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COMMONWEALTH HANK Guaranteed by the Commonwealth Government of Australia PEOPLE Director of Education, Mr. oscoe, visited Netherlands NG tbruary to study Dutch educamethods. He admitted in Port sby before he left that he had studying the Dutch language last November to help read mt documents in Hollandia. * * * R. W. Maxwell, West Samoa’s tor of Health, is due to retire jtober, and may settle in Syd- Dr. Maxwell was in Fiji for pars, and took up his Samoa ntment after retiring from in 1956. He hopes before leav- 3amoa to put in the ground of a full-scale campaign st tuberculosis, which will ,bly be launched in January.

Peter Brooke, a relative of i Brooke and Rupert Brooke, proprietor of the former Teva which was once the home of Robert Keable, has taken an itment as Resident Steward ; Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Wellington, NZ. After the Hotel—in Tahiti’s Taravao :t —was sold, Mr. Brooke man- :he Lotus for a time, and more ly operated a launch service orea and also a chicken farm. :nt to New Zealand in January. [?] Marsters, chief citizen of lonely [?]ton atoll, paid a courtesy call on NZ [?]Minister J. Mathison, in Wellington in [?] He was accompanied by his daughter, [?]eka Marsters, of Hamilton, NZ. Mr. [?] Cook Islands Administration agent on [?]ton, is a grandson of the William Mar- [?]ho settled on Palmerston about 1860, [?]d of one of the three Marsters families now living there. 5 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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Miss Greta Scott, of Rare was married in Auckland in ruary to Mr. J. J. W. Little, Cook Islands Administration Miss Scott’s father, Mr. Harry is associated with a clothing ] facturing industry in Raroto * * * Captain Alex Frame, chiej of French Polynesia’s local a: vice Reseau Aerien Interins was in Auckland in February, The Hon. Havea Tu’iha’g deputy-Premier of Tonga, a in Auckland in the Orsova witl Tu’iha’ateiho in February, z few days later boarded the Rangitata at Wellington en to Europe for several months day visit. * * * Mr. John Springford, forme the Fruit Office, Rarotonga, was recently appointed Trea Niue Island Administration, Auckland in the Tofua in Fet to take up his new appoint Mrs. Springford was to follow Mr. Jack Whitta, lately Trej at Niue, has been transferr Island Territories Department, ington. * * * Mr. Maurice Hegan, in : years Chief Clerk of the Islands Administration, has appointed Administration C Department of Island Terri Wellington. He succeeds Mr.

R. Heatley, who was re appointed Resident Commiss Niue Island. * * * Recent arrivals in the Islands: Mr. and Mrs. F Holland and two children Holland takes up an appoin as Chief Organising Teacher) and Mrs. R. A. Kingstone anc children (Mr. Kingstone has appointed Headmaster, Te College, Rarotonga); Mr. and C. P. Price and two children In Sydney on a visit to the Polynesia[?] ciation, Norfolk Islanders Cam Quint[?] Christian and Norris Buffett.[?] —Teli[?] 6 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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IG Public Relations Officer, Kathleen Vellacott Jones, reel to Port Moresby in February extended leave abroad. Mr. Len who had been relieving PRO, eturn to the Australian News nformation Bureau, Canberra. * * * er nearly six years in Port sby as manager of the ANZ , Mr. F. A. S. Robertson, and vife, sailed for Victoria in i, where Mr. Robertson will ge the Camberwell branch of ank. [?] a pretty picture as she signs the [?] the IMS Church, Pago Pago, [?]an Samoa, is Mary Molio'o, after the marriage to Fuauli Tiumalux. —Pan American Prints.

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Suva had a day of Pomp Circumstance recently when High Commissioner for Frau the Pacific, Monsieur L. Pec in company with Rear Ad Evenou, Commander-in-Chief « French Naval Forces in the P paid an official visit. They a: by the French frigate. F Gamier and returned to Noum air after exchanging salutes v Fiji shore battery; inspecti guard of honour mounted b Fiji Military Force wearing s tunics and white sulus; plac wreath on a war memorial; lunching with the Governor o: Sir Kenneth Maddocks and Maddocks.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hilton, after their r in Auckland recently. The wedding Islands' interest, for both Mr. Hilton bride —Miss Elaine Jacka —were born i Mr. Tau Cowan takes the hand of his d, Miss Paula Cowan, as they leave home Joseph's Church, Rarotonga, Cook Islands Miss Cowan married Mr. Barry Lineen, c land. —D. C 8 MARCH, 1959-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Melbourne. His subject will be S Studies, which includes this ye special course on “The South In the Modern World,” for w he will be able to draw heavil his own experiences in the S West Pacific territiories. Since retirement, he and Mrs. Groves been enjoying a well-earned ho: in Victoria.

Meantime, Dr. Murray Gr their son, has been appoi Senior Lecturer in Anthropolog the Auckland University Col and sets out for New Zealan April. Murray Groves is well kr in P-NG, where he has spent siderable time, latterly carr out research amongst natives in Port Moresby area for the Schoi Pacific Studies of the Austrs National University, Canberra.

Miss Rosemary Groves, you Groves daughter, is currently spi ing three months in India Pakistan undertaking Poli Science research, also for ANU 1960 she will do a year’s p graduate course in the US in Poli Science and Industrial Affairs ui a scholarship awarded her rece by the American Association University Women. * * * A Public Service scholarship been awarded to Mr. F. P. Kaac the Papua-New Guinea Departn of Native Affairs, to enable hin attend an Australian university complete the final year of a dei course. A post-graduate scholar! has been awarded to Mr. F.

Johnson, BA, B.Econ., P-NG Dep Mrs. George Little, recently returned to [?] after a trip home to Fiji, brought her[?] Ada Eyre, of Suva, to a welcome home[?] at the Polynesian Association.[?] —Tele-[?] 10 MARCH, 1958 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Similar scholarships are to be warded annually to Territory blic Servants. The present ones re announced by the P-NG Public rvice Commissioner, Mr. N. omson, in Port Moresby at the i of February. ’he head of maternal care in lua-New Guinea, Dr. R. R. shauge, left Port Moresby on rch 4, for Sydney on her way to aila as one of Australia’s three ‘gates to a World Health Organion conference. r. Refshauge said advisers from World Health Organisation ild present papers on relative jects which would be discussed delegates who were being invited n a number of countries. For the b 10 years, Dr. Refshauge has a in charge of infant, child and ;ernal care in the Territory. [?]ied at St. John's Church, Port Moresby, [?]ss Patricia Gilbert to Mr. Kevin Smith. —Papuan Prints. [?]and crew of the New Hebrides trader [?]lur Rogers”; Diana Hepworth and daughter [?], 10 weeks old, keep a weather eye on [?]. If Diana ever finds time to write a [?]there should be plenty to tell of interest- [?]rears afloat since she quit a job as a war- [?]BBC announcer, to sail across the world [?]her husband in the converted Brixham [?]trawler. 11 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Tel.; Lae 2321 Cables; “MORTEL”, Lae This year the famous Cer Medical School in Suva, Fiji, two students from Netherlands Guinea, Alex Mambraku and W Frederick Korwa. The young create two records: They are first Netherlands New Guinean attend the school; and the first students from a Territory where official language is not Eng Students from Papua-New Gu have been attending the sc only in the last 10 years, but year they are the second big group with 27 students, only less than the Fijians, who are biggest.

Mr. Mack Miller, of Fiji Airv I ltd., Suva, spent a few weeks Sydney in February seeing things are done by the parent c pany, Qantas. With him went wife, formerly Miss Liz Henni on a business trip of her own In Sydney on their way home to Fiji a[?] holiday in England, popular Suva coupl[?] Raddock and wife Sophia. —Tele-P[?] An important wedding at St. Mary's Cat[?] Church, Lae, New Guinea, took place [?] Miss Beverley Wood married Mr. Graham [?] Kinnon. The ceremony, conducted by F[?] Anselm, was followed by Nuptial Mass[?] Photo: O. Bra[?] 12 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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P 0. Box 2454, Auckland, New Zealand m 01 Ar. and Mrs. J. S. K. Borron, of go Island, Lau Group, Fiji, were ongst the many Islands visitors Sydney during February and rch. They have just spent 12 nths in the UK and United ,tes. ■wo Fiji-Indian twin sisters, un and Khairun Nisha, whom itralian immigration authorities ited to send home a year ago ause their educational standards e below that required for trainee ses, have now passed a special mination after 12 months study, •y will now remain in Brisbane :omplete their nursing training. iirector of ths Fiji Credit Union ue, Jone Naisera, of Tunaloa, been selected as the Colony’s ;ate to the International Credit n Conference, which will be in Boston, Mass., in early May. [?]isian Association members were on hand [?]p celebrate the graduation of Dr. Oscar [?]son, of Suva, from Sydney University, [?]he is with his sister, Felicia, and mother, [?]Matilda Emberson, who made a special [?] Sydney to see her second doctor son te Tele-Photos. [?] Pago recently. Dr. F. J. West, senior [?]in history at Victoria University, [?]ton, who is working under the SEATO [?]relations. programme. He has been [?]Fiji, Tahiti and American Samoa to [?] comparative study of their political advancements. —Pan-American Prints. 13 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MARCH, 1959

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Pacific Islands Monthly No. 8. Vol. XXIX MARCH, 1959 C ontents: PEOPLE: Personal Paragraphs of Islands’ Interest 5 Rabaul Plays Host to the Pacific for SPC Meeting .. 17 Sir Alan Burns: The Man Who Will Suggest a Policy For Fiji 18 Fiji Awaits a Decision on the Sale of the Grand Pacific 19 And P-NG Awaits a Decision on Income Tax .. 19 Death of Paramount Lululai Golpaik, of New Britain 20 CSR Wages Agreement in the Balance 20 Noumea’s Yate Dam is Now Operating 21 More Hurricane Damage— Niue, American Samoa, Tahiti 21 HOME BASE: Sydneysider Reports 22 Lae Is Gloomy Over Its Air Services 23 COMMENTARY: The Publisher and the Editors Look At Pacific and World Affairs 25 The Editors’ Mailbag .. .. 27 TERRITORIES TALK-TALK: With Tolala .......... 31 Rapid Progress At Nadi Airport 37 New Guinea’s Grouch: Too Many Millionaires, Not Enough Planes 39 FIJI TALANOA: With Vakatawa • • The Two Faces of Bulolo .. 45 NG Forests are a Monument to Late J. B. McAdam .. 45 NG Tax Shooting: Minister Blankets Report ........ 45 Fiji Tackles Its Housing Problem, and P-NG Makes a Move, Too 53 Zoologist Searches For Polynesia’s Snakes 57 Fiji and the French Are Ahead With Pacific Tourism 61 Samoa’s Banana Exports Threatened by Disease .. 67 G. C. Luck Reports On Problems of the Sepik: Progress v Cargo Cult .. 69 Brett Hilder Says a Search Is Needed for Clues on Ancient Pacific Writings .. 75 A New Painting Found in NG 75 Tonga Trench Will Be No Good As An Atomic Dump 79 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, 82; The Becke Family in Paris, 83; Do You Remember? 83; Through Wildest NG With Cleft Stick and Water Tank; 84; History of Wally’s Topper, 87; Book Reviews 88 The Month’s News of Ships and Yachts 109 PACIFIC REPORT: Roundup of Pacific News and Pictures (Index p. 17) .. .. 117 OBITUARIES: Mr. Walter George Smith; Mr. David Simpson; Sister M. Irenee; Sister M. Felix; J. Frank Stimson; Mr. Wilfred Wise; Mr. E. W. Hardwick; Mr.

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Turn to these inside pages for more highlights of the month’s news: Rice for Fiji’s Rewa Valley—ll 7; Japanese Banno Interests Extend Again—ll 7; Plan to Avoid Rarotongan Floods; Co - operative Union for the Cooks—118; NZ May Grow Cultured Pearls—ll 9; Work Starts on NG Coastwatchers’ Light—l2l.

Progress on W. Samoa’s Roads— -122; New Air Services Bring Regulations for P. Moresby—l23: “Kungsholm’s” Pacific Tour; W.

Samoan Minister Pined After Club Trouble—l2s.

Are Timber, Cocoa, BSIP’s Future? —127; Goroka Passionfruit Producers Are Too Good—l 27; Scientists Discuss Copra Pest Problem; American Doctor’s Last Gift to Suva—l3l; Plans for Levuka Tuna—l 33; Typhoid in Tonga—l3s.

P-NG Education Plan Brings Reservations—l 37; Rabaul’s Unofficial High School to Cease— -139; BSIP Has Influx of Scientific Headhunters; Fiji Airways Spreads Its Wings—l4l; “Black Friday” for Samoan Airways— -143.

Australia Attacks Canadian Airways —144; Some Pacific Market Possibilities—l 44; Copra Price Continues to Confound Them; You Can Drive Yourself in Fiji—l4s.

Rabaul Prepares to Play Host to the Pacific What Will Come Out Of Fourth SPC Meeting?

In March, Rabaul folk were not very aware of it. but hind the scenes locally, in Sydney, in Noumea, and in more note places, preparations were in hand for what is probly Rabaul’s first international conference.

OUTH Pacific conference will 3 held in Rabaul between April I and May 13, the fourth in sries that have been held in last nine years under the ;es of the South Pacific Comm, and designed to get the ; peoples of the South Pacific s together to discuss common sts and problems, first, was at Naisinu, Fiji, in the second in Noumea, in the third, again at Naisinu, □w it is considered that Rabaul ifficiently recovered from the and the long rehabilitation that followed it, to be host e 1959 conference, total number of people who ave to be catered for, transthere from as far north as and as far east as Tahiti, xommodated and fed for two or more, will number well 00. There will be 70 delegates j conference, most of them s, and in addition there will risers, the Commissioners of .ember Governments of the ission, observers and repreives of the press.

Major Organisation conference itself will take at the Malaguna Technical ng Centre on the shores of 1 harbour. Here all the deleand some of the others who will be accommodated. Others ) to the two hotels, nising the transportation of se people, from 18 Territories ed over the whole of the Pacific, has been a major part planning but all will reach i within a few days of leavme. Before the war such a mce would have been out of lestion; only air-transportarhich has annihilated these distances, has made it posle attending from Australia, New Guinea, Netherlands linea and the British Solomon ; will use the regular coml air services. irrangement with Australia’s and the French TAI will the rest. ls will operate a charter service between Noumea and Rabaul, and return. This service will cater for the delegations from Tahiti, Wallis and Futuna, New Hebrides. New Caledonia, Cook Islands, Western Samoa, Niue, Tonga, American Samoa, Fiji and staff members from the South Pacific Commission secretariat.

The service will depart Noumea at 0600 hours Sunday April 26, arriving at Lae at 1400 hours. A night stop will be made in Lae and on Monday, April 27, a DC3 shuttle service will operate to Rabaul.

It is intended that the people coming through and from Fiji, travel by TAI service from Nadi to Noumea on or before Saturday, April 25, and stay in Commission accommodation. People travelling through or from New Zealand will arrive in Noumea by TAI on Thursday, April 23, and will also be accommodated at the Pentagon.

The return trip will depart Rabaul at 1000 hours May 17 and nightstop in Port Moresby. An 0700 hours, May 18, departure will be made from Port Moresby and the plane will arrive at Tontouta at 1540 hours.

Once again all through-travellers will be accommodated at the Pentagon until the departure of the TAI services to New Zealand on Wednesday, May 20, or to Nadi on May 21. (Over' rmiDTu rnwFFRFNf E SITE Malaguna, Rabaul, where the SPC will hold its Fourth Pacific f OURTH CONFERENCE SIT . Ma ag Technica | Training Centre are in the centre vore- Conference m April. The o fhe background Vulcan, which was once an ,,0U i!lJ““hut which joined itself to the mainleed efle. the 1937 .olcn.c eruption. 17 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

The number of press representatives who will attend are as yet not known. But Melbourne journalist, C. E. Sayers, who has attended two of the other conferences, will be at Rabaul as press liaison officer.

Mr. J. R. Halligan, Senior Commissioner for Australia on the South Pacific Commission will be chairman of the conference, but largely it will be left to the delegates themselves to conduct the business as they think fit.

The first conference in 1950, shortly after the SPC itself had come into being, was a tentative sort of affair with, as one commentator put it, the organisers even more nervous than the delegates.

But by the second conference, seme of this nervousness on both sides was disappearing and by the third, the delegates were really getting the hang of it, making suggestions as to how the thing could be simplified to fit more into the Islander’s scheme of things, and with less emphasis on more academic affairs.

In the first two conferences, each item on the agenda was discussed in full conference, which meant that delegates from less advanced territories were over-awed into silence by the practised oratory of delegates from parts of the Eastern Pacific.

Same Method In the third conference, for the first time, the delegates formed smaller standing committees and in that way larger numbers were able tc join in the discussions. When the standing committees had thrashed out a subject and formed conclusions on it, the conclusions were then taken to the full conference.

It is expected that this method of standing-committees will be used again at the Rabaul conference.

The agenda for the fourth conference is: AGENDA Opening by Chairman.

Election of General Committee and Appointment of Standing Committees.

Report by the Secretary-General on the work of the Commission.

Resolutions of previous Conference — Review of action taken.

Problems resulting from the impact of participation in economic development with reference to land tenure and the growing of permanent crops.

The extension of tourism in the Pacific region and the economic and social implications for the people.

The study of the role and function of custom and beliefs in relation to infant and maternal welfare.

Broadcasting in the life of Pacific peoples.

The training of local leaders for participation in aided self-help projects.

The place of recreation, including sport and youth activities, in the community.

The impact of the modern technical and industrial world on the life and culture of South Pacific peoples. (Continued on page 149) The Man Who Will Suggest A Policy for Fiji

He Doesn’T Gloss Over

Britain’S Faults

From a Special Correspondent in London • Towards the middle of this year (July-August) the long-delayed Commission of Inquiry, set up by the British Colonial Office to investigate the land and population problems of Fiji, will be under way in Fiji. It had preliminary meetings in London in January. I have just had an interview with Sir Alan Burns, GCMG, who is chairman of the Commission of Inquiry. (With him are Professor A. T. Peacock and Mr. T. Y. Watson.) THE Fiji problem, of course, arises out of the rapid increase in the Indian and the native Fijian communities, seen in relation to the land and production resources of the Fiji archipelago.

“I think we shall find an answer to the problem,” Sir Alan told me; and I got an impression of energy and determination. Sir Alan Burns will be in Sydney in June, en route to New Zealand and Fiji.

Sir Alan has a wealth of experience, as a successful colonial administrator, to guide him in a task that has much significance to Fiji, and to the South Pacific generally.

He was an Administrator in the Bahamas and the Leeward Islands: Governor in British Honduras and the Gold Coast of West Africa; and an Assistant Under State for the Colonies, and Ao Governor of Nigeria. For nine yz he was Britain’s representative - UN Trusteeship Council, andb that capacity he visited many Tt Territories, including New Guu and Western Samoa.

In Defence of Colonialisms It is interesting to note that S 3 World War 11, Sir Alan Burns < been a strong and efficient chanrr of “British Colonialism” ag£B the attacks of a misinformed Um States and a calculating Commiu Russia—the two potential enei? joining hands, on this subject, howling in chorus.

In his books, In Defences Colonies, Colonial Civil Servant i Colour Prejudice, he provides complete answer to that n«r prejudiced, uninstructed schook so-called thinkers who have fco only greed, exploitation and self, ness in the colonising achievemr of Great Britain in the last : years.

The books make easy readiii pleasantly written, forthrr sincere and balanced, for Sir k does not gloss over Britain’s fas and errors. One cannot escape s reflection that colonisation on i scale established in the British : pire is a colossal job, that only th who do nothing make no mists and that Britain’s accomplishmr in colonisation added enormously the general progress of mankim Readers in Fiji, who soon meet the Burns Mission, may be terested in extracts from Deft\ of Colonies: "Some of the most venomous attaclr colonialism come from the represents! of Indonesia, the Government of v tries, without great success, to bring I (Continued on page 151) Sir Alan Burns, chairman of the Commission of Inquiry which will shortly visit Fiji.

Professor Alan Peacock, another memtud[?] the commission. He is 37. 18 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Fax Crisis In P-NG, ! session of P-NG Legislative :il, which opened on March 9, y blew up into crisis.

March 16, Administrator Cleland i Canberra in urgent consultation Minister Hasluck, and the three d non-official members (Messrs, i, Jones, and Downs), standing idy to resign.

January 30, a large deputation enting non-official members, and n-official interests, saw Mr. Hasin Canberra and sought postlent of income taxation, pending prehensive inquiry concerning its nee and effects. Their case was rong that they were confident request would be granted, acil, on 9th, began debating the ze Review submitted at the presession. Territories Treasurer argued that Territorians should axes approaching those paid in ilia —but this not to be carried i the point where it would dis- :e useful non-native participation i Territory’s economy. ;he 19th, it was learned that the on Bill was all ready for intron that or the following day—“it sen ready for months”. ■official members reacted ly. They indicated that, if the as introduced without adequate 7, despite the Territory’s appeal Minister, they would resign, his stage, Administrator Cleland ned the debate, to allow him to Canberra and interview the sr. interview is proceeding as this oes to press.

Waits Decision On

Nd Pacific Hotel

rom a Suva Correspondent few months ago, when it was ced that the Union SS Co. surrender the Grand Pacific -o the Government of Fiji, rent valuation”, there were taxpayers who feared the ment would he “left with it”.

E now seems to be no likelihat, even although the Govment must sell the property east £125,000, if it is to pay j-sighted Union Co. “current in”. nber of people, representing ty of interests, have been look the situation over; and some of them are expected 3 tenders before March 31. hope that Northern Hotels [1 be somewhere in the pictost people agree that Sir *agg, with his venturesome u Hotel, has done more than ler man to bring Fiji into airy tourist class, and it be fitting if the old GPH his chain, when he retires.

Two Old-Timers Strike It Unlucky These two South Pacific aircraft were falling apart in February-but for different' ea *°" s - T«n nhntn chnw<: a close-uo of some of the damage to Samoan Airways Pago Pago hased P DC3 after being hit by high winds which smashed it against a building. A wing based DC3, atter Dei "9 n, J y . Aircraft bv which Samoan Airways is hoping to start a was also damaged. This is the Qf Photos: Pan American Prints and Pat Robertson.

Death Of Paramount Lululai

GOLPAIK A Friend Belong Australia Paramount Lululai Golpaik, MBE, of New Britain, leader of his people in war and peace, and a true friend of Australia, died at his home village in February.

A S far as anybody could tell, he was 74. Born in cannibal days, Golpaik came to be appointed paramount chief of nearly 4,000 New Britain coastal natives of the Mengen census division. His own village, Sali, was a half-hour’s walk from Pomio patrol post in Jacquinot Bay.

Dressed, as he mostly was, in a white lap-lap and white longsleeved shirt, he was a leader before the war—a quiet, slow speaker, a man with obvious intelligence and able to think ahead. But it was the war which brought him public recognition.

Underground Movement When the Japanese invaded New Britain, Golpaik was on the side of the Australians. He used his local knowledge and influence to help Coastwatching parties who had been landed by submarine, to rescue Allied airmen who had been shot down, and to confuse the Japs.

Group Captain (then Wing Commander) W. E. Townsend and his observer, Flying Officer, D.

McClymont, were two of those he saved. Shot down over Jacquinot Bay, in November, 1943, they were in the jungle for three months before their final escape.

Both Gol p a i k’s underground movement and the Japanese had gone looking for them after the crash, but Golpaik’s men luckily found them first and hid them safely, despite pressure from the Japs who were suspicious of Golpaik’s story that they had perished.

When the two airmen first got sight of Golpaik, the chief was “sitting up in the bow of a canoe, wearing an Australian Army cap, an Australian Army sweater and a red lap-lap, with a .44 Winchester across his knees. He came ashore, shook hands with us and told us he was a “friend belong Australia true”.

Believed in Progress Golpaik was awarded the MBE for this war-time work, yet he would have earned it equally as well for peace-time activities.

He planted cocoa and encouraged others to do the same. He was largely responsible for getting a hospital and school in his district, and impressed upon his follL the need for progress.

There were some envious peans who suggested that Goi could afford to talk big, becam had more money than his f© And it was true that the pic speaking Golpaik could writ! cwn name to a reasonably cheque and have it cashed, anoj he owned a boat and a jeep: a hat for every occasion (he ; hats and bought one whenew visited Rabaul —old felt hats, n covered hats, baseball caps).

He Was No Stint But as the most advanced r in that area, Golpaik could H help share in the progress thr was urging upon his people. A:i was no stint with hospitality organised—which meant car, out most of the work hims« recent sing sing to celebrate harvest, which was attended bye of his coastal followers.

He worked hard and wasj hausted at the end of it. It bo that the old man pushed self a little too hard and hi hasten his own death.

But if he did, he wouldn’t : begrudged it. For Param Lululai Golpaik, life was wi while, but he must have known he had already done more than expected of him.

New CSR Wag In The Balances From a Staff Correspondent ; SUVA, MarclA Officials of the CSR Comptc are meeting Mr. D. B. Lakshrm of Lautoka, today, in a t cussion of future wage rates < sug a r-mill workers.

Lakshman represents the largorganised group of mill works If there is to be any t future in the Fiji sugar indusz there must be stability in dustrial conditions. The co; pany has tried, again and agt\ to get wage agreements exte: s ing over at least two years', I although agreements are moj they rarely are kept.

Serious industrial trouble i this year is threatened.

Because this makes budget', unsafe, and introduces element of gambling into w-x should be a stable industry, , company is not at all ha\i about the future of its big ' vestment in Fiji. It would surprise some observers if company decided to reduce s activities in Fiji to a pot where it can be sure of a pendable labour supply.

Such a move would, of couu represent sheer disaster fo:c large section of Fiji workers Golpaik's last sing-sing, a harvest dance, attended by 2,000 natives from along the central New Britain coast.

Photos: Michael Cockburn.

This photograph, taken only a month or two before his death, is one of the last of Golpaik. 20 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

New Caledonia's Big New Yate Dam Turns A Mountain Into An Island Vew Caledonia's £10,000,000 Yate dam is now virtually finished, filled pacity and at work. And the whole job has taken less than four years.

Vhe first two of four turbines began supplying current to Noumea last ’st, when the dam was filled to three-quarters of its capacity. When jht followed it didn’t look as if the dam would soon be completely but New Caledonia’s January cyclone fixed that, and now huge rises of country are permanently under water. n he new Yate road skirts a gigantic lake along the course of the Yate % and parts of the old road, and several bridges are flooded. The top re (both were taken by Fred Dunn), shows portion of the lake caused e filling of the dam. The island in the centre was once a mountain top.

Hcture below shows the circular construction of the dam. Water is sent igh a long tunnel in a mountain and into the power house, which, • running at its peak, will furnish 400 million kilowatt hours per year se of Noumea and the smelting industry. 7 he smelters will import less coal from, Australia as a result.

More Territories Hit

By A Hurricane

Damage Serious On Niue Niue Island, which of recent years has had few hurricanes, experienced the full effect of one on February 26-27, and a great deal of damage was done to the small isolated island, and particularly to its chief town and shipping port, Alofi. r[E hurricane formed near the Manua Group of Eastern Samoa and moved south, winds of up to 120 miles per hour being experienced at Niue. Damage included the following: About 180 of the estimated 770 native houses on the island were demolished.

All coconut palms were stripped of nuts. It will be at least six months before any copra can be produced.

Heavy damage was done to banana plantations, breadfruit, taro, manioc.

All but two of the village freshwater catchments were put out of action.

Considerable damage estimated at £30,000 to £3s,ooo—was done to administration buildings and schools.

The main centre of Alofi felt the full brunt of the hurricane, the modern administration building being damaged beyond repair. Other buildings damaged included the hospital and nurses home there, also the sister’s quarters.

Three LMS village churches were demolished and most other churches unroofed.

Because the Meteorological Service had issued due warning from Nadi of the hurricane’s approach no lives were lost, but a few people suffered injuries.

Schools were closed for a week so that all could assist in cleaning up the damage and in foraging for food, which is likely later to be very scarce. It is anticipated that the NZ Government will have to take emergency supplies to the island and possibly provide other assistance to the 4,700 islanders in the way of rehabilitation.

Could Be More Trouble This is the first severe hurricane to strike Niue for a good many years, but this area generally, including the Cooks, has be en singularly free from hurricane dam

age in post-war years. A hurricane every second or third year was the rule rather than the exception in the Southern Cooks in the 1930’5.

Early in March the South Pacific weather chart was showing a threatening low pressure area east of the Solomons, in the area where the recent hurricane which caused damage in New Caledonia and Queensland formed.

A hurricane in that area is just as likely to move south-eastward onto Fiji.

Manua Islands Also Hit Very severe damage was also reported from the Manua Group of Eastern Samoa, north of which the hurricane formed before moving south.

Every house was reported demolished in the three main villages, and great damage was done to all food crops including coconut palms. Food supplies were to be sent from Pago Pago. These islands have a population of about 3,000.

The banana plantations were almost completely destroyed, and coconut plantations were so seriously hit that it is reported there will be no copra production for the next year.

Governor Peter Coleman, of American Samoa, declared Manua a disaster area and an emergency relief committee was set up to control food supplies.

The West Samoan High Commissioner, Mr. G. R. Powles, sent messages of sympathy and offered to help relieve the stress in any way possible.

A report from Tahiti in February revealed that that territory had also been involved in the series of January hurricanes and storms that caused widespread damage in the Cooks, Fiji, New Caledonia and the British Solomons. (PIM, February) .

Tahiti Tidal Wave Tahiti was hit between January 27-29, and besides the wind there was a tidal wave. There was serious flooding in many places, especially Papeete, where streets skirting the foreshore were awash, and wharves damaged.

Hundreds of people were forced to leave their homes. In some places, vanilla crops were destroyed.

The Swedish luxury cruiser Kungsholm reached Papeete at the height of the blow and spent two days waiting in the lee of the island foj the weather to clear long enough for her to enter the harbour.

On the third day, Captain Per- Eric Sjolin decided to make an attempt anyway, only to have the harbour promptly closed to all craft because of the serious risks.

Kungsholm went on to Pago Pago without seeing Papeete, much to the dismay of the American tourists aboard.

HOME BASE By Sydneysider Sydney is the hub of the South Pacific, and its news is youn news. Here are some of the things that made March headlines.

Promising Pat, they called NSW Liberal Party leader P. H.

Morton after he made (on March 3) his policy-speech for the forthcoming NSW elections (on March 21). In one breathless hour of politicalese, he promised new deals for public transport, education, housing, health, works and most other things that affect the personal lives of approximately 4,000,000 New South Welshmen and not even his political opponents could say that the reforms were not desirable.

All this left Premier Cahill with not much to be done but stand on his record; new promises after 20 years in office don’t make much appeal to even this apathetic electorate. * * * After being coyly reticent about election date for months, Premier Cahill announced it on February 16, and five hours later the electoral rolls were smartly closed. This, according to Mr.

Morton, disfranchised an estimated 28,000 dilly-dallying electors who never enroll till they must. Said Mr. Cahill, serve them right; they knew it was on, sometime before May 17. * * * PERSONALITY KID: Sydney’s eccentric Bea Miles is back in circulation again. We saw her riding Castlereagh Street buses the other day (without paying, of course). When up before the Beak, Bea, who must now be well into her 50’s, gives her occupation as student, though indications are she might have something new in mind. She still wears the same old eyeshade, but a fairly new addition to her toilet is a small notice-board slung round her neck saying that, for a modest few bob, she will give readings from Shakespeare. It may be not as eccentric as it looks. If one is a professional reader of Shakespeare, it’s just that much more difficult to be run-in for vagrancy. * * * WILD LIFE: Sir Edward Hallstrom, refrigerator millionaire, philanthropist and chairman of Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo Trust, says that San Diego Zoo could have had some koala bears from his own private sanctuary without going to the trouble of petitioning Queen Elizabeth like they’ve done. (But before Sir Edward can send them he still has to get permission from the Federal Minister for Customs and the NSW Chief Secretary.)

Fun And Games Departi

MENT: Amongst those who wen; not pleased by Promising PaU policy speech, were the socisi clubs of the State who float alonn on the easy profits made by On© Armed Bandits, otherwise poken; machines. As a compromise witf the Country Party which wantes to ban the lot, the Libs haw promised to do away with thd 2/- machines. Registered Cluhc Association president says thi move will be “resented”. Churchi men, that it’s a move in thi right direction.

At one time long ago, Banditate threepences; then thes graduated to sixpences. Now 6o> machines are an oddity, whili the regular kind have a steadfc diet of shillings. Clubs that an keen on quicker turnover anr bigger returns go in for the two bob variety. * * ♦ WINTER DRAWS ON: Sydney hasn’t seen them yet but (protd ably by winter) it is to get 288 new buses with “improved ventL lation”. It can do with therm The only difference, in summeie between the present type and Turkish-bath is that the bus© have wheels. * * *

Milk With Plain Straws

Although kids in other State have been drinking their mill, through flavoured and sweetenee straws (they come in chocolated raspberry, caramel, etc, and maid the milk taste that way, tooo since last year, NSW kids are stli denied the pleasure. The idea was introduced to Australia by tennix professional Frank Sedgmarr who got a licence to make pam of the straws in Australia anr import the rest from the Uniteo States. At present £30,000 wortf of Mr. Sedgman’s straws are hell; up in NSW while Health Depart!ment busy-bodies yell No, No!

No. The trouble is the saccarim with which the straws are imri pregnated to supply the sweetenn ing ingredient, Saccarine as sweetening agent is not permittes in NSW because “it has no fooo value”. (This is about as com trary a piece of health reasoninn as we’ve seen. Concurrently, world seminar on dental disease; and decay, sitting in Adelaide has been wrestling with thrf problem: What can we give chili dren in place of sugar, sweets ann biscuits. Maybe the answer i Frank Sed g m a n’s flavoured straws.) 22 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT Hfc

Now They're Just "A Backwater" 36 Is Gloomy and Angry Over Its Air Services In the past six months there has been extraordinary comsrcial building development in Lae, particularly in the section ice occupied by the old hospital, facing the Theatre Block in )urth Street, and extending back to the Catholic Church. :S area can be seen in the hotograph, above —on the left ; shown some of the new buildin Fourth Street: and on the , other buildings in course of .on in the street that runs at angles to Fourth Street. On ‘xtreme right is the Catholic ch. Until a few months ago the ; of this area was an empty Dck. other parts of the commercial in the last year, new banks other shops and business Ises have been built in one of iggest building splurges Morobe iver known. ; in February-March there ed another factor—the biggest breeze in Lae’s commercial •y, and townspeople were betig to wonder if they had overand over-reached themselves, st of them don’t think so— lay the blame, rightly or ?ly, on Qantas Airways which, claim, overnight has changed rom being the centre of Terriair transportation, to a small end backwater—from an aerial of view, anyway—that just my service that happens to be >ver from what is considered ible for Port Moresby. lonnies Are The Trouble i whole trouble for Lae started Qantas put Super Contellaon the Sydney-Port Moresby e in January, reduced the sncy of service and ran a shuttle service between Port Moresby and Lae with DC4 (and sometimes DC3) aircraft. Previously the Skymasters ran all the way through from Sydney to Lae and the frequency of the service was never less than five, and sometimes as much as seven per week. (See also p. 39).

Mr. A. J. Bretag, chairman of the Lae Advisory Council, says that Lae is ignored and “worse off than it was years ago”. The shuttle service from Port Moresby to Lae, says Mr. Bretag, has not operated satisfactorily since the Super Constellations came on the service.

And this aspect of affairs has been placed before the Director of Civil Aviation, on whose report rests the decision whether another airline operator should get a licence to operate from Australia to the Territory.

Port Moresby may think that it is doing alright with its four Super Constellations per week plus the call of the Sydney-Hongkong Super Constellation once weekly.

But in Lae they don’t think bigger aircraft mean progress; they are solidly behind any move for a second operator on the Sydney-New Guinea service.

And they would like it right now.

Some P-NG people still travel the hard way. This is an in-flight photograph of the in terion of a DC3 which carried a capacity load of passengers (mostly returning schoolchildren) from Madang and Goroka to Port Moresby recently to link with the Super Constellation. 23 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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COMMENTARY C: Make It Of Some al Use, Or Kill It!

TER a year ago, some knowledgeable people, meeting in Canberra, deliberated over the i-moribund body of the South ific Commission. should have been gently isthetised, and buried; or, alternjly, given a new shape, and some i, so that it might help the six iber nations to find answers to administrative problems now ng up over the whole length and dth of the South Pacific, stead, it was given a new coat aint, and told to change direcsomewhat, and really hump italong. Nothing of any moment happened since. A new Secre- -General took over in 1958; but ould do little, because, through [nations and what-not, the arch Council was without active :tors during the year. The Cornion could do little, beyond ishing a good deal of excellent ature, and waving its shingle in ;oft breezes of Anse Vata Beach. >w comes, in Rabaul (see page the fourth Triennial South fic Conference, surrounded by isual evidence of good organisailegates from 18 Territories are g to discuss subjects affecting ■ social, economic and health are —but anything really serious erning political and adminisve conditions will be strictly . Which—even if the social, :h and economic resolutions ever me the mainsprings of action he six nations—is the measure le conference’s uselessness. te South Pacific Commission, in beginning, was a really good and it attracted some firstmen to the Research Council, it was put in the wrong place imea) and it has been hamig by the employment of some npetent ditherers on the Corn- Loner level, and by the ignorand indifference of the party icians who become ministers, whose job it is to implement ;ever recommendations the mission sends to the member ms. -as happened in the West bs —this organisation could be to provide a framework for torial re-alignment and admintive reform in the South Pacific, :t could be made worth while, srwise, it were better dead. ie Triennial Conference —t h e good thing that has come out he effort—could be kept going by a Sydney or Suva-based organisation, at a tithe of the cost of the SPC. ☆ ☆ ☆ Indonesia: A Farce Or A Tragedy?

THE South Pacific countries do not know whether to classify the Indonesian-West New Guinea situation as farce or tragedy —it contains much of each.

But the steady deterioration of the Indonesian structure is not something to be lightly commented upon.

In the long view, what happens in the East Indies must affect our future, down here in the shadow of Asia.

There has been one general election in Indonesia since the political gang—created by the Japanese and headed by Soekarno — took over in 1946. This was to form a Parliament, with a responsible government on Western lines.

But it never functioned. The gang held control and it has achieved three things—established Soekarno as a dictator, who forms his own government, without reference to an elected Parliament; it has oppressed and driven out the Dutch and part- Dutch, and seized their property: and permitted the Communist Party to become the country’s biggest political organisation, with a definite influence on government.

Feeble and corrupt administration has reduced Indonesia to a deplorable condition. Even as this is written, the radio is announcing savage fighting against “rebels” in the Celebes, and another rebellion in Sumatra, where British rubber plantations are being seized.

One of the factors in forcing the market to give our planters nearly £AIOO per ton for copra, just now, is the continued inability oi the wretched Indonesian growers to get labour for copra-making, and ships to send copra to the markets.

Dr. Soekarno has sent Dr.

Subandrio (his “Foreign Minister ) to Canberra to seek Australia s goodwill in relation to West New Guinea.

Instead of treating this with the contempt it deserved, Aust ™J ia J government made the faux pas oI the month by formally announcing that, if Indonesia could make a peaceful settlement with the Nethe lands, Australia would not oppose.

Certainly, Indonesia's demand for West NG is only pchtical stimtmg Soekarno waves it around, to divert the attention of his masses from tnpir internal woes. But even although the 83 mi!li 9“ tn I "J l0 " e e S n|ce have little more military menace about them than 83 million sheep, Australia dare not allow them to enter West New Guinea, and provide an easy land bridge from Asia to Australasia.

The president of North Vietnam, Dr. Ho Chi-minh (how these doctors keep bobbing up in Southeast Asia politics!) has been Statevisiting Dr. Soekarno in Djakarta, and publicly junketing and orating.

The two doctors agreed that North Vietnam’s campaign to seize (“liberate”, they called it) South Vietnam was in the same category as Indonesia’s determination to “liberate” West New Guinea.

The interesting point is that Dr.

Ko is a well known Communist leader and North Vietnam is a hot Communist State, closely associated with Red China, whereas South Vietnam is stubbornly anti-Communist. ik ☆ ☆ Sydney Show Display— For Natives Only THE suggestion made by the Rabaul merchants —t hat the planters and manufacturers of Papua and New Guinea should combine to provide, at Sydney’s Royal Easter Show, a display of the worth-while products of the Territory, had much to commend it. It was hoped that merchants and planters would do something about it.

But —surprisingly—the Territories Department has decided to make a display at the Show. Minister Hasluck announced in early March that, at the Show —to begin in late March—there would be a display of two traditional native houses shipped from Port Moresby, fruits and commercial crops produced by natives, native timbers and a photographic representation of the work of the P-NG Administration.

An admirable example of Departmental initiative; but what is the use of it?

All Australia knows that, each year, between ten and fifteen millions of pounds of Australian taxpayers’ money are being spent on governing P-NG’s 13 million natives and (supposedly) on “improving” their standard of living; but one cannot imagine that the average Australian taxpayer is enthusiastic about the enternrise, or crazy to see the paraphernalia with which it is accomplished. , .

On the other hand, an exhibit of the natural resources of the great Territory, latent and developed, and a demonstration of how enterprise and industry, both European and native, are being harnessed to make the Territory more self-supporting, and a display of data to show the opportunities that await the young man in New Guinea (that is, if anything is left for individualism under the Hasluck regime) would be 25 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH 1959

very interesting, and almost certainly profitable.

The cost of the Department’s display probably will run into four figures. If that money had been put into the hands of P-NG merchants, and an appeal made to them for cc-operation, the Show Exhibit should have been well worth while.

But —as u s u a I—the Department plans only in terms of natives. ☆ ☆ ☆ Could a Yank Sputnik Bring Back Colonialism?

ABOUT 20 years ago, a worldwide howl against Colonialism became prominent, and the chorus was notable for its American accent.

In the beginning, we ignored the noise. In any event, United States always has been the home of ratbag organisations, especially in the fields of religion and politics.

Then, with World War II over, the Anti-Colonial noise really became embarrassing. Moscow endorsed it, as a means of weakening Britain and France, and the postwar planners and the bearded idealists gave it shape. American influence brought strength to it — for by now United States was World Power I. . .

And now, for the record, see where Anti-Colonialism has led us. The writer of this commentary began first to take an interest in world affairs 50 years ago, so writes from what he actually has seen.

Britain was forced to surrender or give “independence” to India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, Singapore, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Ghana and South Africa.

And now Cyprus.

France was obliged to give up Indo-China and all those large Territories in North Africa.

The Netherlands was forced out of the East Indies.

Under “Colonialism”, every one of those Territories—except perhaps Palestine—enjoyed peaceful and orderly government, and the people, under British, French or Dutch rule, walked in safety and fed in comfort. The stranger could travel without molestation in every one of them. Here and there, groups of “nationalists” Shouted and intrigued for “freedom”, but they did little harm. It was a good, clean, comfortable world.

Now, they all have their “freedom.”

With the solitary exceptions of India and South Africa, there is no peace, comfort, security or “democratic government” in any of them (and there is social and political strain in India and South Africa).

Representative government, after the Western style, has broken down in all of them, and practically all are under some form of dictatorship, which is far more oppressive than Colonialism.

The disorders, the hatreds and the cock-eyed political nostrums of the ex-Colonies now have spread widely across Africa. There already is grave trouble in the centre —and that is nothing to what will happen when the flare-up comes in South Africa.

It is only a dream, of course— but the world would be very happy if America could persuade one of its Sputniks to bring back a magic wand from the distant heavens, and use it to restore Colonialism and all its evils, including peace, internal order and comfortable living.

And that would be real justice— because if it had not been for American planners, and the screeching, irresponsible American press, Colonialism would not have been destroyed so long before the people were ready to exercise the privileges of “freedom”. ☆ ☆ ☆ 1945 Blunderers Created Berlin Crisis of 1959 IN 1945, the United States and Britain, partly bemused by victory and partly exhausted by the greatest war ever, allowed Moscow to build the Iron Curtain across Europe and —worst of all — to imprison a third of Germany within the Communist bloc.

While that stupendous challenge to human freedom and world decencies is allowed to remain, there seems no escape from World War 111. World War 111 could mean the end of civilisation —Red as well as Western—and of much of the human race.

The average man cannot believe that the human race will commit suicide. Since the sinister Stalin was replaced by the merry Khrushchev, and the gates of Moscow thrown open to the West, we have been inclined to believe that the danger of suicide through nuclear fission is past.

We can look at the events of February-March, and undeceive ourselves.

There are stresses in the Far East and strains in the Middle East; but the real danger lies right in the middle of Europe, in Germany.

The Anglo-Americans, in 1945, planned a Germany that should be beaten so far into the ground that she could not again disturb Europe’s peace. But the incredible diplomacy of Roosevelt and Truman allowed Russia to occupy half Europe, and establish the Red Empire. So, within three years, America was frantically rebuilding Germany, to assist in the defence of the West.

Now West Germany is rebuilt, and strong; and we know that she will never rest until East Germany is restored to the Reich. Rather than face the bitter issue, our Western diplomats are prepared to leave great freedom-loving peoples, the Poles and the Czechs and Hungarians, under the Russian yv and to forget them. But the W Germany which we rebuilt to asj in our own defence, will not lets forget.

There is one fundamental tH to be always remembered in situation —namely, the Slav h* and fears the Teuton, and whenu the Teuton has met the Slav he on, in open warfare, the Teu literally has hammered the sis case out of the Slav.

If the Germans, equipped supported by United States Britain —and perhaps by Franei should attack Russia, the Sov;\ Red Empire inevitably will collar and the ten European nations I enslaved by Russia would reg' their democratic freedom.

The Moscow Reds know this. TT is why Khrushchev is forcing Berlin issue to the edge of war..' knows that if he can somehow chi and hold West Germany, the C«r munists have a chance of unoi mining and destroying the We'' strength in America and the Brii Commonwealth. If West Germn is not checked, and the Bes salient is allowed to remain cb in behind the Iron Curtain, Curtain eventually will be broko Events of the next four or months, at Berlin, may show uj way out. At the moment, it se«s unlikely. The West’s blunders diplomacy of 1945 surely laid foundation of this Berlin cr: of 1959.

Furthermore, if this new Germr should be instrumental in topple the Communist Empire, would I not be faced again—as we were- -1914 and in 1939—with a Powers strong and ambitious that should have difficulty in living w it?

Pacific Minded Prince Prince Philip’s visit to the BriW Solomons and the Gilbert and EIIII Islands Colony during March as April will be followed with delight ; people in other British South Pac:o territories besides the two most timately involved. For nobody 1 grudges the BSIP and GEIC thd popular Royal visitor, as much they would like to have him for thes selves.

Even judged on the Pacific stands! of remoteness, the BSIP and GEIC i still a long way from anybody, as they miss out on lots of things tlo other islands get as a matter course. Prince Philip’s visit will a real shot in the arm.

As far as Philip himself is co: cerned, he will be adding greatly ' the knowledge of Islands’ life alres: gained from his visits to Fiji, Toni and Papua-New Guinea—and that i a very good thing for all the Britf Pacific. 26 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

The Editans' Maillag fzner's NG Discoveries re Just Fables seems that the Leahy brothers Jim Taylor of New Guinea indeed, the first whites to upon the New Guinea High- 1s although there has been a on circulating for years (and ’ has repeated it several times) the real discoverer was a Herm Detzner, who was supposed ave got as far west as Mt. Hagen ng the First World War. i old letter written by a leran Missionary, now dead, that just found its way into PlM’s is, puts quite a different comion on the whole thing and 7S Detzner up as something of loney. le old story was that Detzner, German official stationed at 3be at the time of the outbreak he First World War, took to bush rather than surrender to Australians and that for four s he wandered around trying nd his way into neutral Dutch itory and that during those ierings he discovered what toare known as the New Guinea ern and Western Highlands, hen he finally got back to Gery after the war, Detzner wrote >ook (Four Years Among tibals) about his so-called riences and on the strength of ! was honoured by the German graphic Society which awarded the Nachtigal Medal (named • a well-known traveller and >rer who, in 1884, raised the nan flag in Togo Land and the eroons in West Africa), e old letter from our missionary :ten 16 years ago) says that ner borrowed his adventures :ly from reports of pre-World I Lutheran missionaries, Dr. ;ser and the Rev. Mr. Pilhofer, that during his four years in wilderness he depended largely the assistance of Lutheran ionaries. The letter continues; know where Captain Detzner during those four years. I id the place and it was not very •te from civilisation and at that there were no cannibals anye near him. believe he did climb the waged (a southern branch of at the base of Huon nsula), perhaps in company of Keysser, who had been there *e. Whatever provisions he drew the Lutheran Mission he d to pay for, even when the ieds of his book would have en- -1 him to do so. i his book he followed the 1 of the time, and had a little against the Mission. . . The whole book is so much fiction, and cannot be taken as a reliable record of anything. . . I do not know whether Detzner was deprived of the honour bestowed upon him by the German Geographic Society, but he certainly was dropped by them.”

When Humphrey Berkeley Purchased a Stone THE late, and in some quarters quite unlamented, Humphrey Berkeley, who has been appearing in “PIM” pages since last August, just won’t lie down. A member of “PIM” staff who has been in Fiji for the last couple of months writes this note from Suva: Since I have been here I have kept looking around to see if he left his mark anywhere. But not a sign did I see till today when I went to the Fiji Museum in the Botanical Gardens. There, on the wall of the lobby, is a notice that gives the history of the 4 ft high weatherbeaten stone that stands at the right of the entrance to the Museum. The notice says: “TUI NA VOTO—Sacred Stone from Ovalau. This stone stood at Levuka, where the Anglican Church now stands. It was named Tui Na Voto, from the god believed to inhabit it. Tui Na Voto was the god of the Delaiqereqere tribe at Levuka. His priest would lean against the stone when consulting the oracle. Purchased by Humphrey Berkeley, Esq., 1906.”

And Mr. Charles Wagner, of South Queensland, writes to say that Berkeley had not one son, but two. He says: The younger was always called “Sparrow” by his comrades in Fiji, and he became a lawyer, like his father; but when last I heard of him he had achieved fame, in London, as a playwright, or creative artist of some kind. I knew him well, and would very much like to have later news of him.

The elder brother was a different type—and a very good chap. I remember that he starred asi the British Naval Officer in The Geisha, when we put it on in Suva.

One night, at rehearsal, our Chief Justice, Mr. Major (afterwards Sir Charles Major) who was stage manager, told the girl who was costarring with young Berkeley that, to play the part projrelyjfre jftwM 5£ fiST. bit* I higher. ?lh.'« simps’* called* MoUie° Seymour Incidentally, I beUeve that “Molhe still occupies one of the Quarters what used to be our Cable Quarters —and I hope she still is well and kicking.

It Was Wrong Treatment For Sipuma Papuan old-timer, J. Nixonwestwood, now living in England, has a few things to add to Mrs. Jan Croft’s article, back in October, on the late Wally Maidment, of Daru, (See also Magazine Section this issue).

He says that the first Mrs. Maidment did not die from blackwater fever but directly as the result of the wrong treatment given her for sipuma. (Sipuma is described as a scaly skin disease that covers the whole body and apparently is a relative of tinea, or what in the New Guinea territory is called grilli).

Mrs. Maidment, says Mr. Nixonwest wood, asked her neighbour what was a good thing for the complaint and he, not knowing that she intended to try it on herself, suggested a concoction of acid and kerosene. She applied it from head to toe, and as a result spent weeks in agony while the whole settlement suffered in sympathy.

Finally she was carried on board the Mindoro on a stretcher and taken by Wally to Thursday Island, where she was transhipped on a vessel to Sydney. By this time she was so thin and weak that she died within a few days of reaching there.

Mr. Nixon west wood says that Wally’s business at that time, as well as acting as agent for some of the Fly River traders, was connected with the Mawatta, Ture Ture and Darnley islands of Torres Strait.

When pearling vessels from those islands put into Daru to shelter, Wally got a fair amount of the trade that was offering.

You Should Say Santo, Not Santos or Luganville In December “PIM” we asked if one called the New Hebrides’ second settlement Santo, Santos or Luganville—all versions have some use.

Captain Brett Hilder, master of the Burns Philp vessels “Malaita” and (currently) “Tulagi”, who is in and out of that port more often than most, says it is certainly “Santo”, and supplies these details: Luganville is the name coined in 1889 for the agency at Santo, of the Compagnie Caledonienne des Nouvelles-Hebrides on the first occasion it was visited from Noumea, by the SS Tanais, of the Messageries Maritimes Line.

The Captain’s name was Armand Lugan, in the last year of his long service in the New Caledonian trade.

The ship was of 2,400 tons, and carried some influential passengers, who wished to honour the Captain by naming the settlement, the bay and a nearby river after him.

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[?] Forum Is [?]st What The [?]C Plans , — Mr. Robson, in an article on ition in Western Samoa in your iry issue, quotes local residents ondering on the impacts of \tion on traditional discipline behaviour, and one as saying— -3Y has the SPC, which has had discussions on all sorts of other things, not organised urn of practical teachers on subjects, especially the effect village school education on a ry’s social outlook and ns?” i SPC decided in 1957 to hold :ional seminar at high pronal level to discuss the various ;ms of education. It takes some to crystallise ideas on such a subject, but it is now definite this Regional Educational lar will be held at Brisbane, ?h the courtesy of the Uni- -7 of Queensland, and most bly from November 15 to 27 ; expected that at least 11 and bly more territories will send top educationists, and that the nments that participate in the ussion will send high-level entatives. agenda for discussion will The provision of varying types and both* ° f education in relation to a limited budget, and (b) the professional and occupational needs of a territory; The training of teachers; The place of an educational aids service in relation to an expanding educational system- The methods of teaching languages; B The role of the Commission, and specific activities which it might undertake, in association with the territories, in the field of education.

I am, etc., „ r . C. G. R. McKay.

Wangarei, NZ, February 12, 1959.

Lucky 400 to Meet The Duke The first big reception for Prince Philip during his BSIP and GEIC tour in March will also probably be his biggest of the tour, it will be held at Government House, Honiara, on March 19, and will be attended by 400 people European, Chinese, Fijian, Indian and Melanesian. For European guests invitations were allocated mostly on the basis of the length of time each had spent in the Solomons. 29 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Territories Talk-Talk

By Tolala There was no question last month about New Guinea sing front-page news. The clerics aired their views in the old lacarthur-Onslow home at “Gilbulla” (Menangle), where the ustralian Council for the World Council of Churches had ithered, resolving unanimously that the whole of the NG le should be placed under UN Trusteeship, and its people’s elfare be the primary objective.

D the same day, PIM publisher lobson, as guest speaker to the ly Sydney Legacy luncheon, underlining the strategical imnce to Australia of the northern d and putting in a plug for his erne for Federation to the tees, most of whom are serious- :ing professional and business itives in the Harbour City, v Guinea, therefore, was the nt topic last month, topped off e Casey statement that brought candid comments from some e back-benchers in the House. iry experts, in the persons of ral Eichelberger and Majorral Father (he who took over ul from the Japs in ’45) had :hing to say about the strategic of the isle. icet of the urge for UN Trusteewhich was not particularly ioned (and many took for ed) is there is no guarantee, f West New Guinea does become ist Territory, Australia will be administering authority. The Asian bloc in UN councils has le a formidable power in the and would plug, naturally, he Javanese-Indonesians to that task. e degree of “dinkum-ness” be the yard-stick in measuring mportance of bilaterial disns. Past performances of the ese in repudiating financial erritorial agreements with the rlands do not create a feeling ifidence in their trustworthidamentally, they have been ally dishonest to others; have iy reason to believe they will y different to us? speaking of honesty, we ’t forget that we more or less ur tongue in our cheek when >tically talking of native wells our paramount object in ig out intending intruders. id a week in early February, y philatelists had a beano, exhibition, known as ANPEX alian National Philatelic Exhibitlon) was held in Sydney Town Hall, and for anyone with a liking for stamps and their collecting, it was a very worthwhile display.

Pacific Islands were by no means neglected and for general interest ranked high.

Browsing through the Aisles of Philately I met up with A. R.

Nancarrow. a one-time Chief Officer of the good ship Mirani (well-known during the ’3o’s in local TNG waters), and now of Glen Iris, Victoria.

He was awarded a bronze medal for his most interesting display of Fiji, Tonga and Solomons issues, and explained to me that he owed much to Rev. A. H. Voyce, himself an ardent collector who for a number of years resided in the Buin area of Bougainville and is now in Auckland, NZ.

He also collected a silver medal for a postal history of the Bougainville district, starting off when the explorer Bougainville, in 1768, picked up some mail from Carteret’s vessel for delivery to France. He must have put a great deal of research into the job and local Territorial Historical Societies should try and obtain a copy of this monograph.

I noticed Friend E. R. Gill, the Liverpudlian who took me to task m the January PIM, collected a silver medal for several “Unusual Items or Pieces” of Papua, amongst them (and I quote the Exhibition catalogue): “(b) Showing BNG c.d.s. and bar obliterations. Cover m the handwriting of Dr. William Macgregor, the first Lieut-Governor of BNG, addressed to Lady Macgregor. . .” which I expect will make Mr. Gill shudder when he sees the spelling of the name.

Exhibits of both Papua and New Guinea were so numerous and such rare specimens displayed that one wonders whether the Port Moresby Museum has made any arrangements for a philatelic section to be included in its exhibits. If not. why not?

A Loose Term A Sydney paper last month ran a news item from Lae about a certain lady in Lae winning £15,000 in a lottery. She was referred to as a “Malayan” and lived in Lae’s “Malaytown”.

All of which raises the question of this somewhat loose use of the term “Malay” when referring generally to these descendants of the folk who came down from the Celebes and Amboina in the German time, and for some years were referred to as “Karanis”.

In these days, when greater care is usually observed in putting the proper tags on nationals, a more correct name than “Malay” should be applied. What are their own opinions regarding the matter?

They are a section of the nonindigenous population for which I hold a great respect.

During the German time they were the silent workers, often in responsible clerical positions with the commercial houses, who carried their white bosses (as, so often, in the Army the senior NCO’s carried their officers) but never for a moment “forgetting their place”, always dependable, respectful and concientious in performing their duties and, invariably, examples of sartorial perfection.

As I look back now at this late date I recall three outstanding “Karanis”, working in the early ’2O s, who were worth their weight in gold. • Siegers was records clerk for the Exproboard from, practically, its inception. His memory for correspondence, inward or outward, was phenomental. Without referring to his records he could turn up a letter to so-and-so, written six months ago, with the least delay and in a Married in Port Moresby in February, Mr. T.

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And there were many others of inestimable worth; shipping clerks, tally clerks all of whom did outstanding jobs, collecting little kudos, nor even asking for it. They were an important factor in the development of TNG, and I doubt very much they have ever been properly appreciated.

But, what are we going to call them?

Old Scenes Da Ke-visuea Not so very long ago I learned through the Rabaul grapevine that Ted Taylor, one of the old-time Kiaps, was re-visiting some of his old haunts in and around Rabaul. and it was pleasing news, for Ted was always a popular official, especially with the Tolai people and the common, everyday man-in-tf street, irrespective of colour.

He went first to the Territory w/ the AN&MEF in 1914, spent a sH time at Nauru and after his retti to NG was constantly on Distd Service work; he was a no trouble-shooter and if ever a sa of bother cropped up anywhere w anybody Ted was called uponx give the Taylor treatment in his < variable quiet, impressive manu without bombast or “pulling rank”.

I first met up with him in I 1921 (or it may have been early ’

I was with the Exproboard in thl days; taking over the Germ plantations was a full-time job.< Somebody suddenly discovereoi “forgotten” young plantation, the beaten track and rapidly go bush. It was Pondo, on the w coast of the Gazelle Peninsula; only cultivated area between C( Lambert and the government stat at Talasea. A labour line of ato a hundred was immediately requiii Whence and how?

Talasea plantation (later kno as Linga Linga) was well ov strength; a certain section of NL Ordinance provided that, w the approval of the Administraf labour could be transferred withi tneir consent.

Approval was obtained and I : off in the steamer Meklong for government station at Talaj armed with the necessary authon and there picked up Kiap Tay{ proceeding on to the Talasea plan tion where one, Fischer (a retun digger and later killed in Nakanai massacre) held the fon Volunteers to transfer were cai for and without fuss or coerciox hundred sturdy workers were o barked and we sailed for Pondo : all was well. This one-time wilo ness later became one of the sit places of the Territory—until Japs threw a spanner in the woe Happy nostalgic wanderings, T amongst old friends and old sc© but under new conditions!

Racial Discrimination If in the past the originators racial discrimination were the Put Sahibs and white overloads in dark countries, it is quite appair now that the cycle of colt segregation is being controlled i the educated members of the da races and to such proportions t; make one wonder where it will © Certain sections of Africa ar© open revolt and it all seems toe up with the global anti-white mo ment which sociologists have tipq these many years. (I have in im Oswald Spengler’s “Decline of West”, in particular).

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The Confusion Of Tongues It seems there is always bound to be an argument going on about languages in P-NG. If it is not Pidgin, then it is about pure English being compulsorily taught versus the Vernacular.

The clash between the LMS and Administration at the beginning of last month could become a knotty problem, one which will probably reach high levels of State and Church. I like Jimmy James’ remark: “We are not trying to bring up a race of carbon copies of Europeans, but rather a race of educated Papuans able to take their place in and lead the community.

If they have no language of their own, is this likely?”

The answer, of course, is in the negative, and it is to be hoped the Administration becomes more realistic in its attitude towards teaching the vernacular in mission schools.

If it persists in its present policy it will certainly not “come close to the native people” as urged by Minister Hasluck when speaking in the House on the Navuneram report.

A knowledge of the vernacular by Native Affairs officers themselves is one of the surest means of improving relations between officialdom and the people. It is an invaluable power for the field officer in narticular.

New Life for the Pacific Is. Society Under the cheerful and able presidency of Mr. N. H. Foxcroft, the Pacific Islands Society of Sydney has taken on a fresh lease of life. Membership now totals 143, which is about twice what it was a few years ago when, for a while, it seemed as though the old-established society might fade right out.

At the annual general meeting on February 26, Mr. Foxcroft was reelected president by unanimous vote.

Although he still has a long way to go before he equals the term in office of his wife as president of the New Guinea Women’s Club, he looks set for quite a long stay as guiding hand of the Society.

Other office-bearers elected on February 26 were; Vice-presidents; Dr. G. R.

Mackaness, OBE, MA; Messrs. N. B.

Casey, MBE; L. A. R. Howell; H.

Sabben, OBE; and A, E. Stephen.

Hon. Secretary-Treasurer; Miss M. M. McGann.

Assistant Secretary-Treasurer; Miss D. Peters.

Council: Mesdames N. H. Foxcroft, J. Sylvester-Jones, H. Sabben, N. B. Wight, Messrs. R. J. Christoffersen, F. Kennedy and T. Wignall. 33 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Despite some early setbacks because of a London dock-strike, which held up equipment, and wet weather, which bogged the equipment down after it had got there, progress on the Nadi airport extensions is now rapid.

A GOOD stretch of fine weather has allowed the contractors to push on with the work, which is going to cost more than £3,000,000, and will give Fiji an airport worthy of the jet age.

Fiji’s contribution to the extensions (apart from acquisition of land for development) is the construction of the new terminal building, which will cost about £310,000.

But the major cost of £3,000,000 is being shared by Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

These photographs, taken in February by Rob Wright, Fiji PRO photographer, show several stages of the vast project.

At top are two of the large concrete mixing stations at the airport (the second can just be seen in the background), together with a gravel hopper (at left). A container with gravel is travelling up the inclined girders to the mixing deck. The truck will take the concrete direct to the runway, where it is handled by the concrete laying machine (centre photo). Whirling blades in the concrete layer help compact the mixture.

The whole job is done on the assembly line principle, with teams of men laying reinforcing mesh, tarred paper, adjusting edges, inserting joints, as the concrete strip is pushed out farther and farther.

One day recently the men, in a 12-hour working day, laid 2,000 ft of concrete 20 ft wide—Boo cubic ft of it.

Newly poured concrete on the runway is protected by a portable cover of aluminium, which is on runners and can be moved easily.

The lower photo shows part of the east-west runway after the concreters had finished with it.

This point is about half-way to the intersection with the northscuth strip, and it will be continued for about the same distance behind the camera. . ...

Total length of this runway will be 10,700 ft. . . * Meanwhile the new terminal building is taking shape and the control tower building is almost completed. 37 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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E irate resident of Lae, New 3uinea, doesn’t think much he Qantas service since it iged over from DC4s to ;r Constellations on the Syd- Port Moresby section of the ce (with a consequent reducin planes-per-week). And he ;s to say so in plain words: lAT we have been putting up with is fast giving us ulcers.

Those people who meet the j to collect urgently needed ) such as films, drugs, spare ;, newspapers, and flowers for ings, etc., are constantly being “come back in an hour.” The sometimes extends to the next One Plane Useless iwers ordered recently for a ing did not come at all; the exition being that they would be accepted at the Australian without a certificate. We end about this from previous mers for wedding flowers and knew nothing about certi- JS. ost countries require a certi- ? of fumigation, or to the effect the consignment is diseasehefore they will allow fruit lowers to enter. It would he ual if Papua-New Guinea -s in this regard. — Ed. "PIM”). th the new Constellation serof four planes a week, the tory, in effect, is getting three ;s, because the one which es here on Monday is useless tr as cargo is concerned. Few le in Australia are going to itch goods or mail on Sunday.

Bad Luck ntas certainly has had bad since the inauguration of the service, and most people are e that certain teething troubles arise, and are conseqently mt and understanding. They , too, that Qantas cannot con- :he weather. t —and this is a big but—when Constellation arrived on time, bly for the first time, in Port sby on February 20, and cargo, sngers and mail arrived in Lae nine hours afterwards, even most tolerant were very, very uttles were sent from Lae to up from the Constellation, and i asked “What about the DC4 ?, it was learned that that machine was out on charter The last bitter pill was the information that the DC4 was on charter to the millionaire passengers of the visiting Swedish vessel Kungsholm, which was in Port Moresby that day.

It has always been understood that a DC4 would be available to shuttle from Port Moresby to Lae when the Contellation service started, and as the average time taken for the trip is about li hours, this looked like being a good service, as the Contellation was arriving earlier than the old service.

But there is a very big difference between li hours and the 9 hours which people waited for mail, etc. And this time Qantas had no break-down or weather excuses.

Port Moresby was served; the millionaires were served, and who the hell cares about New Guinea anyway? Australia has already given it away to Indonesia!

M. Louis Devambez, Assistant Fisheries Officer for the South Pacific Commission, is making a survey of river systems in Viti Levu, Fiji.

He is working in co-operation with the Government’s Department of Agriculture in an attempt to determine whether it will be possible to introduce freshwater gamefish into the Colony. 39 'IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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It could be that the Rewa Delta will become Fiji’s rice >wl when the Nausori sugar mill closes next year.

VT a tropical country such as 'iji should have to import more nd more rice each year seems silly, but that is the position. 3 demand for rice is growing ise the Indian population is ng, but there are other factors, ians, for instance, are becomegular rice eaters. (I like the of a little Fijian girl who 3f some Indian friends, “They urry and rice, just like us.”) e imports last year cost 324,000. The amount imported 4,230 tons. A Government nent on the position says that 3 there is large-scale planting ie Colony, imports will have by 1976 to 35,000 tons. 3 Colonial Sugar Refining >any, as part of its patient and • endeavour to find alternative for farmers who now supply lausori sugar mill, has made a ed study of rice possibilities e Nausori area. Experts have brought from Australia and study, in which the Departof Agriculture has joined, resome promising prospects, mt 3,000 acres of potential rice can be used immediately and sugar is no longer grown this can be substantially extended iut eating into land which is fie for other economic crops. 3 CSR Co.’s experts suggest the possibilities do not end rice itself. Indian housewives arge quantities of sharps (a oduct of wheaten flour milling) he suggestion is that the imd sharps might be replaced by y produced rice flour. 3 opportunity certainly seems there. The land is available, narket is growing, and assured, al is needed, and milling and eting organisation is required, hat is where the worth of the rship available in Fiji can be battle mence :tle has been joined between rade union giants in Fiji. But not much of battle and they lot very big giants, e late Mr. Ami Chandra, whose i in a plane crash at Singarobbed Fiji of a wise and balanced, though when necessary forthright and determined, labour leader, gathered the infant trade unions of the day into the Fiji Industrial Workers’ Congress, modelled on the Trades Union Congress of the United Kingdom.

After his death, the presidency fell to Mr. B. D. Lakshman, but it was not long before he was deposed by the member unions and replaced by Mr. C. P. Bidesi, of Suva.

In neither case are qualifications for trade union leadership particularly obvious. Both men are, or have been, for instance, employers rather than workers.

In recent years, Mr. Lakshman’s activities have kept him in the public eye mainly as a focus for trouble in the sugar industry. After much manoeuvring, he became president last year of the sugar mill workers’ union. The union, like a number of others in the Colony, has a curiously undemocratic constitution which allows officers to be elected by “packed” meetings at a particular place, regardless of the views of members who are not able to travel from distant centres to vote.

Memories of his defeat in the Industrial Workers’ Congress still rankle with Mr. Lakshman, and last month he brought into being a Fiji Trades Union Congress.

The inaugural meeting was held at the same time as a previously advertised meeting of the older body. Mr. Lakshman claimed wide and enthusiastic support for his congress, but he was oddly reticent about who was actually present.

The list of unions represented at Mr. Bidesi’s meeting, on the other hand, included all the larger and more important unions except Mr.

Lakshman’s sugar workers.

Politics in Fiji are bedevilled only too often by personal and factional rivalries. It looks as if the same blight may be falling on the trade union movement.

Delayed Reaction Over Water When water rates in Suva were more than doubled in 1958 there was some murmuring, but little true realisation of what 3/9 per thousand gallons would mean when the bills came in.

Now they have come in and the murmurings have risen to dismayed shouts of rage.

Fijian housegirls are notorious wasters of water, but they are being sternly disciplined by household heads with water rate notices in hand. Some flat-dwellers have found that the bill for water is half, or more, as big as the bill for rent.

Wage earners who found it difficult enough to make ends meet previously are now faced with a severe extra burden. Industrial concerns are finding their costs increased by hundreds of pounds a year.

To all this the Government re- A section of the growing township of nadi. Over the past two or three years the township has been transformed by the growth of fine buildings which have taken the place of many of the small shanties. It is the nearest township to Nadi International Airport. 41 If 1C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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“economic charges”, and ; the recommendation of the Review Committee that all nment services should be paid users at rates which will recosts. i Chamber of Commerce ers are not impressed. They at the “economic charge” for includes far too high an it of capital cost. The Public Department is trying to pay i cost of the new Suva supply ch too short a time. jolt of the new rates has le effect at least of making isers water-conscious and has d them into fixing leaking iromptly and into trying to IVB/Sto an interesting point arises. If can’t pay the new high rates ater is cut off from a subil number of houses, what will e effect on sanitation and health, and what will the net 3? niters Will Blow Up r ish Industry 5 fish supplies, or at least irawn from near-shore waters, ;ing seriously threatened by discriminate use of dynamite iison. l methods of catching fish in the destruction of finger- >n which the fish harvest in depends, so the damage is itive. y now and then a fisherman i finger, or the greater part rand, but still the dynamites on, and the police seem ess to stop it. l a mile or two from Suva, 3 Lami foreshore, explosions jard almost daily. Watching its phone the police, who :rom Suva in full uniform in :ly recognisable vehicle. It is urprising that when they ally make their well-adverappearance the lawbreakers lisappeared. osives are used for quarrying lining in a good many parts I Levu and supplies seem to dily accessible to the fish de- •s. w years ago, the appointment a-official wardens to guard ilony’s resources of fish and birds was proposed, but the 3 fizzled out and the waste ,t should be one of Fiji’s main 3 of cheap food continues, awhile, canned fish comes is far away as South Africa, ? to accentuate Fiji’s adverse e of trade. ■e’s probably some sense in it aewhere. ka’s Tree lent Again avenue of trees at Natabua, iautoka, is in the news again, avenue is one of the beauty spots of north-western Viti Levu, but every few years somebody decides that the trees should be cut down because they are a Menace to Traffic.

Defenders of the avenue swing smartly into action and point out once more that the obvious solution is to plant another row of trees and widen the road to take two lanes of traffic. Discussion rages fiercely and then dies down and the trees remain and the road remains, ready for the next attack by the critics.

This time, it is the Lautoka Chamber of Commerce, which is becoming a lively and vocal body under the presidency of Mr. W. L.

Bygrave, that wants to wield the axe. The Chamber does not claim that the whole avenue should be destroyed, but would like to see seven trees removed from one end to expand a bottleneck.

The Automobile Association of Fiji leads the opposition. Widen the entrance to the bottleneck, says the Association’s patrol, Mr. R. Frow, and you merely increase the danger when the narrow part is reached.

Plant another row of trees, urges the Association (this is where we came in) and widen the road.

The discussion has special interest for exporters of timber to Hawaii, where “monkey-pod” souvenirs are made from the wood of trees of the type of those in the avenue. 43 me ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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The Two Faces Of Bulolo

The dredge above, the last of the eight that once worked in the Bulo lo [?]eY of New Guinea, is still helping to produce profits for BGD shareholders [?]cording to one of the local mathematicians, at the rate of about 4d a [?]et.

As the buckets churn around 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days [?]ar. except for 2-weekly or 3-weekly clean-ups. it all mounts up. But not [?] it used to do; and not like it would if the price of gold had risen at the [?]e rate as other basic commodities. [?] BGD is working other parts of the valley, both towards Lae and towards [?] with hydraulic sluices but most Bulolo activity these days centres on the [?]forests in the hills—some of which can be seen behind the dredge.

These huge and symmetrical trees are hauled out of the bush by tractor, cut [?]n convenient lengths on the spot, with a power saw, and hauled to the [?]ood factory on these big timber jinkers (top picture).

There after debarking, the logs are unravelled like a piece of knitting, [?]he rotary cutter and in about two minutes flat become one endless piece [?]ne-sixteenth inch ply, done up in a neat roll. , The finished high-grade ply-board finds a ready market overseas, including [?]ralia and America. It is unlikely that the company (which holds 49 per [?] of the shares against the Australian government’s 51 per cent, in Corn- [?]wealth New Guinea Timbers, Ltd.), will make the same sort of profits out [?]y at it once did out of gold. But the new enterprise permits the continued [?]ence of the model town of Bulolo. . Tt T he perpetual cycle of reafforestation means a permanent industry, it [?]t cut out like gold.

Death of J. B. McAdam Nil's Forests Are His Monument The loss of Forests Director J.

B. Me Adam, suddenly dead at the early age of 49, and one of the Territory’s best known men, came as a shock to Papua and New Guinea.

MR. McADAM was on leave, and was holidaying at Margate, Queensland, in February, with his wife and their three children, and with relations, when he collapsed and died, without warning.

Apparently, he had been in good health.

In his early education, in Queensland, Mr. Me Adam disclosed a special interest in forestry; and he gained his diploma at the Canberra School of Forestry in the early ’Thirties and entered the Queensland Forest Service. In 1938, he was selected as Forestry Officer for New Guinea.

When the Jap invasion occurred, in 1942, Mr. McAdam became a soldier with the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, where distinguished service won him the Military Medal.

He went into ANGAU in 1943, with rank of major, and took charge of the Forestry Division, and he became Director of Forests, in 1951.

He has been a member of the Executive Council since 1949.

Highly Qualified Mr. McAdam will be remembered not only as a successful Departmental head, but also as a highly qualified and most aggressive forester.

He was ready at the drop of a pen to campaign fiercely against any interest—Administration, commerce, land-owner —which threatened the sanctity of his forest reserves, and he policed the sawmilling activities of P-NG (which grew very quickly after World War II) with a sharp and suspicious eye.

Some people will argue that he overdid his passion for protecting the trees; but already there is in New Guinea, in the replanted forests above the Bulolo Valley, and in the afforestation of wide areas which the Europeans found bare, an impressive monument to his skill, industry and tenacity of purpose.

Mr and Mrs. McAdam will be missed in Port Moresby, where they associated themselves with various community activities. 45 HC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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Most of the Tolais paid, pressure was applied, butt Navuneram section refused.

Step by step, the official! pressure on the defiant nr until they reached the point: the non-taxpayers had ti arrested for defiance of thej When the police and official August 4, moved in to maM arrests, the natives attacked! and —as was by then ineviti the police used their rifles, an natives were killed and anr wounded.

Immediately, the Tern Department was in uproar.

Commenting in August, high officialdom was still bf the aii* and breathing heavily pointed out that blame did r with the tax-gathering ole who were merely carrying ouli logical duty, but with the tories Department’s Top Brass had insisted on imposing hea; upon a primitive people, lon fore the latter were capatJ understanding its meaning or • ficance.

Long, Anxious Wait for R< The Inquiry conducted by i Justice Mann was thorougH, far-reaching. His report was : hands of Territories Mt, Hasluck, in November. The must have worked day and! on the job—it runs to oven; typewritten pages.

There was widespread inters His Honour’s findings. Whomr he blame? Presumably, the lay either with the Canbern Moresby set-up, which intro the tax, or with the high CD who directed the method of 46 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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Territorians are of opinion ie did not like the report and that some of its unpleasant r might disappear if he kept •et for a while, ras tabled in Parliament on try 19—nearly three months the Commissioner signed it. n sapienti sat est! er Ready With HIS Report while scores of people 1 and wondered, the Minister ?ood use of the three months, n he tabled the report, he 1 ready a document of eight -typed foolscap pages, which ad out, and in which he ed the report at length, and ted and underlined some of unmissioner’s comments, and sed for wrongdoing, and prosomething better in the ugh the report was not avail- Dr study or publication in (it was merely “tabled”, for ?) the Minister went straight detailed reply to it. bers, even had they been able i the report, could not chalthe Minister’s smooth and ry comments—9o per cent, n know nothing about the ry, and its complex social ministrative structure. ) the moment of this writing probably until the report is and debated—all that the pers and the people have had •se extracts from the report, by the Minister for quotaorder that he may hang lem the soft words which he fill turn wrath away.

'eally is a cunning technique, time the report is printed, e debate of the wearisome )rs reported, most people will orgotten the Navuneram ?s —or will remember them the light of the Ministerial tions. Which suits Mr. : very well.

'eport consists of over 1,500 bound in eight volumes.

Seven of the eight are official documents, and the immense amount of evidence taken in Navuneram, Rabaul and Port Moresby. The eighth volume contains the Commissioner’s summary and comments.

Tribute to Officials That last volume can be easily summarised. (More details on page 51.) His Honour finds none of the officials involved in the Navuneram incident seriously blameworthyhaving, in accordance with Port Moresby’s instructions, engaged upon the task of collecting the taxes from the stubborn and resentful Tolais, they could do no other than pursue the matter to its logical conclusion, and, if necessary, effect the arrest of the natives who openly defied the law.

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His Honour says a great deal in this paragraph of his report: “I do not want to be taken as expressing the view that the officers of the Ad- 47 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Box 4809, G.P.0., Sydney Reg'd Office: 17 Macquarie Place, Sydney itration should be held responsible for ncidents. ideed, I reject such a conclusion, and that any search for a scapegoat to the responsibility for these events I involve serious injustice to these rs. and would deprive the Administra- Bf the benefit which can only be defrom close attention to the causes e trouble. 1 of the officers who gave evidence so frankly, truthfully and without re. icy are all men of outstanding ability ntegrity, and wide experience in the ;ory, and they faced the very difficult ;ms with which they were confronted great courage, and application to at reference to “close attention he causes of the trouble” is ficant.

Much Wider Dispute e Commissioner quite properly that the immediate background le events of August 4 is found le operation of the head tax; that the question of taxation mly incidental to a much wider ite going back over years, e Minister is shrewd enough to he meaning of those sentences, it as they affect his adminism, and so he jumps in with explanations. Here is one: ly a comparatively small percentage ! native population pays the maxirate of £2. t of an enumerated adult male ition of 476,840 in Papua and New a, a total of 176,497 were automaticexempted at the beginning of the tax-year and 53,999 were either or partially exempted by tribunals the year; so that only half of the male population were in fact payie full personal tax. e vast majority of those on whom ;ax has been levied have paid bypassing, I should mention that, gh the tax was primarily introduced number of reasons advanced by the istrator as being valuable for our istrative purposes, the tax is also ;ordance with the expressed wishes Trusteeship Council of UN.” ; the Minister’s smooth phrases )t explain (a) why the tax was e first place introduced among primitive folk of Papua and Guinea, at the present stage of opment and (b) why it was 1 upon this particular section ie Tolais, when 200,000 other es were exempt.

The Difficult Tolais 5 Minister went on to say, at stage in his comments, that head tax was “inextricably i” with the Administration’s ipts to introduce an increasing e of local government among latives. It was provided that 3 natives were being taxed by governments, they could be — vere —exempt from head tax. ; the Commissioner emphasises neram’s opposition to local nment as well as to the head and the natives’ belief that acceptance of head tax would the way to the local government, which they had rejected The 9 ommissioner refers also to the history of those Tolais—there is a record since 1950 of clashes between them and the District Administration the McCarthy incident at Raluana a few years ago may not be forgotten.

He refers to many things local and general, which had contributed to the “bewilderment and alarm” of the native people, in connection with this tax.

It all goes back to the questions: Why was the tax imposed upon the Tolais? Why was it introduced at all?

To sum it all up: The Commissioner lays no special blame for the Navuneram shootings on the officials immediately involved in the shootings. He suggests that the Administration could derive benefit from “close attention to the causes of the trouble.”

He could have said a good deal more under that head. Perhaps he would have liked to have done so— but apparently he took the view that his authority did not extend to an inquiry on why the Government introduced the tax, and the manner of its application. . . Parliament’s first knowledge of the nature of the report was gained only through the comments with which the Minister blanketed it.

Minister's Promises The Minister concludes with a whole series of pious resolutions which he says are called for by the report, and which he summarises as a “need for constant, patient and penetrating effort to understand more clearly the complex situations with which we are dealing.” He promises to: • Re-examine the Taxation Ordinance. j ~ , • Make a full examination of land available for natives. • Make increasing efforts to introduce local government. ® Reorganise and review the Department of Native Affairs. • Seek greater continuity of service of appropriate officers in particular areas. • Take steps for a fuller and closer examination of the local position in the Gazelle Peninsula that is, the attitude and condition of the Tolais. , . , . „ Why could these things not have been done, without conflict with Navuneram natives, and a commission of Inquiry? .

It all has been admirably stagemanaged. If he can get away with it, the Minister will be left un challenged in his pos i t ion as dictator—he may not even have to defend his introduction of the head tax, which is the primary cause of the Navuneram shootings i nor have to explain why, having brought in the tax, he failed to prepare these notoriously difficult Toiaisfor imposition. The Commissioner s ;re port puts the issue squarely up to 49 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Minister, but the Minister has -stepped it all, adroitly, owever, the Parliamentary de- * on the report—even in that mber of ignorance and tomb of ative —may produce fireworks, iterjections by that battered old rior, Dr. Evatt, indicated a ible determination at a later e to have a large piece of Adistrator D. M. Cleland, who is litely persona non grata in the ;ralian Labour Party. despread Bloodshed Avoided When Police Disobeyed i ’rom a Canberra Correspondent )st of the Commissioner’s comts are pointed and pithy; and a small proportion were dis- ;d by Mr. Hasluck in his speech, e Commissioner devotes most is comment to the actual init at Navuneram on August 4, to the events which immediled up to it. He does not disthe virtue or justice of the -tax, and the method of introig it —he apparently regards as outside his Inquiry, e Commissioner, however, does that in his opinion the evidhad shown that the matter of payment of head-tax was merely ental to the shooting incident vuneram. Conditions, pressures loyalties inside this section of ?olais, and many other factors, contributed to the final trouble, ler points made by the Judge; determination of the officials at eram to employ only minimum forces hostile natives were concerned, and to fire upon natives unless it was tely necessary to save life, was in ith one of the proudest traditions of rvlce. The New Guinea officers conin the Navuneram affair had shown it deal of patience and courage in ice of the hostile natives; but it ;en misplaced in the case of Navuofficials in control of the police had special care to instruct the police e high and avoid injuring the i. “I am satisfied that it was a result of a contravention of these and of the killing and wounding natives, that the attacking natives »ut to flight, and thus widespread led on both sides was narrowly I.”

Javuneram, the force assembled to ith the defiance of the natives was [equate. “It should have been so ?hly armed and prepared, and appear in such strength, as to leave bt in the minds of the law-breakers what the outcome would be.” The ssioner said that the force employed proper first-aid supplies, radioled patrols and first-aid vehicles, s, and other modern devices deto quieten mobs and avoid loss of Commissioner strongly criticised ct that little attention was given conference (wherein the steps to en to enforce tax payment were id) to legal considerations—and es- ' to the fact that Native Affairs who had already been involved trouble, took a prominent part in er activities. i there arose the question of how ffectively to enforce the law, the entire operation should have been in the hands of the regular police force, sup- P"*®? “ necessary who were better trained in the use of fire-arms p ommis sioner especially was ' emphatic in condemning certain aspects of the Navuneram proceedings, which he described in these words: “ De *P ite the many legal difficulties in the actions proposed, no Crown Law officer took part in the conference held at Rabaul on August 2 which decided on the Navuneram proceedings.

“Two assistant district officers were chosen to constitute the court at Navuneram. Both these officers were well known to the natives as officers of the Department of Native Affairs. Both attended the August 2 conference at which the plan of campaign was discussed “On August 4 one of them took an active part in the fighting which ensued between police and natives.

“During court proceedings, the District Officer, Mr. Flower, appeared for the prosecution and asked for the maximum penalty, which was imposed. The evidence in support of the charge was given by Mr. E. j. Emanuel.

“When it is considered that Mr. Flower was the immediate superior officer to whom the magistrate, in relation to his departmental duties, is responsible and that another function of the Native Affairs Department is to see that natives are properly and adequately defended in any court proceedings—it becomes apparent that the department’s zeal in undertaking conflicting duties was being carried beyond the limits of prudence or reason.

“The department’s idea of dispensing with formality in court proceedings is not in accord with the experience over many centuries of judges who have had the responsibility for conducting courts.” 51 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Fiji Tackles Its Housing Problem From a Suva Correspondent Fiji’s low-income housing scheme has finally got under way. A Suva firm at the end of January erected a prefabricated house in five days, at a cost of £500, for an Ellice Islander.

THE islander, Hollis Toise, a copra store worker who has lived in Suva for 33 years, thus became the first man to have a loan application approved, and his house built.

The Fiji Housing Authority— which operates the new scheme — paid £475 towards the cost of the house, and Toise put in five per cent., or £25.

Normally, the Authority expects the loan to be repaid at five per cent, over 20 years, but Toise says he will do better than that —£2 a week.

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Some Unhappy This fact hasn’t pleased workers in other centres where housing problems are just as acute, but the Authority considers that Suva and Lautoka have the biggest problems.

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The engagement of Korean vessels for this fishery has apparently been arranged as part of a general United Nations programme to aid in the rehabitation of the Korean fishing industry and the economy of that country generally. 55 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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Doing it the Hard Way On The Search For Polynesia’s Snakes Prom An Apia Correspondent A young Hungarian zoologist, r. Janos G. V. Varga, who s studied in Germany and reitly visited Australia and New aland, is at present studying ikes in Samoa.

HERE is a popular opinion that there are no snakes in Polynesia except in Western Samoa, i Mr. Varga hopes to find out v far this is true. He will later it other territories.

A. Buxton, in Insects of noa, says, “No land snakes are nd to the east of Samoa. Howr, on Hawaii there is found a id worm snake, Thyphlops minus, which is rarely seen, luxton also mentions that there a terrestrial snake, a boa, 7 yrus bibroni, to be found in iga.

Hiring a short stay in Tongau, Mr. Varga questioned Tongans remote villages and found no >wledge of snakes anywhere, he Samoans distinguish four es of snakes—gata’ula (black ke), gatamumu (red snake), asina (white snake) and in one a of Savai’i island, around the age of Safune, a gata’oso mping snake) is mentioned. ) latter name is applied by some either the red snake or white ke.

Plenty of Proof here are plenty of references makes in W. Samoa’s past, and ity of proof that snakes were lady well known before Euron discovery of the islands, uring Mr. Varga’s stay in ai’i, in the vicinity of Asau, small village situated amongst lava fields, the people of the 'ounding villages told how the pie of the district used to eat kes, using coconut oil as a servative. is interesting to note that the pie of Asau itself denied this, hey apparently are ashamed of alleged eating of snakes by nous generations, r. Varga believes, however, that people of Savai’i used to eat meat until about 70 years fter three weeks of exploration the bush of North Savai’i, in districts of Safune and pquli, Mr. Varga succeeded in hing twelve snakes ranging in from 13 inches to 51 inches.

He also caught two snakes near Poutasi, in the Falealili district of Upolu island, which measured 36 and 49 inches in length.

On the small rocky island of Apolima, one dark brown snake 33 in. long was found.

Up to 40 years ago much larger snakes were here and Mr. Varga has in his possession a snake skin 12 ft in length, found in the Palauli district of Savai’i. But the skin was stretched and the original length may have approximated only nine feet.

The reason the larger snakes are dying out may have something to do with the cultivation of the land. , .

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Samoan snakes varies from light grey red brown to a dark brown, almost black. The colour varies according to the surroundings m which the snakes are found.

They can all be identified as one type—boas, sub-family Boinae.

All Harmless The Pacific boas ( Enygrus ) are small snakes with small triangular heads and angular snquts which can be seen when viewing the snake from the side, and with wedge shaped scales on the back.

They are completely harmless and are found on the Pacific Islands, from the Celebes eastwards through New Guinea to Samoa.

Little is recorded habits of the three species. (Over) Zoologist J. G. V. Varga, now in West Samoa, leaves no room for doubt that there are snakes in that territory at any rate. All these he caught there. 57 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Then Mr, Vagra first heard of iumping snake in Samoa, he ught that it was identical witn Enygrus asper. This snake is Qd in the Bismark Arcnipelago. ; is possible that during the iod when labourers and cargo e brought in ships from New nea to Western Samoa the lies E. asper might have been jght to Samoa. i captivity the W. Samoan kes are difficult to feed and have fie forced to accept food. Mr. ga has not succeeded in getany of his captive snakes to p.

A Crowing Snake i Samoa the story is told of a se which crows like a rooster :a vivini). The Samoans claim ; a very large red coloured ce makes this noise. Probably ! roosters or rats attacked by les may have made these es, which Samoans believed nated from the snakes. But :es have no vocal chords, owever, the Dhaman snake of . makes a noise like the deep id of a large male cat—the only ce known to make a real loud e. imoa has four species of sea :es, three species of Laticuda one species of Pelamis. These also found in Niue and Tonga, jople believe they are nononous, but this is not absolutely ain. > far as is known there are no :es in Tutuila and Manua, ;ern Samoa. [?]nds Education [?]inar for Brisbane seminar to discuss education ilems in the Islands is to be conid at Brisbane, in November, by South Pacific Commission, issionary organisations who will ivited to send observers are the onal Missionary Council of New and and its Australian counter- ; the Missionary Board of the lerlands Reformed Church, and tan Catholic Missions and nisations in the South Pacific. le seminar will discuss common lems, the training of teachers, lods of teaching languages, educational aids, services and estions for specific activities the mission itself could undertake.

New Department for Suva Medical School Fiji’s medical services will progress a step further in March when a new department of the Central Medical School comes into operation ' ’ mu p , Pre .y i enta “ five and Social Medicine, will enable Pacific medical students who graduate in Fiji to obtain a Certificate in Public Health in Eiddition to their other medical t iS? ates - A Nuffield grant of £20,000 was used for establishing the department.

During the course, groups of medical students will survey villages and communities in Suva. These surveys will be made in association with clinical diagnoses of patients. , T* l6 Dir cctor of Medical Services i < ? r FiSVi^rv D f I vJa? U if Sell) e ?P la . ine< J * n vSJS- ar i y that - lf « P atie I P t a hospital examination showed “S'? 5 oi lik e TB, typhoid or leprosy, or any of the intestinal diseases, the village or community from which he came would be surveyed and suspects treated before an epidemic had time to break out.

Dr. Dill-Russell also intends to bring post graduates back to Suva for a six months’ course, to enable them to qualify for a Certificate in Public Health. 59 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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The Future of Pacific Tourism Fiji And The French Are Ahead- And They May Stay There!

The territories of the South Pacific can be divided roughly nto two classes: those that encourage tourists and those which ouldn’t care less. There is at least one territory that is the xception to both above clauses: Tahiti. It gets them, anyway.

JI has made a determined effort in the post-World War II years, and outside of Hawaii, now has the best-organised ’lst industry of all the Pacific nds. iji, of course, has a lot of natural antages for this. It is on the n shipping and air routes bem Australasia and North jrica, and it is natural and easy >tep off there for a few days, i couple of weeks, nericans are doing this to an easing degree, and there is also eady, if unspectacular, flow of ists from New Zealand to Fiji ng the winter months. lot of nasty things are said it NZ tourists in the Colony h as: “A NZ tourist brings md a clean shirt and changes ier”), but the fact is that NZ ides a lot of the bread of Fiji ism, even if the more affuent ir tourists provide most of the er and jam. it Can Still Be An Adventure is hard to calculate these ?s, but tourism indirectly and :tly probably is worth a couple ullions of pounds, annually, to these days. s t reputing: it is easy to visit either coming or going from where else; to visit any other of the Pacific Islands (excluding Hawaii, of course) still takes a determined effort of will and frequently is without encouragement from those who would profit most.

Western Samoa is beautiful, interesting, with a variegated and' entertaining history. But at present, it has no organised tourist industry. It has, of course, a thin trickle of overseas visitors; but that isn’t tourism.

By and large, the Samoans are now more preoccupied with taking over their own government, and are not interested in tourists. There are no licensed hotels, because the Territory’s liquor laws are based on “liquor only for medicinal purposes”, for which a permit is issued. There are several guest houses.

The Cook Islands are in a similar position. The group is served by poor shipping services and the airservice touches only at Aitutaki.

There is only very limited guesthouse accommodation in the main island of Rarotonga.

New Caledonia Is Out for Tourist Business Tahiti, after a period of isolation, now has two air services and numerous shipping services. The fame of its scenic beauty and the hospitality of its native people have made it a mecca for all sorts and condition of visitors, wanderers and vagabonds, in spite of at times active discouragement from some officials.

American interests are now taking an active part in local hotels and mere has been considerable improvement in recent years.

Quite recently New Caledonia has been making a determined effort [?]ups like this—the 45,000-ton P. &0. luxury liner "Canberra"—will shortly be bringing [?]ousands more tourists to the Pacific—but which territories will get the lion's share of [?]ssengers? "Canberra" is now building in Britain and will be in service within two years.

Fiji has both charm and tradition to help it attract tourists, and it's making a determined bid for them. But some things the tourists would rarely see-such as the ritual burial of a fijian leader.

This photograph was taken laken last year in the lau group and shows high born fijian women placing a great length of tapa on the ground just before the coffin of Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna was carried over it to his grave. 61 ' 1 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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Few Caledonia is tackling its rist problem from the funda- Qtals of the business—hotels. 0 instrumentalities now will 1 money to build hotels, and i policy is already paying divids. Holiday apartments and t-class hotel rooms in Noumea e increased from an alleged 74 1956, to about 160 at present, ighty new first-class rooms to added to this are in the planl stage, and in addition the iete Touristique et Hoteliere jets soon to build a two-storey ;1 with 60 bedrooms, a res- •ant and all other first-class nities. angalow-type hotels are curly being built at the Isle of ;s, Thio and Ouvea, and it is ?d (and that is a very elastic i) to ultimately increase the itry resort hotels to 200 rooms bungalows. lere are also plans to run ■or-three-day cruises around Group, in specially fitted small fc—thus taking a page out of book of Mr. Trevor Withers, iji, whose luxury cruises to the iwas are famous. There are s to get overseas’ ships to visit i frequently. le local airline also wants to up business, and there is talk pening up some of the old warairstrips that have since n over. lot of this is still in the talking 3, and there some of it may Li n. , But for the first time, Caledonia is talking tourism, some of the talking, the doing the thinking seems already to earing fruit. w Caledonia had only 600 sts who stayed more than two in 1956; the next year there only 666. But final figures 1958 are expected to be over and this year they are ig for 2,000 who, with some >ands of cruise travellers, will 1 about 40 million Pacific :s.

Needs More Than Souvenirs and Ologists e most interesting and least lised territory of them all in ounst sense is, without doubt, a-New Guinea. )ua-New Guinea cannot be re- 5, entirely as a “Pacific a ; it is continental in scope, ugh some of the islands off the -eastern tip, visited now only missionaries, administration us and traders, are amongst lost beautiful small islands in /orld. »ua-New Guinea has plenty of rs— every expert and “ologist” sry known variety and importance, has been sent there, at some time or other, by some government or other. And there are a few round-trippers and other deter- “lnfA travellers, but in the sense of international tourists, tripping from one Five Star Hotel to assrvar have no tourist in - Individuals have made efforts to do something on a minor scale— -5L? r T d l ng . buses for Jurist trips while Australian ships are in portm arranging plane flights into the Highlands; or in producing souvenirs to sell. Proprietors of businesses in the main ports, where there is the occasional cruise ship and the regular Australian vessels are well aware of the value of tourist money. But the Territory cant count tourism high on the hst of important industries, as does Fiji for example, until the basic problem of hotels is tackled.

Some hotels are quite good but tney are the exception and there is not enough of them.

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You Might Have to Share ; some of the rest of New lea’s hotels the tourist will get 1 food; he can always be certain getting sufficient to drink; in e he will get reasonable service; Imost all cases he will get great Iness and help from the lagement. some he will do well to get sthing better than a ceiling : of 30 watts; or a mirror bigger i a foot square; or anything 3 substantial than a curtained >oard to hang his clothes. He be luckly if he doesn’t have to e his room with a stranger, is a land where such refinets as bedside lights are rare ed, and where it is apparently med that one will retire at t in either a drunken stupor ivith the aid of a brace of )ing pills. No effort is made rotect the traveller from noise. ’ the time an individual has bed the status of international ist, he (or she) has also reached stage of wanting a “good quiet . He doesn’t want to horse d in the bar half the night; d listen to locals telling their stories on the verandah directly de his room; or to be brought all-standing while someone ’ses his jeep or Land Rover (or » at times, sounds like his rpillar tractor) out of the ing area.

Effect of Clubs on PuLs ie state of affairs in Territory Is is not altogether the fault the proprietors or owners, ely it is a matter of hotel f^°r> OI Sr^ s ’ anc * tlle hote l business m v?* G seems to have got itself revolving around a vicious circle; There is unlikely to be much improvement in the hotels until there are more tourists, and there ar^i U ?i lkely to be man y tourists until there is an improvement in the hotels.

In the meantime, the hotels must depend on local patronage, and there they are immediately up against the competition of the clubs. As soon as any settlement in the Territory reaches six-house level, the residents set up a club At last count there were 16 hotels in P-NG; and there were about 50 clubs. That is formidable opposition m any language.

Papua-New Guinea at present does not need a tourist industry— it is doing very nicely without.

And in some respects it probably would be a great pity if it ever develops differently, it is one of the few remaining frontiers of civilisation, and such visitors as it does have are more interested in that than in rooms-with-bath and plush cocktail-bars.

It seems, therefore, that for a long time to come, Fiji and the French Pacific are going to have the South Pacific tourist business pretty much to themselves. [?] o Tourists, But NG Trade is Good ncreased production and better ces for some commodities, especif copra, meant an increase of lost £1,000,000 in Papua-New inea exports in the three months led September, 1958. ’igures released in February show t exports for the period totalled 165,146 compared with £2,714,940 the same period of the previous r. he Territory’s total overall trade ing the three months amounted £8,016,500, compared with 71,327 in the same period of previous year. opra exports in the three months ;a 11 e d 267,060 hundredweight, th £921,843 compared with 170,853 idredweight, worth, £516,038, in same period last year. 65 ' I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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The present cocoa price still shows a margin of profit—but Samoan cocoa-growers generally 5; av £,, decided not to purchase new Cadillac cars this season.

The export of bananas from Western Samoa to New Zealand has been worth approximately £1,000,000 Sterling per annum in recent times.

Now, two serious troubles have hit this large and flourishing industry.

New Zealand has decided that NZ cannot absorb more than between 800,000 and 900,000 cases of Samoan bananas per annum—and Samoa’s potential production is much greater than that. A lot of young Samoans of Samoa’s rapidly growing population have taken up banana production. So now Samoa’s new Minister for Economic Development has been asked to inquire whether there is a market for Samoan bananas in Canada, the United States and perhaps Japan.

The idea is tinged with healthy optimism. Countless other bananagrowing countries have been thinking along the same lines. Fiji— before hit by hurricane and drought —was looking anxiously around for new banana markets.

But, worst of all, is the second problem the appearance in Western Samoa of a very infectious disease called bunchytop, which literally wipes out banana plantations. Five years ago, bunchytop made its first appearance in a plantation at Lefaga, in Upolu.

Two years later, a survey showed that 40 per cent, of the bananas in Lefaga and Safata had contracted the disease.

Now. when it is spreading like wildfire across the banana plantations of Upolu, high officialdom is trying to do something about it; but the official entomologist has warned that banana production in Upolu could be halved by this disease within the next five or 10 years.

Anxious Search With self-government just around the corner, the local men who expect to govern Western Samoa are looking around rather anxiously for sources of additional income.

The present combination of unhappy circumstances suggests that they will be faced with a reduced rather than an expanded income.

In so many words; owing to conditions beyond their control, the Western Samoans, in relation to finance and production, are not yet ready for self-government—m fact, they could do with a little assistance from New Zealand and perhaps from some other country.

No doubt many hope that the Trusteeship Council mission, now arriving in Samoa for a survey, w take more notice of the economy and social outlook, and a little less notice of the politicians. 67 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1859

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New Guinea Head Tax Trouble Again The Problems of the Sepik: Progress v. Cargo Cultism By G. C. LUCK The huge, practically undeveloped Sepik District of Papuaw Guinea, long a fertile field for occult practices, has had Dther rash of cargo cults.

T November, native resistance, merated by a long-standig cult in the Number 2 Wapei on the southern slopes of the ;elli Mountains, almost cost fe of Patrol Officer Faithfull, the Nuku patrol post, who in a tax-gathering patrol. :hfull, entering one village, net by a crowd brandishing > and strung bows. The ge was simple—they would ay any tax. iding not to retire for reements in the face of this ition, he went on to the next then, resistance had increased urther, and Faithfull’s patrol let by a wildly militant group tives. threatened him with his and a dangerous situation, could have resulted in the iction of the whole patrol, was d only by an immediate with- 1.

Big Patrol Out Government’s answer was to this show of force with the fcch of a patrol capable of ng, if necessary, that the laws w Guinea must be obeyed, by the Sepik District Officer, 'om Ellis, and including P/O full, ADO Terrell, and P/O , the big patrol hurried into /apei area. 3d this time with the biggest to visit the area since before var, the Wapei people put their weapons. :s soon disclosed that there been misunderstandings on sides—the Wapei people did mow that there were such '< as tax exemptions, and the nment had not made known ull details of the head tax the patrol went in. :imum tax for the area had set at 10/ —a tax tribunal ly granted exemptions to t every man in the group.

Wapei area, peopled by )rs of medium height, liar build, had been the scene i-war trouble. 5 time, however, the trouble was laid at the door of the cargo cultists.

Director of Native Affairs, Mr.

Alan Roberts in Fort Moresby, said the resistance to tax was not the sophisticated kind experienced in New Britain; that it was linked with a cargo cult that had been very active for some years, and had reached a small climax in December, 1957.

At that time some of the leaders were sentenced to short terms of imprisonment.

Mr. Roberts said the cult had arisen from the Wapei’s general dissatisfaction with their lot, and their realisation that by comparison with the European, they were a backward people. As a result they deeply resented a system that called for them to make a contribution to other people’s prosperity, he added.

Hardly had the recent Wapei situation been quietened than trouble arose in the inland Wewak area, about 50 miles from Wewak up the Maprik Road.

For the last 12 months, the Administration has been aware of cult practices in the area, laced with mysticism, and ideas borrowed from Mission teachings.

However, in early December, the cult took a more dramatic turn, with men reported springing up from holes in the ground to distribute money to faithful followers.

Acting District Commissioner Tom Ellis decided the time had come for action against the cultists.

A patrol, under Patrol Officer Jack Mater, was despatched to the two villages of Rabundogum and Bararata, on the edge of the wide Sepik Kunai plain, to investigate the cult and restrain its leaders.

The patrol was lucky enough to catch red-handed, two natives burying money in a cemetery, to

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Much of the Sepik District’s population clusters in villages along the river.

But there are very big populations who have never seen the river. 69 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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DO John Frawley flew from wak late last December to hold ourt; sentenced the two natives he maximum term of six months charges of spreading false rets. ighteen other natives rounded by Mater’s patrol as playing (ortant parts in the cult were ig brought back to Wewak, bably to undergo a short intenperiod of “schooling”, with ruction in the principles of the opean economic system, his continual turning to the itical and magical to solve hard nomic problems is proving one ;he major difficulties for admini- .tors in the Sepik. With inising contact with the European, re comes an awareness by the ive of his own lack of amenities cargo. He completely fails to ise that work is necessary to luce the goods. om Ellis puts the crux of the blem bluntly—“ The basis of Jo thinking is that natives want tething for nothing. They have er had to work hard to make existence, and they have no ception of the need to work to 1 a place in the world, rhey believe we have the secret getting the cargo, and do not ■erstand that work is necessary Droduce it.”

But There's Progress et, in spite of the distraction cults and other mystical ctices, the Sepik district is ?ly beginning to make real gress towards a more soundlyed economic future, he Administration is pinning economic hopes of the district tree crops—coconuts, coffee and Da. And in a vast area with values ranging from only fairly d to very poor, it’s a big job. programme to plant 100,000 new Dnut palms in the Wewak sub- Robusta raffep" W ,?2’ a .s d eroS in t-hP wLS o g i n ™ th , e areas 117 i? Mapnk areas, 117 acres of coffee have been planted this year, and 50 acres of cocoa have gone in on the coastal The people of the Dagua area who made headlines a fel month! !oc 0 oa by agatst lnS ?n en th e e on ad P vtee tin of Agriculture Denartment d evnerK are working enttasiSallv P ‘ ’ . ° ® encnusiasticaliy, A.s District Office spokesmen say, They want to grow cocoa and they are going to grow cocoa. They realise they won’t achieve the same production as on the Gazelle peninsula, but it’s their decision, and they’re going to stick by it”.

The tree cr °P s win take yeara to com e m, and in the meantime, the Administration is pushing immediate cash crons, Cash Crops First Peanuts are the greatest money- Promotion is mcreastons were dug up In the flrst flve months of this financial ? ear (that is ' up to the end ot last November) equal to the entire production in the previous twelve months.

One village, Turengi, 48 miles from Wewak on the Maprik Road, has just bought its own Land-Rover ta take its peanuts to market, Dry rice growing is being tried in the Maprik area, and experimental

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ON NATIVE Natives from all parts of *-NG met in Port Moresby in 'ebruary to discuss problems of he P-NG Native Co-operative lovement. Among the topics on he agenda was a suggestion hat the word “native” be reloved from all legislation deali,g with co-operatives.

The decision of the meeting: 'here was nothing wrong with he world “native” unless it was sed deliberately in a derogatory znse. But no solution to that roblem could be found by Itering the term, so it could lay as it was. 71 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Petroglyphs In The New Hebrides T e Need to Search for More Clues on Ancient Pacific Writing By Brett Hilder The recent revival of interest in the stone inscriptions in accentuates how meagre such records are in the Pacific. veil-known “rongo-rongo” or ture-writing of Easter Island used very little on stone, but on wooden boards more used in official or religious oies. ks to the clues recently found r Heyerdahl, on Easter Island, scribed in his recent book, :u, the meaning of these ims may be solved. This may y not help us very much ler inscriptions in the Pacific, have first to be located and d as accurately as possible. ne island of Aneityum in the Hebrides is a large boulder, like a small whale, on which s only recorded petroglyphs inesia, apart from Fiji. have only met one man who bout this boulder, it deserves lublicity. The photograph of :his page was taken by Dr. i Gunn, in 1906, and pubn the New Hebrides Magazine iary that year.

Sunn was a medico in the terian Mission, and I think also the editor of their NH Magazine at the time. The carvings were marked out with chalk for the photograph, and show clearly.

There are carvings on the otner side of the rock, too, and the natives give a good idea of the size of the rock, 12 feet high and 30 feet long.

The sides are so steep that ladders of some sort must have been used by the inscriptionists.

The stone is near Port Patrick, on Aneityum’s north coast, and Dr.

Gunn gives the position as 14 miles inland from Aname Mission. This area is now almost uninhabited, while the total population of Aneityum has shrunk from about 10,000 in 1850 to about 120 souls in 1951. There are no native myths or legends to account for the petroglyphs, and even when the inhabitants were still mostly pagan in 1852, they were not able to give any story about the stone to the Rev.

Dr. Inglis, one of the pioneer missionaries there.

The inscriptions were said by Dr, Gunn to be about I inch deep; he wrote that the star-like figures represented heavenly bodies, but the similar ones with two legs were meant to be trees.

A later issue of the New Hebrides Magazine, for April, 1906, shows some drawings from the far side of the stone, including a cross and a fairly human figure.

These drawings are compared with a few from New Zealand and one American Indian figure, as well as a set from Pitcairn Island, probably done by visitors from Easter Island in prehistoric times.

Another Cave Dr. Gunn mentions some petroglyphs in a cave at Leleppa Island (Protection Island) at the southern entrance to Havannah Harbour on Efate; that is, 20 miles north-west of Vila, and some 200 miles from the stone at Aneityum. (Over) And a New Painting in NG . • j ““ anthropology- The find is significant because « Fr a iar d P e”d h ?n th Unuf h now dS only rough drawing of lizards and other objects of native interest have found.

Father Aufenanger’s pamting said by local natives to , re f sitting child, is three feet high and has outstretched arms and leg painted in brown ochre - bl e d y ea an y d d Ss mb are Pa^e e Vs.tfnf is 150 feet from the of ’ * The huge rock is surrounded by dense jungle, and is not easily accessible. It is white, apparently limestone, and looks much like a giant fan.

Anthropologist Aufenanger said the artist had forethought enough to paint his picture on the eastern concave side of the rock, thus protecting it from incessant rams.

None of the local natives could tell Father Aufenanger anything about the one who painted the P1 Many elderly natives, however, said the painting had been there when they were children and even when their parents were children.

In the local vernacular the rock and painting are called Ku tol mon a”, which simply means. The rock on which there is paint . [?]at boulder covered with ancient carvings is on remote Aneityum, in the New Hebrides, [?]little visited. The inscriptionists must have used ladders in their painstaking work. 75 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Cnvomm { YOOUWC I GOIPW I LAG£R rxy/Trot WAYS g rt/yooV*ofce fa J/fcrefice sre appears to be no informaabout the Leleppa cave, but attempt will have to be made sate it and record any petros. y in this way will it be posto collect all the clues of st records in the Pacific, and pt to decipher them, re of the earliest cave-paintand carvings are not writing : know it, although it is ditto be sure. There is no sharpistinction between decorative nd the slow development of jams, ideograms, syllabaries aodern alphabets, s most unlikely that any preic inscriptions in the Pacific urn out to be alphabetic writ- - think all the alphabets we come from one common , and the early forms of this, lician, Semetic or early Indian s, are not likely to have got ?r than the East Indies.

This means that the “rongorongo” of Easter Island, and other island petroglyphs, are almost sure to be pictograms or ideograms like early Chinese.

Some of them may be only religious or magic in purpose, bearing an affinity with the prehistoric cave paintings of Europe, Africa and Australia.

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Tropicalities A Scot Named Vokotini I VOKOTINI, who is going rong as one of four Maori embers representing Raroin the Cook Islands’ Legis- Assembly, hasn’t changed his since his election last October, i”, as always, takes a close st in the affairs of the Maoris elected him one of their ;men. In fact, his forthrightas continued to make him not y popular with some of the Brass of the Cooks, a point apparently worries “Viri” not Vokotini is in fact Mr. m H. Watson, founder and executive of United Island rs Ltd., who was born not in "ooks but in County Fife, nd. he has lived in the Cooks for ,rs, and is the Cooks’ biggest 5 employer of island labour, r as he is concerned it was re or less a natural thing m to stand for a Maori seat, ibviously the islanders think >, because they swept him in ) of the poll. lie”, as he is known, spent some of his early life in Queensland, Australia, and was under 21 when elected to the Rockhampton Shire Council. For seven years he was a member of the Rarotonga Island Council and the Cook Islands Legislative Council.

A Space Watcher ANOTHER Cook Islands businessman of note is Mr. F. M.

Bateson, who represents the 167 European residents in the Cooks.

But when he is not looking after his business and political interests he works at a hobby which has won him a certain amount of local and overseas fame—that of astronomy.

Mr. Bateson has a private observatory in Rarotonga, and recently equipped it with a new 16 in. telescope, and is now waiting on some extra equipment from America.

He visited America not long ago, and gave scientific lectures there.

Currently, he is working on a programme involving the observation of Jupiter, and one of his purposes is to see if there are any visual markings at the seat of radio transmissions which radio astronomers have picked up from that planet. He is w<prking in conjunction with US radio astronomers on this.

An Error in Geography ANOTHER memory of Police Department days in Fiji, /rorra Police Inspector (retired) Charles Wager, now a resident of Queensland: I was sitting in my little office at the Ba Station, Namosau when in walked Jack Ryan, well known and well-loved hard-case, who did a lot of contract work for the I* iji Works Department.

“Where,” said he, am I to build these three rooms?”

“What three rooms? said I.

“Oh, for God’s sake, wake up said Jack. “Three rooms constables: verandah in the front, and kitchens in the rear You are to show me where to put them. And get a move on —I want to unload my punts and get them out of th creek on this tide.” H p I knew, of course, I wasn t due for any new buildings—much as I wanted them—but, un der pressure like that, what was a man to I duly chose a suitable spot tor a very welcome addition to my station accommodation.

By some peculiar lapse of memory I quite forgot to mention the new building in my monthly report; and it was months later when Commissioner McOwan, on a tour of inspection, suddenly caught sight of them and said, “What the hell’s that?”

Now, Mac wasn’t given to swearing—I think it was the only time I ever heard him cuss—and I was battling to keep a straight face when I replied, “Three new rooms for Indian constables, sir.”

“Where did you get ’em?” he almost screamed; and, when I started my story about Jack Ryan, he said: “Gimme your Estimates!

Gimme your Estimates.”

I handed him my copy and he exclaimed bitterly: “Thought so!

Should have been built at Nadi”— which, as everybody knows, is about 60 miles up the coast.

It's a New Kind of Cargo-Cult WE were talking about the multiplicity of missions (always a favourite topic in New Guinea) and more particularly about some of the odder varieties that have settled in the Highlands.

Jim Leahy said: “I was up at Mt.

Hagen visiting Danny (his brother), and there was one of this mob there —had been there for a fortnight, waiting, he said, for some cargo to turn up. , “Danny’s a bit deaf, and didn t get what was going on, but after a few more days I said to this chap: ‘Don’t you think you’d better make some inquiries and see what’s happening to this cargo of yours?

Something must have slipped up.’

“ ‘Oh,’ says the bloke, ‘we didn t send for anything. We just expect the Lord will provide!’” (Over) [?]teson, Cook Islands' businessman, who [?]known as an amateur astronomer of note.

Viri Vokotini, Cook Islands' old-timer, who is better known as businessman William Watson. 81 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

Heads 1 Win, Tails You Lon He got Gannet ’planes from Englc\\ He got arms from “The Land a the Free”; But he got his best deal fh x Canberra, They gave him the Dutch N-G n ‘‘That’s the crowd!” chipped in the airline agent. “When they first came they used to turn up every day and ask if there was any freezer for them. There never was, and after a bit I told them they better make some inquiries down below, as I couldn’t understand why their meat was never sent. They said: ‘We haven’t ordered anything. We just thought someone might send something.’ ” —JT Nice Work If You Can Get It THERE is one Suva resident who is in no doubt about the advances the Fijians have made in only a few generations.

In February he was stopped in the street by a smooth Fijian gentleman, who opened up the following conversation.

“Good morning, Sir. I and two friends came into this city this morning and after doing our shopping and visiting a few friends, decided to have a few drinks.”

“Oh yes,” said the perplexed resident, wide eyed.

“Unfortunately, Sir, we met up with some snookers (bodgies) at the hotel, and one thing led to another, and before we knew where we were we accompanied one to his home.

“Well, Sir, they gave us something to drink which smelled very much like a liquid my old mother used to light our fire with.

“After the third drink I don’t know what happened, but I remember I was walking down Toorak Road towards the city without my friends.

“After making investigations to the best of my physical ability at the time, I found that my two collegues had been picked up by the police. They were taken to the cells to sleep off their condition.

“I then learned that the snookers had taken my friends’ wallets and that the whole thing had been a trick. ‘‘Two powers within me were pulling, Sir. One kept telling me how comfortable a nice soft bed at Sanaila’s was, and the other kept repeating something about the fourth Scout law, ‘Brotherhoodb All .

“I had to get to the police stat in a reasonably sober condit;J otherwise I risked finding myselt. the cells with my brotherhood ; being able to do nothing for thri “I was determined to put on< brave front and found my waw the station.

“When I arrived there, I foirc that I, too, had had my was stolen and that I was in no co dition to bail my friends out.

“I looked at that desk sergese Sir, and thought of the fouu Scout law. But I realised that j wasn’t a Scout and would be o missed anyway if he started doo favours for the mataqali (tribe ).( “I walked out blindly not knor mg where I was going till I saw y Sir. The purpose of this convern tion is to tell you that I am on way to my village in Tailevu i get some money to bail my frieie out.

“The bus fare is 5/- and I wondering if you will give so; slight consideration- to lending this sum. I shall meet you in markets next week when I bn. my dalo in to sell and shall ren you then.”

The resident was stunned. “I not in the habit of lending mo:c to strangers”, he said.

“Thank you very much, Sir,” ss the Fijian politely, and ati excusing himself, walked a wan Reg.

Snakes Alive!

PORT MORESBY snake expp Ken Slater (whose work v described in January PIM) S 3 two giant olive pythons to Taror Park Zoo, in Sydney, in Februai He had intended to send only onn 12 ft 6 in.—and was in the mih of loading it into the Bulolo February 5 when somebody tf him that natives working for Forestry Department at the Broo- River, just outside of Port Morese had caught another olive pytlh —this one 16 ft 5 in.! So Slasi speedily and happily packed 1 second crate.

CROSSQUIZ — ACROSS — 1. —Who composed the music for 'Naughty Marietta"? 6. —What Japanese religion combines nature and ancestor worship? 7. —What is the Christian name of Winston Churchill's son? 8. —Who, in 1928, flew from England to Australia in a light plane in 15 days? 9. —What is the term for a flat bottomed boat? (Solution on page 95) 10. —Which schooner was wrecked on the reef of "Norman's Woe"? 14. —What is the Latin word for moon? 15. —Where did "The Charge of the Light Brigade" take place? 16. —which verb means to admit to holy orders? 17. —What is the capital of Devonshire? — DOWN — 1.—Who created Uncle Remus? 2. —What is the capital of Burma? 3. —Who made three attempts to colonise Virginia? 4. —What well-known character was created by Perrault? 5. —What name has been given to the cunquerors of Mexico and Peru? 6. —Which famous writer called—his son Hamnet? ~ 11. —What was + he name of Queen Victoria's husband? " 12. —Which is the George Cross island? 13. —Where did the Stone of Destiny come from? 82 MARCH. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH I

[?]He Postman With No

[?]NGERS HATES HATES HER . . .' [?]hen The Becke Family Sampled Life In Paris By Lew Priday :etches From Normandy is ;ly one of Louis Becke’s most lected books, and it is quesable whether many of the it avid readers of this brilliant ific writer’s South Sea yams e ever heard of it, much less 1 it.

PROBABLY never would have ead it myself were it not for l recent request I received from rell known Paris magazine for article cn Becke’s life, he book bears reading—it was 3, in fact, compared with ckeray for its humorous comit on life across the English nnel. Becke, when he wrote it, still writing and thinking of adventurous Pacific days, but Droved man of the world enough look with amusement on the y annoyances, as well as accept joys of living French in the y years of the Entente Cordiale. fter a few years in France, ;algia for Pacific shores drew back, to Fiji, to New Zealand, i six months rest at the hotel ;he Sydney “marine suburb” of :son’s Bay (to an islander cerly the most sympathetic suburb), finally to his death from cancer he throat at a York Street, Sydhotel.

Hilarious Pages )me of the most hilarious pages he Sketches quote comments on in northern France by one of se’s daughters, then aged eight, hich, untranslatable into French igh they may be, I hope I have iciently drawn the attention of ary Paris in my article.

Drtion of two of these quotas will convey their rich delight: ugust 3: We came to this place last two weeks it is a farm se with lots of little pigs and of Orchids, they make cider, woman is very nice but has a \tarch like a man and Awful y Nails enough to make annyone quite sick hut she is kind but been married twice and Mother ; she will soon get another 'oand when this one dies as she 'colding him to Death day and night and he looks very 111. The postman comes once a Day he only has 1 hand the other has no fingers on it, they dropped off from a Frost bite in the pirenknees mountains. . .

A second entry: There are 19 Rabits in the Barn with some young Ones, Madame killed 2 big ones and let the blood run into a casserole. She keeps the blood for Mademoiselle Mardon who washed her Face with it to cure the Spots on it, she is an Old maid and very Ugly and says horrid things, she says the King of Egland is a savage man and sent the toipedo boats to the Dogfish Banks to Massaker the poor Russian menofwar and that english people ought to be ashamed to help a lot of monkeys like the Jappanese Japonais and she got cross when father said that some of the she Monkeys were very pretty and very Nice and that a Frenchman he knows whose name is Captain Loti in the navy Loved one of the she Monkeys because she was so Beautiful, and Mademoiselle said if it was true he was a Beast.

I think she is a beast to Wash in Blood, the postman with no fingers hates Her and says she is a Mean old Cat and no one is Brave enuf to marry such a Frite although she is so rich. Mr. Craig (an American who used to send Eecke tobacco) sent my father some (Continued on page 97) Do you Remember?

Sir Hubert Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, told a Pacific Islands Club luncheon in Sydney that Europeans in Papua needed just as much protection as the Papuans, according to PIM of March, 1939.

There was sometimes a danger, Sir Hubert said, that an Administrator might be carried away by his duty to the natives and forget what he owed to the Europeans in the community. An Administrator should be both pro-native and pro-European.

“PIM” also reported that issue: Planters in the BSI were being treated as “foreigners”, complained one of them, Mr C. R. Bignell, to the Australian newspapers. “We are ruled from Fiji, and they don’t know much about the country and don’t seem to care,” growled Mr.

Bignell. * * * The military had moved in {« Moresby, and selected areas for a barracks (Four Mile) and an airstrip (Wards), and had turned their attentions to p aEa Hill. Sir Hubert Murray caused a stir in Australian Cabinet when gested that a militia unit of Papuan natives be formed. * * * The London copra market was settlor better, trith an Increase ot about £1 » ton in the previous two months, Europe was beginning to buy up. * * * net." the future of the Pacific—words that turned out to be remarkably prophetic.

The Japanese, he said, were “coming south’’, and Britain had to decide what it was going to do about it, and Australia, too. The foreign merchants’ day was over in China and Japan, he said.

Whichever side won the war in China, would exclude the foreign trader. This was apparent in China years before the trouble with the Japanese, and there was no reason to think war would bring a permanent change of heart by the Chinese. * * * “PIM” reported an editorial in the Japanese “Osaka Asahi”, which said that the Dutch Pacific possessions were the next area to be conquered after China, and that Holland “should become conscious of the new situation” and sell Dutch New Guinea to Japan. * ♦ ♦ Saying they were unable to earn a reasonable living despite their efforts. 27 i esidents of Norfolk Island reached Auckland in search of work. They said 100 settlers had left in the previous three months.

Sabina Becke, photographed in Eastbourne, England, in 1898, with the daughter whose youthful diary added hilarity to Louis Becke's "Sketches From Normandy". The daughter, now Mrs. Jim Hardy, today lives in Sydney. When this photo was taken, the Beckes were neighbours of Kipling. 83 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

Through Wildest New Guinea Witt Cleft Stick And Water Tank It's Tougher When Only Four Gents Are Expecteo^ When Qantas inaugurated its Super Constellation service bets Sydney and Port Moresby in January, they took four journalists Australia for a 10 days tour of Papua-New Guinea. This wa:e lighter side of the tour, as seen by JUDY TUDOR, who went for T When we got back to civilisation we all agreed — t Courier-Mail, the Australian Broadcasting Commission t editor of Qantas’ own Airways, and the PIM — that as pm junkets went, this one got top marks — mostly for the thini that were off schedule.

FOR John Elliott, of Courier-Mail, there was fulfillment of the dream of years. He had at last seen a savage carrying a message in a cleft stick.

This particular savage ws elderly gent, dressed in the 9 high fashion of a length of ts 1 The “message” was a Qantas; ways ticket, which he carrri the end of a twig, and had I fully covered with a doubledb air-sick bag to save it from 1 wet.

He joined us at Minj, was 1 for Goroka, and sat shivering 1 near-nakedness on the colol bench of the DCS airfreiie while the weather closed in our while we made several false 1 and finally were decanted fan night to try again in the moo His plain look of disgust (“IT is air transportation, I tilth stinks”), as he was off-loadeos the rain, only added to Coo Mails delight.

Confounded Cans For Nevil Peterson, of the £ there was the quite obvious pleii of turning 15 cans of blanks into 15 cans of recording: everyone from a native W Councillor to a coffee planter At one time or another, w mothered these confounded case Nevil’s — which his Corjn WATCH OUT! This is one of the world[?] unusual road-signs. It is on the road tha[?] the airstrip at Wau, where you don't gi[?] to the car on your right, but to the[?] dropping on you from above.

DISTINGUISHED. The man in the cenn[?] ture looks like a three-star Chinese[?] with his aide-de-camp, but he isn't,[?] time-expired labourer, wearing the lates[?] in trade-store millinery. He and a dozeia[?] were at Goroka, on their way home to a [?] village after 18 months at work on a [?] plantation. They were dressed to kill [?] white singlets and pillar-box red lap-la[/] Chinese caps to match.

SPACE PROBLEM. It's difficult to get [?] gallon tank into a DC3; and it is diff[?] get a photo of it without getting somet[?] of focus, as the one at the bottom is[?] on there were two tanks for Mini —whic[?] things just that much more difficult all[?] (See story). 84 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

ses had supplied to him in a >phane bag which early in the e split down the middle, nally, in dead of night, at oka, we hired a Land Rover taxi set off for the trade store at th Goroka, got the Chinese jrietor out of bed and w(ith aid of matches and a torch re seems to be no electricity in part of the town, yet) spent en bob of the Commission’s iey on one of those trade-store n-bags. 1 these bags have big letters ;he outside, in imitation of airbags, and this one, believe it ot, had ABC in big white letters ss the front. think had I waited long enough, owner of the store would have e up with one marked PIM.

No Champagne Route r Jefferey Smith, of Airways, it t have been an experience to what flying is like off the apagne routes, in country where rule still is that if you can’t through it, round it, or over ou don’t fly; and where the way to know whether the ice of the strip is safe for -off, is to borrow the local »’s jeep and drive furiously up down: If the jeep doesn’t turn the DC3 probably won’t, either, r me: I’d done it all before, most of it before; but there the delicious experience of g three Tender-feet meet, -on, the full impact of Terriy transportation, Territory s and Territory hospitality.

Barley-sugar Now me of the rest of my time was pied with the business of ghtening out the fact that I been born into the wrong sex. the proprietor of Pine Lodge A DC3 freighter with tin seats down the side. But what a liar I turned out to be!

This plane had real, forwardfacing seats, not the reclining type as yet, but so revolutionary that if I had been paying my own fare I might have demanded the money back out of sheer disappointment.

“Well, that will be the end of that,” I told the boys, “from here on you can expect travel the Territory way.”

We were turned out of bed at 4.15 a.m. the morning we were to fly from Rabaul to Lae, but due to a slight technical hitch, still managed to arrive at the airstrip late, faced so I told them, with a 21 hour, pre-breakfast flight to Lae, travelling “hard”.

The captain was annoyed with us for being late, so we had our minds on other things as we climbed aboard unprepared for Shock 11.

Seats. Forward facing; not reclining as yet; but covered with Hotel at Bulolo said, when he tried to show the four of us into two rooms: “Four gents were expected .

Port Moresby was 21 days of fun, but Moresby isn’t the Territory and we didn’t begin to glimpse that until we left for Rabaul-four hours by DCS, 15,000 feet up, to get over something. Courier-Mail said that his cigarette wouldn’t burn. Someone else complained that he breathe. The purser offered free oxygen, but there were no takers My stocks were away down, anyw y promised them real, New Guinea travel, north of Moresby. freshly laundered, white covers.

There was pre-take off barleysugar with this lot. And breakfast trays. Cornflakes, grape juice and hot rolls over the Bismarck sea.

A lot of the air pioneers of New Guinea have not lived to see this day, but I have, and I still can’t quite believe it.

On our itinerary for the next day was “Flight to Wau from Lae, by Otter”.

I’d last seen these Otters at Bankstown aerodrome, Sydney, in the middle of last year, when they were handed over by de Havillands to Qantas. At that stage they STILL DOING A JOB. —A few years after the end of the war, the Bristol Aircraft Corporation took one of their then new Bristol Freighters on a world tour. The last place that they took it to was Wau, New Guinea. It is there yet. The air-strip at Wau has a one-m-eight gradient, and during the festivities that marked its arrival, the big plane got under way by itself, trundled down the strip (while local residents discussed whether someone should sacrifice his jeep by running it in front of the plane and trying to stop it), crossed the road and a couple of ditches, and ended up in a coffee plantation. The plane was pronounced unsalable, and after the engines and more valuable parts had been removed, the plantation owner used it for a time as a boyhouse In January, when this photograph was taken, the fuselage was being used as a woodshed and the portion that was once the nose, as a fowl-house. Down the nose portion is written the names of the places that the plane had visited before. it came to its Unfortunate full-stop in New Guinea At one stage a local humourist painted at the tail-end of the list: "WAU-R.I.P.".

But this has now weathered off. Since this mishap, planes are now always parked across the strip —and not facing up or down it. 85 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

had seats in them. I’d laughed.

Just see what happens to them when they get to NG, I’d told myself.

But nothing apparently did.

When we climbed into our Otter that morning there was no barleysugar or grape juice and the crew consisted of just one—tlje pilot— but there were the seats, large as life and twice as un-natural.

By this time I had the feeling that we were being followed around by seats—but that was the end of that. From there on, until we rejoined the Super Constellation at Port Moresby, transportation resumed its more accustomed New Guinea form.

They Just Weren't Expecting The boys hadn’t slept in Port Moresby; and they said they didn’t sleep in Rabaul either, and what was more, they weren’t getting used to it, as I’d said they would. , „ At the Rabaul hotel the receptionist said they were crowded out; people had suddenly come in from everywhere; it was a holiday week-end; all the children were going back to school. Yesterday it had been quiet—but today! Two of the men could share; one could go in the annex with the pilots, SHOULD IT BE PORT TORRES? The bronze tablet on this memorial in the pleasant little garden at the intersection of Dougias and Musgrave Streets, Port Moresby, was orovided at a cost of about £9O, by the Historical Society of Papua. Says a member of the Society: "it almost broke us—and now a local amateur geographer, Mr. G. A. V. Stanley, reckons he can prove that the harbour was discovered by Torres!"

"And you, Mrs. Tudor —You see, we weren’t expecting I’m afraid you’ll have to share”.

To which Mrs. Tudor answered "Hell”, and bethought her of the time she was last there in a like predicament, and had espied, out on the beach front, a sort of thatched house.

So she asked about that. It was, she was told, the old staff quarters and she would not like it there.

But after she had persuaded the management that she would like to view, and that after viewing, she liked it very well, she moved in.

It is true that it bore only a dim relationship to those luxury hures of some Fiji hotels that are let out at about five guineas a night, but it had two bed-rooms and a verandah and a shower, and someone who couldn’t have known' my besetting sin is ironing an packing lousy, had left an e3s iron there.

But what was more too point, I had the lot to myself.l in peace and quiet, while my{ male colleagues—or so they were kept awake by babies see ing, Rabaulites wassailing, guests nattering and, ft brought up all-standing the fi ing morning when all the trav school-children were rooted o 4 a.m. to catch the plane.

Stiii Not Expecting Two days later, when we I on to Lae, the manager of O mess met us with the he’d had a house all ready fi but the previous evening hir been inundated by bowlers i Wau or some point east of : and he was terribly sorry bic BORED GENTLEMEN. These Highlander[?] tarn o'shanters, too. Mostly the head[?] the guy's own hair kept in shape by a [?] but the pom-pom on the model on the [?] made of fur; while the bored gentleman[?] right wears feathers on his, instead. The[?] from Wabag and were visiting the brigh[?] of Mt. Hagen. The medal worn on th[?] head of the fellow on the left says thas[?] a Tul-Tul —an Administration-appointed [?] official who can usually speak Pidgi[?] one proved he could by saying, at on[?] he was dying for a smoke; and that a[?] of chewing-gum wouldn't be a bad thing[?] 86 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MON’

were just cleaning the house as for you Mrs. Tudor—he t been expecting—and he was 1 that there was still somei the room. someone was a female bowler he had gone off for the day wl and had locked the door i her. So Mrs. Tudor, the ected, camped on the verandah day until the bowling lady home and collected her duds.

Pine Lodge, Bulolo, after the itemps of one of the four expected turning out to be j, the whole thing was sorted everyone’s satisfaction, mge double room-with-bath, , the amenities of civilisafurniture that was real and nprovised out of boxes and of patterned cotton; peace uiet. It was cool enough for iket on the bed and no one lined about not sleeping that days later at Goroka Hotel lony of buildings that has out of the one Bulolo-type that Mrs. Ellen Pitt started not more than seven years hey were, of course, expecting len, but by this time the odd of the party had contrived ichalance about the whole and took morning tea while jceptionist arrived from up treet and shuffled things sufficiently to find her a It's the Unexpected That's Fun programme had said that ws 0 fly from Lae to Goroka by iment-chartered DC3, carry th the plane around the Wahgi Valley and return to 1 for the night. ’s what the programme ut that is not how it turned id because it did not, this as enjoyed above all others, n we got into the plane at was for once proved right— [d-fashioned tin benches with ket on top, and piled high middle of the cabin, everythe Admin, ordered, pattern of the day was set he moment of take-off. As 3 we were air-borne over the am, the purser said: “Who’d nice, hot cup of coffee!” ill would. /ent forward and hunted in nard. Then he came back.

I like a nice, hot cup of a?” he asked. “They’ve left tee off.” oroka there was a discussion whether we would leave our e there to await our return, save it on”, said the purser, lever know”. loroka we loaded, amongst unk, a 1,000-gallon tank for lext stop along the way. must be going in for water r ation in a big way, because (Continued on page 95) The History Of Wally’s Topper nlw P I M ’ last November, that when they buried me % t ’ } n Daru > Western Papua, in September, they found among his effects a somewhat battered but still serviceable silk topper, of the kind worn proudly by our cold-country grandfathers 50 years ago. But how did the thing get to Daru, “PIM” asked. Oldtimer John Nixonwestwood, who was a Government official in Daru a long time ago, and who now lives in retirement in the South ol England—now supplies the answer.

Mrs. Wally Maidment

was in Sydney in late 1913, and some of her friends, farewelling her before she sailed on the Taiyuan, gave her the topper, as a present for Wally.

Mrs. Wally was very pleased with the hat. She was sure that Wally would wear it with distinction in Daru, on formal occasions.

But its appearance in Daru provoked some violent reactions.

The chief official there at the time regarded himself as being “out of the top drawer”, and he strongly opposed the idea that common people should wear a topper, or bring into ridicule this badge of the superior person.

Wally himself resented the topper, with considerable bitterness; but when he saw how much its appearance hurt the Top Brass, he thought a little more kindly of the folk who had played a joke upon Mrs. Wally.

All Had a Shot I think everyone in Daru had a shot at wearing the topper.

Especially, I remember occasions when Hughie Beach, Celestine Diot, Teddy McNulty, Jack Summers, and a remittance man who had a shack near the moutn of the Fly, appeared in public, with the hat more or less in the correct position.

Jack Summers—an ex-Sydney Grammar School boy— christened it Jerry, and apparently used it accordingly; and Mrs. Maidment was most indignant — she still liked the idea of Wally using it as formal attire.

Harold P. Reynolds somehow got possession, and induced a long, lanky Kiwi boy to parade the Beach Road, wearing it at a cocky angle.

Then the Rev. Baxter Riley— who took life very, very seriously —came onto the scene, and spoke scathingly of the deplorable antics of Europeans in front of natives; but I remember that Miss Riley saw the funny side, and laughed and laughed.

Kicked Under the Bed The last time I saw that topper was just after we had said farewell to Mrs. Maidment, on her next trip south. Wally, returning to the bungalow, got his eye on it, and kicked it with great energy under a stretcher bed.

Hughie Beach’s father-in-law, a Philippines man, and Wilfred Norman Beaver, the RM, were delighted spectators.

One of my cherished memories of Daru is the silk hat which Mrs. Maidment brought to her unappreciative husband. It is amazing to think that it survived that climate for more than 40 years. 87 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

The Months New Reading

With Judy Tudor

This is the season of the book reviewers’ discontent.

Overseas publishers’ mid-winter break catches up with the South Pacific at this time of the year, and the offerings this month are scarce and in quality unexceptional, if, in context, something of a weird lot.

IF the half-dozen that have come in were received amongst the normal intake they would have found their correct level. Isolated by their paucity of numbers they strike an almost uniform level of off-beat reading—and in effect produce a feeling of having lived for a month on a straight diet of something like asparagus.

Wild Life In Guiana In the last couple of years we have had several novels from African or West Indian authors.

Jan Carew (The Wild Coast ) who has the same sort of racial background (he comes from British Guiana), differs from most of these in that he writes completely without aggressive self-consciousness.

Carew is of mixed Negro, Dutch, Indian and Portuguese descent, and by nationality is British.

To all those other international irons-in-the-fire he can add education in the United States, some years in France aad Holland, and new residence in the United Kingdom. , .

He has tried his hand at being a journalist, a steel-worker, a painter, a customs officer, a broadcaster and an actor (under the management of Sir Laurence Olivier).

The Wild Coast is his second novel, and either in spite of or because of his chequered career, is about British Guiana. More particularly it is about Hector Bradshaw, son of the wealthy owner of the Big House, but in whose veins runs also the blood of slave ancestors Hector was brought up by his old Negro guardian, a matriarch of a v/oman, universally known as Sister.

It is Sister who sees that he keeps his end up and remains a cut above the village; that he does his lessons and matriculates: that he wears shoes, and on Sundays, a blue serge suit, to church.

But Hector’s manhood was not achieved through the efforts of Sister alone. Hector’s daily companions were the peasants who lived so close to the soil and the coastal swamps that they had only a coincidental resemblance to the people who inhabited his books: and whose thin veneer of professing Christianity only emphasised their fundamental pagan beliefs.

This is not a book about a “problem”—colour, racial, economic or any other. And from an author of Jan Carew’s background, that’s refreshing. (THE WILD COAST. Published by Seeker and Warburg, Ltd. Australian price, 20/-.) One So Grand Love r:E best-known cavortings of Louis Quatorze occurred towards the latter end of his 72-years-long reign, after he had started to build the Palace of Versailles and had removed his Court there. So a slightly different note is struck by French writer Gerty Colin, who reverses the normal order in telling the story of one of Louis’ young and innocec loves, before—and as it is saioi the corruption of the Court beggj to eat into his soul.

The French version of tf historical novel, published in IS was Called Un Si Grand Amcowhich probably fits the case bett c than the title of the English vers:a —Chere Amie. Louis’ ideas friendship, when it came to t point, were elastic.

When Louis XIII died he v succeeded, in 1643, by his son, Leo XIV. The Fourteenth Louis waus minor, so the reins of governmir passed to the Queen MotH Anne, and even more so to I valued adviser Cardinal Mazan who in his turn had succeeos Richelieu, the manipulator affairs in the time of Louis XIII Mazarin was an Italian and brought from Rome the fd Mancini girls, his beautiful as spirited nieces, not so much their own good, but in order ' further the cause Mazarin at Court of the young King.

It was Marie Mancini who came Louis’ “dear friend”, and a time it seemed that she mig as well, become Queen of Franj Politics were too strong for young lovers, however. Louis t married to the Infanta of Spar and Marie was bundled off to Iff. and a marriage to Lorenzo Colom High Constable of Rome, arranjc for her by her uncle.

As part of her dowry, Marie td

Pies Amongst The Palms

Meal pies are an Australian national dish and the taste has been success[?] fully transplanted amongst near-Australians in Port M ores b y This pi e -wagon[?] is owned by Jean Wilson, who used to be a stenographer or white collar worker[?] in the town, but now makes a better living serving Papuans with pies. The small[?] truck appears at strategic points all over Port Moresby, wherever-native Papuan[?] happen to be. When this photo was taken it had parked outside the market at[?] Koki. 88 MARCH. 19 5 9 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Jalta in the 18th century was itinually under attack by pirates m Algeria. The island was ended by the Knights of St. in who were members of a igious order, sworn to celibacy i chastity. although it is difficult to be ibate without being chaste, one y presumably be chaste without ng celibate. Some of the Knights re neither—and this category hided Ramon Josepy Marie slourvilles de Perpignan, whose od was so impossibly pure it nt back 15 generations on both father’s and mother’s sides hout blot on the escutcheon, lis pure blood did not benefit a greatly, until it was too late. > elder brother seemed bent on landering the family fortune, i at five Ramon has been prosed into the Order, renewing the vs at 15 when he was supposed know his own mind. )n the theory that if you try irything you won’t want it, his ther had insisted that he sleep h her young chambermaid >rtly before taking his final vs, but the girl had wept and mon had found it easy to take profession seriously.

Phis was not the case when he t Olympia, an overblown apolitan beauty in Malta with group of travelling players, /mpia’s profession automatically t her beyond the pale of reictibility, while to involve himf with a woman of any sort iangered Ramon’s career, rheir surreptitious love-making is pped only when Ramon manages get himself captured by the ates and is sent to slavery in Algiers. But if his troubles are great, Olympia’s are worse, includes they do the provision of the Church with an unhappy miracle The lovers are in time reunited, but only after much water has flowed in and out of the Mediterranean. (OLYMPIA AND THE ANGEL. Published by Rupert Hart-Davis. Ltd. Australian price, 22/6.) Take a Deep Breath With Xavier AMONGST Australia’s more extraordinary and eccentric writers can be counted Xavier Herbert, who almost a generation ago, wrote a tome called Capricornia, and then, apparently, called it a day.

Just recently he has had published a second novel, Seven Emus, which he is careful to explain is not his second effort, but his third. The years between Capricornia and Seven Emus have been spent labouring on “the great work of my life” called Soldiers’ Women, or Mars, the Moon and Destiny. In this (so far unpublished) he reached maturity— “ Artistically and otherwise”. Or so he says.

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EMUS Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd. Australian price, 17/6.) The War Underwater SOMETHING a little more soothing to the nerves than the rest pf this month’s books, was a reprint, this time in the Adventure Library, of One of Our Submarines, a popular personal war-time experience of a member of the Wavy Navy, Edward Young, Commander, DSO, DSC, RNVR.

The book was first published in 1952 and received general praise from the critics.

Young was among the first of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve to be accepted for service in submarines in 1940, and later on was one of the first RNVR submarine commanders. He tells how he did not enter the service with any enthusiasm, but because at the time it permitted him to take a course in higher navigation.

He made his first dive in a submarine with some trepidation but afterwards became sold on this particular branch of the Navy, and felt a great deal safer and happier under the waves than on top of them.

His service took him from Arctic convoy duty to service in the Far East and in the waters north of Australia, and his entertaining and clear style of writing makes this book of interest to both lovers of war stories, and to those who like to read about the sea. (ONE OF OUR SUBMARINES. Published by Rupert Har-Davis. Australian price, 15/6.) Price Among the U's and Non-U's STILL complete with baseball-cap and wife Mary, our old acquaintance Willard Price, has been visiting the British Isles and gives us his views in Innocents in Britain.

It must be difficult, indeed, for an American writer of travel books to produce anything new about the United Kingdom, but Price is an accomplished wringer-outer of last drops of juice from the well-used literary orange. He does well enough, but as travel literature, this book cannot be regarded as coming within the first, or even the second, magnitude.

One of the first things the pair [?]d Mob's Author [?]Italy bst Australian writers of cs think they are doing well 'ley sell an edition of 5,000 that fact makes Nino )tta-cum-J ohn O’Grady’s ess with “They’re a Weird ” look even more like a kingi miracle, its first 16 months “Weird has run into 16 editions 180,000 copies. The last on of 20,000 came out on nary 24 and was sold out in nee. The 17th edition, of 0, is scheduled for publicalate March. lantime John O’Grady and charming wife, Molly, are g quietly in Sydney and aring for a trip to Europe nd April. They expect to up a Bank Line vessel in r Fiji or Samoa and be de- -3d at some North Europort in the Northern ig. They plan to then buy iple of motor scooters and down through Europe to — to get the atmosphere “Weird Mob In Reverse”, Nino taking his Australian to visit his homeland. The r-scooters seem like doing s the hard way. With s success in Australia, we ' that he could afford at a small Fiat! 93 I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Wabag lies west of Mt. Hagen, in a sort of truncated mountain valley at 6,700 feet. It is reached by weaving in and out and round mountains, and across tropical rain forests and patches of native gardens. So far as I could see, there is only one way in and one way out, which naturally cuts flying opportunities down by half.

Wabaq's Inflationary Spiral T . . ... , ' J It was in this country that they had that abortive gold-rush shortly after the war. At that stage, the natives of the area were seminomadic hunters, and only one steel axe existed in the whole area.

It was an old German axe that had been traded in from the Sepik, and the native who owned it had given two sisters in marriage and five pigs for it.

One of the first things the Administration did when opening up the area was to arrange air drops of axes to encourage the clearing of land for gardens—which now are flourishing.

An air drop of dried peas for patrol rations that then proved too heavy for carrying, were distributed about the same time, and formed the nucleus of a local pea-growing industry around the seven or eight thousand feet elevation. (The ADO who told us this piece of local history couldn’t tell us what happened to the owner of the two-sisters-five-pigs worth of original axe when the Administration started an inflationary spiral by dropping axes right out of the sky.) We arrived at Wabag at the same time as a local cloud-burst. “We’ve got to get out of here in five minutes, or we’re stuck”, said the captain and to facilitate the removal of cargo in the time limit, we were smartly shoo-ed from the cabin, tape recorders, cameras, gadget bags and all, to stand beneath the wing while the local calaboose line made short work of the unloading.

But it did no good. When the cargo was out, we climbed back into the plane, the purser broke out the lunch boxes, we rummaged through our suitcases and got dry shoes and sweaters and Whodunnits, and settled down to camp.

In an occasional break we got out and wandered around the station while the pilots borrowed a jeep and rushed up and down the strip, or called up Hagen or Goroka on the plane’s radio.

But with one break (when the ADO arrived with steaming coffee) mostly we watched the gap at the end of the valley, through which we sometime or other had to get out.

Visability: Nil Twice we got all set to go, but more clouds rolled in from the wings to reduce visibility to nil.

Then late in the afternoon, it was It.

As we tore down the sodden strip and into the cloud of the valley —“Baiyer River in 15 minutes, or Wewak in two hours” —I privately wondered, as the wing tips seemed to graze the trees, if it might be some place else, even sooner.

Wabag’s storms and thunder followed us to Baiyer River, and on to Hagen and later Minj. At Minj the storm closed in and with less than an hour to darkness, not enough gas left to reach the in England, was to spend ral weeks tracing the Thames i its source—-a well in the Cotsl Hills—to where it joins the at Southend. And, this sounds )ry interesting thing to do, if no other reason than because Jems one of the few ways in h, in the United Kingdom, it )ssible to get away from people, i visitor to England from lessilated areas, can fail to be im- ;ed by the fact that on an apntly uninhabited moor, a of cyclists or hikers can seemr turn up from under a stone, t according to Price, no one right on the banks of the r Thames because of the er of flooding, which is con- ;d, lower down, by the system 'Cks. e Prices seem to have had a luil enough time in the upper les. First they walked along big river—because unlike most us streams, it begins in a 3 of water meadows, and not acularly from snow-capped 3 or glaciers or tropical rain ts. >m walking they took to a 3, and from a canoe graduated punt and from that to a 30-ft . cruiser. . Price discusses a number of cts incidental to the journey the Thames and to other s— English food and the Englanguage being just two of the subject of food he has a y that the Englishman stuffs 3lf with seven meals a day (a f it consisting of bread and and hot tea), simply as a sube for central heating in the 3 taking of a cup of tea bene emerges from bed of a ing is, thinks Price, only a s of fortifying himself before mg in a freezing cold room, arly, the drinking of hot tea hing at night, helps to make 'usiness of getting in between ng sheets more endurable.

On the subject of language his wail is similar to Rex Harrison’s in My Fair Lady. “Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?”

To help him in his researches in this department, Price read U and Non-U which Professor Alan Ross of Birmingham University contributed to Nancy Mitford’s Noblesse Oblige, and wherein the basis of the upper-class Englishman’s superiority is laid bare.

Mr. Price thinks that it is ridiculous that an Englishman is socially placed as soon as he opens his mouth; that he can never be taken for a blue blood if he says toilet instead of lavatory; or if he is ill instead of sick; or finds something interesting instead of int’resting.

Most Colonials would agree with Price.

But even worse than having been born non-U, is to try to be U if you aren’t. This is called speaking Morris-Oxford English. (INNOCENTS IN BRITAIN Published by Wm. Heinemann, Ltd. Australian price. 26/-.)

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Hid it but I found it under •lotting Padd, and it was a ~e of Addam and Eve, they sitting under a Tree quite I because their fig Leaves were g on a clothes line and it said s their first washing Day. father showed it to Madem- ’ Mar don and said it was id in France and that it was shocking such awful obdecent should be printed and that in nd that the man who Sold would be put in Gail and the n who looked at it could be no but he was sure she would not as she was French. She got She is a hateful old thing and keeps washing her Ugly face in rabits blood. .

It appears from this extract, written about 1903, that Becke had met Pierre Loti, the French naval officer whose exotic stories of love in Tahiti, Japan, and other places were once the rage. (But how feeble they seem today, alongside Becke’s realities).

German Governess When in Auckland, about 1908, Mrs. Sabina Becke contributed one or two long but unremarkable articles to the New Zealand Herald signed “by an Australian Woman”, which add to our knowledge of the family’s life in France. Cheap living there was, she said, a fallacy, in fact it was dearer than England (the same may be said today).

Becke seems to have been at least making a living from his writings at the time, for Sabina speaks of renting an eight-roomed house, even of a German governess for the children. But it is the succession of French maids (one at a time) whose idiosyncracies Becke himself develops: these bonnes he observes with the same kindly eye as he had for his Pacific island characters.

First came she whom he calls Madeleine, a cow-like Alsatian who left to marry an artilleryman; then Jeanne, whom he had to dismiss because she posed as a single woman while all the time she was married to a hussard who was doing 12 months in prison at Bordeaux; then, and best of all, came Celine, who broke so much crockery but was so much loved by the dog and the children —only 17 she was, “tall, erect, full-chested and willowy, built more t, and the prospect of not ng down into Goroka, the ain called it a day. inj has no pub—no rest house t it has a lot of private itality, and at this stage the • appeared in his alternative of Travellers’ Aid Society. In time than we could collect our , he had us organised. the gathering dark I was sited on my hostess’ door-step. : for tonight. OK?” said the 1 and disappeared, vas taken in, given a hot bath, shown my room, all without ;ss batting an eyelid. The rest the party were similarly 'bed. Courier-Mail into the □r’s house; Airways into the ’s establishment. ABC went le local bachelors’ quarters.

Celebration e rest of us had quiet nights; the bachelors, it appears, ed to celebrate. Nevil, who, e most journalists, likes ar hours, tore himself loose a.m. He had been told that as to sleep in a house “down So in rain and pitch darkwithout a torch, he stumbled igh a couple of paddocks and ry drains and finally found a >oo hut with a bed in it. He ito the bed, and next morning, to one had come along to te his possession, concluded he had found the right spot. ♦ * * len we got back to Moresby dvilisation and passengers were 1 to collect their seat tickets, s handed one that had typed it “Mr. Tudor” (though somewhen they saw it was otherhad inked in a surreptitious was obvious, as I said in the ning, that four gents were ted. 97 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959 Becke In Paris (Continued from page 83)

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They Overstayed Jecke family only meant to r rance a few weeks; instead, lyed four years. The fact Reef and Palm had been d in Paris with some sucker the title Scenes de la nesienne may also have at- Becke across La Manche. m story is that the family ig in Dublin (where Becke i introduction for an illusiition of Moby Dick for G. P. & Sons), when he came n old skipper friend who ng a cargo of remounts for ich Army to Brittany. r ited the Beckes to go with t after seeing some of the is of the coast, they finally Le Havre, and decided to permanent lodgings. ;ine few people know very .bout what happened to 1 the period between the left Sydney for London, a living as an author, and rn to Sydney towards the is strangely diversified life: in Sydney in 1913. lere is one man who re- Becke quite well.

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The auxiliary schooner lan Crouch, which disappeared at end of last year somewhere between Hongkong and Australia, s gone to join the now quite imposing list of ships that have ovided Pacific mysteries in recent years. id-February, the Marine Court ' Inquiry that has been sitting Hongkong to try to sift out ice of what had happened to r essel from mere conjecture, unced the vessel lost at sea ill hands due to unknown cirances but probably to a localtorm.

Justice Gregg, who presided i inquiry, found that she had >een wrongly stowed before g port; or that no cargo or equipment would have enred the safety of the vessel, s found that she was faithbuilt and was seaworthy in respect.

Crouch was built in Hong- )y Cheoy Lee Shipyard, to the sments of a South Australia ag company, M. B. Crouch o. She was of 500 gross tons as equipped with sail as well ver. radio equipment was such he would have been out of t with any shore station from the time she left ong until she was close to >me base and, in fact, nothas heard from her after a message received in Hong- >n the day following her dee. At that time the condithe sea was affected by the d of a typhoon, but it was )m dangerous. ilarm was felt for the vessel arly November. She was exto reach Port Adelaide at d of October. A few weeks vide sea and air sweeps were n the New Guinea-Coral Sea flowing a report that a vessel ing lan Crouch’s description een sighted south of New search was taken up later South China Sea, and in ort a RAF Shackleton bomber crew were lost, he indications are that disl some sort overwhelmed the between Hongkong and the ines. But whether it was as t of a normal hazard of the due to human agency, we robably never know. 12 Australians who sailed on pear to have gone to join tims of the Monique, Joyita zlanesia.

Ship Ii Comes

Prince Tungi, of Tonga, s second dream ship come n February. In fact, he did etter than that, and went the last of the way with her by going to Pago Pago on Tofua and picking the new vessel up there.

She is Hifofua 11, the 500-hp oceangoing tug which, like the Aoniu, which was delivered last year, was built in a Dutch shipyard and delivered under contract.

After her call at Pago Pago, American Samoa, to pick up Prince Tungi, she made a “business visit” to Apia, Western Samoa and showed her paces to the High Commissioner, Mr. G. R. Powles, to the local Director of Agriculture, the Minister for Agriculture and the Apia harbourmaster. It is understood that Hifofua will be available for work outside Tonga. See picture, page 109).

• Newcastle Would Like

TO BUILD THEM: Tenders for the construction of a small vessel for medical work in the New Hebrides closed at the end of February with the French authorities in Vila.

Two Newcastle, NSW, firms are believed to have submitted tenders.

• Two More Apc Ships

SOLD: Former Australasian Petroleum Company vessels Darega and Davara have been sold through the Sydney ship-broking firm of Captain W. L. Kennedy, to Tasmanian Interests. This makes four APC vessels sold in the last year (Dobiri went to Hugh Williams, of Rarotonga and Negera to North Queensland interests).

Davara is a 95-ton wooden vessel built by Lars Halvorsen in 1947. She v/as brought down to Sydney by a native crew and was tied up at Walsh Bay in late February. She will shortly go on to Tasmania, where she will be used by a local small-ships’ owner for the trade between Tasmania and King Island.

Darega also will go into the King Island service but will operate from Melbourne, and for another company. She is an O/L type, steel vessel of 200 tons powered by twin diesels and commissioned about 1947. Darega was taken to Cairns by Captain E. C. Thorpe and a native crew who were flown back to Port Moresby from there. The new owners took her south from Cairns.

• Danny On The Rocks

AGAIN: The English radio “ham”yachtsman Danny Weil, who caused a deal of excitement in Search and Rescue circles in 1956, finally losing his yacht Yasme on a Coral Sea reef in the Gulf of Papua, on October 24 of that year, is in trouble again, Yasme 11, successor to Yasme, was wrecked on Union Island, 30 miles north of Grenada, in the West Indies, on January 26.

Weil suffered a broken leg and was in a Curacao hospital in February.

Yasme II and the radio equipment aboard, was financed by the world’s radio amateurs —mainly American amateurs—who also sank a good deal of capital in Yasme for the first cruise.

Attempts are being made to salvage Yasme 11, or at least the equipment, but even if all is lost the hams may feel that it was all v/orth while, as Weil has been satisfying their intentions that he In The News This Month Adi Keva Britannia Betty Charlotte Donald Chimere Crusader Davara Dobiri Darega Duali Hifofua II Hemara Intrepid lan Crouch Inspire La Reta Kulu Kurimarau Kibuli Maureen Moana Raoi Maui Pomare Moonfleet Marco Polo Matai Maranatha Mamari Negera Port Halifax Ranah Ranui Readwill Syria Seven Little Sisters Siran Slevik San Miguel Sorong Sea Chanty Sunrise Santa Maria Tui Kanacea Tiare Toporo Te Matangi Te Matapula Tiburon Too Te Rapunga Utopia Wanderer Whither Yasme II "Moonfleet", ex-"Kona", which has now been sold to NZ. (See page 115). 101 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MARCH, 1959

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: and Ellice Islands Colony Maureen, 50 tons, which became surplus to requirements after the arrival of the new Ninikoria has been sold to the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Government which has been short of small ships since the Melanesia disappeared mysteriously last year.

Three other of these M-class vessels already operate in the BSIP —they are Mary, Margery and Myrtle.

Maureen is expected to arrive in Honiara this month. • THEY PAY MORE IN RARO- TONGA: As from January 12, the levy on all cargo imported and exported from and to destinations outside the Cook Islands and which passes through the main port of Avarua has been increased from 1/- per ton to 2/6 per ton.

The new rate is intended to provide funds to assist in the development of the port facilities, which are certainly badly needed. • SOMEONE LOST A PUNT: Captain E. Ward, master of the new Gilbert and Ellice Islands motor ship, Moana Raoi, handed over a 16-ft punt to the Receiver of Wreck, at Suva, when he arrived from the Gilberts on February 2.

Captain Ward reported that he picked up the punt in Georgia Channel, off Kioa, in the Gilberts during his passage to Suva (Over) [?]uron Too”, a 50-ft vessel built [?]dney shipbuilder R. Gordon [?]ar, and purchased by M. Henri [?]d, of the New Hebrides, is [?]ed to sail from Sydney for her [?]ome port shortly. 103 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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Kurimarau Not For Sale The report (Feb. “PIM”, p. 105) that the Hongkong registered, Suva-based “Kurimarau” is for sale was strongly refuted by the owners of the vessel, Berg and Co. Ltd., in Sydney, in March.

They do not know where the rumours came from, but they say the report is wrong. The vessel is not for sale.

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LISTING: CARGO VESSEL, 720 tons dwt., engine aft. Lloyds Special Survey due 7/6/1961, winches/derricks, well maintained. £35,000 Stg. Delivery Sydney or elsewhere AUXILIARY 1 TRADING KETCH, 85 ft. x 22 ft., built 1946, wood, copper sheathed, 120 h.p. heavy duty diesel, has carried 100 tons dwt. cargo, accommodation for crew and several passengers. £lB,OOO. Consider offer.

CARGO VESSEL 75 ft x 19 ft., built 1945. 200 h.p. diesel, copper sheathed.

This vessel is sound throughout and can be bought “as is” for £8,400.

TRADING KETCH, 65 ft. x 16 ft. x 7 ft. 6 in., built 1951 to very high standards in and material. 77 h.p. Catapillar diesel 3/1 reduction, about 10K.

CARGO VESSEL, 66 it. x 18 ft., in Survey and working. 100 h.p. diesel installed TRAWLER,°°4O ft. xl3 ft.. G.M. diesel, well kept, echo sounder, radio, etc. 23 4, FT° WORKLAUNCH, twin cylinder Stuart Turner marine engine, large cockpit. £750.

Wp .hall be nleased to obtain Independent Surveys of any craft we offer and subsequently arrange delivery either on ship’s deck or sea as desired. name “Maria” was painted bow of the craft, while a nchor and a fishing rod of jsign was found in it.

IKING A LOOK: The Raoi, after discharging her 3ngers and small amount of n Suva, followed another and Ellice Island ship, Te la, up the Public Works Belt slipway at Walu Bay. slipping is mainly for the of inspecting the new hull ending to the normal crop ing troubles found in every ip after, say, the first six of service. agh no dates have yet been :he Te Matapula was exto return to Tarawa with cargo and passengers about idle of February; and the Raoi towards the end of the NEAR-MISS ON NASELI: rris Hedstrom Ltd. auxiliary Tui Kanacea, caused some at Suva when she went on the notorious Naselai ly on February 4, during her from Suva to Levuka. 15-ton cutter was left high r at the following low tide refloated 36 hours later on tide, with the assitance of ;e party sent from Suva in Keva. believed that the Tui i suffered little or no damli has claimed some victims time, the most tragic loss he Indian immigrant ship diich founded there in 1884 3 loss of more than 60 lives. ; of the Syria’s rusted hull can be seen today, a mute testimony of the earlier days of navigation when ships were not equipped with the modern aids of today.

• The Inspire Goes Up

WITH A BANG: The Dick Brown Line vessel Inspire, which graced a part of Avatiu basin for about nine months, after she sank at her moorings in April, 1958, is now no more. Recently she was blown up, so an eyesore and a hazard to navigation is removed. The only people who are sorry are the visiting yachtsmen who liked to tie up against her, and, presumably, her recent owner who seemed to like to see her around. He asked for a postponement of the funeral rites so that he could remove parts that he hadn’t got around to removing in the previous eight or nine months. • AN INTERESTING BOTTLE: Though some will contend that an empty bottle is never interesting, one that was plucked from the sea on the south-east side of Atiu Island, Cook Island, last October 21, should prove of very real interest to oreanographers. As reported in December PIM (p. 105), there was a note inside promising payment of £1 for return by finder to a London address, but there was no indication of where or when the bottle was launched.

Inquiries have since brought the information that the bottle was tossed from the British freighter Port Halifax at a point about 120 miles east of Cocos Island—south of Costa Rica and nearing the Panama Canal—at 2230 GMT on May 17, 1958.

A study of the current charts suggests that the route would be an easy north-bulging curve past the vicinity of the Marquesas and [?]spire”, which has been an eyesore in Avatiu boat harbour, Rarotonga, [?]he sank at her moorings in April, 1955, was recently destroyed [?]er”. (See belowJ.

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Ultimo, Sydney, N.S.W. BA 4027 (Tables: “WHITEROSE”, Sydney. i the north of the Tuamotu to -that is, along the Seven Little ; route of William Willis, more s. measurements make this ice not less than 4,800 nautical in 157 days, or an average of liles per day at least, assumlat the bottle was found imtely on arrival, which, in this ioes seem to have happened, was apparently still afloat, lished ocean current charts te a current movement of 10 niles per day along this route. , with the aid of sails, made 000-mile voyage from Callao r Tutuila—where he was taken v—in 115 days, an average of 52 miles per day. interesting feature of this drift is that it indicates a .urn surface current speed in area and season probably higher than generally led.

Us Si A N Tuna Craft

FED: Some months ago an fishery experts, visiting , announced that Russia might nter the Pacific tuna fishing ry. In October last a Russian r survey vessel was reported ve sailed on an exploratory On February 17, a Japanese essel skipper reported by radio le had passed a Russian-flag vessel in the Caroline Islands Tuna were being hauled I. There appeared to be a of about 20, including some i. Another Russian-flag vessel dng nearby. At beginning of , Russian fishing vessels were ing without permission in 3d Philippines bays, to local ities’ annoyance.

Ther Brown Relics

GrO: At the Rarotonga Island il in mid-January, Councillor ni (trader William Watson’s name) moved that the vessel , lately owned by D. C. Brown tting high on the reef near i Harbour a mile east of In- [see above) be also removed.

Resident Commissioner rethat it was to be blown up a as permission was obtained ;he owners. wreck changed hands several following the stranding on iber 16, 1954. ever, the Brown organisation it least two other “conspicurecks”—to use a Pilot Book One is the ketch Siran, ;d October 4, 1951, purchased 3 reef, partly salvaged, and in to Avarua, where she t in a cradle ever since and rell have been demolished in sent hurricane, other is the yacht Jopeda, d June, 1957, on the east side s island, purchased by Mr. , and hauled onto the beach itangiia, where she still sits, olition of these would not contribute to the local larder as they are high and dry. When Inspire went up there was a great harvest of fish for the locals. • NEW OWNER: Burns Philp’s 300-tonner Kulu, laid up in Rabaul for some time past, has been sold to G. & M. Shipping Service of Rabaul, who also own the 195-ton Duali and the 50-ft launch Betty Another BP 300-tonner is also understood to be on offer, and will be replaced by a smaller vessel.

• Tenders For “Pom Pom

No. 2”: There are reliable reports that tenders were received from all over the world for the building of NZ Island Territories Department’s replacement vessel for the present Maui Pomare. Tenders closed in London at the end of 1958. They are said to be keen, with delivery dates as early as the end of 1960.

Such is the ship building recession in UK yards that it is reported that even the great John Browns, of the Clyde, have tendered.

The vessel, it will be recalled, is to be of about 2,750 tons gross with a speed of 13 knots, carrying about 65,000 cu. ft of refrigerated cargo and 40 passengers on the Cook Islands-NZ run.

New Zealand’s financial climate has altered somewhat since tenders were called, and no one will be very surprised if the scheme is shelved, at least for the present. o THE UNSHARED SECRETS: Though the Union Steam Ship Com- 107 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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iias undoubtedly endeared itith its shareholders, it has revealed much to the public sea-going employees, ri the passengers’ point of tie chronic shortage of accomion along the routes served used ill feeling, whatever the lies involved. Public relations Iso appeared to be conspicujoor. spapers have done much snipsr the fact that the company to publish its annual ts and balance-sheet, sumof which have shown large ofits, in excess of £1,000,000 mt years, despite the world ig recession. current summary issued i reveal taxation or deprecialowances—a fact which was by the New Zealand md will undoubtedly also not •looked by the labour unions ms for pay increases this le summary of 1958 operahe company says that over t 10 years its tax-paid profit d 4.8 per cent, on the capolved. il dividend on the ordinary all of which are held by & O Line, was 8 per cent. year’s operations, and 5* t. was paid in respect of the preference shares. 402,000 passengers and over in tons of cargo were carried company’s fleet in 1958. ebruary a group of Indian residents of Suva rather naively suggested that, with a number of Union Company vessels lying idle in Auckland, one might be available at bargain rates to provide a lowcost cruise for Fiji Indians to India after being fitted out with troopship type accommodation.

Undoubtedly there are plenty of foreign-flag ships available to provide such a cruise whenever called upon, but there are plenty of reasons why the laid-up Auckland vessels would not be forthcoming.

• Slevik May Change

HANDS: The small Norwegian tramp Slevik, mentioned in February PIM, may be purchased by Eriama Plantations Ltd. of Papua. The vessel called at Auckland with explosives and general cargo from Australia in February returning to Sydney with timber from Tauranga.

She was then to head for New Guinea again.

Chief Officer Sigurd R. Andersen, who has been in the ship ever since she left home 20 months ago, told of her movements since then.

First was a dynamite cargo from Hamburg to Peru and Chile. Next a nitrate cargo from there to Mexico followed by a spell in the Florida- Havana-Gulf trade, then a sugar cargo from Cuba to British Columbia.

From there dynamite for the Philippines and copra to Colombia, Central America. A cargo of fishmeal from Callao to San Pedro came next, and another dynamite cargo from James Island, BC, to the Philippines.

Leaving Manila in ballast last September 1 Slevik headed for Queensland and the commencement of her charter to Eriama Plantations. Since leaving home she has had a change of masters, and is now commanded by Captain Bjarne Sverdrup.

Although listed with Lloyds as 606 tons gross, certain structural alterations have reduced this to 358 tons, permitting the signing of a total crew of 12 instead of 17.

Slevik normally carries two Mates who maintain 6-hour watches, but the Australian Second Mate signed off the ship at Auckland and the captain was standing watches when she left that port. • BROTHERS SANK: The coastal vessel owned by Mr. Charlie Blake, of Rabaul, sank at her moorings in [?] more small ships from outside Fiji are making use of the Fiji Public Works Depart- [?]ipway at Walu Bay, Suva. The slip can accommodate ships up to 1,000 tons. Shown the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Government auxiliary ketch, "Te Matapula". high and dry on the main slipway for routine overhaul and repairs. Stinsons "Hifofua II", photographed in Pago Pago in February, when on her delivery voyage to Nukualofa. (See page 101). —Photo: Pan American Prints. 109 C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Onald Ships May

2H: There were reports in .ry that A. B. Donald & Co. soon switch their 309-ton tte Donald from the Cook ; trade to French Polynesia, eturn the 173-ton schooner Taporo to the Cooks, ild’s head office in Auckland led that the matter was consideration but that no dewas likely until late March. 3 Taporo, built in 1913, traded Cooks for many years but ansferred to Papeete, where registered, about 1949, when the company purchased Charlotte Donald from Singapore, where she is still registered.

She is one of the war-time 300tonners, built at Fremantle as AV-1363 but was named Kinabatangan when purchased by ABD. • VERSATILE; Captain Charles Smith, a very substantially built Scot and a very versatile one, too, has lately been appointed Harbourmaster at Apia in succession to Captain Jones. Captain Smith served his time as an AB in NZGS Matai, gaining plenty of experience in surf-boat work servicing the lighthouses round the New Zealand coast when Matai was engaged in that work. Later, when the ship was engaged in ocean telegraph cable repair work, as an officer he gained useful experience in this specialised field.

He was also in Matai when the vessel was engaged as a supply vessel for the RNZAF bases extending north through Norfolk Island to Los Negros.

He had a spell in the Cooks inter-island trade, first in the Fairmile La Reta, and later as master of Island Territories’ ketch Ranui.

He underwent a training course with the NZ Meteorological Service, was Assistant Harbour Master at New Plymouth for several years, then returned to “Met” to become Port Meteorological Officer at Wellington, visiting and attending to the requirements of shipping using that port. (Over) Message From Port Sudan * lM’s” shipping friends have my of manifesting themzs in the oddest places. In r uary we received a letter ed in Port Sudan, from Mr.

Reed, formerly of Papua, s aid: i October 16, I noticed a yacht enter Port Sudan our under full sail and con- -7 to local regulations. (She without a pilot). She was flythe Australian flag which good to see again, so after had anchored I went along offer the usual liquid itality. lagine my surprise when now bald head of Ken le, whom I had known when worked for a few years for ralasian Petroleum Co. in Gulf of Papua, come up out be cockpit. The yacht was ng, with owner-skipper Ted r , in command and three ralian crew members. She i a world cruise. Ted was an old P-NG skipper, long re my time, and we >ped tales of the islands I the small hours, saw the yacht and crew n a few weeks ago—this in Naples, where they were ng up after a rough trip le Mediterranean. 7 PlM’s are read and en- -1 here also by Mike and :y Eland, who talk of moonpicnics, etc., in the Giland Ellice Islands Colony, •e Mike was Harbourmaster. 111 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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• One That Won’T Re1

Captain E. Harness, who r from the busy post of Har master at Suva some months has purchased a home at: Roskill, Auckland. But the Is still have their call.

In January he flew north to relieve Captain R. D. Mat in Kurimarau —which provided! tain Harness with an opport for a new look at an old star ground — the Gilberts. Cap Matheson went south for his a:, leave at his home port of AucM • EMIGRANT SHIP: An emi ship with a difference may up in Rabaul in March or and she will likely call for a fresh water. The ship is the ton Panama-flag vessel San M owned by the Isabel Navigatia of Hongkong, and the emig aboard will be some 1,300 sel cross-bred Jersey Heifers, H from Whangarei, NZ, to the F pines where they will be mated beef bulls.

A steamship 29 years old, Miguel, seems on the surface almost as unlikely a selection the handling of so large a ship of cattle as the steam pass vessel Catusha, 6,923 tons, T last year lost 100 of some 1,200( of bullocks en route from Tauri NZ, to California.

That ship was there held i writ pending settlement of i ance claims, later returned e to Hongkong, and has since broken up.

She appears to have also su succeeded in breaking up what mised to be a valuable livetrade between New Zealand!

America as a result of the ver publicity resulting from the but exaggerated—conditions aH There have been no further ments since, though another hi being Investigated.

Late February the route t taken by San Miguel with her lipines cargo was uncertain, 1 number of calls for fresh watr cattle and engines en seemed certain. • MANUS REEF CLA.

VICTIM: Mr. Cliff Batt, of N Plantation, North-Western Is!< New Guinea, has lost his copra scow Kibuli to a Manus Latest advice, end of February that the vessel is a total writ.

The vessel was carrying 20C of copra from the plantatio Lorengau when she went up: Batt is now the owner of fas Maron Plantation, Hermit 0 (about 150 miles, and slightly of west, from Manus) once o by H. R. Wahlen, now of Ham 112 MARCH, 1959 — PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT

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>3 EKiCtff syphon — a memorable gift LONDON N . 1 7 ENGLAND [?]s of Cruising Yachts E RAPUNGA with George Dibbern ew was to get away from Auckland ;bruary for Brisbane. “Tell them,” eorge, “that I’m coming across to the booby prize as only entrant in rans-Tasman Race—which wasn’t through lack of entries”. TE fGA may make an Island cruise in all goes well. iIIMERE of Sete. France, sailing an 1 route, reached Tarawa from i via Canton Island and possibly way-ports on December 4. From she was to head for Japan via the ,11s —American Atomic Energy Comi permitting—and eventually conicr circumnavigation via Indonesian and the Red Sea. This yacht left July 2, 1957, and our first and last of her was from Balboa just a jo. Since then Jean Bluche and his uzanne and 12-year-old son Jean roken the journey for some months rich Polynesia. lINRISE ex-VIKING, lost in the gos in 1956, will be recalled—under »t name she sailed round the world hat popular Swedish couple Sten rita Holmdahl. As SUNRISE, Joe negg of Austria was in command, the wreck he was picked up by 4 and remained with that American until some months a,ro when ft her at Madang. There he job as skipper of the local 64-ton ALARK after qualifying for a local s ticket. Joe expects to be in late May to take delivery of a e launch on behalf of a New Guinea ser.

TOPIA, in which Fred J. Petersen trouble in Indonesian waters rehas been sold at the port of , Malaya, though it is not yet clear r the purchaser is in the United or Malaya. Mr. Petersen flew home enang, later cabling the crew that isel was sold and that thev should r the voyage ended. UTOPIA is a y 18 ft. motor sailer and the voyage iced from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, y 1957.

EADWlLL—reported incorrectly in >er “PIM” as FLEETWELL—in id for some months past after ? from Sydney, may head for the this autumn. This 29-ft. clinkerbuilt converted ships lifeboat is manned by A. Svedlund, of Finland, and A.

Taumees. of Estonia. • MAMARI, 28-ft. Auckland ketch with Messrs. J. Oliphant, G. Petersen and C.

Sherry aboard, arrived home February 10 at the end of a nine month’s cruise as far cast ils Tahiti and as far west as Sydney.

J he . 7if S^ nan CIOSSing on the home ru ™ oo u ays. • WANDERER, the 98-ft. schooner owned by actor Sterling Hayden, was the cause of some publicity in the US after sailing from ’Frisco for Papeete on January 16. He had his four children on board—evidently without consent of their mother. WANDERER was reported in the Marquesas in mid-February. Hayden plans to shoot some scenic movies there for a while, before continuing on. • CRUSADER of Auckland, 47-ft. ketch purchased recently by Mr. W. Endean, will probably sail from there for the US via Is,and P ort s in May. With him will be Major w s - Moss (“HI Met by Moonlight”) and foUr others- * SHEMARA with French actress Josette Day and her husband aboard is one on which we await details. This yacht reported missing on the Queensland coast during the mid-February hurricane, having sailed from Cairns shortly before the blow. As there were no further reports we assume that the y acht was located sheltering somewhere. Perhaps some Queensland reader can supply details of where this > acht had come from or whether it was a l° ca l hired craft.

LATER: Report received from our Noumea correspondent, this 800 ton yacht [?]Polo", which was being repaired in [?] in February after running aground on Arutua reef. See page 115. 113 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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I that New Caledonian port in late ry. The yacht is owned by Sir i and Lady Docker, and is under to Monsieur Salvay, millionaire r husband of Josette Day. The left Noumea, February 25 for Isle es, then Suva and Tahiti. Crew s 33 including the master and a NTA MARIA, in which Danish reaster Mariner Asker Kure was sup- -0 die—according to the newspapers II said to be very much under the of Captain Kure, somewhere in the ranean. Having sailed from 1 in July, 1955, for the South Seas e wondering about the sequel and wer came from the Slocum Society.

MATANGI and the Fergusons are und French Polynesia according to received from Mrs. Ferguson at February, written in Tubua Bay, And they are still having adleaving Papeete they sailed for then overnight to Fare, Huahine, they stayed several weeks just g about. In the New Year they down the channel which runs the )f Huahine, in company with Roy and his boys on the yacht SEA f, to the village on stilts called i goes on: “With the help of the /hief we found a perfect anchorage two boats put out bow and stern and tied together with spring Ye had no warning of the big nd rains coming until we noticed ; barometer failed to flutter back; It kept going down at an alarming r e still didn’t worry too much as lorage was practically land-locked, re reckoned without the winds. The f Haapu are the greatest! In the F winds screaming and roaring at s an hour they came out and is drive stakes into the coral and id secure the two yachts. Then i stood watch with us on deck igh the night until long after the be hurricane had passed overhead, d with six anchors and no damage h damage has been done to these ■the vanilla crop being especially t. However, the sun finally came waters receded and the people i laugh and sing. tayed another week and then spent jetting up our six anchors and ided for Uturoa on Raiatea. For we do not recommend it. The i excellent, wide and of cement, b good water available. But it’s cruising yachts; Too high. 51 sailed right under it and we b tying her off for the night.” ;rgusons plan to move on to Bora April; then Rarotonga and Tonga. tRANATHA (last mentioned In in December, when she was rein a Huahine reef) is now duly report the Fergusons. The winds pushed and dragged her hull out deep pass and only a piece of lains to indicate where she once >ONFLEET SOLD: The schooner Etch MOONFLEET which has been the Bay of Islands, Suva, for the ee years has been sold to a New doctor.

FLEET, formerly the KONA, of i registry was bought off an i syndicate by Alan Gray, a chief Rcer in the Fiji Royal Naval r Reserve, who was on secondment w Zealand at the time, nd his wife intended to sail the .EET back to the Dominion last when Alan’s term was up but icnts fell through and he went to New Zealand leaving the ketch here in the hands of Petty Officer Bill Kite.

Bill said that Alan had tried to register the ketch under the name NORTHWIND but found that there were so many NORTHWINDS that he had to settle for something else —MOONFLEET.

Forty-one feet long, with a 13 feet beam and a draught of about seven feet the MOONFLEET is registered at Suva.

The Auckland doctor was expected to arrive at Suva in the TOFUA on February 24 to sail the MOONFLEET back to Auckland. • MARCO POLO was in Honolulu in February under repair after damage sustained on the run from French Oceania when the 28 ft. ketch ran agroond on Arutua reef. The yacht arrived in Honolulu on January 6. On board are Axel Petersen, owner-skipper, and Froment who joined him at Tahiti. Peter sen is returning to Denmark fromi NZ, ana Froment's destination is France men the vessel hit the reef, the two of them sail *“ a rubber dinghy by means of a sheet an island 12 miles away and enlisted the aid of the natives, who managed to g the ketch off and on her way. • WHITHER, out of Los Angeles,with Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Lopez and infant daughter on board, was in Hawaii in January. Plans are unknown except that they will cruise in the Pacific for the next couple of years. • INTREPID and her skipper Allan Phifer are both held up in Honolulu.

Phifer was extensively burned when a can of alcohol with which he was filling a stove, exploded. He was taken to hospital while fellow yachtsmen undertook the job of cleaning up INTREPID for him. He bad been planning to leave for Tahiti in early February.

"Utopia”, here seen leaving Suva last year on her voyage north, has now been sold in Malaya. See page 113. 115 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Will Help Establish in the Rewa 0 consultants from Australia ;o help in investigating riceng prospects in the Rewa y area of Viti Levu, Fiji. many years the Rewa Valley been producing sugar cane 1 has been bought by the dal Sugar Refining Company crushed at their mill at Dri. The mill is to be closed le end of the 1959 crushing n and farmers in the area are urged to switch to other crops, statement by the CSR in lary said that rice was already stablished crop in the Rewa y and farmers were familiar it. Much of the land was )le for rice-growing and there a market for rice in the y. i company had decided, with ;nowledge of the Government, eck and confirm the general ects of production and markets le rice industry on the Rewa, ;termine the requirements of and equipment, the financial gements for purchasing padi narketing rice and, finally, to s on the kind of organisation, i would facilitate the developof the industry. ; company had engaged two Itants who would serve on an ;igational committee. They Mr. A. G. Lowndes and Mr.

Dean.

Lowndes is in private Iting practice in Sydney in ts of land utilisation and ng economics. He is a )er of the Australian Broadig Commission and has been nan of the Australian ute of Political Science for il years.

Dean is production and sales ger of a firm which has rice ig interests in New South >• vever, as PIM reports have ited over the last 12 months, is no guarantee that the will be able to interest all the farmers in rice, or any other ns are still going ahead for the £l-million Fiji Sugar Company Limited, registered last December, and whose shares (40,000 at £25) are now being subscribed. It has been launched with the backing of Indians who believe there is still a sound future for sugar in the Rewa, despite the CSR’s decision to pull out.

The company is planning to operate from 1960, and negotiations are going ahead for machinery.

The company will compete with the CSR in the cane fields, and act as buyers and sellers of other produce in the Rewa.

The man behind the scheme, Mr.

Vishnu Deo, says that the Nausori (Rewa) grower is as old a hand at growing cane as the CSR is a miller of it, and since the CSR is leaving the area, the local growers are entitled to claim their full share of the export quota, “having continuously made contributions to build it up”.

Meanwhile, it was also announced in February that a big land deal has been negotiated between the Government of Fiji and the CSR Company.

A joint statement issued by the Government and the company said that the freehold of almost the whole of the company’s land in the Rewa Valley would be transferred to the Crown in exchange for the freehold of certain Crown land in Viti Levu and Vanua Levu which the company holds under long lease.

The change of ownership is to take effect on January 1, 1960.

The deal is to help the economy of the area following the company’s decision to close the sugar mill at Nausori.

Japanese Banno Interests Extend Again The name of Banno is gradually making itself known again in the South Pacific where Banno Brothers was the principal Japanese trading interest in immediate pre-war days, especially in Tonga and the Gilbert and Ellice Is.

Mr. Yasunobu Banno, senior partner of Banno Mining Co. Ltd., a £1,000,000 company registered in Suva last July, was in New Zealand in February negotiating the purchase and shipment of timber on a long-term basis from Nelson to Japan.

The timber contract is in association with Mr. Douglas M. Kenrick, a New Zealander living in Japan who was one of the first exporters in that country to reopen trade with NEW SCHOOL. The Governor of Fiji, sir kenneth Maddocks, about to unlock the door of the new Shri Vivekananda High School at Nadi, which he officially opened in February. With him is the principal. Mr. P. N. D. Moosad. In the foreground is Mrs. A. D. Patel, who presented the key to the Governor, and at the rear, swami Rudranandaji and Lady Maddocks. -Rob Wright, Fiji PRO. 117 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Plan to Avoid Rarotongan Floods The Cook Islands Administration is seeking nearby land on Rarotonga for the re-settlement of residents of the low-lying Tutakimoa area between the twin townships of Avarua and Avatiu. Whenever there are floods, as in the January “blow” (see February PIM ), these people suffer damage to property and health.

The area is settled largely by immigrants from the Northern Group.

A re-settlement site on the high giound near the Catholic Church is sought.

Co-operative Union In Cook Islands An important advance was made in the field of co-operative societies in the Cook Islands recently with the formation of a Co-operative Union.

The union was formed following a meeting in Rarotonga of the representatives of 21 registered operatives situated there, at M and at Mangaia.

The functions of the union include banking, marketing purchasing, and later audit supervision of the member socie A committee of five has b formed with Mr. Mana Strickll as chairman: Mr. Nikau Tanga, secretary; Mr. Val Savage, treasurer, and Messrs. Alex Mu and Tiakana Numanga as nu bers. All are active members; societies.

Practical Publicity For the RNZAF The Royal New Zealand Air F 1 at Laucala Bay, Suva, opened, 1959 programme of taking aid the sick in remote parts of Fiji flying a mercy mission to K( Islands in the Lau Group of !

The Medical Department quested the assistance of RNZAF to fly medical aid to seriously ill woman on the isls An assistant medical offi Pareti, attached to the C 1 Hospital, Suva, and an RN2 nursing sister, flew in the Sunc land. The patient responded treatment on the spot and tl was no need to bring her to Si Many lives have been savedl Fiji, and as far afield as Gilbert and Ellice Islands, San and Niue through the services; these New Zealand airmen, who doing a better job of public relati than any organised high c publicity campaign could.

Manihiki Still Closed To Divers Manihiki lagoon, which has yielo as much as £lOO,OOO worth of blai lip mother-of-pearl shell in reci years, is to remain closed to div for the second year in successii according to an official notice issi) under the Cook Island Pearl Sh Fisheries Regulations, 1950. T closure is intended for conservat; purposes.

Manihiki lagoon, which has p;< vided a substantial proportion Cook Islands overseas earnings post-war years, was continuou open until 1956, when it was clos for that year. It was reopen in 1957.

There are differences of opini on whether the lagoon should closed wholly or partly at this ti;. as no research has been earnout in the past. A fishery biolog is now to be appointed so that cc trol of the valuable fishery may more soundly based in the futun Some support for the theory th an excess of undersized shells —ft reason given for the closure —is d; to insufficient rather than excess;; harvesting of the beds, was provid; by a New Zealand zoologist in Fe ruary. 118 MARCH, 195 9 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH II

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Du m e zoologist, Professor L. R. irdson, of Victoria University, ngton, commenting on New ,nd’s valuable Foveaux Strait s oyster fishery, said “not one 1 study of the needs, habits, reiction, growth-rate, or produc- ■ of these oysters has ever published”. believes that these are probably vorld’s most extensive natural r beds “and that they are bejrossly underharvested, to the ment of both the size and by of the oysters that are r. i oyster crop,” the professor “is not like gold in the ground, •Id is not mined, it does not h. If mature fishable oysters lot taken they die and rot in ;ea. Overcrowded beds do not the fastest-growing or best by oysters.” 3 professor concluded—and no can say whether or not this es also to Manihiki: “The dein size and quality of southern rs is strong evidence that these have been persistently operated r their productive capacity.”

Way Grow ure-Pearls iris from paua shell-fish may future New Zealand export :rmission can be obtained to je a Japanese expert. 3 paua is best known as the from which New Zealand ifactures the greenish-b 1u e iscent inlaid curios and lery. Another variety of this Jve is known in the United s and elsewhere as abalone. professional paua shell fisher- Mr. E. J. Richardson, of Welln, has been in close touch a Japanese culture-pearl exwho is producing pearls comially from this type of shell ™ also , poss ? sses a naturally produced pearls which he has found in New Zeala ?£? aua - He has now applied for the lease oi a site on a small island in Island Bay, Wellington, and for permission to engage the Japanese expert. This will have to be arranged at government level as the Japanese government has regulations regarding celses evealinB of culture -P earl p™- Some months ago PIM reported tnat an oyster culture-pearl fishery at d Hon^kon| UCCeSSfUlly established T a * v w In Australia, where war reparations from Japan included the secrets of pearl culture—on paper— Japanese experts were belatedly brought in a couple of years ago to establish a similar industry in Broome, WA, after Australian scientists had failed to produce anything in commercial proportions though a lot of experimentation was carried out at Thursday Island by the CSIRO More Variety in fnnl/c 7 Cvnstftc V-OUKS CApoiTS Cucumbers and pumpkins, as well as tomatoes and pineapples, may be exported this year from Mangaia, the Hon. Ngatupuna Matepi, the [?]ater Spout Gives [?]me Bad Moments 4. large water spout off the mdalcanal coast on January caused some consternation • the crews of three small ps.

Vwo of the vessels, the Goviment’s MV “Myrtle” and inese Trader Yee Fae’s AV 3W Moon” were able to turn ay but the 30 ft “Ara-ni-Ulu,” • new Co-operative Society’s sel was directly in line, fortunately, the spout broke when about 50 yards away, lertheless the crew received jood tossing around.

Vpart from 25 bags of copra the hold getting wet, no ,er damage was sustained. 119 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Sorry, No Customers In Fourth Street Fourth Street, Lae, the condition of which has been a bone of contention for years at Town Advisory meetings, at last came into its own in February. Teams of native labourers, European supervisors, bulldozers, tractors, lorries, and rollers took over, and kerbed, guttered and sealed it.

During these operations the street was closed to traffic, and the best customer the shopkeepers had was the regular clouds of dust settling on their stock.

Highlight of the week of dust and noise was the day a certain employee at a certain store filled in his cash statement. In the space designated for note denomination, he wrote, “Sorry nothing”, and returned his bag of change intact.

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They're Neighbours in Remotest New Guinea Although Mrs. Cliff Batt and Mrs. Bede Lean are neighbours in New Guinea and have been talking to each other almost daily for three years, they did not meet until they were both in Sydney in January.

Their backyard fence is the 150 miles of Pacific Ocean that separates Maron from Wuvulu (better known as Maty Island) and their news-swapping has been by twoway radio. Mrs. Lean is the first white woman on Wuvulu; Maron must have seen very few, if any, either The North Western Islands of New Guinea, are about the remotest in the Territory—if you headed north from them you’d likely see no land until you hit the Carolines or Guam—and both Maron and Maty have a place in NG’s more romantic PS Maron (now owned by the Batts) and Wuvulu (owned by the Leans) were old German plantations, and both families live in the houses that were built in the German tlI Maron Plantation was, of course, once owned by H. R. Wahlen, now of Hamburg, and the plantation homestead, usually described y romantic writers as „ a Dr S S w’h«pn called “Wahlenburg”. PIM has seen interested in the fine oldhouse for a long time, and was pleased t [?]how the new Coastwatchers' Memorial [?]will look. It should be completed in April. 121 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY— MARCH, 1959

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Progress On W. Samoa's Roads Three miles only of road co: struction remain to be done < Upolu (Western Samoa) to comple a traffic circuit of the island. Tb work, which has not yet be( started, involves the bridging of tl Salani River, and it will be nece sary to move inland a little to cro this at the most suitable point.

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But steady progress is being ma* with the major reading of boi Upolu and Savaii. It is limit* mainly by the amount of financ available. Biggest stretch of roadii still to be done to link up the 1 mile circuit of Savaii is the 15-mi gap between Salailua and Lah Gautavai. Six miles of this is part built.

First stage construction has be« done on the eight-mile section h tween Solomea and Puapua and c 15 miles of the Letui-Ao’o pa-Ass Road.

Works now approved and which funds have been provide are the completion of the Salailm Lata section on Savaii, the col struction of one mile east of La‘ towards Gautavai, the building < a 40 ft span bridge at Gautavai ar the widening of one mile of tt Ao’opa-Asau section of the Letui Ao’opa-Asau Road.

Works for which finances a: available on Upolu are the con pletion of the Putasi-Sapanan Road, which is in the first stage ♦ construction, and work on tb Sapanau-Salani River Road. Tb 40-ft span bridge at Sapaunau hs yet to be started, as is the cor; struction of part of a farm feed* road on the line of the fins Sapaunau-Salani River Road, br there is some plant and an er gineering surveyor on the site.

Capital development carried ov in Western Samoa for the ten yeai 1846-1956 —the latest period f a which complete figures are avai] able —cost £2,055,000, of whic £1,604,000 come from Samoan Gov ernment revenue and £451,000 froi the Reparation Estates (which i that term contributed about ono fifth of the Territory’s expenditui on capital development). 122 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Cable Address: “Carefulness”. iybe New Kind Mining for NNG he Overseas Ministry, at The jue, Netherlands, has agreed in iciple to four companies jointly lotting mineral ores in the igeo Island and Cyclops Mouni areas of Netherlands New nea. he names of the companies have been released but it is known t three of them are Dutch and American. s well as undertaking further loratory work, the firms will luce nickel, cobalt and iron from laterite ores already known to it. xploration in NNG in 1952 blished the presence of 55,000,000 s of nickel and cobalt laterite ;. The same variety of ore was id on Waigeo Island in 1955. w Airservices Bring julations for Moresbyites ne of the more pleasant things ut visiting the Territory of ua-New Guinea has always been ease with which the traveller ipleted formalities on arrival. ,rt from being asked by the toms officer whether he were •ying any firearms, ammunition, its, fruit or seeds, the traveller apparently at liberty to sort out own baggage from that lined up :he edge of the tarmac and just going. At all events, this is what did, anyhow. ut when Qantas started their Super Constellation service at end of January, and the new ■seas terminal building was led at Jackson’s airport, there e indications that the good old s were coming to an end. tie same Customs inspector asked same old question about fires, seeds and plants, but when traveller attempted to remove suitcases in the old way a itas clerk came smartly into on and said, “No, No, No—you t do that until it’s cleared by toms.” After about half an hour ;his, he gave up and the suitis were gathered to the bosoms their owners in the old way. it seemed as though it might ;he thin end of the wedge, ow, with the routing of the igkong service through Port ■esby, to and from Sydney, it is ly “on”. The following official arantine and Customs Proires” were issued by the Collector Customs and Director of Public ,Ith in Port Moresby on Febry 24: lealth and Customs authorities ise that when the new Qantas ice Hongkong-Manila-Australia ts next week, special arrangeits will be necessary at the new terminal building at Jackson’s airstrip, Port Moresby.

“These arrangements require that immediately before the arrival of the planes on the southbound flights, the terminal building be closed to all persons other than officials and the passengers travelling from Hongkong and Manila, and remain closed until quarantine and customs procedures have been completed. It is expected this will necessitate closing the terminal building to the public for approximately half an hour after the planes arrive.

“The first southbound plane from Hongkong and Manila is due at 8.30 a.m. on March 5, and thereafter planes are scheduled to arrive from Hongkong and Manila at Port Moresby at 8.30 a.m, every Thursday.”

The so-called overseas-terminal is not much more than a giant shed (a photograph of the interior appeared in February PIM ) and the closest place to shelter from the rain or Port Moresby’s very hot sun is about half a mile away, so Port Moresbyites meeting the Hongkong plane are going to have a thin time until someone builds them a waiting room. (Over) 123 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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DCli y Behaved Like iled Children illars flowed freely in Suva in uary, when the luxury Swedish rican Line’s Kungsholm (21,000 i called there in the course of iream cruise” to Pacific and East ports from New York, le mostly wealthy American passes were taken on whirlwind > round the city and were 'tained in traditional Fijian at Deuba Beach, 30 miles Suva on the picturesque n’s Road. wever, hounded and pampered a battalion of “cruise staff bers” some of the passengers dy won themselves a reputafor behaving like spoiled ren. ring the official Fijian cerees at Deuba one elderly woman ;nger complained to a member ae cruise staff that an “out- ” was sitting in the official dstand, which was reserved )assengers. ice the offending outsider and wife were unable to produce 3s or a Kungsholm ticket, they asked to leave. They did so sfully, and without comment, lent. ter, an embarrassed cruise tor learned that a member of staff had asked the United s Consul for the South Pacific H. G. Shackleton) and his to leave, without as much as g who they were! . Shackleton’s courteous beiur had been in true diplomatic the time the Kungsholm ed Port Moresby, however, the tourists had become a little less spoiled—or perhaps it was just that Port Moresby people, with far less experience of tourists than Suva has, couldn’t see anything to complain about.

Port Moresby put on its gayest front, and stocked its stores with everything it could lay its hands on.

What a P-NG newspaper termed “pressure-packed public relations” swung into action aboard ship, and invited the local Press to come on and interview passengers. Plenty of free liquid hospitality was on hand to help make their job easier.

One of the passengers was 13year-pld Elizabeth Conk e y, of Illinois, who with her parents was making her third luxury cruise in three years. She keeps up with her school studies along the way.

Said Elizabeth: “It can get boring. There aren’t any young kids like myself aboard, except 11-yearcld Bobby Bennett. All the other passengers are too old.”

Ashore, one American amateur photographer took a quick shot of a Hanuabadan girl and gave her £5 for the trouble. Another took some movie shots of two other girls— gave them threepence each.

Samoan Minister Fined After Club Fracas Tualaulelei Mauri, aged 55, Minister for Lands in the present government of Western Samoa, and a member of the Executive Council, seems to be getting for himself a political reputation as the bad boy of the Territory.

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Samoa, in the difficult days right ahead. He is his own enemy.

Tualaulelei, last year, spoke scathingly of Europeans (with whom he apparently includes part- Samoans), and his words gained him no new friends, or influenced people in his favour.

Last September, he created a scene in the Apia Club. The house committee asked him to resign. He did not do so.

In discussions in the Assembly, he made statements regarded by the "Kungsholm", on another Pacific luxury cruise. Seme of her passengers were "like spoiled children ..." 125 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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alagi community as very nsive. The Europeans regarded as one prepared to stir up al prejudice at a time when, if 10a is to make progress as a nation, unity is essential and al prejudices may not be tolerctween September and January, tions between the Europeans the Minister were strained. l the evening of January 24, laulelei entered the Club about clock, apparently under the inace of liquor. He had some beer, went to play billiards. He made t he said was intended as an able remark to a lady there. She nted the approach, and left, r. Ben Smith, a member of the ’s house committee, and a well vn staff man of Nelson and Co„ 'cached Tualaulelei, and told to behave himself, and reded him that he had no right •e there, anyway—the commitlad asked him to resign, lalaulelei became very excited, Smith (in Samoan) that he “a low-down stinking pig”, and ped his face, with great vigour, lalaulelei walked away and ids got him quickly off the club lises. xe matter was reported immedij to Mr. Peter Plowman, the 's president, and a committee iing was held. A letter, dated lary 24, was sent to Tualaulelei, ting out that as he had not rered the Committee’s letter of ember 30, requesting his nation, he was regarded as havremoved himself from memberur days later, after some dision and deliberation, a charge nst Tualaulelei, that he had ilted Mr. Ben Smith, was lodged the police, le case came before the Samoa i Court (Chief Judge C. C. sack and two Samoan Assessors, ia and Meleisea) on February After hearing a number of esses, and defendant’s evidence he had merely pushed Smith, that the incident anyway was small and insignificant, the Court fined Tualaulelei £l5. Judge Marsack, after commenting upon Tualaulelei’s position of importance and influence in the community, said the position was made somewhat worse by the facts in the letter which defendant had insisted be produced in Court. This told him, in effect, that his presence at the club was no longer welcome.

He added that though the Court found that defendant not only committed assault, but was intoxicated and used bad language, it had to take into account that he was only charged with assault, and it was only on that the Court could impose a penalty.

The Court conviction does not end the matter for Tualaulelei Mauri.

He also loses his Ministerial post and his Parliamentary seat, for which he was getting a salary of £875 a year.

The W. Samoa High Commissioner, Mr. G. R. Powles, announced after the Court case that the laws of Samoa laid down that his expulsion is automatic. Mr. Powles paid tribute to the past excellent services of the Minister over many years.

However, after paying his fine, Tualaulelei Mauri is eligible for reelection, and the poll for his constituency, Palauli East, will be held on April 20.

A correspondent reported in late February that opinion in the constituency appeared to be divided, and his election was by no means certain.

P NG Will Get A Training Ship Preliminary plans have been approved for the construction of an £BO,OOO training ship for Papua- New Guinea.

P-NG Marine Superintendent, Captain G. A. Hawley, told an AAP-Reuter man in February that the 90-ft steel ship would be used for the training of native cadets for officer status.

He said the ship could also be used for training ratings.

During four years’ training, cadets will be taught navigation and seamanship, while others will be taught marine engineering. An aggregate of 16 cadets and trained seamen will be accommodated on the ship.

Captain Hawley said a feature of the ship would be a class-room for theoretical teaching. There also had been a proposal that a nautical school be established as well for the training of between 50 and 100 men or boys as seamen and engine operators.

Cap t. Hawley’s announcement answered a request from delegates attending the recent Native Cooperative Conference in Port Moresby that the Administration should establish a school for the training of ships’ masters, Goroka Passion-fruit Producers Are Too Good The embarrassing passion-fruit situation in New Guinea which has resulted from a glut of the fruit in the last couple of months, has been Timber (Maybe) Could be the Answer for the Solomons- With the Solomons ever struggling to provide some increase in revenue from local resources, the announcement from the Forestry Department of perhaps a timber " find l ” worth £2 000,000 on Ysabel Island must be received with some hope. 4 It has always been expected that if there were to be any BSIP El Doradoes the Geological Department, under the direction of J C trover, would provide them. Firstly there was gold on Gold Ridge mth Clutha Development interested and then withdrawing ; then the Bellona phosphate deposits of eight million tons —only to be followed 'jy the announcement of its unsuitability for world markets at present.

Maybe the timber on Ysabel Island will now prove to be the inswer, but as yet it is too soon to say and the determined drive ly the promoters of the infant cocoa industry may in fact, see that is leader in the race to be the Protectorate’s next cash producer is indicated below. —Or (Maybe) Their Cocoa Will Give New Guinea a Run Approximately £AIOO,OOO is to be spent from Colonial Development and Welfare Fund in a project to establish the cocoa industry lU road (cost: £50,000J is to be constructed on Malaita. The new road will require the bridging of six rivers, but in conjunction with an additional o 0 miles of feeder roads provided by the Malaita Native Council, it will open up considerable areas thouaht to be suitable for the cocoa industry.

Headquarters for the industry will be at Auki, on Malaita. arid Gizo in the Western Solomons. The remainder of the grant will be usld il the establishment of the industry and it is hoped that by 1960 1 500 acres will be under cultivation on Malaita and an additional Iflaojn the western Solomons jB charge 0 , the cocoa project. Considerable progress has been made with the setting up of experimental stations. 127 C I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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The result is that Cottees have agreed to go on buying this year’s crop of passion-fruit, but at a reduction of Id a pound (from 3d to 2d delivered at the Goroka factory); they have also agreed to try to find new markets for the increased volume of juice.

The company has already bought, at 3d per pound, sufficient passionfruit from this season’s crop to produce 40,000 gallons of juice, which is far in excess of the 25,000 gallons allowed into Australia duty-free under a Tariff Board ruling of 1957.

Above that figure, there is a duty of 8/3 per gallon—an arrangement designed to protect Australian growers who have frequently protested against juice concentrates imported from “cheap black labour” countries such as New Guinea and South Africa.

There has always been the closest co-operation between Cottees Passiona (NG) Ltd. and the Administration, and at the conference in Goroka recently, the Administration expressed its appreciation of the company’s efforts to continue to take the whole of the passion-fruit crop. This is entirely a native industry and one which has assisted considerably in the advancement of Highland natives.

The company agreed to consult the Administration if continuing excess supplies force the price down still further.

The cult of the passion-fruit has now, of course, spread far beyond Goroka and its environs. On all the roads leading into such centres as Minj and Mt. Hagen there are lines of native women carrying stringbags piled high with passion-fruit into the local purchasing point.

The bulk of the crushing and juice extraction is still done at the factory at Goroka but during the season, a portable crushing plant is operated at Mt. Hagen.

The juice is packed in four-gallon cans and kept under refrigeration.

In January, at the peak of the season, cold stores in Madang, the main shipping point, were being utilised to capacity—and there was still a lot awaiting shipment from the Highlands. (Over) [?] NURSES. This group of Islands' lasses—and one lad —was photographed in Sydney in [?]ry. The lucky lad is Kenneth Janson, of Suva. The girls are all trainee nurses at Sydney's [?]ent's Hospital. They are at rear, Elizabeth Chang, of Suva; Micheline Lew, of Rabaul; and [?] the front, Mary Young, of Suva; Louisa Chan, of Rabaul; and Jessie Sun, of Suva. —Tele-Photos. 129 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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itists Discuss a Pest Problem entific experts from various Ic islands, the USA, and New nd, met in Fiji in February talk about a beetle —the Dceros beetle which causes is losses to the copra industries me territories and is a threat e industries of others. ; five-day conference was ored by the Rhinoceros Beetle lical Advisory Committee of onth Pacific Commission. Inspecialists came from lulu, California and Tonga, ults of present campaigns were yed and new measures ed.

P. D. Macdonald, the ■nor’s Deputy, pointed out copra was Fiji’s second most tant industry and £60,000 a vas being spent in keeping the >ceros beetle in check, added: “The present situais something like the ‘cold We are simply containing jestle, even though without it reserves and support we t defeat it. That is why we your help. anwhile, we can ill afford to £60,000 a year on this service, (ay this ‘insurance premium’ because we appreciate the trpphic results which would if the beetle managed to 5 our main copra producing Fiji the beetle has been conto the eastern half of the main island of Viti Levu. The principal measures in the present control campaign are the treating of palms with insecticide and the inspection of vessels leaving Viti Levu for other islands.

Yankee Dr.'s Last Gift to Suva Before the late Dr. S. M. Lambert died (shortly after the last war) he expressed a wish that the Central Medical School in Suva, Fiji, which he helped to organise along its present lines, should have his surgical instruments. The instruments were only recently delivered to the CMS.

Dr. Lambert was connected with the work of the Rockefeller Foundation. His special area was the Pacific, and his special study was hook-worm. It was due to his work in this connection that many Pacific Islands foreshores are decorated with those extraordinary lavatories stuck out at the end of long piers. (Over) [?]e, in Suva in February, were delegates [?]conference on the serious rhinoceros [?]roblem. BACK ROW: Dr. P. Surany [?]. A. O'Connor (Fiji), Dr. C. P. Hoyt [?]J. Dumbleton (NZ), R. P. Owen (Koror, [?] Is.), T. R. Cowell, H. W. Simmonds, [?]atson (Fiji), G. S. Dun (NG), N. L. H. [?]Hawaii). FRONT ROW: Dr. Y. Tanada [?]ty of California), A. H. J. Kroon (SPC), [?]Pemberton (Hawaii). Unable to attend [?]ference because of delays in plane [?]were F. Cohic (New Caledonia), P. S. [?]stern Samoa), Dr. Jon Herring (American Samoa), M. Muller (Tonga).

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February was a popular month in Suva for professional get-togethers. Here are delegates and lecrurers to the WHO refresher course in tuberculosis, held at the Central Medical School. STAND- ING: AMO's H. Samuel (USTT), D. Tafatu (Fiji), B. Lomaloma (Fiji), T. Kofe (G. and E.), P. 110 (New Hebrides), M. Sapolu (W. Samoa), R. Williams (W. Samoa), W. Tigarea (Fiji), J. Viliua (Niue), F. Aisi (P-NG), S. Tupou (Tonga), J. Kilatu (BSIP), M. Ueki (USTT), T. Gaunede (P-NG). SITTING; Dr.

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L. I. Verrier. —Caine's Studios. 131 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH 1959

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pies of these may be seen right Samarai in Papua to Polynesia, they really flourish in Samoa e no village is complete withts rickety small-house dangling iriously over the sea. . Lambert spent 20 years in the ti Pacific, and became well r n in Papua, the Solomons, jrt and Ellice, Polynesia and, of ;e, Fiji. th Dr. Aubrey Montague, Chief cal Officer in Fiji for many !, he was instrumental in the ion of the Central Medical 01, Suva, which trains young from most of the Englishdng Territories of the South ic to become Assistant Medical titioners. e Rockfeller Foundation was :ed by Dr. Lambert to take a •nal interest in the School and rly years made generous grants e CMS was opened in December, and took the place of a smaller ing establishment carried on the 1880’s by the Fiji Govern alone. In 1953, Her Majesty n Elizabeth II opened the new ings at Tamavua, on the its above Suva. The old school, the Colonial War Memorial ital could accommodate only ;udents; the new, much more rately equipped institution can more than twice that number. 1941, Dr. Lambert, then reand living in the United s, wrote an amusing and inting book on his experiences ig 20 years in the Pacific. It called “A Yankee Doctor in Paradise in the original American edition, and “A Doctor In Paradise” in the UK edition.

Vanikoro Seeking New Manager The Kauri Timber Company, Ltd., with interests in Australia and New Zealand, was in February seeking through large advertisements in New Zealand newspapers, a manager for its Vanikoro Island logging station in the eastern Solomons.

The salary offered was “not less than £2,000 per annum” plus bonuses.

According to the February advertisement, the company has a staff of 12 Europeans and 150 natives at present.

Levuka Would Like To Catch and Can Tuna Levuka, Fiji, which has been doing a lot of thinking on how best to pull itself out of the economic doldrums by its own boot-straps, is now considering a tuna-fishing industry. (When the MOF nine-years copra agreement finished at the end of 1957, most Fiji copra was shipped direct to the local Suva mill for crushing and Levuka, on Ovalau, which for generations had been the shipping and storing point for copra shipped overseas, found itself completely by-passed).

A syndicate has been formed to investigate the possibilities of establishing a canning factory, after the style of Van Camp’s establishment in Pago Pago, and of conducting a fishery much along the lines of the Pago concern which uses Japanese fishing vessels on short-term contract.

At the head of the proposed Levuka venture is Mr. A. G.

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A meeting has already been called in Levuka to discuss the proposition and £lO,OOO capital has been promised. This, however, would not be sufficient and the Government has been asked if it would consider an interest-free loan, or even a straight-out grant.

The Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. D.

Macdonald) was cautious but promised sympathetic consideration if full details of estimate of cost, prospective catches and sales were submitted.

He said the Government would welcome the establishment of a tuna canning or any other economically-sound industry on Ovalau.

If anything comes of it, this would not be the first time Fiji had a canning industry, or even a prospective tuna fishery.

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Polio, i Typhoid iga, which had experienced a r bad polio epidemic in the part of 1958, with a number laths, was in the midst of a id outbreak in January-Feb- , though no deaths had occurred e end of January, i outbreak then was confined ngatapu and included 18 cases ages and from a number of ent villages. The public was warned to take all the usual utions regarding hygiene. and Canada Can Hullo By Phone ;h the extension of the overradio telephone service to da and Hawaii, the Solomons oon have a near to world-wide age. 3 radio telephone link to Auswas made in the latter part st year (12/6 a minute, minithree minutes), and services gradually been increased to (Over) They Tried Something Different In Fiji in February, a ship attempted to come ashore, and in New Guinea a tractor attempted to go to sea. who chin inn? the Burns Philp motor vessel “Ratanui”, which fngoi the tide!which eventually allowed her to get off. in Lae, New Wane beneath it and injured j* ™f th lL a foot or two of the sea. In front, turned over and l^dedwi tonal*ot or „ Tenyo the background is the war time f hotos . Stinsons and Pat Robertson.

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APPOINT Burns Philp Trust Company Limited as your Executor, Trustee, Attorney or Agent. ,de USA, United Kingdom, New ind, Cuba, Mexico and New iea, . the local front, facilities have installed, for official use, to ; Tulagi (pre-war capital) into honic communication with ara. Later it is hoped that , Administration headquarters, ita Island, will be included in letwork. ship-to-shore system is now ded for all overseas ships when ort, and this has proved a time-saver for all concerned, aiara has also seen the introon of a 300 line switchboard subscribers) which has imd communications within the area. However, as with all ional services has come ined costs and a business phone w £2O per annum (previously and private phones have insd by £2 to £l2. These charges 11-inclusive, to cover rent and olic Reservations on I Education Plan ; Catholic Mission of Alexis- . welcomes and will give full eration to the Administration’s tly announced plan for uni- . primary education and for rsal literacy in English, iing to a statement made at Catholic Mission headquarters lev. John T. Feeley, SVD, s Word missionary and Educa- Officer for the Alexishafen iate, NG. i new educational plan, which s the entire Territory of i and New Guinea, was anic e d by the Administrator, flier D, M. Cleland, in Port ;by on January 30 at the beig of a new scholastic year.

PIM, February, p. 144). statement said that less than of the 400,000 children of i age in the Territory attend ind of school. To remedy the ion, no effort is to be spared tending and developing Adoration schools. use of local vernaculars will knitted in the lower standards bs) as a medium of instrucvhile the children are being need to oral English, jr 1959, grants-in-aid will no be given to vernacular schools do not teach English, letheless, in spite of the lie Mission’s approval of the il plan, it feels that a blow itruck at Mission schools by Administrator’s ruling on ?n” vernaculars used as teachedia. to the multiplicity of tongues 3W Guinea, and the impos- V of learning them all, flan Missions early adopted r-used vernaculars as media igious and school instruction, v^came^nderTh^^J 0 all <oT/r- ca - 0 un 9 er their influence.

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The decision to close such schools next year leaves the Administration With the alternative of either providing ample funds for Mission teacher-training programmes, or of Poetically strangling primary education in the Territory The Education OffS of the f our principles that would have to b f considered in any successful imffiSf“tn£e. **“ Adminlstra ' * Fi rst . without sufficient Englishspeaking Native teachers it would be futlle to insist on the universal US6 0f English in the schools, • Secondly these teachers, to be effective in introducing universal literacy in English, must themselves be well trained in English, • Thirdly, the Christian Missions with their highly qualified staffs can train sufficient English-speaking Native teachers for the programme 137 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Fr. Feeley said he believes the Aaministration intends to put into effect the above four principles because the statement by Brigadier D. M. Cleland promised “adequate financial support from the Administration” for the accelerated development of Mission schools.

The statement further said that the Administration would consider giving more financial assistance to Native Mission teachers, both in training and in service.

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It Was a Nasty Habit—in Quadruplicate Now that the discoverers of the Pacific have had their day, have located all the bits and pieces, and gone their way liberally sprinkling the names of their best friends, their patron saints, or their old home towns in duplicate, triplicate— and sometimes quintuplicate; or have renamed islands that had already been discovered and nar it might not be a bad idea for & geographical SPC to sort out mess they have left behind.

This is one of the problems (see Mailbag this issue) comes for consideration each time, as i that the Pacific Islands Year E is brought up to date.

There are innumerable cases name duplicatian, native and Ei pean, throughout the Pacific. T lead to some confusion—e.g., Pt puka, French Polynesia and Pt puka, Northern Cooks to cite case. But here the spelling universally agreed and there are variations of name in modern m A fair sample of the n troublesome type of situation i be seen in the French Territo of the Western Pacific.

The easternmost of these Fre islands is the Wallis Group, main island of which is spelt on British Admiralty charts i US Hydrographic Office cha Uvea by the American Natic Geographic Society; and by s( authorities, Ouvea.

Further west, in the Fre: Loyalties, there is another isli which New Caledonia survey depj ment maps call Ouvea sometir and Uvea at other times.

The New Caledonia Tourist Bur uses Uvea, but the governm annual economic report uses O w The British Admiralty again s for Uea, but this time the Hydrographic Office says Uvea, does the National Geograp Society.

Not far from the Wallis Gr< are the islands variously designa Hoorn, Horne, and Horn. The f The Crayfish Non of 23 deg.

According to a South Pad j Commission fishery expert, it curious but true that althoui crayfish abound in reef wate around New Caledonia and nor of Australia, all efforts to ta , them in baited traps and pc have failed. In southern latitud that is the way they are caug —but north of Capricorn, nc However, it seems that the is one exception to this rule Fiji. And this may make up f the fact that some years ago promising Fiji tuna indust failed because tuna around F wouldn’t be caught by Americi pole-fishing methods.

Recent experiments in F have shown that local crays w go into traps and pots and i American company will short send an expert there to ma t further investigations. This cor pany estimates that Ameri could absorb one million poun wdght of crayfish from F\ per annum. 138 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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LIMITED (Incorporated in New South Wales) tie Dutch version—and it was Dutchmen Le Mai r e and luten who discovered and named i. le French use their version, but British Admiralty does not use English form. They accept the iverers’ version. Hydrographic e accepts the French spelling hese new French islands, but mal Geographic prefers Horn! rgest of the Hoorn-Horne-Horn ip is Futuna. Here at least rone seems to agree on the ing of their native name, but ; is still likely to be confusion, urther to the west there is ler island, easternmost of the Hebrides, which the Hydrolic Office charts as Futuna, as the Admiralty, but with the native native name of Erronan given. National Geographic in line with the Admiralty, d so it goes, all over the ic. What needs to be decided, and for all, are these ques- ; Should the name and spelling lopted by the first European verer be used; should the ng of that name change with Lationality of the administering r; or should the original native is be used where these are n and an alternative used only e there is duplication of native is? can probably rest assured no agreement on this frustratproblem will be reached this iry. aul's Unofficial i School To Cease e of Papua-New Guinea’s more su a 1 schools is Rabaul’s entary and High School which evolved in the last 11 years, /ill probably pass out of existat least in its present form, the new Rabaul High School Lit. e school at present has 260 s, most of them Chinese but some Malays and a few Euros. It has infant, primary, dary and commercial departs but when the new all-races School is complete the dary departments will be deid. e school began in 1948 in imsed premises and had 300 s, most of whom would have pre-war to the Methodist seas Mission School which ed for Chinese children.

Longst the first pupils were 7 who, due to internment durhe Japanese occupation and to ears of rehabilitation and adient that came after, had missed ears of schooling, e difficulty of arranging grades r these circumstances can be ined; and the teaching posiwas not made any easier by fact that the Department of ation, at that time, was very short-staffed, and the new school had to use a large number of student teachers.

However, by the time the new school year began in 1949, grades had been arranged from preparatory to grade 8. At this stage, students in grades 7 and 8 were frequently just filling in time until they could get jobs. Commercial subjects, including typing and book-keeping were introduced for these students in the following year.

The school continued to flourish and the pupils to improve their grades and at the end of 1955 the secondary-school subsidy was extended to Asian children, and the pupils sat for this examination. (The P-NG Administration pays £145 per annum plus one return air fare to European and Asian children who pass an examination and wish to go to Australia for secondary education.) The extension of the subsidy to Asian children removed some of the brightest pupils (whose parents could afford Australian secondary schools) from the higher classes of the Rabaul school. Nevertheless, the pupils who have remained to finish their education there have done very well.

Some past pupils of the school have done brilliantly. Young Maisie Hui won the first Vacuum Oil Co. scholarship at the end of 1955. Mr.

Paul Mow graduated Bachelor of Economics at Sydney University and is now majoring in political science in America for his MA degree.

Three education officers of the 139 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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r Department of Education are mpils, later completing their er training in Australia. In Richard Tsa was Dux of igton College, Sydney, and got liant Leaving Certificate pass, now at the University. ;. Diana Lee, who is a Sister le Nonga Hospital Rabaul, id in Sydney, and three other rls of the school are currently ing in her footsteps by doing nursing training in Brisbane.

A. T. T. Shanley, the school’s laster, currently on leave in island, says that the achievei of this school show that hing good can come out of the ory. calls it the Territory s first cial high school, built up out existing primary school by ;aff themselves. He says that ill probably be posted elsewhen he returns to the ory, and that the school itself ease to exist in its present when the new Rabaul High I is completed in 1960.

Has Influx Of itific Head Counters : the past twelve months s islands in the Solomons been visited by numerous sts, to further their studies of ernes and theories. :ly, there was Professor Elbert svaii University, an expert in eld of Polynesian languages, pent six months on Rennell tellona Islands studying the ile source of the Polynesian there. • there was Dr. William port, an anthropologist who, his wife, was scheduled to 18 months in the Santa Cruz . This stay was cut short by ms attack of malaria which it the doctor back to Honiara.

J recently, Dr. T. Monberg Vlr. W. Anderson, Danish raphers, spent several months nnel and Bellona islands to study tribal legends and customs.

Most recent visitor of all is Dr William Scheffler, an anthropologist from University of Chicago, accompanied by his wife, who had gone to Choiseul in the Western Solomons A Honiara correspondent reported m February: “Although these visits may emphasise the fact that parts oi the Solomons are untouched from the scientific viewpoint, and may produce some worthwhile discovery, they leave the man-in-thestreet perplexed and a little cynical.

“Probably the attitude is best summed up by an old-time Honiara resident who, when asked who soand-so was, exclaimed, ‘Ah, just another Yank to count the natives!’ ”

Fiji Airways Is Spreading Its Wings Fiji’s internal airline, Fiji Airways Ltd., took another hop forward in February when the first of two newly acquired De Havilland Heron aircraft arrived to supplement the company’s air fleet.

The airline, started by the late Harold Gatty, had small beginnings in 1951 with De Havilland Rapide aircraft. These were later replaced with the three present Drover aircraft, and now the Herons. Fiji Airways will dispose of one Drover aircraft, and maintain the other two together with the Herons.

But passenger seating capacity will double, as the four-engined Herons can carry 15 (and up to 17) passengers compared with the Drover’s eight.

Captain R. O. Mant, Fiji Airways manager and a veteran Qantas pilot himself, says the acquisition does not mean that Fiji Airways is considering flying services out of Fiji to the other islands “at present”. (It has been suggested by many people in Fiji since Qantas took over control of Fiji Airways in 1958 that the main purpose of the takeover was to inaugurate services from Fiji to Tonga and Samoa, to Didn’t Let The Grass Grow Hji Airways’ first new Heron i hardly put its wheels down Fiji (see below) before it had anged to take on a charter iht —to Tonga.

I he Heron, piloted by Captain rdon York, with Captain er Frame as co-pilot, set off Nukualofa on March 4, the %e day that it had made its t regular commercial flight Fiji—from Suva to Nadi. The "on made the flight in a little re than two and a half irs, with two passengers from dr alia. See also “People”.

An interested crowd was at Nausori strip, Fiii in February to see the arrival of the first of Fiji Airways' new four-engined Herons. At top is Captain R. O. Mant, who will shortly hand over mangement of the airline to Mr. Chris Ritchie. He has been responsible for its operation since Qantas bought it from the estate of Harold Gatty last year. 141 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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aect passengers from these its with Qantas services out of i Airport). iptain Mant said the Colony’s rnal air traffic requirements * now such that the larger airt were needed. Besides, Pacific services later this year would g an even greater number of travellers to the Colony, le Herons will reduce flying ss considerably, apart from ig extra comfort. (flowing crew conversion ses, the first Heron went into ation in March, and the second >n is expected to arrive in Fiji tiy. iptain Mant says the Colony’s ent airfields are suitable for the >ns, despite their longer takeieeds (2,100 feet, compared with 1 for the Drovers). basa, Savusavu, and Taveuni be the first ports served by lerons in addition to Suva-Nadi ts. The Herons will be available barter work. ieir operating range from Suva be more than 500 miles, e Heron is powered by four >y Queen 30 Mark 2 engines, maximum take-off weight is 0 lbs, and the maximum landveight 12,500 lbs. ii Airways will operate the ns mostly with one pilot and " 15 passengers. A second pilot be carried on some flights. e two Herons have had two ous owners. e first was New Zealand >nal Airways Corporation, which ited them in New Zealand, een Elizabeth flew in one of Herons at one stage of her 1 tour five years ago. e Herons were withdrawn from :e in New Zealand in August, and in January, 1958, went to on Southern Airlines’ services ctoria. ween January and October, they operated regularly from Durne to Bass Strait islands, ceston, western Victoria, Adeand northern Victorian ports, men pilots flew as second crew Ders on the Southern Airlines’ s. They all held radio and pilot :es.

Airways’ chief engineer Ken m flew to Fiji on the delivery of the first Heron last month, lircraft was piloted by Qantas in, Gordon Yorke, who is be- ‘conded to Fiji Airways to train ght crews on the Herons.

Airways will also get a new ger—Mr. Chris Ritchie, who oyer from Captain R. O. Mant )ril 1. Captain Mant’s appointwas a temporary one followlantas’ acquisition of the air- •tain Mant will then return to ;y to take up his post as is’ assistant manager flight tions (administration).

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He served in the RAAF during the war, and with the rank of Flight Lieutenant spent a number of years in Canada as an Empire Air Scheme flying instructor.

He has had 23 years’ experience in the aviation department of Amalgamated Wireless (A/asia) Limited.

Post-war, and until he joined Qantas several months ago, he was assitant manager of AWA’s aviation department.

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"Black Friday" For Samoan Airways Samoan Airways’ chartered DC3, by which it plans to inaugurate a regular air service between Pago Pago and Apia ( PIM, January, February) got itself into trouble on what turned out to be “Black Friday”, February 13. , , _ A 65 mph wind caught it on guard at Tafuna, Pago’s airport, without protection, smashed it into a nearby building, wrecking part of the tail assembly and crumbling a wing tip. j ~ Damage, according to one estimate, was about $15,000.

Meanwhile, director Lawrence Coleman is still awaiting landing rights in Western Samoa, following his “survey flight” in January, loaded down with VlP’s.

As if that wasn’t enough, Coleman has also been involved in a law suit, brought by pilot Captain Jack Gardner, who alleged that he was hired by Lawrence Coleman in the US as pilot for Samoan Airlines, and hadn’t been paid what was owing him. . . , .

He sued for $3,500, comprising his wages, fare home and some other expenses. , ..

After appearances, Judge Arthur Morrow adjourned the hearing until later in February to allow Gardner to bring his solicitor, Mr. Reg Phillips, from Apia. Pago has no solicitor in private practise.

Better luck is reported by Transocean Air Lines, which established a new air link between Honolulu Mr. Lawrence Coleman, director of Samoan Airways, photographed in Pago Pago with his sister, Mabel Reid, and brother, the Hon. Peter Coleman, Governor of American Samoa. Mr. Lawrence Coleman was sued in February for 33,500 by his pilot, Captain Jack Gardner. —Pan American Prints.

Captain Jack Gardner, in the court room.

Photo: Pan American Prints. 143 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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A product of Bristol-Myers . 8M.12. and American Samoa in January, using Boeing Stratocruisers. The flight takes place on the second Monday of each month, via Canton Island, and bookings are good.

Representatives recently visited Fiji to appoint agents there. One of the visitors, district sales manager Mr. R. Willis, said the company hoped “to generate new traffic in the Pacific.”

Transocean is experienced. It operates regular fights between New York and Okinawa, and charter flights to many places.

A’c he ™£fiX7 Se JZ-\?fn 0 service to Tafuna through Nadi, nobody seems to know. But presumably this is a different kind of traffic and won’t be affected.

Australia Attacks Canadian Airways The Australian Government Ministerial level, has intervene the dispute between the Austn Department of Civil Aviation Canadian Pacific Airlines.

The Australian Minister for < Aviation and the Canadian 1 Commissioner in Australia will ] for discussions in Melbourne April 1.

The Australian Department Civil Aviation has had a lot ti with giving Australia one of best air-safety records in the w But in matters of diplomacy, Department’s bureaucrats somet: act like flat-footed policemen.

Some time ago, it instru Canadian Pacific Airlines Ltd cut its weekly trans-Pacific sei to one service per fortnight. It s( to have some legal right to do as the Canadian-Australian Agreement provides only for a vice every two weeks. But C has been running a weekly se] for years, and says that it n a weekly frequency to pick European passengers from its O the-Pole route to Amsterdam.

If forced to cut down to once fortnight, CPAL threatened to v draw from the trans-Pacific sei altogether. Although this com] gets far less publicity than the c two operators, Qantas and American, the service it providi of exceptionally high standarc would be a bad thing for Aust: if this direct link with a s Dominion were cut; and an in] ating thing for CPAL’s many s: fied customers.

It has been said—probably ( wrongly—that the Australian ] was trying to freeze CPAL ou order to get an advantage Qantas. On the other side, it said that Canada refused to Qantas run a service across Cai when permission was requeste 1954. (Since then Qantas has ga permision to fly across the U; No doubt these departmc bickerings will be ironed out v Minister meets High Commissi shortly.

Some Pacific Market Possibilities?

Among items which seem to export possibilities from j Islands areas were these, mentii in New Zealand news despat during February: VENISON AS PET FOOD: least one meat exporter in Zealand is developing a useful t vrith the United States in ver for use as pet food. This exp< is buying carcases at £2 per ] from deer cullers engaged in extermination of deer in the Rot 144 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

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SCIAL TIMBERS: Americans been showing great interest in ghly decorative qualities of the ted punga fern timber used in n modern Auckland buildings, aunga fern—or tree-ferns very tr to it—are common in all the r tropical islands, but so far i know, have never been exd as timber. the island varieties will dress ling like as well as the New nd punga this seems to be a r worth investigating, as it is e luxury class, used for trim- » and special pannelling. The s are about 10 ft high and 6 in. in diameter. They are often sawn in lengths and made into garden plant-pots.

In Fiji You Can Now Drive Yourself Although Fiji has developed the biggest tourist industry in the South Pacific since the war, one thing was lacking—a drive-yourself car hire service. Now it has got that, too.

The company, Fiji Hire-Drive Ltd., under the management of Mr.

David Hume, started up in business modestly in mid-1958, with a few cars and a large frame building in Walu Bay, Fiji’s industrial suburb.

Now it has 12 late-model cars and three 9-seater Volkswagen Microbuses, which are usually seen out along the Vitu Levu roads at weekends, filled with local picnickers.

Obtaining a Fiji driving licence for visitors (10/-) is only a matter of a few minutes at the Traffic Licensing Authority’s office, if you already hold an Australian, New Zealand or United Kingdom licence.

If you hold one of these and have forgotten to bring it with you, and make a formal declaration to that effect, it still takes only half an hour or so, with the traffic officer co-operating with Fiji Hire-Drive to test the visitor’s driving ability.

Copra Price Continues To Confound Them The copra price, which the experts have been watching with eagle eye for months, continues to confound everyone and has sailed on into March on the same flood tide. London prices early March were still up above £Stg.9o, per ton c.i.f.

These prices were reflected in local islands prices. In the Solomons, the Copra Board declared the highest price ever, at £A7S f.o.b. per ton for top grade, which was up £AS per ton on the previous month.

In Fiji, the price at the Suva copra-crushing mill was £FBS for top grade—one of the highest prices ever paid in that territory.

Papua-New Guinea planters are now the only ones in a majorcopra producing area who are being paid far below current values. But they are, so to speak, storing up treasure in heaven, and will get a lump sum in back payment when accounts are squared up at the end of the period.

The market is still, apparently, being affected by last year’s drought in the Philippines, the still unsettled state of political affairs in Indonesia, and by a couple of shipping accidents a few months ago. [?]N FIJI. As recent photographs in "RIM” show. New Guinea now has a big proportion of [?]architecture in its Church buildings. But Fiji is not being outdone. The Mormon Church [?] is one example, and here is another recent one—the Corpus Christi Training College, [?]trains teachers for Catholic schools. The college looks out over Suva Point, and nearby the new Suva Grammar Schools are being built. 145 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Ml Nightmares and Wahgi Valley Hysteria To the Odd and the Interesting Department (Pacific Islands section) we can now add “dream fish” from Norfolk Island, that are said by the Islanders to produce acute nightmares in those who eat them.

Norfolk Islanders told this story to South Pacific Commission fisheries expert Mr. H. van Pel, during a three weeks fishery survey he conducted there early this year. (As well as the dream-fish, NI waters produce more valuable varieties, including groper, trevally, kingfish and bonito.) Fish are not the only things in the Pacific Islands to produce strange changes in humans.

About 18 months ago a certain fungi in the Wahgi Valley of the New Guinea Western Highlands got a lot of publicity when it was alleged that when natives ate them at certain times of the year, they became hysterical and some went berserk.

The Menyamyas Are Reformed Characters The bad boys of Menyamya, Morobe District of New Guinea, are becoming tame, according to a report by Assistant District Officer Keith Walters, who recently completed a 12 days patrol in the Langimar Valley, 14 miles east of the station.

The Menyamya natives are Kukukukus, and have been some of the most difficult natives to pacify and to bring under the Administration cloak of civilisation. They have preferred to remain under the bark cloaks of their own primitive culture. Colin Simpson, in his book, Adam With Arrows, described these folk and the first European Administration officer, Lloyd Hurrell (now a successful Wau farmer), and his family who went to live amongst them, in the early 1950’5.

But it’s all different now. Following ADO Walter’s patrol, this report was issued: The Langimar Valley people appear to have abandoned their inter-tribal feuding, and peace now prevails throughout the area. During the 12-day patrol no weapons [?]he Pearly-Look [?]lan is on His Way he Australian Government ponsoring a 4-weeks visit to dralia in April of M. Pierre main, one of Paris’ tophi dress designers. He will oduce a collection of fashions taring the “pearly look”, whole idea being to promote sale of pearl shell products ' counter the threat to the ustry from plastics and other thetics. (See “PIM”, Febry). he Australian Government’s i is to boost sales of Ausian mother-of-pearl and tchus, but naturally any rly-look is going to benefit ) trochus and pearl-shell ing throughout the whole th Pacific. 3sta Ben ... ... and Buka 147 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

Hollandia Now Has Its Own Newspaper Less than two years ago the island of New Guinea was served I one newspaper—the “South Pacific Post”, published weekly in Po Moresby, and circulating in both the Papua and New Guinea sides < the border, but not in Dutch New Guinea.

Then the New Guinea islands got their own service, through tl weekly “Rabaul Times”, followed last year by the weekly “New Guint Courier”, in Lae. Meanwhile, the “South Pacific Post”, whose owne have control of the other two papers, began publishing the “Pos twice weekly.

Now, Dutch New Guinea, which has no doubt been watching th expansion on the Australian side of the border with interest, hi started its own newspaper, too—but the Dutch have stolen a man on the Australians and produced a daily.

The paper is another “New Guinea Courier”, and is published \ Hollandia by a private business group with its own printing worl The paper is small (four pages, 8 in. by 12 in.) but adequate for th area, which for many years has been served by a roneod shei “And Here Is The News”, put out by the Administration’s Office < Information.

The sheet has now been discontinued, but the Information Offu (KVR) will continue with its other work, including its radio net service.

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Of the six villages in the Langimar Valley one located on the eastern slopes has been under administration influence since pre-war years, and men from this group have had long contact with Wau and Bulolo.

Patrolling of the remaining five villages did not start until 1954, following the establishment of the Menyamya Station. At that time the people of these villages were still carrying out ritual killings, and murder raids on neighbouring communities were considered to be the ideal form of relaxation for the young men.

However, since the initial census of these people in 1954 when they were told to cease tribal fighting, there has been no further trouble In the valley apart from a minor skirmish which arose out of a quarrel between two villages over the attempted abduction of a woman.

As a result of this several men served short-term jail sentences on charges of riotious behaviour. This was the last fiare-up of violence and now the whole valley has settled down to peaceful living. Also there are signs that inter-marriage between the groups is taking place and this will strengthen friendly links between former enemies.

The Langimar villages are situated on the tops of wind-swept ridges at an elevation of from 4,500 to 5,500 ft above sea level.

Quite a number of the younger men are now working at Bu Wau and in the Watut areas. ' is assisting in the progress of district because if the young i remained idle in the villages 1 soon get into trouble, and also i are getting a knowledge of a beyond their valleys and ear] money to buy tools and other g( of value to their communitie* The people are anxious to prove the village tracks through district and have asked for f and shovels for this work.

The New Guinea Lutheran Mis has three native missionaries es lished in the area and they 1 been well received by the peo] Food supplies are plentiful the people are growing and u introduced European vegeta such as pumpkins, tomatoes, < and cucumbers in addition to t traditional food crops which sweet potatoes, sugar cane, bam and greens. (Report ends).

But Some Aren't Too Reformed At the same time as the a report was issued by the Adi istration about the good beha\ of Menyamya natives, a coupl interesting cases were heard by Justice Kelly, in the Supreme C( at Lae.

In one case, a Menyamya m called Hasing was charged with murder of 11 natives by chop them up with a tomahawk as slept. What is more, he was fc guilty and sentenced to five y< In defence, Hasing said that t people had made threats, he feared for his life and just go first.

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LANCE: The extension of tourism in Pacific region and the economic and ,1 implications for the people.

LTHERLANDS: The study of the role function of custom and beliefs in ren to infant and maternal welfare.

W ZEALAND: Broadcasting in the life acific peoples. fITED KINGDOM: The place of sation, including sport and youth ities, in the community.

Tted States Of America: The

ct of the modern technical and in- ■ial world on the life and culture of South Pacific peoples, e Commission has invited a delefrom the Kingdom of Tonga to prethe introductory paper on: e training of local leaders for parition in aided self-help projects.

Self-Contained Centre ie Malaguna School is in a sant setting and will provide a contained centre for the connce. •ovision has been made for a slation service, while close to conference hall will be a press i for visiting journalists, a post e, and banks. Recreation facilinclude an area for dancing other entertainments, playing s for football, baseball and ;etball and a swimming beach, re will be a native arts and ;s exhibition near the conference Delegates to Conference 3 until March 6, delegates from m and American Samoa had been announced but it was vn that the following would at-

British Solomon Islands

PROTECTORATE Silas Sitai, BEM, delegate; Mr. a G’aa, BEM, delegate; Mr. V. J. rsen, MBE, adviser.

Papua And New Guinea

Mr. Kai Kai Ivasi, delegate; Miss Nancy Gire delegate; Mr. Raymon. delegate; h-V ° A .\ Kassi> de le&atc; Brother Peter Hilary alternate; Mr. Tovin Tobaining. aternate; Mr. Kondon -Akau'undo! alternate; Miss Philo Gamauri, alternate; McCarthy, MBE, adviser; Mr.

Elliott-Elijah, adviser; Mrs. Lila Matelau, adviser; Mr. Reuben Taureka. adviser.

Trust Territory Of The

Pacific Islands

Mr. Napoleon D. Fang, delegate; Mr.

Kasiano F. Joseph, delegate; Mr. Olvmpio T Borja. delegate; Mr. Elias P. Sablan alternate; Mr. George F. Fleming, alternate; Mr. Frank J. Mahoney, adviser; IVliss Myrtle Holmstad, adviser, NAURU Head Chief Hammer de Roburt, delegate- Councillor Raymond Gadabu, alternate- Mr. G. A. Pittman, adviser.

FIJI The Hon. H. B. Gibson, OBE, delegate; The Hon. Semesa Siki Vou, delegate; The Hon. Dr. Sahu Khan, delegate.

Netherlands New Guinea

Mr. Marcus Kaisino, delegate; Mr. Toon Meset, delegate; Mr. Eliezer Wettebossy, alternate: Mr. Martinus Janam, alternate; Mr. Dick Sarwon, alternate; Mr. Pieter Merkelijn, adviser.

Gilbert And Ellice Islands

Te Tabunawati Takoa, delegate; Te Reuben K. Uatioa, delegate; Henry Faati Naisali, delegate; lupasi Kaisala, delegate; Mr. G. Bristow, adviser.

Wallis And Futuna Islands

Rev. Father Vittolio, delegate; Mr.

Sosefo Makape, delegate.

New Caledonia

Mr. Pierre Isamatro, delegate; Mr. Pierre Ketiwan, delegate.

French Polynesia

Mme. Jacquemin, delegate; one more delegate to be nominated.

Cook Islands

Mrs. Teupokoina Morgan, delegate; Mrs.

Makea Karika Tabau Margaret Ariki, delegate; Mr. Tuakeu Puna may be nominated as an alternate and Mr. L. K. Pitt as an adviser.

Western Samoa

Miss Tiresa Hunter, BA, delegate; Mr.

Ipu Soscne Faegai, delegate; Hon. Taulaulelei Mauri, alternate/adviser.

NIUE Mr. Leslie Rex, delegate: Mr. Robert Rex may be appointed as an alternate.

TONGA HRH Prince Tupouto’a-Tungi, KBE delegate; HRH Prince Fatafehi Tu’ipelehake, delegate; Mahe ’Uli’uli Tupouniua adviser.

New Hebrides

Mr. John Kalsakau, delegate; Chief Thompson Tangarasi, delegate; Mr.

Richard Angeloni, MBE, adviser; Monsieur Fernand Lamodiere, adviser.

In addition, the commissioners, secretariat staff and observers will attend. An incomplete list of observers is as follows: The Rev G. G. Carter, Commission on Overseas Missions and Inter-Church Aid of the National Missionery Council of New Zealand; Dr. J. M. Cruickshank, World Health Organisation; Professor J A Barnes, Australian National University;’

Very Rev. James Dwyer, the Apostolic Delegation, Australia; Mr. Basil Atkinson, Pacific Area Travel Association; Dr H Coolidge. Bernice P. Bishop Museum and Pacific Science Board; Dean Knowles A.

Ryerson, Pacific Association; Dr. A. Capell, National Missionary Council of Australia!

Conference and Commission Meet After the Conference ends, the Commissioners will hold a meeting to discuss how recommendations of the meeting can be given effect to.

It was the Commissioners’ deliberations after the Third Conference which brought down the wrath of commentators on the SPC.

Said a PIM commentator (June PIM, 1956) : “The Conference has outgrown the Commission. . . The Conference members spoke haltingly at times.

They were hampered to begin with by the unfamiliar trappings of an international conference.

“But their feet were on the ground. They knew what they her who had stolen his wife and ring the fight that developed, her had taken to him with an ». Gwaiye, the wronged husband, i then run away, but whilst in nsit, he asked himself why he s doing this when he was armed h perfectly good arrows and a v. So apparently getting a reply the affirmative from himself, he urned and shot an arrow into his her. ipart from the bow and arrows, s sounds not much different from re civilised court cases that make headlines in Sydney Sunday irspapers. 149 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959 S.P. Conference (Continued from page 18)

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ited. They knew the things of ificance to them. And so, shorn he verbal wrappings which were irently considered necessary, the lutions got down to fundatals. . . lie Commissioners sat down to ider the Conference’s recomdations. It was not an edifying ormance. They really didn’t k they could do anything about ping standards. Some resolu- -5 were referred to Governments jonsideration. Others were to be issed at the Commission’s next :ing. . .” e Pacific peoples have advanced further between that confer and this. It should be interesttherefore, to see what conferand Commission make of each r in 1959.

Villagers Pay Up villages on Buka, Bougainwhich had refused repeated jsts by the P-NG Administrate pay their head tax for 1958 f, Feb., p. 14) have now paid, wever, village leaders pointed 0 the Administration that they ;ted the Government to honour ous promises that they would ove roads in the area, and they 1 give more assistance in the sal of native cash crops. The ;e people have not yet paid year’s taxes. 1 the inhabitants of scattered islands esent its rule, and desires to acquire rritory of West New Guinea to which no reasonable claim,” is, of course, is not “colonial e is inclined to add to Sir s pertinent phrases the folg from an editorial in London’s Telegraph: irruption (in Indonesia) is ant; the services (civil and try) are riddled with intrigue: conomic situation is bad; and nd order are unknown in parts ■va, Sumatra, the Celebes and Moluccas.” *e is another extract from Sir s book: respect of her colonial territories, aited Kingdom has an immense reality, but this responsibility is to ople of those territories and not to df-appointed critics of colonialism, lould ignore the advice, sometimes eaning, and sometimes mischievous almost invariably ill-informed—of itionals of other countries who do are this responsibility.” mbers of Burns Commission spite of his busy life, Sir Alan iterests apart from officialdom, a tennis and cricket fan and, e English summer, he spends much time at Lords. He broadcasts for the BBC and is the chairman of the Royal Commonwealth Society’s Library Committee, in which capacity he is taking a special interest in the Westall collection of original drawings and water-colours of Australia. (Westall was the official artist who accompanied Flinders on his pioneering excursions in Australia at the beginning of the last century.

His drawings and water colours are being reproduced with notes and comments, but the volume will not be ready until next year.) The members of the Commission and their terms of reference are: — SIR ALAN BURNS, GCMG, former British Colonial Governor, and (1947-56) Britain’s representative on Trusteeship Council, United Nations.

PROFESSOR A. T. PEACOCK, Professor of Economics at University of Edinburgh.

MR. T. Y. WATSON, CMG. a former Agriculture Officer in Uganda and Kenya, and now retired.

SECRETARY OP COMMISSION: Mr. R. C.

G. Strick, formerly District Officer at Ra, Fiji.

They are “to examine the surveys of the Colony’s natural resources and population trends and, having regard to the need to ensure the maintenance of a good standard of living for all sections of the community, to recommend how the development of the Colony and its resources should proceed .

Deaths Of Islands People

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, Mr - Wa J ter George Smith, a wellknown old member of the American colony m died at Arue on Fe A rua i' y aged 83 years, , Mr. kmith was born in New Zeafan * i > wiler ® 116 is survived by a brother and other relatives, but became a , n American citizen. He is believed to haye at one time been 2. n - e oditorial staff of a San Francisco newspaper, ..J? e r |4£f d 1° at about the Line of the Second War, where he a close fneß d of the American writer, the late James Norman Hall, in whose beach home at Arue he has resided since Hall’s death. . In the 1940’s there were two retired Srniths in Tahiti. The other, dfed “ ArUe ” Smith ' aiea some years ago- - davth csttvtpcjot'j qistp GAVID SIMPSON, SNR. .Mr. David Simpson, Snr., one of Fiji’s oldest identities, died in Suva on February 6.

The Simpson family has been associated with the Savusavu district of Vanua Levu for several generations.

A son of Mr. Matthew Simpson, who was one of the biggest copra planters in the Colony during the last century, Mr. Simpson assumed responsibility for one of his father’s estates, “Belego”, after his father’s death.

Despite his youth he developed the estate, until it was shipping about 200 tons of copra a year. (“Belego” is now run by Mr. David Simpson, Jnr.).

Besides copra, Mr. Simpson also raised cattle and planted bananas.

The main market for his cattle was Levuka, in the days when it was a thriving township. He was also associated with the days when Fiji exported bananas to Australia.

The former Union Co. ship Navua used to load bananas at Savusavu for direct shipment to Sydney, and Mr. Simpson was one of the biggest shippers.

Like his father he was a keen boatbuilder and built several well known cutters which traded round the Group and as far as Tonga.

Among his larger vessels was the Tui Wailevu, which often carried cargo from Suva to Nukualofa.

Mr. Simpson received publicity in 1956 when be bought the mystery ship, Joyita for £2,425 at an auction sale in Suva.

She was still in his possession at the time of his death, and is used for trading between Suva and Vanua Levu ports.

Mr. Simpson left his wife and five sons—Douglas (Sydney) and Leonard (Australia); Laurie (Tuvamila Estate”, Vanua Levu), and David (“Belego Estate”). Two brothers, Gus and Albert also survive him, Sam and Walter having died earlier. A sister, Mrs.

George Deighton, lives at East Hills, Sydney.

Sister M. Irenes

Two veteran nuns of the Sacred Heart Order died at Tarawa recently.

The death occurred on November 1 of Sister M. Irenee, last survivor of the first group of nuns of this Order to land at Nonuiti in 1895.

Sister Irenee had served at various stations in the Gilbert Islands Mission for 63 years without a break up to the time of her death.

Sister M. Felix

Sister M. Felix, who died at Tarawa on November 17, joined the Gilberts Mission in 1905 and taught at the Butaritari Girls’ Convent School up to 1941. She came originally from Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.

J. Frank Sttmson

One of Tahiti’s best known American residents of long standing, Mr.

J Frank Stimson, died there last December. He had been ill for some time. <° Ter > 151 The Job Of The Bums Inquiry (Continued from page 18) IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Mr. Wilfred Wise

Mr. Wilfred Wise, Director of Public Works in Fiji for 17 years until his retirement in 1941, died at his home at Tamavua, Suva, on March 4, at the age of 73.

He had been ill for several months.

Probably no man in Fiji could be said to have left such a visible mark on his surroundings as Mr. Wise did. Some of Fiji’s most vital engineering works were all designed during Mr. Wise’s long term in office. These included the road around Viti Levu, wharf reclamation at Suva, the Levuka wharf, the Rewa Bridge. Suva water supply and sewerage schemes. Government House, the Government Buildings, Suva.

As Director of Works, Mr. Wise was also a Fire Commissioner, Commissioner of Water Supplies and Commissioner of Roads.

Mr. Wise was a Yorkshireman, who studied engineering at London University, and was first appointed an assistant engineer in the PWD, Fiji, in 1921. In less than three years he had risen to be head of the department.

Mr. Wise could turn his mind, and hand, to anything, and his fearless Yorkshire intelligence would follow any line of thought to its conclusion.

In his retirement. Mr. Wise’s heme was a centre of intellectual and artistic discussion. He executed beautiful water colours, studied philosophy and the history of religion and of human language.

Mr. Wise left a wife, Irene. A daughter of his first marriage lives in Ireland.

Mr. E. W. Hardwick

The death occurred suddenly in the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, on February 6, of Mr. Ernest William Hardwick, well known in Port Moresby and Fiji.

Mr. Hardwick, with his wife, Marie, some years ago managed the Hotel Papua in Port Moresby. For the past few years they have been in Fiji, managing hotels in Northern Hotel’s chain and only recently returned there after three months in the United States.

Mr. Hardwick’s death was caused by a cerebral haemorrhage.

He is survived by his wife, who is at present in Melbourne.

MR. J. B. McADAM Mr. James Bannister McAdam, Director of Forests for P-NG, died in Queensland in February while on leave, at the age of 49. A tribute to his work is on page 45 of this issue.

In Port Moresby, the Administrator, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, said, “Mr. McAdam always gave his best and showed great courage and an abounding loyalty. He was a tireless worker, and the organisation of the forestry service in the Territory owes a tremendous lot to his ability, drive and foresight.” 152 MARCH. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

Sports Review Batted His Way A Fiji Record From Norman Baxter, in Suva CKET feats in Fiji seldom rate mention overseas, but a recent atting performance by Ilikena at Suva, is worthy of more a passing note in Wisden’s, the iter’s Bible. ying in a recent club match ok a little time to settle down e he started to sail in. ting with great abandon he i to amass a collection of ing sixes which, if they had een so spectacular, would have le monotonous. mes on the other four wickets Ibert Park came to a standso that players could admire xhibition of mighty hitting. In re 173 minutes he amassed the total of 246, to establish a Fiji enty-two of his strokes cleared boundary for sixes. It was us he preferred to get the num out of his strokes, for he nly 10 fours. a’s club mate, Nacanieli iti, in a couple of subsequent :s, showed that Bula was not >nly one who could hit hard, and often. Against the RNZAF ade 74 in only 25 minutes, takmg 40 runs from one over.

Contemptuously advancing to the ball he hit six over the boundary and sandwiched one four among his mighty hits.

And to show he was not doing it the easy way he hit his sixes to the longest part of the field!

A few days previously he was in similar form in a Fijian-Indian match, much to the discomfort of a motorist who had parked in Victoria Parade. Uluiviti hit one hard and low over the boundary, just about the spot where “Smithy’ brought the Southern Cross over Victoria Parade to Albert Park nearly 31 years ago.

There was a resounding clatter as the ball hit a car and rebounded into the field of play before anybody had time to move. The unfortunate motorist drove off to seek a panel beater.

Another NZ Rugby Tour For Fiji?

Following the success of the rugby tour by the Corinthians (NZ) of Fiji last October the progressive Nadi Rugby Union has ode n e d negotiations with the Centurions, also of We . llin^ or i; P n 0 ccme to Fiji in August and SepteAnother New Zealand team from the Rotorua area, hearing glowing reports of Fiji from the Corinthians, sought to make a visit in April, but this had to be turned down because cricket is still under way then.

Nadi does not intend to be selfish about its visitors, for it was announced it will ask other unions, which do not often have a chance of seeing overseas teams, to play against the Centurions, should the tour eventuate.

Only about 12 months old, the Nadi union has shown itself to be the most go-ahead in Fiji, and rugby followers are hoping that negotiations with the Centurions will bring another bright rugby team to Fiji.

The Rotorua team will be asked if it could make a short tour later in the season.

Tonga Is Lave's Future rjIONGA’S 24-year-old heavy- X weight boxer Kitione Lave, who is now headed home after a chequered career in Britain, has big plans for making little Tonga the mecca of tourists.

Stopping over in Suva in February with his 20-year-old English wife and their daughter, Lave told how he hopes to build up a tourist resort in Tonga to make it “as famous as Hawaii”. “Everybody has heard of our Queen”, he said, “but nobody knows where Tonga is”.

Lave, who went to Britain in 1955 with only £5/10/- in his pocket, now has plenty of money, plus interests in a gymnasium, a service station and a big hire car business.

Of his boxing career in Britain, he said, “I’ve had bad luck. After a good start everything went wrong. I was too rugged for the top-rated fighters so they kept me out of the money.

“I may resume fighting, but my long range ambition now is to do something for Tonga.”

Sudden Death For A Sportsman NEW CALEDONIA was shocked to wake up one morning in February and hear that football star Roland The was dead —shot through the chest and head at close range after being robbed, his body left in scrub by the side of a road on the outskirts of Noumea. Police soon picked up a young New Caledonian, charged him with the murder of The, who was a Viet Namese.

The footballer’s funeral was one of the biggest in Noumea for some time. He had a large personal following, and was a member of the New Caledonia team that recently met the New Zealanders. [?]FISHERS MEET. Captain of the Auckland Underwater Fishing Club, Clive Reid (left) [?] New Caledonia in February, and naturally took time to compare notes with local spear [?]en. Here he is with Bob Daly, representing the New Caledonia Spear Fishing Club. Spear [?]is a growing sport in the Islands, where there are plenty of opportunities for underwater work.

Photo: Fred Dunn. 153 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH. 1959

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sailings are approximate and may rary by as much as two weeks. ydney-Papua-N. Guinea Montoro sails from Melbourne for y, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai, il, Madang, Lae, Port Moresby nal). Last Sydney sailing March 23 sailing approx. May 18.

Malekula sails from Sydney for me, Port Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, k, Alexishafen, Madang, Lae, Sydney, sailing March 3. Next sailing April Malaita sails from Sydney for Bris- Port Moresby, Samarai, Rabaul, ig, Lombrum, Lorengau, Madang, Samarai, Sydney. Last Sydney saileb. 13. Next Sydney sailing about 15.

Bulolo, modern liner, sails about six weeks: Sydney, Brisbane, Port by, Samarai, Lae, Madang, Lom- Rabaul. Last Sydney sailing Feb.

Bxt Sydney sailing about April 10. ills from Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., Ige Street, Sydney.

Pak Hoi: Leaves Sydney for Bris- Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae. Next 7 sailing approx. April 17.

Soochow: Leaves Sydney for Bris- Port Moresby, Samarai. Next Sydney :s March 17 and April 10.

Sinkiang: Leaves Sydney for Bris- Honiara (BSIP), Rabaul, Madang ae. Next Sydney sailings March 17, 15 (approx.), Shansi: Leaves Melbourne for 7, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Samarai.

Madang, Kavieng, Rabaul. Next 7 sailing April 3. tils from Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., Ige St., Sydney.

Sydney-Dutch N.G. ;e weeks service by MV’s Sigli, Silin- Sibigo and Sinabang carrying pass and cargo from East Australian to Hollandia and Sorong, DNG (with and/or Manokwari if inducement), Borneo, Bangkok, Singapore, thence ilia direct. Next Sydney sailings; 3eng April 3, Sibigo April 17, Sigli l, Sinabang June 2. ills from Royal Interocean Lines, 255 b St., Sydney. ir East-S.W. Pacific-Fiji- Australia ig S.W. Pacific ports on south-bound journeys only.) igtu. Departs Japan May 15, Hong- May 23. Sandakan May 30, thence Guinea ports, Santo, Suva, Lautoka, ;a, arrive Sydney July 6. nking: Dep. Japan March 12, Hong- Vlarch 20, thence Sandakan. Tarakan, luinea ports, Suva, Lautoka, Noumea, Sydney May 7. fu; Dep. Japan March 31, Hongkong 8, thence Sandakan, Tarakan, New a ports, Vila, Suva, thence Ausi ports. Arrive Sydney June 1. three vessels call at all four Ausi ports, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne Adelaide, and load there cargo for ast including Shanghai where a call de (if Inducement) on the south- Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA Sailings of Orient and P. & O. Line Passenger Ships 1958-59

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bound voyage between Japan and Hong- Bridge St., Sydney, kong.

Details from New Guinea Australia Line The Australia-West Pacific Line motor (Swire and Yuill Pty., Ltd., agents), 6 vessels Aros, Citos, Delos and Milos main- 155 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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138 LEADENHALL ST., CO. LTD., LONDON, E.C.3. SUVA, FIJI *si c <* BURNS PHILP (New Hebrides) LTD.

Registered Office; VILA, NEW HEBRIDES Branch office at SANTO Exporters, Importers and General Merchants Commission, Shipping and Customs Agents Representatives for BURNS PHILP TRUST CO. LTD., QUEENS- LAND INSURANCE CO. LTD., and LLOYD’S OF LONDON, Agents

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San Francisco Agents: BURNS-PHILP CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO INC., 215 Market St.

London Agents: BURNS, PHILP & CO.. LTD., 35 Crutched Friars, EC.3.

Pacific Islands Transport Line

Owners: Thor Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S Sandefjord, Norway Motor Vessels "THORSISLE" and "THORSHALL"

Regular Freight and Passenger Service between Pacific Coast Ports of U.S.A. and Canada and TAHITI SAMOA - FIJI - NEW CALEDONIA -

New Hebrides - New Guinea

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

PAPEETE—Etabllssements Donald Tahiti.

SUVA—Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

PORT VILA —Comptoirs Francais des Nouvelles Hebrides.

APIA —Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

NOUMEA —Etabllssements Bailande.

LAE —Burns Phiip (New Guinea) Ltd.

SYDNEY—BIrt & Co. (Pty.) Ltd. regular services between Australian and Japan. Northbound vessels call anila, Hongkong and Japan; south- -1 vessels call at any or all of the ing: Hongkong, Manila, Sandakan, il, Lae, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne idelaide. with quarterly calls at Gizo , Honiara and Vanikoro, in BSIP; t Santo and Vila, New Hebrides. »s; Dep. Madang March 25, Lae i 28, Rabaul March 31, Honiara 4. Vanikoro April 7, Santo April 10.

Lpril 12, arrive Sydney April 18.

Dep. Rabaul April 15, Honiara 19. Lae April 24. Brisbane April 29, Sydney May 1. s; Dep. Rabaul May 8. Lae May 12, ne May 18, arrive Sydney May 20. s: Northbound from Sydney April 8. ,ils from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Ltd., 30 Pitt St., Sydney, or Islands (R. Tebb, Lae; Town Transport, I; A. Strachan, Madang. BSIP Tradirp., Honiara; Messrs. D. J. Gubbay )., Santo; Wm. Breckwoldt and Co., £ealand-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa Tofua maintains a service from nd to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return kland. Next sailings from Auckland: 24, April 21.

Matua maintains a service from nd to Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Lyttle- Vellington, and return to Auck- Next sailings from Auckland: April ils from all offices of Union Steam 0. of NZ. dney-New Hebrides-BSI- Bougainville, Etc. ’ulagi, 10 passengers, makes a round orfolk Is., Vila. Santo. Honiara I ports, Bougainville ports, leaving about once every six weeks. Last sailing: March 9. Next sailing Is from Burns, Philp and Co., 7 Street, Sydney. ney-N. Caledonia-Tahiti s of Messageries Maritimes Line, from Marseilles, via West Indies nama, call about every six weeks iete, Vila (New Hebrides). Noumea dney, and return by same route, lent on this run are the motor- Tahitien and Caledonien and a id vessel, Melanesien. Next Sydney Melanesien approx. April 4-6, ien May 17, Tahietien June 30.

Polynesie (Messageries Maritimes) ns about monthly passenger sailitween Sydney and Noumea and v Hebrides. Next Sydney sailings: 1, May 1, May 22. s from Sydney agents: Messageries es, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydney. iey-5. Africa-UK-Pacific Ports-Sydney Savill’s one-class all-passenger mthern Cross makes four roundid voyages per year, two westthen two east-bound, calling at nd Papeete every trip. Current Leaves Southampton March 3, via for Sydney calling at Papeete 27-28), Suva (April 2), Sydney 157 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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A3/AU (April 11). Dep. Sydney bound Soutl ton via South Africa April 13.

Details from agents: Shaw Savil Albion Co., Ltd., 8a Castlereagh Stre Sydney; Burns Philp (SS) Co., Ltd., Fiji; Etablissements Donald 7 Papeete, Tahiti.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The passenger vessel Maui P maintains a regular service be Auckland and the Cook Islands.

Details on application to NZ G< ment Department of Island Terri Wellington, or to any office of the SS Co. of NZ, Ltd.

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, Pacific Islands Transport Line’s i Thorsisle and Thorshall maintain a r service from Pacific Coast North Am ports, with sailings over 35-40 days, ports depend on cargoes offering.

Thorshall: Dep. New Westminster 18, San Francisco Mar. 25, Papeete 9, Pago Pago Apr. 15, Apia Apr. 17, Apr. 22, Noumea Apr. 27, Pago Pag< 4, Los Angeles May 18.

Thorsisle: Dep. New Westminster 21, San Francisco Apr. 28, Papeete 12, Pago Pago May 18, Apia May 20, May 25, Noumea May 29, Pago Pago 4, Los Angeles June 18.

Details from General Steamships poration Ltd., 432 California St., Francisco, USA, and Island Agents.

US-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fi| Australia Matson-Oceanic Line of San Fra operates a regular five-weeks passi cargo service from Los Angeles wit Ventura, Alameda, Sierra and So Southern terminal ports vary with c: offering. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago and Suva, depending on ca Next sailings approx., Sierra: due S April 17; Alameda: due Sydney a; March 26; Sonoma: ex-Australian approx. March 21; Ventura. ex-Aust ports approx. April 22.

American Pioneer Line has eight (Pioneer Gem. Isle, Glen, Reef, Cove, Tide, Gulf) on Australia - Panam Atlantic Coast service with cal Papeete on southbound voyage. Si approx, every 3 weeks.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva sidiary of W. R. Carpenter and operate a service three times yearly the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel La] along the above route. Accommoi is entirely First Class, two-berth c with calls at Suva, Lautoka and Hor Next sailing from Sydney about Mi Details from American Trading Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Brldgi Sydney.

Sydney-(or NZ)-North America The cargo vessels, Waihemo Waitomo, owned and operated bj Union Steam Ship Co. of NZ, Ltd., tain a monthly service across the P from Sydney to Vancouver and USA via Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa and 158 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

irgoes offer. Occasional calls are made Panning Island. They have limited mger accommodation. Waitomo, southid from Los Angeles end April. Next ley sailing Waihemo late April, e Waltemata, from NZ ports, makes trips yearly to Vancouver (via Rarest and Papeete).

America-Hawaii-Fiji-Samoaihiti-N. Zealand-Australia tson Line’s Mariposa and Monterey i round passenger trips from Pacific i Coast American ports to Australia, •aciflc Islands ports and New Zealand, nterey: Dep. San Francisco May 27, Angeles May 28, Papeete June 5-7, [and June 13, Sydney June 16-19, land June 22-23, Suva June 26, Pago June 27, Honolulu July 2-3, San :lsco July 8-12, Los Angeles July 13, ste July 21-23, Auckland July 29-30, ;y Aug. 2. riposa: Dep. Sydney May 29, Auck- June 1-2, Suva June 5, Pago Pago 6. Honolulu June 11-12, San Francisco 17-21, Los Angeles June 22. Papeete 30-July 2, Auckland July 8-9, Sydney 12-15, Auckland July 18, Suva July ago Pago July 22, Honolulu July 27in Francisco Aug. 2. ails from Matson Lines, Berger ’> 82 Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

Italian Sitmar Line (Panama flag) Castel Felice, a twin-screw turbine iger liner of 12,150 tons, fully air- Jioned, will sail from Sydney for e via Auckland, Papeete, and na in mid-May and has accom- ?*£oatio^ a u ailable *° Pa Peete. The Sitmar Line, which recently commenced an irregular service along this route, providing a new, moderately priced sea connection v, eastbound direction only with Tahiti, has arranged the extra sailing as a result of heavy bookings. Castel Felice was scheduled to make a sailing also in February. Also on this run is the Line’s Fairsea. which sailed in January and will sail again late In the year.

United Kingdom-Australia- Port Moresby The Federal Steam Navigation Co., Ltd,, has extended its regular quarterly UK- Australia service to Port Moresby.

The vessels sail from Liverpool via Suez to Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville. Cairns, Port Moresby.

Kildare: Left Port Moresby Feb. 28 for NZ and USA ports.

Chantala: Due to leave Liverpool March due Port Moresby June 5.

Sydney agents: Birt and Co. Pty., Ltd., 4 Bridge St. Port Moresby agents: Burns Philp (New Guinea), Ltd.

Tonga-Fiji Shipping Service The Tonga Shipping Agency, as agents for the Tonga Copra Board, operates a regular monthly cargo and passenger service between Nukualofa and Suva with MV Aoniu, 500 tons gross. Sailings from Nukualofa are scheduled for April 11, May 9. Departures from Suva are about two days later, and the Agents there are R. Carpenter and Co.

[?]Ways Time-Tables

&Ns-Pacific Services

Australia (or NZ)-Fiji- Hawaii-N. America Irst and Tourist Class available all Services)

Jy Pan-American Airways

Super 7 Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths*) Tue., Thurs., Fri.: Dep. Melbourne Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu, San ncisco or Los Angeles.

Departs San Francisco for Honoi, Nadi, Sydney and Melbourne.

Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles for Melbourne me route).

Dep. Seattle for Melbourne via tland (same route).

A Skymasters are used on a conl service between Auckland and (see table 18); and also twice ly between Nadi and Tafuna, :an Samoa (see table 20).

F Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS and Sat.; Melbourne, Sydney, Nadi i), Honolulu, San Francisco, New k, London.

Melbourne, Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu.

Francisco.

Sydney. Nadi. Honolulu. San Fran- -5 extending to Vancouver.

Sun.: Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu, San Francisco.

SOUTHWARDS Tues. and Fri.; London, New York, San Francisco. Honolulu, Nadi, Sydney, Melbourne (Tues. service only).

Thurs.; San Francisco, Honolulu, Nadi, Sydney.

Sun.: San Francisco, Honolulu Nadi, Sydney, Melbourne (commencing at Vancouver on Saturdays).

Mon.: San Francisco, Honolulu. Nadi, Sydney. (Note: International Dateline crossed between Nadi and Honolulu).

Qantas Super-Constellation aircraft, under charter to TEAL, from Melbourne and Auckland connect at Nadi on Sundays with Qantas northbound flights, and on Mondays with southbound flights (see table 17).

TEAL Super DC6 aircraft from Auckland. NZ, connect with the Qantas northbound flights at Nadi on Tues. and Fri.; and on Sat. and Wed. at Nadi for the southbound flights.

Qantas Wed. and Fri. services ex- Sydney connect with BOAC London services at San Francisco (dep. Thurs. and Sat.).

BOAC services ex-London Tues. and Thurs. connect at San Francisco Thurs. and Sat. with southbound Qantas services.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft —Britannia on Vancouver-Amsterdam Service) Every Wed.: Sydney (dep 11 p.m.), Nadi.

Honolulu. Vancouver, Amsterdam.

Every Fri.: Dep. Auckland 10.45 p.m. for Nadi, Honolulu, Vancouver, Amsterdam.

Every Sat.; Dep. Amsterdam at 11.15 p.m. for Vancouver (dep. 10.30 a.m. Sun.) Honolulu, FIJI and Sydney.

Every Mon.: Dep. Amsterdam at 11.15 p.m. for Vancouver (ctep. 10.30 am. Tues.) for Honolulu. Fiji and Auckland. (Note; Crosses Dateline en route).

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways (Super-Constellations) NORTHBOUND First Class Tues. & Sat. Wed. & Sun.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 10.30 p.m. Brisbane. 12.45 a m.

Wed. & Sun.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane 1.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.30 a.m, Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7.15 a.m. Lae, 8.35 a.m.

First & Tourist Class Thur. Pri.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 10.30 p.m. Brisbane, 12.45 a.m.

Frl.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 1.30 a.m. Pt. Moresby. 6.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7.15 a.m. Lae, 8.35 a.m.

First & Tourist Class Sun.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.15 p.m. Brisbane, 11.30 p.m.

Mon.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.15 a.m. Townsville 3.05 p.m.

Dep. Arr, Tville, 3.50 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 6.30 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby*, 7.15 a.m. Lae. 8.35 a m.

SOUTHBOUND First & Tourist Mon.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*, 9.25 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.45 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby. 11.30 a.m. T’vllle. 2.10 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

T’ville, 2.55 p.m. Brisbane, 5.45 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 6.30 p.m. Sydney, 8.30 p.m.

First Class Wed. & Sun.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*, 9.25 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.45 a m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. B’bane, 4.30 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane. 5.30 p.m. Sydney, 7.30 p.m.

First & Tourist Class Frl.

Dep. Arr.

Lae*. 9.25 a.m. Pt. Moresby, 10.45 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. B’bane, 4.30 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 5.30 p.m. Sydney. 7.30 p.m. * Between Lae and Port Moresby passengers are carried in DC4 aircraft.

Port Moresby-Cairns-Townsville

Port Moresby—Townsville—Port Moresby.

Douglas DC4. Dep. Port Moresby Wed. 12 15 a.m., arr. Cairns 3.05 p.m.. dep.

Cairns 3.50 p.m., arr. Townsville 5 p.m.. dep. Townsville Thur. 9 a.m.. arr. Cairns 10.10 a.m., dep. Cairns 11 a.m.. arr. Port Moresby 1 50 p.m. 159 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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Australia-West Pacific

UNI a M.V. MILOS’

THE A.W.P.L. FLEET comprising the modern Motor Vessels "Aros", "Citos", "Delos and "Milos" offers the fastest regular passenger-cargo service from Australia to Mo Japanese Ports and Shanghai via Manila and Hong Kong. On the return voyage regul calls are made at Hong Kong, Manila, North Borneo, Madang, Lae, Rabaul, Honiai Vanikoro and New Hebrides.

Further particulars may be obtained from: PTY. LTD., 30-32 Pitt St., Sydney. Phone BU 6: MANAGING AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA: WILH. WILHELMSEN AGENCY Branch Office at Melbourne: 51 William St. Phone: MA 3031.

AUSTRALIAN AGENTS: Brisbane & Adelaide: Gibbs. Bright & Co Rahalll Britain)—Tc ISLAND AGENTS: Madang (New Guinea)—Allan Strachan. Lae (New Guinea)—R. W. Tebb. Rabaul Britain) ic Transport Limited, Honlaf. (Solomon 1.1.„d.)-Brltlsh Solomon Islands Trading —D. J. Gubbay and Co. (New Hebrides) Pty. Ltd. Vila (New Hebrides)—Wm. Breckwoldt & Co.

FAR EASTERN AGENTS: Dodwell & Co. Ltd., Manila, Hong Kong & Japan. 160 MARCH. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTI

l. P NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas E-HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) Wed. (Mar. 18, April 1, 15, 29. etc.), arts Lae 11.00 a.m., calls at Madang ,nd Wewak, and arrives at Hollandia .15 p.m. Every alternative Thurs.

March 19, April 2, 16, 30. etc.) departs [ollandia at 10 a.m.. and, with calls t Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at .50 p.m.

Ort Moresby-Kikori-Baimuru

(DH Otter) Yule Island, Kerema, Baimuru. Kikori, It. Mon., returning same day via aimuru. Kerema, Yule Is. (March 23, pril 6, 20. etc.). )RT MORESBY-KIKORI (DH Otter) Yule Is.. Baimuru: Alt. Mon., returnig same day (March 30, April 13, 27, ;c.).

Kerema. Baimuru: Alt. Thurs., returnig same day (March 26, April 9, 23, ;c.).

Port Moresby-Daru (Dcs)

Baimuru: Alt. Thurs, returning same ly via Balimo (March 19. April 2. 16, ), etc.).

Kerema. Baimuru: Alt. Weds. (March !, April 1, 15, 29. etc.) returning t. Fri. (March 20, April 3. 17, May 1. c.).

IT MORESBY-SAMARAI (DH Otter) Moresby. Abau, Samarai each Tues. id Sat., departing Port Moresby 7.45 m. On alt. Sats. extends to Esa’ala.

Sat.; Esa’ala, Samarai, Abau. Pt. oresby, dep. Esa’ala 11.50 a.m., arr. oresby 3.25 p.m. (March 21, April 4, , etc ). and alt. Sat.: Dep. Samarai 10.55 m. arr. Pt. Moresby 1.40 p.m. (alt. it. March 28, April 11. 25, etc.).

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) : Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. 35 a.m. Wewak. Manus, Kavieng, ibaul. arr. 3.45 p.m.

Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., Kavieng, anus. Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 55 p.m. s.; Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang, var, Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, r. 4.05 p.m.

Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kavieng, anus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. 55 pm.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Baiyer River, lling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl. inj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Kainantu. rival back at Lae dependent on stops.

Lower Highlands

(DH Otter) Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka. calling any of Nadzab, Gusap, Aiyura, Rinse. Kainantu, Goroka, Arona. Arrival ck at Lae depends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau

(DH Otter) ; Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m., arr. Wau 8.10 n.

Dep. Wau 8 25 a.m., via Bulolo, arr. e 9.25 a.m.

Sat.: Dep. Lae 9 a.m., arr. Wau )0 a.m.

Sat.; Dep. Wau 9.55 a.m., via ilolo, arr. Lae 10.55 a.m.

. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo (Dcs)

Sat.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.45 a.m., r. Bulolo 8.55 a m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Bulolo 9.25 am arr Wau 9.40 a.m., dep. Wau 10.10 ’ a m , arr. Pt. Moresby 11.15 a.m.

Madang-Goroka- Madang (Dcs)

Thurs.. Sun.: Dep. Madang 10 a.m. via Mt. Hagen and Minj, arr. Goroka 12 30 p.m., dep. Goroka 12.50 pm., arr Madang 1.25 p.m.

Madang-Lae (Dcs)

Mon. and Fri.: Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m., via Goroka. arr. Port Moresby 10.20 a.m.

Pt. Moresby-Mt. Hagen-Madang

(DCS) Mon. and Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.45 a.m.. via Goroka, Minj, arr. Mt. Hagen 11.25 a.m.; dep. Mt. Hagen for Madang (either direct or via airfields as required) 11.55 a.m.

Madang-Pt. Moresby (Dcs)

Mon. and Fri.: Dep. Madang 7.30 a.m . via Goroka. arr. Port Moresby 10.20 a.m.

New Guinea-New Britain

(DCS) Wed., Sun.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., direct to Lae, arr. 8.15 a.m.

Wed., Sun.: Dep. Lae 10.30 a.m., Finschhafen 11.30 a.m., Rabaul 1.45 p.m.

Mon.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m.. Finschhafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m.

Mon.: Dep. Lae 10.30 a.m., Finchhafen 11.30 a.m., Rabaul arr. 1.45 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., Finschhafen, Lae, arr. 8.45 a.m.

Fri.: Depart Lae 10.30 a.m., Finschhafen 11.30 a.m., arrive Rabaul 1.45 p.m.

Rabaul-Buin-Rabaul (Dcs)

Alt. Thurs.: Dep. Rabaul 9 a.m., arr. Buka 10.20 a.m., dep. Buka 10.50 a.m., arr.

Buin 11.45 a.m., dep. Buin 12.15 p.m.. arr. Buka 1.10 p.m., dep. Buka 1.40 p.m., arr. Rabaul 3 p.m. (March 17, 31, April 14. 28, etc.).

Rabaul-Hoskins-Rabaul (Dcs)

Alt. Thur.: Dep. Rabaul 9 a.m.. via Jacquinot Bay, arr. Hoskins 10.55 a.m., dep. Hoskins 11.15 a.m., arr. Rabaul 12.20 p.m. (Feb. 12. 26, March 12. 26. etc.).

Services By Mandated Airlines

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

Madang, Wewak, Madang, Rabaul— remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby.

Wau. Goroka, Lae.

Tues.: Depart Rabaul at 6.30 a.m. for Madang, Wewak, Madang, Goroka. Lae, Wed.: Depart Lae 7 a.m. for Madang.

Wewak, Momote, Kavieng, Rabaul.

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

Optional call at Goroka on this flight.

Thurs.: Depart Rabaul 7 a.m. for Kavieng.

Momote. Wewak, Madang. Goroka, Lae.

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

Wau, Goroka, Lae.

Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 7 am. for Kavieng. Momote. Wewak, Madang.

Goroka, Lae. 4. Aost.-Dutch N. Guinea By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Super Constellation Service) A weekly service between Sydney and Amsterdam with a call at Biak (DNG) and Manila (Philippines).

DC3 aircraft link Biak HoUandia, Sorong. Merauke, Tenah Merah Manokwarl. * Niemfoer. Ransiki, Genjem, and Kokonao. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DCS Aircraft Every Monday depart Lae 6 a.m.: Eabaul.

Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara (BSD, arriving 5 p.m.

Every Tuesday depart Honiara 7 a.m.: Yandina. Munda, Buka, Rabaul. Lae, arriving 3.45 p.m. 6. Paris-Saigon-Noumea- Auckland-Papeete By Transports Aeriens Intercontinental!* DC6B aircraft depart Paris every Sun. for Athens, Cairo, Karachi, Saigon, Djakarta, Darwin. Noumea, thence Auckland, Noumea, Nadi. Bora Bora. Transfer to flying-boat for flight to Papeete. Dep.

Papeete on return flight (omitting Auckland) every Thurs. 7. Sydney-Lord Howe Is.

By Ansett Airways Pty., Ltd., with Sandringham Flying-boats Return flight usually each Tuesday and Saturday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is. (By Qantas, with Skymaster) Alt. Fri. (March 27, April 10. 24, etc.): Dep. Sydney midnight, arr. NI 6.45 a.m. Sat.; dep. NI 5.30 p.m. same day for Sydney, arr. 9.30 p.m. (Flight extends NI-Auckland-NI. See table 12 below). 9. Sydney-Noumea By Qantas, with Skymasters Dep. Sydney alt. Thurs. 8.45 a.m., arr.

Noumea 4 p.m. Dep. Noumea 5 p.m., arr. Sydney 10.30 p.m. Service operates on March 19, April 2, 16, 30. etc. 10. New Caledonia-New Hebrides TAI with DCS Aircraft Tue. and Fri.; Dep. Tontouta (N. Cal.) at 8 a.m., arr. Vila 10.15 a.m., dep.

Vila 10.45 a.m., arr. Santo 12 noon, dep. 1.30 p.m., arr. Vila 2.45 p.m., dep. 3.15 p.m., arr. Tontouta 5.30 p.m. 11. New Caledonia-Fiji- Wallis Is.

TAI with DCS Aircraft Dep. Noumea 6 a.m. second Sat. each month (Mar. 14. April 11, May 9, etc.i. arr. Wallis Is. (via Nadi, Fiji) at 3.45 p.m . dep. Wallis 7 a.m. third Mon. each month (March 16, April 13. May 11, etc.), arr. Noumea 2.45 same day. 12. Norfolk Is.-Auckland TEAL, by Qantas (charter) Alt. Sat. (March 28, April 11. 25. etc.): 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. Auckand-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Daily Service: Dep. Auckland 9.30 a.m., arr. Sydney 1.15 p.m. 161 DIF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

£ 8. d. £ s. d . No.

Moresby . . . 51 5 0 92 6 0 2 Lae .... . 62 15 0 112 19 0 2 Rabaul . . . . 72 9 0 130 0 0 2. a .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, 17 Auckland . . . 52 10 0 94 10 0 13 Christchurch . 52 10 0 94 10 0 14 FROM SYDNEY (Anst. currency) TO- Honolulu . . . 252 5 0 454 1 0 1 S. Francisco . 312 10 0 562 10 0 1 Vancouver . . 312 10 0 562 10 0 1 Apia . . . . . 109 5 0 197 14 0 1. 17 Papeete . . , 183 15 0 331 16 0 1. 21 Aitutakl . . . 150 0 0 271 0 0 1. 21 Biak .... . 90 0 0 162 0 0 4

From -Ucklanb

• (NZ currency) TO- Apia . . 61 17 6 111 12 0 18. 19 Aitutakl . . . . 92 16 0 168 6 0 18. 21 Nadi .... . 39 7 0 70 17 0 18 Norfolk Is. . . 10 IS 0 35 11 0 12 Papeete . . . , 113 7 0 206 2 0 18. 21 FROM SUVA (Fiji currency) TO— Apia . . . . . . 25 0 0 45 0 0 19, 21 Aitutakl . . . 57 15 0 103 19 0 17. 21 Papeete . . . 82 14 0 148 18 0 17. 21 n Wed., Sat., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 6 ;>.m., arr. Sydney 9.45 p.m. ly Service; Dep. Sydney 3 p.m., arr.

Auckland 9.50 p.m. 3 Fri., Sun.: Dep. Sydney 11.30 p.m., krr. Auckland 6.20 a.m. following day. s.; Dep. Sydney 7 a.m., arr. Auckland ~50 p.m. 14. Christchurch-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Sun.: Dep. Christchurch 5 p.m., arr. ydney 8.55 p.m.

Thur.; Dep. Christchurch 7.45 p.m., rr. Sydney 11.40 p.m. ~ Wed., Fri., Sun.; Dep. Sydney 8 .m., arr. Christchurch 2.50 p.m. 5. Christchurch-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft ~ Wed. (Except March 16, 30): Dep. hristchurch 5 p.m., arr. Melbourne 55 p.m. .. Thurs. (Except March 17, 31): Dep. elbourne 10.15 a.m., arr. Christchurch 50 p.m. 16. Auckland-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft s.: Dep. Auckland 8 a.m., arr. Melmrne 12.45 p.m.

Dep. Melbourne 2.30 p.m., arr uckland 10.15 p.m. 17. Melbourne-Auckland- Nadi (Fiji) 5y Tasman Empire Airways, with Super Constellation aircraft chartered from Qantas Dep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m., arr ickland 3 p.m., dep. Auckland 4 m., arr. Nadi 9 p.m. Return, '-ame ute, following day. te: This service connects with Qantas r Constellation service from Sydney 18. New Zealand-Fiji an Empire Airways, with Super DC6 ift and Qantas Super Constellations , Fri., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 4 p.m., r. Nadi 9 p.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m, r. Auckland 3.30 p.m. iday flights ex-Auckland, and Monday s ex-Nadi are operated by Qantas ’ charter to TEAL (see above), •American Airways, with Skymasters Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 10.50 a., arr. Nadi 5.55 a.m.

Tues., Thurs.; Dep. Nadi, 5.30 a.m., r. Auckland 12.50 p.m. 19. Fiji-W. Samoa Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent Flying-boats (Service Fortnightly) Suva alt. Thurs., 9 a.m., crosses teline, arrives Satapuala (Western moa) Wed. 1.55 p.m.

Satapuala alt. Mon. at 8 a.m., isses Dateline, arr. Suva Tues 10.55 i Dep - Suva March 19, April 2. 16. 30, etc.).

AU on dd Mar?h 2 S 6 BrViCe Wl “ also leave Suva 20. Fiji-American Samoa Pan American Airways with DC4 aircraft Alt ;o S o a «' : Dep ' Nadl 7 a - m > arr - Tafuna 12.30 p.m. (Fri.).

Alt. Fri.: Dep. Tafuna 1.30 p.m., arr.

Nadi 5.5 p.m. (Sat.). (Note: This service crosses International Dateline—the two-way flight is actually made on the one day.) 21. Fiji Tahiti Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent Flying-boats Dep. Suva 9 a.m. alternate Thurs.. crosses International Dateline, arr. Satapuala (W. Samoa) 1.55 p.m. alternate Wed.; dep. Satapuala 2 a.m. alternate Thurs., arr. Aitutaki (Cook Is.) 7.30 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 9.30 a.m. arr. Papeete (Tahiti) 2 p.m.

Services dep. Suva March 19, April 2. 17, 30. etc.

Dep. Papeete 7.30 a.m. alt. Sun., arr.

Aitutaki 11 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 12.30 p.m. arr. Satapuala 5 p.m.; dep. Satapuala 8 a.m. alt. Mon., crosses International Dateline, arr. Suva 10.55 a.m. alt. Tues. Services dep. Papeete March 22, April 5, 26. etc. 22. Fiji Internal Airways Fiji Airways, Ltd., Drover aircraft Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights—Mon., Tues., Wed.. Thurs., Fri. Three flights— Sat. One flight—Sun.

Suva-Nadl: One flight—Wed., Fri., Sun., afternoon.

Nadl-Suva: One flight—Mon., Thurs., Sat., morning. (The three Suva-Nadi and Nadi-Suva flights are additional to the above returr flights.) Suva-Labasa-Suva: Two flights—Tues., Thus., Fri. One flight—Mon., Wed., Sat.. Sun.

Suva-Savu Savu-Suva; One flight—Mon., Tues., Sat., Sun.

Suva-Taveunl-Suva: One flight—Mon., Fri., Sun.

Labasa-Taveunl-Labasa: One flight—Mon., Fri., Sun.

Labasa-Savu Savu—Labasa: One flight— Tue., Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Labasa-Taveuni-Labasa: One flight—Mon., Fri.

Suva-Tavenui-Savu Savu-Suva: One flight —Wed.

Suva-Savu Savu-Taveuni-Suva: One flight —Thurs. 23. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service Societe Caledonienne de Transports Aeriens (TRANSPAC), with Heron and Rapide aircraft.

Noumea-Mare: Tues. (dep. Noumea 2 p.m., Mare 4 p.m.) and Fri. (dep.

Noumea 8 a.m., dep Mare 10 a.m.).

Noumea-Ouvea; Wed., Fri. and Sat. (dep.

Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Ouvea 10.30 a.m.).

Noumea-Llfou: Tues., Wed., Sat., (dep. 1 p.m.

Noumea-Kounie (Isle of Pines): Mon., Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Lifou 10 a.m.); Thur. (dep Noumea 11 a.m., dep. Lifou Sat. (dep. Noumea 10.30 am., dep.

Kounie, noon).

Noumea-Koumac; Mon.. Sat. (dep. Noumea 1 p.m., dep. Koumac 4 p.m.); Wed. (dep. Noumea 2 p.m., dep. Koumac 5 p.m.). Note: On this flight a call will be made at Plaine des Gaipcs if required. 24. French Polynesia Inter- Island Service Reseau Aerien Interlnsnlaire with flying-boats Twice weekly service to the Leeward Group.

Wed.: Papeete, Huahine, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Raiatea, Papeete.

Thurs.; Papeete, Bora Bora, Papeete, Booking agents In Papeete: Messagerles Maritimes. 25. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airlines Using Grumman Albatross twin-motored amphibious flying-boats, TOA operates a service throughout the Trust Territory of ment. Details from Trans Ocean Airlines.

Micronesia on behalf of the US Govern- Agana, Guam.

Pacific Air Fares

(Approximate Only)

NOTE: To obtain the equivalent of Australian currency in other currencies (Sterling, Fiji, New Zealand, French Pacific francs) see page 171.

FROM SYDNEY (Anst. currency) TO Single Return Table Fares quoted are First-Class. Cheaper Tourist Class fares (approx 20 per cent, lower) are ava ilnhle r.n most norts. Fares to points east of Nadi include air connection to Suva by FIJI Airways. 163 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

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FOR SALE

66 Ft. Island Copra Vessel. Just

been completely overhauled in the United Kingdom. Copper bottom. 15 ft. beam, 5 ft. draft, powered by one 114 h.p. Gardner 6L3 diesel engine. Lister lighting plant and winch. For further information write: A. Hughes, c/o G.P.O., Sydney. Australia.

ISLAND VESSELS under construction. 40 ft. army-type workboat, wheelhouse and accommodation fwd., and large open cockpit. 40 ft. raised-deck workboat wheelhouse. and large hold for cargo below decks. 45 ft. raised-deck workboat, for cargo and personnel. Above vessels are of sturdy construction, built to rigid specifications. Delivery at short notice Specifications, price, etc., will be supplied on request. Builders: Wynne S. Breden Pty. Ltd., “Phoenix Shipyards”, Newcastle, N.S.W.

FLEETS, 28 ft. diesel sloop, coppered, 4 bunks, toilet, galley, etc., fully found, £1.500. 45 ft. diesel, general purpose carvel, in survey, £6,300. 66 ft. wooden cargo vessel, in survey, £7,000. 62 ft. fast supply boat, coppered, three diesels. 165 h.p. each, 17 berths, gas stove, etc., undergoing passenger survey now £14,700.

Fleets, 525 Stanley St.. South Brisbane.

Queensland, Australia.

Books, Magazines

FEED BETTER—FEEL BETTER.—It is a fact that the better you feed, the better you feel: but in hot, tropical countries the appetite is often jaded and there are real problems in feeding a family—particularly for people from temperate zones.

The answer is to select meals which are both palatable and nutritious.

Excellent advice on these matters, together with many appetising recipes is given in Journal No. 6 on “Tropical Food and Nutrition”. This is published by the South Pacific Health Service and costs 9d at bookshops or 1/- postage paid from the South Pacific Health Service, c/o Medical Department, Suva. Numbers 4 and 5 are also available.

ALL BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

Tralasia And The Pacific Bought

AND SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent free on application. Correspondence invited. Berkelouw, 114 King St., Sydney.

Telephone: BW 7874.

Penfriends Wanted

STAMP EXCHANGE and penfriends wanted everywhere. Henry Atten, 2589 W. Eight Mile Rd.. Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.

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.

ACCOMMODATION FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne, Syd Water frontage, large, comfortable, bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 min to city. Enquiries: Nelson & Rober Pty. Ltd., Q.P.O. Box 5316, Sydney, A

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Book For Sale

Primer Of Police

MOTU

By Percy Chatterton, Lcp

New Edition Now Available— For Use in Papua and New Guinea Price, Postage Paid, 4/6 From Bookshops in Port Moresby and Lae or from the Publishers Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, SYDNEY. (The Dialect of Motuan which was adopted for use by the Papuan Police is extensively used in Papua instead of Pidgin English; and this Primer, by the Rev. Percy Chatterton, contains an outline of Grammar and Sentence Construction, with lists of the commoner words).

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Prescriptions, Medicines, Surgical Goods, Veterinary Require ments, Photographies, Cosmetics.

At your service by sea or air. G.P.O. BOX 658, SYDNEY Quotations gladly supplied. AUSTRALIA

American Dollars

For Butterflies

From all islands in the Pacific Any boy or girl scout, student, teacher, hobbiest or nature lover, in fact anyone on an island in the Pacific can earn American dollars from this fascinating hobby. We woulc like to receive butterflies from any Islanders who are now collecting and know how t( send perfect butterflies. Specimens from New Guinea, Indonesia, Borneo and Malaya especially required. Will pay for any perfect specimens received. Write for free mstruc tions, concerning collecting, packing, etc.

Butterfly Art

289-297 East 98th Street, Brooklyn 12, N.Y., U.S.A. 164 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Continued from page 164 SERVICES WATCH REPAIRS to all brands of watches. Send your repairs directly to the only Swiss watchmaker giving service to the Pacific Islands. Rapid service—all work guaranteed. Swiss - Clox Watch Service, 9 Garner Avenue, French’s Forest, Sydney, Australia.

EDUCATIONAL

Barker College. Hornsby, N.S.W.—

Church of England school on healthy site near Sydney. Boys boarded 5 to 18 years.

Particulars from J. G. Dewes, M.A., Headmaster, Barker College, Hornsby, N.S.W.

Stamps Wanted

WANTED TO BUY, used French Oceania (Polynesia) stamps on cover Will pay $1 per 20 covers. R. L. Jorgensen, 1743 Llnneman St., Glenview, Illinois, U.S.A.

Fiji Society

Volume 5 (1951-1954) of the TRANS- ACTIONS is now available and Volume 6 (1955-1957) will be published by mid- -1959. Price: £l/5/- (Fiji currency) per volume, including postage.

Volumes 2, 3 and 4 of the TRANS- ACTIONS are still available. Price: £3/3/- for the set of three volumes.

Orders should be addressed to: P.O. Box 358, Suva, Fiji.

Ship For Sale

M.V. MICHAEL The MICHAEL is now ready for re-survey at Alexishafen wharf. Originally built in 1937 by Lars Halvorsen Sons, and named the PANUCO, it was used in Papuan waters pre-war by the Island Exploration Co. Approximately 77 ton gross, 46 ton net, has an auxiliary lighting plant, and pump; separate winch engine; single, double and three berth cabins; with separate accommodation for the Master, and forward bunks for the crew. Will carry between 400-500 bags copra. Speed approximately knots; this flat-bottomed, wooden-hulled, copper-sheathed vessel, was acquired by the Catholic Mission after the war, and worked along the New Guinea Coast until ; t was completely re-built and equipped with a new 154 h.p. BL3 Gardner Engine tv.o years ago.

Enquiries to: Catholic Mission of the Holy Ghost ALEXISHAFEN, MADANG, T.N.G.

Pacific Commerce and Produce [?]ri Boom Is [?]er But [?]terest Continues fhe Puri oil fever is now quite t at least for the time ng. But although the temperre of investors has returned normal, the shares of Oil rch (which has one-tenth in- ;st in Australasian Petroleum Ltd.) have remained at the d where the inrush of water ) Puri well left them in the and week in November, 1958. lIS indicates that investors still think that the chance of finding oil in Papua is a good bet, ;pite of the fact that Puri No. 1 If has been shown to be an utter sr. i September, after the major :ners in APC had announced : they would withdraw, Oil rch shares were down as low as at the beginning of October r were 2/8 and a month later ■ 15/-, with one brief excursion, r Puri started to produce 1,300 •els a day, to 26/-. tien water as well as oil started ome out of Puri, and the boom over. By November 12, 1958, Oil *ch shares were back to 8/6 and b remained between that price 10/- ever since. l February, APC made the folng statement: lowing a meeting of shareholders’ sentatives and technical advisers held tly in London to discuss the forward ration programme, the directors of •alasian Petroleum Company Pty., and Island Exploration Company Ltd., announce that it is intended ncentrate the immediate effort in the ity of Puri and neighbouring geoil structures with a view to clarifyis early as possible the prospects of lercial oil in this general area, j programme Includes, firstly, the ng of two deviated holes in Puri L to test the formation from which is recently produced, at some distance illy from the original hole; secondly, riling of the Bwata structure situated iles north-west of Puri; and thirdly, rilling of a Puri No. 2, provided that nee becoming available in the meanwarrants a second hole, lultaneously with the drilling prome, geological and geophysical surwill be undertaken, having the Live of elucidating structural conis in the general Puri area. ;tart has already been made on this amme. At Puri No. 1 the casing been milled out between 6,141 feet 1,171 feet but some delay in commenche first deviated hole has been experienced because of difficulty in starting it in the required direction. Measures are in hand to overcome these difficulties and footage progress is shortly expected.

Helicopter access to the Bwata drilling site has been gained and a survey of the location is in progress.

Arrangements have been made for a geological team and a contract seismic party to commence work early May in the general Puri-Kereru Bwata area.

It was announced about the same time that the company planned to spend £3,000,000 over the next 16 months in Papua (it has already spent £28,000,000 in oil search in the Territory), so Papua can depend on its oil-company income for at least that far ahead.

No Details The company has not, however, announced yet how Oil Search investors are to be given a chance of a bigger participation in the search, and its ultimate rewards, if any.

It will be remembered that at the time Puri made the headlines in November, Oil Search, the Australian company that has only a tenth interest in APC, was in course of forming another company to carry on after the big partners, Standard-Vacuum and British Petroleum pulled out.

The prospectuses had been printed and were on the point of being distributed, when Puri started to produce oil and the big partners decided to remain in the game in Papua. Nothing further was then done about the new company by Oil Search, although it was stated that the big partners would try to arrange that Australian investors — presumably through Oil Search — would have bigger opportunities. It was never stated how this was to be done, and so far as we know, nothing has come of it.

Since the Puri boom burst there have been the usual assertions that the oil is there alright, but that overseas vested-interests prevent it being brought in commercially.

There is no lack of oil in the world at present, and such things have been known before, but the discovery of oil in Papua is too strategically important to Australia to entertain doubts of this sort.

Puri benefited not only Oil Search shareholders, of course.

Papuan Apinaipi, which has an adjoining permit area to APC, haa their shares jump from about 1/11 in early October to 4/11 a month later. They have remained around 4/6 to 4/9 ever since. .

APC reported, March 10 that » deviation from the original hole at Pun has been effected at 6,090 feet and a new hole has been drilled to 6.383 feet, filing is proceeding in the desired direction Site preparation at Bwata. 15 miles to the north-west of Puri has been commenced.^ 165 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH 1959

Feb. 6 March i Burns Philp .... 64/6 63/9 Burns Philp (SS) . . 48/- 50/- C.S.R £43/17/6 £43/1*1 Dylup Plantations 17/3 17/3 Hackshalls 48/- 49/- Kauri Timbers . . . 19/9 19/9 Kerema Rubber . . . 10/- 10/3S Koitaki 13/- 13/3 Lolorua 7/6 6/6 Maribol 7/6 6/- Norfolk Is. Whaling 2/6 3/4 Queensland Insurance 70/- 69/6 Rubberlands .... 6/- 5/- Sthn. Pac. Insurance 16/- 16/- Steamships Trading . 53/- 50/- W. R. Carpenter Hold. 16/- 15/6 Timor Oil 6/4 5/9 PAPUA-NEW GUINEA Bulolo . . . b35/b33/b33,l N.G.G. Ltd. bl/9V 2 b2/7 b2/r Oil Search b2/6 b8/2 b8/ r ' Ent. of N.O. b7d b6d bed t Papuan Apln b9d b4/6 b4/( do. opt. . b6V 2 d b2/3V a b2/:' Placer Dev. b86/6 b91/6 b90,f Sandy Creek b4d b3d s5d I Rubberiands Ltd.

Report Difficult Year Directors at the annual general meeting of Rubberiands, Ltd., in Port Moresby on March 31, will recommend a final dividend of 3% per cent., making the total for the year 10 per cent.

Net profit for the year ending December 31. 1958, was £8,210 after provision for amortisation of plantation property (£2,287), depreciation (£2,338), and directors’ fees (£1,300).

The directors will report that the company had a difficult year in 1958. especially the final six months, owing to fall in the price of rubber, higher production costs and a drought. (The average price realised from sales of rubber for the year under review were 28.18 d per lb, or 3.61 d less then in the previous year).

The accounts as at December 31 indicate a company very conservatively managed. It is noted that most of the “current” assets are shown as “rubber on hand and in transit” (£7.108) and an unexplained item of “Prepayments”, at £3,107.

With normal weather in 1959. the company will likely do better in the current year; since the close of their books at the end of 1958, Singapore rubber prices have shown an increase.

Lae Brewery Wants to Extend its Activities Guinea Brewery, Ltd., of Lae. New Guinea, has appointed a sales manager, Mr. Des West, formerly of Hastings Deering, Ltd., of Port Moresby.

This is the first step the company has taken to extend the brewery’s activities outside the Morobe district. Up to date the men who built the brewery, installed the machinery and brewed the beer— Messrs. R. Meier and J. R. Nydam—have also been their own sales staff.

More Whales For Norfolk Is. & Byron Bay The Norfolk Island and Byron Bay Whaling Company has had its whale quota increased for the 1959 season. They will be able to take 30 more whales in Byron Bay and 30 more at Norfolk bringing the quota up to 150 at each locality. This, and the better prospects for whale oil, should help the company substantially. The company did not pay a dividend last year in order not to impair liquidity, although a small profit was made.

Sandy Creek Output Percentage Improves Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing, Limited, recovered 106 ounces of gold from 2,825 cubic yards of material treated during February. This compared more favourably with the recovery of 118 ounces 10 dwt of gold recovered from 6,600 cubic yards of material treated during January.

Carpenter Holdings Profits Are Maintained The interim dividend, declared in March, of W. R. Carpenter Holdings, Ltd., remained unchanged from last year’s final rate of 5% per cent.

It was reported that activities of associated and subsidiary companies have remained satisfactory and that adequate profits will be available to maintain usual rate of dividend.

BGD Has Extraordinary General Meeting An extraordinary general meeting of Bulolo Gold Dredging, Ltd., shareholders was held in Vancouver on March 13 to insert a clause in the Articles of Association which will allow the directorate to appoint a Vancouver trust company as principal transfer agent and registrar for BGD shares.

The company’s head office in Vancouver has hitherto acted as its own transfer agent: the new move is expected to effect certain economies.

There will be no change in Australia.

The Sydney office of the company will still act as transfer agent in respect of shares listed on the Sydney Register, and will pay dividends as usual. All other dividends in future will be paid by the Vancouver trust company’s cheque.

Enterprises' Goldmining Progress The mine manager of Enterprise New Guinea Gold and Petroleum Development reports having treated 132 tons for 65 oz retorted gold; 13 Vz oz have been recovered from alluvial workings making a total of 78V2 oz of gold for February.

The sub-level has been driven 50 feet in ore 18 inches wide and good values are indicated. Values in the alluvial workings are also showing improvement.

West Crosscut from No. 1 level extended to 32 feet and should cut the parallel lode in another 30 feet.

New Guinea Goldfields Production Overall production of New Guinea Goldfields. Ltd., was maintained through the short month of February, with 978 fine oz gold (from 3,416 tons of ore treated) from Golden Ridges mill, and 1,606 oz of silver.

Golden Ridges alluvials produced 54 oz gold bullion; Koranga alluvials (no cleanup in January) 370 oz gold bullion; and tributes, 75 oz bullion.

Timber production was 180,256 su. ft.

The Stock Market In the first week in March the stock market fell, thus doing precisely what the financial quidnuncs have been forecasting for the last few months.

On March 6, the Sydney Stock Exchange index for all ordinary shares was 229.34 —a fall of about 4.2 points since last reported here, although 3.2 of those points could be debited to the first week of this month. This still is 3 points above the index with which we started 1959, but for experts who are always looking for signs and portents, it is regarded as “significant”.

More hardy types are at as big a loss to account for this fall as they were earlier to account for its rise against a background of falling prices for wool and other basic Australian commodities.

One thing does emerge from the history of the Australian stock market over the last 6 months—that is that the prevailing price of wool has now no dominant influence.

During the first week of March, when the index for ords. started down, the price of wool remained fully firm on prices that had been ruling for the past two weeks, and were an improvement on the prices that were ruling some time back when the index was making its rise.

During early March, also, UK quotations showed that the Bradford wool 1 market was higher.

Considerable interest has been manirr in the recently published report of Dm A. Dunn, Chief Mineral Economist in i Australian Bureau of Mineral Resounj Dr. Dunn tries to forecast what Australis mineral exports will be earning hen years from now, and compares the res with the best year yet. 1957, when r mineral exports were worth £ABS milli to the Commonwealth. By 1968, calculi! the Doctor, exports of minerals should) somewhere between £ll6 and B. million, the unknown factors being I (which might bring in anything from million to £4B million); and zinc (wit could be £l6 million but might be as . as £ll million). Gold he evidently i as a static commodity with £l7 milli for both 1957 and 1968, but by the las year Weipa’s alumina should be return- Australia about £l2 million per ann and still only be getting under way.

But whether the 1968 export figures £ll6 million or the more optimistic £3t million, experts feel that it is not enom and everyone with the inclination, knowhow and the capital is urged to out and do a little prospecting or velopment work where it will do most go?

Sydney Sales Prices

Oil And Mining Shares

FIJI July 9, ’5B Jan. 9, ’59 March Emperor . b5/9 »9/- Loloma . . b3O/- bSl.i

Islands Product

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations In Australian currency. Aust. £ equi approximately 16/- Stg., NZ. or Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomonsr WPHC areas; 168 Pac. Frs.; SUS 2.20-2. J.

COPRA The British Ministry of Food 9-ye' Contract, which governed Copra pr:i In Papua and New Guinea. FIJI, West)?

Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Gilbert i Ellice Colony (and. to some extent, .

Tonga and Cook Islands) expired on . cember 31. 1957; since when each Te:a tory has made its own arrangements collection and marketing of copra.

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII product: Is delivered to Copra Marketing Boss controlled by six members, including thl; planters’ representatives; and the 800 directs distribution and sales, and mae 166 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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• Armstrong Siddeley Diesel Engines

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Distributors for all plantation, farm, trade requirements and merchandise.

Highest Prices obtained for Cocoa, Coffee, Shell and other produce handled on consignment.

Write direct to our Islands Export Manager with over 35 years experience in the Islands.

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lents to the producers. Production mainly to (a) Unilever (under concovering 1959), (b) Australia (for consumption) and (c) crushing-mill abaul. Prices generally arranged in dance with ruling rate in Philippines et, with premiums for hot-air dried. rentatlve” Price For New Guinea m January 1, 1959, P-NG Copra I announces “Tentative Prices”, for delivered main ports: Hot-Air Dried. per ton; FMS, £AS4 per ton; e-Dried £AS3/7/6 I: —No Government control—producers rtiere they wish. Bulk of copra goes ■ushing-mlll in Suva, whose price aarf, Suva, is announced each week, arch 2, prices were, HAD, £PBS/5/-; £FB3/17/6; PM2, £FB2/10/-.

STERN SAMOA: —Official Copra receives all production, and sells and makes payments to producers. proportion goes to Unilever, at pines FM grade rates, plus pres up to £Stg.3 per ton for hotried Prices announced December, to operate till further notice: Retried £8.61/10/6 per ton; sun-dried 1. £8.59/0/6; sun-dried, No. 2, /10/6.

IGA: —Sales are under Government il. Part of production goes to Europe, arrangement with Unilever con- -1 by Philippines prices, and part open market.

OMONS:—AII production marketed ;h official Copra Board, at prices on Philippines market. Price de- March: Ist grade, £A7S; 2nd £A73; 3rd grade, £A69 per ton, BSIP ports.

BERT AND ELLlCE:—Production ted in Europe through official Copra , at prices based on Philippines less “stabilisation fund” charges, *MOA: —Producers receive 4 cents lb. 1.6 or £A4O approx, per long ton).

Ic bonus, if average proceeds exceed buying price and expenses.

HEBRIDES:—In mid-February price 1A66 per ton, delivered Vila/Santo. me date, price was 125,000 Metrop. per metric ton, c.i.f. Marseilles.

K IS./NIUE/TOKELAU: Price fixed st half of 1959. by Abels, Ltd , of nd who mill it, was announced in ry as follows: Standard Grade: 1/15/6 plus £1 for bags, plus premium, totalling £NZ69/0/6.

Grade: £NZ66/15/6 plus £1 for plus £l/5/- premium, plus £l/5/premium for hot air dried, total- NZ7O/5/6, f.0.b., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

DA: —lslands prices are based on the r Ghana cocoa which, on March 5, 5tg.296 per ton, c.i.f., London.

SAMOA: —Nominal price quoted in March 5, £S2BS, f.0.b., Apia.

G.: March 5. £A335 ex-wharf, P.-N.G.: March 5, 4/3, 4/4 per f. Sydney, was generally quoted, have firmed.

March, quotes for Kenya coffee A grade, none offering; B grade, 20; C grade £Stg.3ss; under- ;s, £Stg.29o; all per ton, c.i.f., lUTS: —P-N.G.: March 5,: Kernels 1/9 into store; virtually no sale in at present for nuts in shell. 3ER: —P.-N.G. price is based on )re rate, which on Mar. 4, was: No. , spot, 87% Straits cents per lb Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported on March 9 New crop, c.i.f., Sydney. Tahiti White and Yellow labtl. processed standard packs 71/-, Green 69/-.

RICE (Australian):—Price from May 1, 1958—P.-N.G.: Dry brown and dressed, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £6l/10/per ton, f.0.w.; under 5 tons £62 per ton. Vltamlsed and enriched white, 112 lb bags, 5 tons and over, £6B per ton f.0.w.; under 5 tons. £6B/10/- per ton.

Other Pac. Islands: Dry, brown, etc., £7O per ton, f.0.w., Sydney or Melbourne.

PEARL SHELL.—February quotations by independent pearlers for: Sound, £A7SO; D, £ASSO; E, £A225; EE. £AISO (in store Sydney). Manihiki lagoon still closed; Penrhyn, £Stg.4ls, f.0.b., Rarotonga, nominal.

TROCHUS:—LittIe or no demand; nominal £A3IO-315, ex-wharf, Sydney.

GREEN SNAlL:—Supplies light and could be increased to meet demand. £A36O per ton, ex-wharf quoted.

London and US Quotations Copra: London, March 5, Philippines in bulk, $265, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports.

Straits/Borneo, FMS, del. weights, c.i.f.

UK/Nth. European ports, £ Stg.92/10/-.

New York: March 5. Philippines $267.50, c.i.f., Pacific Coast ports. (£1 Australian is about equal to 2.25 US Dollars.) Coconut Oil:—London, March 5, Ceylon in bulk. £ Stg.l34, per ton, c.i.f., UK/Nth.

European ports. Straits/Borneo, £ Stg. 135 per ton c.i.f.

Rubber: London, c.i.f., March 4, RSS No. 1, spot, 25%d Stg. per lb; July-Sept., 26V 4 d Stg. per lb; Feb., 1960, 25%d Stg. per lb.

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Thr«ugh 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-Flji, basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/8; 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.

NORFOLK IS.—Commonwealth Bank quotes exchange rate Australia - Norfolk Island: 5/- per £AIOO.

Papua - Ng.—Commonwealth Bank

(Pt. Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Goroka, Bulolo, Kavleng, Maiang, Wewak), BANK OF NSW (branches: Port Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Madang, Samarai, Ooroka; agencies: Wau, Boroko, Kokopo), ANZ BANK (Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul) and

National Bank Of A/Asia, (Port

Moresby) quote exchange rate Australia- Papua-NG; 10/- per £AIOO.

FB. 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 Jan. 1959, quotes: Selling, Noumea, 195 Pac. francs to £ Aust.; Papeete, 194 Pac. francs to £ Aust.; 246 Pac. francs to £ Stg.; 89.05 Pac. francs to US $. Selling 13.76 heavy 'rancs (1,376 ordinary Metrop. franc*) o £ Stg. 167 IF 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY MARCH, 1959

4*> 'i View of the Ranges from the Goroka Hotel For a cool, exhilarating holiday visit the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea.

Goroka Hotel offers all those amenities that will make your stay a happy one.

The cuisine is excellent and the tariff moderate.

Qoroka Under the management of Tom Abberton.

Telephone; Goroka 18. Cables: “Mortel”

Bookings may also be made by writing P.O. Box 91, Port Moresby A Unit of Morobe Hotels Warnock Bros. Limited AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Manufacturers of well known brands of Laundry Soap

"Kia Ora" And Naturu"

★ Obtainable from Auckland and Island Merchants Index to Advertise A. 136 Akta-Vite .... 72 Amal. Dairies Ltd. 54 Amplion .... 42 Angliss, W. & Co. 48 Arnott, Wm. . .132 Aspro 56 Ballina Slipway . 108 BALM Paints . . 94 Bank of NSW . 139 Bank of NZ . . 63 Berec Ltd. ... 14 Berger Faints . . 74 Bethel I, Gwyn . 157 Blaxland-Rae , . 145 Booth, N. G. . . 28 B. 158 Bradford Mills . 116 Braybon Bros. . . 33 Bristol Myers . .144 British Aluminium 44 British Standard Machinery ... 52 British Paints . . 16 British United Dairies .... 50 Bryant & May . 119 Brunton & Co. . 55 Bunting, A. H. . 94 Butterfly Supply . 164 B. 89,128,137,151 Cadbury .... 10 Caine's Studio . . 57 Carlton Breweries 70 Carpenter Ltd. cov. 4, 36, 126 Catholic Mission of Holy Ghost . . 165 Cecil, The Hotel . 12 Cheoy, Lee ... 149 Colgate . . . .114 Colonial Meat . . 58 Colyer Watson . 60 C'wealth Bank . . 5 Crammond Co. . 124 Cooper Manufacturing Co. . . . 62 C. Co. . . . 153 Cyclone Co. . . 40 Cystex 93 DAK Meat Packers 64 Donald Ltd. ... 39 Douglass, W. Co. 71 Dunlop Rubber . 50 Dunsford, Capt.

G 103 Econo Steel ... 38 East Coast Agency 49 Fiji Society . . 165 Filmo Depot 57, 121 Frigate Rum . . 129 Gardner Eng. . . 104 Gillespie Bros. . 90 Gilbey, W. & A. 112 Gillespie, R. . 1, 120 Glazebrooks Paints 11 Glaxo Lab. ... 47 Goodyear Tyre Co. 146 Gordon's Gin . . 60 Goroko Hotel . . 168 G.P.H. (Suva) . . 160 Grove Ltd. . 72, 106 Halvorsen, B. . . 102 Halvorsen, L. . . 106 Hari, G. B. . . . 30 Hastings Diesels . . 80, 130 Hellaby Ltd. . . 97 Hemingway Robertson Institute . 64 Hytest Co. . . . 154 1.C.1 96 International Harvester . . 2, 3 Kanimbla Hall . . 57 Kennedy, Capt. . 105 Kerr Bros King, R Kiwi Polish . . .

K.L.M Kopsen & Co. . .

Lawrence, A. .

Lysaght, J. . .

Mcllrath's . .

McKeon, J. . . .

McNiven Bros. . .

Mac. Robertson Pty. Ltd Mendaco . . .

Millers Ltd. . .

Morton, P. G. .

M. H. Ltd. . 24 Mungo Scott . ..

Nathan & Wyeth r Nestles N. & R. . . 68„: N.G. Aust. Line Nile Products .

Nixoderm . . .

Orient Line . . ..

P.A.A Pac. Shipbuilding [ Co Parke Davis . 83 Philips . . . 6„i P. I. Line . . ..

Piccaninny Wax Qantas . . . co: Qld. Insurance . .

Ransomes, simms z & Jeffries Ltd..l Robertson, D. J. .

Co. . . . l£ Rohu, Sil , . .

Scott & Bowne Seward Ltd. .

Shaw Savill . ..

Sisalcraft . . ~ Sparklets Ltd. . .

S.T.C. Co. . .

Stapleton, J. .

Stewarts Lloyds S. P. Brewery .

Sthn. Pac. Ins. ..

Sullivan Ltd. . 3-£ Tait, W. S. . .

Taikoo Dockyardt Tallerman & Co.

Tatham, S. E. .

Taubmans Ltd. .

T. ... co Thoryncroft Co.

Tilley Lamps .

Tongala Milk .

Tooth & Co. .

Tulloch Ltd. . ..

Turners & Growers . .

Tyneside Eng. .

U.

Vacuum Oil Co. .

Ventura Victa Mowers .

Vincent's APC . .

Vi-Stim . . .

Walkers Ltd. .

Warnock Waratah Pharmacy . ..

Webster, D. . .

Weymark Pty.

Ltd White, J. . . .

White Rose Floum Wilhelmsen, W. ..

Wills Ltd. . .

Wright & Sons Wrigley's . . .

Wunderlich Ltd. .

Yorkshire Ins. . . 168 MARCH, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH!

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(S) EXOCOETUS VOLITANS, the flying fish; in the Polynesian tongue “Maroro.” A familiar sight in South Pacific waters.

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OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE 09 ’O *

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Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

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Distributors Of Every Description

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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: Telephone: Postal Address; “CAMOHE.” 8L5421 G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney.

In London: W, R. Carpenter Cr Co. (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3.

IN NEW GUINEA: New Guinea Company Limited, Rabaul, Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Kokopo.

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN FIJI: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., S 8 IN PAPUA: Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby.

PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY— MARCH, 1959