87,573 compared with £71,684 in 1955-56.

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A product of Bristol-Myers . 8M.12.57 ir, the value of exports of cloth- ; increasing by £5,000 to £64,396. e articles are made up from im- •ted materials and sold to New iland wholesalers. >ineapple exports rose from 15,710 22,801 cases, but prices were unisfactory, taken over all, and the al value declined by £330 to ,526. he total trade balance for the >ks was, as usual, deep in the with total exports at £485,117 p £6s,ooo—out-balanced by imts of £769,210—up nearly £200,000 the previous year. The New land tax payer found the ance. r Heart is Where > Work Is he story of Father Damien has aarallel in modern times, accordto the secretary of the New and Lepers’ Trust Board, Mr. . Twomey. siting the leper settlement at >s, New Caledonia, he met a ich European nursing sister who worked among the lepers for 15 s and who contracted the disease l result. But the sequel is a >ier one than in the case of ier Damien. ter she caught the disease, ir Othilde had to cease living tie convent to make her home ag the lepers. This continued i long time. cently Sister Othilde was ded free of leprosy and the doctors her she could return to the ent. t she decided that to do so it result in her missing oppor- ;ies to help the outcast natives, he still lives among them, here is no 40-hour week for r Othilde”, said Mr. Twomey, ag that her duties went far be- New NZ Minister to visit his Territories The New Zealand Labour Govnment’s new Minister of land Territories, Mr. John athison, is expected to make s first appearance in the lands when he visits Western imoa in March as one of a irliamentary delegation atnding the opening of the new '.gislative Assembly there.

Other members of this delegam had not been agreed upon late January.

In April or May, Mr. Mathin will make his first official nt to the Cook Islands, but rangements for this visit have to still be to finalised. 121 2IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— FEBRUARY, 1958

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4 O'Connell Street, Sydney P.O. Box 3838, G.P.0., Sydney. Cable Address: “Carefulness”. id the instruction of the women handcraft and the domestic arts. 5 kept the men and boys busy in ■ gardens, ran the small farm, I was loved by everyone. w SPC Secretary-General e in February 'he new Secretary-General of the ut h Pacific Commission, Mr. >mas Richard Smith, is expected irrive at headquarters in Noumea ; in February. t. Smith, whose last post was ; of Secretary to the Government Western Samoa, is a highly lifted administrator of wide and ed experience, gained mainly in service of the governments of t Zealand and Western Samoa, i 1953, he was sent under the ted Nations technical assistance gramme to Indonesia as adviser mblic administration to the Govnent of that country. In 1956 1957 he attended the United ions Trusteeship Council meet- > in New York as special reprebative for New Zealand. [r. Smith is also an expert on the 'keting of copra. Last year, as lirman of the Western Samoa ira Board, he represented the territory at a meeting held in London of copra buyers and producers from the main coconut-growing areas of the world.

Before leaving London he finalised the sale of Western Samoa’s entire copra output for 1958.

Yaws "Almost Beaten"

Yaws, one of the Pacific’s troublesome diseases, has been almost conquered in Fiji, according to a South Pacific Commission report in January.

In 1955, when the World Health Organisation opened a control campaign there, 28 per cent, of Fijians —more than one in four —had yaws.

Now only one-half per cent, are affected. Sufferers from infectious forms of the disease, formerly estimated at six in every hundred, have been reduced to less than one per thousand.

Islanders to Get a New Church in Auckland A site is being cleared in Auckland for the erection of a new Congregational Church to replace the old Pacific Islanders’ Congregational Church in Newton. (Over) [?] SPC Secretary-General, Mr. I. R. Smith, [?] the oath of office at a ceremony at [?]ament Buildings, Wellington, NZ, on [?]ary 10. 123 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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[he new building, planned to it 450 —it may be made larger— -1 adjoin the present church site. ?hnds for the church, estimated cost £30,000, are being collected New Zealand, the Islands, and England and about one-quarter the amount has now been eived. Construction will comnce when £12,000 has been lected. [he building will be of concrete, modern design, with car parking ierneath. ien She Shoots, ey Like It hcked away in a little cul-dein Lae, New Guinea, Mrs. D. rorrie”) Cahill —the only female dical assistant in the Territory onducts a native clinic where, ly, a stream of patients sufferfrom minor illnesses and aries finds relief, he clinic, an old wartime buildof tin and arc mesh, with jement floor, has been painted gay colours (by “Norrie” Cahill self, with paint begged, borrowed i scrounged). An attractive den surrounds it, and hanging plants and painted seats create restful atmosphere for sick ients. ,11 day long they come, to be ited for scabies, and malaria, lave their heads bandaged, their mds sewn up, dog bites, snake ;s, and millipede bites attended (the millipede is an insect which ks over the native while asleep, ding a fluid which results in a r looking wound that has to be ited as a burn). he seriously ill are given first and then sent by ambulance Malahang—the native hospital Liles out of town. [ighlands native labourers line up daily at the clinic, awaiting their shots for typhoid, whooping cough, and a Mantoux test for TB. The precautions are necessary before the employment of Highlanders, because they haven’t been in contact with these diseases, and have no natural immunity against them when brought to the coast.

Natives have great faith in the healing propensities of a “shoot” (injection) and expect that treatment for everything from a fractured skull to scabies.

The infant and maternal welfare dept, holds a clinic every Friday for native mothers and babies.

While waiting to be weighed, the small ones decorate themselves, or even try to feed themselves, with the flowers from the garden.

“Norrie” Cahill has been with the P-NG Department of Public Health for nine years now, a lot of it spent in Rabaul. But she has been in the Territory itself a lot longer than that —since she was five.

Her father, Albert Pechotsch, died in Lae last December, aged 80 years, 45 of them spent in the Territory.

Port Moresby Sea link With UK The MV Donegal, first of the Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited’s vessels on the new United Kingdom-Australia-P or t Moresby service, is due in Fremantle on February 5.

Donegal will discharge at Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville and Cairns, and is due in Port Moresby on March 10.

Messrs. Birt and Company (Pty.) Limited, Sydney, Managing Agents in Australia for the Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited, have announced that the second vessel on this service, the MV Westmeath, is scheduled to leave the United Kingdom on April 1, and is expected to arrive in Port Moresby on June 2.

Port Moresby agents are Burns Philp (New Guinea) Limited.

RNZAF Flight to Rarotonga A RNZAF Hastings transport aircraft made a special flight from New Zealand to Rarotonga on January 24, returning via Fiji two days later.

The flight was made at the request of the Island Territories Department, mainly for the transport of Administration staff, as no shipping berths were available. TEAL offered a special DC6 direct flight, subject to sufficient loading, which was evidently not forthcoming. A RNZAF Hastings made a similar flight about the same time last year.

Northbound passengers included Resident Agent Perks, recently appointed to Mauke, and Mrs.

Perks; Radar Technician Gale, to staff the new RAWIN weather equipment at Rarotonga, and Mrs.

Gale; Mr. John Bryce, organising teacher for Rarotonga; Mr. B. Spiers, organising teacher Northern Group: Mr. N. Pearson, organising teacher, Atiu - Mauke - Mitiaro; Mr. O. P.

Davies, relieving organising teacher, Rarotonga; Mr. Duncan, and Auckland lawyer. Mr. Miller, an SDA Missionary; and Sister M. Columba, of the Catholic Mission.

They May Have Killed Old Markham Joe The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary may not always get their man, but they make a good job of stray crocodiles.

One Sunday in January, round about dusk, Sub-Inspector Bill Curtis was told that a 13-ft crocodile was swimming offshore at Voco Point, in front of the Hotel Cecil, Lae. He was soon on the spot with a .303 and ammunition, and with the first shot, at about 40 yards, he got the croc at the back of the head.

The local natives were scared to With bandaged heads and legs, and “gain belong bel”, these patients wait for New Cr uinea’s only woman medical assistant, Mrs.

“Norrie” Cahill, to take a look at them.

ABOVE is Mrs.

Cahill with a patient. She has spent many years at Raboul, but is now stationed at Lae. 125 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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The police were just a little bit interested in that croc, on the chance that it may have swallowed one of their recently escaped native prisoners, who was last seen in the river.

A post-mortem showed no prisoner, but the croc’s stomach still had the remains of a large dog, including its collar, and there were plenty of battle scars on the hide. These included two .303 wounds, a handful of shotgun pellets in the head, and a missing toe.

Thus was opened up a new question: Was the croc really old “Markham Joe”, said to have his lair in the old wrecked ship at the end of the airstrip, and a power to be reckoned with these last 10 years?

It was Markham Joe who was supposed to have got the man who fell out of a boat near the wreck a few years ago; and the native boys who have disappeared there since the war.

It was Markham Joe who was supposed to have left giant crocodile prints on the beach, and who was seen swimming around Voco Point with a pig in his mouth after one of his raids cn a village up the river.

But whether it was Markham Joe that Sub-Inspector Curtis got, the event brought home to many that Voco Point was not a good place to let their children swim.

Further Medical Team For the Cooks The New Zealand Medical search Council, whose report; some aspects of the general he situation in the Cook Islands year caused some shock to press, despatched another rese;; team for the Group in Janu The three-man group was hes by Dr. D. D. McCarthy included Dr. N. P. Markham, of] Otago Medical School staff, Mr. A. Stenhouse, a reset assistant.

Dr. McCarthy said in Auckl: before sailing that there t grounds for believing that s diseases prevalent in the C< might be spread in part by dome animals. A survey of animals to be made to check this the He would also make a gen survey of the present health siti tion in the Northern Group at April. Dr. Markham would ret; to New Zealand late March.

In addition to carrying research work, Dr. McCarthy wt also be relieving Chief Medi Officer in the absence of Romans on leave overseas.

New Guinea Gets a New Tuberculosis Hospital A new TB hospital for the Te* tory is expected to be officii opened on February 15.

It’s at Bitapaka, near Rabs and about 100 patients have alren been transferred there.

TB is stated to be the th highest cause of deaths among natives of New Guinea, and seco amongst Papuans.

The hospital has 400 beds, to< extended by 200 later for Ask and mixed race sufferers.

Total cost of the buildings estimated to be £130,000, includf £16,000 for a water supply syst* The total maintenance a running costs are estimated approximately £lO,OOO to be bo:< by the Administration, but the str will be provided by the Sac;; Heart Mission at Vunapope.

Leader of the medical group, Dr. D[?] McCarthy (centre), with Mr. A. Stenhouse and Dr. N. P. Markham.

Photo: J. P. Shortall 126 FEBRUARY, 1058 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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BANKERS: BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY. ■he Rabaul branch of the Papuas Guinea division of the Red ss is planning to assist in the » and rehabilitation of patients, imilar hospitals will be opened the New Guinea mainland and Papua. \L Gets a Stand-In RNZAF Hastings transport airrt made a stand-in flight from to Western Samoa and return in January. he TEAL Solent suffered a laged strut, probably in a rougher landing or take-off, along the al Route, and the damage was icted in routine check-over at thala Bay. be Hastings aircraft happened be in Fiji, returning from a :ial flight to Rarotonga, and was sequently already fitted with >enger seating, so was able to e to the aid of TEAL, was anticipated that the Solent id be ready to resume normal al Route running in time for the iduled January 30 Suva-Papeete it. use-Hunting in N. Hebrides be first Russian earth satellite— -ITNIK to the world’s press, USE to the world of science nimum orbital unmanned satellite of the earth)—was the cause of some excitement in the New Hebrides at the end of December.

Reports from people on Malekula and Aore, including the testimony of a well-known French planter, to the effect that glowing pieces of “something” had come down on those islands were considered of sufficient importance in Vila and Noumea for the French Noumeabased naval patrol craft Tiare to be detailed to investigate.

A French military aircraft also arrived “from somewhere” and spent a couple of days of careful observation flying over these islands to locate signs of damaged vegetation which would pinpoint the supposed landing spot.

Search parties were landed from Tiare to investigate an area of Malekula. However, the investigations were apparently unrewarding as no announcement was made, It seems to be agreed that portions of the satellite may have come down in widely separated parts of the world during the last hour or so of its life.

The Russians claimed that the Americans had stolen a piece of the satellite or the third-stage rocket which came down in Alaska, The Americans admitted that some object had come down there in the snow but had not been located and their scientists calculated that the final break-up came on a path down the eastern Pacific. (Over) [?] Polynesian Association in Sydney re- [?] held a New Year "Luau" Party. Guests [?]ded Mr. and Mrs. John Lommel (top) and and Mrs. Jimmy Christian. Mr. Christian [?]e of the widely spread Fletcher Christian [?]y of Norfolk Island. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

NOTICE CLEVER MARY SHINOLEUM IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Trade Marks shown in the margin are the sole and exclusive property and proper TRADE MARKS of

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Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, 422-428 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia The New Hebrides may have lected a piece on the previous; —or theirs may merely have bee meteorite.

Cook Is. Business Sold The business and business prem of dagger & Harvey Ltd., Raroto:< a branch of an old-establis Auckland firm, was sold in Janu to Mi’. D. C. Brown, retailer, de? in pearl shell, and ship-owner.

The property includes a st) warehouse, and copra shed, and price was in the vicinity of £lB, it having been advertised at t figure earlier.

With the closing of the Manil lagoon to shell diving for the r two years, Mr. Brown is evidei transferring his main attention fa shell to retailing and planned come to New Zealand per the cm liner Bergensfjord early Febrm to purchase stock for the new st* His Fiji-built ketch Taveuni t also expected in Auckland for r in mid-February.

New Guinea's Supreme Court to be Rebuilt Port Moresby’s Supreme Cot part of which was mysteriou burned down in November, is to< reconstructed at a cost of £20,0 It will have two extra rooms.

The fire, which destroyed o judge’s chambers and many le records, broke out early on I vember 22, only a few hours afl firemen had fought another l which destroyed legal notes 8 documents in the Crown Law E partment, Konedobu, two mi 1! away.

Police investigated the possibil of arson, but nothing came of it Leprosy Problem at Aitutaki When a leprosy survey for all p< sons up to the age of 30 was carr out last November at Aitutaki, Cos Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Nola (right and and children, left Auckland in the "[?] Pomare" in January for a teaching app[?] ment at Mangaia. Miss J. King (centre) bound for a similar appointment at Rarot[?] Photo: J. P. Shortall 128 FEBRUARY. 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, 422-428 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ids, 83 new cases were discovered, shortly afterwards four extra 5 were reported by the resident P. urteen other persons, who had paroled from the leper colony akogai, Fiji, were found to have ne positive. The majority of lew cases were schoolchildren. ie CIA recently purchased a ing and three acres of land ted at the end of Amun e, Aitutaki, from Mr. John ngton. The building will be rted into a leprosy clinic, and ious cases will be isolated y until they are rendered ive. ; decision to treat the leper its at Aitutaki instead of sendlem to Makogai, as in the past, nade for a variety of reasons, of which are lack of accomtion at Makogai, the great exinvolved in transporting its, and improved methods of nent which will cure or arrest isease in a comparatively short WHP. (Over) 5/- For Fishing Vith Weed-Killer fixed in with the usual beerwing fines in a December ie of the “Cook Islands News”, ? a new crime for that part the world: two Cl Maoris e each fined 5/- for “unlawful of Lindane, a stupifying nt, in the taking of fish from water at Muri”. indane is a proprietory mix- -3 used by the government in ■otonga to kill weeds but it equally as efficient as a fish er. A resident of Rarotonga, ting about the incident said: personally saw thousands of ill fish, ranging down to i. fry, dying or dead on the res of the lagoon. A number people unaware of how the had been obtained, ate ntities of them and spent the of the day vomiting. For trivial offence, the scamps luestion were fined 5/-. That be a stern warning to them” i comparison with what the r brewers and drinkers pro- ? —from £5 to £2O per time— ■ does seem a paltry contnlon to consolidated revenue, ticularly when a £5 fine is vided for in the regulations t date dack to 1931. Lindane , of course, not known then, various stupefying agents :h as derris root, used in iy Pacific Islands) or any n of poisoning, was strictly L. 129 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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vy Weather in Tonga nsiderable damage was caused 'onga plantations, especially in north of the group, by the cal storm which crossed in late mber to the south-eastward i of Fiji. the Vava’u group many banana i were flattened and breadfruit were torn out by the roots, anting of banana plantations is r way. damage was done at atapu in the south. ks' Housing Scheme thwhile j Cook Islands’ housing-grant le, introduced by the New Zea- Govemment in mid-1957, is iy proving an important conion towards the replacement of igh percentage of sub-standard over-age native dwellings ghout the group. •ecent report from the Social opment Department shows ;o mid-January, 57 applications teen made, and of these, 52 had approved. ler the scheme, property- 's receive free roofing iron for oofing of one of a number of illy designed fairly low-cost s, materials for the building of l are available in Rarotonga at rate cost. the end of 1957 roofing iron s had actually been made to the applicants, whose houses are now completed. Investigations have shown that each dwelling houses an average of about eight persons. Of the 39 applicants satisfied in 1957, 21 were in Rarotonga, 9 in Aitutaki, 6 in Mangaia, 2 in Penrhyn, and 1 in Mitiaro.

Although the scheme will probably not result in the replacement of all slum housing, it promises to have a snow-balling effect, partly through more people becoming aware of the advantages of a modern-style house, and partly through pride and jealousy.

There, as elsewhere, the Smiths shall not be outdone by the Joneses.

Mahogany is Promising in Micronesia A mahogany timber industry cf worthwhile dimensions may be developed in Micronesia, following satisfactory results of test-plantings at Babelthuap, in the Palau Group.

Micronesian Reporter, official Trust Territory Government publication, says that mahogany, one of the world’s prized timbers, is thriving in the climate and soil conditions there. So far no blights or insect parasites have troubled the plantations. Trees eight to ten years old are now being milled.

Mahogany is a fast-g rowing timber, like the cedars now being planted in some Pacific Groups for fruit-case timbers. Young trees less than three years old at Babelthuap are averaging six inches in diameter and thirty feet in height.

The report gives no indication of prices being realised for the timber, which is probably being marketed in Japan. The crop is being developed alongside cocoa, in pockets of land unsuitable for the latter crop.

Results have encouraged additional growers and altogether 10,000 seedlings have been distributed from the initial stands.

Babelthuap is hilly, with a wet climate. Other crops which do well are pineapples, taro, yams, rambutan, tapioca and coffee (liberica).

Niue's Fight Against Filaria An insecticidal spray known as dieldrin, which has come into the market in recent years, is proving he Polynesian Association Sydney New arty, Mademoiselle Micaela Michel, of [?], with Robert Wilson; and Mrs. Peter [?], formerly Greta Shober, of Nukualofa, with Lieut. Lynn Betts, RAN, and his [?], Michael.

Pacific Cross-Section The Pacific was certainly well represented at the 75th anniversary camp of the International Boys' Brigade held near Auckland. This group comprises, from left, D. Jacob, of Nauru, M.

Brown, of Rarotonga; M. T. Rearsley, NZ president of the Boys' Brigade (and the camp commandant); Mata Afa F. Fnii, Boys' Brigade president. Western Samoa (who is Minister for Agriculture, Western Samoa); Ikinepula Etuata, of Niue; Wee Chong Siang, of Singapore; Barry Taylor, of Sydney. 131 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Cable & Telegraphic Address: SUPERB, Sydney ily effective in an Administration i-mosquito campaign on Niue nd, were mosquito-born filarias i major problem, he latest Annual Report says t the residual effect of dieldrin ayed on the interior walls of ses is evident even after twelve iths. The spraying campaign will •epeated during the current year, he new and highly effective drug, •azan, first used in French ania, is also proving a valuable pon in the filaria fight at Niue, s drug kills the germs in the id-Stream of carriers—it does not s the disease directly. All new yals to Niue are now asked to i a full course of hetrazan to r ent the arrival of new carriers i outside areas.

Price of Pacific gress ith the big increase in motor ic in virtually all Pacific terries in the last few years, more more road fatality figures are aning to show up in Pictific re- 5.

West Samoa, an otherwise good lay record was marred on lary 1, when a truck loaded with engers ran off the road near manu, Aleipata, on the east : of Upolu, and smashed into a Result: Two dead, 14 injured. i Caledonia Having dine Trouble w Caledonia is to ask the opolitan government to finance construction of a new pipeline ts water system, is only a couple of years since pipes were installed together a new dam on the Dumbea r. wever, due to the rapid growth e town and the constantly in-

Olio In Lae

Sixteen-year-old Helen Brown.

Lae, NG, contracted polio in n.uary—the first case among ropeans to be reported in Lae. e had returned from school Australia only a few weeks r ore, and first thought her less was malaria, ielen passed her Leaving rtificate this year, and had t received papers to comnce nursing at Sydney’s St. icent’s Hospital, ielen is the daughter of Mr. i Mrs. G. F. Brown. Mr. non is with the Department Native Affairs. uae school children have eady been given Salk injecns 133 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

It’s not enough .. a He 1 - ITV "What’s not enough?”

“The Australian consumption of aluminium. For a count a with our standard of living it should be much higher. A the U.S.A. and Britain they use about four times as muc per head as we do”

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Of course it does; aluminium is the most versatile o all metals. Aluminium is used, nowadays, in every indu, try. Whether it is for making milk churns or grain siloi for shipbuilding or prefabricated houses, for train coaa building or electrical transmission cables aluminiu a nearly always does the job better than the traditions materials.”

"Yes, but aluminium is still scarce.”

“ That's just where you are wrong—there is plenty c aluminium; the great expansion projects of the Aluminiia Limited Group of Companies has seen to that.”

"Now I suppose you want me to read all abort it in the following paragraph.”

Too right / do”

The Aluminium Limited Group of Companies is one of th major world suppliers of aluminium. Their far-sighted expan sion programme has been a vital factor in overcoming thi shortage of this important metal.

The smelting plants of the Aluminum Company of Canad Ltd., principal fully owned subsidiary of Aluminium Limiteo are sited near vast hydro-electric generators. To the hugs plants at Arvida and in the Saguenay area and at Kitima ocean freighters bring cargoes of bauxite and other ray materials needed for aluminium production. From these centre the world is supplied with ingots of purity as high as 99.99% The Aluminium Limited Group has gone a long way toward making the Aluminium Age a possibility. The organisation comprising over 50 fully owned or affiliated companies ij 28 countries, is mainly engaged in the production and fabrics tion of aluminium. The research and marketing enterpris? and resources of these companies are at the service of tht world’s users of aluminium. Aluminium Union Limited is thr international selling company of the Aluminium I imite< organisation. illiiii Mil Hi

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ising needs of the nickel smelters water supply is deficient, n expert from France recently le a study of the situation and of his conclusions was that there too much waste of water in 3. le expert states in his report very probably the new dam age could not contain enough ir to feed an extra pipe line, cially in times of drought, as Caledonia has been having. v Australian Consul N. Caledonia istralia’s new Consul in New donia, Mr. Pierre Hutton, took lis post in Noumea in January, shortly afterwards arranged his big function —a party to irate Australia Day, attended by quests. ’. Hutton, whose previous postsvas with the UN Assembly in York, is young, unmarried, and a French mother. He speaks t French. . Hutton took over his new post Dr. J. S. Cumpston (Doctor of Letters in Political Geography), who has had an interesting career as a diplomat, scholar and soldier and who is presumably destined for yet higher things.

PlM’s Noumea correspondent comments on Dr. Cumpston’s departure: “He will be known among his compatriots as the ‘people’s consul’.

Some of his predecessors were inclined to be a bit ‘stuff shirtish’, in spite of being good fellows. No task was too menial for Dr. Cumpston, and he leaves a reputation amongst both Australians and New Caledonians as a right good fellow”.

More Fireworks On Manam The natives of Manam Island, New Guinea, have settled down so well on the mainland that it will be possible to withdraw, early in February, the extra Administration officers sent to the area to help them when they left their island home in the middle of December.

The 3,340 inhabitants of Manam were evacuated by a fleet of small boats when the island’s volcano became violently active.

Since then there have been further eruptions and some of the native houses on the island have collapsed under the weight of ash and vegetation has been destroyed.

One violent eruption at the end of January, witnessed by Government vulcanologist, Mr. G. A.

Taylor, sent ash thousands of feet into the air. It spread 70 miles to Angoram, and brought twilight over a large area.

Mr. Taylor said large cinders had rained heavily on the west and north-western slopes, where four villages received more than six inches.

Glowing volcanic clouds descended in the four major valleys which run down from the cone.

Avalanches of fragmented lava s vept down to the sea in the southeastern and south-western sectors of the island, flattening the area of forest and wiping out a large part of a deserted native village.

Mr. Taylor said the smoking remains of a Seventh Day Adventist establishment was the only identifiable remnants of the settlement.

Further avalanches descended in the south-western valley later.

Mr. Taylor has been on Manam since the native population was evacuated.

On the mainland, the Islanders have built themselves new houses with bush materials, and with the use of Administration machinery, have planted a total of 50 acres of food gardens.

Common Market Effects In Noumea First effect of the Europe Common Market has been felt in Noumea, RTED FROM NOUMEA: Dr. John Cump- Australian Consul there since 1953.

D: Mr. Pierre Hutton.

After The Hurricane

These emaciated looking Jersey cattle were part of a consignment of 158 well-bred beasts that were shipped from the Waikato in New Zealand to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. and the Methodist Mission Agricultural School in Fiji. The cattle were on the "Navua" which had a bad time in Fiji's January hurricane when on its way with the cattle between Auckland and Suva. The cattle were badly affected by the rough conditions, became seasick and would not eat. However, almost all landed safely and are expected to recover condition quickly. The photo illustrates what a few days in a hurrican-tossed sea can do to prime beasts.

Photo: Fiji Public Relations Office. 135 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1958

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This was to protect local _ T m " dustries which easily supplied New Caledonia s needs, some 200 tons per ye^r - x-i. * A quantity of peanut oil had been allowed into the country for cooking so as to protect a local oil precessing Plant. Legislation Sc" these industries. , i. 0 Mr. Leydin Goes r .. , j, , SO NortOlK IS.

The Australian Territories of Nauru and Norfolk Island are both to have new Administrators.

New Administrator of Norfolk Island is Mr. Reginald Sylvester Leydin, QBE, who has been Administrator of Nauru since 1954. He succeeds Brigadier C. H. B. Norman, who retires after five years in NI.

Mr. Leydin will take up his new post at Norfolk on May 1. He will first SO me leave in Australia.

Mr. Leychn, who is 52, has had extensive experience in Territorial administration, having served in Northern Territory for 28 years prior to his appointment to Nauru, Dur i ng t he war, from 1942 to "

Islands and Singapore and attained the rank of Squadron-Leader. He was awarded the OBE in 1953 for his outstanding services in the Northern Territory.

The Aust. Minister for Territories, Mr. Hasluck, said in January that the Government was o appreciative of Mr. Leydin’s s= at Nauru, where as Adminis?

“he had made a real contritt of lasting value to the welfse the island and its people”.

Mr. Leydin has been in indifif health for some time, and sumably it is felt that N» Island will be an easier charge, tainly it has a much more pie climate.

The name of the new Adir trator of Nauru has not yet bees nounced. Occasionally thes« appointments to Australia’s tories have gone to men whose experience fit them for the (as in Mr. Leydin’s case), but frequently they have been poi appointments given to supers ated soldiers or ex-politicians.

Last April, when Mr. Leydi: came ill, Mr. J. K. McCarthy of the senior officers in the Pi New Guinea Administration, we Nauru as Acting Administrah was thought that the appoint would be for an indefinite tern Mr. Leydin recovered sooner expected and Mr. McCarthy turned to Port Moresby (whe:: is now Acting Director of F Affairs), in July.

AAore Freak Pacific Weather Freak weather conditions experienced in Western Samos Cook Islands and Tahiti for i a week from mid-January.

The disturbances are believe have been caused by a tro seven days depression statk in the Marshall Islands.

Although the Cook group is< ject to hurricanes, they are ra= W. Samoa and Tahiti.

There was, of course, the hurricane of 1889 when Calliope made her famous dan sea and safety; and winds of li cane force have been expend in Tahiti on about four occasii the worst being in 1906.

Most damage was caused in January storms by phenomenall rather than by the winds tha* WELCOME, VOYAGERS!

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Tourism means money in t Language.

But Noumea was especu pleased when it checked after recent visits by “Orion’ and “Orcades”, t found that each ship had £ 15,000 in the country, includ port dues. 136 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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LIMITED INCORPORATED IN NEW SOUTH WALES; t reach more than 40 knots. For ist of the time, the skies were ar and sunny, but in Papeete a pical storm followed. ?he huge seas washed over the reef il even the breakwater, flooding •und floor premises. At one stage ‘ hotel Les Tropiques had one >t of water in its public rooms.

The MM liner Tahitien, which s in port, snapped her lines and J to anchor out in the harbour, e Matson cruise vessel Lurline s heaving as much as 30 feet at i wharf. n Apia, the waves striking the f rose 70 ft and rushed across i harbour to the beach, where ay was thrown hundreds of feet d the air and carried boulders i rocks onto the roads beyond ere they had to be removed by Idozers. round Aggie Gray’s guest-house t the far end of Apia’s waterfront -ees were dying because of the water. o great damage—but a good deal concern at what might be going happen —was experienced at nihiki atoll, Northern Cooks, big north-westerly swell began ievelop late January 14, and all ts were pulled well up at the n Tanhunu landing, where seas lark were sweeping into the open t-shelters. i the early hours of next morna Boys’ Brigade bugler was called out to rouse the settlement to care for the boats inside the lagoon, where a considerable slow swell—similar to that experienced in the Cooks from the Aleutians submarine eruption last year—began to develop.

Some canoes and a launch were washed out into the lagoon but were soon recovered and all boats were secured as much above the highwater line as the low atoll permits, by morning.

During the following day the lagoon surges swept up as far as the Resident Agent’s house on the lagoon side of the island. On the seaward side some native houses and chicken runs were washed out.

Further round the lagoon at Tukao, the other settlement, many houses were flooded on both sides of the island. Much debris was washed up onto the main ‘'street” and the flagstaff at the landing was brought down.

Had the wind been strong much damage would have been done.

West Samoa Visit Expected in March It has been officially announced that a delegation of members of the New Zealand House of Representatives will arrive in Samoa in March to attend the official opening of the new and enlarged Legislative Assembly. (Over) Qeen Mother Takes the ditionai Drink of Kava [?] een Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, takes traditional drink of kava from a coco- [?]bowl during her Fiji visit at the end of ary.

Photo: Akbar's Studios. 137 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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he new NZ Minister of Island ritories, Mr. John Mathison, will a member of the delegation. : will present to the Assembly a smonial mace to be used as a ibol of authority by the Speaker. a Drama F Lae he motor-vessel Kulu, a small stal copra vessel owned by rns Philp (NG) Ltd., of jaul, was returning from a cial trip to Port Moresby, via > Bay, on January 22, when she nailed to Lae that she had a ntal patient on board and rered a doctor and ambulance on Lval. hortly after, when she was about miles off Lae, the patient, a 'opean, made a further attempt his life (he had previously tried jump overboard and was rescued a native crew member; then ked in a cabin, he broke the •ror and slashed his wrists, neck i stomach). Kulu sent out a dis- -3S signal for help in quietening man.

Ixtremely bad radio conditions vented operators at six stations m reading the signals correctly i it was presumed that the ship ;lf was in distress, lowever, arrangements were quickly made for the workboat Melisa to leave Lae with the District Medical Officer, Dr. Campbell on board. Melisa got alongside Kulu at about 3 a.m., when Dr. Campbell transferred and treated the patient.

Kulu arrived in Lae at 8 a.m., January 23, but when just off Bragg’s Wharf, at Voco Point, struck a sandbank. The patient and doctor were taken off in a small boat and later the Kulu lifted off of her own accord and continued her journey to Rabaul.

Retirement of Fiji's Chief Justice HAVING reached the age of 65, Sir Ragnar Hyne retires in February from the post of Chief Justice of Fiji. Sir Ragnar and Lady Hyne expect to reside permanently in England.

Sir Ragnar Hyne is a Queenslander, and was educated at Queensland University. He became Director of Education in Tonga in 1920; and served the British Colonial Office as education director, magistrate and legal adviser in various South Pacific Territories until he was transferred to Sierra Leone in 1944 ; as Solicitor-General. He was Puisne Judge in Gold Coast in 1948, and became Chief Justice in Fiji in 1952.

Mr. Justice A. G. Lowe, who has been Judge of the High Court in Tanganyika since 1953, has been appointed Chief Justice of Fiji, in succession to Sir Ragnar Hyne.

The new Chief Justice was born in New Zealand, 56 years ago; qualified in New Zealand as a barrister and solicitor; was a legal officer in the Government Service in Tonga in 1938-40; was an Air Force Squadron-Leader in World War 11. He entered the legal A Warm Handshake It's between smiling Herman Womsiwor, of Biak, Netherlands New Guinea, and Nicolaas Jouwe, of Hollandia, back home after making a visit to Papua-New Guinea in January, as members of a Netherlands' delegation which made a study of native village councils across the border. The party, headed by District Commissioner H. Veldkamp, also took a look at native agricultural development.

Photo: W. E. Tausent.

And Another!

This one in Port Moresby in January, where the president of the Aquatic Club, Mr.

Justice Gore (right), after presenting trophies to members, is himself presented with a token of esteem and good wishes by the Commodore, Mr. Bill Nicholas. It's in the form of life membership of the club.

Photo: Papuan Prints. 139 ACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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ction of the British Colonial nice after the war, and served Kenya and Malta before his ipointment as a Judge in uganyika. edical Degree for iva Resident [he chancellor of Sydney Unirsi t y, Sir Charles Bickerton ickburn, on January 24, conferred ‘ degree of MB on 24-year-old !ix Emberton, of Suva. )r. Emberson is a member of a .1 known Fiji family. He will spend i next year as a resident at Royal nee Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and n return to work in Suva.

New Bishop for a w Vicariate he Most Rev. A. Stemper, the 7 Vicar Apostolic of Kavieng, v Ireland —which is itself a brand 7 Vicariate —took up his duties New Guinea in early February. !is Vicariate, comprising New and, Manus Island and the Duke forks, was created last year with separation of the Vicariate of iaul (Vunapope Catholic Mission) ) two parts. he new Vicariate has been placed harge of the American Province the Missionaries of the Sacred rt, and Bishop Stemper was secrated in the US on Sepber 3. efore the splitting of the old mate, Vunapope Mission served population of 152,797 natives, 00 of whom were Catholics, here were 95 tribes in the area, h with its own language, and isionaries from seven religious ers were drawn from Germany, itria, Ireland, Poland, USA, land and Australia, he new Vicariate of Kavieng will look after the needs of 21,864 Catholic natives, leaving 56,340 to the old Vunapope mission.

Bishop Stemper has four years in which to replace the present different nationalities with Americans of the MSC. In the meantime the Vicariate staff consists of 18 priests, four brothers, 16 European sisters, four native sisters, and 189 catechists.

The new bishop is a short, thick set, grey haired man obviously used to hard work in the open. He was brought up on a farm outside the town of Caledonia, Minnesota, and contrary to reports he was not a businessman before becoming a priest late in life. He attended a university, spent a few years at home, studied for the priesthood, was ordained in 1940 and taught in Apostolic schools afterwards.

He arrived at Vunapope in 1946 and although dubbed the ‘Flying Bishop”, he has never piloted a plane in NG for he let his pilot’s licence lapse. He had no use for it. on New Britain.

He worked at the mission until the middle of 1951, when he returned to the US for six months.

He was back on New Britain in January, 1952.

WPHC Residents Receive Honours A number of residents of the Western Pacific High Commission territories received decorations in the Queen’s New Year Honours List.

NEW HEBRIDES: J. S. Rennie, Esq., OBE, British Resident Commissioner, to be a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

British Solomon Islands

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Metcalfe, Chairman of the Methodist Mission, to be an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire: E. Boko. Esq., President of Ysabel Native Council, to be a member of that Order.

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

COLONY: P. G. Roberts, Esq., Administrative Officer (whose district includes Christmas Island) to be a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

"Blue" Allan to Open Soldiers' Congress The Annual Congress of the New Guinea Branch of the RSS & ILA will be formally opened at Lae on March 22 by Colonel H. T. Allen, OBE.

Colonel Allan is a decorated veteran of both World Wars, a pioneer planter, miner, and trader of New Guinea, the first Commander of the Pacific Islands Regiment, and a man who was very well known in New Guinea affairs for twenty or thirty years. He now is a resident of Woolgoolga, NSW.

The ex-Servicemen’s Association of New Guinea, of which the Hon.

R. F. Bunting, MLC, is President, is one of the strongest organisations Bishop Stemper.

Former NG patrol officer, John MacGregor, with his attractive bride, formerly Miss Rita Wood, as they leave Taurama Chapel, Port Moresby, after their marriage in January. Mrs.

MacGregor is a school teacher, and will teach at Minj, where Mr. MacGregor is a traffic officer with Gibbes Sepik Airways. Mr. Mac- Gregor's name was in the news a lot last year, during what came to be known as the Anderson-MacGregor case.

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he Territory, and its forthright Louncements on matters of public ;y cannot be ignored—no matter much they are disliked by high ialdom. rge Made and hdrawn in Tahiti Court private legal action which has ed some stir in Tahiti was ated in Papeete early in January, i American shipowner, Mr. ter Keene, of Los Angeles, ned that he was defamed by Mr. . E. Devenish, described as the ish Consul in Tahiti; and he ht damages accordingly, cording to the documents filed tie French Court, it was alleged Devenish, speaking in the rice Bar to Mr. D. Shields, a sete business man, made a detory reference to Keene and to of Keene’s ships, the Hidalgo ; “those words, uttered in a ,ic place, are liable to cast a on the honour and the prolonal credit of the applicant ene) and at all events they conite the charge of defamation e to punishment under Articles 12 and 33 of the Act of July 29, le hearing was set down for aary 29, and Mr. Devenish pre- ;d a defence. n January 29, Mr. Rudolph ibridge appeared for Mr. Keene, and announced that Mr. Keene wished to withdraw the action and would pay all the costs. The action was discontinued accordingly.

Current report in Tahiti is that the matter will not end there —that further action may be taken on the initiative of Mr. Devenish.

Fiji's Elder Statesman is 76 On January 25, three things happened, of importance to the Hugh Ragg family, of Fiji.

On January 25, Sir Hugh Ragg, one of Fi j i’s Elder Statesmen, attained the age of 76. He still is going strong a s Managing Director of Northern Hotels Ltd., head of the Makogai Leper- Trust, etc., etc.

On January 25, there was born in Suva the first great-grandchild of Sir Hugh Ragg. He is a boy, and he arrived per medium of Mr. and Mrs. David Hugh Ragg —and young D. H. Ragg is the son of David Petrie Ragg, of Sydney, who is a son of Sir Hugh Ragg and Chairman of Northern Hotels Ltd.

And the arrival of the new infant Ragg, on January 25, meant that no less than four generations of Raggs have been born in Fiji— for Sir Hugh himself was born there in 1882.

Another Jap For Appendix Op.

From Our NO Correspondent There is not a main port in the Territory of Papua-New Guinea which has not been visited, over the last 12 months, by a Japanese fishing vessel with a conveniently sick crew member on board.

We say conveniently, because we feel quite satisfied that they would not hesistate to sign on a man suffering with acute appendicitis if they wanted to use him as an excuse to get into a port.

Latest port of call was Lae, NG, when the fishing vessel Hakko Maru called with an appendicitis case on January 22.

The usual procedure of asking permission to land their man was carried out, and an ambulance quickly took him to the hospital, where he was operated on.

But what really rocks the oldtimers, with long memories, is the audacity of these people, combined with the laxness of supervision by whoever is responsible for their movements. Or is it quite all right for them to roam the town at will?

Four crewmen left the ship and landed at Voco Point. Here they were quickly surrounded by a large crowd of curious natives. With the aid of Japanese-English dictionaries and a Japanese-speaking native they were apparently endeavouring to find their bearings for the ship’s anchorage for the night. Two Europeans also assisted in pointing out the harbour markings, which advice they presumed was to be passed on to the skipper of the vessel.

The conclave broke up eventually, but the seamen did not return to the ship; nor did they signal any of the information they had received.

The ship just turned around and headed around to the wharf (where the Shansi was berthed) and the Japanese sailors wandered nonchalantly off around the town.

It was later learned that the Hakko Maru dropped anchor on the other side of the Shansi at the wharf. About 2 hours later three of the wandering Japanese crew members arrived at the wharf. These were taken on board their ship per wooden box, rowed w'ith shovels and hauled on by rope attached to the ship. After this strange manoeuvre, Hakko Maru headed for the open sea, minus two crew members. She was expected back on January 28 to pick up the sick man, and, we hbpe, the other crew member who has been loose in Lae for five days.

A couple of policemen and a civilian look over the shoulders of delighted Mr. and Mrs. [?]n Common, of Clark Street, Suva, who won £25,000 in the NSW State Opera House ry in January. Mr. Common is assistant-manager of Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., Suva. He Mrs. Common had been in Fiji only a week. They had bought the ticket before leaving gwood, in the NSW Blue Mountains, to come to Fiji.— Photo Stinsons. 143 C I F I (’ ISLANDS MONTHLY - FEBRUARY, 1958

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Fijian women don’t like this n. it it is good to be free to drink you feel like it.” \i Bera, a prin ti n g-press tor, did not think the proposal ood for Fijians. ‘‘Most of them >t receive much money, and if spend this in hotels they have ng left until next pay day.” lakai Soi, a work-mate of thought the new system was because the Fijians drank horrible home-made concocif they could not get beer. But reed with Peni on the financial lesa Sikivou, a member of the ative Council, and senior i master at Queen Victoria il, spent part of the day makiis own observations. He said is quite satisfied with what he he saw no misbehaviour at all. en told that Fijian women ;ed to the abolition of permits, sa commented: “Only the more ones.” the record, the number of :s for drunkenness in Suva on tiree days was: uary 31, three; February 1, ebruary 2, none. ! number of arrests for drunkenin Suva has been very low in t months, except at periods Christmas and New Year. The ge has been two or three on days. s were still there and it was ded to reduce a lot of deadit and maintenance costs by dng these and closing in the are into which these wheels :t. This work, plus a full surf the aircraft by TEAL’s Auckworkshops, w'ould occuply three ir months, during which period services would be maintained the other aircraft. )tain Frame and his men were returning to Papeete per TEAL aircraft immediately.

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Nauru to Get a Decent Airstrip The island of Nauru is to have a modern aerodrome capable of taking long-distance, four-engined aircraft, but no details have been announced on when work will start.

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WAY Beginning February 17, travellers to and from Papua-New Guinea will be able to save up to £lO/5 - on a single journey out of (or into) Sydney; £B/14 - from Brisbane.

This is through Qantas Airways' new Thrift Class Service, which will operate once a week, each way. Northbound, Sundays, southbound, Mondays.

Qantas’ six other flights to New Guinea will operate as usual, at usual fares. (£62/15/- single, Sydney-Lae.) Up to 48 passengers will be carried but they will have exactly the same amount of room as passengers in the regular BOP services.

Travellers on thrift services will be allowed only 35 lbs of baggage (as again 44 lbs on regular services)', meals will consist of sandwiches and coffee, tea, milk or mineral waters.

But unkindest cut of all (for Territorians), no liquor will be served on Thrift flights. Are there enough people in the Territory who can bear to be teetotal 12 hours at a stretch?

Qantas evidently believes that there are. A saving of £lO per single ticket will no doubt be of interest to travelling families and to others whose budgets are stretched to the limit by the high cost of living in the Territory. 145 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Ansett in P-NG ERE have been no developments following the January rumour that Ansett-ANA contemplated ading operations to New Guinea agh the purchase of Gibbes k Airways. te argument was that in this ner Ansett would be in a better ion to claim the right to run ces to Australia or the Solomons, e argument seems fallacious, blishment of a local air service ie Territory surely does not give right to run an “international” ervice to (BSIP); or a regional ce (to Australia). (s which may be derived from coconut palm. It was through same sort of initiative that he oped the additive s —from fa and spinach and parsley— h made his manufactured foods famous. pressed with South Pacific bilities, Mr. Rehnborg got into i with various business associand invited them to join him is South Seas hotel enterprise.

Id them frankly that he did not : that for some time they would r much profit—that the profits i have to be ploughed back for opment—but that eventually company could become very table. He made the point that plan would fit in with the nt American idea of exporting al for development overseas, rt of the plan is that local is to supervise the hotels will et up in each Territory and, ips, local capital invited to parite. But it clearly is the wish e promoters that America shall tain overall direction, is reported from Suva that very dly relations have been estabi between Mr. Rehnborg and lugh Ragg (head of Northern Hotels Ltd.) and with Mr. Barry Philp, who has been planning developments at Nadi.

More Amenities for Garrick Hotel As part of hotel re-organisation and improvement, now going on in Fiji, the large and well known Garrick Hotel, owned and conducted by Mr. Vince Costello, is getting a face-lift. The Garrick is right in the middle of the business section of Suva, and much of its lower floor, not occupied by the bar, has been hitherto let profitably as shops.

Mr. Costello now is inducing his tenants to find shops elsewhere, and the area thus cleared is to be converted in a large lounge and beergarden, on modern lines. Only beer will be served, so the new amenities will be available to Indians and Fijians, against whom all restrictions (in relation to beer-drinking) were removed as from February 1.

The bar section of the Club Hotel (now under construction) was formally opened for business on February 1 by Mr. Max Lovell, one of Northern Hotel Ltd.’s managers.

Mr. Lovell formerly was manager for Northern at Nadi, and he lately has had charge of the hotel at Deuba, after Northern Hotels Ltd. bought it. 147

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(From page 18) mged according to quantities and ding of copra delivered. If the result is definitely lower than “tentative” price already paid , there will be a reduction in tentative price to take care of rices Elsewhere: Fiji's £57 does not seem that there has ‘ n any consultation between ritories regarding the prices to >aid in each for copra after Deber 31, 1957; and, already, some ous disparities are seen. >r example, take the following bs, to be paid for copra delivered ominated places, announced late miber or early January, and all ■ced to Australian currency: it, for purposes of this comson, it should be noted that Solomons and Fiji prices are i; while the P-NG price is tative”, or provisional, e P-NG Copra Marketing Board, Tiving at its tentative price, did not take the Philippines December quotation as a basis, but instead, for safety’s sake, took the average of the Philippines price for the six months, July to December, 1957. This appears to have produced a GIF European-port price, delivered weight, of about £6O/15/- (Sterling) per ton.

Working back from that, and taking into account many factors (Unilever Contract discount, freight, marine insurance, agency commission, stevedoring, shrinkage of 3 per cent., exchange premium of about 25 per cent., handling in Board stores, in-store shrinkage of 2 per cent., export duty of about £5 per ton, grade premiums, etc.), the Board’s experts arrived at the “tentative” rates announced early in January.

We have seen many calculations, some agreeing generally with the Board, some differing.

But it does appear that, if the Board’s calculations are reasonably correct, if the market does not fluctuate too much, and if the grade premiums proposed are paid (which means that the copra must really be up to standard) the P-NG growers eventually will get from £2 to £4 and even £5 per ton over the “tentative” price.

But it may be twelve months before they know. The final dividend may bring them generally into line with the Solomons price; but they still are quite a way below the Fiji price.

The position in Fiji, of course, is dominated by the amount which the Suva mill is prepared to pay, from week to week, forthwith and finally, for copra delivered to it on the wharf, Suva.

The Fiji price is paid by private enterprise, which watches the world makels every day, and adjusts its buying rates accordingly. The P-NG and Solomons prices are made by Government and semi-Government instrumentalities, which work under very different conditions. But there may not be much difference in the end result.

The P-NG Board took as the start of its calculation the average Philippines price for the last six months of 1957, and thus got about £6O/15/- Sterling. The Carpenter mill in Suva naturally took the Philippines price (converted to GIF European port) in early January, and got £66/17/6 Sterling.

Thus, a difference of £6 Stg. per ton immediately shows up between the prompt final price of private enterprise in Suva, and the 149 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Huge Sum in Stabilisation Fund rhe P-NG Copra Marketing ard has no control whatever over ‘ Copra Stabilisation Fund—it rely takes from the receipts about per ton as copra export duty, to one seems to know exactly at happens to that £5 per ton. It definite that £2 of the £5 goes the Stabilisation Fund. What Dpens to the £3? low much is the Copra Stabilisai Fund, and what is being done h it? i Jack in 1946, the then nt established a “Copra Reserve id”, and, in order to build it up, luctions were made from copra ?s, from December 1, 1946, to »ut 1949. Deductions ranged from to £8 per ton, according to Minrial whim. Up to the end of 1949, collections totalled £780,000. In next 18 months another £672,000 accumulated —so that the total ira Reserve Fund held by the nmonwealth as on October 31, ~ was £1,452,000. ben they started collecting funds, . similar way, under the Customs port) Tariff Ordinance, 1951; that has gone on ever since. A rd to control the Fund thus ted was established under the pua and N. Guinea Copra In- ;ry Stabilisation Ordinance”, and ay the Board consists of Messrs.

E. Fairfax-Ross, Port Moresby; ik R. Wilson, of Rabaul; C. B. ey, of Rabaul; R. E. P. Dwyer, ctor of Agriculture, and H. H. ve, Treasurer, of Port Moresby, le total of the Fund on Sepaer 30, 1957, was no less than !0,399. As far as this writer vs, it does not include that >2,000, accumulated under other up to October 31, 1951. ie two funds, taken together, d provide about million for filisation” of the copra industry; therwise could be most usefully loyed. The Papua and New lea planters, who themselves ;ed that wealth, should ask some tions about it.

Bsi Prices Up

lomon Islands official copra prices were :d by 30/- per ton at the beginning of uary, making the rate (Australian currency, i BSI ports)—lst grade, £52/10/- per ton; grade, £5O/10/-; 3rd grade, £45/10/-.

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Deaths Of Islands People

Mr. William Alexander Gill

William Alexander Gill, whose amusing stories and drawings were known to thousands of PIM readers, died in Sydney on January 24, a victim of lung cancer.

Bill Gill was born in 1899, at Macduff, near Inverness, and although he had spent more than half his life in Australia and Papua, carried his Scots accent to the end.

His father was a Master Mariner in sail, and when he was still a child, Bill made a couple of voyages around the world with him. He studied marine engineering for a time, but World War I broke out and he joined the Gordon Highlanders.

After he was demobbed he went to Australia in 1922, and shortly after to Papua to become a plantation assistant: later he managed a number of plantations for the bigger firms and finally became partowner of Loani rubber plantation in the Milne Bay district.

When the Pacific war began he was evacuated but in 1943 was back in Papua as a Warrant Officer in the Water Transport section of the Army. The following year he transferred to ANGAU and became well known as the skipper of the Rasputin (known to the natives as Rice Puddin).

He went back to Loani in 1946, but decided against settling there permanently although he continued to have an interest in the plantation. In 1952 he leased it to Mr. R.

Donaldson, who is still there.

Bill Gill had always been interested in drawing, so after his ANGAU discharge he took a four years Rehabilitation course in art — but he had his own style and a natural talent and the course did not appear to influence him much, one way or another.

As well as the work that he did for PIM, he did freelance newspaper and magazine cartooning, comic strips, etc., while in the employ of a large Sydney industrial concern as a watchman.

He is survived by his wife and 14-year-old daughter, Diane.

A Tribute from the Editors According to the files of PIM, Bill Gill started to submit drawings in the mid-thirties, but it was only in the last 10 years when he began to live in Sydney that PIM staff and Gill became well acquainted. A couple of times a month he would wander in, shedding black-andwhite offerings, pieces of drawing paper and bottles of Indian ink from his pockets, and sit down to discuss the state of the nation, or thrash out an idea for a cartoon.

In sentiment he remained a Territorian to the end and his insight into the attitudes and thoughts of Papuans showed clearly enough in his drawings.

As we knew him, anyway, he was part dour Scot, part temperamental artist, and part Territorian. He was a man who liked to enjoy himself in the company of his many friends but at the same time was well read and took a lively interest in international affairs. He spoke little of his personal life and what we knew of him was learned over the years in very small instalments.

He became an institution around PlM’s Sydney office—not only as an artist but as someone on whom you could sharpen an idea; or get a fresh and pertinent opinion on any current topic.

There are many people who can draw; many with the Territorians’ odd quirk of humour; but we feel that it will be a long time before we meet another Bill Gill who combines the two —and was a very good friend, as well,— JT.

Mr. William Pickering

The death occurred in Levuka, Fiji, on January 20, of Mr. William Pickering, aged 80.

Mr. Pickering’s great grandfather, Charles, was one of the first Europeans to settle in Fiji and there are now numerous of his descendants in the Colony.

Mr. William Pickering was born on the Rewa and worked as a carpenter at one of the Colony’s earliest sugar mills, at Navua. He later became a banana-buyer.

He is survived by his wife, two sons, Harry and Tom, and three daughters, Kittie, Jessie and Lizzie.

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Big Time Regatta On The Sepik From a NG Correspondent A S a slight change, and relaxation, A from massacres, headless bodies floating down the river, and intrepid TV commentators venturing into primitive areas never hitherto penetrated by white men, Angoram, on New Guinea’s Sepik River, held a Regatta on New Year’s Day.

And if anything better or more spectacular has been staged anywhere else, I’d certainly like to have seen it.

There are now some 40 or 50 outboard-motored craft on the river, a large proportion being double canoes owned and operated by natives.

With the connivance of Nelson & Robertson Ltd. and Peter England (Trading) and the help and encouragement of ADO Bunny Yeoman, three powered-craft events were added to the normal programme of canoe races.

Starter and judge was leading crocodile-hunter A 1 Sauve; the ADO saw that there was no dirty work at the turning point; Bill Gittins and Alan Gilbert were stewards and crganisers-in-general.

Trials started several hours before the scheduled start of the first event, and by the time that became due, enthusiasm had already reached a high point, so that the stewards had a real job of work chasing, rounding-up, and bringing the starters back to the barrier.

With the start, enthusiasm went so high that canoe owners not otherwise engaged started up their motors and charged out into the stream just for the hell of it.

Not to be out-done, the contestants in the first race continued to swoop up and down the course during the succeeding events.

By the time the third event was completed all the navigable craft on the station were racing madly—all in different directions.

At this stage, the ncm-powered canoes took ovter, and teams of genuine Sepik warriors, muscles rippling, paddles flashing in unison, came charging down through the medley at a pace which the powerboats would have found hard to beat.

Of course, our rules are probably not exactly the same as those obtaining in Southern speed-boat clubs.

WINNERS; Nelson and Robertson trophy for the one mile race for native-owned outboard craft: Sei and Wili, of Mumeri. Nelson and Robertson trophy for best turn-out, nativeowned outboard craft; Ningis, of Keram Rice Producers, Bobten. Margaret England Sepik trophy, two miles for non-native owners of outboard craft: A. Booth, with Bill Eichhorn second.

Tongans May Hear The Big Fight From J. P. Shortall, in Auckland Mr. j. d. whitcombe, pim’s Auckland business representative, and a former long-time resident of Tonga, received urgent appeals from Tongan sportsmen in January to try to arrange a broadcast over Radio NZ of the Lave- Woodworth heavyweight ev i scheduled for February 25.

Tongan fans were prepared!: meet any reasonable costs.

Mr. Whitcombe immediat; opened negotiations with the Av land Boxing Association, who agi; to a delayed broadcast tape-recording, or to a direct bro cast over Radio NZ only.

The latter short-wave station barely audible in New Zealand any broadcast through that chai shouldn’t affect the fight “gatj which was the reason given by Boxing Association for refuj broadcasting facilities over New 2 land broadcast-band stations similar cases recently.

At the end of January a replj a request for the broadcast awaited from Radio NZ, and tE appeared to be no reason why tH wouldn’t be at least a delayed bro cast over that station.

Lave arrived in Auckland f:; England on January 26, and seer happy to be back. He was looM very fit. His English wife remaii in England for the present.

Lave hopes the Association offer him another fight after Woodworth bout, so he can bi his wife to NZ. Then he wouldt home to Tonga for a visit, hasn’t seen his parents since 19( In any case, he has another fights arranged for him in Euroj< Triangular Tourname* With Rough Edges From Norman Baxter, in Suva Sportsmen from the Fiji isia* have an overseas reputation playing the game for the gan sake with all the zest at tl command. This is true of rut and cricket teams which hr toured overseas, but the ss cannot be said for some of cricketers at home.

On a recent Sunday in Suva European eleven played the Ind: eleven in the first round of annual inter-racial triangv tournament. The Europeans bat brightly, but the same could noti said for the Indians.

When they went to the wicketd they did was prod around withr making any effort to get runs...

The spectator would have thorn he was watching a grimly fout test match between England f Australia. Anyhow the defend tactics did not pay off for the sa batting allowed the bowlers to completely on top and the Indii were soundly beaten on the ft innings.

When the Indians comply their first innings there was 152 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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R. F. WHITTEN P.O. Box 87, Newcastle West, N.S.W., Aust. bility of an outright win to r side. The Europeans batted leartedly and were dismissed ick time. The Indians’ batting e second innings was a little ter, and it should have been, le Europeans did not use any nised bowlers even the tkeeper wheeled up a couple Brs. rt is not always bright in the ind easy South Seas. kalian Team for ' Caledonia?

By Peter Hall OTIATIONS are under way r an Australian soccer team play a series of matches in Caledonia in July-August, stary of the NSW Soccer ill Association, Mr. W. Orr, e this in Sydney in February.

Orr said that an invitation tended by the New Caledonian ition and if all goes well an lian eleven, comprising about players, will take up the ige.

Caledonia could expect tch soccer from the Aussies tour by Stanley Matthews e English Blackpool side (to i Sydney on May 3) will have id them with some excellent practise. would be the third Australian tour of New Caledonia. r an Offer to Fiji Tonga Rugby Union Football ociation has invited the ?by Unions of Fiji and to send teams to Tonga in or a three-way tournament, cepted, the contest would be al of the contests that used held regularly between the before the war. u Has a Nibble, Nothing Hooked : DAWAI, Fijian rugby footcaptain, had a nibble in desire to play the professional igby league, in Sydney this But he failed to land the hampion club in Sydney, St. which can field up to nine tionals, showed more than a interest, for it realised that acular Fijian would give a > gate money. tunately the club did not on a number of difficulties way, chief of which would >een opposition by high lorn in Fiji. Had it been sucin signing the Fijian up the uld have had to pay passages to Sydney for Orisi and his wife, and would have had to find him accommodation and a position.

Orisi could have cleared up to £2,000 for three seasons' rugby league in Sydney, for the St. George Club has been paying handsome bonuses in the last two seasons—it won the first grade championship in 1956 and 1957.

There is still a possibility that some other Sydney Club will show an interest.

Meantime, it looks as though Orisi will be playing the amateur code in Suva this season. * * * SOCCER is drawing bigger and noisier crowds in Netherlands New Guinea.

The Papuans play in bare feet and the spectators rival any South American fans in their enthusiasm.

Villagers often go on 'a one or two days walk to attend a soccer match and pay a 1/- admission, a recent idea, designed to show the natives that they must pay money for what they want. 153 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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Malekula sails from Sydney for Port by, Rabaul, Wewak, Alexishafen, ng, Lae. Next Sydney sailing approx. 20.

Malaita sails from Sydney for Bris- Lae. Madang, Lombrum, Lorengau, ng, Rabaul, Samarai (other ports onally). Last Sydney sailing Feb. 4; sailing approx. March 18.

Bulolo, modern liner, sails about six weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, Port by, Samaral, Lae, Madang, Lombrum, il. Next Sydney sailing approx, midi. ails from Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., 3ge Street, Sydney.

Soochow: Next Sydney sailing ximately Feb. 7 for Brisbane, Port by and Samarai.

Sinkiang: Leaves Sydney for me, Honiara, Yandina, Rabaul, ng, Madang, Lae. Next Sydney approx. Feb. 28.

Shansi: Leaves Melbourne for y. Port Moresby, Samarai, Lae, ig, Kavieng, Rabaul, Port Moresby.

Sydney sailing approx. Feb. 27. tils from Swire and Yuill Pty. Ltd., ige St., Sydney.

Sydney-Dutch N.G. ie weeks service by MV’s Sigll, Silin- , Sibigo and Sinabang carrying pas- 's and cargo from E. Australian to Hollandia and Sorong, DNQ (with and/or Manokwari if Inducement), Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence ilia direct. Next Sydney sailings: Apr. 8; Sigli Feb. 7; Sinabang 27; Silindoeng Mar. 14. ills from Royal Interocean Lines. 255 b St., Sydney.

Far East-S.W. Pacific- Australia ig S.W. Pacific ports on south-bound journeys only.) owners advise that vessels Fengning tuning will make Australian calls from approx. March, ing; Dep. Hongkong Feb. 13. Madang 4, Rabaul Feb. 26, Lae Mar. 2. Port by Mar. 9, Sydney Mar. 28. jning: Dep. Hongkong Mar. 26, ig Apr. 7, Rabaul Apr. 11, Lae 15, Port Moresby Apr. 21, Sydney 27. tils from New Guinea Australia Line ; and Yuill Pty. Ltd., agents), 6 ! St., Sydney.

Australia-West Pacific Line motor Arcs, Citos, Delos and Milos malnegular services between Australian and Japan. Northbound vessels call .nila, Hongkong and Japan; southvessels call at any or all of Mowing: Hongkong, Manila, Sanda- Rabaul, Lae, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, with quarterly calls at (opt.), Honiara and Vanikoro.

Citos: Southbound, dep. Hongkong Feb. 4, Sandakan Feb. 13, direct Brisbane Feb. 23. Dep. Sydney northbound, Mar. 19 approx.

Delos: Dep. Sydney northbound, approx.

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Milos: Dep. Sydney northbound, Feb. 11.

Southbound, Japan Feb. 27, Hongkong Australia-New Zealand-Canada-USA Sailings of Orient and P. & O. Line Passenger Ships 1957-1958. 155 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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

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Noavelles Hebrides. SYDNEY—BIrt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd. 4. Manila Mar. 6, Sandakan Mar.

Irect Brisbane Mar. 23. s; Southbound, dep. Japan Feb. 1, jong Feb. 7, Manila Feb. 9, Lae, 18, Rabaul Feb. 21, Honiara Feb. 25, me Mar. 1, Sydney, northbound, dep. 25. ills from Wllh. Wllhelmsen Agency Ltd.. 30 Pitt St., Sydney, or Islands i (R. Tebb, Lae; Town Transport, 1; A. Strachan, Madang; BSIP Tradorp., Honiara).

Zealand-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa Tofua maintains a service from nd to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return kland. Next sailings from Auckland: 5, Mar. 25, Apl. 22.

Matua maintains a service from nd to Lautoka, Suva, Nukualofa.

Suva, Lyttelton, Wellington, and to Auckland. Next sailings from nd; Feb. 13, Mar. 13, Apl. 10. 11s from all offices of Union Steam Jo. of NZ.

N. Zealand-Cook Is. passenger vessel Maul Pomare Ins a regular service between id and the Cook Islands, ils on application to NZ Govern- Department of Island Territories. ;ton, or to any office of the Union of NZ Ltd.

Iney-New Hebrides-BSI- Rabaul, Etc. ?ulagi, 10 passengers, leaves Sydney folk, Vila, Santo, Honiara, Tenaru, a, Pepesala, Glzo, Kleta, Arlgua. ino, Numa, Soraken. Next Sydney approx. March 13.

Is from Burns, Philp & Co., 7 Street, Sydney. ney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti Is of Messageries Marltlmes Line, from Marseilles, via West Indies nama, call about every six weeks sete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea dney, and return by same route, sent on this run are the motor- Tahitien and Caledonien. Next sailing: Caledonien, April 1; n. May 15.

Polynesie (Messageries Maritimes) ns about monthly passenger sall- Jtween Sydney and Noumea and w Hebrides. Next Sydney sailings: Mar. 7, Mar. 28. s from Sydney agents: Messageries ics, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydney. ney-S. Africa-UK-Pacific Ports-Sydney Savill’s new one-class all-passenger outhern Cross makes four roundid voyages per year, two westthen two east-bound, calling at id Papeete every trip. Next voyage; mthampton Mar. 4, via Panama to , March 28-29; Suva, April 3; ton. April 6-9; Sydney, April 12. merica-Fiji-Hebrides, etc. c Islands Transport Line’s vessels e and Thorshall maintain a service from Pacific Coast North •n ports, with sailings over 35-40 Some ports depend on cargoes isle: New Westminster Jan. 23i Francisco Jan. 31-Feb. 5, Los 157 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1958

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Alameda, arr. Sydney approx. Ape dep. Brisbane northbound about mio Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva sldlary of W. R. Carpenter & Co.) ot a service three times yearly witi. 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel Lalj along the above route. Accommon Is entirely First Class, two-berth o Next sailing >from Sydney: About : 25, with calls at Suva, Lautokas Honolulu.

Details from American Trading & ; ping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St.. S;c Sydney-(or NZ)-North America The four cargo vessels, W ajj Walruna, Waikawa, and Waitomo, and operated by the Union Steamn Co. of NZ Ltd., maintain a mr service across the Pacific, from S to Vancouver and USA ports, via Lautoka, Nukualofa, and Apia, as cd offer. Occasional calls are made at nlng Island. They have limited pass accommodation. Next Sydney sas Waikemo Feb. 6, Waitomo Fed Wairuna early Apr., Waikawa endE The Waitemata, from NZ ports, 3-4 trips yearly to Vancouver, via tonga and Papeete.

N. America-Hawaii-Fiji-Sai Tahiti-N. Zealand-Austrat Matson Line’s Mariposa and Mod make round passenger trips from North Coast American ports to Aus via Pacific Islands ports and New Zo Mariposa, southbound, departs* Francisco Feb. 16, Los Angeles Fe' Papeete Feb. 25-27, Auckland Mau Sydney Mar. 9. Northbound, Sydnes Mar. 12, Auckland Mar. 15, Suvas 18-19, Honolulu Mar. 24-25, San Fra - Mar. 30.

Monterey, northbound, dep. Sydnes 19. Auckland Feb. 22, Suva Feb.

Honolulu Mar. 3-4, San Francisco M Southbound, San Francisco dep. Mil Los Angeles Mar. 13, Papeete Mar. .

Auckland Mar. 29, Sydney Apr. 1.

Details from Matson Lines, House, 82 Elizabeth Street. Sydnes 158 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Regular meetings and social gatherings, with lectures, are held at the Feminist Club Rooms, 7th Floor, 77 King St., Sydney, on the fourth Thursday of each month, at 8 p.m.

Address for correspondence:— THE PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETY. Box >434, G.P.0., Sydney.

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Strato Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths*) rues.. Thur., Fri.: Sydney, Nadi, ;on Is., Honolulu, San Francisco or Angeles. rues., Thurs., Sat.: San Francisco os Angeles to Sydney (same route). . Skymasters are used on a conservice between Auckland and see table 16); and also on a biservice between Nadi and Tafuna, in Samoa (see table 19).

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Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu, San Franancouver. lay: Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu, San :o, New York, London.

SOUTHWARDS London, New York, San Franlonolulu, Nadi, Sydney. . San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi, jondon. New York, San Francisco, u, Nadi, Sydney, Melbourne.

Vancouver, San Francisco, Honoidl, Sydney.

International dateline crossed Nadi and Honolulu), super DC6 aircraft from Auck- S, connect with the Qantas northlights at Nadi on Tues. and Fri; Sat. and Wed. at Nadi for the und flights. s Wed. and Fri. services ex. connect with BOAC London at San Francisco (dep. Thurs. services ex. London Tues. and connect at San Francisco Thurs. t. with southbound Qantas ser-

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Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat. ipart: Arrive: 7. 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.40 p.m. me, 11.45 p.m.

Wed., Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Pt. Moresby, 6.35 a.m. jresby, 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9 a.m.

Thurs. part; Arrive: 7. 8 p m. Brisbane, 10.40 p.m. ne. 11.45 p.m.

Fri.

Cairns, 4.20 a.m. . 5.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 8.20 a.m. jresby. 9.20 a.m. Lae. 10.45 a.m.

Sun. (Thrift Class Service) ipart: Arrive: 7. 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.40 p.m. ne, 11.45 p.m.

Mon.

Pt. Moresby. 6.35 a.m. jresby. 7.35 a.m. Lae, 9 a.m.

SOUTHWARDS Mon. (Thrift Class Service) Part: Arrive: ) 30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 a.m resby, 12.30 p.m. Brisbane, 7.5 p.m. ne, 8.30 p.m. Sydney, 11.10 p.m.

Tues.

Part: Arrive: 1.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby. 11.45 a.m.

Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Townsville. 4.15 p.m Townsville, 5.45 p.m. Brisbane, 9.25 p.m.

Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Wed.

Sydney, 12.50 a.m Wed., Thurs., Sun.

Depart: Arrive; Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 a.m.

Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Brisbane, 7.5 p.m.

Brisbane, 8.30 p.m. Sydney, 11.10 p.m.

Frl.

Depart: Arrive: Lae, 12.45 p.m. Pt. Moresby, 2 p.m.

Pt. Moresby. 2.45 p.m. Brisbane, 9.20 p.m.

Brisbane, 10.20 p.m. Sydney, 1 a.m. (Sat.) Sat.

Depart: Arrive: Lae, 10.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 11.45 a.m Pt. Moresby, 12.30 p.m. Cairns. 3.20 p.m Cairns. 4.50 p.m. Brisbane, 9.25 p.m.

Brisbane, 10.10 p.m.

Sun.

Sydney. 12.50 a.m 3. P-NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas LAE-HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) Alt. Wed. (Feb. 19, Mar. 5, 19, etc.).

Departs Lae 11.00 a.m., calls at Madang and Wewak, and arrives at Hollandla 3.30 p.m. Every alternative Thurs. (Feb. 20, Mar. 6, 20, etc.) departs Hollandia at 9.30 a.m., and. with calls at Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 3.20 p.m.

Lae-Manus (Dcs)

Alt. Wed. (Feb. 19, Mar. 5, 19, etc.).

Dep. Lae, 8.00 a.m.: Plnschhafen, Hoskins, Rabaul, Kavieng, arr. Manus 3.30 p.m.

Every alt. Sat. (Feb. 22, Mar. 8, 22, etc.) departs Manus 8 a.m. and with calls at Kavieng, Rabaul, Hoskins and Finschhafen, arrives Lae at 3.30 p.m.

PORT MORESBY-KIKORI (Catalina) Via Yule Is., Kerema, Valmuru: Alt. Frl. returning same day (Feb. 14. 28. Mar. 14. 28, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-DARU (Catalina) Via Kerema, Kikorl: Alt. Frl. returning Daru-Port Moresby direct same day (Feb. 21. etc.).

PORT MORESBY-SAMARAI (Catalina) Pt. Moresby. Samaral, Pt. Moresby: Alt Tues. (Feb. 11, 25, Mar. 11, 25, etc.).

PORT MORESBY-RABAUL (Catalina) Alt. Tues. (Feb. 18, Mar. 4, 18, etc.) Port Moresby-Moewe Harbour-Talasea- Jacqulnot Bay-Rabaul, returning via same ports (Feb. 20, Mar. 6, 20, etc.).

New Britain-Bougainville

(Catalina) Alt. Wed. (Feb. 19, etc.), Rabaul, Buka.

Teopasino, Kieta, Buin. Returning same day.

LAE-MAD ANG-WE W AK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) Mon.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. 7.35 a.m. Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, arr. 3.45 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., Kavieng, Manus, Wewak, Madang, arr. 2.15 p.m.

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

Pri.: 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: Qoroka, Nondugl, Banz, Minj, Mt. Hagen, Balyer R., Kalnantu, Wapenamunda. Arrival back at Lae dependent on stops.

Lower Highlands

(Beaver) Fridays: Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Ooroka, calling at any of Nadzab, Kalaplt, Qusap.

Alyura, Flnlntegu, Rlntebe, Bena Bena.

Kainantu, Qoroka, Arena. Arrival back at Lae depends on stops made.

LAE-BULOLO-WAU (D.H. Beaver) Dep. Lae: Mon. 7.30 a.m., Tues. 11 a.m.

Dep. Wau; Mon. 8.55 a.m., Tues., 12.29 p.m. Bulolo is omitted on return flights which take 30 minutes, Wau-Lae.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau-Pt. Moresby (Dcs)

Dep. Lae Wed. and Sat. 8.30 a.m. via Bulolo, Wau to Pt. Moresby, returning via same route.

Madang-Goroka (Dcs)

Wed.: Depart Madang 7.45 a.m., arrive Goroka 8.20 a.m., returning same day; depart Goroka 8.50 a.m., arr. Madang 9.25 a.m.

NEW GUINEA-NEW BRITAIN-

Bougainville (Dcs)

Fridays: Depart Lae 1.30 p.m., Finsch- IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

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gfen 2.20 p.m., arrive Rabaul 4.30 m. rdays; Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m., direct i Lae, arr. 8.25 a.m. ays: Depart Lae 12 noon, Flnschhafen p.m., Rabaul 3.10 p.m. jays; Depart Rabaul 5.45 a.m., Pinschifen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m. s.: Dep. Lae 11 a.m., Finschhafen, abaul, arr. 2.15 p.m.

Dep. Rabaul 7 a.m., Madang, Lae, •r 11.35 a.m.

Tvices By Mandated Airlines

heduled flights with DCS Aircraft : Depart Lae at 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, adang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— maining overnight. Depart Lae 7.30 m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, au, Goroka, Lae. : Depart Rabaul at 6.30 a.m. for idang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Madang, swak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul. part Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau. rt Moresby, Wau, Goroka, Lae. itional call at Goroka on this flight, i.: Depart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng, •mote, Wewak, Madang, Goroka, Lae.

Depart Lae at 7 a.m. for Madang, iwak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul naining overnight. Depart Lae 7.30 а. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, iu, Goroka, Lae.

Depart Rabaul at 7 am. for vleng, Momote, Wewak, Madang roka, Lae.

Aust.-Dutch N. Guinea 5y KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Super Constellation Service) veekly service between Sydney and rdam with a call at Biak (DNG) lanila (Philippines). aircraft Jink Biak with Hollandia, I. Merauke, Tenah Merah, Manok- Niemfoer, Ransiki, Genjem, and lao. . N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS Aircraft, rhree flights every four weeks) (Feb. 10, 24, Mar. 3, 10, etc.) Lae 6 a.m.: Flnschhafen. Rabaul, :a, Vella Lavella. Yandlna, Honiara II). arriving 5.25 p.m. (Feb. 11, 25, Mar. 4, 11, etc.) ilara dep. 7 am.: Yandlna. Vella ella, Buka. Rabaul, Lae. arriving > p.m.

Paris-Saigon-Noumea- Auckland ansports Aeriens Intercontinentaux. aircraft depart Paris every Monday Athens, Karachi. Saigon, Darwin, ibane, Noumea, Auckland. Leaves kland every Friday on return.

Sydney-Lord Howe Is. ly Ansett Airways Pty., Ltd., ith Sandringham Flying-boats. flight each Tuesday and Thursday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is. (By Qantas, with Skymaster) ?ri. Dep. Sydney midnight, arr. б. a.m. Saturday; dep. NI 5.30 . same day for Sydney, arr. 9.30 Alt. weeks makes NI-Aucklandfllght. (See table 12 below), 9. Sydney-Noumea By Qantas, with Skymasters (Weekly) : Sydney dep. 11.45 p.m., arriving itouta, 7 a.m. Fridays.

Fri.: Tontouta dep. 8.30 a.m.. arriving Sydney, 2 p.m. 10. New Caledonia-New Hebrides TAI with DCS Aircraft.

Wednesdays: Depart Tontouta 8 a.m., arrive oanto 11.10 am., arrive Vila 1.45 p m., depart Vila 2.15 p.m.. arrive Tontouta 4.30 p.m.

Saturdays: Depart Tontouta 8 a.m., arrive Vila 10.20 a.m., arrive Santo 12.5 p.m., depart Santo 1.30 p.m., arrive Tontouta 4.40 p.m. 11. New Caledonia-Fiji- Wallis Is.

TAI with DCS Aircraft Service from Noumea to Nadi (Fiji) and Wallis Is. first Sunday in each month. Next flights: Feb. 2, Mar. 2, Apr. 6. Dep. Wallis Feb. 4, Mar. 4, Apr. 8. 12. Norfolk Is.-Auckland TEAL, by Qantas (charter) Alt. Sat.: Return flight Norfolk (dep. 8 a.m.) Auckland (arr. 11.45 a.m., dep. 1.15 p.m.) Norfolk (arr. 4.15 p.m.), (See Table 8 above*. 13. Auckland-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Daily: Departs Auckland 9.30 a.m., arr.

Sydney 1.00 p.m.

Sat., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 6.15 p.m., arr.

Sydney, 9.45 p.m.

Wed.: Departs Auckland 11.30 a.m., arr.

Sydney 3 p.m.

Daily except Sat.: Dep. Sydney 3.00 p.m., arr. Auckland 10.00 p.m.

Tue., Thur., Sat.: Dep. Sydney 11.30 p.m.; arr. Auckland Wed., Fri. 6.30 a.m.

Sat.: Dep. Sydney 10 a.m., arr. Auckland 5 p.m. 14. Christchurch-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5 p.m., arr. Sydney 8.40 p.m.

Mon.. Tues.. Thurs.: Dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr. Christchurch 3.10 p.m.

Sat.: Dep. Sydney 3.00 p.m., arr. Christchurch 10.10 p.m. 15A. Christchurch-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Sun.: Dep. Christchurch 11.30 a.m., arr.

Melbourne 4.00 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m , arr Christchurch 3.00 p.m. 158. Auckland-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 Aircraft.

Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 11.30 a.m., arr.

Melbourne 4.15 p.m.

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

Auckland 3.45 p.m. 16. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft.

Tues, Fri.: Dep. Auckland 4 p.m., arr.

Nadi 9.20 a.m.

Wed.. Sat.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m., arr Auckland 3.30 p.m.

Pan-American Airways, with Skymasters Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 3.30 p.m., arr. Nadi 10.35 p.m.

Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Nadi, 12.30 a.m., arr. Auckland 7.50 a.m. 17. Fiji Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent aircraft.

Service normally fortnightly, with extra flights as required.

Departs Suva Thurs. 9 a.m. crosses Date- Line, arrives Satapuala (W. Samoa) Wed. 1.55 p.m., departs Thurs. 2 a.m., arrives Aitutaki 7.30 a.m., departs 9.30 a.m., arrives Papeete (Tahiti) 2 p.m.

Departs Papeete Sun. 7.30 a.m., arrives Aitutaki 11 a.m., departs 12.30 p.m., arrives Satapuala 5 p.m., departs Mon. 8 a.m.. crosses Date-Line arrives Suva Tues. 10.55 a.m.

Leaves Suva Feb. 20, Mar. 6, 20, Apr. 3, 17, etc. Leaves Papeete Feb. 23, Mar. 9, 23, Apr. 6, 20, etc. 18. Fiji-Samoa Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent Aircraft.

Dep. Suva 6 a.m., arr. Satapuala 11.5 a.m.

Dep. Satapuala 1.30 p.m., arr. Suva 4.35 p.m.

Next flights from Suva Feb, 18, Mar. 13, Apr. 14. Crossing International Date- Line and leaving Satapuala (Feb. 17, Mar. 12, Apr. 13. etc.). 19. Fiji-American Samoa Pan American Airways With DC4 Aircraft Alt. Fri. dep. Nadi 7 a.m., arr. Tafuna 12.30 p.m. (Thurs.).

Alt. Thurs. dep. Tafuna 2.30 p.m., arr.

Nadi 8.5 p.m. (Friday). (Note: This service crosses International Date Line —the two-way flight is actually made on the one day.) 20. Fiji Internal Airways FIJI Airways, Ltd., Drover Aircraft.

Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights dally except Wed., Sun., one flight.

Suva-Nadi: Tues., Wed., Fri. (additional to the above return flights).

Nadi-Suva: Wed., Thurs., Sat.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: Daily.

Suva-Taveuni-Suva; Fri., Sun.

Suva-Taveuni-Savusavu-Suva: Wed.

Suva-Savusavu-Taveunl-Suva: Thurs.

Suva - Labasa - Savusavu - Labasa - Suva.

Tues., Thurs.

Suva-Labasa-Taveunl-Labasa-Suva: Fri.

Suva-Savusavu-Suva: Mon., Tues.

Suva - Savusavu - Labasa - Savusavu - Suva: Sat., Sun.

Suva-Taveuni-Labasa-Taveuni-Suva: Mon. 21. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service Societe Caledonienne de Transports Aeriens (TRANSPAC), with Rapide aircraft.

Noumea (Magenta), Lifou (Chepenehe), Noumea: Tues. a.m.

Noumea, Mare (Tadine), Noumea: Tues, p.m.

Noumea, Mare, Lifou, Noumea, or Noumea, Lifou, Mare, Noumea, alternatively, Thurs. a.m.

Noumea, Koumac, Noumea (with conditional call at Plaine des Gaiacs): Fri. a.m.

Noumea. Lifou, Ouvea Is.: Wed. mornings.

Noumea, Poindimie, Noumea (with conditional call at Houailou). Fri. p.m.

Noumea, He des Pins, Noumea: Saturday and Sunday afternoons. 163 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRU A RY. 1958

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Pacific Commerce and Produce The Oil Search Announcement Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd., a major partner of Oil Search Ltd., has told Oil Search that it is not prepared to contribute towards an extra £BOO,OOO now required over and above the drilling budget agreed in June, 1957.

The £BOO,OOO is needed to complete the present drilling programme in Papua, involving four wells —Barikewa, Puri, Komewu No. 2 and Kuru No. 3.

Oil Search holds slightly more than a 10 p.c. interest in APC and lEC, which is carrying out the field operations in Papua.

Exactly what the new decision means was not clear at the beginning of February, when the decision was made, but the apparent loss of confidence in the search for oil by Vacuum quickly sent the Oil Search shares on the Sydney Exchange down to 3/6, and they were 3/5 on February 11.

Oil Search directors made it clear in a statement that the decision did not mean that the possibility of commercial oil in Papua had been eliminated, and that “other arrangements” might be made to continue the search for oil. They said attention would also be turned to the commercial possibilities of gas already discovered in the drilling.

Presumably this meant that another partner might be found to help carry the burden. The other major partner, British Petroleum, will see the present programme through to the end.

And, of course, there was always the chance that something might be discovered by the drills before the end of 1958.

Other Commercial news, including the latest APC report: AUSTRALASIAN PETROLEUM CO.: Substantial flows of gas were obtainable from the company's Barikewa well in Papua in mid-January without exciting the stockmarket interest that would have resulted a few years ago. Depth of the well at that stage was 8,025 ft. and the frozen drill pipe that had given trouble the previous month had been freed and removed. Drilling had stopped pending testing of porous zones from which gas was escaping. * * * BULOLO GOLD DREDGING, LTD.: Production report for the quarter ending November 30, 1957, showed yardage dredged to be 1,793,400 yards for a recovery of 9,192 oz fine gold.

This gave a value per yard of 17.94 US cents —compared with 23.41 cents per yard obtained in the same period last year. However, in 1956 period two dredges were working; only one dredge was working in the period under review.

BURNS PHILP AND CO., LTD.. Featuj Sydney stock exchange trading on Januas was the rise of 3/- per Burns Philp taking the price to 70/ —the highest 1952. BP shares reached an all-time! in the boom year of 1951 when they te £5/18/-. A year ago they were down to * * *

Burns Philp Trust Co., Ltd.: This!

pany will pay a dividend of 6 per cent, cent, in previous year) for the 12 mont till December 31, 1957.

Net income was £8,376—a small im over 1956 but gross income rose by £2,7 £41,222.

The company was formed as a Burns and Co. subsidiary in 1938 but did no a dividend until 1956. * * *

Enterprise Of New Guinea Gold!

PETROLEUM DEV.: The mine manager re= January 9, that 20 oz of retorted gold I had been yielded by 26 tons of develo ore treated during December.

LOLORUA ESTATES: Fall of about 10.< per lb in the price of rubber in th<i year was the reason given by directos the cut in the interim dividend from T cent, to 7\ per cent. A fall of 6d per in Lolorua followed this announcement.

New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd.: Repo

December discloses that during that mont oz of fine gold and 1,097 oz of silven recovered from 3,576 tons of ore and tl treated at the Golden Ridges Mill; 1 fine gold were recovered from Golden alluvials; 33 oz fine gold from Ki alluvials; 72 oz fine gold from tribute addition 175,544 super ft. of timber produced.

PAPUAN APINAIPI PETROLEUM CO., This company announced in early Januan it had suspended drilling of its Kaufana well at 3,380 ft. The action has been pending appraisal of electric logs and of palaeontological examination. The we; spudded in only in December. Associated tralian Oilfields NL and Associate Frene Fields NL hold a substantial interest in R Apinaipi. * * * PAPUAN RUBBER: Steamships Tradinr acting as agents reported the Decembe; puts of the following rubber plantatioi Kerema Rubber Estate, 30,200 lb; M Rubber Estate, 70,063 lb; Rubberlands 30,246 lb; Lolorua Rubber Estate, 36,01 Kerema and Mariboi both showed subs; falls. Heavy rain on the estate was respn for the fall in Kerema production. * * *

Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing, Ltd., I

that during the month of December a|i mately 462 oz of gold were recovered!: 1,500 cubic yards of material treated « company's NG leases. * * *

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February 3 164 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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FIJI Aug., '39 June, '57 Feb. 3, '58 •or . . . b/9/11 blO/3 b5/6 a . . . S25/6 b27/b29/- PAPUA-NEW GUINEA i . . . . b 124/b45/b37/- , Ltd. . . bl/10 b2/2 s2/0£ •arch . . b3/l1 b!4/11 s5/5 of N.G . . — s2/s9d o Oil . . b5/b6/6 s4/9 n Apin . . b4/l1 b3/6 b2/- Dev. . . b68/6 b101/6 b82/- Creek . bl/5 s6d s4d For a cool, exhilarating holiday visit the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea.

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ss otherwise stated, quotations are istralian currency. Aust. £ equals ximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or VV. i; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomons & ' areas: 168 Pac. Frs.; SUS 2.20-2.30.) COPRA British Ministry of Food 9-years ict, which governed Copra prices pua and New Guinea, Fiji, Western i. Solomon Islands, and Gilbert and Colony (and. to some extent, in and Cook Islands) expired on Der 31, 1957; since when each Terrilas made its own arrangements for ion and marketing of copra.

UA-NEW GUINEA:—AII production ivered to Copra Marketing Board, lied by Government; and the Board i distribution and sales, and makes nts to the producers. Production nainly to (a) Unilever (under concovering 1958), (b) Australia (for consumption) and (c) crushing-mill haul. Prices generally arranged in ance with ruling rate in Philippines t. Unilever price: Manila FM grade with premiums up to £3A per ton )t-air dried. entatlve” Price For New Guinea January, P-NG Copra Board an- :d “Tentative Prices”, from January copra delivered at main ports: Hotled, £A47 per ton; FM Standard Smoke-Dried, £45/7/6. :—No Government control—producers acre they wish. Bulk of copra goes ishlng-mlll in Suva, whose price arf, Suva, is announced each week.

TERN SAMOA:—Official Copra receives all production, and sells and makes payments to producers proportion goes to Unilever, at )lnes PM grade rates, plus preup to £Stg.3 per ton for hotied. Prices for first quarter, 1958 r dried: £Stg.4s/14/-; smoke dried £ Stg.43/19/-; No. 2: £Stg.42/19/-.

GA:—Sales are under Government i. Part of production goes to Europe arrangement with Unilever conby Philippines prices, and part open market. 3MONS: All production marketed h official Copra Board, at prices on Philippines market. February -Ist grade, £ASI/10/-; 2nd grade. 10/-; 3rd grade, £A4S/10/-. (Over) 165 1F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-F E B R U A R Y , 1958

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Specifications, price, etc., will be supplied on request. Builders: Wynne S. Breden Pty. Ltd., “Phoenix Shipyards”, Newcastle, N.S.W.

Aeroplane For Sale

DE HAVILLAND DRAGON DHB4 aircraft in excellent condition, just completely overhauled for new Certificate of Airworthiness. Full radio systems on 24 v. with spare engine. Further details from: Adastra Airways Ltd., Aerodrome, Mascot, N.S.W., Australia.

Positions Wanted

Qualified Chartered Account

with previous experience in the island) plantation and general business, ann present in practice in Australia, similar or executive appointment in .

Guinea, Fiji or other island. Willin travel. Replies to “Chartered Account! c/- Box 3408. G.P.0., Sydney, Austrr SERVICES WATCH REPAIRS to all brands watches. Send your repairs direct! the only Swiss watchmaker giving se to the Pacific Islands. Rapid service: work guaranteed. Swiss - Clox W Service, 9 Garner Avenue, French’s F(' Sydney, Australia.

Agents Wanted

Trade With Hong Kong. Hong

export organisation handling all Kong products wish to appoint Agern various Islands of the Pacific. Inten parties please write direct to: P. 0.. 3446, Hong Kong.

ACCOMMODATION YOUR Australian vacation would na complete without visiting the Queerr Gold Coast. Excellent accommodation Sound Real Estate Investments fron S. (Bob) Smith, Box 122, Tweed H N.S.W., Australia.

FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne, Syj Water frontage, large, comfortable,, bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 mi to city. Enquiries: Nelson & Robe Pty. Ltd., G.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney, Classified Advertisements Per line, 3/-; Minimum, 4 lines.

Books, Magazines

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“The Ship Captain’S Medical

GUIDE”, 19th edition, published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, is confined necessarily to prevention and treatment as can be carried out by the layman. Consequently is most suitable and necessary in remote areas. Price 48/6 posted. Technical Booksellers, 56 ikui'ter Street, Sydney, Australia.

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

Tralasia And The Pacific Bought

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence invited Berkclouw, 38 King St., Sydney.

Telephone; BX 1243. 5

Stamps Wanted

USED STAMPS and covers wanted from all British and French colonies in South Pacific, also Dutch N.G. Highest prices paid. Apply for our buying price list via air mail. We can furnish Pacific Islands references from present suppliers. South Seas Stamp and Cover Co., 2369 Graham St,, Seattle 8, Wash., U.S.A.

PENFRIENDS FIJI—“The Crossroads of the Pacific”.

Headquarters, World’s leading Society (Est. 1933) providing world-wide correspondents interested in British Colonies and Pacific Islands study and friendly exchange of ideas and hobbies as Philately, Conchology, etc. Write for specimen copy Club journal “Island Life” and application form, to Secretary, South Sea Island Correspondence Club, Natuvu, Fiji Is.

Drive Yourself Cars

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.—At your service in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty.

Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward St., Brisbane, Queensland. Phone; FA 1091.

Enquiries Invited.

CAHILL’S

Drive Yourself Cars

93 George St., Brisbane

B 0505—8 0506—8 4132 1957 HOLDEN SEDANS Unlimited Insurance Cover Available.

Open SatrSun. 8 a.m. to 12 noon.

AFTER HOURS, PHONE NOS.

FW 1596 XW 3414 XA 4323 M 2476 Write or Phone for Price List.

Furnished Serviced Suite!

In Sydney K a n i m b 1 a Hall, 19-:- Tusculum St., Potts Poin 5 mins, city, next Kings Cros modern, 9 floors, harboi views, restaurant, S.C., fun serviced suites with separai Lounge, Bed and Bath Rin and K’ettes. Refrig., H.V from 21 Gns. daily for from 4 Gns. for 3. Undf new management. Write < Phone: FL3014. Telegramr “Kanimblahall”, Sydney.

FOR SALE Tropical Theatre Madang, New Guinea Owner selling for urgent, private reason. Splendid opportunity for investment.

H'i.. ' -■ . ■ ; ' For all particulars apply: W. K. CAHILL, Manager 166 FEBRUARY. 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

FROM SYDNEY (Aost. currency) TO— Single Return Table £ s. d. £ s. d. , No.

Moresby . . . 51 5 0 92 5 0 2 Lae . . . 62 15 0 112 19 0 2 Rabaul . 72 9 0 130 9 0 2, 3 Noumea . . . 51 4 0 92 4 0 9 Honiara . . 94 5 0 169 13 0 2, 5 Norfolk Is. . . 27 10 0 49 10 0 8 Lord Howe . . 12 15 0 25 10 0 7 Nadi .... . 76 0 0 136 16 0 1 Suva .... 81 3 0 147 2 0 1, 19 Auckland . . . 52 10 0 94 10 0 13 Christchurch . 52 10 0 94 10 0 14 FROM SYDNEY (Aust. currency) TO— Honolulu . . . 252 5 0 454 1 0 1 S. Francisco . 312 10 0 562 10 0 Vancouver . 312 10 0 562 10 0 1 Apia .... . 109 5 0 197 14 0 1, 17 Papeete . . . 107 10 0 193 10 0 16, 17 Aitutaki . . . 146 3 0 264 2 0 1, 17 Biak .... . 90 0 0 162 0 0 4

From Auckland (Nz

currency) TO— Apia . . . . . 55 10 0 99 18 0 16, 17 Aitutaki . . . 85 14 0 154 6 0 16. 17 Nadi .... . 39 7 0 70 17 0 16 Norfolk Is . . 19 15 0 35 11 0 12 Papeete . . . 107 10 0 195 10 0 16. 17 FROM SUVA (Fiji currency) TO— Apia . 25 0 0 45 0 0 17, 18 Aitutaki . . . 57 15 0 103 19 0 17 Papeete . . . 82 14 0 148 18 0 17 future and earn

Interest With Safety

Why Take Less?

Invest in a Good Safe Hire Purchase Company

First Restricted Issue

of £40,000 only 1. Your money earns interest from the day of investment.

Your interest rate is a fixed rate, not a variable dividend.

You have a regular income. 2. Your interest is paid quarterly direct into your bank a/c. 3. Your capital repaid in full at maturity, no market fluctuations, as with shares, to lower the value of your investment. Your money always remains intact. 4. Deposits have first preference over all shareholders capital. 5. A safe and conservative investment. 6. Bank References can be directed to our Bankers the A. & N.Z. Bank Windsor Branch Melbourne.

Deal With A Company Established Many, Many Years

Our Integrity Is Your Protection

Western Acceptance Holdings Limited Hire Purchase Financiers “Western House” 162 Greville St., Prahran Victoria (Australia) Please send me "without obligation Prospectus of your Issue.

Name Address tLBERT AND ELLICE:— Production teted in Europe through official Copra ■d, at prices based on Philippines [ less “stabilisation fund” charges, SAMOA: —Producers receive 4 cents lb. 89.6 or £A4O approx, per long ton), die bonus, if average proceeds exceed , buying price and expenses. w HEBRIDES;—Feb. 6: 7,650 Pac. ;s (about £ A44/14/9) delivered Vila/ ).

DK ISLANDS:—LocaI price is based ;stg.s4 (£NZS4/4/l) per ton, f.0.b., premium of 30/- (NZ) for top grade dried. Shipping, handling, shrinkage storage charges reduce the outer is price to about £NZ3O per ton, rate. :OA:—lslands prices are based on the for Ghana cocoa which on Feb. 5 £Stg.34o per ton, c.i.f. London.

N.G.:— Feb. 5: Good grade, £A39O, aarket likely to fall.

SAMOA; —Last season’s supplies exed. Nominal, unchanged, at 310.

FFEE: —P.-N.G.: Feb. 6; Top grade, 0 5/3 per lb. Hard to sell; supof overseas coffee plentiful since ; easing of Aust. import restrictions ffee. iNUTS:—P.-N.G.: Feb. 6: Kernels Virginia bunch, in shell, large, cleaned, 1/3 per lb. del. Sydney. iBER: —P.-N.G. price is based on pore rate, which on Feb. 5 was: 1 RSS, spot, 75.71 Straits cents, id Aust. approx.) per lb. (ILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Sydney, reported on Feb. 6: New c.i.f., Sydney, Tahiti White and I label, processed standard packs Green 65/9 per lb.

E (Australian): —Price from May 1.

P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, ) bags, 5 tons and over, £6l per r.0.w.; under 5 tons £6l/10/- per Vitamised and enriched white, 112 ?s, 5 tons and over, £67/10/- per .0.w.; under 5 tons, £6B per ton.

Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £7O m, f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

RL SHELL.—February 5 quotation dependent pearlers: Sound, £A7BO; EASBS; E, £ A 405; EE, £A23O ore Sydney). Cook Is.-Manihiki. Feb. port price, £Stg.72s (approx.) f.o.b. mga. )CHUS: —Market still weak. Quotes al, NG, £ A 325; BSI, £A3IS; New ies, agent reports “No business ig”. Prices are less rejects and on Sydney weights.

EEN SNAlL:—Difficult to sell; al price £A2BO. ondon and US Quotations ra: —London, Feb. 5: Philippines in n eb.-Mar. SUSIBB.SO (seller). Straits/ o, fair merchantable, del. weight, UK/Nth. European port, Jan.-Feb. 68/5/- (nominal). New York Feb. 5: pines, c.i.f. US Pac. port, per ton 8.50 asked.

February, £1 Australian was equal to 2.25 US Dollars, SUSIBB.SO ore was equal to £AB3/15/6, which 16 more than the amount allowed ionally by the P-NG Copra Board, eductions from that would be freight 10/- per ton), insurance, handling, age, export duty, and stabilisation tax —perhaps £25 per ton.) mut Oil:—London, Feb. 5; Straits, bulk c.i.f. Feb.-Mar. £Stg.9B/5/nal); Ceylon, in bulk, c.i.f., fair, th. Euro, ports, Feb.-Mar. £Stg.lo7 m. ber:—London, Feb. 4: RSS No. 1, 22 5 / 8 d Stg.; Apr.-June, 23Vsd Stg.; 1958, 22V 2 d Stg.

Exchange Rates

FlJl—Through BANK OF NSW, ANZ BANK and BANK OF NZ. Australia on Fiji, basis £lOO Fiji: Buying, £Alll/2/6; Selling, £AII3. Fiji-London, basis £lOO London: B. £llO/15/-; S, £ll2. NZ-Fiji, basis £lOO NZ; B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ. Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa; B. £ A123/12/6; S. £124/10/9. Samoa- London, basis £lOO London: B. £99/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ: B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fiji, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £111; S. £llO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth Bank

(Pt. Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Goroka, Bulolo, Kavieng, Madang, Wewak), BANK OF NSW (branches: Port Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Madang, Samarai, Goroka; agencies: Wau, Boroko, Kokopo), ANZ BANK (Port Moresby) and NATIONAL BANK OF A/ASIA. (Port Moresby) quote exchange rate Australia-Papua-NG: 10/per £ AlOO.

NORFOLK IS,—Commonwealth Bank quotes exchange rate Australia - Norfolk Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific francs, most valuable of the three franc groups in French Union, are used in New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Polynesia.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir National D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney quotes: Selling Noumea: 168 Pac. fr. to £ Aust., Papeete: 166.56 Pac. fr.; Noumea-Papeete: S. 208 Pac. fr. to £stg. Noumea-Papeete: B. 75.82 Pac. fr. to US $.

Pacific Air Fares

(Approximate Only)

NOTE: To obtain the equivalent of Australian currency in other currencies (Sterling, Fiji, New Zealand, French Pacific francs) see above.

Fares quoted are First-Class. Cheaper Tourist Class fares (approx. 20 per cent, lowerj are available to most ports. Pares to po<» ‘ • east of Nadi include air connection to Suva by Fiji Airways. 167 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1958

DAVISON VELTEX 164 LINE—A synthetic Resin Emulsion Paint for all wall surfaces, interior or exterior. Does not clog the brush.

VIKYLITE The finest nonabrasive Full Gloss Enamel for interior surfaces.

DAVCO HI-COVER WHITE 269 LlNE—Master Painter’s Heavy Bodied White for use as primer or undercoat.

VIPACO 320 LlNE—Zinc Titanium paste for Master Painter’s use. Gives maximum opacity and suitable for primer undercoat or Finish.

LIQUID STAINERS 370 LINE —Suitable for tinting all Synthetic Enamels or Paints. Colour does not float.

Davison Satin Finish

ENAMEL 397 LINE Suitable for all interior walls, ceilings and woodwork. Perfect Satin Sheen.

DAVI SON Obtainable from:— Brown & Woods Ltd., RABAUL.

Madang Slipways Ltd., MADANG.

Norfolk Trading Coy., NORFOLK IS.

K. H. Dalrymple Hay, HONIARA, 8.5.1.

A. H. Bunting Ltd., SAMARAI.

Buntings, LAE, GOROKA, POPONDETTA.

Davison Paints Limited

Box 24, P. 0., AUBURN, N.S.W. <ST. jnM \xmxji raintd foi tllf popla Sole Agents for Territories of Papua, New Guinea, New Britain: LES CLARK & SON PTY. LTD., 27-29 King Street, Sydney.

Index to Advertise Adastra Service . 67 A.E.I 50 Akta-Vite ... 124 Aluminium Union 134 A.M.L. & F. . . 116 Angliss, W. & Co. 110 Appleton N. V. . 80 Arnott, Wm. . . 132 Aspro 114 Austin Cars ... 4 Aust. Cotton . . 48 A. 56 Baker, W. Jno. . 67 Barton, C. ... 159 Bank of NSW 53, 137 Berger Paints . . 90 Bethell, Gwyn . 157 Blaxland-Rae . . 106 B. 153 Bradford Mills . 100 Braybon Bros. . . 5, 34, 147 Bristol Myers . 121 British United Dairies .... 66 Broadway Motors 156 Bryant & May . . 26 Brunton & Co. . 136 Bunting, A. H. . 66 Bush, W. J. . . 50 B. . . 65, 89, 111, 130 Cadbury .... 7 Carlton Breweries 118 Carpenter Ltd. . . 78 Case Tractors . . 148 Cecil, The Hotel . 99 Coldstream P/L . 28 Colgate 74 Colonial Meat . 60 Colyer Watson . . 48 Corben, R. . . . 145 C'wealth Bank . 76 Crammond Co. . 62 C. Co. . . . 161 Cystex . . . .152 Davies & Dalziel 164 Davison Paints . 168 Dangar, G. & M. 112 Demka Agencies . 32 Dettol 69 Donald Ltd. ... 73 Douglass, W. C. . 51 Dunlop Rubber . 114 Econo Steel ... 2 England, P. . . 153 Everyday Products 73 Farrer, Wm. ... 69 Filmo Depot ... 67 Franke & Hiedecke 54 Frigate Rum . . 57 Gardner Eng. . . 108 Gilbey, W. & A. 113 Gillespie Bros. . 54 Gillespie, R. . 1, 68 Glazebrooks Paints 13 Gordon's Gin . . 92 Goroka, Hotel . 165 G.P.H. (Suva) . . 14 Grove Ltd. . 14, 52 Hall, J. S. . . 153 Halvorsen, B. . 104 Halvorsen Sons . 103 Hari, G. B. . . 36 Harvey Trinder . 10 Hastings Diesels 122 Hawleys Ltd.. . 138 Hellaby Ltd. . . 38 Hemingway Robertson Institute . 58 Holbrooks ... 123 Howard Cultivators .... 64 Hytest Co. . . . 44 1.C.1 70 International Harvester . . 3, 16 International University Soc. . . 34 K.L.M 160 Kennedy, Capt.

Kerr Bros. . .

Kiwi Polish .

Kodak ....

Kopsen & Co.

Lawrence, A. .

Lysaght, J. .

Macßobertson P/\ Magazine Servio Mcllrath's . .

Maize Products Marine Spares Mason Bros. .

Mendaco . .

Millers Ltd. . ..

Mitchell's Tour*' Morris, H. . .

M. H. Ltd. . 2* Mungo Scott .

Natham & WyetH N. & R. . .58 Nestles NG Aust. Line Nile Products Nixoderm . .

N.Z.N.A.C. . .

Orient Line .

P.A.A. . . .

Papuan Prints ..

Parke Davis . 9 ( P. I. Line . .

Piccaninny Wax; Qld. Insurance Old. Milling .

Ransomes Co. ..

Rohu, Sil . .

Rosicrucians, Tl Scott & Bowne Seppelt & Son .

Seward Ltd. . .

Shaw Savill .

Sleepmakers . .

Sparklets Ltd. „ S.T.C. Co. . .

Stapleton, J. .

Stewarts Lloyds S. P. Brewery .

Sthn. Pac. Ins.

Sullivan Ltd. . t: Tait, W. S. . ..

Tatham, S. E.

Taubmans Ltd.

Tilley Lamps .

Thornycroft Co.

Ti I lock & Co. ..

Tongala Milk .

Tooth & Co. .

Turners & Growers . .

Tyneside Eng. ..

United Insurami U.R.D. . . .

Ventura . . .

Van Gelder, J.

Victa Mowers Vi-Stim . . .

Vincent's APC ..

Wakefield, C. C..

Walkers Ltd. .

Warnock .

Waters, Edwd. .

Webster, D. & Sti Western Acceptance . . .

Westfield Meatsa Weymark Pty. LJ Williams, W. HH White Rose Flow Whitten, R. F.

Wilhelmsen, W.

Wills Ltd. .

Wright & Co. .

Wrigley's . . ..

Wunderlich Ltd.

Yorkshire Ins.

Zevenboom, J. 168 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

AUCKLAND

Just Five Enjoyable Hours

Demonstrating that the shortest way between two points is also the most comfortable, TEAL “Hibiscus” Service (Fiji-Auckland and vice versa) spans the gap in a mere five hours.

Five hours of relaxed comfort in big pressurised DC-6 airliners, connecting at Auckland with internal air services that bring most New Zealand towns within “same-day” travel.

To find out more about TEAL Services consult your Travel Agent or any TEAL office © FIJI \r* .3f AUCKLAND NORFOLK IS.

TONGA SAMOA SYDNEY

Cook Islands

CHRISTCHURCH -lAN EMPIRE AIRWAYS LTD., NEW ZEALAND’S INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE, IN ASSOC. WITH QANTAS AND B.oXc.

A PE2 FEBRUARY, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

if Ci

General Merchants

•a Capital £2,500,000 ESTABLISHED 1914

General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Wholesalers And Retailers

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

Agents For Australian, European

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

Distributors Of Every Description

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD Head Office THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “CAMOHE.”

Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney.

In London: W. R. Carpenter & Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3 ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Island Products Ltd., Moriah ttedstrom Ltd., Suva Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Kokopo.

Port Moresby.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., t , PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1958