PACIFIC ISLANDS Monthly MAY, 1959 Vol. XXIX. No. 10 blished 1930 tered at the G.P.0., Sydney. msmission hy post as a newspaper ]

The Temper Of The Territory!

This photograph was secured by accident. Thus it serves to illustrate better the temper of the people of Papua-New Guinea, who are to have income lax “bulldozed” onto them by the Australian Minister for Territories, Paul Hasluck. Stuart Inder, one of MIP'S editors, was on a valley-hopping aircraft in the New Guinea Highlands on May , when the aircraft put down, for eight minutes, at Minj township. There he was told that Mr. lan Downs. MLC. was holding a public meeting on income tax in a hall nearby.

Inder interrupted the meeting, invited the audience to come on to the verandah for a PIM photograph—which they cheerfully did—and was off again on the aircraft a few minutes later It is thus only through this fluke of timing that the sentiments expressed at this small indignation meeting in the middle of New Guinea are now given a wider audience.

STOP PRESS —FINAL PLEA FAILS— In Canberra, May 14, 4-man deputation pleaded with A/Prime Minister for postponement new tax plan. Refused. Tax operates from July 1.

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F. Reece, of Seligson & Clare Ltd., spent a couple of weeks )ia In late April installing a -type Heidelberg automatic r printing-press at the Gov- ;nt Printing Office. The West- -samoa Administration estabthe printing office at Apia a i of years ago and is gradually ling its capacity.

William R. Suttie, for many in the Queensland Forestry e, before going to New Guinea •6 as chief of the Division of ilture, succeeds the late Mr. vlcAdam as Director of Forests, g World War 11, he was in 3 of a forestry company in NG fas responsible for some imit New Britain forests surveys. [?]is Niall, the charming young daughter [?]rict Commissioner and Mrs. H. R. L. [?]f Lae, New Guinea, whose engagement Frank Johnson of Dregerhafen, NG, was announced recently. 5 me ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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Professor J. Watson, chairmanj the Department of Anthropoloc Washington University, USA, w carried out culture-contact stui at Kainantu, Eastern Highlarr New Guinea, in 1953-55, was bs in the district in April doing furtl; anthropological work for the National Science Foundation.

Mr. Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, representa[?] for France on the Trusteeship Council of[?] and a member of the delegation visit[?] Western Samoa in April, photographed at S[?] as he hurried back to Europe on instruct[?] from General de Gaulle.

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Colahan left for Lae o[?] "Malekula" after three month s leave in [?] Mr. Colahan has been working as a cos[?] agent with the Bulolo Gold Dredging [?] NG for the past five years. 6 MAY, 1959-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Randolph Stow, a Westralian. i patrol officer in Papua-New a, has won the 1958 Miles ;lin literary award of £5OO for ovel “To the Islands”. His book, it deals with an ageing nary’s life on an aboriginal n station in the far north- )f Australia.

D. D. McCarthy, of the NZ il Research Council, is visittiu Island, Cook Group, to 3 an anti-filariasis campaign, largest of the Cooks in size, as a third of its male popuand one in nine of the s infected. [?]rian C. Swire, great-great grandson of [?]nder of the China Navigation Co. who [?]n spending some months in the Pacific [?]company's business. He left Sydney for [?]veeks in New Guinea in late April, will [?] back to the UK via Fiji for leave, [?]returning to headquarters in Hongkong.

Mrs. W. A. Donald, returning to Auck- [?] a visit to Tahiti in April, were met [?]la Bay, Suva, by Mrs. Harold Gatty Mr. Donald is a principal of the well- [?]land trading firm of A. B. Donald and Co., Ltd., Auckland. 7 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1959

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Two Fiji-Indian students, Deo Narayah Sahey and Miss Sv< Nabi, were married at We Church, Hobart, on April 18, will return to Suva shortly afttJ honeymoon in Australian Stf and NZ. Mr. Sahey, who stui law in Tasmania, was admitted; the Bar at Hobart in April, after his bride completed secretarial course.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Hooley, memt of the Summer Institute Linguistics and Wycliffe E Translators, with their tt months’ old baby, have settled dt in a village in the Buang eg Morobe District, NG, to the oner task of making the Buang pe« literate in their own language, job will take a number of yes first to learn the native langu. secondly, to reduce it to wrii form, then to make the Bus literate —as a bridge to literacy English. Ultimate aim is to trr late the Bible into the Buj language for them to read. * * * Miss Dorothy Amy Weaver Suva 10 years ago to join a 11 firm in Melbourne, Australia, first the law interested her, t fascinated her and she began If studies. Early in April she admitted to the Victorian Bar a barrister and solicitor, mother, Mrs. C. C. Weaver (wii of Captain E. S. Weaver) attend the ceremony. * * * Mr. Stan McCosker, formerly New Guinea (Matala and Ms; plantations) has changed cocok for pineapples—he now is a pc apple planter in a big wayv Nambour, Queensland. His daughters, Robin and Anne (H in NG) left Sydney by the A Strathnaver for London. Ro who gained her Diploma of Edvl Mr. G. Ellingworth, manager of the S[?] office of Alfred Lawrence and Co., Ltd.,[?] will leave Sydney by air on May 30,[?] companied by his wife, on a business tn Papua-New Guinea. 8 MAY. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Macu Salato, Fijian Senior As. tant Medical Officer, leader of teams now working on a full-s tuberculosis immunisation c: paign, will go to England later year to undertake a special n r months’ course leading to the Diploma of Health Education, was in the Solomon Islands in and conducted a TB survey was singled out for praise by Secretary of State for the Coloi It will not be his first overseas —he was in London in 1946 Fiji’s Victory Contingent (hat served as Chief Petty Officer inr Bishop Pearce, of Western Samoa, shows[?] bride, formerly Imeleta Mulitauaopele,[?] American Samoa, where to sign the re[?] after her marriage, in April, to Mr. Sagatot Ching, of Apia, Western Samoa. The B[?] travelled from Apia to the American territo[?] perform the ceremony. —Pan American P [?] Mrs. Ann Griffen, Social Secretary ot[?] Sydney Polynesian Association, with Mr[?] Rogers, formerly of Fiji, now of Melbour[?] a recent meeting of the Associationp[?] —Tele [?] 10 MAY, 1959-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HI

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Keith Noblet, manager of obertson Pty. Ltd.’s 1,250-acre ilantation, Wanaru, six miles Lae, New Guinea, made a business visit to Melbourne )ril to confer with his als. * ♦ * Rev. D. Stuyvenberg, SM, is w Marist Mission Bishop of uthern Solomon Islands, re- Rt. Rev. J. M. Aubin, who d at the end of 1958. The ishop was consecrated by shop Carboni in Sydney 7, at a ceremony attended by Doggett, OFM, of Aitape. nd Bishop Foley, SM, of Fiji, and a number of rs from the Marist Seminary, bbie, NSW. A Dutchman, v. Stuyvenberg has been in lomons since 1937 and, as a was stationed at Buma, on l, in recent years. * * * Garnet Malley, of Nabavatu ion, Vanua Balavu, Northern mp, returned to Fiji in April holiday visit with friends berra and Sydney. * * ♦ W. J. B. Clapham, manager Lautoka branch of the Bank Fiji, will retire next month, > years in the banking busi- A New Zealander, he held osts in NZ, Suva and Apia er), before going to Lautoka ears ago. His place will be 3y Mr. G. K. Rodda, from u, NZ. * « * Maniana, a young Papuan 10 has been studying for [?] Boendermaher, newly-appointed Under- [?]f Internal Affairs, in Netherlands New Guinea. 11 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1959

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Dr. Wharton B. Mather, se= lecturer in zoology at Queensl< University, will spend May June in Papua-New Guinea cat ing out research work. * * * Miss Val Nobbs, of Norfolk Isll who is at present holidaying Europe, had the unique experii recently of taking tea with Majesty the Queen Mother • Clarence House, London. Wheir Queen Mother was in Australia,, met the then-Administn (Brigadier Norman) and, in ■ versation, asked him if there " still members of the Nobbs fai on Norfolk, saying that her brot Michael Bowes-Lyon had ir friends with one while a prisoc of-war in Germany. Brigs Norman passed on the informs that Miss Nobbs was to England with her sister, Ivy; in due course the ladies receiver invitation to call at Clarence H( * * * Dr. Emile Massal, who headed Health Section of the South Pa Commission for 12 years, Noumea by air late in April to turn to France, having terminr his appointment. A large cr; gathered at Tontouta aerodrorm wish him bon voyage, for he m quite a name for himself in Caledonia, not only through j excellent SPC work but also beci of his pleasant personality. * * * Mr. Russell Foreman, author' painter of note, with beard, arr in Sydney by air from Fiji on i 23. His book “Long Pig”, published in USA, will be issu© Australia in July.

Mrs. E. Gaskell, widow of the late M [?] Gsskell, a well-known identity in the Solo [?] left Sydney on the April "Malekula" [?] Rabaul, where she will join her son. [?] 12 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONT HI-

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Malcolm Broadhurst, manager dup plantation, Madang, NG, ed Miss Shirley Sampson, ig sister, at St. Michael’s ;h, Alexishafen, last month, p Nosser, of the Catholic m of the Holy Ghost, perd the ceremony.

H 6 * ♦ er M. Rosanne, SMSM, of a, USA, who has been led to mission stations in *n and Western Samoa for ast eight years, was in New id in May on furlough. * * * J. H. Hohnen, managing >r of New Guinea Goldfields Wau, is on holidays in Mel- -5 with Mrs. Hohnen. Before ing to NG, he will visit minases in Western and Central ilia. Mr. F. J. Leydin is in • at NGG Ltd, during his :e. ♦ ❖ ♦ J. N. Roberts, National iphic Magazine, USA, who a short time recently on k Island capturing a series lotographs to illustrate a article by Mr. T. C. Roughley t NSW Director of Fisheries) turn soon to NX from Sydney, iplete his assignment.

Alec Haworth, who retired Robt. Gillespie Pty. Ltd., . early in 1957 and went off liti to live the quiet life, hat things turned out differ- Tom what he anticipated, i just settled down outside '». when he contracted itiasis; followed a long period ;rt treatment and then re- He went then to Fiji but e coronary illness put him ospital for some months, illy, he returned, a little len, to Sydney; but time eavily on his hands and, in y last, with health re- - he rejoined Gillespies at 66 and only a little less and jaunty after his ex- ;s, he is renewing old busi-. d personal friendships.

Smith, from Palmerston, NZ, a mis- [?]ith the South Sea Evangelical Mission, for the BSIP on April "Tulagi". 13 F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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Pacific Islands Monthly Contents: No. 10. Vol. XXIX MAY, 1959 PEOPLE: Personal Paragraphs of Islands’ Interest 5 South Pacific Natives at SP Conference Know Where They’re Going 17 Australian-Pattern Income Taxation Means End of an Era in New Guinea .... 20 Fiji’s Burns Commission is Assembling 21 Jet Age Begins in Pacific .. 22 Second Coffee Conference Produces Results 22 HOME BASE: Sydneysider Reports 23 COMMENTARY: The Publisher and the Editors Look at the Pacific and the World 26 Editors’ Mailbag 27 The Commons Discuss Br.

Colonies’ Future 29 TERRITORIES TALK-TALK: With Tolala 31 Labour Critics Now on Trail of Navuneram Report .... 35 Samoan Self-Government — After the Party, Second Thoughts 37 This Was the House That Vince Built 43 Territorians and Their Tax Reactions 45 NNG’s Star Mountains Expedition Gets Off to Icy Start 49 Cheap Coffee Goes Dear In London 5° NG Cocoa Amazes an Expert 51 How P-NG Legco Voted Itself Into Income Taxation .... 53 But the Fight for Democratic Rights Is Not Over Yet .. 57 Mr. Lakshman Polishes Up a Strange Plan to Help His Workers 61 There’s Still Room at Some Fiji Tourist Resorts .. .. 65 That Texan and His Floating Family Are Still Outward Bound 67 Suva’s GPH Has New Owners and a New Outlook .... 69 You Don’t Have to Seek the Pacific —Just Go Native in the Med 73 These Honey-Producers Need a Toad-Proof Fence .... 75 Real Hell-Fire Thwarted First Attempt to Ship Hebrides Sulphur 77 Prince Tungi Plans a Tuna Fishery 79 MAGAZINE SECTION: Tropicalities, 81; Crossquiz, 82; NG’s Most Celebrated Cannibal Feast, 83; Blackbirding and Butchery on the High Seas, 84; There’s Problems in the Shell Button Business, 86; There’s More Than Crocodiles on the Sepik, 88; Book Reviews 91 Pacific Shipping and Cruising Yachts • .101 PACIFIC REPORT 115 Obituaries: Bishop Sorin; Mr. B. McKenzie: Sister Clara Mueller; Mr. W. Gibson; Rev. H. Bergmann .. 151 Sports Review 152 Shipping and Airways Timetables !55 Commerce and Produce .. 165 A Product of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., Technipress House, 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (79 Alberta Street is 10 yards from the intersection of Goulburn Street and ' Wentworth Avenue.)

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"Advice Only" From Europeans [?]th Pacific Natives Think [?]y Know Where They're Going From STUART INDER, in Rabaul.

What has been going on here at the Fourth South Pacific nference in the last week has proved, finally, that whatever >ht happen to the South Pacific Commission itself whether changes its name or changes its activities one day these stings of native peoples will have to continue.

ODY expected that this urth South Pacific Conferee would fail, but I doubt if ly realised just how successful Id be. he man on the movies says, ing down the heroine’s neck, fight this, baby! This is than both of us!” first conference in 1950 I something of the promise as ahead, but the conference rrounded by politics, publicity fimmicks, and the native > for whom the show was were hardly aware of what all about. second conference, in 1953, i the indigenes to feel their rough some of the European ces that were directing them; 1956, with a new system of :tees operating, they were be- ; to take over completely, and it out, correctly and without assment, that the Europeans erhaps attempting to influlings more than they should, at they really ought to pull eads in, here in Rabaul at this Conference the Europeans ailed their heads in. And the int fact is that the indigenes Ives have largely been rele for seeing that they have I Fellows Who Shove Off is perhaps even more exlary in a South Pacific which >ming increasingly nationis that the moves against ■opeans have not been made ly idea of antagonism, but in the spirit which says, “Now look, you’ll understand is is our show, and we really dy to take it over. So you nind shoving off like good do you?” time is probably not far West Samoan delegates at the con- From left. High Chief Leiato, of Samoa; Miss Tiresa Hunter, who was airman of the Social Committee, and ene, both of West Samoa; and Talking apaga and Talking Chief Tuato'o, of Samoa. Talking Chief Saleapaga is giant kava root which the American egation presented to Brigadier D. M. eland. Administrator of P-NG. distant when the Europeans will find themselves shoving off in areas of the South Pacific other than the meeting halls of the South Pacific Conference; thus it is probably something that they should be asked to do it like good fellows.

There are other less polite epithets that are being used by the indigenes in other parts of the world.

Nobody with sense fools himself that the behaviour of the indigenes in this conference is a guarantee that all will continue to work harmoniously in the home territories; for there are vastly greater influences at work for good or ill outside of the Rabaul conference hall.

But only an idiot would deny that these conferences are a very valuable indication of the temper of the Pacific peoples; of their willingness and even eagerness to work out their own destinies in partnership with the Europeans.

The people have themselves been able to grow in stature with the PACIFIC REPORT.

Turn to these inside pages for more highlights of the month’s news: Revising Tonga’s Most Read Book; Do It Yourself Airstrip; Those Knots in NI Timbers—lls; In Lautoka Its “Our” Wharf—ll 7; Flu With a French Touch; Happy Days Again in New Caledonia- -119; Papeete’s Airport Looks Like Happening; They’ll Be Back With the Apes in P-NG—l2O.

Mr. Reeve is Actually Asking Them; Flu in Tonga, Central Pacific— -123; CSR Plans Boost to Fiji Rice Growing; Rabaul Soil Went to Sea—l2s; New Guinean in the Cattle Business: Anzac Day in Pacific—l 27; He Thinks Aust.

Could Do Better in Fiji—l2B; NNG Mountains Keep Their Secret Still—l3l.

They’re Seeking Jap Fishermen for Levuka; Copra Windfall for G. & E. Govt.—l 33; Lae Residents Refuse Tax Brainwashing—l3s; Queen Salote, 59, in Haapal; Mick Leahy Gets His Tick Damages— -138; List of Kuru Victims Growing—139.

Mr. Fold! Will Remain in N. Britain —141; In New Caledonia, Bread Goes Up; Maybe a Whaling Station for Fiji—l 42; Elections for Senator in New Caledonia— -143; Samoa is Urgently Needing Professionals—l4s; Golden Jubilee of Tongan Hospitals—l 46. 17 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1959

conferences, just as the stature of the conferences has grown; and any European who fails to take the hint deserves what is coming to him.

None of this is to decry the efforts of those Europeans who have helped to make this conference a success.

At the same time, it is most noticeable that the most successful Europeans have been those with the clos e s t connections with the indigenes.

One example is Mr. J. K.

McCarthy, adviser to the P-NG delegation, who has been so long in the Territory in connection with native affairs that, like Viri Vokotini (alias Scotsman Willie Watson, of the Cook Islands) he would probably win an election on the native vote, if he—or they—were ever given the chance.

The P-NG delegation has leaned heavily on McCarthy for support— but for support only of decisions they have themselves wanted to make. This is the kind of partnership that is so vital to the future.

Criticism of Fiji Delegation On the other hand, it would have been better if Mr. H. B. Gibson, leader of the three-man Fiji delegation, had not come. This is not to decry the efforts of Mr. Gibson, whose period of time in Fiji is almost as long as that of Mr.

McCarthy in New Guinea.

But the Fijians and Indians are quite capable of presenting Fiji’s views at these conferences, which are not political, and if a European had to come then he could have come, like McCarthy, in the role of adviser, and done his pushing from the rear.

Many conference delegates gained the impression that Fiji had picked its three delegates, a European, an Indian and a Fijian, all MLC’s, merely so they could watch each other—which is hardly in the spirit of the conference.

As it was, Dr. Sahu Khan and Semesa Siki You did a creditable job—the Fijian being elected Deputy Chairman of the Social Committee —but Mr. Gibson got himself involved in something that turned out to be too big for him. And this was all because, being a European, he should not have made himself so prominent, but stayed in the background.

Mr. Gibson got himself elected as Chairman of the Economics Committee —despite some rather audible suggestions by the indigenes themselves, before the election, that an indigene would be the best man for the job.

There was also some confusion about who was who, and who was entitled to vote.

The result was that a full day of the conference’s time was wasted before the indigenes were able to muster their forces and work out a set of tactics that cleverly disposed of Mr. Gibson.

But they did it, be it noted, with the kind of incomparable Polynesian charm and courtesy that saved everybody’s face, including that of their European protagonist.

Can anybody seriously doubt that the South Pacific peoples know where they are going, and that the South Pacific Conferences have pointed the way?

Mr. Gibson Defeated By Tactics Fiji lawyer and MLC, Mr, H.

Gibson, made news when he w» elected chairman of the Economir Committee of the South Pacific Coo ference in Rabaul. Many people ha hoped that an indigene would elected as committee chairman. M Gibson was nominated by the GC bertese delegates, supported by ft BSIP.

Another group sought to have Mae ’Uli’uli lunouniua, Acting- Treasurer ■ Tonga, elected; but this was defeat), because Mahe ’Uli’uli didn’t vote t himself, and Mr. Gibson did. TI ballot resulted 5-6 in Mr. Gibson favour.

Taking the chair, Mr, Gibson t» the meeting that he wasn’t an i digene, but he had lived most of I life in Fiji and this was “almost good as being one”. He would, said, be very sympathetic.

Not everyone was happy, thoup Somebody suggested that voting m: have been too much along nation lines (which wasn’t quite right; < French voted for Mr. Gibson). An way, there were second thoughts som where, with the result that Ma; ’Uli’uli was appointed deputy chairun and on the resolution of the Americas the chairman and the deptui chairman were to take charge of meetings on alternate days.

The next day, however, Mr. Gib* found himself in more strife. AD. some argument about voting rights became clear that some people s thought Mr. Gibson shouldn’t be thd at all. So Mahe ’Uli’uli and Mr. CD son both resigned their posts fon re-election, which resulted in Tongan becoming chairman and R? mond Gadabu, of Nauru, depm chairman.

Fourth South Pacific Conference Local Natives Stared In Wond From AAP-Reuter RABAUL, April The khaki, red and blue uniforms of native army cadets, scorn police and girl guides dotted the sports ground at the Malagm Technical Training Centre, near Rabaul, today for the opening of t Fourth South Pacific Conference.

A S the Administrator of Papua A. and New Guinea, Brigadier D. M. Cleland, arrived to open the Conference officially an army cadets and police guard of honour presented arms with fine precision, , ._ Behind them, scouts and guides snapped to attention and a native honour presented arms with fine Anthem. ~ .

On the fringes of the ground, under the shadow of volcanoes Matupl and Vulcan looming over Rabaul, thousands of local natives looked on in wonder.

Opening the Conference of 70 indigenous delegates of 16 South Pacific territories and the Kingdom of Tonga, Brigadier Cleland read a personal message from Austrs' Ministers for External Affairs \ Territories, Messrs. R. G. Caseyv Paul Hasluck.

“On behalf of the Australian ( ernment we convey most coc greetings to the Fourth South Ps !

Conference and best wishes f successful meeting.

“The Australian Governmeh very appreciative of the fact the honour of acting as hog! such a distinguished gathering representatives of peoples of 3 Territories of the South P£f region has, on this occasion, p to an Australian territory”,, Ministers’ message said.

This is the first time Australia; been host nation to the Confem Watching the Royal Papua-New Guinea Constabulary parading at the Conference opening, Mrs. Teupokoina Morgan, of the Cook Islands, and Prince Tu'ipelehake, of Tonga. Mrs. Morgan is a school teacher in Rarotonga. 18 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTK

nous Conferences have been held :e in Fiji and once in New idonia.

Prince, an editor, doctors, olteachers and University graduin a variety of faculties, house- ;s are amongst the 70 delegates nding the Conference, legates of Polynesian, Melanesiand Micronesian races of the :h Pacific are all from Pacific •itories within the sphere of lence of the South Pacific Common, of which the Conference is luxiliary.

In Tapa Cloth ir the opening ceremony, many ?ates wore ceremonial native s. The most impressive of the ?ates were members of the itian and Samoan delegations Prince Tu’ipelehake, of Tonga, me. Jacquemin, from Tahiti, i a toga-like garment of light ;i-coloured material stretching i her neck to her toes, veral of the American Samoan nation wore traditional tapa i lava-lavas. liking Chief Tuato’o, who preed the kava roots to Brigadier md and the Secretary General, T. R. Smith, also wore the ftains’ insignia of red painted ianas nuts and carried a fibrem “fue” resembling a fly whisk, indreds of Rab a u 1 natives r ded around the Conference i when the presentation was e, and gaped in wonder. Many ited with glee as they watched kava root presentation. A oan chief walked along both 5 of the room and then back ie centre, at each pause emitting trill cry. ter the opening ceremonies, the Terence split into two committees icial and Economic —and divided topics listed for discussion, ibjects to be discussed by the Conference include the effect of customs and beliefs in relation to infant and maternal welfare, tourism, broadcasting, recreation, training of local leaders for participation in seif-help schemes and the impact of the technical and industrial world on the life of the South Pacific islands.

The Conference, which will end on May 13, is being held at Malaguna Technical Training College built by native students and European trade instructors at a cost of about £700,000. , The estimated value of the whole property is £2,000,000.

Samoan Woman Guides Committee Attractive Miss Tiresa Hunter, of Western Samoa, was elected chairman of the social committee when it got down to work on April 30.

Miss Hunter, was chosen from five candidates, amongst them was Prince Tu’ipelehake, of Tonga, and High Chief Lietao, of Eastern Samoa.

Miss Hunter, who is 35, is a graduate of Victoria University, Wellmgton, New Zealand, and a lecturer at the Teachers’ Training College at Apia, Western Samoa.

Who Was Who at the Conference Delegates, alternates, advisers and observers were as follows: AMERICAN SAMOA: High Chief Leiato (delegate), High Chief Sotoa (delegate), Talking Chief Tuato’o (alternate), Talking Chief Saleapaga (alternate), Mulitauaopele (interpreter).

BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS PRO- (Continued on page 150) [?]ates begin to arrive, and their luggage is up ready to be moved to their quarters.

Above, top to bottom: A general view of the conference hall. Cook Islands delegates: Mrs.

Teopokoina Morgan, the Hon. Tuakeu Puana, and the Hon Margaret Ariki. A leading Conference personality, charming Frenchwoman Mme. Jeanne Jacquemin, of Papeete, vicechairman of the Information and Visitors Bureau of Tahiti. 19 C IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY.

The End of An Era Aust'n Income Tax System Extended To New Guinea Residents of Papua and New Guinea now have some idea of what faces them. The new taxation Bills came before the Legislative Council on April 20. No important amendment is likely. They will be finally passed by the official majority in Legco in June.

All taxation of exports ends on June 30. There will be “substantial” reduction in import duties as from July I—but no details will be published until the end of June.

TAXATION of the incomes of persons and corporations in Papua and New Guinea will commence on July 1, 1959.

Except that the rates will not be so high, the system will be practically the same as that employed in Australia. No classes are exempt—income tax will be paid by public servants, missionaries, and natives (assuming the latter have incomes of taxable size). The head tax, £2 per annum, introduced last year, will be deducted from income tax payable. [Commercial enterprises of Missions are apparently tax exempt. See page 135.] The more oppressive features of Australian companies’ income taxation will be applied in P-NG, namely— • Double taxation (the company’s profit is taxed, and then the shareholder’s dividend is taxed again, as part of his income). • Any balance remaining in the hands of private companies after dividends are paid and a small retention allowance is provided for, will be subjected to an “undistributed profits” tax of 10/- in the £.

Two regulations new to Australia are introduced. Any company with fewer than 20 members may be classified as a private company: and all individual traders and companies—as well as individuals — must pay provisional tax. In the first taxation year (1959-60) the persons and corporations concerned will make a declaration setting out what they consider their income to be, and they will pay provisional tax on that; and such payments will be adjusted to their assessments at the end of the tax year; and thereafter their provisional tax will hs to be paid at the rate disclosed. their first year’s taxation return: As in Australia, employers w be compelled to collect pay-as-yo go tax from employees, issue t stamps or group certificates them, and then regularly remit t taxes so collected to the Admij stration.

At the end of the first yr (June 30, 1960) all income earm must send in a taxation retm with stamps or certificate showr what they have paid in provision tax; and then they will either n a bit more, or get a refund, s cording to the tax collector’s asses ment.

The new Taxation Bill conta;j 182 quarto pages, and 360 sectioc and it seems to provide for eve conceivable contingency. F example— “ Native bodies” are exempt fr< income tax which apparent means that native co-operatj societies will not be taxed.

There is an elaborate set of rut covering the activities of companr dealing in insurance, and the pa ment of interest by companies persons overseas.

Overseas Shipping Slugged Where overseas-owned ships tras in the Territory, five per cent, the revenues they earn in the Ten tory is to be regarded as taxab income; and the responsibility 1 putting in the return and payii the money is on the master of tt ship.

Where businesses operating in t You'll Find More About Tax on These Page: Page 26: Commentary.

Page 36: Canberra Debate '■ was Muffled.

Page 53: How the Legislative Council Voted Itself Into < Income Taxation.

Page 54: Territorians’ Tax- Reactions.

Page 57: The Fight for- Democratic Rights Not Over • Yet.

Page 135: Some Lae residents \ meet Treasurer; more don’t. , Page 137: Minister’s Figures Show Iniquity of Tax.

As this issue went to press, revolt against the Canberra dictatorship was growing.

Members of Rabaul Town Advisory Council threatened to resign; protest meetings were being held all over P-NG. It’s not a fight against tax ; it’s now a revolt against Canberra’s refusal to give Territorians even the most elementary of Democratic privileges.

The Legislative Council chamber, just before Administrator Cleland opened proceedings. Within minutes the three elected members had walked out. 20 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L

d After In In e deductions* P-NG Australia £ £ £ 84 nil 184 2 284 4 484 14 80 684 26 884 43 1,084 63 1,284 85 1,484 110 330 1,884 167 i 2,284 234 2.484 271 695 4,484 721 1,627 ■itory are owned by persons seas, and in the opinion of the collector the business is not iucing a sufficient taxable ine, he can arbitrarily demand me tax on what he considers litable proportion of the total ipts. in Australia, no person after 1 will be allowed to leave Territory unless he or she has ncome tax “clearance”.

I persons carrying on business to keep sufficient records in the ish language to enable the Tax sctor to assess his income and ax.

I companies are to pay taxation Drofits at the rate of 4/- in lich is about two-thirds of Ausm rate. e rates of tax to be paid by iduals, compared with rates in ralia, can be shown by taking case of a taxpayer, with wife factions allowed are: Personal, £286; £230; child, £130; student child, medical expenses, up to £150; ines, etc., up to £300; education exup to £150; medical and hospital full.

Call for Tax Experts npany tax is going to change of things in Papua and New ?a when it starts in July. Not east of them are the booking habits of hundreds of small esses. h no income tax operating in (Continued on page 146) [?]ime is Running Short! tice for any amendments to the tory Income Tax Bill must reach Ldministrator by May 22. Amends for the Rates Bill (part of the aiion) must be in by May 8. early May, unofficial members up to their ears in paper work in discussions on the proposals— te the fact that they fully exd that nothing of importance will llowed to bypass the Administrasteamroller in June, one nominated member said: “We really babes in the wood. W’e j’t much time, and we haven’t . knowledge to be able to properly a complicated and vital Bill like Ice Breaker To Aid Niue When this helicopter dropped in from the US Navy Ice-breaker “Staten Island”, one day last March, the people of Niue could not have been more surprised if it had been a flying-saucer. It was Niue’s first sight of this type of aircraft and (top photograph), some of the people can be seen examining it while Captain Blake Lewis had tea with the Resident Commissioner.

Lower photo shows the platform on “Staten Island” where the helicopter comes down to roost.

An ice-breaker in Niue waters is unusual enough of itself. But it was in Wellington, NZ, in March, when the severe hurricane struck Niue, 1,600 miles away but on the icebreaker’s route home from Antarctic duty. US authorities immediately placed “Staten Island” at the disposal of NZ and five tons of canned food and a quarter-ton bale o)clothing were loaded for distressed Niue.

At end of April, NZ hurricane relief fund for Niue was £NZ3O,OOU.

Fiji's Social and Economic Future Burns Commission Is Assembling According to the published preliminary agenda of the Burns Commission of Inquiry into economic conditions and possible constitutional changes in Fiji, Sir Alan Burns is to leave the United Kingdom for Fiji in the Oronsay on May 20; and Mr. T. Y.

Watson, another member of the Commission, will arrive in the Colony by air on June 24.

The third member, Professor A. T.

Peacock, will arrive by air on July 1.

The formal opening of the inquiry will take place in the Legislative Council Chamber, Suva, on July 3.

Thereafter, the group will travel very widely throughout the Colony.

Their Fiji itinerary, up to August 19, has been published, though this is subject to alterations, according to the circumstances.

The Secretary of the Burns Commission is Mr. R. G. C. Strick; and the Commission’s Fiji headquarters will be in the Government Buildings, Suva.

A number of reports, covering surveys of social, economic and political conditions, made by experts, have been prepared for submission to the Commission, late in June.

The terms of reference of the Commission are wide and simple: “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.” 21 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

Jet Age Begins in Pacific New Planes, New Routes And Always New Negotiations • With the Pacific jet-age now less than six weeks away, great changes will he taking place in the Pacific in what remains of 1959.

Important route changes—and some entirely new ones—are also under discussion in high places.

FRENCH and Australian civil aviation officials are to meet in Paris shortly, probably July, to discuss reciprocal rights.

The initiative for these talks came from the French, who are still battling away trying to get landing rights for Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux in Sydney—at present TAI has “rights” in Darwin and Brisbane only, on the way from Europe to New Caledonia. For years they have been trying to trade-in their Brisbane rights for others in Sydney.

In the normal course of events, as the French are doing the asking, the talks would take place in Australia—but as there are to be general international airline discussions at The Hague shortly, it is convenient for the Australian and French authorities to make Paris the venue for the talks.

Opportunity will be taken, say Australian aviation authorities, to discuss matters other than TAl’s Sydney rights—but they will not say what.

Filling the Gap It has been suggested that Australia is interested in rights to fly from Fiji to New Guinea via New Caledonia and the Solomons, thus completing the Pacific gap.

At present Qantas has services to Honiara, BSIP, through Lae, Rabaul and Bougainville in New Guinea. It also runs a stop-gap, dead-end service with Skymasters once fortnightly from Sydney to Tontouta, New Caledonia. TAI operates services from Noumea to Vila and Santo, New Hebrides —but no one at all has closed that gap of less than 600 miles between Santo and Honiara.

One ship—Burns Philp’s Tulagi, in course of a round voyage from Sydney via Norfolk Is., Vila, Santo, Honiara, BSIP ports, Bougainville ports and back to Sydney, provides communication from Santo to Honiara —but there is no service, sea or air, in the reverse direction.

The ridiculous position, therefore, exists that if a traveller wants to go from Honiara to the New Hebrides, he has to make a complete voyage, by sea or by air, back through New Guinea to Sydney and then start off again from there to the Hebrides.

Qantas surveyed the route that closes the Honiara-Santo gap early in 1958 and at the time it was hinted that an air service might begin by “August, 1958”.

Nothing has been heard of it since although the need is as great as ever. If this service were extended from New Caledonia to Fiji, it would be logical, as it would give Fiji direct connection with New Hebrides, Solomons and New Guinea, and through New Guinea (at Port Moresby) with Hongkong.

The important section, however, from the Pacific traveller’s point of view is the infuriating missing link between Santo and Honiara.

At present the dead-end Sydney- Tontouta service can be of no great importance to Qantas —except as a beginning to better arrangements in the future.

The biggest difficulty in the ] tension of the Lae-Honiara serr to New Caledonia will, of couu be the old one of aircraft j airstrips. The present Qam service is with DC3’s—and nothi larger would be possible on intermediate stops on the tok Rabaul and Buka.

Last year Henderson airflf Honiara, was brought up to n standard and put into service, few months later New Year stoi< almost destroyed the bridge © the Lunga River between Honi and Henderson Field, and t weekly Qantas service is now us Kukum airfield. (Continued on page 149)

Suva In Half

THE TIME Millions of people who have grown up with the air-age still find it possible to be amazed at the extraordinary changes that the jet-age will bring. For the Pacific, the jet-age begins on July 29, when Qantas jet services begin from Sydney across the Pacific to USA and on to London. The whole journey will take 27 hours flying time—the exact time that Kings ford-Smith and Ulm, in the old "Southern Cross”, in 1928, took to fly from California to Honolulu.

Flying-time, Sydney-Nadi in the new Boeings will be three hours and 50 minutes —about half the time it now takes to cover the distance in piston aircraft. In 1928 the "Southern Cross’ took 211 hours to fly from Suva to Brisbane —an average of less than 100 miles per hour.

Qantas is naming its seven Boeing 707’s after Australian capital cities—" City of Canberra” Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Hobart.

Second Coffee Conference This Time Some Results T'HERE were few qualificatiu about the success of * second conference between p: ties interested in New Guii coffee held in Sydney in m April. It was well attended Australian coffee process? who, between them, guaranty producers that they would take all New Guinea coffee the 1959 period; and (b) p a minimum of 4/- per pou for a f.a.q. product.

THE second conference was; logical development of t Goroka coffee conference, hr January 20-22, which was onlyr qualified success in that only t of the five merchants invited tended.

That conference, however, allov growers to air their side of problem, and showed conclusiv that if there were not more operation from the purchasing 63 in Australia, the New Guinea dustry could come to an unhaj finish.

It was shown—and it came a*j shock to a good many people 1 and out of the industry—that : the 400 tons of coffee produced!

P-NG in 1958, 50 tons were sb abroad, and 160 tons remained r sold at the end of the year. A'i tralia took the rest.

At that stage growers were 1 ing offered 3/8 and 3/9, c.i.f. S;f ney for their dried coffee beanfi Help Was Vital This year (1959), production , coffee in Papua-New Guinea is I pected to be around 900 tons, rise (Continued on page 149) 22 may. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

Boom Continues [?]opra Highest Since 1951 ere is still no sign of a break ie long period of boom copra •s —and during April the London cet touched a high of over 99 c.i.f. [S is not the record price for jondon that having been ecorded in early 1951 when the ige over a three months period £Stg.loB. However, it Is the Bst price that British South ic territories have been conid with, as in 1951 they were by the MOF Copra Agreement i was operating on £Stg.s3/15/- Island ports. e average London c.i,f. price ig April was £97/10/- per ton, this is the price upon which ents to Papua-New Guinea icers will ultimately be based, e meantime, it has been calcuthat for that month, the >ed values upon which export are to be calculated are 10/- for Hot air; £lO7 for and £lO6 for Smoke, s means that planters are at nt paying something between md £l5 per ton export duty h contains £1 for Copra Stabon Fund).

Fiji, on May 4. the price for was declared for that week 87 per ton for first grade, and J/6 and £FB4/12/6 for the two grades—which is probably a •ecord, or so close to it that esn’t matter. rt supplies plus assorted disto alternate oils are the is for the immediate position, ires issued recently show that ts for 1958 in the Philippines down to 780,000 tons in comm with 1,100,000 tons in 1957; [ndonesian copra exports fell 320,000 tons in 1957 to 150,000 ast year.

Papua-New Guinea Copra . announced at beginning of hat undistributed funds in the Trading account at end of amounted to £A794,197. Durebruary, a distribution of £3 >n was made and the balance )unting to £520,031 in all—will id out during May. s means that the final price iy the Board during 1958 will i/2/6 for Hot air; £62/11/1 for and £6l/12/4 for Smoke. Over eriod, Fiji planters probably little better—mostly because is no export duty on copra, ing April, the copra crushing in Rabaul, which was shut in February, began operating on a part-time basis. W. R. nter and Co. in Sydney could n early May, state when the vould be operating again to apacity.

HOME BASE By Sydneysider s.'&jrajss Sinful Sydney is repenting in a big way for Dr. Billy Graham, now in his Last Big Week at the Showground. Over 75,000 attended the rally on the first Sunday in May, bringing the total attendances to that date to 670,000.

They’re hoping to do better than the Royal Easter Show and top the million before the Crusade ends, May 10.

About 50,000 have come out in the open at meetings and made Decisions for Christ; 100 prisoners in the State’s gaols have not come out in the open, but have also made Decisions—by remote control, as they heard the Dr. on radio.

Cost of the Sydney campaign, £77,000, was met from collections after 19 of the 26 meetings.

STOP PRESS: Final attendance figure was 983,000. * * * VIA STINKO: Mascot international air terminal is a disgrace, according to Sydney Lord Mayor and his Councillors. They are annoyed, too, that the Department of Civil Aviation is spending £500,000 on an international terminal for Melbourne (which has only five international flights per week), while facilities at Mascot (60-70 international flights a week) remain “like a country airport”.

Aromas along the route into the city (boiling down works, hides and skin curers, fertiliser factories) don’t create a good impression on overseas visitors either, they think. A new, glamour route is suggested. However, Sydney airport and the route thereto and from has got something few overseas airports have got—a short 3 h miles separating it from the heart of the city. For busy people, that’s worth any amount of stinks by the wayside.

LONELY HEARTS: US Heavy Cruiser Bremerton, in Sydney for Coral Sea Week, which coincides with University Commemoration Week, was lit up like Times Square during her stay, and Water Police patrolled a few yards off in their launch, with search-lights full on. All to keep off Uni. pranksters who in recent other Coral Sea Week visits have penetrated US defences to the extent of setting off the gas-warfare alarm on the bridge and running up odd flags to the masthead. This years precautions have been so effective, reported one newspaper columnist, they’ve even kept the Sydney girls away. Result: Lonely US sailors. (If you can believe columnists, and most people can’t.) * * * OPERATION DRAIN-PIPE: Police have got the Kingsgrove Slasher—or they have charged a 29-year-old clerk with the Slasher’s crimes, which may or may not be the same thing. The Slasher has been terrorising the Kingsgrove-Lakemba suburbs since 1956, breaking into bedrooms, slashing bedclothes, and sometimes their female occupants, then disappearing like a wellgreased ghost. Probably the psychiatrists have got a different name for it than the Police, who have trailed suspected Slashers over more back fences, through more storm-water channels, and more suburban swamps than they’d care to point a pistol at.

For weeks before the night of May 1 they had been hiding in the suspect district, equipped with walkie talkies and other aids.

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ARRIVALS AND DE- PARTURES: Into Sydney, General L. S. Kuter, C-in-C, US Pacific Air Force, as official Coral Sea Week guest. Out of Sydney, the Rt. Hon. R. G.

Menzies, Dame Patty and party, on Orcades for the US and points east of there. * * • ANCIENT HISTORY DEPT: Before he departed Stateswards.

Prime Minister Menzies had the satisfaction of knowing that all increases in salaries and allowances for Federal politicians had passed all stages in House of Reps, and Senate. 23 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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COMMENTARY ference's Eager (rest: I Then What?

C enthusiasm, vision and ractical thinking displayed by le native peoples’ representaat the Fourth South Pacific jrence, in Rabaul, present a 7 augury for the future, reasingly, the future of the i Pacific Territories v ; t be d by the indigenous races selves. Their continuing, grownterest in these Conferences ; that they recognise that can be done by concerted i and that, accordingly, there be available to them some ;ure through which they can ought together for action, in form of union. terience suggests that the ;ure and machinery of the l Pacific Commission will not suitable for the ultimate ses of the individual South c Territories —simply because soon will insist on moving theory and consultation to ical application. But, at least, PC has shown the way. i biggest problem the SPC iad to face is the lack of cotion among the very Govern- > which set it up. No oration can work well if the 3 who command it don’t really if it works at all. Every ►er Government has laid itself to the criticism that, from to time, for reasons that ;n to suit it at the time, it lot been ready to help the fission do its job. ire have been petty jealousies bureaucratic bumblings; and is rabbits have been set run- These things have not been s the fault of the Commission, hey have affected the work 5 Commission, and gained for reputation for contrariness, do-nothing-ness, that might be laid at the doors of the ier Governments, ic of this is to say that the Itself isn’t due for some share ame. The Commission has imes been unfortunate in the of people it has had to direct :tivities —which is largely its fault—and has not always ien the problems which, by ery nature of its work, were >re for it. People who clean )ther people’s houses should their own house in order, erving the excellent organisawork done by the Com- >n, and the happy relations between Commission officials and Conference, one cannot but hope that the Commission yet may finally work its way onto the true course, and somehow provide a means by which Conference decisions, and beliefs, can be given practical shape.

But the history of the Commission, and especially the definite, consistent failure of the six member Governments to give general administrative effect to the Commission’s findings and recommendations, is not encouraging.

Unless there is real reform within the Commission—in spirit as well as in machinery—the interest and enthusiasm which have been aroused among the indigenous peoples by the Conferences eventually will beat themselves to death against Ministerial inertia and nonco-operation, in six capital cities. ☆ ☆ ☆ Something Wrong In The State of Fiji NO less than £1,250,000 Fijian is shown as cash on hand, and investments in Government loans and similar things, in the annual balance-sheet of Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., a consistent money-maker, (See Pacific Commerce and Produce, in this issue).

This is not peculiar to the BP Company. An examination of the published balance-sheets of the other big corporations in Fiji will, in almost every case, show similarly large amounts on hand, either as cash lying idle in the banks, or virtually liquid in gilt-edged investments.

From Fiji’s national viewpoint, this is not a healthy condition.

These funds, generally accumulated in sound and regular trading, should be fully employed in the industrial activities of a growing and developing country. The fact that they are not indicates something seriously wrong in the State ° iSre is a country with a large, virile population, eager to work and produce, and rich corporations with a lot of money for investment, equally eager to work and produce.

Why are these two important factors being kept apart, while in Fiji itself there is an increasing cry of unemployment and poverty?

We all know the answer. The available workers, and the available capital, have not been geared to the Colony’s resources, owing to unavailability of land. It is a situation that could strangle the country, economically—and it vill do so unless it is taken in hand very soon by competent people.

The small traders and the industrial masses, who feel that their available labour and enterprise are not being sufficiently used, have been somewhat vociferous lately on the subject, when addressing the Government of Fiji.

But little or nothing has been said by the big corporations who, with all these idle funds, are as deeply concerned as the workers and the traders. What are they doing to bring pressure to bear on the Government? They stand to lose just as much as trade and industry if the constitutional deadlock in Fiji is not broken reasonably soon. vr ☆ ☆ P-NG Caught Up In Tax-Man's Revenge Every picture tells a story. The same may be true of typography. Take a careful look at the Papua and New Guinea Taxation Bill’s 182 pages (360 sections).

Much may be learned from the huge document’s bulk and character.

This Bill was printed in sections during 1958. It was drafted many months before that. Yet was it not the smooth-spoken Mr. Hasluck who assured Press, and Parliament, and infuriated Territorians, in March, that it was not his intention to ram the Bill down the throat of the official-dominated Legislative Council? That all they said would be carefully considered before the final step was taken?

That Bill was drafted with meticulous purpose: and it now is clear, on the face of it, that it is directed primarily against the big Australian corporations which trade in Papua and New Guinea.

Certain Australian organisations, guided by clever and experienced experts in finance, law’ and taxation, used company registrations in tax-free New Guinea to avoid a great deal of taxation which, otherwise they would have had to pay to the Australian Government A certain amount of that kind of thing may be reasonable enough, and legitimate. But it was carried, in New Guinea, to a point where it was nothing more or less than a vicious twisting of the tail of the Australian tax collector. This is his kick-back. He can claim he was driven to it. , , There is blundering purposefulness all through the Bill. Some may escane and some may be cruelly hurt? but the draftsman, in defining private companies, and taxing insurance revenues and interest payments and the earnings of «yerseas ships, has made a great effort to get the Australian corporations, in 25 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

all their shapes and forms, into his widespread net.

The pity of it is that, in making this mighty swipe at what he regarded as his natural enemies, the Minister (or Treasurer, or Tax Collector, or whoever directed this campaign) should have hurt so very many people who should have been protected, and should have laid the foundations of so much trouble. r[IS Bill may represent the vengeance of outraged bureaucracy. But—because of the harm it is going to do New Guinea, giving the country its worst blow since the Jap invasion—it is sheer, blundering stupidity.

It is unjust, because of the way it punishes the small men who have pioneered this country, and hundreds of public servants on fixed salaries. It is silly, because this complex Australian system (with its provisional tax, its double grab and its undistributed profits tax) is completely unsuitable for application in a country like New Guinea.

It is uneconomical, because the cost of collection manifestly will far outweigh any advantage from increased revenue.

Why could they not have taken the tax system of Ceylon, or Fiji or Malaya?

The rates now planned are low.

But does anyone imagine they will remain low, once the planners realise the cost of collection, and calculate that the high-duty goods are gone from the storekeepers’ shelves?

In theory, the P-NG resident is to gain more from the abolition of export and import duties than he will lose in income tax. Do the Port Moresby Innocents really helieve that?

Do they imagine they can operate that system—policing Chinese taxpayers, and the collection of provisional tax by employers, and checking the financial complexities of the big trading companies— without employing scores, if not hundreds, of taxation officials?

Maybe, they did hate to see the big Australian corporations getting away, untaxed, with a luscious proportion of Australia’s gift to P-NG of £l4 millions per annum. Maybe, something had to be done about it.

But this was not the thing to do.

This is going to do incalculable harm to private enterprise, and add endless trouble, confusion and cost to the job of administration. ☆ ☆ ☆ London Suggests "United States of Melanesia"

FOR once, a London “study group” has produced something worthy of study, and of future attention.

The Commonwealth Council of the British Conservative Pary suggests the establishment, as a political and administrative unit of the British Commonwealth, of “the United States of Melanesia”, comprising— Former German New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago, now administered by Australia as a Trusteeship under the United Nations.

The old Australian Territory of Papua, now administered by Australia jointly with New Guinea.

Western New Guinea, now governed by The Netherlands as a Territory.

The British Solomon Islands, now administered as a Protectorate by the British Colonial Office.

The New Hebrides, now administered jointly by Britain and France as a Condominium.

This, of course, is merely a suggestion, made by a group of interested people, and as yet it has no official significance.

It is a similar plan to that submitted to the Political Science School at Canberra early in 1958 by Mr. J. R. Kerr, a Sydney Barrister, and former Director of the School of Pacific Administration.

In our opinion, it is a perfectly feasible plan and, if it were put into operation, it would not only remove a mess of administrative untidiness from the South Pacific, but woe also give some national shape s purpose to the 21 million MelanesE people who now inhabit thr archipelagoes in the Southw?

Pacific.

These Territories and archip© 'j oes of Melanesia lie closely arou Northeastern Australia like a scr© It will be remembered that, 1942-45, it was a screen that ♦ enemies, the Japanese, could i penetrate.

Australia is deeply concerned W/ the condition and future of i islands groups that make up 1 screen.

Of the Territories named, t only one now administered w; strength and purpose is Papua as New Guinea: and that is only 1 cause Australia —out of the goo* ness of its heart, and with one ♦ on overcrowded Asia—digs into Exchequer each year for a gift; about £l4 millions Australian. St< that torrent of easy money and t Territory would have a conditi: and a future just as uncertain those of the others. * * * Something really worth wb could be made of a United States?

Melanesia. Papua and New Guin could supply an administrative a? economic backbone. If the nr country were properly constitutl and made a safe place for inves ment, its economic advanceme could be rapid and sound.

An economic survey of th«j Territories, today, would show ill pressive possibilities possibility that are negligible under the pit sent patchwork of administrate systems.

The 21 million Melanesian peoi< concerned are of the same rax although embracing many type Most of the visionary commentate of the present day insist that itd our responsibility to “raise thi standard of living”. Probably it is but it necessarily is a long, sli job. Fundamentally, they are a ve good class of human being and, on higher living standards were estas lished, they probably would mas rapid social progress.

Under present conditions, tlw advancement must be painfur slow. Under the proposed set-up- United States of Melanesia —th should have a definite place in tt world, as one people.

The Gilbert and Ellice Islam Colony—a poor British Territox out on the end of a limb, admit istratively and should be brought into such Union. The people are not M<i anesians. But, unless they are s tached to Fiji, they have nowhe to go.

The Dutch probably would appro: the plan. But there could be dil Acuity over the French, and th«i present rights in New Hebrides.

Frenchman never gives up a squas yard of territory without a fight.;!

New Job For Sir Ronald Sir Ronald Garvey, KCMG, Governor of Fiji until 1958, when he retired from the British Colonial Service, has been appointed Governor of the Isle of Man—a post which carries a salary of £ 5,000 per annum.

The Isle of Mans population is 55,000, and it has an independent government—it is not necessarily bound by the laws of the British Parliament.

It has an area of 227 square miles and is in the Irish Sea. north of Liverpool.

Manxmen now speak.

English—in 1951 only 355 persons spoke the Manx dialect of Celtic, and they were all biligual.

Sir Ronald was only 55 when he retired. Normally, he would have moved to a higher Governorship—but the British Empire has shrunk considerably since World War 11. He jokingly told his South Pacific friends when he left Fiji that, in view of the modesty of his pension, he might take up professional lawn-mowing. It seems he’s done better than that. 26 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L.

The Editars' Mailbag Pre-Dates erdahl cause the Kon Tiki drift of Heyerdahl and his boys across Pacific from South America to ti captured the public imagon, millions now believe the rdahl theory that Polynesians aated in South America. e Heyerdahl best seller Aku -explaining the mysteries of ;r Island —has got, likewise, the treatment; The Master has it, it must be right. ; don’t think Capt. Brett Hilder disciple of Heyerdahl or be- -5 all his theories, but in March he said, in referring to the D-rongo boards of Easter Island “thanks to the clues found hor Heyerdahl . . . the meanof these pictograms may be d.” w Mr, R. P. Gilson, an Ameriwith a research Fellowship at School of Pacific Studies, Aus- ,n National University, cuts Mr. rdahl down to size and brings iin Hilder up to date on the ct. Says Mr. Gilson; would be more fitting, I think, he recognition were given las Barthel, cryptographer and ier of anthropology in the Uni- :y of Hamburg, who deciphered symbols without relying upon aiting for Aku Aku. irthel’s results, which are beublished by his University, are larised in Scientific American une, 1958. They show that the ng boards’ contain true writnainly in mnemonic form but some rudimentary phonetic aits. The subject matter is irily of a religious nature, cong, for example, of eulogies to :ods.” e Entries in Oil Stakes . J. Nixonwestwood, whose Dries about old Papua go too far to be comfortable, has d things to say about the disy of oil in Papua before the World War—a subject upon i the oil experts were wrangling ‘PIM’s” of December and tary. is he: 3 real discoverers of oil in the were Garent Wolsely Thomas Lewis Lett —with Thomas as ctual person to locate it.

Dmas was originally a coal r in Wales and toured Aus- , with a Welsh Choir before going to Papua in early 1910 for some company.

Lett had gone to Papua as Chief Engineer of the SS Bentinck, the vessel which the British New Guinea Development Co. took to Papua from the UK full of all sorts of merchandise —some valuable, but a lot more of it worthless. Lett and his wife went down to Vilirupu, one of the estates taken over by the company.

After Lett and Thomas found the oil, they took several bottles of it back with them to Moresby and sent it to the Department of Mines in Sydney. The reports were good —but nothing of a tangible nature lesulted. The discovery appeared to have been shelved.

As far as I know, Lett is still alive —he later became well known for books he wrote about the Territory; but Thomas died in Sydney following two attacks of blackwater fever. After the first attack he was sent to Sydney and told not to come back to the tropics, but he went only as far as Cairns and was back in Papua within three months, looking fit and well. But he was soon down with blackwater again, recovered again, and was sent to Sydney again. This time he stayed there permanently. One day he collapsed and died in Lower George Street.

The claims made by McGowan and Swanson to having found the Opa gas shows (G. A. V. Stanley, p. 59, February PIM) were never checked and substantiated.

Do You Know the Hagen Monument?

“Can any of your readers tell me whether the Hagen monument still stands at Bogadjim, on the north coast of New Guinea, near Madang?” writes a retired Territorian, now living in Queensland. “I have not heard it mentioned, for years.

“Count von Hagen, I think, was manager of the New Guinea Company, in either the late ’Eighties or early ’Nineties. He was wellknown—Mount Hagen was named after him.

“He had occasion to punish severely a Buka police boy, and the boy shot and killed him.

“His family prepared the monument, which showed a bronze bust on a marble pedestal, and sent it out to New Guinea, and it was erected at the place where he was buried, at Bogadjim.

“That must have been fairly early in the German period, before the German Government took over from the New Guinea Company. The Company’s headquarters had been at Finschhaven, but they later were moved to Bogadjim, and later, when the Germans were driven out of there by the fevers, they transferred their capital to Kokopo.

“Incidentally, that was how Madang got its name. Madang was the name of the little island at Finschhaven, and Madang came to mean NG Co. headquarters. When they moved round to the north coast they took the name with them; and gradually the port which they used, near Bogadjim (or Stephansort), which then was unnamed and uninhabited, came to be known as Madang.

Those Mystic Isles Of the South Seas Elsewhere in this issue we tell y<pu how you don’t have to go to Tahiti —you can have all the Polynesian fun you want in the Mediterranean.

Now it seems you can have all the Polynesian food you can eat—right in Philadelphia, USA.

During the month, on a letterhead that said “Langerman’s Luau (all the lobster tails you can eat every Tuesday nite)”, Mr. H.S.

Langerman wrote for subscription rates and said: “We operate a Polynesian South Sea Island type restaurant in Suburban Philadelphia. We have a huge bulletin board whereon we like to post photos and news of life in the Islands, for our patrons to enjoy.”

Papuan Roses By Other Names In these days when everyone is falling over backwards to find polite substitutes for what ivas once the respectable word “native”, a couple of paragraphs out of a letter from J. Nixonwestwood, about pre-1914 Papua, are enough to make a missionary laugh (we hope).

This man Darling (writes JN), got a job supervising labour on the Port Moresby wharf, but his vocabulary was more suited to Buckingham Palace. One of Jus favourite expressions was: do please do your work in a P ro J )e * manner, you silly goat” Ana the boys resented it.

They didn’t mind being yelled at, or being called bastards or even sons-of-a-bitch. They didn’t know what they tvere, but if they came from trie Eastern Division they knew wnat a goat was, and they being compared to this to such effect that Darling lasted a very short time before he was packed off back to Sydney. 27 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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■om a Special Correspondent LONDON, May 1. irough the initiative of a pnzember, Mr. N. Pannell, the of Commons, in April, was the opportunity—all too rare wussing the future of Britain’s • Colonial Territories. »E are 33 British Colonies, m Pitcairn, with a few idreds, to Sierra Leone, 21 , classified as small.

Panned’s motion (treated as party issue, although more than Tory speakers took the lealt with the. large number tered Territories which "cari- 3e, even in the long run, to sovereignty. Such territories ng from the Falkland Islands gkong—are either too small or population, or too poor >nal resources, or for a comi of all these reasons, to ly prospect of a truly inde- ; existence. e whole of the British Comilth of 650 million people n 30 million now await selflent; and, of these, 10 are found in the small, d Colonial Territories, se of their geographical and immediate interest in ith Pacific area, Australia jw Zealand could play a ole in determining the ultiatus of the Pacific Islands gm. svas suggested by a number ; and, indeed, this is outa pamphlet put out by the Party in the UK, called ’s Colonial Policy”, the prospect of an election UK in the next 12 months position’s views have more than usual. lea of federation, along the ndi e s pattern, wherever lically possible, seems to and favour with the Com- Jrunei, North Borneo and ;; British Somaliland and Somaliland; and the der of Guiana joining the dies—all were mentioned in r. N. Pannell said “No such lent can be foreseen” in the f the Solomon Islands, tly, Mr. Kerr’s plan of a an Federation with P-NG reached his ears, innell thought it necessary *e be a pronouncement from rernment, in order to curb table hopes and ambitions smaller territories. ers, did to 1 posSbiUty & of other Colonies comine ir nrttv+Sl me g mbe f rs Shi? in the past, however, has shown much enthusiasm about taking the colonial load off John Bull’s shoulders.

One Voirp fnr rmrU-nlu une voice tor Cinderella One other voice, that of Mr t Dugdale. was raised on behalf of the Cinderella of the Pacific—the Solomons. He spoke of the lack of economic development, the lack of rudfmentl? 1 su f vey T’ and the very fjjdimentary education system in pSI “ a - 1Cm ° te fr ° m D A J*o the r hint of the Labour ? a u attitude was given by Mi John Callaghan, who said that since some members of the Commonwealth were physically closer to these small Territories than Britain, they might want to help in their development and be associated with any change in status, He also called for the pooling of the resource* of wealthier Corn- (Continued on page 147) 29 F I C ISLANDS M O N V H L Y M A Y , 19-59

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PPILY, a correction was made le following morning and the onour of UNO was upheld, theless, it was an unfortunate for which some careless sub- • was responsible, sonally, I think it is a great hat a Trusteeship Mission does onsist of some of the Opposimd carry out their duties on >arty lines. Would that be so isible? Or have ideologies ed such a stage that factual nations are beyond political ption. i—Revised m The Rabaul Times of some ago—February 6 to be exact — earns that the First Lady in iand has entered the lists of eager to revise and/or abridge mch maligned Pidgin-English.

Iressing an At Home of the Britain Women’s Club at il, Mrs. Cleland is reported to appealed “for a general reion of the assistance which be given to help raise the irds of native women and their n the community. They were n, and should not be referred ‘meris.’ ” ,t seems fair enough if you mversing in English, but cerwould not apply if using i. A kaukau does not become r eet potato” in Pidgin, hownuch you may think it im- : its flavour. for the social uplift to the women themselves, I don’t >e they could care less—unless, arse, they are taught to be ipy about it in the first place. ;his fiddling about with Pidgin airily putting the skids under anguage—and that is what of the tall poppies desire. But never die out altogether.

Attempted Massacre Editors’ Mailbag (November, ). 27) Old War Horse, Sydney ance, throws a query into the ing over “an abortive native d murder all the Australians dang, NG, in 1916.” n Capt. Carl Haug, in Germany, comes a letter suggesting that Sydney Chance’s story had the wrong date by about four years and he must be referring to the attempt to massacre all whites in Madang, planned by the natives in 1912. Captain Haug was Master of the Neu Guinea Kompagnie’s Siar as far back as 1908.

This is his story: In 1912 the natives of the small island of Billy-Billy, at the entrance to Madang Harbour, and some dissatisfied natives around Madang had for many months held full-moon palavers in which they discussed the plan to murder all whites.

The natives of Billy-Billy Island were the instigators. The old men did not want to hear about it, remembering some former plan which failed, and that the leaders were all shot.

But some of the young bucks called them cowards when the old men said they “savvy plenty long big fellow steamer he come that time,” and they were over-ruled.

These young bucks had already divided the few white women amongst themselves. That all came out in the Inquiry that was held later.

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When WAS That Date?

I have an open mind on the date of the above matter, although I do seem to recall some trouble up that way in 1912, but I was in Buka at the time and that was a long way off in those days. I was still further away in 1916, for Faisi in the BSI was my headquarters in that year.

It would seem, however, that we are inclined to be a bit slap-happy when historical dates are concerned.

There was another instance the other day when I read of some public figure quoting the Nakanai massacre and dating it 1930. Here seems to be another error of four years—or thereabouts.

I place the tragedy about 1926.

I was one of the pall-bearers at the mass funeral in Rabaul—had it been 1930 I was living in Buka at that date. Anyhow, Jack Thurston or Ernie Britten can clear that matter up.

The point is: What steps (if any) are being taken to keep the recon< straight?

It would seem that the Depan ment of Territories has an amj supply of war historians (Dudll McCarthy is the latest to take s bow in publishing circles) and ti Minister himself is a keen historisj So what are we waiting for?

Book Wanted I don’t know why they pick me to try and locate out-of-prr; books. But I have received anothi SOS. This time it is for a coo of Collingridge’s The First Discover of Australia and New Guinea. was published about 1906. A: offers?

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At the Show “New Guinea Goes to Towm (PIM, April, p. 53) seems to gives fair account of the P-NG exhiKi at the Sydney Royal Show.

I can only judge from hearsay. was unable to attend and was son to miss Isimel Tawalaka, who theless sent me his greetings throuju a third party and identified him He Believed In Big Families “The nearest I could get ft u‘ Kai Viti’ to help me with mr 80th birthday party was grandson of that famous G. R Griffiths who, when I landes in Fiji in 1902, was the pro o prietor and editor of ‘The Fvj Times,’ ” writes Mr. Christopher Wager, from Tugun, Queensi land.

Then he reminisces: “Griffith& was an impressive, greybeardes figure—it was not with ans disrespect that we called him ‘Old GL’. He had founded ‘Tht Fiji Times’ in 1869, and madt his mark on the Colony’s history; yet he was only 69 when he died.

“One of his daughters wan called Ciwa which—being Fijian for Nine—indicates that he hm at least nine children. Early in his married life he adopter three nieces and, later on, thres more. They were a jolly familu' and helped to make Suva thd pleasant place it was when first knew it.

“It is remarkable how than family has scattered—there arn members of it now in England > Barbados, California, Australia: and New Zealand. The onhl member of it who stayed in Fijx\ as far as I know, is Ella, one oc the second lot of nieces, whn now is Mrs. Charles Stinson.” 34 MAY. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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Mac Lean. imediately recalled a fine- ?d lad back in the ’3o’s, with ling smile who called at my speaking faultless English hose hand-writing bore every je of the Waterhouse influence Lind, flowing script that chared nearly every pupil of the Nodup school where that so-popular pedagogue, J. H. L. Waterhouse, taught them not only the Three R’s but the singing of old English songs Waterhouse organised a bugle band, which was the forerunner of the famous Dan Crawley Police Band in Rabaul, now Port Moresby.

Isimel, as I remember him 20 years ago, was the most intelligent and, at the same time, bestmannered lad it was my pleasure to meet.

As for the Show: My spies bear cut what the PIM staff writer reported: The need for some greater co-operation from European planters. There was little imagination exercised in the general lay-out.

And from the pamphlets (100,000 distributed?) you would not know there were such individuals in P-NG as private planters, or anyone other than natives and government officials.

Why is Canberra so stingy in giving credit where credit is due? Take for example the following quote from the pamphlet. . . . in 1906 it [Papua] was transferred to Australia. In the years following, Papua was brought to a world position as a model of enlightened colonial administration.” The man responsible for such “enlightened administration” was Hubert Murray. So why not give him the credit? Are our present tall poppies afraid of losing some of the glamour of the limelight? [?]t "Blanketed" NG Report

Our Critics Now

THE TRAIL ie noise and confusion over ipua-New Guinea taxation, lief Justice Mann’s significant on the Navuneram shootings 4 was laid away and forras presented to the Minister Hasluck) in November. He t hidden until February 19, it was “tabled”. There were ,ype-written pages, judge’s comments were forthand frank—some could be aed as sharp criticism of the :k policy. (as PIM pointed out in Febpage 46) Minister Hasluck igly and cleverly “blanketed” sport. It was not printed; were not available for study tnbers; and, at the same time tabled it, the Minister issued : statement of smooth comcharacteristically phrased so um away the wrath of critics, ri February 19 until April 28, port was not mentioned, i a Labour gentleman named Whitlam—whom no doubt the er classifies with March flies her creatures which buzz and ? —pointed out in the House ie Minister had had that reince November, that it was :h interest to the public, but ie and other Members could tain copies of it.

Minister pleaded that the was in “eight extremely bulky is”, and it was not his fault lembers could not get access Dsition leader (Dr. Evatt) should be printed.

Hasluck said he was trying to typewritten copies available, rinting of the report “would o be the subject of consultaith the proper authorities.”

Evatt said: “The document is tremendous importance—far mportant than the actual inrequired into.” He urged it a ted.

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TROUBLE had been simmerix for weeks.

Members who knew somethix oi what had been going on w© as resentful of Mr. Ha slue I methods—in ramming the Taxati-i Bills down the throat of the officic dominated Legislative Council, bri fore submitting the new measuiu and policy to the Commonweal!.

Parliament—as were the people Papua and New Guinea. But thr were given no chance to debate tl: matter in Parliament.

On May 6, at a meeting of Liben and Country members, a small groic —notably, Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughix Messrs. R. C. Wheeler, L. H.

Bury, W. C. Wentworth, and Prx fessor F. A. Bland—very strongs criticised, not the tax, but tld method of its introduction by tl Minister; and threatened that, the Government would not git them a chance of discussing tl: matter on the floor of the Housi they would stage a revolt.

Mr. Hasluck fought back; am according to some reports, the dii 1 cussion was very bitter. He insists that both Papua-New Guinea Legii lative Council and Parliamentarian had had plenty of opportunities « debating the Taxation Bills.

No Special Debate The Acting Prime Minister an, other Ministers met the rebels { a group on May 7 and made a d»! tailed defence of the course follows by the Territories Minister.

These were private meetings There are no official reports of whs: occurred.

According to some reports, tH Government will not provide oppon tunity for a special debate.

The Acting Prime Minister afters wards denied that there had beer any revolt and suggested that ac now is calm.

In other words, all criticism o Mr. Hasluck and of high-handed methods in Papua arir: New Guinea has been effectively smothered. 36 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

After the Party, Second Thoughts

[?]Amoa Prepares Uneasily

FOR 1960 From Our Correspondents in Western Samoa.

The talking and the magnificent feasting are over; the scial Mission from UN Trusteeship Council (which came here discuss the plan for giving Western Samoa complete self- /ernment) departed on April 16; and now all classes are itemplating a little grimly and uncomfortably the socio- [ideal picture that has emerged. it appears, just around the corner. But I the talk —and especially the Tank discussions which have place between the chief men UN Mission, and the Samoan s—have induced the more innt members of each comy here to ask themselves: ow much better off are we goig to be as an independent ttle nation of 100,000 people? i it possible that this political eedom which we now are romised is surrounded by ;onomic traps? the last few years, Western t has been hurried towards >vernment in a remarkable Samoans, a proud section of ilynesian race, envious perhaps ependent Tonga (their nextleighbour), always had been for self-government. But, in 890, their internecine wars them into the arms of Ger- :olonialism. r World War I, and the Mau on, self-government seemed way off. . . ienly, after World War 11, ealand began actively to prothe idea of self-government.

The UNO people, and anti-colonialists, and visionaries generally, applauded warmly. They planned that Western Samoa would appear before the gratified Western world as the first Trust Territory in the Pacific Islands to achieve self-government. What a feather in the cap of UN Trusteeship!

Self-Government in a Hurry With NZ’s cordial co-operation, the Samoans since 1953 have taken more and more self-government.

In 1957, elections were held for a greatly enlarged Legislative Assembly; the Executive Council was also reconstituted and enlarged; the old Fono of Faipule (Samoan Parliament) was abolished; a Council of Ministers—each responsible for some aspect of Government —was established; a Speaker was appointed to preside over the Legislative Assembly and the functions of the High Commissioner were redefined.

This was a trial or temporary setup. Self-government, said NZ comfortingly, might be expected in 1960.

The first signs of political discomfort appeared in 1958. The Samoans found the paraphernalia of selfgovernment very pleasant to the taste—but it all cost a lot of money.

Where were funds to come from.

The New Zealanders were bland and friendly. Samoa had rich resources, the Samoans must promote industry—increased industry would provide funds.

Some Samoans began to look rather wildly into the future. European and Part-European propertyowners began to liquidate certain assets, and funds began to trickle quietly away to Fiji, New Zealand and Australia.

But the march towards self-government went on.

UN Trusteeship Council appointed a Mission to go to Samoa and give the plan its final shape—Mr. Arthur Lall, an able Indian statesman; Sir Andrew Cohen, a wise Englishman, who got his experience in the Colonial Office; Mr. Loutfi, of the very new United Arab Republic; and M. Kosciusko Morizet, an experienced French official, whose term in Trusteeship Council did not destroy his natural commonsense.

Problems for the Samoans The Mission has just completed three weeks in Samoa, and departed.

It did its job well and conscientiously. It brought the Samoans right down to hard earth.

It left behind a clear-cut procedure and plan for the establishment of self-government. But it has left also, with the Samoans, a new appreciation of the fact that selfgovernment cannot function unless it is solvent, and solvency means an income to meet expenditure, and an income has to be earned.

Here are the matters which the Mission has left with the Samoans, to be dealt with in a practical way before the final move towards selfgovernment is taken:

All Samoans Must Vote For It

It it provided in the UN Charter that, before self-government is granted, the wishes of the people must be ascertained, “by plebiscite”.

The Mission said this meant a referendum, of individual Samoans. The Samoans argued strongly for a vote by the Matais (heads of family groups) in accordance with Samoan custom and tradition.

The Mission insisted on a referendum in which all persons over 21 would vote; and this was finally agreed to; and the Apia government must now arrange to take the referendum accordingly.

A New Constitution

The Samoans must draft (for submission to the people so as to ascertain their wish by popular vote) a Constitution under which the new Samoa will be governed, either as an independent State, or in association by Treaty with some other State.

Relations With New Zealand

The Samoans, at this stage, must define what they wish to be the future relationship between New Zealand and the new State.

Heads Of New State

The Samoans must decide on who is to be the head of the new State, and how he is to be selected and maintained. Something of this, presumably, is to be written into the Constitution.

The Economic Problem

The numerous problems associated with the financing of the new State were dis- `[?]y me three western Samoan High Chiefs, Tamasese, Malietoa and Mata'afa, visited the [?]States to tell the United Nations Thrusteeship Council something about the Samoan matai UNO, however, still insists that the Territory will not be given self-government until there is a referendum based on universal, adult suffrage—see below. 37 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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Mission also discussed the numerous ms associated with the wish of the ms to provide their own trained men e public service, especially profespractitioners and technicians. There je practical planning by the Samoans ard to this matter also.

Justice For Minorities

oans must decide now—so that it be written into the Constitution— the system to be adopted to protect operty rights and the personal freef minorities. This necessarily entails r definition of the qualifications and of citizenship.

Another Look at NZ e practical, down-to-earth Ing of Mr. Lall and Sir Andrew n has been an immense help to Samoans. The latter realise, that self-government means work and sacrifices, is no exaggeration to say that lamoans now are looking very jhtfully at New Zealand—and different light. ce World War I, there have many Samoans who regarded Zealand as the hated conir. the white boss, the exploiter ieir wealth. Now they are beng to see it a little differently, v they begin to understand New Zealand has shown such igness to help them to self- Timent. so many words, New Zealand jh has acute financial problems i own) would be very glad to be if the Trusteeship of Western >a. into which she has poured ia t deal of money since 1921.

Falealili Is Forthright e chief men of Falealili an rtant community on the south of Upolu) told the Mission frankly that they were opposed ‘lf-government and independat this stage—they thought should remain in the care of or another seven or 10 years, they had men who knew how n the country. i residents point out, with Inb, that the Falealili people, back le ’Twenties, flatly refused to ssociated in any way with the NZ Mau movement, appears that an increasing )er of more thoughtful Samoans wondering whether that 1960 for self-government is not too in view of the immense mt to be done before self-govicnt can hope to function sucully. appears, also, that members of Mission are thinking somewhat ; the same lines, can be assumed, from staters made by Mr. Lall in his final ;hes, that when the petition of the Samoans for self-government finally reaches the United Nations Assembly, the whole plan will be carefully scrutinised against the background of Samoa’s peculiar difficulties, as presented by the report of the Mission.

There is no doubt that the Mission had noted some of the wild and woolly statements by Tualauleilei and certain Malietoa supporters, of what they hoped to do when they got independence.

The United Nations people almost certainly will demand, in the new Constitution, safeguards over the personal and property rights of certain classes who are entitled, by birth and residence, to Samoan citizenship.

They March On!

However, nothing now will stop the movement. There will be a referendum in which all Samoans over 21 will vote, and it will be overwhelmingly for self-government.

The United Nations will have a long and tedious session over the new Constitution.

The real struggle will come when the various interests try to draft the inevitable “Treaty of Friendship” with New Zealand.

Western Samoa, virtually since 1914 (45 years) has been kept going with New Zealand money. The Samoans, naturally, will want to go along as an “independent State”, with its hand still in NZ’s pocket.

There is also the question of a market for Samoa’s products.

Bananas, for example, worth about £1,000,000 per annum, can be sold only to New Zealand. New Zealand can buy them also from Cook Islands, Tonga or Fiji. If New Zealand, under a Treaty of Friendship, is going to supply Samoa with loans and other services, and buy her bananas, what will Samoa give New Zealand in return?

The prophecy of one experienced observer here is: (a) Having been swung into this movement by vociferous politicians and self-seekers, the Samoans now cannot draw back, and will go on to seek self-government and independence in 1960, as promised. (b) They will have great trouble in obtaining either funds or tra:ined nersonnel, to enable them to live in accordance with the style tp which they have been accustomed . (c) Unless they show an unexnected genius for industry and development, they must experience pponomic retrogression under tne new conditions g with a corresponding fall in the standard of living. (d) This in turn will .lead to political unrest and recriminations^ Samoa at any time could split into factions led by Malietoa, Mataate and Tamasese, and the rajtag an bobtail behind Tualauleilei.

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Public Service hole series of problems arisit of Samoa’s future public ! were discussed with the n, and both Mr. Lall and Sir v Cohen gave the Samoans valuable advice.

'e was not only the problems viding trained administrative 3, and the supervision and I of a public service, preferamoan, but also those involvhe appointment of school rs and of members of an inlent judiciary. as apparent that answers to problems would not be found ear or two.

New Zealand's Fault? ral speakers blamed New d for the lack, at this stage, ined key personnel. They UNO for help in providing ists in various fields.

Secondary education had been established in Samoa by the Government and by the Christian Missions. But now it was not clear whether the NZ-supported scholarship scheme would be continued.

Free, compulsory education for Samoans could not go on unless the financial problem was solved.

While the present education system had produced Samoans with medical degrees there were no Qualified Samoans in other professons—law, surveying, auditing.

Samoa now was looking for key men to fill specialist posts; and Samoa blamed NZ for the fact that such men were not available.

Other speakers praised the achievements of NZ in the education field in Samoa, and said it was certain that NZ would help Samoa with education, after the change-over.

Members of the Mission were of opinion that Samoa could expect considerable help from UN specialised sections in general education.

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Reactions [?]erritorians Take [?] look At Tax In the last weeks in April, la-New Guinea residents were hinking about income tax, and )me of them, in their first rem, were saying (and some of i were): (, lt could have been a wrse” —you can write that down he fact that they’ve been too in an untaxed country. This le beginning of tax—not the Five years from now, Ter Tins won’t be so naive over tax. ? of them aren’t now. Here is oss-section of opinion, gleaned “PIM” staff member who was -NG in those first weeks: 3INESS in the Territory, bad n the last six months, now will »e worse. Here are the opinions isiness men: Port Moresby; "For months just been keeping going. People been buying necessities, and else. Property values are golown. Houses worth £7,000 last now can’t be sold for £5,000.”

Lae: “Everybody is feeling it. dy can see it picking up. Nobuys houses any more. They them.”

Rabaul: "Some contractor 3rs are hard put to it. There ot enough work for some ied tradesmen. And that’s just ess generally. I can’t see anysettling down until July, when 111 know the details of import xport duties. And then it might en worse for a time.” big Territory contracting firm i different view. Its manager "We don’t know about the ;, but there has been some big 7 spent lately by businesses g new buildings up before the as announced. I don’t know they think they will get out but they must have reasons.” (Over) [?]ght, top to bottom, left to right: [?]hat what they're going to hit us!" says [?]Purser David Schulties to Flying-Officer [?]berts. While their Otter put down at [?]airstrip in the Wahgi Valley they spent minutes studying the new income tax [?]nistration clerk Howard Mann, at Chimbu, the tax tables on the ground to study [?]itter. [?]er Peter Maxtone-Graham, at Mini, where [?]spent eight years without leave attempt- [?]build up his plantation of 40 acres, is [?]han interested in the figures. Hilton also of Minj, looks over his shoulder. [?]ct Officer lan Holmes, at Goroka, gets [?]and paper to work to find out what [?]taxes will mean to him. [?] Olive Fisher and Dorothy Parker, both [?]ansenide colony at Togoba, near Hagen, air first apprehensive look at the new 45 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 19 5 9

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'iously, I’m not talking now jr the sake of talking. I mean ve finished expanding here, d this is the place I have up twice. I walked out of it Saturday morning when the :ame—l was ordered out. The nment didn’t care. We could starved then and our kids, too, . anybody cared. started from scratch again the war, and have just built again. I’ve finished, now.” it he said in his own words is the New Guinea Chamber of erce said in an official statea few days later: is clear that the purpose of Dmmonwealth Government is courage and slow up private rise in the Territory. Arguabout the equity of the prin- □f income tax serve only to attention from this main >e. . . . We maintain that the ;ed legislation reflects a shorti, unimaginative view, in that nsors have failed to take into it the serious national and inional dangers of deliberately raging private enterprise in jrritory.”

Wage Plug Doesn't Worry the daily P-NG wage plug, ywhere, doesn’t always take consideration the future tiy of the country, or its longpolicies. There he certainly ts, with enthusiasm, the stand by the elected and nominated ;rs of the Legislative Council test at the methods followed oduce income tax. But in the still comes back to a matter ,t will it cost him. r studying the tax tables and g out his deductions he’s dehat Treasurer Reeve is somenear the truth when he says x deductions are less than in Australia, although he agree with Mr. Reeve that , _ Ancf 6 7 0nly 50 per cent< of those in Australia.

The cost of living in the Territorv is a lot higher, and the Territorial! spends money on a servant. He gets no deduction, although he regards a servant as a necessity, not a luxury The main deductions the individual taxpayer can make are a personal allowance of £286 (every taxpayer is entitled to this, for the privilege of living in the Territory) * £230 for a wholly dependent wife; £l3O for each child under 16; medical expenses up to £150; life assurance and superannuation up to £3oo* education expenses up to £l5O, and medical and hospital fund contributions in full.

Those who get education allowances paid by the Administration for children at school in Australia will still be entitled to them.

The {Treat hndv of Territnrv wad-p £l,OOO and £1,500 a year.

A man on £1,400 with a wife arid two children would be left with £624 after deducting allowances for himself and them, and would pay £2l/16/- in tax. Presumably he dnrtinm: 6 t 0 additional de " ductions, too.

Most people in P-NG who look at those figures are fairly pleased fv-»of fv-ipv «rp e-pttine - off “so that they are getting on so ngntiy .

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But not all of them are assuming that that Is the way it is always going to be—and how wise they are!

There are some things that are not clear yet—such as whether houssasrs inflated “paper” figures (some Administration people at present pav less than £1 a week for homes costing as much as £4,000); whether leave allowances earned in previous * eara > b V lt not y et taken, will be taxed when the man eventually takes his leave : and just what effect on mcornes the alterations to im- SoS}c?d Whe " announcea in June - This last is important. The Administration has announced that there will be a “net reduction” in import duties, but nobody knows yet if that means a big reduction on P u tty knives and a big increase on items that will more closely affect the cost of living, Increases in import duties could be passed on to the consumer. So could other charges that business houses will be forced to bear because of company tax, such as additional costs of handling the vast paper work that will be involved in aII the new tax procedures.

For all practical purposes no price machinery SSoS o?i to^controf somethingsucliasbread T h e?eicould b£ T Period of fluctuat-’

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Tel.: Lae 2321 Cables: “MORTEL”, Lae NNG Expedition [?]FF TO A [?]LD START OPTIONALLY bad weather mditions slowed the start of le big scientific expedition into itar Mountains of Netherlands Guinea. i last six of the 20 Dutch nti s t s on the expedition ied only on the fourth try to nto the Sibil Valley, springof activities. Many tons of and materials were waiting in village of Tanah Merah, ern New Guinea, to be flown he valley. it has been raining constantly le Sibil regions the Twin er planes are unable to land. :he clearings for the two Bell pters of the expedition were nished on time, so that they t be employed as planned for ittle service between Tanah i and Sibil Valley. .nwhile, there is big interlal interest for the expedition.

Life are sending a team to part of the expedition, while is of Dutch newspapermen, ecialists, photographers and reporters have applied for ssion to visit NNG. The e is that once you get in, it r difficult to come out of that again. mse most members of the tion were counting on Twin t flights to bring their warm ig, and because the flights to come through, the first of April were like icy winter- Big fires were lit to keep ild out. i this early it looks like the Mountains expedition will aore than the six months that planned, especially if bad sr conditions continue. [?]ore Visits [?]e Cooks •istmas Airways” the RAF sation maintaining contact n Britain’s Pacific nuclear station and Honolulu and the Islands—has discontinued its tion with the Cook Islands i indefinite period.” cemen stationed at Christmas —mainly officers—have been recreational visits to Rarofor several years past.

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Later they went on into the Sibil Valley where conditions were icy and where they wished they hadn’t been so hasty in changing into tropical wear. 49 FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1959

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Uganda robusta variety is basis of most British blends and December, 1958, the Board, aw, of the good crop on hand and f: ing prices offering in London, about creating an artificial short: of “cheap” coffee. Since Janu and up to the beginning of Ab prices have risen from 200 s. 3d. S per cwt to 2675. Stg.

Dealers suffered heavy losses the London Terminal Market cause they made forward sales; the attractive prices ruling in es December, assuming that pr would continue to drop.

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The London Terminal Coi Market—reformed on July 1,1: after being in abeyance for 31 ye —may have undergone a pain settling-in period due to miscal lations of dealers in “coffee futui during the first few months operation.

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Brazil's Coffee "Wrong Kind Although there is an “awful of coffee” in Brazil it is not robusta type (it’s mainly arabica) could not be substituted complet; Anyway the hard currency alia tion for coffee from South Amen is limited to around £Stg. 3 milli Another aspect of the harden of prices for robusta on the Lono market was the interest of Amerk dealers in the Uganda crop, due the failure of robustas from Ivory Coast to meet their standai Uganda, always a large supplier robusta to the US through Me basa, has met the demand w: alacrity. 50 MAY. 1959-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHI

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'■cently Mr. George Spice, a '.tor of Gill & Duffus Ltd., Lonone of the world’s leading i-bean merchants, called in on \ourne, after visiting New tea in the course of a world on cocoa business, and spoke “PIM” reporter, me of the things he had to ibout NG cocod have been said and over again—proving that r cocoa buyers have an unral phobia about finding nuts bolts in their cocoa beans, or some NG planters are being unisarily stubborn about proper ng and inspection, t at least Mr. Spice was far encouraging than some Ausin buyers who, in the past, have , a pretty fair imitation of not g whether there was a cocoa dry in New Guinea, or not.

Spice said that he was amazed iw Guinea cocoa development— is something “you had to see lieve”. Few people in UK knew NG was doing in this field. -operation: Fixed Standards ong the things Mr. Spice con- ; of immediate importance for ill development of the industry iw Guinea are; The utmost co-operation bel all sections concerned with idustry.

Itandard grading of crops—at at, New Guinea beans are a (d bag”. itandardisation of fermentanethods. l reduction in shell content — leans are up to 4 per cent, r in wasteful shell content than others. standardisation of fermentaaethods was a most important . A lot of experiment with ;nt methods was going on, this ed in beans of uneven quality. 5 most necessary to select one id and standardise on it. jo great shell content, he said, wasteful of expensive shippace. Handling methods could proved to eliminate much of xcess shell. ndustry's Bright Future Spice thought there was a very future for the industry in Guinea, and for the industry illy.

New Guinea had some special advantages over other producing countries which could make it one of the great cocoa-growing countries of the world. Trees started bearing there in three years, compared with a normal 5 to 7 years elsewhere.

Conditions of soil and climate made possible an all-the-year-round production, with peak periods, in contrast with violent production fluctuations in other countries.

Mr. Spice estimated there was a potential annual crop of 25,000 tons pf beans from trees already planted in New Guinea; and this was of tremendous importance to the P-NG economy. (See April PIM, p. 133).

NG's Exportable Surplus Australia’s total annual requirement of cocoa beans was about 13,000 tons, and was increasing. Part of this could be met by New Guinea, although a certain proportion of beans of other origin was necessary to produce confectionery’s most palatable flavours.

New Guinea would have an exportable surplus within the next few years, Mr. Spice considered, and it was geographically well situated to supply existing or potential markets in New Zealand, Asia and, in particular, Japan.

There was also an immense potential market in Russia and China which could, if developed, absorb the whole of the present world production of cocoa beans.

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Spice thought, when the beans were there for export. “There will be a lot more competition for 20,000 tons than for the present 2,000 tons.”

Mr. Spice (right) with Mr. Geoffrey Brewer, purchasing director, Mac. Robertson Pty., Ltd. 51 I FIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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It Was Their Big Day Papua-New Guinea Legco Votes Itself Into Income Tax From a “PIM : ’ Correspondent, in Port Moresby.

“What beats me,” said the droll resident who had been ting in the public gallery of the Legislative Council, “is the jctacle of these Administration bods voting themselves a :rease in wages at the very time their lords and flaming mass in Canberra are voting themselves an increase.”

HIS reference, of course, was to the fact that Federal Parliament has just paid it self handsome salary increases; and here in Port Moresby today the Canberracontrolled Legislative Council has use d exactly the Same bulldozer tactics to introduce the Income Tax Bill, and reduce everybody s wages, including its Own.

Unlike their Canberra masters, the P-NG public servants who make UP the official majority of the Council have not enjoyed their part in today S events. .

They live a lot Closer to the WOrKing man than the Canberra politicians do, and some official ears are a i re ady red from the things that are being said around town at this ““'is-I already have proof of it! — more than one official member Who has been given the TOlindS Ol {he domestic kitchen, with the little woman demanding to know just what Canberra could possibly have done if a handful of official members, including her man, had re fused to ride on the Steamroller. A Very good point, tOO, although 1 doubt if any one is game to put fn fbp tp<?t 1 t-» *■ __* fHrmo-btc at the end But those thoughts at tne ena of the day. The day began nice a Big Day should.

The Big Day Out at Konedobu, senior officials hurried about the quadrangles, wearing suitably serious faces; the radio telephone from Canberra kept barking; Treasurer H. H. Reeve, whose Big Day it really was—he’s a long-time advocate of Income Tax for this Territory—tidied up some details while sitting at the Assistant Administrator’s desk (Dr. John Gunther was ill, and is going on leave, anyhow, this week); Administrator Donald Cleland held one interview after another, culminating in a full Executive Council meeting at 11 a.m.—three hours before the important Legislative Council meeting was scheduled to begin.

The “Old Man” was in top form and confident all morning. . . a state of mind no doubt assisted by the knowledge that after a long series of “outs” with Territories Minister Paul Hasluck, he has now become Hasluck’s white-haired boy again.

Away from all the commotion—at that moment, anyway was Dr.

Gunther, in bed with pneumonia, and not at all well. . . his condition probably not made any easier by his knowledge that, after a long period of being the white-haired boy, he’s now heading the unpopularity poll with this extraordinary Minister, who seems unable to love both of his top NG officials at the one time, although both work over-hard in his interests.

Plenty of Activity There was plenty of activity, too, in the Opposition’s camp.

The three elected members and the nine nominated members met separately to plan their campaigns.

The elected men’s campaign was the more spectacular although in the end result it may be no more important. At the suggestion of Elder Statesman E. A. James they decided they would walk out of the Chamber as soon as the bill was introduced. They then worked out a Press statement to be released right after the walk-out.

The nominated members agreed on a statement to be made in Council on their behalf by B.

Fairfax-Ross, and a letter to be sent to the Governor-General following the meeting.

By lunch-time the stage was set.

The canvas chairs at the rear of the big hall quickly filled up with local people taking time off from Administration and business to see what the show had to offer.

What Could He Do?

Brigadier Cleland, always early, arrived at 1.30, and at a quarter to two, as he sorted papers at his raised desk on the floor of the Chamber, Jimmy James went up to him and informally broke the news that the elected members would walk out. The three agreed to tell him this beforehand, out of courtesy.

Cleland gave a wry smile and said, “Thanks, Jimmy”. (Over) ow It All Happened ■e are the events surrounding luction of the Income Tax Bill the P-NG Legislative Council: April 13, after many months of hension that income tax would itroduced without proper public ry, the P-NG Administrator, dier Cleland. announced that tax [ start on July 1, that export would be lifted, and import altered, with a net reduction.

April 20, the Income Tax Bill ntroduced into the Council, taken i second reading and adjourned about June 22. The June session, s announced, would be continued out June 30 so that Export and t Tax bills could be introduced, aediately leave was granted on 20 to introduce the Tax Bill, the elected members, Mr. E. A. i (a public accountant, representapua), Mr. lan Downs (planter, Mainland), Mr. Dudley Jones itor, NG Islands) walked out of ouncil in protest at the way it ntroduced, and at the lack of r representation. They aned they would resign after the ivere introduced in June, nine nominated members (repreg the Missions, Natives, Com- , Mining, Planting) informed the listrator that they would send a to the Governor-General tellim of the “circumstances” sur- Ing recent events. minutes after the walk-out at the Legislative Council, elected members Dudley Jones (left) E. A. James and lan Downs (far right) are interviewed by Pressmen. 53 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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To The Vote seek leave,” said Treasurer J, standing up straight at his “to introduce a bill for an lance to impose a tax upon in- -3 and to provide for its assessand collection.” leave granted?” Cleland the House.

'e!” came the shout. “NO!” the reply, amid laughter. ;all for a division,” said Jimmy s. course, there was no doubt the result —but at least the s would go down on the is. the hands were being counted, id from his high chair possibly ;d, if nobody else did, that the elected members were clearlie papers from their desks.

James was last to zip up his brief case Downs had already left his outside—to save himself the embarrassment of forgetting it in the walk-out and having to go back in for it.

When they had counted the Noes , that was the end of the session for James & Co.

They got up, made a smart left turn and quickly walked across the Chamber and out the nearest door —just like that.

As they left, the public gallery came to life with a great burst of applause—the kind of applause that one associates with the stamp-andwhistle demonstration for a popular win at the stadium. That applause was meant to be heard.

In Contravention As it died down, Fairfax-Ross, planters’ representative, got to his feet and made his prepared statement.

Events leading up to the introduction of the tax legislation, he said, had contravened the principles on which British legislation was founded, and the nominated members proposed to inform the Governor-General, from whom they held office, “of these circumstances”.

Outside, the three elected men had grouped under a tree, where James remarked, “Well, that’s that!” To reporters they handed out a copy of their prepared statement: They’ll Be Back With the Apes Simogun Peta, senior, of the ree native members in e P-NG Legislative Council, in’t think much of the introction of the income tax bill, t he didn’t get a chance to y so in the Council, which was pity.

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After further consideration, ticularly of the views expressed numbers of their constituents, three elected members have ided to remain in Council for purpose of debating the Inle Tax Bills and endeavouring proposed amendments to rere some of the most objection- ; features. lowever, they propose taking other part in the proceedings Council, and upon the passing ;he Income Tax legislation will ?n from the Council in protest inst the undemocratic use of official majority to pass this without the prior independent dry which was urged by all -official members and by an whelming majority of public es and individual residents, in objection to the lack of sufnt representation of the people the Teritory in their Legisre.”

That Was That ter that, there didn’t seem much that could be done. The House settled down now, and Govlent and nominated members ■ listening dully to Mr. Reeve’s ch. the three climbed into Jimmy es’s car and drove around to Papua Club. There was nobody 5 but the native bar steward, three men sat for an hour enig their solitude, discussing the ?s that Territorians discuss, tiling, of course, the high price iectricity. re Papuan probably didn’t irstand why the three, all busy le, should have been at the club iat hour. But one day he might, night, in fact, be sitting there elf in just those circumstances.

The Printer Gave The Game Away The Canberra Bureaucrats ive been bending over backirds in the last few months mying that Territory income x was imminent. No, no, ■ey said they might be orking on something but it idn’t got very far yet, and ost Certainly there was )thing in print.

But when the 182-page inme bill was laid before the i -gislative Council on April , the Commonwealth Govnment Printer gave the ow away. There it was, in lall type at the bottom of e first page: 300/27.2.1959.

Well, if the Government inter had finished with it February 27 this year, when i they give it to him —and xen did they draw it up in e first place?

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From STUART INDER __ PORT MORESBY, April 20. n T 1 r e .y ital Q ue stions that arise from today’s Legco walk-out are- Do the three members mean it when they say they will resign when the Incorne Tax legislation is passed in June? If they do, what WELL, they mean it.

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Dse are facts of colonial history i each of the three members r are of, and has in fact been ing lately. One suspects they been re-reading their facts increasing dismay; for isn’t it 3 nature of human reasonable- :hat these men should secretly hoped the disturbing pattern 1 not, could not, be repeated ly in P-NG; that a modern, itened, Australian Government 1 in the end take a wider view others? finally the hard realities have to be accepted. The strength )liath is finally revealed, and grimly sees he must set to >ring about the showdown he will end in victory.

Showdown Coming a showdown is on the way, ■ Canberra hasn’t already seen n the three weeks this report to get into print, it ought ) delude itself any longer, this moment of writing the d members do not know what the showdown will take, or long the crisis will take to up. They do not know if there e a boycott. They have made ms, laid no political schemes, have decided merely to stick irinciple and let the chips fall they may. > attitude should be indication h to any thinking person— resumably Canberra has some ;hat this is the real thing, is no political playing to the V here. These people aren’t ians, but real men. elected members have made stand but It will be with the ft of the nine nominated ers that a victory will be won. it of the latter’s letter to the nor-General?

It the nominated members given an outline of the cirances leading up to today’s ;; have pointed out that the ative Council has now ceased according to the principles of British legislation (because of its lop-sided composition)—a n d left the matter to him.

Composition Changed This appeal to have the composition changed could bear fruit. A change might, in fact, be the only way in which the Government could avoid an impasse.

For there is another danger besides the one of a boycott of elected members—a boycott of nominated members.

Feelings have been running high and I have the names of at least two men seriously considering handing in their resignations to the Council. These two could easily set off a chain reaction.

And what an intriguing set of possibilities opens up with the resignations of, say, half the number of nominated members!

They would have to be replaced, but there is not a very big number of the right type of people who could be recommended in their place. And would those available accept the nominations in view of the reasons for the resignations?

The Government could find in the next few months that it may have been better off if it had accepted the recommendations of the Select Committee to investigate how the Council could be reconstructed to better effect, which was set up in 1954. and whose report was shelved by Mr. Hasluck on the firmlyestablished Hasluckian principle that if you don’t like it you ignore it, and if you ignore it, it doesn’t exist. [The committee recommended nine elected members instead of the present three, an official majority of only one “while the Australian Government was making such substantial grants to the Territory”: eight nominated members, including representatives of Missions, Natives and the Chinese community: and, finally, any number of native observers, who would take part in debates, but not vote.] Grown Fast So fast has Mr. Hasluck’s Territory grown since that report was written and shelved that even the committee which nutted it out would want something better now.

There is need now—now;, not in the future—for elected native members. There is hardly an intelligent man in the Territory who doesnt agree that that need, not accepted in 1954, is a vital requirement today. It is quite possible for native election machinery to work satisfactorily to this end in some areas.

Yet we are speaking of a Council that has 29 members— only three Europeans of whom are elected now.

And shortly there might be none, as a protest against the aetMMisof those too stupid to distinguish the thin lines that divide democracy from bureaucracy and bureaucracy from oppression. 59 I F I C ISLANDS MO NTH I. Y MAY. 1959

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Whether Mr. B. D. Lakshman, Fiji-Indian problem child )f the Colony, is borrowing a notion from a Very Important Indian, now deceased, who invented something called Civil disobedience, is not clear. But the latest Lakshman idea on low to get a higher basic wage for Fiji workers, has some unisual angles.

LL round the north coast of Viti Levu, in April, business was very, very slack. ne Indian storekeepers sat dissolately at their open doors, the poof the sewing machines—the -present sideline—had lapsed to r hisper, and the cane farmers, an and Fijian, were lolling it in their separate groups, lis was the bad time of the year, r said. Money was very short— there wouldn’t be more until CSR’s cane crushing mills bled to life late in May. If they rumble into life, then. That was big question. lot of the lounging Indian millers were quick to say that ss were too low and would have e raised —but not so many were iy about the idea of a strike, lere was no such thing as a :e-fund. and no one could afford trike, especially at this time of year. So everyone was hoping B. D. Lakshman, the Union Preit, would fix it up with the pany or the Government so the basic wage would be raised out a strike. jpe-Recorder, No Misquotes Lautoka, Mr. Lakshman was ready to discuss the affair — a tape recorder present to i misquotes. ie tape, in fact, ran out before Lakshman, but not before he made some interesting com- :s, and made it clear that this ndoubtedly the Year of the :e—unless the demands, or thing approaching them, made ig the March negotiations with 3SR, are met. The Union wants sic rate for sugar workers of per hour, and a 40-hour week it is, a rise in excess of 100 per on the present basic rate, ice the last strike, said Mr. hman, there had been an immt change in the general ite. lere was suspicion in the minds ost Europeans, and many other ;e, that Lakshman was a troublemaker. Well, if you read the Fiji Times of recent date it is at least conceded that there are no subversive activities here—everything is open and plain.

“You have the Fijian Chiefs in Legislative Council contending that wages should rise. . . . Everybody seems to know that the preseht wages of the workers are so low that it could be called a crime against those people who are obliged to receive that pay. So much so that a writer in the Fiji Times has said that there should be legislation against anybody paying so low a wage.

“I think the stage is now set,”

Mr. Lakshman went on, “where so many people are interested that it is for us to organise a Fiji-wide movement to see that we get what we want.

“I haven’t completely polished up what I intend to do—but I’m thinking and praying that whatever I do should be of advantage to the people and damage to nobody. . .

A Strike—or Some Such Thing “The line I’m thinking upon is that whatever we do —a strike or some such thing—must cause the businesses to lose a little more than what it would have cost them if they had agreed to our requests. We have been talking to them in the (Continued on page 63) Board Will Inquire Into Sugar Industry

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® With the virtual certainty of a strike by the sugar mill workers, railway hands, and others associated with the Fiji Sugar Industry Employees’ Association looming as the new season approaches—the first mills were to commence crushing on May 26—the announcement hy the Governor of the appointment of a hoard of inquiry has probably been welcomed in all quarters. This development came after J. P. Shortall’s article, above, was written.

It certainly must have been welcomed by Mr. B. D. Lakshman, general president of the Association.

THE Governor’s announcement came at a meeting between himself and Association representatives on April 23 and the terms of reference read as follows; “To inquire into the causes and circumstances of a dispute which is apprehended between the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited and the Fiji Sugar Industry Employees’

Association and to make recomfnr tbp maintenance of rJS* in X sugar-mill- Industrial peace in the sugar mm i^able a and\xD^lenced e chalrman WP m the United Kingdom” obtamable m the United £^ n | ao ™ —Mr. ?‘-R G 'TT?°a e “ton-ranking in- MA, P ma de a dustna! ar^^to^ to w^ e suSr insimilar inquiry into t g dustry in *s* ?h?'board will v.p°T^r O V m^ b ßhind f i l Mr b D M. N. be Mr. P. K. Bhinai, jvl: r MacFarlane, and Ratu K. K .

Mara, all leading figures in j P The appointment of this board follows the breakdown Of annual negotiations between employees and employer last March The Union demanded a substantial increase in the basic rate to 3/- per hour and a 40-hour week. This was rejected by the employers who were not prepared to look into the Association’s Jasons for claiming this increase.

'Hiey instead suggested going to the A^?;ra^ lon 9 01 f rt - . . ... .

The Association rejected that on the grounds that there was no basis in official statistics under which the Court couM a( . present decide a fair thT Association’s president, B. D. Lakshman, sees it, the question now is not can the sugar industry afford to pay, so much as what is the minimum wage on which workers can be expected to live decently, The board now appointed apparently will be able to consider this angle when it goes into session soon after the chairman arrives from the Unite d Kingdom on May 22 presumably the association will agree not to stop work while the (Continued on page 63) 61 ; I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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“When the times comes we might have to appeal to everyone like this: ‘For a whole week though you can afford to eat, and have meat in your refrigerator, you won’t have a cook to cook it. Go hungry’.

“There’ll be no violence of any kind—but we’ll appeal to His Excellency the Governor, and to his cook, not to give him the meals that he should eat. Let him go hungry for a whole week.

“We’ll ask the Judges in Fiji; we’ll ask all the employers; we’ll ask all the Churches to pray for the solution of this.

“We’ll ask the ships: ‘Please go back. We don’t want any guests because we’re not in normal times.’

“We’ll ask the aeroplanes not to land in Fiji because there’ll be nobody to attend to them—they must fly back, you see, for a whole week.”

Coolly and Calmly MH.Lakshman wasn’t sure how the Government would react to all this—but he assured everyone, in advance, that everything was going to be done “coolly and calmly” in the best traditions of non-violence.

Even more important, perhaps, is whether the Fiji work force would follow Mr. Lakshman into this odd kind of “leave-it-in-your-refrigerator-and-don’t-cook-it” strike.

He estimates that 10,000 workers on the Fiji North Coast would, anyway, and a further 5,000 in the Suva area, if he gave the word.

A day or two after this interesting discussion there was a report that the Governor was to meet representatives of the Sugar Industry Employees’ Association and the CSR in the last days of April.

The outcome of that meeting was awaited with a great deal of interest.

The Public Works Department employees were threatening to strike, too, for a higher basic wage.

Better Off In Gaol It was now not just a matter of the sugar industry but of every industry in the Colony, and Mr.

Lakshman was probably right in believing that a good many moderates, with no axe to grind, would support a rise in the basic wage, or at least feel that the present rate is too low.

What is the basis on which Mr.

Lakshman calculates a fair basic wage?

Reaching for the Labour Department’s latest Annual Report, deald is in active session and makts investigations. For this there be general relief throughout sugar areas where few can d a strike at this stage of the »n.

PWD Workers' Dispute labour dispute is also taking i between the Public Works Denent Workers’ Union and the c Works Department, which said off over 700 men in recent ;hs. a big meeting of employees in oka, in April, the Union deto give notice to the employer if such discharges did not by the end of April the reing employees would come out ;rike. makers at the Sigatoka meetonceded that substantially less > were available to the PWD pear than last, but the general tary, Mr. M. Ramzan, said linly we are not responsible jetting the country into this :ion, though it seems that we he ones who are expected to • the consequences. Our workiust eat and human needs canie postponed”.

Fiji Industrial Workers’ Condeputation also saw the Govearly in April to discuss unjyment and the acute financial Aon. The President, Mr. C. P. i, on behalf of the Congress, tied to the Governor to set up >our exchange, an unemploybenefit scheme, the establishof long-term development and a system or social security 5 Colony. ; Congress also sought the iishment of a wages council to fair wage for non-union workthe compulsory payment of i on statutory public holidays, crease of annual holidays from ) 14 days, and the establishof a 40-hour week. ;se meetings and disputes were itive of the present industrial te throughout Fiji and of the al recession at present preg. 63 me ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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NESTLES § V. x * X naao-jr m/Ltfa lato^m ! with the cost of maintaining a mer in one of the Colony’s 3, Mr. Lakshman turned to a ■ which set out, item by item, cost per man of the various s issued to each prisoner, ing these figures, and working he basis of two children equalone adult, he showed what it i to feed an average Fiji family svo adults and five children, here you are,” he says. “You a family is better off in prison y than on the basic wage, even he government’s own figures.” hatever may be thought of Mr.

D. Lakshman, and however ;erous his activities may be rds the economy of Fiji, he i the impression of being firmly inced of the justice of his e. ist one other thing I ask you üblicise and about which PIM .s to have the wrong im- ;ion,” was Mr. Lakshman’s ng shot, as I left, “put it on •and that I have never been paid ly life by any association or n, except travelling expenses.” [?]other View on Fiji Tourism

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From a Staff Correspondent Arriving hack in Suva from a : circuit of the Viti Levu east in April, I was in time to in to a broadcast from Suva hich it was suggested that all able tourist accommodation on sland was taxed to the limit. statement apparently needs me qualification. After journeyg to Nadi as the sole passenger Fiji Airways aircraft, a few earlier, and staying two nights le Lautoka hotel, where only ir three people could be classed urists, and where there were a many empty seats in the g room; of finding no tourists .1 at the excellent Ba Hotel, )f having the experience of be- ;he sole guest at the equally ant Raki Raki Hotel, I not unally, wondered where all these >ts were corralled. week earlier the island’s two ciotor coaches, owned by Pacific sport and chartered by Whites ;1 Service, had been laid up ack of business, and it was 7 stated round Fiji that Whites ;1 Service, which had been ng the Fiji tourist business in way, since right after War 11, n difficulties. nittedly April is only the st month of what is looked the Fiji “tourist season”. Busiin Lautoka would be much brisker in another couple of months, no doubt. But what seems clear is that the northern half of Viti Levu is a sort of back-water in the tourist industry, and that its admittedly limited accommodation facilities are scarcely exploited at all.

From an economic point of view the harvest is made from the type of tourists who have plenty of money to spend and want only the best.

The best at present extends round the south coast from Lautoka through Nadi, Korolevu, and Deuba to Suva.

Yet the potentialities of the beautiful Viti Levu Bay area along the King’s Road east and south of Raki Raki seem very great.

Some consider this a prettier part of whole coastline than any, with lts off-shore islands and its several Fijian villages in small valleys hugging the shore-line. This is the weather side, with its fresh cool breezes—and, let’s admit it, its heavier rainfall.

Some day there is certain to be a diversion of the tourist trade in this direction—when the roads are improved and better facilities are established.

But meanwhile, for the low-brow who can sneak through under the organised tourist trade’s guard and hick his way round the north coast by Indian bus or extend himself to a taxi, he’ll have very little to complain about in the way of existing hotels and particularly the cuisine provided. 65 IFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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That Texan and His Floating Family Outward Bound Is Still Bound Outward Ve said good-bye to John Caldwell ‘TIM” in July, 1958, when he I his wife, Mary, and their kids led out of Sydney on their 45-ft. ch "Outward Bound”. Since then, word-till now. They haven’t got far in those nine months—just Townsville, but they appear to 1 e been having their own Caldwell nd of fun. ohn Caldwell is obviously an inable romantic. After sailing fits back and forth across the ■iflc for 12 years he can still te about it and make it sound ’ a travel brochure; or the first ed-and-tried recipe for getting ly from it all. Arid the strangest ig about it is that he probably ins it. his is what he has to say, from msville (shorn of some of his >t lyrical adjectives): |0 your wife and kids like the ’ life you live, sailing around the world on a small boat?” I am n asked. [y answer is: I wouldn’t leave of them behind. Nor would I ?ame to tell any of them they idn’t go with me. It would mean i mutiny! urs is a carefree life of adture. Of escape from the mercicommonsense of convention, built our 40-ft. auxiliary ketch Sydney—l and my crew, consistof my wife Mary and our two 3, Johnnie 11 and Roger 6. The ding took two years and three iths. mostly part-time and weeks. r e finished the boat one day and 3d the next—July 27, 1958, to Barrier Reef —on the first leg mr world voyage, fou live but once; you are young once,” is our cry. “Do what you t to do to have a bit of fun, what you don’t want.” ut , , . our departure wasn’t h fun. What started as a light erly breeze, grew surprisingly he afternoon, and with nightwe were deeply reefed in a bled sea, with winds of 40 knots, h seas exploding off our bilges, ran to Goff’s Harbour in the time of 49 hours, with ship and 7 in good order on arrival. itward Bound sails with arrogant lity in a kicking sea. e ran next to Gladstone, rted by schools of whales, until DUtheast gale blew up, driving wallowing and sea-swept into cozy nook of Bustard Head Creek, where Cook had once anchored.

We lounged among a gem-like group of islets in the Gladstone area for a month—fishing, swimming, hiking, exploring, and just plain loafing and from now on the trip became yachting, of the text-book, yacht club verandah type: warm, fresh sun-brown days, and soft, cool evenings.

On the Queensland coast, near Broad Sound, we found a niche in the rugged shoreline and felt our way through a narrow pass to discover Island Head Creek. A bleak name for so enchanting an inlet, with its miles of glistening beaches. 001 For nine days we lazed in this rarely visited anchorage. Fishing and swimming was the best, with fat oysters abounding by the barrel load on the shore rocks.

Again at sea, we flew north to find more islands —the Percy Group St Bees, Brampton, Lindeman Then that prize of the Barrier Reef the Whitsunday Group: A miniature of the Hawaiian islands.

The following weeks were memorable At our feet lay a yachtsman’s Saradtee-Tsparkling patchwork of sandfronted isles with fascinating SS^ s and inlets of nicfia&a«irool«: a*picture-card islet, where Johnnie and I shot a fat juicy piglet, which we spitted and barbecued, sizzling and succulent on the white beach, And Nara Inlet, a three-mile ribbon of gleaming water which pokes into the heart of Hook Island, ending in a placid basin overtopped with kingly hoop pines, craggy cliff-face, and a hurtling waterfall. We had careless days of convivial fellowship with holidaying guests at the resort islands of Happy Bay, South Molle and Hay man. .

The only discord to shake the tropic calm comes daily from the boys, when they are called from shore to their correspondence lessons. What? School! they groan.

As December ended, we sought a safe all-weather anchorage for the cyclone season—roughly, January to May in these waters. We chose the bustling port of Townsville and dropped anchor in Ross Creek, near the foot of Castle Hill which piles up nke a battlement over the city, The hospitality of the north is a sleep-shattering reality in Townsville. Whisked into a gay round 0 f dinners, parties and 9Utings, six evenings out in a week is not rare.

And now, yawning and a trifle weary. we lie waiting and preparing ship for the next leg of our world voyage, which is Darwin via Cairns. Cook- Tef h» « witching horizons The crew of “Outward Bound” on arrival in Townsville after their leisurely five months cruise from Sydney through the Barrier Reef. From left to right: Johnnie aged 11, Mary, Roger aged 6 (born in Tahiti), and Skipper John. 67 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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It Will Be Good for Fiji Tourism [?]va’s GPH Has New Owners And A New Outlook Little time was lost in transferring the Grand Pacific Hotel, iva, from Union Steam Ship Co. ownership to Cathay Hotels td. of Singapore, once the tender of the latter had been :cepted by the Fiji Government early in April.

MINALLY, the transfer was tom the Government (to vhich the USS Co. had surered the lease) to Cathay; but he Government obviously did want to be concerned with i management, and no one ;ed to close the hotel just when tourist season was beginning, physical transfer was straight Union Company to Cathay pany. took place at midnight on tiesday, April 22. In the ice, through illness, of Mr. i Hurley (GPH manager), the ng Suva manager of the USS Mr. D. A. Butler, took tem- :y charge; and he handed over establishment to two high itives of the Cathay Organisawho had arrived in Suva by , few days before, e Grand Pacific Hotel is now d and managed by Cathay, igh a Fiji subsidiary which has formed and registered in e price paid by Cathay is not n, but it is believed to be in dcinity of £130,000 Fijian. As d by PIM in April, Cathay has arked about £250,000 Fijian for investment and enterprise; and a big building programme, to modernise the existing structure, and make substantial additions, is to be commenced very soon.

Meanwhile, at our request, an pfficial of the Cathay Organisation in Singapore has supplied us with the following interesting outline of the history and character of the Cathay Organisation, which now becomes an important investor in Fiji:— Strength of Cathay Organisation Cathay Hotel, Ltd. (which has just purchased the Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva) is part of the Cathay Organisation, of Singapore and Malaya. This is a family business, the head of which is Mr. Loke Wan Tho, the well known ornithologist and photographer.

Mr. Loke is the son of the late Dr. Loke Yew, CMG, LLD., one of the earliest pioneers of the mining and rubber industries in Malaya, who ,left behind him an almost fabulous reputation and who, at one time, was permitted by the Government in Malaya to print his own bank notes.

The Cathay Organisation comprises a number of companies connected with the cinema industry, and is also interested in rubber The Grand Pacific Hofei, Suva, new plans for which are outlined below.

Yanuca Island, at Cuva, near Sigatoka, the site of one of the hotels which a new company, the Hotels of the Crown Colony of Fiji Ltd., will build. The managing director of the company, Mr. Barry Philp, announced the plans of the company (a subsidiary of an American Co.) in early April.

The Yanuca Island establishment will be a luxury resort, but will cater also for residents requiring a beach holiday by building also self-contained cottages. The island will be joined to Cuva Beach (already a popular swimming area), and to Queen's Rd. (shown centre left) by a causeway.

The other hotel which the company will build will be near Nadi Airport, at Namaka; it will cater specially for air travellers, superseding the Mocambo, now operated right at Nadi air terminal by Mr. Philp under agreement with the South Pacific Air Transport Council.

Photo: Rob Wright. 69 IF 1 C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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OiSnS2?fS? n th 8 h(^ tel, OrSn c f ope^ at ? s he Hotel, situated six miles *'“ e cen tre 9f Singapore, in a of . s° me Slx acres, situated right on the sea coast, with its own private beach. This hotel provides da mv^ g^ Vory ni ® t - . . .

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Now its Singapore Money for Fiji he arrival in Fiji of a irte r-million of Singapore ley for investment through Grand Pacific Hotel has sed quite a stir in the king department of Suva Business. itherto, the money which developed Fiji has come er from Britain, through irnmental loans; from big Corporations of Ausla, whose finances really ■inate the British Colony; rom New Zealand, through itutions like Bank of New land and Union SS Co. In nt years, a certain amount apital also has arrived from a.

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Tahitian-style thatched huts. of bamboo and straw, acodating two or three persons, r Young Things wearing is” and little else, can ease ace of modem living in eleven esian “holiday villages” owned he Club Mediterranee in e, Sicily, Southern Italy, lia, Corsica, Elba, Capri and ,hiti itself. re is also a “Village ;ude” in the French Alps, the villages, according to the sctus I received, have their »rivate beach where scattered the shore, under the shade of )live trees, some estimated French members enjoy going “Polynesian style”. At about 3 per head per fortnight (inc. and boat fares). ’t imagine they are roughing gether. The prospectus men- ‘an ever-open bar (like everyelse in the village it is in the ,ir) only a few paces from the 'by is a restaurant, with a cental breakfast and a us three course lunch and ... served by charming and Italian waitresses and cal vin ordinaire is on tap, f charge. edible as it seems, among all decaying Europeanity are 1 tame Tahitians who “put on startling exhibitions of their onal dances”. course, dancing is “barefoot the stars” with “non-stop od cha-cha”. f For the Drinks in Beads ly Young Things can forget exists, for the only currency n club villages is strings of ;d beads—red, green, and ones. n you want to buy a drink ever-open bar, all you have to do is detach a few beads from the string around your neck. “The handiest way of carrying your cash ever devised.”

Other Club facilities are a first aid post (for lasses who sit on their change?); a laundry (pareus back in 24 hours?); deep freeze, barber’s shop, safe deposit for travellers’ (that old untidy paper stuff!); and a hi-fi set which broadcasts daily concerts of classical or “typical” music.

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An added attraction to this one is an annexe village where “you can spend a few days in complete isolation” (presumably to get away from that damned hi-fi).

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A four-weeks stay in Tahiti for only £Stg.s7o all inclusive. “Exotic islands of Moorea, Bora-Bora, and the lies Sous-le-vent may be visited by sailing boat”. (It seems hard to believe that this price includes the air-fare).

Headquarters of this fishing, water-skiing, and sun-baking Mediterranee Club is at 8 rue de la Bourse, Paris 2. In London, the Club has a branch at 139 Kensington High Street, It’s Just Like the Genuine Thing Inspired by this exotic advertisement for Polynesia-bythe-Med, it wasn’t long before a Punch poet (8.8. — P, of Durham) was on the job with these verses.

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•evealed a story, ittle inquiry on the north-west of Viti Levu soon uncovered ict that Mrs. Ivy Waddingham, of Mr. A. E. Waddingham, ger of the Lautoka Branch of > Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., was the • of this apiary. iut 18 months ago Norman , an Australian, had set up business —without any great edge of beekeeping, mother location he had estabthe hives, and fed the bees i sugar, so that what they manufacturing was a poor of honey, rather approaching i syrup. , for some reason, Davis soon lis immigration permit withi and was packed off, Mrs. ingham bought him out as he sed his farewells to Fiji. That ast July.

Dney from Wild Flowers :e she acquired the apiary a progress has been made in ving the quality of the honey, lessor Erkert, of California, a authority on tropical beeig, well known in Australia, onsulted. feeding of sugar was halted le bees now gather the nectar wild flowers. The honey so 3ed is light amber in colour, ith none of the slightly sharp r associated with some of the darker Australian honeys.

Unfortunately, the feeding of sugar polluted the comb to an extent and it will be some time before this is completely worked out Mrs. Waddingham at present has 67 hives. The honey brings 2/4 per lb and retails in the stores at 3/6, in glass jars.

This price is high on New Zealand standards—where the finest clover honey in cardboard cartons retails at about 2/-, but is comparable with the selling price of Australian honey in Fiji, Most of Fi j i’s honey-eaters apparently are Australians who prefer the darker, liquid Australian honey with its sharper flavour gained from the bees feeding on the flowers of the native Box trees, other wild flowers and tree blossoms.

Following the establishment of this apiary by Davis, two other overseas men, Messrs. Nemo and Bernard, established another one— at present of about 39 hives—at Nadarivatu, in the north, 2,700 ft above sea level and operating under the name of Fiji Apiaries Co. They are reported to be striking technical problems up there.

One of the problems of bee-keeping in Fiji is the toad, which swarms everywhere. Toads eat bees and park themselves at the hive entrances to cause great losses, so it is necessary to have the hives enclosed in toad-proof fences.

Fiji’s present consumption of imported honey is about 6i tons per annum. 75 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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Real Hell-Fire Thwarted Attempt

To Ship Nh Sulphur

From a Special Correspondent A French attempt at exploitation of the sulphur deposits Vanua Lava, Banks Group, New Hebrides, ended in a unplete fiasco and was one of the events that clouded the st days of the flamboyant company promoter, John Higginson.

AS reminded of this recently rhen I read an interesting rticle, “Volcanoes—far more 1 than destructive”, by the disished French geologist, E. rt de la Rue, in a recent ier of the UNESCO “Courier”, i has a world-wide circulation. 3 of the author’s illustrations > a deposit of pure sulphur in ulphur spring on Vanua Lava, ie Banks, a deposit to which has on occasion drawn at- >n. man who knew the story of nson’s venture, was that fine renchman Captain Morin, who i his part in the development i group before he became chief at Noumea. was the German planter, el, later killed at Santo in who came across the Vanua deposit on the river Ngusin, on a recruiting expedition. He a partnership with Chevillard, rst mayor of Port Vila —then Franceville—where they were >ping a big plantation and ng bananas for the Sydney st. pfel went back to the Banks ought the deposit from a local the purchase being registered mmea. s Societe Francaise, successor gginson’s original New Hebricompany, investigated, and it the deposit from Chevillard. ; company decided to exploit large scale, employing 50 Conor ticket-of-leave men from Caledonia. ;se men were landed on Vanua with a lot of machinery, tram trucks, and so on. ivicts With Yellow Faces en they arrived, Vila’s inmts held a protest meeting, ey had been assured that no convicts would be sent to the by Higginson, Ballandes, or big planters or employers, they were assured that the vould only be employed at the ur mine, would not be allowed ittle on other islands, and be sent back to Noumea when work was done.

Thpv wprp cprif hooi- fUoo D survived—soonCT* 1 ThS climate proved so uSthy ' malaria so prevalent that they were returned to Noumea on the same schooner, “La Perouse”, that had landed them some month* hpforp inntw ! f olTo T before, as yeUow as the sulphur they had made an attempt to work.

The project was abandoned in such haste that the machinery was left behind to rust, which it did with amazing speed in the sulphur fumes and thp salt spa air lumes ana me salt sea air.

But although not a ton of sulphur ever reached Noumea, let alone France, a trial shipment was loaded, on a three-masted auxiliary schooner of which Captain Morin was skipper.

About 30 miles after leaving Vanua Lava, off Meralav or Star Peak, the south-eastern isle of the Banks group—a striking volcanic peak some 3,000 feet high—the cargo caught fire. Real hell-fire brimstone fumes began to choke the crew, who lowered their two boats and took off across the sea.

Rowing all day under a broiling sun, and nearly mad with thirst— for they hadn’t time to take any water with them—they reached Hog Harbour, Santo, 40 miles from where they abandoned ship, at 10 o’clock at night.

It was such a dead calm they had to pull all the way, sails being useless. When their hoarse cries woke the people on the Thomas brothers plantation, they had been 14 hours in their boats.

This disaster was one of the reasons why the French company pioneered by Higginson went into voluntary liquidation. On February 27, 1902, a meeting of creditors was held at the Noumea Chamber of Commerce. The liquidator, M. de Verteuil, a Noumea lawyer, explained the steps he was taking after paying two visits to the group to investigate the company’s affairs.

He had wound up branches that were proving unprofitable, but was retaining and strengthening those which produced satisfactory results.

The French Government also came to the company’s assistance, with the result that the French hold (Continued on page 79) There will probably be a boost to the perennial interest in the sulphur deposits thrown out by Pacific volcanoes, following an article that appeared recently in an UNESCO publication.

But although many have tried to see a way to make money out of Pacific sulphur no one yet has managed to do it. The accompanying article describes the first attempt to exploit the deposits at Vanua Lava, New Hebrides; the second attempt was in the early 1930'S0, when an Australian company spent several years investigating the area. Nothing came of it. The only good thing about it, said one of the men who was on the job, was complete absence from mosquitoes and sandflies. "I suppose the smell has got them bluffed", he wrote to "PIM" in October, 1934.

This photo of the Vanua Lava deposits was used in "PIM" in the mid-thirties. It is the same photo used recently by UNESCO in the article mentioned. 77 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY. 1959

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SKIN BALM Available from Your Chemist the groups took the pattern ;h has continued ever since, iptain Morin was afterwards ter of the Societe Francaise ner France ; he did great service le December before World War rescuing two or three hundred ves from Ambrym when that id blew up—as recently deled in the pages of PIM.

The Non-Stop Roundabout iis fine old marin was a great nteur; the lone navigator Alain Dault related in one of his books , during his stay in the Hebrides, ised to sit into the small hours ning to his stories, le story the old captain used to against himself was of another :o, a commercial venture in e, in the Loyalty Group, with first roundabout the islanders e had seen. The excitement was ise; the roundabout, set up in •ch grounds, ran non-stop so as it would go. But, unforitely, arrangements to collect ey for the rides broke down; ng with delight the natives took imerable rides “for free”, as the ks say. le horses also had all their tails ;n. The venture, in fact, was ;ad loss.

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ISTLESS, energetic Prince Tungi, of Tonga, passed through Sydney in late April on his way to m to buy a 120-tons vessel to t a fishing industry for Tonga, professional Japanese fishingter, Isamu Naoi, using the expand trawler Pearlin (now reed Alaimoana ) bought by Tungi Duple of years ago, is already ling selected Tongans in the art arge-scale fish-catching. Tungi js the new vessel, with a 40freezer space, will supply all fresh fish that Nukualofa and iu need. iter, if the venture succeeds, i or more” other fishing vessels be acquired and ultimately Fiji, oa and Tahiti would also be ►lied. The tuna-canning inry in American Samoa repreed a profitable outlet, too. le Tongan Government’s agent apan, a subsidiary firm of the lential Matsubishi group, will se on the purchase of a suitvessel. eets from Japan, in no way asited with Tonga, have already ed the fishing potentialities of area. There is every reason to ive that Tonga could now dep a valuable fishing industry, but whether it will become a truly Tongan industry remains to be seen The dream that Pago Pago’s tuna industry would soon become a truly Samoan industry is still a dream.

While in Sydney, Tungi held a series of discussions with major and independent oil companies interested in installing bulk oil tanks in Tonga. At present, all oil for the Kingdom is expensively reshipped in drums from Fiji. Tungi hopes to slash the landed cost of oil by transporting it in bulk in barges towed from Suva by the Tongan Government’s new tug-workboat Hifofua and pumping it direct into tanks. Oil barges now being built in Auckland should be ready for service next August.

Don't Like it Frozen However, there is one aspect of Tungi’s fish plan that might not appeal to the Fijian buyer. That is the freezing of the fish cargo which, it is reasonable to assume, will be caught four or five days before disposal on the Fiji markets.

The Fijians, at Suva anyway, are averse to buying fish that has been “on the ice” for even a couple of days let alone up to 10 days. They say that the natural fresh flavour is just not there. And the Fijians would be the only substantial customers of any such venture if it comes off.

But the demand for fresh fish at both Suva and Lautoka is increasing every year with the increase in population so that perhaps these people might only be too happy to get what they can and not be so discriminating in their choice —particularly if it is cheaper than the local product.

Prince Tungi, right, photographed last year, with Governor of American Samoa, aboard his new "Aoniu". 79 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLT MAY, 1959 (Continued from page 77)

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Tropicalities You Can Shoot 'em But Not Eat 'em r amendment to existing laws governing destruction of crops by wandering stock was passed recent Rarotonga Island Council :ing, which means it is now perible for a landowner to take >n against pigs and goats, ider the amendment a land sr, or a member of his family— le owner of a gun accompanied ne of these persons, may shoot espassing animal, but the body : be returned to the owners of animal. This law applies only to and goats.

Unholy Water EWS from the New Hebrides?” said a Suva ship-master to a PIM man in April. “Well I t know; there was the tidal 5 over there recently, from some srsea eruption or earthquake or ;thing. You heard about the padre at Tanna, of course?”

M hadn’t heard that one. fell this tidal-wave-thing hit at night, and the way the padre it, it was quite a laugh. He ! slowly from a very deep sleep gradually became conscious of nbling and swaying and a great Ing of waters as he lay on his mder his mosquito net. There’s lace for the River Styx in his logy, but he was ready to admit this seemed something pretty it after sneaking his hand over side of the bed and feeling the rs rushing by. This sort of ; just doesn’t happen in a e well back from the beach well above high water. But in ay he was happy enough to se that it was the elements and fie theology which was at fault le came to full conciousness. id happened.”

Pigs-Tusks Enter High-Fashion DKING somewhat less than ter usual charming self, ’ountess Ingeborg de Beausacq photographed for The Sydney ing Herald recently, wearing ;klace of pigs’ tusks strung on wary’s sinews, and a bonnet itella Frankel (some sort of ler) who was “inspired by a e head-dress”.

The inspiration was obviously quite genuine. The hat has a striking resemblance to the bark hoods worn by Kukukukus—although in the millinery sense it is not calculated to do much for the wearer, Madame de Beausacq has spent the last nine months cruising up and down the Sepik River of New Guinea, and along the more remote coasts of Netherlands New Guinea, buying native artifacts, and encouraging the natives to make others. She recently shipped 22 crates of this native art to New York.

Whatever one may think about the native curio trade—and there are several conflicting views on the subject—one must give Madame de Beausacq full marks for earning her living the hard way. Few women with her background would voluntarily choose to spend their time travelling by canoes and slopping through the mud of primitive native villages. If she makes a few bob out of it, most people would agree that she deserves it.

She was in Sydney in early April and is now on her way back to New York.

P-NG—A Good Place For Accountants NOW that the Hasluck-Reeve dictatorship has thrown its ready made income taxation scheme—obviously patterned on Australia’s system—over Papua and New Guinea, there is a big and profitable field opening up there immediately for accountants skilled in company and taxation law.

Hitherto, individuals and corporations operating in P-NG have kept their accounts according to the system which our grandfathers followed, before income tax introduced a flood of iniquities, and measures necessary to combat those iniquities.

If they follow the same system now, they will be slaughtered.

It all boils down to what a horde of taxation officials will, or will not, allow as “deductible items” when calculating taxable income.

Theoretically, the trader keeps a set of accounts for his own guidance, so he may know whether or not he is making a profit, and how much. If he is wise and honest, he uses his own good judgment in deciding upon what he shall charge as the legitimate costs of earning his income.

So far, in New Guinea, he has followed his own safe rules in compiling his annual balance-sheet— in fixing such items as depreciation, general expenses, travelling costs, The old is making way for ther new everwher in New Caledonia.

Few reminders of the old transportation days are now left. Here an old Noumaea building of the "epoque" (meaning the convict days) is being demolished in the centre of the town to make way for a £100,000 block of government offices. Photo: F. E. Dunn. 81 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

and in deciding what is capital and what is current expenditure. The only authority to check and guide him has been his accountant, and his own commonsense.

In future, he must study and calculate every item of his annual balance-sheet in accordance with new rules. Otherwise, he will find that items of cost which he regards as perfectly legitimate are disallowed by tax collectors with arbitrary powers, and that he is faced with a demand for tax far in excess of anything he has provided for. A “provisional tax for companies” can be a most vicious thing.

In Australia, today, the keeping of accounts and the compilation of tax returns have become so complex, as the result of endless laws and arbitrary “interpretations” of laws, that no trader dare produce a balance-sheet or return of income without the help of an accountant who knows his taxation laws thoroughly.

Hitherto, trading in P-NG has been out in the open. Now, it becomes subject to a completely new set of rules, devised for the bedevilment of commerce by bureaucrats who, for the most part, hate private enterprise and regard profit-making as a crime.

They Come From A Remote Pacific Island Well-known Kai viti, j. s. k.

Borron, who has just returned home to Mago Island, Lau Group of Fiji, with Mrs. Borron, after over 12 months abroad, can always be relied on to see life with a well-developed sense of the ridiculous.

Because they live about 200 miles out in the Koro Sea, the Borrons apparently have some special dispensation in the matter of US visas (they come into the category of “remote Pacific Island”), and as a result Fiji is apparently unknown to some members of the US instrumentality that deals with migration.

According to the Borron si when they were crossing 1 Canada into the US some ma ago, the Borron passports cami for more than usual attention.

The official puzzled about iti a bit, then with a big thumb pressed to the word “FIJI”, c over and said; “Say, tell me tl what’s this F-one-J-one busine When Tame Boys Become Really Wild YOUNG Norman Payne, a bud sawmiller, of Talasea, Guinea—now South, enjoying a of leave—perpetrated it.

Friends asked him about the head tax of £2 per annum, the native labourers they empl at Talasea have to pay it?

“It is paid by the beach b said Norman. “But the wild be that is, the boys from the bust the back of us—do not havt pay.

“We employ a lot of boys from bush. The Government make distinction between beach boys wild boys.

“Yes, acting for the governn we usually collect the tax on days from the beach boys, makes them real wild —so wile fact, that they ought to be ci wild boys, and let off the altogether!”

Great Tribes From Small Beginnings Grow UNDER the intriguing hea< “Farm Lad Founded an Is!

Tribe”, the following advert ment appeared in a March issu the Melbourne Herald.

Recent visitors to a group of re Pacific islands have found settlemen' light-skinned natives who all speak En with a heavy Gloucestershire dialect, natives are Christians, and most hav< same surname—Marsters.

In other island groups, throughoul Pacific similar light-skinned people, the same name, are found.

In all, there are about 6,000 na called Marsters.

And they all trace their ancestry t adventuring young English farm William Marsters, who ran away Gloucestershire to find his own ii paradise.

The story of Marsters, and his i: brides, is one of the most romantic tales of the Pacific.

It is told for the first time in “ tralasian Post” on sale now.

Well—not for the first t PIM has been telling the storj and on throughout the whole years of its existence and it old enough when we came into picture.

And although the orig Marsters got a head-start with several brides, and the rest of t have been a prolific lot, we d< whether there are 6,000 pe around about in the Cook Isk calling themselves Marsters. La population figure for Palmeri Is. (the Masters’ home base) is CROSSQUIZ (Solution on page 97) ACROSS T. —What would you be ringing if you asked for Whitehall 1212? 7. —What is the name for the type of firework from a pistol as a signal of distress? 8. —What was the surname of the famous woman traveller who was known as the "Uncrowned queen of Arabia"? 9. —Which plant of the arum family is widely cultivated for its edible roots in the Pacific Islands? 10. —What is the Spanish word for "river"? 11. —Which geological epoch immediately preceded that in which we are now living? 12. —What term is applied to a horse of a reddish-brown colour? 14.—1 n which country is Tobruk? 17.—What combines chemically with alkalis to form substances called salts? 19. —What is the symbol of Scotland on the royal arms? 20. —What type of cigar is not pointed at either end? 21. —Which bay between Spain and France is notable for its stormy crossings?

DOWN 1. —By what name is the disease Chorea better-known? 2. —Which American president was popularly known as "Old Rough and Ready"? 3. —Which Greek philosopher was tutor to Alexander the Great? 4. —Who designed the famous Moth aeroplane? 5. —What plant js for remembrance? 6. —Which cardinal was driven from power because he refused to sanction the marriage of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn? 13.—What was the name of the Scotsman who founded Sunday Schools? 15. —What is the name of the two-headed muscle in the upper arm? 16. —Where are the D’rakensburg Mountains? 18. —What is the Sabot? 82 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

A Closer Look At The Facts

NG’s Most Celebrated Cannibal Feast By Lew Priday A hundred years have gone by since Australians heard or the first time of a case of cannibalism on such a scale that : allowed journalists to make a periodical sensation of it ever ince. The latest example appeared in a Sydney afternoon paper ot long ago.

IE event was the disappearance of most of the crew and all but one of the 317 Chinese passengof the three-mast French joner Saint Paul, after she was :ked on Rossel Island in the isiades ut in one important particular story the writers so like to emish has gone astray. With the ulish excitement that horrors ly inspire, they invariably assert i the Chinese victims were kept the natives in a sort of pen or •al and systematically fattened for subsequent consumption at steady rate of one or two a his part of the story, though 7 may not know it, derives from letter written 12 years after shipwreck by G. P. Heath, who served in the Rattlesnake dura survey of the Louisiades by Captain Owen Stanley. He wrote; “ Then, if I remember rightly, a vessel with Chinese emigrants was wrecked somewhere at the Louisiades some years ago, and it was that the natives penned the Chinese up like sheep, and daily came to select the one in best condition for the table, the last survivor being rescued by some passing vessel.

They Ate Them The Rossel islanders undoubtedly pursued, slew and cooked and ate the poor Chinese as and where they found them; but any suggestion that thev had the necessary re straint f the stocks of food needed to fatten their human cattle and fne ability to organise and draft out their victims on a dally scale, goes beyond rational belief. (Continued on page 91) Do You Remember’?

War clouds were on the horizon in Europe in May, 1939, and their shadows stretched to the Pacific: newspaper headlines blazoned the fact that President Roosevelt had said, “Hands Off!” to the Japanese and ordered the bulk of the American fleet back from the Atlantic to the Pacific. “PIM”, hammering c.way at the Jap. menace, said how the Nippon spy organisation was operating in Hawaii —proof of which came when Pearl Harbour was blasted 18 months later.

Here are some other items of interest from that issue of 20 years ago: Despite the abandonment of their four permit areas by Papuan Oil Developments.

Ltd. (a Shell Co. subsidiary), Australian Petroleum Co., Ltd. (partly owned by Vacuum Oil Co.), announced it would continue with the search for oil and spend £250,000 in 1030 not only in Papua but also in Sepik River District, New Guinea. (APC, two decades later, is still in the news with its Puri well and £3,000,000 to spend in the next year and a half). # * * A 26-years-old Czecho-Slovakian, Rudolf Cikenek, reached Rabaul, NG, after paddling a 12 ft. double outrigger canoe from the Philippines by easy stages over five months. He and his frail craft were objects of much curiosity among the natives —especially the Bukans employed in Rabaul, since for years Buka and Bougainville tribes, in a kind of cargo cult offshoot. had been waiting “for a white man to come out of the sea”. Cikenek later ploughed his way out of Rabaul Harbour headed for BSI and the New Hebrides. * * * Well-known Australian mining engineer.

Mr. T. R. Victor, was on his way to BSI to report on areas held by Solomon Gold Mines, NL. and other concerns. There had been years of talk of gold on Guadalcanal, but nothing had come of previous investigations. Mr. Victor was associated with some of the Melbourne principals of the successful Fiji mining companies and his visit started a dozen or more share companies into life. With memories of the big money made in Fiji gold shares, investors went crazy for a time and BSI gold shares rocketed to fantastic prices. (Mr. Victor’s report turned out to be adverse and share prices tumbled fast). ♦ ♦ ♦ An official committee of three (Mr. F - W. Eggleston, Melbourne barrister, Hon.

H Leonard Murray, then Official Secretary in Papua but later Administrator, and Hon. H. O. Townsend. NG Treasurer) sat in Canberra, Sydney and P-NG centres to hear evidence pro and con the proposed amalgamation of the Australian Territory of Panua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. (The Pacific war intervened, of course, and it was not until March. 1949 that the combined territory of Papua and New Guinea officially came Into being).

Beach scene on Rossel Island, where the cannibal incidents took place. 83 ICIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY.

A Horrible Story from the Annals of the Blackbirders Butchery On The High Seas Compiled by R. W. Robson, From Old Records There was in Melbourne, in 1871, a peculiarly unpleasant: specimen of humanity named James Patrick Murray. He appears to have been a qualified physician, and he was rich; and he: decided to seek adventure by running his own ship among the South Pacific Islands.

IN June, 1871, he left Melbourne in the 167-tons brig Carl. With him, as passengers, were a Mr.

Wilson and a Mr. Scott. Captain Joseph Armstrong was master. A man named Dowden, a friend of Dr. Murray, was a crew-man.

The party went directly to Levuka, in Fiji. Fiji and most Polynesian islands then were growing cotton, and the new planters were yelling for labour. Fijians and Polynesians were undependable workers. Ship-masters who recruited labour in Melanesia, for the islands eastward, made small fortunes.

The Carl sailed off to the Southern New Hebrides and tried to induce natives there to “make paper”. But many outrages had been committed by “blackbirders”, and the natives, urgently warned by missionaries, were either shy and unresponsive, or very hostile.

The Carl party had no success.

So, at Paama Island, one of Dr.

Murray’s friends was dressed as a missionary, and rowed onto a beach, where he led his boat’s crew in hymn-singing.

The natives came around, and the “missionary” tried to persuade them to visit the ship. But they refused.

Bashed Into Quietness The disconsolate Carl went on to Malekula, and sent a boat ashore. A small fleet of native canoes attacked it.

The Carl opened fire, most of the canoes fled, and the brig then ran down three canoes, spilling the natives into the water. The brig’s boats went out and grabbed 12 men, and put them in the hold.

Thus developed the Carls special technique. She went from island to island, and on into the Solomons.

When canoes came around, some to trade, some to attack, they were run down, or smashed by throwing pig-iron into them, and the struggling swimmers pulled into the boats, bashed into quietness, and dumped in the hold.

Thus, they “recruited” men in Santa Anna, Ysabel, Bougainville and Buka. With a score of fierce black boys from Buka, the brig filled her requirement (80 potential labourers) and set sail for Levuka, direct.

Two nights out from Buka, in mid-September, 1871, a fearful row began among the 80 natives imprisoned in the hold. The crew tried to quieten them by firing pistols over them; but the men had armed themselves by tearing down the timbers from which tiers of bunks had been made, and using them as spears.

They repeatedly charged up the ladder to the hatch, at which they battered wildly. As there seemed a danger of their breaking through, guns were served out to all hands, the hatch was removed, and steady fire was directed into t hold.

There seemed to be fighting 1 tween groups of natives —they ca: from several different localitien but enough of them were defyi the crew to prevent any of t latter entering the hold.

The Carls people maintained t shooting, all night. Evider gathered later indicated they ma a sport of it.

Dr. Murray handled his musl with gusto and, as he fired in the hold, he sang “Marchi] Through Georgia”.

Just before dawn, the sounds defiance from the hold lessen and Scott volunteered to go do 1 and arrange a truce. But he h descended only two rungs of t ladder when he was stabbed in t chest by a sharpened pole. He v dragged back, and the firing v resumed. To assist the marksmi Wilson kept throwing lights ii the hold.

After daylight, the hold was qui It was decided that an effort made to save the uninjured for t labour trade. The natives wc invited to come up on deck.

Only Five Came Up Five men came up without he The remainder still able to me had to be helped. There were men wounded, 16 badly and ni slightly.

They were put under gua: while Dr. Murray and Scott we down and inspected the hold. The was blood everywhere, and abQ 50 corpses.

A team of crew-men was c ganised. The bodies were broug up one at a time, and thrown ove board. The team then was set] work, cleaning the hold.

Meanwhile, Dr, Murray and 1 merry men discussed the situatij on deck. They had five nativ unwounded, nine who probal] could be patched up, and 16 injur] apparently beyond repair.

The meeting debated a plan ] HMS "Rosario” overhauling the blackbirder "Carl", in New Hebrides on November 17,1871.

From a sketch made at the time by an artist on the warship. 84 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

)w these last into the sea. erboard with them!” shouted :ray, and he himself indicated se whom they should keep. The were tossed overside, ome of the injured men had ugh life in them to swim. They 3 left swimming. The brig was of sight of land.

Tiile the crew were scrubbing white-washing the hold, and remaining 14 natives were sent c there, Dr. Murray and his panions sat in the main cabin bemoaned their evil luck, in ing lost over 60 of the labourers r had gathered with such pains, le Carl, in the next two months, 1 November, 1871, engaged in her cruising to collect grist for labour mill—yet retribution of irt appeared to be on the way.

Public Anger i many stories of outrages corned by “blackbirders” in the fic Islands had reached news- ;rs and Parliaments in the late ies that the British Navy led on special measures. HMS irio, a wooden sloop of 637 , was commissioned by Comder A. H. Markham, in Sydney, )ctober, 1871, and sent out to :e the native-labour recruiting 3 in the South-west Pacific. ie book which her commander e (The Cruise of the Rosario, a collector’s piece, published i shows that the Rosario had ist of the more notorious ers”, and hunted them •ously. ie next incident in the Carl’s nous journey is taken from mander Markham’s account: the morning of November 17, a brig )bserved under close-reefed topsails. :r weather quarter. We hoisted our s, and a signal for her to heave-to. replied by showing the English enbut taking no notice of our signal, was fired which quickly brought her topsail to the mast, second lieutenant was sent on board he proved to be the “Carl”, of Mele, having on board 70 natives—we ict call them slaves—whom she was ng across, to dispose of for labour. i cotton plantations. second lieutenant had strict orders ike a most rigorous and careful ination of the ship and her papers, is return he reported to me that hing appeared to be formal and corind, as far as he could make out the passengers, that they were all ard of their own free will and conand that between decks she was for a slaver and freshly whited. boat was then hoisted up, and the allowed to proceed on her course, tly well pleased to be rid of her itive and troublesome friend. can be imagined what conilations the charming Dr. ay must have heaped on himas he realised he had bluffed aiuch feared warship so soon the terrible massacre. Yet as not really out of trouble. (Continued on page 97)

It'S Not Now A Shanty Town

Honiara BSIP, was once a shanty town of tin and quonset huts. But not any more. Buildings like these are taking the place of the eyesores At top is Honiara’s new post office, completed last year—and on roof level at the far left can be see” the latest addition to It, a public position of the clock was a matter for good humoured discussion, as PIM reported in April page 125 Below is the new Treasury Building, just nearing completion. It house staffs of Treasury, Taxation. Audit and Customs, and be a welcome SinJe from the dilapidated ex-US Army buildings these departments have been Sing' h building was designed by Government Architect Harry Barnes It has a prominent position in Mendana Ave.. next to the Copra BoardaSd the ocaT wags insist that it was decided to place it there to save he planters having to walk too far to pay export duty-which in 1958 amounted to £220,000. 85 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

Problems of the Shell Button Business It's An Industry Should Bet Your Shirt On!

By J. P. Short All

Milord, and not milady, will decide the fate of the Pacific shell industry; though as spring breaks in Paris, Rome, and Dublin all eyes are turned in the direction of the fashion salons to see what assistance can be expected from the men who decide what the ladies will wear in the year ahead. But whatever shell trimmings milady's outfit may carry, and unless the dictators have decreed the liberal use of small buttons, it will be what goes on milord’s shirt front that really counts, as in the past. rLAT is the real substance of New York shell broker Paul A.

Rie’s latest assessment of the industry. Reports of secret military uses for pulverised shell powder to the contrary, those who follow the fate of the sea shell from lagoon to ultimate destination are emphatic that by far the greater proportion end up as small buttons —and for a long time past men have been the main users of such buttons.

American pearl shell consumers, the Australian MOP industry, and the Australian Government have united in a recent drive to publicise the genuine pearl button, its distinctive beauty, and its prestige value over synthetics.

The story of the Australian shell industry has been written up lately by a well known American writer on the sea and fishing. His writings are appearing in American magazines totalling millions in circulation. The same ground has been covered photographically for the big-circulation Argosy magazine by Mr. Ken Heyman. McCall’s magazine sent a group of fashion models to Australia where they were photographed against simulated backgrounds aboard the former lugger Saratoga in Sydney Harbour and also at several tourist resorts.

Balmain's Tour In April the Paris designer Pierre Balmain was to set out with three of his models on a world tour which could have tremendous implications for the shell industry. When this was written it was not known how much or what form of shell decorations had been incorporated into the various creations which will be displayed to the fashion concious women of the world. Balmain’s whims could at least have an important bearing on the price of white MOP in the year ahead.

As the publicity programme has Australian backing it may be assumed that the emphasis will be on white MOP shell—and not on the blacklip of French Polynesia and the Cooks, or on trochus, though these too might benefit.

But unless the fashion emphasis is on small shell buttons as well as large, the benefit will be strictly limited. Even now there is no great trouble in disposing of the shell suitable for the manufacture of large buttons, but this represents only about one-third of the total.

Most of the important remaining two-thirds goes into small buttons —and at present small buttons mean men’s shirts. Balmain and his companions could alter all that.

It has to be remembered though that it is precisely in this field that the plastics have made greatest! roads.

Good as plastics now are, t: still cannot completely deceive: large sizes, but in shirt-button si it is almost impossible for an exp[ to differentiate at three feet ay —and the plastic button, what e failings it may have, is much 1 costly.

"Prestige"

The fate of the small button 1 day rests largely on prestige. T is the angle that is be emphasised in the United State the well-dressed gentleman will! seen in nothing but the best, genuine ocean pearl-buttoned sh After all, the difference in cost a shirt is not very great.

The thing is to convince end men that the genuine article worth that little extra. In fiercely competitive shirt manuf turing trade of the United Sti the manufacturers who count not easily convinced on that sc And no one has yet thought: any other mass use for the defec: shells and the excessively cue portions unsuitable for Is buttons.

The recent publicity appears have been concentrated entirely sales promotion in the garir trade; but is it not possible t there may be other sales fie' The building trade for instanc« Building Use?

In the huge modern streamli public buildings of today all ki of decorative materials are u Surely mother-of-pearl shell we have its place, perhaps embo( in murals or terazzo work, trimmings to the great doors such buildings, or in the stain WHERE THE BUTTONS COME FROM. Trochus shell (right), and the buttons produced from The dark MOP shell at the top provides khaki buttons. This photograph and the one on opposite page of an operator at work, were taken a few years ago in a Fi|i factor which has since struck hard times because of the competition from plastic buttons, there is an effort being made to return to the real thing, as this article reports 86 MAY , 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

ings, or in many other appllcais well known to the leading tiitects of today ever searchingnew and more novel ideas, he use of shells in the building le would appear to be particuy applicable in the case of •ine insurance and shipping ipany establishments, which are n the most lavish in their costly here would also seem to be very nite applications in the public ns of today’s great ocean liners. d can say how much shell all might absorb if the right ideas s sold to the right architects, n the smallest pieces of shell, ;essed or unprocessed, might be )le. l the larger panels no plastic yet approach the unique beauty mother-of-pearl. Even the cal trochus, its outer surface shed, might be usable in this Such applications might be basis of an Islands industry the partial processing of such Is to the shapes and sizes reed for specific jobs.

No Promotion > far as the Islands are conied, there is no sales promotion inisation whatever, and this tit well be a high-priority stion of the Administration u-y departments which are lually appearing in the different tories. At least the matter is ;h some serious thought to the c Islands and French Polynesia re the type of shell —MOP— y to be most suitable for the ling trade is produced. ie building trade, like the curio e, may not absorb a major unt of shell—its price in cornson with other materials of .1 beauty would be the deciding )r —but any outlet is worth e investigating, and now cerly seems to be the time for it.

Even in the matter of men’s shirt buttons sales in Australia and New Zealand could probably be substantially boosted if the prestige angle was well played. At present it is virtually impossible to buy an MOP pearl button in New Zealand at least.

With teen-age clothing at a stage of evolution where literally anything goes in extremes of colour, shape, and decoration to male (and female) garments, there would seem to be plenty of scope for clever sales promotion in that direction alone, in Australia, New Zealand and more so in the United States and Europe where the big markets lie.

Mr. A. Tasman Discovers Australia

(His photo appears in “Pacific Report”, this issue.) It was a happy thought of Trans Australia Airlines when they were taking delivery of their first Fokker Friendship turbo-prop aircraft from a Dutch factor? in April, to offer a free trip to Australia to a descendant of the great navigator who discovered Tasmania in 1642. 8 And it is probably appropriate enough that the current Abel Tasman 28 is a nuclear physicist—nuclear physicists being just as important in this age as navigators were in the days of Abel Tasman I.

Mr. Tasman is not a direct descendant of the first Abel (born 1603 died about 1660 leaving only one daughter), but of Captain Cornelius Tasman, a cousin or brother, of Abel. ♦u * D u rin f hiS C ° Uple *° £ we f ks * n Australia he has been seeing a lot of places that his famous ancestor missed—such as the 4,000 or 5,000 miles of the south and east coasts—and returned to Holland at end of April by KLM The first Abel discovered a number of Pacific Islands—such as Tonga which he found, too, like Cook to be Friendly Islands (in contrast to New Zealand where he considered the Maoris were a lot of murderers); and Fiji But his masters in Batavia were not too pleased with the result of his first voyage, and sent him off on a second—one purpose of which was to see whether New Guinea was joined to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania)!

However, when somewhere north of NG, the weather (as they sav in the Territory) “got up no good”, so Tasman returned to Batavia round the north if Netherlands New Guinea and it was many moons before anyone else ventured mt to find that NG was not joined to Tasmania, or to anywhere else ventUred He's A Travelling Priest FATHER LEMAY is one of the most active and best known priests in the South Pacific, for although he did not reach the Pacific until 1950, he has travelled widely and continuously as Provincial of the Marist Missions in the Islands.

Descended from a French - Canadian family, he was born at Lawrence, near Boston, Mass. He was baptised Leo Louis Lemay, but his friends know him as “Steve”. His schooling was at Lawrence, Philadelphia and Washington DC. He obtained his MA at Boston College, and his Doctorate of Sacred Theology at Rome, where he was ordained in April, 1933. when he was 23. For the next 17 years, while hoping to get to the Pacific Islands, he was a Professor at the Marist College and Seminary at Bedford and at Framingham, Mass., where he was finally Rector.

In 1950, Father Lemay went to Bougainville to help Bishop Wade with the Native Seminary at Torokina, where five priests were ordained in 1953. Four of these were the first ordained from New Britain and Bougainville, while the fifth was from Papua.

The Very Reverend Father Lemay does not use the title of Provincial of Marist Missionaries in the South Pacific, nor is he very often at his headquarters at Hunter’s Hill, Sydney. Nearly all his time is spent visiting the Mission stations in the Islands. His care also extends to the native students and priests in New Zealand and Australia. During his first year he visited the South Solomons. Fiji and Samoa, Hawaii and the USA. and Europe and Rome, where he attended the General Chapter.

For the last five years Father Lemay has been several times to New Caledonia, Loyalties, Isle of Pines and Belep; Fiji and Rotuma; Samoa and the Tokelaus: Niue; Tonga, and the New Hebrides. He has also visited Wallis and Futuna twice, and even Tin Can Island (Nlua Fo’ou) which is now being resettled by Tongans, who are producing a lot of copra from the devastated volcanic Island.

Father Lemay Is at present working his way up through the New Hebrides and South Solomons to Bougainville. At the end of this year he will finish his job as travelling caretaker, and hopes to return to Bougainville to assist Bishop Wade in the Northern Solomons.- BRETT HILDER.

This operator, in a now defunct button factory in Fiji, uses a machine to drill out the buttonblanks from the bottom of a conical trochus shell. Real ingenuity is needed to get as many blanks as possible out of the spiralling shell. 87 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY, 1959

River Reflections There's More Than Crocodiles On The Sepik To be a professional crocodile shooter is one thing; to write whimsy is another. Or so one might think. But PETER ENGLAND manages to combine the two talents. The river that claims his attention in New Guinea’s Sepik . . .

I¥/-HEREVER you go on the River ff nowadays you meet natives driving fast single or double canoes powered with outboard motors.

A very short while ago it was nothing to paddle steadily for six or seven days to cover a couple of hundred miles, but who’s going to do that now when he sees the Joneses race past in their latest model Sepik Sedan!

The more elaborate models have cabins roofed with thatch, canvas, or galvanised iron, and remote control for the steersman up for’ard. B The sporting models are light single canoes which achieve high speeds. No matter what the type, every craft on every trip is filled to capacity with enthusiastic passengers.

There is no privacy on the river.

In native life itself there is no privacy, so I suppose it is a sort of compliment that when my canoe pulls in to a village and ties up for the night the whole population should come and sit on the bank, displaying the deepest interest in my toilet, my evening meal, my strange addictions to typewriter and radio.

Only when I have turned out the light and apparently gone to sleep doesi the last of the audience fade away.

Cunningly, I wait for half-anhour till the coast is clear and then turn the light on again . . .

Double Canoe j n Flood-time Q ne of the most exciting experiences you can have, if you like excitement, or alarming if you are a nerV ous type, is to travel down a narrow Sepik tributary at floodtime in a high-powered double canoe w ith a native helmsman. nf n bPlmsman as I “™?ratl22s th !“ lr t ° roncerSrate J° a nd stoer a Jo°k ahead ' true course.

A native helmsman is constitutionally unable to concentrate, and looks straight ahead only when he is not occupied in scratching his b£tck, talking to his myites, pooling a stick of sugar cane, pointing to a kokoinor flying overhead, waving to friends, at a passing village, or just thinking of something.

Alternatively, he also has faculty of looking straight ah< and seeing nothing.

His course can only be compaj to that steered by a drunk ridf the Cresta Run on a fast bobsle; —the course having first b« liberally sprinkled with snags in shape of tree trunks sticking at odd intervals down the fairw Drunks and natives are alw\ cheerfully optimistic.

Crash! There goes another she pin . . . !

Tiny Girl in Pul-pul Skirt The children! No matter w opinion one may have of the ao native of these islands —and sor times, in moods of exasperation have the gloomiest—children the same the world over. If oc they would never grow up.

These kiddies on the Ken River are delightful, the boys, scraps of gaily coloured lap-lap: torn towels —one in a bright strii football jersey down to his km and the girls in tiny pulpul gi skirts, the fibres dyed and knotr just like big sister’s.

A little awed at first, they o: need a smile to respond w laughing and chattering and flat ing of white teeth, unspoiled as by the universal betel-nut. Thj learn to paddle a canoe as soonj they can walk.

Ambidextrous Engine Roy Gulembi, my engine-boy, is vi good. I have had him for so years and he knows more ab; (Continued on page 97) The Sepik River, with its mud and crocodiles, is not to everyone’s likin g— although they all have to agree that in size it’s impressive, even here, at Ambunti, 250 miles from its mouth. The photo is interesting, too, in that it shows that coconuts don’t have to grow within sight of the sea. 88 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

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Everyone admire fa fine, healthy baby And Glaxo babies are perfect specimens of health and happiness because Glaxo has all the nourishment of mother’s milk at its best. g£a£o, Book Reviews [?]is Month's [?]ew Reading ow at the end of April, the k-drought ichich set in about ruary, worsens if anything. This I be the horrific end-result of vision (which is blamed for most al phenomena these days) but ives your reviewer a chance to e a part-time holiday. That is r “Reviews” are removed from r usual spot for this issue.

JLY in the junior department have the publishers put their best feet forward this month, i books that range all the way a the doings of Potter the Otter, very young members of society : le story of Anzac for their bigger hers and sisters, and probably younger Mamas and Papas, too. i Anzac ry tie would have to be a grandtia or grandpapa, by this date, have more than an academic laintance with the Gallipoli paign, which in a military, and rding to some historians, in a onal sense also, put Australia New Zealand on the map. lie Collins, who died last year, ared Anzac Adventure especially Australian youngsters so that • might better understand the ificance of that heroic 1915 ;o. And his publishers have proid the book to appear just be- Anzac Day, 1959 —44 years after event. )llins’ story covers the Dardles campaign from the landunder withering Turkish fire in I, 1915, to the silent and lculous evacuation carried ugh without one fatal casualty, t months later. But he tells how the force was formed — i the six-bob-a-day Australian rists” and the five-bob-a-day Zealanders who stormed the liting centres for what was the sst adventure of the age. b will probably be news to dads served in the Second War, that Aussies of the First were the -paid men in the fight—beatby 1/6 the Yanks who were plotocrats of War ID. the chapter on Some People th Meeting, the youngster of y is introduced to the heroes lat time —mostly forgotten now pt when old Diggers meet: To hener, and Simpson “the bloke the donk” (John Simpson * ,^ So ?‘ h SHS d t DK) J Birdwood’ ,-inrt ’ 2 an 3 Frevbpmfin thP Be , rn^ rd <JKiwfs ( in t ?hp S^?HHi« W S r ' J eade V , . in the Middle East and later, as Lord Freyberg, their first P0 I S n 7nri?°?Q r i s° r ‘TSf2? ral) • In April, 1915, Freyberg was a fn U fbii t 6 i potato ? s rJS- y ™ orld (he was ir ] fact an officer in some sort of Marine fS rps) u Bu i when a on another beach was called for, Bl f volunteered to create it.

A destroyer crept in towards the da rk coast, then a boat was lowered and the sailors rowed Freyberg closer A mile from the shore, the New Zealander, naked and with blackened skin, took to the water, towing behind him a small raft of flares.

O? the beach he raced along, !‘S ht lng one oil flare, then "cover- -3°o yards quicker than he ever had before, lit another and was gone again like a hare to lieht a third.” By tfii ttoe the beach was a blaza °f light but after stumbhnl around Turkish trenches he finally found the water, headed’ for where he thought the destroyer might be, and swam This time the swim was far longer and he was much more tired— moreover the destroyer was completely invisible but when nearing exhaustion he found the vessel by a stroke of luck and was hauled aboard. (Newspapers in Constantinople reported an attempted major landing which was “repulsed with heavy losses.”) For this little lot, Freyberg re- 91 J I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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IZAC ADVENTURE. Published by sand Robertson, Ltd. Australian 17/6.) k Doings Badger's Wood ALL folk in the Pacific have orobably never seen a Badger, in Otter or a Mole, but that’s to say that they don’t like ing about them, especially when behave pretty much as small ans do. ■dger’s Wood is about Stripe Badger, Woo Owl, Potter-ther and Mole, who all live in the • Wood where mysterious doings been reported. tere had been robbery, battery, what looked to be piracy, in the ally law-abiding community, lly the Woodlanders decide that ;thing had better be done about nd this story tells how they ly got the better of the villain le piece and captured his pirate on.

IDGER’S WOOD. Published by Wm. :mann, Ltd. Australian price, 14/6.) fe for enture RRYING our Youth Month one step further is The Spirit of Man , a Book of Adventure :ted and edited by F. J. Allsopp O. W. Hunt “to provide reading jrial for adolescents of adveniis tastes.” le small book is made up of 13 acts from books by or about ous people and the range of sets is from early Australian oration to the climbing of Mt. est (by Sir Edmund Hillary), adventure, and scientific evement. r Gordon Taylor (Frigate Bird ), y Jeffrey (White Coolies), Eliza - O’Connor (Steak for Breaki and Noel Monkman (Escape Adventure) are some of the ;ralians who contribute to it. (THE SPIRIT OF MAN. Published by Angus and Robertson, Ltd. Australian price, 15/-.) The Mouse Who Ate Hymn Books PETER the churchmouse was so poor and hungry that he was once forced to eat a whole hymn-book. It tasted awful.

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For Mother Y resemblance between the ityles of writing sisters Catherine ind Moira Gaskin is purely coental. While Catherine (Sara ; and Blake’s Reach ) sticks rally to lusty period pieces, a’s second novel, like her first, ie of those modern atmospheric Is which sends book reviewers tly off to look up all the nyms for “sensitive”.

A Village Whispered is a short, but well-drawn novel, with a touch of hysteria about it.

Rachel Parrish leaves home for London when she accidentally kills a village child while she is driving a car. In London she enlists the aid of Mark Bellamy, neuro-surgeon whom she has not seen for eight years, when he was having plastic surgery for hideous facial injuries received during the Blitz.

She wants Mark to help her get a job but finds, on meeting him again, that she has subconsciously been in love with him all the time.

A large section of the book is taken up with a search for Mark’s seven-year-old son, and this harrowing incident produces a very mixed ending to the whole story.

Although Moira, like her sister, has spent a great deal of her life abroad, she is now again living in Australia. (A VILLAGE WHISPERED. Published by Wm. Collins, Ltd. Australian price, 17/-.) And One For Father THE actions of men under the cover of war have, by now, provided many and varied plots for thrillers. The Man in the Rolls- Royce makes use of the same gimmick, although it gets higher marks for its sophisticated Parisian background, than for its merits as a straight “who dunnit.”

Julius Vanderberg has more concern for the well-being of his ex- History in Small Portions ivo more small “readers” in the ito series have been published by gmans in association with the th Pacific Commission Literature eau. These are designed for natives the South Pacific who are literate ;imple English, however, they are illy suitable for European children he lower grades of primary schools, ae of the stories is about the phoste island of Nauru; and the other it Nabetari, a Gilbertese who was king on Ocean Island at the time the Japanese invasion. He later e a fantastic, 1,500 mile, seven iths journey from Ocean Is. to the Igo Group in the NW of the New tiea Territory. Each of the bookis priced at 2/-. mewhat more advanced, twice the and twice the price (that is, 4/-) in Oxford University Press booklet tie Australian Explorers series. This covers the discoveries of Abel Tasi, particularly as they relate to tralasia, but covering also some ific wanderings.

This tropical scene is in Netherlands New Guinea. It is a waterfall near the Ajamaroe Lakes, in the Vogelhop Peninsula. 95 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY.

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Jo nr, rpncnn whv the There is nc * rea ®°fv j n _ journalists should not be better in formed. A long, factually w . into. th fa?fhip Wa S V ma^is b ?epl h rt written under t£ ti pophagie a Vile Rossel, dans I Arctupel de la Louisiade, m a ,„ publication, Le (Vol. IV. second quarter l»bu pages 81-94), after the Styx returned to France. . _ HII in rfenc howl's as an appendix in a book on Rossel Island, written bv W E. Armstrong, a Assistant Government Anthropologist, Territory of Papua, ~ u £ lish l d £ 1928 by the Cambridge University Press.

Ran Aground Jn December> i B 5B, the schooner p T ince of Denmark picked up seven French sailors in the Coral Sea, surr f the Saint Pa ul. and took to Port de France (Noumea), The Saint Paul, they said, had left Hongkong in July with a crew When the Carl arrived in Levuka, Dr. Murray was very ill, and his control over his company was removed, accordingly.

Some of the crew talked of the horrible incident in Sepcemoer, and Levuka officials began to ask questions. When Murray recovered, and learned that inquiries were afoot, he panicked, and ran to the British Consul, Mr. W. T. Pritchard, and turned Queen’s evidence.

Queen's Evidence The Carl and her crew were arrested; the wretched “recruits” were, as far as possible, returned to their homes in the New Hebrides and Solomons: and the brig and her company were sent under guard to Melbourne, where the trial was very fully reported in the newspapers of 1872.

Captain Armstrong and crew-man Dowden were sentenced to death, but this later was changed to long imprisonment.

The evidence of Wilson, and of other members of the company showed that the indescribable Dr.

Murray was the real leader of the party, and the instigator of the worst crimes: but, because he gave the original evidence which convicted his companions, he escaped all punishment.

Why (wails the Rosario’s commander in his book) did some of those people, who declared at the trial that they were afraid of Murray and hated the things he made them do, not complain to the Rosario’s boarding party on November 17?

If they had, Murray would have hung. outboard motors than I do myself.

If he has a fault it is his inability to distinguish a right-hand from a left-hand thread. To simplify matters I tell him that all screws have right-hand threads, but, when he wants to loosen a nut and finds it will not respond readily to the first pull of the spanner, he will still try it the other way.

This naturally means a stripped thread now and then. I am sure that if he was given a clock on which the hands rotated in an anti-clockwise direction he would have no difficulty in telling the time. He thinks ambidextrously.

On occasion I have to do something to the off-side wheels of a truck, on which the wheel-nuts are left-handed, and, to make sure, I do it myself. When I turn around Gulembi is standing just behind, looking at me reproachfully . . .

The Sepik Slap-habit The river people, although brought up from infancy in a land which is never free of mosquitoes, are far more susceptible to their bites than the average European.

They automatically brush, slap, scratch, lift one leg to rub the other, and emit sotto voce exclamations ranging from “tch, tch!” to “aie-ee-aa!” .

A Sepik is quite unable to stand still on two feet for a minute at a stretch, even if there are no mosquitoes; he will go on slapping from force of habit.

He will approach a complete stranger and say “Excuse me, sir, you have a mosquito on your ankle”, and bend down to remove it for you. , . .

Or, without excusing himself at all, he will come up behind you and clap you on the back of the neck: “Master, nat-nat!” than seems credible in even a ■trained American, but accordto this story, when some ininating information about his r ife’s new husband comes into hands, he used it to keep the and on the straight and narrow. >wever, the story gives the or (a new-comer, Ilian Stuart) hance to create some lively acters and some swift moving >n against a background that ways interesting.

IE MAN IN THE ROLLS-ROTCE. shed by Wm. Heinemann, Ltd. Ausn price, 17/-.) igs That Go ip in the Night you don’t believe in ghosts and witches —but there are a lot of people who seemr do. George Bernard Shaw, for iple, once encountered a witch.

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!0 and 327 Chinese passengers id for the Australian goldfields, iproaching the Solomons she held up by headwinds and is, so the captain decided, ini of sailing round to the east, it through the group. Approach the Louisiades the weather bee so rough that for three days lould not shoot the sun; and e hours before dawn on a pararly dirty night the Saint Paul on a coral reef under mountainjungle-clad Rossel. tssengers and crew landed on a I isle which the Styx named Isle Refuge. Part of the crew left tie whaleboat to go to Australia succour, and these were the the Prince of Denmark came i. lose left behind for a time kept y the savages, in their canoes. . shots from one or two old kets. Then food from the wreck out and shellfish proved inluate, so parties were forced to pt lifts to the mainland, inding parties from the Styx with a hostile reception. But found awaiting them in an ly of fear “the last survivor”, a * naked Chinese standing in jr up to his middle signalling to rescuers. He threw away in disa shell collar and bracelet with ;h the natives had adorned him. dead” were the first words he i (in English) as he threw himinto the captain’s arms, it he made them understand four men of the Saint Paul ; still alive —apparently, like self, adopted by the chiefs. It surmised that one of these was ship’s carpenter, a big Prussian r had recruited in Hongkong. To :e him one of themselves the ves had stuck a bone through cartilage of his nose. But re exactly he and the other pos- ; survivors were could not be rtained. le natives were hostile; landing ies were attacked whenever they i to carry their investigations nd. At the mouth of one creek r came upon discarded clothing a number of pigtails which had arently been cut off as a prenary to preparation for the pot. i truth, the story was terrible igh without any need to invent irge-scale abbatoir.

Didn't Believe It r William Macgregor tried not >elieve it; he leaned towards a ve account that they were not nibals and that the Chinese had t rafts and proceeded northds. Besides, 300 Chinese, he ight, could have conquered the ad with such weapons as they e able to pick up. ut the bulk of evidence is inst him. The Lieutenant-Gov- Dr of Papua, J. H. P. Murray, reed after a visit to Rossel in 1911; ‘ Various old men were seen who said that they remembered that the Chinese survivors of the Saint Paul were eaten, but they were all too young at the time to have taken part in the feast. The interpretation was not clear enough to enable me to obtain a clear account of the manner in which the Chinamen were enticed off their island. The ordinary way of preparing them, I was informed, was to cut them up and disembowel them, and to cook them on stones covered up with leaves.”

Over the intervening years there were finds, of coins and other things, affording some confirmation of the massacre. They are referred to in a lengthy appendix to the Armstrong book, In his introduction to that book, Dr. A. C. Hadden says that at the time of the shipwreck, a certain “chief” named Muwo was a wild disorderly person, and the dumping of this cargo of live stock came very opportunely for him and seems also to have been the means of aggravating his craving for anthropophagy. It was, to say the least of it, unfortunate that the shipwreck took place when that particular man was powerful, or the fate of the Chinese might have been very different.” 99 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY.

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The new Fiona, recently reported by the Suva newspaper :> be well on the way to completion, turns out to be a real ream-ship but a very detailed one.

HEN PIM rang Sydney office of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. for a “photo of the new a”, we found a spokesman for company’s shipping department too ready to talk—but not in j the way we had expected, le Fiji Times story that started fuss said: ; CSR Co.’s new motor ship, "Fiona”, tly carried out successful sea trials e United Kingdom.

It to replace the old "Fiona”, which between Fiji, Australia and New nd, mainly In the molasses trade for years, the new ship was built at the land Dockyard, Middlesborough. ! has been specially designed to carry ises in bulk and sugar from the coms mills in the Colony to its refineries istralia. * "Fiona” is 373 ft. long with a beam ft. > can carry up to 10,400 tons of cargo ;r four cantilever frame-styled holds. hen this appeared in the Times, of March 30, no one, it lars, was more surprised than Colonial Sugar Refining Co. it- Letters and signals flew back forth between Sydney and i and the furphy tracked to its ce: The Fiji Times had got it i the Fiji Government Public tions Office and the PRO had it from (a) a visiting ship’s er who had read it in a nautical azine; or (b) from a nautical azine direct (we are not too : on this point). >R Co. Shipping Department esman in Sydney says; Their new vessel has not undergone successful sea trials; They haven’t got a new vessel; A replacement for the old Fiona has been discussed “in the office” but not beyond. No shipyards have been approached; (d) The Company knows nothing of Cleveland Dockyard, Middlesborough, building a ship for them. in 1945, and the preparation of old Japanese and American warships for the atomic tests in Bikini lagoon later. Much of her work has been in Micronesian waters, but some of her bigger jobs have also been in the ice-bound waters of the far north. Recent service has been mainly in the. Far East.

The present visit to the South Pacific was to examine a wreck at Pago Pago.

On October 7, 1949, USS Chehalis, an AOG-type tanker of 4,300 tons loaded displacement and with a cargo of gasoline aboard, was lying at the oil berth there when she caught fire and exploded, and was And that appears to be, very mysteriously, that. Maybe someone is planning to give the CSR Co. a “surprise” new ship for its next birthday (105 years old, on January 1, 1960).

• She Lives By Trouble: An

unusual visitor to the South Pacific in these days of peace was the US Navy repair and salvage ship Current (RS-22), which was in Pago Pago and Suva in March- April.

Of 2,000 tons and measuring 213 ft x 40 ft, Current is a diesel electric twin-screw vessel, fully equipped for salvage and towage Her two main engines each produg 3,000 hp. She is based at Pearl Harbour but her duties have taken her all over the North Pacific since she was commissioned in June, mainly on work associated with WorM War II and the Korean War but also on jobs occasioned by typhoons and marine disasters to US naval craft.

Much of her work has been of a routine and comparatively uninteresting nature but this has been interspersed with more spectacular events—assistance to the battle rinmaeed USS Houston ana Übb CcSblrra in 1944. the USS Manzane scuttled or sank just off the berth in 165 ft of water.

She has been lying there ever since—gathering in the occasional anchor and cable from other ships which have been berthing.

Some time ago the American Samoa government purchased the wreck from the Navy for $5O, but in the view of Lieutenant-Commander Harold R. Minard, USN, commander of the Current, it will cost them a few more dollars than that to get her up. He considers it would require three similar AR ships to raise Chehalis, after a lot of preparatory work, and would certainly not be a commercial proposition from the point of view of salvaging the scrap.

Current’s 16 divers made a [?] The News This Month sova Tabua r Lagoon ;nt ider icre alis ha lotte Donald ra >a i ig Walrus 'ua Williams VI iab ?antuta II a »ro ifleet iwanui Mary K New Silver Gull Nikau Nerides Orsom 111 Puori Recorder Ratanui Revel Ranginui Stanley Angwin San Miguel Shemara Serain Sea Chanty Southern Maid Tulagi Tui Kanacea Tui Levuka Tiare Wanderer Zarya The Borns Philp motor-vessel "Tulagi" was the first overseas ship to use Honiara's new "Stub wharf", which, as this picture shows is an off-shoot of the main wharf completed recently at Pt. Cruz. Even so, "Tolagi's" master, Captain Brett Milder, had to do some very fancy manoeuvring to get alongside.

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VIORE GROPING: Another 1 dealing with trouble of a dift type—and flying the British -is expected in Suva in early from Singapore. This is the fear-old cable ship Recorder, tons gross, Captain R. E. will be recalled that extensive ige was caused to the ocean raph cables near Suva by the sarthquake several years ago. these were repaired by lew cable ship Stanley Angwin, some of this work was of a orary nature. corder will now replace a m of the Suva-Norfolk cable Suva, and will then proceed r anning Island to repair a 5d “shore-end” —the heavy iured cable which leads from i to deep water, e deep-sea portion is only t an inch thick and un- >ured. It is little effected by and ocean currents, but the 5-end is constantly moved by in shallower waters and is ;ct to wear on rocky bottoms, spite of the protection of a tape wrapping, these portions the location of most of the )le in ocean cables except i some fishing trawler slices its through the off-shore sections, rery rarely—when some sperm whale plays havoc, as recently mentioned here.

• Strange Flag Coming’

And another unusual ship is expected in Fiji waters late in June.

Perhaps the first Korean-flag vessel ever to enter a Fiji port, this is a heavy-lift vessel with a 120-ton derrick and understood to be of about 5,000 tons gross, which is bringing the machinery from Singapore and Hongkong to Lautoka for the big new wharf contract. No further details of this specially chartered vessel were available in Fiji in mid-April.

• Tough Times In New

CALEDONIA; A Noumea correspondent reports that the coastal shipping situation is becoming acute in New Caledonia.

One of the two small ships on the coastal run, Gaitcha, has been sold to a Tahitian syndicate and leaves shortly for those waters.

Former owners of the vessel declare that it was impossible to make a go of the business due to lack of subsidy from the Government, and because increased wages and social charges were too heavy.

Certain parts of New Caledonia can only be serviced by ship.

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OSING BUSINESS; While awaits the new Public Works tment slipways, the existing y is working to full capacity although the Slipmaster jes the work to the best ad- ?e of ship-owners, there is > a waiting list and often some and some work turned away, ecent months a few Japanese 1 vessels —some steel and wood—have been serviced va on the PWD slipway and private firms doing the work, are reports that others were ig but could not be accepted. [1 now be interesting to see many more of the 20 to 30 n vessels, each of 75 to 150 gross, which will be around r ear during the June to Octuna season, will be dealt with, These vessels belong to the Taiyo Fishery Co. of Tokyo, which sends a fleet to waters near Fiji each year, headed by a mother-ship.

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Dredgmg is proceeding at the site of the slipway intended for handlmg the PWD’s own vessels, and pile driving will commence soon; but thf, new commercial slipways are still very much in the paper stage.

It seems likely that between now and the time that they are ready a great deal of possible business will have been lost to Suva where ships from many Island groups converge for repairs, • HE BOUGHT SOME TROUBLE; Sitting on Miller’s small slipway, past , s l x ex-RNZAF crash-boat 276 . She wa S offered for tender a year ago an J T successful tenderer was f Z^T^ ving m an m “ own - What his intentions were are not known in Fiji. If he had the vessel surveyed before tendering, his adviser was “off the beam’’, as investigation has shown Bought at a reported £6OO, it would cost some thousands to make her seaworthy. There are extensive areas of rot. The two 600-hp Hall- Scott motors which operate on aviation gasoline are virtually worthless, except as scrap, as no one 105 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY.

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[ afford to operate them comially. d now, before “276” can be replied she will have to be ped of all equipment and iinery to lighten her up, as the en hull, with all its holes, i not otherwise float long jh to let her reach a marine syard off Suva. \ VARIED LIFE: For sale in in April was W. R. Carpenter d.’s Adi Sova Tabua, which 3d life as an American warpicket-boat, later traded on r anua Levu coast, and last year employed by her owners in the 3-marking programme near tea. d in April was Morris Hedi & Co.’s Tui Kanacea, 43 tons, [assan Rajah, owner of Tui k,a. Tui Kanacea, the Register s, was built by Marlows in in 1930 and rebuilt by Millers 152, and is a 48 ft auxiliary r with a Lister diesel. *OT PRIVATEERING: There curious goings-on in a Suva ard one morning in April. l to the jetty was Morris trom & Co.’s 260-ton Altair. ay was a pile of 4-inch shells. 3 were being hauled by handto the ship’s upper after deck jh there was no gun visible up . The ship however was not iring for a privateering voyage, shells were old cast iron ice shells purchased from the j as ideal ship-ballast. Altair being given a stability test to laying 4 tons of asphalt to leaks in the deck-head.

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BLEMS: Aluminium ship’s i and launches possess the es of lightness, but there are ems. At a Suva shipyard in , undergoing repairs, was a smart-looking aluminium launch belonging to the new Tongan ocean tug Hifofua.

Vibration of the motor had caused many of the aluminium rivets to loosen or shear off. These were being replaced by stronger rivets. • LEADING ANGEL: Captain S E. Gaskin, a well known Pacific mariner—he spent 30 years with the Union Co. and four recent years as master of the London Missionary Society’s John Williams Vl —has been appointed Manager-Secretary of Suva’s new Flying Angel Missions to Seamen headquarters.

Good progress is being made on the building, which should be opened at the end of June. Captain Gaskin was due in Suva in mid-May to oversee the completion work. • SPRUCING-UP: The French Navy’s Noumea-based patrol vessel Tiare, a YMS-type, and an linproved version of her predecessor of the same name, went to Suva for refit in April, commanded by Lieutenant de Vaisseau Y. Cerbelaud, and with Enseigne de Vaisseau de Ist Class F. Charollais as second in command, and a total ship’s company of 38, plus a white terrier bitch named Lili, her black-andwhite son, named Gas Oil, and a white cat named Volta.

Lili is Portuguese, having joined at Lisbon when the ship was bound for Noumea two years ago. Gas Oil’s nationality is doubtful, but he received his baptism on falling into a drum of oil when only a few days old. Volta is a New Caledonian.

One of the crew is from Tahiti, one from Senegal, and the remainder French.

Built in the US in about 1943, Tiare —ex Petunia —is of 320 metric tons loaded displacement. The main differences from the old Tiare are that this one is specially equipped for tropical service. She has better ventilation, five refrigerators, and can carry stores for three weeks at sea.

She has a service speed of about ten knots and a maximum speed of about 15 knots. She also has a large chart room equipped for oceanographic work and, together with Orsom 111, has carried out certain IGY work since her arrival in the Pacific. She has also done some hydrographic charting work round New Caledonia. She has a 250fathom sounding wire and two echo sounders.

While on the Suva PWD slip half the ship’s company were quartered at the RNZAF base at Laucala Bay, the two sections alternating. • OLD TIARE IN TRADE: Lieutenant Cerbelaud reported that the old Tiare, decommissioned, and recently reported as for sale, has now been sold as a trading vessel.

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OKA: Lautoka is not looked a ship-building port but there deal of activity on the roadtiere not far from where the harf will be, in April, tbuilders Mario Lorosio, of ta, and Apinisa Momo were ng out major alterations to unch Elenoa, 30 ft x 9 ft, for ’om Pickering, who plans to er back into service in midis Lautoka’s only commercial j launch —though there are small outboard craft at pre- Lshing. hull, of dakoa timber, has fitted with bilge-keels to rerolling, and a new Oregon ■roof has been built; there is rkins diesel. Mr. Pickering >perates the towing launches Wind and Ella.

REPARING FOR SEASON; in Trevor Withers was visitsw Zealand recently while his Lagoon, one of the few comil cruise-launches operating Islands, was on a Suva slipaving a general overhaul prior 1959 tourist season. ?d at Lautoka, Blue Lagoon es an attractive cruise to the r a Islands near by. Built in ilia as the Royal Flight, the came to Fiji some years ago charter to a film company ng “Blue Lagoon”. was purchased from those s by a former Governor of vho used her for fishing exns. On his departure, she was p for sale and purchased by in Withers.

ERSONAL; Captain Bottoms, r master of A. B. Donald & Cook Islands-based Charlotte d and earlier of the mission ohn Williams VI, was reported in hospital in Auckland as isult of an accident in April, tain J. McKenzie;-Arnot is laster of John Williams VI.

D. A. Butler, lately manager Union Steam Ship Co.’s Suva h, has retired after 37 years 3 with the company. He is well i at most Island ports east of He plans to live in Auckland sending his departure from r as acting as temporary manof Suva’s Union Co-operated 1 Pacific Hotel until that was handed over to new cont the end of April. tain Henry Simpson, of Suva, n command of Burns Philp s mi on a voyage to AitutaKi with aviation gasoline in April. On his return he expected to be transferred to Nikau.

Captain J. L. Lumsdale, formerly of the Union Steam Ship Co., a former Assistant Harbour Master at Suva, and latterly master of Burns Philp’s Fiji-based vessel Yanawai, died in Suva on April 6 after a long Illness.

Captain D. MacCullum arrived from New Zealand in April to take command of the new Tongan ocean tug Hifofua.

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three-masted Russian schooner Zarya, which was on IGY business in the South Pacific and Australasian waters last year, will be returning.

She is expected to visit Wellington, NZ, and probably other places, in July.

Built in 1928, and now used by the Russian Academy of Science, the anti-magnetic vessel is continuing her study of the earth’s magnetic field. • MORE WORK FOR TONGA: 109 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY.

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Wales House, 27 O'Connell St., Sydney Be. N., *d«. 0.P.0.. Sydney. C.b.e *ddr. sS : "MOESTROM •, Sydney BANKERS; BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, SYDNEY. small Kingdom of Tonga, ir the enthusiastic direction of remier, Prince Tungi, is followa, more vigorous programme of building than any of the other fic territories. >art from larger vessels, built seas, smaller craft are being in New Zealand. In April, good ress was being made on the 0-gallon steel oil barge and the len pilot launch being built in dand by A. & G. Price Ltd. te launch will be powered by a and diesel and is now planked the joinery well under way. stallation of bulk oil tanks in *a was discussed recently by ce Tungi in Suva and Sydney these will receive oil from the e, which will be towed by the Hifofua from Suva. te Auckland manager of A. & *rice, Mr. E. A. Cook, will leave dand on May 12 for a three :s visit to Tonga and Western oa in connection with the ch and the barge.

CATTLE TO THE PHILIP- ES: Over 1,000 head of Shorti cattle left Whangarei, NZ, on 1 11 on the San Miguel (March ) reported to be one of the best- )inted cattle ships in the world. le shipment is part of a plan the Philippine Government to )ck the country after its heavy le losses during the Japanese pation. At least two further ments are envisaged, if suitable s is available at competitive es.

Another Bottle In March, we gave details of bottle which drifted from ,e Gulf of Panama to Atiu land last May to October, n March 24, another message )ttle was picked up there, he slip inside read as folws: “This bottle released zbruary 14, 1958, at 11.32 h ■yuth, 110.52 h West. Please nd date and place of rewery to R. M. Norris, Uni- >rsity of California.”

This distance drifted is ->out 2£50 nautical miles, but lere is nothing in this case • indicate how long the bottle ay have been lying on an tiu beach before it was mnd, and therefore no useful ue as to the speed of its r ift west-southward through te Tuamotus to the Cooks.

The earlier bottle was found ill afloat by a fisherman, and n the assumption that it has ist arrived, the drift speed ‘om near Panama was calcuited at the rather high figure f 30.6 miles per day.

News of Cruising Yachts • D’VARA IN PORT MORESBY: A note from S. E. Bradfield, owner of this Western Australian built yacht, says that he and his wife are safely anchored in Port Moresby now for the next two years.

We left them several months ago in Fremantle, preparing to sail their 30-ft. ketch to Port Moresby. Mr. Bradfield says the voyage—north about around Australia—was good, except for a slight brush with a cyclone off the northwest of WA when they were hove-to for five days. The ketch suffered no serious damage—and the Bradfields seem to have weathered the blow alright, too.

The young couple built the yacht themselves and she was launched only at the end of last October.

Port Moresby was a busy yachting port in April when Mr. Bradfield wrote: SOUTHERN MAID was there—due to leave shortly for Singapore; the NZ yacht.

RANGINUI also, hoping soon to clear for South Africa via Torres Strait. There was news of the catamaran, sailed into Moresby late January by two Frenchmen. H. Malzonnier, the leader of this Very Small Ship expedition, expects to leave Moresby in a few weeks, for Brisbane—then across the Pacific via Islands for Canada. • MARY K HAS HURRICANE REST: This yawl, owned and sailed by Australian Geoff Rawson has spent the time since February at Vavau, Tonga. Geoff and his sailing companion have been filling in this hurricane season lay-up by assisting local Morris Hedstrom manager, Mr, Geoff Nash, to build a 16 ft. runabout. MARY K and crew expected to set off again ocean cruising at the end of April. • CRUSADER, Mr. Bill Endean’s 47 ft. ketch, was recently struck by lightning while fitting out in Auckland for her proposed trio to America via the Islands. The top two feet of her mainmast was shat- 111 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY,

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REVEL, 30 ft. cutter, arrived back in igaroa, North Auckland, during April an 18 day passage from Sydney, rs Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith have been 12-month honeymoon cruise which aken them to Lord Howe Is. and the er Reef.

NERIDES, 55-ft. auxiliary ketch left land on April 17 for Tahiti on the leg of a voyage to the States, ner-skipper, Ted Copsey, 56, has a of six Aucklanders, and plans to be nine months, returning to NZ via alian ports. ; ketch is equipped with a powerful -transmitter, and echo-sounder, and ;s enough fuel for 750 miles under r.

LA CANTUTA II has opened the 1959 ig season by clearing from Callao, on April 13 bound for Polynesia, is the successor to LA CANTUTA, i sailed from Paita, Peru, on Decem- , 1955, with four men and a woman •d. Two weeks after sailing, the in, Natalia Mazuelos, was reported isly ill. The fruit freighter TROPIC IER on the regular run between aquil and the Galapagos met the raft a and towed her to Villamil, Isabella d. After a stay there the voyage was aed on December 27 —with Natalia aboard. Next news came in March, The raft had got out of the main west-flowing current and was being set back eastward. On March 2, in response to a radio request, the rafters were taken off their craft by the US hydrographic survey vessel REHOBOTH at a point about 1,000 miles north-west of the Galapagos and with their stores almost exhausted.

Good radio contact was maintained with overseas amateur radio men throughout the voyage.

The crew on that occasion were Eduardo Ingris of Peru, Mirko Guerecky of Czechoslovakia, Andy Rost of Holland, and Joaquin Guerrero of Argentina, and the woman.

This time the crew is given as Ingris, Guerrero, Jaime Toledo of Peru, and Jose Matouse Richter of Czechoslovakia. • CHIMERE—aIso spelt as CHIMAERE in despatches from the Gilberts—left Betio, Tarawa, February 23 for Ponape, Guam, and Japan. The yacht suffered a broken mast in some sort of harbour accident soon after arrival at Tarawa and a new one had to be built from available timber, necessitating some alterations to sails.

Captain and Madame J. Bluche, of France, are owners and crew. • MOONFLEET ex-KONA. reported sold in Suva, is still unsold—the sale fell through. It is understood that her owner will arrange to sail the staysail schooner to Auckland about June-July. So volunteer crew-men may now form a queue. Meanwhile MOONFLEET is seen airing her sails on Suva Harbour on Sundays under caretaker control—with PIM represented at the end of a sheet! • SHEMARA, Sir Bernard Docker’s big motor yacht, which called at Papeete after clearing Suva, cleared again for the Galapagos, Panama, and France late March. • MANAWANUI of Auckland, originally bound for the US West Coast, was back in Papeete from Honolulu in April. From there came reports that this motor-sailer might return to Auckland before again heading for California. • WANDERER, Sterling Hayden’s 98ft. schooner, arrived at Papeete early April from California via the Marquesas.

Hayden, who has his four children and a tutor aboard, was uncertain whether he would head westward through the Islands for Torres Strait and a west-bound voyage to Europe, or south for Cape Horn and eventually Denmark. • PUORI— also spelt PU-ORI in some reports—arrived in Papeete early February, 46 days out of Honolulu via the Marquesas, with Gene and Wayne Pettengill and Ron Quail aboard. • FAITH, 37-ft. Los Angeles ketch, with Larry and Babe Baldwin aboard, was to clear San Diego late February for the Galapagos in company with the 32-ft. ketch SERAIN II manned by Bill and Marty Lohr. • NEW SILVER GULL, of Sydney, with the Scotts, was to leave Galapagos late January for Papeete. A Mr. and Mrs. Bein joined in Galapagos. No further news. • SEA CHANTY, 36-ft. Vancouver ketch with the Kempels aboard, was to leave Vaitape, Bora Bora, for Rarotonga in mid- Anril according to January intentions, '• KOCHAB of England, with Dr. John Franklen-Evans in command, and Dick Pohe and Terry Gray both of Whangarei, NZ, as crew-men, arrived at Suva April 25. After a lengthy stay at Auckland the 39 ft. 7 in. x 10 ft. 8 in. x 29 ft. x 6 ft. yawl cleared Auckland April 4, making calls at Kawau Island, Whangarei, Whangamumu and Whangaroa, leaving there April 18. Fair winds and good weather were experienced. Best day’s run was 165 miles. Plans are for several months crmsing in the Fiji Group before returning to New Zealand next Summer. KOCHAB, built in England three years ago, is probably as well finished and well kept a yacht as any cruising at the present time. She has sailed the Trans-Pacific and Sydney- Noumea Races. Dr. Fr * n^ l ®" va "® formerly owned STORTEBECKER 111 which sailed through these pages until sold some * e * TS ' a *L°i ¥TC , Wpll _ • FLYING WALRUS and the Wells family, at Whangarei, NZ, are understood This SS been in that port clear Auckland In May for Rarotonga and Papeete. Aboard wil ! be atSat Matheson and Peter Ashcroft and at least one other.

Below: The fishing vessel "Elenoa" being readied at Lautoka. Lined up for the photo, from left: Finiasi, Apinisa Momo, G. Mario, and L. Mario, At left: John Çaldwell's "Outward Boud" now at Townsville preparing for the next leg of a roung-the world voyagesee special article page 67 this issue. 113 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY,

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Pacific Report The month’s round-up of news and pictures of people and ents, from PIM correspondents in the South Pacific, tep Up War On Teal Diseases to malaria, probably the wide-spread disease in the I Seas 30 years ago was hook- , but the painstaking work of ;al men (like famous Dr. S. M. >ert, for instance) and the adi of scientific drugs have gone g way towards changing this, fadays, while hookworm disease II prevalent in the Pacific, it I the scourge it once was. 3 of the most modern weapons ; fight against hookworm, both mans and in animals, is a drug n as Alcopar. This new form atment will be one of the most tant produced at new £2,000,000 itories at Beckenham, outside m, to be opened this month by Vellcome Foundation, to step the fight against tropical >es. ter virus vaccines to be proi will be for polio, influenza fellow fever. Research at the itories will be continued by the iation into malaria, dysentery lancer. >okworm is the lay name for ongue-twister Ankylostomiasis presence of parasitic worms in nail intestine that cause severe nia by sucking blood from the Inal walls). sing Tonga's \ Read Book acknowledged authority on c languages, Dr. C. Maxwell :hward, MA, DLit., returned to i in April to begin a two years of translating the Bible into rn Tongan. i work was first done over 100 ago, but in the past 50 years jes have taken place in the m alphabet and orthography dw there is wide difference bei the Tongan taught today and oeing read in the Bible.

II church groups in Tonga cyan, Free Churches, Anglican, Mormon, etc.) have agreed on eed for revision and will share xpenses in proportion to their ■ents. The British and Foreign Bible Society, which will bear the publishing costs later on, will also make a substantial donation towards translation costs.

Dr. Churchward served as a Methodist missionary in Fiji for 15 years and completed a Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary and, later, a New Fijian Grammar. From 1948 until 1954, he was in Tonga compiling a Tongan Grammar and a Tongan-English Dictionary, both published by the Government.

In most Pacific territories, the Bible is one of the few books available in the vernacular and, consequently, the most read.

Do-lt-Yaurself Airstrip When Unevangelised Fields Mission worker R. J. Donaldson decided recently to build an airstrip at Orokana station, Erave, in the Southern Highlands District, Papua, he found the surrounding country so mountainous that he could not bring in any normal earth-moving equipment.

So, ingeniously, he dismantled a Yeoman garden rotary hoe and carried it piece by piece to the site, reassembled it and used it to clear a strip 500 yds. long and 132 ft. wide.

It took six months, but he got his airstrip.

Knots and Shipping Against Nl Timber Trade A proposal to export a trial 50,000 super feet of pine logs from Norfolk Island to Australia was rejected by the local Advisory Council in April.

The plan was the outcome of a year’s investigations into NI timber to endeavour to bolster up the export trade.

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;t knowledgeable and experienced a in the trade with Pacific bers, went to NI for the Terries Department last year and ie a thorough report. In his lion, the internal knots in NI ber precluded profitable export jawn boards, but there should be larket for logs for veneers. He coned on a net return to NI of and 40/- per 100 sup. ft. he Commonwealth Forestry and iber Bureau, in an aerial survey, mated the NI stands of pine to bain over 70,000,000 sup. ft.; ,1 sawmillers (who use 150,000 , ft. a year) said this was ormally high. The Board calcud that the nearly 1,200 acres of ist reserves on the island should iuce about 1,000,000 sup. ft. a r, provided mature trees past r prime were removed.

Dssibilities for an export trade ;ed promising, particularly as a ;me of controlled re-afforesta- . (such as in force in Bulolo, G) would safeguard future ids, but councillors thought jrwise. l any case, shipping logs from leltered, harbourless Norfolk Id be a hazardous job—a change vind could scatter a shipment r across the Pacific before it loaded. gross and More nation for Fijians Bill to revise the Fijian Affairs inance was passed at the April 30 meeting in Suva. Its result be the imposition of certain taxes on Fijians, and its intenis to produce funds for the ngthening of the Fijian Affairs linistration in its work of ve development. ie Bill follows recommendas made by Mr. R. S. McDougall r a survey made at the request he government. ie additional funds will be ved from taxes on the sale of cultural produce, timber Jties, rents, profits from land, The actual items taxed may In the case of copra the new tax will be additional to the present cess levied under the Fijian Development Fund Ordinance.

The new tax will be “a demonstration by the Fijians that they are ready to help themselves", and, it is hoped, will be a further inducement to the British Government to make further grants, perhaps for the specific aid of the Fijian section of the community, from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund.

Although Fijian MLC’s acknowledged that there was naturally opposition to any increase in taxauppuomuu ia, j tion on the part of the Fijian people, none of them offered any serious opposition to the adoption of the Bill during the debate.

The date on which it will come into force has still to be set by the Governor, and the actual rates of taxation of the various items have still to be worked out by the Fijian Affairs Board.

In Lautoka It's "Our Wharf"

The main topic of conversation in Lautoka in April was Our Wharf as that major construction job got under way.

In town the most evident signs were a few vehicles scurrying about with the unfamiliar name of the contracting firm on their sides, a smart new name plate at the entrance to an office block in the main street, and —down at the harbour —a barge moored well offshore with a small drilling rig mounted on it.

Up in his office Mr. W. M. S.

Houston, BSc., MICE, Manager of Christiani-Nielsen and Gammon Ltd., the newly formed Fiji company, explained how the partners came to be associated in the contract.

A number of companies were invited to tender and these in- First the Set—Then TV (Maybe) A Suva firm. Fiji Trading Co. Ltd., last month became the first outh Pacific Islands firm to import and exhibit a television set 1 Xt The U set W caused much interest in Suva with crwds of people lilling around the window. Manager Tom Fr f n^^ sa l^ r t ef„fj nn o oped to experiment with reception from Australian TV s ith a high aerial. (It will have to be mighty high, we feel).

If images from Sydney and Melbourne are received i the Colony, the sale of television sets may V et a usiness here, as it did when TV was mfrodwccd m£o Am ear or so ago. Sets would retail in Suva for ar°und £ 5 1 * With the clip-clop and bang-bang dm of es^^ n^ e^ ar s^ e l i nging in his ears, a Suva-ite just returned from lat the TV set on show represented the best type he d ever seen t as unconnected!

Where Lautoka's wharf will be.—See story this page and page 119. 117 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 19 59

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Ultimo, Sydney, N.S.W. BA 4027 Cables: “WHITEROSE”. Sydney. led Gammon (Malaya) Ltd. and •Istiani-Nielsen (Guernsey) Ltd. parent company of the latter ig of Copenhagen, Denmark, nmons have been in the Far t for the past 35 or 40 years, a tish company with public res in Singapore. Christiani- Isen is a world-wide company, he two were working together a big project in Malaya and re seemed no point in them tting each other’s throats” on ; Fiji job—so they formed the sent new company in Fiji after ring a successful joint tender, he company will employ about people directly when the work files its peak. s of mid-April the only company pie in Fiji were Mr. Houston . Mr. P. Gernow, of Denmark, >se official title is Sub-Agent, n to arrive from furlough in 7 Zealand will be Mr. P. hardson, a civil engineer, ventually there will be seven or it engineers, five or six Euron foreman, some recruited illy and some from New Zealand, r or five Asiatic surveyors, and ut 20 Asiatic key workers exenced in the type of pile driving lired and the heavy equipment idling. These will come from ?apore. The remainder will be ,1 people. ate in June a specially rtered Korean ship, equipped i a heavy-lift derrick, will arrive i all the machinery, some from japore and the remainder from igkong. Some other equipment come from Copenhagen, [eanwhile, there is a lot of laratory work to be done, fiiere the wharf will be, a big iy of Fijians were busy drawing r fishing nets when PIM viewed site in April. At the roadside the water’s edge a striped iron driven into the ground, marked of the borders of the two-year, )0,000 project. (See photo, p. o Mr. Houston it will be just ther job, and not a particularly one. For the past three years has been on the Kai Tak jet ield job at Hongkong. Three *s prior to that were spent at japore building godowns and harf for the Shell Co., and for three years preceding that he building refinery extensions for oil company in Indonesia, irst impressions of Fiji? “The n impression of a quick visit Suva was that it is a little bit ;er than Singapore at the lent time. As for things here orally—well, I think that once ?et our houses fixed up and our is here we will enjoy it”.

With a rich Touch ew Caledonia, like a lot of other ific territories, was having a +vl^T^ s^e ri 1 * c -i n April. And although they call it something different there— grippe —it feels the same as influenza does anywhere.

Hundreds of school children were victims; they took it home, and then the working population began to go down with it.

The story is that it was brought into Noumea by two air travellers who arrived from France A month or so ago, the same sort of ’flu was raging in Paris, and it was announced that the Pasteur Institute was able to make an effective vaccine for it. The vaccine will be distributed in Paris next September—traditional month for Parisian influenza—but it seems a pity some of it couldn’t have been sent to New Caledonia where continual rain and a cold snap have helped the wog to do its worst, ■ r , u IH IM. Lai., Happy r a • Llays LOtTie Again . , _ T Contra cts have been signed with & ai ? ese fin P s for XT the supply of £* c . kel ora from New Caledonia, ** 18 that almost 700,000 tons of ore Wlll be shl PP ed this year, Seven Jap ships were scheduled to arrive in April to lift ore. A good deal of this is already “at grass”, but an increased activity in the working of the mines is certain.

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COMMONWEALTH BANK Guaranteed by the Commonwealth Government of Australia bank are on the increase afto dropping steadily over the pai year.

Further evidence of New Cali donia’s economic recovery is th fact that the Nickel Co. has in tM last few weeks re-engaged over 1( workers and that in the mines soin 300 workers have found work. Ne mines have also opened.

Papeete's Airport Now Looks Like Happening It really begins to look as thoug Papeete will get that airport afh all. Tahiti is to have the benel of the fact that the big Yate Dai project in New Caledonia is no completed.

When the Messageries Maritime chartered vessel Melanesien le: Noumea in April, she carried diesi trucks, pre-fabricated houses, light ing equipment, air-compressor mechanical shovels, cranes an sheet iron, all of which have bee used at Yate. They will now t used on the construction of Tahiti international airport.

Fresh Beef Supply For Ft. Moresby A Santa Gertrudis bull, bought a Sydney Royal Easter Show sales and 10 assorted heifers (all in calf: were landed from the Slevik, e: Sydney, on April 15, for Eriams Estates Ltd., to form the nucleu of the first cattle stud in P-NG.

At Tiaba estate, 20 miles fron Moresby, the Company already hai 1,000 head of beef cattle, and it own killing works and chilling room were completed early in May. Th( Eddie Will Provide More Music on LP The well known Tahiti nightclub operator and entertainer ] Eddie Lund was paying a visit to New Zealand in April-May.

Mr. Lund records Tahitian music which has always been ■ extremely popular with Island people including the many Islanders in New Zealand. Due to import licensing it is no ' longer possible for New Zealand record retailers to obtain supplies of Eddie Lund’s Tahitian recordings—so Eddie is j meeting the situation by having ] the records made by a Wellington recording firm from master j discs.

They thus become of New | Zealand manufacture —and the\ fans are not disappointed. Mr. I Lund expected to market at j least six long-playing discs in I Wellington. 120 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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Dt much is heard publicly about n, unless an emergency crops in peacetime or war—but they un hampered by the distances that separate them.

It was not surprising, therefore, to find that one of the keenest ex- New Guinea “hams” attended the recent Silver Jubilee Conference of the Wireless Institute of Australia (the amateurs’ exclusive organisation), held in Melbourne, as proxy representative for P-NG. He is Mr.

Ron Chugg, formerly of the Territones’ Medical Department, now of Victoria.

The conference voiced deep concern over the likelihood of further reductions in the wave-lengths available to amateurs. Over the years, the “ham” wave-length has been whittled down for the benefit of commercial and government interests for broadcasting, police, radio-controlled taxis and trucks, etc. The right to use “ham” frequencies is the only one in radio left to the private citizen, The question of future wavelengths will be decided by the International Telecommunications Union Conference starting at Geneva on August 17. Conferences are held every 11 years at which all nations present their views and recommend ations.

The Wireless Institute is energetically attempting to persuade the Commonwealth Government to agree to an unaltered “ham” frequencies policy at the Conference, [?] e hula hoop craze may not [?]e hit some Island areas yet ; in [?] rs it’s already on the wane, but Fiji it’s still the occasion for [?] lie contests. This little lady, [?] lis Reymond, shows how it’s [?]e as she sways into the finals [?] ne of the events in the Suva [?] m Hall in April. —Stinson's. 121 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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Noumea Norfolk Island Apia it has a hard row to hoe since re are influential pressure groups dous to pare down the “ham” id still further. ‘he subject has also been brought in Federal Parliament by Hon. in Fairhall (NSW), one-time lister for Interior and himself competent “ham” operator, but Commonwealth Government has yet finally made up its mind on line it will take at Geneva. j Hits Central cific Groups iji’s position at the cross-roads the Pacific often means more n just a convenient stopping off ce for tourists and dollars: it Id mean a convenient place which to off-load a ’flu bug ler from a ship or aircraft.

'his may be the cause of the ony’s recent ’flu outbreak and er epidemics in recent years, ry second person was convinced t the poliomyelitis epidemic last r was brought in by one of the thousands of passengers passing through Suva or Nadi.

This could or could not be true, but the fact remains that Fiji has been beset by more outbreaks of ’flu since the war than at any stage previously.

The recent outbreak was reported from the other Island groups (Samoa, Cooks and Tahiti) also. They all reported similar symptoms—headaches, vomiting and a nausea.

Several days in bed seems to be the only answer.

Some years ago correspondence passed between the Samoan and Fiji Governments concerning an outbreak of ’flu then affecting the two groups. Samoa said that the “bug” had been brought from Fiji and Fiji replied that the ’flu germ had in fact been introduced from Samoa and quoted a list of shipping dates, comparing them with the dates of the first reports of the sickness. Samoa came back with an equally impressive list and so it went on, eventually waning with the outbreak some weeks later. 20 Flu Deaths In Tonga What is believed to be a form of Asian ’flu swept through Tonga in March and April. The Nukualofa Mormon School was the first to feel the effects and it soon spread to every village and home in the three groups of the Kingdom.

All but a few schools were closed, and stores found it difficult to remain open with most of the staff ill.

Over 20 people died from pneumonia following the outbreak—more than in the polio epidemic last year.

Easter-time in Tonga was one of the quietest known. Youth camps were cancelled, churches were half empty, and choirs and bands which seem to practise nearly every night of the week were silent.

Hes Actually Asking Them!

After the high-handed way in ihich income taxation has been Produced into the Territory of *apua-New Guinea, it comes as bit of comic relief to have 'reasurer H. H. Reeve “seeking iews of copra growers whether \ey wish to continue to conribute to the Copra Stabilisalon Fund” —as the official and-out on the subject puts Since early 1958, Stabilisation und contributions (of up to 1 per ton) have been collected s part of the export duty on opra — i.e., when the f.o.b. value f copra is £65 per ton, export uty is £4/16/- and Stabilisaon Fund Contribution £1 — 5/16/- in all.

When income tax comes in, vport duty goes out. So what ) do with Stabilisation Fund : mtributions? If planters have ny ideas, Mr. Reeve will sten to them. (Yes —we know ’s hard to believe, but he says iut he will).

Present total of the Fund is handsome £3/200,000 —all confuted by copra producers nee 1946. It's earning £lOO,OOO er year in interest which, at ie present rate of copra prouction in P-NG, means £1 for very ton of copra produced. So ven if it is decided to stop con- -ibutions, the Fund is in a very ice position, indeed. And so, for l ie present, are the planters.

Mr. and Mrs. Miles king and Mr. p. Lightband who passed through Fiji in a pril on a sales promotion flight to samoa and Tahiti. Representing Rural Aviation, Ltd., New Plymouth, NZ, and Rex Aviation of Sudney, they are South pacific agents for Cessna aircraft and had flown directly form new plymouth to Nadi. 123 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY.

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king It Difficult Leave Home i official notice appearing in the k Islands official daily news ntly informed the local people ; only under very special ciristances would travelling per- > to New Zealand be issued to i who were leaving a wife and ie or more children in the Cook nds. tie announcement said that over years many broken marriages deserted families have resulted i such departures. Living costs lew Zealand are high and for a i without money leaving the nds to attempt to find perlent work, rent or build a house, save enough money to pay the s of his family was often an ossible task taking years. Durthe waiting period many wives 3 forgotten. he announcement said that nd Councillors and Church lers agreed with the Resident imissioner in this ruling. )t. Gillespie Ltd. ms at Brisbane branch office at 334 Queen St., ibane, was opened in April by iert Gillespie Pty. Ltd., Islands chants, Sydney. In charge is Wallace C. Thorogood, formerly -known in Papua-New Guinea Islands traveller for Needham !0., Brisbane. he expansion is of interest to FG and BSI residents, since a ving share of their import trade r originates in Queensland — ipers estimate that 25 per cent, goods for those territories are plied through Brisbane firms, ight rates are similar to ney’s, but firms find that ship- ? documents handled on the t in Brisbane make for less delays at Islands ports and, in addition, “last in” cargo from Q’ld means “first out”.

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Because it was a week-end here was some difficulty in seating a locksmith. Hearing f this, an Indian porter in he hotel stepped forward, olunteered his services, and .ad the case open with the id of a bent piece of wire in bout five seconds.

This silting beside the Government wharf at Rabaul, New Guinea, top photo, could cause a lot of trouble. Recently the Administration opened up land in the foothills behind Rabaul for residential purposes and, apparently unwittingly, created a lot of new drainage problems, Shortly afterwards, Rabaul had some tremendous downpourses eight feet deep in suburban streets and deposited this silt at the harbour side.

Lower photo shows where a lot of the silt came from-a watercourse torn out of Brennan Street in the residential quarter. Most od Rabaul's fine soil is decomposed pumice dust-it's fertile, but it floats and where there is lack of drainage and when there is phemnomenal rain it scours out in a most spectacular fashion-as it has here. Photo: J. A. Fulford.

Next to myself I like B.V.D. best. 126 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLI

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Tie new rice drying, milling and rketing organisation is an mipt by CSR Co. to assist Rewa ar cane farmers in a changer from cane-growing to rice ;n Nausori mill closes at the ! of 1959 crushing season, he Co. is prepared to purchase 1960 padi production from 5,000 es of land which formerly grew e (about half the present total e acreage) at a contract price £3O per ton, faq. Within a few rs, the new organisation could orb rice crops from practically the 10,000 acres of cane land Rewa Valley, which is quite suits for rice-growing, lodern equipment, different in ign to present Fiji rice-mills, ild be installed, and storage for K) tons of padi provided, in the inning. The new mill would not ipete with existing mills operatmg on a toll basis mainly for gr 2^ ers 9 WI } requirements. —.TT 16 . P ro Ject could eventually make Fiji largely independent of rice imports and save the Colony the tunds now going overseas—in 1958, 4,320 tons of rice were imported, at £F323,580. Probably, £F150,000 could be saved in the first year. . .

RabaUl Cenotaph r Unveiled on Anzac Dav 1 The biggest Anzac Day march Rabaul has had preceded the unveiling of a newly-erected Cenotaph. on April 25, by the P-NG Administrator, Brigadier D. M.

Cleland, CBE.

Topped by a bronze torch, electrically-lit, the 9 ft high Cenotaph is constructed of Scottish Balmoral granite, has bronze Swords of Sacrifice at each end. and bears a simple front inscription-plaque: “To the men and women who gave their lives in the Allied Cause, 1914-18: 1939-45”.

It cost £l,OOO, and was prefabricated in Brisbane. QEA paid for the memorial to be shipped from Rabaul—originally, when told it weighed 400 lb, they offered to airfreight it free to NG, but it turned out to weigh 4,000 lb so it went by sea.

Anzac Day ceremonies were held also at Port Moresby, Lae and other P-NG centres; and at Suva, Fiji, where the Governor (Sir Kenneth Maddocks) took the salute at Albert Park. (Over) New Guinean Goes Into The Cattle Business A native farmer, Bongen [alanduan, of the Morobe Hstrict, Lae, New Guinea, who urchased some calves in 1954, lade what is believed to be the rst commercial sale of native red cattle in the Territory when e sold a bullock to Malahang lantations in April for £34.

Bongen rears his cattle in the area, which contains bout 100 head of native-owned attle. Village peasant farming tthniques are employed a illager is appointed as herdsman nd is responsible for adequate razing of the cattle.

Regional Stock Inspector, Mr. f. Robinson, of 3-mile Agriultural Station, where the sale r as held, said that Bongen eeps amazingly accurate records f matings, and other relative ata for successful stock breedig. He said: “His stock itself i good enough evidence. There i not one sign of disease”. And dded: “The natives are always een to receive advice from agricultural officers and imlicitly carry out instructions”.

After Bongen purchased his rst calves in 1954, he hand-fed nd reared them until 1957 when icy calved. The 50-years-old inner intends to purchase more alves and do a lot more breed- »g- It is expected that the natives i the Wain-Naba will begin to ring more cattle down for sale i about 12-months time. 127 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY.

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The French High Commission was represented by the Secrets General of the New Caledonii Government, M. Gagnon.

Aust. Could Do Better In Fiji—Maybe Although Australia’s share c Fiji’s import trade has tended t increase in recent years there i still room for greater expansioi said Mr. H. C. Menzies, followin two recent visits to the Colony.

Mr. Menzies has had somethin to say about the entry of Fi. bananas into Australia in receiJ months (PIM for January an April); he is Australian Senic Trade Commissioner in Wellington NZ.

In addition to importing its owi requirements, Fiji is a distributio) point for other Pacific territories he stated in an article in Oversea Trading, the Commonwealth De partment of Trade’s periodical, an urged Australian manufacturers t make special efforts to have Aus tralian goods placed in the hand of Suva merchants with that pur pose in mind.

Mr. Menzies believes that Aus; tralian trade with Fiji could b stepped up greatly by the provision of regular shipping, with refrigerj ated space available and prepares to work other ports than Suva especially Lautoka.

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Mr. Menzies said there appears to be scope in Fiji for more Australian vegetables, confectionery, margarine, dairy products, rice, onions, canned baking powder, whisky, gin, peanut oil, paints, fertilisers, film, electrical supplies, batteries, machinery and hardware.

As Mr. Menzies pointed out, Fiji has strong financial ties with Australia—the sugar industry is wholly owned and controlled by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., of Sydney; the two most important trading groups, Burns Philp & Co. and W. R. Carpenter & Co. (each with half a dozen subsidiaries) are Australian-owned; the soap factory and biscuit factory are controlled by the Sydney firm of Hackshalls Ltd.; the cement pipe industry by Hume Pipe Co. of Australia; and the gold mining industry by a group of Australian mining interests.

The two last overseas loans raised by the Fiji Government have been underwritten and filled on the Australian money market.

One point not stressed by Mr.

Menzies, however, is that Fiji has a substantial unfavourable trade balance with Australia—her exports to Australia are far below the value of her imports from the Commonwealth. Unless Australia is prepared to absorb more of Fiji’s products, [?] eliclano Achica, 87, had the honour of [?] the flag at Pago Pago at this year's [?] Day, April 17, which commemorates the that Eastern Samoa became American in 1900. Mr. Achica is probably the non-Samoan in the Territory and has the [?] tion of being the first Filipino to have in the US Navy. He still works at his of tailoring, and has never had a day's [?] illness, except when he was wounded in the Spanish-American war.

Photo: Pan American Prints. 129 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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Marquesan Fish en't Biting i behalf of the Hawaii tuna ig industry a San Diego tuna er made an exploratory cruise Marquesas waters in March, but results were disappointing •ding to the US Fish & Wildlife ce. e tuna clipper Cape Falcon, nanded by Captain Syerre aard, and with Mr. Tom Hilda, ;hery biologist from Honolulu rd, first loaded 24,000 lb of live fish at Almejas Bay, Mexico, ■e heading westward, fortunately, the bait-fish proved arge for the type of tuna entered and only 16 tons of tuna taken, though from the num- )f schools of tuna sighted, this the best season for a number ears, and fishing was by the rican live-bait surface-fishing tod. About 200 schools of tuna sighted. 7 Mountains Keep ir Secret Still r the second time in three :h s a Dutch Administration >l, led by Patrol Officer Dr. >alves, made an attempt to i the wreck of a Short Sealand hibious plane, which crashed ic Central Highlands four years (Jan. PIM, page 121).

The twin-engined plane was the property of the American Christian and Missionary Alliance. As the aircraft had crashed in what seemed inaccessible mountains, in an area which up till now has not been bought under Administration control, recovery of the remains of the pilot were then considered impossible.

However, since the establishment in December, 1957, of an Administration Post in the Baliem Valley, patrols have been made into the mountainous regions and at the end of last year a Dutch patrol set out from Wamena Post in an endeavour to reach the wreck, thought to be at a height of more than 10,000 feet.

Bad weather, fog and heavy rainfall compelled the patrol to give up and return to the Administration Post.

The second attempt was made in March after thorough preparation.

Previous to the patrol, Dr. Gonsalves made a reconnaissance flight by Cessna aircraft to find the exact position of the wreck and the best way to reach it. To reduce the quantity of food to be carried by the patrol an air-drop of food was planned on the plateau.

The patrol reached the spot on the third day, after climbing through dense jungle, crossing rivers and deep ravines, and climb - [?] ked correctly between signs— [?]a rather unorthodox position for rather more than the [?] lated hou r—was this Suva [?]r truck which turned turtle [?] failing to negotiate a curve. driver made a remarkable [?] e and no one was hurt, except [?] owner of the truck when m- [?]ed of the accident! —Stinson's. 131 ;mc ISLANDS monthly-may.

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Single pieces or collections (Convert them into cash) OSCAR EDWARDS, 330 Alison Road, Coogee, Sydney, Aust. id gliding down wet mountain often knee-deep in mud.

Gonsalves made an effort to the top on the same day of 1. After a strenuous climb he ided. His altimeter indicated e less than 12,000 feet, found a human skeleton on immit, but concluded that this te remains of a native, accordi the position of the teeth in :ull and the absence of tooths. jrrific hail-storm stopped this ttempt. The two Dani guides panying the Patrol Officer, sd by cold and pain, felt sure would die and were looking sheltered spot to expire peace- Dr. Gonsalves had to use all rsuasive powers to induce them irn with him to the camp be- Patrol Officer made five attempts on successive days ery time rain, fog, clouds and hailstorms forced him to return to camp unsuccessfully.

Seeking Jap Fishermen For Levuka Mr. A. G. McCown, of Levuka, Fiji, passed through Sydney early in May, en route to Japan. This is the next logical step in his plan for the establishment of a large fishing industry in Levuka. (March PIM).

He hopes, in Japan, to make arrangements under which Japanese fishermen, under contract, will supply fish mainly tuna— to Levuka.

Mr. McCown (who is accompanied by Mrs. McCown) will return to Fiji via New Guinea in June and, if the supply arrangements are complete, steps will be taken to establish, in Levuka, works for freezing and, eventually, for canning the fish. He looks to other Pacific countries —especially Canada for a market. A . , Mr. McCown said that, before he left Fiji, final arrangements had been made for registration of a company in the name of Levuka Canning Co. Ltd., with a nominal capital of £150,000. He expected that he would be chairman and that members of the Co. would include Messrs. Vince Costello, Les Martin, E. Ashley, Billy Obed, Jack War, Arthur Robinson, H. B. Gibson, Ricketts and Reg Patterson.

The thoughts and energies of the group appear to be directed at this stage more towards restoring an economic backbone to the failing port-town of Levuka, than towards profits.

Specimens of An Ancient Currency Currency notes with face values from one Dollar to 50 Dollars which were issued about 1870 by the then Kingdom of Fiji (pre-British), are being offered for sale by an old Fiji resident, Mr. N. S. Chalmers, whose address is PO Box 7, Lautoka, Fiji. He also wishes to sell a 10-Dollars Debenture note, dated 1872.

These notes were issued 85 years ago by the then King of Fiji in an attempt to raise funds to pay the compensation demanded by United States in respect of American citizens who were murdered by the Fijians on Kadavu Island.

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Copra Windfalls For G&E Islands Colony “The Government of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony must be vefy happy these days,” said a visitor from the Central Pacific, as he looked at the May 4 price of copra (£B7/5/- on the wharf, Suva), as published in Fiji Times.

“That Administration collects an export tax of no less than 25 per cent, of the value of copra. The Colony produces from 7,000 to 10,000 tons of copra a year. The export value of that, on the rates of recent months, could be £BOO,OOO per annum—of which the Government would collect some £200,000.

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“Our old friends, BP’s, must now be gathering a lot of copra from their big plantations on Fanning TOP The SPC Conference, from the outside looking in. The colour and spectacle of the opening day attracted the interest of thousands of New Britain natives, including the Tolais and the Navunerams.

They poked their nodes into windows and doorways to see what all the talkingf was about LEFT: Marcus Kaisiepo, who ted the Netherlands New Guinea delegation to the South, Pacific Conference. (For main story and pictures, see pages 17, 18, 19). 133 If IC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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Residents Refuse [ Brainwashing" er a lot of hoo-hah in Lae, Guinea, at the end of April, a projected meeting at which EL H. Reeve, Treasurer, and esent acting Assistant Adminor, was to meet the folks and t questions on income taxation long as they were not about ' —the whole show was called Vlr. Reeve couldn’t make it. it was the official excuse. Lae nts knew better. The president 2 local Chamber of Commerce Larised local feeling when he to inform the District Commer that his Council had denot to attend the meeting and ommend all members and the generally not to attend, ir reason was the very thing hey were not permitted to disivith Mr. Reeve and the Ausn taxation department expert accompanied him —t hat is, ts of policy. The president e C in C held that this was rux of the matter. He said: 2 consider that the manner in . the Administration has been icted to rush the necessary ition and steam r o 11 all 4ons, is unworthy of any :ratically elected Minister or ■nment. Furthermore, we conthe belated attempt to appease brainwash the community is clumsy and offensive.” /as announced later that any- /ho wanted to see Mr. Reeve do so in the District Office 1 hour and a half on May 5. 2 Public Service Association iers and three private citizens Two ofthem Mesws rSil tln J£ B Purnell f¥;Jf ahy t 3 Mr whether able from income, as in Australia! and whether mission earnings made in competition with private individuals were taxable.

L * n cases, was n L P ahy pointed out that aal f “ ls ,l l fs ru ? s da^ ry , and beef P a „ ? local sale and lately had . boa ts and wharf facilities]. two Territorians considered that both matters were subjects for amendments to the tax bill.

The PSA , member s learned from Mr. Reeve that of a lump-sum retirement cheque, only 5 per cent. was taxable; and that officers taking leave end of May can take a f^ ni ShVs salary and then carry the balance of leave payments into next f aX period ~ in other words, spread leaVe P&Y ° Ver tWO tax periodsc*** m i* ■ ■ Fiji Muslims Celebrate r j, n i End Ot Ramadan On April 10, Fiji Muslims, like good Muslims everywhere, celebrated the festival of Id-ul-fltr the triumphant culmination of the 30 days of abstinence called Ramadan, According to tradition, the Lady Ayesha, consort of the Prophet Mohammed, recorded that on the 14th night of Shabaan, the Holy Prophet experienced Divine revelations, which he later pronounced to his followers, and subsequently founded the religious school of Who Burnt Down [?]hat House?

“Samoa Bulletin’’, Western imoa’s weekly bi-language nuspaper, carried a halfige newspaper advertisement its issue of April 24, offerg a reward of £5OO for angle giving information leadg to the conviction of the rson or persons responsible r setting fire to the residue e of the Manager of orris Hedstrom Ltd. at data, on the night of last i bruary 11.

This was one of the several 2idents against well-known sidents in recent months. 135 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 1959

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I rarely have seen anything more aive and more stupid—especially t it is put out to justify the new ix system.

The Minister says that the chief jurces of Territories revenue (that i, apart from Australia’s annual rant of between £l2 and £ll lillions) in 1958-59 are— nport duties £2,200,000 xport duties 890,000 xcise, customs and harbour dues 238,500 ersonal tax 200,000 ostal charges 350,000 ents, royalties, fees. fines 200,100 üblic utilities . 560,000 He then says that the amount aid by the P-NG resident in in- Irect taxation (import duties and ccise) is £Bl per head, compared ith £45 in Australia.

So it is proposed “to lessen the irden of indirect taxation”.

He does not explain that, hitherto, ic P-NG person paid no income tx, whereas the Australian tax- »yer pays, In income tax, a larger im per head than £B7 each, in idition to £45 in indirect taxaon.

The Minister says that he now going to reduce import duties by 230,000 per annum, and export aties by £890,000, and will get in sturn an estimated £1,300,000 om income taxation.

The inference from his statement that thereby the burden of taxaon on the P-NG resident is to be ghtened.

But, examine the Minister’s gures.

The import duties are now .2,200,000 per annum. They are » come down by only £230,000 — hich is 10 per cent. What difsrence will that make to the 1959- ) living costs of the average person -who will be paying income tax ■om July 1, 1959?

The big reduction is in export aties, £890,000. That is a definite sncession to planters.

But how is it going to benefit the lass of public servants, and emloyees generally, who really have > struggle with the cost of living?

Few Territory employees get less kan £2O per week. Mr. Hasluck’s gures show that under the new cheme, they each will pay anyking from £2O to £7O in tax according to dependants)—and key obviously will get no benefit 'hatever from the reduced import utles.—R.W.R.

Guess Who? It’s Abel Tasman— but not the one who sailed around Fiji, New Guinea, Tonga and other Pacific Islands in 1640-odd. This is an indirect descendent, who was in Australia recently as the guest of Trans Australia Airlines —see story page 87. 137

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Also Registered Offices at Melbourne, Brisbane, Port Moresby (Papua), and Vila (New Hebrides) Mirk Ipahv fiptc iitiv LCdny ueis His Tick Damanps ma ntiv UdmdytJS The Administration of Papua- New Guinea failed to enter an appeal by the due date, and the finding of Mr. Justice Mann for Mr. Mick Leahy, in the celebrated "tick” case, stands.

Mr. Leahy thereby gets damages of £4,055 and all costs in the action, [Mr. Leahy’s case was that employees of the Department of Agriculture had failed to control an infestation of ticks on his cattle when they had entered into a contract to do so, and when they had insisted that they perform the job which Leahy wanted to perform himself; as a result of their failure t 0 control the ticks, he claimed that infestation had spread amongst the Leahy herd resulting in heavy losses through red-water fever].

On his way through Sydney, with Mrs. Leahy, in late April after two months in the United States, Mick Leahy was delighted with the final results of the case—which is about the first time anyone has sued the P-NG Administration and managed to win, or even survive.

He was also delighted with their holiday in the United States and Hawaii, but more than ever convinced that New Guinea “is the most wonderful country in the world”—if certain gentlemen in Canberra can only be persuaded to leave it alone, The only cloud on the Leahy horizon was P-NG Income Tax. E had, he said, poured everything K had ever owned into his Zena property, and intended to put even thing he was likely to earn in th forseeable future back into th same place. He doesn’t feel thfc he needs any curb in the way t income taxation —and scores o pioneers in P-NG will agree witt him.

Mick Leahy went to the Unite States primarily to attend Generr Douglas MacArthur’s birthday party; after that he and his wit. were passed from one friend i another, mostly men Mick had me during the Pacific war, north an south, east and west all over tW United States. They visited tW King Ranch in Texas and wen fascinated alike by the ranch, te owner Kleberg (“who still gets on there and ropes cattle”) and by th Santa Gertrudis breed whin Kleberg established.

In Hawaii, the Leahys spent sorrn time with Baron Goto, the coff© expert who visited New Guinea some years ago to advise planter?' March 13 in Haapai, Tonga, was a day to remember, because this year (she was 59) Queen Salote chose to spend her birthday with the people of these islands to which she has a special ancestral relationship.

There are 10,000 people in the 16 scattered islands of the Group, and a large proportion of them converged on Lifuka, the main island, for the occasion. They arrived in cutters of all sizes, launches and canoes; some went by horse; and those who lived on the nearest island waited for low tide and then walked and waded over. All came loaded with gifts of food and 150 fine mats which were ceremonially presented.

The day began with a church service, and was followed by a feast, a ceremonial Kava ring, dancing and presentation of gifts.

The Queen travelled from Nukualofa to Lifuka in the new "Hifofua" to give the people of Haapai their first look at their new ship. 138 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

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LIMITED * (Incorporated in New South Wale») also saw something of ranching he US’s 50th State. d they feel the North American er? No they did not —they warm clothes with them and i’t use them. Houses, trains, were heated, to such an extent the Leahys declared themselves lydrated”. They were looking 'ard to getting back for Lttle cool air 4,000 ft up at ig. id that’s where they went withlosing any time. They got into ley from Honolulu on April 20 left for New Guinea by Qantas :he 21st.

List of Kuru fims is Growing ie mystery of the fatal kuru ise of the Okapa area, 40 miles i Kainantu, NG Eastern Highs, is no further towards being id. though the population has reled static the mortality rate risen. There have been 300 stered deaths since records were ted, and 300 patients at present suffering with the mystery sise, according to Dr. Vincent s, of Kainantu, who first carried medical investigations on kuru who has recently returned i a 12 months tour of America Europe, studying various aspects he problem. hile in America he helped ,nise an exhibition by the onal Institute of Health, which /ed, with the aid of pictures and s, and medical data, some of problems which science has to s°Jve if it is to identify the disease.

The exhibition toured the States, where the medical profession saw it, and it is now about to open in Eng- D r - Zigas hopes that the exhibition will eventually come to Australia and Papua and New Guinea.

“We have already got many hints and tips from it,” said Dr. Zigas.

“That is one of the reasons for it.”

Meanwhile, at Oka pa, two doctors are still working especially on the disease—Dr. A. Gray, and Dr. K.

Aurchit. Dr. Zigas takes as great an interest as ever, but he also has the additional work of looking after the health of this area for the Administration, and there are other medical problems here besides kuru.

But one of the particular kuru problems that is exercising him at the moment is the tragic one of looking after small babies suffering from gross malnutrition as a result of the deaths or illness of their mothers from kuru. The babies don’t get proper attention in the villages.

Dr. Zigas has at Kainantu, 12 babies of about 12 months old whom he is getting back to health. But as a long-term arrangement he wants to build anew hospital especially for kuru victims, The site would be about 20 miles from Okapa, which is now known to be more in the centre of the stricken area than is the Okapa post itself.

The would be an Administration one of 60 beds but the Lutheran Mission has promised three nurses to staff it. (Over) samples of kuru victims being put in a plane by Dr. Zigas, at Kainantu. 139 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY.

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DISTRIBUTORS: Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva Lautoka and Ba, Levoka, Noko'alofa, Apia T he present hospital at Okapa s not now take kuru victims, ause so many of them are rering attention, and other cases e to be dealt with, too. ey're Looking For w Business ritain’s Colonial Development poration, a body which likes to I private capital to help it run Iness ventures on behalf of the ;ish Government, has been takan interest in Fiji and the BSIP iyegotiations in the BSIP have dly begun, but there are some igs already happening in Fiji.

Corporation is interested in muts, cocoa and timber—and laps rice. suggested to the Colonial Sugar Ining Co. that that company ht like the CDC to help finance sugar company’s plans for a growing venture for Rewa tiers. But the CSR apparently lot interested. It can finance scheme itself, and doesn’t need more capital, le CDC is doing better on the ir side of Viti Levu above Nadi, re it is interested in joining a ■ Zealand firm in the logging nixed timber. id another scheme it has prod is one for the interplanting of cocoa with coconuts on Vanua Levu. The Fiji Government is all for Governmental cocoa planting.

It thinks it can offer the CDC about 1,700 acres of land along the Hibiscus Highway, in Navonu Valley, not far from Buca Bay.

The CDC would possibly go into the venture using some CDC funds plus funds from the Fijian landholders and perhaps the Fiji Development Fund. It 'would, to begin with, provide European planting experts for a pilot scheme, This scheme would be a good one for the Hibiscus Highway at any Second Thoughts About N. Britain J/K In™ i PIli ? J tMf New Britain District Commissioner Briaa/iPrn m le ™] n 9 Rabaulwere not true, the Administrator, M ;• Cleland said in Rabaul in May. He said Mr. from Zve the ylar ** C mowing return What Brigadier didn’t say was that the reports were true Ad^i^%n^ 6^ Were V rin } ed in April, but after publication the Administration did an about-turn and reversed the decision. the + T ? l^} 8 aren ’t making the Administration’s problem in that part of New Britain any easier. There have been a series of incidents in the last few weeks, some of the matters not in themselves connected, but generally indicative of a growing restlessness. There have been land disputes and a native petition has recently been presented which has given the Administration some thoughtful moments about how it should be handled One of the basic Tolai complaints is that the Administration, apparently not over-anxious to buy itself into any fights since the Navuneram shootings, has been ignoring some sections of the people—and it seems that ignoring them is worse than shooting them.

There will probably be some more announcements concerning New Britain in the next few months. fifth anniversary of the founding of Fiji [?]ment Press Credit Union was marked by [?]tail party and dinner recently, photograph shows the _ founder of the onion movement in Fiji (Father Ganey) ig the Union. 141 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY,

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Cocoa is not a new crop in Fiji— it was first introduced about 1880.

But after a very severe hurricane in 1912, plus low prices, production was abandoned, and there was not a revival of interest until as recently as World War 11.

An expert, D. H. Urquhart, brought out by the South Pacific Commission, gave a real impetus to cocoa planting in 1952, and now about 1,400 farmers, mostly Fijian, have plantings in many islands.

In Fiji it is hoped that the proposed CDC scheme will give it even a greater push. The CDC has not previously put any money into Fiji or the BSIP. although it has been doing developmental work in the African colonies since the war, helping to take the strain off local budgets, Mnro Iclanrlarc Inr more ISianaerS TOF Miccinn TacLc idbRS With pioneering mission work generally regarded as completed in Central Pacific Territories, the Churches look now more towards consolidated their position rathf than proselytising. Increasingly, tl tendency is for Islanders to 1 accepted into the Church hierarcH for what may be termed the “secon stage” task among their own peopl< Latest step in this direction wr the establishment in April, by tl Roman Catholic Missions of tl Society of Brothers of St. Josepc at Cawaci, Fiji. It is an extensio of an earlier Fiji brotherhoo (Little Brothers of Mary) and wt provide trained Brothers for Fii Tonga and Samoa.

In these three vicariates, | native Marist priests are alreao ministering and several more aj candidates for priesthood.

More than 120 Fiji and Rotuma girls have become Sisters of Ot Lady of Nazareth, and this con gregation has recently been opem to young women from Tonga an Samoa.

Fiji Whaling Station- Yes, No Or Maybe After three seasons of caref whale-spotting, coupled with son whale marking, W. R. Carpenter Co. (Fiji) Ltd. will not carry ot any spotting this year—but thi does not mean that the resull have necessarily been disappointin or that no whaling station will 1 established in Fiji.

Mr. W. G. Johnson, managiß director of the firm, said at the en of April that a great deal of useff information had been acquired K the firm during its survey. This in formation had cost money—and wa therefore not for general release a this stage.

There were no new developments; no immediate plans for the estaH lishment of any industry—at leas, not this year. And that was a that Mr. Johnson could say at thr stage.

Bread is Higher, Tempers Shorter New Caledonians (and especial New Caledoniennes, who have ! do the housekeeping) are annoy* at the rate at which the price ( bread is going up. All are hear eaters of bread and when the priti soars to the equivalent of 2/- Aua tralian for a 2-lb loaf, it is regarde as just a bit much.

Reason for the price is said j be the price of French flour whio is now the equivalent for £A23O p< ton landed in Noumea.

New Caledonians take a lot I convincing of the truth of t| Government announcement thatj would be dearer if it came froi Australia (because of the recei devaluation of the franc). It hard to believe, says a cor ref; 142 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH

dent, that flour dragged from >ss the other side of the world be cheaper than flour brought 1 Australia just 800 miles away, ’rice of a 2-lb loaf in Sydney /3; of a ton of flour, £A4O. If 3al. bakers can make a 2/- loaf of flour at £230 per ton, they’re icle workers). v Senator and v Deputy for N. Cal.

“college” of 67 voters elected r Caledonia’s new representative he French Senate on April 26. tiose eligible to vote were the cibers of the Assembly Terriile, members of Noumea’s ucipal council, presidents of the itry municipal commissions, the Caledonia-New Hebrides uty to the French Parliament the retiring Senator (M. sn). le first scrutiny showed three lidates M. Henri Lafleur, M. Ohlen, Lenorid’s Union Caledonienne; and rges Chatenay, Union New üblic. Results were: Lafleur 33, m 18, and Chatenay 16. As 2 of the candidates had received number of votes necessary for ictory (one half plus one) a nd “scrutiny” took place, the I candidate retiring and asking supporters to vote for Lafleur. ic results was unexpected: sur was elected, with 38 votes,there was a tremendous drift Chatenay’s supporters, and sn received 28 votes, metheless, the election of Lafleur popular one. He is well-educaand cultured, although a selfe man—he made his money in ng—and knows how to present Caledonia to Paris. He has e before represented New Calea in the French Senate, ections for the Deputy to esent New Caledonia and New' 'ides (French nationals only) he French parliament will be on May 24. the last election, in 1956, over er cent, of those eligible to vote failed to do so. Lenormand won that contest, polling more than 5,000 votes more that his opponent.

Sing-Sing To End All Sing-Sings?

Prospect of a mass walk-out by Chimbu labourers, employed in the Western Highlands, NG, to attend one last immense sing-sing (tribal dance feast) later this year has perturbed coffee planters in the area.

Thousands of Chimbus (Eastern Highlanders) are reported to be preparing for the sing-sing, which, it is said, will mark the end of their primitive way of life and their acknowledgment and adoption of European clothes and customs.

Already, in some parts, planters complain that there is an inter mittent drift of labour from the plantations and that Chimbu headmen have been canvassing coffeeestates in the Western Highlands, urging their people to return home for the sing-sing.

After they have discarded their plumes and ceremonial dress, the Chimbus say they do not intend to work on European plantations in the Western Highlands, but will grow coffee in their own districts for the benefit of their own native councils.

At Port Moresby headquarters.

Director of Native Affairs, A. A.

Roberts, commented that the Administration was aware of the move to start a sing-sing but that “it would not be a very big thing”.

Other officials, however, believed the Chimbus plan to slaughter thousands of pigs and make the sing-sing the biggest in the history of the Highlands.

Komdrom, a Chimbu leader, was being brought to Moresby by the Administration for briefing and would be sent back to the plantations to talk the labourers out of their demands to return home for the sing-sing, according to one published report in April.

New Samoa Urgently Seeking Professionals Western Samoa may face a serious position with its health and medical services later this year.

Terms of appointment of its three overseas doctors, including that of the Director of Health Services, Dr.

R. W. B. Maxwell, expire within the next few months, None of them is seeking to renew his contract.

For six weeks the Public Service Commissioner has been advertising for a surgeon-specialist to replace Dr. M. Heycock, who completes his term of appointment in June. But no one has applied. His present salary—and that being offered the new appointees—is roughly £4OO a year below the basic scale, with post allowances, fixed by the South Pacific Health Service. (Over) Tribe-Eating New Guineans for UK When the BP vessel “Bulolo” berthed in Sydney after rctwwng rom New Guinea in May she earned 17 s^^P f^ c hs from the J G Highlands, They were booked out of Sydney the s “™f d Jr y oy t ir to the United Kingdom, where they mil he Wild Fowl Trust, in Gloucestershire. The s £l™dor i sare a gift rom Sir Edward HaUstrom, Chairman of the Taronga Park iho specialises in giving away odd wild-life. (Last alf a, dozen Koalas to the San Francisco zoo).

He’s been keeping the ducks on f/ie arfi/ical Zofcc a successhe Western Highlands. None of the breed hwever teensucc^ ally transplanted before, because, says Sir fdwar , pellets out to feed them. He feeds his on rneat duck pellets _ nd cut-up tripe. The tripe goes from Sydney by air and costs lb, landed in New Guinea.

No wonder he wants to send the ducks to the UK. Tripe is robably cheaper there.

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suiting of medical staff for 3rn Samoa has for some years undertaken through the South c Health Service; but adveris now being extended to New nd. stern Samoa may need a cian specialist—a post not at it existing—as well as a Dn specialist but difficulty be found in filling these posi- Two main obstacles are the ractive salary offered to highly led men needed for this work, the changing status of the irn Samoa Government.

Heycock finishes his term of utment in June; Dr. M. B. ir is expected to relinquish his ly; and Dr. Maxwell goes in er. That leaves, on the al staff, apart from over 40 >, Dr. J. C. Thieme (present al superintendent) and Dr. . Williams, who recently rei to Samoa after fully qualify- ,nd practising as a medical • in New Zealand. Both were n Samoa, but Dr. Thieme lived any years in Germany. 3 E. L. Cochrane, matron of Hospital, is completing ippointment next December, hief health inspector, Mr. R. goes to New Zealand very ;o take up a position at Wan- No one is yet in sight to fill )sition. rage number of beds occupied day in the Apia Hospital is 280. Last year’s intake of Ante was 4,707 and out-patient lances were 56,198. Surgical ions totalled 691, plus 482 operations. There were 908 nity deliveries and 3,439 minor itient operations, re is not only the question lere Samoa is going to get ed medical staff, particularly lists, under the new condibut also the question of proan adequate supply of prolal men and technicians, once government” takes Honolulu-Pago Pago Air Link Popular Tftjnsocean Airlines Boeing Stratocruiser service from Honolulu to Pago Pago, now operating on the basis of a return flight every second Wednesday, is proving popular—69 passengers boarded at Pago Pago on the flight April 24.

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In the case of Fiji, it was agreed that this be modified to the extent that £l/15/- went into the stabilisation fund. £3 to the industry, and [?] ter Ben . . .

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Said a Rabaul businessman t) day the tax details were announce* “If you’ve got any friends Sou'i who have done even three weeof schooling or added up penn£ on a paper run, then tell ’em come up here. They’ll make for tunes as bookkeepers and clerh around this town”.

But, of course, there are plem of clerks and would-be accoujj tants in the Territory who hat already seen the writing on tl wall.

And there is more than a sprint) ing of qualified people who will s up shop as registered tax agenn after July 1. Many accountant 10/- to a special export duty.

In January, 1955, the amount payable to the stabilisation fund in Fiji was reduced to £l/5/-. The special export duty allocation remained at 10/-, and the remainder of the subsidy was diverted to the industry.

This has been the position since January, 1955, to the present time, the actual subsidy being negotiated ea ch year.

Through this subsidy Fiji received nearly £lO per ton higher than the world price in each year up to 1958, with the exception of 1957 when the free market price rose substantially to £5/6/9 above the Commonwealth Agreement price.

This year the latter has been fixed at £45/2/- per ton, which is substantially above the free market price.

The Bill just passed in Suva makes provision for the appointment of a three-man board. The board could not be representative of all the interests involved as it would be unmanageable in the view of the Financial Secretary who presented the Bill on behalf of the government. If the sugar unions reached agreement and federated, the government would, however, consider such representation on this capital development fund board, Various members of the Legislative Council put forward a suggestion on how the fund should be employed. These ranged from proposals that the fund be employed entirely in loans to farmers and millers; to the suggestion that funds for hospital building might be derived from this source.

Growers in the Nausori area w r be excluded from the use of to fund as the government intern making special provision for the as a result of the projected closiii down of the CSR mill in that an this year.

Two speakers—Mr. Vishnu U (Indian member for the Southed Division, who is interested in scheme to keep on growing sugs in the Rewa, and Semesa Sikiv\ (fourth Fijian member) —consider! that money from the fund shorn be made available for the establish ment of a proposed new mill.

Tonga's Hospitals Ceiebratt Golden Jubilee To mark the 50th anniversary the founding of a Governme hospital at Vavau, this yeas annual conference of the Ton Medical Department was held Vavau in April, instead Nukualofa where it usually sits.

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Box 2622, G.P.0., Sydney. FF 4224. Cables: "Thornmotor", Sydney. nesses in the Territory are ady making arrangements to die this extra work. doming Flood of Paper Work tie small people in the backks, away from the towns, are g to be the worst hit. lese people run on a shoestring operate their businesses themes—using a minimum of book- They handle enough invoices et by with—and that’s all. le additional paper work that tax will enforce will eat into time they are already using to the more practical side of their ness. Many would be unable ay for clerks, even if they could them.

Highlands planter of long exmce said, “What has been otten is that you can’t have lations demanding literacy in iliterate community, without a of people being disorganised.

Government demands the ir work but doesn’t say how it ) be done in a country where ve clerks are still a novelty”. g businesses won’t have the 3 problems. ley will be able to get the i people to handle the big ;ase in paper work because can afford to bring them from ralia. And these firms, of se, already operate adequate keeping systems. it the pay-as-you-go system as to them extra expenditure taff to do the job the Income Department itself should be g, but doesn’t—that is, the al collection of the taxes. vealth members to assist deiment in these territories. rtainly they have a “moral ation”; but one has to look indeed to find much morality aolitics. Perhaps the South ic Commission —which, one MP tted, “this House has lost sight might be given some teeth, so it might do something in the nistrative field. e Under Secretary of State for Colonies, Mr. Julian Amery, !d to look into the suggestion ; forward by several members it Channel Island status might le “ultimate” status conferred he Gilbert and Ellice Island iy. is suggestion is not as radical might sound, for the Channel ds while having internal selfrnment, are linked to the Crown )ugh a Lieutenant-Governor, act with HM Government is through the Home Secretary. A change of status eventually would whilsWna C r? lor £ a -f’ complex, guaranteem S British assistance - _ . , .. .

Fiji s Problems Aired Pr°p ler ns were given an airing, what with Mr. Brockway and m imemptoymenf a aggfavated lo bv the PWirr^n7nff g nf Sn mS recent!V laymg ’ off of 500 men „ , Mr. Brockway went further, and asked for a “common roll” in Fiji.

He said also: “If we really mean what we say about democracy in the smaller Colonies we should begin to establish it in Fiji”.

But Mr. Amerv reolied that thp development of Fiji towards selfgovernment was essentially a slow process, because it depends on the growth and understanding between the races. It was HM Government’s aim to bring Fiji to the stage of government by an “unofficial majority”; but it would take some time to reach that point. he stressed that for some of the smaller colonies “internal self-government” would be the maximum advance in status, with Britain retaining appropriate responsibilities for defence and external affairs, and “perhaps, in certain cases, for the safe-guarding of minorities”.

He dismissed Mr. Brockway’s 147 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959 Colonies' Future (Continued from page 29)

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The position, at the moment, is that the Super Constellation aircraft which Qantas is using on its New Guinea service, and the Electras that will go onto this service next year, cannot go further than Port Moresby because no other airports in the Territory are capable of taking larger than a DC4—and few other than Lae are capable of taking planes of even that size.

The old DC3 work-horses are nearing the end of their useful lives but what will take their place in New Guinea has been exercising the minds of the experts for some time. Fokker Friendships would probably be ideal for a number of the longer Territory routes, including a Lae-Honiara-New Hebrides- New Caledonia service, but would be unsuitable for others, such as the long “milk-run” services into the Highlands and around the group.

Competition for Qantas Changes are shortly expected in internal New Guinea services and the service from Australia. When the Director of Civil Aviation visited the Terrtory in January one of the things he investigated was the need, or otherwise, for a competitor for Qantas on the Sydney-NG service.

An announcement was then expected within a few weeks. Now it is May, and some aviation circles consider a decision imminent— granting Ansett-ANA rights to fly to New Guinea from Australia in competition with Qantas. (Other experts think the Dept, of Civil Aviation will just say nothing, hoping everyone will forget the whole thing).

Ansetts were attempting to get these rights, and were refused, even before they swallowed up ANA in 1957.

It is considered likely, however, that part of the deal will be an insistence that Ansett will have to take over some of the internal P-NG services.

To do this they will presumably have to buy into an existing airline, as present traffic will not support an additional line.

New Air Connection For Tonga?

A Fiji Airways spokesman said at the end of April that it was possible that a fairly regular but nonscheduled air link would be reestablished with Tonga as the result of talks held in Nukualofa late in April when one of the company’s Heron aircraft made a flight there from Nausori.

It was believed that a loading for a Heron would be available every two or three weeks.

Tonga has had no air connection since the Tonga Government decided to discontinue the special charter-flights made by the TEAL Solent flying-boat up to 1957.

The late April flight to Fua’amotu 50 tons in 1960, It needs little nation to see what sort of e planters would be in if s in Australia had remained jrent to the troubles of the ory industry. wers (who were represented by ighlands Farmers’ and Settlers’ ation), contended after the ,ry conference, that the Ausi Government would have to i stricter import licensing of , which would be a short-term m to immediate problems of al. But, for the long term, sections favoured the idea of rketing Board, similar to the Copra Marketing Board.

Marketing Board appears to >een dropped but growers have me stability into the industry, ninimum they can get for a product is 4/- per lb (although vill get less for poorer grades) ley can get up to 4/7 or posnore if the overseas price rises ently. (The price being paid >od quality NG coffee in Sydi early May was 4/5 for A 4/4 for B and 4/1 for C).

Sydney conference was well attended. Representatives of the growers and processors, were there’ so also was Mr. E. J. Wood, from the Department of Territories, who acted as Chairman. The chief of the Division of Agricultural Extension, P-NG Department of Agriculture, Mr. W. Conroy, attended.

The decision of the processors to take all the 1959 New Guinea coffee crop appears to have been arrived at amicably enough—these people being, no doubt, fully aware that the Australian Government, through its present system of import licensing held the trump card, and would play it if necessary.

P-NG coffee planters haven’t got all that they wanted, but they got a lot more than they had at the end of 1958. No one is going to make a fortune out of coffee at a Sydney c.i.f. price of 4/- a lb, but it is a guarantee against disaster in the year ahead.

Agents Form Assn.

At the request of the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association of New Guinea, it was decided at the Sydney conference to form a Coffee Agents’ Association to handle the Papua-New Guinea production in Australia.

Members of the Association are Gollan and Co. Ltd., Harrisons Ramsay, Pty. Ltd., Singer and Pink, Peter Jackett and Co., and Colyer Watson Ltd. The Australian Government, through an official of the Department of Territories, will have an observer in the Association; and the F & S Association will be represented by Messrs. W. Mayberry and F. M. Hewitt, MLC, who have Australian as well as New Guinea interests in coffee and other enterprises.

Meetings will be held monthly, in Sydney and Melbourne alternately.

The Association is not a “closed shop”; other agent members may be admitted—if they are approved by the Farmers’ and Settlers and the agents already accredited. The Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association insisted that agent membership should be restricted to those who have had actual experience in large-scale handling of New Guinea coffee to the satisfaction of growers.

Producers in P-NG need not, of course sell their coffee through the Association although it will probably be in their interests to do so; and some obligation will, no doubt be upon members of the H* & SA to support the accredited agents. laint that Fiji taxation was too by saying that taxes were is high as in the East African tories! ntion was also made that the :ess Colonies” would, for the being, have to forego inidence, in the interests of the Df the Commonwealth. Cyprus “not necessarily a precedent”. :s seemed to indicate some ;ning of attitude, and is ining in regard to Singapore Aden. sre were the usual allusions (ringing in UNO”, mainly by ir members, but whether they isly entertained the idea of gentlemen representing the tors of Panama and Dominica ig a say in determining the e of British Colonies, seems doubtful. ter members seemed almost on yerge of advocating the De e ultimatum to his Colonies: er stay in or get out”. But was dismissed as being too il a departure from British 3ds, and more suitable to the :h regime. loes, of course, have some adges for investors and trade, j member admitted that, ugh several MP’s had spent youth in the Colonial Service, ames of the Territories, except lestion time, were practically ird in the Commons. 149 Jet- Age In Pacific (Continued from page 22) IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, Sydney Coffee Conference (Continued from page 22)

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AP4 (C) TECTORATE: Mr, Silas Sitai, BEM (d gate), Mr, Salana G’aa, BEM (delegs Mr. V. J. Andersen, MBE (adviser).

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Mr. John Kalsakau (delegate), Cl Thompson Tangarasi (delegate), Richard Angeloni, MBE (adviser), : Jacques Kerry (adviser to all French di gates).

COOK ISLANDS: Mrs. Teupokoina H gan (delegate), Mrs. Margaret Ta« (delegate), Mr. Taukeu Puna (alterns Mr. L. K. Pitt (adviser, Cook Islands Niue).

FIJI: The Hon. H. B. Gibson. ♦ (delegate), The Hon. Semesa Siki (delegate), The Hon. Dr. Sahu Khan (d gate).

FRENCH POLYNESIA: Mme. H. Jaci min (delegate), M. E. Le Caill (delegs GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS: Tabunawati Takoa (delegate), Te Reo K. Uatioa (delegate), Henry Faati Naij (delegate), lupasi Kaisala (delegate),!

G. Bristow (adviser).

GUAM; Mr. Richard Taitano (delegs Mr. Vicente Bamba (delegate).

NAURU: Head Chief Hammer de Rot (delegate), Councillor Raymond Gad (alternate), Mr. G. A. Pittman (advise NETHERLANDS NEW GUINEA: Marcus Kaisiepo (delegate), Mr. H Meset (delegate), Mr. Eliezer Wettebd (alternate), Mr. Martinus Janam ternate), Mr. Dick Sarwon (alternate),} Pieter Merkelijn (adviser), Mr. C.f Stef els (interpreter-translator).

NEW CALEDONIA: Mr. Pierre Isama (delegate), Mr. Pierre Ketiwan (delega NIUE: Mr. Leslie Rex (delegate).

PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA: Mr.

Kai Ivasi (delegate), Miss Nancy i (delegate), Mr. Raymon (delegate), Mr,i A. Kassi (delegate), Brother Peter Hii (alternate). Mr. Tovin Tobaining (alf nate), Mr. Kondon-Arau’undo (alterns Miss Philo Gamauri (alternate). Mr; K. McCarthy, MBE (adviser), Mr. Ellil Elijah, MBE (adviser), Mrs. Lila Matt (adviser), Mr. Reuben Taureka (advis TONGA: HRH Prince Fatafehi Tu’ip; hake (delegate). Mahe ’Uli’uli Tupoul (delegate).

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Mr. Elias P. Sablan (alternate), Mr. Fr J. Mahony (adviser), Miss Myrtle Hs stad (adviser).

Wallis And Futuna Islands: I

Father Vittolio (delegate), Mr. So,*: Makape (dit Papilio) (delegate).

WESTERN SAMOA: Miss Tiresa Ham BA (delegate), Mr. F. Sosene (delegate-!

OBSERVERS: Rev. G. G. Carter, Ci mission on Overseas Missions and Ini Church Aid of the National Missioip Council of New Zealand; Dr. J. M. Crt shank. World Health Organisation; I fessor J. A. Barnes. Australian Natk University; Very Rev. James Dwyer, I Apostolic Delegation, Australia; Dr. j Coolidge, Bernice P. Bishop Museum j Pacific Science Board; Dean Knowles Ryerson, Pacific Science Association;!

A. Capell, National Missionary Council!

Australia. airport, Tongatapu, included Mn Ritchie, manager of Fiji Airw:\ and a full load of passengers—S* businessmen, three BBC televisii camera men, and a Tongan fain returning home. The aircraft 1 piloted by Captain Gordon Yorl' 150 S.P. Conference (Continued from page 19) MAY. 1959 - PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH)

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Bishop Andre Sorin

tead of the Roman Catholic red Heart Mission in Papua, hop Andre Sorin, MSC, of Yule nd, died at his desk in his study n a heart attack on April 19. [e was 56 and had been in Papua ce 1931, when he arrived from idee province, France. He became hop Apostolic of Port Moresby 1946. s a priest, in the 1930’5, he was in charge of mission schools 1 then followed some pioneering *s among the mainland mountain sion stations. His 13 years as nop represented a period of dejpment—new mission districts e opened up, road systems inurated (with financial help from Administration), a permanent »uan teachers’ training school up, and a steady stream of rature and books, in English and Ive dialects, sent out from the e Island mission press.

Mr. B. Mckenzie

[r. Ben McKenzie, well known Taveuni and Labasa district, , died in Suva on April 22, in late 60’s. Until he retired retly, he was head blacksmith for anial Sugar Refining Cos. Ltd. at asa mill. e is survived by his wife, two s (Ben and Jerry) and two ghters (Tilly and Florrie).

Sister Clara Mueller

n American nun, Sister Clara “Her, who went to New Guinea years ago, died at Alexishafen holic Mission on April 16. ne of a group of vcplunteers sen to replace German missionary is in NG after World War I, her icipal task was teaching sewing dressmaking to native girls at nleo and Alexishafen, until she it to Australia in 1933 to found convalescent home. Later, she tblished a novitiate in Brisbane Holy Ghost Missionary Sisters, ister Clara returned to NG in 1947 and continued her seamstress work at Alexishafen until she suffered a stroke last January.

Mr. W. Gibson

Mr. Walter (Wally) Gibson, of Lami, Suva, where he had lived in retirement in recent years, died in the Colonial War Memorial Hospital on April 25, aged 69.

Born on Rotuma Island, he lived most of his working life at Levuka, Ovalau, where he was in charge of Burns Philp (SS) Co.’s copra stores.

A keen sportsman, the annual athletics and soccer football competitions of 20 years ago at Levuka owed much of their success to his interest and stewardship.

Rev. H. Bergmann

The Rev. Heindrick Bergmann, Lutheran Mission schoolteacher at Ulap, Morobe District, New Guinea, was fatally electrocuted on April 15 when he slipped and grabbed a live wire to stop himself sliding down a slope. He was assisting an electrician clean up a steep downgrade near an electricity pole at Ulap hydro scheme. Son of Rev. and Mrs.

Gustave Bergmann, of Boana, near Lae, he was born in New Guinea and was educated in Brisbane and in Germany. Only 26, he was married 12 months ago, and left a widow and a two-weeks’ old daughter.

Bishop Sorin. 151 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY,

sport Review Fijians as Top Rugby Executives From Norman Baxter THERE is a “new look” about Suva rugby control this season following a reported behindthe scenes move among the Fijians during the off-season. The Fijians apparently decided that it was about time they had a go at running their own rugby so set about putting most of their own officials into the key positions.

Some of their moves were successful, and a solid pro-Fijian bloc did not show any sign of a split when it came to electing the president, who this year is Ratu K. K. T. Mara, better known for his cricket prowess, instead of Mr.

Les Martin, who had worked hard for rugby for many years.

Ratu Mara becomes the first Fijian to hold this position in Suva.

As Ratu Mara secured 20 votes, it was assumed that each Fijian nominee for a key post would revive the same number. But the Fijian candidate for the secretaryship dropped to 16, and only scraped in by one vote.

That there was a split in the ranks became apparent when there was a tie for the office of treasurer and the newly-installed president gave his casting vote against the Fijian candidate.

The Fijians lost badly with the vice-presidents (only one out of five) and overall, if the management committee ever comes to a vote on racial lines the will of the Europeans is likely to prevail. But such a situation is not likely to arise for the Fijians and Europeans have always worked well together for the good of rugby.

What About a S. Pacific Olympics?

From a Special Correspondent in Rabaull THERE’S a chance that the South Pacific might get its own Olympic Games, if a suggestion put forward here at the Fourth South Pacific Conference can geie through a baffle wall of half-a-j dozen South Pacific Governments..

Dr. Sahu Khan, an Indian dele-; gate from Fiji, suggested that an Inter-Pacific Sports Tournament should be held every three yearsa This was one of the best ways o;< “quickly overcoming insularity”, htj said.

Mrs. Teupokoina Morgan, of thu Cook Islands (who, incidentally, wau one of the most attractive delegates; at the Conference) supported thtj Indian suggestion, and said the 11 Cook Islands were already holding their own sports meetings and werr certainly ready for overseas meet-; ings.

There are plenty of inter-Territory events in the Pacific, of courses Tonga and Fiji for years have been competing at football, and there is; a South Seas Boxing Championships This more general sports plan would be a good one, but what happens U it will depend on how the six mem-, ber Governments of SPC react.

Lae's A A Raises Fun and Money From Pat Robertson SCORING 190 points out of 8 possible 195, Mr. Alan B. King? driving a 1958 Morris 1000, won the first organised motor spon* event ever held in Lae, New Guinea, on April 19.

The sport was a “Treasure Hunt”

One of the first swimming carnivals to be held in Suva for some years—apart from the school carnivals —was organised by the Junior Chamber of Commerce recently. This group of prize-winners receiving the Pan American Airways Inter-House Relay Trophy from Mr. C. Stinson include from left (almost obscured) Warren Clarke, Jim Kerrigan, Denis Raddock and Jim Sutherland—the captain of this Mosquito Hockey Club swimming team. —Stinson.

Since New Zealand introduced the Marching Girl to Fiji last year the sport has taken on. Th[?] Coralettes shown here are the latest, and not the least good-looking, of the teams to have beet[?] formed in Suva. —Stinson. 152 MAY. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

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The finishing point was the Lae Bowling Club, where there was a cold beer and a hot barbecue.

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Sakiusa is now the Ex-Champion Middleweight champ of New Caledonia, the Mare islander Doudie, once again showed his superiority over the South Seas ex-champ Sakiusa, the Fijian, who now hands over his “South Seas championship” belt.

Critics declared that Doudie had “a slight superiority” over his rival. [?]ap in the hat is Don McColm, manager Bisianumu Experimental Station, outside [?]oresby; the horse is Prince Gaekwar, [?]lown in Australia as winner of a dozen events, including the Adelaide Cup, but [?]stined to finish his career as a Terri- Prince Gaekwar is one of three racebought by the Administration recently improve Territory stock breeding. 153 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY. 1959

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IV Pak Hoi: Leaves Sydney for Brisie, Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae. Next Iney sailings June 2. July 7 (Moresby ttle service).

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Australia-NZ-Fiji-Canada-USA Sailings of Orient and P. & O. Line Passenger Ships 1959 t From Los Angeles thence Panama, Colon, Trinidad, Madeira, Le Havre, London.

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Zealand-Fiji-Tonga-Samoa T Tofua maintains a service from land to Suva, Nukualofa, Vavau, , Pago Pago, Apia, Suva and return ickland. Next sailings from Auckland: 16 (undergoes survey on return to land on July 5). August 11. r Matua maintains a service from land to Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Nuku- , Lyttleton, Wellington, and return ickland. Next sailings from Auckland: 30 (after survey), July 28 bails from all offices of Union Steam Co. of NZ.

Jydney-New Hebrides-BSI- Bougainville, Etc. r Tulagi, 10 passengers, makes a round Norfolk Is., Vila. Santo, Honiara BSI ports, Bougainville ports, leaving ey about once every six weeks. Next ey sailings June 11, July 27. tails from Burns, Philp and Co., 7 re Street, Sydney. rdney-N. Caledonia Tahiti ssels of Messagerles Maritimes Line, tig from Marseilles, via West Indies Panama, call about every six weeks apeete, Vila (New Hebrides), Noumea Sydney, and return by same route, iresent on this run are the motor- , Tahitien and Caledonien and a ;ered vessel, Melanesien. Next Sydney igs: Tahitien July 8, Melanesien Aug.

Caledonien Sept. 17. r Polynesie (Messageries Maritimes) tains about monthly passenger sailbetween Sydney and Noumea and New Hebrides. Next Sydney sailings; 19. July 10, July 31. tails from Sydney agents: Messageries times, 36 Grosvenor Street, Sydney. rdney-S. Africa-UK-Pacific Ports-Sydney aw Savill’s one-class all-passenger Southern Cross makes four round- 157 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY,

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Information and bookings from all leading Travel Agents , Qantas Empire Airways {BOAC General Agents for Australia).

World Leader in Jet Travel me BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION WITH QANTAS, TEAL, S.A.A. AND C.A.A.

A3/AU the-world voyages per year, two westbound, then two east-bound, calling at: Suva and Papeete every trip. Next voyage;: Leaves Southampton May 28, via Southr Africa, for Sydney, arriving July 3. Dep..i Sydney July 5, bound Liverpool, via Suvajs July 14), Papeete (July 18-19) andt Panama.

Details from agents: Shaw Savill andt Albion Co., Ltd.. 8a Castlereagh Street!; Sydney; Burns Philp (SS) Co., Ltd,, Suva Fiji; Etablissements Donald Tahiti!'.

Papeete, Tahiti.

N. Zealand-Cook Is.

The passenger vessel Maui Pomar® maintains a regular service between* Auckland and the Cook Islands.

Details on application to NZ Govern* ment Department of Island Territories,!

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

N. America-Fiji-Hebrides, etc.j, Pacific Islands Transport Line’s vessel® Thorsisle and Thorshall maintain a regula® service from Pacific Coast North American i ports, with sailings over 35-40 days. Som* ports depend on cargoes offering.

Thorsisle; Dep. New Westminster May}' 26. Seattle May 27, San Francisco May 31* June 3, Los Angeles June 4-5, Papeete Junas 16-18. Pago Pago June 22-23, Apia June!; 24-26, Suva June 29-30, Lautoka July 1-2,J, Noumea July 4-6, Vila Julv 8, Pago Pagofi July 11-13, Los Angeles July 26-28, Sanl Francisco July 29-30.

Thorshall: Dep. New Westminster Junali 19, San Francisco June 25-29, Los Angeles!; June 30-July 3. Papeete July 14-15, PagoL Pago July 19-21, Apia July 22-23, Suva July]' 26-28. Noumea July 30-Aug. 1, Lae (ofrt.M Aug. 5-6, Pago Pago Aug. 14-15, Loii Angeles. Aug. 28-29, San Francisco Aug* 30.

Details from General Steamships Cor» poration Ltd., 432 California St., Sail Francisco, USA, and Island Agents.

US-Tahiti-Pago Pago-Fiji- Australia Matson-Oceanic Line of San Francisco! operates a regular five-weeks passenger-j cargo service from Los Angeles with the!

Ventura, Alameda, Sierra and Sonoma. 1 Southern terminal ports vary with cargoes! offering. Vessels call at Papeete, Pago* Pago and Suva, depending on cargoes.!

Next Sydney sailings (approx.): Sonoma!

June 12. Ventura July 12.

American Pioneer Line has eight ships! (Pioneer Gem, Isle, Glen, Reef, Cove, Star,!

Tide, Gulf) on Australia - Panama -US Atlantic Coast service with calls at | Papeete on southbound voyage. Sailings* approx, every 3 weeks.

Sydney-Fiji-Vancouver Pacific Shipowners, Ltd., of Suva (sub-J sidiary of W. R. Carpenter and Co.) I operate a service three times yearly with! the 10,000 ton, 98-passenger vessel Lakemba along the above route. Accommodation! is entirely First Class, two-berth cabins, I with calls at Suva, Lautoka and Honolulu.!

Next sailing from Sydney May 28.

Details from American Trading andl Shipping Co. Pty., Ltd., 19 Bridge St.,| Sydney. 158 MAY. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

Sydney-(or NZ)-North America rgo vessels Waihemo, Waiana and omo, owned and operated by the a Steam Ship Co. of NZ, Ltd., maina monthly service across the Pacific, Sydney to Vancouver and USA ports, Suva, Lautoka, Nukualofa and Apia, rgoes offer. Occasional calls are made banning Island. They have limited nger accommodation. Next Sydney igs: Waiana May 26, Waitomo end of e Waltemata. from NZ ports, makes rips yearly to Vancouver (via Rarok and Papeete). 3rth America-Tahiti-N.Z.lydney-Fiji-Samoa-Hawaii tson Line’s Mariposa and Monterey i round passenger trips from Pacific i Coast American ports to Australia, •aclflc Islands ports and New Zealand, nterey: Dep. San Francisco May 27, Angeles May 28, Papeete June 5-7, land June 13, Sydney June 16-19, land June 22-23, Suva June 26, Pago June 27, Honolulu July 2-3, San cisco July 8. riposa: Dep. San Francisco June 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 27lan Francisco Aug. 2. tails from Matson Lines, Berger e. 82 Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

Sydney-Tahiti-Europe e Italian Sitmar Line (Panama flag) 1 Castel Felice, a twin-screw turbine jnger liner of 12,150 tons, fully airitioned, sailed from Sydney for pe via Auckland, Papeete, and ma on May 8. The Sitmar recently commenced an irregular ce along this route, providing a moderately priced sea connection ;he eastbound direction only with ti. Also on the run is the Line’s ea, which sailed in January, tails from Navcot Aust. Pty., Ltd., (argaret St., Sydney. nited Kingdom-Australia- Port Moresby e Federal Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., extended its regular quarterly UKralia service to Port Moresby, e vessels sail from Liverpool via Suez lydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, Moresby. antala: Due at Port Moresby June 1 rox.). rrey: Due Port Moresby Aug. 29 rox.).

Iney agents: Birt and Co. Pty., Ltd., idge St. Port Moresby agents: Burns ) (New Guinea), Ltd. >nga-Fiji Shipping Service e Tonga Shipping Agency, as agents the Tonga Copra Board, operates a lar monthly cargo and passenger ce between Nukualofa and Suva with Aoniu, 500 tons gross. Turn-round in is usually two days, and the Agents ; are W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji).

Airways Time-Tables

Transpacific Services

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

By Pan-American Airways

(With Super 7 Clippers, using Sleeperettes and Berths*) Sun., Tues., Thurs., Fri.: Dep. Melbourne for Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu, San Francisco or Los Angeles.

Sun. —Departs San Francisco for Honolulu, Nadi, Sydney and Melbourne.

Wed., Fri.: Dep. Los Angeles for Melbourne (same route).

Mon.: Dep. Seattle for Melbourne via Portland (same route). • PAA Skymasters are used on a connecting service between Auckland and Nadi (see table 18); and also twice monthly between Nadi and Tafuna, American Samoa (see table 20).

By Qantas Empire Airways

(Super Constellation Service) NORTHWARDS Tues. and Sat.: Melbourne, Sydney, Nadi (Fiji), Honolulu, San Francisco, New York, London.

Wed.: Melbourne, Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu, San Francisco.

Fri.: Sydney, Nadi, Honolulu, San Francisco 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 bound flights at Nadi on Tues. and Frl and on Sat. and Wed. at Nadi for the southbound flights.

Oantfts Wed. and Fri. services ex- Sydney connect with BOAC L i£jJon services at San Francisco (dep. Thurs. and Sat.).

BOAC services ex-London Mon. and Sat connect at San Francisco Wed. and Mon. with southbound Qantas services.

By Canadian Pacific Airlines

(With Super DC-6B Aircraft) Every Fri.; Sydney (dep. 7.50 p.m.), Nadi.

Honolulu, Vancouver.

Every Fri.: Dep. Auckland 9.45 p.m. for Nadi. Honolulu. Vancouver (then on to Amsterdam).

Every Sat.; Dep. Amsterdam at 11 pm. for Vancouver (dep. 1.30 p.m. Sun.), Honolulu. Nadi and Melbourne.

Every Fri.: Dep. Vancouver 9 p.m. for Honolulu, Nadi and Sydney. (Note Crosses International Dateline en route.)

Sectional Services In

PACIFIC 2. Sydney-New Guinea Service by Qantas Empire Airways (Super-Constellations) NORTHBOUND First Class Tues. & Sat.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney, 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Wed. & Sun.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane. 12.45 a.m. Ft. Moresby, 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Ft. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae. 8.20 a.m.

First & Tourist Class Mon.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney. 9.30 p.m. Brisbane, 11.45 p.m.

Tues.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 12.45 a.m. Ft. Moresby. 6 a.m.

Dep. Arr.

Ft. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae, 8.20 a.m.

First & Tourist Class Thurs.

Dep. Arr.

Sydney. 8 p.m. Brisbane, 10.15 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane. 11.15 a.m. Townsville, 2.15 a.m.

Dep. Arr - Townsville, 3.15 a.m. Ft. Moresby. 6a m Dep. Arr.

Ft. Moresby*, 7 a.m. Lae, 8.20 a.m.

SOUTHBOUND First & Tourist Fri.

Dep Arr.

Lae*. 9.10 a.m. Ft. Moresby, 10.30 a m.

Dep. Arr.

Ft. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. T’vllle. 2.10 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Townsville. 3.10 p.m. Brisbane, 6 p.m.

Dep. Arr.

Brisbane, 7 p.m. Sydney. 9 p.m.

First Class Wed. & Sun.

Deo Arr.

Lae*. 9 10 a.m. Ft. Moresby, 10.30 a.m.

Den Arr.

Pt. Moresby, 11.30 a.m. Brisbane. 4.45 p m Deo Arr.

Brisbane, 5.45 p.m. Sydney. 7.45 p.m First & Tourist Class Tues. Arr Lae* De 9TO a.m. Ft. Moresby. 10.30 a m DeD Arr.

Pt. Moresby. 11.30 a.m. Brisbane. AA^p.m.

Brisbane, 5.45 p.m. Sydney, 7.45 pm. •Between Lae and Port Moresby passengers are carried in DC4 aircraft PT MORESBY-CAIRNS-TOWNSVILLE-

Pt. Moresby

Douglas DC4. Dep. Port Moresby Sun 12.15 p.m.. arr. Cairns 3.05 P m , d fP Cairns 3.50 p.m., arr. Townsville 5 P m dep. Townsville Mon. 9.15 a.m., arr Cairns 10.25 a.m.. dep. Cairns 11.15 a.m arr.

Port Moresby 2.05 p m. 159 CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY.

Then in Paradise 111 If the world is your oyster, then New Zealand is the pearl. In,this Paradise of the South Pacific, there is an open season on pleasure . . . . . . in thermal regions that dwarf Yellowstone . . . snow sports in alps where Hillary trained to conquer Everest . . . 500 lb. swordfish and 20 lb. rainbow trout . . . rugged beauty of glaciers, sub tropical forest, fiordland and lakes . . . unlimited deer and wild boar hunting . . . the charm of the colourful Maori folk and the quiet hospitality of their white fellow-New Zealanders.

All this in a genially temperate climate, fever-free and without noxious insects or reptiles, among a pleasant English-speaking people.

And all within an hour or txoo of the nearest airport.

For although our islands have an area only the size of Colorado, it’s a thousand miles from the Bay of Islands to Invercargill, and that’s why so many visitors travel by N.A.C. N.A.C.s fleet links 20 principal cities, towns and tourist resorts, and connects with other airlines servicing many more centres.

MAC

New Zealand National Airways Corporation

160 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

I. P-NG Internal Services Operated by Qantas E-HOLLANDIA (Dutch New Guinea) (DCS) Wed. (June 10, 24, July 8, 22. etc.), irts Lae 11 a.m., calls at Madang nd Wewak. and arrives at Hollandia 30 p.m. Every alternative Thurs.

June 11, 25, July 9. 23, etc.) dep. hllandia at 10 a.m., and, with calls t Wewak and Madang, arrives Lae at 50 p.m.

Ort Moresby-Kikori-Baimuru

(DH Otter) STule Island, Kerema, Baimuru. Kikori, ,t. Tues., returning same day via aimuru, Kerema, Yule Is. (June 2, 16, ), July 14, 28. etc.).

IRT MORESBY-KIKORI (DH Otter) Yule Is., Baimuru: Alt. Tues. returnig same day (June 9. 23. July 7, 21, c.).

Kerema, Baimuru, Kikori, Baimuru. t. Thurs. (June 4, 18, July 2, 16. 30. c.), returning via Baimuru, Kikori, erema the following day (June 5, 19, ily 3, 17, etc.).

Port Moresby-Daru (Dcs)

Baimuru: Alt. Thurs, returning same ly via Balimo (June 4, 18, July 2, , 30. etc.).

Kerama, Baimuru: Alt. Weds. (June . 24, July 8. 22, etc.), returning alt. •i. (June 12, 26, July 10, 24, etc.).

IT MORESBY-SAMARAI (DH Otter) Moresby, Abau, Samarai each Mon., parting Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., rerning same day.

Ved.: Port Moresby, Samarai. departg Port Moresby 8.15 a.m., returning me day (June 3, 17, July 1, 15, 29. i.).

Sat.; Port Moresby, Samarai, departg Port Moresby 8.15 a.m.. returning me day (June 13, 27, July 11, 25. :.). 3at.; Port Moresby. Samarai, Esa’ala. parting Port Moresby 8 15 a.m., rerning same day (June 6, 20, July 4, etc.).

LAE-MADANG-WEWAK-MANUS-

Kavieng-Rabaul Service

(DCS) Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang arr. 35 a.m. Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, .haul, arr. 3.45 p.m. ; Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m., Kavieng. inus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. >5 p.m. i.: Dep. Lae 6.30 a.m., Madang, rar. Wewak, Manus, Kavieng, Rabaul, r. 4.05 p.m.

Dep. Rabaul 6.30 a.m. Kavieng, inus, Wewak, Madang, Lae, arr. >5 p.m.

Central Highlands (Dcs)

Lae (7.45 a.m.) to Baiyer River, lling at any of: Goroka, Nondugl. nj, Mt. Hagen, Baiyer R., Kainantu. rival back at Lae dependent on stops de.

Lower Highlands

(DH Otter) Lae (7.30 a.m.) to Goroka, calling any of Nadzab, Gusap, Aiyura, Rlne, Kainantu, Goroka, Arena. Arrival :k at Lae depends on stops made.

Lae-Bulolo-Wau

(DH Otter) Dep. Lae 7.30 a.m., arr. Wau 8.10 i.

Dep. Wau 8.25 a.m., via Bulolo, arr. e 9.25 a.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Lae 8.45 a.m.. arr. Wau 9.25 a.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Wau 9.40 am via Bulolo, arr. Lae 10.45 a.m.

Pt. Moresby-Wau-Bulolo (Dcs)

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Ft. Moresby 7.35 am arr. Bulolo 8.45 a.m.

Wed., Sat.: Dep. Bulolo 9.05 a.m., arr Wau 9.20 a.m., dep. Wau 9.40 a.m., arr. Pt. Moresby 10.45 a.m.

Madang-Goroka-Madang (Dcs)

Thurs., Mon.: Dep. Madang 10 a.m., via Mt. Hagen and Minj, arr. Goroka 12 30 p.m., dep. Goroka 12.50 p.m., arr Madang 1.25 p.m.

Madang-Lae (Dcs)

Sun.: Dep. Madang 7 a.m., arr. Lae 805 a.m.

Pt. Moresby-Mt, Hagen-Madang

(DCS) Mon. and Fri.: Dep. Pt. Moresby 7.30 a.m., via Goroka, Minj. arr. Mt. Hagen 11.10 a.m.; dep. Mt. Hagen for Madang (either direct or via airfields as required) 11.40 a.m.

Madang-Pt. Moresby (Dcs)

Tues. 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.

Tues.: Dep. Rabaul 5.45 a.m., Finschhafen 8.10 a.m., arrive Lae 8.45 a.m.

Tues.: Dep. Lae 10.30 a.m., Finschhafen 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. (June 11, 25, July 9, 23, 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. (June 4, 18, July 2, 16, 30, 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 7 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 a.m. for Madang, Wewak. Momote, Kavieng. Rabaul—remaining overnight. Depart Lae 7.30 a.m. for Goroka, Wau, Port Moresby, Wau, Goroka. Lae.

Sat.: Depart Rabaul at 7 am. for Kavieng. Momote, Wewak, Madang.

Goroka, Lae. 4. Aust.-Netherlands N.G.

By KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Super Constellation Service) A weekly service between Sydney dep.

Fri. 3.45 p.m. and Amsterdam with a call at Biak iNNGI and Manilla (Philippines).

DC3 aircraft link Biak with Hollandla, Sorong, Merauke, Tenah Merah. Manokwari, Niemfoer and Ransiki; Beaver to Kokonao; and Twin Pioneer to Seroei.

DC7C aircraft dep. Biak Tues. and Sat. at 2.45 a.m. for Japan, Alaska and Amsterdam. 5. N. Guinea-Solomons By Qantas with DC3 Aircraft Every Monday depart Lae 6 a.m.: Rabaul, Buka, Munda, Yandina, Honiara (BSI), arriving 5 p.m.

Every Tuesday depart Honiara 7 a.m.: Yandina. Munda, Buka, Rabaul. Lae. arriving 3.45 p.m. 6. Paris-Saigon-Brisbane- Noumea-NZ-Fiji-Papeete By Transports Aeriens Intercontinental*!

DC6B aircraft depart Paris every Sun. for Athens, Cairo, Karachi, Saigon, Djakarta, Darwin, Brisbane, 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 Flying Boat Services Pty. Ltd. with Sandringham Flying-boats Return flight usually each Tuesday and Saturday. 8. Sydney-Norfolk Is.

By Qantas, with Skymasters Alt. Fri. (June 5, 19, July 3. 17, 31, 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. Wed. 11.45 p.m., arr.

Noumea 7 a.m. Thurs. Dep. Noumea 8.30 a.m. same day arr. Sydney 2 p.m.

Service operates from Sydney on June 10, 24, July 8, 22. departing from NC the following day in each case. 10. New Caledonia-New Hebrides TAI with DCS Aircraft Tues. and Fri.: Dep. Tontouta (N. Cal.) at 7 a.m.. arr. Vila 9.15 a.m., dep.

Vila 9.45 a.m . arr. Santo 11 a.m., dep. 12.30 p.m., arr. Vila 1.45 p.m., dep. 2.15 p.m., arr. Tontouta 4.30 p.m. 11. New Caledonia-Fiji- Wallis Is.

TAI with DCS Aircraft Dep. Noumea 6 a.m. second Sat. each month (June 13, 27. July 11. 25. etc.), arr. Wallis Is. (via Nadi. Fiji) at 3.45 p.m., dep. Wallis 7 a.m. following Mon. (June 15. 29, July 13. 27. etc.), arr.

Noumea 2.45 p.m. same day. 12. Norfolk Is. Auckland TEAL, by Qantas (Charter) Alt Sat. (June 6. 20. July 4, 18, etc.).

Return flight Norfolk (dep. 8 a.m.) 161 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY.

FROM STD NET (Aust. currency) TO— Single Return Tablili £ s. d. £ s. d. Noic Moresby . . . 51 5 0 92 5 0 2 Lae 62 15 0 112 19 0 2 Rabaul .... 72 9 0 130 9 0 2,1.

Noumea . . . 42 4 0- 76 0 0’

' 6.1 Honiara . . . 94 5 0 169 13 0 2f Norfolk Is. . . 27 10 0 49 10 0 8 Lord Howe , . 14 15 0 29 10 0 7 Nadi 85 9 0 153 17 0 1 Suva 92 0 0 166 19 0 iK Auckland . . . 52 10 0 94 10 0 13 Christchurch . 52 10 0 94 10 0 14 | : Honolulu . . . 282 12 0 508 14 0 1 San Francisco 350 9 9 630 17 0 11 Vancouver . . 350 9 0 630 17 0 1 Apia 118 14 0 214 14 0 if.

Papeete . . . 178 2 0 320 12 0 i.l Aitutaki . . . 155 12 0 281 2 0 i,| Biak 103 15 0 186 15 0 4 i * Tourist class.

From Auckland (Nz

currency) TO— Apia 62 0 0 111 12 0 is.: Aitutaki . . . 93 10 0 168 6 0 18. i Nadi 39 7 0 70 17 0 18 .

Norfolk Is. . . 19 15 0 35 11 0 12 Papeete . . . 114 10 0 206 2 0 18,1, FROM SUVA (Fiji currency) TO— I Apia 25 0 0 45 0 0 19.3 Aitutaki . . . 57 15 0 103 19 0 17.1 Nadi 4 0 0 8 0 0 22 I Papeete . . . 82 14 0 148 18 0 17.1 Auckland (arr. 11.45 am., dep. 1.15 p.m.) Norfolk (arr. 4.15 p.m.). (See Table 8 above). 13. Auckland-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Daily Service: Dep. Auckland 9.30 a.m., arr. Sydney 1.15 p.m.

Mon., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 6 p.m., arr.

Sydney 9.45 p.m.

Daily Service: Dep. Sydney 3 p.m.. arr.

Auckland 9.55 p.m.

Tues.: Dep. Sydney 7 a.m., arr. Auckland 1.50 p.m.

Wed., Fri., Sun.; Dep. Sydney 11.30 p.m., arr. Auckland 6.20 a.m. following day- Sat,: Dep. Sydney 10 a.m., arr. Auckland 4.55 p.m. 14. Christchurch-Sydney Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Tues., Thur.: Dep. Christchurch 7.45 p.m.. arr. Sydney 11.20 p.m.

Fri.: Dep. Christchurch 5 p.m., arr. Sydney 8.35 p.m.

Mon., Wed., Fri.; Dep. Sydney 8 a.m., arr.

Christchurch 3.05 p.m. 15. Christchurch-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Wed.: Dep. Christchurch 5 p.m.. arr. Melbourne 9.35 p.m.

Thurs.: Dep. Melbourne 10.15 a.m., arr.

Christchurch 5.50 p.m. 16. Auckland-Melbourne Tasman Empire Airways, with DC6 aircraft Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 8 a.m., arr. Melbourne 1 p.m.

Thur.: Dep. Melbourne 2.30 p.m., arr.

Auckland 10.15 p.m. 17. Melbourne-Auckland- Nadi (Fiji) By Tasman Empire Airways, with Super Constellation aircraft chartered from Qantas Sun.: Dep. Melbourne 7.30 a.m., arr.

Auckland 3 p.m., dep. Auckland 4 p.m., arr. Nadi 9 p.m. Return, same route, following day. (Note; This service connects with Qantas Super Constellation service from Sydney to US.) 18. New Zealand-Fiji Tasman Empire Airways, with Super DC6 aircraft and Qantas Super Constellations Tues., Fri., Sun.: Dep. Auckland 4 p.m., arr. Nadi 9 p.m.

Mon., Wed., Sat.: Dep. Nadi 10.30 a.m , arr. Auckland 3.30 p.m.

Sunday flights ex-Auckland, and Monday flights ex-Nadi are operated by Qantas under charter to TEAL and arrive Nadi 9.15 p.m. and Auckland 3.45 p.m.

Pan-American Airways, with Skymasters Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Auckland 10.50 p.m., arr. Nadi 5.55 a.m.

Sun., Tues., Thurs.: Dep. Nadi. 5.30 a.m., arr. Auckland 12.50 p.m. 19. Fiji-W. Samoa Tasman Empire Airways, with Solent Flying-boats Dep. Suva Thurs., 9 a.m., crosses Dateline, arr. Satapuala (Western Samoa) Wed. 1.55 p.m.

Dep. Satapuala Mon. at 8 a.m., crosses Dateline, arr. Suva Tues. 10.55 a.m. (Dep. Suva June 11, 18, 25, July 2. 9, 16, 23. 30; dep. Apia June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20. 27.) 20. Fiji-American Samoa Pan American Airways with DC4 aircraft Alt. Fri.: Dep. Nadi 7 a.m.. arr. Tafuna 12.30 p.m. (Thurs.).

Alt. Thurs.: Dep. Tafuna 1.30 p.m., arr.

Nadi 5.05 p.m. (Fri.). (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. Thurs., crosses International Dateline, arr. Satapuala (W.

Samoa) 1.55 p.m. Wed.; dep. Satapuala 2 a.m. Thurs.. arr. Aitutakl (Cook Is.) 7.30 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 9.30 a.m. arr.

Papeete (Tahiti) 2 p.m. Services dep.

Suva June 11. 18. 25, July 2. 9, 16. 23. 30, etc.

Dep. Papeete 7.30 a.m. Sun., arr. Aitutaki 11 a.m.; dep. Aitutaki 12.30 p.m., arr.

Satapuala 5 p.m.; dep. Satapuala 8 a.m.

Mon., crosses International Dateline, arr Suva 10.55 a.m. Tues. Services dep.

Papeete June 14, 21. 28, July 5, 12, 19, 26. etc. 22. Fiji Internal Airways Fiji Airways, Ltd., with Heron and Drover Aircraft Suva-Nadi-Suva: Two flights daily— morning and afternoon.

Suva-Labasa-Suva: One flight daily.

Suva-Labasa-Suva (via Savusavu): One flight—Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sat., Sun.

Suva-Taveuni-Suva (via Labasa): One flight Mon., Wed., Sat.

Suva-Savusavu-Taveuni-Suva: One flight— Tues.

Suva-Taveuni-Savusavu-Suva: One flight— Fri. 23. N. Caledonia-Loyalty Is.

Internal Service Societe Caledonienne de Transports Aerlens (TRANSPAC), with Heron and Rapide aircraft.

Noumea-Mare: Tues. (dep. Noumea 2 p.m., Mare 4 p.m.) and Thurs. (dep.

Noumea 8 a.m., dep Mare 10 a.m.).

Noumea-Ouvea: Wed., Thurs. and Sat. (dep. Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Ouvea 10.30 a.m.).

Noumea-Lifou: Tues., Wed., Sat., (dep.

Noumea 8 a.m., dep. Lifou 10 a.m.), Thurs. (dep. Noumea 11 a.m., dep. Lifou 1 p.m.).

Noumea-Kounle (Isle of Pines): Mon., 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 wl be made at Plaine des Gaiacs if re quired. 24. French Polynesia Inter- Island Service Reseau Aerien Interinsulaire with 1 flying-boats Twice weekly service to the Leewais Group.

Wed.; Papeete, Huahine, Raiatea, Boio Bora, Raiatea, Papeete.

Thurs.: Papeete, Bora Bora, Papeete. 1 Booking agents in Tahiti: Messagerir Maritimes, Quai Bir Hackeim, Papeete* 25. Hawaii-American Samoa?

Trans Ocean Airways Every second Wednesday, a Boeiai Stratocruiser operated by Trans Oce«: Airways, of Honolulu, Hawaii, makesl return flight from Honolulu to Pago Pa§- (American Samoa). 26. Micronesia Trans Ocean Airways Using Grumman Albatross twin-motorli amphibious flying-boats, TOA operates I i service throughout the Trust Territory I Micronesia on behalf of the US Govern ment. Details from Trans Ocean Airwajs Agana, Guam.

Pacific Air Fares

(Approximate Only)

NOTE: To obtain the equivalek of Australian currency in othu currencies (Sterling, Fiji, New Zeo land, French Pacific francs) st page 167.

Fares quoted are First-Class. Cheapo Tourist Class fares (approx. 20 per cenh lower) are available to most ports. Fartt to points east of Nadi Include air coff nection to Suva by Fiji Airways. Ltd. 1 162 MAY. 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY

assified Advertisements Per line, 3/-; Minimum, 4 lines. oage 164 for further classified advertising.

Looks, Magazines

lOOKS AND JOURNALS ON AUS-

.Sia And The Pacific Bought

SOLD. Catalogues issued and sent n application. Correspondence in- Berkelouw, 114 King St., Sydney, one: BW 7874.

'Hands Off Pidgin English!"

if the language problems of Papua-New lea. Price 11/- (including postage).

Publications Pty., Ltd., Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, Aust.

Agents Wanted

S HONG KONG CALLING, offering e opportunity of building sound rewith established exporting house, ig all Hong Kong products. We o appoint agents, samples supplied Vrite: P.O. Box 3446, Hong Kong.

TENDERS

Of Plantations In New

A. The Custodian of Expropriated ty invites tenders from Australian icemen, natural-born British sub- »r companies of which at least twoof the shareholders are naturalritish subjects, for the purchase of llowing two coconut plantations: leba—situated on the north-eastern of New Ireland approximately 52 outh of Kavieng. (2) Komuli—corntwo groups of islands —St. Andrew’s and Fedarb (or Sivisa) Islands St. Andrew’s Group situated southif Manus. Fedarb Islands Group d approximately 38 kilometres e s.e.

Jape Sanders on the south coast of forms together with Conditions of and of Sale are obtainable from ian of Expropriated Property. Dent of Territories, Canberra, Aus- Capital Territory, or Department ds, Port Moresby, Papua, igs. No buildings on Fileba are Inin the sale. All buildings on i, except the following are included sale: One Native Labour House, x 16 ft.; One Plantation House. 58 0 ft.; One Kitchen Annexe, 20 ft. x Married Quarters, 60 ft. x 15 ft. e above are of bush timber frame); ;ylon Type Drier. 60 ft. x 15 ft. :ates of Title for an estate in fee in Fedarb (or Sivisa) Islands Group, drew’s Group and Fileba are held name of the Custodian of Expro- -1 Property. s may be lodged with the Custodian iropriated Property, Canberra, Aus- Capital Territory, up to 3 p.m. on y, July 27, 1959. Intending tenderers vised to inspect the plantations or ain reliable independent advice on ate of property before submitting ighest or any tender will not necesbe accepted. C. R. Lambert, ian of Expropriated Property, De- ;nt of Territories, Canberra, Ausi Capital Territory, April 14, 1959.

Trade Enquiries

C. S. & JOHNSON YOUNG CO., P.O. Box 3038, Hong Kong. Cable address: “Cisij”.

Hong Kong Manufacturers’ Representatives. Inquiries cordially solicited. Prices on application. Samples available.

Stamps Wanted

WANTED TO SWAP STAMPS, New Zealand and others for British Pacific Islands stamps. Write Mrs. L. Edwards, 1 Atua St.. Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand.

COLONY AND ISLAND STAMPS used.

Highest prices paid, minimum 500 one time, preferred on part envelope. J.

Nobles, 1903 Arendell, Morehead City, N.C., U.S.A.

USED STAMPS of Pacific Islands wanted in any quantity. Immediate reply with cash or goods in exchange guaranteed.

M. Fitzgerald, 85 Nicholson Street, Coburg Nl3, Victoria. Australia.

PERSONAL RETURNING TO ENGLAND. cultured, musical, elderly gentleman, integrity, excellent credentials offers accompany elderly gentleman or lady travelling same destination. Replies to: “Traveller”, c/o Box 3408, G.P.0., Sydney, Australia.

Position Wanted

YOUNG MAN, 20 years, seeks a position in the Pacific Islands including Papua.

New Guinea and Fiji. Experience includes two years with Daily Commercial Newspaper, as reporter and advertising space salesman. Six months with a publishing company as a specialty salesman. At present employed by leading Melbourne textile agency as a salesman. Whereas a position in the selling field would be preferred any situation requiring initiative and enthusiasm will be considered. No Saturday work. For references and selling figures write: Mr. H. Martin, 13 Martin St.. South Melbourne, Victoria, Aust.

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.

Waratah Pharmacy

Prescriptions, Medicines, Surgical Goods, Veterinary Requirements, Photographies, Cosmetics.

At your service by sea or air. G.P.O. BOX 658 # SYDNEY, Quotations gladly supplied. AUSTRALIA A. B. DONALD LTD.

Auckland, New Zealand

Cables and T'grams.: "KINGDOM" Auckland. P.O. Box 1509.

Fruit Grain & Produce Merchants. General Merchants. Shipowners & Island Traders

Pacific Islands Branches

General Merchants (Wholesale & Retail) & Shipowners Importers & Exporters

Eiabiissements Donald Tahiti

QUAI DU COMMERCE, PAPEETE. Telegraphic address: "DONALD, PAPEETE"

Branches throughout the Marquesas Islands.

A. B. DONALD LTD.

Rarotonga Cook Islands

Branches throughout the Cook Islands. 163 I F I C ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY,

Classified Advertisements Per line, 3/-; Minimum, 4 lines.

See page 163 for further classified advertising.

ACCOMMODATION FURNISHED FLATS, Cremorne, Sydney.

Water frontage, large, comfortable, two bedrooms, linen and cutlery, 10 minutes to city. Enquiries: Nelson & Robertson Pty. Ltd.. 0.P.0. Box 5316, Sydney, Aust.

HOLIDAY FLATS, at famous Manly Beach, Sydney. Comfortable two bedroom units with all facilities handy to Sydney. Regent Fiats, P.O. Box 92, Manly. N.S.W., Aust 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.

Drive Yourself Cars

FIJI HIRE - DRIVE LTD. Modern cars accommodating 5, 6 and 9 passengers.

Minimum formalities. Rates include insurance and free mileage plan. Aircraft and ships met. Queen’s Road, Walu Bay Suva (P.O. Box 299). Cables: “Hiredrive”!

Suva. Also at Lautoka.

DRIVE YOURSELF CARS.—At your service in Brisbane. Lloyd-De Laurier Pty.

Ltd., Rowes Cafe Lane, Edward St., Brisbane, Queensland. Phone: FA 1091.

Enquiries invited.

CAHILL'S

Drive Yourself Cars

93 George St.. Brisbane

B 0505—8 0506—8 4132 1958 HOLDEN SEDANS Unlimited Insurance Cover Available.

Open Sat.-Sun. 8 a.m. to 12 noon.

AFTER HOURS, PHONE NOS. 38.1596—98.3414 91.4323 6.2476 Write or Phone for Price List.

Penfriends Wanted

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.

FOR SALE 136 FT. VESSEL, 24 ft. 6 in. beam, 11 ft. draft, 238 tons, double planked, two Cleveland diesels, models 8-268 A. Very complete auxiliary equipment. Recent survey available. Asking $45,000. Buxton, North Drive, Vista, California, U.S.A.

BICYCLES, % genuine B.S.A. paratroopers, unused, £NZII f.o.b. Auckland. Surplus Cycles, Box 469, Auckland. New Zealand.

NORFOLK ISLAND. Beautiful modern home, 25 acres freehold, incredibly beautiful aspect, Lister Generating Plant. Above property recognised to be finest spot on the Island. What offers. McGuinness, P. 0.. Norfolk Island. 5 UNUSED PORTABLE LAUNDRY UNITS.

Washer and extractor, 100 lbs. per hour, diesel fuel. Complete $2,000 each. Pull details: 638 North Drive, Vista, California, U.S.A.

FLEETS. 42 ft. bridge deck cruiser, carvel, coppered, built 1946, near new 90 h.p. marine diesel, 9 berths, toilet, galley, polished furnishings, refrig., power winch, £6,000. 49 ft. launch, fitted for tourist cruises, 72 h.p. Gardner diesel, £7,500.

Fleets, 525 Stanley St., South Brisbane, Queensland, 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.

MACHINERY

Generating Sets For Sale

2 only 75 K.V.A. Sets. Manufactured by The Electrical Engineering and Construction Company Ltd., Devon, England.

Prime mover 1500 R.P.M. A.E C.

Diesel 6 cylinder—9.6 litre.

Generator 232/400 volts 108 amps. 50 cycles. 1 only 237 K.V.A. Set. Manufactured by British Polar/Bruce Peebles.

Prime mover British Polar 2 cycle K55E—5 cylinder Diesel.

Developing 280 B.H.P. At 600 R.P.M.

Generator Bruce Peebles 237 K.V.A. 400/440 volts. 3 phase 50 cycle. 1 only 330 K.V.A. Set. Manufactured by British Polar, British Thompson Houston.

Prime mover British polar 2 cycle, K5BE—B cylinder Diesel.

Developing 400 B.H.P at 600 R.P.M.

Generator B.T.H. 330 K.V.A. 400/440 volts, 3 phase 50 cycle.

All the above sets are in perfect running order, particularly the two British Polar Engines. They have been well maintained and are fitted with two extra oil filters, P 8 and PI9B Streamline units.

Complete Electrical Equipment is available to synchronise these sets so that they can be operated paralleled as load demands.

Tenders for the complete set up would be preferred but tenders for separate units or the British Polar Engines for marine use will be considered.

Units may be Inspected running under load, by appointment with Mr. T. Wood, LL 0444.

Details of electrical equipment and photographs of the units will be supplied on request.

Tenders to be marked: Generating Sets, Duly & Hansford Ltd., Box 3. P. 0., MARRICKVILLE, N.S.W.

Tenders close 29th May, 1959. 3/61.76

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 any island in the Pacific can earn American dollars from this fascinating hobby. We would like to receive butterflies from any Islanders who are now collecting and know how to send perfect butterflies. Specimens from New Guinea, Indonesia, Borneo and Malaya, especially required. Will pay for any perfect specimens received. Write for free instructions, concerning collecting, packing, etc.

Butterfly Art

289-297 East 98th Street, Brooklyn 12, N.Y., U.S.A. 164 MAY, 1959 PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

Mihna If you cough, wheeze, can’t breathe or sleep well due to Asthma, Catarrh or Bronchitis attacks, get MENDACO from your chemist or store today.

MENDACO works through the blood and bronchial tubes to dissolve and remove offending phlegm congestion. Then your cough Is curbed, you can breathe freely, sleep like a baby, and regain natural energy. Satisfaction or money back Is guaranteed. Save this notice.

Rid Kidneys ot Poisons&Adds If you suffer from Rheumatism Sleepless Nights, Leg Pains Backache, Lumbago, Nervou* ness, Headaches and OoldK Dizziness, Circles Under Eyes, Swollen Ankles. Loss of Appetite or Energy, you should know that your system is being poisoned because germs are impairing the vital process of your kidneys.

Ordinary medicines can’t help much, because you must kill the germs which cause these troubles, and blood can’t be pure till kidneys function normally.

Stop troubles by attacking cause with Cystex—the new scientific discovery which starts benefit In 2 hours. Cystex must prove entirely satisfactory and be exactly the medicine you need or money back is guaranteed. Get Cystex from your chemist or store today.

Fiery Eczema Id Don’t let ugly, disfiguring °imples, Eczema, Acne, Ringworm, Psoriasis, Blackheads or Itching, Cracking. Peeling Burning Skin Troubles make life miserable and spoil your fun Don’t be embarrassed and feel inferior because of a bad skin.

Now every chemist has a new American Hospital Discovery called Nixoderm that stops the itch in 7 minutes, kills germs and fungus ana in 24 hours begins to heal the skin clear, soft and smooth. No matter how long you have suffered or what you have tried, get Nixoderm from your chemist to-day under positive guarantee to return your money if not entirely satisfied Pacific Commerce and Produce ns Ph ’dp (SS) Co. ws Huge Reserves V prettier pictures, composed f figures, come out of Fiji than tie annual balance-sheet of s Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd. accounts for the year ended ary 31 (the Co. was established 20) are to hand. 3 subscribed capital is 1,000. It usually gets 10 per (calling for £100,000) and that at it gets this year. The profit £160,283 (£lB,OOO better than previous year). This means there is £60,000 over, after ;nd. i Directors are putting £50,000 into reserves, and carrying be balance into the current account which, with last year’s ce, starts the new year with 4. ire is now £625,000 in a general ve, and no less than £633,877 “Equalisation and Rehabilita- Reserve —or total reserves, and above subscribed capital, ,258,877, plus the £90,000 reng in P L account. 5 accounts say that these large res are “wholly used in the ess”. But, in addition to about 00 described as cash on hand, over £1,000,000 is shown as stments in shares and in mment loans”, and it may be led that much of it is not ng what may be regarded as Company’s normal trading of 10 per cent. is a situation characteristic ding in Fiji. (See Commentary itorial Section). •e OH, Gas and } er from Puri \ deviated hole at Puri No. 1, sached the “interest” zone on ihedule —April 19—and on that it is reported that gas, oil vater flowed for about eight 1 only unscheduled thing about yhole operation was the rei on the stock exchange. At writing. May 6, the price of earch shares is around 7/ lowest they have been for is. Rights in the new Oil h issue, which were over 4/diately before the latest oil were down to 2/7. fspaper financial experts, who I “wild rushes” and “frenzied” ty after the first news of new iked through, must have been pointed at share market reactions—as no doubt were the speculators.

Following the very brief announcement by Australasian Petroleum Company there was heavy selling from London —where other oil booms in recent years have originated—and a wait-and-see attitude in Port Moresby.

The APC official report, issued after the April 19 flow, said: At Puri No. 1 a test of the limestone drilled by the first deviated hole between 7,498 ft. and 7,528 ft. is in progress.

Small quantities of gas, oil and water are being produced.

Morris HedstromPrefs to be Paid WHEN Messrs. W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. purchased Messrs.

Morris Hedstrom Ltd., of Fiji, three years ago, they of course assumed responsibility for the 219,206 issued Preference shares. The latter have a nominal value of £1 each, and they carried a guaranteed dividend of six per cent.

The directors of the group are now taking steps to pay off these shares. For many years, Morris Hedstroms carried very considerable accumulated liquid funds.

When the Carpenter purchase took place, there was half a million in cash and short-call loans, and another quarter-million in Government and municipal stocks. There probably were family reasons for the maintenance of the preference share capital—otherwise, why pay out £13,200 per annum in preference dividends, when there was more than half a million of liquid funds earning considerably less than six per cent?

Nonetheless, MH Prefs have been a gilt-edged stock; and the Carpenter group is recognising this by adding, on this repayment, a premium of 5 - per each 207- Preference share.

Developments at Kainantu, NG King Island Sheelite < 1947 1 . Ltd., will spend £lO,OOO in the next year in a joint effort with Australian Gold Development NL in surface drilling, underground development and sampling in Fthtepr^al"a"harea of the New Guinea Eastern High lands. .

Most active gold production around Kainantu at present comes from nat ve miners who are doing very well—on native standards if not on goldmining company standards Some Europeans have also been working there, and some big-companies. including New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd. have shown interest. (Oven 165 IF I C ISLANDS MONTHLY-MAY,

Sydney Sales Prices

April 8 May 7 I Burns Philp .... 65/6 75/- 1 Burns Philp (SS) . . 50/- 54/- J C.S.R £47 £ 52/7/r Dylup Plantations 18/1 Va 19/6 1 Hackshalls 50/6 50/9 Kauri Timber .... 20/- 18/6 I Kerema Rubber . . . 11/- 11/- I Koitaki 14/3 15/- I Lolorua 7/6 7/3 1 Mariboi 6/8 6/3 I Norfolk Is, Whaling 3/7 3/1 I Queensland Insurance 69/- 70/- 1 Rubberlands .... 5/- 5/5 1 Sthn. Pac. Insurance 16/6 17/6 1 Steamships Trading . 50/3 51/9 1 W. R. Carpenter Hold.

IS/lOVa 17/1 Via Timor Oil 6/7 6/3 ]

Oil And Mining Shares

FIJI July 9, *58 April 8 May!’

Emperor . b5/9 s7/9 b7 3 Loloma . . — b33/b33/S PAPUA-NEW GUINEA Bulolo . . . b35/b35/b35/J' N.G.G. Ltd. bl/9 J / 2 b2/7 b2/3|£ Oil Search b2/6 blO/4 b6 1( Ent. of N.Q. b7d b6d b6di Papuan Apia b9d b3/ll b4 /«$ do. opt. . b6V2d b2/2 b2/m Placer Dev. b86/6 blOO/b99/l\ Sandy Creek b4d b2»/ 2 d b2d| t I .***. * * »|V\/ • I I • < * » Safely */ i O. ••» •• * V*s/. /••:/.■•; •S.V Enjoy -ARROWMIN^ Gum. Chewing aids concentration helps you drive better, safer. »•-*.?• ••• - * ».*•%'. »- /••l • * - Dylup Produces More Cocoa and Profit The boom prices for copra in the last half of 1958 are reflected in the record dividend declared by Dylup Plantations, Ltd., for the year ending January 31. 1959.

Dividend will be 20 per cent., which includes a bonus of 5 per cent. Profit for the year w r as up £ 19,000 on 1957-58 when a dividend of 12 per cent, was paid.

Dylup’s plantations are located in the Madang district of New Guinea and cocoa is produced as well as coconuts. Cocoa production which rose from 22 tons in 1957-58 to 157 tons in 1958-59 helped to boost that record dividend.

Fiji Beer Now In Bottles Fiji’s local beer made its first appearance in bottled form on May 1 from Carlton Brewery (Fiji), Ltd.’s recently established brewery at Suva.

The two varieties lager and bitter —were both voted acceptable by the connoisseurs, but there had been hopes that the price— -3/10 per bottle or £l/19/9 a dozen, Fijian currency, and higher at more distant points—would have been a good deal lower.

The new price is. however. 8d less than imported Australian bottled beer.

Timor Oil and Tradewinds in Co-operation Timor Oil, Ltd., spread its interests wider in April by entering an agreement with Tradewinds Exploration, Inc., of Colorado, USA. Timor has a concession of 6,851 sq. miles in Portuguese Timor, and Tradewinds have agreed to drill a 15,000 ft. well in the area free of cost. After that, the two companies will contribute to further exploration on a £ for £ basis.

Under the terms of the agreement, Timor wall receive 650,000 units in Tradewinds (which have interests in Alaska.

Honduras, Panama and Ecuador); and Timor will issue 500,000 of its shares to Tradewinds. As a result, Tradewinds will have a ninth interest in Timor, and Timor a seventh interest in Tradewinds.

Previously Timor was a predominantly Australian company—7,ooo of the 8,000 shareholders being Australian.

Enterprise Production Improves Slightly Total gold production by Enterprise of New Guinea Gold and Petroleum Development during April amounted to 105 oz.

Of this 75 oz came from crushing (60 tons); and 31 oz from alluvial workings.

This was better than March production by 28 oz.

NGG Production New Guinea Goldfields production during March was as follows: 850 oz of fine gold, 1,565 oz silver from Golden Ridges mill; 117 oz gold from Golden Ridges alluvials; 290 oz gold from Koranga; 79 oz from tributes; and 135,873 su. ft. of sawn timber from milling enterprise.

Economic Outlook r I ''HE “flight” of gold from the United ■ States has been exercising the minds of experts in recent weeks. Looking into their little crystal balls, they are making all sorts of prognostications, some good, some bad, of what the effect is likely to be in this neck of the woods.

It has been suggested that America might be forced to raise the price of gold —something she has strenuously resisted for years—a'nd this would be very good, indeed, for such countries as New Guinea —where the price of gold has remained constant while everything else now costs four or five times as much.

Another suggestion—and this would be bad —is that the US, in order to correct the situation, might make it more difficult for foreign countries to sell to America.

However, the rundown of US gold reserves cannot be attributed to excess of imports over exports so much as to private US investment overseas, from which Australia has derived its share of benefit.

In the last 16 months, US gold reserves have shrunk by 2.5 billion dollars Ai. although gold reserves of over 20 billijii dollars remain, they are at the lowev point since 1946.

On the Australian homefront. ft economic experts are giving themselwl plenty of cold shivers over the reports perfection, in Italy, of a wonder synthefa which, when mixed with about 15 p cent, of pure wool, is far, far better,# they say, than the pure Merino.

The gloom was not helped by an ear May check to the recovery in wool pricu (During April prices rose by about I per cent, from the lowest point reachc! in January).

Synthetics, such as terylene, have h; spectacular repercussions on the wool ii dustry, and for Australia an even bettt “wonder” fibre would be no laughffif matter.

So far the Stock Exchange index shojo no reaction, and stood at 243.8 for j ordinaries on May s—about nine poiii higher than a month ago.

Islands Produc[?]

(Unless otherwise stated, quotations a In Australian currency. Anst. £ equft approximately 16/- Stg., NZ, or | Samoa; 18/- Fiji; 20/- Tonga, Solomonslt- WPHC areas; 168 Pac. Frs.; SUS 2.20-2.30 COPRA The British Ministry of Food O-ye&t Contract, which governed Copra pri(fci In Papua and New Guinea, Fiji, Westefi, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Gilbert ai Ellice Colony (and. to some extent, I Tonga and Cook Islands) expired on D cember 31, 1957; since when each Terl; tory has made its own arrangements f collection and marketing of copra.

PAPUA-NEW GUINEA:—AII productfli is delivered to Copra Marketing Boats controlled by six members, including thtc planters' representatives; and the Boas directs distribution and sales, and maßi, payments to the producers. Product™ goes mainly to (a) Unilever (under col tract covering 1959), (b) Australia (») 166 MAY, 1959-PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTH L J

Ralph W. King & Yuill

Members of the Sydney Stock Exchange 113 PITT STREET, SYDNEY. BL 5771-2-3 Cables and Telegrams; "Ralphking" Sydney and Melbourne 406 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE. 67-5089, 67-5080 Branches at Grafton and Armidale VENTURA TRADING CO. PTY. LTD. 247 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY Island Merchants and Buying Agents SOLE AGENTS FOR:

• Armstrong Siddeley Diesel Engines

• Ajax Marine Diesel Engines

• Norman Petrol Engines

• Saldanha Canned Fish

O V.T.C. Corned Beef

Distributors for all plantation, farm, trade requirements and merchandise.

Highest Prices obtained for Cocoa, Coffee, Shell and other produce handled on consignment.

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consumption) and (c) crushing-mill abaul. Prices generally arranged in dance with ruling rate in Philippines et, with premiums for hot-air dried. m April 1, 1959, P-NG Copra I announced “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 phere they wish. Bulk of copra goes rushing-mlll in Suva, whose price harf, Suva, is announced each week. lay 4, prices were, HAD, £FB7/5/-; £FBS/17/6; FM2, FB4/12/6.

IST E R N SAMOA:—Official Copra I receives all production, and sells and makes payments to producers, i proportion goes to Unilever, at >plnes FM grade rates, plus pre- ,s up to £Stg.3 per ton-for hot- Iried. Prices announced in March, to operate till further notice: Hotried, £867/13/8 per ton; sun-dried 1, £865/3/8; sun-dried. No. 2. /13/8.

NOA:—Sales are under Government Dl. Part of production goes to Europe, ■ arrangement with Unilever cond by Philippines prices, and part i open market. jOMONS:—AII production marketed gh official Copra Board, at prices on Philippines market. Price de- May (unchanged since March); rade, £A7S; 2nd grade, £A73; 3rd , £A69 per ton. f.0.b., BSIP ports. jBERT AND ELLlCE:—Production eted in Europe through official Copra 1, at prices based on Philippines less “stabilisation fund” charges, lAMOA:—Producers receive 4 cents lb. 9.6 or £A4O approx, per long ton), lie bonus, If average proceeds exceed buying price and expenses.

V HEBRIDES:—In early April, local g, price was £69/7/6 per ton, ded Vila/Santo. On same date, price 29.500 Metrop. francs per metric ton, Marseilles. )K IS./NIUE/TOKELAU: Price fixed rst half of 1959. by Abels, Ltd., of and, who mill it, was announced in ary as follows: Standard Grade: 16/15/6 plus £ 1 for bags, plus '- premium, totalling £NZ69/0/6.

Grade; £NZ66/15/6 plus £1 for plus £l/5/- premium, plus £l/5/- ,1 premium for hot air dried, total- £ NZ7O/5/6, f.0.b., Rarotonga.

Other Produce

)OA: —lslands prices are based on the for Ghana cocoa which, on May 7, £Stg.29o per ton, c.i.f., Sydney.

SAMOA;—Nominal price quoted in y May 7, £S29O. f.0.b., Apia. tf.G.: May 7, £A335 ex-wharf.

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"FEE;—P.-N.G.: May 7. 4/5 per lb, Sydney, for good quality A grade ;enerally quoted. ; April (and little change is expected ; new crop in July) price quoted for i, c.i f. Sydney, was; A grade, £Stg.slo >n; B grade, £Stg.4Bo; C grade, none ,ble. Undergradings: £ 5tg.255-285. myika: A grade, £ Stg.4oo per ton.

Sydney. Uganda Robusta, c.i.f. y, £ 5tg.259-275 per ton.

INUTS:—P.-N.G : May 8, Kernels b ex-wharf; practically no sale in :y at present for nuts in shell — lal price, 1/1 lb.

SBER:— p.-N.G price is based on pore rate, which May 7 was: No. 1 RSS, spot, 109.75 Straits cents per lb. (38.1 d Aust.).

VANILLA BEANS: Victor Karp, Tulk & Co., Sydney, reported on May 7; New crop, c.i.f., Sydney. Tahiti White and Yellow label, processed standard packs 73/-, Green 71/-.

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. Vitamised 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. (New prices for 1959 will be announced late May. ( PEARL SHELL. —May quotations by independent pearlers were; Sound, £A7SO; D, £ASSO; E. £A225; EE, £AISO (in store Sydney). Manihiki lagoon still closed; Penrhyn, £Stg.4oo (nominal), f.0.b., Rarotonga.

TROCHUS:—No demand—nominal £A3OS, ex-wharf, Sydney.

GREEN SNAlL:—Little movement in market —last quote £A3£O per ton, exwharf.

London and US Quotations Copra: London, May 7, Philippines in bulk, $285, c.i.f. UK/Nth. European ports.

Straits/Borneo, FMS, del. weights, c.i.f.

UK/Nth. European ports, £ Stg.9B.

New York; May 7, Philippines $270, c.i.f., Pacific Coast ports. (£1 Australian is equal to about 2.25 US Dollars.) Coconut Oil:—London, May 7, Ceylon in bulk, £ Stg.l46/10/-, per ton .c.i.f., UK/ North European ports. Straits/Borneo, £Stg.l43 per ton, c i.f., June/July.

Rubber: London, c.i.f., May 7, RSS No. 1, spot, 31d Stg. per lb; July-Sept., SlVsd Stg,; April, 1960. SlVsd Stg.

Exchange Rates

FlJl.—Through BANK OF NSW. AN2 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-Fljl, basis £lOO NZ: B. £lll/11/9; S. £llO/4/3.

SAMOA.—Through BANK OF NZ, Australia on Samoa, basis £lOO Samoa: B. £ A123/12/6; S £124/10/9. Samoa- London, basis £lOO London: B. £99/7/6; S. £lOl/10/-. Samoa-NZ, basis £lOO NZ; B. £100; S. £lOO/10/-. Samoa-Fljl, 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, Kavieng, Madang. Wewak). BANK OF NSW (branches: Port Moresby, Lae, Bulolo, Rabaul, Madang, Samara!, Goroka; 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.

FR. PACIFIC COLONIES.—Pacific francs, most valuable of the three franc groups in French Union, are used in New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Fr. Polynesia.

FRENCH BANK (Comptoir National D’Escompte de Paris) in Sydney Apr., 1959, quotes: Selling, Noumea, 195 Pac. francs to £ Aust.; Papeete, 194.75 Pac. francs to £ Aust.; 246 Pac. francs to £ Stg.; 89.05 Pac. francs to US $. Selling 13.76 heavy francs (1,376 ordinary Metrop. francs) to £ Stg. 167 DIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959

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Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate MO2B/HP/I Index to Advertiser[?] A. . Pty. Ltd. . 148 Akta-Vite .... 116 Amai. Dairies . . 92 Amplion .... 56 Angliss, W. & Co. 132 Arnott, Wm. . .134 Aspro 56 Ballina Slipway . 104 BALM Paints . . 48 Bank of NSW . 139 Bank of NZ ... 63 Berec Ltd 14 Bethel I, Gwyn 157 Blaxland-Rae . . 103 Booth, N. G. . . . 28 B. 158 Bradford Mills . 140 Braybon Bros. 13, 63 British Aluminium 130 British Paints . . 16 Brit. Stand. Mach. 46 British United Dairies .... 150 Bryant & May . . 93 Brunton & Co. . 146 Bunting, A. H. . 90 Butterfly Supply . 164 B.P. 89, 118, 138, 157 Cadbury . . . .168 Caine's Studio . . 95 Camelia Chem. Co. 44 Carlton Breweries 70 Carpenter Ltd. cov. 4, 62, 122 Cecil, The Hotel . 49 Cheoy, Lee ... 109 Colgate 78 Colonial Meat . . 54 Colyer Watson . . 94 C'wealth Bank . 120 Crammond Co. . 114 Cyclone Co. . . . 52 Cystex .... 165 D.A.K. Meat Packers ... 112 Dean Farm Equip. 13 Detroit Finance . 30 Donald Ltd. . . 163 Douglass, W. Co. 71 Dunlop Rubber . . 68 D’unsford, Capt.

G 103 Econo Steel . .144 East Coast Agency 137 Edwards, 0. . . 133 Eveready Co. . . . 10 Everyday Prods. . 57 Fiji Society . . 163 Filrno Depot . 95, 137 Franke & Heidecke 28 Frigate Rum . .153 Gardner Eng. . . 108 Gillespie Bros. . . 94 Gilbey, W. & A. . 8 Gillespie, R. . 1, 136 Glazebrooks Paints .... 6 Glaxo Lab. ... 91 Gordon's Gin . . 40 Goroka Hotel . . 41 G.P.H. (Suva) . . 156 Grant's Whisky 11 Grove Ltd. . . 64, 72 Halvorsen, B. . . 106 Halvorsen, L. . . 102 Hari, G. B. . .124 Harris, K. ... 60 Hastings Diesels . 66 Hellaby Ltd. . . 105 Hemingway Robertson Institute . 60 Hytest Co. . . • 48 1.C.1 74 Industrial Enterprises .... 42 International Camera Store . 51 International Harvester . . 2, 3 Kanimbla Hall . . < Kennedy, Capt. 1( Kerr Bros. . . li King, R. W. . l< Kitchen, J. . . .M Kiwi Polish li Kopsen & Co. . li Lawrence, A. 1 Lysaght, J. . i|l Mcllrath's . . M Macßobertson Ply. Ltd. . II Mendaco .... ¥ Millers Ltd. . . 1!

Morton, P. G. . ill M. H. Ltd. . 24,11 Mungo Scott . .* Nathan & Wyeth 11: Needham, F. J. .■ Nestles . . . . M N. & R. . . 40, l: N.G. Aust. Line A Nile Products . . 1 Nixoderm . ... 11 N.Z.N.A.C. . . 1 Pac. Shipbuildings Co 1 Parke Davis . 50*.

Philips . . . 38,3 P. I. Line . 1 Piccaninny Wax 9.

P. 1. Society . . I Qantas . . . coviv Qld. Insurance . 9.

Qld. Milling . .1 Ransomes, Simms » & Jeffries Ltd.B Robertson, D. J. I Co 5,|, Rohu, Sil . . . * Seward Ltd. . L Shaw Savill . . I Sisalcraft Sparklets . . • St. Mary's School* S.T.C. Co. . . . A.

Stapleton, J. . . 1 Stewarts Lloyds .1 S. P. Brewery . A.

Sthn. Pac. Ins. .» Sullivan Ltd. 32A Tait, W. S. . . .1 Taikoo Dockyard « Tallerman & Co. «.

Tatham, S. E. . ■ Taubmans Ltd. . I T. . . . cowv Thermoplastics P/L, Thornycroft Co. . J Til lock & Co. . .1.

Tilley Lamps . .aj Tooth & Co. . .1 Tongala Milk . .v Tulloch Ltd. . . S Turner & Growers • • ■ Tyneside Eng. . .1 Ventura ... 1 Victa Mowers . A.

Vincent's APC . -| Vi-Stim ••••*• Walkers Ltd. . . ■ Wall McNaught .1 Warnock . . . .9 Waratah Pharmacy . . I Webster, D. . .A.

Weymark P/L . A White Rose Flour * White's Aviation *•.

Wills Ltd. . . . ■- Wilhelmsen, W. I Wrigley's . . . ■ S Wunderlich . ' Yorkshire Ins. 1 Published by PACIFIC PUBLICATIONS PTY. LTD., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney. (Telephone : MA9• t W a U? **l printed in Australia by the Sydney and Melbourne Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 29 Alberta Street, Sydney.

Exocoetus Volitans

Covers The Same

\\ EXOCOETUS VOLITANS, the flying fish; in the Polynesian tongue “Maroro.” A familiar sight in South Pacific waters.

Familiar also are the airliners of TEAL, covering, in a sense, “the same ground” but in a more regular and predictable fashion, bringing the blessing of modern transportation to the Pacific Islands.

Significantly the “Maroro” is the TEAL emblem symbolising the airline’s function of serving the South Pacific.

N New Zealand’s International Airline

Serving The South Pacific

Enquiries or reservations - your Travel Agent or ~ cares, office. In with and MAY. 19 5 9 -PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHL

m r GENERAL MERCHANTS ♦ CAPITAL £2.500.000 ESTABLISHED 1914

General Merchants

and PROVIDORES

Trade Throughout The Pacific

OVER FORTY YEARS OF PACIFIC ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE

Wholesalers And Retailers

Buyers And Exporters Of All Kinds

OF ISLAND PRODUCE, COPRA, COCOA, M.O.P. SHELL, TROCAS SHELL, ETC.

Agents For Australian, European

AND AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.

Distributors Of Every Description

OF MERCHANDISE.

Through our Sydney office, branches and agents, we distribute a wide and comprehensive range of general merchandise W. R. CARPENTER & CO. LTD Head Office THE WALES HOUSE, 27 O'CONNELL STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W.

Cable Address: “CAMOHE.”

In London: Telephone: BL 5421 Postal Address: G.P.0., Box 168, Sydney.

W. R. Carpenter & Co, (London) Ltd., 13 Rood Lane, London, E.C.3 ASSOCIATED COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC: IN NEW GUINEA: IN PAPUA: IN FIJI: w Guinea Company Limited, Rabau’, Lae, Madang, Kavieng, Kokopo.

Island Products Ltd., Port Moresby.

Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva.

W. R. Carpenter & Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Su^f CIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY MAY, 1959